Jan. 27, 2025

NEWS: Disneyland's New Ghost Bride; 12' Skeleton Wars

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This week: Disneyland's new ghost bride; A woman goes to court over her year-round skeleton display; Fear Fest Haunted Attractions given a rating of "F" by the Better Business Bureau; Derry Halloween's "Awaken the Walls" will remain free; Dark Universe Construction Updates from Attractions Magazine; Halloween & Costume Association announces inaugural Spooky Awards winners. Read the articles here.

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Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the

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haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the

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HN Show. We bring you the haunt news, information, and

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education you need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays, we

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bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read

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free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the link in the show notes,

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and as always for the news roundup, I'm passing it

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off to Darryl.

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Haunts across the country continue to announce Valentine's Day off

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season events. Visit our website for the full updated list,

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or keep listening to the newscast and we'll announce them

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near the end. After nearly a year away, the classic

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Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, reopened on January

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eighteenth with an updated attic scene and a new version

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of the iconic Ghostly Bride. This new bride is similar

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to the original Beating Heart bride that had been in

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the mansion prior to the addition of the axe murdering

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Bride constance in two thousand and six. The bride has

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a somber facial expression and holds a ghostly candelabra, which

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can be seen floating in two other scenes throughout the ride,

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the Endless Hallway and in the Graveyard finale. In an

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LA Times interview, imagineer Kim Irvine discussed the change. We thought,

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what if we change the story back a little bit

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to the original story that the imagineers had about a

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lost bride in the attic mourning the loss of her

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husband's It was a sad thing. It was a story

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about lost love. Irvine mentioned that the update was needed

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as the projection technology used for the constance figure had

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become outdated. With the opening date only four months away.

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Dark Universe, the Universal Monsters themed land at Epic Universe

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in Orlando, Florida, continues to take shape. New construction photos

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from Attractions Magazines show that a purple orb has been

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added to the land's main entrance. Sowds have been completed

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for the Burning Blade tavern restaurant, and Monsters unchained the

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Frankenstein experiment, and more dressings have been added to the

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Curse of the Werewolf queue. Epic Universe's grand opening will

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take place on May twenty second, twenty twenty five. Follow

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the links in our show notes to see these new

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construction photos. Fear Fast Haunted Attractions out of Columbia, Missouri,

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has been given a rating of f by the Better

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Business Bureau after several people reported still waiting for refunds

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after the event failed to open this Halloween season. Fear

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Fast owner Bill Schnell never opened his Haunt this season

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after fire inspectors found fifteen safety concerns on their annual inspection,

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including violations with electrical safety codes, not having enough fire extinguishers,

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and extension cords used as permanent wiring, some cords being

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more than twenty years old. Council members for Dairy Halloween

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in London, Dairy UK overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to charge

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admission to the festivals Awakening the Walls event in twenty

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twenty five. The Walls as a trail surrounded by the

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city's historic walls that explores the folklore, history and heritage

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of the area. The story of Halloween is brought to

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life through illumination, aerial performance, pyrotechnics, and music. A proposal

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had suggested charging ticket prices of three pounds per person

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or ten pound for a family ticket, which is two

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adults of two children to maintain the event's world class standard.

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Some council members expressed concerns over excluding groups who could

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afford the fee. Shine Fan councilor Grace Ouien Naale explained

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her rejectioned vote stating, affordability for everyone is different, and

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so it is very hard to say that there is

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no equality impact. Members also cited anger from locals and

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bad precedent as reasons they did not support the proposal.

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The committee did agree, however, that they should consider inducing

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a ticketing system to manage crowd numbers that exceeded one

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hundred and twenty thousand people and reduce long queue Line'll

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learn more about darry Halloween in this year's festivities on

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their official website. A Memphis, Tennessee area woman, Alexis Latrell

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is going to court over leaving her Halloween skeletons up

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year round. Latrel has an eight foot tall skeleton and

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matching skeleton dog that she has been dressing up for

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each holiday since this past Halloween. In early December, however,

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she received a warning from a Germantown compliance officer that

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cited a city ordinance limiting how long any seasonal display

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decorations can be displayed. According to the ordinance, decorations can

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be installed within forty five days of a holiday and

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must be removed within thirty days of the holiday. The

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city is deemed the skeletons as Halloween decorations. Despite the

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ever changing outfits to match each new holiday's theme, nine

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citations have been issued for similar displays in the area

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in December. Of those, eight residents removed their skeletons. Only

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Latrell refused to comply. The trail has decided to go

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to court to fight the citation, as she believes that

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skeletons can be used as part of holiday's plays for

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any holiday. The Halloween and Costume Association announced the winners

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of the n ugur Oal Spooky Awards at last week's

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Halloween and Party Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. The awards

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celebrate Halloween's most innovative and creative designs in costumes, accessories,

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and the Core, recognizing creators who capture the true spirit

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of Halloween through outstanding artistry, craftsmanship, and marketable creativity. The

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winners of each category in accessories It's Gulish Productions with

