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Leland. It’s a Porcupine!

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The fourth season of Leland, my neighbor on the next hill over. This year...survival, cow skulls and North Korea...

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Rumbull Strip America Heilman.

0:02.0

Before we get started, I am proud to say that today's show is sponsored by Honey Road, a restaurant in Burlington, Vermont,

0:09.2

on the corner of Church and Maine. They serve Eastern Mediterranean small plates. So think

0:14.9

Bob a Ganush whipped feta, beer-battered soft-shell crab. Honey Road is

0:20.2

woman-owned, woman-run, and they make a point to create a sane work environment for

0:24.8

their staff. I will leave you with a dessert recommendation.

0:31.4

Chocolate Sesame Moose, Persian Spiced Cream,

0:35.0

Caramel Peanuts, sea salt.

0:38.0

Go to Honey Road.

0:41.0

Now on to the show.

0:46.2

Did you know?

0:47.5

The farthest place from any McDonald's

0:50.3

is in the middle of Nevada.

0:54.0

That's my neighbor, Leland. He's 14 now.

0:57.0

He just finished 8th grade.

0:59.0

This is the fourth year I've interviewed Leland

1:01.0

about what he's doing and what's on his mind. This year he took me out

1:05.1

to his fort in a pine forest about a half mile from his house. It's a tarp held up by two beams

1:11.1

and covered with brush piles. And there's a fire pit. We sat in a couple

1:15.2

lawn chairs and we talked about his year and about his summer plans. Here's Leeland.

1:22.1

So I was in the my school's geography B and I won the geography B.

1:32.0

Can you give me a sense of what were supposed? I won the geography be.

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