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Frustrated by commercial radio in the ’90s, a music-loving legal secretary builds one from scratch and runs it out of her LA apartment.
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Sue Carpenter, Keith Morris, Mike Watt, Don Bolles, Bob Forrest, Tom Morello, Camille Rose Garcia
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