Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hertfeat Saint Louis with the tja Akag holiday bringing you
the pulse of the city.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
This is boy doctor at b J THEDJ Holiday. And
as we get into the holiday season, it's time for
everybody to start thinking about education. And I know that
a lot of times, you know, people they move into
different areas and the first thing they think about or
the schools, you know, and what do the school? How
(00:33):
can the school help their child get elevated and be
able to have the best education possible. There's one school
or to talk about today. I've heard of it for
many years. You know what, I didn't know anything about it,
so I just decided, you know what, I'm going to
find out. I'm going to get all up in their
(00:55):
business today, you know so I am proud to have
the principal and head of school, shall we say, doctor
Tim Brockman from Lutheran North Middle and High School.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
How you doing today, sir?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Doing great? Thanks doctor B, Doctor B to.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Doctor b J, Doctor B, doctor B. It's gonna be
a great conversation. So how you doing, man?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Doing real well. We're excited about Thanksgiving coming up and
also in the midst of a really great school year.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Okay, so speaking of a school year, you are head
of school overt Lutheran North. That's correct, Yes, sir. I've
been at Luther Norith for a long time. Came as
a teacher and a coach, eventually worked my way into
administration and currently the head of school.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, well, you know everybody going to know, what's a
long time? Well, I told you I'm getting your big
that's right. That's right.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, so of our alum will recognize the name, hopefully.
I came to luther North nineteen ninety six a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, ude, you like Lutheran North.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I think when you retired they need to put a
statue outside the school like they do, you know, like
they did Michael Jordan outside the you know, the Skygo stadium.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, I don't know about a statue of me, but
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I think you know what I'm going to say, he
gets his statue. He's been there that long. Huh. That's
a long time man, Yes, sir. How does it feel?
Actually it feels great.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I as I said, it came to Luther North and
I was a teacher. I've kind of had a couple
of careers there within one place and fell in love
with the culture and climate of our school, with the
with the students, and the difference that we can make
in young lives, both in a Christian sense and also
in an educational sense, and really never wanted to leave.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Still still doing it today, Still doing it today.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Now I got to ask this question because, uh, you know,
I used to work in education as well. A lot
of people just think that, you know, I just been
here on the rideo, you know, you know, But no,
I did that. So how is it, you know, because
you have the history of the school and you've seen
(03:16):
it go from one extreme to the next. Because I
do believe the high school has been like sixty years, right.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's correct.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, we celebrated our sixtieth birthday last year on our campus.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, So we're looking at about sixty one years of
being in high school. Then all of a sudden, maybe
about seven years ago, y'all added in the middle school, right.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We did? We did?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And actually, if you don't mind, yeah, there's actually an
additional little bit of a history a lot of people
don't know about. So the first HeiG Lutheran High School
in Saint Louis opened up in the nineteen forties down
by Forest Park, Lake and Waterman. So that location was
home base for about twenty years, and then we moved
in the nineteen sixties to our current forty seven acre campus.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's really beautiful.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
But about seven years ago we saw a need in
the community to serve not just ninth through twelfth graders,
but also middle schoolers, and so we have six through
twelfth graders on our campus now. And this is kind
of a milestone year for us in some ways because
our sixth graders, those that came and had faith and
confidence in us that very first year, are now twelfth graders,
(04:32):
and so they'll graduate having been at our school for
the maximum the seven years for the first time. That's
that first cohort that went all the way through with us,
and it's really a great testament.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
To the things that we're doing at Lutheranoid.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So are you able to see a different in how
teachers need to teach? You know what I mean, because
you know when I came, we would talk. Now the
key is out a day. They I mean they're a
little different, not a lot, just look different. And do
(05:10):
you see the teaching style kind of changing a little bit?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Yeah, and I think in good ways. So we have
amazing students. They're all at different points of growth and maturity,
of course. But you know, back in the day, I
mean go back even before my time, it was pretty
much students in rows in a classroom, teacher up in
the front instructing, students taking notes, writing things down, sit
(05:38):
and get as educators like to say today, the educational experience.
There's still maybe some of that, but it's much more experiential.
Students in groups working on projects. We have to vary instruction.
