July 29, 2025 • 14 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Tuesday on Newstalk ZB) Weird Voice, But a Voice/Patients Will Need Patience/What's With These Charges?/Definitely a Dumb Rule/Free Stuff We Never Asked For
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said b
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Used Talk said, be you Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Tuesday, which was the day before
the nurse strike, which, as you're listening to this might
be happening right now. Our credit cards too, charges look
like they're on the way out and for some reason
(00:44):
that's bad health and safety.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We're getting rid of that and moaning about freestaff.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
What we're going to do at the end of the podcast.
But first up, this bloke remembers Michael Hill. He used
to write radio ads for him.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I had just started my career in broadcasting in nineteen
eighty four at the age of six teen, up and
at a radio station called k double CFM, and because
Michael had his primary residence up there, he would come
into our new studios and quite often record commercials there
(01:25):
because you know that that made sense. He was sort
of not too far away and.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
He could he could do them there and we would duplicate.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Them and send them off to other radio stations around
the country. So he was very nice and I met
him a few times when he came in. But I
have to admit something that you know, that I did
he without without necessarily running it past anyone I was,
(01:53):
you know, because I was a I was a junior copyright.
I felt that his yeah, I felt that his voice
was just a little.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Bit squeaky, and and so what I did was is
I got the pitch on the two track recorder, the
analog two track recorder, and I turned it up slightly
so that when you played.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
It back a real speed, it sounded a bit slower
and therefore a bit deeper. And that went on for
a little while until.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Until it didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So that's Bill Curtain there. He I used to do
that job.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I'm not in fung Ra but in Hamilton, so we
didn't have Michael Hill coming, and we had Jerry from
k Market, not to be confused with Kmart, came came.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
K Market was a fruit.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And veggie retail outfit and it became Pumpkin Planet eventually weirdly,
but Jerry had a very distinctive voice as well. And
sometimes if Jerry couldn't make it, and I would just
pretend to be Jerry Hi folks.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
He said it a bit like stick me and actually,
now that.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They think of it, News Talk Zeth Bean.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Right, nurses on strike.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We all feel sorry for them should they be allowed
to go on strike.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Though, if you've got.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
An appointment at the hospital this week, you might want
to check it's still going ahead. Why the nurses are
going on strike tomorrow and here are the numbers for you.
Kicks off at nine am tomorrow morning and will last
twenty four hours. Four three hundred surgeries and specialist appointments
are going to be affected. Thirty six thousand nurses taking part.
(03:47):
It's a complete withdrawal of labor. It'll affect anywhere that
Health New Zealand provides health or hospital care, so your
clinics but also your hospitals and of course the middle
of winter, so great timing. Nurses union being bargaining the
usual stuff, pay staffing levels also as usual. They say
it's life or death you will be seen to. They
(04:09):
had a bargaining meeting yesterday with Health New Zealand obviously
didn't go well. They've been bargaining since last September. The
nurses say two short staffed and your nurses who are
leaving are not being replaced. However, Health New Zealand says
a new graduate nurse on seventy five thousand dollars would
get a total pay increase of eight and a half
(04:30):
thousand dollars. It's eleven percent by the end of June
next year. And what's more, they say the average salary
for both senior and registered nurses including overtime allowances and
penal rates of one hundred and twenty five grand. Until
these guys sought out who's right and come to some
sort of agreement, this may not be the last hospital
stripe that we patients must.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Endure this week. Interesting turn a phrase, we patience. I
didn't realize Ryan had anything wrong with him. Seems he
looks like he's the picture of health to me. Anyway,
(05:11):
The patients will have to have patients, won't they? On
this one? As I keep saying, I think you know,
we should just nurses should be one of the highest
paid people in the country, but they're not. It's all
around the wrong way. But that's capitalism, in't it. You
talk right, enough of my communist propaganda. Let's move on
(05:36):
to credit cards and the charges. And this is very complicated,
and I never would have thought so many people would
be complaining about charges being removed.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Come on, I mean, sure there are costs in terms
of fraud protection, and there'd be other costs involved, and
that's the protection you get with a credit cards. So
if you want to use your credit card and have
that added protection, then you pay the surcharge. I don't
see why the retailer should pay it, and I don't
