The Show That Never Happened

Freakonomics Radio

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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