Hey, it's Guy here. So have you ever heard about a person or maybe even met someone who risked

everything to do the right thing? Somebody who was so courageous, it almost made you wonder where

that courage even comes from? Well, we're going to explore that very question on the show today.

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I'm Guy Ross. And on the show today, stories of courage and justice.

Ideas about why people sometimes risk everything to do the right thing.

So in the late 1980s, Gaila Benafield had a job reading utility meters. She was one of those people

who'd go house to house for the gas or the electric company. Now this was in a small town in Montana.

And Gaila did most of her work in the middle of the day. And after a couple of months on the job,

she started to notice this weird thing that a lot of people were actually home in the middle of the day.

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