Amanda Montell
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1,990 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Amanda Montell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've been to pump paper.
I mean, I am definitely like transfixed in a number of different ways by the deceased bodies preserved in ash.
Well, really, they're kind of molds of bodies.
They're not fossils, but anyways, I also have my limits.
And there are many examples of dark tourism that we'll discuss today that I would never ever ever engage with.
But before we get into those examples and more into like quantifying this.
phenomenon as not just like a freaky thing that exists but actually a cult, we should probably get some definitions out of the way and delve into a bit of history.
Okay, yeah.
So now we're getting into some stuff that does not appeal to me on any level.
But I'm actually now remembering that when I was in high school, I was really obsessed with storm chasers.
Like photographers who will get like really up close to tornadoes.
I would never do it myself, but I was fascinated by those people and what drove them.
Well, it's interesting that you bring up Christopher Columbus because it also gives colonizer vibes.
Because as we'll discuss with our guest David later, most of the people who engage in this type of macabre dark tourism are white patrons, often from the UK or the United States, who go to the Middle East or Africa or Asia and sometimes engage with those.
cultures in pretty vile ways.
Yeah, I mean I can't lie when I like low key bragged just now, weird flex but okay style about going to Pompeii and visiting the operating theater.
It's like why am I proud of that?
I don't
I don't know.
I mean we'll get into unpacking the psychology shortly.
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