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Inside Wisecrack (with Payne Lindsey and Jodi Tovay)
Episode Transcript
Hey, Wisecrack, it's your host and producer Jody.
What you're about to hear is a conversation between myself and the godfather of true crime POD's Pain, Lindsay Pain has been a big champion of Wisecrack from the jump, so we're discussing behind the scenes of the investigation, creator, producer, questions and how ed and I recently took his show on the road and performed at Crime Con in Denver.
As always, thank you for listening and enjoy this bonus episode.
Speaker 2Jody, It's good to see you again.
We had a blast and Crime Con and seeing the live show again at stand up is always, I mean every time, I feel like it's funnier and more intense.
And also, congratulations on becoming our first Tenderfoot number one comedy podcast, which is wild to say because we're all true crime, but this is a story that falls in multiple different genres and I love it for that.
But yeah, thanks for letting me be here to talk to you about the show.
Speaker 3No, thank you.
Speaker 1I know I just saw you in Denver and I'm only partially recovered.
I don't know about you, but it was really exhilarating.
You know, it was a crime conference and people came to laugh, and I think they did and they also got immersed in the story, So I think it was a It was a pretty great show.
And I do think that you are more engaged and nervous than either Ed or I saw you pacing backstage and listening.
Speaker 3You're so dialed in.
Speaker 2It's funny because I almost I get like excited where I'm like, it's it's like the like the little kid inside me is like I picture myself on stage or something, and I'm sort of, you know, living vicariously in the moment through through Ed in like a weird excitement.
Speaker 4But I mean it's fun.
He's such a pro.
Speaker 2You know, I aspire to do a stand up set because that's so incredibly difficult, like I can't even imagine.
Speaker 4But funny you picked up on that.
Speaker 1I think I could tell you that you're I can tell you're a comedy fan as well, because you were like with the timing as much.
Speaker 2Uh.
Speaker 1I know, I know I'm supposed to answer some questions for you, But what was your reaction the first time that you heard the set?
Because you heard it, I guess probably four years ago for the first time.
Speaker 2Or five I mean, it's one of those things where obviously I didn't know what to expect.
He opens it up very just kind of nonchalant, and you're like, who is this guy?
And he kind of already has this sort of disarming, funny demeanor, which I really enjoyed and kind of makes you sit back and feel comfortable laughing.
I just remember the way that he would pivot from just this off the wall hilarious sort of joke into the sort of serious elements of the story, and how smooth that was and how it wasn't necessarily jarring.
Was it was kind of like all of the the comedy part of his set and his character sort of prepared you for the depth of what was to come, and to me, it sort of made it a better human story.
And I really just was drawn to that part of it, and from that moment forward in the set, I was glued into the storytelling, and every time it got funny, I was like, Oh, thank God, I can I can breathe a little comic relief, right, We could all use that with the dark content.
But I want to ask you a question actually, because people who haven't listened to this yet, which if you if you know me, and you haven't listened to it, I'm mad at you.
But when I was trying to describe this show to people, it's I'm like, how do I do this?
Speaker 4You know, like what do you say this is?
Speaker 2And so I want to ask you what you're saying it is just to the person has no clue what you're talking about.
Speaker 3It's so tough.
Speaker 1I've been on this beat for almost nine years now and I still struggle with the log line, right right.
I guess for people who are interested in true crime, it's a to me, a near death experience that is an eyewitness account of a double homicide wrapped in a sixty minute stand up set and the investigation subsequent to hearing that set.
Yeah, I guess that's like, you know, just varied, like you know, ten thousand foot view of what it is.
Speaker 3I do think it's so much more, but that's that's how I pitch it.
Speaker 1And then I think for people who are comedy fans who are not necessarily in the crime genre, I just think it's a wild ride.
It's a very storytelling heavy, kind of reminds me of like Tig Nataro, Mike Burbiglia, Hannah Gadsby where they take, you know, really deep things and still make them funny.
And those two feelings of laughing and tragedy are very close to each other, you know, going up and going down.
