Starting recording now. Pulling up predicted, specifically debate markets. Okay. Hello and welcome to election profit makers, a guide to winning and losing money on the 2016 campaign using online prediction markets.

It's September 21st. This is the 9th of 17 episodes in our limited podcast series.

I'm John Kimball, and as always, I'm joined by my childhood friend, David Rees.

Hi, David.

Hi, John. How are you, buddy?

I'm doing pretty well. Where are you?

I'm in Azoya, in southern Portugal, a tiny rural community. I'm here for travel purposes.

And that's why we've decided that you're going to run the show today on our podcast. Because I have very slow internet and very little information.

Well, how am I doing so far? I love it. This is great. And I'm never going to come back to America, and you're going to be the main host of election profit makers forever.

Should we tell our listeners that right now I am literally talking into a mic and holding a phone up on speakerphone to the mic as I talk?

No, don't tell that. We don't want them to know that I'm on the telephone. We want them to... up on speakerphone to the mic as I talk.

Don't tell that.

We don't want them to know that I'm on the telephone.

We want them to think I'm really in the room with you.

So if you say that, it'll spoil the illusion of two old friends having bedroom fun.

Okay.

Okay.

So you have no idea what's going on in the world.

Well, I know three things.

I know four things.

I haven't really been able to go on the Internet.

That's kind of been by choice, but also just the situation that I'm in.

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