If I was an athlete, I would wanna be able to opt out of being bet on. Ft. Neko White
Summary
A straphanger delivers a scorching take on sports betting apps: if he were an athlete, he'd want to opt out of being bet on entirely. The logic is dark but simple. When someone loses money on your performance, things can get dangerous fast. "It's one thing if I watch the game and it's like you lose. It's another thing when yo, I bet my money, my kids money, I bet my taxes on you having the over of 15 and you had 14." Kareem agrees the gambling saturation has gotten out of hand, with every commercial break cycling between betting promos and helpline numbers. The conversation shifts to a wilder complaint: white people need to stop bothering Black people with information nobody asked for, like Cracker Barrel's logo redesign or Liam Neeson's racist comments. His mom called it "Leon Nelson" and the movie "Take Me Away." Kareem pushes back. Black people aren't a monolith.
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So, what's your take? If I was an athlete, I would want to be able to opt out of being bet on.
100% agree with how dangerous it is right now. It's hot and people are broke, bro. It's one thing if I watch the game and it's like you lose. It's another thing when yo, I bet my money, my kids money, I bet my taxes on you having the over of 15 and you had 14. That could get somebody hurt. You're saying that there is a lot of outside influence.
Hell yeah.
That can occur if you're an athlete and someone's betting on you to to lose.
Yeah. Uh-huh.
They can make you lose. They can make you lose in real life.
They can make you lose a leg.
Can you curse on here? Yeah.
It's up. [laughter] It's up. Every time I watch a game now, it's like the game betting commercial. The game betting commercial. And then it's like you have a gambling problem called 1600. We your life up. This is how I knew it's wild. One of my friends, he was like,
"Yo, you ever did a parlay?" I was like, "Never."
What's a parlay for these people? Hell if I know it's whatever y'all losing your money on right now. He looked at me and said, "Nah, you got to feel this pain [laughter] for a better $10. If I would have won, I would have won $30,000, bro."
That's actually a pretty good deal.
But imagine if that was my last $10. I'm going to hit the parlay.
Or I'mma hit you for missing that shot.
What else are you thinking about? White people, I'm tired of y'all bothering us with information we didn't ask for. Recently, they came out and was like, "We're going to change the logo at Cracker Barrel because I guess the white guy in the logo is a colonizer." News flash. We don't give a about Cracker Barrel's logo. It's real going on out here. Ice is pulling people out their house. You think I give a about Cracker Barrel's logo? Cracker Barrel sound like where the KKK go to sharpen their hoods. We don't think about like that. [laughter] And they've been doing this for years. In 2019, what's his name? Liam Neeson, I He says something racist. They were all over the news. Liam Neeson says something racist. Black people are outraged. What? Black people. We don't know who that is. And we'll try to act mad. My mom tried to be mad
about Liam Neeson.
She called me. It's like, you heard what Leon Nelson said about us. [laughter]
And I'm like, yo, who? She's like, you know Leon Nelson, the white guy from the movie. Take me away. Leave [laughter] us alone.
Here's where I disagree.
Okay.
Black people are not a monolith. He about to tell me how he knew Liam Neeson. [laughter]