'My Favorite Murder' Hosts Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark On New Book, Never Running Out of Murders to Tell

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"It's like the world's oldest profession is prostitution, but then the second oldest is a murderer. But they don’t get paid that well," Kilgariff told The Hollywood Reporter.

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00:00The podcast is a true crime comedy podcast where we tell each other crazy murder stories that

00:08we're fascinated by and horrified by and can't sleep at night because of. The humor is around

00:15our own anxiety with the horrible things that happen in the world, not around the things that

00:20are happening to the victims of the horrible thing. The thing that drives us, because there

00:25are times where humor isn't, doesn't really come into play. We're sick of murder. We're

00:32sick of the worst things about life. I do get sick of reading about and learning about

00:37murder constantly. And so some weeks I'll be like, I don't, I don't want to keep reading

00:42about these stories. And then I'll, you know, make this, this story that I'm going to tell

00:46that week and it's perfect. And in my mind, I think like, oh, I can't wait to tell Karen

00:50about this. And people always ask us, do you think you'll ever run out of murders? And

00:53I think what we've learned is, unfortunately, there's just a never ending list of horrible

00:58people that we can talk about. Yeah. It's like the world's oldest profession is prostitution,

01:04but then the second oldest is a murderer. Yeah. They don't get paid that well, but it seems

01:09like there really is a bottomless well of those stories. Yeah. And we're here to tell everyone

01:13about them because we don't want anyone to sleep the night ever again.

01:17The murderino is someone who's just really into true crime like we are. And that's basically,

01:25that's a line from a Simpsons Halloween episode where Ned Flanders walks in and says,

01:30hi, diddly-oh murderinos. And it's basically self, they, they nicknamed themselves and kind

01:36of ran with it. So it's hard to name a single most meaningful experience with a murderino because

01:43they've really come in a full range. I mean, like we've, we've had some really very quick,

01:50but deep talks with people at the meet and greets, people saying they changed their majors to some

01:54kind of criminology, um, you know, or going back to school or going to therapy or going back to therapy.

02:01There's been a ton of those stories. We just started this because we like talking about true crime

02:07crime and the kind of ripple effects, uh, are mind blowing to us. When we meet murderinos,

02:14they always say to us, I feel like I know you. I feel like you're my best friend. And it's like,

02:18well, you do know us. And we would, it's always these cool women mostly that we would be friends

02:23with anyways. It's, we're really lucky that our fan base is essentially women like us.

02:27And a sprinkling of super cool men. That's right. Extra cool. Yeah.

02:31I guess some of the early milestones for us in this podcast would be maybe the first time

02:38somebody recognized us on the street and said something or said, you know, the podcast meant

02:43something. I think that pretty much it's been three years of constant milestones. And when the

02:48book comes out, it's just going to, I think, be the biggest one so far. There's nothing different

02:53about the book than there is the podcast, except that it's the stories, the horror stories that we

02:58tell you about our own lives. We just go deeper into those. Yeah. Because we, in, in the book,

03:02as opposed to the podcast, we can't interrupt each other. So we really get some nice airtime

03:07on the page with ourselves to be like, I'll tell you every detail of the story. That's right.

03:12We don't change the subject. That's Karen Kilgarib. And that's Georgia Hardstart.

03:16And you're watching the Hollywood Reporter. SSDGM.

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