Best Neil Griffiths Podcasts (2025)

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MVP: Vikings and Patriots Joint Practice Wrap Up With The Athletic's Jourdan Rodrigue and Patriots Senior Reporter Evan Lazar - Ep 308 28:50

11h ago28:50

28:50

Welcome back to the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. Training Camp is wrapping up as the Vikings host joint practices with the New England Patriots at TCO Performance Center in Eagan, MN. Tatum Everett catches up with a couple great reporters to get their takes on what they've seen so far this week in anticipation for preseason game #2 on Saturday aftern…

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MUSHROOM MURDER UPDATE: Erin Patterson’s Police Interview 45:33

1d ago45:33

45:33

“Lies, deception and an extreme lack of remorse”. In this special bonus episode, Xanthe and Tim dissect Erin Patterson’s newly released police interview for the ‘The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace’ podcast. They share their expert insights with Nine Reporter Penelope Liersch and The Age Crime & Justice Reporter Erin Pearson. Follow ‘The Mushroom Trial: …

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James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025) 52:29

2d ago52:29

52:29

There is a hidden addiction plaguing humanity right now: revenge. Researchers have identified retaliation in response to real and imagined grievances as the root cause of most forms of human aggression and violence. From vicious tweets to road rage, murder-suicide, and armed insurrection, perpetrators almost always see themselves as victims seeking…

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David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023) 1:15:23

2d ago1:15:23

1:15:23

The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism (Polity Press, 2023) by David Theo Goldberg discusses how “Critical Race Theory” is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving communities. In this much-needed re…

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Ashlea Hansen: Cracking Open A Cold Case Murder 26:53

4d ago26:53

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The 2001 murder case of Rachelle Childs has been cracked back open in the new investigative podcast ‘ Dear Rachelle’. Host and journalist Ashlea Hansen joins Tim and Xanthe on this week’s episode to take us inside her 18-month long investigation. Ashlea reveals the unexpected twists and turns of the podcast, including new leads and heartbreaking re…

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Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet" (Simon and Schuster, 2025) 43:25

4d ago43:25

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Zbigniew Brzezinski was a key architect of the Soviet Union’s demise, which ended the Cold War. A child of Warsaw—the heart of central Europe’s bloodlands—Brzezinski turned his fierce resentment at his homeland’s razing by Nazi Germany and the Red Army into a lifelong quest for liberty. Born the year that Joseph Stalin consolidated power, and dying…

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Ryan Griffiths, "The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work" (Oxford UP, 2025) 1:03:52

5d ago1:03:52

1:03:52

Is the breakup of an increasingly polarized America into separate red and blue countries even possible? There is a growing interest in American secession. In February 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that "We need a national divorce...We need to separate by red states and blue states." Recent movements like Yes California have called for a nati…

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Jacob F. H. Smith, "Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2025) 22:05

5d ago22:05

22:05

After a period of relative calm in congressional elections prior to 2006, America has experienced a series of highly competitive, volatile national elections. Since then, at least one of the US House, US Senate, and presidency has flipped party control--often with a large House or Senate seat swing--with the exception of the 2012 election. In Waves…

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Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" (Brill, 2025) 1:40:37

5d ago1:40:37

1:40:37

For several decades now, Alan Wald has been thoroughly documenting the history of the literature and cultural output of the American left. While his numerous books and essays cover a lot of territory, much of his work is united by an interest in commitment, particularly when it comes to radical politics. What does it mean to commit ones life to a r…

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Russell Shorto, “Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom” (Norton, 2017) 1:03:24

7d ago1:03:24

1:03:24

Russell Shorto‘s Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom (Norton, 2017) is a history of many revolutions, kaleidoscopic turns through six individual lives. There is Cornplanter, a leader of the Seneca Indians; George Germain, who led the British war strategy during the Revolution; Margaret Moncrieffe Coghlan, the daughter of a British major; t…

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MVP: Senior Editor Craig Peters Breaks Down Jared Allen's H.O.F. Weekend, 2025 Night Practice - Ep 307 35:56

8d ago35:56

35:56

Welcome back to the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. Tatum Everett welcomes in Vikings Senior Editor Craig Peters to help recap all of the events from this past week at Vikings Training Camp presented by Omni Viking Lakes. Craig talks about the festivities in Canton, Ohio last weekend when Vikings Jared Allen was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fam…

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Robert Fitzgerald, "Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:05:43

9d ago1:05:43

1:05:43

Few politicians produced the musical reaction that Ronald Reagan did. His California-branded conservatism inspired countless young people to pick up guitars and thrash out their political angst. Punk bands across the United States took aim at the man, his presidency, and the idea of America he was selling to voters nationwide. Small yet vibrant sce…

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Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018) 1:18:25

10d ago1:18:25

1:18:25

The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth. It can hardly be said that scholars have neglected Douglass; indeed, he is one of the most written-about figures in American history. But not all aspects of Douglass’ thought have received their due. One such blank spot in what might be called “Douglass Studies” concerns his po…