Speaker 2I mean, my good friend Mike, who's a producer here at Tenderfoot.
You know, he's been with me for years and you know we've investigated cold cases and you know a lot of times you used to get deep into the trenches of you know, like a tragedy for a lack of a better word, and it can be really heavy.
Speaker 4But we sort of have.
Speaker 2Developed over the years just internally our own sort of gallows humor with things, just like to ourselves about our own sort of experiences, and it's almost like a way of processing and managing something really heavy.
And I feel like wisecrack embodies that.
I think it's cathartic to see Ed sort of live out loud the experience and like is able to reflect on a stage from a point of view that is kind of poking fun at himself and making light of a situation for the idea of how impactful and traumatic it actually was.
And I think that's powerful because I think we all do that to a degree and it's it's a good thing to do if you do it right.
Speaker 3You know, I think you nailed it.
Like it.
Speaker 1I kind of wonder if cops, detectives, criminal litigators talk and have that gallows humor as well privately, right, because it's so it's just depressing to deal with every day.
And I don't know about you, but what I found at least, like speaking to some of the official people on the case, particularly those who were in Brett's trial, they were very funny, I think, and I think that that's how everybody copes, right, And I think the other side of the coin is like you don't want to I think when you try to talk about this story, you don't want to to.
You know, two people were gruesomely murdered and then a third.
It's really sad, it's upsetting, and you know, having those two feelings of laughing and horror to some degree, you know it can be offensive.
So I think like Ed does Bravo to Ed.
I think he does a great job interweaving those feelings.
But I kind of feel like, yeah, we all have that secret vocabulary who work in some of the dark, dark arts.
Speaker 4Right, absolutely.
Speaker 2I mean, tell me about the first time you ever stumbled upon this set in the UK.
I mean there was a time when I was first played this and I first saw it from ED, but by then this was a conceptualized thing, right, So tell me the first time you stumbled upon this and you're like, what is this?
I want to know more, Like, tell me about your experience.
Speaker 3With the I was, I just quit my job, and.
Speaker 4It's always a good start, you know exactly.
Speaker 3You know, my stock was down, I had left.
Speaker 1I quit my job, and it was making a lot of like I was doing like UFO, conspiracy, bigfoot crime shows for Discovery, and part of my job there was evaluating, you know, what we should make.
And you know, I always tended to gravitate towards the funnier stories, like the scammy crime stories, and I was always pitching those and always told like, hey, that's not really what we do here.
You know, those emotions really don't live together.
So when I heard ED for the first time, I was like, Oh, this kid, for lack of a better word, this kid cracked it.
Like those two feelings do live together, and you can tell that story together.
Speaker 3So I was.
I guess my feeling was I was vindicated.
Speaker 1You know everything that you kind of always felt instinctually, as at least as a creative person and a producer.
You're like, oh, it can exist, and he figured out a way to tell it, you know, I was it was felt amazing.
And then the second question was, what are the odds This guy goes back to his hometown one night to perform a charity gig.
The kid who bullied him his whole life happens to be back in their two childhood homes that are next door to each other or around the corner from each other, and then he shows up at his doorstep, like what are the odds?
So then it was suspicion.
After that, I was like I need you know what I mean, like, I need to find out.
Speaker 4It's a very wild tale.
Speaker 3Let's let's fact check this, you know, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2I thought that was probably to you, it probably felt like the dots connected, and you're like, this is what I was trying to this is what I'm talking about, Like this is the kind of thing.
Speaker 4Right then you're like, okay, too good to be true.
Speaker 2I mean, so did you approach him afterwards or like, how did that work when you first came to him?
Speaker 4Literally, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1The hardest part was first of all, getting him to respond to me as.
Speaker 4A universal as well.
Speaker 1Right, you know, it's hard to first of all approach people who are subjects who've had traumatic things happen to them, and then also someone who you know, adds a comedian and works in entertain So I think, you know the way that we kind of portray it, I think it's at episode two where I'm chasing him around that is two hundred percent accurate.
