November 4, 2024 • 16 mins
After a long hiatus, we're back with Episode 20 of *Gen X Perspective*! In this 17-minute reintroduction, I dive into a bit of nostalgia, sharing memories of my early Star Wars collecting days and how those moments shaped me. Now, I'm bringing that passion forward with the launch of my new venture, GenX Sabers (https://www.genxsabers.com), where we're all about bringing high-quality lightsabers and cosplay items to a new generation of fans. Join me for a quick catch-up and a look at how the journey's evolved from the past to the present!
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intro (00:13):
It's hard to speak your mind these days. Voicing your
opinion is tough in a climatewhere you're either seen as an
ultra conservative or a bleedingheart liberal. But what about
our perspective? What about theGen X perspective? Hi, I'm Tony,
a latchkey kid from the 80s and90s. Now I'm in my 40s, wearing
cargo shorts, collecting StarWars figures and reminiscing
(00:34):
about the days before my firstcell phone. The Gen X
perspective is for us, caughtsomewhere in between boomers and
millennials, where we see thingsa bit differently. I'm tired of
staying silent. It's time torant, discuss, unload and
debate. Join Tony and his guestsas they tackle the topics of pop
culture, sports, religion and,yes, even politics. If life's a
(00:55):
Rubik's Cube, we've got theexperience to tackle it. Welcome
to the Gen X perspective withTony Randazzo,
Tony Randazzo (01:08):
Hello. How's everybody doing today? This is a
little rough here. We'll workour way through this and see
what we can do here. So been aminute or two since I've
published anything or done apodcast, just like my intro
said, in my 40s, and now I'm inmy 50s. So with that being said,
(01:28):
Well, I'm older, but I'm still aGen Xer, and I'm still mildly
annoyed at mildly annoyingthings, mostly people in
general, I guess so with thatbeing what it is, I guess let's
(01:49):
move on to bigger, better andfunner things. So took a couple
years off little hiatus. Wasn'texactly sure what I wanted to do
with the old podcast. It's timeto get back involved and start
doing some other things in mylife, this being one of them.
So, long story short, pandemic,craziness, all that stuff
(02:09):
happened, obviously, now we'reheading strong into a
presidential election that ends,and thank God two days just
about over this mess, not thatit's gonna make it any better.
But you know, hey, one couldonly hope, at least then I don't
have to watch all the ads ontelevision at least as much. So,
yeah, that was been a crazycouple years that I haven't been
(02:32):
talking much. Podcast has beengrowing. People have been
listening, which is reallygreat. I'd like to thank
everybody out there that hasbeen listening to the episodes
that I had published a few yearsback. I'm hopeful to maybe reach
out to old Jason Lowey and seeif he wants to jump back in with
me and talk about random things,about random times and random
(02:57):
stuff. But we'll see whathappens. I haven't talked to him
yet, but we'll see what he wantsto do. Maybe he wants to jump
back in and do it. Maybedoesn't. We'll see it'll be fun
either way. So what I reallywanted to talk about other than
kind of reintroducing myself asa Gen Xer that's 52 years old,
(03:18):
kind of right in the middle ofmidlife crisis, we'll call it.
Over the last, I don't know, 10years or so, I've kind of been
on this crusade of reconnectingwith nostalgia and things that
remind me of when I was a kid,better times, no bills, all that
kind of stuff. And I landed on,well, like a lot of men my age,
(03:41):
sci fi, specifically Star Wars.
So I've been collecting StarWars figures from the A New Hope
Empire Strikes Back Return ofthe Jedi primarily, although I'm
not a hater on the other moviesor what's happening that's out
there that's new now andexciting and fun. You know what
I really connected with as akid? So I've gone down this
(04:02):
rabbit hole over a number ofyears and started buying every
used toy and dusty bin I canfind. Now, I'm not one of those
collectors that is on the holygrail hunt of everything in
original packaging. I want to beable to touch this stuff and
play with it. So I'm kind of thewe'll call it the poor man's
version of a collection.
