The Ugly Truth | 6
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After his encounter with the ghost hunters, Tristan continues his paranormal quest by meeting with a series of psychic mediums. He doesn’t take them too seriously until he meets a strange, quiet man who seems to know more than he should about the night Naomi died. Tristan is shaken but decides it’s finally time to tell his in-laws everything that he has learned about Feyther.
Listener note: This episode contains descriptions of violence and suicide.
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It's very revealing how the family discusses this story. They don't care about what happened to Naomi, the pioneering doctor who helped mothers and infants. They don't care about the brother, the actual war hero. They just want their family lore to stay intact about Faither, the proven serial liar.
no, you're not crazy. there's too much that doesn't make sense. foremost for me is the extreme rarity of people slitting their own throats. also, father's perpetually loving and upbeat bulletins could also be a symptom of a narcissistic personality. sure, there is no "hard" evidence, but there's enough that doesn't make sense for any reasonable family to rethink their patriarch's role in their history. and it may not be all-or-nothing; the truth could be somewhere in the middle.
if I was the podcaster I would run a mile from the whole family. Full of narcissists. as soon as anything looks to go against the family name they just want the whole thing to be dropped.
I struggled to get through the previous episode because as much as the family DON'T want it to be Faither, it feels like the host - despite his protestations otherwise - is too readily convincing himself (and therefore likely the audience also) that Faither DID do it. But all the evidence is circumstantial, and there's just no way to make a conclusive judgement either way imo. And frankly, applying Occam's razor, murder-suicide seems more likely
I think it's a good story. I have nothing to compare it to. I'm just starting Podcasts..