The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Sports Betting Fallout is Coming

Episode Date: January 14, 2026

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Society in every state is a blessing, the government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived. Welcome in PBN family. It is Surviving America. And today we're doing something akin to a red beacon, if you will. You know, sort of putting out a red beacon on an issue that is affecting Americans all over. And, you know, I've been talking about it for some time. And my father and I have been talking about it. My son and I have been talking about it.

And it's just one of those lingering situations where people are going to be affected and they're going to be affected in a very big way by this tidal wave of gambling, which has hit the United States since basically 2018 and ramped up, you know, just to an insane sort of situation. I mean, it's become, what a fire wolf. What I think is most dangerous and most nefarious about it is how accessible it is to everyone and how sort of commonplace it has become, which I think lends itself to this fact that people are going to sort of, you know, hide it. They're going to tell you about their wins and they're going to be silent about their losses.

Welcome in to chat, everybody. born to Brap. Good to see you, my man. So I'm going to spend a lot of time today, not on the screen, because I have statistics to read. Okay. In order for this to go over well, you have to understand this is not a James waxing poetically on a subject type of topic. And it's a topic that I think we have to talk about on a show like Surviving America, because really my show, Surviving America, is about the American condition at large, right? Self-reliance and independence, the key to the key antidepressant of the time, if you ask me, and something that we talk about a lot here, news, that kind of stuff.

But this really is sort of the American condition. That's what surviving America is all about, right? And this is a bubble. This is bigger than the AI bubble, okay? And when it bursts on an individual, it's like nothing you could imagine, right? So I know I look great, but the truth of the matter is, I got to go away so that I can read without staring down at the screen, right? Also, I want to give props to the amazing graphic designer who put this thumbnail together. He goes by the name of the intrepid commander and he really is a skillful individual.

I'll just leave it at that. So as I mentioned, man, this whole thing kicked off. Also, marijuana is going to be the same thing. I know there's a lot of people out there who don't want to hear that. But marijuana is going to be the same thing. We're going to look back on it and go, oh, my God, when in the hell did we start? And we're going to blame Donald Trump rightly so because marijuana is not the, marijuana is not the solution everybody thinks it is.

It's not the thing you do to deal with the ails of life and it is as addictive as anything else. And I know people personally who are currently addicted to marijuana, not in the sense that like, oh, I can't get off it, but in the same way that you're addicted to yourself of, right? Everything you do, you want the phone. Everything you do, you want to join. You want it right there with you. Since 2018, the Supreme Court decided that legalizing sports betting in many states was the thing to do, right? And I could tell you from my own personal experience that running the prepper broadcasting network, I'll pop on for this, since it's my own opinion and such and experience.

Look, I started getting hit around this time, 2019, 2020. with all kinds of people who wanted to guest post on PBN. That's how you know something is making a lot of money. Okay. If you're a webmaster, if you own a website or something along those lines, back in the day, they would do these things called guest posts. I don't know if they do them anymore. But they pay you a lot of money.

I mean, they pay you hundreds of dollars to put a post on your website with links back to their website, right? To help with SEO, excuse me, to drive traffic to their, whatever it is they're doing. and I was getting all kinds of sports bet sort of guest posts offers. So I knew it was going to be crazy. Morning Phoenix. I knew it was going to be crazy. I knew it was getting out of hand because of the sheer amount of money that was going into promoting it. You know?

And so, you know, fast forward to today. And who's at it? What are the participation in demographics on gambling apps? We know. I mean, like, there's no guessing anymore. It's not like who showed up at the casino in Atlantic City. You know, we counted guests at the door or whatever with a clicker. No, now you have access to the cell phone. You know exactly. And by the way, I can't even imagine what kind of nefarious technologies they're using to figure out what makes you bet, why you bet, when you bet, how you bet, who you bet, right? Because all of that is tracked through your cell phone. I mean, it's a dream. It's a dream. It's a dream. It's a dream. dream for gambling. It really is. In 2025, about 22% of Americans, roughly 73 million adults, okay? We're getting up to like almost a third of the country, have an active online sports betting account with overall gambling participation, including offline at 57% of adults, about 190 million Americans are gambling now, online and offline, right? Online-specific participations

around 15 to 20% of the population up from pre-pandemic levels. Betting activity among consumers rose to 30% in quarter two from 2025, from 25% in 2024. So it's gone up. It's right. It's going to keep rising. You know what I mean? Demographics skewed toward younger males with urban and higher income groups, more engaged, though participation spans broadly. All right.

So I got breakdown by sex age and other demos. because I think, you know, painting this picture, you got to understand who's at it. Everybody's at it, by the way. This is not a, like, white people bet more than black people or whatever. Everybody's at it. Men are at it. Women are at it. Of course, men are at it in higher percentages, like 69% of online gamblers are male.

