The Sports Betting Fallout is Coming

Society in every state is a blessing. A government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already nied welcome in PBN family and is surviving America. And today we're doing something akin to a red beacon, if you will, you know, sort of putting out a red beacon on an issue that is affecting Americans all over. And you know, I've been talking about it for some time, and my father and I have been talking about it, My son and I have been talking about it, and it's just one of those lingering situations where people are going to be affected, and they're going to be affected in a very big way by this tidal wave of gambling which has hit the United States since basically twenty eighteen and ramped up, you know, just to an insane sort of situation. I mean, it's become what a firewolf. What I think is the most dangerous and most nefarious about it is how accessible it is to everyone and how sort of commonplace it has become, which I think lends itself to this fact that people are going to sort of you know, hide it. They're going to tell you about their wins, and they're gonna be silent about their losses. Welcome into chat, everybody, born to brat. Good to see you, my man. So I'm gonna spend a lot of time today not on the screen because I have statistics to read. Okay, if in order for this to go over, well, you have to understand this is not a James waxing poetically on a subject type of topic. And it's a topic that I think we have to talk about on a show like Surviving America, because really, my show Surviving America is about the American condition at large, right, self reliance and independence, the key to the key antidepressant of the time, if you ask me, and something that we talk about a lot a lot here news that kind of stuff. But this really is sort of the American condition. That's what Surviving America is all about. Right. And this is a bubble. This is bigger than the AI bubble, okay, and when it bursts on an individual, it's like nothing you could imagine. Right. So, I know I look great, but the truth of the matter is I got to go away so that I can read without staring down at the screen. Right. Also, I want to give props to the amazing graphic designer who put this thumbnail together. He goes by the name of the Intrepid Commander, and he really is a skillful individual. I'll just leave it at that. So, as I mentioned, man, this thing, this whole thing kicked off. Also, marijuana is gonna be the same thing. I know there's a lot of people out there who don't want to hear that, but marijuana is gonna be the same thing. We're gonna look back on it and go, oh my god, when the hell did we start? And we're gonna blame Donald Trump rightly. So, because marijuana is not the Marijuana is not the solution everybody thinks it is. It's not the thing you do to deal with the als of life. And it is as addictive as anything else. Okay, And I know people personally who are currently addicted to marijuana, not in the sense that like, ooh, I can't get off it, but in the same way that you're addicted to your cell phone. Right everything you do, you want the phone, everything you do, you want to join, you want it right there with you. Since twenty eighteen, the Supreme Court decided that legalizing sports betting in many states was the thing to do, right, And I can tell you from my own personal experience that running the Prepper Broadcasting Network. I'll pop on for this since it's my own opinion and such an experience. Look, I started getting hit around this time twenty nineteen, twenty twenty with all kinds of people who wanted to guest post on PBN. That's how you know something is making a lot of money. Okay, if you're if you're a webmaster, if you own a website or something along those lines. Back in the day, they would do these things called guest posts. I don't know if they do them anymore, but they pay you a lot of money. I mean, they pay you hundreds of dollars to put a post on your website with links back to their website right to help with SEO excuse me, to drive traffic to their whatever it is they're doing. And I was getting all kinds of sports bet sort of guest posts offers. So I knew it was going to be crazy, Morning Phoenix. I knew it was going to be crazy. I knew it was getting out of hand because of the sheer amount of money that was going into promoting it, you know. And so you know, fast forward to today and who's at it. Who's what are the participation in demographics on gambling apps? We know, I mean like there's no guests anymore. It's not like who showed up at the casino in Atlantic City, you know, we counted guests at the door or whatever with a clicker. No, Now you have access to the cell phone, you know exactly. And by the way, I can't even imagine what kind of nefarious technologies they are using to figure out what makes you bet, why you bet, when you bet, how you bet, who you bet right, because all of that's tracked through your cell phone. I mean, it's a dream. It's a dream for gambling. It