June 11, 2024 • 12 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Saving the Planet Just Isn't Economically Viable/No, Seriously, We're Over It/Hmmm... Wonder Why That Poll Is So Bad?/Sport Is So Collectable/Even Sport Adjacent Sports Are Big Money
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk ZEDB. Follow
this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio
the rerap O.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Good there and welcome to the rewrap for Wednesday. All
the best, but it's from the micasting breakfast on News
Talk ZEDB and a sillier package. I am Glen Hart
and today fast tracking. It's just the greatest thing ever,
isn't it? The fast tracking? If it is, though, how
come the poll isn't really reflecting that sport is good
(00:49):
and people like it? Arently, and then there's Joey Chestnut,
the hot doggying guy. But before any of that, so
Derry is now out of the ETS. They don't have
to be environmentally friendly anymore? Is that what's happening? I'm
so confused.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Another one of those sensible moves, and this week with
this amendment coming to the Climate Change Response Act and
to make sure that, as we've been talking about, agg
does not enter the ETS emissions trading scheme. In a
side note, by the way, the report the previous government
commission to look at how to handle agriculture around climate
change it was called Echauakanoa. Did I get that right? Ekawakanoa.
(01:28):
You've forgotten the hay part, Hey echauacanoa. Now tell me
what that means. Just tell me what it means. Translate that.
Does anybody know what that means? For goodness sake? And
how simply it's a good example of how simply peppering
a few touchy fee the phrases change nothing when it
comes to the language. So we will need to find,
I guess, a new way to work out where agriculture
fits into climate change. But here's the key point that
(01:49):
the current government, frequented by farmers of course by the
likes of Andrew Hoggart, that they get that the previous
government didn't get when it comes to farming. We globally
are as good as it gets. If we made farming
needlessly hard here, we wouldn't produce as much, which was
always a stupid idea, given we sell what we make
and that's called foreign income, and what we don't sell
we eat. And if we made it too hard to farm,
(02:09):
we would still need to eat. It would simply be
grind by somebody else who isn't as good as we are.
What's the point in that? And then we get to
the science of it all. Punishing people for a problem
that science is already and will increasingly help, if not address,
is pointless. The obsession around the Powers Accord and cutting
emissions at the expense of all else has already played
out disastrously, of course, in oil and gas and our
(02:30):
ability to turn the lights on or not on a
cold winter's morning. Last thing we needed was a drop
in agriculture. So the Australian opposition you might have noted
already this week, is starting to talk about bailing on
the poasteel because it's unobtainable. We signed up to things
we couldn't do, and labor did in the appear to
care who they wrecked while chasing that illusion. Reality and
common sense is back and not a moment too soon.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So as much as he keeps going on he might
keeps going on about this, I'm going to keep saying
things like, guess what, You're not gonna be able to
do anything if the planet isn't livable because it's too
hot and you can't breathe and there's water everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But you know we're over that, aren't we. We don't
care about it fing anymore because it turns out it's
just really really hard doing the right thing, and we
might have to make some sacrifices, and we don't want
to have all.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The change that's unfolding in the country as the new
government tries to dig us out of the hole left
by the last lot. The bit that has surprised me
more than most is there's fast tracked law. In the
opposition to it, there were protests over the weekend. Protests.
I mean it's one thing to bring talk back or
maybe even put a submission into a select committee or
write a report that condemns it. But a protest, a
whole protest, I get. I mean, I get what they're
not happy with. They can't hold stuff up the way
(03:46):
they used to. Are the forest and birds. The single
issue crazy is who have no lack of desire to
hire lawyers and jurymander the system to bend it to
their way. The fact their way is counterproductive to the
way most of us want seems to be of no
interest to them. The evidence as to how we got
here is littered all over the country. The things we
haven't done, the broken bits, the road to the bridges,
the projects that take years longer than they need to
(04:08):
simply getting to the start line taking years longer than
we need to. It's all down to the regulation that
was the Resource Management Act and the dangerous bits that
give people who don't want things done not to say.
