Monique LaBorde
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121 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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A little bit about what this looks like in practice is that in the pre interview, we explain what the process is going to look like. We talk to them about the options of keeping it anonymous or using their name, which is every storyteller's choice. Of course, if you use your name, your burden of documentation to provide is higher.
When we're on the pre-interview, I encourage everyone to talk with their family and friends as they're deciding if they want to tell this story. And we let them know in that first call that we're going to request documentation as part of the legal review.
And then once they consider all of that, if they want to participate and we think that their story is the right fit for the show, then we move on with an interview. I tell everyone, basically, you're in control of what you say, starting from here. If I ever ask you anything that you don't want to answer, you don't have to answer it.
In fact, what I want most is for them to close their laptop that day, feeling like they are proud of how they represented themselves and not feeling like they disclosed anything that they're going to stay awake at night worrying about. Sometimes we do the interview in two sittings, especially if someone is feeling really emotional. We might break and come back another day.
In terms of if someone's ready to tell their story, I don't think of crying as something that is a bad sign. I'm a crier. I cry almost every day. I am too. So it's fine. You are? Yeah. I cried earlier today. Great. So it doesn't mean that the person isn't ready to tell their story. I really trust them when they tell me, I want to do this.
And of course, most of our stories come from people who wrote into us, and we are never pushing anyone into telling a story. We're not in the business of convincing people to tell these stories.
After I do the interviews, then Dre, you come in and we work together with our associate producer, Caitlin Golden, to shape the stories. So do you want to take it from here and talk a little bit about what happens once we start shaping the stories? Yes.
And then once we have the finished product, this is something I really love about Betrayal Weekly that many, many shows do not do. We send the episode to the guest before it's released. Yeah. And we want them to do a fact-checking pass, but we also want them to do a red flag pass.
If something came out in the interview that would really make them feel extremely uncomfortable, would make a material impact in their daily life if it were to go out and they don't want it to run, We respect people's feedback on that and we work with them to change it before it goes out. Like I'm thinking of the example of Stephanie. Episode one. Right.
Who was the storyteller in our first two episodes. She had read out loud some of the captions her husband or ex-husband wrote online under photos of her. And when she heard it back out loud in her own voice, she said... I don't want that out there. Yeah. And so we revised it so that you read it in your narration and she was okay with that. It wasn't that she didn't want it to be known.
It's that hearing her own voice say it was so uncomfortable for her. And that was a small fix that was easy for us to do.
Yeah. And this is something that I don't see in other podcasts. I've never worked on a show that has allowed the storyteller to hear the episode before it goes out. I think there's this idea that if you do that, then the person's not going to like it. They're going to have a bunch of changes. And I have to say, in the 32 episodes we made, that maybe only happened once or twice.
And then we worked through it. Right. And so it actually was more rewarding than it was difficult. Because at the end of the day, I can know the day that it goes out that the person whose story this is, is happy with the story. Yeah. Right.
It's actually pretty easy to give people a chance to review the content and just at the very least to familiarize themselves with it before it goes out and other people start reaching out to them on strangers on the internet hear it because it sounds so different when it's the episodes all produced than what the raw interview sounded like. Yeah. Let's take a quick break.
And then when we come back, I have a few more of our most commonly asked listener questions.
All right, we're back. And I have a few more of the most commonly asked questions we get. And then a little later on, we are going to get to questions about specific episodes.
All right, Dre, another frequently asked question we have is how do you decide which episodes are two parts and which are only one part? This is such a good question.
Yeah, a lot of times it's dictated by how much good tape we have. Like with Hannah, a lot of good tape. And it's hard to pare that down.
And sometimes you just don't want to sacrifice it. And that's why. And I think that's a big part of what our audience likes about this show is that we're not just focusing on the true crime and this happened and that happened and the body buried in the basement and him, you know. But I think a big part of the betrayal listenership
They're here because they're getting something out of these real people's stories. All right. The last question that we have gotten a lot of, in fact, probably the most common question we get in our inbox, in our reviews. Do you know what it's going to be? Ads? Yes. Why are there so many ads on your podcast? I don't know what to say, guys.
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