I think we might have actually cut even more times that he ghosted me and didn't show up at a bar or coffee shop to talk.
So I think that was that was a big challenge.
But then the second piece was telling him that he just told a true crime story.
He just thought he told a funny set that was deeply personal.
Speaker 2That's also like a true crime documentary you just outlined right there exactly.
Speaker 1And then once that information was given and I think we established a little bit of trust, that was when I was like, Okay, now I got to get to work fact checking.
And I will say the first thing that really struck me was that he you know, in the set, you don't he doesn't really talk too much about the crime.
It's really about his perspective inside the four walls of his house next to the crimes.
Speaker 2So Wisecrack is essentially a true crime story weaved within the framework literally of a stand up comedy set.
And those two things, just by nature don't necessarily always go together, which is why this is a unique project.
So for you as a producer and as you dug deeper into the actual crime elements of this story and you know the tragedy that the tragedy that happened, how did you sort of create a balance of treating both stories with care and you know, getting Ed's story across and just his magnetic his magnetic style and way of talking about this stuff with the sort of journalistic approach that you're probably tiptoeing to make sure you're you're handling with care.
Speaker 4What was that balance and how did you strike that exactly?
Speaker 1I think the the only way to do something like this is to have some really good partners, you know that, Like you've got a great team on up and vanished.
You know, my team was Charles Forbes.
He was in charge of narrative for the storytelling, and I was playing journalist honestly, like and we kept each other in check as we went, so I was kind of the record keeper and fact checker and Charles was the one that was beating out the story structure.
And we did this together because you're right, like you want to do service to the wonderful story that Ed tells and how he tells it, but then in the podcast, like you know, it's our job to match that.
So I think that was the if we succeeded at all, it was because we did it together, me and Chuck, and I think that it's really been a threesome between me, Charles and Ed this entire time.
So if we if we struck the balance, that's you know, you gotta gotta have good friends.
Speaker 2That's very true, right, Yeah, tell me the true, don't sugarcoat it.
I mean, I feel like the stand up set is already great, But if you're going to make a podcast about this and you're going to dive deeper into the crime that happened, and you're fact checking and you're interviewing people, likely for the first time, it becomes an entirely different beast.
And so in a lot of ways, you have to make sure you cross all your t's and dot your eyes.
Very well in that lane in order to do service to both parts of this right it would it could fall apart if this falls short over here.
So in a lot of ways, I would imagine you almost had to go even harder in that direction in terms of the journalistic part of this whole project.
Speaker 1Entirely, and also mean being an American, a nosy American, and a small British down to go down great either.
So I think there was you know, I guess the end of the day, it took a really long time to make this, but I think it was mostly because it took a long time for trust, to build trust with all the subjects, to build trust with each other editorially, to build trust like all that stuff.
And I will say this too, we failed so many times.
I don't I'm embarrassed to tell you how many cuts Steven and Alex did on the tender foot side of things, because.
Speaker 3Again, like it, it is pretty new.
Speaker 1There's no real roadmap for something like this, and so but I think that everyone's willingness to just do it over again and make changes like that was, if anything, was the real reason for success.
And then just again keeping each other honest and making sure that because a lot of time passes.
It's very easy to forget.
I will be very frank with you.
I'm working on a bunch of other crime stories, as I know you are, and so I think that was another piece of it, was making sure that all the information and record keeping was super organized.
I have a murder binder, and it's then I brought it to color I bring it everywhere, bring.
Speaker 2It everywhere, the bus to the coffee shoper on it.
Speaker 4It's it's pink, pink murderbinder.
Speaker 2Okay, I mean it kind of goes with the concept of this show, you know, like, you know, give yourself a little breathing room with this heavy content.
Here Exactly when he came to gaining trust, you know, I guess from the journalism side of things and interviewing people and even gaining the trust of ed, how did you go about doing that?
Was it more of a you know, time is your best friend kind of thing, or was it you know, persistence, like did you just hey, I know you might be spooked about me now, but I'm going to try again later, or I'm gonna show you something.