I mean, having a say isn't the issue. It's the power,
it's the legal redress. It's the ability to exhaust every
angle to stop things being done. That's been the danger.
(04:28):
The factless country infrastructurally and therefore economically is broken and hobbled,
is why we are here. It is time to get
stuff under way. It's time to tip the balance, it's
time to get on with it. There are still safeguards
in place, these expert groups advising ministers, but what can't
be in dispute is the parlor state we're in. And
yet despite that, a few hardliners want more. Where that
(04:49):
came from. Stagnation is their calling card, which is selfish.
It's myopic. It's a waste to be your weekend. I
am on the side of those who want to get
on with it. And guess what that side is. It's
the majority. And in a democracy, the majority wins.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Ah bugger, at least just get on with it. Let's
through the planet. It's am I being too dramatic. I mean,
I know most of the fast tracking is to do
like getting rid of red tape, but a lot of it,
more and more since has been getting rid of I
(05:24):
don't know, and dangerous species and other stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Oh well, a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Are the poles backing me up on this? Hang on,
Wait a minute, Am I actually right about something?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Surely not, Mike another pole another confirming the downwards trend
for the government and lack of popularity for the Prime minister.
And this is the most uninspiring labor party of all
time in opposition. Doesn't this government, with only fifty five
percent of support at best, run the risk of all
the unpopular changes they're ramming through urgency rather than ensuring
policies that will be reversed, like they have done with
(05:58):
the labor policies. It's not a bad point. If you're
a critic of the government, you can start to mount
a not unreasonable case. Have you missed the pole yesterday?
There's no real change. Labors down a smidge, Nationals down
almost a couple. Overall, the government are down a couple
of seats and the opposition are up a couple of seats.
But this is what we saw in Australia as well
(06:19):
with Albinizi. He's got other problems though, and that's why
he's unproperly. But there was nothing in the budget. So
in other words, the Australians rolled out some tax cuts,
they didn't get a bounce in the polls. This government
rolled out tax cuts, they didn't get a bounce in
the poles. And Christopher Luckxson at some point. It isn't
at the moment because we're still miles away from an election,
but eventually that time will tick by and if the
(06:40):
Prime Minister isn't more popular than really is, it's going
to be an issue once again. So his favorability is
down to minus five and Christopher Hipkins is up to
plus three. So really we're not dealing with rock stars
here either side of the campaign, and that is to
Luckson's advantage. Having somebody as uninspiring as Hipkins actually helps them.
But when somebody that uninspiring is beating you, there's your problem.
(07:04):
So things aren't on fire. They talk a good game,
they're doing some good stuff, it's just not gelling in
the poles at the moment. So that's potentially a problem ongoing.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I do wonder how sometimes how much traction you can
get when you're a thumb and a suit, because I
mean versus a ginger in a suit. Don't get me wrong,
if I was in a suit, I would also look
like a thumb in a suit. And Luxon is not
Peter Dutton. I want to make that quite clear. I
was watching some Peter Dutton today and he is the
(07:38):
most fummy looking suit where I've ever seen that guy.
I can't believe he is actually going up in the
poles at the moment. So that guess you got to
show what a terrible job the Australian Labor government must
be doing, because not only does he look like a thumb,
he sounds like a thumb as well when he talks.
(07:58):
I honestly can't tell whether I'm looking at the front
of him or the back of him.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Now, while all this is going on, sport is actually
more popular than Peter Dutton and Christopher lax And for
seconds combined, and of an easy nob he really liked
any of those people, but they love love sport.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Let me just just alert you to all of this,
if you're not alert already, Sport is where it's at.
