A Date With Dateline

Hey there cool cats and kittens! Guess who's back? The Tiger King and his much reviled queen, Carole Baskin! But if you're sick and tired of this tale of greed, rancid meat pizza, and fashions more upsetting than animal exploitation, don't worry. Dateline's got you. This episode is 100% about The Mank. Sir Manky with the Hanky is bringing his A+ snark and smirks while interviewing fellow royalty J...

Kimberly and Katie are bringing back one of their favorite ID Network shows, Betrayed! This one is BLOOD IN THE WATER, a title that takes Kimberly and Katie far too long to get. This is the series where the dead quite literally speak to the audience, and it's amazing. This time that disembodied voice and is a wife, mother, and co-owner of a water company (oh, that's where the title comes from!), w...

Something's whispering, and for once it's not K & K whispering the word "secrets" in an incredibly creepy and frankly off-putting way. It's HOPE WHISPERS, a wild Dateline where a daughter's mom goes missing and her dad is being… um… unhelpful His behavior has K & K speechless, incredulous, and infuriated, but luckily they have the most delightful K (Keith Morrison) to walk them through it. They're...

Wondery (Dr. Death, Dirty John, The Shrink Next Door) and NBC News (Dateline, The Thing About Pam, Motive for Murder) present Do No Harm. The Bright family was thrust into a medical and legal system so committed to protecting vulnerable children from abuse, it failed to protect innocent parents. From the hospital room to the courtroom, we walk in the footsteps of the Bright family as they battle t...

When a wealthy woman falls in the shower, her well respected rich doctor husband falls under the microscope. Actually he doesn't, because he's a well respected rich doctor. But when a determined ally seeks answers from a psychic, nay, a medium, it's on. Queen Andrea takes us through this maze of dueling coroners (great band name), a mysterious friend with no benefits, and a juror whose cell phone...

Dateline, with the help of the great Andrea Canning, is taking us to church this week! Actually they do every week, because Dateline is kind of a religion, but this week's case revolves around an actual church and a few of the folks who worship there in sweet home Alabama! Kimberly and Katie are discussing salted and seasoned secrets in a religious community, the detailed schematics of making love...

It's time for round 2 of ID Network's Secret Lives of Stepford Wives! This time Kimberly and Katie are diving into the episode "Broken Heartland" where Susan is a very busy lady. She manages to keep her mansion something called New York white, maintain multiple affairs and kill her husband in a staged robbery! K & K focus on the details of the case, but get very distracted by the memory of a famou...

Sir Josh Mankiewicz with the ever changing pocket Hankiewicz returns with a case that spans 40 and is finally solved due to the dedication of a determined cold case detective and the devotion of one really super great Kimberly. No, not ADWD's Kimberly, she did not aid in solving this case. But she did give a lot of unsolicited opinions, with the help of her sidekick Katie, about acapella groups wi...

Get ready for LONE STAR OBSESSION, an update to the first episode of the same story called OBSESSION IN THE LONE STAR STATE. It's close... but different. When a dancing doctor in Texas is murdered, there are several suspects, and they are all ex-lovers of the doctor and his girlfriend. Yes, we said 'lovers." Andrea Canning is giving us a lot to discuss including a mysterious letter from a woman na...

Get ready for a very special A Double Date with Dateline, featuring a sweat dripping, poor person scamming, Peloton obsessed race car driver named Scott Tucker! In episode PAYDAY from the series "Dirty Money" on Netflix, Scott is about to surrender his beloved possessions and be sent to jail, for tricking over a million people out of their hard earned money with an online payday loan business that...

Dateline has certainly #blessed us with the TALLAHASSEE TRAP! They've given us a War of the Roses petty divorce, hit men in a silver pine mica Prius, and a dentist/self-professed "Maestro" with a grotto, all told by the original Florida Man (minus the bath salts and alligator tooth necklace)— Dennis Murphy! Join Kimberly and Katie for another epic discussion on the varying rates of hit men, evil m...

