Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.
In the 15th episode, Connor speaks with statistician Nate Silver about his new book On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, election forecasting, founding and leaving FiveThirtyEight, his bad beats at feature tables, and co-hosting the Risky Business podcast with Maria Konnikova.
Silver also discusses the upcoming US presidential election, sports analytics, Limit Hold'em, his Silver Bulletin newsletter and why no one should be a nit in life.
This interview was filmed on June 8 at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) inside Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
The Life Outside Poker podcast is available on major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and iHeartRadio. You can also watch the interview with Nate Silver by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.
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Time Stamps
| TIME | TOPIC |
|---|---|
| 0:00 | Intro |
| 00:52 | Interest in numbers |
| 5:18 | Politics |
| 9:55 | 2024 election |
| 11:40 | 2016 election |
| 15:29 | High school debate |
| 17:38 | Don't be a nit |
| 22:53 | On the Edge |
| 27:48 | Sam Bankman-Fried |
| 32:46 | Book interviews |
| 42:21 | How poker has changed |
| 46:07 | Televized bad beats at WSOP |
| 53:55 | Substack & podcast |
| 56:41 | Maria Konnikova |
| 59:33 | What makes you hopeful? |
| 1:00:30 | Advice for younger self |
| 1:04:14 | Life lesson from poker |
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