Anarchist novels, communist poetry, uncategorizable anticolonial texts, unapologetically utopian science fiction. Close readings of stories of collective resistance and research into their contexts. A search for narratives of "we" instead of "I," observing the becoming of political subjects. A conversation between two curious non-experts and the occasional guest. It's not necessary to read the books to enjoy the show, but they're worth reading for their own sake.
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Unseen Book Club Podcasts
The monthly podcast where Star Wars and millennial nostalgia collide as Cam and Sam discuss each book in the Young Jedi Knights series and more!
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Join three nerds as we do a book club style read-through of Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels and related works, in publication order. We've got a variety of voices and takes, and will occasionally have special guests to discuss key points in the Discworld series.
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INK & OBEAH is where the page meets the altar, and every story is both literature and a living spell. Hosted by Addae G, the Griot. A Caribbean storyteller, poet, and keeper of ancestral memory. This podcast journeys deep into books that hold more than just words. We begin with No Pain Like This Body by Harold Sonny Ladoo, peeling back the layers of Trinidad’s cane fields, rainswept villages, and burning kitchens to reveal the echoes of history, the whispers of folklore, and the unseen hands ...
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On and Off-Screen Imaginaries with Tiffany Sia
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1:28:16On and Off-Screen Imaginaries (Primary Information, 2024) is a collection of six essays by filmaker, artist and writer Tiffany Sia. Sia joins us to discuss how media depictions of political practice and identity are produced, negotiated, memorialized, and transformed through censorship, surveillance, diaspora, and time. On and Off-Screen Imaginarie…
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Welcome to Ink & Obeah, the secret reading society where Caribbean books speak, and the old magic answers back. Hosted by Trinidad-born storyteller and artist Addae G, each gathering takes us deeper into Caribbean literature, one chapter at a time. With candlelight, rain on a tin roof, and the rhythm of island storytelling, we explore not just the …
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Welcome to Ink & Obeah, the secret reading society where Caribbean books speak, and the old magic answers back. Hosted by Trinidad-born storyteller and artist Addae G, each gathering takes us deeper into Caribbean literature, one chapter at a time. With candlelight, rain on a tin roof, and the rhythm of island storytelling, we explore not just the …
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Welcome to Ink & Obeah, the secret reading society where Caribbean books speak, and the old magic answers back. Hosted by Trinidad-born storyteller and artist Addae G, each gathering takes us deeper into Caribbean literature, one chapter at a time. With candlelight, rain on a tin roof, and the rhythm of island storytelling, we explore not just the …
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406 - Legacy of the Force VI: Inferno
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2:56:09We toss the tyrossum jawbone around with Nate Tapp, fanning the flames of discourse over this searing installment where Jacen's bridge-burning hits new highs and a mere Lowbacca cameo reminds us how much more fuel he could've added to the firestorm on Kashyyyk. We also drop scorching Stranger Things news and spark a smoldering sidebar about why "mu…
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Welcome to Ink & Obeah, the secret reading society where Caribbean books speak, and the old magic answers back. Hosted by Trinidad-born storyteller and artist Addae G, each gathering takes us deeper into Caribbean literature, one chapter at a time. With candlelight, rain on a tin roof, and the rhythm of island storytelling, we explore not just the …
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Welcome to Ink & Obeah, the secret reading society where Caribbean books speak, and the old magic answers back. Hosted by Trinidad-born storyteller and artist Addae G, each gathering takes us deeper into Caribbean literature, one chapter at a time. With candlelight, rain on a tin roof, and the rhythm of island storytelling, we explore not just the …
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405 - Legacy of the Force V: Sacrifice
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3:49:25Interrupting his Toydarian-takeout-in-the-bathtub ritual, we lure Alien Nation aficionado Jack Stovold to soak in the fifth Legacy of the Force book, courtesy of our favorite Karen. In Traviss' momentous middle chapter, a subtle feminist undercurrent bubbles to the surface amidst a galvanizing alloy of political intrigue and personal loss. As the s…
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Full Circle: A Life In Rebellion, by Ben Morea + 1000 Voices Collective, w/ Ariel Uesseler and Sabu Kohso
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1:21:31Ben Morea is primarily known for his central involvement with the print magazine Black Mask and the militant anarchist group Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker. Both were active in New York City in the late 1960’s. In the 1970’s, Morea went underground and lived for forty years in the Southern Rockies, immersing himself in ceremonial practice with i…
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The Unseen Book Club returns! Max and Dan do some light bibliomancy, reflect on the past and cast our gazes to the horizon and discuss the future of the show. Buzzsprout Instagram Music by Ex-Official Art by Eli MackBy The Unseen Book Club