You know, For me, I always have found that if I want somebody to be vulnerable on the mic about a.
Speaker 4Very intense or sensitive story.
Speaker 2Then I have to be sort of willing to offer the same and that just seems like a universally fair exchange for you.
What was that process like in terms of gaining that trust and what does that mean for you in this project?
Speaker 3I mean, I think that's a perfect thing.
Speaker 1It's it's if you're asking someone to be honest with you, you need to be honest with them first.
So I think starting in that place is always the best way.
And kind of felt like this was like the longest like time I've ever dated all these people.
It was like dating like I just I just wore them down over time.
Every time they forgot about me, I popped back up and said, like, oh, I've done some more.
Speaker 3Can I show you this?
Can I get your reaction?
Speaker 1And being a consistent person in their life across you know, at least for ed across like eight and a half years.
But at the same time, you know, I've also been in his family's life that long too.
Yeah, you know, I've been texting his mom since then, And so I think that, yeah, you're you're courting these people to some degree, but in an incredibly trans as transparent as you can be.
That I think was the goal, and it seemed to have.
Speaker 3Worked quite well.
Speaker 2What do you feel like has been the most rewarding part of this?
Now that you've completed this and it's well received and it's a beautiful, amazing, very gripping podcasts all around the board, what do you feel like has been the most rewarding part of this?
Speaker 3Thank you?
That's really that means a lot coming from you.
Speaker 4Specific I mean, it's it's awesome.
Speaker 1It's definitely different, you know what.
I honestly haven't had a chance to let it think in.
So now you're asking me how do I feel about it?
Speaker 2And like, well, we're like okay, Like or maybe it's a rewarding moment throughout the process.
Maybe it's not an entire reflection of you know, I'm sure party still feels like you're working on this.
Speaker 1So no, absolutely, I mean, you know how it is, you never stop, like, there's always new leads, there's always new people popping up the more that they hear your work.
Yeah, I guess it's the fact that it's a it's a grind, it never ends.
But I think the most rewarding moment for me, again you can't take away the accolade that you mentioned earlier.
Number one true crime cast in comedy.
Yeah, I mean, I think that that really says it all, like we crossed over genres and hopefully we're you know, intriguing and entertaining two sets of audiences now.
And that was really that was really rewarding to hear.
Speaker 2To me, it was cool because not in every true crime podcast, especially do you get the opportunity to sort of gauge an audience's reaction live.
And so when he was able to do the set at Crime Con to a thousand plus people, that was really cool to see people obviously laugh at the funny parts, but also be super immersed in every facet of this story and really kind of feel for all the people involved and kind of had this real time emotional connection which you don't always see as a podcaster.
And so, I mean, what was it like kind of I mean, I was obviously pacing around super giddy back there, but I'm sure you were like, Okay, all this has built to this moment and you're seeing people really engage with it.
Speaker 1It's crazy to get the live feedback like Ed gets as a stand up because like you and I are.
I think we think about things a long time, we pursue things a long time, and then people join in the comments and tell us how we messed up, like I think that to be able to hear the or the oh my God, and then most of all the questions like god.
This when Ed performs, it elicits a response from an audience I've personally never seen.
I've been to lots of stage shows before, and lots of comedy and people in Atlanta You'll remember someone ran up on stage in the middle of the set and hugged him when he was literally mid sentenced.
It elicits like and other people.
It also digs up so much trauma too, from like all the other questions and answers that come up.
So it's very rewarding to hear, but also like it's so interesting because I man, are we all going through it?
That's really what I've learned from that feedback is that people they can relate to this.
There's so many ways to relate to this story, and everyone wants to tell Ed now or me how they connect to it, whether it be through an illness, whether it be through you know, domestic violence, whether it be the and it's crazy.
Honestly, it's really crazy to see that as feedback so quickly.
