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Podcast Reviews and Recommendations to expand your eclectic playlist! Host Jeryl Spear highlights key insights, emotional narratives, and the journey of discovery within the podcast universe while aiming to enrich your audio experience.
• Featured podcast: "Skirting Danger" and its crucial safety tips for women
• Monica Lewinsky debuts her transformational "Reclaiming" podcast
• Payne Lindsey debuts "Up and Vanished Revisited," a mini-series updating important cases from all seasons including behind-the-scenes footage, and "Up and Vanished Weekly," which explores cases submitted but not covered on his Up and Vanished podcast
• "Coffin Talkin'" mortician Frank talks about the hauntings he's experienced while working at numerous mortuaries
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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?
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reviews.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Hello everyone.
Welcome to One Good Thing Media, season 3, episode 3.
It is so good to be with all ofyou.
I hope you are having awonderful week and are ready to
discover some new podcasts toadd to your playlist of favorite
shows.
For those of you who are new toour podcast, my name is Gerald
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Spear and I am the creator andhost of One Good Thing Media, a
show that's dedicated toreviewing and recommending many
of the best shows in the podcastuniverse.
To make sure that you nevermiss a single episode, please
tap on the follow andnotification buttons.
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You are following us, aren'tyou?
If you aren't, these simpleacts of support mean the world
to us.
This week, we have three newpodcasts that you'll want to
check out, and also establishedpodcasts that you might have
missed.
The latter, by the way, is easyto do, since there are over
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300,000 podcasts regularlybroadcasting and there's no
centralized search engine.
Specifically, for podcasts orpodcast genres.
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Before we get going, I want toremind our faithful fans and all
the new people that find useach week that we also have a
second and newer podcast calledSkirting Danger Women's Safety.
I've taken on this extra showbecause, quite frankly, in many
ways, there is a war on womengoing on right now.
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The streets are more dangerous,public transportation is
sketchy at best, there are morepeople out there with bad
intentions, making it soimportant that we protect
ourselves by avoiding danger inthe first place.
The primary intention forSkirting Danger is to help women
avoid becoming crime victimswhile traveling, shopping,
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socializing, meeting new peopleand even while staying at home.
We talk to experts about how toread individual body language
and read crowds, whatsituational awareness really
entails, how to investigatepeople you've just met,
different ways to protect yourpurse and your ID, and much more
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.
We also interview women whohave already become crime
victims and have great insightsinto what all women can do going
forward to avoid these terriblesituations.
We also have a free newsletterthat you can subscribe to.
It contains exclusive tips onhow you can safely navigate your
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life.
The link to subscribe to thenewsletter is in our show notes,
and now are you ready to rumble?
Let's start out with some newsand quickies.
This segment is particularlyexciting for me because I have
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absolutely fallen in love withthe new shows that I'm about to
talk about.
My first news bit for today isabout a new podcast entitled
Reclaiming, with Monica Lewinsky.
People of a certain age alreadyknow the 1990s White House
scandal that involved24-year-old intern Monica
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Lewinsky and then PresidentClinton.
It included salacious behavior,a cigar, secret recordings, lies
and denials, and a blue dressstained with, shall we say,
presidential DNA.
The young Monica had stars inher eyes and her paramour knew
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just how to seduce her.
And wouldn't you know it?
After all the dirty laundry andcondemnations quieted down,
president Clinton's legacyremained relatively unscathed,
despite being impeached for hisnaughty behavior, while Monica
found herself foreverunemployable and pretty much
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ostracized by polite society.
Today, monica is 51 years old,still gorgeous, and possesses
wisdom that can only bedeveloped through making huge
mistakes and ultimately risingfrom the ashes of her previous
life.
In episode one, monica Lewinskyis actually interviewed by her
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producer to talk about not somuch dwelling on what happened
in the White House, but theaftermath going to court, having
to figure out how to pay amillion dollars for attorneys,
talking about being really justsort of walking around with an A
embroidered on all of herclothing.
People didn't want to hire her.
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When her name was called out ina room, she would hear
snickering.
It was just very difficult forher for many, many years.
She talks about what happened,how she got through it and how
she finally after years decadesreally embraced who she was as a
young intern and who she istoday to lead a more fruitful
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and happy life.
In subsequent episodes she has,I think, three of them out
right now she interviews famousand not famous people who have
also triumphed over very painfulpasts.
If you aren't familiar withMonica Lewinsky and the key role
that she played in the Clintonscandal during the 1990s, or if
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you just want to refresh yourmemory, the multi-part tell-all
series entitled Impeached theClinton Affair on Amazon and, by
the way, you can watch it freeif you're a Prime member gives
you all the details about whatwent on with Monica, also with
the Whitewater scandal and, ofcourse, paula Jones course,
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paula Jones.
I'm also excited to share thenew Tenderfoot TV's Up and
Vanished Revisited series,starting with Season 1, the Tara
Grinstead Case, which firstaired in 2016.
There have been several seasonsand investigations since that
time and creator and host PayneLindsey promises to revisit all
of them with updates, newdevelopments and material that
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he was unable to include whenhis Up and Vanished
investigations were firstbroadcast.
Up and Vanished not to beconfused with Payne's new Up and
Vanished weekly podcast isrenowned for its lengthy
investigations into casesinvolving people who have
disappeared and are believed tohave been victims of foul play.
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My confession At the time ofthis recording, only two
episodes of the Tara Grinsteadcase revisited have dropped, and
I'm already addicted.
