Ashley Flowers (Crime Junkie)

Podcrushed

Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Our guest today is Ashley Flowers, New York Times bestselling author and host of Crime Junkie, one of the biggest true crime podcasts ever, with over a billion downloads since its 2017 debut. She talks about her early life in the church, her late-night-grind to get Crime Junkie off the ground, and her theories on why crime is so fascinating.

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:05.7	I've got these horrendous home movies that I used to make where I would, like, write a murder mystery and then make my family, like, make my family act it out.
0:13.8	And I was like literally even like writing commercials into the movie because I knew you had to have an ad break and fund it somehow.
0:19.2	Wow.
0:20.0	Oh my God.
0:22.1	Welcome to Pod Crushed.
0:23.9	We're hosts.
0:24.6	I'm Penn.
0:25.5	I'm Sophie and I'm Nava and I think we would have been your middle school besties.
0:29.8	Making our Furby's kiss.
0:31.7	Give me some sugar.
0:33.8	I don't know.
0:34.2	Is that weird?
0:36.6	Hug me with tongue. I don't know. Is that weird? Huck me with tongue.
0:38.9	I don't know.
0:43.3	Oh, no.
0:45.7	Welcome to podcast.
0:47.6	I am your...
0:48.4	Welcome to podcast.
0:50.2	Welcome to podcast.
0:51.6	I am your crushed toast, Podbatchley.
0:54.5	What is Perst?
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