It has never been. This is a global thing that's
unfolding in media and people who never really dealt with
sport before. We featured Netflix earlier on. They've got this
new thing coming up called Sprint looking for the fastest man. Well,
why are they doing that? Because it's sport? What else
are Netflix doing at the moment. They're paying money and
(08:37):
lots of it, millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to
stream NFL football, WNBA numbers out yesterday. This is the
women's basketball in America set a record viewership for twenty
twenty four season, highest game attendance in twenty six years.
They get an average of four hundred and sixty two
thousand viewers per game these days, highest in twenty six years.
Not as much as the men. Still they're in their
twenty eighth season. But they cut a deal with ABC, ESPN, ESPN,
(09:00):
two CBSWNBA, Warner Brothers, Discovery this Morning, Connections in New Zealand.
Obviously along the T and T Sports, they've announced that
they've done an exclusive deal stolen it off NBC. They're
already upping the anti on the NBA, the American basketball,
but they've done a deal this morning with the French Open,
as in the tennis which we've just been enjoying ten
year contract for sixty five million dollars per year. So
(09:24):
they're all over sport at the moment. What else have
they added recently? They got the National Hockey League, they
got the Stanley Cup on at the moment, of course,
the NASCAR, the US SoC at the college football playoffs,
and now the French Open as well. Then also overnight
announced Southeby's and Fanatics are joining forces. Now southe Bees,
you know the name of who are Fanatics. Fanatics is
sports trading cards. So they're going to run live online
(09:46):
auctions for trading cards value to more than one hundred
thousand dollars. This is this is genuine business. This is
just mucking around in your garage for five dollars here
and ten dolls here. This is plus one hundred thousand dollars.
First live auction in September and New York. There's a
forty eight leaf seventy nine Jackie Robinson, the only true
collector's card of when he was a rookie. They think
that'll go for about six seven hundred thousand dollars. So
(10:07):
they're leaning into sport as well. So the media is
leaning into sport, the gaming cards, the auction houses are
leaning into sport, women's sports. Sport is booming. Hence, I
bring it back to the ongoing conversation around rugby in
this country. Why is so much of its booming and
other bits and pieces are not? And then that is
your conundrum, and of course a series of question.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I wonder why the All Blacks cards and the cereal
boxes have never caught on in quite the same way
as those baseball cards and other things like that do
have done. Is it because they are in the wheatbax boxes?
And that is you know, I think we're all agreed,
(10:50):
it's the most boring cereal of all. I don't get
me wrong, I eat wheatbits. But sometimes it's good to
have a little bit of boring stuff and with your
interesting stuff. And I just wonder if if that sort
of boring this just sort of leached into those cards
a little bit, and so they never really became a
(11:11):
desirable thing to collect. And I know, the rewrap if
you put Joey Chestnut on one of those cards, how
desirable would that be?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You hadn't caught up with the Chestnut story in the
Sports News this morning, Joey Chestnuts been banned from the
Nathan hot dog eating contest that we cover every year
July the fourth. It's one of those stories that just
floats around annually. He's won it for sixteen years, was
going for a seventeenth. Anyway, what I didn't know Nathan's
is a brand of hot dog. He's gone to another
hot dog company. He was paid two hundred thousand dollars
(11:40):
just front up right each year. So if you think
about it, that's all you needed in life, and two
undred thousand dollars many people as very good salary. All
you need to do is literally front up once a
year and that was practice during the year. Sure, warm
yourself up, stuff like that, but there's your salary for
the year. And he was offered over a longer term deal.
I think it was for teen years one point two
million as well. So there's money to be made in gluttony.
(12:02):
So he's anyway, he's not in and he's gone off
to some other place and they're going to stick it
on Netflix. Has been telling you before sport. Everyone's into sport.