If you haven't listened to theoriginal Up and Vanished seasons
, you certainly can follow Upand Vanished Revisited without
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doing so.
However, if you want to bedeeply invested in Payne Lindsay
and the true unsolved crimesthat he investigates, listen to
each of the original seasonsfirst.
Here's an edited clip from thefirst episode of the Terry
Grinstead case Revisited.
It will further explain theintent of Up and Vanished
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Revisited series and give you aninsightful glimpse into the
content and personality of thislegendary podcast.
Where is Tara?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Grinstead.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
From Tenderfoot TV in Atlanta.
This is Up and Vanished.
It's weird listening back tothis.
I was just some guy in hisapartment sitting in front of a
microphone I just bought at BestBuy thinking, yeah, I'll just
go solve a murder mystery realquick, like no big deal.
I had no journalism background,no investigative training, just
a Google search bar, afascination with the podcast
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serial and, well, a lot ofmisplaced confidence.
I said from Tenderfoot TV inAtlanta.
What I really meant was from myapartment in Kennesaw where I
was living with my youngerbrother.
At the time, saying fromTenderfoot TV felt more official
, like I was some organizationor a team, but at that time it
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was just me.
I came up with the nameTenderfoot because it's the
lowest rank in Boy Scouts.
My dad was an Eagle Scout.
He made me join Boy Scouts inmiddle school and I didn't like
it and the furthest I got wasTenderfoot.
But hey, they don't hand thatbadge out, you still have to
earn it.
Crazy to think that all theseyears later, saying Tenderfoot
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TV means something completelydifferent.
Like a lot of people, I havebeen pretty obsessed with the
podcast Serial and the Netflixseries Making a Murderer and I
thought to myself, what if Imade one of those?
So I literally just went toGoogle and started searching
there it is.
That's me Fully committing tothis, like I had a single clue
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what I was about to uncoverSpoiler alert I didn't, but
somehow it might have been mygreatest advantage.
God, this part still cracks meup.
It either makes you think thisguy's absolutely ridiculous or
wow, how cool an average Joe cango make a true crime podcast.
But it's what I did.
I literally went to Google andstarted searching.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
To Ocella, to her principal's house because he had
a cookout that night.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Man, I could have never imagined that my actual
grandma would be the one to dropa bombshell on me on an
unsolved missing persons case Iwas investigating for my true
crime podcast.
But sure enough she did.
I'm pretty sure she had no ideaI was recording our
conversation.
I did eventually tell her butseriously, listening back to the
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very first episode of Up andVanished, the very first
cliffhanger ever and it's mygrandma it's kind of surreal.
That was episode one of Up andVanished, season one, the very
beginning.
And now I'm going to take youthrough every single season
Revisiting everything, what Igot right, what I through every
single season, revisitingeverything, what I got right,
what I got wrong, what's changedsince then.
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And here's the deal A lot haschanged since then.
What you don't know and you'reabout to find out is that in
every single case of Up andVanished we've always continued
investigating.
I've been talking to the CBI,the Colorado Bureau of
Investigation, in CrystalReisinger's case for over four
years and I recorded all of itwith their permission.
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I've talked to the FBI inAshley Loring Heavy Runner's
case.
There are major new leads tapeI've previously recorded.
That didn't make sense backthen but makes a whole lot of
sense now, in a brand new senseof urgency, in a call to the
public you guys, even aslisteners, to help us solve
these cases.
There's a lot of things aboutRyan Duke's trial that I never
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told you, just from my personalexperience.
At the time, I truly did notwant to get in the way of the
justice system doing its job.
That's why the only time I everappeared in the actual
courtroom was on the very lastday when they read the verdict.
But wow, do I have some storiesfor you?
So each week we're diving backinto every season, starting with
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season one, and look, I knowit's a whole lot of information,
so I'm going to make it easyfor you.
Whether you've binged all theseseasons recently, or you heard
them years ago, or you'rehearing all this for the first
time, we're going to recapeverything in a very clean way
so I can give you a real updateand call to action to help us
solve these cases.
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This is eight years of work,audio you've never heard and
insights from me that I've nevershared, and all of this is
leading up back to season fourin the Midnight Sun.
I've also spent several monthsgoing through all my old phones,
hard drives everything I couldfind and dug up old footage of
me and the team investigatingthese cases.
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Over the years, we've alsofilmed a whole bunch of new
stuff that shows you exactlywhere we are in our
investigations into thedisappearance of Florence Locke
Pialik and Joseph Balderas inseason four.
So I encourage you to go checkout my Instagram, which is at
painlindsay and at upandvanished, if you want to see some
visuals with what you're hearing.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It'll be worth your while I mentioned earlier, but
in case you missed it, Up andVanished Weekly is also a new
podcast.
I'm not going to get into a lotof the particulars on it.
I'm simply going to play a clipthat is narrated by Payne
Lindsey, where he describes Upand Vanished Weekly and lets you
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in on what their goals are forthe show.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Vanished Weekly and lets you in on what their goals
are for the show.
You're listening to aTenderfoot TV podcast.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Hey guys, it's Payne Lindsey.
For almost eight years, I'vebeen making true crime podcasts,
investigating cold cases,unsolved disappearances, murders
, wrongful convictions.
I've sat face-to-face withserial killers, stared evil in
the eye, and I've met countlessfamilies whose lives have been
shattered by unimaginable loss.
These experiences have shapedwho I am today and they've lit a
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fire in me to keep fighting forjustice, for truth and for
those whose stories have beenignored for far too long.
