EPISODE · Jul 14, 2026 · 54 MIN
How casino culture plays with our brains
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If the house always wins, why do we play? This documentary asks experts and observers to reflect on the casino as reality and metaphor. Skill versus luck, attention and distraction, fortune paired with loss: the casino reflects us, individually and culturally, back to ourselves. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 21, 2019.Read: Machines of Chance: How casino culture plays with us
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