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foreign [Music] [Applause] welcome to True Crime garage wherever you are whatever you are doing thanks
for listening I'm your host Nick and with me as always is a man that has pondered every question and he has all
of the answers he is the very wise and very suave Captain I've been called Captain know it all before thank you
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want to sit down with everybody have a beer answer some questions have more than one beer on this show
that's right so everybody gather around grab a chair and let's talk some true crime garage
[Music] [Applause] [Music] all right well you asked for it so you're gonna get it we've had a lot of
people asking for a q a session with the old captain and old Nikolai so here we are messed up I see everybody's
everybody's kind of eased into their couches eased into their spots they got their drinks
um reach out and grab that mail bag and let's let's hit him with letter number one here's a question we get all the
time if you could pick one case that you could solve which case would that be wow I thought these would be softball
questions that one that one's a tough one that's an intriguing question because I have some softball questions
you know if you were to pick something like um like the Zodiac cases you know you
you could justify your answer by saying well you would be able to solve a lot of
murders all at once um but if we're just talking about one specific case one victim
I would it would probably go back to me uh and I hate I hate to pick something that's already been on top of our list
before but the West Memphis 3 case just haunts me and it's something that pops in my mind every 30 or 40 days and it's
um I hate to sound selfish here but I almost need that to be solved and resolved for me personally
um plus I mean you talk about horrible situation with three very young victims I should have stated that these
questions are being asked it's it's live so it's not like we had a bunch of time
to ponder these answers as well well and I kind of want to top off my answer there and give a little reasoning by why
I chose that case well it sure showed you what you want it's um that's a case that they're not going
to be actively investigating um and and therefore you know once that Alfred plea came into into the deal
um as far as the state's concerned that case is off the books it's technically solved as far as the law goes they're
not going to investigate that case so that's why I have to pick that one because a lot of these other cold cases
are still being actively investigated yeah that'd definitely be on the top of my list and I think we talked about that
case so much but there's all the you know the Brandon Lawson case Brian Shaffer case
um that Adnan Syed case those cases constantly pop like we talked uh a couple episodes ago about the red light
cases there's those cases that pop into my brain all the time JonBenet Ramsey that'd be a great one to to fully know
the truth um so that yeah I know you said pick one I just picked five the next question regards people
starting up uh their own podcast you know we get this question in many different forms so kind of a summation
of of all of those is you know what advice would you give to someone that wants to start up their own podcast and
be successful doing it well I think number one thing is find a subject that you can talk for hours and hours and
hours and hours and hours and hours about and you don't really get tired of it something that really fascinates you
I think that's the key I mean having a passion and normally if you're passionate about something people follow
so I would say definitely do that first the second thing would be to have a hard
you know toughen up your skin because there's a lot of haters out there there's people that they're not even
going to listen to your show they're just going to find a way to hate on you also number three
invest money into yourself so if you're going to start a podcast don't just pull
out your iPhone and record on your iPhone go on and we get technical questions all the time what kind of
equipment you use the best thing you can do is go to like amazon.com and search for a recording package
something that comes with a condenser mic something that comes with a program you know pre-salness is a is a good
company they got good preamps get a good mic get a good program dive into how to
record it so you can have at least decent quality for people to listen to your nasally drone yeah and regarding
the the hate mail and that's very that's very good thing that you keyed in on there uh thick skin because you will for
every 10 people that like what you're doing that won't email you that won't hit you up with a tweet you'll get one
person that will send you some hate mail yeah you only hear from the haters which
is really discouraging uh and it was for us in the beginning but you just have to
you kind of have to put your blinders on and keep doing what you like my recommendation too was would be to make
sure that you have somebody on your team that is very much like the captain somebody that's incredibly in
intelligent somebody that knows what he's doing he's a social media ninja and he's a hell of a producer so in in
recording engineer yeah I mean I get a lot of hate mail saying you need to get off the show I produced the show so no
I'd be talking into tin can if it was he'd be talking to iPhone or the or the wall all right so that's kind of advice
and if if you if anybody has any technical questions they would like to ask me you can do so on social media and
all that stuff I'm happy to help or point you in the right direction okay uh Sam asked what do you have against cows
oh well that's a long list um I wonder if Sam is is Sam being funny or is this because we did a cow tipping
uh post where because we were drinking the Spotted Cow beer um I wonder if he if he is referencing
that but I personally love cows uh I would eat a T-bone steak right now well that's nice yeah okay speaking of eating
would you rather have dinner with Jeffrey Dahmer or to have a child with Casey Anthony
well that's not a fair question at all who is that from because that person's not Maddie you are an unfair person
um here's the problem with that question Maddie a child is a lifelong responsibility I you'd have to be locked
into Casey Anthony for the rest of your life uh dinner with Jeffrey Dahmer would
certainly be easier hopefully he's not doing the cooking right Captain right um but if let's say I had to choose between
dinner and with Jeffrey and dinner with Casey I would still go at dinner with Jeffrey Dahmer they're both despicable
people of my my humble opinion well yeah and I and but at the end of the day the
the meal is going to smell way better than that troll all right let's get to another question
let's see uh did you guys ever do a radio show like on a tape recorder when you're little kids and do you still got
them that comes from Edith that's a that's a great question Edith um yeah we actually we as strange as it
sounds we actually are guilty of doing that in elementary school we were must have been very little
um and we did it with a with a friend of ours um and I think what if I remember correctly we had basically had a tape
recorder our three idiot voices and in a little acoustic guitar that was electric
guitar was it electric guitar we were fancy but we didn't plug it into anything oh okay and our show was called
butt radio yeah so it was very um very seven-year-old humor I think yeah and well and a lot of what we did too
was we would like talk about the priests you know like the stuff in between a song and then we'd actually record a
song yeah play a little Def Leopard yeah play a little yeah or Duran Duran um but yeah that's what we did in in
elementary school that turned into uh my best friend growing up um cp1 um we did a thing called uh our first TV
show was called the Willies which I was not a part of you were not a part of you
and your friend cp1 right and then we turned it into the pubert and Toad show so my first nickname of any show was was
towed and we had weird outfits we wore and the Willies was really like kid humor and very like we had to keep it
clean because the only people that were watching it or his poor parents you know
it's it's like they would have to come home and we'd be like here's the tape you gotta watch this tape and then I had
to sit through the 30 minute tape we made and then uh the pubert and Toad show we actually
um would tape record all these and then one would have these parties in high school would show everybody the tapes I
was hoping to learn something today and what I just learned is that in the captain's 25-year radio career he has
never used his real name well I started off in TV yeah pubert were you pubert or
all right another one that we get asked often is by covering True Crime every week does it affect your views on the
justice system um I I actually don't think that it that it has affected my thoughts on the
overall My overall opinion of the justice system it certainly has given me quite a bit more insight into that but
my my opinion really hasn't changed um I think for the most part we do a pretty good job it's it's a tough thing
because it's never something that you're going to bat 1000 at um but I I think where we do fail
um is that it seems to me like people um that people that don't have a lot of money or people that might be
discriminated against uh they I don't feel and never have felt that they get a fair swing at the plate well I think
your analogy is right I mean when you think about base but in baseball if you get 30 percent if
you hit 30 you're an All-Star you're an All-Star and that's kind of where our justice system is we're not even batting
30 I think it's fairly very very unfair and uh of people of color very unfair of
people without money it's I think the more we dive into it and the more cases we cover the more flaws I see in the
system and how many cases um should have been solved and that haven't been and really like with
anything though Captain it all comes down to good people you know and if you have any situation regardless of you're
talking about education or criminal justice or anything like that if you if you have some bad people it it's that
specific area of the system is going to be bad um so we all just need to be we need to
be good and we need to get better at what we do another question we get all the time uh now this one is phrased
differently will you ever tour and if so please come to the UK uh tour I understand that like the murderinos
um my favorite murder girls uh they ladies I should say um great show if you haven't checked
that out I know they do a tour uh I don't know if we ever will we like the garage well well the other thing too
