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Oct 2022
1h 16m

272: Coffee with Mom—"You Must be that D...

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
About this episode
It's a classic catch-up with mom that starts with a dramatic reading of her viral short story Old Blue, becomes an announcement that her third New York Times bestseller Vacuuming in the Nude will be available as an audiobook on this podcast, and then somehow devolves into a scatological story-swap evoking the Thomas Crapper episode.
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