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, it is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

I can't believe I'm going to say this.

We are less than two weeks away from Election Day and Senator Kamah Harris decided to close

the deal with a word salad disaster of a town hall on

CNN.

It did not go well.

Well her basement strategy has not been working.

She tried hiding in Joe Biden's basement and just avoiding everything,

and it turned out that the voters actually wanted to hear something from someone

who wants to be president of the United States.

So then she had a radical strategy.

Okay let's do some interviews and I got to say every interview she does seems to be worse

than the last one. This CNN one is truly a train wreck. we're going to break it down in detail and

i gotta say

this is also a special time

because as we do this uh... this is coming out friday morning and today comelerice will be in texas she has

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