Inside the Wild West of PredictIt
The Conversation with Dasha Burns
POLITICO
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🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | I was looking at it all the time, constantly monitoring it. I tried to take my |
| 0:36.6 | laptop with me while I walked the dog. Like I had it in my hand and was like walking |
| 0:40.8 | to the door and being like no this is you can't this |
| 0:43.1 | it's what even works it's basically a stock market for for politics I do love |
| 0:50.2 | seeing the green arrow up it gives me a little high every time. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Scott Bland and this is nerd cast and I'm Zach Montelero |
| 1:03.4 | What I skip me don't skip me no I didn't you just what do you mean I skipped you you just said it |
| 1:10.1 | You started to talk I was taking a breath so I could talk after you talked. Oh my God. |
| 1:17.0 | Today we're talking Predicted, which is kind of a stock market for political futures trading, |
| 1:25.0 | and also just gambling, basically. |
| 1:27.0 | Gambling, pure and simple, because that's what it is. |
| 1:30.0 | So, Zach, you've been watching Predict It for a while, partly because people on |
| 1:35.3 | Predict It have been watching you, because you're a campaign reporter you follow, |
| 1:39.5 | polling really closely, you were following a lot of stuff over the past year a year and a half |
| 1:43.1 | that they've been very interested in. Right yeah I write the morning score |
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