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Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast

By Munch My Benson

Munch My Benson, the seminal SVU podcast, is the twisted spawn of co-hosts Adam Schwitters and Josh Duggan, celebrating the splendid and often wildly inappropriate lunacy found only on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Each week The Randomizer spits out a new episode, and they dive deep into the heinous murk before rating it in terms of overall quality, guest star performances, the degree to which the episode was problematic (the more, the better), and the depth and breadth of lives ruined (more=better). So come along for a wild ride through the uproarious darkness of the Dickwolfiverse.
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100 - This Is a Hot Scene, Double Entendre Implied (S8E8 Cage)

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU PodcastMar 21, 2022

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129 - Man, This One Really Suffers from My Own Special Victims Unit Derangement Syndrome (S4E23 Grief)

129 - Man, This One Really Suffers from My Own Special Victims Unit Derangement Syndrome (S4E23 Grief)

Elliot meets another father of a daughter, only the other father's daughter just died in an alley having just been sodomized and humiliated, meaning there's some sympathy pain for Stabes to experience. These fathers are both on a tear, and it's hard to say who does more damage in this one. Needless to say, if Stabler’s getting reprimanded by Cabot for helping a suspect, things are topsy-turvy in Dadland. Of course, this being Munch My Benson means there are tangents, including what kind of bets a college kid could have made to dig himself a $5K hole on the 2003 Super Bowl and a dive into the NYPD's heinous brutality done unto Abner Louima, so hold onto your butts.

Sources:

Abner Louima - Wikipedia

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Barry W, Karen D, Sara L, Miriam J, Drew D, Meghan M, Nicky R, Stuart, Jacqi B, and Natalie T - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 17, Episode 4 "Institutional Fail"

Oct 10, 202201:22:58
128 - She's Breastfeeding Every Child in the Waiting Room (S7E15 Manipulated)

128 - She's Breastfeeding Every Child in the Waiting Room (S7E15 Manipulated)

This episode of SVU is so goddamn fun, guys. Rebecca De Mornay (no, not from the homeless shelter) hatches possibly the most outlandish plot ever devised on network television involving implanted mouth semen and Special Forces assassins, all to ensure that her milquetoast husband only ever has eyes for her. Wild stuff. Obviously there is a TON of stuff to talk about including the 1951 Academy Awards, the unionization of Strip Clubs, Lethal Weapon, the greater Shermerverse, the Bronx Zoo, and the future of this podcast. This is an episode to enjoy with your entire family--provided, of course, that they are down to listen to detailed discussions of the half-life of jizz loads. Special thanks go out to my other favorite Rebecca De Mornay, Sonya Eddy, who has sadly never performed in a Law & Order franchise.

Sources:

‘Strippers are standing up’: Los Angeles dancers move to unionize with actors group - The Guardian

No Justice: A Working Girl's Guide to Labor Organizing in the Sex Industry - Lusty Lady Theater Co-Owners

The Exotic Dancers Union - Working Class History Podcast

Live Nude Girls Unite! - Amazon Prime Video

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy  S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, Diana R, Tony  B, Zak B, Barry W, Karen D, Sara L, Miriam J, Drew D, Meghan M, Nicky  R, Stuart, Jacqi B, and Natalie T - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 4, Episode 23 "Grief"

Oct 03, 202201:26:54
127 - His Olfactory Detection Is Disgusting (S17E2 Criminal Pathology)

127 - His Olfactory Detection Is Disgusting (S17E2 Criminal Pathology)

Picking up where we left off last week, things get even Durstier as ME/murderer Carl Rudnick jumps bail, leaving the Unit in his dust, making a break for the border, and giving us as close as we’re going to get to an SVU/Midnight Run mash-up. And of course, Rollins needs to keep being the Clarice to Yates's Hannibal, so he can smell how pregnant she is. Unlike a lot of two-parters, this one’s actually a lot of fun, with anything from Rollisi’s cholesterol-hardened livers and Buffalo fair game to be cut into on the slab.

Sources:

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst - HBOMax

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, Diana R, Tony B, Zak B, Barry W, Karen D, Sara L, Miriam J, Drew D, Meghan M, Nicky R, Stuart, and Jacqi B - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 7, Episode 15 "Manipulated"

Sep 26, 202201:24:42
126 - Adam’s Corpse Power Rankings (S17E1 Devil's Dissections)

126 - Adam’s Corpse Power Rankings (S17E1 Devil's Dissections)

In Part 1 of an epic double-episode of SVU, we see Rollins Clarice-it-up with the truly disgusting serial killer Dr Greg Yates, whilst ME Rudnick Robert-Durst's-it-up in a shocking series of ante-mortem dismemberment murders. Along the way, we talk about State Fair fare, address justified criticisms of the podcast, and debate whether or not serial killers have a peculiar sense of smell. The Patreon curious will want to join up to hear a particularly detailed discussion of Nick Amaro's west coast job prospects.

