Casey Newton

I feel like I have talked about my wife a non-negligible amount on this show.

Yeah.

Is it because they think people sent some sort of chemistry between us?

Is that like a thing?

No, he specifically said that he did not think that we had any chemistry.

Okay, so we're just platonic.

That's very good.

That's incredible.

Oh, thank God.

My bet is going to pay out on Kalshi.

Yeah, I mean, this has been one of the tech stories of the year is just the absolute meteoric rise of prediction markets in the popular imagination.

I've been walking around New York for the past day and just like ads for these prediction markets are everywhere you look.

It is like taking over culture in a way that I'm not sure I would have predicted.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah, I mean, this just seems like something that is obviously more widespread than we know about.

Like, if you have material, non-public information about a military operation, like, what are you going to do?

Sit there and collect your freaking paycheck like a chump?

Or are you going to go online and make some dough betting on the outcome?

I loved this one because my understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that there's this prediction market for, like, what is the temperature in Paris?