Hey everybody, this is Jad. As you may or may not know, we just started our first ever radio lab

spinoff called More Perfect, which, you know, the idea is to tell stories about the Supreme

Court or like cases that are in front of the Supreme Court and to hear those dramatic stories

and then sort of think about them really hard.

Kind of taking the Radio Lab vibe and putting it into this new space.

It's done really well.

We're so excited.

And we want the entire Radio Lab Posse to know about it.

So if you haven't subscribed yet, go to iTunes or wherever you get your podcast.

Check it out.

We hope you'll subscribe.

And I wanted to play actually one more episode for you guys.

This one is an episode we've been working on and researching and reporting for months and months and months.

Really hope you enjoy it.

Hey, I'm Chad Aboum-Rod.

This is More Perfect.

Today, two stories from reporter Catherine Wells. The first has some adult content in it, so be warned if you're listening with kids. You might want to skip this one. Here's Catherine. So maybe we can just start with the night that it started. Yeah. We can start with the start. so the... Give me the who, what, when, where?

The best way to describe being a patrol officer on the street is, you have a front row seat

to the greatest show on Earth.

September 17th, 1998, on the outskirts of Houston, there's a deputy sheriff named Joseph

Quinn.

He had been on duty very long at all. He's driving around and he hears this call go out on the radio.

...