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Welcome to 30 series podcast. My name is Officer India. I was a street police officer in Detroit

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police and I was then inducted to a specialized unit named 30 series. We handled high felony crime,

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paranormal activity and demonic possession. The stories you've heard and are about to hear

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are stories from my journal and my life of 30 series. The story that I'm getting ready to dive into

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I call Fallen Officer and it's pretty personal. It's very close to home and the Fallen Officer that

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I'm talking about was part of our 30 series team. I actually worked with him for a little over six

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years and we became really close, really basically blood and that whole time when I was serving with him

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there was a secret that I wasn't even aware of nor was I ever privy to until one day he decided to

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kill himself with his service revolver. Now I want you to be jump man on this story and jump man is

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what we call a person in the car. Somebody that jumps out when we're chasing somebody,

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a person taking the report, a person being affected just as much as a driver in that unit.

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Now picture this. You are indigent to a specialized unit named 30 series.

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You're a swore to secrecy and before you hit the pavement they put you in a basement

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and this basement I can't disclose where it's at but it's in Detroit. It's an abandoned building

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and it's falling apart and when you go inside this abandoned building

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you see this abandoned building is not so abandoned. It's actually fixed up and it's a base. It's home base.

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It's the chapel is what we called it. The chapel is hidden from prying eyes and it's guarded very,

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very heavily and now once you're in the chapel you are then led to a room. This room is no different

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than any other meeting room that you've probably seen in your life in your sat-down

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and you watch video recordings from old VCR sort of real the real film of demonic

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exorcisms being performed by the Vatican and everyone in that room is looking around

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trying to make sense. Why are we watching this?

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And then the commander walks in who we've all had some sort of connection with

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and starts to explain that these are the kind of cases that we're going to be handling.

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I open right? You got to be kidding me right? This is only on movies and TV shows. I mean

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I've experienced my fairer things of paranormal activity when I was growing up because my father

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who was estranged to me all my life he he dabbled in the dark voodoo practices and that's one of the

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reasons why my mother loved him and so to see this as a full grown adult it's pretty mind-blowing.

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As I explained earlier there's five of us four men and one female. A female in the team

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she was just like one of the guys she would go toe to toe with the best of them and if you had to

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get in the fist fight or a gunfight she was right there she didn't high tail it out of there.

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As of my experience I've had a female officer partners prior to joining 30 series

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who literally would run away from the situation and I even had one after a firefight decide that

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this is not the job she signed up for but again it is Detroit.

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So the fallen officer's name is TJ and TJ was a good looking guy African American male

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and he resembled things I watched him a lot and what I mean by that is that he had no problem

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picking any woman in the club or bar they would actually flock to him like a mock to a flame

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and it is very well spoken very well decorated and very much caring but TJ got fucked with

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a lot when we would run into these demonic possessed people they always targeted their

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attacks at him and we couldn't figure it out and we didn't know because he didn't tell us and it's

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just one of those crosses that he carried that we weren't aware of and I wish we were maybe we

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could have done something different maybe we could have been there more for him maybe we could have

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talked him out of it a whole bunch of what if what if what ifs I really don't know I thought we were

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close enough that he would have told me but I didn't find that out later and so the story goes

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we dealt with this demonic possession where this young teenage girl she couldn't have been more than

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16 years old she locked herself in the upstairs attic of the house in Detroit and her mother called us

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and we went there thinking it was just a simple domestic violence which we don't normally

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attend to but since we were around the corner why not because Detroit receives a lot of runs and

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cases like this sort of gets overlooked or not even dealt with and I figured why not we're around

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the corner let's go check it out and we arrive talk to the mother and she has scratches on her face

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and her arm and there's just something heavy as I explain when you know there's something evil in the

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house and it also has that smell of sulfur it's just so distinct as I said before if you've ever

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seen a dead body or a smelt one you'll never forget that smell a lot with demonic cases it has that

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sulfur smell that you always remember and you might not smell it for years and then one day you get

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that whiff and you're like I know what that is and it brings you right back to that moment it had that

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and so I said ma'am where's your child she says she's upstairs in the attic and I said attic she

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was well we converted our attic into a bedroom and she's up there that's where she stays and so we

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went upstairs and just kind of draw a picture of you it's dead heat of summer in Detroit this house

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is probably built in the 1960s so it doesn't have any air condition whatsoever the only area you're

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gonna get out of this house is probably the fans that are stuck into the window seals or

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they're circulating fan that's on top of the ceiling and it all it does is probably gonna wash

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around hot air there's no way it's really getting cool but we went into that attic it was no different

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than walking into a freezer and that door didn't open up first because it was just locked tight

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and then it finally came open and we all walked in and the second that we walked into that room

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we already knew that oh fuck here we go here it is so we made contact and it's very subtle because

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again it's a kid and we have a role about kids and women right we explained that earlier and so

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the last thing we want to do is hurt a kid and I ask what is your name and the little girl tells

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me her name and I go no what is your name because I know you're here and then she starts to rock on

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the bed now the room gets colder we see the breath in front of our lungs or our face I should say

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and it starts fogging up a little bit because it's getting that cold

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and I have a st. Michael's charm always there was blast by the pope and I take it out

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and the kid stops rocking on the bed and looks at me and she gives me this very very chilly look

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and says in the man's voice why have you brought that here and I said this child is a child of God

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you have no control over her I command you to release her and then the little girl starts to rock again

