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Aug 2023
29m 35s

Unexplainable or Not: Beach day!

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Sam Sanders, host of Vulture’s Into It podcast, is in the hot seat for a new episode of our game show. Can he guess which sandy mystery has been solved and which ones are still unexplainable? 

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