Karen’s retelling of the Montreal Massacre was amazing

Episode 442 was something else entirely, I have watched the show on and off over the years and let’s be honest the initial appeal of the podcast is that it isn’t two journalists or two 100% accurate straight to the facts professionals tackling these topics but rather it is two friends casually discussing these stories in a over the camp fire type of natural funny way.

And I love the way they riff off of eachother and everything but today’s story was written and told in such a profound tasteful way that I really didn’t expect to see considering how actual canadian news channels have sensationalized this story before into a columbine type of way so I certainly was not expecting a comedy podcast to tackle it any better but they did.

She didn’t care to delve into the mental illness or background or motives of the shooter which honestly speaking I believe is semantics considering how after columbine where the shooters were on the fronts of magazines and news programs and had original films made about them, it just led to more copycats getting inspired after seeing how the originals were glorified. So I am happy that the shooter wasn’t even named let alone analyzed.

The way Karen went over each victims background and history and little nuggets of their rich individual distinct personalities helped sort of snap the audience back to reality because these are real women who didn’t wake up one day and decide to be the subject of the true crime discourse but rather had their lives ripped from them by an incel loser.