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Listener Mail: Sleeper Agents, Devil Corp, Automated Book Scanners, and the Gandalf Protest!
Ms. Squared writes in with a fascinating tale of sleeper agents and the Fort Orange Club. Vegan Bookworm weighs in on AI companies and destructive book scanning. CODENAME: Box Boy chats music. MissMegolas hips the guys to a phenomenal Gandalf-themed protest, and Psycubnaut introduces the gang to the idea of 'Devil Corp'. Tune in for all this and more in this week's listener mail segment.They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Conspiracy in Sudan: Who's Running the Civil War?
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CLASSIC: The Devil and The Rain: The Case of Don Decker
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From Skyline Drive: Organ Trail
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Why Do White House Chefs Keep Drowning?
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"CLASSIC: What is the Military-entertainment Complex? "
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Stuff They Don’t Want YouTube Know, Chapter One: "Me at the Zoo"
With hundreds of hours of content uploaded every single minute, YouTube is is the world's largest video-sharing platform. Billions of users log on constantly, and you can, in theory find information on anything. Yet as Ben, Matt, and Noel discover in the first chapter of this special two-part series, YouTube's massive success also comes with controversy... and accusations of conspiracy. Tune in to learn more of the 'Stuff They Don't Want YouTube Know'.They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.