Make Parlays Great Again: The Grift Comes for Sports (with Cole Costello)

In this episode of Make Parlays Great Again, Alex and Cole break down how sports betting has turned fandom into financial self-harm and why the house always wins by design. They spiral through brutal playoff losses, the Ben Johnson–NFL coaching churn, and the slow collapse of sports into a political, algorithm-driven spectacle where outrage is monetized and nothing is just a game anymore — especially as gambling creeps into politics itself, turning elections and civic life into another market to exploit, and making a bad system even worse.