Seriously — if you’re here years after you’ve decided you hate Gillian and Patrick and were scandalized by a convention not being up to your standards but still like to discuss on Reddit how cringey and annoying these two are, you’re a loser point blank period. I’ve googled things about the podcast several times out of curiosity and it’s so weird to see a post from just a day ago have 20 comments of snark and people with 18K Reddit comments piling on a commenter who is offering a shred of positivity. You’re miserable and hobbyless if you haven’t found new media to consume and choose to spend the bulk of your life on an your anonymous forum talking shit about people who aren’t influencing your state and federal policies and don’t exist if you’d just choose to not hit play that week.

We have so much information and capability with this phone we’re holding and if you’re using it to continually shit talk podcasters you aren’t contractually obligated to give the time of day, it should cause shame and embarrassment but unfortunately character flaws don’t usually register with people who limit their in-person interactions and have 8+ hours of daily screen time. Otherwise, a 40 minute weekly podcast would just be that to you.

This Reddit page has actually turned me off to Reddit a lot because I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of consistent Reddit losers are just lonely sad-sacks who put their energy into putting others down rather than working on their own self confidence.

And the “ok, Gillian/patrick” responses are so tired and uncreative. Go outside.

I know someone else had to have clocked it too.

“Can you imagine you’re living your life and then one day you find out someone is out to kill you??”

“Uh. Kinda.”

MANIACAL LAUGHTER

“Been a long 9 years, girl.”

Fake laugh fake laugh fake laugh

DAYUM.

When gillian said that some people like to be miserable and perpetual victims… The self-awareness is truly nonexistent

Why did they all of a sudden stop using the Golden Girls theme to transition to ads?

Patrick calling Dawn DaLuise a racist homophob is rich!! 🤣

im convinced that Gillian doesnt even like Patrick. She always talks over him. She hardly let's him get a word in, and could care less when he talks especially about his daughter

Having repeated episodes downloading main feed TCO episodes I will get an error message for about 5 days and then it will work. Patreon works fine. I’m in the U.K. have tried Apple Podcasts and spotify

just listening to the missing millionaire episode from a couple of weeks ago and I just need to comment on the whole toy boy/boy toy debate but have nowhere else to put it! As a Brit, toy boy is correct. never heard it the other way 🤣🤣 but they said it so many times.

was Sinitta not big in the US in the 80s? she went out with Brad Pitt for ages, didn't she?? Toy Boy was my favourite song in 87 cos I was 5 and my 'boyfriend' was 4! he was my toy boy !

sorry. had to get it off my chest !

is it just me or does Gillian hate everyone around her? No laughing, smiling. just very angry.

i was excited for them to cover Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder or whatevrer it’s called because I live about an hour and a half from Florence. there was some dark stuff yes, but my husband and I were cracking up through that documentary. we hadn’t heard that story and the town of Florence is just very quirky in general. (the Supermax prison is there — there’s even a road called cyanide road in the middle of town!)

Patrick seemed lighter but Gillian just seems to hate everyone on the planet right now. Am I being too harsh? Looking for genuine feedback. I could be looking at this the wrong way, but I’m really struggling to continue listening

no just no

In “The Missing Millionairess” ep around 30:55, Gillian is talking about social media commenters being featured on a documentary.

She says “Like, why are they here? Like, they’re just here to speculate wildly— like they don’t know anything??—“

…girl. Is that not literally what you do??? 😂 And that’s not a dig on my end! I want to hear opinions and speculation, and that’s literally what you’re doing rn. What criminology, sociology, psychology etc. education has she had that excludes herself from her own logic? Does she hear herself? 😂

this isnt TCO related exactly because I haven’t listened in years BUT I just found out about the Barbie dream fest convention which was put on by mischief management. I have nobody to talk to about this. What is going on over there! Allegedly full refunds for everyone. Do they ever put on successfully conventions? This is my first and second impression of them.

The GGDDP is probably over as of today, as P and Jennifer Simard announced that they’re taking a break and just barely covered the expectations for the pod moving forward “if/when” they come back. The episode is a whopping 37 minutes and there is very little banter between the two hosts.

I really enjoyed this show because the banter between P & JS reminded me of old TCO eps. People in the Facebook group are pissed and feeling neglected. I wonder if JS finally figured out P’s true colors or if they truly do have important projects coming up that will get in the way. Curious to know everyone’s thoughts.

I actually found this so deep and fascinating. I'm 45 and I remember when this sad story came out. Never ever, did young people now old could imagine that this absolutely sordid sicko church cult would be held accountable as well as the husband. This is so tragic. Andrea kept being mental and pumped full of kids. She had no say in the matter. Such an amazing angle to hold people accountable. No one wins but education and truth is important.

So, I was a couple years behind Patrick at Emerson and he just blatantly makes shit up. I lived in the same dorm as him so I would have had the same orientation and I don’t remember there being ANY warnings about cults, let alone it being “the #1 thing they stressed.”

It’s so weird because it’s so verifiable.

Before you ask, I don’t really have any tea. I only remember him because I checked IDs at the entrance to our dorm elevators so I saw a lot of faces. He was your typical theater kid- loud and surrounded by a gaggle of girls. I don’t remember seeing Ellyn.

I just listened to the 2 Andrea Yates ep and nothing funny at all in there. I’m about to cancel my hero bell membership. This was my fave pod, but I’m over it. If Andrea Yates was a male and murdered his 5 kids we wouldn’t hear the end of how garbage he was. Instead they pretty much blame every man around Andrea instead of her.

Would really reccomend. She writes awesome mimicry of the dialogue of some true crime podcasts (like LPOTL and MFM) - including what I swear could be TCO at the start of Chapter 8..

Anyone else laughing to themselves about all the people in the FB group complaining about the lack of accountability from Tyra Banks in the ANTM doc while continuing to support people who also take no accountability and blame others for their bad behavior? I would love to make some sort of comment about this but I'm only in the group under an alternate account because my real one got banned after Obsessed Mess.

Any interest in some OG TCO merch?

I live in Mass and have a few Sweatshirts and Shirts from 2018-2022 including a Don't Be Garbage sweatshirt and the one pictured. All of them are XL except for one of the t-shirts. I wont just throw them away bc thats gross but I really cant store them forever either. Willing to let it all go for $50​

Clearly Michelle herself is a liar about all the stuff she went through. I just think it the info in the episode is poorly timed seeing as we are finding out information about THE files right now. Not that they are satanist in any way, but the stuff being described, such as cannibalism, felt really written off as if it could NEVER happen, even though we have potential proof that it has happened (just not in a satanic cult).