#2324 - Amanda Knox

Joe Rogan (0:00)

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Amanda Knox (1:21)

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SPEAKER_3 (1:55)

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Joe Rogan (1:57)

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SPEAKER_3 (2:04)

Hey.

Joe Rogan (2:05)

Good to see you.

SPEAKER_3 (2:05)

Good to see you again.

Joe Rogan (2:06)

You have a book?

SPEAKER_3 (2:07)

I do. Yeah, I hope you like it.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

Free. That's a great name.

SPEAKER_3 (2:11)

Yeah. Well, it's on point.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

Yeah, it's on the nose.

SPEAKER_3 (2:15)

Yes. Well, that whole question of what does it mean to be free, and yes, there's the physical like, oh, you're out of prison, but then also is your life the thing that you expected it to be, and how do you make your own freedom when you feel hemmed in by all of the things that happened to you?

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Yeah, you're connected to that forever. That's always going to be a part of your life. It's not like anything else that didn't really happen. Like, you didn't do anything, and you're connected to something that you didn't really do forever. For people that don't know the story.

SPEAKER_3 (2:49)

Yeah, yeah, we should do a little recap. Recap, okay, recap, friends.

Joe Rogan (2:53)

Real quick.

SPEAKER_3 (2:54)

Recap, friends. And you can go back to the episode of Joe Rogan. What number was that?

Joe Rogan (3:00)

I don't know.

SPEAKER_3 (3:00)

Off the top of your head.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

If you just Google Amanda Knox, you'll go, holy shit.

SPEAKER_3 (3:04)

They'll go down a crazy rabbit hole, yes. So in a nutshell, what happened? I was studying abroad when I was 20 years old in Perugia, Italy. One of my roommates was raped and murdered by a burglar who broke into our home.

But I was accused of having orchestrated a murder orgy, and I was sent to prison for four years. I was sentenced to 26 years. I was put on trial for eight years, and it became this international scandal where it sort of pinged all of the buttons in all the right places. This happened in 2007, so early 2000s when the internet was, or the internet, the social media was really becoming a thing, the iPhone was becoming a thing. I think that that played a huge role of people sort of going into their little echo chambers and fighting online. So I think that there was, yeah, it was a case that for whatever reason rose above the level of other cases. Ultimately, this case was actually very simple and it wouldn't have risen to the level of international infamy were it not for the series of mistakes that the prosecution and the detectives made at the very beginning by trying to pin a man's crime on me, a woman.

Joe Rogan (4:26)

Yeah, and if anybody wants, there's a documentary.

SPEAKER_3 (4:29)

Yes, there's a Netflix documentary. I wrote a book called Waiting to Be Heard. And then more recently, I wrote this book, Free, My Search for Meaning, which covers, like, you know, you can read it and learn about the case, but it's mostly about how do you come out of an experience like that and make sense of it. And then one of the big stories in it is how I then developed a relationship with my prosecutor, which I think you'll probably be in the camp of people of thinking that I'm utterly insane for having done that. Maybe, maybe, maybe you won't. I just remember that when we talked about this back in the day, you were like, this motherfucker.