I know a lot of cops. They get asked all the time. Have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated.

I get right back there and it's bad.

Listen to Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebene, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free.

I'm Ebeney and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you.

Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network.

Tune in on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast,

or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

I'm Jeff Perlman.

And I'm Rick Jervis.

We're a journalist and hosts of the podcast Finding Sexy Sweat.

At an internship in 1993, we roomed with Reggie Payne,

aspiring reporter and rapper who went by Sexy Sweat.

A couple years ago, we set out to find him.

But in 2020, Reggie fell into a coma after police pinned him down, and he never woke up.

But then I see, my son's not moving.

So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own.

Listen to finding sexy sweat on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

If you're looking for another heavy podcast about trauma, the saying it.

This is for the ones who had to survive and still show up as brilliant, loud, soft, and whole.

The unwanted sorority is where black women, fims, and Gender Expansive Survivors of Sexual Violence

rewrite the rules on healing, support, and what happens after.

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