They cannot get sport sports, sport sport sport. It's sport
like this is.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
A guy who thinks that snooker and darts are also
sports as well. I wonder what kind of plant based
what what the plant is that they're basing those plant
based franks on. Imagine if it was chestnuts. I am
a glen hat. That's you've definitely heard enough of me
for one day that you can come back and have
(12:39):
some more tomorrow. I'll see there.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
For more from News Talks 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 ZEDB. Follow
this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio
the rerap O.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Good there and welcome to the rewrap for Wednesday. All
the best, but it's from the micasting breakfast on News
Talk ZEDB and a sillier package. I am Glen Hart
and today fast tracking. It's just the greatest thing ever,
isn't it? The fast tracking? If it is, though, how
come the poll isn't really reflecting that sport is good
(00:49):
and people like it? Arently, and then there's Joey Chestnut,
the hot doggying guy. But before any of that, so
Derry is now out of the ETS. They don't have
to be environmentally friendly anymore? Is that what's happening? I'm
so confused.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Another one of those sensible moves, and this week with
this amendment coming to the Climate Change Response Act and
to make sure that, as we've been talking about, agg
does not enter the ETS emissions trading scheme. In a
side note, by the way, the report the previous government
commission to look at how to handle agriculture around climate
change it was called Echauakanoa. Did I get that right? Ekawakanoa.
(01:28):
You've forgotten the hay part, Hey echauacanoa. Now tell me
what that means. Just tell me what it means. Translate that.
Does anybody know what that means? For goodness sake? And
how simply it's a good example of how simply peppering
a few touchy fee the phrases change nothing when it
comes to the language. So we will need to find,
I guess, a new way to work out where agriculture
fits into climate change. But here's the key point that
(01:49):
the current government, frequented by farmers of course by the
likes of Andrew Hoggart, that they get that the previous
government didn't get when it comes to farming. We globally
are as good as it gets. If we made farming
needlessly hard here, we wouldn't produce as much, which was
always a stupid idea, given we sell what we make
and that's called foreign income, and what we don't sell
we eat. And if we made it too hard to farm,
(02:09):
we would still need to eat. It would simply be
grind by somebody else who isn't as good as we are.
What's the point in that? And then we get to
the science of it all. Punishing people for a problem
that science is already and will increasingly help, if not address,
is pointless. The obsession around the Powers Accord and cutting
emissions at the expense of all else has already played
out disastrously, of course, in oil and gas and our
(02:30):
ability to turn the lights on or not on a
cold winter's morning. Last thing we needed was a drop
in agriculture. So the Australian opposition you might have noted
already this week, is starting to talk about bailing on
the poasteel because it's unobtainable. We signed up to things
we couldn't do, and labor did in the appear to
care who they wrecked while chasing that illusion. Reality and
common sense is back and not a moment too soon.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So as much as he keeps going on he might
keeps going on about this, I'm going to keep saying
things like, guess what, You're not gonna be able to
do anything if the planet isn't livable because it's too
hot and you can't breathe and there's water everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But you know we're over that, aren't we. We don't
care about it fing anymore because it turns out it's
just really really hard doing the right thing, and we
might have to make some sacrifices, and we don't want
to have all.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The change that's unfolding in the country as the new
government tries to dig us out of the hole left
by the last lot. The bit that has surprised me
more than most is there's fast tracked law. In the
opposition to it, there were protests over the weekend. Protests.
I mean it's one thing to bring talk back or
maybe even put a submission into a select committee or
write a report that condemns it. But a protest, a
whole protest, I get. I mean, I get what they're
not happy with. They can't hold stuff up the way
(03:46):
they used to. Are the forest and birds. The single
issue crazy is who have no lack of desire to
hire lawyers and jurymander the system to bend it to
their way. The fact their way is counterproductive to the
way most of us want seems to be of no
interest to them. The evidence as to how we got
here is littered all over the country. The things we
haven't done, the broken bits, the road to the bridges,
the projects that take years longer than they need to
(04:08):
simply getting to the start line taking years longer than
we need to. It's all down to the regulation that
was the Resource Management Act and the dangerous bits that
give people who don't want things done not to say.
