“I know you guys get tons of reviews and it seems you don’t take what people are saying in them into consideration, but I have to get some things off my chest.
As others have mentioned, way too much personal talk and ads. I’d say you can cut a good half an hour off of the run time of each episode and you’d have the actual story we all come here to listen to.
The fact that this is such a popular podcast I can only attribute to most people not being very smart. There’s so much appealing to emotions, rather than telling the facts of the stories. On that note, for the love of god, stop canonizing every one of these victims just because they were killed. In the most recent episode, Ash asked something like ‘why is it always the best people who get murdered?’ The answer is because they aren’t necessarily the best people. Of course their loved ones are only going to have good things to say about them, but be honest: have you ever met anyone in your life who was ‘loved by everyone’, or who ‘lit up the room (barf)?’ The answer is no because people love to look back on things with rose-colored glasses. You give victims passes for things you would roast if they were done by the ‘villains’ of your stories. As another reviewer said, the virtue signaling juxtaposing how you are good people as opposed to the killers is over the top. As is dragging the murderers nonstop. It’s performative and self-involved.
And for the people saying leave politics out of it (always those with right wing views, who love to shove their views down the throats of others), true crime and politics are very clearly interwoven. The treatment of the victim, how seriously the investigation is pursued, the implementation of the death penalty; all of these things are directly affected by politics.”
Cedar Falls via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/04/22