63 – Sunset On The Amazon

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63 – Sunset On The Amazon

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60 minutes

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Aug 25, 2019

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My own meandering story of my time in the Amazon. . . If you want to help mitigate the damage done by fires in the Amazon, go to www.rainforesttrust.org and donate – they buy acres of land, working with local communities to protect and conserve them.

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Aug 25, 2019

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Welcome to Sleepy. It's a podcast where baritone host Otis Gray reads you to sleep with old books, poetry, novellas, anything that will lull you into a deep slumber so you can have a fresh start the next day. Sweet dreams. Otis is also the host and producer of the Hungry podcast, a show about food, the stories behind it, and the power of what we eat in a polarized world.

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