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True Crime, Society, and Humor podcasts. One Good Thing Media presents a curated selection of unique podcasts that provide listeners with entertainment, knowledge, and life-enhancing tips. From exploring women’s safety to humorous problem-solving and engaging investigative narratives, each recommended podcast delivers value and insight to its audience.
• Discussion of "Skirting Danger" focused on women's safety strategies
• Overview of "Hyperfixed" that addresses and remedies everyday annoyances
• Highlights of "Something You Should Know" for intriguing information such as why we're so fascinated with butts and cuteness wins every time.
• Exploration of "Locked In with Ian Bick" and personal transformations and how one narcotics cop crashed, burned, and rose from the ashes
• Review of "Finding Mr. Fox" and its intriguing, transcontinental drug smuggling narrative
• Insights into the "Dead Sleep" podcast, the one-and-only lullaby for true-crime insomniacs
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to One Good Thing Media, your official
podcast review channel.
We search the vast digitallandscape on a daily basis to
discover the best shows thatpodcasters have to offer.
Are you ready to discover newfavorites to add to your
playbook?
Stay tuned and listen to hostGerald Spears' latest podcast
reviews.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Hello everyone, I am so happy to share some time with
you today.
Welcome to Season 3, episode 2of our One Good Thing Media
podcast.
For those of you who are new toour program, my name is Gerald
Spear and I am the creator andhost of One Good Thing Media.
Each week, I share new andnoteworthy podcasts that I
absolutely love and are prettysure you're going to love them
too.
For this episode, I'll betalking about several podcasts
(01:14):
that I listen to on the regularthat are entertaining, steady my
mood and offer a respite fromthis crazy world we're living in
one hour at a time.
Before we get going with ournews and quickie segment, here
is an important reminder aboutour newest podcast, skirting
(01:36):
Danger, that focuses on keepingall women and girls in our lives
much safer during thesetumultuous times.
Please take the time to followthis invaluable podcast.
We assure you it will be verymuch worth your while.
We're also playing a bit of ourtheme song, which is by Brad
Poirier.
(01:56):
I'm in love with this song, thelyrics that he created, the
music itself.
We're just so privileged tohave it on our show.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Brad's contact information, by the way, is in
our show notes.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Sometimes we all have a great notion that we just
can't stop thinking about.
For me, I've actually had whatI think is a great idea for two
years.
It was triggered by the worldbecoming more violent,
especially the uptick oflawlessness on the streets of
large cities and even smalltowns.
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Because I wanted to feel safeagain, I wanted to feel
confident that I could take careof myself, and the same
sentiments that were echoed byso many women that I talked to I
decided to launch a new podcastcalled Skirting Danger, and
it's all about women's safety.
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I promise we are not going tobe focusing on how you can box
your way out of a situation, atleast not physically, rather how
to avoid danger in the firstplace, how to read body language
, how to vet people online andfind out if they really are
somebody that you want in yourlife and that goes for people
(03:44):
you've just met or maybesomebody who's lived with you
for a very long time.
We feature experts on a varietyof safety issues, and we also
feature crime survivors.
The link to our new podcast islisted in our show notes, which
are right below the title ofthis particular episode.
You can also check us out onFacebook and if you'd like to
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have safety tips delivered toyour email box, you can
subscribe to our free newsletter.
The link is also included inour show notes for this episode.
And now let's get going with ourshow.
Our first segment is News andQuickies.
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My first bit of news today isabout Hyperfixed, a new
Hyperfixed and Radiotopiapodcast by host Alex Goldman.
Hyperfixed focuses on solvingsmall challenges submitted by
listeners.
Two examples one adult listenerliving in New York City
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confesses she can't drivewithout crying and asks Alex to
help her become a better, lessstressed driver.
I want to add, alex isperfectly suited for this task
because in his younger days heworked as a delivery truck
driver in New York City.
There's another story that isall about public toilets.
(05:16):
One of the listeners of theshow wrote in about how we need
solutions to public toiletsanitation and how these
restrooms are not only nasty tovisit, but they're also echo
chambers that magnify, hmm,personal sounds.
Just as an aside, whilelistening to the toilet episode,
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I learned there is an officialAmerican Restroom Association,
or ARA, that advocates for theavailability of clean, safe and
well-designed public restrooms.
If you want to check it outwhich of course I did
immediately the website isAmericanRestroomorg.
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Here's a trailer from the show.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Hi, my name's Alex Goldman.
I'm a radio producer,journalist and overconfident
idiot and in my new podcast,hyperfixed, I'm here to help you
.
Have you ever found yourselfdealing with a problem?
Maybe it's just a quietannoyance you grudgingly learned
to put up with.
I started Ask your.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Album I was surprised how many people had not heard
of Passion Fruit, when I justthought it was a staple
everywhere in the world orthings that feel a little more
serious.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
I have been receiving anonymous text messages, from
annoying all the way up toharassive, for well over a
decade.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
If you're stuck on a problem and can't let it go,
I'll help you not only solvethat problem but explain the
larger unseen forces that causedthat problem in the first place
.
