The Girlfriends S4/Bonus Ep 4: A Girlfriends Guide to Making a Change

The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

True Crime, Society & Culture, Relationships, Documentary

4.4 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Roger Golubski’s story exposed decades worth of corruption at the heart of Kansas City Kansas, a systemic failure to hold perpetrators to account. In this episode, we explore how Wyandotte County’s current District Attorney is working to weed out corruption and enact change. US resources for Violence and Sexual Assault: https://rainn.org/ International resources for Violence and Sexual Assault: https://nomoredirectory.org/ US Suicide & Crisis Helpline: https://988lifeline.org/ International Suicide & Crisis Helplines: https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/ The Girlfriends: Untouchable is produced by Novel for iHeart Podcasts. For more from Novel, visit https://novel.audio/. You can listen to new episodes of The Girlfriends: Untouchable completely ad-free and 1 week early with an iHeart True Crime+ subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.3	Hi, this is Raffaro.
0:06.0	I'm the producer of The Girlfriends, Untouchable.
0:09.0	In this episode, we'll be exploring the lengths the authorities went to try and fight corruption in Kansas City.
0:14.7	While there's a lot of hope in this episode, as well as stories of how people push back against a broken system, there will also be some
0:21.1	discussion of murder and sexual assault. If you or someone you love has been affected by any
0:27.4	of the themes that come up in this episode, we've left some links in the description that offer
0:31.7	resources and support. Take care of yourself.
0:40.1	Okay, let's address the elephant in the room.
0:44.4	You are not hearing the dulcet tones of Nikki Richardson or Kedija Hardaway.
0:47.7	As you can probably tell, I don't even have an American accent.
0:49.8	But as the producer of this series, I spent the past year having hours' worth of conversations with people from Kansas City about
0:55.0	Roger Golubski and the corruption his story exposed. However, Kansas City isn't an outlier.
1:02.4	Police corruption and institutional racism is an international problem that often affects black and
1:08.3	marginalized people the most.
1:15.4	Stories like these shake our trust in the institutions designed to protect us,
1:18.2	but we can't just sit by in despair.
1:22.9	If we want to see real change, it's up to us, the people, to speak truth to power and hold these institutions to account.
1:32.7	Thank you. to speak truth to power and hold these institutions to account. In this series, we've had two different approaches to change in the system.
1:38.2	One group of people want to change things from the ground up by challenging those institutions, like Nikki and Khadija.
1:45.3	You know, me and you didn't go into this to make friends.
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