is we do two shows a week um you know a lot you know a lot of people enjoy the two shows some people
want just one show again bite by opening it up to multiple episodes you're actually able to spend time on the
details or on your thought processes and the people that say well I don't need your opinion well I don't need your
opinion either um to me me and Nick go back and forth on this I I love the facts of the cases
but at the same time uh you know I think it's important for us to give our viewpoints on things that's what we
bring to the genre that's what we bring to True Crime as our background our opinions that's what we can bring
everybody has their own story their own thoughts and uh we should be willing to share those but as far as a tour goes
uh I I don't know I think there's not enough time you're exactly right the problem with our schedule is because of
doing two shows a week it's very cumbersome and we've actually doubled the workload on our end as well so
um we would love to do a tour we'd love to meet everybody um right now it's it it doesn't work in
the schedule the other question we get a lot is how long do we spend on an episode to record an episode
you know we normally start um the average episode is probably about six hours to record now what we do
differently than a lot of other shows like talking to uh Generation Y and uh stored in scale and and every
show does their thing differently we actually now for this show we're actually just doing it live and I'll go
back and edit but normally we edit live meaning we say a couple lines then we might edit then we say more lines and go
back and edit so we kind of edit on the fly but the whole process once you put in the intro once you do
um the beer fun and the ads and edit the whole show you're looking at about a six
hour to eight hour process per episode and that's just the recording of that one episode that has nothing to do with
uh research or putting together notes or or composing the music any you know we we of course have to do that before we
get together in the garage and sit down to record yeah and the cases are very I mean because you know there's there's
days that you can spend 12 hours just doing research so it's very very cumbersome and I think
then on top of that you should try to balance your life because we're dealing with such heavy topics and
you need that time on the weekend to just be yourself and not be the captain or not be Nick from True Crime garage
and not dive into these heavy topics so to then you know to go okay well it's Friday I gotta pack my bags and go to
Austin Texas or something it's kind of hard to do we won't actually answer this one but uh what got you into True Crime
we there's another q a show on the website if you want to check that out that kind of has a lot of broad answers
that was in the first season one like episode 15 or something like that we have we give a that was a question I
think maybe our first question of that episode and the history of True Crime in your opinion who's the biggest douche
canoe uh that would vary depending on which day you ask me because you know so many
so many of these animals are douche canoes uh amongst others well they words we they also want us to stop saying
animals because you know there are a bunch of lovely animals oh yeah yeah I'm sorry I mean that in a bad way I guess
but um uh so just off the top of my head if I had to pick one right now click boom I'd
say Peewee Gaskins um and for reasons that I won't get into but we we have been asked several times
to cover his case he he was a serial killer um tiny little guy um but he did some things that I won't
mention here um and actually because of because I despise him so much um and I've even responded this way to a
few people that have asked us to cover Peewee Gaskins I will not waste my breath discussing
uh Pee Wee Gaskins anymore okay I was going to say he just he just wasted a lot of breath right there nope
uh mine would just be anybody that any crimes against children I mean I think he heard my disdain for Casey Anthony
but you know that's just one individual there's a bunch of them out there that did
um just as bad if not worse and so yeah all those would be in the category for me I look I understand people want a one
person answer I can't do it what's your favorite beer uh today it's black is your soul
um uh usually it's the beer that's in front of me but um you know I I actually uh I had some beer
email the other day and one of them had one of the gentlemen had commented saying you know um
uh you know captain could you get Nick to drink some real beer you know not not these uh you know flavor wild beers or
anything like that I like variety um I'm willing to try every beer out there um uh I guess if this guy meant real
beer like regular American Ale American lager um I I don't I like to sit down on a hot
day and pull a can from a cooler there's something magical that happens inside that cooler when you ice down some beers
all day long and I don't care if it's a Budweiser a bush beer a Miller Lite Miller High Life
yeah I like I like everything I like all the beers um PBR love a good PBO my my favorite beer is Guinness I
normally drink a lot of Guinness if you would have asked him a year ago he would
have said red stripe yeah I drink red stripe for a really long time um uh dortmunder gold would be my if I
wanted a somewhat fancy not too fancy beer that probably would be my favorite one which case
immediately turned you off and why you want me to answer this one yeah go ahead I have to thank for that I will just
start with and I don't I don't want to get hate mail um two cases particularly and one is
well I'll start with Adnan syed's case I'm super fascinated by that case I've dove into that case more than most of
the cases that we've covered on the show we've tried to find multiple ways to cover it the last which I thought was a
clever way was that we wanted to go through a point system here's the major points of the
case you know that either way in favor of Adnan or way against him the problem with covering a case like
this and the other case would be the Stephen Avery case the making of a Murder the problem with those two cases are how
close people are and when you have a case like that that you get invested in to so much
no matter what I say or what I believe will change somebody else's Viewpoint of what they believe so all it does is to
create this room for animosity in those two cases immediately turn me off as far
as wanting to cover those and we we get talked about it all I um addon's case has not been brought up so much I think
in the beginning it was a little bit but uh the Steven Avery case has constant constantly been brought up to cover that
case cover that case probably won't cover that I uh I'm gonna kind of follow you there a little bit uh the Steven
Avery case is a big turn off for me as far as discussing it um I did watch the show I thought the
show was highly entertaining um I also read a book about the case well before the documentary came out and
I can't think of the name of that book but if anybody can find that you probably find it if you just Google
Stephen Avery I highly recommend that book um that one turns me off because I okay
so I go to this beer club I'm in a beer Club bunch of guys get together you know
every so often and drink beers well you know me being the True Crime dork out of
the out of the batch when that show was going on everybody wanted to talk to me at Beer Club about Steven Avery and and
get my opinion on what was going on the problem was I didn't share the same opinion uh regarding the outcome or or
who is guilty or not guilty uh as they did and it always turned in it we go to Beer Club for fun and it would turn into
some kind of debate so I think that atmosphere is what turned me off from uh that that particular case another one
that I'll kind of lump a whole bunch of them together and I do like this show you know like the the evening time uh
major Network True Crime shows and I know they cover more than that but like Dateline 2020 48 Hours things like that
uh those are good shows the problem for me is 50 of the time it's like the same case in a different location with
different names it's always the cheating husband killed the wife and you know it's just spending an hour putting
together information to convince you of that or to show why he is guilty it's um
it's just not it's just not um those are all horrible events but it doesn't intrigue me enough to want to sit there
and and watch that same crime play out over and over again are you gonna try to solve a crime
we have um uh you know we've we've given we've supplied some tips uh We've we haven't
solved any questions we have not solved any crime sorry I should be clear about that uh but what I what I mean is we we
have tried to help or assist um by providing information that we've stumbled upon or information that's been
provided to us we've tried to allocate that to the right and appropriate people in departments
um and let them run with it they're the investigators they're involved in in the
real action um so we'll continue to do that all right are the host of True Crime gay
Ridge 420 friendly well I was born on 420 so am I 420 friendly ah do whatever you want to do it's not
not up to for me to tell you do I partake in it no that's just me I'm going to Jamaica in August and I
certainly will be uh very friendly during that entire trip all right have we considered doing a video podcast no
I'm not interested in that personally I have a face for audio nice audio face no I I look I understand
that some people are going that way with different shows I know Joe Rogan does his show but they also post a live feed
we're not a full conversation show I mean we do have conversation but a lot of the times you know we're putting out
facts and that has to be done and an appropriate in an appropriate way for you know the victims for everybody
involved and for the listener to to understand what actually happened so it's it would be pretty difficult to do
I mean we could do a q a show like this live right but again that's uh you know we're already working as much as we can
on this show so to add one more element it's kind of like the Vlogs people said one of these Vlogs going to come out
it's just I run out of time and so you you have to pick your battles do I reply to everybody on social media or do I
make the show better for the week do I do a vlog this week or do I get what I need to get done for the show
this week well and unfortunately I don't know that our format or the way we do things would would translate
to a video type podcast would you ever want to do a one unsolved case uh kind of like uh up in vanished which is a
great show I know they had a new episode come out today I think that everybody's