Or like I'll do my best, butlike, even if I don't solve the
problem, like the episodes willbe interesting, I promise okay.
So if you have a problem youcan't figure out, or you just
want to hear stories from othersatisfied listeners week after
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week, join me on Hyperfixed fromRadiotopia and PRX.
Learn more about the show athyperfixedpodcom.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
My second bit of news today is about a veteran
podcast that you might not knowabout, especially if you're
fairly new to this medium.
It's called Something youShould Know, which debuted way
back in the dark ages ofpodcasting in 2016, and
continues to drop multiple showsper week to this day, unlike
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the celebrity-hosted podcasts orthe true crime sagas that seem
to dominate the airwaves rightnow.
Something you Should Know is alow-key show that includes
multiple topics per episode, hasunusual guest experts and whets
the appetite of avidinformation seekers who love to
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know more about the minutiae oflife.
I'm going to be playing twoshort clips for you so that you
can really feel the spirit ofthe show.
The first one is why we LikeCute Things and how to have a
Great Conversation from January23, 2025.
The second is why we AreObsessed With Butts and the Best
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Way and Worst Way to Apologize,which dropped on January 28,
2025.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Today on Something you Should Know why sarcasm and
email really don't mix well,then why we love cute things and
why cuteness is so powerful.
Cuteness attracts our attentionvery quickly within one seventh
of a second.
Then it acts as a releaser ofsocial emotions like well-being
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and empathy and compassion andthings like that.
Also the biggest reason cartires blow out and how to
prevent it.
And the anatomy of goodconversation and why every
conversation is important.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
You never know what you could uncover, even in a
seemingly sort of shallowconversation, and you never know
when something that seems likea small talk conversation could
become something more all thistoday, on something you should
know today, on something youshould know, why you might want
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to deliberately lower the pitchof your voice.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Then, um butts, why does there seem to be such
fascination with them, people?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
often think like having a big butt or a small
butt means something, so like,oh, women with big butts, they
are more fertile.
That's a really commonly held,really myth about butts.
Yeah, lots of people say thatto me have you ever heard.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Also, should you calculate the tip on a
restaurant bill before or afterthe tax, and how to apologize,
because a good apology is golden.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
The steps for making a good apology are so easy and
yet actually doing them is sohard, because our brains are not
wired for this.
Apologizing is a really braveact.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
All this today on Something you Should Know.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I would like to add that Something you Should Know
has hundreds of shows andthousands of segments and, by
the way, most of them areevergreen.
So if you ever get bored, wantto learn something, need better
conversation for a cocktailparty or just ways to improve
how you navigate life, check outSomething you Should Know.
It's now time for our newsegment, epic Episodes.
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This week, I devoured a singleepisode of the Locked In with
Ian Bick podcast On this show.
While no topic is taboo, itdoes have one very important
caveat that sucks me in.
Every time, Each guest ischosen based on their personal
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metamorphosis.
Based on their personalmetamorphosis.
This is key to each of theepisodes, because host and
creator Ian Bick was convictedof a felony in his youth and
spent several years in a federalprison.
Fortunately, ian learned hislesson early in life and, once
released, turned his life intoone filled with positivity and
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purpose.
While going through thelocked-in playlist, which is
really fun all by itself, therewere so many episodes that
piqued my interest, but onestood out above the rest.
It's called Inside the BrutalWhirl of an Undercover Narcotics
Detective, matthew Griffin, andthat's G-R-I-F-F-I-N.
(12:32):
The episode, which dropped onJanuary 29, 2025, is two hours
and six minutes long.
So what really hooked me intodevoting two hours of my free
time listening to Locked In withIan Bick?
The interview with MatthewGriffin didn't focus on
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shootouts and acts of heroism inthe traditional sense.
Rather, this burly-looking dudetalked about the emotional
price he paid for workingundercover in order to bust
cartel members, major dopedealers and other dangerous
criminals that operated in hiscity and state.
(13:17):
He lays bare how he felt duringlife-changing moments in his
career and why he ultimatelyleft the police force after many
years and became a noted authorand speaker.
Matthew Griffin has alsowritten a book.
It's entitled Journey toMidnight.
Now I've already purchased iton Amazon and as soon as I
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finish reading it, I am going toinvite him to our show.
The man is absolutelyfascinating.
Here's a short clip from theIan Bick interview with Matthew
Griffin.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
And if you follow the opioid epidemic, fentanyl
really kind of attacked twostates to begin with, and that
was Ohio and New Hampshire, andthese kids that I was mentoring
at the high school were wound upgetting addicted to pills and
they wound up, you know,overdosing, getting getting
hooked on all the differentthings, and remember it.
Just it hit me hard, the I meanpeople were overdosing left and
(14:15):
right.