Sources:

'Psychopaths' have an impaired sense of smell - ScienceDaily

What You Need to Know About Hyperosmia - Cleveland Clinic

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst - HBOMax

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy  S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D  Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Barry W, Karen D, Sara L,  Miriam J, Drew D, Meghan M, Nicky R, Stuart, and Jacqi B - y’all are the  best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 17 Episode 2 "Criminal Pathology"

Sep 19, 202201:18:33
125 - THIS Liv Owns These Boots (S11E12 Shadow)

125 - THIS Liv Owns These Boots (S11E12 Shadow)

What happens when a super rich girl gets cut off after her umpteenth parentally funded business venture fails? Well, since this is SVU, a grisly double homicide hastily staged to look like a murder-suicide, followed in short order by a slew of hits taken out on the Unit after they ignore Sarah Paulson/Anne Gillette's extreme white privilege, and an off-the-books massive undercover fake jailbreak operation against Cragen's explicit orders that they were all off the case.

There's also plenty of class warfare, crapping on abstract art, and multiple undercover ops, one of which includes Liv domming out on a bootlicking blue blood. And don’t worry, this still opens plenty of doors to vanish through, so if you want to know how abstract art got funded, and what nefarious organization was doing it, look no further than this episode of Munch My Benson.

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Emily L, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Jessica W, Barry W, Karen D, Madelin K, Sara L, Miriam J, Drew D, Meghan M, Nicky R, Stuart, and Jacqi B - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 17 Episode 1 "Devil's Dissections"

Sep 12, 202201:23:54
124 - Was He Blue-Balled Then Blackballed, or Was It the Other Way Around? (S17E15 Collateral Damages)

124 - Was He Blue-Balled Then Blackballed, or Was It the Other Way Around? (S17E15 Collateral Damages)

Sure, this SVU spends a lot of time presupposing that we are heavily invested in the lives of minor recurring characters, but it also introduces us to a delightfully crass BBQ slinger with a penchant for lewd double entendres and forces us to go down all kinds of wild Munchian rabbit holes. Does Rollins have a separate person for her vacations at clothing-optional, adult-only all-inclusives? What scandals have engulfed the world of professional canoeing? Is Adam capable of surviving as a single parent for more than a week? Did we just watch an extra torpedo a "career" in background acting for the chance at one pay bump? This is definitely one for the Munchie-curious as a full 45 minutes of banter about Josh's concert going, Lucas Duda, and the Yiddish language (among many, many other things) had to be left on the cutting room floor. Enjoy!

Sources:

Her Husband Did the Unthinkable. This Is a Play About Everything After. - The New York Times

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy  S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Emily L, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D  Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Jessica W, Barry W, Karen D, Madelin K, Sara L,  Miriam J, Drew D, Meghan M, Nicky R, Stuart, and Jacqi B - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 11 Episode 12 “Shadow”

Sep 05, 202201:16:10
123 - Not as Stiffed as Charmaine Was (S16E16 December Solstice)

123 - Not as Stiffed as Charmaine Was (S16E16 December Solstice)

What happens when SVU drops a fading Norman Mailer analog into a Ripped-from-the-Headlines family drama with his daughters pitted against his new wife, who the daughters think is sending dear ol' dad to an early grave by way of force-fed Viagra? Rectal probe electroejaculation and lewd talk of stiff varnished eels, obviously. We watched a May/December romance as December gave way to January, and it found a way to delight and disgust in equal measures.

Source:

Taking Care - BarsonAddict at FanFiction.net

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Emily L, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Jessica W, Barry W, Karen D, Madelin K, Sara L, Miriam J, Drew D, Meghan M, Nicky R, and Stuart - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode:  Season 17 Episode 15 “Collateral Damages”

Aug 29, 202258:42
122 - Bikram Bong Rip Class (S16E22 Parents' Nightmare)
Aug 22, 202201:08:52
121 - She Comes from a Good Family, She Eats Legumes (S1E4 Hysteria)

121 - She Comes from a Good Family, She Eats Legumes (S1E4 Hysteria)

In a return to randomness after last week's Munchies' Choice, the Munchie Boys were thrown back into the pre-historical realm of Season 1, where SVU was still trying to figure out what it was. "Hysteria" was the franchise's first foray into the world of serial rapists/killers and sex workers, and given what we've seen thus far in Season 1, it's fair to assume that these subjects are handled, ummm, indelicately.

Don’t worry, there’s also tons of weird stuff like improbable shoe detective work, random doctors prescribing self-administered hot meat injections, the trans/cis sex workers’ turf wars of this universe leading Adam to look into the history of Times Square, both the Def-Leppard-related and non-Dep Leppard-related past of the diagnosis of hysteria, and real-life Vice cops going down in brothel busts. This one is wild in the ways you want an SVU to be.

