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Steven Spielberg Chat with Alexei Toliopoulos
Season 9, Ep. 40
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Cinephile and all-round champion Alexei Toliopoulos returns to the podcast to discuss Steven Spielberg's three main alien movies: ET, War of the Worlds, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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