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Are you fan of the show Dexter? You know, I watched a few episodes and it was okay.

I mean, this is a different kind of show.

It followed the life of a crime scene investigator coroner type

that also led a double life as a serial killer at night.

So putting aside the serial killer part,

our next guest actually

considered Dexter one of his favorite portrayals of life as an investigator of that sort. You may

think that's a little weird, especially since our next guest spent 40 years working as an

investigator, eventually rising to the position of a coroner.

Wait, so isn't a coroner just somebody who takes care of dead bodies?

Like, how do you, what do you mean rose to the position of coroner?

This is where it gets interesting. We delve into this question a lot.

A coroner is an interesting position it gets interesting. We delve into this question a lot. A corner is an interesting

position that varies a lot city to city. I thought there was, if you're a coroner for a town,

that meant you had all of this really specific training. And it turns out not to be that case.

Coroner has to be a medical examiner of some kind. They have to have police training of some kind. They

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