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Nov 2023
43m 18s

This Is Your Captain Speaking

Pushkin Industries
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What does a pilot sound like? Malcolm and Ben Naddaff-Hafrey take off on a long, strange investigation that takes them from Las Vegas to Family Guy to the airspace over the Mojave desert and the cold waters of the Hudson river.

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