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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just had a quick conversation with one of our engineering
staff out and what used to be a hallway, it's
just a vacant space now. But uh and and he
came through and he was he was singing band on
the run, so of course I joined in and uh
and he goes, you know what, I ended up backstage,
get out of here. He he managed to uh to
(00:20):
snag through. I think he said his cousin, uh snag
tenth throw tickets to McCartney. And then he ended up
backstage at the show. Yeah. I talked to him before
the show. Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Wow, just to stand in the vicinity of the great
Paul McCartney, that would that would have been awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it would have been cool. And that engineer that
you're speaking of is a pretty cool dude.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh yeah, who knows how some coolness. But anyway, I
just yeah, I was enthusiastic for him because that was
a that's a that's a monumental thing to be that
close to a you know, such a legendary performer. I
have not heard from anyone except him with that quick
little conversation that went to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Have you no, no, no, no, But I don't talk
to anybody any.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, that's nobody talks to you is probably more to
the point. But yeah, we had we had McCartney, we
had the Jonas brothers, and we had who else there
was somebody else. There was another big one in town. No,
not Hammer, No, I can't even remember who it was.
But anyway, November eighth, twenty twenty five will go down
(01:29):
as a great night for big, big concerts here in Columbus, Ohio.
It was just it was a wonderful thing. And h
and everybody who did go, I hope that you enjoyed it.
Speaking of wonderful things, it looks like it sounds like
it feels like it appears that perhaps it's over. And
(01:52):
by it's over, I mean the uh, the federal government
shut down, which to a greater or lesser degree for
most Americans wasn't really felt, but for you know, for
a forty two million or so they say, and definitely
felt with the snap and EBT money not there. Definitely
(02:13):
felt by some federal employees, including the air traffic controllers.
And I awoke this morning to news that there had
been a vote and that we managed to get a
sixty forty split, which means a lot of Democrats came over,
which was wonderful. Some continue to posture and put politics
(02:34):
ahead of the good of the people of this country.
I'm just telling you exactly what I think about Bernie.
Did you see Bernie, did you see? Well? The problem
is a party should have stood firm and really forty
two million people without food stamp benefits or snap benefits,
whatever you call them these days, and the party should have,
(02:55):
in the name of politics, should have stood firm. Hakem.
I wish I was Barack Jefferies with no matter what
comes over from the Senate, it doesn't stand a chance
here putting politics ahead of people. How very sad. But
at the same time, let's hope that they're just blowing
smoke in this. Uh, this is resolved far sooner rather
(03:20):
than later. Joining me right now on the Legacy Retirement
Group dot com phone lines representing the Great State of
Ohio Senator John Hughestead, who for some reason, somehow someway
I'm not real sure gonna I'm gonna have to ask
him how he managed to get the honor of being
the person who announced the sixty forty John Houstaed, how
(03:43):
are you, sir.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh what did you do to get such an honor?
I mean, that's a big deal to be able to
bring that kind of news to the people.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, I was scheduled to preside that in the evening,
and it ran a little long, and I just told
the other members who were going to fill in, I said,
I'll take it. I'll take it until we get there.
And I just stayed up on the podium or on
the rostrum and and presided over the Senate until we
got the sixtieth vote, and then I was It was
an honor to announce it. You know, I felt felt
(04:16):
good about it, felt like forty days and forty nights
of like being on Noah's Ark out there in the
in the wilderness trying to get the government reopened. To
bring that all to a close was great, and it
was an honor to preside over over the final vote.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Now to steal and paraphrase the Alan Parsons project, where
do we go from here? Now that some of the
Democrats are acting up? What well? What happened?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So I'm I'm I'm just left the Senate floor. We're
beginning votes on this final package. You know, the good
news with this it takes, you know, like t fifty
one votes to get this pass. Now that we passed
the sixty vote filibuster cloture vote last night, and so
this should go well. I know that there will be
(05:02):
some people who will post amendments that are trying to
derail this, but I hope that we will vote those
down and keep things on track as we move forward.
