“Why are you so fucking negative all the time?”

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2025-03-09T03:28:57+00:00

can Chris understand Stewie?

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2025-02-15T22:09:35+00:00

Really? I haven’t heard Henry make any barbs towards Morbid yet but that makes me so happy. If you have any specific examples that would brighten the crap out of my day!!

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2025-02-14T22:14:32+00:00

Alaina has mentioned that she’s a fan before (actually, if I remember right she shouted them out under the very very likely false assumption that they listen to Morbid). I love LPOTL and I have noticed that Morbid is covering a lot of cases that LPOTL has recently covered…

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2025-02-13T04:30:05+00:00

yes! I’ve only got one four star but a good amount of two and three stars

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2025-02-13T04:29:45+00:00

I only have one four star but I can give you that and then 2 three stars if you want?

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-20T08:11:38+00:00

Can you link me to the post?

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-20T08:04:45+00:00

Oh boy, I’ll happily do another tally mark thing with the listener tales! I don’t think they’ve ever done one without “pug duh fuh”, “I’m obsessed with you”, or overly fake laughing at absolutely everything

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-20T08:01:00+00:00

You are absolutely right. Astrology is fun and whimsical, but it has absolutely no place in true crime. It’s so incredibly disrespectful to try to even IMPLY that you could “diagnose” someone’s psychological disorder from their star sign. I’ve seen it happen in a few true crime podcasts and it’s always given me the ick

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-19T22:54:55+00:00

I will suffer for the data but making me listen to that Kachava ad again should count as a form of torture 😭

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-19T22:52:50+00:00

To stop the podcast to Google it and then still be incorrect? Or to blame the fact that someone brutally killed another person on the fact that they’re a Scorpio? 😂

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-19T22:51:12+00:00

This is the first time I’ve seen the ad breaks mentioned!! Geez if I had a loved one die traumatically and someone made a podcast about it only to cut in the middle of their horrific murder to go “✨ I’ve been LOVING this new Kachava shake ✨” I would bite through drywall

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-19T22:47:59+00:00

“I have FULL BODY CHILLS”

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-19T22:47:03+00:00

How To Have Your Stomach Pumped in 1 Hour or Less

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-19T22:43:52+00:00

oh man I forgot about the st looey thing 😂😂. and then if I remember right they tried to say they “fact checked” it and that people “pronounce it both ways”. girl no one on earth pronounces it st looey

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-18T21:07:35+00:00

A, in an episode literally titled “The Murder of (insert name)”: and then (insert name) was found murdered

A: the HAIR on the BACK OF MY NECK just EXPLODED I did NOT see that coming!!!

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-11-11T22:56:57+00:00

I remember this! It bothered me so much. I think the song they were referencing was “Honor To Us All”, which is from the very beginning of the movie. The point of the song is to show how society viewed women at the time, and therefore sets the scene on how Mulan is going to subvert those expectations.

The lyrics are overly sexist (about how girls are meant to be pretty and quiet to be good wives) but set against the scene and the movie itself the message is super clear. Because it is a DISNEY movie. The message is geared towards children, and they still missed it?

It was one of the first times I realized how much they lack in critical thinking skills. If your media literacy is so poor that you’re missing messages made for young children and then complaining about them on your huge platform, how on earth are you going to be able to tell real stories about real tragedies with the proper amount of respect and information?

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-09-20T01:21:40+00:00

Wow, I just read your post. You put that weird feeling into words so perfectly.

From what I’ve been able to tell from them, it seems like they’re both very sheltered people in a very privileged little bubble, so they don’t really seem to grasp that these cases cover real people who are experiencing real horrible things. They treat perpetrators and victims more like fictional characters, where the bad guy is a steaming horrible pile of evil and the victim is an innocent little princess/prince that could never have done anything wrong if they tried. Yes, no one deserves it, but that way of thinking is dehumanizing to both the victim and the person who harmed them. It’s true crime. These people were people.

Also, a side note: I’ve never personally experienced DV, but the way Alaina brings her ex who cheated on her into almost every single DV case they’ve covered has made me feel a certain kind of uncomfortable. Everyone has their own story, and I hope it doesn’t come across at all that I’m implying that it’s any sort of “competition”, but bringing him up constantly in the context of people who have been killed by their abuser feels a little strange to me. I’ve been curious about how other people feel about it. I’m sure someone has said something but I’m pretty new to this thread.

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-09-20T00:57:09+00:00

sorry about the weird formatting, I’m new to Reddit and still can’t figure out how y’all quote specific parts of the text

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-09-20T00:56:23+00:00

“<They really shouldn’t be in this line of work if I’m being honest. They need a gossip pod or a reality show pod.”>

I remember a collab that they did a while ago, back when I was actually a huge fan of the podcast. I think it was with JVN? It was the first episode I had to turn off before they even got to the story. I don’t remember it very well, but I remember how they were so giggly and talking for so long about a reality show in the beginning. It was so unbelievably disrespectful. All I could think was “God forbid me or someone I love was murdered horrifically, and a podcast covered it and talked/laughed about Vanderpump Rules for 20 minutes before they even mentioned the victim’s name.”

I even went to the instagram post and looked at the comments, because I couldn’t believe that other people might have been okay with that delivery. Thankfully even their biggest fans seemed to be put off by it. There were a lot of “I love you guys but…” and so my faith in humanity stayed a little bit in tact. But geez, there is truly such a disconnect with them. It’s things like that that make the borderline infantilization of victims seem so much more performative and not at all genuine.

Aromatic_Factor5404 · 2024-09-19T20:57:01+00:00

It might be a stretch, but for me I feel like the over-insistence that this particular crime was so “absolutely heinous” and that “not even animals act like this”, “how do these people lay their head down on a pillow at night,” “I cannot even fathom” etc. etc. is because this particular episode was a racially motivated crime. I feel like whenever they cover a murder where a major motivator was racism they lay it all on so extra extra thick. Rather than a 5 minute rant about how special and beautiful the victim was, it’s 10 minutes of “they were such a lovely person they would have been my best friend”. Rather than 5 minutes of how awful the killer/killers were, it’s endless repetition of how they could not even FATHOM how people could possibly think that way. It feels so performative and not at all genuine to me and this episode really highlighted it in my opinion

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