You can't just lecture it students for fifty minutes or
an hour. You've got to maybe break that up into
(05:59):
twenty minute segments, thirty minute segments, and give students still
a lot of responsibility, but in a different way than
it was, you know when we came up.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
See yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now the one thing being that you you know, you
come with history. You know you can keep the foundation
of the mission right absolutely, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So so I got to ask you what is the mission?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Because I don't know anything about Lutheran North I just
know I was there a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And talked to some kids. I was like, wow, this okay, okay,
but I.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Didn't get a chance to really dig into what is
Lutheran North all about?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So what is the mission? Sure?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Thanks for asking. I'd love to share our mission, you know,
our mission statement. I'm gonna give you two sentences and
then I'll kind of condense it. So, Lutheran North is
a diverse educational community. Our unities in Jesus Christ. We're
a Lutheran Christian school, right, And why do we exist? Well,
we want to share that love of our savior Jesus.
And then we want to each and every day equip
(07:01):
our students to.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Achieve, believe, and belong.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
So really it's about living in Christian community and harmony
with each other, and then helping our students maximize their
God given abilities. And again, we love that achieve, believe, belong.
So whether I'm achieving in the classroom or on the
performance stage or the play, the bands, the sports, et cetera,
et cetera, we certainly want our students to We want
(07:29):
to nurture their Christian faith.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We think that's really.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Important, and we do that in ways of service and
worship and just prayer and community. And then that belonging
piece you know, sadly, a lot of our students today
have high anxiety, suicide rates up, and a lot of
things we don't really like to talk about. And Luther
North there's no perfect place either. We you know, we
(07:52):
don't sugarcoat it, but we are a really caring place.
A lot of people say it feels like a family.
Is that when I was, and I think if you
walk in the door, that's hopefully what you send, what
you sense and feel. So we care about each other
and we take care of each other and help each
other belong in many many ways.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, I mean when I walked into school, you can
just feel it, you know what I mean. When I
when I walked in, I could just feel I was like, man, wow,
these the students are very very you know, I won't
say orderly, but they were very relaxed, you know what
I mean. They very relaxed. They were very respectable, and
it didn't seem like they were putting on you know
(08:32):
what I mean. So it was like a genuine you
know because sometimes you know, you walk into places and
you know, you know, and I'm gonna say, and you
can walk in and you can tell when a kid
was told. Now you got to be respectful, and you
gotta do this because this person is this person, and
blah blah blah. Right, and then you go in the
(08:52):
classroom and the kids are trying to, you know, be respectful,
but you know, it just kind of comes out.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And then by me being.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Has been an administrator myself, that they didn't you know,
they didn't know, I'm able to take control of the
classroom and the teachers just kind of sitting there going, Okay,
this guy's on the radio, and then I'll tell them that.
But anyway, alongside that, I'm sure there's a lot of
opportunities at Luther to enough you want to talk about
some of the opportunities there.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Sure, sure, So I think you could break those into
a couple of different broad categories, right. Academically, well, I
say we want to prepare our middle schools to become
great high school students, and prepare high school students to
become great lifelong learners. And of course, for almost everyone
that's college after high school. There are occasionally students that
(09:48):
choose a different path, but most of our students are
well prepared for college. Academics and so forth have college
credit classes and a wide variety of curricular options. We
like to think of ourselves as a smaller school with
lots to offer and and so then you know, you
break outside of the academic and sort of the school day,
(10:10):
so to speak. Lots of ways to get involved with extracurriculars,
and there's no requirements to participate. But almost all of
our students are either playing multiple sports, or they're on
a team and they're in the play, or they're on robotics,
or they've gone to speech and debate, and and and
and you know, lots of opportunity to try something you've
(10:32):
done for a long time, to try out something you've
not you know, had experience in before, to really relate
to and associate with lots of different students and different
age groups and and so forth. And we just think
that creates a well rounded individual, you know, upon graduation.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well, you know, the one thing I did want to
get in and talk about. I do believe this is
a enrollment season. It is guys are looking for new candidates.
And I think I heard application fees of a waived
or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yes, sir, so, really, enrollment season is almost all year long.
