Hey Matt,

Months ago, when I was serving on FinComm, I’d been given to understand that you’d been unwell for a length of time. While I do hope that this open letter finds you on the mend, if you happen to still be laid-up and stuck in the house, I want to recommend to you a super-interesting—dare I say, riveting—podcast.

It’s called CONSPIRACY IN CANTON, and I heard about it on Friday night from a friend who came over for sauna. She recommended it, and I can understand why.

You might find this hard to believe, but I knew nothing about the case of Commonwealth v. Karen Read until the other day. (This is probably on account of my not watching TV.)

Weird, right?

So, while I knew nothing of the Karen Read case itself, back in the winter, when I was writing those POT TWIST posts, day after day, about the questionable administration of the various cannabis businesses in town and the self-serving behavior of many elected officials and/or paid-for-by-the-taxpayer town employees, someone compared me to “Turtle Boy,” a name I will candidly admit I considered pejorative just by the sound of it and took no time investigating—though I would’ve started at Urban Dictionary where I suspected a “turtle boy” was not something I’d want to be called.

I had no idea who this Turtle Boy even was until I started listening to CONSPIRACY IN CANTON on Saturday. (Side note: I’m twenty-three episodes in. I think my sauna friend said that there are twenty-seven in total.)

And even though at this point, I know the jury’s verdict, I just want to keep listening to hear how Alan Jackson closes.

In the meanwhile, that Turtle Boy guy (as well as the lawyer from the YouTube Channel THE LAWYER YOU KNOW) is probably going to be looking into what’s going on down in Stoughton with that eighteen-year-old woman who the FBI believe was killed by a cop who, it’s been alleged, was father of the fetus she was eight to ten weeks pregnant with. How sad is this: The murder victim had participated in the Police Explorers Program, where, it is alleged in the indictment, the police officer had groomed her for years.

In the event you’re not so much into local true-crime stories where the police could be the bad guys, the investigative reporting that Madeleine Baran did for IN THE DARK, especially Season One, is also riveting.

All these podcasts have got me thinking: maybe I should do one, too.

I wonder if I should use a sobriquet?

Any suggestions?

Jenna