Crime Seen | Episode 108: The Contestant
RHAP: We Know Reality TV
Friends of Rob Has a Podcast
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Crime Seen is the true crime review podcast that gets to the heart of how true crime stories are told. Join Mari Forth @MariTalks2Much and Sarah Carradine @sarahcarradine as they put true crime properties under the magnifying glass. In this episode they examine THE CONTESTANT. Watch it on Hulu. Joining them is Shannon Guss @ShannonGaitz.
How many magnifying glasses out of 5 will they rate THE CONTESTANT? Listen to find out. Or jump to the ratings at about 45.51
Content warning: The documentary THE CONTESTANT deals, in part, with suicidal ideation.
In Australia you can call Life Line on 13 11 14 or lifeline.org.au, or go to Beyond Blue at beyondblue.org.au. If you are in immediate danger call 000
In the US you can go to wannatalkaboutit.com”, or go to 988lifeline.org or call 988. If you are in immediate danger, call 911
Interview with Nasubi & director Clair Titley:
https://moveablefest.com/clair-titley-nasubi-megumi-inman-the-contestant/
Nasubi AMA:
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1cbg6sv/hi_im_nasubi_in_the_late_90s_i_lived_inside_a/
Recommendations:
docu-series: AFTERSHOCK: EVEREST AND THE NEPAL EARTHQUAKE (2022)
film: PAST LIVES (Celine Song, 2023)
music: THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (Taylor Swift, 2024)
books: THE WILL TRENT SERIES (Karin Slaughter)
tv series: WILL TRENT (2023- )
film: THE TRUMAN SHOW (Peter Weir, 1998)
You can jump to the recommendations at about 51.47
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello. Hello everyone I'm Sarah Karadine podcasting from Gadigals Sydney. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm Mari fourth and this is crime scene True Crime Review Podcast, where we get to the heart of how |
| 0:35.4 | true crime stories are told. You can get this fine program along with all the other fantastic reality |
| 0:41.6 | TV content by subscribing at Rob has a website.com. |
| 0:46.3 | We'd love it if you would subscribe to our feed as well. |
| 0:49.1 | Please go to Rob has a website.com slash crime feed. You'll get your true crime on Tuesdays. If you've already |
| 0:56.4 | subscribed, thank you very much. Sarah, you have a true crime update for us? |
| 1:01.3 | Yes, so a court in Florence has just reconvicted Amanda Knox for slander related to the |
| 1:08.2 | 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kircher. |
| 1:12.0 | You may remember Knox was cleared of killing Kercher in 2015, but she |
| 1:16.1 | retains a slander conviction for blaming the murder on local bar owner Patrick |
| 1:20.6 | Lamumba during police interrogation. |
| 1:24.0 | Amanda Knox has been sentenced to three years, |
| 1:26.9 | but as she had already spent four years in Perugia prison, |
| 1:29.8 | she will serve no further time. |
| 1:32.0 | Knox still asserts that police coerced her |
| 1:35.4 | into implicating Lamumba. |
| 1:38.2 | I was literally just thinking that. |
| 1:40.1 | As you said that, I was like, wait, |
| 1:42.1 | but I thought that they forced that confession. |
| 1:46.7 | Okay well. |
| 1:48.7 | Yeah. |
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