Ep23: Minisode: Podcast Update

Join Amy and Dawn as they spill the tea on where the podcast is headed — now that they're 20+ episodes deep, slightly wiser, and only moderately more professional.

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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,680 [Music] 2 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:19,680 Hello and welcome to our podcast Talk Gruesome To Mme, where we talk about movies and shows that cover true crime, paranormal and horror. 3 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:27,920 I am one of your hosts, Dawn. I am currently located in Los Angeles and I think I'm pretty well versed in the horror genre, 4 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:35,360 especially those 80s classics. A quick fun fact about me? I have a very extensive crystal collection. 5 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:43,920 Hello, I'm Amy. I'm from Kentucky and my area of expertise for this podcast is paranormal. A few fun facts about me. 6 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:50,240 I'm an empath, I collect old dolls and you know, I've never flown on an airplane. Can you believe that? 7 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:57,200 Now Dawn and I are also obsessed with true crime, so here we are. Talk Gruesome To Me. 8 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:03,520 Welcome in. This episode is a little bit different than what you're used to hear in from us. 9 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:10,960 We are kind of coming here today to speak about the direction that we want to start taking, especially with our minisodes. 10 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:16,160 After doing the episode with Christina Page on the Return to Nature, 11 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:23,120 we really started feeling like that was something special and made us both feel good. 12 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:30,640 We like that. We had the opportunity to give her a voice without any interruption. She was able to tell her side. 13 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:38,080 There wasn't the news or any other kind of outlets to air in her voice down and not letting it be spoke in truth. 14 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:44,080 So we really like that and thought that you know, there's a lot of other cases that we can cover 15 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:49,360 and bring light to, especially since we do have a little bit of a platform to do so. 16 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:57,760 And it's never ending. I mean, we could almost record every day and there would be something we could cover. 17 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:05,440 It's funny because after we did that episode, Amy on her side, she was thinking it and on my side, 18 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:11,360 I was thinking it as well. And then I don't remember if you brought it up or I brought it up, I have no idea. 19 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:16,000 But when it came up, we both were like, "Ah, yes please." 20 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,680 I was super excited because it just felt right. 21 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:20,640 I agree. 22 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:29,680 To be able to let someone tell their story or not every time you'll be able to get one of the family members or victims 23 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:31,920 or whoever is involved in that story. 24 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:40,560 But to be able to tell their story in a truthful way and how you believe they would like for it to be told 25 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,960 is just, it's a good feeling. 26 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,840 Yeah, and I have had a couple of stories where I have reached out to people. 27 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:54,000 They didn't see my message. It could have gotten buried in their Facebook, or they just weren't interested. 28 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,200 You know, we aren't going to have guests every time and that's okay. 29 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,360 We just want to dive deeper. 30 00:02:59,360 --> 00:02:59,840 Right. 31 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:05,280 We want to cover more marginalized communities, specifically kids, 32 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:12,320 you know, missing people especially, we just recorded a missing episode this week and 33 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,720 that's definitely something we want to highlight, people of color, kids. 34 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:21,680 Maybe we can find some crips, disabled people like me that are missing. 35 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:29,040 Just people that don't usually get the light shown on them, that maybe you have never heard of 36 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,520 and have no idea that this person exists or that they are missing. 37 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:34,400 Exactly. 38 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,920 And I just think, I mean, we don't have a huge following, but we have enough of a following that I feel like 39 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:41,360 we should do this. 40 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:49,440 A platform is a platform, and if I have the opportunity to spread some of these facts about 41 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,680 missing people, then I think that that's worth taking the chance. 42 00:03:53,680 --> 00:04:03,360 I, all the time, every day almost, I see stories of either people native American kids or women, 43 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,800 other different same scenarios, same stories, different location, different kids. 44 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,880 So definitely something that we want to start focusing on. 45 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:21,200 Yeah, because you may not even realize that you saw something. 46 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:29,360 If you listen to one of these stories and you think about where you was around that time, 47 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:37,040 maybe on that day, what you saw in your surroundings, maybe you seen something out and didn't realize it. 48 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,240 And this is how it's going to bring to light. 49 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,080 That's what we're here for. 50 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:47,600 Well, and something else that I feel strongly about, and this, I've always felt strongly about this, 51 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:54,960 but it came up again a couple of months ago because there was this young girl in Toledo that was 52 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:02,000 killed by her father. And I don't know how many times people at her school had reported her family 53 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:08,720 to CPS. I also want to focus on those types of stories too, where there could have been prevention 54 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,400 and intervention and it didn't happen. And I want to know why. 55 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:20,080 Yeah, I mean, was it a fact of the people were not trained properly? Because it doesn't seem like 56 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:27,360 the community wasn't trained in what to do. They knew exactly what to do. So who failed this little girl? 57 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:33,040 Yeah. Yeah, there were multiple teachers at her school that came forward after her death. 