This podcast, it's a Costerton Touchstone production.

I'm John Kariako. Welcome to Dead Drop, What Makes a Spy Tick.

As always, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for checking us out.

There are a lot of great podcasts out there.

We know.

We're huge fans of them too, that you've chosen to spend your valuable time with ours means the world to us.

And thank you for liking, rating, reviewing, and commenting on the podcast wherever you're catching it.

Those things especially have put a thermal under our

wings. So thank you for helping us soar. Back on Earth, we're hard at work readying the launch of

season two of Dead Drop, what makes a spy turned federal prisoner tick. While we work on that,

we wanted to share with you an episode of a podcast that we made a little while ago as part of a series we were developing called Prisoner X.

Prisoner X was, it still is, about forgotten people who are imprisoned here in America and around the world but who shouldn't be.

That shouldn't be forgotten or imprisoned.

The podcast's mission?

Tell these stories in order to help make these prisoners ex-prisoners. We worked on this podcast in 2024, but after the election

and the way Washington's politics swung, we decided to stick a pin in prisoner X. Well,

time has come to re-examine that pin. That's in part because the politics in

D.C. seem to be shifting again, and podcasting has grown considerably in its power and influence,

even in this brief time. In a world where the truth itself is under constant threat, people are

seeking honest, clear, trustworthy voices. Podcasting is providing them.

In an environment like that, a podcast like Prisoner X might actually help get some of the

people whose stories we want to tell a legitimate shot at getting their freedom.

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