Up and Vanished - Jeff Foxworthy talks Up and Vanished

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

Payne sits down with Jeff Foxworthy. Follow our new podcast, Talking to Death for more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The new season premieres this January, and I can assure you this is by far the most intense case I've ever been a part of. In the meantime, between now and January, I'd love for you to check out my new weekly podcast. It's called Talking to Death, where I interview different friends, peers, celebrities, and plenty of other true crime podcasters. I wanted to share a clip with you from the latest episode. I interviewed the hilarious and super talented comedian Jeff Foxworthy,

who, believe it or not, is a huge Up and Vanish fan. We talk about the podcast itself, the cases, what he thinks happened, and you can go listen to the whole thing right now by searching for Talking to Death in your podcast app. I know everyone says this all the time, and it's super annoying. It would be super helpful if you could go subscribe, rate, and review my new weekly show. And to make it worth your while, I'm going to give something cool away to entice you. I'm giving away a brand new podcasting setup that includes pretty much everything I use to record. A brand new RE20 microphone, my favorite Sony Studio headphones, a brand new Zoom H6 recorder, a cloud lifter preamp, you'll have everything. Please go listen to the rest of my new weekly show called Talking to

Death, rate it on your podcast app, leave a review for it, and somewhere in your review put UAV sent me for Up and Vanish. Just UAV sent me. Anywhere in there. Alright, that was a lot. Thank you for real for all your support. Stay tuned for an all new season of Up and Vanish this January. And here's a clip from my interview with the amazing Jeff Foxworthy from my new weekly podcast called Talking to Death. probably two guys in a drunken moment making a bad decision. 100%. That escalates like a snowball down a hill. Yep. Now, so let me ask you this. So from your side of it, when you start pulling that thread, you have no idea if there's going

to be a satisfactory end at the end of it not at all is does that as you're going through it do you think oh crap this may end up being nothing uh i mean you definitely have those moments of i mean it's maddening i'll put it that way it's as a storyteller innately that is maddening to not be in control of the ending in that way yeah but it also it's like a joke without that ending like a joke without a punchline yeah exactly you're doing the whole setup but yeah yeah i've learned over the years that if i can get enough things lined up and avenues to go down, I can see some sort of ending that will be satisfactory at the bare minimum. If I've become convinced that these individuals did this, then I can do as much as I can to prove that.

Well, you know, I mean, I think what you accomplished in that story probably propelled podcasts so far because then people that were listening were like, hell, I might be able to be part of the solution to this yeah but did you ever have trepidation is hey i'm poking a hornet's nest here and this might backfire on me oh a hundred percent i mean when i first started i was like this is pretty scary i shouldn't be doing this why am i poking around sometimes just drive by and shoot me going down yeah but in the headspace i was in though i felt like i had nothing to lose in my life at that point. My mom would probably be like, yeah, your life.

I'm like, yeah, mom, but like my life's not going so well right now. Right. I felt like a failed artist or something. OK. And so I really kind of was willing to take that risk. made because I had a choice then to either hang it up and just let it happen or keep investigating this now that I have two prime suspects to look into and I decided to keep going and I doubled down again and we learned a lot more about oh a lot what really happened and that was a conscious decision that was probably the scariest because now law enforcement was stay

out of my way right thanks but go away now stay out of my way even though the work you were doing kind of got them to the point of being able to make the arrest yeah like we'll take it from here yeah i was like okay and i you know i really i've said this a few places but all the years later when they finally had the trial ryan duke was found not guilty and i was really just blown away that in the five years after these arrests they did really no other work to convict this guy they really just kept the same exact narrative. Like they were too stubborn about it. And every like every detail that we brought up in the podcast and up and vanished that kind of poked a hole in it.

Yeah. So, Hey, that was for you guys to, to, to look at and consider and run with it. I'm not trying to, you know,

damage your case, but that's exactly what the defense did was use that kind of information. That was that they could find on their own, too. Right. It was just the truth. Yeah. I mean, it's yours is a little bit, at least as a comic. I have I have a little more control of how something ends totally you know while we both love a story i get to lead mine more than yours kind of leads you please go listen to the rest of my new weekly show called talking to death rate it on your podcast app leave a review for it and somewhere in your review put uav sent me