Never Light Up A Room Podcast

I’ve been following Never Leave a Light On for about six months (along with numerous other true crime podcasts). I’ve really grown to love this pod. Meg and Wally really care about the cases they research and produce. Today I listened to their episode of Ellen Greenberg, and they spent their time covering the case in depth with no prejudice. All sides were covered, and there were so many details. Meg and Wally are doing a great job, and I hope they keep going. Great job, guys!

This true crime couple has grown on me. I really like learning about their personalities and their personal interests through the banter at the top when they tell us a little bit about their lives. It's endearing. And it draws you into the conversation. You feel like you are listening to the conversation of your friends. They do that while balancing being respectful (ie not cussing, being factual, not making jokes about the cases), researching cases and sharing what they learn and their thoughts on them. I also like that they give you background of the people impacted--so it's not just the case itself, it's the humans of the case. This helps me feel connected. They don't just tell the facts of the tragedy but draw you in to understanding about the people in the tragedy. And I especially like that. Also they don't just READ a Wikipedia summary or a script. They aren't "reading" it to you at all. They are "telling" you the story. This makes a huge difference in being able to connect, be absorbed into the story, and so many new podcasts just read to you straight from an article (I could look up an article myself) or are so scripted/manufactured or over-engineered and straight reading is absolutely boring, and the overly scripted is too performative and both prevent you from connecting to the people in the stories. So big thank you to these two hosts who do not do that! 🙏 One area that definitely could be improved upon though bc it's distracting from the story, and it's almost offensive because it would be so easy to correct yet they don't-is pronunciation of key names. Now, I get that sometimes mispronunciations will still happen. That's ok. But to laugh and say you don't even bother to look them up really rubs me the wrong way. For ex: the Costa Concordia near Giglio (pronounced: jeel-yo) Island episode --why in the world would you do an entire episode and not bother to research the names of where these cases take place. It would have taken three seconds to look up 'Giglio pronunciation'. And if it wasn't perfect after looking it up, so be it. But to not even bother? When your whole job is to tell people stories? With accuracy? And respect? I don't get. Three seconds is literally less time than you spent talking about how you probably were mispronouncing Giglio. You even mentioned you did the same thing regarding Bexar County. Or the episode on January 7 when he took the time to say, he hopes he was pronouncing El Cajon correctly. He wasn't. In the time it took him to say that, he could've looked up how to say it. It's lazy. It's not funny. Poor form. And I really like you guys but hearing your commentary on this really bothers me on behalf of those whose stories you are telling. 😭 And that keeps me from giving it five stars. Will absolutely change the rating if/when this is addressed on a go forward though.

This is the first time I’ve listened to the monthly wrap up. I love you guys so much. The episodes are always great of course but this wrap up is gold as well!!