Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova
Hosted by Maria Konnikova and Nate Silver · Pushkin Industries
3.7from 566 ratings
- 113
- Episodes
- 105
- Transcribed
- 566
- Ratings
- 2024
- First episode
- 991K
- YouTube views
About Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova
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.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Industries
- Category
- news · society & culture · sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 May 2024
- Latest episode
- 10 Feb 2026
Latest episodes
105 of 113 episodes have a transcript.
10 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
From The Kink Machine: The Hidden Business of Pleasure
7 Jan 2026
Nate and Maria’s 2026 Predictions
3 Jan 2026
Best of Risky Business: Life After Poker (with Vanessa Selbst)
Inside a recent episode
From The Kink Machine: The Hidden Business of Pleasure
Published 10 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They look like a large business. They're named man -win, and none of this makes me happy. But still, I had a job to do. Over the course of your career, we've seen a lot of the owners of these sites really received into the background. They do a lot to hide their identity. How does that make you feel? […]
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- Patricia Nilsson
- Alex Barker
- Vanessa Selbst
- Matt Levine
- Daryl Morey
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 990,572
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.7 / 5
- 259 ratings
- Spotify
- 3.8 / 5
- 307 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 90
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Maria Konnikova and Nate Silver host the show. Published by Pushkin Industries.
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