Tonight's guest is a connoisseur of all things macabre.

She's not elbow deep in viscera. She is one half of a content empire lending her voice and knowledge to a multitude of successful podcasts, one of which was recently ranked the number one podcast in all categories and still sits comfortably in the top five of podcasts in all categories.

The podcaster studio is proud to welcome Alaina Irkhardt. Alaina, hello, how are you? Thank you for joining me.

Hello, thank you for having me. What an introduction. Oh, yes, of course. Well, you know, it's it's due. It's very much due. Thank you. You guys are killing it. How are you feeling? How are you doing?

I'm doing great. It's I know it's been wild. We've never we've never hit that high on the charts and suddenly we got all these notifications and we're like, what happened?

Yeah, no, it's very well deserved. Yeah, I love you guys's podcast. I love your dynamic. Thank you. I obviously have a different dynamic, but me and my co-host are very close and I can feel the natural. It from beginning, it was clear before you guys even explain who you got how you guys relate to each other is like, oh, this isn't like a studio, put these two people together. And there's like, it wasn't like TRL like, oh, yeah, we don't know each other, but we have to be like co-host together.

It's very natural. That's how I feel about you and friend too, because I love your podcast, affirmative murder. Love it. And and that's exactly because you can tell when people are not friends or or they became friends like yesterday and start a podcast or even business partners.

Yeah, a business partner relationship. Yeah, exactly because it's like you have to naturally know like there's just some kind of thing that you know how the other person's going to react or you just know their sense of humor. Yes, you know, something's going to hit with them. You know how to bother them, you know, to get them all worked up. Like I can get ash being like, oh God, I'm going to break like stop. And I'm like, I know.

It is the best. It is the best when you know the person that you're, you know, sparring with, you know, I'm like back your hand, you know, like that. I feel like that's a necessary in communication, you know, it always makes for makes for the best meals, you know.

Yeah, because then it also makes I think like our listeners always say they feel like they're just hanging out and talking with us. And that's what we wanted because that's what we feel like we're just hanging out talking.

And we'll kind of like talk to the audience like, what do you guys think? Just let's know.

I always tell people listening to us is like, if you liked True Crime, but you were digesting it over, you know, a T.G.I. Friday's series of appetizers, you know.

So there's like other stuff happening. There's TVs on with randoms games on and, you know, so we're going to go off and talk about that and stuff.

You know, I always like to let people know like, you know, when you hear your family, like Olive Garden, you know. Yeah, there you go, just like Olive Garden.

Yeah, we are the Olive Garden of podcasts.

That's a perfect way to describe it.

Now, Elena, I would like to start where all stories do, which is the beginning.

Where were you born?

Where was I born? I was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Austin, Massachusetts. Now, what hand would you say did Boston have in shaping who you are?

I would say it had a big hand, actually. I am like a true Massachusetts girl. Like I love Massachusetts.

I don't like to venture out of Massachusetts.

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