Mornings at the Cabin has a new club for discovering podcasts. Listen to our opening guest introduce you to My Favorite Murder.
If you’re overwhelmed by the sheer number of podcasts out there but want to find a new show, we feel the same way and we’re here to help.
Every few weeks, we’ll bring a guest on Mornings at the Cabin – listen 7-9am weekdays – who will present a podcast they love, play a clip, and explain why it floats their boat.
The podcasts our guests choose don’t have to be super popular or super obscure. They can be any genre. The only rule is they have to love it and be prepared to tell us why.
Episode one starts close to home.
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Nicole Garbutt, wife of Mornings at the Cabin co-host Lekter, joined the club to discuss My Favorite Murder. (Cabin kid Porter joined too, in the background, making pleasant noises. This show was a family affair.)
Listen to the first Podcast Breakfast Club using the player above – you can also get the full Mornings at the Cabin podcast.
Which podcast would you pick if you were on the show? Let us know if there’s one you recommend to our audience – and why.
Read an edited transcript of the first instalment below.
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This episode aired on March 26, 2025. The transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
Ollie Williams: You are here as guest number one. I nearly said victim number one.
Scott Letkeman: Based on the podcast you are going to introduce, victim number one is actually kind-of apt.
Nicole Garbutt: Thank you. I was just going to make that joke. The podcast I’m here to introduce is called My Favorite Murder. It’s not a new podcast, and I’m sure people who are familiar with it might be rolling their eyes because I feel like this is like a McDonald’s of podcasts.
Ollie Williams: I’m already in.
Nicole Garbutt: It’s fairly well known, it’s definitely very popular. It is the podcast that got me into podcasts, which is why I decided to choose it.
It’s a true crime podcast hosted by two women, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. It’s been going for close to 10 years now, and has really grown in a way that I think is pretty cool. The market’s pretty saturated but they started at a time when it wasn’t, and they’ve really grown it into an amazing business.
They have started a podcast network that hosts many other podcasts of various topics and have given that platform to a lot of other people. They’ve become very successful and have been able to donate quite a bit of money to different causes that are relevant to the true crime world, various victims’ relief and family support funds.
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The title of the podcast, My Favorite Murder, doesn’t exactly imply a lot of empathy – and that has changed a lot in the 10 years since they’ve been hosting it. The way they talk about these stories, the way they talk about victims – they now often include victim impact statements or those of loved ones left behind, and they’ve really shifted away from having the focus on the murderer or serial killer themselves, to not be continuously highlighting those who have done wrong.
Ollie Williams: In the clip we played, there’s a part about hands and vises. I thought to myself, “Huh, Nicole relaxes by listening to this.” But then by the end of it, I was like, “Oh, they’re making this about as warm and fuzzy as you can make a murder podcast.”
Nicole Garbutt: Right. It’s a comedy podcast about murder.
Ollie Williams: What is it that hooked you in?
Nicole Garbutt: It was the humour. There is definitely a lot of dark humour to it. They get asked a lot: Why are so many people into true crime and why are they into it in a comedic way? And why are so many women into true crime?
A big part of that is, I think, because it is relevant, especially for a predominantly female lifestyle. You always kind-of have to wonder if that is something that could happen in your future.
To take it into more of a comedic way makes it a little bit more digestible and a little more freeing to think about, because the reality is so traumatic.
