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If you think you know who the next president of the United States will be, there's a place in Iowa where you can back up your convictions with a buck or two.

And a lot of times creative frictions happen from people with different perspectives.

They'd be sitting on the curb and they'd be trading stocks and signaling to people in the offices about them.

You think they have a good shot of winning.

So we knew that like William Jennings Bryant, the populist from Nebraska, was not popular with the workers in New York.

Yeah, so they're going to be like hedging or going against their candidate.

Hi, I'm Angel from Bayonia, Colorado.

And I listen to ThruLine from NPR when I'm painting houses and it makes it feel like I'm not even working at all.

This week on Newsmakers, Dana White, the head of the UFC.

We're at a place where people can't even talk anymore.

And if they find out that I'm friends with the president, I'm a mega piece of shit.

I mean, I'm talking to NPR right now, right?

I talk to everybody.

the logic of your betting on whether somebody's assassinated, that's really ugly.

The idea that you're profiting from somebody else's misfortune, that arises disgust.