really is. In twenty twenty five, about twenty two percent of Americans roughly seventy three million adults, Okay, we're getting up to like almost a third of the country have an active online sports betting account, with overall gambling participation including offline at fifty seven percent of adults. About one hundred and ninety million Americans are gambling now online and offline right online specific participations around fifteen to twenty percent of the population, up from pre pandemic levels. Betting activity mong consumers rose to thirty percent in quarter two from twenty twenty five, from twenty five percent in twenty twenty four. So it's gone up. It's right, it's going to keep rising, you know what I mean. A demographic skew toward younger males, with urban and higher income groups more engaged, though participation spans broadly. All right, So I got a breakdown by sex, age and other demos because I think, you know, painting this picture, you got to understand who's at it. Everybody's at it, by the way, this is not a like white people bet more than black people or whatever. Everybody's at it. Men are at it, women are at it. Of course, men are at it in higher percentages, like sixty nine percent of online gamblers are male forty eight percent or men eighteen to forty nine. Females make up thirty one percent, and they are growing at a ten point twelve percent rate. Thirty three percent of female betters are between the age of twenty two twenty four, right, so it's a younger demographic that's that's coming up and doing a lot of the betting. And you know, this is a this is a Shakespearean situation right here, right when you see the women falling into these traps which maybe you can bet, maybe you can't. You know, I can have a drink from time to time, and I know I won't become an alcoholic, right because I've put specific guardrails in place. And there's probably a lot of people on these betting apps who can do that too, Probably a lot of men, probably a lot of women. But there's no denying you're dancing with the devil, You're playing with fire. It's a trap, right, it's a trap. How do you know it's a trap. Well, it's a trap because of so much money going into it. Right. You don't invest that kind of money in something that doesn't work. Now, the Shakespearean moment is the line that women may fall when men have no strength. And if you look at this strikes true to me when I look at things like women's literature, women's women's literature, which has basically become like erotica for ladies, and gambling and many other aspects of life, traps that men have traditionally traditionally fallen into and women have traditionally not. Right, But then again, I guess my grandmother did hit the old slots pretty hard, to be honest with you. In Atlantic city. But all that said, you know, it's I always think of that line from Shakespeare, which is, you know, women may fall when men have no strength, and it's I don't know, it's just one of those important lines that carries through. Women may fall when there is no strength in men. Okay, there you go. It's one of those lines that just carries through the ages. You know. So twenty five to forty is the hot market. Fifty three percent under twenty five is the fastest growing at fourteen point four to two percent. Thirty nine percent of betters are under thirty five. Yeah, gen z millennials, dah da, YadA, YadA, a big bigger online betting obviously, UH. Fifty one percent white higher among betters. Black adults Ninety percent placed online bets, up from ten percent in twenty twenty two. H Forty four percent of betters earned one hundred k or better. But low income groups show higher risk. Urban dwellers and sports fans dominate, right, So it's an urban sports fan kind of dominated situation. UH. Youth betting youth participation in notably high and rise is notably high in rising globally seventeen point This is globally now seventeen point nine percent of under eighteen's gambled in the past year, with ten point three percent online. I don't know how that works. Maybe the gambling age is less oh in North America. In North America's thirty three point seven percent. This is from NCP gambling dot Org. In the US, seventy percent of adults under thirty placed an online sports bet in the past year, up seven percent. Everything's up, Everything is up. You understand, this is This is how you know it's bananas, right, that's it? Jay very dark fantasy, Yeah, dark fantasy, crazy cheers PBN family at a little sparkling water at eleven forty done with coffee for the day, sparkling the water and not focusing whatsoever on the speaker. So that's how you know this thing is out of hand, out of control. You do a show like this, nobody wants to hear it because they're doing it, you know what I mean. Nobody wants to hear it because they're doing it. And that's the problem. But I gotta bring it to the attention of the staff because it's it's I mean, it's happening, It's already happening. What's happening. Let's get with that, right. Let's