Cold w/ Judith McCreary
That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 146 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kara and Liza discuss the episode “Cold” (Season 9, Episode 19) and investigate the case of Gerard Schaefer a.k.a. "The Killer Cop." Plus, they chat with the prolific writer of this very SVU episode, the amazing Judith McCreary.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:07.0 | People who didn't do what John of God wanted them to do, they usually disappeared. |
| 0:15.0 | John of God was once Brazil's most famous spiritual healer. |
| 0:20.0 | But in this limited series podcast, we uncover the darker truth behind his global empire of faith and fear. |
| 0:29.0 | From exactly right and Adonde Media, this is Two-Faced, John of God. |
| 0:34.6 | Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:41.3 | Of the Law and Order franchises, SVU is considered especially watchable. |
| 0:45.8 | We are the amateur detectives who kind of investigate the vicious felonies these episodes are based on. |
| 0:50.7 | These are our stories. |
| 0:52.2 | Dun dun. |
| 1:09.1 | Music based on these are our stories. Dun-d-dan. Yay, that's messed up an SVU podcast. |
| 1:12.2 | Can you even believe it? |
| 1:13.4 | My name is Lisa Trager. |
| 1:14.9 | I can't believe it. |
| 1:16.5 | And I'm Kara Klank. |
| 1:17.9 | And every week, it's SVU recaps, deep dives into true crime, interviews with guests. |
| 1:24.4 | Today's is a banger. |
| 1:26.3 | But before that, we just chat. And I'm excited to hear |
| 1:30.6 | about your weekend. Fun weekend. Fun weekend. I mean, obviously, the Olympics overshadow everything. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm so, okay, so we interviewed a big guest last week. Not going to say who, because obviously we want to leave you guys wanting. But if you came to my live show on Saturday, I think I told eight of you. I think I told eight of you. Oh, yes. So eight of you know. But we were all talking to this guest about Alyssa Lou's performance. And I hadn't seen it yet. And as soon as I got off, I watched it 12 times. I made my kids watch it. I started following her. Like, I am so obsessed with this girl. Like, what an inspiration. I mean, like, not just like, fuck, she rocks at skating. And I like that she's like a little bit alternative. But like, the story about how she quit skating for two fucking years and then came back |
| 2:19.7 | and everybody was like, bitch, you're not going to do it. And she was like, I actually am going to do it. And I'm going to do it my own way. And no one's going to tell me what to eat. No one's going to tell me when to skate. And then she's just fucking won gold looking like she was having the time of life. I have hope for the future. I truly was like, I have hope for the youth. Like, I was like, |
| 2:36.6 | maybe I didn't make a mistake having children in this horrible world. Yeah, it's like tough. It's like you meet certain young people and you go, oh my God, like we are in good hands. This is good. Look at the friendship. I always say the youth helped us wear pants that aren't tight, which is very helpful for our lives. Like, they're more like fluid free. How are you feeling? Like we do it for ourselves. |
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