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.

Listen on the I Heart Radio app, make-believe, what you see on

television. We're gonna talk to Carol Roth about financial stuff, inflation stuff. We're going to talk about early polling, early voting,

all that and more coming up on a right. Let's talk about the bubble, the media bubble. In fact, it goes beyond the media, the media is just the main creator of the bubble.

Let's discuss something we've talked about before on this show,

the world of make-believe American Democrats live in.

And maybe you're just sitting there thinking I'm once again calling all Democrats insane, and you'd

be correct, I am, but let's discuss what I mean by that.

What does insanity mean?

What am I talking about?

I'm not talking about policy disagreements actually at all.

Taxes or spending or abortion or border.

I'm not not discussing that at all. I'm talking about

what the media does and what the American Democrat believes. You see I could go down a

long list of things that you already know, things we've talked about before on the show.

How many Democrats believe that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.

If you look at the polling numbers, most of them.

Most Democrats believe that.

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