"That's Just Corruption": Sen. Chris Murphy on the Prediction Market Crackdown and Profiteering in Youth Sports
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Kalshi and Polymarket have created a Wild West for sports, war and politics in a shamelessly unregulated era. But the U.S. Senator from Connecticut (and Huskies homer) tells Pablo that it's time to turn back the clock on insider trading, as leagues are "knowingly corrupting" the game. And that a return to the roots of rooting for our home teams (and families) requires Congress protecting against a profit-driven idea of America.
• Previously on PTFO: The Prop-Betification of Everything, with the Forefather of Prediction Markets
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out, presented by eBay Live. |
| 0:03.1 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:07.8 | If the NBA and the NFL get in bed with these prediction markets, they are knowingly corrupting the sport. |
| 0:16.2 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:23.8 | The United States Senator from the state of Connecticut, Chris Murphy. How obnoxious of a |
| 0:28.4 | Yukon Homer are you in your own estimation? I mean, I'm pretty obnoxious. I mean, |
| 0:34.8 | Dan Hurley is, you know, kind of like a godlike figure, and I think everybody understands |
| 0:40.8 | that. You went to law school there, yes? |
| 0:43.4 | Yeah, I didn't go undergrad, but I went to law school. But I grew up in Connecticut. My parents |
| 0:47.1 | grew up there. So, yeah, I was a junior in high school when Tate George hit that shot to beat Clemson to send Yukon into the |
| 0:57.8 | elite eight game. And since then, it's just been a dream. You know, we don't have a lot in |
| 1:03.1 | Connecticut since the Whalers left. So Yukon is what we got. You have Sue Bird winning games |
| 1:09.2 | unto eternity. You get Ray Allen allen rip hamilton you get caram |
| 1:12.3 | butler in that whole era right like late 90s early 2000s you've been spoiled as we enter the sweet |
| 1:18.5 | 16 right so just to do the accounting here for your partisanship on friday tomorrow in the sweet |
| 1:24.7 | 16 the one seed yukon women women, Perennial Powerhouse, play number |
| 1:30.1 | four North Carolina at 5 p.m. Eastern. And then on the men's side, the top-seeded Yukon Huskies play |
| 1:36.1 | number three Michigan State at 9.45 p.m. Eastern. Give us a picture of Chris Murphy when he's, you know, |
| 1:42.9 | rooting for the Huskies. |
| 1:44.9 | I generally, like, do it on my own. |
| 1:47.4 | I'm not great company for these games because I tend to get a little bit too wound up. |
| 1:53.2 | I have, like, a weird ritual now where I get so, I get, like, just so anxious that I sort of have to watch the games on a little bit of tape delay |
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