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Cascade PBS Ideas Festival: Revisionist History: Unlocked and Unloaded

Cascade PBS Ideas Festival

Revisionist History: Unlocked and Unloaded

Season
4
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Episode
8
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Video duration
28 min 8 s

Podcaster Malcolm Gladwell discusses everything Americans get wrong about guns with activist David Hogg and trauma surgeon Babak Sarani.

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