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Razib Khan Podcasts
Conversations on genetics, history, politics, books, culture and evolution
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A discussion about all things brown, aka desi or South Asian.
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Tracks the podcasts to which Steve Randy Waldman is subscribed by RSS, to avoid siloing subscriptions in some single app.
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Hosting discussions focused on the intersection of biology and technology, and how technology can drive innovation and discovery in the life sciences.
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Breaking down science, technology, engineering and math in a way that the rest of us can comprehend and utilize in our daily lives. Imagine a Lex Fridman for the everyman, translating the complex thoughts of the worlds greatest thinkers like Lee Cronin, Razib Khan and the CTO of Signal, preeminent encrypted messaging app. This podcast is inspired by Andrew Huberman, Lex Fridman, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, David Friedberg, Jocko Willink, Tim Ferris, Balaji Srinivasan.
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Blue, blue is the grass about the river And the willows have overfilled the close garden. And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth. White, white of face, hesitates, passing the door. Slender, she puts forth a slender hand; And she was a courtezan in the old days, And she has married a sot, Who now goes drunkenly out And leaves her too much alone.
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"It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind." William Wordsworth The Troubadour Podcast invites you into a world where art is conversation and conversation is art. The conversations on this show will be with some living people and some dead writers of our past. I aim to make both equally entertaining and educational.In 1798 William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads, which Wordswor ...
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Steve Hsu: China's inevitable rise and America's confused response
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57:55Today Razib talks to repeat guest Steve Hsu about China, a topic with so many currently relevant dimensions gIven the PRC’s clear emergence as an economic, military and political rival to the US. Hsu is a Caltech‑trained theoretical physicist who migrated from black holes to big data, co‑invented privacy tech at SafeWeb, helped found the biotech co…
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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning: Steve Hsu: China's inevitable rise and America's confused response
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57:55Today Razib talks to repeat guest Steve Hsu about China, a topic with so many currently relevant dimensions gIven the PRC’s clear emergence as an economic, military and political rival to the US. Hsu is a Caltech‑trained theoretical physicist who migrated from black holes to big data, co‑invented privacy tech at SafeWeb, helped found the biotech co…
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Today Razib talks to repeat guest Steve Hsu about China, a topic with so many currently relevant dimensions gIven the PRC’s clear emergence as an economic, military and political rival to the US. Hsu is a Caltech‑trained theoretical physicist who migrated from black holes to big data, co‑invented privacy tech at SafeWeb, helped found the biotech co…
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On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Jack Despain Zhou, executive director of the Center for Educational Progress (CEP). Despain Zhou is a graduate of Western Governors University, and is completing his J.D. at Temple University. A former cryptographic analyst for the US Air Force, Despain Zhou is better known as a former produce…
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China Global: Forecasting ROK President Lee Jae Myung’s China Policy
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39:23South Korea and China have a complex relationship characterized by economic interdependence, strategic competition, and regional security concerns. Navigating this delicate balance has been a defining challenge for every South Korean president. Newly elected President Lee Jae Myung has assumed power at a time of increasing US-China strategic compet…
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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Roger Rosenblatt: Rules for Aging
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38:48Alan joins his old friend to compare notes on staying happy when old; and Roger shares tips from a forthcoming book, including some that may seem counterintuitive – like don’t use common sense, believe everyone, and don’t pay attention to people in your way.By Bobi NYC
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web3 with a16z crypto: GENIUS Becomes Law: What It Took to Pass the First Rules for Stablecoins in the U.S.
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23:58with @rhhackett @milesjennings @BenNapier & Michael Reed Today we've got a newsy episode for you. We're talking about the passage of the GENIUS Act — that's the "Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act" — which provides clear rules of the road for stablecoins in the U.S. We cover the law's implications, the recent high-s…
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The Bitchuation Room: How Republicans FAILED The Texas Flood Victims
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25:56There’s nothing political about tragedy...that is, unless every politician at every level of government did absolutely nothing to prevent it. What happened in Texas on July 4th wasn’t an act of God, it was an act of recklessness from lying politicians and yes, the voters who still believe them. Over 135 people are dead because at the county level, …
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WarRoom Battleground EP 812: Brennan And Co. The Complete CoverupBy WarRoom.org
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Episode 4648: Stopping Corruption In Texas; DOJ Goes After Jack SmithBy WarRoom.org
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The Gist: RFK Jr.: Sophist, Saboteur, Snake Oil Secretary
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32:23Historian Daniel Immerwahr eviscerates RFK Jr. as a master of glib misinformation—“profoundly informed,” yet wielding that knowledge in bad faith to undermine truth and public trust. Kennedy is the conductor of an orchestra of error. Also discussed: how science became political dogma during COVID, how Fauci’s certainty helped fuel backlash, and why…
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The Reason Roundtable: What Should Libertarians Make of the Epstein Files?
