You're listening to? Serious inquiries only.

Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries Only with Thomas and Lindsay. How are you doing,

Lindsay Ostriman? Dr. Lindsay Ostriman? Yeah, get it right.

Can I add to your official title co-host of Serious Inquiries Only? Oh, that would be delightful.

I am so excited. I can't even hold it in another second. We made it official. We got hit. Oh,

no, I don't want to give people a long question. You may not own this podcast host of me, Lindsay.

I wanted to tell everybody that Lindsay is officially on board and like she's hired onto the show

capacity because she's so great and I love her so much and the content has been amazing. I'm so

excited to have you. I'm super excited. Yeah, thanks. Good times. You know, it's been a little slow

this month. So this is the first episode in a while. Sorry if you missed us, but we've got a great

one for you. We're still coming off just the roller coaster of this week. I mean, obviously with

the show in trial and actually getting something resembling justice. Wow, feeling all kinds of ways

about that. We'll have obviously more legal breakdown on opening arguments about that, but

we've got the science breakdown over here because Lindsay is going to take us through some of the

science behind bias in the criminal justice system. I can't wait. It's the scientific deep dive that

we've come to know and love from Dr. Lindsay Ostriman. So once you get us started, co-host.

I would be delighted. Yeah, no, this was an interesting thing to prep for because I know some of

this stuff I cover it in social psych fairly regularly, but there was a lot that I didn't know

as well about some of these findings. So I hope this will be interesting to folks. So yeah,

so we're going to be talking about racial bias and before we get into some of these studies,

I wanted to just give a quick primer on these concepts of like intergroup bias and prejudice

and stereotyping and discrimination and how we talk about them in social psych. So to start

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