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.
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Episodes
  • Should You Be Able to Bet On the Election?

    Should You Be Able to Bet On the Election?
    Sep 19 2024

    Kalshi, a company that offers prediction markets, sued the US government in an effort to legalize betting on elections. Nate and Maria discuss the pros and cons of election prediction markets. Plus, Nate gives an election update and Maria learns what to do when there’s no plus-EV move.

    Further Reading:

    Ready Your Bets: Election gambling is going mainstream in the US from Politico

    Election Betting Halted After Appeals Court Agrees to Hit the Breaks from WSJ

    Betting On Elections Can Tell Us A Lot. Why Is It Mostly Illegal? from the New Yorker

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    45 mins
  • Does Nate Trust His Model? Debates, Prediction Markets and Poker

    Does Nate Trust His Model? Debates, Prediction Markets and Poker
    Sep 12 2024

    Nate and Maria discuss the Harris-Trump debate. Then, Nate gives an update on his election model, and Maria shares the outcome of her irrational move at a poker tournament in Barcelona.

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    39 mins
  • Calculating Risks in a Creative Life, with Brian Koppelman

    Calculating Risks in a Creative Life, with Brian Koppelman
    Sep 5 2024

    Maria sits down with the great Brian Koppelman (Rounders, Billions, The Bear) to learn about how he navigates risk in Hollywood and beyond. They discuss his methods of determining when a risk is worth taking, how to offset risk with hard work, and the time he bet big on Billions.

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

    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    48 mins

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