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1:10:28This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch examine what, if anything, the Jeffrey Epstein saga reveals about the MAGA movement and its ties to conspiracy culture. They debate whether the scandal could derail President Donald Trump's agenda or simply reinforce the need for more government transparency. Th…
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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 3542 - Accountability for Gaza, Putin's End Game w/ Matt Duss and Candace Rondeaux
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1:20:54It’s Monday, and allegedly a fun day. First, Tulsi Gabbard tries to worm her way back into Trump’s good graces with a fresh Obama conspiracy theory, while Trump shares an AI-generated video of Obama being “arrested” by FBI agents. In an especially desperate attempt to shift attention away from Epstein headlines, Trump threatens to block a deal for …
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Happy Path Programming: #113 Graph & RAG with Jennifer Reif
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1:05:27We chat with Jennifer Reif about integrating LLMs with data using RAG, vectorized data, and Graph databases. Discuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
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Changelog: Humanity has prevailed (for now!)
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6:47Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it’s rude to show AI output to people. View the newslette…
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The Bulwark Podcast: Bill Kristol: It's the Crimes and the Cover-Up
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52:34Our government disappeared hundreds of Venezuelans to a hellish Salvadoran prison for 125 days. When Trump's and Stephen Miller's whole CECOT plan even became too much for the dictator who runs El Salvador, Marco Rubio helped orchestrate a political win for Venezuela's strongman, Nicolas Maduro—who gets to look like a white knight in the hostage ex…
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Episode 4647: The Deciding Moment For America; "We Will Rebuild Japan"By WarRoom.org
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Making Sense with Sam Harris: #425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?
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27:14Sam Harris speaks with Marc Lipsitch about pandemic preparedness. They discuss what we learned from Covid, loss of trust in institutions, how to effectively communicate scientific information in the current media landscape, vaccine hesitancy, the safety of mRNA vaccines, the origins of Covid, gain-of-function research, virus hunting, the Trump admi…
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Once per week, Hillsdale College president Larry P. Arnn joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss Great Books, Great Men, and Great Ideas. Education reforms in President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” Winston Churchill’s tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the ever-shifting politics of Europe and the Middle East. Dr. Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale…
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Episode 4646: Obama's Coup And Treasonous Conspiracy Against Donald TrumpBy WarRoom.org
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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Garamond
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Join Samantha and author Robert Jackson Bennett as they discuss the power of fiction to shape politics, from 20th-century detective fiction to modern-day QAnon. Along the way they discuss the fiscal-military state, the meaning of liberal society, and why it matters that conservatives have fun engaging with conservative narratives.…
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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 7/21/25: Trump Admits He's In Epstein Files, Trump Sues WSJ, El Salvador Prison Swap, Israel Starves Gaza, Mehdi On Surrounded
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1:57:42Krystal and Emily break down the latest on the Trump Epstein drama, Alex Jones and Steve Bannon blame the Deep State, Trump sues WSJ for 10 Billion, a Prison Swap between Venezuela and El Salvador, Israel's starvation of Gaza, Mehdi Hasan debates far right conservatives on Surrounded, and we break down a report on Israel's ongoing siege of Lebanon.…
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Bad Faith: Episode 493 Promo - "A Rational Hope" (w/ Norman Finkelstein)
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7:33Nearly two hours with America's favorite podcast guest, Norman Finkelstein, on Epstein, Tucker Carlson & the conservative conflation of anti-Zionism w/ actual antisemitism, whether the left is too sanguine about Zohran Mamdani, how not to repeat Bernie's failures, and a debate on the effect of the political assassinations of the 60s on the lefts' p…
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EconTalk: James Marriott on Reading
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1:25:22Is long form reading a dying pastime? Journalist and cultural critic James Marriott joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to defend the increasingly quaint act of reading a book in our scrolling-obsessed, AI-summarized age. He urges juggling a paper book and a Kindle, recounts ditching his smartphone to rescue his attention, and shares tactics for finding …
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Bankless: Can Worldcoin Fix The Internet's 99% Bot Problem? | Co-Founder Alex Blania
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1:01:37The bots are winning. AI-generated spam, fake profiles, and deepfakes are turning the internet into a digital hall of mirrors. But what if there were a way to prove you're human, without sacrificing privacy? Worldcoin Co-Founder Alex Blania returns to Bankless to share a bold vision for addressing the online identity crisis. From 14 million users a…
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The Daily: How Trump Lost Control of the Epstein Narrative
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28:35For the past two weeks, President Trump has been trying and failing to get his supporters to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein. David Enrich, a deputy investigations editor for The New York Times, and Shawn McCreesh, a Times White House correspondent, explain why MAGA won’t let go of this scandal, how the president misread his own base — and what …
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Decoder with Nilay Patel: Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’
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1:06:15This is Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist. I’m guest-hosting for a couple more episodes of Decoder this summer while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with a very special guest: Gil Duran, an old friend, journalist, and author of The Nerd Reich, a newsletter and forthcoming book about the shifting politics of Silicon Valley and the rise o…
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Macro Musings with David Beckworth: George Hall on the Fiscal Consequences of the US War on COVID
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52:51Check out David's Substack: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus for a special 500th episode post! George Hall is a professor of economics at Brandeis University and formerly worked as an economist at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. George returns to the show to discuss the current fiscal status of the US, how the Big Beautiful Bill will impact the fiscal …
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The Gray Area with Sean Illing: Can college survive Trump?
