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Election Profit Makers

Episode 1: Episode 0 (Explainer)

Election Profit Makers

Jon Kimball & David Rees

Comedy, News, Politics

4.9700 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This is our explainer episode: Jon explains how political prediction markets work, and how to make money betting on the 2016 campaign. David admits to making crazy bets about Donald Trump. We preview the 17-episode season of Election Profit Makers. (NSFW.)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So John, we'll count down from five and we'll clap our hands. Ready?

0:05.0

Ready.

0:06.0

We're winners and we're powerful and we're here to make a lot of money and we're going to influence the election.

0:10.0

Got it.

0:11.0

Five, four, three, two, one.

0:16.0

I was a little early.

0:19.0

That's all right. Starly's getting her dog.

0:21.6

She has a dog?

0:22.6

John has a dog.

0:23.6

I need you to send me a picture of that dog.

0:25.6

You know what? Can we record this podcast and then we'll send dog photos later?

0:29.6

I'll send you the photo if you do a good job.

0:31.6

Okay.

0:36.6

Welcome to election profit makers, a podcast about making money on the 2016 election using online predictive markets.

0:43.3

I am David Reese and I am joined by my childhood friend John Kimball. Hi John. Hi David. And hello everybody in podcasting land. That didn't sound good. No, it was good. You did just the way we wanted.

0:56.4

I'm usually awesome. This is kind of like episode zero for us. This is an introduction to what we hope

1:01.8

will be the hottest political podcasts of all time. It's a podcast about making money on the 2016

1:08.3

presidential election. This podcast is going to last right up until the morning

1:12.9

after the election and then it will stop forever. John, why don't you explain to our listeners

1:18.6

what is going on? David and I are going to be placing bets on political outcomes. And we are going to be doing this through a website called

1:30.7

Predictit.org. And should I explain what Predictit is? I think that's a great. That's a great

1:36.9

podcast reflex. It's a website that is a real-time stock market that lets you bet on the election.

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