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Samir show, we're talking about a shift on the internet that has happened in the past five years

that is now starting to peek into the world of media. And I truly just can't stop thinking about it.

And that is the rise of prediction markets.

The rapidly growing and controversial way for people to turn predicting the future into a money-making proposition.

Joel Holsinger just quit his day job to bet on the words famous people like White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt might say in public.

I thought there was a very high likelihood she would bring up Thanksgiving in relation to the shutdown.

From his computer, the 26-year-old makes about $3,000 a week, trading on the prediction market, Kelshi.

She did not say Thanksgiving, so we were

out $700 yesterday. That hurts, right? Actually, like surprisingly for me, doesn't hurt really much.

I have had times where I've lost, for example, like $6,000 on a bad trade, but also the inverse of that,

I've made $11,000 on a trade.

And so, you know, it's just ups and downs.

The live streaming influencer is one of millions of people flocking to prediction markets like

Cal She, predict it, and polymarket, where you can wager on just about anything.

I can't stop thinking about this and its implications on the creator economy, largely because one of the biggest

prediction markets called Kalshi just signed a deal with CNN.

Turning now to CNN.

And genuinely, what is one of the grimmest developments and news that I have ever seen?

Something literally is the stuff of my nightmares. They have announced

a partnership with Kalshi, a prediction market, much like Polly Market, where they will be

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