15: Exclusive interview with James Murray and his new book The Stowaway
Game of Crimes
Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
James Murray is known to his millions of fans as Murr - the star of TrueTV's Impractical Jokers. Murr also appears on The Misery Index on TBS, and starred in his own movie in early 2020 called Impractical Jokers: The Movie. He's a successful author with several books on best seller lists, and now he appears exclusively on Game of Crimes to talk about the launch of his new thriller on Tuesday, September 21.
The Stowaway: Two years ago, Maria Fontana, the head of the Psychology Department at Columbia University, sat on a jury for one of the most depraved cases ever to pass through the hallowed halls of City Hall. Wyatt Butler, an antique watch restorer and alleged serial killer, was portrayed in the courtroom as a brutal monster. But Maria had to make the tough choice. In good conscience, she couldn't convict him based purely on circumstantial evidence, and her deciding vote set Wyatt Butler free. The media soon outed her as the lone juror and her successful and quaint life was turned upside down. The victims of Wyatt's ritualistic killings never forgave her either.
Now, she and her family have decided to take a vacation to get away from everything: a two-week-long transatlantic cruise. Nothing, and nobody should be able to bother her there. With her two twins and her fiancé Steve, she is set to put the past behind her as soon as the ship leaves port. But when a passenger mysteriously disappears, Maria is left to wonder if maybe this was no coincidence. When another passenger is discovered brutally murdered in a similar way to Butler’s ritualistic MO, the ship goes on lockdown.
Maria, one of only twelve people in the world with intimate knowledge of the case, faces a perilous ticking clock. Is it a copycat? Or is she trapped on board with the bloodthirsty maniac she chose to set free?
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| 0:00.0 | Sarah, where's the car? It's gone. It's not gone. It's with fixer. Since you never got |
| 0:04.6 | round to MOTing, I took care of it. Fixed up. Fixed up. Fixed is great. They pick up |
| 0:08.9 | your car, drive it to the garage, handle the MOT, then drive it straight back to you. |
| 0:12.4 | Sounds expensive. Don't worry. They negotiate their prices with their partner |
| 0:15.6 | garages and the car pickup services included. So since that's all handled, how about you |
| 0:19.6 | take a look at that leaky tab or do you need me to fix that too? |
| 0:22.5 | For easy car maintenance, head to fixter.co.uk. We'll pick up your car and take care of |
| 0:27.4 | all the rest. Fixed up and you're back on track. |
| 0:42.4 | This week, we have James Murray, known to millions of people, his mirror, |
| 0:45.8 | star of TV's impractical jokers. On our podcast, talking about his new book, |
| 0:51.2 | The Stullway about a serial killer report, a cruise ship, and we get a staggering |
| 0:56.0 | admission from Murr. I love the psychological part, especially of |
| 0:59.8 | law enforcement, of interviewing people, of figuring things out. And I liked her |
| 1:03.8 | approach to that. Was this based on any things that you might have done in your |
| 1:08.4 | childhood that you want to talk about and contest to on a podcast that Steve and I |
| 1:13.0 | can help you work through right now, Murr? Yeah, we might have to get a beer or |
| 1:17.6 | something. No, it's not. It was a quick denial. That was like, I've been naked on TV. |
| 1:28.9 | I've been throwing airplanes. I've been mortified on TV for 11 years. |
| 1:34.8 | So there's lots of things I might be super dealing with in my life. |
| 1:39.0 | I'm trying to work through it on my own. I appreciate the author for |
| 1:45.6 | psychological help, gentlemen. Welcome to this special episode of Game of Crimes. |
| 2:09.6 | This week on Game of Crimes, I feel like doing an announcer thing because this is going to be |
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