63 Episodes

  1. Air Travel, Alcohol, and How to Bet On a Coin Toss

    Published: 2/6/2025

  2. Should You Learn Poker from ChatGPT? And Other AI Questions

    Published: 1/30/2025

  3. Trump’s Strategy: Distraction and Executive Action

    Published: 1/23/2025

  4. Wildfires, Insurance, and Planning for Disaster

    Published: 1/16/2025

  5. Nate and Maria’s 2025 Predictions

    Published: 1/9/2025

  6. Learning From Failure, Avoiding Regret, and Managing Risk with Restaurateur Henry Rich

    Published: 1/2/2025

  7. Luigi Mangione, the Rise of Bluesky, and High-Stakes Chokes

    Published: 12/19/2024

  8. The Riskies: The Best, Worst, and Most Interesting Decisions of 2024

    Published: 12/12/2024

  9. Presidential Pardons and Other Family Gift-Giving Strategies

    Published: 12/5/2024

  10. Get Happier, Help Others: Some Good Ideas About Giving

    Published: 12/2/2024

  11. Maria and Nate’s Guide to GTO Travel

    Published: 11/28/2024

  12. How Senators and NFL Players Make High Risk Decisions

    Published: 11/21/2024

  13. Will Trump Bring the River to Washington?

    Published: 11/14/2024

  14. How Trump Won

    Published: 11/6/2024

  15. What to Look for on Election Day

    Published: 11/4/2024

  16. The Worst Decisions of the Harris and Trump (and Biden) Campaigns

    Published: 10/31/2024

  17. Odd Lots: Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova on the Art of Election Betting

    Published: 10/30/2024

  18. How to build a championship team, with Daryl Morey of the 76ers

    Published: 10/24/2024

  19. How Maria Won Her First WSOP Bracelet

    Published: 10/17/2024

  20. The Degenerate Gambler’s Guide to the Election

    Published: 10/9/2024

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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.