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Dec 15th, 2023 1h 3m

In today's episode, we're thrilled to sit down with the legendary Steve O'Donnell, an American television writer with an impressive portfolio that includes Late Night with David Letterman, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, and The Chris Rock Show.His com

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This episode looks at a deathbed promise from a daughter to a mother, which leads the daughter on a journey to write about her grandfather who was a famous war hero. But this journey had a terrible destination: the discovery that he was a Nazi

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