really excited about so what we want to focus on one case and spend months and months on possibly
we've we've been kicking the tires on that idea for quite some time um we have a handful of cases in mind uh
for that so we've certainly considered doing some type of series but we also want to stay true to what we're
currently doing uh and and hoping to give a new case you know every week or a new case every two weeks well yeah and
we're actually in talks right now with a producer to start working on a audio documentary kind of like s-town ours
would be solely True Crime though all right fascinating stuff with Nick and the captain holding on to my holding on
to my seats holding on to my seat parts my seat parts of unknown we'll get back to this right after a quick beer break
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question we get all the time is research do we just randomly Google search information or is there certain places
that you start your research process it's actually different for every case and I hate hate to give an answer like
that it it varies depending on what is out there you know if I can if we're discussing a subject you know an author
that I like has written a book about um I might I might read that book um or but yeah some Google searches are
involved um once in a while I'll get on web salutes I don't get on there every week regarding our cases but sometimes
I'll get on there because a lot of the web sleuth Community they have just a message board where you can just kind of
throw out your theory or question this or that about any particular case so I like to it's not so much to find out
what people think are interesting on cases but it's it's more like finding out what's wrong with the case what's
missing from the investigation you know a lot of times you really only need one or two pieces to put the whole puzzle
together and sometimes you need somebody else's uh input to to locate that piece
or two another question that's been asked a bunch is what case got us into True Crime that's pretty much again on
the website it's free and it's in the store page but it's technically free there's another q a show that I think we
did on season one but what case got us you know you into true crime or me into True Crime my first major one was
um West Memphis Three and then it a recent case that really got me kind of hooked back into the subject would be um
Mar Murray yeah I I don't remember if I went into depth with this in in the Q a that we did back in season one oh by the
way anybody that wants old episodes that are not available on iTunes the first two seasons are available for purchase
on iTunes or on our website store Page and as the captain just said there's a couple of free ones on there as well we
still to this day get asked several times a week how do I locate your first 40 episodes or 39 episodes whatever it
is that's where you find them um for me when I was young I got two books and one
was called the greatest Unsolved Mysteries and the other one was called um something about solved Mysteries or
those names are not right but that's what I remember this was from when I was like 11 or 12. and the first one that I
read that was solved was about the Chowchilla kidnappings and that's an interesting case where I believe it was
three guys they hijacked a school bus and they took all of the school children on that that bus and held them for
ransom and it's a solved case and fortunately nobody was nobody but he was harmed I think a lot of people have a
lot of PTSD still to this day for regarding that and then the first unsolved case that I remember reading in
the unsolved book was the Lizzie Borden case back from the late 1800s she went on trial for uh killing her father and
her stepmother with an ax this was in Fall River Massachusetts I believe and she was acquitted of of that at trial
and to this day there's many many people that still believe that she's guilty there's that old that old rhyme that
goes Lizzy Borden Took an Ax and gave her mother 40 whacks and when she had seen what she had done she gave her
father 41. um so that's cute those were the first two um solved case and unsolved case that I
remember reading about uh can you guys talk about the moment where one of you said let's do a podcast and the other's
reaction I think we talked about this before but it's kind of funny we're both both laid off
we were laid off at the time when we when we started this podcast and we had actually talked uh about starting up a
podcast uh jokingly over the phone several times um and I think once we were both laid off we had time to to
take on a project uh I'm not gonna lie to you I don't think we were super serious about it in
the beginning um it wasn't until we actually sat down and started recording we didn't know
what we were doing um but we we were having fun doing it and then people started listening yeah but it
kind of went like this um okay yeah let's do a podcast what you want to talk about
uh I'm thinking True Crime and I think we should I still remember uh this is Nick saying this by the way
he said I think we should do a true crime podcast and I think we should uh uh to a beer of the week
these all sounded like bad ideas to him back then it still sound like bad ideas no but it was kind of like I was like
well I guess when we when if you would break down our conversations that we would have what seventy percent would be
true crime or conspiracy so yeah it just kind of I mean we don't normally talk about uh life goals and and stuff like
that so we'd always kind of gravitate towards West Memphis Three or JFK we'd always
end up talking about that stuff after a drink or two and just seemed right yeah or music we talked about music a lot
that would probably be the other subject uh we'd like to do this game where we get drunk where we say like uh you know
like Best Love Song That's not about a girl you know or best uh rock song not about rocking best rock song about
rocking which is obviously Those About to Rock We Salute You all right do we ever disagree on cases to cover and not
end up covering that case we might have different answers for this question my answer would be no
um we definitely disagree on what cases to cover from time to time but I think we respect each other enough that uh if
one of us feels the thing is when we cover these cases it's very important that that one or both of us be
passionate about about the case because it will show in our research and show in
our presentation of the case so my answer is that yes we disagree on them but I believe we respect each other
enough that it it just means that we won't be covering it that week it goes on a list and we will get to you know
the captain's case or my case eventually right the majority of the time I think we're we both get excited about the same
case you know because we'll kind of we'll come up with nine or ten and kind of talk briefly about each one and we
can tell right away which ones that that we're both into what is one case you'll
never cover and why hmm well so I should probably give a different answer than Peewee Gaskins since I
and I just said that I'll just go ahead with my answer thinking that I I'm assuming that we'll never cover Adnan
syed's case so um one that we've gone back and forth about throughout this entire process
is uh JonBenet Ramsey we've had many discussions about we should cover it or we shouldn't cover it we're still kind
of I'll speak for the both of us we're still kind of on the fence of whether to do it or not something the problem is
some of these cases have been covered so many times and if you look hard enough some of them have been covered very well
when we cover a case we generally want to try to add something to the conversation bring something into the
fold you know and if we don't think that we can do that we we're not likely to cover the case that doesn't mean we will
never cover Jean Benet it's just one that pops to the top of my mind because the captain and I've had this discussion
many times is there any plans for Nick and Captain bobbleheads or beer koozies uh no plans for bobble heads and
definitely plans for the beer koozies the problem with merchandise is again you know I know you know there's a lot
of other shows that have you know different merchandise ice and stuff like that this is a two-person operation and
that's pretty much it we run our own website we record all the shows we upload them ourselves if you bought a
t-shirt one of us put that t-shirt in that bag so again it's one of those things where it just comes down to time
and when we can find more time we we put out that stuff and with the t-shirts too
you know we even we even go as far to be included on the process of Designing what goes on the shirt what type of
shirt it goes on the color involved all of that stuff we try to keep our our hands on everything that is true crime
garage another question we get often is the is our logo the garage like are we sitting in that garage right that's a
question we get often that's a pretty beat up garage uh in that picture um it would not be comfortable to sit in
that garage and record for six hours well the first garage we uh set in in the summer it was just I mean it was
awful the first garage that we were in for I think the first eight episodes or so it was just to the point where the
amount of sweat coming off of us and you know we might record for 20 minutes and
then we'd have to open up the garage door and take another 20 minute break because we're just sweating it was it's
pretty gross yeah we if you listen to the first six seven eight episodes we were actually in a detached garage a
very large one uh we recorded all those episodes in the summertime so it would get very hot and on top of that you
would hear we would have to stop frequently because you would hear dogs barking outside or somebody honking
their horn um so so yes we are not in the garage that you see on the picture there
alrighty another question we get a bunch is by diving into True Crime cases every
week and so often has it affected you mentally like with uh in the sense of do you find
it depresses you or or what you think of people in general okay so before we started doing the the podcast
I believe that I I have a gut reaction and gut feeling to most of the people that I meet
um I don't think I don't think everybody's shady I think most people are good people
um I do believe that we encounter a certain number of bad people almost on a daily basis one thing that I've done in
my own personal life throughout the my entire lifetime is if somebody gives me a bad feeling if for whatever reason
even if I can't put my finger on it it maybe they've done nothing at all but if I get a bad feeling about somebody I