48% are men 18 to 49. Females make up 31%. And they are growing at a 10.12% rate. 33% of female bettors are between the age of 2224, right? So it's a younger demographic that's coming up and doing a lot of the betting. And, you know, this is a Shakespearean situation right here, right? When you see the women falling into these traps, which maybe you can bet, maybe you can't. You know, I can have a drink from time to time, and I know I won't become an alcoholic, right?

because I put specific guard rails in place. And there's probably a lot of people on these betting apps who can do that too. Probably a lot of men, probably a lot of women. But there's no denying you're dancing with the devil. You're playing with fire. It's a trap, right? It's a trap. How do you know it's a trap?

Well, it's a trap because of so much money going into it. Right? You don't invest that kind of money in something that doesn't work. Now, the Shakespearean moment is the line that women may fall when men have no strength. And if you look at, this strikes true to me when I look at things like women's literature, women's women's literature, which has basically become like erotica for ladies and gambling and many other aspects of life, traps that men have traditionally

fallen into and women have traditionally not, right? but then again I guess my grandmother did hit the old slots pretty hard to be honest with you in Atlantic City but all that said you know it's I always think of that line from Shakespeare which is you know women may fall when men have no strength and it's I don't know it's just one of those important lines that carries through women may fall when there is no strength in men okay there you go it's one of those lines that just carries through the ages, you know? So 25 to 40 is the hot market, 53%, under 25 is the fastest, growing at 14.42%. 32%, 39% of betters are under 35. Yeah, Gen Z, Millennials, yada, yada, yada, yada. Bigger online betting, obviously. 51% white, higher among

betters. Black adults, 90% placed online bets up from 10% in 2022. 44% of betters earn 100k or better, but low-income groups show higher risk. Urban dwellers and sports fans dominate, right?

So it's an urban sports fan kind of dominated situation. Youth betting, youth participation in notably high in rising, is notably high and rising, globally. This is globally now. 17.9% of under 18s gambled in the past year with 10.3% online. I don't know how that works. Maybe the gambling age is less. Oh, in North America. In North America, it's 33.7%. This is from nCP gambling.org.

In the U.S., 17% of adults under 30 placed an online sports bet in the past year up 7%. Everything. up. Everything is up. You understand? This is how you know it's bananas, right? That's it, J. Ferk. Dark fantasy. Yeah, dark fantasy. Crazy. Cheers, PBN family. A little, a little sparkling water at 1140. Done with coffee for the day. Sparkling the water and not focusing whatsoever on the speaker. So that's how you know this thing is out of hand, out of control. You do a show like this, nobody wants to hear it because they're doing it. You know what I mean? Nobody wants to hear it because they're doing it. And that's the problem. But I got to bring it to the attention of the staff because it's, I mean, it's happening. It's already happening. What's happening? Let's get with that.

Let's talk about what's happening. We know that the industry is booming. We know that it's going like nowhere anytime soon. It's it's probably going to get much worse. Let's talk about what happens. And let's also talk about this why I have your attention. 1-800-662 help. Okay? 1-800-662 help is a, you know, is the line to call for help with gambling. If you're listening to this and it's touching a nerve and you're going, Man, I hate James talking about this because this is my little secret. I don't want anybody to know it. And I'm going to come back. I'm going to hit.

I know I'm going to hit. It's any day now I'm going to hit. And when I hit, it's going to be great. If you're that guy or that gal, 1-800-662 help. Okay. And, yeah, get some help, man. Get out of it. Get out of it.

Gambling comes with tremendous losses, folks, right? Like, in some cases, people rack up $50,000 plus dollars. right 20% of addicts wind up in bankruptcy this is from a website called immunized nevada.org other things like job loss homelessness reduced savings 14% drop in investments credit scores fall bankruptcies up to 25% post legalization bankruptcy's up to 25% post legalization of gambling now imagine for a second if the cost legalization of gambling now imagine for a second if the cost of living crisis was not caused by, but perhaps shaded by the fact that you are betting all your freaking money on the Philadelphia Eagles who have no offensive coordinator.

Well, actually, he's been blasted out of this universe into the next. So that's great. Yeah, I don't want to get into the NFL, but rest in hell, Petula. Let's go with that. Let's go with that. What's up over there at Instagram, man? How are you doing in Germany? What's going on?

Who's betting in Germany? Is the betting out of control? Benkauer? Benkauer. Speaking of Germany, I got some salted cabbage in a dark corner in my kitchen right now. Yeah. Why is this thing? Just hyper-focused on my window.

So, yeah, tremendous effects, right? Effects on sports and fair play. This is how it all began for us. This is how we all started talking about this stuff because we're watching, football at my dad's house and we're watching referees and officiating and we're bitter, angry, you know, Philadelphia Eagles fans, so everything pisses us off. And you start wondering. You know what I mean? You start wondering, what's going on? A lot of money. Once there's enough money to be made, there's enough risks to be taken. There were guys in the NBA this year who were arrested.