talk about what's happening. We know that the industry is booming, we know that it's going like nowhere anytime soon. It's it's it's probably gonna get much worse. Let's talk about what happens. And and let's also talk about this while I have your attention. One eight hundred and sixty six y two Help Okay, One eight hundred and sixty sixty two. Help is is a you know, is the line to call for help with gambling? If you're listening to this and it's and it's touching a nerve and you're going, Man, I hate James talking about this because this is my little secret. I don't want anybody to know it. And I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna hit. I know I'm gonna hit. It's any day now. I'm gonna hit. And when I hit, it's gonna be great. If you're that guy or that gal. One eight hundred and sixty sixty two, Help okay, and uh yeah, get some help, man, get out of it. Get out of it. Gambling comes with tremendous losses, folks, right like some in some cases people rack up fifty thousand plus dollars. Right, twenty percent of addicts wind up in bankruptcy. This is from a website called Immunizednevada dot org. Other things like job loss, homelessness, reduce savings fourteen percent, dropping investments, credit scores fall, bankruptcies up to twenty five percent post legalization, bankruptcies up twenty five percent post legalization of gambling. Now, imagine for a second if the cost of living crisis was not caused by, but perhaps shaded by, the fact that you are betting all your freaking money on the Philadelphia Eagles who have no offensive coordinator. Well, actually he he's been blasted out of this universe into the next. So that's great. Yeah, I don't want to get into the NFL, but rest in hell, Patulah. Let's go with that. Let's go with that. What's up over there at Instagram? Man, how you doing in Germany? What's going on? Who's betting in Germany? Is the betting out of control? Ben Koor Benkorer Bankkower Speaking of Germany, I got some salted cabbage in a dark corner in my kitchen right now? Yeah? Why is it? Thing? Just hyper focused on my window? So yeah, tremendous effects, right, effects on sports and fair play. This is how it all began for us. This is how we all started talking about this stuff because we're we're watching football at my dad's house and we're watching referees and officiating, and we're bitter, angry, you know, Philadelphia Eagles fans. So everything pisses us off, and you start you start wondering, you know what I mean, You start wondering what's going on a lot of money. Once there's enough money to be made, there's enough risks to be taken. There were guys in the NBA this year who were arrested and I don't know what happened to him. I didn't follow it, but you know they got in big trouble because they were betting on and against their own team. There were you know, they knew who was injured and they wasn't reporting it and all this kind of stuff. Online gambling raises integrity concerns, with seventy percent of Americans believing it lessons game integrity. Right since twenty eighteen, right since inception, since inception, since as soon as the Supreme Court said let the Americans be free, twenty plus pro athletes face discipline for betting violations, including lifetime bans for insider betting. Prop Bets on individual performances heighten the risks of manipulation. Right, you know what a prop bet is. Prop Betting is crazy because you can say I'm going to shoot for two twenty points today, and you can bet against yourself and you can get out there and shoot for nineteen points and then phone the game in right, athletes report abuse twenty one percent of better's amid verbal abuse impacting mental health. Overall, sixty percent of Americans doubt sports integrity due to betting. PBN. Family like this, it's just one. It's I mean, we're not without challenge ever, you know what I mean as people, As people in the US, freedom is a battle, right, the cushy view of freedom. I've never represented that here. I've old you, always told you. Freedom is a perpetual war. Right. It's not an election. It's not Donald Trump, it's not anybody, it's not any one person. It's a generational and perpetual war. That's what liberty is. I used to look at my children, I'd say like, oh my god, I hope I can fix everything for him. Before they grow up, and I'm sure my dad thought the same thing, and I'm sure his dad thought, so, God, let's get everything fixed up and nice, get the government fixed and you know, everything, so that it's really nice and they don't have to worry about anything. The last thing you wants a generation that don't have anything to worry about, because then the lizards, the lizards back there, that's when they get their little claws into everything and they take control. You know what I mean, they take control. You talk about the people really really talk about the nineteen nineties as being this amazing time. I think one of the things that made the nineties amazing was the fact that we all kind of disconnected