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The Gist

Alvin Roth: "A Repugnant Transaction Is a Morally Contested Transaction"

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0

It's Friday, May 22nd, 2026 from Peach Fish Productions.

0:07.0

It's the gist. I'm Mike Pesca.

0:10.0

I excited for the enhanced games, the enhanced games occurring this weekend.

0:16.0

Dope Olympics was taken.

0:19.0

I guess we're supposed to get a little upset. The marketers, we're trying to sell some supplements.

0:23.6

The marketers thought we'd get upset.

0:25.8

And I got to say, I'm really not that upset.

0:28.1

I don't think, however, while the enhanced games are not in the front to anything I hold dear,

0:33.5

I don't think they're destined to be quite popular.

0:36.5

So how they started was that James the Missile Magnenson, one of Australia's swimming

0:43.3

legends, was on a podcast and he says, you know, if they allowed all of us retired

0:49.4

swimmers a few years out of the sport, take drugs, we'd beat the guy who aren't on drugs.

0:55.0

And then a guy named Aaron DeSuzza heard it and said, yeah, here's a million dollars if you compete in the enhanced

1:00.9

games, the Sterolympics, steroid Olympics, the P.E. DeCathalon, more than a decathlon. There's

1:08.3

swimming, there's track, there's weightlifting, no team handball,

1:11.8

quite sadly. So some of the rules are there are no rules, but the organizers say, you know,

1:16.9

36 of the 42 Enhanced Games athletes are participating in rigorous clinical trials, and they'll be

1:23.7

monitored by health professionals. That's fine, but they don't have to adhere to any rules,

1:28.5

so it'll be, I guess, interesting to find what data or what chemicals we're coursing

1:33.6

through the veins of these athletes, but it's not like any of those chemicals.

1:37.6

We'll get them disqualified, unless, you know, their hearts explode or something.

1:41.4

Along with DeSuzza, some of the organizers of the enhanced games include

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