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Jul 2019
1h 24m

Ep. 19 Phoolan Devi and Brendan Eamonn F...

JACOB TRIMMER AND TIM GROESCHEL
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This week we have a real doozy for you. Starting things off is Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen of India, whose life starts off haunting and ends in the least expected way possible. Then we talk about Brendan Eamonn Fergus Finucane, who graduates from dunce to pilot that shot down more German planes than he has syllables in his garbage Irish name. Come for the tales of Rajput vengeance and stay for Top Gun if it happened on St. Patty's Day and didn't have the volleyball scene.

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