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00:00Let's end with Texas here.
00:02I know that has been a lot of back and forth in the state legislature trying to get this
00:06thing approved.
00:07We've seen some pushback and now maybe a new House bill.
00:10I don't want to use the word circumvent, but it does seem like there are a lot of lawmakers
00:14in Texas that are trying to get this through one way or the other.
00:17Yeah, Texas is just one of those things.
00:19Early on this year, we talked about this huge giant momentum, wave of momentum coming in
00:24Texas because, you know, there's millions of dollars being poured into it in the lobbying
00:28efforts.
00:30There's millions of lawmakers talking about it.
00:31There's, you know, all just excitement around it.
00:34You know, voters seem to want it in the polls.
00:37And yet we're still in the situation where Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is at the
00:41helm of the Senate and decides what is to be discussed on the Senate floor.
00:46In 2023, we saw a sports betting bill pass the House.
00:49A very similar bill is in the House again this year.
00:53We've also seen a rep come out and say, you know, we're going to bury this six feet deep
00:57and make sure it doesn't pass the House.
00:59So we'll see if it can even get any sort of legs there.
01:01But now we have the Senate companion bill.
01:03And again, that's going to be kind of just, you have to get a lot of support from the
01:08Republican Party because of Dan Patrick, who says he will not bring up a bill that does
01:13not have a majority of Republican support and the GOP platform in Texas is anti-gambling.
01:19So you know, you're going to have to, there's going to have to be a lot of people swayed
01:23on different, on that side of the aisle.
01:27And just to, you know, it is, as we talk about all the time, a bipartisan issue, no matter
01:31what you need people on both sides of the aisle to come together and say, yeah, let's
01:34get this done because of the opposition on both sides of the aisle.
01:38So it's a very complicated state, very complicated issue.
01:42We'll see what happens.
01:43But yeah, the bills are in play.
01:44I'm sure we'll get some discussion in Texas this year.
01:47But I, you know, just because I don't see Patrick budging, I don't think we're going
01:52to see Texas legalizing sports betting this year.