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Emily L, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Jessica W, Barry W, Karen D, Madelin K, Sara L, Miriam J, Drew D, Meghan M, and Nicky R - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 16, Episode 22 “Parents' Nightmare”

Aug 15, 202201:23:33
120 - A Hostage Situation, but for the Viewers (S19E13 The Undiscovered Country)

120 - A Hostage Situation, but for the Viewers (S19E13 The Undiscovered Country)

***Munchies' Choice***

When we asked our Patrons to select an episode for us to watch, we were asking for a choice as depraved and cruel as this, the episode that see beloved ADA Rafael Barba exit the show in ridiculous (and frankly, insulting) fashion. This episode has everything--if by 'everything' you mean bad acting, nonsensical writing, bizarre plot holes, and Phillip Winchester attempting to cry. Bad though this episode might be, we have so much to talk about including whether or not it's a good idea to rear a spite child, Adam's day at the museum, and the importance of a showrunner. Fans of our digressions should head over to Patreon to hear extensive deep dives into Japanese Onsen culture and minor league baseball.

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Emily L, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Jessica W, Barry W, Karen D, Madelin K, Sara L, Miriam J, Drew D, Meghan M, and Nicky R - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 1, Episode 4 "Hysteria"

Aug 08, 202201:25:01
119 - No, Rollins Is a Tactile Detective (S19E18 Service)

119 - No, Rollins Is a Tactile Detective (S19E18 Service)

Why does Rollins hate sex workers? Why is Wayne Knight only in this episode for two minutes? Why did they commit zero screen time to showing why the perp did what he did? Why did they rip this story from the headlines to inelegantly wedge trans rights into the final third of the show? We watched "Service" from Season 19, and ideally there would be answers to all of those questions, but the Season 19 qualifier is all you actually need to know. There may not be answers to your questions. Such is life in Season 19 of SVU.

Sources:

Tweets on Transgender Military Servicemembers - Harvard Law Review

Biden reverses Trump ban on transgender people in military | AP News

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Emily L, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Jessica W, Barry W, Karen D, Madelin K, Sara L, Miriam J, Drew D, Meghan M, and Nicky R - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: ***Munchies' Choice*** Season 19, Episode 13 “The Undiscovered Country”

Aug 01, 202201:14:31
118 - They Weren't Coming Back to Locutus (S21E20 The Things We Have To Lose)
Jul 25, 202201:11:38
117 - I Can’t Imagine What the S&P Call for This Episode Was Like (S7E6 Raw)

117 - I Can’t Imagine What the S&P Call for This Episode Was Like (S7E6 Raw)

Sometimes an SVU really does the racism. Then there's S7E6 Raw, which for an unfathomable 20:51 unfurls bigotry at an astonishing rate--an average of once every 23 seconds. And it doesn't even start until past the 16-minute mark. They pack so much hate into this episode that it left Adam and Josh dumbfounded.

We've also got Marcia Gay Harden back which means: a) bodies will drop, b) Stabler will get hurt, and c) maximum Foghorn Leghorning. This episode does the racism with such reckless abandon that you'd be hard-pressed to come up with an episode of television (network or cable, frankly) that did it more. Hold onto your butts, everyone. You're in for a real shocker.

Sources:

The Fig Shake Universe - by Storyteller1985 at FanFic.net

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Emily L, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Jessica W, Barry W, Karen D, Madelin K, Sara L, Miriam J, and Drew D - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 21, Episode 20 “The Things We Have To Lose”

Jul 18, 202201:29:51
116 - Paperboy Is Housing a Bird (S5E16 Home)
Jul 11, 202201:04:49
115 - Give Someone Diabetes by Making Them Beer Bong Apple Juice for 15 Takes (S12E10 Rescue)

115 - Give Someone Diabetes by Making Them Beer Bong Apple Juice for 15 Takes (S12E10 Rescue)

In a true whirling dervish of an episode that turns the audience around and around, we start at a "kick-ass loft party," careen into a sexual predator in an ambulance, and end up back where the B-plot started with Calvin courtesy of his mother filching jewelry from a different crime scene. "Rescue" (S12E10) takes us everywhere. Along the way, we touch on improbable sampling of large members, insane PowerPoint presentations, and the Duke faux sex thesis controversy. This one goes to some weird places.

