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Thanks For Asking

Meet Amanda

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.713.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When you introduce yourself to someone for the first time, you start by telling them your name and (maybe!) a few facts about you. The other person takes the information at face value. There’s no judgment, no opinion formed … just two people meeting each other. Amanda has no idea what that feels like. In 2007, she made international news headlines through no fault of her own. Now, more than a decade later, strangers decide their opinion of her as soon as they hear her name. But what many people consider Amanda’s story isn’t really hers at all. Support our new independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I do a lot of arts and crafts. I have three cats who I adore. I do a lot of cooking. I'm a big

0:11.4

swing dancer. That's not something that everyone knows, but I love Lindy Hoppe. I also love to sing

0:18.7

and one of my secret goals or not-so-secret goals is I would love to be a voice actor. I would love

0:26.7

to do cartoons because I love silliness and I think that I would be good at it if I could actually

0:33.0

break into that world. I'm Nora McEnerney and that was today's guest answering a hard-hitting question.

0:42.4

How would she describe herself to someone who knew nothing about her? And aside from swing dancing

0:48.6

and singing and cross-stitch, she revealed something deeply disturbing. She doesn't like sweets. She

0:55.6

just doesn't care for them. She eats her oatmeal, savory, and that's why you come to terrible

1:03.6

things for asking. You come for the hard-hitting stories. There's a reason why I asked Amanda

1:10.1

to describe herself to a person who knows nothing about her. And that's because it hardly ever happens.

1:17.2

It probably hasn't happened for over a decade because as soon as people hear her full name,

1:22.8

they already have an opinion about her. Today's guest is Amanda Knox. And as an experiment,

1:30.6

I went on the terrible things for asking Instagram account and I asked if you had heard of a

1:34.9

man-denox and what you knew about her story. And the answers really ran the gamut. Hearing just

1:41.1

that name, without any other context, listeners said that Amanda Knox was framed for murder, guilty

1:49.0

of murder, weird, but innocent, makes me never want to travel abroad, victim, villain, innocent,

1:58.0

guilty. If you've never heard of Amanda Knox, she is so thrilled to hear that. And if you have

2:04.9

heard of Amanda Knox, you probably already have some predetermined opinion of her, of her character,

2:10.4

of her innocence, and she's used to that. We're not going to get into the minutia of the crime that

2:16.2

Amanda was wrongfully convicted and later fully exonerated for because there are literally tens of

2:21.2

thousands of articles and documentaries and podcasts about it. And you can easily find those

2:26.0

anywhere on the internet. One of those documentaries was released on Netflix in 2016 and is one that

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