September 5, 2019
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#228 Disaster Porn, Boat Crash, Netflix PM
Sexy Hurricane Headlines: “Dorian Relentlessly Pounds Bahamas” - What is up with the disaster porn? And Justin Trudeau’s Malaysian ancestry, and other things we learned on Netflix.
Tiffany Lam
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Jesse Brown
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Author and The Guardian environment reporter Martin Lukacs co-hosts.

Martin’s new book is The Trudeau Formula.


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