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603: Once More, With Feeling
Act Three

You Had One Job

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A bomb disposal robot is assigned a new and even more complicated task. Fiction by Scott Brown, read by actor Jeremy Shamos. (19 minutes)

By

Scott Brown

Song:

“Robot” by Trip Lee

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