Since the first season of Upand Vanished in 2016, where we
uncovered the truth about TaraGrinstead's disappearance and
helped bring her killers tojustice, I've spent years
investigating and tellingstories just like hers.
Along the way, thousands oftips, stories and cases have
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poured in, each one carrying theweight of unanswered questions
and unimaginable heartbreak.
I've decided these stories canno longer just sit in the
shadows.
Thank you.
persons, murders and evenwrongful convictions this show
is about shedding light on thesestories, giving a voice to
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those who need it most and, mostof all, trying to find answers.
Every week, I'll be here toguide you through these stories,
taking you through all thetwists and turns of an unsolved
case.
But this is far from aone-person operation.
This is a team and I've broughtin my good friend, journalist,
activist and overall badass,maggie Freeling, to take the
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helm.
Each week, maggie will leadthoughtful and candid
discussions, examining thesecases, sitting down with
victims' families, talking toexpert guests and members of our
own Up and Vantage team,breaking down the details that
matter most and enlisting yourhelp to try and solve them.
This show is about awareness,action and the overall pursuit
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of the truth.
I'm beyond grateful to have youon this journey with us and I
want to personally thank you foryour support as a listener.
I'm proud to present to you Upand Vanished Weekly.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Now it's time for our newest segment, our epic
episode of the week.
There's a podcast that I listento every Monday as soon as it
drops.
It's called Coffin Talkin'.
I'm not sure how I ended uplistening to it, honestly,
except that the title of thepodcast must have intrigued me
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in some way.
It features a mortician namedFrank and his daughter Holly,
who is the host of the show.
Now I know you must be thinkingeww, I don't want to know what
goes on in mortuaries.
But chances are you're wrong.
Frank, a dignified man who hasbeen in the mortuary business
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for eons, also has one moreskill, or should I say, gift, of
seeing and sometimescommunicating with spirits.
You do know that mostmortuaries are haunted to some
degree, don't you?
Well, they are.
The episode I'm featuring todayaired on December 16, 2024, and
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is entitled All Dogs Go toMortuaries.
It's about a woman whosupposedly came to the mortuary
to talk to Frank about burialarrangements, but in fact was
actually trying to drop off herrecently departed dog's spirit.
The ensuing days and weeks werefilled with ghostly activities
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during visitations, services andinteractions with the staff.
Here's just a little bit ofthat story.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
No, sooner had they left that.
About an hour later, I'mcleaning up the chapel area when
I hear this oh my gosh, like adog panting.
Yes, and not only that, it wasrunning and I just and it was
from behind me and I stopped andI paused for just a moment,
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pause like it was running at youyeah, you missed my pun, but
yeah, I paused for just a momentand I thought, oh my gosh, that
dog, there's a dog in thebuilding and it's gonna, it's
gonna jump on my back.
Oh my, that's what I wasthinking.
I was gonna attack my leg.
And so I just sat there and Ijust froze for a moment,
thinking, okay, you're in,you're in control, you make the
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next move.
So all of a sudden now, well,the dog continued running and it
just ran past me and I go whoa,whoa, whoa, and I'm looking
down and I don't see anything.
In this building we have amixture of tile and then rock
floor and then carpet.
So I'm in the carpeted area andI'm moving some chairs.
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And that's when I paused and Iwaited for this dog to jump me,
hit my leg, whatever the casewas going to be.
Then I waited for this dog tojump me, hit my leg, whatever
the case was going to be, and Ijust I heard the panting kind of
like this, so you could hear itapproach you and then pass you.
That's what I was hearing.
And then suddenly I heard clawson carpet not digging but
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gaining traction as it's running, okay, and it's running in
circles in this chapel.
What the heck Exactly?
And I'm thinking to myself whatin the world am I experiencing
now?
And then the door was open.
I had the door open and it juststarted to cross the rock, so I
could hear it.
You know, you can hear whendogs take shorty on a walk on
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cement.
I can hear his claws on thecement.
That's the same thing that I washearing as this dog passed
through the doorway onto therock area.
There was a secretary that wasbehind the counter and she said
frank, who let the dog in?
I said what dog.
She heard it too yeah, I saidwhat dog?
I don't see a dog and she goeshold.
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It was just right here andthat's that was her expression.
It was just right here becauseshe heard's, that was her
expression, it was just righthere, cause she heard it.
Yeah, she heard it.
So about three days later wehad a service going on.
We opened up that viewing room,so it was completely open.
It was probably a space of, Idon't know, 40 by 40.
Um, so 160 square feet roughly,maybe it was bigger, I can't
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remember.
So 160 square feet roughly,maybe it was bigger, I can't
remember.
But in the front of therethere's always drawn shades or
curtains, yeah, and we werehaving a service go on and there
was a speaker.
The speaker was speaking whenall of a sudden we hear this.
And I'm in the background, I'mlooking down just waiting for
the service to end, and I hearthis oh my gosh, what is that?
Oh my gosh.
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No, what is that what?
And I look up and the curtainis moving and it's a low-lying
move, so something likesomething behind it or it's
brushing againstit one way it was either behind
it but the curtain, but the wallwas right in, uh, right behind
the curtain.
So if something was behind it,even if it was me, I'd be
shoving along yeah, I'd see feetor something but the curtain.
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So if something was behind it,even if it was me, I'd be
shoving along, yeah, I'd seefeet or something, but the
curtain was just moving alongslowly but surely.
