Sonny Rollins
Coming off the loss of Quincy Jones, Benny Golson, Roy Haynes and Lou Donaldson at the end of 2024, it’s truly a treat to bring you a fresh interview with…
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Episode 10: “Anybody Can Win, but Everybody’s Gonna Lose”
Perhaps you have someone in your life who’s prone to sports gambling. Michael Lewis has someone. So he comes up with a scheme to “innoculate” his 17-year-old son against the…
Hack Your Emotions
Negative emotions like fear or anger are part of being human. These feelings tell us something – perhaps prompting us to take action or bring about change. However, they’re powerful…
Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)
Two airplanes have just collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport. While no one on the Amsterdam-bound KLM plane survives the resulting fireball, 71 Pan-Am passengers and crew make it…
What Claude Shannon Figured Out
Claude Shannon is a major figure in the history of technology. Known as the father of information theory, Shannon spent decades at Bell Labs and MIT. But what exactly did…
Wildfires, Insurance, and Planning for Disaster
Nate and Maria discuss the California wildfires. How do incentives in insurance markets drive decisions by homeowners – and by insurers? What’s the best way to make rational decisions about…
Episode 9: Framing the Gambler
Michael Lewis gets a glimpse of sports gambling’s future by talking with writers in Great Britain and Australia, where the industry is even more entrenched. But the US has its…
Get Over Yourself
As children we think we’re at the center of the world – but as adults we need to learn to see the perspectives and problems of other people. It helps…
Cleared For Take-Off? (Tenerife Air Disaster 1)
“Evacuate the airport, we’ve planted bombs,” a terrorist tells the telephone operator at the airport in Gran Canaria, in 1977. By the end of that day, 583 people will have…
Nate and Maria’s 2025 Predictions
Nate and Maria share their predictions for the year to come, covering everything from the price of Bitcoin, to the fate of President Trump’s cabinet picks, to whether Nate will…
Episode 8: The Integrity Landscape
Has betting based on inside intel on games gone down since sports gambling was legalized in the US? Not really, as Michael Lewis finds out. But what’s gone up is…
Feel Like You’re Enough
Perfectionism isn’t just wanting to be perfect… it’s the feelings of failure and shame when we simply can’t perform at a superhuman level all day, every day. To be happy,…