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The season finale of GOING DEEP WITH DAVID REES airs Monday, August 25 at 10PM EP on National Geographic.

The episode is “How to Shake Hands.” This is probably our most personal/intense episode of the series. We talk about my bad social skills, my fear of eye contact … and we use a cadaver specimen to look at the muscles involved in a handshake.

I hope you will tell your friends about this episode! We want BIG RATINGS for this SEASON FINALE so we can MAKE MORE SHOWS.

Thanks everyone for your support; we really appreciate it!

—David Rees and the GOING DEEP gang.

I was trying to explain to my wife and son the other day why I feel so grateful to David Rees.

For those on Tumblr old enough to have been adults when 9/11 happened this will sound super obvious, and for those younger than that it will probably just sound super clichéd, but when 9/11 happened it was a huge shock. And the shock wasn’t just the events of that day. It was the slow-rolling aftermath in which some deeply misguided and unwise policies became our country’s collective response, and at times it seemed like everyone was going along.

Intelligent, thoughtful people were being silenced. Aggressive, vindictive people were holding all the megaphones. It was horrifying and awful, and it just kept going. And in the midst of that a quirky, irreverent web comic based on business clip art appeared, and it was like someone had opened a valve and let a thin stream of oxygen back into the national air supply.

Get Your War On was a beacon of wit and intelligence at a time when both of those things seemed to have vanished forever. It restored my faith in humanity. I will always be grateful for that.

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