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Sep 13
22 m

Susan Randall. Hold the Line

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman
About this episode

A couple weeks ago my friend Susan Randall came to visit. She’s a private investigator and we’ve been friends for thirty years and every  now and then we get together and compare notes on our lives, and on what the hell is going on. Sometimes we talk about her work, sometimes our kids, once we made a show about a dead owl.

This has been a very difficult year for Susan. In this  conversation, we talk about her health...and the federal government.

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