(04:26):
Although this stuff is notcheap, holy smokes. Even the
used, beat up, half broken, gotto figure out how to put it back
together. Stuff you still pay apretty penny for nowadays. So
for whatever that's worth it'sbecome quite a collection that I
will share at some point onYouTube. What that looks like,
(04:48):
which is turned into quite apile of things. Now that's just
one of many things. My wifecollects records. We were both
very much into the. Rock music,heavy metal scene back in the
80s and 90s. So records havestarted being collected in the
(05:11):
home as well. So we have a pileof those in music and basically
remembering all things when wewere younger and having a lot
more fun. Well, a different fun.
We'll call it carefree fun,teenager fun. I don't know what
you want to call it, but it iswhat it is. Now I'm still on the
Forever hunt of figuring out myinner nerd or child, whatever
(05:35):
you want to call it, and mynephew, about a year ago,
introduced me to modern versionsof the toy light saber that I
had as a kid, which was thehandle, which was a flashlight
with 2d batteries in it, and youflick your wrist, and the blade
extended out, and you turn theflashlight, ie lightsaber, on,
(05:56):
and it would turn a color, andyou'd bash the hell out of your
friends till it broke, and thenit would go in the garbage, and
Mom and Dad would yell at youfor breaking your new toy. Well,
they're not quite like thatanymore. For anybody that hasn't
paid any attention to that,which I wasn't, they have gotten
crazy, advanced, just likeeverything in our worlds, you
(06:22):
know, I remember a rotarytelephone, and now we carry a
computer in our pocket. That's,you know, can, you know, man,
the space shuttle, whatever. Andso these lightsabers, they're
made out of aluminum. They gotcomputer chips in them. The
blades have hundreds of LEDs inthem that can do a million
different things. They havespeakers in them. They sound
(06:46):
just like real lightsabers. Thelight in them moves. They're
motion activated. So when youmove the sword around, it makes
the noise that it does in themovies, and they're all these
crazy things. And he introducedme to those a couple years ago,
a year and a half, two yearsago, and I'm like, Well, hey,
that's really cool. Whatever.
(07:09):
You know, I didn't pay a wholelot of attention to it. And then
earlier this summer or late lastfall, it kind of came up in
conversation again. My nephewsat the time, he was 14 years
old, and the local comic con waskind of on the radar for the
summertime. And he said, youknow, Uncle Tony, I want to go
(07:30):
get a new lightsaber, you know.
And they these other ones. Cando all these other things. And,
you know, he spent, I don'tknow, it was probably 80 bucks
on the one he had, which is abig chunk of money. And then
there's these other ones that goup from there all the way up to
fully custom made by somebodyhere in the US, handmade $1,000
(07:50):
lightsabers, although andeverything in between, really.
So there's a couple companiesout there that make these
things, and they land betweenthe 205 $100 price range ish,
and they can do all this reallycool stuff that I had mentioned.
(08:11):
So I was going to be taking himto the local comic con. So I
figured, Well, if he's going tospend that kind of money, I
better do a little bit ofresearch and understand what
these things are. So I startedresearching, and then I found a
couple YouTube channels whereprimarily they talk about
(08:33):
lightsabers. One is the ForceAwakens. OB dad, Kenobi, I'm
gonna blame him directly forstarting this obsession that now
that I have did some moreresearch, and then I went and I
bought a lightsaber. LukeSkywalker got it in the mail,
(08:58):
and they're drop shipped, sothey take a couple weeks to get
here from Old China and plugthis thing in, plug the blade
in, turned it on, and wasabsolutely mesmerized at what
this thing could do. My wifejust kind of shook her head when
she saw this thing me screwingaround in the living room
(09:19):
telling me not to hit the fan,of course. And it was pretty
crazy. So make a long storyshort, I went and bought another
one star killer, which those ofyou that know was a video game
that came out in the 90s. Nevermade a movie about it. There
(09:40):
were some books written. Gotstarkillers lightsaber, which is
probably my favorite still, andand then Comic Con came and we
went, and he bought anotherlightsaber, and I bought a third
lightsaber. I bought an $80 onemore. For dueling and spinning.
