Episode 1: The Director

KILLED

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Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Esquire fumbles a bombshell exposé on director Bryan Singer. Featuring Maximillian Potter, Alex French, and Bruce Handy.

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0:00.0	A warning. This episode contains explicit language and content.
0:04.8	Listener discretion is advised.
0:07.8	Every day, all around the world, stories,
0:11.7	ones meant for magazines or newspapers, blogs, or the local evening news, are killed.
0:18.3	Remove from the pages, struck from the airwaves,
0:21.0	relegated to that little special filing cabinet under an editor's desk.
0:26.0	There are a million reasons why a story might get killed.
0:29.7	Maybe the news changed, or a subject changed their mind.
0:33.6	Maybe another publication got there first, scooped you.
0:37.3	Maybe it just wasn't working.
0:39.4	But some kills are different.
0:42.2	Some kills feel like they're being directed from a place behind the curtain.
0:47.9	No? Is this an okay time to talk?
0:49.9	I got some bad news.
0:51.2	A place where shadowy figures call the shots.
0:53.8	Pieces killed.
0:54.6	Kills killed.
0:55.6	That holy shit.
0:58.1	And in those cases, a story isn't killed because it reveals too little.
1:02.8	It's killed because it reveals too much.
1:06.3	The sky shows up.
1:08.1	And he notices his bar cart over in the corner.
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