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Pat Cassels
Pat Cassels is an Emmy-winning writer and actor. He is a former staff writer for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and CollegeHumor, and was a consultant on the first season of Adam Ruins Everything. He’s contributed to The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New York Times, and writes a column for Atlas Obscura.
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