What started as a curiosity about a man who spoke about native legends in a courtroom defense, turned into something that dove back and forth between the indigenous and the colonized, the living and the spiritual, the foreign and the personal.
What happens when we don’t hold people to a higher standard when they should be? What happens when the legal system protects those who shouldn’t be protected in a way that damages the whole?
What Edd Hedges spun in this stand-up routine was an analysis of a few very human things, woven around very real and very difficult questions he didn’t want to ask himself. Through these episodes Tovay forces the questions he knows he has to answer.
A podcast like this could lean into the drama, and I know Australian law is preventing some of that, however, I am sure there still could be something more injected. They don't, and I find it to be an excellent balance between intrigue, mystery, and respect.
This is a great podcast for someone looking for a thoughtful mystery to follow, that isn't too much in the way of gruesome, but full of intrigue and suspense.