Sources:

2010 Duke University Faux Sex Thesis Controversy - Wikipedia

What’s the average penis size? Probably smaller than you think - Michael Martin, ro.com

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Emily L, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Jessica W, Barry W, Karen D, Madelin K, Sara L, Miriam J, and Drew D - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 5, Episode 16 “Home”

Jul 04, 202201:29:14
114 - Rollins Was About to Take a Tumble in the Back of a Hearse (S14E10 Presumed Guilty)
Jun 27, 202201:09:48
113 - You Can Really Tell that Dean Porter Wanted to Take Liv’s Basal Temperature with His Meat Thermometer (S11E6 Spooked)

113 - You Can Really Tell that Dean Porter Wanted to Take Liv’s Basal Temperature with His Meat Thermometer (S11E6 Spooked)

Ever wonder what would happen when Benson, Stabler, and the Unit get tangled up in an investigation that sends them looking into the Gulf Cartel, the FBI, Los Zetas, the CIA, and Cuban revolutionaries? Well, wonder no longer because this time around we are diving in to Season 11, Episode 6 "Spooked" featuring Vincent Spano reprising the role of FBI Special Agent Dean Porter. It starts with the SVU version of the Wet Bandits finding a pair of staged corpses with a rape tree and some stolen implants in the back of a box truck and just gets stranger from there. It may not make sense, but “Spooked” is a helluva nonsensical fever dream.

Sources:

Gulf Cartel - Wikipedia

Inside Mexico’s ‘Holy Death’ Cult - by Evgeny Lebedev, GQ, August 31, 2020

Music:

Divorcio Suave - “Munchy Business”

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Emily L, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Jessica W, Barry W, Karen D, Madelin K, Sara L, and Miriam J - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Follow us on: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit (Adam’s Twitter and Josh’s Twitter)

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: …These Are There Stories (Adam and Josh), both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time) and Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 14, Episode 10 “Presumed Guilty”

Jun 20, 202201:26:11
112 - Warner Always Checks the Junk at the Scene (S9E10 Snitch)

112 - Warner Always Checks the Junk at the Scene (S9E10 Snitch)

In the course of watching 112 episodes of SVU, few things have shocked us as much as seeing the writers of this show take a measured and nuanced approach to not one, but two decidedly problematic issues in polygamy and female genital mutilation. That these both appear in an episode that gives screen time to topics including "stop snitching" culture, tide charts, epilepsy, and one of Elliot Stabler's former flings means there was a whole lot to discuss. The true die hards will want to check out our Patreon for an extended history of the Biafran War from Adam, Josh going full on Rage Against The Machine, and the two of us nearly coming to blows over the availability of liquor stores in southern Utah. There is way too much fun/dumb stuff in this one folks!

Sources:

Polygamy In West Africa: West Africa Brief

History Of Nigeria: Wikipedia

Snitches Get Stitches: Pace Law Review

New York Crime Rates 1960-2019 - Disaster Center

Polygamy is rare around the world and mostly confined to a few regions - Stephanie Kramer, December 7, 2020, Pew Research Center

Carmelo Anthony In The Stop Snitchin' Video: Youtube

Few Choices In Shielding of Witnesses - David Kocieniewski, October 28, 2007 New York Times

Music:

Divorcio Suave - “Munchy Business”

Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Pedro H, Amy Z, Emily L, Nikki B, Louise M, Whitney C, D Reduble, Tony B, Zak B, Jessica W, Barry W, Karen D, and Madelin K - y’all are the best!

Be a Munchie, too! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/munchmybenson

Check out Munch Merch: Munch Merch at Zazzle

Check out our guest appearances on: Adam on the most recent …These Are There Stories, both of us on FMWL Pod (1st Time & 2nd Time), and both of us on Chick-Lit at the Movies

Visit Our Website: Munch My Benson

Email the podcast: munchmybenson@gmail.com

Next Week’s Episode: Season 11, Episode 6 "Spooked"

Jun 13, 202201:27:15
111 - Dylan McKay: Rapist (S10E1 Trials)

111 - Dylan McKay: Rapist (S10E1 Trials)

Jun 06, 202201:36:33
110 - It's Not a Gay Cowboy Orgy, Probably... (S11E18 Bedtime)
May 30, 202201:23:37
109 - Not Buffalonian, Ruffalonian (S15E16 Gridiron Soldier)
May 23, 202201:23:19
108 - How Long Is It Going to Take O'Halloran to Wash the Dumpster Off? (S5E20 Lowdown)
May 16, 202201:26:02
107 - You Take Your Pension and Open up a Jet Ski Dealership (S15E2 Imprisoned Lives)

107 - You Take Your Pension and Open up a Jet Ski Dealership (S15E2 Imprisoned Lives)

Well, we've got ourselves another Mo-Mo incident in Times Square...

Needlessly picking up right from the smoldering wreckage of Liv freeing herself from her captor William Lewis by way of bludgeoning her captor with an iron bar, we get a stark ripped-from-the-headlines episode delving into the infamous Ariel Castro case. Kidnapping victims are held in cages in the basement and raped for decades, and Liv's PTSD is still very real. This episode dwells in darkness. That doesn’t mean the Munchie Boys have to, though, as the discussion veers into off-brand Muppets knockoffs, the ineptitude of the Cleveland Police Department, where Cassidy ranks on Benson’s loves of her life, and the hazards of dialogue directed at people named “Buddy” reading in different ways.

