Hi, everyone. I'm Blaine Alexander, and today we are talking Dateline. I am here with my good friend, Andrea Canning, to talk about her episode, Running Man. Hi, Andrea. Hey, Blaine. Okay, if you haven't seen it, you can watch the episode on Peacock or listen to it in the Dateline podcast feed, and then we want you to come right back here. But just a quick

recap, in 2023, when the remains of Ashley Schwamm were found in a burned out car at the bottom

of a ditch, investigators wondered if this was a tragic accident or something far more sinister.

They learned that her firefighter husband, James, had meticulously planned out his wife's murder. In this episode,

we've got an extra clip of Andrea's interview with Samantha Jones, the executive director of

the women's and children's shelter, My Friend's House. She'll talk more about the event held in

Ashley's honor and how the Sunflower Fund supports victims of domestic violence. And later on,

we will be joined by Dateline producer

Lynn Keller to answer some of your questions from social media. So Andrea, let's talk Dateline.

Let's do it. Before we even jump into the specifics of the episode, the thing that caught me

immediately off the bat was seeing clips of young Andrea reporting in your hometown. That was the coolest thing.

Yeah, I mean, I covered that

area. I was based at a station in Bay Area, Ontario, which is an hour north of Toronto, but

Collingwood, Blue Mountain was part of our coverage area. So I had really come home at that point,

you know, to be a young reporter. And so it was interesting to go down memory lane

and we went back to my old station and, you know, interviewed a reporter there, did a stand-up,

the editor who was still there from when I worked there, put together a bunch of clips for us.

And so, yeah, it was, it was really nice to be back there after all those years. And literally

right as I walked in the door of the station, a cameraman that I used to work with all the time

was just coming in from shooting something. And I was like, you've got to be kidding me. Like all

these years later. That's incredible. There's always something special about the

first station. For those of us who were in news, like, you always go back and look at those old clips, and it's like, oh gosh, I was wearing that? Or what was my hair doing? Oh my gosh. Yeah. When you look at some of those clips, you're just like, I tried to pick the best ones because there were some really bad ones, which people might have enjoyed as well. But, you know. Well, it was very, very cool to see.

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