Hey everyone, I'm Maria Kondakhova, I'm Nate Silver.
And this is.
I'm Maria Kondakova.
I'm Nate Silver, and this issy Business.
A show about making good decisions.
We did it.
We're so good, We're so smart. This podcast is going to be amazing. So, Nate, I'm really excited to be hosting this show with you because you're a statistician. You're someone who comes at the world from a very rigorous, logical, mathematical perspective, and I think that this is just such a beautiful perspective to look at risk and risky decision making.
And Maria, I'm excited to be hosting with you. I mean, we're great friends. But you're also a PhD in psychology, you've written multiple best selling books, you have worked for The New Yorker. You're a little bit more even keel than I am too, which sometimes is a great influence on me.
Plus, obviously, we're both poker players, and we've both won and as you always point out, lost, yeap hundreds of thousands of dollars in the world of poker tournaments. And so that's a lens that we're going to be using to approach this entire show, because poker isn't just about playing cards, it's about making good decisions. It's about a framework for thinking about the world and in risky business.
That's what we're going to be doing. We're going to be helping our listeners understand decision making using this framework. So what exactly are we going to be talking about. Well, obviously we're going to be talking about poker and the world of gambling, which includes sports betting and all of
that fun stuff. And you know, Nate, you and I are both going to be at the World Series this summer, so we'll be doing some shows from Vegas, tracking our progress and doing some more personal shows from there.
We'll be talking about politics and the news as well. Look, unfortunately it's an election year. We'll talk about the probabilities there as well as tactics and strategy around politics and current events. How do things like expected value or game theory affect decisions that affect all of our lives.
And obviously we'll also be talking about kind of the more personal elements psychology, philosophy, and the decisions that we make in our daily lives that don't have anything to do with the news but have everything to do with Living well.
Risky Business comes out every Thursday starting May sixteenth. The show is a co production of Pushkin Industries and iHeartMedia and it's available wherever you want to listen.