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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Third hour Clay and Buck kicks off now.

Thanks for being here with us everybody.

Much to discuss.

Election, eight days from today,

and things are heating up obviously I don't know if it's going to

get any hotter than it is right now in terms of politics well never say never

but it is certainly the pinnacle of the campaign push from both sides and we're going to dive into some of it.

We had the Trump rally over the weekend.

We had J.D. Vance taking it to the fake news media in their own backyard, so to speak.

And get into some of that, I thought J.D. did a phenomenal job. But also also if you're wondering how do Democrats feel about this I've got to say

they're going so all in on the naziism fascism thing of democracy thing, that it will be a remarkable site when if Trump wins,

everything is fine, the country actually is prosperous and peaceful and none of this stuff is going to happen.

I do wish Clay that there was some place where I could say to like Joe Scarborough or

whoever the top people are that are going to make the case in these places.

I will bet you a million dollars that there will be an election in 2028 and

that we will not have a dissent into you know fascist you know fascist war and

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