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Hey, everyone. Just wanted to let you know that we are adding a trigger warning to this episode

because Paul is a former hostage negotiator, police interrogator, and he tells some stories,

but we talk about some really, really serious issues.

So if you listen with small children or if you have a history of trauma or violence in your life,

I just wanted to make sure that you were aware before we got into this episode.

Also, on a much lighter note, this episode was oddly hilarious in other ways because we had

so many internet connectivity problems and other weird things that kept on coming up and making

it incredibly hard to get through this episode.

And so if you want to hear some funny bloopers, just listen to the end

about so you could hear how many weird things happened in the recording of this episode.

And also, of course, big shout out to Simone and our podcast team for putting it together

and editing it to make it sound smooth because

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