see why I should pay it when I'm not using
(06:08):
that facility. Why didn't the government go after the ticketmasters
and the year in New Zealand's and the hotels of
this world that charge processing fees and service fees. And
you've looked at our website, so now we're going to
charge you fees. I mean, there seem to charge from
the time you start looking on the websites.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
Come on.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Coalition government did not cover themselves in glory yesterday with
this announcement. And then there was the announcement of the
announcement from Brook van Valden around scaffolding safety requirements. That
was another unwelcome reminder of Labour's modus operandi too. No,
she was a day to forget for the government.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yesterday Yeah, we'll get to the scaffolding shortly.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, I just don't.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Understand what's going on with There shouldn't have been charges
of the first place. Surely waving your card at something
or your smart watch, as I do in my case,
why that should be any more difficult than anything else
is ridiculous. But what to me, what's even more ridiculous
(07:17):
is why nobody's ever going up to pay the bill
at the end of a meal. And if there's not
a surcharge, you know, a little handwritten label on the
f POS terminal saying there's a two point five percent
(07:38):
surcharge for the payWave or whatever. Nobody's ever If that's
not there, nobody's ever going, ah, am I subsidizing people
with who are trying to pay with this smartwatch? Am I.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Nobody's ever said that ever.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So what I'm saying is it seems it seems to
be mostly hospitality places that.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Have a beef about this.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I've never understood where you don't just build the charges
into your prices make I mean, everything will just be
so slightly more expensive and nobody will notice. But instead
you've just decided, I know, because we get dash more
for some people paying with Payway. We're gonna write a
(08:22):
little notice and stick it on with celitatee, so low rent.
I've never understood it.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
All right, as promised, let's talk health and safety now.
I think we've all agreed.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
We've prepared for a few people to fall off scaffolding
as long as it doesn't get too out of control.
I think that's all we've good decided now.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Isn't this the best example that you have come across
yet of how stupid health and safety rules are. So
I can ask my kids under fourteen to go out
and water the plants because it's a residential home. My
brother can ask his kids under fourteen to go out
and water the plants because even though he lives on
a farm, he doesn't sell anything from the farm. But
his neighbor cannot go out and ask his kids under
(09:07):
fourteen to water plants because he does sell stuff from
his farm. My brother's kids can go and collect the
eggs because they don't sell the eggs. They just give
them away to family. But the neighbors kids can't collect
the eggs because they do sell the eggs. That's stupid,
isn't it. Kids on farms can't help their parents with
chores like feeding animals, But my kids can help me
with chawes like unpacking the dishwasher. What's the difference. I mean, sure,
(09:28):
it's noble to want to keep kids safe, and I
do too, but actually, where are kids safest if not
kicking around and learning from good parents. These rules are
the opposite of what humans have been doing for eons.
For eons, parents have been teaching kids life lessons how
to do basic life stuff by showing them how from
a young age, And for eons kids have learned to
help their parents around the house or the farm or
(09:49):
whatever because it's good for them. Not only are these
rules not common sense, they are actually the opposite of
good parenting.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That sounds like a stupid rule either duplicy.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
Ellen absolutely does.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
I would have given about five of those ones for that.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh this is a revelation to me.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I just go to show that I'm not a regular,
you know, listener of the Whole Drive Show. I mean,
generally I'm doing other things at that time of day.
But I had no idea that they were doing satirical
stings like like I do on the Mike Husking Breakfast.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I wonder who did them first? Me or them.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm hoping that it was me and they'd been copying me.
But if it was them and I'm copying them without
even knowing it, feel.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Hack now, news talk has it been right?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Let's finish up.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Everybody hates these Disney discs, don't they, which presumably somebody's
collecting them.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Sounds quite frightening. Those caught in the Brown Spain New
World when the sign caught fire. Because the smoke came
down inside the building, people were struggling to breathe. I
thought it was a drill, But does the flames from
inside the building. It wasn't too scary, but when people
saw the flames, people started to panic. Didn't think Brown's
Bay people would panic. The staff successfully evacuated the building
(11:14):
and kept everyone safe. They were telling people not to run.
