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Dec 2018
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Six Impossible Episodes: Deja Vu in the ...

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Several times over the past few years, we’ve done an episode on something from U.S. history, and afterward we’ve gotten notes from listeners about the same thing happening in Canada – although this episode starts with one that’s the reverse. 

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