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and the demon in man's voices not before I'm done doing what I need to do

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and when it says something like that I'm thinking it's going to cause this kid to hurt itself or

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hurt one of us and you know I want you to picture that it's 1990 and the only form of

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weapons that we have are guns knives pr-24s and mace and after that it's cuffs and fists and feet so

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we just didn't know the direction that was going to go and it looks past me it looks past two other

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officers and it beads on tj and says I'm here to talk about you and your hidden skeletons in the

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closet you think you can exercise me you you know use that word which I don't want to use

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and we were all like in our minds thinking you kidding me tj gets more ass and everybody else in

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this room put together that's just another assault that it's doing and then it starts to tune into

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tj and tuning into him so much he starts talking about how he likes men and it's no surprise to us

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because we know that these entities like to use different trickery to sort of throw you off from

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trying to exercise it from that person and it starts laying on him and it said something

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just made tj leave the room and that thing said do you think god will forgive you for what you've

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done do you think god is here with you do you think god makes mistakes

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and he says it again do you think god makes mistakes and tj exits the room and then he

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turns his attack on someone else saying different things about fornication and we had enough of

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her mouth and we all rushed her at one time and it took four of us and we finally subdued her

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and conveyed her to the Detroit receiving hospital and in the basement the Detroit receiving hospital

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is a mental ward and that mental ward is where they perform exorcisms and this is the first time

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me disclosing this because I think it's important for you to understand that this thing is still

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happening but to get back to what I was telling you this kid gets the exorcism performed on her

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because we all validate that this person indeed is possessed and again we don't have the power to

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perform the right passage because we all sin constantly whether it's causing or hating

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wanting and needing it uses it against us in so many ways and for some reason

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after years and years of dealing with these things I think tj just had the last straw that

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broke the camel's back and I remember um leaving the hospital and the unit just feels drained

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as I explained before anytime you deal with these entities it drains the life force out of you

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you just feel so exhausted and so there's a few of us that headed back to the chapel

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but I knew that something was heavy on tj's mind and I stood back and I'm like hey you all right

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and he was like yeah yeah I just can never get used to these things and

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I I didn't see it you know I just know that we all had our challenges and continued to have our

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challenges but um that night I wish I was keep keyed in a little bit better maybe I could have

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stopped tj from killing itself I don't know but um I remember him telling me yeah I'm gonna

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I'm gonna take some uh court time and what court time is is um there's times where

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instead of getting paid overtime you get court time and you build your court time hours and if

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you have enough hours you can kind of take them as a leave of absence but paid or if you build it up

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to like 200 hours and you get this big check after 200 hours that they cut you out because

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you could only build it up to like 200 hours and he said I'm gonna take some court time for the

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rest of the day and to sort of get back on the saddle tomorrow and I was like all right I get it

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I mean because I've I've have taken court time cop time a few times just sort of recompose myself and

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get my bearings again um because we're not only attacked on the job but sometimes it comes home

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to you right so the day comes to an end as normal I um hold myself a tall glass of wine and kick

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my shoes off pet my dog and kiss my girlfriend who's my wife now and sort of meditate and think

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about the day in front of my fireplace because I always burn fire the fire in the fireplace because

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it's one of my things that I love to do it's the way to um sort of get back to myself and I fall asleep

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and then the phone rings in the house and it startles me and jump up and I see the time on

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the wall because I have a big picture uh clock on the wall and it's 3 20 a.m. in the morning

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now the witch an hour right three in the morning it's not a thing and fuck is that a real phone

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call or is that thing fucking with me and so I go to the kitchen down the hallway and I answer the

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phone and I hear dead silence and I go who is it and then I hear the commander's voice

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you need to get to the chapel tj killed himself

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and I doubt it and I go stop fucking with me and he said no tj killed himself

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and so I lose it I recompose myself and take my unmarked police unit to the chapel

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where I see the rest of the team in tears and it's my confirmation that that phone call was real

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and but LT said it's

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he goes up and we still didn't know and you're probably wondering what we did now

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we ended up finding out that tj was gay he hit it first hit it from everybody

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I never saw it coming because I would see him leave women and women would flock to him like

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moths to flames and I never suspected it I didn't see it coming we only found out because

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at the eulogy the person that he was in a relationship with who's I'm still in contact

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still to this day um he made that announcement and he didn't know what jade what tj was um

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into because again we hide the secrets from our families and loved ones

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and now this

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the corner will go out and he'll understand

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why he wasn't even able to disclose things and I hope it brings him peace

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and I hope that he has his way to happen because he helped many people

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and looking back at it it really affected the team because

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whether what your beliefs are being gay or not gay it it doesn't matter tj was human

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he was my friend he was a partner we spilled blood in the same mud and I will honor him

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and continue to honor him I support his lover when he needs it when he calls up on there

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because that's what we're supposed to do for fallen officers be there at all times and

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some day that doesn't go by then I don't think about him and think about

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what I could have done differently and um can't imagine the horror he went through on a day

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by day basis I mean we all went through it but his had to be elevated because

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the whole timing he was probably questioning his reality can you imagine

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that you are told that the devil doesn't exist and that god is fake and now you're

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face to face with it and you're like fuck am I wrong for being who I am I don't think you are

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I don't think God makes mistakes you are who you are because he made you the way you are

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I miss you tj rest in peace again thank you for supporting my podcast there'll be more to come