Eric Peabody
speaker
17,795 appearances
23 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
Eric Peabody’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He doesn't like the parts where he has to do work.
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Despite his granddaughter's fairly cynical assessment of his position, the
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Owen Miller thought of himself as an excellent mayor.
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He had first been elected twenty six years ago when he was only thirty four.
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In the two and a half decades since, he felt the town had done quite well for itself, and ascribed much of that to his leadership.
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Admittedly, most of his leadership involved staying out of the way and letting people get on with their lives, but Mayor Miller felt that knowing when you were not needed was an excellent skill, and one that more big city people needed to cultivate.
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The towns certainly seemed to agree, as they kept voting for him.
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Most election cycles, Miller ran unopposed.
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The few he didn't were usually because someone was looking for a special concession and wanted to make sure the mayor knew they were serious.
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The challengers never stood a chance at the ballot box, but the mayor always made a point of meeting with them afterward to work out whatever was bothering them.
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The next election he'd run unopposed again.
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He had grown comfortable in his job.
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He knew how the town worked, and the town knew how he worked.
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They understood each other, he felt.
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So when his phone began ringing with people calling him directly about the problems, the mayor answered with smoothness and grace, promising his constituents that he'd get it taken care of.
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Inside, though, was
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He was beginning to seethe.
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If he was being disturbed, that meant that someone down the line wasn't doing their job.
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The first order of business was to find out who that was and give them a shake.
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He called Sheriff George first, frowning as the phone rang without answer on his work, cell, and home lines.
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