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and interrogation program and the man who spotted Bernie made off before anyone else.

And I try to get to the bottom of a heartbreaking encounter between a police officer and a civilian,

which resulted in the death of a young woman named Sandra Blandon, Texas.

I think it's a book that will prompt a lot of conversations and arguments, which, as

you know from revisionist history, is what I like to do.

I'm very proud of it.

And there's something else I'm proud of with talking to strangers.

After making four seasons of revisionist history, I've fallen in love with a kind of storytelling

that can be done through a podcast.

And I decided that I wanted to bring that same approach to the audiobook of talking

to strangers.

Normally an audiobook is just the author or someone the author hires, reading into a microphone.

I didn't want to do that.

I wanted to make this audiobook of talking to strangers as compelling as an episode of

revisionist history.

So if you listen to the audiobook, you'll hear the voices of the people I interview.

And if I'm describing some historical event, you'll hear archival tape.

For courtroom scenes, we have actors reimagining what happened.

There's music, an extraordinary song by Janel Monet, scoring.

We even have excerpts from other audiobooks and podcasts like the fantastic believed from

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