Waypoints 02: The Factory of Sadness
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🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a brand-new Waypoint podcast! In Waypoints, the staff and friends will bring something to share: be it a TV show, art exhibit, movie, or other thing from the universe to discuss, dissect, and enjoy. On episode 2, Austin is listening to Serial Season 3, Rob watched Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, Danielle got into the fall spirit early with a trip to Halloween Horror Nights, and Patrick has a lot to say about sports fandom.
Where you can find this stuff: Serial Season 3: anywhere you listen to podcasts. Ikiru: available for rent or purchase from Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, Vudu, iTunes or as a part of the Criterion Collection, Halloween Horror Nights: https://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/, Hopelessly Devoted: http://www.nfl.com/labs/sidelines/hopelessly-devoted/hopelessly-devoted.html
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| 0:00.0 | Oh hello, welcome to Waypoint. It's Wednesday and the Waypoint staff and friends are taking |
| 0:21.8 | a little break to nerd out and deep dive on the culture, art and entertainment that's been |
| 0:26.0 | inspiring us and let's try to think of a nicer way to say pissed off, pissed us off lately. Let's say |
| 0:32.4 | provoking. I think they've been provoking us lately. Love it. Gather around the table this Wednesday, |
| 0:39.7 | we've got Patrick Kleppek. Hello. Daniel Randell. Hi. And Austin Walker. That's me. Hey. |
| 0:49.3 | So I would say right now to lead us off, it's fair to characterize the current moment as like |
| 0:55.0 | a golden age of true crime. If you look at the podcasting and documentary spaces right now, |
| 1:00.2 | you'll find a lot of really popular real like who done its reexaminations of controversial cases. |
| 1:05.6 | So with that in mind, Austin, why don't you tell us about the mystery that serial third season is |
| 1:10.6 | serving up? The mystery is why is the criminal justice system in how many ways is the criminal |
| 1:20.3 | justice system broken in a way that primarily harms marginalized folk? |
| 1:25.7 | Oh, so it's like like institutional murder and the Orient Express where they all done it. |
| 1:29.9 | Because everyone is complicit. You and me too, Rob. That is the, you know, so I guess I'll |
| 1:35.9 | set it up a little bit for people who haven't followed serial over the last few years, which, |
| 1:40.1 | you know, it's one of those things where it's like, I actually don't know how deep it's penetrated |
| 1:43.4 | into our community necessarily for a couple of reasons. One, it was this big crossover success |
| 1:48.8 | with a lot of what I think people on Twitter in our Twitter circles would call it normies. |
| 1:53.8 | It was like a big pivot point for people who came on board to podcasting for the first time, |
| 1:58.9 | who had never listened to podcasts before. So I know that a huge part of its listenership |
| 2:02.9 | is people who only just recently came to podcasts. And I know a lot of our fans have listened |
| 2:07.1 | to podcasts for quite some time. But also there was a lot of pushback on the first season in |
| 2:12.4 | spite of its success. So the first season followed a murder case from Baltimore from Maryland |
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