Season 6 Trailer

Invisibilia

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🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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You hear the train barreling towards you and you're tied to the tracks. It's an impossible situation. Most people would panic, and then a tiny handful would think up improbable workarounds. This season on Invisibilia: inventors in desperate times.

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0:00.0	It started with the smell.
0:02.1	He just smelled different.
0:03.6	It's too-f-f.
0:04.7	Dasty yeast smell?
0:06.7	Joy told her husband to take a shower,
0:08.8	but it didn't help.
0:11.6	Over the weeks and months that followed,
0:13.3	the smell didn't go away.
0:15.4	It grew.
0:16.9	Until one night,
0:18.2	when Joy woke up to her husband, attacking her.
0:21.1	He just got a hold of me just grabbed me.
0:26.6	This season on N Pier's Invisibility,
0:29.2	a prayer for our troubled future.
0:32.0	At the middle of the road, you're on the wrong side.
0:37.2	We bring you seven Hail Marys.
0:39.6	We'll fool you, nevertheless, and father we come.
0:42.0	Stories of people who come up with improbable workarounds
0:45.6	to our very desperate problems.
0:47.8	Mr. Chairman, I'm here today to represent the children of the United States.
0:52.4	Like, what do you do when you're the most targeted man in the world?
0:56.2	We'll break your legs.
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