It seems we finish were enroll students in the fall
and immediately are ready to think about the future because
we're always thinking ahead and visioning about the future of
the school.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So yes, now that we're.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Into almost the end of the first semester, just a
couple weeks left in semester one, we would encourage families
to come for a visit. We have Crusader Day tours,
which is a parent and or parents and student come
to the school, listen to me a little bit, take
a tour of the school, hear from our admissions department
(11:47):
and Miss Jenny that does a really great job helping
families through the admissions process. We do have an application
and there is later in the year there is a
small fee, but right now there's no application fees, so
it's really no risk to investigate the school and take
a look and see if we're the right fit. We
(12:09):
understand there's lots of schools in Saint Louis. There's lots
of good schools. We think that we're right up there
with them, but you know, families need to make the
right decision for their children to make sure that what
they're looking for is something that we provide and and
that's going to be the right the right fit going forward.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I totally understand.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Now if people want to get information about Lutheran North
Middle High School, is there a website, social media, phone number,
anything like that that they can get all this great
information that we discussed.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Sure, yeah, we're yeah, sir, We're active on social media
and Facebook and Instagram and so forth. But probably the best,
simplest one stop shop is l N Crusaders with an
s dot org l for Lutheran n for North Crusaders
dot org, and there you can get to the phone numbers,
the social media tags and and just peruse, you know,
(13:09):
all the activities, events and how the emissions process kind
of initiates as well.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
All very well, doctor Brockman, thank you so much for
coming in today. I appreciate you and appreciate you educating
me on Lutheran North because I've been knowing about the school.
This didn't just didn't know that it started on the
south side and now moved to the north side.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I got it, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I know I understand the North now because it didn't
I didn't. That never resonated with me.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yes, sir, rab there, thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
That's great to have the opportunity to talk about our
school and thank you for taking an interest and even
coming to the billing to help speak to our students.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
No problem.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
This has been another edition of Heartbeat Saint Louis with
DJ a J a BG holiday, bringing you the pulse
of the city.
Hertfeat Saint Louis with the tja Akag holiday bringing you
the pulse of the city.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
This is boy doctor at b J THEDJ Holiday. And
as we get into the holiday season, it's time for
everybody to start thinking about education. And I know that
a lot of times, you know, people they move into
different areas and the first thing they think about or
the schools, you know, and what do the school? How
(00:33):
can the school help their child get elevated and be
able to have the best education possible. There's one school
or to talk about today. I've heard of it for
many years. You know what, I didn't know anything about it,
so I just decided, you know what, I'm going to
find out. I'm going to get all up in their
(00:55):
business today, you know so I am proud to have
the principal and head of school, shall we say, doctor
Tim Brockman from Lutheran North Middle and High School.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
How you doing today, sir?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Doing great? Thanks doctor B, Doctor B to.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Doctor b J, Doctor B, doctor B. It's gonna be
a great conversation. So how you doing, man?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Doing real well. We're excited about Thanksgiving coming up and
also in the midst of a really great school year.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Okay, so speaking of a school year, you are head
of school overt Lutheran North. That's correct, Yes, sir. I've
been at Luther Norith for a long time. Came as
a teacher and a coach, eventually worked my way into
administration and currently the head of school.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, well, you know everybody going to know, what's a
long time? Well, I told you I'm getting your big
that's right. That's right.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well, so of our alum will recognize the name, hopefully.
I came to luther North nineteen ninety six a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, ude, you like Lutheran North.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I think when you retired they need to put a
statue outside the school like they do, you know, like
they did Michael Jordan outside the you know, the Skygo stadium.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, I don't know about a statue of me, but
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I think you know what I'm going to say, he
gets his statue. He's been there that long. Huh. That's
a long time man, Yes, sir. How does it feel?
