Hey there, it's Stephen Doughner.

Before we get to today's episode, I have a couple announcements.

The first is a slight change of plans.

Last week we told you that this week's episode would be about the Super Agent and Dealmaker

Ari Emanuel.

But that episode just isn't ready yet.

It's still in the oven.

So you'll be hearing that next week.

Here's the other announcement.

We recently told you about a special series we're working on, a series about failure.

We all know failure can be hard to talk about, but there's also a lot to be learned from

it.

So we asked you to send in your personal stories.

We got a lot of replies, but the vast majority were from men.

We know that about half of our listeners are women, but for some reason those weren't

the listeners who got back to us.

It could be that women simply don't fail as much, but we want to hear those stories too.

So if you are female and have any kind of failure story to tell, personal, professional,

academic, creative, whatever, we want to hear it.

Just send an email to radioatfreakonomics.com with the subject line failure.

Thanks.

Now, about today's show.

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