Alison Sutherland⁠ has moved through nearly every seat at the MDT table — CPS investigator, forensic interviewer, victim advocate, juvenile court liaison, and now a Children's Advocacy Center educator and founder of the prevention organization Prevention Starts with Parents. She and Robert dig into her earliest days as a Georgia DFCS investigator, the sensory core memories that never fade, and the situational-awareness lessons — meth pipes, an unexpected shotgun — that came from learning on the job. They also unpack how minimal facts interviewing actually works, why so much CPS training misses the mark, and why the systemic problems of the 1980s still look a lot like 2026. Also: a Jesus juke, a live AI-generated banter question, and Alison's lasting grudge against a two-day training called Verbal Judo.