Ashley Flowers

Being a crime junkie is like, I want to, I want to argue with someone about the case.

I want to talk theories.

I want to, I want to spiral.

So there's the Dateline audience and then there's crime junkies and we do overlap every once in a while.

I do love an argument over a case of any sort.

For people that are

Maybe too obsessed with crime.

Like, do you think, I know you're like, what does that mean?

I literally was like, who?

Who's too obsessed?

Yeah.

But do you think this ever turns into an unhealthy obsession where people become paranoid at all, like, hours of the day, as opposed to being, like, vigilant and using these tools for themselves?

I think it can.

I mean, I've had people be like, I had to stop listening for a little while because it was becoming...

Yes, some people are like just built where they can like hand a little more.

I think people can come in and come out.

And I also think it's why like we're really intentional about doing like different types of episodes because there are so many important like lessons or educational pieces that I want people to hear.

We're about to do an episode about AI kidnappings, which the scams, which I don't know if you've like heard of.

But I I've heard of some I don't know if this is what you're talking about, but where like either people are pretending to be someone else through AI, like changing voices, all of that stuff.

There was a woman who was with her daughter at a dance class and her husband, her other daughter were like on a ski vacation.