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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, I'm Maria Kondakhova, I'm Nate Silver.

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Speaker 2: And this is.

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Speaker 1: I'm Maria Kondakova.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nate Silver, and this issy Business.

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Speaker 1: A show about making good decisions.

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Speaker 2: We did it.

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Speaker 1: We're so good, We're so smart. This podcast is going

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Speaker 1: to be amazing. So, Nate, I'm really excited to be

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Speaker 1: hosting this show with you because you're a statistician. You're

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Speaker 1: someone who comes at the world from a very rigorous, logical,

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Speaker 1: mathematical perspective, and I think that this is just such

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Speaker 1: a beautiful perspective to look at risk and risky decision making.

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Speaker 2: And Maria, I'm excited to be hosting with you. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we're great friends. But you're also a PhD in psychology,

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Speaker 2: you've written multiple best selling books, you have worked for

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Speaker 2: The New Yorker. You're a little bit more even keel

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Speaker 2: than I am too, which sometimes is a great influence

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Speaker 2: on me.

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Speaker 1: Plus, obviously, we're both poker players, and we've both won

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Speaker 1: and as you always point out, lost, yeap hundreds of

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Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in the world of poker tournaments. And

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Speaker 1: so that's a lens that we're going to be using

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Speaker 1: to approach this entire show, because poker isn't just about

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Speaker 1: playing cards, it's about making good decisions. It's about a

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Speaker 1: framework for thinking about the world and in risky business.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're going to be doing. We're going to

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Speaker 1: be helping our listeners understand decision making using this framework.

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Speaker 1: So what exactly are we going to be talking about. Well,

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Speaker 1: obviously we're going to be talking about poker and the

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Speaker 1: world of gambling, which includes sports betting and all of

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Speaker 1: that fun stuff. And you know, Nate, you and I

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Speaker 1: are both going to be at the World Series this summer,

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Speaker 1: so we'll be doing some shows from Vegas, tracking our

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Speaker 1: progress and doing some more personal shows from there.

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Speaker 2: We'll be talking about politics and the news as well. Look,

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Speaker 2: unfortunately it's an election year. We'll talk about the probabilities

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Speaker 2: there as well as tactics and strategy around politics and

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Speaker 2: current events. How do things like expected value or game

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Speaker 2: theory affect decisions that affect all of our lives.

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Speaker 1: And obviously we'll also be talking about kind of the

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Speaker 1: more personal elements psychology, philosophy, and the decisions that we

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Speaker 1: make in our daily lives that don't have anything to

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Speaker 1: do with the news but have everything to do with

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Speaker 1: Living well.

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Speaker 2: Risky Business comes out every Thursday starting May sixteenth. The

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Speaker 2: show is a co production of Pushkin Industries and iHeartMedia

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Speaker 2: and it's available wherever you want to listen.