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I'm Rebecca LaVoy, and this is Crime Writers On.

Crime Writers On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime, pop culture, other podcasts.

And on this episode, one was a heavyweight drug dealer, the other, one of the top-ranking

police officers in Texas.

Why did their lives go in such different directions?

We'll talk about the Brothers Ortiz from Campside Media and I Heart Podcasts. Joining me to get that done in more is True Crime Author, TV journalist, and host of. These are their stories podcast, my husband and love of my life, Kevin Flynn. Hello, Kevin. Hello, Rebecca. Also with us, private investigator, certified pet detective, resident cat lady, and author of the final curtain, Lara Bricker. Hi, Laura. Hey, Rebecca. And finally, our Captain of All Things Cynical, author of the city trilogy, host of Strange Arrivals, and our Patreon Deep Die Book Club podcast, Toby Ball. Hi, Toby. Ola, boinas. So, Kevin, this is Monday's program.

It is.

What's coming up on Thursday's show? Well, on Thursday, we have a classic rewind. We're going back to season two of a classic Emmy Award, multi-emmy award-winning series. It's Ozark, starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney. That's right. And a couple of other future famous. Yeah, a couple of people that we realized were heavy hitters.

So, yeah, so,. That's right. And a couple of other future famous. Yeah, a couple of people that we realized were heavy hitters. So, yeah, but that's on Thursday next week. What we will be talking about is the HBO series, Neighbors. Quirky, I mean, say, mockumentary. Mockumentary sounds fake. No, it's a documentary. It's a documentary. And then I'm Thursday.

One more classic rewind.

We're looking at the original jury duty because we will be reviewing later on season

two of jury duty.

Jerry duty presents corporate retreat.

So that's what we got coming up.

Do you ever put on classic ones where we just shit on things?

Oh, yeah.

Or is it always good stuff? No, it's usually something good, but, you know, manslaughter took a hit, happy face. Yeah. All the bad hits. He's not afraid to put those back in the time. I'm not afraid. People love those ones. That's right. That's right. I know. Speaking of things that bring people together, I want to

apologize to Kevin, because I have been running in and out of his office all morning, telling him

what's been going on in this case that I'm watching in Ohio, this civil case involving Afro-Man,

rapper and comedian and Grammy nominee from the early 2000s. So this guy Afro-Man, he was the subject of a bad police raid. The police got a tip from a confidential informant that he had like drugs and stuff in his house. Oh, we've heard this story before. So the police came, knocked down his doors with their big swat guns, held his ex-wife and daughter at gunpoint, ripped out his security cameras, all this stuff. And, of course, there was nothing there. They also, by the way, took $5,000. So he then proceeded to make a series of parody songs about the police, and he garnered like a ton of publicity around it. And the songs went viral on TikTok. One of them was called Lemon Pound Cake because one of the officers, like,

staring at the pound cake on his kitchen counter as he walked by with his gun. He's made a bunch of...

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