And so you know, every day Iwoke up and it was a battle.
It was a battle because I knewthat people were waking up
putting poison into kids bodiesand I was waking up trying to
catch them.
But yet I've got to abide bythe law and I've got to abide by
the certain dynamics of whatwe're doing inside of the drug
task force and the Haida groupand everything else that comes
along with that, and they don'thave to abide by that.
And you know like I rememberthis one time I was sitting in
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we started the search warrantearly on that week and wound up
kicking the door and gettinglike a bunch of fentanyl and gun
like 70 000 in cash.
What people don't understandabout the undercover life is
it's like it's like 10 minutesof fun for like two weeks of
paperwork, right, and and.
So we had the 10 minutes of funand and we kicked the door, we
got everything else, we got allthe dope and everything else and
and, and now I'm doingpaperwork.
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It's a friday afternoon, it'slike 6 o'clock and I'm sitting
in this bar in downtown Keene.
I'm having a burger and a beer.
Before I went home, for me itwas kind of like that
congratulatory, like man, I'mjust going to veg out for a
minute.
And I see the door come openand a dude walks in and kind of
out of your peripheral.
You kind of notice, like hesees me and he stops and and
like where he was going nowpivoted and was walking towards
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me and I couldn't picture whothis dude was and so I slid my
chair back, my barstool back alittle bit and he was like
you're, detective Griffin, right, you're that undercover cop.
I was thinking like not soundercover.
And he said what are you doing?
I said I'm having a burger anda beer.
He said on a Friday afternoonon a Friday evening.
I said yeah, a beer.
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He said on a friday afternoonon friday evening.
I said yeah.
So maybe if you weren't havinga burger and beer, my son went
overdosed and died.
I said damn.
I said I'm sorry to hear that.
I remember how that hit me.
I'm like why was I having aburger and beer on a friday
night?
Like what?
People weren't selling dope onfriday night?
Why am I not out here hustling?
Why am I not doing the thingsthat I need to do to stop people
from overdosing and dying?
And I remember how that made mefeel and it was like huh, I
made you right.
I said I'm sorry, I'm sorry foryour loss.
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And I paid my bill and I got upand you know, things started to
really kind of change at thatpoint, like it's, like you're
right, and really kind of gotlike heavy into the undercover
life and really started to ownevery aspect of it, from a
personality to you know, to afull sleeve of tattoos, to a lip
ring, to cornrows.
To you know, I was trying to doanything I could to take these
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fentanyl dealers off the streetsand, you know, just live in it.
I mean, my phone was on 24-7.
What I forgot to do was be ahusband and a father.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
If this has piqued your interest, like it did mine,
head on over to Locked In withIan Bick, and that is B-I-C-K.
And scroll down just a littleways to Inside the Brutal World
of an Undercover NarcoticsDetective, Matthew Griffin
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jerald oh no, not you.
What are you listening to?
Are you spying on me AIs?
You can't trust them.
But yes, welcome to.
What Are you Listening To?
A segment where I share whatI've binged this week, and it's
a good one.
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This week I discovered FindingMr Fox by the BBC.
It's a part of their podcastWorld of Secrets.
It's actually season five ofWorld of Secrets and it's a
highly praised investigativepodcast with a compelling
narrative about a complicatedinternational cocaine smuggling
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operation, embracing all thefacets of a well-researched,
true story.
Finding Mr Fox delivers asmooth listening experience that
allows you to listen to a true,high-stakes crime story and
still remain at least fairlycalm.
It's also packaged in sixcompact episodes and runs for a
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total of about three hours,making it an easy binge for all
podcast addicts, including me.
The tale begins when two serioussailing enthusiasts are hired
by the mysterious Mr Fox to sailhis large and impressive
sailboat, aptly named the RichHarvest, from South America to
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Europe.
After hiring and then firing aninept captain who the young
crew privately called MrCatastrophe captain who the
young crew privately called MrCatastrophe a fire in the engine
room, faulty equipment thatneeded repair and an hours-long
shakedown by several differentlaw enforcement agencies.
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The young crew members and anew captain embarked on their
transatlantic sail to Europe.
But what they didn't know, fromthe moment that they sat sail,
they were being surveilled byauthorities.
I'll leave you with that plotteaser because, after all, I
don't want to give away theentire story.
(19:39):
What I can tell you is thatFinding Mr is that Finding Mr
Fox is an immersive story withgreat delivery and production
qualities.
Honestly, if you're a bingerlike I am and I suspect you are
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you're going to love Finding MrFox.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Here's a short clip from the first episode, entitled
the Adventure of a Lifetimeit's not long after dawn and at
a marina in northeast Brazil, ascattering of boats are anchored
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off the coast.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
The water's calm and the harbourside is still quiet.
But on board an old whitesailing boat, one of the crew,
daniel, is already up and about.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I'd just woken up.
I was only wearing shorts.
