{"id":1438,"date":"2025-11-25T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:42:01","slug":"episode-175-fifty-states-of-murder-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/episode-175-fifty-states-of-murder-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 175: Fifty States of Murder: Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The DUSE waxes philosophical in our latest episode of Fifty States of Murder as Eli and Mel paint a picture of innocence lost in post-WWII America and the influence of pivotal thinkers like Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and of course Friedrich Nietzsche. What does existentialism have to do with murder? We&#8217;re glad you asked! It took disenchanted jazz musician Melvin Rees to figure it out after he dropped out of college and turned his deep conversations about the morality of murder into a real world experiment. It was a dark time in America, and The DUSE pulls no punches, taking a hard look at our violent origins and how a man like Rees might just be more American than apple pie in\u2026 Maryland!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Fifty States of Murder: Maryland\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/16MGoyRgA0bQ2pFCkarOa1?si=370329ec04ce4c42&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music Credit: &#8220;Game Boy Horror&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/zombiedandies.bandcamp.com\/\">The Zombie Dandies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally aired November 24, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DUSE waxes philosophical in our latest episode of Fifty States of Murder as Eli and Mel paint a picture of innocence lost in post-WWII America and the influence of pivotal thinkers like Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and of course Friedrich Nietzsche. What does existentialism have to do with murder? We&#8217;re glad you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[91,126],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episode","tag-fifty-states-of-murder","tag-maryland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/episode-175-Fifty-States-of-Murder-Maryland.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}