Yeah yeah treats, slop, fascism and so on. I like true crime, if you’ve got an issue then come to evergreen terrace 742 and we can talk about it.
Anyway I used to love Last Podcast on The Left, but they’ve lost the sauce. I enjoyed them for the fact they seemed to do a lot of research, but aloof treatment of the subject matter (making “gold star episodes” for especially gory stuff 🤮) and also, somehow, wanting to do the “scary and serious” type voice… It’s shit.
I’d love some recommendations for True Crime podcasts that:
- Treat the victims with respect.
- Don’t give the perpetrators mythological gravitas
- Do deep research
- Are entertaining
- Aren’t trying to make me believe the world is out to get me so Ill buy their home alarm system.
By entertainment I don’t mean funny. I just mean it provides you with whatever it is you expect to get out of listening to a good podcast.
https://open.spotify.com/show/4V3K3zyD0k789eaSWFXzhc
Haven’t listened in a while, but Casefile checked most of the boxes if I recall correctly. I just don’t remember if they had the scare mongering grift.
I also appreciate how the episodes have content warnings.
Also as an aside, I hate My Favorite Murder and grew to hate Last Pod for the fact that comedians were part of their casts.
Listening to casefile now! Its good! Thank you.
Yeah I grew to dislike LPOTL because of Ben Kissel, but then at some point I was just completely turned off. Felt like they were phoning it in. Tried to relisten to an episode I had enjoyed previously and realised I just straight up had outgrown their shtick. I think you hit the nail on the head with the comedian reason. Also just so much yelling from Henry.
I kept checking in once in a while, but then they covered Utøya and that was just… It just made me see how shit they were.
Guess it required a personal relation. Henry giving Breivik a “wacky swedish chef” voice. Yeah 70 dead children is funny when it happens in Europe I guess. I also think they did some both-sidesism. It at least made it clear to me they didn’t do good research anymore, if they’d ever done it. Couldn’t listen to more than 15 minutes