won't go anywhere with them I won't be around them I will try not to speak to them so I've always done that now the
thing that has affected me regarding having the show and doing the podcast is and this is is pretty depressing because
I do believe we generally live in a good world but now I feel like I get very weary when I see a a child
walking alone somewhere yeah I almost feel an in stranger abductions we've pointed this out before are actually a
very rare thing that happens um usually a child is abducted by somebody they know and those are still
rare occurrences as well but I I don't know why it didn't happen right away when we started this podcast but at some
point like now that it's summertime it's beautiful out today I will probably see
a child walking alone somewhere today and it will it will bother me or it will cause me to look around and take take
observation of the surroundings um so yes that's I know that's a strange thing to say but that that's one way
that it has affected me yeah I kind of have to put a time limit on things it's like when we did the ad for uh mommy
dead and dearest or at the HBO documentary I have to look at my work schedule and
and and think to myself how much have I actually dove into True Crime this week and if it's too much sometimes I have to
put a documentary that I maybe really want to see on hold just because I think the constant of it can get a little dark
the other weird thing on your level is when you said uh well when I see a child a weird thing that happens with me is
you know you know me I'll meet a mom of course everybody's gonna laugh about this you know my friend will be a mother
right and uh it's like the kid comes up and go hey how old's your kid six and I immediately will think JonBenet Ramsey
or Walsh Adam Walsh and then somebody will go oh my other kids eight and I immediately think Stevie branch and the
and that's odd or uh you know we're going to go get Kentucky Fried Chicken I immediately think uh John Wayne Gacy so
uh which before I used to think about Jaco Pastorius because he would put a little chicken bone in his pocket and he
would rub his hands with the chicken bone before he played bass so that's definitely a change and that's
definitely you know again sometimes you have to keep those the thoughts to yourself you
can't just blurt those out um the thing that gets me sometimes is I ride my bike often
and uh I was riding by the school and uh behind the school is kind of a wooded area
and I will see things like I was writing one day and these three boys on bicycles were riding back
into the woods and probably about eight years old and stuff like that there's this part of me that goes do I
go back into the woods and make sure nothing happens to them right but you know you can't control every situation
so there there is there are there are things that can get you down about it but you know if it wasn't for you know a
lot of people ask what podcast do we listen to I respect and love pretty much every True Crime podcast I've listened
to I tend to not listen to them often so like when Mike from sword and scale said
hey uh you guys seem like cool guys and you want to do this little bit with us he's like never listen to your show not
because he doesn't want to it's just you don't have a lot of time because you're
producing a show and then on top of that do you want to know what everybody else
in the True Crime world is doing that's awesome that's funny that you said sword
and scale though because we got an email the other day from a listener that said
hey I got a case that's hi Captain I got a case that's perfect for your show sword and scale so I'll get somebody got
that wrong completely my show it's Mike's show but um it's good for me to have podcasts that aren't of the True
Crime genre to kind of you know I shows like Chris Delia show congratulations that
show cracks me up I really like Joe Rogan's show because it can be funny but it can also get into some deep stuff and
then every week I listen to um uh This American Life because I have a producer friend that listens to it and
we kind of just always kind of talk about the episode what was the hardest case to cover emotionally for me it was
the tika Lewis case um there's been a few of these that have really got to me um I don't know if if you know the
captain knows this but I don't I don't know if anybody else could tell this but when we covered Casey Anthony and I was
reading George Anthony's suicide note I we I had to tell the captain to stop a couple times because it was at some
point when you're reading that his words became my words almost and it and like it started affecting me pretty badly
um but I would say probably the team he was crying in the garage uh I would probably say the tika Lewis case uh that
was the small girl that went missing and um I don't have her information right in
front of me but I believe it was Washington State uh she was believed to be have been abducted from a bowling
alley now the poor little girl was probably probably only about three years old so maybe the youngest one of the
youngest victims we've discussed at length on the show doing the research for that case was very tough for me very
depressing very emotional week that week so the tico Lewis case if I had to pick
just one it was so weird too when you're crying in the garage not to make a joke
about it but because it wasn't that funny at all because I was I was very just focused on coming in you know you
know Nick is leading the conversation that's obviously no surprise here so I have to be on my toes and know when to
interrupt when to interject I try not to interrupt as much I've been listening to
the comments but I'm recording the whole thing and so I gotta you know I'm I was so
focused that emotionally I wasn't in that same realm and I I obviously didn't have to read the words but it was just
like very awkward thing where you got somebody you know crying and you're going wait okay okay just uh it wasn't
like us it wasn't like a a big time cry no it was like choke it wasn't like waterfall with snot Bubbles and all that
it was it was it was a big strong man choking up yeah what was what's that lady the lady that does the snot bubbles
so well oh she was in doubt and she was in that movie with uh fences yeah uh I can't think of her name but she man she
snot bubbles every crying scene that she does I've been standing here right with
you I've been standing right that's what I started doing I tell you what that is
some damn good acting if you can snot bubble on cue oh she's amazing exactly how big is the captain's jib okay well
let's what does that even mean I don't even know I'm six three and my shoes are size 14. if that gives you I'm just a
big Burly dude okay jib what does jib mean it's it's actually an old sailor's term which is funny because it's
we didn't plan it that way it's just there's a bunch of old sayings that I say um you know I like your jib you know uh
you know that get you know I like the cut of his jib all it means for the people that don't know what it means the
people that don't want to spend any I love people that you know write in what does uh jib mean it's like can't you
just Google it well you gotta write to me just Google it basically it means we like your character we'd like if we say
we like the color your jib we like your character we like What You're Made Of and that's all it is how big is my jib
that's for your imagination how do you guys feel basically living in the serial killer capital of the country Ohio
well o h i o ah I feel great living in Ohio I disagree with that statement I disagree with that statement and and I
don't know numbers I don't have you know a list of serial killers by state in front of me I do know that Ohio has its
and has had its good share of them unfortunately um I would argue that California and
maybe um uh California certainly has had a ton of them I would argue that they've had
the most uh New York has had a bunch the other thing too Washington State's a weird one because they've had a lot of
famous serial killers so we tend to one thing that's crazy for for people that aren't into True Crime that much they
think that serial killers are a very rare thing that there's only like one at every 10 years in the United States no
there's a whole batch of them that nobody's ever heard of um so that's a hard thing to say how do
we feel about living in the he he or she said the serial killer capital of the world yeah I love Ohio John so I love uh
Columbus I've I've grown up with this city um well he hasn't grown up much but yeah
and the city has grown up with me I feel that it's the right size of City for me
um it's also a very understanding and intelligent Community as well so I love living in Columbus I will always live
here or near here I love Ohio and I AI again California lots of serial killers all right so there John Steve wants to
know what is the captain the captain of the garage duh um your mom actually uh he he
technically holds no rank outside of these four walls um so I actually get annoyed by people
that I'm friends with that call me the captain he he is annoying I have a real name the captain of himself it's gern
that's my real name gern Blanchard gern the third okay uh would we ever consider doing
live episodes in front of an audience sure I'm not doing anything this evening uh no uh I will be at Jimmy's Chicken
Shack um participating in the hot body contest and afterwards it will follow with a uh
a live True Crime garage show yeah it doesn't work out enough for a hot body contest but it's not a tough contest
it's not a tough man contest uh would we do a live show we've we like we talked about touring would we do a tour
probably not we would like to do some meetups uh and probably if we did the Meetup what's the point of meeting up
with us I think one to shake hands and say hi and meet everybody and tell tell you thank you so much for for affecting
our lives uh the way you have uh I think if we did that we'd also just kind of do
a live q a just for fun would we record that maybe through video or something and then you know possibly possibly toss
it up on YouTube or something that's something I think we should do you know and we've talked about it quite a bit I
think we should do something like that we do like a beer tasting mixed with a q a and maybe a short you know version of
a of a regular episode okay so as the show has been getting bigger how has that affected you really not at all um
other than I have to well it hasn't really affected me in any way that that's outstanding other than you know
now where I wasn't really known as a true crime guy I was kind of a closeted True Crime dork amongst amongst some of
my friends there were some people that I would openly speak about this uh you know the reading and TV watching that I
