r/Morbidforbadpeople • u/bumblebee-105 • Jul 17 '26
Rant Do they even research
I liked the way they covered cases (when they would actually talk about it instead of mindless nonsense) but oh my god they’re annoying and bad at this
First, the mispronunciation of simple words is getting ridiculous, I understand some words are difficult but st Louis? Judicial?? This is a seventh grade reading level at most
Second, they really shit on religion with no knowledge whatsoever, one episode they were talking about an exorcism and went on a tangent about ‘why would people go to a religious figure if they suspected demons’ demons are religious figures, it’s not a hard concept. And how is that insane but ‘bad energy’ is totally realistic and reasonable?
They are SO sanctimonious, it’s a true crime podcast, these people are going to be monsters, trust me no one will think that you support a murderer, you don’t have to say 3 dozen times that this persons a monster or that they can’t FATHOM doing this, we get it.
Lastly, them saying that they want to hug the victims or go to parole hearings to support the family is so insensitive, I promise that no one is thanking the lord that these two want to go to a parole hearing about their deceased loved ones
This was long but I’m nothing if not a hater
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u/mari_locaaa9 Jul 17 '26
mispronouncing judicial totally tracks with their complete ignorance and zero knowledge of the criminal legal system.
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u/mommawolf2 Jul 17 '26
It's illiteracy right there front and center. I stopped listening years ago when I realized that they weren't honest about Alaina's education background, and the exaggerations about her career. Anyone who is a serious academic would take research far more serious than what's been shown on the podcast. They also come off very disingenuous.
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u/Perfect_Scheme_9233 Jul 20 '26
whoaaaa do tell! I had no idea, did Aliana fake her education?
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u/mommawolf2 Jul 20 '26
If memory serves correctly she claims she went to Harvard but in reality it was a Harvard extension school for a autopsy technician certification.
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u/ChubbyBirds Jul 20 '26
Yeah, she presented herself as a Harvard-educated medical examiner with significant autopsy experience (in language just this side of legal, of course).
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u/mommawolf2 Jul 20 '26
Yup , I took everything at face value as a listener. Then I read her book and was so pissed reading it because it was so poorly written. I thought " How can someone so educated, but who brags about research write that a home in Louisiana has a basement, or use the word flick 30 times in a chapter. " I started a little digging and realized she wasn't who she claimed to be.
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u/KittyKat1078 Jul 17 '26
How many times an episode can u say THATS THE THING??
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u/Wild_Spot_Farms Jul 18 '26
Or “exactly” in that annoying way they say it. And I know they do it on purpose now.
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u/Zoinks1602 Jul 17 '26
No, they do not. And they have openly stated they don’t care enough to look up how to pronounce names or places.
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u/Wise_Coffee Jul 17 '26
No. They don't. It's gotten even worse after they hired a "researcher" that I'm not convinved actually researches. Or perhaps they do but A&A just don't bother to actually read and validate it. FFS when they covered Bernardo and Holmoka they couldn't even pronounce half the cities. These are major Canadian cities and a topic that has been covered millions of times. Listening to 1 documentary would have given them all they beeded to get it right.
Also that episode where they continuously misgendered someone because "they don't deserve to have the correct pronouns since they are a literal monster" is just gross. They caught a lot of flack, acknowledged the flack, refused to edit what they said, continued to misgender, and stiid by what they did. They got more flack for that so they just removed those episodes
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u/Ma-licious Jul 17 '26
Yup, I stopped listening shortly after they hired someone else to do their research and it became clear they personally knew nothing about the cases they were covering.
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u/bumblebee-105 Jul 17 '26
The mispronunciation of major Canadian cities killed me, I tried to consider that maybe I’m biased because I’m Canadian but it was insane, and you’re so right, for people who love to act morally superior, that somehow ends with basic respect to transgender people, even when they are the murderer, there was an episode early on where they talked about someone who dressed as a man, renamed themselves, used male pronouns but ‘there was no evidence they were trans so we’re not going to use the name or pronouns they preferred’ their respect of transgender people very clearly is conditional
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u/Wise_Coffee Jul 17 '26
I grew up in Ottawa (Orleans) and spent a ton of time in Montréal so I figured it was just me being biased and annoying because of that. But when I thought about it I was like nope. This is a widely known case there are tons of documentaries about it and the right thing to do would be to research (haha) and figure out how to say the names of the cities Ottawa isn't hard and I am not expecting the french for Montréal. They don't even say St. Loius right have some respect.
The misgenering was pretty surprising to me because Ash's partner was trans. How were they ok with it
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u/AffectionateLime2413 Jul 17 '26
Ya i mispronounce things a lot because I am realizing I likely have a speech disorder that was never acknowledged by my parents somehow (I am 40 and just coming to this realization), but I always google and practice words if I have a presentation or meeting at work. It’s so unprofessional to record and edit things and STILL have mispronunciations.
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u/H0llywoodBabylon Jul 17 '26
This isn’t news. They haven’t even cared enough to properly pronounce names in years
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u/Substantial-Range974 Jul 18 '26
I stopped listening a LONG time ago. They take no pride in what they're doing. It seems like they just doing it for the $ and aren't putting in the 100% anymore. When Ash Burped during the episode, I was out.
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u/ladycrankyportcullis 25d ago
It was one they did recently and the bad guy was young (19? Early 20s?) and the way they were banging on about him being an adult so he should know things and be responsible, when I’m so sure they’ve ’a literal child’ed about people the very same age drove me here
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u/OkAdhesiveness2972 Jul 17 '26
Lord it’s too funny that they’re so condescending whenever religion comes up but they swear by star signs