Chapter 1: Why is the host agreeing with AOC about gambling?
Guys, things have gotten so crazy in the world that I am out here agreeing with AOC. Like, ugh, shutters, horrifying, it's devastating. But unfortunately, she made a great point recently about gambling. Now, if you guys watched the interview that I did on John Chris' show earlier this week, which you absolutely should, it was such a fun interview and I just adore him.
But if you watched that, then you probably know by now that there is one topic that my dear husband Alex has been begging me to discuss on this show. And that is the intersection of the gambling markets and insider trading. And just to give you a window into our marriage, this is something that we discussed daily.
Like, my husband has been monitoring this situation for months, and every time that we would talk about it, like, my entire head would start to spin. I don't know if it's just me. I don't know if, you know, I'm just not a man. I don't follow betting. I'm not interested in, you know, polymarket and calls. I don't know what I would say, but to his credit, he was right to continue pushing me.
He was right to continue bringing it up. He's usually right about these sorts of things, and if you care, as I do about calling out corruption and calling out hypocrisy, then this is just something that we cannot ignore.
Even if you are not into the betting markets, even if you don't understand gambling, which is often where I find myself because now these days in the modern era, it's not just people with classified information going to Wall Street and making trades. They are now able to use that information on online betting sites, not the stock market, but sites that allow you to gamble with people's lives.
And it begs the question of whether our political system has been completely gamified. Now, before we dive into this topic, make sure that you like this video and subscribe to the channel if you've not already. And if you have, thank you guys so much. I appreciate you being here.
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Chapter 2: What is the intersection of gambling markets and insider trading?
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you can find that there cooper confidential.com cooper.com for tickets see you there okay so i just have to point out the obvious i think it's really funny that i'm sitting down to do this episode about hypocrisy and corruption and insider trading and i'm wearing a freaking crocheted bandana this is the best day of my husband's life he loves when i wear hair accessories so he's very excited about this
My friend Rose was just in Korea for a month and she brought this home for me and I've been very excited to wear it. It's like 75 degrees here in Nashville. The sun is shining. I'm getting a tan by being outside working on the farm. So it just felt like the day to pull out the floral crocheted bandana and talk about corruption.
So now, as you have probably gauged by the introduction, we are talking about Polly Market and Kalshi today and the fact that they might be allegedly, allegedly, possibly, presumably, the new homes for modern insider trading. So PolyMarket specifically, they exploded during the 2024 election, where more than $3.3 billion was waged on Trump versus Kamala.
It is now valued at $9 billion, and it's partnered with leagues like the MLB, UFC as their official prediction market. So it is now like fully in the mainstream. And as you probably know, PolyMarket is not your normal betting site. It's not like DraftKings, like its primary function I guess it's just betting on random events. I think that's the best way we could describe it.
Like for example, users bet nearly $200,000 on whether Trump would smoke pot with Joe Rogan. They bet another 65K on if Kamala Harris during her campaign would say the word brat before August. People even bet on if and when Jesus is going to return, if the US will confirm that aliens exist, what year Taylor Swift will get pregnant, when her actual wedding is, where it is, all of these things.
They are even betting on Caroline Levitt's press conferences. And this is sort of where it starts to get interesting. Look at this. This is from January of this year, January 7th. Today's White House press briefing had a 98% chance of running over 65 minutes until Caroline Leavitt abruptly ended it with seconds to spare.
Traders on the no side, meaning that minority, the 2% that said she would not go over 65 minutes, made 50 times their bet in seconds. Now that clip right there from January 7th, that was the first time that I saw people questioning whether anyone within the Trump administration or within government at large was in on this.
Because if you watch that press conference, if you're watching the clock run up the way that she immediately ends it and walks off stage, her abrupt ending, was almost too perfectly timed. Like just, it was almost too abrupt.
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Chapter 3: How has Polymarket changed the betting landscape?
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Chapter 4: What makes Polymarket different from traditional betting sites?
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Back to the point on whether these are just lucky guesses or whether this is sinister, I would personally argue that choosing to bet on the lives of American servicemen, bet on the fate of their families, is sinister in and of itself, but that is just me. So already I'm drawing the line in the sand on this. It grosses me out.
But in regards to this entire story, here is something even crazier that I think just lends itself to the overarching idea of corruption and hypocrisy. To be fair, Trump is not the first president to have to deal with, you know, the betting markets and insider trading. It has become an absolute behemoth of a beast that everyone is having to deal with.
And under Biden, Polymarket was actually being investigated for illegally operating in the United States. The founder was raided by the FBI, had his phone taken, the whole nine yards. And during his 2024 campaign, Trump ran obviously on, you know, transparency and ending corruption and ending insider trading.
But interestingly, by July of last year, the investigation into Polymarket was suspended, and Polymarket then had a pathway for operating here in the United States. Now to take this even further, coincidentally now, Donald Trump Jr. sits on the advisory board with his investment firm, being a significant backer of Polymarket's legal return to the United States market. Father and son.
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Chapter 5: How do Kalshi and Polymarket handle regulation?
And then all of a sudden, that. And if you're wondering, OK, maybe this was just a one-off. It was someone who made a lucky bet. Have a look not just at this, so this is WTI, it's one measure, the US measure of oil. Have a look at Brent, which is the kind of the European, seen as the international measure of oil.
Again, the same thing, Donald Trump makes his post, flurry of activity, lots of people there. But look at that. 15 minutes before that Donald Trump post, a very big trade.
Now, it's unclear whether it's just an individual or whether it's a group of people, but what you do know from just imputing what the potential value, the notional value of those trades just on oil would be, it is staggering amounts of money, life-changing amounts of money.
$580 million. Now, allegedly, this individual, this group, this collective made over $100 million, I think, in 20 minutes. 20 minutes. Like, I'm not even... This should impact me, but I'm not even surprised anymore. Like, and again, do we keep calling this just a lucky bet? A lucky guess? Or is it a game that us plebs don't get to play? Because we have seen this time and time again.
And now with Polly Market and Kalshi, we are just seeing the modern iteration of this game, but with fewer guardrails and less transparency. So yeah, I think we have the right to be asking these questions. Oh my gosh, I just got my phone bill and it is absolutely insane. I've got to call and figure out what's going on. Hi, yeah, I just had a quick question about my phone plan.
One moment while I transfer you.
Uh, hello? I was just wondering why my phone bill increased.
Classic.
Their customer service is based in another galaxy. Listen, sir, please transfer me. I do not speak Martian.
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