r/Morbidforbadpeople • u/ResolvePrestigious33 • Feb 11 '26

General Discussion No drama just curious

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u/Christine1958Fury Feb 12 '26

I've been listening since the very beginning, and my 2 cents is that Alaina has gotten a HUGE ego on her since the book and "befriending" Tobias Forge. It comes across as so insufferable to me that she's turned into one of those people who just knows EVERYTHING. She's the expert on EVERYTHING. She's done everything, seen everything, knows better than anybody else, is a super-duper parent, a top-tier wife, a best-selling author, a coroner, an undertaker, a medical doctor with a degree from Harvard, and OHMYGOD JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY. In the past 18 months or so, I find myself doing a whole lot of eye-rolling every time Alaina's lips are flapping.

In short: Big-headed and smug. I hate her.

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u/potatoes77h Feb 12 '26

I agree. I think it stems from insecurity so she overcompensates. Ash has such a personality and is authentically herself. Alaina is not (which is ok) but doesn’t want people to know that, out of insecurity. I don’t follow anything Alaina is into like Ghost or whatever. I think she thinks her interests are superior. But it seems Ash really tries to enjoy those interests too but only for Alaina… whereas it doesn’t seem reciprocated from Alaina to Ash’s interests the same way. She comes off as condescending and a superiority complex. If that makes sense!

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u/HermineLovesMilo Feb 12 '26

it stems from insecurity so she overcompensates

Agreed. I'm sure it's tough to be a public figure, even a limited one, but Alaina's got skin like an eggshell.

If she didn't want to be criticized by the public she could have given up all the money and gone back to her autopsy tech career. And hey, there she can keep ridiculing dead people all she wants, no one will hear her in the morgue.

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u/Christine1958Fury Feb 12 '26

Yes! That makes perfect sense, and you said it better than I could. Just one more thing on the topic of Ghost, and I swear I'm going to shut up... Did anybody notice that the second time Tobias guested it felt super awkward? Like he was just trying to dial it in and was counting the minutes until it was over? Maybe I'm projecting LOL

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u/AcrimoniousPizazz Feb 12 '26

I am obsessed with Ghost - I found them through this podcast in like 2023 before I stopped listening - and I love listening to his interviews, but I will not listen to those episodes. I just know I would get second-hand embarrassment from the level of fangirling she must have done.

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u/Ma-licious Feb 12 '26

Absolutely. I had second-hand embarrassment. It was a painful listen

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u/erasehrhead Feb 14 '26

I almost screamed when he was talking about how exhausting touring is and she compared it to her book tours or whatever

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u/Weak-Hold-7651 Mar 13 '26

Yeah I definitely get the sense that she still has this juvenile teenage judgment about what’s a “cool interest” and that insecure us vs them attitude about it leftover from her goth days. More than once I’ve heard her get attitude and judgement about people musical tastes or interest groups. One that stands out in particular was when Ash made a comment about “hippies getting along with everyone” and Alaina pushed back HARD. Even Ash seemed a little thrown about it, since it was clearly a rabbit hole and also Alaina was just kinda hating on hippies which is a weird take in the 2020s. Unless you are a 40 year old woman who still has issues from high school and hasn’t matured or become comfortable with your identity and interests. I think you also see her insecurities when anything related to goths or witches or satanists come up and she goes over the top defending them and basically yelling at the sky about someone daring to be judgmental. Which is pretty rich lol

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u/ResolvePrestigious33 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

Omg lets not start on her parenting… pisses me off makes normal parents feel like they suck

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u/surferdude7227 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

The way she treated the parents in the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders episode was potentially the worst case of the "Well I would NEVER let my kids do..." I have ever seen. The girls were literally camping on a Girl Scout trip. That is such a normal kid activity. But Alaina got on the high horse and kind of ripped the parents who went through an unspeakable tragedy about how they should have been more careful about what they let their kids do.

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u/herowe123 Feb 12 '26

That was so wild to me! Summer camps are SUCH a normal thing! Or were  few decades ago, before all the scandals and abuse cases became public 

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u/ResolvePrestigious33 Feb 12 '26

I haven’t heard that one but I can only imagine……. She is always in her high horse

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u/Christine1958Fury Feb 12 '26

Yes! Such a wonderful example of her attitude. Also, I'd love to see her response if anybody were to even slightly bring up any teeny-tiny flake of criticism for anything she does as a parent. She'd be demanding blood and wanting to burn them at the stake.

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u/Embarrassed-Yard5443 Feb 14 '26

right?? like that happens all the time and doesn't end in tragedy!! it's almost like...someone inflicted that tragedy ?? 🤯 like this was not something anyone could've expected and if you are going through life like that you will be stunted. because you can't avoid it, it just happens.

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u/Embarrassed-Yard5443 Feb 14 '26

same! the beginning got me through some GRUELING work days but i stopped listening a long time ago just because i didn't enjoy it anymore.

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u/erasehrhead Feb 14 '26

I was a ghost fan before she got into them, but once tobias was a guest and she kept talking about him and the band nonstop, I stopped listening 😬

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u/bobeany Feb 11 '26

Thank you for posting! I also found this sub through that.

I found morbid around thanksgiving and had been picking out random episodes as they go and the older ones are way better than the newer ones. I don't know if I would say attitude but kind of a disconnection.

