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Aug 2023
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in offense of modern farmhouse!!!

High Brow
About this episode
The director's cut version of Mina's the circus of celebrity house tours video. In this extended version, she discusses the modern farmhouse hgtv agenda, landlord-core, and celebrity property feuds, spurred on by your answers to the question "what is the ugliest interior design trend?"

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Same House, New Costume
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Redman: MTV Tried to Get Me to Rent a House for "Cribs"
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Two Truths & A Lime: Pulling Apart Dakota Johnson's Glorious Web Of Lies
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Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page & Robbie Williams End Mansion Feud
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Inside the Katy Perry Convent That Sparked a Real Estate War: Never-Before-Seen Photos
Katy Perry Is Finding Herself in Another Complicated Legal Battle Over Real Estate

Written by Mina Le and Ella Gray
Edited by Sophie Carter
Music by Olivia Martinez
Cover Art by Lindsay Mintz
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