Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova
A podcast by Pushkin Industries - Thursdays
63 Episodes
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Air Travel, Alcohol, and How to Bet On a Coin Toss
Published: 06/02/2025 -
Should You Learn Poker from ChatGPT? And Other AI Questions
Published: 30/01/2025 -
Trump’s Strategy: Distraction and Executive Action
Published: 23/01/2025 -
Wildfires, Insurance, and Planning for Disaster
Published: 16/01/2025 -
Nate and Maria’s 2025 Predictions
Published: 09/01/2025 -
Learning From Failure, Avoiding Regret, and Managing Risk with Restaurateur Henry Rich
Published: 02/01/2025 -
Luigi Mangione, the Rise of Bluesky, and High-Stakes Chokes
Published: 19/12/2024 -
The Riskies: The Best, Worst, and Most Interesting Decisions of 2024
Published: 12/12/2024 -
Presidential Pardons and Other Family Gift-Giving Strategies
Published: 05/12/2024 -
Get Happier, Help Others: Some Good Ideas About Giving
Published: 02/12/2024 -
Maria and Nate’s Guide to GTO Travel
Published: 28/11/2024 -
How Senators and NFL Players Make High Risk Decisions
Published: 21/11/2024 -
Will Trump Bring the River to Washington?
Published: 14/11/2024 -
How Trump Won
Published: 06/11/2024 -
What to Look for on Election Day
Published: 04/11/2024 -
The Worst Decisions of the Harris and Trump (and Biden) Campaigns
Published: 31/10/2024 -
Odd Lots: Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova on the Art of Election Betting
Published: 30/10/2024 -
How to build a championship team, with Daryl Morey of the 76ers
Published: 24/10/2024 -
How Maria Won Her First WSOP Bracelet
Published: 17/10/2024 -
The Degenerate Gambler’s Guide to the Election
Published: 09/10/2024
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.
