From podcasts to AI: How technology can help stop problem gambling

Monday, March 13, 2023 9:35 PM
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  • Chris Stewart, Scripps News

Brian Hatch says it’s been more than eight years since he last placed a bet. Hatch isn’t afraid to take those who tune in to his podcast, “All In: The Addicted Gambler’s podcast,” back to the lowest parts of his life.

For more than a dozen years, he says, he spent multiple nights a week, many times until 5 a.m., at casino blackjack tables.

“I was just in a position where because of gambling I never graduated college. I was academically dismissed after my first year because I was always at the casino,” Hatch says.

He doesn’t have an exact amount of money he gambled away, but he says he lost most of what he earned for more than a decade working as many of three jobs.