do um but now the majority of my family you know all of my family is aware as well
and so other than people asking me questions uh regarding True Crime uh you know constantly uh it's not truly
affected me in any way at all how about you cap I'm just a lot busier you know with this
with the show doing the social media and uh I was a lot more private you know I got a question the other day somebody
asked me why do you uh have your Instagram as private if you accept everybody but there are some people in
my past that I just don't really care for them to see what what's going on with me so uh a lot of these stuff is
personal and it's very odd uh I mean I've played in bands before so you'd think that would be something
um that I'd somewhat be used to but um but I was a musician I wasn't just a band guy I was normally a hired musician
so I wasn't always in promo pictures and stuff like that so to kind of be um just feel how
um unpersonal that can be sometimes or the comments that you get it's almost like
they're talking about you as if you're not a person and I think that sometimes gets to me it is it is in a weird way a
bit of an emotional roller coaster because you know when you and I get together we put out what we feel is a
really good episode I'm I'm on cloud nine for a while you know I'm quite high on it for a while and um and then you
know the next morning or that evening I'll receive some negative email or see something negative on our website and it
just kind of kicks you right in the jib and you're like oh you know you you know
so so it's it is it's Peaks and valleys Peaks and valleys all right Captain how do you deal with all the negative people
that are trying to bring you down the way you approach the podcast he sends clowns to their house
I'll kick in the goddamn grundle on a serious note I mean when we first started it was horribly depressing I
think we're probably episode eight or 11 which one was Adam Walsh uh probably 11. yeah so I think it was
around there where I just told Nick and I'm I don't want to talk on the show anymore just because
here's the facts just the facts fans just the facts here's for all the just the facts people
I was diagnosed with different things but what I believe as I suffer from severe depression so when you read a
bunch of crap about how stupid you are or whatever when you're the one that's essentially putting the whole show
together that stuff can bother you and then one day it just hit me where it's like none of this is real this is we're
tossing this out into this universe that I'm not really a part of so I kind of put it in those terms so
whether it's negative feedback or positive feedback I try not to let either one affect me so it's like you
know when there's these goofy comments on Instagram that are positive um even though they might treat you like
a piece of meat those the good comments and the negative comments I try not to let affect me now
that being said there are a different type of comment when somebody says to me you help me get through work you help me
through my commute to me that is normally more sincere that's the stuff that's the reason why I'll put the time
and the effort into it you know to that that's the reason why I listen to podcasts you know was to get from work
and all that stuff so those those are con those comments affect me uh in a positive way where now the haters the
haters going to hate ayners gonna ain't but even the you know some of the silly comments that are brought try not to
you know have one way or the other affect me and and I don't want to I don't want to give the vibe out that it
it's all negative feedback I actually want to thank everybody um I didn't get a chance to do this
because I received so many emails from people that were sending links or copies of the Boston Globe magazine they did a
very they did really good coverage on the body barrels case that that we covered
um and that's it's a recent article so I've had a ton of people sending that to me and I just wanted to take this
opportunity to thank everybody that sent me that incredible article by the Boston
Globe how many beers do you normally drink during an episode um I would say an accurate statement would
be two um I think there used to be more used to be more but then towards the end I would
notice that I was talking in circles um which I which I do naturally anyway but uh yeah so two would be an accurate
statement sometimes I just taste the beers again I don't want to make it like a dark depressing episode this is
supposed to be a fun episode for us uh we kind of needed a break but we get asked all these questions we thought now
we just answered them on the show sometimes I just sip take a couple tastes some episodes I'll drink some
beers but again I I deal with uh depression so I have to watch how much I drink on a weekly you know people will
send me a Snapchat hey what are you drinking tonight well maybe not anything um but that's just something for my own
personal mental health and and physical health you know what the other thing that's fun about this show too Captain
is that we you know we kind of have different things that we do for the show we have different departments and you
know so the captain if you send something regarding social media he's gonna he's gonna be the one to respond
um and if you send something regarding email or typically with the website itself with the blog uh that's going on
there typically it's me that you will get the response from so rarely do we have a situation where we are able to
both give an answer uh regarding one question so that's really I think for me the big reason why why we wanted to do
this today yeah and if you if you're not following Nick on untapped you should do
so why am I why is Nick on untapped and I'm not Nick doesn't do any social media
well Nick likes to frequent bars and he drinks a lot more beers than I do so that's why he and you need to follow him
because it's pretty interesting have you ever had any nightmares about the cases
you covered yes yes I have but I can't specifically hone into a a specific case I told you about the
time where um this is kind of a a funny story for me one time I fell asleep listening to a
podcast uh not our show it was a true crime podcast I believe it might have been true murder uh big shout out to God
Dan zupanski my buddy Dan zupansky The Godfather of True Crime and I think I was listening to his show and he was
talking about um a a guy that had abducted some teenage girls and this was technically a
couple of these cases were technically solved so he was able to give an account of what actually took place
um so I woke up in the morning and uh I I grabbed my the first piece of paper I could find in a pen and I started
jotting things down because I believed that I had some kind of dream that some some kind of psychic dream where I knew
what happened to these poor these poor teenagers and then I quickly noticed that my my uh my bed phones were
connected to my phone and they were lying on the bed next to me and I checked the episode and I listened to it
again that day and realized that everything that I dreamed was because I was hearing it through the bed phones as
I was sleeping yeah a lot of people uh fall asleep to our show or other True Crime shows and I find that a little odd
you know just a little odd well it's talk it's kind it's pretty much talk radio which can be a kind of a soothing
thing to listen to yeah one of my producer friends has begged me to do a sleep podcast where I just uh you know
talk like this and put people to sleep I probably won't do that because I don't have a lot of time
um Azure fan base has been growing internationally will we start discussing cases outside the U.S this comes from
Pete we we've done a few um we've done a Canadian case um one in England and one in Sweden if
there's more I apologize if I can't recall them there there are some fascinating cases in other countries
that we would like to cover um I got one that's from Japan right now that I've been looking at a lot to to
try to put on the show there's some issues with that um it's not something that we try to
stay away from um but I will throw this out there if you listen to other True Crime podcasts
that are based in other countries ninety percent of the time they're reporting on
cases that took place in the United States um and and I believe unfortunately that
our country has kind of been known become known for tragedy and and serial killers and stuff like that as far as
stories go in the news some countries do not like to provide much information on
their stories they don't want this world perception that everybody in that country is bad so they really
vanilla everything and that would make it tough on our end for research and presenting purposes when is the captain
going to reveal his real name his address and phone number um I'm not so you look if you direct
message me on a social media um I I normally tell you I don't give I know I might want you to guess a couple
to see how ridiculous it is I think at one point Nick called me mark on a show and a lot of people went oh it's named
his real name's mark my real name is not Mark his name is Marcus the another question we get uh got a lot
from our Facebook group you know we got a lot of emails so we kind of gathered those together but we're also taking
these questions from our Facebook group uh so if you're not follow us on our Facebook you should do so and also a fan
page that was uh started by a buddy or he's been come he's becoming more of a buddy uh Cody and he sent us a bunch of
questions from the listeners so uh did Nick fix his squeaky chair I have not fixed the squeaky chair right and it's
driving me nuts three weeks three weeks just fix the chair you guys cover a lot of missing person cases is
there one that resonates with you more than others well of course I think the answer will
be Brian Shaffer because he was roughly our age he was in our community um also the Joey Le Bute case again
roughly the same age we knew people that knew them we hung out at places that they hung out so
especially with me playing uh across the in the the courtyard from Ugly Tuna for years
and going in and out of the same parking garage that Brian Shaffer went in and out of that case will always resonate
with me a bunch how do you guys decide which stories and cases to cover on the podcast I think we've covered this quite
a bit throughout different episodes um 99 of the cases we cover are listener suggestions we get a ton of them and I
and I thank everybody for them um and I want everybody to know that uh you know I reply to about 90 of those
suggestions they all go on a list somewhere um by now we have a stack of lists and
what I try to do as well is when we receive multiple suggestions regarding the same case they get a little check