But this should be done tonight, get it to the
House tomorrow. Hopefully they'll pass it on Veterans Day or
the day after, because we have a lot of stuff
(05:25):
in here for veterans, and you know, we're passing the
passing three appropriations bills along with the continuing Resolution to
keep the government funded not through June or January thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I am wondering, and I'm assuming there probably has been,
even if even behind closed doors, the conversation amongst Senate
Republicans about now keeping whatever promises were made. I don't
care how the negotiations come out, but if we have
promised we will sit down and talk about this, we
will sit down and hash this out. We will get
(05:58):
this to the floor for a vote. We as and
I say we as Republican Americans, need to honor that,
and we need to do so very visibly with the
microphones on and so the American people can see that
there's so much propaganda only goes so far. Whatever we
said we need to now do.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, well, they wanted to vote on the Biden COVID
bonuses that we're bailing out the failed Obamacare program, and
we'll give them a vote on that. What I hope
they'll do during an intervening time is to work with
us so that we can eliminate the fraud that we
know is in that program. Instead of subsidizing the insurance companies,
(06:42):
I hope we can get the payments directly to consumers
and additionally put some income caps on it. We don't
need to be subsidizing the insurance for millionaires. This should
be targeted at working people who need a little help
with their premiums. But send it to the insurance companies
and hope they reduce the premiums. Send it to people
(07:04):
so that they can shop and get a better deal
for themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The uh, it's again, the accounting is so visible, so blatant,
so obvious, that I don't I find it hard to believe,
and it's hard to say it without I guess sounding
insulting when when people stand up and blatantly misrepresent the
(07:28):
reality of the should have been Affordable Care Act and
expect Americans to just full hook line and sinker for
the BS just as a citizen, it offends me that
these people are are even part of running the show.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, Chuck, you know, I emphasize for the citizens out
there who are struggling under Obamacare. You know, they were
promised that that you know, if you if you could
keep your doctor, their promise that they wouldn't kicked off
their Now they have very limited options. The deductibles are
very high. Premiums have been increasing on an average at
(08:07):
eighteen percent a year. It doesn't work. We said it
wasn't going to work. The Democrats have created it. It's failing.
They think the way to save a failing market that
they created is more subsidies. Well, understand, when you subsidize something,
what are you asking asking for the rest of the
taxpayers or in this case, the children and grandchildren of
(08:28):
those taxpayers, Because it's borrowed money to subsidize the system. Okay,
we can do better at driving down the cost and
even if we are going to help with some subsidies
for this make the market based so that people can
shop for lower prices and they that they have some
(08:50):
control rather than just being like, hey, this is the deal,
you'll pay what we say. You have no agency yourself
to make any of these decisions. You've got to structure
it so we're driving down costcous healthcare is the number
one driver of inflation in twenty first century, and it's
because Obamacare doesn't work right. But we want to make
(09:11):
sure everybody can purchase insurance, and we've got to make
it affordable for them to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We were just talking a little while ago. This is,
by the way, in case you jumped on Ladohouse. Senator
John Housted joining me right now on six tn WTV
and just talking a little wit ago about the one
of the builders here in the United States, New Home Builders,
is subsidizing new home buyers below one percent for the
first year in anticipation of an improving economy so that
(09:37):
they can refinance at a more comfortable rate a year
from now, Which tells you that private industry. The way
capitalism works is if there's an audience, if there's a
buyer for your product, you will adjust what you do
and how you do it in order to get as
much of that audience as possible. The healthcare system defies
that by limiting what is available to the consumer. And
(10:01):
when you sign into healthcare dot govern you see you
got one provider. Nobody else is fighting for your business.
If you had a pool of companies fighting for your business,
they're going to give you as much as they can
for as little as they can, to get as much
of the business as they can as possible.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, and it we know this just it's just the
way it's structured isn't working. And you just can't. You
just can't stick your head in the sand and say, well,
this is the way it is and we're not going
to change it. Here here's how I know that Obamacare
benefits are going to the insurance companies and not to
the consumer, because the the UH stock price of all
(10:42):
of the healthcare insurance companies since Obamacare went in place
has grown. They've grown at double the rate. It's over
six hundred percent for health insurance companies. Thence Obamacare is
what their stock prices increase versus a little over three
hundred percent for the for the Dow Joes Industrial Average. Well,
how does that happen. It only happens because the Obamacare
(11:05):
subsidies and and you know, you see the political contributions
from health insurance companies ninety to ten go to Democrats
versus Republicans, And you know that that kind of says
it all about where the subject who's benefiting from the
way the subsidy structure is. Right now, that's why we've
(11:26):
got to get into consumers, because I remind my Republican collexists,
we didn't break the system, we didn't create the system,
but we need to be constructive in fixing the system
because the American people depend on the ability to afford
insurance to have security in their daily lives.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well, just a couple of minutes here senter you said,
let me ask you this. This fix, assuming it goes
through the the planet's lineup for us the next day
or two, this is still a very temporary fix. What
is the commitment? What is the game plan for moving
on and getting something permanent in place? With the holidays
coming up, Christmas, Break New Year's, Thanksgiving and so forth,
the time to fix it is limited.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So well, the healthcare system is not going to be
fixed in that time period. What was First of all,
we have to get the government back open. We're going
to do that. We're going to get appropriation spill for agriculture,
which will take care of snaps in the next year.