You're this gentleman that wasspeaking and he's hearing all
these things.
He turns around and he seesthis curtain oh my gosh Moving
along.
Someone in the congregationsays oh, it's probably just the
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heating, you know, because theyhad the floor vents, yeah.
And so they're thinking theheat's kicked on and so the
curtain's starting to ripplethrough it's not really how the
the heating works, but okay butthere was a definite impression
in the curtain moving forward,then stopped, the curtain went,
went calm, and then the curtainstarted moving back the other
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way, and then what did we hear?
Exactly right.
And so I knew in my mind I'mthinking oh my gosh, the dog is
back, that's what I'm thinkingbut when the guys turned around
from the podium and looked atthe curtain and saw what it was
doing, this was probably thefunniest part.
He goes and he's a minister.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Now, this particular episode is on the cute side, but
if you want to get into scarierstories, try Creepy Crypt, part
1 and 2, which aired inSeptember of 2024 on Coffin
Talkin' Also the Red X, and thataired on July 15, 2024.
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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 Areyou Listening To?
A segment where I share whatI've binged this week, and it's
a good one.
Where I share what I've bingedthis week, and it's a good one.
(24:55):
This week I dove intoOld-Fashioned on Purpose by Jill
Winger, a podcast that focuseson many ways that we can return
to a time in our history whereour skills to bake bread, cook
fresh ingredients for dinner andgrow our own food were
important skills.
Jill Winger is a homesteader alittle more far out there than I
care to be, who has takennatural to a whole other level,
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but even though I don't want tocompletely embrace what she's
doing, her principles andcertain practices still speak to
me.
Two years ago, I was gobsmackedwhen I was diagnosed with an
incurable disease that wasdirectly linked to my lifestyle
and diet.
It was a wake-up call, folks.
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Today, after gradually changingmy eating habits and adopting a
healthier lifestyle, I've neverfelt better.
I will admit if I hatedspending more time in the
kitchen or outdoors watering andpulling weeds, I don't think
this lifestyle would have workedfor me, but I do love those
things.
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If you feel the same way as I do, I recommend that you check out
the Old Fashioned On Purposepodcast.
Here's a clip from myeight-episode binge for this
week.
I suggest that you start withepisode one, which dropped on
August 7th 2019.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
In years I have been helping folks learn how to leave
the rat race and create thelife they really want by taking
the best of the old ways andweaving them into our everyday
modern lives, so I'm superexcited for this episode.
You know, if you've followed meon my blog or on Instagram or
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YouTube, then you've heard someof our origin story before, of
how Christian and I Christian'smy husband how we started this
homestead path.
So some of this might befamiliar to a few of you, but
today I really want to dive indeeper than I've ever gone
before into our backgrounds andreally what was the catalyst for
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us starting this extremelyunorthodox journey and lifestyle
that's completely changed ourlives and really has been one of
the best things that's everhappened to us?
I think the cool thing aboutour story is that we really
didn't have any sort ofagricultural background to start
with.
It really serves as proof that,no matter where you are or what
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you know now, if you havehomesteading in your brain and
you can't stop thinking about it, it's doable and you can make
this happen.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
In all of her episodes, starting again in 2019
and continuing on today, sheteaches you how to make compost
tea and no, you don't drink it,it's fertilizer.
But I make my own now and it'squick and fast.
I've learned to put bananapeels in water for potassium,
for our plants.
I grow herbs and dry them.
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I bake from scratch.
So there's a lot of differentthings that you can do and a lot
of different skills that youcan at least learn about in the
Old Fashioned On Purpose podcastby Crime Curious.
Right now, you could begroaning and thinking, oh no,
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not another true crime podcastreview, and I feel you.
But this one is different.
Crime Curious is hosted by twowomen named Sharnell and Megan.
Sharnell has over a decade ofCPS that is, child Protective
Services InvestigationExperience, and Megan has 21
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years of experience in criminalprosecution and is currently a
district court judge.
So what makes them stand outfrom the gajillion true crime
podcasts that are currentlybeing played?
If you've ever been confused byjudicial rulings, how juries
are handled behind the scenes orwhat causes some cases to
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collapse, these ladies are ajudicial encyclopedia of why,
how and what rules are used in avariety of situations to keep
the wheels of justice squeakyfree and churning out verdicts.
This is especially true ofMegan.
She effortlessly weavesexplanations of procedures,
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rulings and rules that judgesmust follow into conversations,
as opposed to having a pedanticstyle of a classroom professor.
Here's a quick clip that willshare the spirit and the flavor
of this show.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I have some feelings about it, but I always have to
stay fair.
Here I'm trying to.
You know it's just.
It's hard because looking at itfrom a legal perspective,
trying to make the argument or adefense attorney make an
argument that there wascontributory negligence by
virtue of her alcoholconsumption still does not
negate the fact.
Or if you're weighing how muchit contributed to her being a
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passenger in a back seat wheresomebody obviously decided to
drive allegedly under theinfluence With, you know,
contributory negligence.
I mean, was she more negligentthan the driver to negate some
type of an award?
And I know you guys aren'tlooking for money.
That's not the point ofwrongful death suits.
I try to tell this to peopleall the time.
Look at the freaking OJ Simpsoncase.
He got acquitted of murder buthe lost that wrongful death suit
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.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
And that's it for this show.
I hope you all have a beautifulweek.
I will be back with you soonand in the meantime, don't
forget to follow and comment onour shows.
Love you guys.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Hello everyone.
