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. We hear a lie. Sean, why protein bars? That's so gross. Well, I can't lie to you.

I'm working with a new sponsor.

I haven't announced yet for the show that they're, well, let's just leave it at that.

And this is part of the regiment.

Oh, gosh.

I can do the shakes and I can do the beef jerky and I can I could do that too.

Yeah, I can do that.

But the bars are so dry and flavorless and gross.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

They had a list and I chose the most, like, if someone said that you could just eat these protein bars like all day long 100%

really yeah okay you're gonna have to text me when this is done because i have to text me when

this is done because i have to know if there's a decent tasting protein bar well the you know i

here's the caveat.

Technically, I was at, I think it was the commissary or something.

I was like, oh, there's a protein bar.

I'm not sure that this one was entirely approved.

But maybe that's why it tastes so good.

So, yeah, I get your point.

Normally, most of them are kind of whatever. I do, I got the chomps. That was on the list. Those are good beef sticks.

Okay. That's fine.

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