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🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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From TV crime dramas like SVU to the explosion in true crime podcasts, we delve into the public - and especially women’s - fascination with murder content. Whose stories are centered? How prevalent is murder these days anyway? Why is the subject so bingeable? Rachel Monroe joins us to discuss. Plus, how and when we think about our own deaths.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to call your girlfriend a podcast for long distance besties everywhere. I am Amina too |
0:06.0 | So and I'm Ann Friedman. Hello |
0:09.6 | Hi, it's nice to meet you too. Oh my god. I know. I don't know why I was so surprised to find you there |
0:17.3 | You know some days the small talk comes more easily than others. That's just the truth. Oh |
0:22.4 | That's a word and |
0:26.0 | What are we talking about today? |
0:28.2 | Today we are talking about a favorite white lady pastime true crime |
0:33.1 | I |
0:57.0 | True crime is quite the agenda like we're gonna do our best in the span of this episode |
1:01.3 | But like honestly, I feel like that you could have a whole |
1:04.4 | I mean there are whole conferences you can fill days and days with |
1:08.9 | analysis and |
1:10.4 | opinions about this genre of books television movies podcasts so real so real so real well |
1:18.4 | I'm gonna be honest which is that I have never understood the appeal of murder TV slash murder podcasts |
1:24.6 | Do you really not understand the appeal of it or are you just saying that it does not appeal to you? |
1:29.1 | You're right. That's overstated a little bit. Well, it's true that it doesn't appeal to me |
1:32.6 | But part of it is like the idea of the kind of |
1:38.0 | true crime superfan who is like I listened to five different podcasts and like |
1:42.9 | Law and order is how I calm down at the end of the day or whatever like the kind of like someone who is who is consuming just like a lot of media across the board |
1:50.8 | That's like focused on |
1:53.2 | Predominantly women getting murdered is a thing I actually don't understand like it's hard for me to understand the appeal like and I I find it so |
2:00.6 | unsettling and not settling I |
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