Welcome to One Good Thing Media, season 3, episode 3.
It is so good to be with all ofyou.
I hope you are having awonderful week and are ready to
discover some new podcasts toadd to your playlist of favorite
shows.
For those of you who are new toour podcast, my name is Gerald
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Spear and I am the creator andhost of One Good Thing Media, a
show that's dedicated toreviewing and recommending many
of the best shows in the podcastuniverse.
To make sure that you nevermiss a single episode, please
tap on the follow andnotification buttons.
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You are following us, aren'tyou?
If you aren't, these simpleacts of support mean the world
to us.
This week, we have three newpodcasts that you'll want to
check out, and also establishedpodcasts that you might have
missed.
The latter, by the way, is easyto do, since there are over
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300,000 podcasts regularlybroadcasting and there's no
centralized search engine.
Specifically, for podcasts orpodcast genres.
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Before we get going, I want toremind our faithful fans and all
the new people that find useach week that we also have a
second and newer podcast calledSkirting Danger Women's Safety.
I've taken on this extra showbecause, quite frankly, in many
ways, there is a war on womengoing on right now.
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The streets are more dangerous,public transportation is
sketchy at best, there are morepeople out there with bad
intentions, making it soimportant that we protect
ourselves by avoiding danger inthe first place.
The primary intention forSkirting Danger is to help women
avoid becoming crime victimswhile traveling, shopping,
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socializing, meeting new peopleand even while staying at home.
We talk to experts about how toread individual body language
and read crowds, whatsituational awareness really
entails, how to investigatepeople you've just met,
different ways to protect yourpurse and your ID, and much more
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.
We also interview women whohave already become crime
victims and have great insightsinto what all women can do going
forward to avoid these terriblesituations.
We also have a free newsletterthat you can subscribe to.
It contains exclusive tips onhow you can safely navigate your
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life.
The link to subscribe to thenewsletter is in our show notes,
and now are you ready to rumble?
Let's start out with some newsand quickies.
This segment is particularlyexciting for me because I have
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absolutely fallen in love withthe new shows that I'm about to
talk about.
My first news bit for today isabout a new podcast entitled
Reclaiming, with Monica Lewinsky.
People of a certain age alreadyknow the 1990s White House
scandal that involved24-year-old intern Monica
(04:46):
Lewinsky and then PresidentClinton.
It included salacious behavior,a cigar, secret recordings, lies
and denials, and a blue dressstained with, shall we say,
presidential DNA.
The young Monica had stars inher eyes and her paramour knew
(05:08):
just how to seduce her.
And wouldn't you know it?
After all the dirty laundry andcondemnations quieted down,
president Clinton's legacyremained relatively unscathed,
despite being impeached for hisnaughty behavior, while Monica
found herself foreverunemployable and pretty much
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ostracized by polite society.
Today, monica is 51 years old,still gorgeous, and possesses
wisdom that can only bedeveloped through making huge
mistakes and ultimately risingfrom the ashes of her previous
life.
In episode one, monica Lewinskyis actually interviewed by her
(05:52):
producer to talk about not somuch dwelling on what happened
in the White House, but theaftermath going to court, having
to figure out how to pay amillion dollars for attorneys,
talking about being really justsort of walking around with an A
embroidered on all of herclothing.
People didn't want to hire her.
(06:14):
When her name was called out ina room, she would hear
snickering.
It was just very difficult forher for many, many years.
She talks about what happened,how she got through it and how
she finally after years decadesreally embraced who she was as a
young intern and who she istoday to lead a more fruitful
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and happy life.
In subsequent episodes she has,I think, three of them out
right now she interviews famousand not famous people who have
also triumphed over very painfulpasts.
If you aren't familiar withMonica Lewinsky and the key role
that she played in the Clintonscandal during the 1990s, or if
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you just want to refresh yourmemory, the multi-part tell-all
series entitled Impeached theClinton Affair on Amazon and, by
the way, you can watch it freeif you're a Prime member gives
you all the details about whatwent on with Monica, also with
the Whitewater scandal and, ofcourse, paula Jones course,
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paula Jones.
I'm also excited to share thenew Tenderfoot TV's Up and
Vanished Revisited series,starting with Season 1, the Tara
Grinstead Case, which firstaired in 2016.
There have been several seasonsand investigations since that
time and creator and host PayneLindsey promises to revisit all
of them with updates, newdevelopments and material that
(07:51):
he was unable to include whenhis Up and Vanished
investigations were firstbroadcast.
Up and Vanished not to beconfused with Payne's new Up and
Vanished weekly podcast isrenowned for its lengthy
investigations into casesinvolving people who have
disappeared and are believed tohave been victims of foul play.
(08:13):
My confession At the time ofthis recording, only two
episodes of the Tara Grinsteadcase revisited have dropped, and
I'm already addicted.
If you haven't listened to theoriginal Up and Vanished seasons
, you certainly can follow Upand Vanished Revisited without
(08:34):
doing so.
However, if you want to bedeeply invested in Payne Lindsay
and the true unsolved crimesthat he investigates, listen to
each of the original seasonsfirst.
Here's an edited clip from thefirst episode of the Terry
Grinstead case Revisited.
It will further explain theintent of Up and Vanished
(08:58):
Revisited series and give you aninsightful glimpse into the
content and personality of thislegendary podcast.
Where is Tara?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Grinstead.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
From Tenderfoot TV in Atlanta.
This is Up and Vanished.
It's weird listening back tothis.
