Episode · Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova · 2024-12-12
Books mentioned on The Riskies: The Best, Worst, and Most Interesting Decisions of 2024
What were the best, worst, and most interesting decisions of 2024, and what can we learn from them? Nate and Maria award the year’s most notable decisions in our first annual Riskies awards show.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Barbie!
Discussed“I decided to go to Hollywood um and I um am giving this award to Greta Gerwig who was the writer and director of Barbie um who just got completely shut out at the Oscars losing everything losing even some nominations”
Where to get it
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J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century
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Critiqued“and I actually did not like Oppenheimer at all I thought it was a horrible movie I thought it was really boring I did not think that it should have gotten all the awards got so like I actually disagreed completely”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Seinfeld Reference
“like George castanza working for the Yankees in Seinfeld were like they wouldn't give woto a sweet”