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Guaranteed human. Hey guys, it's Andre Gunning, and this is our first bonus episode after finishing our season of weekly stories.

This year, our team has been working hard behind the scenes to put every weekly episode together.

And The We, I'm referencing referencing is my amazing production team.

Our producer, Monique Laborde, our associate producer, Caitlin Golden,

and our audio engineers, Matt Delvecchio, and Tanner Robbins.

For this special bonus episode, I'm joined by my producer to answer some of your listener questions.

Hey, Mo. Hi, Dre. So fun to come out from behind the scenes.

My God. I am glad to be here and I am excited to dive into some listener questions that we have been receiving all season on Betrayal Weekly.

I love it. I'm so excited to jump in. I actually want to start with a question for you.

Yeah, go for it.

You know, this has been a evolving journey just from the format and how we're approaching our

interviews.

So I just wanted to ask, what has it been like?

Yeah, you know, I've been a podcast producer for eight years, and I've worked on all kinds of shows. I've produced chat shows, pop culture, news, narrative. But this show has been a complete standout in my work experience. I mean, from the day that I came onto this team, you all have built

this framework of doing something really unconventional and trying to, I think, develop a trauma-informed

storytelling model, this collaborative kind of storytelling that we're doing, where we're working

with these survivors, we're giving them a lot of autonomy in the storytelling process. So getting to join that and getting to connect with the people that tell their stories,

these people who've been through something really traumatic and are wanting to share their

experiences has been incredibly rewarding for me. I think it's an uncommon experience in the audio industry to see a

show work so closely with the storytellers and to collaborate with them in the way that we do.

I want to ask you about what it has been like for you to work on the weekly series because

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