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Part Four: The Phil Spector Episodes

April 9, 2026·1 hr 17 min·5 clips

Phil Spector's limo driver hears a gunshot and finds him holding a revolver, saying 'I think I've killed somebody.'

Robert is away, more or less. The cold open works Webby Awards nominations into the setup, then hands the chair to Grammy-winning Greasy Will for part four of Phil Spector. Then the scene turns. Lana Clarkson is found with a gun at her feet, an empty holster nearby, and injuries the guest treats as suspicious right away. That first look matters. For a moment, the room might seem to tell one story, but the details start shoving back. Phil keeps talking. Police record him as he tosses out shaky explanations and seems to try on whatever version might stick. It is bleakly ridiculous. The guest presents Spector less as a man with a real account than as someone building one while the cops are standing there. His lines keep changing. He says strange things about the gun, then stacks another version on top of the last one, like panic happening out loud. That pattern does the work. What starts as possible uncertainty starts to look thin because Spector will not stop adding to the mess. Eventually, he gets quieter. He sobers up enough to grasp that silence would have served him better earlier. Then the money arrives. A 1 million dollar bond lands with the dull ease of someone the transcript frames as plainly able to pay it. The ending veers into ads. Klarna terms, Xumo streaming copy, movie titles, and iHeart boilerplate crowd the final stretch, like the machinery around the episode cannot stay hidden.

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A grim, sharp true-crime discussion that keeps the case clear even as the details get ugly.

Phil Spector Part Four stays tightly on the case, with Robert and Greasy Will revisiting the police work, the shifting accounts, and Phil's habit of talking himself deeper into trouble. The hosts keep the pace steady, so even the messier details stay clear.

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Want the Phil Spector story when the cops, the lies, and the rot start colliding?

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