And I don't know what happened to them. I didn't follow it. But, you know, they got in big trouble because they were betting on and against their own team. They knew who was injured and they wasn't reporting it and all this kind of stuff. Online gambling raises integrity concerns with 70% of Americans believing it lessens game integrity. Since 2018, right, since inception, since inception, as soon as the Supreme Court said, let the Americans be free, 20 plus pro athletes face discipline for betting. violations including lifetime bans for insider betting. Prop bets on individual performances heighten the risks of manipulation, right? You know what a prop bet is. Prop betting is crazy because you can say, I'm going to shoot for 20 points today, and you can bet against yourself,

and you can get out there and shoot for 19 points, and then phone the game in, right? athletes report abuse 21% of betters emit verbal abuse impacting mental health overall 60% of Americans doubt sports integrity due to betting PBN family like this it's just one it's I mean we're not without challenge ever you know what I mean as people as people in the U.S freedom is a battle right the cushy view of freedom I've never represented that here I've always told you freedom is a perpetual war right it's not an election it's not donald trump it's not anybody it's not any one person it's a generational and perpetual war that's what liberty is i used to look at my children i'd say like oh my god i hope i can fix everything for them before they grow up and i'm sure my dad

thought the same thing and i'm sure his dad thought so god let's get everything fixed up and nice get the government fixed and you know everything so that it's really nice and they don't have to worry about anything. The last thing you want is a generation that don't have anything to worry about, because then the lizards, the lizards back there, that's when they get their little claws into everything and they take control. You know what I mean? They take control. You talk about the, like, people really, really talk about the 1990s as being this amazing time. I think one of the things that made the 90s amazing was the fact that we all kind of disconnected

from a lot of stuff. A lot of people weren't paying attention. They were busy living, whatever. Politics was not a thing. There were no real wars going on. It got real quiet. And we had our life. And I look back at that and I say to myself,

yeah, it got real quiet. But in the background, people were doing all the things, right? The lizards were slowly taking control. And that's exactly what it is. So what I'm getting at is to tell you that freedom, just because the Supreme Court says it's legal, just because Donald Trump says pot's fine, make it legal, everybody can smoke it, whoever wants to smoke it, let it be a state issue, whatever the situation is, right? It's a perpetual battle.

You have to battle yourself. You have the freedom to drink yourself into a stupor and wind up in a gutter somewhere with your whole life ruined. enjoy your freedom. You have the freedom to invest all your money into a business that fails and go bankrupt and deal with that. Enjoy your freedom. All I'm saying is that it's a two-way street. It's the best street, but it's a two-way street.

You know what I mean? And this thing is out of control. And the thing about the two-way street of sports betting is eventually if you keep screwing up and you keep losing, you can't go back. right you can't go back nobody cares nobody cares because listen to the growth right listen to the growth again another surefire sign things are out of control AI growth uh pharma growth betting growth right you look at the things that are rapidly growing insanely growing super fast

you always know there's something up you always know it's an addiction. You always know it's an absolute corruption, right? Artificial intelligence is such a corruption. It's unbelievable. It's such a monopoly on you. It's the ultimate monopoly on you, the human, right? But I don't want to get into that. This industry, right, the revenue hit. Are you ready for this? The revenue in this gambling, U.S. online gambling revenue hit. This is just U.S. 6.8 billion, 26.8 billion dollars in 2025, up from 15% from 2024, projected to reach $40 billion, okay? Globally, $155 billion in 2025. And they're hoping to get it to $256 billion by 2030.

Now, what does sports betting growth mean, right? Here we are. We're in an industry. Industry is hell, right? Industry like this is hell. Why? Because we got to grow. We have got to have growth. Everything we got to have growth. Everything has to be growth, growth, growth, growth, growth, growth, growth. Shareholders are pissed if there ain't no growth. How do you get growth in sports betting? Well, we need to get more people addicted to betting, number one. And then we have to get more people to lose. We have to get them to take riskier bets more often. so that we can get less payouts and bigger losses than our profit line, our bottom line goes up. And they're growing rapidly, right? They're growing rapidly by telling you lies like, oh, you bet $5 and you get $500. It's amazing. You've got to come try it out. Listen, we've been betting a long time, right?

It's not an easy thing to do. like we'll just leave it at that and uh i'm telling you the one surefire thing about bet there's a reason sports betting exists there's a reason all betting exists there's a reason all gambling exists there's a reason casinos are giant massive unbelievably ungodly sized structures with amenities like you wouldn't believe and they give you everything you could ever want Why do you think that is? What a great movie. And anybody know what that movie, that's from?