mark and sometimes the number of check marks that a case has will have a direct impact on how soon we cover the case uh
Jesse and and other people have asked uh what's the what do you like most about doing this podcast and what do you like
the least about it I like the opportunity to discuss the cases um you know I true crime's always been a passion of
mine it's something I've always read and followed um the but it's kind of a double-edged
sword for me because as much as I like it I used to be able to step away from it from time to time you know
um when there are other things going on in my life or other interest uh take the
front seat um you know True Crime could take a back seat so my favorite part is is actually
researching and presenting the cases and working with the captain but my what what has become my least favorite is
that on some level I liked being able to walk away from it and take a break from
it where I don't feel because of our grueling schedule that's not an opportunity that I have anymore this is
an interesting question from our Facebook group from Marie I know you guys used to live together what were the
worst habits uh you both figured out about each other do you want me to go first this is a
really we live together a really long time ago this probably 15 years ago wow that's crazy it was it
was that long ago now uh but we only lived we shared an apartment for what about eight or nine months it was I feel
like it was under a year yeah it wasn't that long um so I had a roommate that moved out
and he had a girlfriend that moved she ran for her life she went all the way to Nebraska to get away from
um and the cat the captain was uh looking for an apartment and I said hey come help me with my bills I don't even
think I was looking for an apartment come help me with my bills because I can't afford this apartment anymore by
myself um it gave me a great deal by the way the best part about living together was
when we would sit around and drink and play video games which we don't really play video games anymore but I remember
we would have such I always had such a good time sitting around playing video games with you because you just cracked
me up uh we watched a lot of True Crime docs uh during that time too the The Habit that stands out for me the most
about the captain that drove me crazy oh okay okay here we go because he's probably got plenty of things to tell
you about me that I'm hoping he leaves some of those out um okay so if it's winter time for some
reason the captain back then I don't know if it holds true today but back then if it was winter and it was 10
degrees outside the captain would wear shorts and a cut off t-shirt and crank the the heat up and if it were
summertime he would wear sweatpants and a hoodie and crank the air conditioner up I could never get a full gauge on why
why that was the uh why that was the the choice of clothing well we work different schedules too so that was a
little different yeah I you know that time period of living in that apartment reminded me more of uh you know just
kind of living alone because it wasn't like you were there a lot right I would be there at different
times and you would be there at different times Nick would his big it wasn't a problem for me but he would
drink sometimes so much he would he would walk in and he'd just be staring at his fish tank
and I go what the hell are you doing they're fascinating I'm watching my fish and and by the way he'd have Led
Zeppelin like crank to 11 and the neighbor would be knocking yeah we would get I I instructed the neighbors to not
don't bother walking all the way to the door just knock on the wall and I'll turn down the blaring music that I
probably that I should have never had at that level anyway and I'd always use a Mitch Hedberg line I'd I'd go up to the
guy would be knocking and I go up to the wall and go hey man you're going to have to go around
there's no door on my side um but yeah so I mean but it was good he's uh he was a pretty good roommate
Emmanuel asks have you ever gave a br3 bottle caps uh if you look on my untapped you will you will see some
beers that I've rated as low as maybe a two or one and a half unfortunately for the fans of sours out there I know sours
are kind of a popular Trend right now I do not like sour beers rarely I will get
one or have one that somebody will suggest or hand me and and I will enjoy it um but no I don't I don't typically like
sour beers if I want something that has that kind of flavor I would rather just have a glass of of wine
um one I think the other thing too is like why would we have a crappy beer on the show that we didn't like yeah that's
kind of a rule like I won't put anything on the show that would be lower than like a three and a half because it's
supposed to be a beer recommendation it's not not just you know not just something to fill time you know we could
pick a beer at random and it'd be a a beer that sucks but we're not going to do that we're gonna we're gonna go the
extra mile and make sure that we're putting out a beer that we're like here this is something you should experience
uh Jason asks when is the TV show coming tomorrow um it will be on tomorrow and it will be
it will be every Saturday immediately after the uh children cartoons on Saturday mornings well we've talked to
NBC a little bit and uh we want to do a show called The Butler but that's not you know that's not it's not going to be
about True Crime it's a joke about nothing well it's a show about crime because the guy does crime he does a
crime and then he's sentenced to be the butler these these are all joking answers we don't we don't hold any power
over um how that works out yeah at the end of the day we really enjoyed doing the
podcast and we really enjoy uh the listeners of the show so and we've actually changed that we've now we don't
have anybody beating down the door here but we've had several people contact us great people with great ideas but we
have always thrown back at them and said hey remember we got into this to be podcasters we love doing our show if we
were to take on another project it cannot affect or downgrade this show in any way yeah and the next big project
for us is like we talked about a little bit earlier is uh we're really putting some time and effort into an audio dock
because we just think that would be interesting to do and just something different for us
um to kind of really understand how like something like cereal was done Kathy asked boxers or briefs boxers okay once
in a while maybe uh a boxer brief yeah I'm a I'm a boxer brief man myself no boxers for me uh we
answered this on the other podcast uh the other question and answer podcast like I said that's free on the store
Page uh at truecrime garage.com but do you listen to other True Crime podcasts and if so what are your favorites
um yes so just honing in on True Crime podcast my favorites would be maybe not in any particular order but
ones that I regularly Listen to I do I do miss episodes because we've spent so much time on this project but I love
true murder that's no secret I like rippercast a lot um that's a great show sword and scales
good Generation Y is good um the nighttime podcast is is a favorite of mine but they don't not all
of those do they always cover straight up True Crime yeah Jordan is great if you haven't listened to the nighttime
podcast he always comes up with uh interesting topics even if it's not true crime
um I'm not going to go into a bunch of details check that out Tom the captain sent you Eric asked how many moms does
the captain actually know 37 in which ways do you think you have grown personally since you've started the
podcast I've put on seven pounds the um maybe they want a real answer regarding just the podcast itself
um I think I've gotten a little better about researching um throughout um we wanted to see at the start of the
year can we do two shows and the reason why was the more and more we got into it
look I understand some people just want the facts just want the facts that's not
interesting to me the interesting thing to me is the facts and then bringing your personality to
the table but your research has gotten so much better that I feel some some some some
cases for sure it's like you need the two episodes just to get through the facts yeah and you
know what's weird for me is there's been a couple cases that we've covered that were really covered well in the media
whether it be news or actual documentaries or shows that I didn't follow when they were actually happening
um because I tend to like lesser known cases um so Casey Anthony although everybody
around me was following it I didn't follow it so much so it was very interesting to me to dive into it for a
week or so and the Aurora Theater shooter um I didn't I didn't pay I was so I was so upset emotionally
about that when it happened that I just shied away from anything that was reported in the news at the time so it
was it was interesting to to dive into that for a few days I need to go back when we talked about the True Crime
podcast I just want to put this out there I'm a murder Reno I don't know if I don't know if men are allowed to be a
murder Reno but I'm a murder Reno explain what that means for people that don't know well I I it's just what I
think my favorite murder uh listeners call themselves okay but I don't know if men can call them somebody looked that
up and also um the the funny girls I've only listened to their show a couple times but a whine in crime wine and True
Crime uh they always harass me about Dan I don't know who the hell Dan is but they harass me about him all the time
okay a bunch of questions but uh these are good questions so um Stephanie asked these and she said uh well you have to
do a case that borders um on whether it could be paranormal or Supernatural I think a lot of people
with um Elisa Lane at least a lamb case people thought there was maybe some Paranormal Activity and that one was on
our list for so long and we actually considered not covering it because we you know so much of the talk of it was
the Paranormal stuff um and once you get to looking at that thing man you have to talk about it you
have to cover it so yes we will there'll be other cases out there there's we're getting a lot of people that want to
hear uh cases that that involve like some kind of cult presence um so you know you would have to factor
that in there a question that we that I actually get a lot but you probably have
more interesting answers than me uh what are your favorite bands I would have more interesting answers
than you you know when you ask what's your what's your favorite unsolved case what's your
favorite band what's your favorite cheeseburger you know those questions those answers would I think with all of
