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Leland, the Almost Middle School Edition

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

He's about to graduate from elementary school. He's got a lot on his mind.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What would you say that you say that you're most excited about right now?

0:07.0

Probably the medieval unit because I'm making haggis

0:19.7

Welcome to Rumbel Stip Vermont. That is Leland.

0:23.2

Leland lives one hill over for me in East Callis.

0:26.6

I interviewed Leland last year when he was 10,

0:29.4

and I've gotten some letters from listeners wondering

0:31.8

what he's up to and how he's been.

0:34.0

Leland's pretty protective of his time in the afternoon after school,

0:39.0

but he did agree to come over and talk with me about what's on his mind these days. So here's

0:44.7

Leland. Have you been following the presidential election lead up?

0:53.6

Yeah.

0:54.6

I've been trying to watch as many of the debates as possible,

0:59.7

but obviously because they're late,

1:01.4

I can't watch all of them more so on the

1:05.0

Democratic side because I want Bernie Sanders to him because he's in Vermont he's

1:10.4

from Vermont and I'm from Vermont.

1:16.0

What do you think about the Republican candidates?

1:20.0

Uh, that they have kind of dumb reasons. They want to be president.

1:22.0

Like Donald Trump wants to build a wall but he's making

1:26.0

the Mexicans pay for it with all of his money he should just pay for it. Do you think that there should be a wall? Yes and no. I think that it's good to keep a legal immigrant, but it might be harder for people who are trying to come

1:46.6

to America illegally.

1:48.8

It might be harder for them to get to America. Because of the wall.

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