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We Can't Have Nice Things - Radio Contests (ep. 193)

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Your Brain on Facts
Episode • Apr 26, 2022 • 36m

It's the return of our occasional series, We Can't Have Nice Things. This week, we look at radio contest and promotions that went badly wrong, often at the draft stage. Free nude wedding anyone?

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 02:45 Radio Luxembourg's Ice Block Challenge

06:02 Bait & switch

10:12 Rules are rules

17:36 Review and news

20:40 No accounting for taste

22:15 Library of Chaos

27:27 Good, better, breast

30:08 Playing matchmaker 

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Music: Kevin MacLeod, Bobby Richards .

 

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