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hi crime jenies welcome to audio check I am about to go record an episode with Brit today and I actually look who it is
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hey I'm just about to go get everything ready for recording so make sure you take a look
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at everything I sent you there's going to be so much to talk about today actually you know what do you guys want
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to come with us see how an episode is [Music] made our cases come to us in a number of
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ways sometimes families of victims Reach Out law enforcement we have our case suggestion form online but we also have
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our reporters just out in the field digging for the stories that you guys haven't heard before because they're
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under reported so a lot of the stuff that we do is original reporting but we have to start with a research packet we
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have to know what is out there on the internet what's already been reported and that starts with our research team
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[Music] so our cases come to us in a ton of different ways we get suggestions from
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family members from law enforcement um once we decide what case that we want to cover it goes into our research this is
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the first stop and this is one of our researchers Megan Megan say hi hi when you listen to a crime Junkie episode I
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want you to know that you don't have to go out and do your own research afterwards because we have covered the
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depths of the internet for you and that is truly what Megan does she doesn't miss an archived newspaper article she
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doesn't miss a blog post she doesn't miss anything anything so we're giving you the most complete picture of a case
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possible all right once we have our research packets put together it goes to our team of writers I have put together
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this little army of crime junkies to make sure we have all of the facts of the case before we bring them to
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you all right so like I said once we have the research packet it goes to our writing team and together we're figuring
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out we're outlining the story doing a little storyboarding what's the best way to bring it to you the way that you can
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distill the information so you guys can understand it the best that I can understand it the best and my biggest
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thing about being a crime trck is what questions do we still have and is there a way for us to get answers to those
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questions that's what the team here is doing so once me and the writers have finalized a script we go over to fact
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check we have to make sure the information we're putting out is factual those questions I talked about those
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need to get answered this is one of our senior fact Checkers Camille and I've said it in
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some episodes before nothing gets past this desk they will find out everything and it is so important to what we're
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doing because the last thing we want to do in creating these episodes is put out
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Mis information to perpetuate misinformation so factchecking is a huge part of what we do that actually sets us
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apart from so many other podcasts or even media companies in general all right once every word and every
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hairbrain Theory I've had has gotten fact checked we get to record so come on this is Morgan she's one of our
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producers and the producers are kind of the glue that keeps this all together they make sure that the reporters are
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talking to the researchers the writers the fact Checkers and that our scripts make it all the way through and around
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my wild schedule and speaking of I got to do my [Music] job hi crime junkies next week with a brand new
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episode all right now that we're done recording nobody wants to hear raw audio it's time to go to where our editors
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make the magic happen all right now we are in the mixing room and this is where the final
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magic happened this is Jonah one of our audio editors and they come in here to clean up our raw audio to add music
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sometimes they originally composed the music trying to make the absolute best end product possible for you guys all
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right so there you have it that is how some of your favorite audio Chuck shows are made what do you think Chuck do you
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approve we have some of the best team members here I hope you have enjoyed this little behind the
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scenes all right I have to do a new episode every single Monday that means I have to start over again I got scripts
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to work on you got to go [Music]