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🗓️ 30 May 2024
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Summary
Introducing Lessons from the Final Table from Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova.
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Welcome to Risky Business, a show about making better decisions.
Today, Maria has lessons from a poker tournament she recently played in Monte Carlo, where she made it to the final table. Then, Nate discusses what RFK Jr.’s impressive polling numbers could mean for Biden and Trump. And Nate and Maria discuss Caitlin Clark and what her story tells us – or doesn’t – about the gender pay gap.
Further Reading:
The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
On The Edge by Nate Silver (forthcoming)
"RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain" (NYT)
"What the conversation about Caitlin Clark’s pay gets wrong" (CNN)
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Maria Kaunk. I'm Maria Kanakova and I'm Knight Silver. Welcome to risky business. A show about making better decisions. This is our first episode of the show, so I want to give you a little taste of the types of topics you can expect from us going forward. |
| 0:28.0 | So we'll obviously be talking about politics and the election since this is a major election year. We'll be talking about |
| 0:34.4 | poker, we'll be talking about the news, and of course we're going to be talking about |
| 0:38.9 | personal decisions, right? How do you take this framework and make decisions in our day-to-day lives? |
| 0:44.3 | Conveniently, almost as we've planned this in advance, our first show will cover all three of these |
| 0:49.2 | areas. We'll have, uh, reflect with Maria on our recent poker success she had. We'll do a segment on |
| 0:54.0 | RFK Jr and his effect on the presidential election and we'll talk about |
| 0:58.2 | Caitlin Clark and the economics of the gender pay gap and the WNBA. |
| 1:01.5 | So Nate let's get into it. pay gap and the WNBA. |
| 1:02.8 | So Nate, let's get into it. So Maria, was it last week it's all kind of blurring together but I think last |
| 1:17.1 | week we were making the official Twitter slash social media announcement |
| 1:21.6 | about risky business, the podcast. |
| 1:24.0 | And you were absent from that cluster of information who wanted to spit out |
| 1:30.0 | because you were at the final table of a poker tournament good excuse I guess tell us more about that |
| 1:34.8 | absolutely so I was at EPT Monte Carlo which is one of the flagship stops of the European |
| 1:41.4 | poker tour which is a poker stars event and I was playing in the |
| 1:46.7 | 1,100 euro side event and it was going pretty well. So at the time that I saw your emails and all of these |
| 1:55.1 | announcements going back and forth I was actually in the middle of a redraw for |
| 1:59.6 | the final table and we were finally down to nine players. |
| 2:03.2 | So I had a few brief moments to check my email |
| 2:07.4 | when I saw all of this and had to respond to you guys |
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