Unraveling the Murdaugh Mystery with Valerie Bauerlein

Barely Famous

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week on Barely Famous, Kail sits down with author Valerie Bauerlein to explore her gripping new book, The Devil at His Elbow. They dive deep into the chilling saga of the Murdaugh family, a powerful South Carolina dynasty brought down by corruption, greed, and murder. Together, they discuss the public's fascination with true crime, especially when it involves money and power. Please support the show by checking out our sponsors! Nurture Life: So head to NurtureLife.com and use code FAMOUS for 55% off your first order Nutrafol: For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code FAMOUS Ro: Go to RO.CO/BARELYFAMOUS Memberships start at just $99 for your first month. Medication costs are separate. Posh Peanut: Go to PoshPeanut.com/FAMOUS, and use promo code FAMOUS for twenty percent off your first order. Connect with Valerie on X: https://twitter.com/vbauerlein Link for Book: https://amzn.to/3X3RwdH Barely Famous is hitting the road! Purchase tickets to see Kail live with special guests here: kaillowry.com/events

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0:00.0	This is Bob.
0:02.0	Welcome to the shit show.
0:03.0	Things are going to get weird.
0:04.0	Get your fave villain, Kale Lowry.
0:06.0	And you're listening of Barely Famous Podcast. Today I have Valerie Bower Lane. Am I
0:19.5	pronouncing that correctly? It's borderline. Oh I'm so sorry I didn't say that. No no no. Okay. It's fine. Okay you wrote the
0:26.1	devil at his elbow about the Murdoch murders and I cannot believe how much publicity
0:32.4	this has gotten or or really how it wasn't well known
0:37.2	before it even the murders happened because there's a lot going on here.
0:40.4	There's an awful lot going on here.
0:42.0	Yeah this is your first book.
0:43.0	Tell us about the process of writing it.
0:45.0	So it's my first book and I am a reporter at the Wall Street Journal.
0:49.2	So I went down and I covered the South and I live in North Carolina.
0:52.8	I was familiar with what was happening.
0:54.3	So I went down just a month after the homicides actually and started reporting and
0:59.2	did a story for the Wall Street Journal and then the story went kind of nuts. Everyone was so
1:05.0	interested in it like you said. So I started working on this book three years ago and
1:08.8	Wow! So it took a long time to actually get the book done.
1:12.6	It took a long time.
1:13.4	I talked to more than 200 people.
1:15.1	A lot of people that hadn't talked to other journalists before.
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