Shadow Nation

Love Shadow Nation By Shaun Burris! I’m only upset that I didn’t discover this show sooner! Shaun is a GEM with a ton of knowledge. You can tell he is a great researcher, and I appreciate his love for his community of Indianapolis. Amazing story teller with a smooth, easy-to-listen-to, voice. Will be recommending to everyone I know!

I’ve never seen a ghost myself, but when my mom was alive she could always hear people talking and violins playing in the basement of our old farmhouse. I’ve always had a fascination with the creepy and spooky stuff. This podcast is right up my alley! Shaun really brings it home! I don’t know how he gets so many interesting guests on his show; but he really has a fun and professional way of interviewing people, and he always keeps it in the parameters of the weird and paranormal; this is the number one podcast that I listen to. Always looking forward to the next awesome episode!

I don't really believe in the paranormal, but I am enjoying the discussions. It's fun to think of the possibilities and to get the imagination going. Plus, they have great guests on when talking about the TV shows. Just finished up the X-Files show where they talked with Bruce Harwood. It was fun and entertaining.

I've been listening off and on for the past couple of years and every episode makes me think. I'm not a firm believer of the paranormal but I'm not closed off to the idea either and every episode makes me think about wether or not it is true. Also they keep the show interesting and fun, especially with the fart machine.

....but it's a struggle. I appreciate their enthusiasm and rapport, but parts of the podcast can be downright awkward and unlistenable. They have great guests, but its hard to appreciate that when the hosts frequently and almost always talk over each other AND the guest, usually just to make a corny or cringe-worthy joke that just about ALWAYS falls flat. I downloaded a handful of these, and could barely make it through them, finally getting to the point where I just skipped through the hosts' banter and shoddy audio quality just to get to the guest. And that was STILL painful. On the episode I tried listening to this morning, I became so irritated and disgusted with the hosts that I almost deleted it right then and there. The episode in question was with "Cajun medium" Maline LaNoux...if I were her, I would be pretty stinking peeved that through the majority of the interview, neither host could pronounce her first OR last name, even AFTER she repeated it back to them more than once. I couldn't focus on the actual interview bc I couldn't help but note every time this woman was called "Maleece" or "Malee" or even "Malila" (I guess Shaun was confusing her name with previous guest, Kalila Smith?). And don't get me started on her last name. Even after she corrected them, they still said her last name was "LaKnox". And this on top of so many other small mistakes (its Papa Legba, NOT Papa Lugba). And please guys...just bc you are interviewing someone from New Orleans or Louisiana, it DOES NOT mean you need to try and speak in an exaggerated Cajun dialect for the ENTIRE interview. I know all this sounds petty, but these small issues are just compounded by the other issues of the forced laughing, awkward conversation, Shaun's flirting with the female guests (dude, you're the "wild and crazy" one, we get it). I'm honestly not trying to rip these guys apart. I really wanted to enjoy this podcast but after struggling to get through another episode, hoping it would have improved as I got further along, I just find myself mad that I wasted my time.

These guys try to be funny but it comes out as cheesy as their alter egos Ghost Man and Demonhunter? Really? Are we 12 years old still? The humor definitely reflects that age group demo. They get some great guests. How they achieve attaining these guests could be grouped in the same lines of the supernatural and mysterious topics that they cover in their subjects. Do yourself a favor and fast forward past the horrible attempts of stretching out this show to an unbearable hour+, and go to the last 30 or 40 minutes to listen to the guest interviews you have interest in. You cut the pain down dramatically of these two and their babbles.