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Nate Silver Joins to Talk About His New Book

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Sports

3.8638 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on Bet the Process, Nate Silver joins to discuss his new book, On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, including the growing sophistication of prediction markets, and the crossover between sports betting and venture capital. Jeff and Rufus also discuss the upcoming football season.

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0:00.0

On this week's Bet the Process podcast, we have author Nate Silver, who's written a new book called On the Edge, The Art of Risking Everything, which is available right now on Amazon and wherever books are sold. So go out and get it. We're going to jump right into the interview. And then after that, Rufus and I are going to talk about our reactions to the interview. So with that, let's start the process.

0:25.7

Bet, bet, bet, bet, bet, bet the process. Welcome to the podcast.

0:34.9

Bet the process. It's not the typical cookie cutter nonsense.

0:38.3

If you came just for picks, you're in the wrong place.

0:40.3

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0:43.3

Instead of blindly assuming a team must be tanking.

0:46.3

We're looking for the edge of Masy P-Body rankings, crunching all the numbers in the

0:50.3

simulator system that break down the data analytically driven.

0:53.3

Media coverage, the sports gambling is pathetic

0:55.9

we now welcome in one of our favorite guests uh one of the most topical people in the world right now

1:03.0

Nate silver Nate thanks for joining us this is very excited given like everything that's happening

1:09.4

in the world and the fact that you have a new book out.

1:12.4

So before, do you want us to ask the obligatory politics question at the beginning or at the end?

1:19.4

Maybe get the politics out of the way first.

1:21.6

Maybe that's easier.

1:22.5

Let's get it out of the book audience captured here.

1:25.0

So we can talk about politics.

1:26.6

Okay.

1:27.1

So what are what do you think the current true odds are obviously you have a model?

1:32.2

We have a situation where I think all of us thought the Democrats were pretty close to drawing dead for a while.

1:37.6

And now of a sudden there's a real shot.

1:40.5

It's almost like a coin flip, blah, blah, blah.

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