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This week on the Straight to the Point Talking Shop Podcast I chatted with Victor Rocha, the Conference Chair of the Indian Gaming Association and Editor of Pechanga.net.
Not much of a teaser needed for this episode, as Victor was throwing haymakers the from the start and didn’t let up as we talked at length about prediction markets and the new regulations on California cardrooms and how nothing gold can stay.
My big takeaway from our discussion is Victor uses Hunter S. Thompson, Percy Shelley, and Martin Luther references, while my newsletter offers references to 80s and 90s pop culture.