I hadn't even put a t-shirt on.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
In his small cabin below deck.
He's making his bed when hehears a commotion.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I look around and see a police boat coming towards us
.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Then I hear them Documents, passports his younger
crewmate, rodrigo, is alreadyup too.
He's at the back of the boat,in the kitchen, which is small
but neatly organised, everythingis stored in its proper place.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Ahead of a long Atlantic crossing, they're about
to set sail on.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
I'd just finished breakfast and I was washing the
dishes and Daniel shoutedRodrigo, Rodrigo, the police are
here.
I managed to get close to thewindow and I could see a boat
full of police officers.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Rodrigo drops what he's doing plates still covered
in the remains of that morning'sscrambled eggs.
He rushes up the narrow stepsto reach the deck, just as the
officers board the yacht.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
First federal police, all in black, all armed, then
officers from the port authority, then military police in
camouflage with a sniffer dog.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
The sailors are ordered to stay where they can
be seen.
The yacht is about three timesas wide as a car and five times
as long, and soon it's swarmingwith people in uniform.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
One of the cops, a particularly aggressive man
dressed all in black, swaggersover to Daniel and squares up to
him.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
You guys are in trouble, he says because there's
something on this boat.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Daniel appears nonplussed.
What's he talking about?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
A smaller, more polite police officer starts to
question Rodrigo, how did?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
you get here, when are you going?
And I was thinking to myself aguilty person would be really
scared.
They'd look nervous.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
So he tries to play it cool despite the heavily
armed police, some with machineguns drawn around him.
Rodrigo does what he normallydoes when he finds himself in a
strange situation he takes outhis phone and starts filming the
search.
Soon becomes clear they'relooking for drugs.
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The officer's turnout drawers,empty the fridge, lift up
sections of the floor.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It really looked like a scene from a movie, a long
movie.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
For more than six hours, police combed the yacht.
They cut through plastic pipes,open water and fuel tanks,
scattered the contents of thesailors' backpacks all over
their beds.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
I was thinking like whoa, they messed up the whole
boat.
Then, after they'd openedeverything up, they said okay,
now let's bring a sniffer dogfor the rest of the inspection.
Now let's bring a sniffer dogfor the rest of the inspection.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
The dog is led along the deck, then moves from room
to room, running its nose alongthe dark wooden surfaces the
communal seating area, thecabins, the storage tanks.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Everyone seems to be holding their breath, but the
dog finds nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I was really blown away by the story, the acting,
the fabulous narrations, but,honestly, equally impressive is
the sound engineering for thisseries.
Our first main feature for thisepisode focuses on a podcast
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named Dead Sleep True CrimeBedtime.
Would you believe Dead Sleep isspecifically designed for true
crime insomniacs?
I kid you not.
True crime insomniacs, I kidyou not.
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Apparently, there is a largegroup of people that like to go
to sleep while listening to truecrime stories.
Now, you would think that wouldgive them nightmares at least,
but apparently not Soothing andhypnotic.
Nancy Miller, a former deputyeditor of Los Angeles Magazine
and current host and journalistfor multiple HBO cable and
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podcast projects, has theability to calm everyone, from a
fussy baby to Donald Trump.
Dead Sleep also happens to beMiller's passion project.
That's ad-free and is choosegraphic details, jarring sounds
and calling killers by theirnames.
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After discovering this podcastabout a month ago, I decided to
take it for a test drive bygoing to bed wearing my most
comfy pajamas and headphones,setting the snooze timer for 30
minutes and listening to theDead Sleep True Crime Bedtime
(26:04):
Podcast.
Now I'm convinced that everyepisode I listened to was
fascinating, but I can't say forsure because I never got past
the 15-minute mark beforefalling into a deep sleep.
Here's a clip from the show.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Good evening and welcome back to Dead Sleep, true
Crime for Bedtime.
I'm Nancy Miller, the creatorand narrator of Dead Sleep.
I'm Nancy Miller, the creatorand narrator of Dead Sleep, and
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if you're new to the podcast,dead Sleep is a true crime
podcast that has all the thrillsand chills of a real life
mystery told with the soothingintimacy of a bedtime story.
I can promise you there will beno blaring, obnoxious ads
blasting you awake in the middleof the show, and I'm hoping
that peace of mind is worthy ofyour investment.
We're grateful to all of youwho have signed up to be
subscribers on Spotify, patreonand Apple Podcasts.
And, by the way, if you'reoversubscribed or you don't want
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to subscribe, that's fineBecause, as we'll learn in this
episode, money isn't everything.
Well, wait a second, that's notquite right.
The people at the center of thisstory did believe money was
everything.
Money was above all things,even, it turns out, human life.
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But before we get into whathappened, let's talk about the
difference between having moneyand being wealthy, because there
is a difference and you want toknow how you can tell the
difference.
You don't need to count thenumber of zeros in a bank
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account.