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Rewilder works with gamekeeper 21:05

10d ago21:05

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Benedict Macdonald is the author of Rebirding and founder and director of Restore. He is working with Charles Whitbread's Southill Estate in Bedfordshire, which combines a mix of grey partridge shooting and arable. Benedict and Southill gamekeeper Paul Dunn explain how 'restoring' nature and shooting can work together, including restoring wetlands …

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Kerry Tucker: Finding Purpose in Prison 44:54

11d ago44:54

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From forging cheques to finding purpose, this week’s guest shares her incredible story of redemption. In this episode, Tim and Xanthe sit down with Kerry Tucker, a woman once jailed for a serious fraud of millions of dollars. Kerry opens up about her time in prison, revealing how her sentence became the turning point of her life. She is now an auth…

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Timothy W. Kneeland, "Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA" (Syracuse UP, 2021) 1:15:17

11d ago1:15:17

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Join me for an insightful and timely conversation with historian Timothy Kneeland about his book Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA (Syracuse University Press, 2021). This book masterfully bridges the gap between academic research and real-world policy implications. Hear from the author himself as he reflects on …

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Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019) 53:47

12d ago53:47

53:47

While media pundits continually speculate over the future leanings of the so-called “Latino vote,” Benjamin Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency in his new book The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History (Harvard University Press, 2019). Francis-Fallon, Assistant Professor of History at Western Ca…

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Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 43:57

13d ago43:57

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How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying their hands” to credibly protect their interests. Dan Reiter overturns this perspective with the compelling argument that states craft flexible foreign policies to avoid unwanted wars. Through a comprehens…

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Linda Gordon, "Seven Social Movements That Changed America" (LIveright, 2025) 58:33

14d ago58:33

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How do social movements arise, wield power, and bring about meaningful change? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these and other salient questions in this “visionary, cautionary, timely, and utterly necessary book” (Nicole Eustace), narrating how some of America’s most influential twentieth-century social movements transformed the nation. …

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MVP: Sky Sports Neil Reynolds and CBS Sports Evan Washburn check in from Vikings Training Camp - Episode 306 16:40

15d ago16:40

16:40

Welcome back to the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. The 2025 Vikings Training Camp presented by Omni Viking Lakes is in full swing and the media coverage is next level. Sky Sports Neil Reynolds and CBS Sports Evan Washburn check in with Tatum Everett to give their observations from practice in Eagan, MN. Neil gives a primer on the Vikings upcoming inter…

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How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy 33:14

16d ago33:14

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For a long time many (although by no means all) scholars saw the relationship between capitalism and democracy as mutually reinforcing: economic competition and growth were expected to sustain democratic competition and improve governance and public good delivery for citizens, in turn creating a better environment for capitalist competition to flou…

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Jonathan Gullis, Will Hutton, Zoe Strimpel & Natasha Devon 52:17

16d ago52:17

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Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Conservative MP, Jonathan Gullis, Political Economist, Will Hutton, Columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, Zoe Strimpel and LBC Presenter, Natasha Devon.By LBC

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Neil Parish at the 2025 Game Fair 38:22

17d ago38:22

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Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the end of the three-day Game Fair at Ragley Hall, farmer and former MP Neil Parish comments on what we have learned from DEFRA, and what’s coming up on the rural agenda. Click here for Neil’s own podcast.

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The future of the GWCT 17:30

17d ago17:30

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Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, GWCT chairman Sir Jim Paice and new chief executive Nick von Westenholz set out their vision for the charity.

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DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner at the 2025 Game Fair 18:32

17d ago18:32

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Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner defends the British government’s record on the countryside, including the family farm tax, lead ammo ban, trophy imports, Countryside Stewardship schemes and whether he is in favour of nationalising farming.…

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Greg Smith MP at the 2025 Game Fair 15:07

17d ago15:07

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Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Greg Smith MP says how he spoke up for grouseshooting, even though his constituency is in Buckinghamshire. Plus he examines other threats to shooting sports.

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Robbie Moore MP at the 2025 Game Fair 17:17

17d ago17:17

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Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Robbie Moore MP talks about how he and others disposed of the attempt by BBC TV’s Chris Packham to force a ban on grouseshooting.

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Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP at the 2025 Game Fair 21:22

17d ago21:22

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Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP explains the threats to shooting sports from the Labour government.

