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Fire Council is Ken Cox's fictional campfire lodge for the arguments that shape the future. Each episode pulls a hard question into the circle and lets a rotating Council of dramatized voices fight it out: conscience, temptation, builders, providers, skeptics, operators, comedians, kings, founders, and strange technical witnesses when the room needs rails.

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