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Nov 2021
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Episode 281: The Dark Secrets Behind The...

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About this episode
For this Holiday week, we wanted to bring you a lighter (?) episode, although it’s really not so light at all! Alaina’s kids have gotten super into the Wizard of Oz and so she decided to do dive into the dark happenings during filming. All kinds of atrocities went down and we are pretty confident that you’ll never watch this movie the same! Sorry…. we mean you’re welcome!

The Making of the Wizard of Oz By Aljean Harmetz
(Be wary that this book is fascinating but uses some outdated language when referencing certain people)

Paper referenced during the episode 
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