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Apr 2024
17m 40s

Members Only #208 - Bananas Foster

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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* The Banana genocide

* Professor, professor…let’s stick to the facts

* A conspiracy documentary full of cranks and losers

* 60 journalism professors find a story they cannot countenance

* Listeners on ADHD and Adderall

* RFK in CA

* Nodding along with Lemon

* How to talk to an Auschwitz survivor

* The trickiness of memory

* Two sets of rules

* Peaceful protesters get a call fr…

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