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1:01:42American higher education is under attack. Project 2025 laid out the battle plan pretty clearly: Get rid of the Department of Education, shut off federal funding, take control of the accreditation system, and take down diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. And in the end, change what students are encouraged to study and what professors are all…
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Odd Lots: The NYC Landlords Most Worried About Zohran Mamdani
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34:39Probably the most controversial proposal from New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is his promise to freeze the rent on a substantial chunk of rent-stabilized units in the city. There are concerns that this will cause a major downshift in housing development and that landlords that are heavily exposed to rent-stabilized units wil…
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Strict Scrutiny: SCOTUS Enables Government Destruction
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1:30:08Melissa and Kate run through the latest legal news, including the Court greenlighting the dismantling of the Department of Education. Then, they speak with NYU law professor Rachel Barkow about her book, Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. Hosts’ favorite things: Kate: Legalistic Noncomp…
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Factually! with Adam Conover: Is Pride Dead?
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20:23(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired on the Factually! YouTube page, but we are sharing audio versions of these monologues with our podcast audience as well. Please enjoy, and stay tuned for your regularly scheduled episode of Factually!…
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The Rest Is Money: 191. Is The Government’s British Business Bank Bold Enough?
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40:26Is the British Business Bank taking enough risk to close the funding gap that holds back UK enterprises? How do we stop the unicorns relocating to the US? Do we need a new name for and whole new approach to pension savings? Steph and Robert talk to the government-owned bank’s chair Stephen Welton about what he’ll do with all the extra billions Rach…
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The story of the most commonly performed surgery, and what goes wrong with it – terribly wrong – 100,000 times a year in the United States. We’re excited to bring you the first episode of The Retrievals, Season 2, the new show from longtime This American Life producer and editor Susan Burton. It’s from Serial Productions and The New York Times. Vis…
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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson
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Give Them An Argument: Season 7 Episode 21: How Capitalism Ends (Bastille Day Special w/Steve Paxton)
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1:49:48Steve Paxton studied with the great Marxist philosopher G.A. Cohen as a graduate student at Oxford. Since then, he's had blue-collar jobs, white collar jobs, and been unemployed, but he's never stopped writing and thinking about socialism and Marxism. For this special Bastille Day episode, Ben Burgis talks with Steve about his book "How Capitalism …
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The Daily: ‘Modern Love’: How to Keep Love Alive, With Rob Delaney of ‘Dying for Sex’
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37:04When we meet Rob Delaney’s character, “Neighbor Guy,” in FX’s limited series “Dying for Sex,” he’s scarfing down a burrito in an elevator, dripping food on his face and the floor. But Delaney’s performance reveals that under Neighbor Guy’s messy exterior is a man capable of deep vulnerability and empathy. “Dying for Sex” follows a woman named Molly…
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The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer: How the Tech Billionaires Bought Radical Journalists
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46:28Tech lords such as Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are among the richest humans who have ever lived and have an enormous sway over the American political system but even that isn’t enough for them. They also want a compliant media, one that echoes their ideas, doesn’t investigate their business practices, and goes after their enemy. This is the subject o…
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The Nation Podcasts: How the Tech Billionaires Bought Radical Journalists | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
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46:28Tech lords such as Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are among the richest humans who have ever lived and have an enormous sway over the American political system but even that isn’t enough for them. They also want a compliant media, one that echoes their ideas, doesn’t investigate their business practices, and goes after their enemy. This is the subject o…
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Otherppl with Brad Listi: Exploring Hybrid Literary Forms
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1:01:12A new Craftwork conversation with Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante, co-authors of The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre, available from W. W. Norton & Col. Davison is the author of Doubting Thomas and founder of The Lab, a generative writing workshop. He is emeritus faculty in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and l…
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In Moscow's Shadows: In Moscow's Shadows 209: Eagle, Dragon, Bear - how the Ukraine war drives Moscow into Beijing's orbit
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52:12In the first half, I offer a (rather pessimistic) assessment of not just Trump's 50-day ultimatum but also recent EU and UK sanctions, before pivoting to explore how the US president has inadvertently made it clear that it is not him but China's Xi Jinping who has more influence with Putin. What is the nature of the Sino-Russian relationship, and w…
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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1237: Hepatitis C and persistence with Charlie Rice
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1:06:24From the 2025 annual meeting of the American Society for Virology, Charlie Rice, 2020 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, talks with Vincent and Kathy about his career and the scientific difficulties he and his laboratory encountered in their attempts to achieve replication of hepatitis C virus in cells in culture. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello a…
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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson
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Outside Lands San Francisco: 572: Jason Moore of BAM
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1:35:15Nicole sits down with WNP Film Club partner Jason Moore of Bay Area Movies to discover their shared love for San Francisco, past and present. Hear about Jason’s Bay Area upbringing, the magic of neighborhood theaters, and why there’s still so much to appreciate about the city today.By nicole @ outsidelands.org
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