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Tapes from the Darkside | Crime & Psychology

Meet Our Friend: Worse Than Fiction

Tapes from the Darkside | Crime & Psychology

T. Z. Borden

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary, History

4.7573 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Darksiders—this is our last promo until Season 2 hits your feed.

This one comes to you from Les Gross, a dear podcast friend. He hosts a seriously killer show that covers the most horrific crimes in history. Les masterfully takes you through each twist; carefully weaving a macabre tale in his signature raw style. These tales are not only real...they are, indeed, WORSE THAN FICTION.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Darksiders.

0:02.0

I just wanted to give you a brief update to let you know this will be the last promo swap in between seasons.

0:11.0

The next episode you see in your feed will actually be season two.

0:16.0

Unfortunately right now I cannot give you an exact date on when that is coming, but it is in the works and it will be hitting your feed.

0:27.1

Setting all that aside, what I'd like you to do right now is to give a good listen to this next podcast.

0:36.2

A friend of mine, his name is Les Gross, and he hosts an excellent podcast called

0:43.4

Worse Than Fiction.

0:45.3

And as far as True Crime Podcasts go, this is one of my personal favorites.

0:51.5

I highly recommend you check it out, give it a try. Go to your favorite podcast app and just search worse than fiction. Without further ado, here is Les's promo.

1:07.0

The story you are about to hear may contain detailed descriptions of intense violence.

1:16.6

It will certainly be worse than fiction.

1:19.6

The I WRIGHT. The Hello, my name is Les.

1:54.5

Thank you for joining me as we take a look at a true tale of unimaginable horror.

2:13.2

Imagine this with me for a few moments.

2:25.3

It's Easter Sunday, a Christian holiday with a long tradition of families getting together, sharing a feast, kids hunting Easter eggs, adults catching up with each other. You're in the kitchen preparing sandwiches for your eight grandchildren, chatting with your daughter-in-law while your oldest son is sitting at the table, reading the

2:35.0

newspaper, having a cup of coffee and a smoke. It's late afternoon, and your youngest son, who had

2:41.3

moved back in with you at 40 years old, finally emerges from his bedroom after sleeping off a late

2:47.4

night of hard drinking. He and his brother strike up a short conversation on the stock market,

2:53.6

and at some point the older brother asks how the younger brother's Volkswagen is doing.

2:58.6

The younger brother doesn't respond to the question,

3:02.6

instead stating that he's going to the target range for some shooting practice.

3:06.6

So he goes upstairs to get his guns in ammo.

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