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Polly Toynbee, Andy Preston, Aisha Ali-Khan & Daniel Johnson 51:06

17d ago51:06

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Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are columnist for The Guardian, Polly Toynbee, former independent Mayor of Middlesbrough, Andy Preston, Human rights campaigner Aisha Ali-Khan and Editor of and columnist for TheArticle, Daniel Johnson.By LBC

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Inside Snowtown: The Cop Who Found The Bodies in the Barrels 45:02

18d ago45:02

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He’s the cop who lifted the lid on Australia’s most horrific serial killings. In this episode, retired forensic investigator, Gordon Drage, takes us behind the scenes of the infamous Snowtown ‘bodies in the barrels' case. 26 years on, he still remembers every detail of the day they made the gruesome discovery in that bank vault. Now retired, Drage …

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Christina McAnea, Laila Cunningham, Samuel Kasumu & Paul Richards 53:07

18d ago53:07

53:07

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are General Secretary of UNISON Christina McAnea, Reform UK member of Westminster City Council Laila Cunningham, Social entrepreneur Samuel Kasumu & Former Labour candidate, including for last year's general election, Paul Richards.By LBC

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Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024) 30:35

19d ago30:35

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Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine (Taylor & Francis, 2024) documents and analyses the direct and indirect toll that war takes on civilians and their livelihoods, taking a human security approach exploring personal, economic, political and community security in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine, in the co…

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Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) 1:05:09

19d ago1:05:09

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The criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise of Black political control in the 1970s. Wildcat of the Streets documents how the “community policing” approach of Mayor Coleman Young (1974–1993)—including neighborhood police stations, affirmative ac…

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Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022) 1:06:28

22d ago1:06:28

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Sanctions have become the go-to foreign policy tool for the United States. Coercive economic measures such as trade tariffs, financial penalties, and export controls affect large numbers of companies and states across the globe. Some of these penalties target nonstate actors, such as Colombian drug cartels and Islamist terror groups; others apply t…

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Osita Nwanevu, "The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding" (Random House, 2025) 30:04

22d ago30:04

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Frustrated with our political dysfunction, wearied by the thinness of contemporary political discourse, and troubled by the rise of anti-democratic attitudes across the political spectrum, journalist Osita Nwanevu has spent the Trump era examining the very meaning of democracy in search of answers to questions many have asked in the wake of the 202…

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MVP: Brian Asamoah II and Aaron Jones Recap Their NFL Africa Trip To Ghana, Preview 2025 Training Camp - Episode 305 18:23

22d ago18:23

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Welcome to episode 305 of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast! Tatum Everett welcomes back Brian Asamoah II and Aaron Jones to TCO Performance Center as the 2025 Minnesota Vikings open Training Camp. Brian and Aaron recap their life changing trip this summer to help support the NFL Africa Camp held in Ghana. Brian talks about how important it is to give …

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Natasha Irons, Baroness Arlene Foster, Anne McElvoy & Jack Elsom 51:48

24d ago51:48

51:48

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Natasha Irons, former Northern Ireland first minister Baroness Arlene Foster, POLITICO's Anne McElvoy and The Sun's Jack Elsom.By LBC

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Love Behind Bars: Pen Pals to Prison Romance 33:56

25d ago33:56

33:56

They say you can't help who you fall for... So is it truly possible to fall head over heels in love with a criminal? From the infamous courtroom "groupies" of serial killers like Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez, to women who become pen pals with inmates and eventually marry them, this episode of Motive & Method delves into the perplexing phenomenon o…

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Luke A. Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election Of 1968" (Yale UP, 2024) 1:02:55

25d ago1:02:55

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A sitting Democratic president who chooses not to run for re-election, a vice president running out of the president’s shadow, and a Republican nominee trying to make a political comeback amidst accusations of collusion – welcome to the 2024 1968 presidential election. What we think we know about the election has been challenged, however, by a new …

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Alex Davies-Jones, Mark Garnier, Hilary Wainwright & Ali Miraj 52:48

25d ago52:48

52:48

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are victims minister and Labour MP Alex Davies-Jones, shadow treasury minister and Conservative MP Mark Garnier, campaigner Hilary Wainwright and broadcaster Ali Miraj.By LBC

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Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, "Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States" (U of Chicago Press, 2025) 52:17

26d ago52:17

52:17

Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout back, “Jesus was a refugee.” For Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, the standoff makes explicit a longstanding truth: borders are religious as well as political objects. In this book, Hurd argues that Americans share a bipar…

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Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021) 1:19:53

27d ago1:19:53

1:19:53

All nations make rules -- through their constitutions, legislatures, bureaucratic practices – about who counts as a citizen. American by Birth examines the role of the Supreme Court – particularly a ruling from 1898 that is still precedent today. Wong Kim Ark v. United States interpreted the language of the 14th Amendment to answer whether a man bo…

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Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020) 1:03:46

27d ago1:03:46

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In a 2012 opinion piece bemoaning the state of the US Senate, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank cited a “leading theory: There are no giants in the chamber today.” Among the respected members who once walked the Senate floor, admired for their expertise and with a stature that went beyond party, Milbank counted Sam Nunn (D-GA). Nunn served in …

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Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022) 46:53

28d ago46:53

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In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of the symptoms and results of that inequality. Racial, social, and class inequities and the public health crises in the United States are deeply intertwined, their roots and manifestations continually p…

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