It's all smooth. It's easier tohold. It's not a replica
(10:03):
version. It's kind of a more ofa modern version. And started
playing with that. Long storyshort, we're now in the fall, in
November, and about a week ago,I launched a new website called
Gen X sabers.com I am nowselling lightsabers online
(10:24):
through an online store again,Gen X sabers.com little
shameless plug, and I'm sellingthese things. I absolutely fell
in love with them. I mean, theybrought back. Every time I turn
one on, I feel like I'm 14again, and that reminds me of
Star Wars and Luke Skywalker,Darth, Vader, I mean Obi Wan
(10:44):
Kenobi and the fights and thesounds and and just hearkening
back, or bringing back, thatfeeling of when we were kids and
we weren't worried about billsand politics and getting old and
doctors visits and your eyes aregoing, yeah, don't get me
started on the cheaters I got tocarry with me now
(11:06):
and all this other stuff. It'sjust more of a fun time to get
back to being a kid. Now, partof my podcast, Gen X perspective
is not only about the nostalgiastuff, it's also about my
perspective on all things, ie,politics, food, getting old,
etc. So in the vein of that, notto get too crazy about too many
(11:32):
different subjects, I decidedthat self care was going to
start being important. We'regoing to talk more about that
probably last next week. But,um, yeah, having to take care of
yourself. What the hell, man. Imean, you know, back when you
were a kid, you were prettyindestructible, and now you do
(11:54):
one wrong thing and it neverfreaking fixes itself. I mean,
it's a total, absolute disasterand a mess. So now, getting
older, taking care of oneselfwith a regimen of pills and
doctors and garbage that I'm nota fan of, I decided to start
(12:15):
working on getting healthier andum, and changing that
perspective on things. So I'vemanaged to get my blood pressure
meds actually cut in half bylosing weight, eating healthier,
doing better things. Eyesight isnot going to get any better.
Unfortunately, that's on a slowdecline, and my my hearing from
(12:37):
coming from that heavy metalgeneration. Now that's pretty
much on the decline as well inmy 50s. And I do have a set of
hearing aids, which I don't wearlike I'm supposed to. I could
still hear pretty good, as longas I'm not in big crowds and it
gets a little hard to hear whatthe hell is going on. But you
know, hey, again, getting oldsucks, and it's just been a
(13:03):
really crazy time with in thevein of all of that and trying
to figure out what I wanted todo with this podcast, it was
important For me to make itvaluable and still entertaining.
I'm not a heavy hitting newsreporter, or there's enough of
(13:30):
that out there, enoughnegativity, enough politics,
enough partisan gross. Notenough people getting along, too
many people fighting. Ourcountry's kind of in upheaval.
In some people's eyes, it'stotally horrible. In other
people's eyes, they're justignoring it and moving on, which
(13:51):
is what I try to do as much as Ican. It gets a little tough when
you own a business and interestrates are through the freaking
roof. But you know, hey, again,totally different subject. The
moral of the story, I suppose,is to find things that you love
(14:14):
and enjoy and don't forget toenjoy them. Play like you're a
kid, laugh like nobody'swatching, enjoy yourself and
have a good time. Now, I'm goingto keep this one short and
sweet. This is more of a kind ofgetting back out there, so about
15 minutes long here. I justwanted to say Gen X perspective
(14:38):
is back. I'm going to put thisout there to the world. I'd love
for hear from you. The websiteis still up and running.
Facebook is still there,Instagram, etc. I haven't been
very active on those pages, butI will be in the coming weeks.
And just wanted to kind ofreintroduce myself and say. That
(15:00):
it's good to be back and fun tobe talking. And maybe we can get
some guests here and try to getold Jason Lowey back on on the
hook, see if he wants to dosomething with it, and we'll go
from there. So again, thank youall so much for listening and
supporting me over all theseyears, as the channel has kind
(15:22):
of grown with the episodes thatI have out there, I figured it
was time for a new one. Soyou'll be hearing from me here
in the next week or so. And havea great week. Enjoy that
presidential election, and we'lltalk soon. Have a wonderful,
(15:42):
wonderful day. Thanks forlistening to the Gen X
perspective with Tony Randazzo,where we see things a bit
differently. Let's get social.
Find us on Facebook by searchingGen X perspective, Twitter at
Gen X underscore podcast and onInstagram at Gen X perspective.
