Big Little Lies and Slate's The Queen

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4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week, the panel talks about Madeline Baron’s rapid response episode of “In the Dark” following the SCOTUS decision on Curtis Flowers. What was the response from residents in Winona…including prosecutor Doug Evans? The crime writers review “The Queen,” a new podcast from Slate. It follows the story of Linda Taylor, the con woman whose brazen public assistance scam gave rise to the “welfare queen” narrative. The mixture of crime, politics, and dog-whistle racism has left a legacy which resonates today. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF “THE QUEEN,” GO TO MINUTE 31. HBO offers a second season of “Big Little Lies,” as we see the fallout from Perry’s death on the women who keep the secret. Relationships become more complicated and the stakes get higher. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF “BIG LITTLE LIES,” GO TO MINUTE 60. Then in Crime of the Week: you’re not the sauce of me. For exclusive podcasts and more, go to patreon.com/partnersincrime media. Click here to get the Crime Writers On After Show, plus more exclusive content, on Patreon.: https://patreon.com/partnersincrimemedia

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0:00.0	To get the crime writers on after show right now, go to patreon.com slash partners in crime
0:06.0	media.
0:07.0	I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Riders on, the original True Crime Review podcast
0:27.0	that digs into True Crime pop culture. And this week we're looking at Slates political
0:31.0	crime perspective, the queen. Then we return to Monterey in the second season of HBO's
0:36.6	hit Big Little Lies. Joining me to get that done and more is my real life husband and
0:41.7	True Crime co-author, the guy who also has a huge room full of toy trains and pinball machines,
0:47.6	former TV journalist Kevin Flynn. Hello, Kevin.
0:49.6	I don't even know what to say to that.
0:51.0	You just sell your toys, Kevin. You just sell your toys.
0:53.0	You will not not be rich.
0:56.0	Also, where this is journalist true crime author, former defense investigator, licensed
1:00.7	private investigator and certified cat lady Laura Bricker. Hello, Laura. Good evening, Rebecca.
1:07.7	And finally our captain of Woksonism, the author behind the noir novels known as a city
1:12.8	trilogy and our Patreon book club host joining us from his party cottage on bare island
1:18.2	on Lake Winnipeh Sacky surrounded by laughing family and friends is Toby ball. Good evening,
1:23.4	Toby.
1:25.2	Now Toby, given that I just gave that introduction, do you want to just take this opportunity to
1:30.1	explain away any ambient noise we might catch during the taping of tonight's show?
1:35.5	You may be actually catching it right this very second.
1:37.6	But yeah, usually when I have to tape podcasts up at the island, like everybody else is down
1:46.5	on the dock having fun, but it's raining tonight. So everybody's in the house and the walls
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