58 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:39,440 And they knew what to do. Yes. Yep, we did the right thing. That ball's getting dropped somewhere. 59 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,600 It happens way too often. And so I want to highlight that as well. 60 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:52,480 Right. I mean, it needs to be what can we do as a community to help spread the word as a whole? 61 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:59,680 I mean, is it because there's not enough pay in these areas? And you're getting employees that 62 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:04,720 really just don't give a damn. I don't know how you couldn't, but what is what is going on? 63 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:10,320 I think a lot of it is probably not enough staff, but that's just a guess. 64 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:15,440 Yeah, nobody wants to take the job or the ones that do. I mean, you just, they're, I don't know. 65 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:21,680 I don't know either. I feel like also maybe that's the type of profession that you go in because you care 66 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:27,280 and then maybe you get overwhelmed and you have too many cases or whatever the case might be. 67 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:32,320 And then you get jaded and you don't care as much. I don't know. I'm just guessing. And I definitely 68 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:39,120 want to find, I'm sure I know people who are social workers. So I definitely would love to get one 69 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:46,000 on just in general. Right. What does your job entail? What does it look like? Because somewhere, 70 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:52,080 it would be nice if we could change this. Yeah. And like you said, I know we're little voices, but 71 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:58,480 exactly. I was always told that the squeakyest wheel gets the oil or the grease, whatever you would like 72 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:06,480 to call it. So maybe if we just keep our voices loud and speak on these names, then they'll be heard. 73 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:13,440 For me, personally, I did a ton of volunteering in my past. I volunteered at Make a Wish for 11 74 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:20,720 years. I volunteered with teenage victims of sex trafficking for 11 years. A ton of places, 75 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:28,880 animal rescue, whatever I've done most of it with my body issues being a cripple. I haven't been 76 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:34,560 able to do any volunteering the last few years. And it's just getting worse. And I don't think I'm 77 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:40,320 going to be able to volunteer anywhere anymore. So I feel like this can sort of fill that void that 78 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:45,840 I have going on in my life from not being able to do that. You know. Yeah. I hate to talk about it, 79 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:55,040 but it was probably four years ago. I had shared a few different missing people. One was a blonde-headed 80 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:04,480 Caucasian girl. Pretty girl. Not very old, in her 20s. And another was a trans Indigenous female. 81 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:13,200 Guess which one got the most shares? Yeah. Man hers blew the other ones out of the water. 82 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:21,200 Yeah. It's just little things like that. And listen, I've always been outspoken about marginalized 83 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:32,960 groups and just things in general that are trying to use my being a white woman as much as I can to help 84 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:40,960 other communities. And listen, women are marginalized even. Yes. You know, so I mean we can take it 85 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:49,360 as vague as that. Or we can take it down to something like you just said, a trans native woman. 86 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:56,960 So we're going to cover everything in this for now at least for sure won't change our structure 87 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:04,800 of the true crime paranormal and horror treos tied in. We're still doing those. This is just 88 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:14,240 minsodes right now. Yeah. We would definitely want to use that time to be useful and helpful. 89 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:20,240 Yeah, because I've had this void in my life for a while now. And so hopefully this helps. 90 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:25,440 When I was thinking, you know, we have both talked about it. You wanted to do the podcast and I had 91 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:34,160 wanted to secretly do one as well. I was generally wanting to start looking in this direction, 92 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:41,760 giving a voice to the ones who don't have one that maybe are snuffed down because of who they are. 93 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:48,960 It's so hard. Like I hate to say this about anybody because nobody should be like that. We 94 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:54,720 should all know somebody's missing. I don't care if you're black, purple, pink, or blue. You're missing 95 00:09:54,720 --> 00:10:00,880 and we need to find you. There that rhymed. And we aren't always going to have guests. Sometimes it's 96 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:06,560 just going to be us, like the story that we recorded this week was just us getting more visibility on 97 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:12,640 the story. Even if we're just telling the story between us and all of whatever we found online 98 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:19,840 that we watched or read or whatever, it's still getting that story out there and hopefully helping 99 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:26,000 awareness. Yeah, because the one that you brought up to me that we just recorded, I've never heard of 100 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:34,160 them. I hadn't either. The fact that there's two more people now that know. Exactly. And now more. 101 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:41,680 That came from someone, one of my friends that I had met on TikTok, Western New York Cemeteries. 