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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

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  • Risky Business is a weekly podcast about making better decisions. The hosts, Maria Konnikova and Nate Silver, are both journalists who moonlight as high-stakes poker players. On Risky Business, they bring their analytical framework to everything from politics to poker to personal decisions.

    Maria has a PhD in psychology and is the author of several books including, most recently, The Biggest Bluff. While researching the book, she inadvertently became a professional poker player, with over $500,000 in tournament winnings. She is a PokerStars Team Pro.

    Nate is the founder and former editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, and one of the country’s leading election forecasters. He has over $800,000 in lifetime poker tournament winnings and his forthcoming book, On the Edge, is about gambling and risk.

    Risky Business is a co-production of iHeart Media and Pushkin Industries.
    2024 Pushkin Industries & iHeartMedia, Inc. 2024
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Episodes
  • Conspiracy Theories, J.D. Vance, and Jury Duty

    Conspiracy Theories, J.D. Vance, and Jury Duty
    Jul 18 2024

    Nate and Maria discuss the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the psychology of conspiracy theorists. They talk about what Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance means for the election. And they parse the latest in the Democrats’ intra-party fight over Biden.

    Also on the show: Nate’s day at jury duty is a case study in bad bluffs.

    For more from Nate and Maria, subscribe to their newsletters:

    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    45 mins
  • How to Convince Biden to Quit

    How to Convince Biden to Quit
    Jul 10 2024

    Nate and Maria really, really, really want Joe Biden to drop out of the race.

    Maria gives a psychological consult on the best way to convince Biden to quit. Nate estimates Biden’s chances of defeating Donal Trump if he stays in – and Kamala Harris’s chances of winning the election if she replaces Biden.

    Also: An update from the Main Event of the World Series of Poker.

    For more from Nate and Maria, subscribe to their newsletters:

    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    46 mins
  • How to Gamble Like a Chess Player, with Jennifer Shahade

    How to Gamble Like a Chess Player, with Jennifer Shahade
    Jul 4 2024

    Maria talks with Women’s Chess Grandmaster Jennifer Shahade about what chess and poker teach you about life; how statistics can help you think about having kids; and the time Maria lost a chess match in four moves.

    For more from Nate and Maria, subscribe to their newsletters:

    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    41 mins
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