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Man, whenever I use a sportsbook during the soccer world championship, I feel like I robbed. Dude, delete that app. You need to be using Polymarket. Polymarket. Polymarket is a prediction market, not a sportsbook. You trade against other fans, not the house. That means more money for you and less for greedy sportsbooks. Even during the world championship. Especially during the world championship. Whether you're trading on who wins the next match or who lifts the trophy in the final. Sportsbooks take around $9 on a $100 position and pay out around $500. Polymarket pays out $650 on that same position. What's the catch? No catch and it' 50 states. Polymarket is so confident they're giving you $50 free on your first trade.
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Use Promo Code Pass Trading not available in all jurisdictions. Check local regulations before trading restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Hi, good morning. This is insane. It is 7am we are here on the White House south lawn pre the UFC arena for the event happening this Sunday. I am already sweating my butt off because it is summer in D.C. and I'm thanking God I decided not to wear a suit this morning. I know there's been a lot of controversy around this arena being built, lots of differing opinions in the mainstream media, and lots of not so fun things said about the Trump administration because of the monstrosity that I am currently standing in. But getting past that, is this not the coolest view you have ever seen in the history of American sports ever? I mean, this is literally like the Roman Coliseum. That's like the closest thing I can possibly compare it to. But fun reminder, this isn't just happening to celebrate Flag Day. This Sunday also happens to be President Trump's 80th birthday. So talk about the coolest birthday party venue of all time. Hottest ticket in town. It's literally impossible to get inside the venue. Every single foreign dignitary, member of Congress, person who works in the administration all wanted to be here. Impossible to get. In fact, most of the media filming around me right now is speaking in foreign languages because people are coming from all over the world to see all of this. So this is my. My second, like, preview event for something that's being set up at the White House. You guys might remember we did a walkthrough of the Christmas decorations the morning that they open for everybody, which also was at, like, 6am Crazy stuff. We really should do these at night, if you ask me. But different conversation for a different time. This one is way bigger because there's a lot of sports media, a lot of international media in for the UFC fight on Sunday, which is going to be crazy. And they're bringing people in in waves. So the TV cameras and all of their people are going in in front of us. Then all of the new media people, which is a very small cohort, but the best, obviously. No questions about any of that. And then Prince, I think, is going right after us. But lots of unfriendlies in the area, but everyone's excited. It's going to be great. I've never seen something this big on the White House South Lawn, so I'm, like, a little nervous. We'll see. Oh, the Rose Garden looks lovely this morning. Oh, my goodness. It's taller than the flagpole. I did not expect that. That's crazy. Okay, so to my understanding, nothing like this has ever, ever, ever remotely been built on White House grounds. They have events here all the time, but never with this type of infrastructure. Even the White House staff is like, what the heck is going on? We've never seen anything like this. Apparently we can go in. So let's go check it at the view of the monument. That's crazy. Wow. This is sweet. This is insane. Look at the White House, guys. I'm not even like a big UFC person, per se. I mean, I'll watch the occasional fight, don't get me wrong, but I'm not like a die hard UFC fan. This is insane. This is the coolest venue I think I've ever been in, ever. You got the Washington Monument on that side. You got the White House on this side. When has something like this ever happened in human history? The Coliseum, I guess. Like, is this our version of the Gladiators? Is this our Roman Empire? I don't know. With all of the fans that'll be watching here in the arena, plus the standing room with the large viewing screens on the ellipse right behind us, they're expecting about 90,000 people to attend the fight this weekend, which will be the most attended UFC event in history. That's pretty cool. I'm already sweating my butt off because it's a million degrees. Welcome to summer in dc, people. You get the real Isabel here. No TV magic, just sweat. Okay? I had to go escape the heat because that was insane. So we're in the White House press briefing room. My favorite people, they love me so much. I should say I'm their favorite people. But it's always so interesting to me when I engage with so many people, like those who work in the press. Living here in D.C. most people who work in media or policy love to brag about where they went to school. Most of the time, they brag about the Hopkins and the Harvards and the Penns of the world. But one of the coolest campuses I have ever had the privilege to learn a whole lot about over the past few years through traveling across the country to college campuses is Pepperdine, who not only has their beautiful campus in Malibu, but has one here in Washington, D.C. as well. I used to live in their neighborhood in Foggy Bottom when I was here for grad school, attending Georgetown. I know I'm one of the snobby, elitist people, but don't hate me for it. And an incredible program training the next generation of students in public policy, not just in understanding how policy works, but what policies are going to matter to make the world a better place. Which, frankly, if everyone sitting behind me had gone to that program, probably would have meant a much different country by now, in 2026. They have programs that specialize in national security in local government, and American politics in general. And honestly, had I known that that existed years ago when I was a college student, I totally would have signed up at that point and when most universities are encouraging you to say what you think as in line with your professor. And the most popular thing, all the students who on campus believe Pepperdine