1160: Tegan Broadwater | How a White Cop Infiltrated the Crips Part One

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This is a really good, solid two-part episode here that I know you'll enjoy. Here we go, part one with Tegan Broadwater. Yeah, 'cause that's one of those jobs where everybody says various interviews have been like, my stress was so high w one of my teeth started falling out and where my stress was so high, uh, blood work said I was gonna basically die young because my cortisol was through the roof or had no cortisol or whatever it was. My stress level was so high I was addicted to hydroxy cup. And it's just one legal substance after another.

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