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00:00Meanwhile, is there any progress made in Missouri? I know that they're trying to get sports betting on the ballot in November. Pat, what's the latest there?
00:09Yeah, so, you know, we talked before the winning for Missouri Education Coalition turned in more than 340,000 signatures for the ballot.
00:20You know, that's good. I mean, they need to have verified 170 or about their signatures.
00:26The Secretary of State is going through those right as we speak, and we'll know fairly soon whether or not sports betting as an issue will be on the ballot in November.
00:37Well, there's been polls throughout this whole process. As you know, we've seen no movement on the Senate side of the legislator in Missouri.
00:46The House has put through several packages over the past couple of years, basically the same one that voters could vote on, and they just have not, you know, the Senate just is not moving it.
00:59It failed again this year for the third straight year, even though, you know, a couple years ago, Kansas and them were racing to get it off the ground.
01:06And so, you know, through the whole time, you would expect there'd be, you know, ravenous voters expecting to get to vote on this.
01:14But according to the most recent poll that came out this week, it's pretty much split right around 36, 35% for and against.
01:24Then you've got the middle undecided amount. We've had almost 50% in some polls.
01:29So you might guess those undecided registered voters might lean toward yes, but it's going to be close.
01:37I think when it comes down into November, I don't think it's going to be an overwhelming majority to say we want this, but it's going to be close.
01:48And that's, you know, that's what I what I'm going to be watching on Election Day versus some of the other things to be paying attention to, including the presidential election.
01:57So, yeah, Missouri voters will likely get to vote. It's going to be close, though.
02:07Yeah.