Karen Kilgariff

“People are realizing that podcasting is special.”

“Every true-crime thing you see goes in with that kind of ominous music and low lighting, so to be able to talk about these things but not have to feel somber about it and not feel guilty that you're not feeling somber about it - I think that's what appeals to me.”

“I want to talk about the things that people don't think you're allowed to talk about.”

“Santa Barbara's gorgeous. It's just a perfect little getaway.”

“I've done stand-up at airport Holiday Inns and that's where you feel like you're doing comedy for people that hate it.”

“We all feel anxious at times and acknowledging that only helps.”

“I think women believed for a long time that it was inappropriate for them to be interested in true crime. It made them judge themselves, or feel weird or ghoulish.”

“True crime is not for everybody.”

“Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.”

“I'm just a deeply jealous person. And I want blame everybody else for what I don't have.”

“I turned down a job when I was broke to the point that I was about to go into foreclosure on my house, but I didn't want to work on the job because of the content of the show.”

“I do love Turner Classic Movies, because I feel like I'm not wasting as much time. I'm almost educating myself if I watch that.”

“I think sometimes it's only by talking about what's really going on that you can make it less scary.”

“We get some great gifts. Trophies, very funny things, one woman even made a diorama of us sitting recording the podcast.”

“Yeah, I mean, I did regular stand-up for a long time. And I did - I stopped doing stand-up when I worked on 'Ellen,' which was for five years. So when I went back to it, I found that, like, regular stand-up didn't really do it for me anymore. It almost felt insincere, like I wasn't saying anything I actually really wanted to say.”

“Two kids riding their bikes to an empty lot? It never ends well.”

“I think people are isolated and really lonely.”

“Any therapist can give you the expertise of their education, but we all know there's that person in our lives that's been like, 'Hey, one time I did this thing,' and that will stay with you for so much longer than the stuff that probably should, because it's from direct experience.”

“I think there are lots of those moments when we meet people - listeners at a meet-and-greet - and they tell us that they've changed their major to forensic science, or criminal justice, or they've become a victim's advocate.”

“I think most people's conversations are as light as they are dark. That's how life is.”