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Feb 2022
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Listener Mail: Sonic Booms, Metaverse Ti...

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Big Boy shares a strange tale of sonic booms over New Mexico. Chip explores the idea of time travel via the metaverse. Lionel Putz wonders why honest examinations of US history have become so controversial. All this and more in this week's listener mail.

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