Historian EXPOSES How DraftKings & FanDuel Engineer Gambling Addiction
About this episode
In this episode, Louis Ruggiero interviews historian Jonathan Cohen about the engineering of gambling addiction by sportsbooks like DraftKings and FanDuel.
They know everything about you. That's not a conspiracy theory — it's the business model. In this episode, I sit down with Jonathan Cohen, award-winning historian and author of Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling — one of the leading voices examining how legalized sports betting exploded across America and what it's really costing us. Jonathan isn't in recovery. He's a scholar. And what he's uncovered studying DraftKings, FanDuel, and the sports betting industry confirms everything those of us in recovery have lived firsthand. We get into: ▶ How sportsbooks hire armies of PhD psychologists to engineer addiction into their apps — "they can't pump oxygen through your phone, so they design the platforms to mimic it"▶ Why gambling went from a frat-house thing to a seventh-grade thing in under a decade▶ The Ohtani scandal — and the dinner where I asked Matt Bowyer point blank: was it him or not?▶ Terry Rozier, college athletes, and the scandals the leagues saw coming▶ Why a 22-year-old's brain is biologically incapable of stopping — and why "responsible gambling" puts all the blame on the individual anyway▶ The one simple guardrail that could save thousands of lives…
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