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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

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.

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Episodios
  • Did the LA Clippers Take a Page from the Mob?

    Did the LA Clippers Take a Page from the Mob?
    Sep 27 2025

    The NBA is investigating the LA Clippers and team owner Steve Ballmer over allegations that star player Kawhi Leonard accepted a $28 million endorsement as a way to get around the league’s salary cap. The endorsement deal was with the now-defunct sustainable banking company Aspiration—a company in which Ballmer has invested. Nate and Maria talk about whether Ballmer tried to take a page out of the mob playbook, and how the league could deter this kind of behavior in the future.

    Plus: Nate and Maria discuss a report from the Citizens Budget Commission that claims that New York’s share of millionaires is falling—and with it, the potential for revenue generation from taxes.

    Further Reading:

    From Pablo Torre Finds Out: Kawhi Leonard Signed a Secret $28M Deal. Steve Ballmer Funded a Fraud. We Followed the Money.

    Citizens Budget Commission Report: The Hidden Cost of New York’s Shrinking Millionaire Share

    From the New York Times: New York Needs More Millionaires, Fiscal Watchdog Says”

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    34 m
  • Presidents Have Tried To Censor the Media Before…and It Backfired

    Presidents Have Tried To Censor the Media Before…and It Backfired
    Sep 24 2025

    Disney briefly pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air last week for comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, after FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened action against Disney and ABC. But this is not the first time the government has tried to censor the media: Maria walks us through a brief history of presidents trying to limit what the press says. Then, Nate and Maria discuss whether cancel culture led us to this particular moment.

    Read Nate’s newsletter post, The political mood feels like 9/11 again

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    36 m
  • When You Come at the King: Holding Presidents to Account (with Elie Honig)

    When You Come at the King: Holding Presidents to Account (with Elie Honig)
    Sep 20 2025

    It’s our first Saturday drop! Nate and Maria host former assistant US Attorney Elie Honig to discuss his new book, a brisk history of special counsels — plagued by politics, checked by presidents, declawed under Trump’s second term — and why rescuing the office matters.

    Find Elie’s book here: When You Come At The King

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    49 m
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