GORDON LIGHTFOOT | Culture
QUITE DIFFERENT
Alice Hipkins, a 25 year old financial advisor from Christchurch, revealed today that she is actually qualified to practise criminal law, something that has absolutely nothing to do with giving people advice about their mortgages.
Hipkins was tight-lipped about why exactly she was in her current role and not working in the criminal courts, but it appears she got the wrong end of the stick about the degree she chose, after listening to too many podcasts.
“I just hated it. I hated being a lawyer, and I wanted to do something else.
“True crime podcasts are just so interesting to me, with so many twists and turns. I don’t understand why being a criminal lawyer is so lame,” she said, referring to the tightly edited and dramatised podcasts that are popular around the world.
While crime podcasts are entertaining, it has to be said that they leave out most of the slow, laborious, mundane details that make up the criminal justice system. This is perhaps so that people actually listen to them.
James Carson, a freelance audio editor, shed some light on the situation.
“We generally cut out more than we leave in with any kind of documentary podcast. Be quite weird to keep all the little details that no-one cares about right?,” laughed Carson at his audio studio.
“Be good if you could edit out bits of real life wouldn’t it? I’d probably edit out all the time between now and Christmas.”
Hipkins meanwhile seems happy to be working alongside goal-oriented people with mortgages, rather than the scum and villainy of her previous career.
More to come.
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