<p>If you’re alive in America today, you’ve seen the ads — on TV, at bus stops, and on your phone. We have a gambling problem in this country, and it’s getting worse by the minute. With a rapid, billion-dollar boom in sports betting already underway, we now have to reckon with the next phase of this trend: betting on news events.</p><p>Journalist and author <strong>Danny Funt</strong> joins <em>Posting Through It</em> for a conversation about online gambling at a time where the culture around it is tightening its grip on everyday life, mutating into something that goes beyond prototypical American capitalism and imposes consequences that affect us all.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Check out Danny&#39;s book: </strong><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everybody-Loses/Danny-Funt/9781668062029" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em><strong>Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling (2026)</strong></em></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Transition Music: </strong><a href="https://greatwealth.bandcamp.com/album/blackout-summer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong>&quot;School&quot; by Great Wealth</strong></a></p>