This Week in Evolution

This Week in Evolution

66 episodes

This Week in Evolution is a podcast on the biology of what makes us tick. Hosts Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello take you through the new evolution that has been revolutionized by the field of genomics and molecular biology.

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TWiEVO 95: Watering the viruses until they bloom

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 11:53 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 30 seconds

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TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad

Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 5:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 3 seconds

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TWiEVO 93: Faster than a speeding bacteria

Published: Aug. 25, 2023, 1:24 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 29 seconds

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TWiEVO 92: There's algae in the jar

Published: July 21, 2023, 5:47 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 42 seconds

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TWiEVO 91: Meet your very distant cousins

Published: July 17, 2023, 9:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 50 seconds

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TWiEVO 90: The mystery of the mouse mummies

Published: May 12, 2023, 5:29 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 40 seconds

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TWiEVO 89: On the outer rim of tumor evolution

Published: April 25, 2023, 1:36 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 58 seconds

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TWiEVO 88: Dog days of evolution in the shadows of Chernobyl

Published: March 26, 2023, 1:38 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 55 seconds

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TWiEVO 87: Nathan Clark's revolutionary hair care advice

Published: Feb. 21, 2023, 10:39 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 3 seconds

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TWiEVO 86: Pulling out the stops in genetic code evolution

Published: Feb. 5, 2023, 1:13 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 15 seconds

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TWiEVO 85: Teaching old dogs new genetic tricks

Published: Dec. 21, 2022, 12:19 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 16 seconds

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TWiEVO 84: Decoding our defenses to the Black Death

Published: Nov. 8, 2022, 9:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 42 seconds

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TWiEVO 83: Evolution spreads its wings (and then loses them)

Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 20 seconds

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TWiEVO 82: A genetic hack for the human brain

Published: Sept. 25, 2022, 8:31 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 27 seconds

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TWiEVO 81: Evolution's new and improved slime molds

Published: Aug. 24, 2022, 8:43 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 19 seconds

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TWiEVO 80: Viruses of a feather bottleneck together

Published: Aug. 1, 2022, 6:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 16 seconds

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TWiEVO 79: When the immune system is away, SARS-CoV-2 will play

Published: July 2, 2022, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 30 seconds

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TWiEVO 78: The virus daily double

Published: May 26, 2022, 4:21 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 42 seconds

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TWiEVO 77: The mutations of our lives

Published: April 26, 2022, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 24 seconds

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TWiEVO 76: One-step symbiosis

Published: March 22, 2022, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 43 seconds

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TWiEVO 75: Even the BANAL coronaviruses are interesting

Published: Feb. 24, 2022, 8:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 1 second

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TWiEVO 74: On racism, not race with Joe Graves

Published: Feb. 3, 2022, 6:40 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 43 seconds

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TWiEVO 73: With a little help from your hosts

Published: Dec. 28, 2021, 7:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 59 seconds

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TWiEVO 72: Echoes of evolution both shallow and deep

Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 3:42 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 22 seconds

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TWiEVO 71: Faster than a speeding coronavirus

Published: Sept. 27, 2021, 1:34 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 35 seconds

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TWiEVO 70: On Life's Edge with Carl Zimmer

Published: Aug. 3, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 11 seconds

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TWiEVO 69: Swimming in SARS-CoV-2 sequences

Published: June 30, 2021, 9:37 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 13 seconds

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TWiEVO 68: Stepping through time with SARS-CoV-2

Published: May 29, 2021, 3:01 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 34 seconds

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TWiVEO 67: Corona chameleon

Published: April 22, 2021, 3:31 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 35 seconds

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TWiEVO 66: SARS-2-mouse

Published: March 25, 2021, 4:28 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 45 seconds

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TWiEVO 65: Variants in the mist

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 9:37 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 27 seconds

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TWiEVO 64: Seeing the lineages for the variants

Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 10:53 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 43 seconds

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TWiEVO 63: Year of the coronavirus

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 4:42 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 33 seconds

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TWiEVO 62: Army ants with Daniel Kronauer

Published: Dec. 7, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 7 seconds

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TWiEVO 61: Shot and chaser of SARS-CoV-2 evolution

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 5:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 55 seconds

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TWiEVO 60: Five years of TWiEVO on the future of our past

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 46 seconds

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TWiEVO 59: The hypothesis giving tree

Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 49 seconds

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TWiEVO 58: Not all coronaviruses ACE2 the test

Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 6:53 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 29 seconds

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TWiEVO 57: SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding evolution blooms

Published: June 24, 2020, 9:24 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 1 second

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TWiEVO 56: Revising the drafts of coronavirus evolution

Published: May 20, 2020, 7:23 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 5 seconds

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TWiEVO 55: Coronavirus evolution from soup to nuts

Published: May 6, 2020, 3:11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 51 seconds

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TWiEVO 54: Rough drafts of SARS-CoV-2 science

Published: April 25, 2020, 1:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 41 seconds

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TWiEVO 53: Virus evolution by land and by sea and by CoV, part II

Published: April 4, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 53 seconds

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TWiEVO 52: Virus evolution by land and by sea and by CoV

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 1:20 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 43 seconds

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TWiEVO 51: The starting point paradox

Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 4:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 51 seconds

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TWiEVO 50: I'm dreaming of a Y chromosome

Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 2:39 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 57 seconds

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TWiEVO 49: A giant podcast on giant viruses

Published: Nov. 29, 2019, 4:57 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 11 seconds

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TWiEVO 48: Flipping out with choanos on caffeine

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 1:03 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 29 seconds

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TWiEVO 47: On the origin of beer species

Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 9:51 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 43 seconds

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TWiEVO 46: Can an old tumor teach us new tricks?

