Polymarket Fakes Creators Winning Bets & Fed Legend Alan Greenspan Dies at 100

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Today, Polymarket has been exposed for a very sketchy, perhaps illegal viral marketing scheme.

**Toby Howell** (0:41)
Then Instagram wants you to watch Reels on your TV.
It's Tuesday, June 23rd. Let's ride.

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Everyone's got that loud friend, the guy or gal, whose voice seems to pierce through the air, alerting everyone in a square mile of their presence. But they've got nothing on Joseph McGrail Bait Up. The Australian air conditioner cleaner and honorary town crier was crowned by Guinness World Records as the loudest person ever. He shouted the word now at 122.4 decibels, on par with the volume of a chainsaw, airplane taking off, or an ambulance siren blaring close to you. It's not necessarily a matter of practice, because you can't for this kind of thing. McGrail Beta said his cry of now destroyed his voice for the next several days.

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This is the type of dude who somehow ends up as your upstairs neighbor in New York City. His origin story is hilarious. He became competitively loud, the AP wrote, when he was appointed the official, not honorary, the official town crier of Canberra in 2017
He makes announcements at community events, school events, car shows. So he is gainfully employed as a town crier. And he also now has a membership in the ancient and honorable guild of Australian town criers. I'm glad that there is an honorable one and an ancient one because these people need a place to show off their talents.

**Neal Fryman** (2:10)
I'm just curious how he settled on the word now. Like is that just the vowel structure? You don't have, like I was thinking if you started with a P then maybe you're expending too much energy.
How? But you're expending too much energy on that particular syllable and that consonant. So now like the N, you can burst off your tongue there and just go with the bit. You stretch your vocal cords as big as they can go with now.

**Toby Howell** (2:31)
The previous record was ironically quiet, which seems a lot more difficult to say. So I think he settled on the right word.

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Polymarket has been up to some very shady stuff. The prediction market has been paying creators, mostly college age, to film themselves placing fake wagers on the platform in the hopes of going viral. That's according to the Wall Street Journal, which published a wild investigation into Polymarket's duplicitous scheme to become ubiquitous on the internet. These reporters reviewed more than 1,100 videos made by 10 creators paid by Polymarket, though there are more than 100 total. In these videos, 70% appeared to place a bet on a website that looked like Polymarket but wasn't. Remember, this is all for show, and 10% of those videos included fake or outdated footage that suggested they won their bets. In those clips, traders were portrayed as winning $900,000, but in reality, they would have lost more than $166,000. Not only were these creators filming themselves placing fake trades, but they didn't disclose in their post that Polymarket was funding the whole thing. Only when the journal reached out did the accounts add, quote, Polymarket partner to their bios. When asked about the whole thing, Polymarket said in a statement, it was, quote, committed to maintaining accurate, fair and transparent markets. We are part of a rapidly growing industry and are constantly evaluating ways to improve how we're engaging and earning the trust of our audience. Instead, we conduct an audit of all active promotional content.