You can also find us online atGen X perspective.com and reach
(16:05):
out to Tony directly at Tony atGen X perspective.com too. Maybe
you can talk strategy on how tobeat Super Mario Brothers three.
Don't forget to subscribe to theGen X perspective wherever you
get your podcast. Thanks forlistening. You.
It's hard to speak your mind these days. Voicing your
opinion is tough in a climatewhere you're either seen as an
ultra conservative or a bleedingheart liberal. But what about
our perspective? What about theGen X perspective? Hi, I'm Tony,
a latchkey kid from the 80s and90s. Now I'm in my 40s, wearing
cargo shorts, collecting StarWars figures and reminiscing
(00:34):
about the days before my firstcell phone. The Gen X
perspective is for us, caughtsomewhere in between boomers and
millennials, where we see thingsa bit differently. I'm tired of
staying silent. It's time torant, discuss, unload and
debate. Join Tony and his guestsas they tackle the topics of pop
culture, sports, religion and,yes, even politics. If life's a
(00:55):
Rubik's Cube, we've got theexperience to tackle it. Welcome
to the Gen X perspective withTony Randazzo,
Tony Randazzo (01:08):
Hello. How's everybody doing today? This is a
little rough here. We'll workour way through this and see
what we can do here. So been aminute or two since I've
published anything or done apodcast, just like my intro
said, in my 40s, and now I'm inmy 50s. So with that being said,
(01:28):
Well, I'm older, but I'm still aGen Xer, and I'm still mildly
annoyed at mildly annoyingthings, mostly people in
general, I guess so with thatbeing what it is, I guess let's
(01:49):
move on to bigger, better andfunner things. So took a couple
years off little hiatus. Wasn'texactly sure what I wanted to do
with the old podcast. It's timeto get back involved and start
doing some other things in mylife, this being one of them.
So, long story short, pandemic,craziness, all that stuff
(02:09):
happened, obviously, now we'reheading strong into a
presidential election that ends,and thank God two days just
about over this mess, not thatit's gonna make it any better.
But you know, hey, one couldonly hope, at least then I don't
have to watch all the ads ontelevision at least as much. So,
yeah, that was been a crazycouple years that I haven't been
(02:32):
talking much. Podcast has beengrowing. People have been
listening, which is reallygreat. I'd like to thank
everybody out there that hasbeen listening to the episodes
that I had published a few yearsback. I'm hopeful to maybe reach
out to old Jason Lowey and seeif he wants to jump back in with
me and talk about random things,about random times and random
(02:57):
stuff. But we'll see whathappens. I haven't talked to him
yet, but we'll see what he wantsto do. Maybe he wants to jump
back in and do it. Maybedoesn't. We'll see it'll be fun
either way. So what I reallywanted to talk about other than
kind of reintroducing myself asa Gen Xer that's 52 years old,
(03:18):
kind of right in the middle ofmidlife crisis, we'll call it.
Over the last, I don't know, 10years or so, I've kind of been
on this crusade of reconnectingwith nostalgia and things that
remind me of when I was a kid,better times, no bills, all that
kind of stuff. And I landed on,well, like a lot of men my age,
(03:41):
sci fi, specifically Star Wars.
So I've been collecting StarWars figures from the A New Hope
Empire Strikes Back Return ofthe Jedi primarily, although I'm
not a hater on the other moviesor what's happening that's out
there that's new now andexciting and fun. You know what
I really connected with as akid? So I've gone down this
(04:02):
rabbit hole over a number ofyears and started buying every
used toy and dusty bin I canfind. Now, I'm not one of those
collectors that is on the holygrail hunt of everything in
original packaging. I want to beable to touch this stuff and
play with it. So I'm kind of thewe'll call it the poor man's
version of a collection.
(04:26):
Although this stuff is notcheap, holy smokes. Even the
used, beat up, half broken, gotto figure out how to put it back
together. Stuff you still pay apretty penny for nowadays. So
for whatever that's worth it'sbecome quite a collection that I
will share at some point onYouTube. What that looks like,
(04:48):
which is turned into quite apile of things. Now that's just
one of many things. My wifecollects records. We were both
very much into the. Rock music,heavy metal scene back in the
80s and 90s. So records havestarted being collected in the
(05:11):
home as well. So we have a pileof those in music and basically
remembering all things when wewere younger and having a lot
more fun. Well, a different fun.