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Welcome to Ink & Obeah, the secret reading society where Caribbean books speak, and the old magic answers back. Hosted by Trinidad-born storyteller and artist Addae G, each gathering takes us deeper into Caribbean literature, one chapter at a time. With candlelight, rain on a tin roof, and the rhythm of island storytelling, we explore not just the …
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404 - Legacy of the Force IV: Exile
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2:49:34Dusting off the ol' Canadian phone book, we drag Geoff Clarke out of exile for a Quick Bite™ of the latest wheel-spinning Legacy of the Force entry. Is it duracrud, or are we simply taking the piss, in the proud tradition of Uran Lavint and Blatta the Hutt? Either way, it all circles the drain from there, as we look up our own names on Wookieepedia…
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Welcome to Ink & Obeah, the secret reading society where Caribbean books speak, and the old magic answers back. Hosted by Trinidad-born storyteller and artist Addae G, each gathering takes us deeper into Caribbean literature, one chapter at a time. With candlelight, rain on a tin roof, and the rhythm of island storytelling, we explore not just the …
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Welcome to Ink & Obeah—the secret reading society where Caribbean books speak, and the old magic answers back. Hosted by The Griot; Trinidad-born storyteller and artist Addae G; each gathering takes us deeper into Caribbean literature, one chapter at a time. With candlelight, rain on a tin roof, and the rhythm of island storytelling, we explore not…
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Welcome, pull up a chair and join our secret society. In this episode of INK & OBEAH, our journey into the world of Afro-Caribbean literature, where the written word is a vessel for ancestral memory, magic and pain. Our inaugural season opens the pages of Harold Sonny Ladoo's haunting masterpiece, No Pain Like This Body. We delve into the book's po…
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Welcome, pull up a chair and join our secret society. In this episode of INK & OBEAH, we begin our journey into the world of Afro-Caribbean literature, where the written word is a vessel for ancestral memory, magic and pain. Our inaugural conjuring session opens the pages of Harold Sonny Ladoo's haunting masterpiece, No Pain Like This Body. We delv…
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Welcome, pull up a chair and join our secret society. In the very first episode of INK & OBEAH, we begin our journey into the world of Afro-Caribbean literature, where the written word is a vessel for ancestral memory, magic and pain. Our inaugural conjuring session opens the pages of Harold Sonny Ladoo's haunting masterpiece, No Pain Like This Bod…
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Episode 1 – “Before the Storm: Three Doors into Ladoo” In this debut episode of INK & OBEAH, griot Addae G reads all three introductions to Harold Sonny Ladoo’s classic novel No Pain Like This Body. Discover the author’s background, the book’s cultural context, and the themes of Caribbean life, history, and spirituality woven into its opening pages…
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403 - Legacy of the Force III: Tempest
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3:41:13Advancing past the Preliminary Judging of Muscles, crazy bugslut Barm strong-arms his way into this tempestuous episode to check in on what's happenin' with the Hapans. Is the third entry in the Renny-Harlinesque Legacy of the Force series a real flooger-bed of intrigue, or does it burst our dreambubble by juggling too many narrative wobble balls? …
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402 - Legacy of the Force II: Bloodlines
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2:45:41We keep things in the family with returning guest Ryan Davis for Bloodlines, a certified Book of Boba Fett plus his bounty hunter brood! Hear us praise author Karen Traviss' character development, theorize how Legacy of the Force tries to out-Prequel the Prequels, and feel disquieted by the novel's eerie real-world parallels in a time of militarize…
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401 - Legacy of the Force I: Betrayal
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2:45:55A presumed-dead Marvel Star Wars villainess looms large over this next nine-book series, so it would be a karking shame not to consult luminary Marvel Star Wars Explorer Brian Rudloff to determine what the fierfek is going on! Like dark side mynock apparitions, we denude every nugget of Betrayal, from the ill-fated droid who's two Vaders tall to th…
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BONUS - Return of the Jedi: The Most Special Commentary Edition
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2:25:17Celebrate Star Wars Day by simulating the experience of watching Episode VI with two pals who won't stop talking over the movie! Our Special-Edition-inspired commentary covers everything from the Mighty Boushh to blinking Ewoks to the novelization by James Kahn (not James Caan). An entire LEGION of our best ideas for superfluous revisions awaits yo…
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Episode Notes We're back! Aaron has been begging the crew for literal years to read Nation, and here we finally are. It is a complex book full of meditations on death, spirituality, the role of individuals in society, and gross scavenger birds. In short, a classic Terry Pratchett YA novel--and just like his others, it pulls no punches. If you want …