But we're going to we're doing military, military construction, and
other things like the Capitol police and air traffic controllers
(12:30):
and people. We're getting them paid. That will be done
and off the table for the next year after that.
A vote has been promised to the Democrats to take
up the Biden COVID bonuses that subsidize the affordable care
for the unaffordable care at Obamacare as it is now.
(12:51):
What's unknown is will they want a bipartisan compromise with
us on this or do they just want a show vote.
And I hope that they will work with us on
trying to truly get at the drivers of the costs
under the system.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I am very I'm happy that we are moving forward
and hopefully hopefully quickly and productively. So I kind of
figured that is, once we got through the through the
election process this time around, that a few folks would
start making some decisions that were beneficial to the people.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, look, it was here's the tough thing. I feel
those eight Democrats that finally voted with us. We knew
eventually they would had three of them all along. Five
more came along, but they're just getting beat up because
their party is controlled by the radical left that just
wanted the government never to open up again until Republicans
(13:48):
capitulated to their every demand. And remember what their initial
demands were is restoring the ability for Blue states to
pay for medicaid for illegal immigrants, people who were in
this country illegally. That's what their original demand was. They
sense backed off that and narrowed it down to just
(14:08):
the Biden COVID bonuses. But we'll see, we'll see when
they're serious about trying to negotiate in good faith with
this we are with them. A vote has been promised.
But the good news is we've got to get the
government open, get the government open, start serving the people again.
It's been forty days a lot of time, you know.
(14:31):
I think of all the the you young people and
the people who are struggling, not going with a paycheck
for that long. That's hard. I remember when I was young,
I couldn't have gone a month without a paycheck. And
it's time that we get these people paid and help
put them back to work.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Senator John houstaid, I appreciate you making some time for
me this afternoon, and would you mind if I put
you've got a contact form on your website? Would you
mind if I put that up on my Facebook and
Twitter and so forth in case anybody wants to get
in touch with you.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Absolutely please, please, We love to hear from people.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Wonderful all right, and hopefully we'll get a chance to
talk again soon and smile about all the victories and
the forward momentum. Great, thanks, Chuck, Senator, thank you very much.
Just had a quick conversation with one of our engineering
staff out and what used to be a hallway, it's
just a vacant space now. But uh and and he
came through and he was he was singing band on
the run, so of course I joined in and uh
and he goes, you know what, I ended up backstage,
get out of here. He he managed to uh to
(00:20):
snag through. I think he said his cousin, uh snag
tenth throw tickets to McCartney. And then he ended up
backstage at the show. Yeah. I talked to him before
the show. Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Wow, just to stand in the vicinity of the great
Paul McCartney, that would that would have been awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it would have been cool. And that engineer that
you're speaking of is a pretty cool dude.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh yeah, who knows how some coolness. But anyway, I
just yeah, I was enthusiastic for him because that was
a that's a that's a monumental thing to be that
close to a you know, such a legendary performer. I
have not heard from anyone except him with that quick
little conversation that went to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Have you no, no, no, no, But I don't talk
to anybody any.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, that's nobody talks to you is probably more to
the point. But yeah, we had we had McCartney, we
had the Jonas brothers, and we had who else there
was somebody else. There was another big one in town. No,
not Hammer, No, I can't even remember who it was.
But anyway, November eighth, twenty twenty five will go down
(01:29):
as a great night for big, big concerts here in Columbus, Ohio.
It was just it was a wonderful thing. And h
and everybody who did go, I hope that you enjoyed it.
Speaking of wonderful things, it looks like it sounds like
it feels like it appears that perhaps it's over. And
(01:52):
by it's over, I mean the uh, the federal government
shut down, which to a greater or lesser degree for
most Americans wasn't really felt, but for you know, for
a forty two million or so they say, and definitely
felt with the snap and EBT money not there. Definitely
(02:13):
felt by some federal employees, including the air traffic controllers.
And I awoke this morning to news that there had
been a vote and that we managed to get a
sixty forty split, which means a lot of Democrats came over,
which was wonderful. Some continue to posture and put politics
(02:34):
ahead of the good of the people of this country.
I'm just telling you exactly what I think about Bernie.
Did you see Bernie, did you see? Well? The problem
is a party should have stood firm and really forty
two million people without food stamp benefits or snap benefits,
whatever you call them these days, and the party should have,
(02:55):
in the name of politics, should have stood firm. Hakem.