We'll call it carefree fun,teenager fun. I don't know what
you want to call it, but it iswhat it is. Now I'm still on the
Forever hunt of figuring out myinner nerd or child, whatever
(05:35):
you want to call it, and mynephew, about a year ago,
introduced me to modern versionsof the toy light saber that I
had as a kid, which was thehandle, which was a flashlight
with 2d batteries in it, and youflick your wrist, and the blade
extended out, and you turn theflashlight, ie lightsaber, on,
(05:56):
and it would turn a color, andyou'd bash the hell out of your
friends till it broke, and thenit would go in the garbage, and
Mom and Dad would yell at youfor breaking your new toy. Well,
they're not quite like thatanymore. For anybody that hasn't
paid any attention to that,which I wasn't, they have gotten
crazy, advanced, just likeeverything in our worlds, you
(06:22):
know, I remember a rotarytelephone, and now we carry a
computer in our pocket. That's,you know, can, you know, man,
the space shuttle, whatever. Andso these lightsabers, they're
made out of aluminum. They gotcomputer chips in them. The
blades have hundreds of LEDs inthem that can do a million
different things. They havespeakers in them. They sound
(06:46):
just like real lightsabers. Thelight in them moves. They're
motion activated. So when youmove the sword around, it makes
the noise that it does in themovies, and they're all these
crazy things. And he introducedme to those a couple years ago,
a year and a half, two yearsago, and I'm like, Well, hey,
that's really cool. Whatever.
(07:09):
You know, I didn't pay a wholelot of attention to it. And then
earlier this summer or late lastfall, it kind of came up in
conversation again. My nephewsat the time, he was 14 years
old, and the local comic con waskind of on the radar for the
summertime. And he said, youknow, Uncle Tony, I want to go
(07:30):
get a new lightsaber, you know.
And they these other ones. Cando all these other things. And,
you know, he spent, I don'tknow, it was probably 80 bucks
on the one he had, which is abig chunk of money. And then
there's these other ones that goup from there all the way up to
fully custom made by somebodyhere in the US, handmade $1,000
(07:50):
lightsabers, although andeverything in between, really.
So there's a couple companiesout there that make these
things, and they land betweenthe 205 $100 price range ish,
and they can do all this reallycool stuff that I had mentioned.
(08:11):
So I was going to be taking himto the local comic con. So I
figured, Well, if he's going tospend that kind of money, I
better do a little bit ofresearch and understand what
these things are. So I startedresearching, and then I found a
couple YouTube channels whereprimarily they talk about
(08:33):
lightsabers. One is the ForceAwakens. OB dad, Kenobi, I'm
gonna blame him directly forstarting this obsession that now
that I have did some moreresearch, and then I went and I
bought a lightsaber. LukeSkywalker got it in the mail,
(08:58):
and they're drop shipped, sothey take a couple weeks to get
here from Old China and plugthis thing in, plug the blade
in, turned it on, and wasabsolutely mesmerized at what
this thing could do. My wifejust kind of shook her head when
she saw this thing me screwingaround in the living room
(09:19):
telling me not to hit the fan,of course. And it was pretty
crazy. So make a long storyshort, I went and bought another
one star killer, which those ofyou that know was a video game
that came out in the 90s. Nevermade a movie about it. There
(09:40):
were some books written. Gotstarkillers lightsaber, which is
probably my favorite still, andand then Comic Con came and we
went, and he bought anotherlightsaber, and I bought a third
lightsaber. I bought an $80 onemore. For dueling and spinning.
