Chris Murphy
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1,342 appearances
66 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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That's there.
It's probably not going to be able to be capitalized upon until after Trump is gone.
Yeah, and I think, you know, maybe it is true that you're not going to put this genie back in the bottle when it comes to the amount of betting that's happening.
And if that's the case, then yes, people are going to feel the impact of government's absence.
If these prediction markets increasingly become where sports betting happens and you have no protection on these markets from bets that are inherently rigged, I do think that you're seeing the impact of government inaction.
You know, mainly we're talking about government not stepping up and acting, but that has an impact on your ability to enjoy the sports that you like.
Yeah, no, that's right.
Yeah, but I have a stake in it, I guess.
I mean, I guess the reason that I have such strong feelings about why Congress should step up and do something, whether it's college athletics and compensation or these prediction markets, is because
I get such value from being a sports fan.
Like, I hate the fact that SportsCenter is now just a betting show.
It's like how I would release energy after a hard day in the Senate is that I'd come home and I'd just think about sports.
And so I get such value from watching my kid play.
I got value as a teenage athlete learning how to be a great teammate, learning how to lose, learning how to win.
So I know how much value sports can bring
to a person's life.
And so I don't want it corrupted by an economy that doesn't care about anything other than money or a government that just sits on the sidelines while these sports markets continue to crumble in atrophy.
Yeah, we are.
I mean, listen, we have become a soft culture in a lot of ways, and we have moral softness now because, like, we don't stand for anything as a country morally.
We're willing to accept these dizzying levels of corruption, and we—
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