True Crime

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier talks to Terra Newell, who you may well know from the Dirty John podcast. We look at what makes the True Crime genre such a big deal, and some of the ethical questions it raises. David also shares his favourite 10 True Crime bits of media with Monica and Rob.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm David Farrier in New Zealand accidentally marooned in America and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
0:06.5	Now since I've been here something quite weird's happened and I'm not quite sure why.
0:11.4	I've become much more aware of crime.
0:15.0	Breaking news from Chinatown, the LAPD is investigating a shooting that happened outside the
0:19.6	Melody lounge on North Hill Street.
0:22.0	Now I'm not more aware of crime because I'm witnessing crime firsthand it's more
0:26.3	because I'm being told about crime. I'm not sure when it started maybe when I
0:30.7	started following local news stations on Instagram or maybe it was when I started following local news stations on Instagram, or maybe it was when I installed
0:35.1	Citizen on my phone, this app which blasts me with crime news updates in my neighborhood.
0:40.8	Some updates are useful, other ones, I'm not so sure, an ex-wielding man a mile away,
0:46.1	someone spotted naked and screaming a few streets over.
0:50.1	This all led me to think about something America has really made its own.
0:55.0	True Crime.
0:56.5	I'm not saying America invented the true crime genre, but thanks to podcasts like
1:01.1	serial and shows like making a murderer, it's pushed the genre into the stratosphere.
1:06.4	Are you kidding me?
1:09.4	The disappearance of Teresa Hallbach remains a mystery.
1:12.0	Mr Avery's blood is found inside of Teresa Hallbach's
1:15.0	's
1:18.0	Hallbach's vehicle. Serials been downloaded about 350 million times,
1:20.3	a podcasting world record.
1:22.0	And since making a murderer came out nearly a decade ago
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from David Farrier, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of David Farrier and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.