us would vary by the day by our mood where we're where we're currently located if you were going to throw me on
an island and say you can only throw a few few albums in your box um who would it be I I have a hard time
living without Guns and Roses I love Guns and Roses I love the stones um I love a much lesser known band than
a band called Watershed that's uh local to Ohio they're kind of a mid to late 90s Midwestern rock kind of feel I own
you know nobody out there will know who they are but I own like five of their albums yeah Guns and Roses Stones I tend
towards more of the older stuff Zeppelin Pink Floyd um and a big shout out to all the Chris
Cornell fans in the Soundgarden Temple of the Dog fans I that really hurt hurt me uh
um he I thought for many years he was one of the best rock and roll singers heavy rock singers out there uh maybe
one also a guy I think you know when you're in like Middle School and High School you kind of have
these celebrities that kind of help dictate your style and I think Chris Cornell was definitely one of those guys
for you I listened to that super unknown album probably a thousand times um I listened to it the other day when I
when I got the news and man it we we really lost somebody special last week and and it makes me sad uh kickstand off
of that album is one of my favorite Soundgarden songs yeah I I said your your answers would be more interesting
because what I've learned through my um diving into music when you start studying it then you
start becoming fascinated by a lot of different spectrums and so the stuff that I listen to that I like some of
that stuff is purely uh for the studying of the music itself the complexity of it
so where some of the stuff would be like you like that why the hell do you like that three spectrums for me people like
snarky Puppy people like uh Jaco Pastorius people like The Bad Plus those would be on you know the intellectual
studying of Music side uh then there's people like you know John Mayer and Bob Dylan and um Amos Lee and the
singer-songwriter side where it's going to be more lyrical and then I have just a you know a obsession with the Sweet
Tooth um of just pure pop ballads I just love them you know Michael Bolton uh Celine
Dion Whitney Houston yeah I just look I think you're kind of getting into another question that that
we have on there that is you know what on your on your playlist would surprise uh people you know what on your music
playlist would surprise people Celine Dion I think people would be really surprised how much I I listened to
Celine Dion for me you know if I'm out partying with friends and it becomes my turn for my phone to be the one
presenting the music um I always get a little always get a little look when um because I I have a
lot of Lady Gaga on my oh yeah on my devices I love like I love Lady Gaga I'm not gonna lie that surprises everybody I
like hurt I like um uh Sia quite a bit oh yeah I'd like to see a lot too uh we just lost a bunch of listeners because
they went the captain listens to Selena Dijon what do you like most about the listeners and what do you like least
about the listeners I like everything about all of our listeners and you don't like there's nothing you
don't like there's nothing uh once in a while we um I love the feedback whether it's good
negative or in between um I don't care when someone's rude or calls me a name I know we kind of call
people names on the show so maybe it's not fair for me to think that way um but here's what I firmly believe
we've created a community uh and we couldn't have done it without the listeners they've been fantastic uh
they're the biggest part of the community uh we hope that one day we all retire together and move to beautiful
Parts Unknown we're currently installing a wave pool that's going to be amazing um it's only three foot tall right now
so we're working on that once we get the funds we're going to extend it send more
beer fun money uh so I like everything about the listeners I I can't think of anything that I don't like because I
think that people that don't like the show or don't like us or our presentation I think they eventually
move on so they're not part of the the community right and to stick with this this is really interesting question all
right so the question is do you think that there's a responsibility of a podcast host that are male that deal
with a larger audience that is female you know respecting their fans respecting their listeners I I think the
word fan is kind of goofy you're a listener you're a friend that's what you are you know it's it's pretty simple
um uh but respecting their listeners by not asking for nudes and being sensitive to
cases of rape and domestic violence uh well here's my thoughts okay I I love the question who do we do we have a name
Stephanie I think yep Stephanie great question uh but I I'll answer it by saying this I think I think anybody
putting out something for the general public to to Chomp on regardless of male or female or transgender or whatever the
situation I think we all have a responsibility uh to to be sympathetic to victims and be open-minded about uh
who we are speaking to and and how we were presenting information uh but as far as like the nude stuff I know that
Nick uh I've heard some rumors about other podcasts I don't request them I just send them right Nick likes to send no
that's a joke but you know what's so funny is that's a good question from Stephanie because what are what do we
keep hearing in the news right now that that a lot of these older men that are of some form of power on TV and
different shows that we're starting to find out about things that they're being accused of which may or may not be true
um here's the deal man people in every Walk of Life some of them cross the line from time to
time um do do I feel responsibility regarding that personally no because I don't think
that's a line that the captain or I would ever ever cross well it's let's put it this way
um I have received a bunch of I think inappropriate pictures no I'm not I don't even know if inappropriate is the
right word but you know when somebody sends you a Snapchat and there's four pictures of food right this is what I
had for breakfast this is what I had for lunch and then all of a sudden it's them
in the shower here's here's a picture of me wearing nothing but bacon right my reply was
just it's a little odd why because I don't know yet and I think I see you paid your water bill this
month right but I I think um I think that stuff is should be saved for people that you have intimate
relationships with are you trying to learn about that person that stuff is not for some meat guy that you listen to
once a week talk about murders you know that's you know that's just where I stand on it do you guys hang out outside
of doing the podcast um on occasion not as much as we used to because we do spend so much time uh
together with this project um we I think part of it is we need our space away from one another as a way of
having space away from the show and from True Crime in general um on you know it's exciting to to hang
out uh with the captain um on most levels the problem is we're both so eyeballs deep in this project
that a lot of times now when we do hang out it's it feels a lot like work because we talk a lot of shop yeah and
we annoy each other like so much more than we used to so there's a lot of times where it's just like uh you know I
sent him a text yesterday and then he's sending me shitty texts back you know two minutes later and it's like you have
to remind him I didn't mean it shitty just but you know we can it's just any time like when you go on vacation with a
best friend and by the end of it you're like God I'm sick of this this guy ain't
my best friend anymore right some are Jerry all right next question uh this one is for the captain captain you
obviously produced the show and record the show have you produced for any bands or recorded any bands well and this kind
of goes with another question because somebody asked what's our regular jobs do you want to start with your regular
job uh I'm I'm involved in Property Management um and I have been for many many years
um it's something I enjoy doing um so that's kind of my regular job someone enjoys doing yeah it depends on
the day yeah well it's any job with hungry right and my mine is pretty simple I used to play a bunch of cover
band gigs I I've stopped doing that because of this show the show has afforded me to be able to not play in
the cover bands anymore which has been great but cheers to the guys that I used to play with great guys
um but now all this stuff is just Studio stuff so if you haven't checked out I have a singer-songwriter that a
singer-songwriter record that I just did called St Patrick and the album is called tin man you can find that on
iTunes uh we've received a lot of good feedback on a handful of those songs yeah you know people are always
surprised when they're like wow this is very uh sad and sappy well that's what you get that's what you get I didn't
find it all that sad and sappy but um you know one thing I do miss Captain is that I I used to go and see his bands
um and I say bands plural because you know I do different projects throughout the years but sometimes he'd be playing
in multiple bands at once um so I always enjoyed going he would play sometimes two three times a week now I would try
to go one so once a month was usually what I'd like to do once a month or so it was always a good time so I do I do
miss that Captain well he always ran up my my bar tab as much as I could but no so what I do for a living now is um you
know if if more people would buy that record I could just do that for living but I I work for a producer in Australia
and we do songs for films or commercials and I do editing work that way so audio
engineering is basically the the simple answer so when you people go your show sounds pretty good I'm like well it
should because that's what I do Bradley asked how is Nick able to keep the conversation going when the captain
always makes his hilarious comments I don't find them all that funny oh jab um no no I actually I find the
captain very funny but um you know I'm the True Crime dork me I'm I'm I'm already like merged into the
the story and and how we want to deliver it um so I you know I just try to keep on
Pace it's all about keeping on Pace okay a couple more uh thoughts on the upcoming Brown season well they break
500 this is from Brian oh Brian I love you I love the snowball question um here here we go Brian
bad news we will not be 500 or better than 500 but good news I got good news we're moving in the right direction I
really believe that picking up mccordy will sure up the defensive backfield quite a bit uh which is going to be
important because our defensive front is going to be incredibly disruptive to uh
