I’d Give Anything to Go Back and Avoid That First Bet

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When the apps became legalized in New Jersey about seven or eight years ago, that's when everything changed for me. >> PM is a big day where people, you know, drinking is okay and levels of drinking that normally would not be tolerated, but you know, it's just once. >> I think you're playing with fire with those things. You don't know who's going to be the one that gets addicted. It could be your son. It could be your friend's son. You don't you just don't know. I would say with with Purim, the drinking, the smoking. I mean, everything starts with your first experience, right? And I would say, what's what's the point? Ultimately, what's what's the point? Ultimately, you're you're you're gaining so little benefit to have a risk of lifelong pain and suffering. You know, most kids that I speak to, most Jewish kids who are alcoholics or drug addicts, a lot of it starts on on days like Porum where where things are sanctioned and this is the one day that it's okay. But our brains don't work like that. Once you get the taste of something, once you get exposure to something and you enjoy it, you want to do it again. And I I I've spoken to kids about this and I would give any I told them I would give

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2. 5:07being this cool kid. You know, I had I had skipped a grade when I was…
3. 10:42joining every pool that I could join and um it was still a major part of…
4. 16:19friend. So I was given tickets to any game I ever wanted to go to. You…
5. 21:23me to stop ultimately. You know, I I burn through all of our money, right? That…
6. 27:01>> And she knew something was wrong cuz that never started. Saying we need to talk…
7. 32:41were really important for me to kind of rewire my brain. When I when I when…
8. 38:18boundaries for myself. And um yeah, you know, it was hard at first to even watch…
9. 43:55it's okay. But our brains don't work like that. Once you get the taste of something,…
10. 49:31did a podcast, you know, a gambling podcast a couple months ago. I was on the…

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