I'm Maria Kannakova 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.

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Welcome to the buck brief.

Joe Biden calls us all garbage.

And then says he didn't.

Or has people that are telling us that he didn't say what he said.

But here's the problem. We know what he said but here's the problem we know what he said.

And just the other day a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating

island of garbage. Well let me tell you something I don't I don't know the Puerto Rican that I know or Puerto Rican that I know or

Puerto Rico where I'm in my home state of Delaware they're good decent

honorable people.

The only garbage I see floating out there

is his supporters.

His demonization is seen as unconscionable.

And it's un-American.

It's totally contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been.

He said that we are garbage. That's the only garbage that he sees and now they're

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