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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2 days ago
This podcast is finding its sea legs and is a bit inconsistent at this point. It has a lot of promise and you can hear genuine emotion as well as rational and logical thought happening here. Interviews pop up from time to time and those are 10/10 excellent. I’d recommend they follow the “Prof G” podcast model where a different icon is used to visually highlight the interview episodes, vs the WSOP episodes, vs the political episodes which tend to be emotionally charged.
Maria has serious TDS
2 days ago
I’m not a Trump supporter, and since I’m Canadian I’m not even a voter in the US elections. That being said it’s almost intolerable how tilted Maria is about Donald Trump. This is the most significant case of trump derangement syndrome we’ve ever seen. She’s completely delusional about Harris and is belligerent about any theoretical argument against Harris. I don’t support either candidate and definitely don’t like Trump but Jesus Maria is absolutely delusional. I’ve never seen anyone suspend their critical thinking to this degree. Nate, can you save her?
Thanks for your thoughts!
2 days ago
I’ve always enjoyed listening to what Nate Silver thinks, but wow! thanks for introducing me to Maria Konnikova - she’s a keeper too. Thanks for your thoughts, and keep up the great work!
Good podcast BUT…
2 days ago
Maria is fantastically entertaining, informative, and engaging. The show should just really be hers, tbh. Nate, especially in contrast, sounds strongly opinionated, interruptive, and annoying. He doesn’t add a whole lot of value to the podcast.
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- CreatorPushkin Industries
- Years Active2K
- Episodes22
- RatingExplicit
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- ProviderPushkin Industries Inc.