from a lot of stuff. A lot of people weren't paying attention. They were busy living whatever. Politics was not a thing. There were no real wars going on. It got real quiet, and we had our life. And I look back at that and I say to myself, yet, got real quiet. But in the background, people were doing all the things right. The lizards were slowly taking control. And that's exactly That's exactly what it is. So what I'm getting at is to tell you that freedom just because the Supreme Court says it's legal. Just because Donald Trump says pot's fine. We make it legal. Everybody can smoke it. Who every wants to smoke it. Let it be a state ish whatever the situation is. Right, it's a perpetual battle. You have to battle yourself. You have the freedom to drink yourself into a stupor and wind up in a gutter somewhere with your whole life ruined. Enjoy your freedom. You have the freedom to invest all your money into a business that fails and go bankrupt and deal with that. Enjoy your freedom. All I'm saying is that it's a two way street. It's the best street, but it's a two way street, you know what I mean. And this thing is out of control. And the thing about the two way street of sports betting is eventually, if you keep screwing up and you keep losing, you can't go back, right, you can't go back nobody cares. Nobody cares because listen to the growth right, listen to the growth again, another shore fire sign. Things are out of control. AI growth Pharma's growth betting growth right. You look at the things that are rapidly growing, insanely growing, super fast. You always know there's something up. You always know it's an addiction. You always know it's an absolute corruption. Right, Artificial intelligence is such a corruption, it's unbelievable. It's such a monopoly on you. It's the ultimate monopoly on you, the human right. But I don't want to get into that. This industry, right, the revenue hit. Are you ready for this? The revenue in this gambling US online gambling revenue hit. This is just US two six point eight billion, twenty six point eight billion dollars in twenty twenty five, up from fifteen percent from twenty twenty four, Projected to reach forty billion dollars okay, globally one hundred and fifty five billion in twenty twenty five, and they're they're hoping to get it to two fifty six billion by twenty thirty. Now, what does sports betting growth mean? Right? Here? We are We're in an industry industry is hell, right, industry like this is hell? Why? Because we got to growth? We have grow, gotta have growth, right, everything, we gotta have growth. Everything has to be growth, growth, growth, growth, growth. Shareholders are pissed if there ain't no growth. How do you get growth in sports betting? Well, we need to get more people addicted to betting, number one, and then we have to get more people to lose. We have to get them to take riskier bets more often so that we can get less payouts and bigger losses. Then our profit line, our bottom line goes up. And they're growing rapidly, right, they're growing rapidly by telling you lies like, oh, you bet five dollars and you get five hundred, it's amazing. You gotta come try it out. Listen. We've been betting a long time, right, it's not an easy thing to do. Like, we'll just leave it at that. And I'm telling you the one sure fire thing about bet There's a reason sports betting exists. There's a reason all betting exists. There's a reason all gambling exists. There's a reason. Casinos are giant, massive, unbelievably ungodly eye structures with amenities like you wouldn't believe, and they give you everything you could ever want. Why do you think that is what a great movie? And anybody know what that movie? What that movie that's from Denzel Washington Fences, Oh my god, it's one of my favorites. But why do you think that is it's because you don't you lose. The whole point is for you to lose. The whole point is to make you feel like you're winning, feel like you have a chance to win, and then you lose. You're not gonna win overall. Or if someone wins overall, they're very rare, and there's luck involved in it, and there's skill involved in it and all the thing, and that, you know, the biggest problem, The biggest thing is that everybody thinks they can win. Everybody thinks they can beat the system. Everybody thinks they're going to be the hero in the betting world that figures it out and that becomes rich off of betting and goes back to the table, back to the phone app, time and time again. I'm telling you, like, the reason this stuff works, the reason this stuff exists is because you lose, and you're designed. It's designed so that you lose, or else casinos would be a little cardboard box, you know what I mean. Americans wagered ninety billion plus in their first eight months of twenty twenty five. The same Americans who tell you they have no money, they can't afford a house, they can't afford a car, They can't afford groceries. They can't afford jack shit. They could afford to wager ninety billion