DEEP DIVE: CALEB FLYNN

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Jac Vanek (1:28)

Welcome to the Deep Dive, the difference between a conspiracy and the truth is six months. It's me, Jac. I'm here with Lex. Happy Thursday, people. Spooky, spooky times ahead.

Alexis Linkletter (1:40)

Happy First Tauber, everyone.

Jac Vanek (1:45)

Like, ninth, eighth, Tauber.

Alexis Linkletter (1:48)

But still, First Degree Tauber.

Jac Vanek (1:50)

Ah, First Tauber. We're celebrating First Tauber. Yes, we are.

Alexis really has taken it upon herself to make this month as spooky as possible, and I love it for us.

Alexis Linkletter (2:01)

I love it for us too. I mean, I've been looking forward to fall all year. Like, this is the time.

We get Thanksgiving preparations. We get Halloween. Like, it's just, I get very jolly.

Jac Vanek (2:14)

It is a time to be alive. If only the weather in California would agree with us, we're still sweltering in 100 degree heat. It fucking sucks.

Alexis Linkletter (2:24)

It's just extra difficult to thrive in it because it's not supposed to be this way. Like, in the summer, it's a lot more manageable because we're like, it's summer, like, beach time. We're just not in that mode. It's soup mode, but it's too hot for it.

Jac Vanek (2:39)

It really is. But you know what? We're going to try our best. And we have such a good episode for you today.

Before we start today's episode, of course, I have to remind you, if you want more First Degree content, we have so much for you in a place called The Underground. It's actually perfect for Halloween. It's dark. It's dank. It's spooky. It's creepy down there. And that's where all of our premium content lives. You get a brand new episode every single week.

Hundreds of episodes to bank, to listen to. You'll never run out of listening to us in your earballs. How do they join that, Lex?

Alexis Linkletter (3:11)

You can join by subscribing through Apple Podcasts or through Patreon. And then you can link your Spotify that way or just listen through the Patreon app. There are so many options.

Jac Vanek (3:23)

We would love to have you. It's very fun down there. We get to do whatever the hell we want. You know, no rules. Parents are gone.

Alexis Linkletter (3:30)

There are no rules.

Jac Vanek (3:31)

Okay, so Alexis has actually a very stacked episode that she is going to lead in a second because there has been a case that has been unfolding in the courtrooms on TikTok that has really blown our minds. Give our listeners a little taste of what we'll be talking about after we get over this week's headlines.

Alexis Linkletter (3:50)

Okay, I'm in like my courtroom era, like I watched, I'm not kidding, every second of this trial. So it's the prosecution of Caleb Flynn. And I think this case got a lot of attention because he was an American Idol contestant in 2013 So there are a lot of clips circulating of him being like, I love my wife, she's very pretty. I love God. And now he has been convicted of murdering his wife, Ashley Smith Flynn.

The trial was insane.

The details are insane. Devastating. I think I was so obsessed with the case itself because the betrayal, the double life, I've never seen anything like it.

And just it's devastating that his wife, who's apparently the best person in the world, is gone. It's crazy. So I'm really looking forward to taking you through all of the details that I absorbed through watching every single second of the trial.

Jac Vanek (4:49)

She absorbed it like a sponge.

Alexis Linkletter (4:53)

I did. And I watched every second of it. I was like, Matt thought I was crazy. I would like pause it and be like, are you done talking? Because I can't miss this. And I was like, rewinding. I was like, obsessed.