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Bad Rap Week: Listeners Defend Places with Bad Reputations

From laundromats to Sacramento, listeners go to bat for places with bad reputations.  All week, we’re collaborating with the great podcast Terrestrials to tell stories about people, places, and animals with bad reputations – and the surprising truths behind them.

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  The Places YOU Gained After the Pandemic

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  Chicago Bridge Houses (Classic)

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  The Man Who Rebuilds the Last Inca Rope Bridge

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  Finding The Great Gatsby in Louisville

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  Saving the World’s Rarest Pasta

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  Dylan’s Mailbag: Waiting in Lines, Traveling with Mixed Budgets, and Unexp…

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  Medical Clowning Program (Classic)

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  That Time Locusts Ate The Entire Midwest

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  Club Ebony

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  The Big Well

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  The Places We Gained After the Pandemic

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  Bad Rap Week: Ashley Ray’s Secret Place (Classic)

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  Bad Rap Week: Prowling for Coyotes in Chicago’s Graceland Cemetery

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  Bad Rap Week: Searching for Wonder in the Most Boring Mall in Canada

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  Bad Rap Week: Dylan and Alan Fall Down the Rat Hole