Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

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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.
    2025 Pushkin Industries & iHeartMedia, Inc. 2024
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  • The Ivy League Bows to Trump, Plus Protecting Your Genetic Data and Your Time

    The Ivy League Bows to Trump, Plus Protecting Your Genetic Data and Your Time
    Apr 3 2025

    This week – after a quick check in on their March Madness brackets – Nate and Maria discuss Trump’s showdown with the Ivy League. Should schools like Harvard and Columbia do more to stand up to the President’s demands?

    Then they turn to 23andMe, which has declared bankruptcy. They discuss privacy and whether it’s okay to swap your biometric data for more convenience at the airport.

    Last but not least, they tackle the question of how to properly value your time.

    Further Reading:

    Kashmir Hill’s Your Face Belongs To Us

    Sendhil Mullianathan’s research on time poverty

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    43 m
  • Group Chat Protocols, Bracket Updates, and thoughts on the WNBA

    Group Chat Protocols, Bracket Updates, and thoughts on the WNBA
    Mar 27 2025

    This week, Nate and Maria discuss The Atlantic’s bombshell report about how its top editor was added to a national security group chat, and get into why the most major security risk is never technology–it’s always people. Then, they give an update on their March Madness bracket contest, and try to figure out why on earth players have to wait until they’re 22 to join the WNBA.

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    41 m
  • March Madness Bracket Extravaganza

    March Madness Bracket Extravaganza
    Mar 19 2025

    This week, Nate and Maria talk college basketball. Nate explains how he made his recently-released March Madness model. Then, they compare their tournament brackets. Maria gets some help from Sacramento Kings GM Monte McNair, but also makes one bracket entirely based on vibes. Nate mostly sticks to his model, but makes a few surprising picks.

    Check out Maria’s brackets here.

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    42 m

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