91 - This Isn’t Even a Prison Rape Taunt, This Is Straight Up a Holding Cell Rape Taunt (S10E20 Crush)

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01/17/22 • 84 min

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Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast

Faced with an episode with a helluva third act left turn, Adam and Josh reckon with a first-half A-plot borrowing heavily from the Terri-Rick saga in Degrassi before the second half shockingly grasps for a ripped-from-the-headlines story with a crooked juvenile court judge inspired by the nefarious goings-on in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. This leads to an exploration of both the Luzerne County Kids for Cash scandal and the grotesque systemic judicial overreach currently happening in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
Don’t worry, Josh and Adam find plenty of non-infuriating things to talk about, including the bizarre connection between Melinda McGraw and Alex Kingston, delightfully impossible photoshopping, Icelandic reproduction clearance apps, Lehman Brothers tearing the US economy to shreds, the origins of sexting, what other franchise Stuckey really belonged in instead of SVU, and (of course) Meloni’s rock-hard buns.
Come get some.
Sources:
Kids for Cash documentary - Kids for Cash - https://kidsforcashthemovie.com/
Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge. - ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist
Music:
Divorcio Suave "Munchy Business"
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90 - We've Got Her Blooded, We Need to Shoot This Fast (S15E21 Post-Mortem Blues)

6 Recommendations

Josh and Adam get a little loose in this late-night follow-up to last week's wild William-Lewis-fueled terror ride. Since "Post-Mortem Blues" is the rare SVU without a case for the squad to investigate (or really much of a plot at all), the Munchie boys complain about life and then wander from current* events and HBO's Succession to method acting and the limits of attorney-client privilege on their way to placing this episode where it belongs in the show's canon.
*as of December 2021
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Divorcio Suave - “Munchy Business”
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...These Are There Stories
- Adam - http://www.lawandorderpodcast.com/podcast-episodes/sick
- Josh - http://www.lawandorderpodcast.com/podcast-episodes/plastic
Both of us on FMWL Pod
- 1st Time - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1679521/9271395
- 2nd Time - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1679521/10596164
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92 - She Kind of Gets Mind-Raped by the Hawk (S21E8 We Dream Of Machine Elves)

5 Recommendations

This week we watched an episode unlike any other SVU in the catalog. A young girl from Kansas is abandoned by her Fireball-shooting friends, drugged with exotic psychedelics, raped, and forced to dig her own physical and metaphorical grave by the acolytes of a famed radical psychologist who just so happens to have been SVU's own resident Alice-In-Wonderland-expert Amanda Rollins's former guru. Between blue rape avatars, expensive music cues, and extensive literary references, things get pretty weird. This, of course, is all just fuel for the Munch fire as Josh and Adam discuss the hero's journey; pedicab culture; early 20th century Swedish folklore illustrator, John Bauer; famed ethnobotanist and drug user, Terrence McKenna; famed memoirist and sex haver, Anaïs Nin; and whether or not we're too old to pick up trendy new drug habits. This is a wild ride folks. Hold on tight!
Sources:
DMT - PsychonautWiki - https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DMT
Terrence McKenna's Last Trip - Wired - https://www.wired.com/2000/05/mckenna/
John Bauer's Illustrations - WikiArt - https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-bauer
Music:
Divorcio Suave - “Munchy Business”
Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon!
Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson
Follow us on:
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Adam’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/atschwitters
Josh’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/oldmanduggan
Check out Munch Merch: https://www.zazzle.com/store/munchmybenson
Check out our guest appearances on:
...These Are There Stories
- Adam - http://www.lawandorderpodcast.com/podcast-episodes/sick
- Josh - http://www.lawandorderpodcast.com/podcast-episodes/plastic
Both of us on FMWL Pod
- 1st Time - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1679521/9271395
- 2nd Time - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1679521/10596164
Chick-Lit at the Movies - https://www.spreaker.com/user/14744598/the-thin-man-munchie-boys-final
Visit Our Website: https://www.munchmybenson.com/
Email the podcast: [email protected]
Next Week's Episode: Season 13, Episode 6 "True Believers"
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