Mike Pesca

Hey, what's a good reason for us to have beavers that isn't what everybody's going to assume we pick beavers for?

Yeah, let's retrofit this one.

What could we say that would be plausibly an explanation?

Let me – so prediction markets, are you – do you think they will be legal or do you think we will – when we have a sober up moment on sports gambling that the prediction markets are in trouble too?

You know, let me get you out of here on the following sort of a historical fact that I'm curious if you'll turn into a prediction.

Ever since the end of the pandemic, I've had a different view of prohibition.

Because you now realize, how did prohibition start?

You know, it always had a small group of people arguing to ban alcohol, right?

You watch the TV show Gilded Age, right?

Cynthia Nixon's character is actually holding meetings, right?

The temperance movement and all that stuff.

But we don't actually do it until just after the 1917 and 18 pandemic, which tells me that like pandemics sort of make us do crazy things.

Right.

We we we sort of we go to our extremes.

We we we do certain things.

And within a decade, we decide, well, this was a bad idea.

whether it's gambling, whether it's the legalization of marijuana, what's something that we've been letting happen, right?

That we'll look back on and say in 25 years and say, yeah, we ended that after a decade experiment.

We realized that's not good for society.

We sobered up.