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The Late Signal

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A weekly interview show about people who walked away from stable careers to build something small and strange - a lawyer who opened a bike repair shop, a wildland firefighter who now restores furniture. No script, no ad read longer than a sentence, and most weeks Early Access subscribers get the fifteen minutes of unguarded pre-show conversation that's usually better than the finished episode. Producer Credit supporters help shape what gets covered, mailbag episodes included.

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8/4/2026Early Access+

Pre-show chat, episode 42 - recording tomorrow

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8/4/2026

Recording episode 42 tomorrow

Back in the chair tomorrow with a decade-long wildland firefighter who now restores furniture for a living - based on the pre-interview call alone, this one's running long. Out Thursday as usual.

8/2/2026

Mailbag episode next week - send questions in

Skipping the regular guest slot next week for a mailbag episode - send questions through the contact page or just reply here. No topic is off limits, and past mailbags have proven that pretty thoroughly.

7/30/2026Early Access+

The fifteen minutes before episode 41 started recording

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7/30/2026

Episode 41: the lawyer who opened a bike shop

This week's guest left a law career to open a bike repair shop, and the conversation went somewhere I didn't expect - less about the leap itself and more about the specific thing at the old job that finally became unbearable. Up everywhere now.

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