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FiveThirtyEight Politics

Live From New York: It's The FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast!

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

News, Politics

4.620.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast held a live taping at The Bell House in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, its first return to a live venue in New York City since the pandemic. Nate Silver and Galen Druke dissect a recent poll suggesting 30 percent of New Yorkers want to leave the state, challenge ChatGPT to see if it can replace their jobs and discuss the current state of the 2024 Republican primary. They also welcome a surprise guest and an audience member to play a round of New York City-themed trivia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Gailan Drouk.

0:16.0

I'm Nate Silver and this is our live taping at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Give yourselves

0:30.5

a round of applause. So we've got a sold out show here tonight and this is our first

0:40.6

live show in New York City since the pandemic and it's our first ever live show in Brooklyn.

0:46.2

So I just really want to thank all of you for being here tonight. We've got a big show for

0:56.6

you tonight and I was a little busy this week and I was thinking you know if you've listened

1:03.0

to the podcast recently you heard that according to you go 46% of Americans are either

1:09.8

somewhat or very afraid that artificial intelligence will bring on the end of the human race.

1:17.0

And so I was curious and are like before it straight up ends humanity can it end my career.

1:24.3

And so I asked chat GPT the artificial intelligence bot to write a bit of an introduction tonight.

1:33.0

Oh oh. Nate has not seen it yet. We'll see how it goes. Okay let me know what you think.

1:40.6

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast the show that's statistically proven to be

1:47.5

95% accurate 50% entertaining and 100% dedicated to all things political. I'm your host chat GPT.

1:56.3

The AI with more political know how than a presidential candidate on the campaign trail. And today we've

2:02.6

got a special treat for you. A live taping of the show where you'll get to see us in all our

2:07.4

unedited unscripted and unfiltered glory. So buckle up grab a drink and get ready to dive deep into

2:13.6

the numbers because this is the 538 Politics Podcast and we're about to make statistics sexy.

2:23.0

I'm sorry the fact that they're applauding Galen. I'm sorry but it means that you're fired.

2:28.0

So I surprised that chat GPT knew we were sexy but I guess it knows all things. So all jokes aside we do

2:39.8

have a packed show for you tonight. We're going to kick things off with a good or bad use of polling.

2:45.5

Apparently 30% of New Yorkers say they want to leave the state. Then we're going to get a little

2:51.6

bit more help from chat GPT. So if you enjoyed that intro just hang tight. We're also going to

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