WEBVTT - Coming Soon... Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.559
<v Speaker 1>Hey everyone, I'm Maria Kondakhova, I'm Nate Silver.

0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:06.640
<v Speaker 2>And this is.

0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:15.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm Maria Kondakova.

0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm Nate Silver, and this issy Business.

0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.720
<v Speaker 1>A show about making good decisions.

0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:22.640
<v Speaker 2>We did it.

0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.079
<v Speaker 1>We're so good, We're so smart. This podcast is going

0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:33.080
<v Speaker 1>to be amazing. So, Nate, I'm really excited to be

0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.960
<v Speaker 1>hosting this show with you because you're a statistician. You're

0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.000
<v Speaker 1>someone who comes at the world from a very rigorous, logical,

0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.040
<v Speaker 1>mathematical perspective, and I think that this is just such

0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.080
<v Speaker 1>a beautiful perspective to look at risk and risky decision making.

0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.320
<v Speaker 2>And Maria, I'm excited to be hosting with you. I mean,

0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.000
<v Speaker 2>we're great friends. But you're also a PhD in psychology,

0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.840
<v Speaker 2>you've written multiple best selling books, you have worked for

0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.280
<v Speaker 2>The New Yorker. You're a little bit more even keel

0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.560
<v Speaker 2>than I am too, which sometimes is a great influence

0:00:58.600 --> 0:00:58.840
<v Speaker 2>on me.

0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.960
<v Speaker 1>Plus, obviously, we're both poker players, and we've both won

0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.480
<v Speaker 1>and as you always point out, lost, yeap hundreds of

0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.160
<v Speaker 1>thousands of dollars in the world of poker tournaments. And

0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.000
<v Speaker 1>so that's a lens that we're going to be using

0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:19.000
<v Speaker 1>to approach this entire show, because poker isn't just about

0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.760
<v Speaker 1>playing cards, it's about making good decisions. It's about a

0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:27.039
<v Speaker 1>framework for thinking about the world and in risky business.

0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.280
<v Speaker 1>That's what we're going to be doing. We're going to

0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:34.000
<v Speaker 1>be helping our listeners understand decision making using this framework.

0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.959
<v Speaker 1>So what exactly are we going to be talking about. Well,

0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.120
<v Speaker 1>obviously we're going to be talking about poker and the

0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.640
<v Speaker 1>world of gambling, which includes sports betting and all of

0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.840
<v Speaker 1>that fun stuff. And you know, Nate, you and I

0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.720
<v Speaker 1>are both going to be at the World Series this summer,

0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.120
<v Speaker 1>so we'll be doing some shows from Vegas, tracking our

0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.960
<v Speaker 1>progress and doing some more personal shows from there.

0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.960
<v Speaker 2>We'll be talking about politics and the news as well. Look,

0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.000
<v Speaker 2>unfortunately it's an election year. We'll talk about the probabilities

0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.840
<v Speaker 2>there as well as tactics and strategy around politics and

0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:09.000
<v Speaker 2>current events. How do things like expected value or game

0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.400
<v Speaker 2>theory affect decisions that affect all of our lives.

0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.600
<v Speaker 1>And obviously we'll also be talking about kind of the

0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.920
<v Speaker 1>more personal elements psychology, philosophy, and the decisions that we

0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.720
<v Speaker 1>make in our daily lives that don't have anything to

0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.799
<v Speaker 1>do with the news but have everything to do with

0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:24.840
<v Speaker 1>Living well.

0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.720
<v Speaker 2>Risky Business comes out every Thursday starting May sixteenth. The

0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.679
<v Speaker 2>show is a co production of Pushkin Industries and iHeartMedia

0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.799
<v Speaker 2>and it's available wherever you want to listen.