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Hey, it's Madeline.
Since season three came out, we've gotten a lot of questions from listeners about the season.
So we wanted to come to you today to answer some of these questions.
I'm here with Samara Freemark, managing producer for in the Dark.
Hey, Madeline.
I am excited to be here and thanks to everyone who wrote in.
We read all of your questions and we're going to try to answer as many of them as we can today.
We're also going to be bringing in some other members of the in the Dark team to help us out on some of these.
So let's dive in.
Madeline, I wanted to start with a question about what it was like to report this season.
This question comes from a listener named Stacy and she writes.
As a former journalist, I was astounded by your willingness to plunge into reporting on the military as the barriers and insular culture seem impenetrable to me.
How did you find reporting on the military different from the previous long form projects you've completed?
Yeah, it is such a good question.
This was very different.
You know, every time we go into some new in depth story, we are in a way entering a different world.
The world of the military is complicated and so we've got to do a lot of work to have it make some sense to us.
You know, this could be everything from there's a ton of acronyms in the military that we don't understand as outsiders.