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Speaker 1: Prediction markets like polymarket and Calshi have been surging in

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Speaker 1: popularity in recent years, and sports books like DraftKings and

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Speaker 1: Fandel are looking to cash in with their own. These

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Speaker 1: markets let users trade on the outcomes of world events

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Speaker 1: or things in entertainment, like the Rotten Tomatoes score of

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Speaker 1: new movies, or whether or not the house will release

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Speaker 1: the Epstein files. The mass Gaming Commission says it won't

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Speaker 1: allow the books to open these types of markets in

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Speaker 1: the state, saying they can't regulate them properly. Tim isn't

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Speaker 1: a fan of prediction markets, especially for gambling on things

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Speaker 1: like elections.

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Speaker 2: I think that we're gambling enough just on our future

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Speaker 2: based off those outcomes. I don't think we really need

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Speaker 2: to be throwing our own money into the mix.

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Speaker 1: Cole isn't a gambler himself, but he won't stop other

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Speaker 1: people from doing it.

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Speaker 3: In Massachusetts, we kind of allow people to do what

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Speaker 3: they want to do, and I think if that's what

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Speaker 3: people want to spend their money on, go for it.

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Speaker 1: From Everett Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio