Chris Murphy

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · "That's Just Corruption": Sen. Chris Murphy on the Prediction Market Crackdown and Profiteering in Youth Sports · 26 Mar 2026 podcast

people rich.

So yeah, now I think we've gotten to the point where that informal value structure is gone.

There is no shame in the private sector.

Everything is commoditized.

Now we have to look at legislation that kind of reinserts these priorities, the common good, worker health, community health, back into the calculus that these companies are making.

Yeah, and listen, I'll take responsibility in both my roles, right?

I mean, I definitely could, as a parent, have just said, you know what, you're just going to play rec-level hockey, right?

We're not spending the thousands of dollars.

We're not spending our weekends in Philadelphia and Buffalo.

And so, you know, every parent and every individual can decide to not enter that rat race as willingly, at least when it comes to youth sports.

But yes, the ultimate solution here is for Congress to step in and do something about this.

And I do think, and I'll just tease this because it's a longer conversation, I do think that there's a real bipartisan consensus out there in America around how much profit matters in our entire economy.

But let's just take youth sports.

I don't think people on the right or the left

are excited about how professionalized youth sports has become.

And I think that there could be an opportunity for Republicans and Democrats to work together.

Now, Congress is especially impotent right now because of what Trump has done to our entire federal government.

And there's not an ability to take on private equity in sports because private equity right now is so integrated into this administration.

But I do think that there's a political realignment there for the taking out in America around people's frustration

with the lionization of profit and efficiency and the commoditization of everything not nailed down, including Little League baseball.

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