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Blinkers

Paperless by Vespucci

May 4, 202332:13TV & Film

Teenage hustler Conor MacKay makes his living selling counterfeit tickets—or blinkers—at concerts and sporting events across the United States. It’s the early 1990s, the golden age of the blinker game, but as the federal...

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Blinkers is an episode from Paperless by Vespucci. Teenage hustler Conor MacKay makes his living selling counterfeit tickets—or blinkers—at concerts and sporting events across the United States. It’s the early 1990s, the golden age of the b...

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Published May 4, 2023, 32:13 long, audio available.

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