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Hey friends! This week, we talk two big policy issues: sports betting and the legalization of marijuana. We explain that while sports betting is becoming a bigger and bigger industry, addiction and negative societal implications that come with it are also becoming a bigger problem. We also connect the issue of sports gambling to some ideas we have about marijuana legalization (not to be confused with decriminalization) and how when we make big legal changes, we need to be ready to cope with the negative effects of these decisions.
Here are the various articles and studies we referenced in the episode:
The Atlantic's article on Apple's new Sports app
New Republic's article, "Our Entire Society Is Becoming Addicted to Sports Gambling"
Mayo Clinic's sports gambling guidance
NBC News article on gambling addiction hotlines
Ross Douthat's "Legalizing Marijuana Is a Big Mistake"
Kurt Streeter's "The Rising Human Cost of Sports Betting"
Politico's article "Broken promises: How marijuana legalization failed communities hit hardest by the drug war"
University at Buffalo's study on gambling and socioeconomic status
Connecticut's study on sports gambling
Sen. Blumenthal's March Madness call to action
Baylor University study on the social costs of gambling
2023 research working paper, "Economic Benefits and Social Costs of Legalizing Recreational Marijuana"
CNN article on marijuana use and traffic accidents
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Music by: King Sis
#politics #faith #religion #belief #religious #christian #christianity #culture #news #policy #sportsbetting #betting #gambling #sportsgambling #marijuana #legalization #legalizemarijuana #app #Apple #FanDuel #DraftKings #weed #legalizeweed #decriminalization #study #paper #research #addiction #drugs #warondrugs #WearWeAre #MichaelWear
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Thanks for listening to The Morning Five!
As always, you can become a subscriber and support our work over at Substack. Subscriptions fuel this podcast and helps fund the dozens of hours we put into this podcast and our content each week. Use this link: https://wearweare.substack.com/subscribe
Thanks for listening, rating/subscribing Wear We Are on your favorite podcast platform, and following/liking The Center for Christianity and Public Life (@ccpubliclife).
Michael's new book, The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life, is now available! You can order on Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, or at your favorite local bookstore.
Join the conversation and follow us on:
Instagram: @michaelwear
Twitter: @MichaelRWear
And check out @tsfnetwork
Music by: King Sis
#politics #faith #religion #religious #culture #news #prayer #scripture #DOJ #TaylorSwift #LiveNation #RishiSunak #UK #elections #July4 #Europe #Palestine
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Thanks for listening to The Morning Five!
As always, you can become a subscriber and support our work over at Substack. Subscriptions fuel this podcast and helps fund the dozens of hours we put into this podcast and our content each week. Use this link: https://wearweare.substack.com/subscribe
Thanks for listening, rating/subscribing Wear We Are on your favorite podcast platform, and following/liking The Center for Christianity and Public Life (@ccpubliclife).
Michael's new book, The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life, is now available! You can order on Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, or at your favorite local bookstore.
Join the conversation and follow us on:
Instagram: @michaelwear
Twitter: @MichaelRWear
And check out @tsfnetwork
Music by: Tranquil Dawn
#politics #faith #religion #religious #culture #news #prayer #scripture #psalms #ThrowbackMusic
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Thanks for listening to The Morning Five!
As always, you can become a subscriber and support our work over at Substack. Subscriptions fuel this podcast and helps fund the dozens of hours we put into this podcast and our content each week. Use this link: https://wearweare.substack.com/subscribe
Thanks for listening, rating/subscribing Wear We Are on your favorite podcast platform, and following/liking The Center for Christianity and Public Life (@ccpubliclife).
Michael's new book, The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life, is now available! You can order on Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, or at your favorite local bookstore.
Join the conversation and follow us on:
Instagram: @michaelwear
Twitter: @MichaelRWear
And check out @tsfnetwork
Music by: King Sis
#politics #faith #religion #religious #culture #news #prayer #scripture #Israel #ICC #Biden #WhiteHouse #marijuana #publichealth #Senate #immigration #Schumer
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Thanks for listening to The Morning Five!
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Thanks for listening, rating/subscribing Wear We Are on your favorite podcast platform, and following/liking The Center for Christianity and Public Life (@ccpubliclife).
Michael's new book, The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life, is now available! You can order on Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, or at your favorite local bookstore.
Join the conversation and follow us on:
Instagram: @michaelwear
Twitter: @MichaelRWear
And check out @tsfnetwork
Music by: King Sis
#politics #faith #religion #religious #culture #news #prayer #scripture #SCOTUS #CFPB #courts #2024 #Trump #Biden #Iran #Russia
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In this week's episode, we interview Protect Democracy's Policy Strategist, Chris Crawford. Chris's work is focused on ensuring free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power, including staffing the National Task Force on Election Crises and managing the Faith in Elections Playbook in partnership with Interfaith America. We ask him questions like:
1) What is a free and fair election?
