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Hey, friends. Before we dive in, I want to share something that really made my day recently.

I got this short email from a listener named Chad.

It was just a few sentences, but he told me how impacted he was by our episodes on Molly Tibbitts

and how important he felt like the truer crime perspective was, especially right now.

And honestly, that email reminded me how rare those moments of connection

are for podcasters. This isn't a live show where I can hear you reacting or a social

platform or we're in conversation. Most of the time, I honestly just record these episodes,

put them out into the world and hope they matter to someone.

But, you know, here's the reality.

More than 97% of the people who've listened to True Crime have never left a review,

which means that the voices that do show up, the ones that we see, are often the most polarized.

People who love the show enough to write about it

and people who just didn't connect to it at all. Some people who think I make things too

political or that I should be more objective or maybe even they just don't like the sound of my

voice. And honestly, that's fine. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but I also know that there's this much bigger

group of you in between, the folks who are listening and really care and just quietly keep coming

back week after week and season after season. And when you take the time to write even a sentence

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