I’m late, like two months late, but let’s pick up where we left off and keep going.
For the last couple of years, I’ve been more into radio than television; I’d rather have something I can turn on and listen too while I do other things rather than something I have to watch. I still love a good movie or retro TV show episode from time to time, but I listen to a lot of podcasts these days more than I watch TV, and since I used to watch a lot of true crime TV shows, I like to listen to True Crime Podcasts.
I was listening to Casefile True Crime the other day, and they were running an ad (oh, yeah, podcasts ads tend to be a lot less disruptive than TV ads) for this fake true crime podcast called This Sounds Serious. That intrigued me enough to listen to the first episode, and I was hooked.
Warning: the following synopsis may contain spoilers for the first three episodes of the show.
This Sounds Serious follows a podcaster as they investigate the mysterious death of Chuck Bronstadt, a local weatherman down in Florida who’s famous in his community. You would think that a man drowning in his waterbed would be an accidental death but apparently suspicion was cast on his twin brother, Daniel Bronstadt.
Gwen Radford, our intrepid protagonist-slash-investigative podcast, might spend a little too much time listening to 9-1-1 calls. She might be the only person on planet earth who cares about the fact that 9-1-1 calls are public record. For the most part, the 9-1-1 calls I listen to in the other podcasts are definitely the part that drags the most. So listening to Daniel’s ADD 9-1-1 call was a hilarious change.
Gwen becomes obsessed with Daniel’s phone call to Emergency services and decides to go talk to Daniel, down in Florida. This sounds like a bad idea, but as it turns out once Gwen gets to talk to him, Daniel Bronstadt is a seemingly harmless and rather eccentric nut. Born into a loving family, had his parent die as a teenager, and then raised by his grandparents. He and his twin brother got up to the usual identical twin shenanigans: pretending to be each other, starting a band, pranking people.
Things take a turn for the sour between the brothers when Chuck gets married, settles down, and goes to meteorology school. Daniel pretends to be his brother and spends a weekend with his brother’s wife, which pretty much ends the marriage.
Daniel goes to join a cult at some point during his brother’s marriage. The cult of the Mandala wanted to resurrect the lost city of Atlantis, but, as it turns out, the cult leader just wanted people to give him money, so he started a cult that Daniel ending up joining.
The podcast is still in-progress but I predict that the outcome at the end of the show will be that either this is some lucid dream that Gwen is having, or that Chuck has been pretending to be Daniel the whole time so that he could escape the stress of everyday life and Daniel is the one who got killed. But I’ll stay tuned and see what developed, and if you like true crime podcasts, or humor podcasts, or humor and true crime, I urge you to tune in. You won’t be disappointed.
Click here for the This Sounds Serious website where you can listen to it for yourself.
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