I was just some guy in hisapartment sitting in front of a
microphone I just bought at BestBuy thinking, yeah, I'll just
go solve a murder mystery realquick, like no big deal.
I had no journalism background,no investigative training, just
a Google search bar, afascination with the podcast
(09:53):
serial and, well, a lot ofmisplaced confidence.
I said from Tenderfoot TV inAtlanta.
What I really meant was from myapartment in Kennesaw where I
was living with my youngerbrother.
At the time, saying fromTenderfoot TV felt more official
, like I was some organizationor a team, but at that time it
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was just me.
I came up with the nameTenderfoot because it's the
lowest rank in Boy Scouts.
My dad was an Eagle Scout.
He made me join Boy Scouts inmiddle school and I didn't like
it and the furthest I got wasTenderfoot.
But hey, they don't hand thatbadge out, you still have to
earn it.
Crazy to think that all theseyears later, saying Tenderfoot
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TV means something completelydifferent.
Like a lot of people, I havebeen pretty obsessed with the
podcast Serial and the Netflixseries Making a Murderer and I
thought to myself, what if Imade one of those?
So I literally just went toGoogle and started searching
there it is.
That's me Fully committing tothis, like I had a single clue
(10:59):
what I was about to uncoverSpoiler alert I didn't, but
somehow it might have been mygreatest advantage.
God, this part still cracks meup.
It either makes you think thisguy's absolutely ridiculous or
wow, how cool an average Joe cango make a true crime podcast.
But it's what I did.
I literally went to Google andstarted searching.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
To Ocella, to her principal's house because he had
a cookout that night.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Man, I could have never imagined that my actual
grandma would be the one to dropa bombshell on me on an
unsolved missing persons case Iwas investigating for my true
crime podcast.
But sure enough she did.
I'm pretty sure she had no ideaI was recording our
conversation.
I did eventually tell her butseriously, listening back to the
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very first episode of Up andVanished, the very first
cliffhanger ever and it's mygrandma it's kind of surreal.
That was episode one of Up andVanished, season one, the very
beginning.
And now I'm going to take youthrough every single season
Revisiting everything, what Igot right, what I through every
single season, revisitingeverything, what I got right,
what I got wrong, what's changedsince then.
(12:10):
And here's the deal A lot haschanged since then.
What you don't know and you'reabout to find out is that in
every single case of Up andVanished we've always continued
investigating.
I've been talking to the CBI,the Colorado Bureau of
Investigation, in CrystalReisinger's case for over four
years and I recorded all of itwith their permission.
(12:33):
I've talked to the FBI inAshley Loring Heavy Runner's
case.
There are major new leads tapeI've previously recorded.
That didn't make sense backthen but makes a whole lot of
sense now, in a brand new senseof urgency, in a call to the
public you guys, even aslisteners, to help us solve
these cases.
There's a lot of things aboutRyan Duke's trial that I never
(12:56):
told you, just from my personalexperience.
At the time, I truly did notwant to get in the way of the
justice system doing its job.
That's why the only time I everappeared in the actual
courtroom was on the very lastday when they read the verdict.
But wow, do I have some storiesfor you?
So each week we're diving backinto every season, starting with
(13:20):
season one, and look, I knowit's a whole lot of information,
so I'm going to make it easyfor you.
Whether you've binged all theseseasons recently, or you heard
them years ago, or you'rehearing all this for the first
time, we're going to recapeverything in a very clean way
so I can give you a real updateand call to action to help us
solve these cases.
(13:40):
This is eight years of work,audio you've never heard and
insights from me that I've nevershared, and all of this is
leading up back to season fourin the Midnight Sun.
I've also spent several monthsgoing through all my old phones,
hard drives everything I couldfind and dug up old footage of
me and the team investigatingthese cases.
(14:02):
Over the years, we've alsofilmed a whole bunch of new
stuff that shows you exactlywhere we are in our
investigations into thedisappearance of Florence Locke
Pialik and Joseph Balderas inseason four.
So I encourage you to go checkout my Instagram, which is at
painlindsay and at upandvanished, if you want to see some
visuals with what you're hearing.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It'll be worth your while I mentioned earlier, but
in case you missed it, Up andVanished Weekly is also a new
podcast.
I'm not going to get into a lotof the particulars on it.
I'm simply going to play a clipthat is narrated by Payne
Lindsey, where he describes Upand Vanished Weekly and lets you
(14:44):
in on what their goals are forthe show.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Vanished Weekly and lets you in on what their goals
are for the show.
You're listening to aTenderfoot TV podcast.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Hey guys, it's Payne Lindsey.
For almost eight years, I'vebeen making true crime podcasts,
investigating cold cases,unsolved disappearances, murders
, wrongful convictions.
I've sat face-to-face withserial killers, stared evil in
the eye, and I've met countlessfamilies whose lives have been
shattered by unimaginable loss.
These experiences have shapedwho I am today and they've lit a
(15:22):
fire in me to keep fighting forjustice, for truth and for
those whose stories have beenignored for far too long.
Since the first season of Upand Vanished in 2016, where we
uncovered the truth about TaraGrinstead's disappearance and
helped bring her killers tojustice, I've spent years
investigating and tellingstories just like hers.
Along the way, thousands oftips, stories and cases have
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poured in, each one carrying theweight of unanswered questions
and unimaginable heartbreak.
I've decided these stories canno longer just sit in the
shadows.
Thank you.
persons, murders and evenwrongful convictions this show
is about shedding light on thesestories, giving a voice to
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those who need it most and, mostof all, trying to find answers.