Speaker 2Yeah, which I think is probably the coolest silver lining of the genre acrossover here, which makes it the most special is that it can resonate kind of on a different level with any sort of struggle that you've experienced and kind of find this common ground just kind of seeing somebody else process this and go through that.
Speaker 4There's so many different layers to it that you know.
Speaker 2That's struggle, hardship, that's relatable across the board, right, and so to kind of feel like seen in a way as an audience is you know what I find so unique about it, And that is one of the coolest parts about making a podcast like this is that you were able to connect with people in a different way.
Speaker 4It's not just obviously it's a cool show.
Speaker 2It's it's fun, it's crazy, it's dark, but it's also something that's uniquely human and that resonates.
Speaker 4And I love that about it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1I couldn't agree more.
And you know, I think Ed took a real risk.
I mean, he put it all on the line.
He was the most human.
He involved his family, his mom, his dad.
He laid it all bare about their past transgressions and failings for each other, his brothers like, and his neighbors and his tiny town like I mean, I really right.
It is the most human of all human stories.
And bullying being I think a big theme too.
Speaker 4Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1God, I was bullied.
I think we've all been bullied to some degree.
Hey, we're from the same what's up with people from mayor yet being bullied?
Speaker 2Remember the bullies of the bus stop?
You know, totally that was They love to pick on me too, you know.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's very relatable for sure, very very human to use your words.
Speaker 2I think, very very merry out of Georgia.
Speaker 4No shade there.
So this is a Wisecrack.
Speaker 2Is a six episode podcast, and I'm just going to put this out there now.
Speaker 4Uh.
Speaker 2I assume that if you're listening to this right now, you've listened to the show, But if you haven't made it very deep into the podcast yet, I would stop now and finish it so I don't spoil anything for you, because I want to kind of jump towards the end of the series and pick your brain about a couple things.
So we were end the series with this cliffhanger.
I'll call it that the idea that you know, what if Ed is lying right without too many spoilers or you know, however you want to say it, like, let's talk about that, because you mentioned that early on, like wanting to validate some of this stuff, and that would always be a fear right.
And obviously an audience is going to react like they're going to say, everyone's lying all the time about everything does really matter?
Speaker 4But what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1Yeah, I honestly think that the one thing that we were successful with is staying true to the journey Jody.
I'm talking about her in the third person, her emotional journey as an investigator.
Yeah, me, me, But that was all accurate.
I was very skeptical the whole time.
Yeah, and you'll hear eventually that I do have a pretty deep and confrontation with Ed about some of my skepticism and how I guess like we almost lost that chance to have a transformation and for him to see this a little bit differently.
Again, no spoilers, but but you know there's a moment that we scrap like and you'll hear it, and that was all authentic, and that was years of build up of me checking all the boxes in one column and then saying, but there's this question here, so and so said this, and so I certainly think that that, again, all of that was very accurate to the journey of trying to uncover and trust.
Speaker 3It was like again, it was like it was like dating.
Speaker 1I can't come up with a better analogy.
It was just about there's there's a certain level of trust that was that is required in the end to like really see through this journey.
And I hope that that's ie that's something that people enjoy too, because you know, at the end of the day, it's not a who done it?
Speaker 3We know who done it?
Speaker 1You know, after episode two, you know there's no who and then we learned about the what.
Speaker 3It's really a wide journey.
Speaker 1Yeah, And if you're into, like I guess, the psychology and push and pull of investigator against subject who happens to also be a very entertaining professional comedian, like this is definitely something that I think will be very interesting in the final episodes.
Speaker 2I mean, I could imagine that after several years of playing investigative journalists, being an investigative journalist and being.
Speaker 4On the ground and doing all the real work and.
Speaker 2Research and making the connections, interviewing people.
You have put a lot of time, energy, emotion, thought into this and if there's a moment that it culminates into this feeling that you've been tricked or conned, you know, that would probably feel pretty bad.
And at the same time, if you're challenging ed and he's like, I'm telling the truth, that probably equally feels not good.
So what was that sort of like culminating moment, God or one of them?
