The Retrievals Ft. Susan Burton

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Sara and Danny are joined by writer and reporter Susan Burton, to talk all about her podcast The Retrievals, a 5 part narrative series from The New York Times and Serial. The Retrievals details the story of dozens of women who underwent IVF treatment at the Yale Fertility Center, and the nightmare of excruciating pain that ensued. Susan shares her experience producing the podcast and how her own experience with eating disorder recovery informed her interest in stories about women's bodies. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-retrievals/id1691599042 Check out our latest promo codes here: https://betches.com/promos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Not Another True Crime Podcast. I'm Sarah Levine.
0:07.3	And I'm Danny Murphy. And Sarah, can you let everybody know why this is a very special episode this week?
0:12.0	Yes, it is so special. We have a really great guest, journalist, host of the super popular podcast,
0:19.6	The Retrievals, Susan Burton. Thank you for coming on.
0:22.6	Oh, thank you both so much for having me.
0:24.5	Before we get started, we have to just get into this question that Danny and I were texting about
0:28.8	before, how does everyone at NPR have an amazing voice? Do they filter out for voice?
0:38.4	Well, first of all, as you may know, so like serial isn't, it seems like it's part of NPR,
0:44.4	but in this American life, but actually not part of NPR. But I'm often very insecure about
0:50.6	about my voice. So it's very nice of you to say that. I don't always feel like a natural sort of
0:56.8	audio, like I have a natural audio voice. Oh my, no, it's literally like I feel like when I was
1:03.0	listening like your voice just made me feel like I was like engulfed in a book and I was just
1:06.7	sitting on my couch being like, okay, I feel I also felt so smart. Like I feel like Susan smart.
1:14.3	So I'm feeling smart by association. So I really appreciate your voice for that.
1:19.0	Well, that's that's so nice to hear. And it was so much fun. I mean, there was a lot to read in
1:22.6	the podcast. You know, there were some episodes that had a lot of tape and some episodes that
1:26.6	had less tape. So so there was a lot to read. So I did and I had fun with with some of that
1:32.1	performance for sure. And also because we're talking all about your new podcasts and I read an
1:37.5	article that you found like you first stumbled upon this story by just like reading a local
1:41.9	news outlet and kind of being like, huh, can you talk about kind of like discovering all of this
1:47.6	like and let our listeners know like how that journey started for sure. So it was a Friday night
1:54.1	in November of 2021. I was home from work. It was late. I was sitting on the couch. I was just like
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