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We talk around it a lot on HoS but writer Charles Fain Lehman has just come out and said it: He thinks the legalization of sports betting is bad and wants it reversed. Plenty have expressed misgivings, but this man has actually staked out a position.

I’m not sure anyone is as prominent in America’s burbling anti-vice movement as Charles is currently, so I wanted to get his perspective. How bad is sports gambling and will there ever be a public appetite to bring back prohibition? I found this talk fascinating and hope you will too. Topics include but aren’t limited to…

* Will Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce getting married result in an actual baby boom?

* What’s the legalization of sports betting done to society?

* Rank the young male vices in terms of damage: sports betting, porn, weed

* Do porn and weed use curb criminality?

* Did the American public want this sports betting legalization?

* How popular is sports betting with the American public?

* Would young men vote to protect access to sports betting and/or porn?

* Charles’ thoughts on Richard Hanania’s Do We Need Sports Betting to Get to Mars? Maybe theory

* Charles writes a lot about psychedelics but refuses to do any

* Charles and I are both skeptical of ayahuasca shamans

* Is alcohol use a net negative or net positive for society?

* Zoomers are anti weed?!