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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

Auteur(s): Pushkin Industries
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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.

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  • The Riskies! 2025 Edition

    The Riskies! 2025 Edition
    Dec 17 2025

    Nate and Maria give out their second annual awards for decision-making in 2025: Who made the best decision this year? Who made the worst? Who were 2025’s biggest nits and degens? And which host had the best poker year?

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

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    42 min
  • What’s In Store With Self-Driving Cars

    What’s In Store With Self-Driving Cars
    Dec 13 2025

    Nate has ridden in a Waymo, and it was like stepping into the future. Maria’s never been in one, but she’s been stuck behind a lot of autonomous vehicles… They swap human-driven car horror stories and discuss some of the risks and benefits of a future full of self-driving cars.

    From the New York Times: The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

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    40 min
  • What Movies Get Right and Wrong About Poker

    What Movies Get Right and Wrong About Poker
    Dec 10 2025

    Maria finally gets to reveal a project she’s been working on that’s been kept under wraps, and then it’s movie night on Risky Business! Nate and Maria talk about their favorite poker movies and explain why portrayals of poker for a movie audience often don’t get the game quite right. Plus, they share what poker movie they’d like to make and who’d play them in it.

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    40 min
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