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The Show That Never Happened

· 14 min · Bonus

Episode The Show That Never Happened

0:00 13:49

A brief meditation on loss, relativity, and the vagaries of show business.

• RESOURCES:

• Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, documentary (2021) • Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947, by Norman Lebrecht (2019) • The War Room, documentary (1993)

• EXTRAS:

• “Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)” by Freakonomics Radio (2025) • “Ari Emanuel Is Never Indifferent,” by Freakonomics Radio (2023)

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