There was quite a bit of smoke and the wind
was blowing in towards the melting point, the meeting point.
It smelled of burnt plastic. I suppose course it would
have been New World. People didn't want to leave without
getting their stickers for their smegcock where a hang on,
what about my stickers? I bought some stuff in you
(11:34):
with the I've got one sticker. I thought Cheapest Creepers
was a confusing shop because I was trying to get
cashed in my card, was trying to get cash because
there was a scratchy bought outside with people I knew anyway,
So I don't know what to say about that.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Countdown?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
What rubbish?
Speaker 9 (12:04):
What do they collect now? Disney stickers or something? Have
you noticed that at countdown it looks like the least
interesting thing to collect ever, but normally mind countdown? But
I'm not gonna I almost want to boycott it because
of the Disney discs. I don't know if any adult
(12:26):
or child that would be remotely interested in those unless
they were two years old. So sort it out Australian soup.
No I wants a Disney disc. We want knives, and
we want crockery. We love that Smeg stuff. Now I
wants a Disney disc. No one's gonna be bringing talkback
and complaining because everyone out of tinker Bell, will they?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I don't imagine, though.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Interesting that Marcus still calls a countdown, and I think
it's been war worse for quite a while. It's not
those people who insist on calling x Twitter like I mean,
nobody wanted it to be called something else, but it
is called something out.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Stop saying formerly known as Twitter.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know, ebody knows was one of the most famous
things that's happened in industry. Let's stop doing that, but
also also stop complaining about three stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Although I will.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Repeat my call for supermarkets to stop giving away stuff
because obviously they across them somewhere along the way and just.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Make the stuff that we're actually buying a little bit cheaper.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
But it would be prevable for me. I'm assuring that's
what pack and Safe does because they don't really have giveaways.
I sort of respect.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Them for that.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Here we are talking about Stickney in again the circular
nature of podcasting, and we'll be back with another completed
circle for you tomorrow. Sear then us.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Talk Talk Said Bean. For more from News Talk Said
b listen live on air or online, and keep our
shows with you wherever you go with our podcasts on
iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said b
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Used Talk said, be you Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Tuesday, which was the day before
the nurse strike, which, as you're listening to this might
be happening right now. Our credit cards too, charges look
like they're on the way out and for some reason
(00:44):
that's bad health and safety.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We're getting rid of that and moaning about freestaff.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
What we're going to do at the end of the podcast.
But first up, this bloke remembers Michael Hill. He used
to write radio ads for him.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I had just started my career in broadcasting in nineteen
eighty four at the age of six teen, up and
at a radio station called k double CFM, and because
Michael had his primary residence up there, he would come
into our new studios and quite often record commercials there
(01:25):
because you know that that made sense. He was sort
of not too far away and.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
He could he could do them there and we would duplicate.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Them and send them off to other radio stations around
the country. So he was very nice and I met
him a few times when he came in. But I
have to admit something that you know, that I did
he without without necessarily running it past anyone I was,
(01:53):
you know, because I was a I was a junior copyright.
I felt that his yeah, I felt that his voice
was just a little.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Bit squeaky, and and so what I did was is
I got the pitch on the two track recorder, the
analog two track recorder, and I turned it up slightly
so that when you played.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
It back a real speed, it sounded a bit slower
and therefore a bit deeper. And that went on for
a little while until.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Until it didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So that's Bill Curtain there. He I used to do
that job.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I'm not in fung Ra but in Hamilton, so we
didn't have Michael Hill coming, and we had Jerry from
k Market, not to be confused with Kmart, came came.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
K Market was a fruit.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And veggie retail outfit and it became Pumpkin Planet eventually weirdly,
but Jerry had a very distinctive voice as well. And
sometimes if Jerry couldn't make it, and I would just
pretend to be Jerry Hi folks.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
He said it a bit like stick me and actually,
now that.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They think of it, News Talk Zeth Bean.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Right, nurses on strike.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We all feel sorry for them should they be allowed
to go on strike.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Though, if you've got.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
An appointment at the hospital this week, you might want
to check it's still going ahead. Why the nurses are
going on strike tomorrow and here are the numbers for you.
