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Jan 2025
1h 21m

#292 - The Golden Age Of Scamming

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The gang is joined by the Pod god Hafare and Malik from the Straight Out of Turkana Podcast.


New week, new episode! This time around we have Malik and Hafare, super subs and in an epic way. The conversation goes from how insults are the quickest way to start to learn a foreign language to Kiswahili, a pain point. Donald Trumps inauguration speech and Hafare saying that Elon is on some …. Foreign aid pause and how it will affect Africa and more so Turkan which is Malik’s yard. Of course Andy has to thrown in some good questions and theories, this time around it’s about women and friendships, enjoy!

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