“Fatigue has set in. It’s like having kids… We come home from the hospital with this cute little baby, and you're like, we got this. And then you find out that this baby gets up every 90 minutes, and you're no longer sleeping. It's crying. It has needs.”
“[After six years of sports betting], I feel like we've hit about the six-month realm of infancy. We're all so tired, and now somebody's like, well, do you want another? Do you want to do this again? Do you want iGaming? Do you want to not sleep some more? And you're like, no, I don't want to do this right now.”
In this episode, I’m joined by Brianne Doura-Schawohl, the Founder and CEO of Doura-Schawohl Consulting, who has spent the last five-plus years making the case for good, sensible public gambling policy.
Brianne and I talk about the complexities of the political process, what a lot of people don’t understand about it, and what happens when people (or an entire industry) get out over their skies.
Brianne made a perfect analogy during our conversation (seen in the quote above), equating the US sports betting industry that sprang into being in mid-2018 as a newborn baby, with lawmakers and regulators playing the role of parents who have everything figured out. And six months later, they know they are in for it.
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Episode 17: The Harsh Realities of Gambling Policy with Brianne Doura-Schawohl