Denzel Washington, fences. Oh, my God, it's one of my favorites. But why do you think that is? It's because you don't, you lose. The whole point is for you to lose. The whole point is to make you feel like you're winning, feel like you have a chance to win, and then you lose. You're not going to win overall.

Or if someone wins overall, they're very rare. and there's luck involved in it and there's skill involved in it and all the thing. And, you know, the biggest problem, the biggest thing is that everybody thinks they can win. Everybody thinks they can beat the system. Everybody thinks they're going to be the hero in the betting world that figures it out and it becomes rich off of betting and goes back to the table, back to the phone app time and time again. I'm telling you, like, the reason this stuff works, the reason this stuff exists is because you lose. And you're designed, it's designed so that you lose. Or else casinos would be a little cardboard box.

You know what I mean? Americans wagered $90 billion plus in their first eight months of 2025. The same Americans who tell you they have no money, they can't afford a house, they can't afford a car, they can't afford groceries, they can't afford jack shit. They could afford to wager $90 billion in the first eight months of 2025. Online participation rose 15% in. 2018 to 22% by 2024, driven by mobile access and legalization in 38 states. This is the deal, man. This is the deal.

So, listen, if your relationships are struggling, your mental health is suffering, right? The magazine of public health in jhu.edu says people suffering with gambling addiction, like one in five attempts suicide. That's a big deal, man. If you got a problem, 1,800-662 help. 1-800-662 help. Getting help with addiction sucks. It's not a fun thing.

To overcome something that is killing you slowly, right? That is, you know, it's not fun. It's not fun to look in the mirror and say, God, I keep messing up, and I can't stop messing up. And I got to get help. I got to tell everybody I've been messing up. And I've got to get help to get out of it. Right. And, you know, but that's the first step. That's really the only step. I just know it's coming, guys. Do you know what I mean? I just know that it's coming and I know that it's going to be a problem and I know that I don't know. Maybe we can help. Maybe we can help a little bit. Maybe we can get somebody off. Maybe we can, you know, it's the best we can do. Because it's being presented in the same way that things like VAPE,

are being presented in the same way that things like, you know, uh, cigarettes were presented. The whole nine yards, right? Everything's fine. Look at it. It's colorful. It's fancy. It's nice. Everybody's doing it.

The cool guys are on the commercials. Everybody's doing it. The doctor's prescribing it. And then all of a sudden you're trapped and you're alone. And the commercials are gone and LeBron James is gone and you don't see anybody anymore. Nobody's coming on the air telling you how to stop. And you're stuck. So if you're stuck, man, get some help.

get some help and understand these challenges this is all part of freedom like i told you it's all part of freedom discipline is required that's i mean that's just it so i'm not going to go on and on about it it's a psa it's a red beacon moment right it's it's surviving america is what it is it's a part of the american condition it's a rapidly growing industry look at your children understand that they're coming up in this world and they're going to be tempted in the first time that you make a little man, it's really bad. You know, like, oh, God. Oh, man.

This is great. I get turned this into a job. I'm really good at it. $50,000 in the debt later. So, you know, you grow up in Philly. You hear a lot about, like, you know, the mob and the mafia and bets and the way betting was and all that kind of stuff. And it's, it's just like I told you, you're not here to win. You're not logging on to win.

I mean, that just is what it is. If you were, the industry wouldn't be booming, right? The industry wouldn't be booming if you went to casinos to win. Keep it in mind, all right? There are so many pitfalls, so many threats, but I'm telling you, I've seen people overcome much worse, man. I've seen people overcome amazing things, treacherous things. This is just another example of, you know,

It's just never think you're fighting one versus one. Maybe that's the big takeaway. Never think in life that it's a 1v1. It's you versus the Democrats, you versus Donald Trump, right? Never think that. Always understand that life is about a 1v 5 at any given moment, right? You are battling off a number of different things. The key, the biggest,

key in all of that is praying to God. The biggest key in all that is praying to God for help, pray coming to God with gratitude. I'm telling you right now, like, I read the Bible, pray, listen to people, read the Bible, talk to people about religion. The number one thing in your relationship with God that can make things incredible in life, can change things significantly in life is when you come to God with your gratitude. The moment you come to God with your gratitude, you have unlimited things to fight for now, unlimited energy to fight for it, unlimited power to battle the things that are holding you down. Because all in your head, you have this running list of things.

And it's not just like, thanks for the knife, thanks for the, you know, the hat, thanks for the wife. you look at the earth behind you, you look at the sunset, you look at the world that you've inherited, the society that you've inherited, not the ex-society, but the society, like the people you know and love around you. And you realize, like, if you're not pulling energy from all of that, if you desire to overcome, you desire to be successful in the whole nine yards, if you're not pulling energy from all of that, you may need a greater reset, I don't know. But, but, you're But go to God with your gratitude. And I'm telling you, he'll get stronger every day.

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