Off The Record /// Episode #19 Clip | Forensic Files

[Applause] hit him with the hi hit him with the hime I've been saying that ball yeah Howard old Howard the
question here's a question that I think I'm always going to get and the question
usually is had a good conversation all are you and the answer is seven foot four how much do you weigh four hundred
and sixty-one pounds everybody thinks you're like sixty and overweight they say you sound maybe I have the voice of
a 60 year old overweight man is that what it is that's I sound like that or maybe I talk maybe the way I think you
have arts together facing ahead of that and you the rest of your body's skinny but well I told you remember I won the
mr. potato man contest which which paid five dollars to the winner but anyway great conversation that I had
Friday night over a couple drinks and it's a question that I keep hearing is when do you think that you'll run out of
material when do you think that the show will rincon with won't have anything to
talk about you mean Who am I drink it who are you drinking I'm not going to say who I was
drinking that's not important but what is important is that question love and no no I
that here because I've been asked that by a hundred different times by a hundred different people
when will the show be over is that what they're asking no no that's not it it's when will we not have enough material to
continue the show right then the show would be over right yes that's but that's that's not the call right but
that's not the question you and my easy response to that is as [ __ ] you no no it's if we lived in a perfect
world this show would have never have started to begin with in and unfortunately we see on the news every
single day something terrible some person some POS doing something terrible to somebody else and that's a crime and
we talk about true crime it's like it's it's almost never-ending it's in it and in the heat of the moment in the back of
my mind and no disrespect to anybody but I'm always like seems like such a silly question like it like a it just
doesn't you know I mean it doesn't seem like a go-to to me so people were making
conversation yeah but there there's a difference between you know a murder and an interesting murder well there's some
cases that aren't that interesting or there's not much information there so and that's one thing I don't think a lot
of I don't think some of the listeners understand is that yeah oh but hold on to because you're talking about there's
a lot of cases that go on solved and some of that is due to the lack of scientific evidence or or the procedures
you know or the testing that they can do I mean back in the day you you hope that
you find a fingerprint mm-hmm you know now with DNA testing with all the other tests that they can do these cases are
becoming more solved and I think there is I think what they're getting at is there's a lot of these some of the most
fascinating cases are the unsolved cases hmm and are we gonna see that yeah I I can agree with that I you know we are
very lucky to we get a lot of our let's call it material or cases that we that's
better to say cases that we select to put on the show from the listeners you know we get emails we get tweets and we
get it's a lot of hey guys would you look into this or hey guys would you cover this story this is a case I knew
about from my childhood or from my hometown and we've said this before the better the email the better the
information on the email the faster that thing gets to our shortlist and of course sometimes we get emails that say
hey I live in Chicago and some guy disappeared here in the 90s could you look into it no we can't I mean because
most likely there were several people that that happened to we don't know who you're
talking about all right right but if they give us a name or or its it always helps if they give you a name possibly a
link you know or possibly here's the name here's the you know here's a couple missing posters you know sometimes the
emails are very detailed oh yeah yeah no I love those links are great and the reason being is if you just give us a
victim's name if it's especially if it's a common name right you know at least name and location is great it really
helps us narrow it down but you know I was telling this person I said the the great thing about our listeners is that
they want to be involved and they are involved and they reach out to us and they're like hey cover this case and so
I told them I said you know they do some of the legwork in a sense for us because
we pick all of our cases from listener suggestions yeah and the funny thing is we've done so many shows that now we
receive suggestions for cases that we've already covered from time to time and I
never know how to reply well sometimes they're new listeners that they haven't listened to the old stuff and then the
other thing too is I didn't I didn't really think about this at the time when we were doing it but if you were a new
listener and you were just like flipping through our back catalogue and looking for stuff to listen to if we didn't
title something the offender's name or the victim's name right you know because sometimes we get kind of story bookish
and we will a clever name will present itself or we will come up with one from time to time and so if you're flipping
through the catalog and you see something like the fifth nail well that doesn't tell you the victims names or
the offender's name right but very lucky to receive those from all of our wonderful listeners and we I want except
for the people that send me JonBenet Ramsey and Steven Avery okay so is it because I think we've mentioned
well we've definitely mentioned multiple times that that the JonBenet Ramsey one
is this it's a mountain of the case right so and it's big covered by so many people so I
understand that you know and maybe that's something that we'll cover loosely one day I'm there actually
should be a bunch of popular cases that people ask us for that we should just cover on off the record because they
don't actually want to hear all the details mm-hmm you just really want to hear our
thoughts okay you know I mean like a lot of people are like yeah okay like this person last week was like saying cover
JonBenet Ramsey I said well there's tons of people that cover that I mean we're talking about the house and some and
some people have covered it very well yeah and some people not so well so we're talking about we're talking about
it would take us weeks to get that information so so it it probably have to be if we ever did cover it it'd have to
be there's so much misinformation of that case it'd have to be like when we had a week off mm-hmm so we'd have two
weeks to research it and then so then I also said well you know CBS did a really
good job of going over some of this evidence and kind of laying out some of the the thoughts there and she goes yeah
I just really want to hear your guys thoughts on it right and so maybe some of those cases we should just go hey
we're gonna go over the details but this is what our gut feeling is saying after
we've looked at that but that's that's an incredibly interesting idea and credit just to take just to go hey it's
better than whatever we're talking about right now well so here's the thing this is a good
question what would you say are the top two or three you know I'm not gonna hold
you to a specific number but what would because we receive these requests sometimes they email both of us
sometimes they email us separately and of course you do the social media stuff so people are reaching out to you that
way as well 100 messages behind on Instagram what what would you say would be the top two or three cases that get
recommended or requested to you um JonBenet Ramsey oh guys Steven Avery I already give those obviously Scott
Pearson okay those three lately which is weird because those three I very rarely receive a request for which
but but I think I've put out there that on something I mean I'm extremely fascinated by the
job and a Ramsey case extremely menacing scott pearson case i never was interested and i just thought he was a
horrible dick nose and and move on you know he's convicted and but lately you know i'm a big adam carolla fan i was
listening to adam carolla talk and Mark Geragos is Scott Pearson's attorney and he said definitively that his client
didn't do it and that he believes that when they get a chance they're gonna be able to prove that and I have a lot of
respect for Mark Geragos and so the fact that he said that I'm going what does he
know that is not being presented because there is a theory that there was some home break-ins you know in that area so
that possibly the perverts breaking into the houses would be responsible for his
wife and his daughter's death well and I can absolutely say this that's a case that we plan to cover at some point
problem

We talk about things and cases.

Brief Summary

Hosts discuss true crime case selection and listener engagement, highlighting popular cases like JonBenet Ramsey and Steven Avery.

Key points

The Show's Material Dilemma. A recurring question: when will the show run out of material?
Listener Involvement. Listeners actively suggest cases, shaping the show's content.
Popular Case Requests. The top cases listeners want covered: JonBenet Ramsey, Steven Avery, and Scott Pearson.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Seems like such a silly question.

Reflecting on a frequently asked question.

2:35WatchSep 3, 2018

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