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Mar 2023
1h 16m

Would You Shut Down the Internet, If You...

ANDREW HEATON
About this episode

The Internet brings astonishing knowledge, convenience, and communication to modern society. But overall does it make us more or less happy than before we invented it?

Rex Williams, host of The Whiskey Tribe, joins to ask: If you could pull the plug on the Internet, forever–would that really be so bad?

"We Try to Match Churchill Drink for Drink... send help." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrbwvG0XeUQ

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