I'm Maria Konnikova. 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. Listen on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you listen to podcasts. All right, third hour, Clay Ann Buck. Let's talk election. Let's get right

into it. We are days away from the big day. We're feeling good,

but we're not overconfident. We're staying calm, cool, and frosty as we are getting into the

final stretch here. I know that we are a broken record on this issue, but go out and vote early

and get friends to go vote. It is going to be very tight in some of these states.

Remember, the way our system works, I think Trump could win a big electoral college victory,

but I think if you look at the votes just as aggregate total side by side overall it's going to be

close and state by state it could be very close it's likely to be very close in a number of

these places i mean we're talking about a state that has a population of five or ten million people

and the difference being well aren't that many states that have ten million but five people, and the difference is going to be 50,000 votes, 15,000 votes, maybe 500 votes.

Every vote counts, every vote matters.

Get out there, do your part.

The big focus today from the media is actually damage control after Kamala's.

I would say forgettable, but that is too kind.

Clay, it was in fact painful.

It was an auditory violation of my evening.

How long did she speak?

You watched the whole speech.

How long was it?

Like 40-ish minutes.

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