AD-FREE BONUS!!! More Kim #36 - Malcolm Jamal-Warner

Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations

Atomic Entertainment - True Crime Podcast

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Free bonus! Hey there Slaycaters. Every week our subscribers get ad-free listening + a bonus episode "More Kim" where Kim shares thoughts, insights, and information about something on her mind. They're awesome! We decided to share this weeks More Kim with everyone, subscriber or not, as a special bonus - especially since this one contains some great tips for ocean safety this summer. And it's even ad-free! This week on More Kim we confront the invisible danger of rip currents, responsible for actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner's tragic death. We will discuss the formation of these lethal currents and decode the distinctions between "rip tide" and "undertow," and offer crucial survival advice. Please share! If you love it and want even more MORE KIM , for less than the cost of one oat milk latte you get FOUR More Kims every month + ad-free listening when you subscribe. Just click subscribe in Apple or Spotify! We love you and thank you for all your support (and if you already subscribe and are seeing this - thank you !) xxx The Throuple Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back, you beautiful morbid souls to More Kim,
0:08.4	the segment where we peel back the layers of tragedy,
0:14.9	find the gnarly bits, and confront the hidden dangers that shape our world, and other observations of life's folly.
0:26.0	Today's story begins with a profound and sudden loss, and I have to say, this one hits a little
0:34.9	differently for me, as I'm sure it does for many of you.
0:41.1	This past weekend, Sunday, July 20, 2025,
0:45.9	the actor Malcolm Jamal Warner tragically died at the age of 54.
0:54.9	Many of us knew him best as the lovable, funny Theo Huxable on The Cosby Show.
1:02.2	I grew up watching him.
1:05.5	I grew up watching that show.
1:09.1	It was a fixture in so many of our childhoods that it's just a difficult
1:20.7	news to process. He wasn't on a film set and this wasn't due to a long illness.
1:28.9	He was on vacation with his family in Costa Rica,
1:34.6	swimming at a beautiful beach named Playa Coquellas,
1:40.5	when he was caught in a powerful, fast-moving channel of water.
1:47.5	According to Costa Rican authorities, and as reported by the Associated Press,
1:55.5	the cause of death was drowning.
1:59.0	Malcolm Jamal Warner was a victim of a rip current. His untimely passing is a
2:08.2	sobering, heartbreaking reminder that the ocean does not care about fame, talent, or the plans you have for tomorrow. The ocean does not care about fame, talent, or the plans you have for tomorrow. The ocean doesn't care
2:22.2	who you are. It is a force of immense power and its dangers are often invisible to the untrained
2:31.7	eye. And his story is far from unique.
2:37.6	The patterns of these tragedies are terrifyingly familiar.
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