2) What is election security?
3) What has changed since the 2020 election?
And much more! So many of our listeners over the past two years have asked us these kinds of questions, and we thought Chris would help you learn something new *and* show how you can get more involved in the democratic process.
Episode note: Faith in Elections Playbook with Interfaith America - https://www.interfaithamerica.org/resources/faith-in-elections/
The Spirit of Our Politics is now available to buy! You can get it at Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Christianbook.com, Audible, Libro.Fm, Google Play, Books-A-Million, Walmart, Church Source, Faith Gateway, or at your favorite local bookstore.
As always, you can become a subscriber and support our work over at Substack. Subscriptions fuel this podcast and helps fund the dozens of hours we put into this podcast and our content each week. Use this link: https://wearweare.substack.com/subscribe
If you'd like to partner with us as a sponsor for Wear We Are, please fill out our Advertise With Us form.
Thanks for listening, rating/subscribing Wear We Are on your favorite podcast platform, and following/liking The Center for Christianity and Public Life (@ccpubliclife).
Join the conversation and follow us on:
Instagram: @michaelwear
Twitter: @MichaelRWear
And check out @tsfnetwork
Music by: King Sis
#politics #faith #religion #belief #religious #christian #christianity #culture #news #election #fairelection #safeelection #violence #electionviolence #democracy #2024 #vote #voting #volunteer #interfaith #poll #polling #pollworkers #WearWeAre #MichaelWear
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Thanks for listening to The Morning Five!
As always, you can become a subscriber and support our work over at Substack. Subscriptions fuel this podcast and helps fund the dozens of hours we put into this podcast and our content each week. Use this link: https://wearweare.substack.com/subscribe
Thanks for listening, rating/subscribing Wear We Are on your favorite podcast platform, and following/liking The Center for Christianity and Public Life (@ccpubliclife).
Michael's new book, The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life, is now available! You can order on Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, or at your favorite local bookstore.
Join the conversation and follow us on:
Instagram: @michaelwear
Twitter: @MichaelRWear
And check out @tsfnetwork
Music by: King Sis
#politics #faith #religion #religious #culture #news #prayer #scripture #airtravel #DOT #regulations #Trump #courts #MichaelCohen #2024 #elections #AG #DOJ
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Thanks for listening to The Morning Five!
As always, you can become a subscriber and support our work over at Substack. Subscriptions fuel this podcast and helps fund the dozens of hours we put into this podcast and our content each week. Use this link: https://wearweare.substack.com/subscribe
Thanks for listening, rating/subscribing Wear We Are on your favorite podcast platform, and following/liking The Center for Christianity and Public Life (@ccpubliclife).
Michael's new book, The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life, is now available! You can order on Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, or at your favorite local bookstore.
Join the conversation and follow us on:
Instagram: @michaelwear
Twitter: @MichaelRWear
And check out @tsfnetwork
Music by: King Sis
#politics #faith #religion #religious #culture #news #prayer #scripture #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #Alito #courts #freespeech #religiousfreedom #Maryland #elections #2024
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Hey friends! This week, we talk the tech revolution, culture, art, AI, and criticism -- all in relation to Apple's viral new iPad ad called "Crush!" Apple released the 1-minute ad this last week and received a lot of criticism from people across all walks of life and so we thought we'd join in the conversation and connect the ad to current conversations on AI.
Episode note: Here is a link to Tim Cook's X post about the ad.
Episode note: Here is the YouTube link to Apple's ad, "Crush!"
The Spirit of Our Politics is now available to buy! You can get it at Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Christianbook.com, Audible, Libro.Fm, Google Play, Books-A-Million, Walmart, Church Source, Faith Gateway, or at your favorite local bookstore.
As always, you can become a subscriber and support our work over at Substack. Subscriptions fuel this podcast and helps fund the dozens of hours we put into this podcast and our content each week. Use this link: https://wearweare.substack.com/subscribe
If you'd like to partner with us as a sponsor for Wear We Are, please fill out our Advertise With Us form.
Thanks for listening, rating/subscribing Wear We Are on your favorite podcast platform, and following/liking The Center for Christianity and Public Life (@ccpubliclife).
Join the conversation and follow us on:
Instagram: @michaelwear
Twitter: @MichaelRWear
And check out @tsfnetwork
Music by: King Sis
#politics #faith #religion #belief #religious #christian #christianity #culture #news #Apple #iphone #ipad #ipadpro #crush #marketing #advertising #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ethics #regulations #government #SiliconValley #BigTech #TechCEOs #WearWeAre #MichaelWear
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