Published: Aug. 31, 2019, 6:58 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 5 seconds

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TWiEVO 45: Microbial secrets of mouse-ear cress

Published: July 29, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 1 second

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TWiEVO 44: The enemy of my enemy is my phage

Published: June 27, 2019, 4:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 31 seconds

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TWiEVO 43: Social evolution with a side of shrimp

Published: May 25, 2019, 3:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 37 seconds

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TWiEVO 42: Who's who in your genome

Published: April 24, 2019, 6:41 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 31 seconds

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TWiEVO 41: Where do baby genes come from?

Published: March 20, 2019, 2:56 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 9 seconds

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TWiEVO 40: Eau de bee

Published: Feb. 15, 2019, 3:07 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 37 seconds

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TWiEVO 39: In a Legionella of their own

Published: Jan. 26, 2019, 2:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 11 seconds

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TWiEVO 38: Evolving to evolve

Published: Dec. 24, 2018, 3:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 41 seconds

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TWiEVO 37: A tangled tree on the Quammens

Published: Nov. 17, 2018, 7:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 3 seconds

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TWiEVO 36: All's not quiet on the telomeric front

Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 6 seconds

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TWiEVO 35: Strawberry sex chromosomes forever

Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 11 seconds

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TWiEVO 34: You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s PON

Published: Aug. 16, 2018, 2:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 27 seconds

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TWiEVO 33: Fly by virus

Published: July 25, 2018, 12:28 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 9 seconds

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TWiEVO 32: Never not neutral

Published: June 19, 2018, 10:13 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 11 seconds

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TWiEVO 31: Virus archaeology, or when the human genome is the junk

Published: May 19, 2018, 10:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 23 seconds

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TWiEVO 30: Driving Miss Maize-y

Published: April 21, 2018, 12:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 7 seconds

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TWiEVO 29: Evolution on the wing

Published: March 21, 2018, 4:03 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 23 seconds

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TWiEVO 28: Genetics of skin pigmentation in Africa

Published: Feb. 28, 2018, 3:15 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 37 seconds

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TWiEVO 27: Coldevo

Published: Jan. 13, 2018, 3:32 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 25 seconds

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TWiEVO 26: My Scientist Vinny

Published: Dec. 7, 2017, 3:23 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 35 seconds

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TWiEVO 25: Pigeons show the way

Published: Nov. 22, 2017, 11:31 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 25 seconds

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TWiEVO 24: Good viruses visiting bad neighborhoods

Published: Oct. 26, 2017, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 59 seconds

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TWiEVO 23: The Alus are going to be alright

Published: Sept. 20, 2017, 8:25 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 41 seconds

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TWiEVO 22: E pluribus cerevisiae

Published: Aug. 30, 2017, 9:37 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 31 seconds

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TWiEVO 21: A virus with a green thumb

Published: July 13, 2017, 1:35 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 29 seconds

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TWiEVO 20: In the company of cnidarians

Published: June 20, 2017, 12:34 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 35 seconds

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TWiEVO 19: The beauty of the story

Published: May 24, 2017, 1:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 9 seconds

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TWiEVO 18: Raiders of the lost orco

Published: April 10, 2017, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 43 seconds

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TWiEVO 17: The curious cases of clam cancers

Published: March 13, 2017, 5:58 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 41 seconds

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TWiEVO 16: Breaking in the making of genes

Published: Feb. 25, 2017, 1:40 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 17 seconds

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TWiEVO 15: From cockroaches to grizzly bears

Published: Jan. 22, 2017, 7:07 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 53 seconds

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TWiEVO 14: TWi-light on the Wasatch Front

Published: Dec. 22, 2016, 2:56 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 26 seconds

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TWiEVO 13: This week in ants

Published: Nov. 16, 2016, 2:22 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 9 seconds

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TWiEVO 12: Take a left at the goats

Published: Oct. 19, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes 43 seconds

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TWiEVO 11: Microbial accomplices in multicellularity

Published: Sept. 27, 2016, 7:27 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 43 seconds

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TWiEVO 10: Spicing up peppered moths with a selfish gene

Published: Aug. 13, 2016, 2:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 35 seconds

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TWiEVO 9: How to crash your gene drive

Published: July 5, 2016, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 23 seconds

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TWiEVO 8: Everyone's a little bit Neanderthal

Published: June 8, 2016, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 55 seconds

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TWiEVO 7: Pigeon fashion week, feathery boots edition

Published: April 23, 2016, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 55 seconds

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TWiEVO 6: Butterflies are free to shuffle

Published: March 19, 2016, 2:16 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 47 seconds

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TWiEVO 5: Looking at straw colored fruit bats through a straw

Published: Feb. 20, 2016, 8:22 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 21 seconds

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TWiEVO 4: Taking the mystery out of the mystery of mysteries

Published: Jan. 23, 2016, 3:29 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 25 seconds

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TWiEVO 3: Recombination is for the birds

Published: Jan. 9, 2016, 4:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 15 seconds

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TWiEVO 2: Faster than a speeding virus

Published: Dec. 26, 2015, 4:54 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 19 seconds

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TWiEVO 1: When (scientific) worlds collide

Published: Dec. 12, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 57 seconds

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