You Can’t Make This Up

The Netflix documentary film The Plastic Detox explores the many ways microplastics are affecting nature and our wellbeing, and seeks solutions to what has become an international, public health problem. It follows one scientist asking the question: if people reduce their exposure and let their bodies flush out the microplastics, can it reverse the growing global trend of infertility? In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Louie Psihoyos. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched The Plastic Detox yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at tudum.com! Find out more about the issue of microplastics and to learn what the Plastic Detox couples are doing now. Check our true crime hub at tudum.com/truecrime. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

The Netflix documentary series Dynasty: The Murdochs goes deep inside the succession battle among Rupert Murdoch and his adult children. It shows how Murdoch used a mix of controversy and conservatism to build an empire — but his unwillingness to settle the question of a successor imperiled everything. In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews co-directors Liz Garbus and Sara Enright. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Dynasty: The Murdochs yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at tudum.com.  Check our true crime hub at tudum.com/truecrime. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.  You Can’t Make This Up is a co-production of Netflix and Partners in Crime Media.

Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model brings together the stars, producers, and contestants to discuss the show’s success and confront its legacy of problematic segments. The Netflix documentary series explores how the show, envisioned as changing the modeling industry, came to re-enforce its darkest qualities. And it lets Tyra Banks and her co-stars address the criticism that their TV show did not age well.  In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews  directors Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at tudum.com. There you can read even more about the legacy of “America’s Next Top Model.” Check our true crime hub at tudum.com/truecrime. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

The Netflix documentary series Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model reexamines the TV show’s impact on a nation’s perception of beauty and the troubling situations it put contestants through in the name of entertainment. It offers behind the scenes stories from Tyra Banks, her co-stars, and her producers, and their thoughts today about the program’s most controversial moments. And it features emotional interviews with former contestants who ask, if the show was rooting for them, why were they treated the way they were? In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, former ANTM judges Jay Manuel and Nigel Barker reveal details they've never shared before from behind the scenes of the show. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at tudum.com.  Check our true crime hub at tudum.com/truecrime. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

Today we’re turning things over to our friends at Netflix’s Skip Intro and their conversation with Elizabeth Smart. She reflects on the harrowing experience of being abducted from her bedroom at just 14 years old. In this intimate conversation, Elizabeth opens up about why she wanted to retell her story in more explicit detail in the Netflix film Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, and help other survivors not feel alone. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at tudum.com! Read more about how Elizabeth Smart reclaimed a normal life and why she decided to share her story with filmmakers.  Check our true crime hub at tudum.com/truecrime. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

The Netflix documentary film Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart goes deep inside the famous crime with the stories of those who were there - including Elizabeth herself. She talks in detail about her abduction, the abuse she suffered, and lengths she went to stay safe in captivity. We also hear from her family about how they kept the search going to have that reunion with their missing loved one. In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews Director Benedict Sanderson & Executive Producer Claire Goodlass. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at tudum.com! Read more about how Elizabeth Smart reclaimed a normal life and why she decided to share her story with filmmakers.  Check our true crime hub at tudum.com/truecrime. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts. 

The Netflix series Sean Combs: The Reckoning uses powerful interviews and behind-the-scenes footage to tell Sean “Puffy” Combs’ story from restless kid to federal defendant. In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews former business partner Kirk Burrowes about what it was like to build a record label with Combs and his reaction to the hit documentary. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Sean Combs: The Reckoning yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at tudum.com.  Check our true crime hub at tudum.com/truecrime. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts. 

We return to our discussion of the one true crime story you couldn’t get enough of in 2025: the Netflix documentary series Amy Bradley is Missing. Host Rebecca Lavoie revisits her conversation with directors Phil Lott and Ari Mark. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Amy Bradley is Missing yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at tudum.com.  Check our true crime hub at tudum.com/truecrime. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

On this episode, we’re revisiting one of the most thought-provoking and conversation-starting films from the past year. We’ll return to our discussion of the Netflix documentary The Perfect Neighbor. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Geeta Gandbhir and producer Nikon Kwantu. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched The Perfect Neighbor yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at tudum.com! Right now you can read more about the fallout from the case.  Check our true crime hub at tudum.com/truecrime. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

In our latest look at the Netflix documentary series Sean Combs: The Reckoning, we’ll hear from Combs’s former personal assistant, Capricorn Clark. She talks about her complex working relationship with Combs, the difficulties of coming forward with her story, what it was like to face him in federal court, and her reaction to the jurors who said in the series that she was not a convincing witness. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Sean Combs: The Reckoning yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on.  Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at tudum.com.  Check our true crime hub at tudum.com/truecrime. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.