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Jun 12
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The Grenfell Tower Fire: London’s High-R...

The B1M
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This week, we're digging into The B1M's recent video "The Grenfell Tower Fire: London’s High-Rise Scandal". For this very important and sobering episode of the podcast, we thought it would be best to bring in The B1M Senior Content Producer, Adam Savage as a guest due to working on the aforementioned video. Together, we discuss why the UK's worst building disaster should never have happened.


Later in the episode, we cover:


We end the show with an email from Ryan Fisch.


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