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Dec 2022
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N°059 - The Year In The Rear View

Julian Bleecker
About this episode

Got together with Nicolas Nova (who was sitting on his living room sofa in Geneva) and Zach Hyman (who was sitting in a hotel lobby in Singapore) to reflect on what we think of when we think of 2022.

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