Childs and Matt Levine are discussing the legal fight over whether Kalshi can list sports contracts. Levine imagines that a ruling against Kalshi might leave it fine, its business having moved on to things like hedging data center risk. Childs answers with the line that gave the episode its title.
I can't wait for more clarity here. I've stayed confused on this. Yeah.
…have spent so much time. No, maybe it'll be great. Maybe like they'll have grown their business so much and they'll be like mostly hedging data center risk and they'll be like, it's okay. We didn't need the sports gambling. That was just like bootstrapping us to the glorious place we're at today.
It's like when a kid really needs a parent to like make them stop doing something. They're like, please release me from this demon. That's what the Supreme Court can do for Calci.
I don't want to speculate about their psychology. But you're
going to do it. But I
feel like part of them, they'd be a little pleased to be released from the demon of sports betting. They're not here to be sports bets.