Betting on Your Life: Kalshi and Polymarket’s War Wagers

About this episode

The episode explores the world of prediction markets with insights from Bryan Curtis.

This week, Jason and Tyler welcome the host of The Press Box, Bryan Curtis, to dive into the world of prediction markets. In this episode: (2:54) Polymarket and Iran (17:59) SOTU bets (23:57) Giannis and Kalshi (38:00) True-false quiz (45:37) Number stations (55:17) Predicting the Democrat nominee (1:00:14) LUSIC score (1:03:47) The Doomscroll Hosts: Jason Concepcion and Tyler Parker Guest: Bryan Curtis Producers: Cory McConnell, Donnie Beacham, and Justin Sayles Art direction: David Shoemaker Motion graphics and animations: Chris Calleton Engineering: Sarah Reddy Set design: Hannah Leiken and Jonathan Ratliff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason Concepcion, Tyler Parker

Guest: Bryan Curtis

Topics covered

• prediction markets
• Polymarket
• Kalshi
• SOTU bets
• Democrat nominee
• true-false quiz
• number stations

Keywords

• prediction markets
• Polymarket
• Kalshi
• SOTU bets
• Democrat nominee
• true-false quiz
• number stations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Press Box, Polymarket, Kalshi, LUSIC, The Ringer

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