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Nov 15
1h 37m

LNC Just Wants You To Be Happy

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Jonathan and Ariel talk about Pluribus and how impressed they are with it. Plus we chat about adapting properties into musicals, whether or not Wuthering Heights should be a bodice-ripping romance, and the joy of monsters.

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