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The Binge Cases: U R NEXT

A Q&A with Smoke Screen host Alex Schuman

The Binge Cases: U R NEXT

Sony Music

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.04.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Spectacle: True Crime host, Mariah Smith, sits down with Alex Schuman to chat all things about the newest season of Smoke Screen, Puppy Kingpin. She puts host Alex Schuman in the hot seat and they dig into true crime – how we report these stories, why we’re so fascinated with them and what this fascination says about us. Mariah gets juicy behind-the-scenes bits from Alex about reporting Smoke Screen: Fake Priest and Puppy Kingpin. Plus, Mariah tells Alex about the new season of Spectacle, which is a dissection of our messy obsession with true crime.  From Neon Hum Media and Sony Music Entertainment, listen to Spectacle: True Crime wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, smoke screen listeners, I'm your host, Alex Schumann, and we have something

0:10.5

a little different today, a special kind of behind-the-scenes episode of Smoke Screen.

0:14.6

I'm going to be chatting with Mariah Smith, host of the Fantastic Podcasts, Tactical

0:20.8

True Crime.

0:21.8

This is dissecting our kind of messy obsession with the genre, and revealing what it says

0:27.3

about us.

0:28.8

And instead of me doing the interviewing, Mariah is going to be asking me questions today.

0:35.0

So from NeonHum Media and Sodium Music Entertainment, this is Smoke Screen, Puppy Kingpin, a mini

0:40.4

episode.

0:41.4

Hi, Mariah.

0:42.4

Hello, Alex, it's so nice to meet you.

0:45.2

Nice to meet you.

0:46.2

Nice to meet you.

0:47.2

This is crazy.

0:48.2

Yeah.

0:49.2

Thank you for allowing me to come in your territory on your turf and sort of turn the tables

0:54.7

on you.

0:56.0

I love Smoke Screen.

0:57.6

I'm very excited to be chatting with you.

1:00.6

And I think spectacle listeners of True Crime obviously will love this, but any spectacle

1:05.0

season, because we're really diving into similar territory.

1:09.6

You're doing a much deeper dive on a larger topic and we're sort of going, you know, sort

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