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In Episode 111 of What A Week!, Rik Little sits down for a long, looping conversation that starts in Wheaton, Illinois and ends in a Scranton housing fight. Born in Dallas and raised outside Chicago — Billy Graham’s town, Goldwater signs in the yard, his father on city council and selling Haloid machines before they became Xerox — Rik talks about growing up inside “the rectangle.” TV, Twilight Zone, the feeling of watching his own life from outside his body. He went to school with the Belushis,...
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