This past Wednesday, I woke up wrapped in a sleeping bag for the 22nd consecutive night. I had just completed my third descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and after 280 miles, instead of loading gear into my raft to head down river, the raft became gear and needed to be loaded into a truck.

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Down in the Canyon, there is no cell service. The only way to communicate with the real world is by satellite phone. Near the end of our three-week trip, we went seven days and 100 miles without seeing another soul apart from our expedition.

Then we did and the 16 of us made wild monkey noises as we floated toward their camp. I smiled and said we hadn’t seen people in a while. They hadn’t either and said this was their last night in the Canyon. We were short on beer; they had a surplus. It turned out they wanted cookies and we had eight packages of cookies left over from two weeks of lunches. It was the only time I’ve seen cookies turn into beer.

So this dude shows up with the truck and trailer, we load all our gear, and start driving back towards Flagstaff. The truck driver went about catching us up on current events. He told us that the Carolinas are flooded. What else? Some insider trading scandal between the two big daily fantasy sports sites. Oh really? Go on.

I was in too much of a dirtbag state of mind to do much more besides blink. He then said something about how some guy who works for DraftKings won a bunch of money on FanDuel. I was glad to hear him confirm that both sites were still operational.

I wasn’t worried about insider trading. I perceive DraftKings and FanDuel to be more like America and Cuba than America and Canada when it comes to trade relations. The driver wasn’t able to articulate the core of the issue, but it was very interesting to me that this river guide who lives in Arizona, where you can’t play DFS, chose this issue as second item on the agenda of catching us up on three weeks of world news.

As soon as I picked up cell service, I learned details. Ethan, shortly after lineups locked last Sunday, published DraftKings‘ NFL ownership percentages. The problem was that those numbers included players in the later games, numbers which were not public and should not exist since those players were not locked into lineups. The same weekend, Ethan won $350,000 in a contest at FanDuel.

It seems pretty clear to me that these events are mutually exclusive. It makes sense to me that Ethan would be a winner at FanDuel after talking to him this summer. The kid knows his stuff and is immersed in the DFS world. It makes sense that Ethan has intimate knowledge of ownership projections. What doesn’t make sense and hasn’t been answered is why that information exists and who has access to it. For the first time, the integrity of DFS has been called into question.

I don’t think Ethan did anything wrong. I am glad they have changed their policy to ban employees from playing and I’m curious to see how that gets enforced and how collusion is prevented. I wonder if DraftKings will face PR pressure to have Ethan fired. I am glad they have not fired him. It didn’t cross my mind as wrong this summer when I learned that Ethan plays on FanDuel, but the amount of information that he may have access to didn’t cross my mind either.

I put it out of my mind for a bit and then began the journey home. I did my best to catch up on what happened in the NFL world. I spent a night in Grand Junction, Colorado on my way home. After handing the doorman $10 for cover to dueling pianos, the bouncer continued conversation with him saying, “So yeah, this guy from DraftKings won like, $350,000 on the other site.”

Hmm.

I got back home on Saturday, worked on NFL stuff all evening and into Sunday, and then ventured out into civilization again, this time for sushi. I overheard a waitress talking to the chefs about how proud she was for currently winning $24 on FanDuel. She then went on to explain her rationale behind rostering both Matt Ryan and the Atlanta defense on the same team.

For the past month, I have been living in a ditch and since coming out I’ve learned that people are talking about DFS. I remember when poker became something akin to pop culture, but people never talked about poker like I have heard them talk about DFS this week.

I remember when online poker had its big scandal. It was reported on “60 Minutes” right after a football game and was a much bigger deal than Ethan and his $350,000. I never heard non-poker people talk about that. I don’t think this is a scandal. I think it is merely an embarrassment and will blow over.

The industry is young and is bound to make some mistakes. Regulation sounds like a great idea, but I don’t trust a government that tells me that cannabis is just as dangerous as cocaine and that DFS is a skill game (and therefore not gambling), while poker is not.

All those thoughts danced through my mind as I clicked through head-to-head matchups this week. Most of my opponents were very new or very amateur to the game of DFS, having only cashed in a handful of contests each. On FanDuel, you can click on a player’s name and see how many cashes they have per sport.

I feel very good about the matchups I have been drawing across the industry and I am seeing the impacts of the “million new accounts” created at DraftKings this month. We may have hit a hiccup as an industry, but more people are playing and talking about DFS now than they were a month ago and I am excited for the future of DFS. Hopefully DraftKings and FanDuel don’t run so many commercials that Congress bans DFS just to make the commercials stop.