From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.

I'm Bob Rock.

Thank you for tuning into truth and justice. You are listening to the

Friday follow-up for Season 18, Episode 18. This week we heard Bob's conversation with Dwayne Betts

about his amazing Freedom Reeds project. This was such a heartwarming and meaningful conversation

about redemption and making a real difference.

Today, the gang is all here, and I cannot wait for the three of us to discuss this episode.

But before that, do we have any housekeeping?

The only housekeeping that I have is, for those you that are following,

underestimated my students' podcast, we are jamming episodes out now.

We're putting out two a week, Wednesdays and Fridays. And so we just

had the first half of Gracie's team's episodes come out. Today we're recording on Wednesday. So the

third episode of the Brandy Peltz case just came out. I just want to take a moment to say how much I'm

going to miss Janet to Gracie. She's a senior. She has six days of school left. We were just talking about

it today. I do get the honor and privilege tomorrow night of going to present her with the

CTE student of the year award at a big countywide award ceremony tomorrow night. That's awesome.

But when you listen to that, all the episodes all the episodes are different all the different you know

the groups are different groups of kids doing different topics they all have different writing

styles and speaking styles and it's just every time i listen to anything that that gracey's group

is put together it's just she is i cannot wait to see where that young lady goes with her life

because she is such an incredible

writer and has such a presence and just it's going to make me cry she's she's been with me

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