I mean, having a say isn't the issue. It's the power,
it's the legal redress. It's the ability to exhaust every
angle to stop things being done. That's been the danger.
(04:28):
The factless country infrastructurally and therefore economically is broken and hobbled,
is why we are here. It is time to get
stuff under way. It's time to tip the balance, it's
time to get on with it. There are still safeguards
in place, these expert groups advising ministers, but what can't
be in dispute is the parlor state we're in. And
yet despite that, a few hardliners want more. Where that
(04:49):
came from. Stagnation is their calling card, which is selfish.
It's myopic. It's a waste to be your weekend. I
am on the side of those who want to get
on with it. And guess what that side is. It's
the majority. And in a democracy, the majority wins.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Ah bugger, at least just get on with it. Let's
through the planet. It's am I being too dramatic. I mean,
I know most of the fast tracking is to do
like getting rid of red tape, but a lot of it,
more and more since has been getting rid of I
(05:24):
don't know, and dangerous species and other stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Oh well, a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Are the poles backing me up on this? Hang on,
Wait a minute, Am I actually right about something?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Surely not, Mike another pole another confirming the downwards trend
for the government and lack of popularity for the Prime minister.
And this is the most uninspiring labor party of all
time in opposition. Doesn't this government, with only fifty five
percent of support at best, run the risk of all
the unpopular changes they're ramming through urgency rather than ensuring
policies that will be reversed, like they have done with
(05:58):
the labor policies. It's not a bad point. If you're
a critic of the government, you can start to mount
a not unreasonable case. Have you missed the pole yesterday?
There's no real change. Labors down a smidge, Nationals down
almost a couple. Overall, the government are down a couple
of seats and the opposition are up a couple of seats.
But this is what we saw in Australia as well
(06:19):
with Albinizi. He's got other problems though, and that's why
he's unproperly. But there was nothing in the budget. So
in other words, the Australians rolled out some tax cuts,
they didn't get a bounce in the polls. This government
rolled out tax cuts, they didn't get a bounce in
the poles. And Christopher Luckxson at some point. It isn't
at the moment because we're still miles away from an election,
but eventually that time will tick by and if the
(06:40):
Prime Minister isn't more popular than really is, it's going
to be an issue once again. So his favorability is
down to minus five and Christopher Hipkins is up to
plus three. So really we're not dealing with rock stars
here either side of the campaign, and that is to
Luckson's advantage. Having somebody as uninspiring as Hipkins actually helps them.
But when somebody that uninspiring is beating you, there's your problem.
(07:04):
So things aren't on fire. They talk a good game,
they're doing some good stuff, it's just not gelling in
the poles at the moment. So that's potentially a problem ongoing.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I do wonder how sometimes how much traction you can
get when you're a thumb and a suit, because I
mean versus a ginger in a suit. Don't get me wrong,
if I was in a suit, I would also look
like a thumb in a suit. And Luxon is not
Peter Dutton. I want to make that quite clear. I
was watching some Peter Dutton today and he is the
(07:38):
most fummy looking suit where I've ever seen that guy.
I can't believe he is actually going up in the
poles at the moment. So that guess you got to
show what a terrible job the Australian Labor government must
be doing, because not only does he look like a thumb,
he sounds like a thumb as well when he talks.
(07:58):
I honestly can't tell whether I'm looking at the front
of him or the back of him.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Now, while all this is going on, sport is actually
more popular than Peter Dutton and Christopher lax And for
seconds combined, and of an easy nob he really liked
any of those people, but they love love sport.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Let me just just alert you to all of this,
if you're not alert already, Sport is where it's at.
It has never been. This is a global thing that's
unfolding in media and people who never really dealt with
sport before. We featured Netflix earlier on. They've got this
new thing coming up called Sprint looking for the fastest man. Well,
why are they doing that? Because it's sport? What else
are Netflix doing at the moment. They're paying money and
(08:37):
lots of it, millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to
stream NFL football, WNBA numbers out yesterday. This is the
women's basketball in America set a record viewership for twenty
twenty four season, highest game attendance in twenty six years.
