{"id":299953,"date":"2025-11-18T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299953\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:23:08","slug":"scotcast-getting-caught-betting-was-the-best-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299953\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotcast &#8211; \u2018Getting caught betting was the best day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for over a year<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering a tax rise on some profits made by betting companies. <\/p>\n<p>Brian Rice (pictured), who was banned from football for placing bets while managing Hamilton Academical, tells us about managing his addiction in an industry synonymous with gambling. <\/p>\n<p>Scotcast is the BBC\u2019s Scottish news podcast. This episode was hosted by Martin Geissler and Natalie Higgins. <\/p>\n<p>Get in touch: scotcast@bbc.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002mbld\" aria-label=\"Programme Website of \u2018Getting caught betting was the best day\u2019\" data-testid=\"programme-website-link\" class=\"sw-group sw-inline-flex sw-items-center sw-pt-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Programme Website<\/a>Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Available for over a year Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering a tax rise on some profits made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-299953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}