Part One: How Avery Brundage Gave Hitler an Olympics

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Part One: Sylvia Browne: Fake Psychic Detective

Robert and Kal Penn discuss the life and times of Sylvia Browne, the first famous psychic detective who spent most of her life committing crimes rather than stopping them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

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