Has true crime crossed the line to Trauma-tainment? Do we like true crime because we identify with the dead body? Also, the demise of the Suicide Buddies podcast and a rousing game of camp or not camp, Oscars edition.

Works mentioned:

(the book that Robin forgot the name of)

Sturken, Marita, 1957. Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero. Duke University Press, Durham, 2007

The Modern Trap of Turning Hobbies Into Hustles

Forbes article about My Favorite Murder

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