The Idaho Massacre

Slow down! Some of the people talk way too fast. Like ease up on the caffeine please. It’s hard to take in when someone is speaking too fast. But not bad. Some mistakes and misinformation that was eventually corrected. Not super noticeable unless you’re listening intently. But slow down.

They took an interesting story and dragged it out across too many episodes, that I ended up skipping most of the episodes and it made no difference. It doesn’t help that the narrator has the most boring, monotone voice I have ever heard.

I listened to this whole thing because information has been sparse elsewhere -- unfortunately what this podcast adds to what you can find reading news articles is (1) conjecture from often-creepy mediahound 'experts', (2) tangents into stuff like the history of American horror movies, and (3) the same things repeated over and over and over. The hosts have a bad case of American thoughts and prayers syndrome, meaning they stagger and swoon over the parts of the case they think the audience will be most moved by, repeat cliches and ask everyone they interview how it feels to be in the exact spot where blah blah blah blah blah. Then there are the ads. Plus there are volume level inconsistencies. Honestly, iHeart: take this down.

None of this is worth listening to. It’s the same garbage repeated ad nauseum. The victims aren’t sympathetic in any way, their story no more important than others but here we are…banging on about a case that should long be out of the spotlight. The amount of airtime devoted to pretty and privileged corpses is everything wrong with society. How about putting that same energy into missing and indigenous women instead? Like I said, it’s unlistenable garbage that is repetitive and offers nothing of value to a story long past its best before date. One more pointless news story to be dragged out for no other reason than the pretty, popular and dead trope. Boring and uninspired.