Actually it feels great.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I as I said, it came to Luther North and
I was a teacher. I've kind of had a couple
of careers there within one place and fell in love
with the culture and climate of our school, with the
with the students, and the difference that we can make
in young lives, both in a Christian sense and also
in an educational sense, and really never wanted to leave.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Still still doing it today, Still doing it today.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Now I got to ask this question because, uh, you know,
I used to work in education as well. A lot
of people just think that, you know, I just been
here on the rideo, you know, you know, But no,
I did that. So how is it, you know, because
you have the history of the school and you've seen
(03:16):
it go from one extreme to the next. Because I
do believe the high school has been like sixty years, right.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's correct.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, we celebrated our sixtieth birthday last year on our campus.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, So we're looking at about sixty one years of
being in high school. Then all of a sudden, maybe
about seven years ago, y'all added in the middle school, right.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We did? We did?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And actually, if you don't mind, yeah, there's actually an
additional little bit of a history a lot of people
don't know about. So the first HeiG Lutheran High School
in Saint Louis opened up in the nineteen forties down
by Forest Park, Lake and Waterman. So that location was
home base for about twenty years, and then we moved
in the nineteen sixties to our current forty seven acre campus.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's really beautiful.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
But about seven years ago we saw a need in
the community to serve not just ninth through twelfth graders,
but also middle schoolers, and so we have six through
twelfth graders on our campus now. And this is kind
of a milestone year for us in some ways because
our sixth graders, those that came and had faith and
confidence in us that very first year, are now twelfth graders,
(04:32):
and so they'll graduate having been at our school for
the maximum the seven years for the first time. That's
that first cohort that went all the way through with us,
and it's really a great testament.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
To the things that we're doing at Lutheranoid.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So are you able to see a different in how
teachers need to teach? You know what I mean, because
you know when I came, we would talk. Now the
key is out a day. They I mean they're a
little different, not a lot, just look different. And do
(05:10):
you see the teaching style kind of changing a little bit?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Yeah, and I think in good ways. So we have
amazing students. They're all at different points of growth and maturity,
of course. But you know, back in the day, I
mean go back even before my time, it was pretty
much students in rows in a classroom, teacher up in
the front instructing, students taking notes, writing things down, sit
(05:38):
and get as educators like to say today, the educational experience.
There's still maybe some of that, but it's much more experiential.
Students in groups working on projects. We have to vary instruction.
You can't just lecture it students for fifty minutes or
an hour. You've got to maybe break that up into
(05:59):
twenty minute segments, thirty minute segments, and give students still
a lot of responsibility, but in a different way than
it was, you know when we came up.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
See yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now the one thing being that you you know, you
come with history. You know you can keep the foundation
of the mission right absolutely, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So so I got to ask you what is the mission?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Because I don't know anything about Lutheran North I just
know I was there a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And talked to some kids. I was like, wow, this okay, okay,
but I.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Didn't get a chance to really dig into what is
Lutheran North all about?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So what is the mission? Sure?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Thanks for asking. I'd love to share our mission, you know,
our mission statement. I'm gonna give you two sentences and
then I'll kind of condense it. So, Lutheran North is
a diverse educational community. Our unities in Jesus Christ. We're
a Lutheran Christian school, right, And why do we exist? Well,
we want to share that love of our savior Jesus.
And then we want to each and every day equip
(07:01):
our students to.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Achieve, believe, and belong.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
So really it's about living in Christian community and harmony
with each other, and then helping our students maximize their
God given abilities. And again, we love that achieve, believe, belong.
So whether I'm achieving in the classroom or on the
performance stage or the play, the bands, the sports, et cetera,
et cetera, we certainly want our students to We want
(07:29):
to nurture their Christian faith.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We think that's really.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Important, and we do that in ways of service and
worship and just prayer and community. And then that belonging
piece you know, sadly, a lot of our students today
have high anxiety, suicide rates up, and a lot of
things we don't really like to talk about. And Luther
North there's no perfect place either. We you know, we
(07:52):
don't sugarcoat it, but we are a really caring place.
A lot of people say it feels like a family.
