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Bad Bets

Bad Bets

By: Sofia
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Welcome to Bad Bets—the podcast where we make bold, uninformed, and entirely fake wagers on everything from sports to pop culture, nerdom, and history. Let’s learn little about a lot… I promise I won’t ask you to name three deep cuts from the band on your favorite tee.

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Episodes
  • As (AI) You Like It
    Jun 25 2026

    We were promised a future where AI does our laundry so we can write poetry. Instead, the tech bros are building chatbots to simulate real women, while twenty-something TikTokers spend eight hours grinding grain from scratch to bake a single loaf of sourdough for their husbands. The future is broken, guys. This week, we’re unpacking how our collective anxiety about tomorrow is causing us to weaponize yesterday against women. I have the emotional temperament of a roulette wheel, so don't expect any cozy middle ground as we grab a sledgehammer and smash through everything from Silicon Valley’s automated misogyny and the toxic "Tradwife" baby-traps of Turning Point USA, to the internet’s absolute meltdown over anti-marriage influencer MJ Gray.

    We are tracking the invisible strings that lead straight from advanced tech right into our trashiest reality television and pop fiction. We’re breaking down why the Amanda and West drama on Summer House is a textbook case of dating apps destroying our ability to handle relationship friction, and why millions of women are fleeing reality for Elle Kennedy’s Off-Campus hockey romance series just to find men who possess basic emotional literacy.

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    34 mins
  • The (White) House Always Wins
    Sep 4 2025

    This week on Bad Bets, we are mad, and with good reason. Trump’s family just spun a $5B crypto empire out of thin air, ICE is deporting honor students and firefighters mid-wildfire, and the Shanghai Summit is quietly rearranging the global order. We dig into why anger is rarely a primary emotion, how cruelty is the policy, and why Trump’s grift coin is more dangerous than Reddit memes suggest.
    But it’s not all doomscrolling, there’s also Saquon Barkley’s ESPY-winning reverse hurdle, a community Robin Hood play, and a deep dive into why that Disney fox made a whole generation horny and liberal.

    Because sometimes the only way to process despair is with outrage, sports highlights, and cartoon smirks.

    🎧 Listen now.

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    22 mins
  • Thanos Dusted Half the Universe and All We Got Was Jill Stein
    Aug 29 2025

    This week on Bad Bets, we ask the question no one has bothered to Google: Where in the world is Jill Stein? (Spoiler: not organizing, not helping, yaddayaddayadda). We unpack the dangers of political apathy, Chris Pratt’s limp defense of RFK Jr., and why villains like Magneto, Killmonger, Daenerys, and even Thanos all have a point, until they really, really don’t.

    Plus: baseball is secretly the most cinematic sport (walk-up songs = free character development), the lore of Doc Ellis pitching a no-hitter on acid, and how Tim Cook’s golden gift to Trump proves that corporate bootlicking is eternal. Also: South Park continues its perfect streak of roasting the Trump administration, and I crash out, winning another bet.

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    29 mins
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