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00:00Now let's close it out with the story that we heard about back in August, which is the possibility of FanDuel and DraftKings adding a surcharge to some of their bets.
00:12Is there any update on that now?
00:14Yeah, you know what, Craig? It was interesting because obviously DraftKings decided not to go forward with it.
00:19And so we didn't really hear too many regulators speaking on the record about this, but New York did last week.
00:25And it was interesting because the chairman of the regulator up there, Brian O'Dowd, he basically said that it's their job to protect the people that gamble in the state.
00:39And so he said, quote, in that regard, I looked with great alarm about the recent proposal for a 20% surcharge.
00:48And basically what he said was, look, if any gambling company has any ideas about this again, we're going to look at it and we're going to look at it really close.
00:57We'll be subject to, quote, the strictest scrutiny and if appropriate, be rejected.
01:03So it was interesting to me that we finally had a regulator come out and say something so firm about it because we never had to actually get there in the step.
01:12But if New York and their 51%, they're saying, look, you got to come here and pay it all if you want to be here.
01:17That's a powerful statement to the industry.