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Hi friends. Before we jump into today's story, I just want to give you a quick update

about some bonus content that I totally forgot to mention in last week's episode. So we

had this episode last week about this whole erase massacre, and if you listen to it,

you may remember that I mentioned really briefly that enslaved black people actually walked

alongside native people on the trail of tears. And when I found this out, this was something

that really surprised me. It left me with tons of questions. And so I decided that I wanted

to dig deeper and share some of what I learned with you all. So I actually had a conversation

about what I learned with my true crime co-producer, Olivia. And we posted our conversation

upon Patreon. So we talked a little bit about the history. Olivia asked some questions,

and you know, it's open to conversation. You can actually post comments on there, everything.

So if you want to hear that, if you want to join in on that conversation, you can actually

sign up for Patreon for a little is $5 a month. And the benefit is in addition to getting

this awesome bonus content, you actually directly supporting true crime. And so to sign

up, all you have to do is go to patreon.com slash true crime pod. Patreon is about P-A-T-R-E-O-N.

So patreon.com slash true crime pod. Then you'll select your membership tier and you can check

out. And your membership will renew every month. So you're going to have uninterrupted access

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