True Crime Rundown: Pam Smart, Spencer and Monique Tepe & Aaron Spencer

I Think Not!

Society & Culture, True Crime, Comedy

4.7 • 12.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week Ellyn is joined by special guest Mel Barrett while Joey is on vacation. Mel gives some big news about her involvement with Pam Smart and then also discusses the Aaron Spencer case. Ellyn provides an update on Spencer and Monique Tepe. Thank you to our sponsors: Miracle Made - Go to trymiracle.com/THINKNOT and use the code THINKNOT to claim your free 3 piece towel set and save over 40% off IQ Bar - Get twenty percent off all IQBAR products, plus get free shipping. To get your twenty percent off, just text think to 64000. Message and data rates may apply. See terms for details. Veracity - Head to VeracityHealth.co and use code ITHINKNOT for up to 45% off your order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, that's it. Come on. Lights out. You've got a test tomorrow. Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level. It's going off now. Yeah, whatever. Let's see. Where's the app? Oh, here it is. What? How? Oh, no. You're out. Better look next time. Mom! It's game over for late nights on school nights. EE Wi-Fi controls help you get them off the Wi-Fi and into bed.
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1:00.0	Happy Monday morning, everyone.
1:02.8	It is Joey Taranto, and I sound like this now.
1:08.0	Welcome to the rundown.
1:09.5	My name is Ellen Marsh, and Joey Taranto is in Mexico,
1:14.2	enjoying the sun and the gay fun. And with me, I have one of my dear friends and host of the
1:20.8	Inbetween podcast, which I hope you have all downloaded. She also currently has a YouTube show with our podcast favorite Rebecca
1:29.5	LaVoy. Please welcome Mel Barrett. Hi Mel. I'm Joey Taranto from Broadway. There he is.
1:40.9	Joey couldn't be here and I was like Mel and! And then I was also on something's off because Rebecca is on vacation. Everyone loves to vacation in January. Why are our co-hosts vacationing while we're here in the cold working? Living, trudging through this snow. It is snowing here. We are, of course, recording this on
2:01.9	Saturday, and I am spending the rest of the day snuggled on my couch. How are you, Mel? Everything's so
2:08.1	easy, breezy. Are you good? Are you drinking pinia coladas? What are you doing? I'm in touch with
2:13.7	my inner calm child, just meditating most days. Yeah, same. Drinking tea. A lot of tea. Not any caffeine. Not paying attention to anything that's going on in the fucking world. Oh, and also my mother and grandmother died this week. Yes, we did talk about that on some things off. And Mel told me that her grandmother died. I went, oh, and then she told her mother got, I went, okay.
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