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Oct 2020
27m 21s

Why Is Mason Reese Crying?

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About this episode

Mason Reese was the biggest child star of the early 1970's. Recently, he posted a YouTube video of himself crying. Jonathan sets out to discover why. This is a story Jonathan made for Reply All in 2015. The new season of Heavyweight starts next week.

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This episode was produced by Jonathan Goldstein, along with Chris Neary, Tim Howard, Sruthi Pinnamaneni, PJ Vogt, and Alex Goldman.

Editing by Alex Blumberg.

The show was mixed by John DeLore and Bobby Lord.

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