Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
True Crime Has NEVER Been This Funny | The Theo Von of Crime Stories
Sun, 13 Apr 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the story of Carl Tanzler?
I did an episode on a guy named Carl Tanzler who got obsessed with this lady that died of tuberculosis and then he slept with her corpse for 30 years. He stole her body from the graveyard. But the thing that they don't tell you about gay clubs in the bathroom in that place was... Like Mad Max, man. You know that dude playing the guitar that shoots the flames in front?
That's like the bathroom of a gay club. Him being chased through the- Yeah, there's a guy with a ball gag. I walk over and I'm over the shower stall. I don't like the way you talk to me in front of your friends. Baby, please. Baby, please. And listen, everybody in there, humiliated for this guy. So Chase and Kent.
Yeah.
Okay. And you guys do a podcast together.
We just work for the same company and we do a lot of projects together, but he has his thing and I have my thing. And occasionally I go down on him or like whatever he needs. Right. Okay. No, we're just friends. Went sideways. That went bad. No, we have a separate podcast. We're just under the same company.
Okay. Yeah. Let me do my intro, please. Let me just do... Okay. Hey, this is Matt Cox. We're here at PodFest. Fuck off. What'd I say? Where are we? That's fucking close enough. Huh? CrimeCon? Hey. Hey, this is Matt Cox. We're here at CrimeCon, and we are with, I want to say, True Crime Kin. That's it. And... Jimmy.
That's close as shit, yeah.
Or Chase.
Chase, Chase. This is the first crime con we've done, but we've done Horror Hound before, which is like a horror convention. And I'm from Kentucky, so I've got to be very careful with that.
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Chapter 2: What is CrimeCon and what do they do there?
Way longer than I would have.
Yeah. I was going to say, like, as soon as I got a rumble, my tummy started rumbling. I'd have been like.
I'd have been eyeballing people. Sometimes if I'm waiting in line at Hardee's and they're taking too long, I start looking at the thighs of the woman in front of me. And they also ate ass first, which I didn't understand because that's just mainly fat. I would have went backstrap or thigh.
No, no, you have a lot of, in your actual ass cheek, you have a lot of muscle there. Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. It's probably just the people around. I was going to say. We probably hang out with different people, so.
um yeah that was uh that was god that was an amazing that was insane movie um i was what i was thinking about what about that that guy wasn't some guy or was it two guys that had like three women or four women like in their basement or something uh do you remember that one that i mean he kept them alive for i remember that i can't remember the guy's name they were prostitutes he was targeting black prostitutes i believe and then he kept them and then he kept them in the basement in a box actually a little box in the basement do you remember that guy's name i
And one of them got loose. That's how he got caught.
Yeah. Yeah. She was running down the street like naked. Yeah. Fine. And people were ignoring her. And then finally someone decided to stop and help her out. But I can't remember for the life of me what. Then I also had an uncle. They haven't caught him yet, though. Yeah, you have a vastly different. You can see that we kind of span the spectrum where I'm not as funny.
So if you don't have a sense of humor, listen to my podcast. But if you do, listen to his podcast.
It's a lot like Last Podcast on the Left. It's basically a ripoff of Last Podcast on the Left.
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Chapter 3: What inspired Matt to start podcasting?
No, why? Some guy did 20 years or 10 years or got a DD 214. Listen, special privileges don't mean much. It's still prison. You know what I'm saying? It's not like, but here's the thing about the problem with that unit is, is that I would say Pete actually, Pete, my buddy Pete, sorry, I have a buddy in prison. My buddy, Pete was the, the counselor's clerk, right?
And I don't know what the reason is, and I'm not saying anything against the military, but it was packed with shows.
Yeah.
Packed with them. So you've got... So at one point, out of 160 guys, and it didn't have as many... Other units have 180, 190. 150 of them Air Force. Listen... Listen, there was like 30 guys that didn't have show charges. Yeah. So out of 160, 130 had show charges. Wow. What kind of special privileges are you talking about?
Like they might have like a library in there in there, you know, just like a small room with a library or they would have an area where they could watch movies or it was it was quieter. It was much cleaner, much more disciplined. Yeah. A lot of those guys are would be older. And so it was a, listen, I would have moved in that unit. It was quieter. It was cleaner.
Everybody was respectful and they're all chose. I mean, you put me around 130 chose like I'm a fucking gangster. Yeah. I'm a badass in front of a fucking bunch of. Cause they know they're weak. They know they're terrified. They're terrified.
They're some it's you'd be, you would think that the most of them would be kind of like humble and meek and all, or you think all of them would be meek and ashamed. There's a group that will argue with you.
about it that this is that oh yeah that like no well it's been going around for forever if it wasn't for the the government for these laws it's it's draconian it's bullshit like oh if you're in mexico you can marry a 13 year old i don't see what the problem is it's like okay well you're not in mexico and it's not and well in greek in the greek you know back in the back in the roman times or whatever you know in 400 a.d was it was normal to fight we ain't in 480
you know you could we also thought the earth was flat right and you could own slaves you know there's lots of things that were acceptable back yeah but yeah so so they would they'll they're literally they'll argue to to a degree but they're still just they're still just not tough people yeah you know they prey on children so i think a special kind of person to you would get every once in a while you'd get some guy who'd been in the military who'd been through the been a marine and
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Chapter 4: How do they choose true crime stories for their podcast?