Sources:

How Ariel Castro Remained at Liberty in Cleveland All These Years - Michael Daly, The Daily Beast

Michelle Knight’s ‘normal teenage life,’ plagued by troubles in years before disappearance - Leila Atassi, Cleveland Plain Dealer

Psychic on The Montel Williams Show said Amanda Berry was dead. She wasn’t. - Emily Senger, Maclean’s

Ariel Castro sentencing memorandum filed by prosecutors - Peter Krouse, Cleveland Plain Dealer

Music:

Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"

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Next Week’s Episode: Season 5, Episode 20 "Lowdown"

May 09, 202201:13:41
106 - She's Summoning the Monolith (S15E1 Surrender Benson)
May 02, 202201:22:49
105 - Oh, They’ll Sexualize Anyone in a Really Terrible Way (S14E24 Her Negotiation)
Apr 25, 202201:22:42
104 - Did You Put On Your Father's Underwear When You Wanted To Feel Special? (S1E5 Wanderlust)
Apr 18, 202201:36:34
103 - You Gotta Give People Some Cold Cucumber Water While You Rub Their Joint Down (S14E22 Poisoned Motive)

103 - You Gotta Give People Some Cold Cucumber Water While You Rub Their Joint Down (S14E22 Poisoned Motive)

This week, The Munchie Boys tackle a Finisode preoccupied with unpacking Fin's history while an undercover with Narcotics, more than a decade after the fact. Rollins gets improbably shot, which leads to an unhealthy dose of police brutallity and metaphorical prison rape threats, but that's not nearly as shocking as some truly disturbing home-decor-driven revelations upon meeting a seemingly normal family with a secret left unspoken.

Alexandra Eames also pops up in this episode, which means there’s a little bit of Criminal Intent’s history to deal with, and there are a ton of guest stars with SUPER WEIRD backgrounds which lead us to speaking about whether bands could have been around to have songs on the Iron Eagles II soundtrack, bathing beauty contests, Carmelo Anthony’s very public and extremely inconsiderate birthday present to his wife, and another truly wild IMDb self-penned biography. This one starts wild and ends wilder in ways you wouldn’t have predicted.

Music:

Divorcio Suave - “Munchy Business”

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Next Week’s Episode: Season 1, Episode 5 “Wanderlust”

Apr 11, 202201:33:13
102 - Schizophrenic Pantene Commercial (S5E6 Coerced)
Apr 04, 202201:18:38
101 - Did You See Amaro in that Towel? (S15E22 Reasonable Doubt)

101 - Did You See Amaro in that Towel? (S15E22 Reasonable Doubt)

Mar 28, 202201:25:24
100 - This Is a Hot Scene, Double Entendre Implied (S8E8 Cage)

100 - This Is a Hot Scene, Double Entendre Implied (S8E8 Cage)

It's our 100th episode of Munch My Benson, and what better way to celebrate than with an episode of Law & Order: SVU that does not have Olivia Benson in it at all. In classic fashion, The Randomizer threw us a curveball and drew a Beckisode fronted by Connie Nielsen for our milestone podcast which features a stand-out performance from apex-child-actor, Elle Fanning. Come along as we discuss primary nuclear strike targets, NXIVM, the correct name for the 2008 film Rambo, and projecting a 17-year-old Josh Brolin.

WE HAVE A PATREON NOW! Visit patreon.com/munchmybenson to sign up.

We will update the public feed with all of the exclusive content that gets posted there.

We should have our first Munch My Benson Movie Club Ep up there this week.

We also have merch dropping this week!

Sources:

Rebirthing therapy banned after girl died in 70 minute struggle - National Institute of Health

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Divorcio Suave - “Munchy Business”

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Next Week's Episode: Season 15, Episode 22 "Reasonable Doubt"

Mar 21, 202201:25:01
99 - Well She Apparently Has an STI, So Something Did Rub Off (S17E23 Heartfelt Passages)

99 - Well She Apparently Has an STI, So Something Did Rub Off (S17E23 Heartfelt Passages)

The Munchie Boys pick up where they left off last week, trudging through the murk as Ray’s tall brother faces the fallout from having been charged as a serial rapist while the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association possibly threatens Barba’s life for having the temerity to come after one of their guys. This fallout includes the first—and thus far, only—time an officer on the Unit dies in the line of duty, which gives Adam and Josh quite a bit to mull over while wondering why the stakes were lowered so much before offing him. Any episode that has Chekhov’s gun go off while also not having Chekhov’s gun go off means there’s going to be plenty of plot discussion to be had. There are also plenty of discussions about the typically insane things that SVU forces one to reckon with, namely intimidation wizards, phantom door-locking chicanery, the hilarity of needing apple boxes in hostage shoots, and much, much more.

