Hey, everyone, welcome back to Crime Weekly News.

I'm Derek Lavasar.

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

And first off, thank you to everyone who watched or listened to the Brad Bradley episode, starting to see some audio comments trickle in.

So far, so good.

We hope you guys got a lot out of it.

Overall, we didn't have like a closing statement with that interview because we felt like it was pretty self-explanatory.

We didn't plan on interviewing Brad.

We closed out our episode.

We had kind of put a bow on it.

Brad was additional information because we had came to our own conclusions and always,

with every case we covered, I know I say it all the time, but there's no incentive for us

to lean one way or the other.

You've seen it with other cases where

popular opinion may be one thing and we end up going in a different direction and we get more

hate for it than anything. But that's because, and this is what I love about Stephanie and where

we're definitely always on the same page, we call it how we see it, even if it's not the majority opinion,

right? And that's what I do think differentiates us from a lot of podcasts because sometimes,

without saying names, they like to see where the consensus is online and then they go that similar

angle. So for us, having Brad on wasn't to debate him, wasn't to discredit anything that he believed.

It was to say, hey, here's what we believe.

Here's what Brad and his family believes.

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