Interview With Dateline's Josh Mankiewicz

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Not Your Mom Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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What do you get when you mix Dateline’s Josh “The Manks” Mankiewicz and the ladies of Moms and Murder together? The best show ever! Join us this week as we talk behind the scenes of Dateline, why Manks believes the world is fascinated with true crime, the history behind the infamous Mankiewicz GIF and who would be the most likely suspect in Melissa’s ultimate demise. Mandy and Josh also play a special game of “Dateline Episode or Hardy Boys Mystery” for a very lucky listener…or unlucky listener depending on who was playing. Promos this week are from our friends Corpus Delicti and A Date With Dateline. You guys know we love the ladies of Corpus Delicti and we are new fans of A Date With Dateline. Please check them out! Check out our super cool merch store and deck yourself out in Moms and Murder gear! https://momsandmurder.threadless.com/ If you’d like to support The Mom’s and get some fun perks, you can check out our Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/momsandmurderpodcast ! As always, you can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and on our website at http://momsandmurder.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Moms and Murder, a true crime podcast featuring myself
0:25.4	Mandy my dear friend Melissa and today only today we have a very very special guest. We've
0:32.2	been talking about this for at least a week or so. Adnazium really. Yeah we did mention this
0:37.2	on our last episode last week. So today we have none other than Josh Mankowitz. How are you today
0:42.9	Josh? I'm great. Happy to be here. Yes we're so happy to have you. Thank you so much for coming on.
0:49.1	We absolutely love Dateline. We love you. We have a ton of listeners who are huge fans of
0:55.8	the Manks. The Manks yes. Yeah so this is a real treat for everyone and we just can't wait to put
1:02.0	the episode out and have our listeners hear from you yourself. So do you have a preference on what
1:07.8	we call you Josh Mankowitz. Manks sir Manks a lot. Anything. Any of those are fine.
1:15.5	My brother when my brother had had his daughter they named her Josie Jolie because and then they
1:28.4	went through this big thing with me about how you know we want people to be able to call her JJ as
1:33.1	she gets over because we think it's a good nickname. I'm like yeah well you know great except she's
1:37.6	going to be called Mank which is what all other. Yeah up to you what your name is. If you try
1:43.0	and force a nickname early on maybe it'll stick. We've all we've all been known at one time in
1:48.6	our lives or at all times in our lives as Mank. So but but Mank or Manks I don't hear sir
1:55.7	sir Manks a lot quite as often. I can make it happen for you. Whatever you guys want to do is fine.
2:03.0	Perfect. So we'll get right into some questions with you if you are good with that. The big question
2:08.5	is of course how does a story come to you? How do you get one of your stories? Do you have the
2:14.0	Victims Family reaching out to you or are you and your producers actively looking for these stories
2:19.5	combination. I would I would say that the Victims Family reaching out to us is the least likely way
2:25.0	in which we get stores the least common way. You know we've been around now for this are 26 season.
2:31.6	We know a lot of prosecutors a lot of homicide detectives and a lot of defense attorneys
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