Hello, dreamers, and welcome to this 305th episode of California Dreaming.

And before we get into today's case, I have a few notes about the show.

This is an independent ad-free podcast, which means I depend on listener support to help keep us

growing and to help us find new listeners.

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So what will show up is if I decide to put an image of the person, the perpetrator,

the victim, something like that.

But it's still all just audio.

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Patreon support has been dropping off a little bit lately, which is understandable.

Some of it's my own fault, but I also regularly get complaints

about not being able to listen to the episodes over there. I try to work through those issues

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