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Divorcio Suave "Munchy Business"

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Next Week’s Episode: Season 8, Episode 8 “Cage”

Mar 14, 202201:00:16
98 - His Refractory Period Is in Inverse Proportion to His Height (S17E22 Intersecting Lives)
Mar 07, 202201:15:37
97 - I Don’t Like the Idea of Having Ninja Pedophiles Out There—That Scares Me (S12E12 Possessed)

97 - I Don’t Like the Idea of Having Ninja Pedophiles Out There—That Scares Me (S12E12 Possessed)

Wanna hear what happens when an episode breaks the Munchie Boys and their patented SVU-episode scoring system? Well, “Possessed” (Season 12, Episode 12) broke it like the Kool-Aid Man. Next to every other of the 96 episodes they’ve watched so far, this beautiful piece of art had Adam and Josh contemplating some pretty grand concepts like: was Jerry Horne’s Twin Peaks walkabout really a representation of the liminal state at the end of his life where he was just looking for his Brandy? what exactly was contained within the pages of Buzz’s skin mags that Kevin couldn’t wrap his head around in Home Alone? where is the line where we progressives can stomach police brutality? are we seeing the tripartite peak of pedo performance?

If this were a podcast that employed trigger warnings, it’d probably have to get tagged with all of them. Instead, you are advised to hold onto your butts. There is simply an abundance of insanity that’s too fantastic to ignore. Bask in the glow of “Possessed,” listen, and rejoice.

Old Munch My Benson Blog Entry: Mimi’s Path to Crossroads and Back Again

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Next Week’s Episode: Season 17, Episode 22 “Intersecting Lives”

Feb 28, 202201:17:13
96 - You Could Make the Pant Legs Ten Feet Wide, and You'd Still See Those Cheeks Cutting Through the Fabric (S12E20 Totem)
Feb 21, 202201:20:14
95 - They Dropped It Like Lindsey Dropped Her Tampon to Be Eaten by Killer (S12E5 Wet)

95 - They Dropped It Like Lindsey Dropped Her Tampon to Be Eaten by Killer (S12E5 Wet)

Did you know that Liv tells a perp that she knows he “stabbed the Captain with a pickle?” That’s no typo. It’s in this beautiful episode of television.

The fates (and by fates, we mean episode.lol, built for us by friend of the pod, Flet) elected to bestow upon the world the Valentine’s Day gift of Wetness—specifically S12E5 “Wet,” which is truly one of the most balls-to-the-wall, front-to-back utterly insane episodes the Munchie Boys have embarked upon in a podcast brimming to the top with insane installments. Moving past its fantastic name, this SVU is centrally concerned with:

  • SexProwl, a professionally conceived “YouTube of sex” wherein true douchebros have a following
  • Soda being little more than poison for our youth
  • Corporations trying to buy up our water supply and the dastardly tactics they’ll employ to meet their goals
  • Fungi, which should never be used to hurt anyone
  • The true horrors that inherited wealth wreak upon the rest of the world, namely bad performance art, unwarranted cocksurety, jewelry-related guilting, unloving guardianship, drug addiction, and the framing of innocent mycologists for murder

Seriously. Mushrooms, soda being poison, water rights, and horrible rich people. And it gives David Krumholtz a truly Krumholtzian role to jazz rant his way through. This is all a gift to humankind, and we’re glad to be here for it.

Sources:

Mushroom - Wikipedia

Amanita Muscaria - Psychonaut

Leasing the Rain - William Finnegan for The New Yorker, March 31, 2002

Corn Subsidies in the US from 1995-2020 - EWG Farm Subsidy Database

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Divorcio Suave "Munchy Business"

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Next Week’s Episode: Season 12, Episode 20 “Totem”

Feb 14, 202201:45:05
94 - Do Buffalonians Dream Of Erotic Meats? (S13E5 Missing Pieces)

94 - Do Buffalonians Dream Of Erotic Meats? (S13E5 Missing Pieces)

Feb 08, 202201:32:56
93 - They Still Manage to Wedge in Some Racism, but It’s a Little Too Professional (S13E6 True Believers)

93 - They Still Manage to Wedge in Some Racism, but It’s a Little Too Professional (S13E6 True Believers)

After kicking things off with Adam’s tales of neglected hot tub maintenance, the Munchie Boys step into the world of early Season 13 where a new writing staff ventures off into a Stabler-less world. Where some episodes may not be as boldly helmed and written, this is a fantastically directed, process-concerned contemplation on how a rape and its ensuing investigation affects the victim in the days and weeks that follow.

It also features Munch’s former Homicide fellow detective after an apparent name change from Frank Pembleton to Bayard Ellis, who is apparently now a civil rights defense attorney. Yes, this one’s got none other than 11-time Emmy nominee (and two-time winner) Andre Braugher. Don’t worry, we also talk at length about a cast member’s involvement in a meditation cult and how it colors our undying appreciation of Mandy, the undeniable sexual energy between Braugher and Hargitay, and the notion of an SVU without Olivia Benson which was apparently in the cards.

