Ken Undercover: The Sunset Strip Stakeout
The Dating Detectives
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4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Veteran LA private investigator Ken Childs joins us for a jaw-dropping, celeb-adjacent case file. A manager quietly hires Ken to verify whether a very famous man’s girlfriend is stepping out, and we ride along as he threads canyon roads, outsmarts “Private Drive” signs, and navigates a neighborhood of $90M estates and movie-set security to capture the evidence.
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| 0:00.0 | The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety. |
| 0:08.7 | The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances. |
| 0:21.4 | If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic |
| 0:25.6 | Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7234 for support. Happy dating detectives Monday. |
| 0:41.1 | We have quite a guest today, a PI undercover. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.7 | Well, this was fun because he works out of Los Angeles, where I live and where, you know, one or two celebrities live, |
| 0:54.9 | but he definitely has seen some shit in the celeb space. |
| 0:58.8 | And by celeb, we mean, we, you, without saying the names, you're going to know. |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah, yeah, you're going to know. |
| 1:07.7 | We're not going to say who he's talking about, but yeah, you're going to know. |
| 1:10.4 | His name is also Ken Childs. We can tell you that because if you need a P.I. in L.A. Now we know one. Ken is totally still working. And, man, I mean, it was fun to talk at the end. We do the story first. And then we did ask him some questions about being a PI. And it was interesting because you guys |
| 1:28.1 | are definitely different. Yeah, we're, him and I, Ken and I are very different. Obviously, the laws are |
| 1:34.1 | different in Florida versus California, but we also have like, he's a man. I'm a woman. There's, |
| 1:39.7 | there's just some differences. And we've, we've both been at this for 20 plus years which is great but I we do |
| 1:46.7 | have some differences which is really cool I love to hear perspectives from different PIs so I hope |
| 1:51.9 | that definitely different perspectives on like approaching the job which yeah like you said interesting to |
| 1:57.5 | hear I hope it helps you guys to see all the differences and how different |
| 2:02.0 | PIs work, but totally. I'm so excited for you guys to hear from him. Also, before we forget, |
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