From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time. I'm Bob Ruff. Hello everybody and welcome back to truth and justice.

For you guys listening to this, it is not a holiday at all, but for our patrons that are here

joining me in the live stream today, we're recording this on New Year's Day, mid-afternoon,

right in the middle of when there's a bunch of sports ball going on that I personally don't care about and at least 20 of my best friends from Patreon don't care about either because they've taken time out of their day to come hang out with me. So for this week, as you guys know, we've been off for a week. I hope everybody that celebrates any of these holidays had a great holiday. And I just hope y'all had a great couple of weeks in general. I know I did. It was a real nice refresher for me for those. A lot of the conversations we have in our like with our patrons and

our pregame, you guys aren't privy to. But you know, I've, I think I've talked about quite a bit of this on the actual show that, you know, I've been, I've been taking college classes over the last year plus, you know, teaching and doing this. And I just, like my days are jam-packed every

single day, just keeping up this. And I've just, like, my days are jam-packed every single

day, just keeping up on stuff. I actually, I did the count. I completed 47 credit hours of

college this year amongst everything else. So I've just been really burning things at both

ends. And usually anytime I have time off from work, that's when I really

get a whole bunch of my college work done. In this case, the college semester ended at the same time

that my school teaching semester ended at the same time when we had a planned break for the holiday

for the podcast. So I actually had like a whole week there where I didn't have anything to do. So I was able to really spend a lot of time with my family, get a lot of just kind of maintenance things done in the office and get things ready for next year. And then I was also able to do a lot of kind of the investigative work that I've been wanting to do on the Bynum case. For this time hasn't been super fruitful so far. But I was able to get a lot of that done and make some other connections and plans.

So it's been a great week.

Now coming back in, and it's now 2026 officially, looking forward to what we're going to do moving

forward from here, the first thing that I want to do is just put this episode out while

we're just kind of waiting for things to come together and just kind of catch everybody up and kind of ease us into this this new year. It's what I've done for any of our patrons. You guys know we do this all the time. We have a stream put up for the patrons so they can participate in these recordings live. So I've got a bunch of our patrons are in the chat right now. And so there'll be, you know, adding comments and asking questions along the way. Give you guys an idea of the outline what I want to go through today. First, I was kind of update you where things are at with the Bynum case and what's going on there is we're kind of, as you guys, I'm sure, are getting the impression. We're kind of getting to the end of where we can go. And I've been talking about this. What I can do, as opposed to what

I can do and talk about on the podcast. We'll talk about that a little bit. And then we get every

single week, we get tons of questions about what's going on with our previous cases. So I thought

today would be a great day to go through from season one all the way till now. What's going on with everyone in all the cases that we've worked so far? So I'll update you guys all on all of that stuff. And at the end, we're going to talk about our plans moving forward and any questions that might come in from the patrons who are here live streaming with me today. So that's kind of the plan. Don't plan on being a super long episode or a really well-formatted episode.

Just kind of getting some information out, welcoming everybody into the new year,

and giving the idea where we plan to go from here.

So with all that being said, we'll go ahead and get started.

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