One quick way you can tell ifsomeone is truly wealthy is
assessing the distance betweensomeone's house and the street.
People who have money, they havebig houses, mcmansions, right
there, front and center foreveryone to see.
But those who are wealthy withreal money, well, you never know
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what their house looks likebecause the home is located way
way far back, so hidden.
You don't even know their houseor all that wealth is even
there.
One night in November of 2012,there was a house at the end of
a long road and there were threemen who knew and they knew very
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well that the home was there.
As they made their way down aseries of S-curve streets and
pitch black roads, they knewwhat was at the end the home of
a 66-year-old businessman namedRavi Kurma and Ravi's house.
It was real money and theywanted all of it.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
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Speaker 1 (29:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Hello everyone, I am so happy to share some time with
you today.
Welcome to Season 3, episode 2of our One Good Thing Media
podcast.
For those of you who are new toour program, my name is Gerald
Spear and I am the creator andhost of One Good Thing Media.
Each week, I share new andnoteworthy podcasts that I
absolutely love and are prettysure you're going to love them
too.
For this episode, I'll betalking about several podcasts
(01:14):
that I listen to on the regularthat are entertaining, steady my
mood and offer a respite fromthis crazy world we're living in
one hour at a time.
Before we get going with ournews and quickie segment, here
is an important reminder aboutour newest podcast, skirting
(01:36):
Danger, that focuses on keepingall women and girls in our lives
much safer during thesetumultuous times.
Please take the time to followthis invaluable podcast.
We assure you it will be verymuch worth your while.
We're also playing a bit of ourtheme song, which is by Brad
Poirier.
(01:56):
I'm in love with this song, thelyrics that he created, the
music itself.
We're just so privileged tohave it on our show.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Brad's contact information, by the way, is in
our show notes.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Sometimes we all have a great notion that we just
can't stop thinking about.
For me, I've actually had whatI think is a great idea for two
years.
It was triggered by the worldbecoming more violent,
especially the uptick oflawlessness on the streets of
large cities and even smalltowns.
(03:00):
Because I wanted to feel safeagain, I wanted to feel
confident that I could take careof myself, and the same
sentiments that were echoed byso many women that I talked to I
decided to launch a new podcastcalled Skirting Danger, and
it's all about women's safety.
(03:21):
I promise we are not going tobe focusing on how you can box
your way out of a situation, atleast not physically, rather how
to avoid danger in the firstplace, how to read body language
, how to vet people online andfind out if they really are
somebody that you want in yourlife and that goes for people
(03:44):
you've just met or maybesomebody who's lived with you
for a very long time.
We feature experts on a varietyof safety issues, and we also
feature crime survivors.
The link to our new podcast islisted in our show notes, which
are right below the title ofthis particular episode.
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And now let's get going with ourshow.
Our first segment is News andQuickies.
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My first bit of news today isabout Hyperfixed, a new
Hyperfixed and Radiotopiapodcast by host Alex Goldman.
Hyperfixed focuses on solvingsmall challenges submitted by
listeners.
Two examples one adult listenerliving in New York City
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confesses she can't drivewithout crying and asks Alex to
help her become a better, lessstressed driver.
I want to add, alex isperfectly suited for this task
because in his younger days heworked as a delivery truck
driver in New York City.
There's another story that isall about public toilets.
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One of the listeners of theshow wrote in about how we need
solutions to public toiletsanitation and how these
restrooms are not only nasty tovisit, but they're also echo
chambers that magnify, hmm,personal sounds.
Just as an aside, whilelistening to the toilet episode,
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I learned there is an officialAmerican Restroom Association,
or ARA, that advocates for theavailability of clean, safe and
well-designed public restrooms.
If you want to check it outwhich of course I did
immediately the website isAmericanRestroomorg.
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Here's a trailer from the show.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Hi, my name's Alex Goldman.
I'm a radio producer,journalist and overconfident
idiot and in my new podcast,hyperfixed, I'm here to help you
.
Have you ever found yourselfdealing with a problem?
Maybe it's just a quietannoyance you grudgingly learned
to put up with.
I started Ask your.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Album I was surprised how many people had not heard
of Passion Fruit, when I justthought it was a staple
everywhere in the world orthings that feel a little more
serious.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
I have been receiving anonymous text messages, from
annoying all the way up toharassive, for well over a
decade.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
If you're stuck on a problem and can't let it go,
I'll help you not only solvethat problem but explain the
larger unseen forces that causedthat problem in the first place
.
Or like I'll do my best, butlike, even if I don't solve the
problem, like the episodes willbe interesting, I promise okay.
So if you have a problem youcan't figure out, or you just
want to hear stories from othersatisfied listeners week after
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week, join me on Hyperfixed fromRadiotopia and PRX.
Learn more about the show athyperfixedpodcom.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
My second bit of news today is about a veteran
podcast that you might not knowabout, especially if you're
fairly new to this medium.