Kicks off at nine am tomorrow morning and will last
twenty four hours. Four three hundred surgeries and specialist appointments
are going to be affected. Thirty six thousand nurses taking part.
(03:47):
It's a complete withdrawal of labor. It'll affect anywhere that
Health New Zealand provides health or hospital care, so your
clinics but also your hospitals and of course the middle
of winter, so great timing. Nurses union being bargaining the
usual stuff, pay staffing levels also as usual. They say
it's life or death you will be seen to. They
(04:09):
had a bargaining meeting yesterday with Health New Zealand obviously
didn't go well. They've been bargaining since last September. The
nurses say two short staffed and your nurses who are
leaving are not being replaced. However, Health New Zealand says
a new graduate nurse on seventy five thousand dollars would
get a total pay increase of eight and a half
(04:30):
thousand dollars. It's eleven percent by the end of June
next year. And what's more, they say the average salary
for both senior and registered nurses including overtime allowances and
penal rates of one hundred and twenty five grand. Until
these guys sought out who's right and come to some
sort of agreement, this may not be the last hospital
stripe that we patients must.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Endure this week. Interesting turn a phrase, we patience. I
didn't realize Ryan had anything wrong with him. Seems he
looks like he's the picture of health to me. Anyway,
(05:11):
The patients will have to have patients, won't they? On
this one? As I keep saying, I think you know,
we should just nurses should be one of the highest
paid people in the country, but they're not. It's all
around the wrong way. But that's capitalism, in't it. You
talk right, enough of my communist propaganda. Let's move on
(05:36):
to credit cards and the charges. And this is very complicated,
and I never would have thought so many people would
be complaining about charges being removed.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Come on, I mean, sure there are costs in terms
of fraud protection, and there'd be other costs involved, and
that's the protection you get with a credit cards. So
if you want to use your credit card and have
that added protection, then you pay the surcharge. I don't
see why the retailer should pay it, and I don't
see why I should pay it when I'm not using
(06:08):
that facility. Why didn't the government go after the ticketmasters
and the year in New Zealand's and the hotels of
this world that charge processing fees and service fees. And
you've looked at our website, so now we're going to
charge you fees. I mean, there seem to charge from
the time you start looking on the websites.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
Come on.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Coalition government did not cover themselves in glory yesterday with
this announcement. And then there was the announcement of the
announcement from Brook van Valden around scaffolding safety requirements. That
was another unwelcome reminder of Labour's modus operandi too. No,
she was a day to forget for the government.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yesterday Yeah, we'll get to the scaffolding shortly.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, I just don't.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Understand what's going on with There shouldn't have been charges
of the first place. Surely waving your card at something
or your smart watch, as I do in my case,
why that should be any more difficult than anything else
is ridiculous. But what to me, what's even more ridiculous
(07:17):
is why nobody's ever going up to pay the bill
at the end of a meal. And if there's not
a surcharge, you know, a little handwritten label on the
f POS terminal saying there's a two point five percent
(07:38):
surcharge for the payWave or whatever. Nobody's ever If that's
not there, nobody's ever going, ah, am I subsidizing people
with who are trying to pay with this smartwatch? Am I.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Nobody's ever said that ever.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So what I'm saying is it seems it seems to
be mostly hospitality places that.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Have a beef about this.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I've never understood where you don't just build the charges
into your prices make I mean, everything will just be
so slightly more expensive and nobody will notice. But instead
you've just decided, I know, because we get dash more
for some people paying with Payway. We're gonna write a
(08:22):
little notice and stick it on with celitatee, so low rent.
I've never understood it.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
All right, as promised, let's talk health and safety now.
I think we've all agreed.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
We've prepared for a few people to fall off scaffolding
as long as it doesn't get too out of control.
