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Power-tripping sheriffs
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Celebrating in Style With Caviar and Champagne
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Gastropod is the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history. Today we're back with Maurice Schma, a writer for The Marshall Project who's been reporting on sheriffs. Sheriffs seem like a uniquely American phenomenon, but in fact they're not. We inherited sheriffs from England originally. They come to play this uniquely American role which is baked into how Americans see ourselves.
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