It's called Something youShould Know, which debuted way
back in the dark ages ofpodcasting in 2016, and
continues to drop multiple showsper week to this day, unlike
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the celebrity-hosted podcasts orthe true crime sagas that seem
to dominate the airwaves rightnow.
Something you Should Know is alow-key show that includes
multiple topics per episode, hasunusual guest experts and whets
the appetite of avidinformation seekers who love to
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know more about the minutiae oflife.
I'm going to be playing twoshort clips for you so that you
can really feel the spirit ofthe show.
The first one is why we LikeCute Things and how to have a
Great Conversation from January23, 2025.
The second is why we AreObsessed With Butts and the Best
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Way and Worst Way to Apologize,which dropped on January 28,
2025.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Today on Something you Should Know why sarcasm and
email really don't mix well,then why we love cute things and
why cuteness is so powerful.
Cuteness attracts our attentionvery quickly within one seventh
of a second.
Then it acts as a releaser ofsocial emotions like well-being
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and empathy and compassion andthings like that.
Also the biggest reason cartires blow out and how to
prevent it.
And the anatomy of goodconversation and why every
conversation is important.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
You never know what you could uncover, even in a
seemingly sort of shallowconversation, and you never know
when something that seems likea small talk conversation could
become something more all thistoday, on something you should
know today, on something youshould know, why you might want
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to deliberately lower the pitchof your voice.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Then, um butts, why does there seem to be such
fascination with them, people?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
often think like having a big butt or a small
butt means something, so like,oh, women with big butts, they
are more fertile.
That's a really commonly held,really myth about butts.
Yeah, lots of people say thatto me have you ever heard.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Also, should you calculate the tip on a
restaurant bill before or afterthe tax, and how to apologize,
because a good apology is golden.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
The steps for making a good apology are so easy and
yet actually doing them is sohard, because our brains are not
wired for this.
Apologizing is a really braveact.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
All this today on Something you Should Know.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I would like to add that Something you Should Know
has hundreds of shows andthousands of segments and, by
the way, most of them areevergreen.
So if you ever get bored, wantto learn something, need better
conversation for a cocktailparty or just ways to improve
how you navigate life, check outSomething you Should Know.
It's now time for our newsegment, epic Episodes.
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This week, I devoured a singleepisode of the Locked In with
Ian Bick podcast On this show.
While no topic is taboo, itdoes have one very important
caveat that sucks me in.
Every time, Each guest ischosen based on their personal
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metamorphosis.
Based on their personalmetamorphosis.
This is key to each of theepisodes, because host and
creator Ian Bick was convictedof a felony in his youth and
spent several years in a federalprison.
Fortunately, ian learned hislesson early in life and, once
released, turned his life intoone filled with positivity and
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purpose.
While going through thelocked-in playlist, which is
really fun all by itself, therewere so many episodes that
piqued my interest, but onestood out above the rest.
It's called Inside the BrutalWhirl of an Undercover Narcotics
Detective, matthew Griffin, andthat's G-R-I-F-F-I-N.
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The episode, which dropped onJanuary 29, 2025, is two hours
and six minutes long.
So what really hooked me intodevoting two hours of my free
time listening to Locked In withIan Bick?
The interview with MatthewGriffin didn't focus on
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shootouts and acts of heroism inthe traditional sense.
Rather, this burly-looking dudetalked about the emotional
price he paid for workingundercover in order to bust
cartel members, major dopedealers and other dangerous
criminals that operated in hiscity and state.
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He lays bare how he felt duringlife-changing moments in his
career and why he ultimatelyleft the police force after many
years and became a noted authorand speaker.
Matthew Griffin has alsowritten a book.
It's entitled Journey toMidnight.
Now I've already purchased iton Amazon and as soon as I
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finish reading it, I am going toinvite him to our show.
The man is absolutelyfascinating.
Here's a short clip from theIan Bick interview with Matthew
Griffin.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
And if you follow the opioid epidemic, fentanyl
really kind of attacked twostates to begin with, and that
was Ohio and New Hampshire, andthese kids that I was mentoring
at the high school were wound upgetting addicted to pills and
they wound up, you know,overdosing, getting getting
hooked on all the differentthings, and remember it.
Just it hit me hard, the I meanpeople were overdosing left and
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right.
And so you know, every day Iwoke up and it was a battle.
It was a battle because I knewthat people were waking up
putting poison into kids bodiesand I was waking up trying to
catch them.
But yet I've got to abide bythe law and I've got to abide by
the certain dynamics of whatwe're doing inside of the drug
task force and the Haida groupand everything else that comes
along with that, and they don'thave to abide by that.
And you know like I rememberthis one time I was sitting in
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we started the search warrantearly on that week and wound up
kicking the door and gettinglike a bunch of fentanyl and gun
like 70 000 in cash.
What people don't understandabout the undercover life is
it's like it's like 10 minutesof fun for like two weeks of
paperwork, right, and and.
