63 Episodes

  1. How to Win Bets and Influence Elections

    Published: 10/3/2024
  2. Conning with the Stars: Anna Delvey, Voting Rationally, and the Maine Nebraska model

    Published: 9/26/2024
  3. Should You Be Able to Bet On the Election?

    Published: 9/19/2024
  4. Does Nate Trust His Model? Debates, Prediction Markets and Poker

    Published: 9/12/2024
  5. Calculating Risks in a Creative Life, with Brian Koppelman

    Published: 9/5/2024
  6. Amazing Frauds, Faking Your Own Death, and the Latest on the Election

    Published: 8/29/2024
  7. Kamala Edition: Taxes, Tariffs, and the DNC

    Published: 8/21/2024
  8. Lessons from The River (Maria Interviews Nate About His Book)

    Published: 8/15/2024
  9. Taking Risks in Business, Poker, and Life (with Bill Perkins)

    Published: 8/8/2024
  10. Kamala Mode, Misinformation, and Winning the WSOP

    Published: 8/1/2024
  11. Betting on Kamala Harris (with special guest Matt Glassman)

    Published: 7/23/2024
  12. Conspiracy Theories, J.D. Vance, and Jury Duty

    Published: 7/18/2024
  13. How to Convince Biden to Quit

    Published: 7/10/2024
  14. How to Gamble Like a Chess Player, with Jennifer Shahade

    Published: 7/4/2024
  15. The President Has No Clothes: Biden Should Drop Out

    Published: 6/28/2024
  16. Nate’s Election Model, the Trouble with Insurance, and How People Get Risk Wrong

    Published: 6/27/2024
  17. Snap Elections, Global Warming, and Maria’s Favorite Hot Sauce

    Published: 6/20/2024
  18. Lifetime Terms, Lifetime Bans, and the Return of Roaring Kitty

    Published: 6/13/2024
  19. Mistakes and Unknowns: Election Polls, Poker Tournaments, and the NBA Finals

    Published: 6/6/2024
  20. WSOP Kickoff, Crypto ETFs, and Airfare Refunds

    Published: 5/30/2024

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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.