Every week, I'll be here toguide you through these stories,
taking you through all thetwists and turns of an unsolved
case.
But this is far from aone-person operation.
This is a team and I've broughtin my good friend, journalist,
activist and overall badass,maggie Freeling, to take the
(16:32):
helm.
Each week, maggie will leadthoughtful and candid
discussions, examining thesecases, sitting down with
victims' families, talking toexpert guests and members of our
own Up and Vantage team,breaking down the details that
matter most and enlisting yourhelp to try and solve them.
This show is about awareness,action and the overall pursuit
(16:55):
of the truth.
I'm beyond grateful to have youon this journey with us and I
want to personally thank you foryour support as a listener.
I'm proud to present to you Upand Vanished Weekly.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Now it's time for our newest segment, our epic
episode of the week.
There's a podcast that I listento every Monday as soon as it
drops.
It's called Coffin Talkin'.
I'm not sure how I ended uplistening to it, honestly,
except that the title of thepodcast must have intrigued me
(17:56):
in some way.
It features a mortician namedFrank and his daughter Holly,
who is the host of the show.
Now I know you must be thinkingeww, I don't want to know what
goes on in mortuaries.
But chances are you're wrong.
Frank, a dignified man who hasbeen in the mortuary business
(18:17):
for eons, also has one moreskill, or should I say, gift, of
seeing and sometimescommunicating with spirits.
You do know that mostmortuaries are haunted to some
degree, don't you?
Well, they are.
The episode I'm featuring todayaired on December 16, 2024, and
(18:41):
is entitled All Dogs Go toMortuaries.
It's about a woman whosupposedly came to the mortuary
to talk to Frank about burialarrangements, but in fact was
actually trying to drop off herrecently departed dog's spirit.
The ensuing days and weeks werefilled with ghostly activities
(19:04):
during visitations, services andinteractions with the staff.
Here's just a little bit ofthat story.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
No, sooner had they left that.
About an hour later, I'mcleaning up the chapel area when
I hear this oh my gosh, like adog panting.
Yes, and not only that, it wasrunning and I just and it was
from behind me and I stopped andI paused for just a moment,
(19:34):
pause like it was running at youyeah, you missed my pun, but
yeah, I paused for just a momentand I thought, oh my gosh, that
dog, there's a dog in thebuilding and it's gonna, it's
gonna jump on my back.
Oh my, that's what I wasthinking.
I was gonna attack my leg.
And so I just sat there and Ijust froze for a moment,
thinking, okay, you're in,you're in control, you make the
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next move.
So all of a sudden now, well,the dog continued running and it
just ran past me and I go whoa,whoa, whoa, and I'm looking
down and I don't see anything.
In this building we have amixture of tile and then rock
floor and then carpet.
So I'm in the carpeted area andI'm moving some chairs.
(20:20):
And that's when I paused and Iwaited for this dog to jump me,
hit my leg, whatever the casewas going to be.
Then I waited for this dog tojump me, hit my leg, whatever
the case was going to be, and Ijust I heard the panting kind of
like this, so you could hear itapproach you and then pass you.
That's what I was hearing.
And then suddenly I heard clawson carpet not digging but
(20:44):
gaining traction as it's running, okay, and it's running in
circles in this chapel.
What the heck Exactly?
And I'm thinking to myself whatin the world am I experiencing
now?
And then the door was open.
I had the door open and it juststarted to cross the rock, so I
could hear it.
You know, you can hear whendogs take shorty on a walk on
(21:07):
cement.
I can hear his claws on thecement.
That's the same thing that I washearing as this dog passed
through the doorway onto therock area.
There was a secretary that wasbehind the counter and she said
frank, who let the dog in?
I said what dog.
She heard it too yeah, I saidwhat dog?
I don't see a dog and she goeshold.
(21:27):
It was just right here andthat's that was her expression.
It was just right here becauseshe heard's, that was her
expression, it was just righthere, cause she heard it.
Yeah, she heard it.
So about three days later wehad a service going on.
We opened up that viewing room,so it was completely open.
It was probably a space of, Idon't know, 40 by 40.
Um, so 160 square feet roughly,maybe it was bigger, I can't
(21:50):
remember.
So 160 square feet roughly,maybe it was bigger, I can't
remember.
But in the front of therethere's always drawn shades or
curtains, yeah, and we werehaving a service go on and there
was a speaker.
The speaker was speaking whenall of a sudden we hear this.
And I'm in the background, I'mlooking down just waiting for
the service to end, and I hearthis oh my gosh, what is that?
Oh my gosh.
(22:11):
No, what is that what?
And I look up and the curtainis moving and it's a low-lying
move, so something likesomething behind it or it's
brushing againstit one way it was either behind
it but the curtain, but the wallwas right in, uh, right behind
the curtain.
So if something was behind it,even if it was me, I'd be
shoving along yeah, I'd see feetor something but the curtain.
(22:31):
So if something was behind it,even if it was me, I'd be
shoving along, yeah, I'd seefeet or something, but the
curtain was just moving alongslowly but surely.
You're this gentleman that wasspeaking and he's hearing all
these things.
He turns around and he seesthis curtain oh my gosh Moving
along.
Someone in the congregationsays oh, it's probably just the
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heating, you know, because theyhad the floor vents, yeah.
