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Speaker 1: Pushkin. I opened the wrapping paper hurriedly with nervous hands,

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Speaker 1: excited to get at the gift inside. Little did I know,

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Speaker 1: disaster was about to enter my previously happy childhood. No,

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Speaker 1: don't worry, it wasn't a disaster for me. It was

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Speaker 1: a catalog of disasters for everyone else. The gift was

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Speaker 1: a book titled the World's Greatest Mistakes. Some of the

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Speaker 1: stories were absurd the bride who accidentally married the best man.

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Speaker 1: Some of them were famous tragedies like the Titanic swallowed

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Speaker 1: by the icy sea. All of them fascinated me, and

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Speaker 1: I realized learning from other people's mistakes is a lot

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Speaker 1: less painful than learning from your own. My name is

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Speaker 1: Tim Harford. Some people call me the undercover Economist. I

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Speaker 1: use scientific ideas to help people think more clearly about

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Speaker 1: the world in my books, my BBC radio shows, and

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Speaker 1: my column for the Financial Times. Now I'm using the

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Speaker 1: same rigorous for search to understand what we can learn

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Speaker 1: from other people's errors. My new podcast, Cautionary Tales takes

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Speaker 1: you aboard a doomed airship, sits you on a concert

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Speaker 1: stage in front of a broken piano, and puts you

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Speaker 1: in a room with cult members counting down the final

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Speaker 1: seconds before the end of the world. Helping me tell

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Speaker 1: these cautionary tales are some marvelous actors such as Alan

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Speaker 1: Cumming and Archie Panjabi from The Good Wife, The Bond,

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Speaker 1: Villain Toby Stephens, and Russell Tovey from Quantico. We also

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Speaker 1: present the acting debut again of a certain mister Malcolm

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Speaker 1: Gladwell Spellbound. This is the most beautiful creature I have

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Speaker 1: ever listened to. Together we weave stories of human error,

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Speaker 1: of tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiasco's houndsman can't pull the weave,

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Speaker 1: Vast oil tankers head for the rock Star, turning Captain

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Speaker 1: Oscars go to the wrong movie La and the world's

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Speaker 1: most brilliant economist becomes the world's most famous financial basket

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Speaker 1: case When or lose. This high stakes gambling amuses me

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Speaker 1: alongside the drama. Each story has a moral. Each story

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Speaker 1: will make you wiser. Cautionary Tales from Pushkin Industries launches

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Speaker 1: on November fifteenth. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts or wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your shows. Trust me, it would be a

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