Speaker 1I guess, yeah, no, No, I mean I'm thinking very specifically of a confrontation that you'll hear, and I think it's presently and I think it's.
Speaker 3An episode five right now.
Speaker 1And yeah, I again, I think there was a lot of mistrust that had built up that needed to be addressed.
But ultimately, you know, I think we just assumed so much bad stuff about each other, him, me, me of him, us, of strangers on the internet, et cetera.
And in the end it, you know, thankfully, it was a journey that was worth taking for me and and also for him.
But there was at one point I was like, oh my god, I've spent all this time.
Speaker 3What if it's kind of massive please no, please know.
Speaker 1And then I was like, I guess that's still a story, but but maybe not worth telling.
And you know, so, yeah, is that part where you're you know, as a host and investigator, your buttet drops out and you're like, oh my god, what have I done?
Speaker 3And you will hear that there's a big piece of that.
Speaker 4And yeah, and that's that's very real.
Speaker 2I mean, it is hard to trust people you know that you don't know or even know sometimes and you know, part of that trust on your end even is kind of taking a little bit of a leap of faith because you know you're not going to definitively know right away, maybe for a long time until you get to a certain point, and.
Speaker 4That that is a risk that we all have to take.
Speaker 2In getting closer to anybody or anything right exactly.
So, yeah, we don't want to sit here and never learn anything new, but we also don't want to walk around being you know, clueless and taken advantage of in a place where that happens in the world, you.
Speaker 1Know, totally, it's a fine line from being thinking critically and you know, you just don't want to feel naive.
Speaker 3You don't want to feel like a fool.
Speaker 1And sometimes I think that we take that critical thinking skill, especially someone who thinks I think in like a doomsday scenario from it right, and.
Speaker 3Really, yeah, it could spiral.
It really can.
Speaker 1And it's also like you know, checking yourself in the work and saying, Okay, here's what we know, here's what we don't know, here's what I need to ask, here's where I need to go.
I need to now not talk to this person and exclusively understand this perspective.
So hopefully we you know, we did that.
Speaker 4Decently, I think.
So do you believe ed now?
Speaker 3I'd lose no sleep over it.
Speaker 1No, seriously, I you know, you look back at it and like you hear some of the conversations we have and we're like, oh, that was really harsh, Tove like that wasn't nice.
But but no, there's no there's no question in my mind, and I you know, it's really now that I look back on it.
I think there's some cultural differences too.
I was talking to some of my British friends and say, talking about the story, and they were like, oh, yeah, people from Essex, they don't they don't talk about their feelings and they certainly don't talk about anything that's happening in the town or their lives.
It's very you know, the currency is saying there and just.
Speaker 3Living your life privately.
Speaker 1So to force an entire town of people to do the thing that is so deeply unnatural on things that they just haven't done for centuries, I get it.
Speaker 3That was a big piece of that too.
Speaker 1So I do look back on that and think, you know, there's that stiff upper lip that I was fighting against as well.
But that doesn't necessarily mean people are liars.
Speaker 2There are a lot of victims in this story, the murders, for one, and I feel like as a whole, just the impact as you dissect it, it is very expansive, just sort of all the different intricate ways this impacted all different kinds of people in this town, family, even down to listeners across the ocean and feeling it in a brand new way.
What have you found in terms of just the impact this entire event and what's transpired afterwards has had on the community ed maybe even yourself.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think I'm still waiting to hear back from the community, but I can speak.
I certainly can speak for myself and say this whole experience and learning about this particular case.
I we don't talk about any official medical diagnosis because the killer that we talk about in the story never officially had one.
But mental health is the one thing that I keep that I've learned and I've taken with me.
Speaker 3I think that so.
Speaker 1It's so complicated, especially in a socialized medical system like the UK.
All these agencies are working together, but also have their own goals, right they need to close cases, they have boxes to check, and sometimes I can do a uh huh, and sometimes I can do a big disservice to people too.
Sometimes it's a tremendously helpful, But I don't know if in this case that was the situation.