I wish I was Barack Jefferies with no matter what
comes over from the Senate, it doesn't stand a chance
here putting politics ahead of people. How very sad. But
at the same time, let's hope that they're just blowing
smoke in this. Uh, this is resolved far sooner rather
(03:20):
than later. Joining me right now on the Legacy Retirement
Group dot com phone lines representing the Great State of
Ohio Senator John Hughestead, who for some reason, somehow someway
I'm not real sure gonna I'm gonna have to ask
him how he managed to get the honor of being
the person who announced the sixty forty John Houstaed, how
(03:43):
are you, sir.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh what did you do to get such an honor?
I mean, that's a big deal to be able to
bring that kind of news to the people.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, I was scheduled to preside that in the evening,
and it ran a little long, and I just told
the other members who were going to fill in, I said,
I'll take it. I'll take it until we get there.
And I just stayed up on the podium or on
the rostrum and and presided over the Senate until we
got the sixtieth vote, and then I was It was
an honor to announce it. You know, I felt felt
(04:16):
good about it, felt like forty days and forty nights
of like being on Noah's Ark out there in the
in the wilderness trying to get the government reopened. To
bring that all to a close was great, and it
was an honor to preside over over the final vote.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Now to steal and paraphrase the Alan Parsons project, where
do we go from here? Now that some of the
Democrats are acting up? What well? What happened?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So I'm I'm I'm just left the Senate floor. We're
beginning votes on this final package. You know, the good
news with this it takes, you know, like t fifty
one votes to get this pass. Now that we passed
the sixty vote filibuster cloture vote last night, and so
this should go well. I know that there will be
(05:02):
some people who will post amendments that are trying to
derail this, but I hope that we will vote those
down and keep things on track as we move forward.
But this should be done tonight, get it to the
House tomorrow. Hopefully they'll pass it on Veterans Day or
the day after, because we have a lot of stuff
(05:25):
in here for veterans, and you know, we're passing the
passing three appropriations bills along with the continuing Resolution to
keep the government funded not through June or January thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I am wondering, and I'm assuming there probably has been,
even if even behind closed doors, the conversation amongst Senate
Republicans about now keeping whatever promises were made. I don't
care how the negotiations come out, but if we have
promised we will sit down and talk about this, we
will sit down and hash this out. We will get
(05:58):
this to the floor for a vote. We as and
I say we as Republican Americans, need to honor that,
and we need to do so very visibly with the
microphones on and so the American people can see that
there's so much propaganda only goes so far. Whatever we
said we need to now do.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, well, they wanted to vote on the Biden COVID
bonuses that we're bailing out the failed Obamacare program, and
we'll give them a vote on that. What I hope
they'll do during an intervening time is to work with
us so that we can eliminate the fraud that we
know is in that program. Instead of subsidizing the insurance companies,
(06:42):
I hope we can get the payments directly to consumers
and additionally put some income caps on it. We don't
need to be subsidizing the insurance for millionaires. This should
be targeted at working people who need a little help
with their premiums. But send it to the insurance companies
and hope they reduce the premiums. Send it to people
(07:04):
so that they can shop and get a better deal
for themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The uh, it's again, the accounting is so visible, so blatant,
so obvious, that I don't I find it hard to believe,
and it's hard to say it without I guess sounding
insulting when when people stand up and blatantly misrepresent the
(07:28):
reality of the should have been Affordable Care Act and
expect Americans to just full hook line and sinker for
the BS just as a citizen, it offends me that
these people are are even part of running the show.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, Chuck, you know, I emphasize for the citizens out
there who are struggling under Obamacare. You know, they were
promised that that you know, if you if you could
keep your doctor, their promise that they wouldn't kicked off
their Now they have very limited options. The deductibles are
very high. Premiums have been increasing on an average at
(08:07):
eighteen percent a year. It doesn't work. We said it
wasn't going to work. The Democrats have created it. It's failing.
They think the way to save a failing market that
they created is more subsidies. Well, understand, when you subsidize something,
what are you asking asking for the rest of the
taxpayers or in this case, the children and grandchildren of
(08:28):
those taxpayers, Because it's borrowed money to subsidize the system. Okay,
we can do better at driving down the cost and
even if we are going to help with some subsidies
for this make the market based so that people can
shop for lower prices and they that they have some
(08:50):
control rather than just being like, hey, this is the deal,
you'll pay what we say. You have no agency yourself
to make any of these decisions. You've got to structure
it so we're driving down costcous healthcare is the number
one driver of inflation in twenty first century, and it's
because Obamacare doesn't work right. But we want to make
(09:11):
sure everybody can purchase insurance, and we've got to make
it affordable for them to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We were just talking a little while ago. This is,
by the way, in case you jumped on Ladohouse. Senator
John Housted joining me right now on six tn WTV
and just talking a little wit ago about the one
of the builders here in the United States, New Home Builders,
is subsidizing new home buyers below one percent for the
first year in anticipation of an improving economy so that
(09:37):
they can refinance at a more comfortable rate a year
from now, Which tells you that private industry. The way
capitalism works is if there's an audience, if there's a
buyer for your product, you will adjust what you do
and how you do it in order to get as
much of that audience as possible. The healthcare system defies
that by limiting what is available to the consumer. And
(10:01):
when you sign into healthcare dot govern you see you
got one provider. Nobody else is fighting for your business.