I think that's all we've good decided now.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Isn't this the best example that you have come across
yet of how stupid health and safety rules are. So
I can ask my kids under fourteen to go out
and water the plants because it's a residential home. My
brother can ask his kids under fourteen to go out
and water the plants because even though he lives on
a farm, he doesn't sell anything from the farm. But
his neighbor cannot go out and ask his kids under
(09:07):
fourteen to water plants because he does sell stuff from
his farm. My brother's kids can go and collect the
eggs because they don't sell the eggs. They just give
them away to family. But the neighbors kids can't collect
the eggs because they do sell the eggs. That's stupid,
isn't it. Kids on farms can't help their parents with
chores like feeding animals, But my kids can help me
with chawes like unpacking the dishwasher. What's the difference. I mean, sure,
(09:28):
it's noble to want to keep kids safe, and I
do too, but actually, where are kids safest if not
kicking around and learning from good parents. These rules are
the opposite of what humans have been doing for eons.
For eons, parents have been teaching kids life lessons how
to do basic life stuff by showing them how from
a young age, And for eons kids have learned to
help their parents around the house or the farm or
(09:49):
whatever because it's good for them. Not only are these
rules not common sense, they are actually the opposite of
good parenting.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That sounds like a stupid rule either duplicy.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
Ellen absolutely does.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
I would have given about five of those ones for that.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh this is a revelation to me.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I just go to show that I'm not a regular,
you know, listener of the Whole Drive Show. I mean,
generally I'm doing other things at that time of day.
But I had no idea that they were doing satirical
stings like like I do on the Mike Husking Breakfast.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I wonder who did them first? Me or them.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm hoping that it was me and they'd been copying me.
But if it was them and I'm copying them without
even knowing it, feel.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Hack now, news talk has it been right?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Let's finish up.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Everybody hates these Disney discs, don't they, which presumably somebody's
collecting them.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Sounds quite frightening. Those caught in the Brown Spain New
World when the sign caught fire. Because the smoke came
down inside the building, people were struggling to breathe. I
thought it was a drill, But does the flames from
inside the building. It wasn't too scary, but when people
saw the flames, people started to panic. Didn't think Brown's
Bay people would panic. The staff successfully evacuated the building
(11:14):
and kept everyone safe. They were telling people not to run.
There was quite a bit of smoke and the wind
was blowing in towards the melting point, the meeting point.
It smelled of burnt plastic. I suppose course it would
have been New World. People didn't want to leave without
getting their stickers for their smegcock where a hang on,
what about my stickers? I bought some stuff in you
(11:34):
with the I've got one sticker. I thought Cheapest Creepers
was a confusing shop because I was trying to get
cashed in my card, was trying to get cash because
there was a scratchy bought outside with people I knew anyway,
So I don't know what to say about that.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Countdown?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
What rubbish?
Speaker 9 (12:04):
What do they collect now? Disney stickers or something? Have
you noticed that at countdown it looks like the least
interesting thing to collect ever, but normally mind countdown? But
I'm not gonna I almost want to boycott it because
of the Disney discs. I don't know if any adult
(12:26):
or child that would be remotely interested in those unless
they were two years old. So sort it out Australian soup.
No I wants a Disney disc. We want knives, and
we want crockery. We love that Smeg stuff. Now I
wants a Disney disc. No one's gonna be bringing talkback
and complaining because everyone out of tinker Bell, will they?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I don't imagine, though.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Interesting that Marcus still calls a countdown, and I think
it's been war worse for quite a while. It's not
those people who insist on calling x Twitter like I mean,
nobody wanted it to be called something else, but it
is called something out.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Stop saying formerly known as Twitter.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know, ebody knows was one of the most famous
things that's happened in industry. Let's stop doing that, but
also also stop complaining about three stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Although I will.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Repeat my call for supermarkets to stop giving away stuff
because obviously they across them somewhere along the way and just.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Make the stuff that we're actually buying a little bit cheaper.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
But it would be prevable for me. I'm assuring that's
what pack and Safe does because they don't really have giveaways.
I sort of respect.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Them for that.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Here we are talking about Stickney in again the circular
nature of podcasting, and we'll be back with another completed
circle for you tomorrow. Sear then us.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Talk Talk Said Bean. For more from News Talk Said
b listen live on air or online, and keep our
shows with you wherever you go with our podcasts on
iHeartRadio
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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.