Chris Murphy
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1,330 appearances
64 recordings
22 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 29 Jun
Chris Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, those talk shows are taped at 5 p.m., and so there's hundreds of people, including all the guests who know what that celebrity said.
There's bets on whether the United States is going to go to war on a Friday or a Saturday, whether there are people inside the White House who know the answer to that question.
So there are just a ton of bets on these prediction markets that are rigged by inside information, and the markets make it seem as if these are on-the-level bets when they really aren't.
So to me, that's just corruption, and we shouldn't allow for there to be
fundamentally rigged prediction markets or betting markets available to ordinary consumers.
That seems to be the primary problem.
But I also do just worry, you know, like I worry about sports, that everything just becomes commoditized, that we kind of just can't enjoy something for the sake of it.
That we can't look at an issue like war as a moral issue.
Now it's just something that we can make money off of.
And I think that that cheapens life a little bit when nothing has inherent value any longer, where value is just connected to your ability to monetize it.
That's not what sports was for me growing up and as a fan.
It was about a real attachment to the team, a belief that when that team did well, I was doing well, but not in a monetary sense, in more of like a spiritual sense.
There's a purity to sports that I think gets lost when everything just becomes a bet.
Yeah, and when I say spiritually, I don't necessarily mean that word in the religious sense.
I just mean that like,
There's a purity and a goodness, you know, when we view sports purely through a fandom lens.
And I think that there's something important when we look at a question of war and peace purely through a moral lens.
I do think it just becomes corrupted when all of that gets monetized.
It cheapens the experience or the debate for us.
And I think we do, like...
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