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Betting is now as easy and as common among (college) kids as ordering a pizza — it lives on their phone, inside the game, and it’s marketed straight at them. And here’s the part nobody wants to hear: parents are into it too. Two views of the same epidemic. Dr. Lia Nower, who runs the Center for Gambling Studies at Rutgers, has spent years tracking how betting rewires young brains — and why the apps are built to make sure it does. Then Kayman, a Tulane sophomore, takes you inside the dorm: the parlays before class, the group chats that double as sportsbooks, the roommates down a thousand bucks by Thursday, and why none of it registers as a problem to anyone his age. It’s not a vice. It’s just what you do.

Is your kid gambling? You’re not crazy — you’re just a normie. And the answer may already be in your family group chat.

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CLUB NORMIE IS FOR:

• Socially and Politically homeless. Independent-ish.
• Old-school in the way that used to be… just school.
• Looking to understand when did normal get so weird?

Strollers with dogs in them. People telling their deepest fears to Chat-Gpt. Socialism is hip. Every relationship now comes with an org chart — who is the victim and who is the powerful. Ah what? This is crazy -- no?

Host Jennifer Weissmann.

Normie (n.) — politically homeless, socially confused, and pretty sure the elevator used to involve eye contact.

You're not crazy. You're a normie.

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