Talking to Death with Payne Lindsey

About Talking to Death with Payne Lindsey

Up and Vanished host and creator Payne Lindsey wants to talk you to death in his first “true crime” talk show (that may or may not actually be about true crime). Pull up a chair as Payne and guests talk about all things crime, life, mystery and fun. From Tenderfoot TV and iHeartRadio comes a new weekly series, Talking to Death. Take a listen… odds are, you won’t die.

Publisher

iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

8 Nov 2023

Latest episode

15 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 48 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Payne Lindsey presents High Strange Season 2!

   High Strange Season 2, Episode 1 - Friendly Universe What if the universe is not hostile, just misunderstood. We open the season by asking whether being alone ever really made sense, and why the idea of something else out there feels oddly familiar now. Want more? Our High Strange music playlist is now available exclusively on Apple Music. Visit the link in our show notes or go to apple.co/highstrangeplaylist (https://cms.megaphone.fm/organizations/534d8f6e-0936-11e9-b74a-77a3994a777a/podcasts/c59067e2-a8a9-11ed-8bd1-b3f98a8dfbbc/episodes/ec2e70b4-c4e3-11ed-a14d-37047d102cef/apple.co/highstrangeplaylist%C2%A0) To access our book list, go to apple.co/highstrangebooks (apple.co/highstrangebooks) To find us in Apple Maps, go to apple.co/highstrangeguide (https://cms.megaphone.fm/organizations/534d8f6e-0936-11e9-b74a-77a3994a777a/podcasts/c59067e2-a8a9-11ed-8bd1-b3f98a8dfbbc/episodes/ec2e70b4-c4e3-11ed-a14d-37047d102cef/apple.co/highstrangeguide) For ad-free listening and bonus content, subscribe to Tenderfoot+ now! Members get all episodes ad-free plus bonus content throughout the season. Sign up at apple.co/highstrange (apple.co/highstrange). For Spotify, Google, and other Android users, visit tenderfootplus.com (http://tenderfootplus.com/). Follow along on social and the web: @highstrange (https://www.instagram.com/highstrange/) on Instagram @highstrange (https://www.tiktok.com/@highstrange) on TikTok highstrange.com (www.highstrange.com) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

2. 

   12 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   High Strange is Back! New Season, New Mysteries!

   High Strange Season 2 goes deeper into real encounters, credible witnesses, and the explanations that never seem to stick. More firsthand accounts. Bigger moments. And more times where the official story starts to wobble. This isn’t about believing everything. It’s about following the story until it actually makes sense… or until it gets too strange to ignore. New season. Same curiosity. Same skepticism. Still probably not a weather balloon. Listen to all episodes now on https://tenderfoot.tv/plus/ (https://tenderfoot.tv/plus/) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

3. 

   13 Jan 2025

   Bind. Torture. Kill. - ‘Monster’ Returns

   Payne Lindsey explores the twisted true story of Dennis Rader, the Wichita serial killer known as BTK, whose taunting letters and phone calls shocked the nation for over a decade.

Inside a recent episode

Payne Lindsey presents High Strange Season 2!

Published 15 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's where I got involved. They laid out all of these MRIs. They said some of these people said that they'd gotten close to UFOs. That they got close to a UFO. They said, they said some of these people said that they got close to a UFO. And that something about the energy generated by the object had harmed them. I literally locked around. I thought, this is candid camera, what's going on. For him, it wasn't the fantastical stories. It was the actual data. That's what hooked them. And once you accept that the injuries are real, even if you don't know the cause, you're forced to widen the lens. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

419,108,275

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

789 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

304 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

50

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

99

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