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Aug 2024
44m 52s

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on B...

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In the season finale, we turn back the clock four years, take a side trip to Alabama, meet an extraordinary man named Billy Garland, and ask: What is the right way to reconcile something pure with the messiness of the real world?

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