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Second Wind

· 40 min · S17 E533 · Explicit

Episode Second Wind

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This episode first surfaced back in June 2014, presenting two people who’d run out of road and somehow had to find more.

Joe Mulligan, a stand-up whose marriage and career have both come apart, flies to Boulder for a peyote ceremony and finds his spirit guide is the last thing he would have chosen. And Olga Schmutz, gutted by a breakup, walks into a Philadelphia shop at 3 a.m. and walks out with a strap-on named Carlitos and a brand-new sense of purpose.

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