The author of the Silver Bulletin newsletter is starting a new podcast called "Still Counting" with former colleagues Galen Druke and Clare Malone, produced by Crooked Media. The podcast will cover politics, elections, and other topics, including AI and prediction markets, with a first episode set to drop next week. No specific numbers or ratings are mentioned in the article, but it is noted that the author's previous podcast, Risky Business, had a similar weekly rhythm. The new show is expected to complement the Silver Bulletin newsletter, rather than replacing it, with some episodes and clips potentially posted on the site as well.
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Nate Silver, former founder of FiveThirtyEight, is launching a new podcast called Still Counting in partnership with his former colleagues Galen Druke and Clare Malone. The podcast will be produced by Crooked Media and will focus on politics, including elections and media controversies, as well as emerging topics like AI and prediction markets. This is a legacy project of the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, which was part of Silver's previous publication. Silver claims that the new podcast won't affect his current work at Silver Bulletin in any way. The first "real" episode will be released next week, with preview episodes available now.
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I teased this last week, but I wanted to officially share the good news that I’m starting a podcast with my former FiveThirtyEight colleagues Galen Druke and Clare Malone.
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The podcast, Still Counting, will be produced by Crooked Media.
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You’ll be able to find it wherever you usually find your favorite podcasts.
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You can find our preview episode below1; the first “real” episode will drop next week.
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Elections will usually be the first and foremost topic — but also politics more broadly, sometimes with an eye to various kinds of media controversies — basically about the mix we cover under the “politics” vertical here at Silver Bulletin.
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At the same time, topics like AI and prediction markets have become much more pertinent since Disney nuked FiveThirtyEight, and I’m sure we’ll discuss them frequently, too.
Still Counting shouldn’t adversely affect Silver Bulletin in any way.
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It’s a weekly show, with occasional bonus/emergency episodes, basically the rhythm I was used to with Risky Business2.
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I’ll occasionally post episodes and clips here at the newsletter when they fit in naturally, but otherwise I don’t expect any appreciable change in posting volume.
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Our deal with Crooked specifically allows us to keep doing Substack native videos (i.e. Substack Lives), so you’ll still get some of those too.3
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We’ll typically tape Still Counting episodes on Wednesdays — a natural day since elections are held on Tuesdays — and they’ll be available late afternoon/early evening Wednesdays, Eastern time.
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I also have to give Silver Bulletin readers a tip of my hat for making this possible.
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Although the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast was always popular, the media landscape has changed a lot, and Clare, Galen and I
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However, we did a half-dozen shows together at Comedy Cellar, all of which sold out, thanks in large part to you guys.
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That gave us more confidence that there could still be a big audience for a show together — and, more importantly, reminded us that the three of us (we’ve always been good IRL friends) really enjoyed working together.
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Those likes and subscribes do help, by the way.
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And just to set expectations, it usually takes some reps to get into a rhythm with a new show — even when it’s sort of an old show, too.
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With a small team at Silver Bulletin, now and then we get into a pattern where there’s a lot of air traffic in the vicinity but nothing is quite landing.
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Between the podcast launch and our NFL models, QBERT and ELWAY, set to publish this weekend (with quite a few improvements) just in time for the new NFL season, we’ve had our hands full.
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We’re always updating FLIPR and our other models basically every day even when there are no new newsletters on the site.
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The preview episode was supposed to be 20 minutes but grew to 37 minutes because you know how much Galen and I like to talk.
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We’ll leave Clare out of this.
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For what it’s worth, Maria and I still own the rights to “Risky Business” and are considering various options for it!
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Although I think some of our more successful Substack Lives lately have been interviews, like with Jasmine Sun and Cate Hall.
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So, for completely full disclosure, there probably will be slightly fewer “talking head” type Substack Lives now that the podcast is launching, but we were probably moving in that direction anyway.
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