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Pablo Torre Finds Out

Nate Silver Is Still Gambling with His Reputation

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Trump won, Silicon Valley is Moneyballing everything, and the worldview of the most famous political nerd on Earth... is eating the world. But Nate Silver still wants to prove people wrong: on what the 2016 and 2024 elections really told us; his falling out with the Left; and how tech billionaires are more irrational than they like to admit. Also: Elon Musk totaling a car, Peter Thiel believing in destiny, and Neymar playing poker. Buy Nate Silver's new book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/529280/on-the-edge-by-nate-silver/ Subscribe to Silver Bulletin: https://www.natesilver.net/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.

0:01.8

I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.5

This will now be interpreted and has been interpreted, for reasons that, again, are predictable and understandable fundamentally, as a broad mandate.

0:14.3

It's a narrow mandate.

0:16.8

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Are you a caffeine person? Media. I'm trying, not as bad as I used to be, but like, yeah, I mean, I'm in the post-election ha excited. And now I'm like, oh, I can actually, like,

1:36.2

fall back asleep, but I'm in, like, hundreds of hours of sleep deficit. And so, yeah.

1:42.8

Yeah, I mean this as a compliment. And truly I do. I was walking by a spirit Halloween. And I was like, Nate Silver, I think, can relate to the seasonality of this pop-up Halloween store.

1:50.8

Absolutely.

1:51.2

At a certain point in the calendar, there are lines and there is stress and competition to get in to buy this costume.

1:59.0

You are American politics for a certain amount of time that I think

2:03.9

you're still in the halo, the outer glow of it sounds like. You have to just own the fact

2:09.9

that it is seasonal. And look, if you're going to the election, then you're going to have your

2:13.4

tourist season, right? The tourist season where you're selling lobster rolls in Maine and

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