370 A US Senator on the Podcast: Senator Richard Blumenthal on the Gambling Addiction Crisis in America
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Release Date: 03/05/2025
378 When Collecting Becomes a Compulsion: Alyx Effron on Sports Cards, Gambling Mechanics & the Collectors MD Movement
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Sports cards. Trading packs. Box breaks. What was once a nostalgic hobby has quietly evolved into something far more dangerous — and few people are talking about it. In this episode, we sit down with Alyx Effron, founder of Collectors MD and one of the most important emerging voices at the intersection of collecting culture and problem gambling awareness. In this episode: How gambling-like mechanics have become deeply embedded in modern sports card collecting Why box breaks, pack openings, and hype culture trigger the same psychological responses as casino gambling The warning signs that a...
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377 Is Gaming an Addiction?: Dr. Jennifer Park on Video Game Disorder, Teen Risk Factors, & Treatment
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Could your child's gaming habit be a clinical disorder? In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Jennifer Jiyun Park, a postdoctoral researcher at the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, whose work sits at the intersection of gaming disorder, gambling addiction, and behavioral health in youth. Dr. Park studies how problematic gaming develops in children and adolescents — including the brain-based patterns behind compulsive play, how gaming and gambling disorders overlap, and what evidence-based treatments actually work for young people. She's published research on...
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376 Tony V: Mob Bookies, Taking the Road to Recovery, & Becoming a Peer in Gambling Addiction Treatment
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Before online sportsbooks and casino apps, there was a different kind of gambling world — one run by bookies, back rooms, and the kind of debt you couldn't just close a browser tab to escape. In this episode, host Brian sits down with Tony V, a man with a truly old school gambling story, whose journey from compulsive bettor to person in long-term recovery is as gripping as it gets. Tony opens up about what it was like gambling in an era before the internet changed everything — placing bets through mob-connected bookmakers, the thrill and the terror that came with it, and the slow...
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375 Evive with Sam DeMello: Evive is app you can use to assist with your recovery from gambling harm #talkinghelps
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Brian, Jeff, and Sam DeMello, the Proprietor of Evive Sam joins us to talk about what's new with Evive, an app you can use to assist with your recovery from gambling harm. In This Episode... Who is Sam Recovery Chat What's New with Evive Check out ! Gambling Addiction YouTube Series Show Email Please Rate & Review- Helps those still struggling to find us!
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374 Jersey Joe and His Gambling Addiction
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Brian & Jersey Joe Joe wrote some books about his gambling and recovery. In This Episode... Joe's Story Joe's Books- - All Gamblers Suffer - All Gamblers Continue to Suffer Brian's Website Gambling Addiction Video Series Show Email Please Rate & Review- Helps those still struggling to find us! Thank you to our sponsor - Music by
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373 Dawn Shares Her Gambling Story Two Days Into Recovery
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Most people wait months or years before they're ready to talk publicly about their gambling addiction. Dawn didn't wait. In one of the most raw and courageous episode, Brian sits down with Dawn, a woman who is just two days into her recovery from gambling addiction to have a conversation that most people wouldn't dream of having so soon. This is not a polished recovery story with a happy ending neatly tied up. This is recovery in real time unfiltered, uncertain, and extraordinarily brave. Dawn opens up about what gambling took from her, why she chose to share her story on a podcast at the...
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372 A Sister's Story: Christina on How Her Brother's Opioid Addiction Affected Her Life in Every Way
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When someone in your family is addicted, the whole family suffers. Brian sits down with Christina, a sister whose brother's opioid addiction turned her world upside down. Christina opens up about the fear, the confusion, the exhaustion, and the grief that comes with loving someone who is deep in the grip of addiction, and how that experience rippled into every corner of her own life. She talks honestly about the impossible push and pull of wanting to help while unknowingly enabling, the moment she realized she needed to draw boundaries to protect herself, and what her own healing process...
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371 How to Cope with Cravings to Gamble: Dr. Rory Reid of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program
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You don't lose a bet the moment you place it. You lose it the moment you give in to the craving. So what actually happens in that window and how do you survive it? In this episode, Brian sits down with DIn this episoder. Rory Reid, Research Psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA Gambling Studies Program, one of the most respected gambling addiction researchers in the world. Dr. Reid holds a master's degree in social work and a doctorate in clinical psychology with a dual emphasis in neuropsychology and marriage and family therapy, completed his post-doctoral...
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370 A US Senator on the Podcast: Senator Richard Blumenthal on the Gambling Addiction Crisis in America
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When a sitting United States Senator agrees to sit down with a gambling addiction podcast, you know the issue has reached a critical moment. In this landmark episode, Brian and Jeff are joined by US Senator Richard Blumenthal, one of the most outspoken advocates in the United States Congress for gambling addiction reform, for a conversation that goes straight to the top of the political fight to protect problem gamblers in America. Senator Blumenthal has been sounding the alarm on the sports betting explosion for years. He is the author of two landmark pieces of legislation: the SAFE...
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369 The Hidden Connection Between Gambling & Domestic Violence: Kristen Beall, Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling
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Two of the most underreported crises in America share more in common than most people realize. In this eye-opening episode, Brian and Jeff sit down with Kristen Beall (LCSW-C, ICGC-I, CAC-AD) the Clinical Manager at the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling, to explore a topic that is rarely discussed but desperately needs to be: the dangerous intersection of gambling addiction and domestic violence. In this episode Who Kristen Beall is and why she dedicated her career to this intersection What domestic violence actually is — and why it extends far beyond...
info_outlineWhen a sitting United States Senator agrees to sit down with a gambling addiction podcast, you know the issue has reached a critical moment. In this landmark episode, Brian and Jeff are joined by US Senator Richard Blumenthal, one of the most outspoken advocates in the United States Congress for gambling addiction reform, for a conversation that goes straight to the top of the political fight to protect problem gamblers in America.
Senator Blumenthal has been sounding the alarm on the sports betting explosion for years. He is the author of two landmark pieces of legislation: the SAFE Bet Act, which would require sports betting companies to meet federal standards on marketing, affordability, and AI-driven targeting, and the GRIT Act, the first-ever federal funding stream dedicated to helping prevent, treat, and study gambling addiction in the United States. This is the Senator who has publicly called out FanDuel, DraftKings, MGM, Caesars, and ESPN Bet by name for exploiting problem gamblers.
In this episode
- Why Senator Blumenthal calls sports betting one of the most severe public health problems in America today
- How sportsbooks use real-time data and AI to specifically target people losing money and drive them deeper into addiction
- What the SAFE Bet Act would do to crack down on predatory gambling marketing and advertising
- How the GRIT Act would create the first ever federal funding for gambling addiction treatment and research
- Why drugs, alcohol, & tobacco has federal funding, but gambling addiction does not and what Senator Blumenthal is doing to change that
- What it will take to get meaningful gambling protection legislation passed in Congress
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