The News Junkie: Interviews

How To Stop A School Shooter

David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 school shooting database and a man with a deep insight on how school shooters take shape. Riedman joins the show to talk about all of the surprising things he has discovered in this trove of data about an admittedly macabre topic. He will make you question some of the ideas you may have on why and how these school shootings happen. Most importantly, he has some very important ideas on how to make it stop.

Life In The Sewer

A researcher wanted to find out what life was like in the sewer system and his results have been featured in newspapers around the world, including the New York Times. What kind of animals live in and travel through the sewers? What is life actually like down there? Ph.D. student Alan Ivory takes the plunge and tells us his sewer secrets.

The Insidious Play Disaster

If you're a fan of the Insidious horror movie series, you might have been excited to hear they launched a stage show and a national tour. People who bought tickets were promised '90 minutes of immersive horror' but they got one of the worst stage shows of all time. Here's how it all went wrong.

Crashing Into The Justice System

Devin Perkins was driving down the road with a carful of friends when Thomas Petry purposefully swerved into oncoming traffic to hit his vehicle, causing a fatal accident. Three of his friends died in the crash and Devin was severely injured. The State Attorney decided to file charges against Devin Perkins because he was speeding at the time of the crash. He now faces life in prison. Is Devin Perkins a victim or a criminal? His mother helps us unravel this shocking story of nuance crashing into the Justice System.

The Juggalo Movie

Nathan Tape is the director of a new movie called Off Ramp that centers around a pair of Juggalos attempting to make their way to The Gathering. All sorts of hijinks get in the way in this really well written indie movie and the two lead characters pull off the herculean task of making Juggalos seem just like the rest of us. How much did it cost to make Off Ramp? What tricks did Nathan use to save money and put out an incredibly high quality product? We ask all this and more and encourage you to give the movie a watch.