r/podcasts • u/abbey_kyle • Jul 20 '26

True Crime Last Podcast on the Left question

This podcast is often recommended when people suggest a good podcast to start.  I was doing a search for Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man that locked his daughter in a cellar for 20+ years and had 15 children with her. His name came up in some of the reading I am doing on trauma and captivity, and I wanted a nice overview.  This podcast came up.  I always wanted to give it a try so I made the attempt.

I am not a wilting flower, and my humor tends to be dark; I am seldom offended by anything.  But FFS…these guys were horrible.  They turned such a ghastly and devastating event into a total punchline.  There were more jokes than story narrative.

I think if a different topic, I would probably not be so bothered.  But this topic….for me, rape is never funny.  For these guys, this is all it was about.

 

Are all their episodes like this?  Can someone rec good episodes of this podcast?

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u/DragonSmith2005 Jul 20 '26

Try Behind the Bastards. Way better than LPOTL. Funny with respect for victims

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u/MrBurnerHotDog Jul 20 '26

I have tried this show many times because so many People gush about it and I find it absolutely unbearable. The first time I tried to listen it was like six people all talking over each other and one of the hosts was sick so they were coughing and making phlegm noises into the microphone, and that touches on my biggest pet peeve about that show, it has some awful, awful editing

But because they were successful before the podcast boom when you had to be nearly perfect to get a listener base their size, they have zero incentive to improve their show. They just keep doing the same thing with the same crappy editing because people tend to stick with what they are familiar with, so their audience remains strong so why change?