Sources:

Ken Barlow’s son and the humiliation sect: The extraordinary saga of how the Coronation Street star’s actor son is helping run a very troubling ‘cult’ - Paul Bracchi for The Daily Mail and Tom Leonard

Interview: Linus comes back fighting; TV and film star Linus Roache took a risk by stepping out of the spotlight to seek peace among a controversial US cult - Thomas Quinn for The Mirror - January 30, 1999

Jeremiah Sand - Lift It Down - Sacred Bones Records

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Divorcio Suave "Munchy Business"

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Next Week’s Episode: Season 13, Episode 5 “Missing Pieces”

Jan 31, 202201:18:47
92 - She Kind of Gets Mind-Raped by the Hawk (S21E8 We Dream Of Machine Elves)

92 - She Kind of Gets Mind-Raped by the Hawk (S21E8 We Dream Of Machine Elves)

This week we watched an episode unlike any other SVU in the catalog. A young girl from Kansas is abandoned by her Fireball-shooting friends, drugged with exotic psychedelics, raped, and forced to dig her own physical and metaphorical grave by the acolytes of a famed radical psychologist who just so happens to have been SVU's own resident Alice-In-Wonderland-expert Amanda Rollins's former guru. Between blue rape avatars, expensive music cues, and extensive literary references, things get pretty weird. This, of course, is all just fuel for the Munch fire as Josh and Adam discuss the hero's journey; pedicab culture; early 20th century Swedish folklore illustrator, John Bauer; famed ethnobotanist and drug user, Terrence McKenna; famed memoirist and sex haver, Anaïs Nin; and whether or not we're too old to pick up trendy new drug habits. This is a wild ride folks. Hold on tight!

Sources:

DMT - PsychonautWiki

Terrence McKenna's Last Trip - Wired

John Bauer's Illustrations - WikiArt

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Divorcio Suave - “Munchy Business”

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Next Week's Episode: Season 13, Episode 6 "True Believers"

Jan 24, 202201:32:23
91 - This Isn’t Even a Prison Rape Taunt, This Is Straight Up a Holding Cell Rape Taunt (S10E20 Crush)

91 - This Isn’t Even a Prison Rape Taunt, This Is Straight Up a Holding Cell Rape Taunt (S10E20 Crush)

Faced with an episode with a helluva third act left turn, Adam and Josh reckon with a first-half A-plot borrowing heavily from the Terri-Rick saga in Degrassi before the second half shockingly grasps for a ripped-from-the-headlines story with a crooked juvenile court judge inspired by the nefarious goings-on in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. This leads to an exploration of both the Luzerne County Kids for Cash scandal and the grotesque systemic judicial overreach currently happening in Rutherford County, Tennessee.

Don’t worry, Josh and Adam find plenty of non-infuriating things to talk about, including the bizarre connection between Melinda McGraw and Alex Kingston, delightfully impossible photoshopping, Icelandic reproduction clearance apps, Lehman Brothers tearing the US economy to shreds, the origins of sexting, what other franchise Stuckey really belonged in instead of SVU, and (of course) Meloni’s rock-hard buns.

Come get some.

Sources:

Kids for Cash documentary - Kids for Cash

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge. - ProPublica

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Next Week’s Episode: Season 21, Episode 8 “We Dream Of Machine Elves”

Jan 17, 202201:24:34
90 - We've Got Her Blooded, We Need to Shoot This Fast (S15E21 Post-Mortem Blues)
Jan 10, 202201:01:15
89 - They’re So Balls Deep in Starting Their Affair That Benson’s Able to Slip Their Tail with No Resistance (S15E20 Beast’s Obsession)

89 - They’re So Balls Deep in Starting Their Affair That Benson’s Able to Slip Their Tail with No Resistance (S15E20 Beast’s Obsession)

Having drawn the all-timer “Beast’s Obsession” (S15E20) this week, the Munchie boys reckon with the Unit reckoning with Sgt. Olivia Benson reckoning with an escaped William Lewis, in quite possibly the torture-porniest episode of SVU in its storied history. With one of the most infamous perps in the 23-year-and-counting history of the show heinously raping, disfiguring, and dropping bodies left and right, Adam and Josh are left to watch in horror as Liv is once again shown to only be able to have a sex life in which violence is a key component and as featured extras are ignominiously and exploitatively corpsed for what they hope was at least SAG scale. They also lament the end of two acting careers before they’d really been able to begin, as two very young females were put through the violently sexually inappropriate grinder to further the horrific legend of Liv’s biggest tormentor.

As always, Adam and Josh veer off course with reckless abandon, exploring such varied topics as the job prospects for audition-shy mandolinists in NYC, the proper placement of dream catchers, why this show is so clearly anti-Bang energy drink, whether it’s gauche to lay the groundwork for an extramarital affair while working a protection detail, and Adam’s personal bridge rankings and grocery store journey through New York. So strap in for a wild ride, as Liv goes is on the bullet train to hell and we're all passengers alongside her. 

