Speaker 1: Hey, Joe and Tracy here, we're stopping by to share
Speaker 1: with you another podcast we think you'll really enjoy and
Speaker 1: find to be insightful, sharp and entertaining from Pushkin Industries.
Speaker 1: It's called Risky Business and it's hosted by our friends
Speaker 1: Nate Silver and Maria Kanakova.
Speaker 2: Right, you might remember Nate and Maria from when they
Speaker 2: joined us last year to talk about political prediction markets.
Speaker 2: We were talking about how they work, how accurate they
Speaker 2: actually are, and what they can tell us about election
Speaker 2: campaigns and their outcomes.
Speaker 1: Or you might be familiar with their work. Nate's the
Speaker 1: founder of five thirty eight and the Steam journalist and
Speaker 1: a political analyst. Maria has a PhD in psychology and
Speaker 1: is a New York Times bestselling author. And they're both
Speaker 1: high stakes poker players, so they know a thing or
Speaker 1: two about taking risks, making bets, and calling out bluff.
Speaker 2: On Risky Business, they look at how decisions are made
Speaker 2: and they break down the odds, incentives and risks behind
Speaker 2: the headlines to understand who's making moves and why. So
Speaker 2: they look at everything from politics to sports, to personal decisions,
Speaker 2: AI high electoral races, and of course reality TV.
Speaker 1: Enjoy this preview of risky Business and if you like it,
Speaker 1: fun Risky Business wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes
Speaker 1: released twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturday.
Speaker 3: Hey everyone, I'm Maria Kondakova, I'm Nate Silver, and this
Speaker 3: is I'm Maria Kannakova.
Speaker 4: I'm Nate Silver, and this is Risky Business, a show
Speaker 4: about making good decisions.
Speaker 3: We did it. We're so good, We're so smart. This
Speaker 3: podcast is going to be amazing. So Nate, I'm really
Speaker 3: excited to be hosting this show with you because you're
Speaker 3: a statistician. You're someone who comes at the world from
Speaker 3: a very rigorous, logical, mathematical perspective, and I think that
Speaker 3: this is just such a beautiful perspective to look at
Speaker 3: risk and risky decision making.
Speaker 4: And Maria, I'm excited to be hosting with you. I mean,
Speaker 4: we're great friends, but you're also a PhD in psychology,
Speaker 4: You've written multiple best selling books, you have worked for
Speaker 4: The New Yorker. You're a little bit more even keel
Speaker 4: than I am, too, which sometimes is a great influence
Speaker 4: on me.
Speaker 3: Plus, obviously we're both poker players, and we've both won
Speaker 3: and as you always point out lost, Yeah, hundreds of
Speaker 3: thousands of dollars in the world of poker tournaments. And
Speaker 3: so that's a lens that we're going to be using
Speaker 3: to approach this entire show. Because poker isn't just about
Speaker 3: playing cards, it's about making good decisions. It's about a
Speaker 3: framework for thinking about the world and in risky business.
Speaker 3: That's what we're going to be doing. We're going to
Speaker 3: be helping our listeners understand decision making using this framework.
Speaker 3: So what exactly are we going to be talking about. Well,
Speaker 3: obviously we're going to be talking about poker and the
Speaker 3: world of gambling.
Speaker 4: We'll be talking about politics and the news as well. Look,
Speaker 4: we'll talk about the probabilities there as well as tactics
Speaker 4: and strategy around politics and current events. How do things
Speaker 4: like expected value or game theory affect decisions that affect
Speaker 4: all of our lives.
Speaker 3: And obviously we'll also be talking about kind of the
Speaker 3: more personal elements of psychology, philosophy and the decisions that
Speaker 3: we make in our daily lives that don't have anything
Speaker 3: to do with the news but have everything to do
Speaker 3: with living well.
Speaker 4: The show is a co production of Pushkin Industries and
Speaker 4: iHeartMedia and it's available wherever you want to listen.