If you had a pool of companies fighting for your business,
they're going to give you as much as they can
for as little as they can, to get as much
of the business as they can as possible.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, and it we know this just it's just the
way it's structured isn't working. And you just can't. You
just can't stick your head in the sand and say, well,
this is the way it is and we're not going
to change it. Here here's how I know that Obamacare
benefits are going to the insurance companies and not to
the consumer, because the the UH stock price of all
(10:42):
of the healthcare insurance companies since Obamacare went in place
has grown. They've grown at double the rate. It's over
six hundred percent for health insurance companies. Thence Obamacare is
what their stock prices increase versus a little over three
hundred percent for the for the Dow Joes Industrial Average. Well,
how does that happen. It only happens because the Obamacare
(11:05):
subsidies and and you know, you see the political contributions
from health insurance companies ninety to ten go to Democrats
versus Republicans, And you know that that kind of says
it all about where the subject who's benefiting from the
way the subsidy structure is. Right now, that's why we've
(11:26):
got to get into consumers, because I remind my Republican collexists,
we didn't break the system, we didn't create the system,
but we need to be constructive in fixing the system
because the American people depend on the ability to afford
insurance to have security in their daily lives.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well, just a couple of minutes here senter you said,
let me ask you this. This fix, assuming it goes
through the the planet's lineup for us the next day
or two, this is still a very temporary fix. What
is the commitment? What is the game plan for moving
on and getting something permanent in place? With the holidays
coming up, Christmas, Break New Year's, Thanksgiving and so forth,
the time to fix it is limited.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
So well, the healthcare system is not going to be
fixed in that time period. What was First of all,
we have to get the government back open. We're going
to do that. We're going to get appropriation spill for agriculture,
which will take care of snaps in the next year.
But we're going to we're doing military, military construction, and
other things like the Capitol police and air traffic controllers
(12:30):
and people. We're getting them paid. That will be done
and off the table for the next year after that.
A vote has been promised to the Democrats to take
up the Biden COVID bonuses that subsidize the affordable care
for the unaffordable care at Obamacare as it is now.
(12:51):
What's unknown is will they want a bipartisan compromise with
us on this or do they just want a show vote.
And I hope that they will work with us on
trying to truly get at the drivers of the costs
under the system.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I am very I'm happy that we are moving forward
and hopefully hopefully quickly and productively. So I kind of
figured that is, once we got through the through the
election process this time around, that a few folks would
start making some decisions that were beneficial to the people.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, look, it was here's the tough thing. I feel
those eight Democrats that finally voted with us. We knew
eventually they would had three of them all along. Five
more came along, but they're just getting beat up because
their party is controlled by the radical left that just
wanted the government never to open up again until Republicans
(13:48):
capitulated to their every demand. And remember what their initial
demands were is restoring the ability for Blue states to
pay for medicaid for illegal immigrants, people who were in
this country illegally. That's what their original demand was. They
sense backed off that and narrowed it down to just
(14:08):
the Biden COVID bonuses. But we'll see, we'll see when
they're serious about trying to negotiate in good faith with
this we are with them. A vote has been promised.
But the good news is we've got to get the
government open, get the government open, start serving the people again.
It's been forty days a lot of time, you know.
(14:31):
I think of all the the you young people and
the people who are struggling, not going with a paycheck
for that long. That's hard. I remember when I was young,
I couldn't have gone a month without a paycheck. And
it's time that we get these people paid and help
put them back to work.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Senator John houstaid, I appreciate you making some time for
me this afternoon, and would you mind if I put
you've got a contact form on your website? Would you
mind if I put that up on my Facebook and
Twitter and so forth in case anybody wants to get
in touch with you.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Absolutely please, please, We love to hear from people.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Wonderful all right, and hopefully we'll get a chance to
talk again soon and smile about all the victories and
the forward momentum. Great, thanks, Chuck, Senator, thank you very much.
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If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.