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for an independent podcast is really, really helpful, but they also provide really useful

feedback that I consider when I'm writing new episodes. Believe it or not, me and my

team actually read every single review and we love incorporating your thoughts. Here's

a review we love recently from reviewer podcaster 17. I'm loving this new podcast. Everyone

should listen. I appreciate how Celicia has really brought to life and humanized real

people in her work. I'm learning along the way about myself, about our quote unquote

justice system, and so much about the important things that are so often left out of the narrative.

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for those of you who haven't left a review yet, please, please do. We'd love to know

what you think. And of course, as always, before I jump into today's story, I want to give

you a content warning. Please be aware that today's episode contains references to sexual

assault. While I was writing and researching for today's episode, another story I'd heard

once kept coming to mind. It takes place in a state I've never been to, Kentucky, and

a year I didn't exist 1965. But it stuck with me. On that day in 1965, at the University

of Kentucky, 72 undergrad students showed up to take part in an experiment, a study. They'd

been promised extra credit for their intro site class. The researchers, Melvin learner and

Carolyn Simmons explained in their published findings that the students were split up into

smaller groups of four to 10 and told that they'd be helping with a study on stress and performance.

The researchers said basically, okay, look, leaders in business and the military, they

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