- A presidential election approaches.

It's a big one.

After a fierce primary, your party nominates a candidate.

You are proud to support.

That candidate says to you, "Senator Blumenthal, I want you to be my vice president.

Are you interested?"

- If I think I can add something to the ticket?

Yes.

- He says, "one little thing.

You know, we lost the last election because we lost touch with young male voters.

Can't make that mistake again.

You've been talking alot about regulating prediction markets.

Can you just stay quiet about that?"

- No, - No.

Just like that.

Dashes your hopes of being vice president of the United States.

- You know why Madam President to be, which is that we'll lose lives if we don't impose some order on both prediction markets and sports gaming on the internet.

- Can I just say young male voters are also not a monolith.

If Senator Blumenthal actually goes to those communities and goes on those podcasts and speaks to those voters about helping them find their joy, find their entertainment, but in smart, sensible ways, I actually think that they'll be open to it.

- I would say that actually young men would support Senator Blumenthal's position for the same reason.

If you were to ask an alcoholic, someone who's addicted to alcohol, addicted to drinking, drinking ruined their life, "do you love drinking?

Do you love alcohol?"

I don't love alcohol.

It's ruined my life for various reasons.

So the idea that just because we use the substance that we're describing here, which is gambling, which is prediction markets, doesn't mean we love it, doesn't mean that we want it in our lives more.

It actually probably means that we don't want it in our lives.

We probably upset that it was put into our lives in the first place.

So I would say that Madam President doesn't have a finger on the pulse.

In fact, young men would support him being on the ticket.

- Okay, folks... And I think we should stop calling it prediction markets.

It's sports gambling.