is one of the last schools in America encouraging diversity of thought and free inquiry into how to make the world a better place. If that sounds interesting to you, you can go check out their public policy program at go pepperdine. Edu DailyWire I have been to so many events on the South Lawn over the years, from the 4th of July to the Easter Egg Roll, and you can see the lawn still kind of peeking out underneath all of this. I have no idea how the grass is going to survive all of this. I suppose that's why they have the best gardeners and landscapers. Fun fact, the White House New Beehive is like right over there and you can spot the Oval Office peeking through right here. What a spectacular setting for this insanely cool event. You also might way in the distance be able to see the White House new Presidential Walk of Fame, all the presidential portraits, including the one of Joe Biden as the auto pen there in the corner. But having been here for so many events, I don't think I ever appreciated the scale of how big of an arena you could have fit on the South Lawn. So obviously the arena itself is taller than the White house. It's about 90ft tall, which dwarfs of course, the White House, but also the flag pole that people were really upset about being built at the beginning of this administration because that was seen as too gaudy and too big and too Trump compared to the scale of how we normally do things here at the White House. If only people could have fast forwarded and seen this monstrosity being built. And the ground grid takes up 120ft by 120ft. So this thing is huge. I mean, there's no other way to explain it. The centerpiece of all of this is called the claw, which is this big arched metal framework in the middle that weighs 600 tons and is 154ft wide. It was actually shipped over from Belgium, interestingly enough. Fun little tidbit for you. And all of that is surrounded by about 4 to 5,000 seats, which sounds like a pretty small capacity. But most of the people who are going to be watching the fight obviously won't actually be here in the arena. The tickets, mostly inside the arena, have been reserved for military members and their families, which personally I think is actually really cool. There are so many staffers here in Washington that are competing for the best seats in the house here. And they literally can't get tickets. Like 99% of my friends who work here in Washington are not coming to the event this weekend because they are reserving most of the tickets to be given away for free to members of the military and their families. Pretty cool way for President Trump to honor members of the military. Also on his birthday that happens to be this Sunday. He's turning 80 years old. Probably the coolest birthday party setup I've ever seen. But 85,000 plus people are going to be behind us at the Ellipse, which is a public park right in front of the White House, if you've ever been to D.C. and they'll have big, massive viewing screens out there for people to stand outside beyond the White House and be able to watch what's happening in here. Considering it's 8 in the morning and I'm already like dripping sweat. Probably will not be me, I'm going to be honest. We'll be watching from the comfort of my house. When you have a baby, especially just not so fun to be in the heat that long. But the environment is going to be incredible. And people have been chattering every single day about this here in D.C. for the last couple of weeks. If I was going to sit anywhere, it'd be right here. This. Oh, hi. I know you. Hi. It's living the dream. Even you didn't get a ticket to this thing. I'm telling you guys, it is the hottest ticket in town. You cannot go. You should try, though. Yeah, we're going to. We're going to try. I'm bummed out. That's okay. You, we'll make it. Don't worry. We're. We're going to manifest. They're making me fight. I'm one of the fighters. Fight to keep your job at the White House. Fun fact. My first summer in D.C. i was an intern at the White House in 2018. My also did this then because I will never adjust to humidity, ever. And we stood here on the South Lawn and I was standing like right here for the 4th of July, and it was at that time, like the coolest thing I'd ever done with my life. And the President and the first lady came out and stood on the Truman Balcony and they watched the fireworks be set off at the Washington Monument. There were a lot of people on the South Lawn then, but nothing that remotely compares to the scale of this. And it's really cool to think about how much has changed in our life since then. Gosh, that was eight years ago now. Wild. The other part of the controversy, David, is that, you know, the UFC is arguing. This is not about politics. Can I also say it's so funny at these events because it's so easy to tell who is legacy media and who is new media. Not just from the equipment, cuz pretty much everybody is using these little OSMO cameras now. They pack quite a good punch. But the people talking with the news script of like, on Sunday there will be a fight here at the White House on the President's birthday. It's like people are just so over with that era of media. Here's a real person who's not afraid to swept. Okay, there's our Secret Service up on the roof of the White House. They already have to deal with so much security, but I can't even imagine all of the extra things that they have to deal with for this event. Especially with all the people standing out on the ellipse. I can't even imagine. Okay, that was insane. I'm actually like so excited to watch the fight on Sunday now, even though I don't have a huge affinity for ufc. This is insane. So the President keeps joking that he's going to leave the arena up forever because he keeps pointing back to the Eiffel Tower as something that was built as a temporary structure. Wasn't that for the World's Fair when that was? And now he says, well, the Eiffel Tower is still up, so maybe we should just leave this thing up. Personally, I know he's trolling them, but not a fan of that idea. And like a lot of things that the President has put in here at the White House, like the infamous now Presidential Walk of Fame with the bios and portraits of the presidents down to auto pen Joe Biden himself. I doubt that the UFC arena sticks around, but I suppose you never know. If there's one thing you can count on with President Trump, it's that everything's unpredictable. Sam.