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their skin Bag. The costume for adults, It's Disguise the

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Master Chief Ultra Prestige Deluxe Adult and the costume child

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is also for disguise. The Ender Dragon inflatable costume licensed

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goes to Jazzwar's LLC. The Star Wars Villains Official Youth

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Dress Upset costume non character goes to Rasta and Pasta

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for their glue Gun decor goes to Morris Costumes with

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their skeleton. Grave Breaker Makeup goes to Mayron Makeup for

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their rigid Glodian masks. Category sees Gulish Productions win with

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their Lucifer mask. For most Innovative Halloween Moments win with

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their Pumpkin Gloves scraper, and for Sustainability, Gouish Productions wins

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with their zombie hand. Is your Haunt? Open this Valentine's Day,

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tell us all about it, and you can get on

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this list and join these other frightening Valentine's Haunts In Alabama,

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make sure you stop by and see Arks, Mortis and

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Kill in Alabama. Easta Boga Manor in East a Boga

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hel Billy Hollow in Vincent Nightmare at three thousand and

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eight in Fultondale, Pope's Haunted Farm in Salem, Spook Trail

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in Quintin Sweet Dreams Haunted Attraction in Mobile and Warehouse

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thirty one in Pelham, Alabama. In Arkansas, make sure you

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visit the Folklore Slaughterhouse in Gravesville, Arkansas. California has got

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the All Saints Lunatic Asylum in Apple Valley, two oh

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nine Haunts in Linden, and the Haunt in a Tescadero

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in a Tescadaro, California. Colorado has got the thirteenth Floor

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Haunted House in Denver. In Connecticut has Fright Haven in Stratford.

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Florida's haunted attractions include the thirteenth Floor Haunted House Jacksonville

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in Jacksonville, Florida, Sir Henry's Haunted Trail in Plant City, Florida,

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and the Wentz Brothers Festival of Fears in Fort Walton Beach.

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Georgia is scaring you with the Folklore Haunted House in

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Ackworth Lake, Joy, Trails of Terror in Kathleen, Paranoia Haunted

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House in Canton, and Screams Haunted Experience in Hoboken. Coming

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to you from Illinois include the thirteenth Floor Haunted House

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in Chicago, the Factory of Fear in Moleene, Hutchings Haunt

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in Parkersburg and the Massacre Haunted House in Montgomery, Illinois.

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Indiana has got Hysterium Haunted Asylum in Fort Wayne, Malice

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Manor and Clarksville, Necropolis Underground in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the

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Thirteenth Hour also in Indianapolis, Indiana. Iowa is scaring people

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at the Hillside House of Hell in Glenwood, and Kentucky

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has got the Haunted Hotel Kentucky in Louisville. Maryland's Valentine's

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Haunted House include Bennett's Curse in Baltimore, Maryland, Era's Nightmare

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in Westminster and Laurel's House of Horror in Laurel. Massachusetts

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is scaring people with a Chamber of Terror, and Salem,

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mass Michigan has the Awaken Haunted Attraction in Leslie, Michigan.

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And Minnesota has got the Nowhere Haunted House in Invergrove Heights, Minnesota.

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Missouri's Coming at You with Terror on Route sixty six

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in Sullivan, Missouri and the Darkness in Saint Louis, while

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New Jersey has got the Brighton Asylum in Passaic, North Carolina.

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Valentine's Haunted houses include the Holler and Haunts hay Ride,

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in Clinton, North Carolina, Pinhead's Graveyard in Canton and the

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Hotel in Ahski, Ohio, has got Fear Columbus in Columbus, Ohio,

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and Hell's Dungeon in Dayton, Pennsylvania. Is scaring people at

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the Field of Screams PA in Mountville, Pennsylvania, Haunted Hills

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Estate Screen Park and Uniontown Hidden Screams, Haunted Attraction in Lewistown, Horrorween,

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Haunted Warehouse in Mount Union, and the Penhurst Asylum in

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Spring City, South Carolin. Carolina has got the Deceased Farm

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in Lexington, South Carolina, and Tennessee has got Freight Works

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in Powell and Nashville, Nightmare in Madison, Texas. Valentine's haunted

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houses include the thirteenth Floor Haunted House in Houston. Of Houston, Texas,

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Delusion Screen Park and Brian Doc Wilkes House of Horrors

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and Longview House of Torment in Austin, and Nightmare on

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Nineteenth Street in Lubbock, Utah has got Asylum forty nine

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in Tuel, Utah. Virginia has got Freight Mayor in Chesapeake, Virginia,

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Spooky Acres, Haunted Houses in Norfolk, Terror and Potomac Manor

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and King George Terror Manor in roanoak And finally, Washington

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State's Got the Cinema of Horrors and Kelso and the

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Frightvale in Oak Harbor, Washington. Upcoming events this January through

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March including Creep I e Con January thirty first through

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February first in Ontario, California, trans Worlds Halloween and Attraction

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Show February twenty seventh through March second in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode

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was produced by me Philip Hernandez with reporting by Daryl Plunky.

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