From the transcripts

Please don't
isolate that.

A post on Reddit

can someone please isolate all of the things James has said before he says "please don't isolate that" and put it together in one clip

We haven't made the clip, but here's everything you'd need for it. We searched every episode's transcript for the word and read each of the 268 lines it turned up. These are the 18 times one of them begged, across 17 episodes, with what led up to each one.

The transcripts come from speech recognition, so the wording here is lightly tidied, and if it misheard "isolate" we won't have found it. Times are approximate, because ads move them. Listener names from the shout-outs are left out.

  1. #69 · about 2:34:41

    Loneliness Is Better Than Murder in Waynesville, Ohio

    Jimmie, reading the shout-outs, trips over a name.

    Jimmie: I've choked on [a fan's] head tonight.

    Jimmie: Don't fucking isolate that ever, ever, ever.

    James: I'll have that forever, Jimmie.

  2. #106 · about 1:30:00

    Not Regulation Behavior in Burlingame, California, Part 1

    James: He told her that he came to rape her. He said, "I've come to rape you," which is like a Batman villain. I mean, "I've come to rape you," which is not what you want to hear,

    James: and please nobody isolate that.

    James: Jesus Christ.

  3. #170 · about 0:09:48

    An Attempted Suburban Vampire Cult in St. Cloud, Minnesota

    James: He's enslaving men, throwing a fucking press into the river. I own people.

    James: That's fucking worse.

    James: Please don't isolate that sound.

    James: By the way, of me just saying, I own people. That's not good.

  4. #250 · about 0:08:51

    Shocking Backwoods Brutality, Dingess, West Virginia

    Reading out a quote from the period.

    James: This is obviously, again, don't isolate it, not me saying it, this is a black writer from back then, quote, "why, a colored person couldn't think about riding through Dingess."

  5. #273 · about 1:54:09

    Video Games Or Hitler? Montville Township, Ohio

    James: Then he said, quote, "the only people I care about is Adolf Hitler and myself." Oh boy. "Heil the Führer, Hitler is God." Oh boy.

    James: Please nobody isolate that.

    James: That's from a young murderer.

  6. #293 · about 0:06:48

    STM Express: All Book, No Cover, Morton, Illinois

    Reading out a town review.

    James: Morton is a pretty safe town. It's known for being full of wealthy white people, but there is some middle class to poor people, oh boy, as well,

    James: please don't isolate this, this is not me, as well as a few colored people.

    James: Yikes. This is from 2018, this review. What are you doing, man?

  7. #305 · about 1:01:17

    STM Express: The Swanson Motel Murders, Dickinson, North Dakota

    Reading out a confession.

    James: He finally came out and said, quote, "I raped a little girl."

    James: Jesus Christ, please nobody isolate that.

    James: That is not good.

  8. #308 · about 0:44:10

    The Killing Of A Bad Man, Hooksett, New Hampshire

    James: You don't date a child. That's not how that works when you're 36. I'm actively molesting a child, is what you're doing.

    Jimmie: That's what you're doing.

    James: I'm molesting a child. That's what he should say.

    James: By the way, please don't isolate that.

  9. #347 · about 2:19:57

    The Word Of Death, Chadwicks, New York

    James: She said, "And how would you abuse people?" And now he goes, "I want them... little girls."

    James: Please don't isolate that sound, by the way. I beg no one to do that, please.

    Jimmie: I want that isolated. I want it as my ringtone.

    James: No, no, no, you have to say it now too. They're isolating me, they're isolating you too, pal.

    Jimmie: I want them... little girls.

    James: There we go, thank you.

  10. #363 · about 1:35:19

    The Psycho Samurai, Caribou, Maine

    James: He said, "I may be a murderer, but I'm not a goddamn thief."

    Jimmie: Maybe a child molester.

    James: But goddamn it, I pay my bill. I close up the cereal bag and shut the box when I'm done with it so it doesn't get all goddamn stale. Understand me?

    James: Please don't isolate what Jimmie said, by the way, and use it against him, I beg you.