They get an average of four hundred and sixty two
thousand viewers per game these days, highest in twenty six years.
Not as much as the men. Still they're in their
twenty eighth season. But they cut a deal with ABC, ESPN, ESPN,
(09:00):
two CBSWNBA, Warner Brothers, Discovery this Morning, Connections in New Zealand.
Obviously along the T and T Sports, they've announced that
they've done an exclusive deal stolen it off NBC. They're
already upping the anti on the NBA, the American basketball,
but they've done a deal this morning with the French Open,
as in the tennis which we've just been enjoying ten
year contract for sixty five million dollars per year. So
(09:24):
they're all over sport at the moment. What else have
they added recently? They got the National Hockey League, they
got the Stanley Cup on at the moment, of course,
the NASCAR, the US SoC at the college football playoffs,
and now the French Open as well. Then also overnight
announced Southeby's and Fanatics are joining forces. Now southe Bees,
you know the name of who are Fanatics. Fanatics is
sports trading cards. So they're going to run live online
(09:46):
auctions for trading cards value to more than one hundred
thousand dollars. This is this is genuine business. This is
just mucking around in your garage for five dollars here
and ten dolls here. This is plus one hundred thousand dollars.
First live auction in September and New York. There's a
forty eight leaf seventy nine Jackie Robinson, the only true
collector's card of when he was a rookie. They think
that'll go for about six seven hundred thousand dollars. So
(10:07):
they're leaning into sport as well. So the media is
leaning into sport, the gaming cards, the auction houses are
leaning into sport, women's sports. Sport is booming. Hence, I
bring it back to the ongoing conversation around rugby in
this country. Why is so much of its booming and
other bits and pieces are not? And then that is
your conundrum, and of course a series of question.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I wonder why the All Blacks cards and the cereal
boxes have never caught on in quite the same way
as those baseball cards and other things like that do
have done. Is it because they are in the wheatbax boxes?
And that is you know, I think we're all agreed,
(10:50):
it's the most boring cereal of all. I don't get
me wrong, I eat wheatbits. But sometimes it's good to
have a little bit of boring stuff and with your
interesting stuff. And I just wonder if if that sort
of boring this just sort of leached into those cards
a little bit, and so they never really became a
(11:11):
desirable thing to collect. And I know, the rewrap if
you put Joey Chestnut on one of those cards, how
desirable would that be?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You hadn't caught up with the Chestnut story in the
Sports News this morning, Joey Chestnuts been banned from the
Nathan hot dog eating contest that we cover every year
July the fourth. It's one of those stories that just
floats around annually. He's won it for sixteen years, was
going for a seventeenth. Anyway, what I didn't know Nathan's
is a brand of hot dog. He's gone to another
hot dog company. He was paid two hundred thousand dollars
(11:40):
just front up right each year. So if you think
about it, that's all you needed in life, and two
undred thousand dollars many people as very good salary. All
you need to do is literally front up once a
year and that was practice during the year. Sure, warm
yourself up, stuff like that, but there's your salary for
the year. And he was offered over a longer term deal.
I think it was for teen years one point two
million as well. So there's money to be made in gluttony.
(12:02):
So he's anyway, he's not in and he's gone off
to some other place and they're going to stick it
on Netflix. Has been telling you before sport. Everyone's into sport.
They cannot get sport sports, sport sport sport. It's sport
like this is.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
A guy who thinks that snooker and darts are also
sports as well. I wonder what kind of plant based
what what the plant is that they're basing those plant
based franks on. Imagine if it was chestnuts. I am
a glen hat. That's you've definitely heard enough of me
for one day that you can come back and have
(12:39):
some more tomorrow. I'll see there.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
For more from News Talks 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.