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Jul 2020
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Episode 147: Contained

Aaron Mahnke
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Humans have long practiced the art of building walls and fortresses in an effort to gain control or find safety. But no place is safe from the danger we bring upon ourselves, and sometimes those tragedies stay right where they started.

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