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Hey Pod lovers. If you’re joining us for the first time, welcome! “The Mastercast’ is a podcast recommendation show that brings you a brand new, non-spoiler, binge-worthy review every week of the best podcasts in a short and sweet 2-3-minute summary on everything you could want to know, from the number of hosts to on average how long you can expect each episode to be. New episodes come out every Monday. You can find the other reviews for the week on the show’s Instagram @themastercast and Twitter @mastercastpods. I’m your host, Marie, and this week I’m bringing you a review on:

“The Crime Shack”

Airing in November 2019, this independent true-crime podcast belongs on the list of best true crime podcasts, and it is more than worth it to become a Patreon. There are few cases I hear that can make me stop what I’m doing and throw my hands up, but this podcast has had me doing it multiple times.

Solo host Michelle Pense has a brilliant radio voice that she couples with professional sound quality and editing. You might recognize her from her very successful TikTok @shellzcrimeshack where she covers crime in short videos.

The podcast is the perfect blend of facts and the tiniest bit of commentary. It covers a range of crimes, including recent ones I hadn’t heard of. No tangents and completely possible to spend a weekend lost in bingeing this show.

So far there are 19 episodes, with new ones coming out monthly. On average they are about 40 minutes long. Episodes include chilling 911 calls as well as audio from interrogations with investigators.

OwlTail’s most popular episode according to the number of listens are EP06: Geza de Kaplany “The Acid Doctor” and EP05: “Christy Sheats and Cynthia Kessler Collier: Maternal Instincts.” I also found episode 5 as well as EP15: “The Strange Murder of Robert Eric Wone” to be especially intriguing.

There is some mispronunciation of names in the Murdaugh episode, but it didn’t bother me at all. That’s the only episode I heard anything wrong with.

The sponsors of the podcast are personal safety items like alarms and pepper spray, which is fitting.

I love the website! It includes the blog with pictures from each episode, sources, transcripts, a place for case suggestions and the merch store. The retro sweatshirt design is iconic, and we love to see sources and transcripts.

Apple Podcasts has 4.7 stars, 107 ratings and 16 written reviews. Music is short and inquisitive. Trigger warnings are included in the show but often cover crimes against children as well as sexual violence.

Similar Pods: “CASEWATCH True Crime Podcast,” “Carolina Crimes” and “Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan”

That’s all for this week, but remember if you want to see the cover art, sources or the written transcript for this episode, be sure to check out the show notes or KCSUFM.com. There you can tell us if you have music you would like played on the show or submit a podcast to be recommended.

You can also send us an email at thmastercastpodlist@gmail.com. This week’s music was a song by Colorado Springs artist Hemlock. The song featured was “Hex.” For more from them, you can find them on Twitter, Instagram and Etsy @HemlockVale and on Soundcloud @Hemlock. Their contact will also be in the show notes.

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Music Attributions:

Artist: Hemlock
Song: Hex
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hemlockvale
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hemlockvale/
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HemlockVale
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/hemlockburn