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Oct 2023
51m 21s

No Woo-Woo for Sarah Vowell

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films
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✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼 Paul and Stephen love their history, so who better for this Chinwag than brilliant essayist, author and historian, Sarah Vowell? Listen in as they contemplate the tricky business of retelling history that doesn’t live up to the current moral code. Which President is the biggest zero? The least sexy? And what did Benjamin Harrison – our 23rd preside ... Show More
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