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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

By: 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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Episodes
  • NO LIMIT, Some AI… Poker’s Documentary-Gate

    NO LIMIT, Some AI… Poker’s Documentary-Gate
    Nov 26 2025

    The WSOP’s NO LIMIT docuseries has been scrubbed from the internet following revelations that it includes AI-generated content, despite creator Dustin Ianotti’s explanation that the material “tracked closely” with other quotes and was only used for “faster scene transitions and narrative pacing."

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    42 mins
  • Risky Business Live! How To Read People In Poker And Beyond

    Risky Business Live! How To Read People In Poker And Beyond
    Nov 22 2025

    Most people are bad at spotting bluffs and tells – but there are ways to get better. Nate and Maria discuss tips and tricks from the poker table s with a live audience at Ludlow House in New York City.

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

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    52 mins
  • Will The Epstein Files Sink Trump?

    Will The Epstein Files Sink Trump?
    Nov 19 2025

    After months of resistance, President Trump made a striking reversal on the Epstein files this week, signaling he would sign legislation to release them. Nate and Maria discuss whether this is the start of a “lame duck” spiral for Trump, and whether (or to what extent) it will impact his tenure if the files do finally come to light.

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    The Leap from Maria Konnikova

    Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver

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    38 mins
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