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Hello everyone and welcome to our third Q&A episode of The Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host Robin Warner and I hope everyone here had a very happy holidays.

This will be our last episode of 2022 and since I'm currently on vacation I thought it

would be a good idea to close off the year with another Q&A episode.

We've previously released episodes like this back at the end of 2018 and 2020 and I think

it's about time to do it again so without any further ado let's get started.

So our first question was basically asked by four separate listeners and there are pretty

much variations on the same question so I thought I would answer them all at once.

This particular question was asked by John, Tom, Ben and Mike and it's pretty much how

much time is spent researching, writing, recording and editing together an episode and how

much work goes into making this podcast.

Well to be quite honest, even though I get asked this question a lot, I really don't have

a concrete answer because I don't actually keep track of the exact number of hours I take

in order to put together an episode and I think the big problem with giving a collusive answer

is because it pretty much varies because each case sometimes has a different amount of work.

There are some cases like the Danny Castle Arrow episode or the Alcatraz episode or the

Boys on the Tracks episode where I have so much more material to go through that it could

take weeks but if I'm doing a case in which there's less information and the episode is

going to be shorter, it takes far less time.

And consequently if it's a case from unsolved mysteries that I'm very familiar with and

no like the back of my hand, I can put together an episode relatively quickly but if it's

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