Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark have turned their darkly funny podcast, ‘My Favorite Murder,’ about killers into a burgeoning media empire, earning them the No. 2 spot on Forbes’ list of highest-earning podcasters
was born, fittingly enough, at a Halloween party in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2015. The gathering was thrown by a mutual friend of the podcast’s future cohosts, Karen Kilgariff, a standup comic and comedy writer, and Georgia Hardstark, a host on the Cooking Channel. The women had met before. But “it wasn’t until this party that we realized we were both really into true crime and didn’t have anyone else to talk to about it,” says Hardstark, 39. “I met someone who ...
In other words, the duo is killing it, and their earnings show it. They made an estimated $15 million in 2019, placing them at No. 2 on’ inaugural ranking of the top-earning podcasters. That’s no small feat. There are more than 900,000 podcasts in circulation, according to podcast search engine Listen Notes. Few do the kind of numberssees. Only comedian Joe Rogan made more, although finance guru Dave Ramsey is close behind them.
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