Speaker 1: Hey everyone, I'm Maria Kondakhova, I'm Nate Silver.
Speaker 2: And this is.
Speaker 1: I'm Maria Kondakova.
Speaker 2: I'm Nate Silver, and this issy Business.
Speaker 1: A show about making good decisions.
Speaker 2: We did it.
Speaker 1: We're so good, We're so smart. This podcast is going
Speaker 1: to be amazing. So, Nate, I'm really excited to be
Speaker 1: hosting this show with you because you're a statistician. You're
Speaker 1: someone who comes at the world from a very rigorous, logical,
Speaker 1: mathematical perspective, and I think that this is just such
Speaker 1: a beautiful perspective to look at risk and risky decision making.
Speaker 2: And Maria, I'm excited to be hosting with you. I mean,
Speaker 2: we're great friends. But you're also a PhD in psychology,
Speaker 2: you've written multiple best selling books, you have worked for
Speaker 2: The New Yorker. You're a little bit more even keel
Speaker 2: than I am too, which sometimes is a great influence
Speaker 2: on me.
Speaker 1: Plus, obviously, we're both poker players, and we've both won
Speaker 1: and as you always point out, lost, yeap hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in the world of poker tournaments. And
Speaker 1: so that's a lens that we're going to be using
Speaker 1: to approach this entire show, because poker isn't just about
Speaker 1: playing cards, it's about making good decisions. It's about a
Speaker 1: framework for thinking about the world and in risky business.
Speaker 1: That's what we're going to be doing. We're going to
Speaker 1: be helping our listeners understand decision making using this framework.
Speaker 1: So what exactly are we going to be talking about. Well,
Speaker 1: obviously we're going to be talking about poker and the
Speaker 1: world of gambling, which includes sports betting and all of
Speaker 1: that fun stuff. And you know, Nate, you and I
Speaker 1: are both going to be at the World Series this summer,
Speaker 1: so we'll be doing some shows from Vegas, tracking our
Speaker 1: progress and doing some more personal shows from there.
Speaker 2: We'll be talking about politics and the news as well. Look,
Speaker 2: unfortunately it's an election year. We'll talk about the probabilities
Speaker 2: there as well as tactics and strategy around politics and
Speaker 2: current events. How do things like expected value or game
Speaker 2: theory affect decisions that affect all of our lives.
Speaker 1: And obviously we'll also be talking about kind of the
Speaker 1: more personal elements psychology, philosophy, and the decisions that we
Speaker 1: make in our daily lives that don't have anything to
Speaker 1: do with the news but have everything to do with
Speaker 1: Living well.
Speaker 2: Risky Business comes out every Thursday starting May sixteenth. The
Speaker 2: show is a co production of Pushkin Industries and iHeartMedia
Speaker 2: and it's available wherever you want to listen.