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Russian Roulette | Ep. 19 - Two Years Later

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45 years in tree business

Proof returns to Rome, Georgia. Recorded live at the annual Rome Film Festival, the episode brings Lee Clark and Joshua Kane back together with the team almost exactly two years after their exoneration and release, revisiting the wrongful conviction story the show covered in season one. The room opens warmly. Leanne Cook introduces the event with a firm defense of the podcast, praising it as work that stands up for people who need an advocate and helps set old wrongs right. The conversation stays close. Josh and Lee talk about what life has been like since prison, and the hosts keep steering things back to the practical, unscripted reality of freedom instead of treating the case as finished. A joke about driving breaks the tension. That small burst of humor helps the rest of the conversation land, because the episode never acts as if release closed the book on what came before it. Josh is blunt about the past. He describes the years when hope felt impossible, when prison gave him little reason to believe anyone would listen, and when the court response to his filings made the effort feel even more sealed off. That detail matters. It shows how legal barriers can make a person's attempt to speak feel pointless. The live format gives the episode its shape. There is overlap, audience energy, and a little looseness around the edges, but the show keeps circling back to summary and clarification so the important parts do not get lost. The tone remains grave. Even so, Josh and Lee sound funny, worn, and present, and that mix gives the update more honesty than a polished recap would have. The episode ends by looking ahead. Proof points listeners toward the next Season 2 update and notes that the evidence in Jake Silva's case is in the lab awaiting DNA testing. So the story is still open. What the episode offers is not closure, but a careful look at what exoneration changes and what it leaves behind.

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A live check-in that follows exoneration into the harder work of life after release.

Proof revisits Lee Clark and Joshua Kane about two years after their exoneration and release, returning to Rome, Georgia, for the annual Rome Film Festival and a live conversation about life since prison.

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Hear how life looks almost exactly two years after exoneration and release.

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