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Behind the News: Afghanistan Update w/ Matthieu Aikins

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Oil Pumping in LA - A Strange Hybrid Zone

A lot of your book is about this really strange hybrid zone California is a strange place, I mean we think of it as this place of verdant landscapes, but it's extremely industrialized. So the choice is to develop the landscape towards industrial purposes. They feel really recent and they feel really like mammoth,. But yeah, there's a real sense of wild juxtaposition which I am gratified to hear sounds like came through for you because in some ways the site is so extreme that I even saying it's really weird.

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