102 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:48,080 She grew up in Toledo and she came to me and said, "Hey, what about this story?" And I was like, "Oh, 103 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:54,480 I don't know anything about this story yet. Let's do it." And it's so close to the area that we 104 00:10:54,480 --> 00:11:00,400 went to end up in. I know. How did I not know about it? I don't know, but here we are. 105 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:07,040 You're more than me. I know. But that's exactly the point. Yeah. I grew up there and had no idea about 106 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:16,400 this story and it was just miles away. Right. It's just crazy how you can have one individual go missing 107 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:25,360 and then a couple days later, even sometimes exact same thing nearly can happen to the next one. And 108 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:33,920 just because they're not the right color or not the right gender or religion, nobody speaks 109 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:41,760 about it. Yeah. And I feel like in 2025, it's just different. When we were kids, we were out. You didn't 110 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:47,120 how to worry about your kid getting murdered. And 2025 is just different and there are missing 111 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:53,440 stories of missing people every day. Yeah. When I was a little girl, I mean, not necessarily 112 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:59,280 little up into my teens, I would head out in the morning and be gone most of the day coming back 113 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:08,240 and forth to eat. But I was gone. Mom didn't worry. Dad didn't worry. Exactly. So we could literally 114 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:16,000 do this every day. Not doing that, but we could. Yeah. Easily. It's just a different time. Not in a good 115 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:22,320 way. Just a different time. And I would also, I don't know, we didn't discuss this, but I would like 116 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:32,400 to go back into like really early cases that nobody's ever found a conclusion to. It hasn't been solved. 117 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:38,000 Cold cases, I'm down. Yes. Yeah. That's something else. Cold cases. Yes. I would really like to 118 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:45,680 look at some like 70s, 60s, whatever time period that we still don't know where they are. That's a 119 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:52,880 long time. Yep. And somebody knows. Somebody knows where all of these individuals are. And I'm not 120 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:58,560 just talking for religious ones and myself included the way I sounded that sounded awful. I'm not just 121 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:05,280 talking for those of us who are religious. Yes, of course, he knows. But the person that did it, they 122 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:11,440 know. And through the years, I'm sure they haven't been quiet. So that's our little update. I don't know. 123 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:19,040 Do we have anything else? No, I'm just super excited. I really am. Me too. So if you have any cases 124 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:26,880 anyone that you know of that you want us to talk about missing people, cold cases, especially 125 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:32,640 marginalized communities, it doesn't have to be, but that is something we want to definitely focus on. 126 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:39,200 So if you have any cases that you know of, please send them our way and we will look into them and see. 127 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:47,200 We'll have to see on the stories that don't have any news coverage or 128 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:55,440 a lot of information online. Those would be harder for us to talk about, but we'll see. Just send us 129 00:13:55,440 --> 00:14:02,080 anything and we'll definitely look into it. Well, even, okay, say if you do have one of those cases 130 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:09,440 that doesn't have a lot of news coverage and you are, it's personal and you are included in that 131 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:15,840 story. Maybe you're a family member, a close friend. Definitely also reach out to us. Maybe we can 132 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:22,080 start getting the word out. Yeah. As that was coming out of my mouth, I was thinking that same thing. 133 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:29,600 Okay, just like you took it over, which is great. Same brain. What is it? Great minds think alike. 134 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:36,560 Duh. Yeah. All right. We just wanted to give you all a little update just in case anyone 135 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:43,760 was like, why are all these minisodes so different? That is why. Most of the ones that we've done, 136 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:51,760 I feel like have been paranormal. That's fine, but you know, we cover paranormal when we do our trios 137 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:58,720 of the bigger episodes. So we really don't need to keep doing that. I feel like people also really 138 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:06,400 enjoy hearing these types of true crime stories too. I think you all will enjoy this switch up. 139 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:13,200 I do too. And remember in the beginning, when we explained the minisodes for those of you who 140 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:19,680 did listen to that episode, we said anything goes. Now it's just changed it a little bit. In a good way. 141 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:27,360 Yes. All right. Thank you so much to everyone for your support, for listening. We have a few people 142 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:34,080 that I know listen every episode as soon as it comes out. And we very, very much appreciate you. We 143 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:40,880 appreciate all of you. Even if you've listened to just a few episodes, we appreciate you. But if you 144 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:48,240 feel compelled to only give us good reviews, please do so. We love you. And by now you have to love us. 145 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:56,400 You've got enough time to get to know us. Yeah. We will meet back here in a week. I wish I got to 146 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:05,120 start looking at the episode listings because I wanted to say that one that we recorded this week, 147 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:11,120 it will probably be out in about four weeks. Yeah, because this one's going to be slipped in, 148 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:17,920 isn't it? Yeah. In about four weeks, you'll see this switch start happening, I think. Yeah. 149 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,960 We'll meet back here in a week. Thanks. Bye. Bye guys. 150 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:34,000 Thanks for making it to the end and hanging out with us. Keep on the lookout for our next episode 151 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,480 and stay gruesome.