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Next Week’s Episode: Season 15, Episode 21 “Post-Mortem Blues”

Jan 03, 202201:24:57
88 - Kevin Arnold Is a Power Reassurance Rapist (S4E22 Futility)
Dec 27, 202101:31:28
87 - You'd Think That the First Step in Friendship Is NOT Raping Somebody (S19E4 No Good Reason)

87 - You'd Think That the First Step in Friendship Is NOT Raping Somebody (S19E4 No Good Reason)

Dec 20, 202101:11:35
86 - How Many Times Were Her Feet in That Cum? (S12E23 Delinquent)
Dec 13, 202101:21:02
85 - The Whole Second Half of This Episode Basically Is Stabler Can’t Give Everyone a Ticket to the Gun Show (S12E13 Mask)

85 - The Whole Second Half of This Episode Basically Is Stabler Can’t Give Everyone a Ticket to the Gun Show (S12E13 Mask)

Super famous Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony-winning actor Jeremy Irons sashays through this week’s wonderfully messed up episode of SVU--S12E13, Mask. He attempts to reckon with his out-of-control Cape Cod Summer o’ Sex two decades prior. Of course, if it comes up in the course of an investigation on this program, you know the effects are still being felt of his indiscriminate adulterous boning of everything that moved in Falmouth, and this time, they’ve gotten his daughter and her lover attacked.

This gleeful voyage into the world of sexual addiction is fertile ground for plenty of discussion about such subjects as: parsing the paradoxical simultaneous adoration of Tony Blair and loathing of George W. Bush, tattoo critique, teen boys having pervdar, the strange ol’ days of Spice, summers on the Cape (and the corresponding nighttime water temps), the Kamadeva, and the broad, beautiful spectrum of paraphilias. Turns out, there’s tons of fun to be had when Jeremy Irons is a recovering sex addict trying to get his addiction codified in the DSM-5.

[Note: Apologies for the hints of static intermittently creeping into Josh’s audio channel. As much was filtered out as was possible without making him sound like an alien. Such are the perils of recording in foreign environs.]

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Next Week’s Episode: Season 12, Episode 23 “Delinquent”

Dec 06, 202101:25:47
84 - What Happens in the Box Stays in the Box (S16E7 Chicago Crossover)

84 - What Happens in the Box Stays in the Box (S16E7 Chicago Crossover)

This week, Josh and Adam are thrust into a terrifying world where the laws of physics and mankind are tossed aside without hesitation. That world is called Chicago. Our SVU for this week is sandwiched in between an episode of Chicago Fire (S3E7 “Nobody Touches Anything”) and a Chicago P.D. (S2E7 “They’ll Have to Go Through Me”). While one does not need to watch either of these to enjoy our SVU, we obviously dove into the deep end with a fun-loving crew of Vegas-visiting, zumba-instructing, bounty-hunting firefighters and then waded through the muck with a morally dubious band of police officers. It provided us with a veritable matryoshka doll of tangents within tangents as we break down all the action from nearly 3 hours of television. We talk Shirley Chisholm and the Chelsea Piers. We speculate about the kind of person who gets a Joe Paterno tattoo in 2021, and Josh gets Chicago pilled.

Sources:

Pier Kids - PBS POV

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Next Week's Episode: Season 12, Episode 13 "Mask"

Nov 29, 202101:43:37
83 - We're Burning Through Pedos (S4E15 Pandora)

83 - We're Burning Through Pedos (S4E15 Pandora)

When proffered the box of “Pandora” (S4E15)—phrasing?—Josh and Adam were forced to deal with yet another episode of SVU wherein many children fell victim to an international cabal of pedos, complete with one getting to proudly espouse his party platform to the detectives of SVU and a network television audience. This one hurtles forward at breakneck speed, taking Elliot from New York to Prague and back before the final act has even started. Along the way, Adam and Josh marvel at the way that early SVU writers had no real concept of how computers and the internet worked, the defenestrations of Prague, the endless stream of actors who REALLY pass for pedos in the SVU stable, and the emergence of Zero Dark Stabler. We’ve said it many times previously, but the label definitely fits here—this one is wild.

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Divorcio Suave "Munchy Business"

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Next Week’s Episode: Season 16, Episode 7 “Chicago Crossover 2” (sandwiched between Chicago Fire S3E7 “Nobody Touches Anything” and Chicago P.D. S2E7 “They’ll Have to Go Through Me”)

Nov 22, 202101:31:24
82 - They Blackfaced the Unabomber (S15E3 American Tragedy)
Nov 15, 202101:37:03
81 - Nina’s Grinding So Hard on Carisi’s Joint Here (S16E15 Undercover Mother)

81 - Nina’s Grinding So Hard on Carisi’s Joint Here (S16E15 Undercover Mother)

Nov 08, 202101:21:01
80 - Keep On Munching, Munch (S15E5 Wonderland Story)
Nov 01, 202101:40:32