Danny Funt

And by the time 2018 rolls around, people had already been using DraftKings and FanDuel for what's called Daily Fantasy League, so they had a ready audience kind of primed to gamble.

Um, in the book that I read for this episode, which is Everybody Loses by Danny Funt, um, he calls Daily Fantasy Sports a Trojan horse to position these companies for an online gambling boom.

Right.

And that's why, like, Caesars Sport- Caesars Sportsbook, BetMGM, all these other, like, traditional Vegas sportsbooks couldn't compete with FanDuel and DraftKings 'cause they had spent years cultivating this audience.

Also, reporting on the Terry Thompson case by David Gambacorta of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

You can also listen to the audiobook Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling by Danny Funt, available now on Audible.

I'm your host, David Brown.

Katie Clark Gray wrote this story.

chase that win.

I'm Danny Funt.

This season on Understood the Big Bet, I'm tracing how sports betting went from a taboo that the leagues fought to a multi-billion dollar business they've embraced.

And how one player got caught up in the

There's six episodes total.

We interviewed four people, Richard Schutz, Art Man Terrace, Danny Funt, and tom barton and i'll get into those names and who they are i'll do it right now richard shoots right he is the head of american betters voice you guys know american betters voice that's the organization that does stuff on behalf of uh gamblers like us right they're the ones trying to argue for universal minimum limits and things along those lines So Richard Schutz used to run casinos here in Vegas.

He worked at the Stardust.

He started the Frontier.

Yeah, I think we might be.

I think this is going better than I thought.

So Danny Funt wrote a book called Everybody Loses.

And in that book, he talks a lot about the legalization of sports betting and how the sports books managed to make it happen and how they managed to get all the laws written exactly how they want them written.

Hello and welcome to episode 348 of the Chills of Will podcast.

A pleasure today to be joined by Danny Funt.

He is a Charlotte-based writer and editor.

His reporting on the business of sports betting, politics, news, and sports media, climate solutions, and healthcare innovation has appeared in the Washington Post, the New Yorker, the New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, TheWeek.com, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Thanks for having me on.

What a pleasure.

What a pleasure to speak with Danny Funt.

Continue good luck to him with his future writing and important work.