Yeah.
So, and I'm sitting there and he goes, listen, bro, this is how this is going to work. He goes, he said... You're going to get me... I forget exactly what he said. I probably said that before, but I might get it wrong. But he's like, you're going to get me $50 in commissary every single month. You understand me? He said, and nobody's going to bother you. I went, yeah? He goes, yeah.
I said, all right. I said, you got a list? And he goes, I ain't playing, man. And I said, bro, I'm not playing either, but what am I going to get you? $50 in commissary. Do you want all soda?
Yeah.
I said, give me a list, bro. And he goes... I ain't joking. I said, I'm not. I said, I hear what you're saying. You have to know what he wants. I said, I need to know what you want. Give me the list and I'll get the commissary for you. And he went, all right, man. I said, do me a favor. I said, make sure you put your cell number on it so I know where to bring it. I don't know where you're at.
And he goes, why? I said, to be honest with you, I said, because when I take the list and I go to the counselor's office, And I walk him back to your cell. I want to know what cell to bring him to so we can discuss how you're trying to extort me for $50 in commissary. And he goes, oh, it's like that? Like that? You're going to snitch on me? That's what you're going to do?
I said, bro, if I didn't pay extortion in the fucking medium, do you think I'm coming to a low filled with a bunch of chosen snitches? I said, to fucking pay? I said, I'm not paying and you're not doing nothing. I said, get the fuck, are you serious? I said, yeah, I'm going to fucking go tell on you. I'm going to fucking tell on everybody. I'm going to snitch you out.
At that point, also, you're probably 40 years old.
It's like, I don't, I've been locked up for three fucking years. Like the camp I was at, first of all. The whole system's filled with fuck. In the federal system, it is absolutely designed to cooperate against other inmates and cooperate against your co-defendants. So one, you got 40%, 40, 50% are chose. The other people that are there are at a low. If 95% of inmates cooperate and you've got
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Chapter 6: How do they handle sensitive topics in their comedy?
I told my wife, don't do it. You're going to get taken. And she's like, nope, I'm going to do it. My friend doesn't. I'm going to do it. And about six months later, I was out seven grand. But it stopped at about seven grand. and you've got a bunch of Lulu products in your, in your, they got me for a pyramid scheme.
This is true. I got busted for a pyramid, not busted. They got me for, it was about $2,000 in 2000. That would have been 2012. I was a Lance corporal at the time. I thought I was going to change my life. It was called, uh, uh, world enterprise. And I don't even, if you ask me what we sold, fuck, I don't know, man, dreams, a lifestyle. That's what it was. Uh, I wish I knew.
And you guys, when I was out, it'd probably work.
It would have worked on me then, but nowadays it would probably still work on me.
Um, and they would go into target and they would approach and say, Hey, I have this mentor and he wants to teach you how to change your life. And he has this book and these classes and they're like, how old are you? Where do you want to be in 10 years? And it was like they were going to sell you this book and they were going to sell you this program.
And it was always like 25-year-old couples just going through Target. Every Target you went to, somebody would come up to you. Hey, I have this mentor. He wants to change your life.
Really?
He wants to change your life.
Now that I'm thinking about it, we might be in a pyramid scheme right now. Have you got paid by Level 59 Media yet?
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges of podcast monetization?
I'm getting out in a couple years. You want me to end up with a murder charge? And so he was like, and Zach said, when we all left, guys are going up saying, man, I'm glad you said something, bro. I didn't even think. I thought. I didn't even know what was going on. I was ready.
Zach was like, yeah, brother. Yeah. How would they have all reacted if he just said it was over two magazines?
that would have been like they think he could yeah they'd be like he thinks he could steal from me like then they said we probably stabbed that probably would have stabbed them yeah that's different like i feel like i don't know that seems like something you should take care of dude Listen, I've got some horrific.
What about the, what about the other story with the, uh, the guy, uh, baby, baby, please, baby, please.
You know what I'm talking about?
I've heard that so many times. This is a baby. So I'm in the medium and there's some massive guys in the medium, right? And I'm in the library. So I'm in sit, sit in the library one day and you know, I'm writing my little, my little stories, uh, And, you know, there's nothing but like a bunch of just, you know, geeky. Like the library is empty in prison. Yeah. In the medium anyway.
At the low, it's packed. But in the medium, not a lot of guys reading. So I'm writing, doing whatever. And there's this gay guy, right? A punk sitting. And the punk's probably six foot tall, but still probably 120 pounds. You know, with her, you know, legs crossed, flipping through a magazine. I mean, we're talking about thin braids all the way down. Like- Genuinely would trick you.
Oh, so like this, you're thinking, you would.
So you're sitting there. So all of a sudden, this guy walks in, this fucking big black guy, six foot two, six three, massive, lives on the rec yard. The punk, is he white or black? No, he's black. Okay. It's 80% of the mediums black guys. So he comes walking in, and he walks up to the punk, and he goes, uh. looks around, and when he looks around, everybody there looks down.
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