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Smoke On The Water | Andy Borowitz

Season 1 Episode 5

Andy Borowitz investigates why America’s water supply seems to keep bursting into flames.

New Yorker magazine humorist Andy Borowitz takes a look at America’s history of flammable water – most famously, the incident in 1969 when the polluted Cuyahoga River in Cleveland spontaneously combusted.

AIR DATE 10/21/19

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About Retro Report On PBS

Retro Report makes sense of the present by revealing the past. Join journalists Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and varied stories, and New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz adds his signature wit.

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