Life, Liberty, Polymarket & Kalshi
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
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We're willing to bet that there's a 92% chance that Prediction Markets are a pyramid scheme!
Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are EVERYWHERE. Are the the future of democracy powered by collective wisdom? OR just another product of the 30 under 30 grift factory?
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Timestamps:
00:00 - An orgy at a SF Area tech convention?? WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED!!!
11:30 - BREAKING NEWS: A group of isolated white 20 something men with a high risk appetite have it all figured out!
21:00 - It's not called insider trading, it's called "having an edge"
35:00 - Do you like my new app? I designed it on the toilet
53:00 - Good News: Meta on trial
Links:
Resources for problem gambling
The Wager That Betting Can Change the World
The CEOs of Kalshi and Polymarket Are Betting On the Most Hated Experiment in Business
They quit their day jobs to bet on current events. A look inside the prediction market mania
Polymarket shouldn't allow people to profit by betting on the L.A. firestorm
America's financial markets are ready for a golden age
Email our good news correspondant with tips: elizabethliu526@gmail.com
Good News: Social media companies face legal reckoning over mental health harms to children
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the corporate gossip podcast. It's the business podcast for gossip lovers. |
| 0:05.2 | We explore the most absurd corporate scandals, the juiciest Wall Street tea, and the not-so-hidden secrets of famous business people. |
| 0:13.4 | You don't need to know anything about business to enjoy the corporate gossip podcast, but you might learn something along the way. |
| 0:19.3 | Today's episode, Life, Liberty, and Prediction |
| 0:22.9 | Markets. |
| 0:39.1 | Welcome back to the corporate gossip. Speed. |
| 0:42.6 | Welcome back to the corporate gossip podcast. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm your host, CPA Skorn, Becca Platsky. I'm here with my brother and my co-host. |
| 0:47.2 | Data Analytics Playboy Adam Platsky. |
| 0:50.2 | Ooh, prediction markets. |
| 0:52.2 | How excited are you for this episode? |
| 0:53.9 | Oh, I am so excited. |
| 0:55.0 | What did I text you last night when I was going through the reading? |
| 0:57.8 | I said, we got an absolute hammer of a hog leg for tomorrow, and I can't wait. |
| 1:05.0 | This has been hogleg summer for us. |
| 1:08.3 | Hog legs, a couple of suckling pigs. pigs and it was and may I say the readings from |
| 1:15.0 | last night paired so excellent with the State of the Union address yeah I was kind of toggling |
| 1:21.4 | back and forth between the State of the Union and Summerhouse yeah Adam I got a question for you to |
| 1:27.0 | start this off have you ever been to an industry conference? Industry, yeah, I go to e-commerce industry conference. Remember when we went to Dreamforce in 2018? 2018. It was awesome. I got tickets through work. I flew out to Berkeley. It was a week before I quit. And I was like, yes, please, thank you very much. I will take an expense paid trip to San Francisco. It was freaking awesome. But when I leave, I have this huge issue. And it's like, I'm on the plane. I'm looking out the window. And I'm just like wrecked because I don't know whether there was an orgy or not. |
| 2:02.1 | And what's worse, if there was an orgy, I don't know whether it had five or more conference attendees. |
| 2:09.1 | Do you ever have that problem? |
| 2:10.6 | Yes. Yeah. I think about that constantly. |
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