It's all smooth. It's easier tohold. It's not a replica
(10:03):
version. It's kind of a more ofa modern version. And started
playing with that. Long storyshort, we're now in the fall, in
November, and about a week ago,I launched a new website called
Gen X sabers.com I am nowselling lightsabers online
(10:24):
through an online store again,Gen X sabers.com little
shameless plug, and I'm sellingthese things. I absolutely fell
in love with them. I mean, theybrought back. Every time I turn
one on, I feel like I'm 14again, and that reminds me of
Star Wars and Luke Skywalker,Darth, Vader, I mean Obi Wan
(10:44):
Kenobi and the fights and thesounds and and just hearkening
back, or bringing back, thatfeeling of when we were kids and
we weren't worried about billsand politics and getting old and
doctors visits and your eyes aregoing, yeah, don't get me
started on the cheaters I got tocarry with me now
(11:06):
and all this other stuff. It'sjust more of a fun time to get
back to being a kid. Now, partof my podcast, Gen X perspective
is not only about the nostalgiastuff, it's also about my
perspective on all things, ie,politics, food, getting old,
etc. So in the vein of that, notto get too crazy about too many
(11:32):
different subjects, I decidedthat self care was going to
start being important. We'regoing to talk more about that
probably last next week. But,um, yeah, having to take care of
yourself. What the hell, man. Imean, you know, back when you
were a kid, you were prettyindestructible, and now you do
(11:54):
one wrong thing and it neverfreaking fixes itself. I mean,
it's a total, absolute disasterand a mess. So now, getting
older, taking care of oneselfwith a regimen of pills and
doctors and garbage that I'm nota fan of, I decided to start
(12:15):
working on getting healthier andum, and changing that
perspective on things. So I'vemanaged to get my blood pressure
meds actually cut in half bylosing weight, eating healthier,
doing better things. Eyesight isnot going to get any better.
Unfortunately, that's on a slowdecline, and my my hearing from
(12:37):
coming from that heavy metalgeneration. Now that's pretty
much on the decline as well inmy 50s. And I do have a set of
hearing aids, which I don't wearlike I'm supposed to. I could
still hear pretty good, as longas I'm not in big crowds and it
gets a little hard to hear whatthe hell is going on. But you
know, hey, again, getting oldsucks, and it's just been a
(13:03):
really crazy time with in thevein of all of that and trying
to figure out what I wanted todo with this podcast, it was
important For me to make itvaluable and still entertaining.
I'm not a heavy hitting newsreporter, or there's enough of
(13:30):
that out there, enoughnegativity, enough politics,
enough partisan gross. Notenough people getting along, too
many people fighting. Ourcountry's kind of in upheaval.
In some people's eyes, it'stotally horrible. In other
people's eyes, they're justignoring it and moving on, which
(13:51):
is what I try to do as much as Ican. It gets a little tough when
you own a business and interestrates are through the freaking
roof. But you know, hey, again,totally different subject. The
moral of the story, I suppose,is to find things that you love
(14:14):
and enjoy and don't forget toenjoy them. Play like you're a
kid, laugh like nobody'swatching, enjoy yourself and
have a good time. Now, I'm goingto keep this one short and
sweet. This is more of a kind ofgetting back out there, so about
15 minutes long here. I justwanted to say Gen X perspective
(14:38):
is back. I'm going to put thisout there to the world. I'd love
for hear from you. The websiteis still up and running.
Facebook is still there,Instagram, etc. I haven't been
very active on those pages, butI will be in the coming weeks.
And just wanted to kind ofreintroduce myself and say. That
(15:00):
it's good to be back and fun tobe talking. And maybe we can get
some guests here and try to getold Jason Lowey back on on the
hook, see if he wants to dosomething with it, and we'll go
from there. So again, thank youall so much for listening and
supporting me over all theseyears, as the channel has kind
(15:22):
of grown with the episodes thatI have out there, I figured it
was time for a new one. Soyou'll be hearing from me here
in the next week or so. And havea great week. Enjoy that
presidential election, and we'lltalk soon. Have a wonderful,
(15:42):
wonderful day. Thanks forlistening to the Gen X
perspective with Tony Randazzo,where we see things a bit
differently. Let's get social.
Find us on Facebook by searchingGen X perspective, Twitter at
Gen X underscore podcast and onInstagram at Gen X perspective.
You can also find us online atGen X perspective.com and reach
(16:05):
out to Tony directly at Tony atGen X perspective.com too. Maybe
you can talk strategy on how tobeat Super Mario Brothers three.
Don't forget to subscribe to theGen X perspective wherever you
get your podcast. Thanks forlistening. You.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
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.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.