Hey everyone, we're excited to share another episode of a podcast we think you'll really like.

It's from the team at Love and Radio, which is one of our favorite shows.

And as a fun fact, when Mark was first starting out in audio, he actually worked under one of the creators of Love and Radio, Nick Vanderculk.

Nick taught Mark a lot about the craft of audio production, including

how to remove music at the perfect moment to add emphasis to a statement.

The episode we're sharing today is the first of a genre-bending true crime series called

Blood Memory. It's a show that shatters the conventions of what a true crime podcast can be,

presenting a non-narrative,

long-form investigation. The series follows the life of Michael Thompson, who became infamous

for defecting from a notorious prison gang and testifying against them in several high-profile

criminal trials. This is not a podcast that tells you what happened. Instead, it invites

you into an immersive, ethically complex world that feels a little like Sons of Anarchy meets

S-Town. Through nearly a decade of intimate interviews with Thompson, combined with meticulous

investigative journalism, the series forces listeners to grapple with a central unnerving question.

Is Michael Thompson a gentle soul trapped by a broken system? Or is he, as critics claim,

a master manipulator who cannot be trusted? Listen to blood memory wherever you get your podcasts.

Here's the first episode.

You find out what your beliefs are when they're put to the test.

If they don't stand up to the test,

then you damn well better reevaluate

to determine what your beliefs actually are.

Because otherwise, you're just living a facade

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