So we had the 10 minutes of funand and we kicked the door, we
got everything else, we got allthe dope and everything else and
and, and now I'm doingpaperwork.
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It's a friday afternoon, it'slike 6 o'clock and I'm sitting
in this bar in downtown Keene.
I'm having a burger and a beer.
Before I went home, for me itwas kind of like that
congratulatory, like man, I'mjust going to veg out for a
minute.
And I see the door come openand a dude walks in and kind of
out of your peripheral.
You kind of notice, like hesees me and he stops and and
like where he was going nowpivoted and was walking towards
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me and I couldn't picture whothis dude was and so I slid my
chair back, my barstool back alittle bit and he was like
you're, detective Griffin, right, you're that undercover cop.
I was thinking like not soundercover.
And he said what are you doing?
I said I'm having a burger anda beer.
He said on a Friday afternoonon a Friday evening.
I said yeah, a beer.
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He said on a friday afternoonon friday evening.
I said yeah.
So maybe if you weren't havinga burger and beer, my son went
overdosed and died.
I said damn.
I said I'm sorry to hear that.
I remember how that hit me.
I'm like why was I having aburger and beer on a friday
night?
Like what?
People weren't selling dope onfriday night?
Why am I not out here hustling?
Why am I not doing the thingsthat I need to do to stop people
from overdosing and dying?
And I remember how that made mefeel and it was like huh, I
made you right.
I said I'm sorry, I'm sorry foryour loss.
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And I paid my bill and I got upand you know, things started to
really kind of change at thatpoint, like it's, like you're
right, and really kind of gotlike heavy into the undercover
life and really started to ownevery aspect of it, from a
personality to you know, to afull sleeve of tattoos, to a lip
ring, to cornrows.
To you know, I was trying to doanything I could to take these
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fentanyl dealers off the streetsand, you know, just live in it.
I mean, my phone was on 24-7.
What I forgot to do was be ahusband and a father.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
If this has piqued your interest, like it did mine,
head on over to Locked In withIan Bick, and that is B-I-C-K.
And scroll down just a littleways to Inside the Brutal World
of an Undercover NarcoticsDetective, Matthew Griffin
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jerald oh no, not you.
What are you listening to?
Are you spying on me AIs?
You can't trust them.
But yes, welcome to.
What Are you Listening To?
A segment where I share whatI've binged this week, and it's
a good one.
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This week I discovered FindingMr Fox by the BBC.
It's a part of their podcastWorld of Secrets.
It's actually season five ofWorld of Secrets and it's a
highly praised investigativepodcast with a compelling
narrative about a complicatedinternational cocaine smuggling
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operation, embracing all thefacets of a well-researched,
true story.
Finding Mr Fox delivers asmooth listening experience that
allows you to listen to a true,high-stakes crime story and
still remain at least fairlycalm.
It's also packaged in sixcompact episodes and runs for a
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total of about three hours,making it an easy binge for all
podcast addicts, including me.
The tale begins when two serioussailing enthusiasts are hired
by the mysterious Mr Fox to sailhis large and impressive
sailboat, aptly named the RichHarvest, from South America to
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Europe.
After hiring and then firing aninept captain who the young
crew privately called MrCatastrophe captain who the
young crew privately called MrCatastrophe a fire in the engine
room, faulty equipment thatneeded repair and an hours-long
shakedown by several differentlaw enforcement agencies.
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The young crew members and anew captain embarked on their
transatlantic sail to Europe.
But what they didn't know, fromthe moment that they sat sail,
they were being surveilled byauthorities.
I'll leave you with that plotteaser because, after all, I
don't want to give away theentire story.
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What I can tell you is thatFinding Mr is that Finding Mr
Fox is an immersive story withgreat delivery and production
qualities.
Honestly, if you're a bingerlike I am and I suspect you are
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you're going to love Finding MrFox.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Here's a short clip from the first episode, entitled
the Adventure of a Lifetimeit's not long after dawn and at
a marina in northeast Brazil, ascattering of boats are anchored
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off the coast.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
The water's calm and the harbourside is still quiet.
But on board an old whitesailing boat, one of the crew,
daniel, is already up and about.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I'd just woken up.
I was only wearing shorts.
I hadn't even put a t-shirt on.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
In his small cabin below deck.
He's making his bed when hehears a commotion.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I look around and see a police boat coming towards us
.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Then I hear them Documents, passports his younger
crewmate, rodrigo, is alreadyup too.
He's at the back of the boat,in the kitchen, which is small
but neatly organised, everythingis stored in its proper place.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Ahead of a long Atlantic crossing, they're about
to set sail on.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
I'd just finished breakfast and I was washing the
dishes and Daniel shoutedRodrigo, Rodrigo, the police are
here.
I managed to get close to thewindow and I could see a boat
full of police officers.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Rodrigo drops what he's doing plates still covered
in the remains of that morning'sscrambled eggs.
