576: Making Heads Or Tails Of The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Knox's arrest for murder in Italy became a sensational true crime story...so of course it is now the subject of a scripted true crime series. Did we find it sensational? Eve Batey joins us to discuss it. Around The Dial lands on North Of North, The Yogurt Shop Murders, Back To The Frontier, and The Fixer. Tara pitches the Friends episode "The One With Russ" for induction into The Nonac. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that knows: triples is best. Put down your old cell phone and your platter of pasta and join us!

GUESTS
👤 Eve Batey

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🍝 The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox
Around The Dial: 🧭 North Of North
Around The Dial: 🍦 The Yogurt Shop Murders
Around The Dial: 🪵 Back To The Frontier
Around The Dial: 🛠️ The Fixer
The Nonac: 🍷 Friends S02.E10: The One With Russ
Winner & Loser: 📞 Wendell Pierce
Winner & Loser: 🚨 MS Now
Game Time: 3️⃣ Three For All

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🦋 Eve Batey on Bluesky
❄️ North Of North Outfits at Victoria Jacket
💩 "And Just Like That Goes Out With A 'Bah'" at Cracked
🍦 "The Yogurt Shop Murders Unpacks 'The Craziest Crime In Texas'" at Vanity Fair
📰 The Pleat
⚒️ "The Fixer: Marcus Lemonis's New Show Is Very Similar To The Profit" at Reality Blurred
🔎 Best Evidence
👯‍♂️ "Friends: Why Russ Is Played By 'Snaro' (When It's Really David Schwimmer)" at ScreenRant
😉 "'Diner Wink' Full Sketch - I Think You Should Leave Season 2" [origin of "triples is best"] on YouTube
📷 Photo: Hulu

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0:00.0	In the haze of tragedy, I was a deer in the headlights, unaware that my hunter was about to arrive.
0:14.4	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 576 for the week of August 18th, 2020.
0:30.3	I am onomous, I am on to this poop.
0:34.7	David T. Cole and you're here with miserable salt freight, Sarah Dfunding. Your mom's the mom. out of this poop. Sorry.
0:40.4	David T. Cole on here with miserable solverite, Sarah D. Bunding.
0:42.4	Your mom's the monster of Florence.
0:44.7	Treacherous translator, Tara Ariano.
0:46.4	The English girls don't like her.
0:48.7	And bloody bath mat, Eve Beatty.
0:50.5	It's with my time of the month, though. Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week joining us.
0:59.4	She is a writer, small business owner, and the co-creator of the Best Evidence newsletter.
1:04.1	Not Sarah.
1:04.9	It is her co-editor, Eve Beatty.
1:07.1	Welcome, Becky.
1:08.2	Yes.
1:09.1	Welcome back.
1:09.9	Look, it's not funny. Somebody died, but there was a poop involved. There was a poop. We, yeah, we saw. I have questions. Don't worry. I mean, if only all true crime could have a poop, I watch more. Yeah, you would. We are, in fact, here to talk about... A lot of it does, surprising him out. The twisted
1:28.4	tale of Amanda Knox. In 2007, an English student named Meredith Kircher was murdered in her
1:34.1	temporary home in Perugia, Italy, where she was studying abroad. Her roommate Amanda Knox was
1:39.3	arrested along with Knox's boyfriend, Rafael Solicito, but there's a lot more to the story, which is dramatized
1:45.6	in Hulu's new scripted true crime drama, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, starring Grace Van Patten,
1:52.1	and I looked it up, she is the niece of actor and pet food entrepreneur Dick.
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