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🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Thanks to Amanda Knox for joining me to discuss her imprisonment and exoneration, making peace with trauma, how to be a responsible journalist, getting things wrong, and more.
Check out Amanda’s newsletter and podcast, her new book, and her Atlantic article on Jens Söring.
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0:00.0 | How are you? Doing well. Just doing the million things. Working on an essay about evil in response to the Idaho |
0:13.3 | killing sentence. Getting ready for this big Hulu show to come out that I'm really proud of. |
0:22.1 | And they, and you actually worked with them. |
0:24.9 | They didn't, they didn't take your life story and send you a ticket later. |
0:29.4 | You actually work for the show? |
0:30.6 | Yeah, exactly. |
0:31.7 | Yeah. |
0:32.1 | No, they, for once, they're trying to do the right thing. |
0:35.8 | So hopefully I give them a positive experience. |
0:38.5 | That's actually been something that's been a big concern for me is I want them to come away |
0:43.2 | thinking that it was a good idea to work with the source person and not to have tried it with me |
0:49.0 | and then say never again. So I'm trying to be a very good collaborative partner. |
0:53.4 | Were you going to start with them? Yes good collaborative partner. Were you answering with them? |
0:55.1 | Yes, I was. |
0:56.5 | How was that? |
0:59.1 | Amazing. I'm working on an essay about it, but it was surprisingly therapeutic in the sense that, I mean, I'm working with not just any old, you know, production |
1:14.7 | company. |
1:15.3 | I'm working with some of the best people, with some of the best funding. |
1:19.6 | And so they really didn't, you know, they really went out of their way to, especially like, |
1:25.4 | even just like things in the set design that I was just came away with feeling so um |
1:31.0 | one impressed because either they were taking something that was direct footage from the trials like |
1:39.3 | and perfectly recreating for example the apartment that Meredith and I shared. |
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