The News Junkie
Hosted by Shawn · iHeartRadio and Real Radio 104.1
4.7from 545 ratings
- 905
- Episodes
- 336
- Transcribed
- 545
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 419M
- YouTube views
About The News Junkie
The News Junkie, Shawn Wasson, with C-Lane. The best friends you never knew you had run through the most viral stories of the day.
- Publisher
- iHeartRadio and Real Radio 104.1
- Category
- comedy · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 6 Dec 2022
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
336 of 905 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Pepper Spray Baby
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Just A Little Patience
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Teacher of the Century
Inside a recent episode
Pepper Spray Baby
Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They're casting. It's once again, law enforcement coming at us and saying, no, we need this. It's a tool. And it's us balancing privacy, which is completely eroded in 2026 and security, which is their focus. But he made cameras that do the same thing, but they just do it to the cop cars. That led to some interesting cases, like the police officer who made 25,000 searches related to his ex-girlfriend and her family. Or that one time an officer saw a cute girl and decided to almost cause a car crash, tracking her down the highway in order to pull her over and ask her out. And that's why I found it extremely ironic that when I decided to point the camera the other way and watch the watchers, they had the same privacy concerns as we do. […]
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- YouTube views
- 419,108,275
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 346 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 199 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
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- Quality
- 88
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts The News Junkie?
Shawn host the show. Published by iHeartRadio and Real Radio 104.1.
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