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Smoke On The Water | Andy Borowitz
Season 1
Episode 5
New Yorker magazine humorist Andy Borowitz takes a look at America’s history of flammable water – most famously, the incident in 1969 when the polluted Cuyahoga River in Cleveland spontaneously combusted.
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