He rushes up the narrow stepsto reach the deck, just as the
officers board the yacht.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
First federal police, all in black, all armed, then
officers from the port authority, then military police in
camouflage with a sniffer dog.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
The sailors are ordered to stay where they can
be seen.
The yacht is about three timesas wide as a car and five times
as long, and soon it's swarmingwith people in uniform.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
One of the cops, a particularly aggressive man
dressed all in black, swaggersover to Daniel and squares up to
him.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
You guys are in trouble, he says because there's
something on this boat.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Daniel appears nonplussed.
What's he talking about?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
A smaller, more polite police officer starts to
question Rodrigo, how did?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
you get here, when are you going?
And I was thinking to myself aguilty person would be really
scared.
They'd look nervous.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
So he tries to play it cool despite the heavily
armed police, some with machineguns drawn around him.
Rodrigo does what he normallydoes when he finds himself in a
strange situation he takes outhis phone and starts filming the
search.
Soon becomes clear they'relooking for drugs.
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The officer's turnout drawers,empty the fridge, lift up
sections of the floor.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It really looked like a scene from a movie, a long
movie.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
For more than six hours, police combed the yacht.
They cut through plastic pipes,open water and fuel tanks,
scattered the contents of thesailors' backpacks all over
their beds.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
I was thinking like whoa, they messed up the whole
boat.
Then, after they'd openedeverything up, they said okay,
now let's bring a sniffer dogfor the rest of the inspection.
Now let's bring a sniffer dogfor the rest of the inspection.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
The dog is led along the deck, then moves from room
to room, running its nose alongthe dark wooden surfaces the
communal seating area, thecabins, the storage tanks.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Everyone seems to be holding their breath, but the
dog finds nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I was really blown away by the story, the acting,
the fabulous narrations, but,honestly, equally impressive is
the sound engineering for thisseries.
Our first main feature for thisepisode focuses on a podcast
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named Dead Sleep True CrimeBedtime.
Would you believe Dead Sleep isspecifically designed for true
crime insomniacs?
I kid you not.
True crime insomniacs, I kidyou not.
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Apparently, there is a largegroup of people that like to go
to sleep while listening to truecrime stories.
Now, you would think that wouldgive them nightmares at least,
but apparently not Soothing andhypnotic.
Nancy Miller, a former deputyeditor of Los Angeles Magazine
and current host and journalistfor multiple HBO cable and
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podcast projects, has theability to calm everyone, from a
fussy baby to Donald Trump.
Dead Sleep also happens to beMiller's passion project.
That's ad-free and is choosegraphic details, jarring sounds
and calling killers by theirnames.
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After discovering this podcastabout a month ago, I decided to
take it for a test drive bygoing to bed wearing my most
comfy pajamas and headphones,setting the snooze timer for 30
minutes and listening to theDead Sleep True Crime Bedtime
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Podcast.
Now I'm convinced that everyepisode I listened to was
fascinating, but I can't say forsure because I never got past
the 15-minute mark beforefalling into a deep sleep.
Here's a clip from the show.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Good evening and welcome back to Dead Sleep, true
Crime for Bedtime.
I'm Nancy Miller, the creatorand narrator of Dead Sleep.
I'm Nancy Miller, the creatorand narrator of Dead Sleep, and
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if you're new to the podcast,dead Sleep is a true crime
podcast that has all the thrillsand chills of a real life
mystery told with the soothingintimacy of a bedtime story.
I can promise you there will beno blaring, obnoxious ads
blasting you awake in the middleof the show, and I'm hoping
that peace of mind is worthy ofyour investment.
We're grateful to all of youwho have signed up to be
subscribers on Spotify, patreonand Apple Podcasts.
And, by the way, if you'reoversubscribed or you don't want
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to subscribe, that's fineBecause, as we'll learn in this
episode, money isn't everything.
Well, wait a second, that's notquite right.
The people at the center of thisstory did believe money was
everything.
Money was above all things,even, it turns out, human life.
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But before we get into whathappened, let's talk about the
difference between having moneyand being wealthy, because there
is a difference and you want toknow how you can tell the
difference.
You don't need to count thenumber of zeros in a bank
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account.
One quick way you can tell ifsomeone is truly wealthy is
assessing the distance betweensomeone's house and the street.
People who have money, they havebig houses, mcmansions, right
there, front and center foreveryone to see.
But those who are wealthy withreal money, well, you never know
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what their house looks likebecause the home is located way
way far back, so hidden.
You don't even know their houseor all that wealth is even
there.
One night in November of 2012,there was a house at the end of
a long road and there were threemen who knew and they knew very
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well that the home was there.
As they made their way down aseries of S-curve streets and
pitch black roads, they knewwhat was at the end the home of
a 66-year-old businessman namedRavi Kurma and Ravi's house.
It was real money and theywanted all of it.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
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I hope you've enjoyed myreviews and recommendations, and
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