    Jimmie: But I do pay my bill.

    James: What I do, he does, but you can isolate that.

  11. #363 · about 1:41:58

    The Psycho Samurai, Caribou, Maine

    Seven minutes later, the same episode.

    James: "I forgot, it's very hazy. All I remember is sexually assaulting a child, that's the last memory I have."

    Jimmie: Damn it!

    James: Don't isolate that either.

    James: See, we're both fucked now.

  12. #369 · about 1:39:21

    Blood On The Corn, Logan, Ohio

    Jimmie: I'm a child... I'm not a murderer.

    James: I'm a fucking chomo, not a murderer. Let me get this: I'm a rapist.

    James: Please don't isolate that.

    James: I'm a rapist. I'm a terrible, terrible person, but goddamn it, do I draw the line at murder.

  13. #529 · about 2:04:04

    Murder Audition, Neptune City, New Jersey

    James: Prosecutor's like, I want to rape you. Like, I'm not into that at all, but I feel like that's what these guys are thinking.

    James: Please don't isolate that.

    James: I'm gonna look in your asshole and see through your eyes. I'm gonna use you like a kaleidoscope.

  14. #606 · about 1:04:59

    Kinky Cut Up Murder Insanity, Green Bay, Wisconsin

    James: We've had cases in different states where people would try to argue that I raped a corpse, man,

    James: don't isolate that.

    James: "I raped a corpse, that's not rape because it's a dead person." There's never been a grosser argument to make in court than that.

  15. #635 · about 1:06:25

    The Murder And The Miracle, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire

    James: He told her that he felt the potential was in him to become a serial rapist. So, "I feel like I could just rape and rape and keep on raping."

    James: Please don't isolate that, by the way.

    James: That'll come in handy later for everybody.

  16. #671 · about 2:17:11

    Baby-Faced & Deadly, Travelers Rest, South Carolina

    James: He didn't say we had consensual sex. He said we raped her and strangled her, which is crazy.

    James: Please don't put that on a... please don't isolate that.

    James: Well, we did.

  17. #703 · about 1:02:43

    Puppet Master Killer, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan

    James: He went all the way from "I'm just trying to find a nice ceremony in like six months" to "I'll eat that ass." He went from dearly beloved to just bend over, I'll lick it. Lick your ass. I don't care.

    James: Please nobody isolate that.

  18. #745 · about 1:56:24

    The Charming Susan Strangler, Demarest, New Jersey

    James: Because on TV, there was way more kidnappings than just, you know, I'm going to kill this woman and rape her type of deals.

    James: Please don't isolate that.

    James: We beg you. Or I beg you, anyway.

And the other way round

  1. #45 · about 0:36:51

    The Hottest Cold Case Around in Sitka, Alaska

    Early on, James explains the whole problem.

    James: This lady was a tiger mom in a bad way. She criticized her clothes, the way she walked, her grades, her everything. Just attacking, but like aggressive, an Asian at the same time. So you gotta look at it that way too.

    Jimmie: So it's honoring the family.

    James: I'm sure that's... again, we apologize.

    James: But if someone isolated that one 10 seconds of the show, they'd be like, God,

    Guest: What is that guy's problem?

  2. #304 · about 1:11:33

    For Love Of My Cousin, Beckley, West Virginia

    Jimmie on how anyone can snap. James wants it on file.

    Jimmie: It is horrifying to hear, but sometimes it happens. And I'm not crazy. I'm certainly a sane person. I know right from wrong, but too many people think that shit is only the crazy ones. No, man, it's when your brain's too tired.

    James: Everybody isolate that for further use, just in case something happens here.

    James: It's easier, because the courts are gonna take forever to go through all the episodes, so just go find that, get it out, make it easier for everybody.

  3. #733 · about 3:07:24

    The Ax Murder Zombie, Delmar, New York

    In the shout-outs, a listener's name sounds like something it isn't. We've left the name out.

    Jimmie: What is that, James?

    James: Not gonna do it. No. You're not gonna bait me.

    James: Isolate that.

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