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Jul 2024
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Episode 219: Lost Jobs

NATE DIMEO
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Notes

  • Read about the change in policy here. And the article that helped prompt the policy change here

Music

  • Pipeline by H.Takahashi
  • Sad Seine by Lambert
  • Dance PM by Hiroshi Yoshimura
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