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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Maria and Nate should separate for each other’s sakes
06/12/2024
Like I love Maria A LOT! She writes exceptionally well and is an amazing ambassador for poker and rationality in general. I don’t however think she makes a particularly good pair with Nate or as a host necessarily on this podcast. It feels a bit forced and the interactions between them feel awkward at times. I actually think they should both have separate podcasts as I’m not sure they are able to bring the best out of each other. I’d definitely listen to a Nate podcast and would be an avid consumer of a Maria podcast. But I think their dynamic is the case of 1+1 is less than 2 which is a shame. I will unsubscribe for the time being as I find it too tough going.
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- CreatorPushkin Industries
- Years Active2024 - 2025
- Episodes40
- RatingExplicit
- Copyright© 2025 Pushkin Industries & iHeartMedia, Inc. 2024
- Show Website
- ProviderPushkin Industries Inc.
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