To be really frank with you, and it wasn't that anyone was not doing their job.
But you've got to figure out a way for all the agencies to talk to each other, if that makes any sense.
And you know, I really look at Brett's father, Pete, who we will meet in future episodes, as the real winner here.
You expect one thing to come out of that conversation, and it's completely the opposite.
And I think that one of the things that he was very successful with was managing his learning how to manage his feelings and processing things because he experienced it the worst.
So I think that he really comes out So I find him very inspirational in general.
That's the one thing I take with me.
Speaker 4So what do you take from that?
Speaker 2Like you're seeing somebody kind of overcome something and handle something extremely difficult, and wow, that's admirable, I would assume right like very much.
Speaker 1He did he did the work like that's that's the answer.
He spent a lot of time having uncomfortable conversations with professionals until he was able to come out on the other side, and that took years, and but that was something And again, I don't think that's something that naturally, you know, you know, a sixty year old person in general would be was taught to do or be willing to do.
And I think that's really impressive on his part.
Speaker 2You mentioned earlier how special it was people coming up to you all after the show, and I'm sure you get emails and stuff like that, just different listeners connecting in various ways to this story.
I guess who do you hope this podcast reaches?
What do you what do you hope people gain through this?
As a listener.
Speaker 4Ideally, M that's such a good question.
Speaker 1I think that I do think that this is not a true crime one on one story, if that makes any sense, because it's much more of a Towards the end we really get into I think we're about to dovetail into these episodes where it becomes such a character study of personality and how one reacts to things, if that makes any sense, traumatic things.
So I definitely think that if you're somebody who is maybe not even interested in true crime or comedy, if you're interested in I think, just generally how humans respond to crazy things.
Yeah, we're about to We're about to take you there, for sure.
So I do I think that that that's what makes it certainly universally rewarding as an endpoint for sure in the story.
Speaker 3And I don't know.
Speaker 1I just I hope that we do justice to the victims.
Obviously, that's the number one thing to me.
I think that this story got really swept under the rug in the UK for whatever reason.
Who knows why things happen the way they do, and you know, in the news media, But but I really think that it's important to honor them specifically.
It really turned into the Brett Show at some point because he was such a mysterious type of murderer.
Sure, yeah, and the crime itself was very confusing, but you know Gillian Phillips, David Oaks, and then ultimately you know other people too that are involved in this.
But like, I really that's that's that's the one thing.
Honestly, their memory acknowledging it happened, I think is the most important thing.
And then I think, you know, also, you're gonna feel a lot of feelings and I hope and I hope they make you think.
Speaker 2Yeah, right, I love that.
Well, Jody, this has been amazing you and the rest of the team.
Charles ed himself, the rest of the Tenderfoot team, super.
Speaker 4Proud of all you all you guys.
It's truly a one of a kind.
Speaker 2I think you put together a blueprint for a new kind of true crime show that has really resonated with listeners and myself and is extremely special and I think a positive impact on a lot of people.
Speaker 4So great job that.
Speaker 3Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 1And I mean, like again, I don't think that anybody the part of this journey was just like pitching the story around and seeing who would want to tell it, and the fact that you and Donald said yes, let's tryin let's go.
Yeah, I mean, like, thank you for being on the crazy train.
I think that's a big part part of taking the risk is finding somebody who who knows the genre but is also willing to take risks and push stories.
So again, we wouldn't We would not be here if it weren't for you guys, And I know that Ed, Charles and myself are so appreciative.
So thank you guys so much, and I hope everyone enjoys it.
Speaker 4Well, thank you so much.
This has been awesome.
Speaker 2Uh, if you haven't listened to the podcast yet, I don't know why you're here, so definitely gonna listen to it now or re listen to it.
But Jody, this has been amazing.
Charles, excellent job, Ed, you're the man.
Yeah, Wisecrack is an amazing body of work.
And I might just go binge it again myself because every time I find a new Easter Egg in there, So please do give.
Speaker 3Me another download.
Speaker 4I will