any offense that we play this year I looked at the schedule I'm thinking seven games is kind of the over and
under we for those of you that don't know football real well you play in a division with three other teams four
teams in the division and you'll play each of those three teams twice once home and once away I think we'll split
the division I think we'll win three games in the division and there's there's four games in the regular season
that look to be winnable games so I think seven but Brian I got good news to you buddy cheers long distance cheers to
you because I think 2018 we will crack the 500 Mark a question that's asked often is why is the captain always mean
to name I'll let you take that one I don't know why you're mean to me uh I get really frustrated and Nick will
attest to this I'm setting up the show and putting all the pieces in place and you know if he messes up on a word
then I have to go back and then I'm editing um I just get frustrated and I'm really bad
at um he'll get mad about people mowing their grass or we had a a nest of birds in the garage not in the garage in the
gutter of the garage and um and I can hear it and you can hear it insane and I think he thought I was
doing something that was was messing with his audio well another thing too is uh
what's that what's that thing where you hate listening to somebody eat uh that's something I don't know anything
about you've you've told me about it I there's some people I don't like to watch eat right but well it's like I can
hear every Nuance of Nick's breathing and stuff so sometimes that just drives me insane
um but sometimes I try to turn that off the best shows are when I can just hit record and kind of turn everything off
and turn off the producer side and turn off the the audio dork side and just be a part of their conversation uh
interesting question is why do you tell people to be kind and don't litter is that like an inside joke question mark
no um I think everybody should be kind to one another and I don't think anybody should throw their trash on the on the
ground um I'm not like some big environmentalist if if that's what anybody's wondering but you know a few
years ago I did have a problem um because one thing that drives me nuts is when I see somebody roll down their
window and throw a pop can out or uh or a bag of of fast food here's a news flash for everybody everywhere you every
destination you end up will have a trash can at the other end if you're going to
a public place if you're going to a restaurant if you're going to a gas station you're going to your own home
there will be a trash can there if you're so lazy that you can't throw away your own trash and furthermore so
selfish that you think that everybody else should just walk amongst your trash because you're a lazy low life
um then no I just it bothers me and like I said a few years ago I had to stop myself a couple times because I started
I I started following cars if I saw somebody throw something out I'd follow them for a little bit like I was going
to do something at the end of that ride no I just think we live we're fortunate enough to live in a beautiful planet in
a beautiful surrounding there's if you have any future at all you would want to keep it beautiful for yourself and the
rest of us Bonnie asks have I ever tried cheese on an apple pie yet have I done that no I'm not I'm not a psychopath
I've tried it once not since the show you're a psychopath I tried it once not going to do it well maybe I'll do it one
day we'll do a meet up somebody bring some apple pie with some cheese on it I'll eat it here's why I tried it
there's a part in Pulp Fiction where um I believe it's Bruce Willis's girlfriend and she's been waiting for
him all day long at the hotel and all she wants to do is go to the diner and get a nice meal and get a piece of pie
with cheese on top and so I thought wow I've never heard of that before this is crazy talk
I I was I was hanging out with my grandmother recently after that after seeing that movie and thinking about the
cheese on the pie and because I was wondering if it was like an old school thing that I just didn't know about she
said she had many times in her life had had well she's a raging psychopath and um
thanks for talking poorly about my grandmother fine that's right um but uh yeah so I tried it uh didn't
love it all right we'll do uh let's do two more questions and get out of here because I gotta do some work uh John
asked have you ever and we get asked this all the time when are you gonna start uh patreon site
I don't think we're going to we're not going to um we know that other shows do it they
do a release if you release early here's the fact of the matter and then the people that say don't do ads go back
to not doing ads the ads is what affords the show we couldn't do two shows a week without ads
right because we have to spend a lot of time and energy on it as a way to supplement it it's also a way
that you don't have to supplement it we're not asking for your dollar we're getting dollars from the ads and then
that way we can put out free shows and we'd rather put out eight free shows a month or whatever to come you know two
two free shows a week than to charge you more show you know for more shows now we
do have some bonus episodes that we're doing and some of those are going to be just
you know one parters and things like that um well and we've been lucky though too because with with our show we had
this dumb idea about beer money you know buy us around for next week's show and everybody has been overly generous with
that you know we we do get a good response from that and so and we're currently way behind yeah we can only do
so many shout outs a show and I apologize that we haven't got to you yet but we do do them on a first come first
serve basis um and so we will get to everybody eventually um we understand why other shows do the
patreon I think it's a great thing um and it works for their platform and their show
um our show like I said we got the beer fund build in there so it's not it's not
really necessary right like we said uh we're way behind on it so sometimes people message us and go hey I donated
last week and I haven't heard my name yet you're not going to hear your name for a couple weeks we're behind so and
we apologize and we apologize but it's out of our control but we're also not going to spend you know 10 minutes of
the show thanking people no but we could do like once every three months we could
do a a drunken nick uh Shout Out Show where it's just me butchering everybody's names and locations and
right uh you know nobody wants to listen to that okay so the last question we'll
do for this q a session is has Brittany and Phoenix wants to hear that episode no no
have you been recognized in person since birth have you been recognized uh from the show no I don't think that I have
I've had people um look at you funny um Nick told me this story one time where he's like he's I had a true crime
Garage shirt on and these people were kind of looking at me funny yeah yeah I did I did have that happen but I've had
other people you know tell me later that somebody came up to them and said hey was that um
was that the captain or was that Nick from from True Crime garage so no I've not experienced it firsthand uh I had a
listener message me I was at a local uh Pub that I like to go to uh Hopyard 62 I
think it's gone I just got a hop yarn you just called it something but it's a top yard yeah and I I like to get their
flights um the only Annoying Thing about those guys is you just say just give me a
flight but what what do you want just whatever no but what do you like to just pick just that's why I'm here it's for
you to pick in their defense they're not used to that that I know I know type of
ordering so we're outside and we're you know drinking my flight and I guess somebody heard my voice and was like oh
my God that has to be the captain uh and they didn't never came up and said hello
they message you later that they had seen you somewhere yeah well the I think the girl's husband said hey uh me and my
wife were here and we thought it was you we couldn't tell we tried to listen and
I said this you should have came and said hi I would have bought I would have bought beers for everybody uh I had a
lot of flights that night I got a little out of control that's what I like to call around the world right well that's
what I like to call emptying out my savings account um no but just you know be nice and
respectful and just know I mean I'll kick the [ __ ] out of a clown's junk don't think I won't kick you if you get
out of line that's all I'm saying but if you recognize us I which you probably won't unless you're in Columbus
um come say hi have a beer all right that's enough of the questions that's enough of the business
that's enough of the questions thanks for uh thanks Aurelia at our Facebook page for the help thanks for Cody on the
the fan page if you haven't checked that out on Facebook it's it's it's actually
really cool it's not so much like oh let's uh let's talk about how awesome Nick and the captain are it's more it's
a kind of a group discussion about the cases so if you listen to the episode and you have some thoughts and opinions
that's kind of what they do there and it's pretty cool and it's run by a good guy named Cody uh as always follow us on
social media at True Crime garage Snapchat Facebook Twitter untapped all that stuff at True Crime garage and
thank you to everybody for joining us in the garage this week and thank you especially to those of you that
submitted questions for the Q a show we can't wait to see you back here in the garage next week until then you better
be good you better be kind and please don't let her thank you [Music]

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Brief Summary

Hosts Nick and Captain answer listener questions about true crime cases, podcasting, and personal experiences in a light-hearted Q&A session.

Key points

Q&A Session Begins. Listeners ask questions, including which case the hosts would solve if they could.
Discussion on the Justice System. The hosts reflect on how covering true crime affects their views on justice.
Adnan Syed's Case. Exploring the complexities of the Adnan Syed case and its emotional impact.
True Crime Podcast Origins. The hosts share how they started their podcast during a time of unemployment.
Impact of True Crime. Discussing how diving into true crime affects their mental state.
Emotional Impact of True Crime. Discussing the emotional toll of covering cases like Tika Lewis and Casey Anthony.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

You only hear from the haters which is really discouraging.

Advice on dealing with criticism

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