dollars in the first eight months of twenty twenty five. Online participation rolls fifteen percent in twenty eighteen to twenty two percent by twenty twenty four, driven by mobile access and legalization in thirty eight states. This is the deal, man, This is the deal. So listen. If your relationships are struggling, your mental health is suffering, right, The magazine of Public Health in JHU dot Edu says, people suffering with gambling addiction like one in five attempts suicide. That's a big deal. Man. If you got a problem, one eight hundred and sixty six y two help one eight hundred and sixty six y two help. Getting help with addiction sucks. It's not a fun thing to overcome something that is killing you slowly, right, That is uh, you know, it's not fun. It's not fun to look in the mirror and say, God, I keep messing up, and I can't stop messing up, and I gotta get help. I gotta tell everybody I've been messing up, and I gotta get help to get out of it. Right, And uh, you know, but that's the first step, that's really the only step. I just know it's coming, guys, do you know what I mean. I just know that it's coming, and I know that it's gonna be a problem, and I know that I don't know. Maybe we can help, Maybe we can help a little bit, Maybe we can get somebody off, Maybe we can You know, it's the best we can do because it's being presented in the same way that things like vapes are being presented, in the same way that things like you know, cigarettes were presented the whole nine yards, right, everything's fine, look at it. It's colorful, it's fancy, it's nice. Everybody's doing it. The cool guys are on the commercials. Everybody's doing it, the doctor's prescribing it. And then all of a sudden, you're trapped and you're alone, and the commercials are gone and Lebron James is gone, and you don't see anybody anymore. Nobody's coming on the lay air telling you how to stop, and you're stuck. So if you're stuck, man, get some help, get some help and understand these challenges. This is all part of freedom. Like I told you, it's all part of freedom. Discipline is required. That's I mean, that's just it. So I'm not going to go on and on about it. It's a PSA. It's a red Beacon moment, right, it's surviving Americas what it is. It's a part of the American condition. It's a rapidly growing industry. Look at your children. Understand that they're coming up in this world, and they're going to be tempted in the first time that you make a little money. Man, it's really bad, you know, like, oh god, oh man, this is great. I could turned this into a job. I'm really good at it. Fifty thousand dollars in the debt later. So you know, you grow up in Philly, hear a lot about, like you know, the mob, the mafia and bets and the way betting was and all that kind of stuff. And it's it's just like I told you, you're not here to win. You're not logging on to win. I mean, that's just what it is. If you were, the industry wouldn't be booming, right, The industry wouldn't be booming if you went to casinos to win. Keep it in mind, all right, there are so many pitfalls, so many threats. But I'm telling you, I've seen people overcome much worse. Man, I've seen people overcome amazing things, treacherous things. This is just another example of you know, it's just never think you're fighting one versus one. That's maybe that's the big takeaway. Never think in life that it's a one v one. It's you versus the Democrats, you versus Donald Trump, right, Never think that. Always understand that life is about a one v five. At any given moment, right you are battling off a number of different things. The key, the biggest key, and all of that is praying to God. The biggest key and all that is praying to God for help. Pray coming to God with gratitude. I'm telling you right now, like I read the Bible, pray, listen to people, read the Bible, talk to people about religion. The number one thing in your relationship with God that can make things incredible in life, can change things significantly in life, is when you come to God with your gratitude. The moment you come to God with your gratitude, you have unlimited things to fight for now, unlimited energy to fight for it, unlimited power to battle the things that are holding you down because all your head you have this running list of things, and it's not just like thanks for the knife, thanks for the you know, the hat, thanks for the wife. You look at the earth behind you, you look at the sunset, You look at the world that you've inherited, the society that you've inherited, not the ex society, but the society like the people you know and love around you, and you realize, like, if you're not pulling energy from all of that, if your desire to overcome, your desire to be successful in the whole nine yards, if you're not pulling energy from all of that, you may need a greater reset. I don't know, but go to God with your gratitude, and I'm telling you He'll get stronger every day. All right. 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