Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova
<p>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.</p> <p>Maria has a PhD in psychology and is the author of several books including, most recently, <em>The Biggest Bluff</em>. While researching the book, she inadvertently became a professional poker player, with over $500,000 in tournament winnings. She is a PokerStars Team Pro.</p> <p>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, <em>On the Edge</em>, is about gambling and risk.</p> <p>Risky Business is a co-production of iHeart Media and Pushkin Industries.</p>