Is that when I was, and I think if you
walk in the door, that's hopefully what you send, what
you sense and feel. So we care about each other
and we take care of each other and help each
other belong in many many ways.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, I mean when I walked into school, you can
just feel it, you know what I mean. When I
when I walked in, I could just feel I was like, man, wow,
these the students are very very you know, I won't
say orderly, but they were very relaxed, you know what
I mean. They very relaxed. They were very respectable, and
it didn't seem like they were putting on you know
(08:32):
what I mean. So it was like a genuine you
know because sometimes you know, you walk into places and
you know, you know, and I'm gonna say, and you
can walk in and you can tell when a kid
was told. Now you got to be respectful, and you
gotta do this because this person is this person, and
blah blah blah. Right, and then you go in the
(08:52):
classroom and the kids are trying to, you know, be respectful,
but you know, it just kind of comes out.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And then by me being.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Has been an administrator myself, that they didn't you know,
they didn't know, I'm able to take control of the
classroom and the teachers just kind of sitting there going, Okay,
this guy's on the radio, and then I'll tell them that.
But anyway, alongside that, I'm sure there's a lot of
opportunities at Luther to enough you want to talk about
some of the opportunities there.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Sure, sure, So I think you could break those into
a couple of different broad categories, right. Academically, well, I
say we want to prepare our middle schools to become
great high school students, and prepare high school students to
become great lifelong learners. And of course, for almost everyone
that's college after high school. There are occasionally students that
(09:48):
choose a different path, but most of our students are
well prepared for college. Academics and so forth have college
credit classes and a wide variety of curricular options. We
like to think of ourselves as a smaller school with
lots to offer and and so then you know, you
break outside of the academic and sort of the school day,
(10:10):
so to speak. Lots of ways to get involved with extracurriculars,
and there's no requirements to participate. But almost all of
our students are either playing multiple sports, or they're on
a team and they're in the play, or they're on robotics,
or they've gone to speech and debate, and and and
and you know, lots of opportunity to try something you've
(10:32):
done for a long time, to try out something you've
not you know, had experience in before, to really relate
to and associate with lots of different students and different
age groups and and so forth. And we just think
that creates a well rounded individual, you know, upon graduation.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well, you know, the one thing I did want to
get in and talk about. I do believe this is
a enrollment season. It is guys are looking for new candidates.
And I think I heard application fees of a waived
or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yes, sir, so, really, enrollment season is almost all year long.
It seems we finish were enroll students in the fall
and immediately are ready to think about the future because
we're always thinking ahead and visioning about the future of
the school.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So yes, now that we're.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Into almost the end of the first semester, just a
couple weeks left in semester one, we would encourage families
to come for a visit. We have Crusader Day tours,
which is a parent and or parents and student come
to the school, listen to me a little bit, take
a tour of the school, hear from our admissions department
(11:47):
and Miss Jenny that does a really great job helping
families through the admissions process. We do have an application
and there is later in the year there is a
small fee, but right now there's no application fees, so
it's really no risk to investigate the school and take
a look and see if we're the right fit. We
(12:09):
understand there's lots of schools in Saint Louis. There's lots
of good schools. We think that we're right up there
with them, but you know, families need to make the
right decision for their children to make sure that what
they're looking for is something that we provide and and
that's going to be the right the right fit going forward.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I totally understand.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Now if people want to get information about Lutheran North
Middle High School, is there a website, social media, phone number,
anything like that that they can get all this great
information that we discussed.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Sure, yeah, we're yeah, sir, We're active on social media
and Facebook and Instagram and so forth. But probably the best,
simplest one stop shop is l N Crusaders with an
s dot org l for Lutheran n for North Crusaders
dot org, and there you can get to the phone numbers,
the social media tags and and just peruse, you know,
(13:09):
all the activities, events and how the emissions process kind
of initiates as well.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
All very well, doctor Brockman, thank you so much for
coming in today. I appreciate you and appreciate you educating
me on Lutheran North because I've been knowing about the school.
This didn't just didn't know that it started on the
south side and now moved to the north side.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I got it, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I know I understand the North now because it didn't
I didn't. That never resonated with me.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yes, sir, rab there, thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
That's great to have the opportunity to talk about our
school and thank you for taking an interest and even
coming to the billing to help speak to our students.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
No problem.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
This has been another edition of Heartbeat Saint Louis with
DJ a J a BG holiday, bringing you the pulse
of the city.
Popular Podcasts
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.
The Brothers Ortiz
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.