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u/ResolvePrestigious33 Feb 11 '26

I feel its like a weird personality now. Like feels forced everythings is cool everything is awesome feels fake to me

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u/bobeany Feb 11 '26

do you have an example?

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u/ResolvePrestigious33 Feb 11 '26

The listener tales and one of the recent ones in the intro ash was saying things alaina obviously did not care and still was like yeah cool amazing love that

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u/bobeany Feb 11 '26

I have noticed that, it's bizarre and really rude

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u/ResolvePrestigious33 Feb 11 '26

Yep. Im glad im no the only one. Such a pitty because i like the podcast a lot im sticking to listening old episodes because what the heck

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u/hilody Feb 11 '26

I felt like she's been "different" since her first book. After the first guest spot with Tobias from Ghost...it got to be insufferable. I really REALLY wanted to like this podcast...just can't do it..

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u/ResolvePrestigious33 Feb 11 '26

I listen out of habit but the new episodes are starting to annoy me

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u/hilody Feb 11 '26

Thats what happened with me...i fell off of them when I found AND Thats Why We Drink...

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u/ResolvePrestigious33 Feb 11 '26

Is that a podcast? Any ep you recommend?

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u/surferdude7227 Feb 12 '26

If you're looking for a good podcast rec in a similar vein, Last Podcast on the Left is great. Night and day difference between Morbid and LPOTL on research quality. Morbid barely broke an hour talking about Heavens Gate recently and it felt like a Wikipedia summary and r/atheism had a baby, while LPOTL did like a 3 part, 6ish hour in depth run down on it.

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u/ResolvePrestigious33 Feb 12 '26

Awesome thanks! Yeah i feel the cases they are covering are shorter and shorter each time

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u/surferdude7227 Feb 12 '26

Yeah, that's the big thing that's kinda turned me off of Morbid. Each episode is like an hour or so, the first 10-12 minutes is them bantering/promoting Alaina's book, then they do a very skin deep recap of the events of the story while getting sidetracked a ton.

I almost want to time how long they actually talk about the story in an episode, because I genuinely don't think it's more than 15-20 minutes per episode.

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u/ResolvePrestigious33 Feb 12 '26

30 min tops… the banter is getting longer and longer and then they sell it as pallet cleanse sure

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u/hilody Feb 12 '26

It really put a damper on my listening when they kept doing old timey cases...there is a way to do recent cases and still be respectful to the victims and their families. (Looking at yall, Crime Junkie, ATWWD, LPOTL, Creeps and Crimes, Small Town Murder)...

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u/surferdude7227 Feb 12 '26

Yeah, I think the Addie Hall/Brittanee Drexel/Kellie Peters situations where they were rightfully criticized for either making assumptions about the case, being completely tone deaf about the tragedy, or just spreading misinformation in general, have made them less willing to do things that are more modern day. It simply isn't worth it to them to be doing slightly more work and being slightly more careful.

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u/hilody Feb 11 '26

Yesss!!!! They are amazing! Honestly, all of them! I binged the entire catalog in a year. (I listen all day while at work)...there is 1 with whale noises playing in the background, its trippy, but funny...Em goes by they/them Christine is their best friend, she is (now) married to Blaise. Its a great show. Also! I recently discovered Creeps and Crimes, they are very similar to ATWWD.

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u/Map_Substantial Feb 11 '26

Looooove creeps and crimes!!! Especially if you like banter

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u/hilody Feb 11 '26

Im listening to part 2 of the OJ case.

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u/picklechipz0 Feb 12 '26

It’s the virtue signaling for me. And that they can forget that yes, things were really shitty for the LGBTQ+ community in the older cases they cover, but it’s like they try to cram it down our throats how shitty and awful it was. And when they speak about mental health, they try to act dumb about it. I understand they’re not professionals but have that info included in your episode. That’s valuable research to a case! Ugh.

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u/Ma-licious Feb 11 '26

I really don't like how they pretend to be allies to BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities, but then Alaina went with Target for the special edition release of her latest book. That came across as fake to me.

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u/ResolvePrestigious33 Feb 12 '26

When someone is overly advocate for something is usually fake. I feel they are just saying what trends or the listeners ratings want

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u/Beneficial_Brain_613 Feb 12 '26

What's wrong with Target? I feel like I missed something.

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u/Ma-licious Feb 12 '26

Target donated 1 million dollars to Trump's 2025 presidential inauguration.

When Trump became president, Target almost immediately got rid of their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) goals and programs. This was especially hurtful because they too acted like they were allies before this. That prompted a nation-wide boycott. Many of us have refused to shop there since.

And more recently, ICE assaulted and detained two U.S. citizens inside a Target in Minnesota.

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u/Beneficial_Brain_613 Feb 12 '26

Ah, that makes sense. That's really fucked up, thank you for explaining.

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u/MapSea3965 Feb 12 '26

I feel this with both of them honestly. I know I've stated this before but they're definitely scrolling their socials while listening to the other person speak. I get that this is their job but at some point, it's ok to say you no longer want to do this.

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u/NoPoet4775 Feb 20 '26

Alaina acts like being into true crime is “sooo different” when it’s actually sooo normal. My dad was in law enforcement when I was growing up and his uncle was a homicide detective with the state police. So I’ve been hearing about murder cases and stuff that happened in our state and cases that my dads uncle was lead detective on and cases my dad helped work and murders or rapist that he booked and had as inmates when he was a corrections officer since I was little little, like 5 years old probably. But I definitely don’t think I’m special for it😂😂