I'm Maria Konnikova. And I'm Nate Silver. And our new podcast, Risky Business, is a show about making better decisions. We're both journalists who moonlight as poker players. And that's the lens we're going to use to approach this entire show. We're going to be discussing everything from high-stakes poker to personal questions. Like whether I should call a plumber or fix my shower myself. And of course,

we'll be talking about the election too. Listen on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you listen to podcasts. All right. Thank you, Scott Chatton. And thanks to all of you for being

with us. Write down our toll-free telephone number.

You know what we might do, Linda?

We might take calls because we don't have a lot of guests today.

And maybe we'll do it at the half hour.

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if you want to give us a call.

And thank you for being with us. And wow,

I don't know what else to say. This was a mandate of all mandates. I can't believe I'm

even going to do this, but they weren't particularly happy over at MSDNC and the victory of Donald Trump, which was just overwhelming.

It was almost unprecedented.

Even Liberal Joe, our old friend, said Trump's win is the biggest red wave since Reagan in

1984.

It's when Reagan won, you know, 49 states.

The Democratic Party was wiped out this morning.

We don't know what the total amount will be in terms of Senate seats,

but it's going to be probably around 55-ish by the time we'd guess.

One bit of good news, originally the projection was that the House of Representatives might go Democratic,

and then it was like going to be a slight majority, maybe two or three seats. And the decision

desk is now up that number to 223 Republicans to 12 Democrats, which means that they have a mandate now to go forward.

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