And so they're thinking theheat's kicked on and so the
curtain's starting to ripplethrough it's not really how the
the heating works, but okay butthere was a definite impression
in the curtain moving forward,then stopped, the curtain went,
went calm, and then the curtainstarted moving back the other
(23:13):
way, and then what did we hear?
Exactly right.
And so I knew in my mind I'mthinking oh my gosh, the dog is
back, that's what I'm thinkingbut when the guys turned around
from the podium and looked atthe curtain and saw what it was
doing, this was probably thefunniest part.
He goes and he's a minister.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Now, this particular episode is on the cute side, but
if you want to get into scarierstories, try Creepy Crypt, part
1 and 2, which aired inSeptember of 2024 on Coffin
Talkin' Also the Red X, and thataired on July 15, 2024.
(24:30):
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 Areyou Listening To?
A segment where I share whatI've binged this week, and it's
a good one.
Where I share what I've bingedthis week, and it's a good one.
(24:55):
This week I dove intoOld-Fashioned on Purpose by Jill
Winger, a podcast that focuseson many ways that we can return
to a time in our history whereour skills to bake bread, cook
fresh ingredients for dinner andgrow our own food were
important skills.
Jill Winger is a homesteader alittle more far out there than I
care to be, who has takennatural to a whole other level,
(25:19):
but even though I don't want tocompletely embrace what she's
doing, her principles andcertain practices still speak to
me.
Two years ago, I was gobsmackedwhen I was diagnosed with an
incurable disease that wasdirectly linked to my lifestyle
and diet.
It was a wake-up call, folks.
(25:41):
Today, after gradually changingmy eating habits and adopting a
healthier lifestyle, I've neverfelt better.
I will admit if I hatedspending more time in the
kitchen or outdoors watering andpulling weeds, I don't think
this lifestyle would have workedfor me, but I do love those
things.
(26:02):
If you feel the same way as I do, I recommend that you check out
the Old Fashioned On Purposepodcast.
Here's a clip from myeight-episode binge for this
week.
I suggest that you start withepisode one, which dropped on
August 7th 2019.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
In years I have been helping folks learn how to leave
the rat race and create thelife they really want by taking
the best of the old ways andweaving them into our everyday
modern lives, so I'm superexcited for this episode.
You know, if you've followed meon my blog or on Instagram or
(26:42):
YouTube, then you've heard someof our origin story before, of
how Christian and I Christian'smy husband how we started this
homestead path.
So some of this might befamiliar to a few of you, but
today I really want to dive indeeper than I've ever gone
before into our backgrounds andreally what was the catalyst for
(27:04):
us starting this extremelyunorthodox journey and lifestyle
that's completely changed ourlives and really has been one of
the best things that's everhappened to us?
I think the cool thing aboutour story is that we really
didn't have any sort ofagricultural background to start
with.
It really serves as proof that,no matter where you are or what
(27:30):
you know now, if you havehomesteading in your brain and
you can't stop thinking about it, it's doable and you can make
this happen.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
In all of her episodes, starting again in 2019
and continuing on today, sheteaches you how to make compost
tea and no, you don't drink it,it's fertilizer.
But I make my own now and it'squick and fast.
I've learned to put bananapeels in water for potassium,
for our plants.
I grow herbs and dry them.
(28:01):
I bake from scratch.
So there's a lot of differentthings that you can do and a lot
of different skills that youcan at least learn about in the
Old Fashioned On Purpose podcastby Crime Curious.
Right now, you could begroaning and thinking, oh no,
(28:48):
not another true crime podcastreview, and I feel you.
But this one is different.
Crime Curious is hosted by twowomen named Sharnell and Megan.
Sharnell has over a decade ofCPS that is, child Protective
Services InvestigationExperience, and Megan has 21
(29:10):
years of experience in criminalprosecution and is currently a
district court judge.
So what makes them stand outfrom the gajillion true crime
podcasts that are currentlybeing played?
If you've ever been confused byjudicial rulings, how juries
are handled behind the scenes orwhat causes some cases to
(29:33):
collapse, these ladies are ajudicial encyclopedia of why,
how and what rules are used in avariety of situations to keep
the wheels of justice squeakyfree and churning out verdicts.
This is especially true ofMegan.
She effortlessly weavesexplanations of procedures,
(29:57):
rulings and rules that judgesmust follow into conversations,
as opposed to having a pedanticstyle of a classroom professor.
Here's a quick clip that willshare the spirit and the flavor
of this show.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I have some feelings about it, but I always have to
stay fair.
Here I'm trying to.
You know it's just.
It's hard because looking at itfrom a legal perspective,
trying to make the argument or adefense attorney make an
argument that there wascontributory negligence by
virtue of her alcoholconsumption still does not
negate the fact.
Or if you're weighing how muchit contributed to her being a
(30:33):
passenger in a back seat wheresomebody obviously decided to
drive allegedly under theinfluence With, you know,
contributory negligence.
I mean, was she more negligentthan the driver to negate some
type of an award?
And I know you guys aren'tlooking for money.
That's not the point ofwrongful death suits.
I try to tell this to peopleall the time.
Look at the freaking OJ Simpsoncase.
He got acquitted of murder buthe lost that wrongful death suit
(30:56):
.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
And that's it for this show.
I hope you all have a beautifulweek.
I will be back with you soonand in the meantime, don't
forget to follow and comment onour shows.
Love you guys.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
One Good Thing Media is brought to you by our host
and creator, Gerald Spear.
All things technical are byDavid Dodd and our announcer is
Robert Spear.
Our theme song is Force by HGST.
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