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Crime Writers On...True Crime Review

The Retrievals season 2

Crime Writers On...True Crime Review

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True Crime, Tv Reviews, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Performing Arts, Panel, Writer, Crime, Author, Review, Arts

4.43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A nurse said her epidural failed during her own Caesarean section. Her story prompted an effort to change the way doctors address women’s pain. We’ll talk about season two of “The Retrievals" from Serial Productions and The New York Times.

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0:00.0

You can support this podcast at patreon.com slash partners in crime media.

0:05.2

I'm Rebecca Lavoie, and this is Crime Writers On.

0:25.5

Crime Writers On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime,

0:27.2

pop culture, other podcasts.

0:32.5

And on this episode, a nurse said her epidural failed during her own caesarian section.

0:36.8

Her story prompted an effort to change the way doctors address women's pain. We'll talk about season two of the retrievals from serial productions and the New York Times. Joining me to get that done and more is true crime author, TV journalist, and host of. These are their stories podcast, my husband, and The Love of My Life, Kevin Flynn. Hello, Kevin. Hello, Rebecca. Listen, Kevin, I love you very much, but writing women are fakers and toughen up ladies on my script.

0:55.8

Hey, that's not for anybody to see.

0:57.2

Some people might not understand my humor.

0:59.9

It was very funny.

1:01.2

It was very, very funny.

1:02.7

Also with us, private investigator, certified pet detective, resident cat lady and author of the final curtain, Laura Bricker.

1:09.5

Hi, Laura.

1:10.4

Hey, Rebecca. And finally, our captain of all things cynical, author of The Final Curtain, Laura Bricker. Hi, Laura. Hey, Rebecca. And finally, our Captain of All Things Cynical, author of the City Trilogy of Novels, host of Rip Current, Stranger Vivals, more like ancient phalians, and our Patreon deep dive book club podcast, Toby Ball. Hi, Toby. Hey, Rebecca. So, Kevin. Yes. This is a Monday program. We have just like another week or so of our summer schedule to go, right? Two weeks. What is coming up next week? Yeah, on Monday, we're going to talk about this really interesting documentary on Netflix. It's called Unknown Number, a high school catfish. It's wild. I think it's comfortable to say that. It's Guy Borgman who did abducted in plain sight. Yeah, it's pretty wild. All right. Well, Kevin, I just want to give you an opportunity. Mm-hmm. To apologize to America and beyond. To potentially revise a prior review that you made on the show. I'll just let you take it away.

2:01.2

Yeah.

2:05.2

I was the only one that liked smoke from Apple TV Plus.

2:12.6

And then I got to say, when I watched the finale, I was like, what the actual fuck?

2:13.7

I am a fool.

2:16.2

What happened in the finale, Kevin?

2:17.2

Because I didn't watch it.

2:38.1

I watched it. No. I watched it. It was fucking ridiculous. You're like, I'm going to watch it. And I was like, I'm going to go read. Oh, yeah. I mean, what's his name? Well, I mean, Taryn Edginson's character there. Dave? I learned that it's pronounced Ederton. Ederton. Oh, all right.

2:34.4

That's the way that he, that's the way it's pronounced because he's Welsh and they pronounce it Ederton. Okay. So, like, him and Journey Smolett, like, remember how she didn't like to buckle her seatbelt? And remember how, like, John Ligazamo, like, disable the airbag so he could put the tracker in there? well of of course, once Dave figures out she's on to him, he drives right into a forest fire and then like slams on the brake so that she'll fly through the windshield. And she's fine. And she's fine. She's standing up like the Terminator and like what she's going to put her hair up first to shoot at him. And it was just fucking stupid.

3:08.0

Yeah.

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