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

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Warning, you're about to enter the arena and join the battle to save America with your host, John Parnell.

Good evening, America.

This show that you're watching tonight is called Battleground Live.

This is the show where we kick ass and we take names and we lock horns

with the radical left. We never quit. We never surrender from sea to shining sea and everybody

in between welcome patriots on this glorious Thursday. What are we like five days before election

day, five days before we save this extraordinary country. Folks, a couple

things right off the top. Happy Halloween. You know, got to take some just a couple of minutes to

acknowledge what's on the calendar. And I know that my wife, Commander Melanie, she and I were

talking about how, you know, we've got five kids, people that are OGs and have been listening to the show for a long time know that.

But our kids are getting older and we both lamented the fact that they don't really get dressed up.

They don't get really dressed up like they used to for Halloween.

And even in the moment when they were kids at the time, like they get back from school,

it's fast and furious.

You've got to get them all dressed up.

It was chaotic.

It was hectic.

And there were a few times back then who I found myself, you know, complaining about that

or thought it was stressful or whatever.

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