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As the Dark Nest draws to a close and Luke Skywalker finishes watching Revenge of the Sith, the cry-curious Nate Tapp rounds out his trio of guest spots by tripling down on trilogy talk with us. Does The Swarm War warrant three hearty throat-clicks, or do we discard it like Huttwash (and if we discard, do we add two Swarm cards that cost 0 to our h…
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302 - Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
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2:33:25Tibanna tapper Nate Tapp taps back in for a bantha-sized, hubba-shaped debate over whether the second Dark Nest novel satisfies like a delicious slice of live action pizza or gets more muddled than nebular miasma. The real plot twist, however, is that we stop kriffing around and finally reveal that this whole Young Jedi Knights Club thing has just …
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BONUS - The 4th Annual Lowie Awards
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2:12:23Clad in our classiest Killik silks, we walk the wax carpet for the gala that's even goofier than the Golden Globes... the 4th Annual Lowie Awards! Join us Joiners in raising a collectible McDonald's Batman Forever glass to toast the pop culture from the year of our lord Two Thousand and Twenty Four, not to mention our Lord Nyax, Emperox of Bad Boys…
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Rub your forearms together for the kingly Nate Tapp, who joins our hive mind as the podcast enters its insectoid era all about Troy Denning's Dark Nest trilogy! Grab a can of gelmeat and an orb of membrosia for an episode that's crawling with conversation about audiobook omissions, thorny throuples, and a Prime Unu who may have violated the Prime D…
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After nineteen novels, we wistfully turn the page on the New Jedi Order with an all-encompassing retrospective! It might as well be the Day of Comprehending the Will of the Gods... or at least of the Master Shapers behind this ambitious series, who we applaud for challenging our emotions, expanding our perception of the Force, and burning into our …
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Prime guest Jake Beal reveals himself as the true Supreme Overlord of the podcast, reunifying with us for the New Jedi Order's colossal conclusion. It's the end of an era, and things get downright mythic as we wreath through weighty topics like Yuuzhan Vong theology, traumatic time jumps in the TV show ReBoot, and the (best ever?) Christmas of 2003…
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The podcast interdicts huttoad Eric Ambler for the not-quite-final Final Prophecy, which sets the table for the endgame of the New Jedi Order. This snackquarium of an episode is swimming with delicacies, as we follow Nen Yim on a trip to Qahsa Bonita, drop an unusual amount of Search for Spock references, and decide which is better: Seal IV or SEAL…
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Reunited once again with Jack Stovold of "Jack's Silly Little JackCast," we transmit our final Zonama Sethoughts via telemetry on the Williams/Dix trilogy as a whole... or die trying. Added ingredients in this Esfandia-like atmospheric soup of an episode include the punting of pirates, an amalgamation of Anakins, and a Who's Who of heretics with th…
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Future host of "The LizardCast" Jack Stovold (what an Earth ass name...) helps us decide if this middle chapter of the Heretic trilogy is a first-rate tour de Force or merely an inconsequential side mission. Similar to Tahiri's recurring reptilian nightmares, we also receive disturbing visions of Borgs Bunny, living turntable creatures, and thought…
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Jack Stovold of "The HapeCast" rejoins us to kick off the New Jedi Order's first and only trilogy, in which the prominence of our old pal Pellaeon has got us all pumped! We also ponder how healthy it is to identify with the self-loathing Nom Anor, confuse Shanghai Noon with Shanghai Knights, and show some love for the Arnold Schwarzenegger of Hip H…
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Ryan Davis crabs his jouncing fighter into the money lane with us to discuss one of the best Star Wars ensemble books yet in an episode that's sure to do sellout business in jig time! Along the Way, we stop off on Planet Greg, try our best to think of some small-beaked birds, and commiserate over the sad life of a Kingdom Hearts fan.…
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Ensnaring EU enthusiast Derek Lavender in the belly of the beast, we gorge on the deliciously flowery prose and philosophical richness of Matthew Stover's Traitor. This logic puzzle of a novel refreshingly expands the Force beyond the black-and-white binary typically depicted, and also serves as a poignant reminder of how much has been lost and cha…
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A long-forgotten experiment awakens to wreak havoc upon the Vong-infested surface of Coruscant. Does Aaron Allston's experiment in NJO storytelling deserve to be forgotten too, or is there a place for Lord Nyax's brand of monster-of-the-week thrills? Completing our A-Team once again is Geoff Clarke, who's here to help us decide, as well as to debat…
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BONUS - The Empire Strikes Back: The Most Special Commentary Edition
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2:13:15Another May the Fourth, another Special-est Edition commentary episode! One in which we try our best to rein in our rampant positivity and propose as many gratuitous "improvements" as possible to an all time favorite film, The Empire Strikes Back! Hear us also posit how George Lucas' history of revisionism primed us for the horrors of artificial in…
