63 Episodes

  1. Does Ranked Choice Voting Work? Plus, New AI Predictions

    Published: 6/19/2025

  2. This Year’s World Series Of Poker Is Different

    Published: 6/12/2025

  3. An Elon Musk Report Card

    Published: 6/5/2025

  4. Why ChatGPT Sucks at Poker

    Published: 5/29/2025

  5. Motivated Reasoning in the Biden Campaign, Silicon Valley, and Beyond

    Published: 5/21/2025

  6. What Should Colleges Do about ChatGPT?

    Published: 5/15/2025

  7. Life After Poker (with Vanessa Selbst)

    Published: 5/8/2025

  8. The Conclave, Sinners, and Negotiation Tips

    Published: 5/1/2025

  9. The Right (And Wrong) Ways to Fight Trump

    Published: 4/24/2025

  10. China’s Race to Dominate: Listen to Global Tech Wars

    Published: 4/22/2025

  11. Will AI Radically Change the World by 2027?

    Published: 4/17/2025

  12. Tariffs, Tariffs, Tariffs

    Published: 4/10/2025

  13. The Ivy League Bows to Trump, Plus Protecting Your Genetic Data and Your Time

    Published: 4/3/2025

  14. Group Chat Protocols, Bracket Updates, and thoughts on the WNBA

    Published: 3/27/2025

  15. March Madness Bracket Extravaganza

    Published: 3/19/2025

  16. China’s Best Moves, and How to React to a Dealer’s Mistake

    Published: 3/13/2025

  17. How Trump is Getting the Game Theory Wrong

    Published: 3/6/2025

  18. Thinking Smart About Low-Probability Events

    Published: 2/27/2025

  19. Trust and Facing the Unknown (with Rachel Botsman)

    Published: 2/20/2025

  20. Trump’s First Three Weeks: What Actually Matters?

    Published: 2/13/2025

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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.