California Sports Betting Delayed Until at Least 2026

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00:00This this first story here is a big bummer, man.

00:02Like we have a lot of viewers that are streaming the show in California.

00:06And look, I think that most people understand that the tribes are going to

00:10have a major factor as to whether or not sports betting inevitably gets passed in

00:15California. And we knew that 2025, it was going to have a hard time happening.

00:19But now we're even pushing this back beyond 2026.

00:23Pat, that's a lot.

00:24I feel like other states are going to get ahead of them now because of this.

00:28Yeah, I mean, this really all goes back to 2022.

00:30And there was a giant ballot proposal from both the tribes for in-person only

00:36sportsbooks at the tribal casinos and then a mobile in, you know, a whole

00:41legalization ballot proposal from multiple sportsbook companies.

00:47And basically what happened was the tribe said, wait a second, if the companies

00:52want to do this and go online and not involve us, we're going to put a ton of

00:55money into it. I think it was 300 million plus dollars that went into this just to

00:59basically stop that ballot proposal.

01:02And it failed miserably.

01:04I think it was less than 20 percent of votes for the online.

01:09And so that that kind of said to the companies like, oh, OK, we need to work with

01:13the tribes. We need to make this happen.

01:15If we're going to get into California, we need to work with the tribes.

01:18So basically, California is, yes, to the tribal kind of mercy.

01:24And what happened was this week or last week in Spain, there was a conference at the

01:29panel of tribal leaders in California said, listen, we want to get this.

01:33We're excited about it.

01:34We know it's coming.

01:37We need to get it right.

01:39And they said, you know, it could be on the ballot in 2026, but we're not going to put

01:43it on the ballot in 2026 because we need to get this ready.

01:46A quote from Catalina Chacon, a board member of the Pachanga Band of Michigan Indians

01:51said the data is telling us the time is not right.

01:55Definitely not 2026.

01:56We're looking more like 2028, but it has to include all the tribal communities.

02:01And there's more than 100 in California.

02:03And so the big ones seem to be on board.

02:05They want to get it right. But with 100 tribes, there's a lot of non-gaming tribes that

02:09are part of a revenue sharing kind of ecosystem from the gaming.

02:14They all need to get on board.

02:15That's what the tribal leaders are basically trying to do right now is get everybody on

02:18board, say, hey, let's do this.

02:20Let's do it the right way.

02:21They also recognize that this is going to have huge implications for any potential online

02:25casino movements in California.

02:29So they're kind of weighing that, too.

02:31They just don't want to legalize sports betting and say, oops, we forgot about that

02:34component that's coming down the pipeline at who knows when.

02:38So, yeah, just California is a very kind of lengthy process.

02:42Clearly, it might be, you know, it's not going to be Utah.

02:47I don't think Utah is ever going to legalize, but it'll be probably one of the last, if

02:51not the last state that is kind of up for grabs, for lack of a better term, to legalize

02:57because of just the tribal community wanting to make sure they get it right and make sure

03:01they're getting the best that they can.

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