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Aaron Allston brings big Wraith Squadron energy to the New Jedi Order, and proves that actually explaining the politics of a Resistance in Star Wars is quality matériel, not something JJ Abrams should have reduced to ejecta! Our Canuck co-pilot Geoff Clarke rejoins the podcast's Inner Circle, so naturally we cook up some more CanCon conversation, i…
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BONUS - The 3rd Annual Lowie Awards
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3:06:39Time to flaunt that vonduun crab formalwear for the 3rd Annual Lowies! Or is their proper name the Praxeum Awards? Either way, the Lowbaccademy gives one final, bittersweet send-off to our beloved 90s and reevaluates the Oscar winners from the turn of the millennium before honoring the best of Star Wars in 2023!…
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This is a (Snapple Real) Fact: We're just living in a post-Star-by-Star world. Our buddy Barm begrudgingly embarks on another dark journey to Hapes with us for the Star Wars equivalent of a YA "romantasy." Whether that makes for a good book is HOTLY debated... Like, thinly veiled Reylo fanfic hot.By Young Jedi Knights Club
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NJO diehard Morgan Lavender links up with our battle meld to discuss gut-wrenching character deaths, dances with the dark side, and the oppressive sense of dread that permeates Troy Denning's tragic tome. Despite all that negatude, we at least find glimmers of fun in welcoming back ALL our favorite Young Jedi Knights and celebrating the DVD release…
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Event Factory is the first in a cycle of novellas by Renee Gladman. An unnamed linguist-traveler arrives in the city-state of Ravicka, whose inhabitants speak a uniquely place-based, relational, and physically gestural language. The narrator is on a quest for meaning, understanding, and connection, but everything, even the buildings themselves, eva…
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What child is this? The Babe, the Son of Mara! The New Jedi Order shepherds in a miraculous birth just in time for another giant-sized Christmas special! Sam's brother Jack Stovold makes this a festive family reunion filled with the Givin' of gifts, the holiday highlights of 2001, and of course the evergreen podcast fodder that is Tim Burton's Plan…
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S2E1 - Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch
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1:11:02Episode Notes We were so incredibly pleased to be joined by Gabrielle Kent and Rhianna Pratchett, the co-authors of this new book in the Discworld library. Tiffany's story is one of our favorites, and having both more Tiffany and more witch stuff is just the best. Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch would make a great holiday present! We're not…
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CanCon connoisseur Geoff Clarke genuflects with us before author Greg Keyes, who keys into the precise kind of New Jedi Order entry we've been demanding: an intimate character study with a healthy dose of sympathetic Vong (sorry, Yuuzhan Vong) to root for. It's also a surprising love letter to those Junior Jedi Knights children's books... with adde…
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Publishing The Commune, w/ Mitch Anzuoni of Inpatient Press
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29:28Mitch Anzuoni of Inpatient Press on discovering Marios Chakkas and finding a translator who would do justice to Chakkas’ unique voice. Review of The Commune in Jacobin Magazine Mikis Theodorakis' obituary in Monthly Review Buzzsprout Instagram Music by Ex-Official Art by Eli Mack
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The Commune by Marios Chakkas, w/ translator Chloe Tsolakoglou
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1:23:41Marios Chakkas wrote The Commune in 1972 shortly before his death of cancer at the age of 41. Chakkas was a prolific Greek writer who lived through decades of hope, aspiration, repression and ultimately defeat for the country’s Left. A unique and unclassifiable novella, The Commune charts the state of Chakkas’ psyche through a dense sequence of mem…
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Slip on your most ghoulish gablith masquer for a Young Jedi Knights Club Spooktacular! Hear us conjure up our favorite frights from the year 2000, revel in Kathy Tyers' wicked character work, and determine the "Halloweeniest" moments of Balance Point, whatever the stang that means... Just don't let a whisperkit cross your path!…
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205 - Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
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2:34:22The Agents of Chaos duology concludes in a plate-spinning yarn dripping with Hutt Stuff and a side of Jedi-smothered hash browns. Eric Ambler snaps on a slap-bracelet-like amphistaff and boards the matte black Falcon to help us grapple with the inhumanity of superweapons, both in the real world and in this book, as we guess who or what threatens to…
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Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
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1:40:29Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo author and prominent figure in the first of wave of the Native American Renaissance, spent ten year crafting Almanac of the Dead, published in 1991. Almanac is a sprawling, prophetic, epic novel populated by coke smugglers, arms dealers, sex workers, homeless veterans, scheming businessmen, corrupt politicians, an…
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