We've got trouble! Right here at the 7-11 Ranch! And we're not talking about suspiciously ageless hot dogs or a mega brain freeze from gulping down Slurpies. We're talking MURDER! Thank goodness Sir Manky with the Hanky (the incomparable Josh Mankiewicz) is on the scene! K & K are here to discuss, as Dateline details out the years long mystery of a missing martial arts death cuddle expert whose fa...

K & K are diving into yet another new to them series from the ID NETWORK. This time its all about the "Evil in Law" and how one family caused the tragic demise of a beautiful Canadian former pageant mom. The episode is called Momma's Boy not to be confused with MotherBoy, which is a whole other kind of terror in it's own right. Please see the television series Arrested Development if you would lik...

Sir Joshua Mankiewicz has returned to us, hanky intact, and he's uncovering more secrets. But this time they are from the Grave! And secrets (whispered) means that Kimberly and Katie have some burning questions (no pun intended). Mostly surrounding Scott Purk, a swinging, bath-taking, leftover loving ninja burglar/ arsonist who loves to talk to cops in warm cars. K & K are also asking, once again,...

When a personal injury attorney with lots of gold jewelry and a Tom Selleck stache goes missing, the lean King Keith Morrison is going to lean on everyone until he gets to the truth. Who was Larry McNabney and why did his behavior inspire specialty tee shirts to be made at the mall? Who was his wife, and what are her thoughts on matching underwear and valet parking? Who was his office assistant an...

Who's ready to get pumped?! Does anyone still say that? 'Cause Kimberly and Katie, with the help of their old pal the ID Network are ready to give you a work out! In this episode from the series "Murder Among Friends" we learn how not to get addicted to body building and why maybe sitting on the couch eating tortilla chips is just fine because you might avoid getting murdered by a roided out coupl...

In a nation-wide podcast conspiracy spanning humans and and creatures large and small, a very important piece of information has been removed from the A Date With Dateline coverage of THE MYSTERY AT EMPIRE LAKE. Who is behind it all? Why was this vital information erased? What is meaning behind this verdict so controversial it had to be HIDDEN from listeners? You guessed it. K & K made a boo boo....

It's 115 degrees in Los Angeles, so Kimberly and Katie are going to need their Lean King Keith Morrison's help in determining a man's guilt since they're a little hot under the collar. But Keith has his devil's advocate hat on, and seems to think that the defendant in not one, not two, not three, but FOUR murder trials is INNOCENT? Are K & K about to disagree with their beloved Keith? This unprece...

Its a winning combo, as Kimberly and Katie dive into a new (to them) ID Network show Mansions & Murders. Two very exciting topics on which both K&K are going to pretend like they are experts. This episode is called "The Iron Maid" and has absolutely nothing to do with the band or the torture device. It does, however, revolve around the very mysterious murder of an Park Avenue heiress who has a que...

When an almost Playboy model goes missing after early morning clubbing in Miami on New Year's Eve, who's the only man for the job? Mr. Dennis is Enough Murphy, of course! And he is BRINGING the super hip club lingo! Kimberly doesn't want to spoil his best surprise quote of the episode, but it rhymes with "Zoom Lakamaka." This episode gives us a sometimes suspicious and prone to sudden crying outbu...

K & K are back together again and have found a new friend to admire from the ID Network show THE KILLER CLOSER. Lindy Gligorijevic is an LA Homicide Detective who is using her smarts to not only prove her top notch killer instincts to the men in her department, but to hone in on a well schooled murderer (who relies on her feminine wiles and not her brain). The proof is in the pudding (well, the ic...

It's TWISTED IN TEXAS, a tale where Olive Garden's bottomless salad and breadsticks are only matched by bottomless… bowls of evil? Sure, let's go with that. Get ready to meet Leon Jacob, the douchiest douche that ever douched, and the only woman on earth who can take him down with a single stare— Queen Andrea Canning. She's going face to face with this arrogant surgeon who, sorry to say, thinks th...

This week's episode is VERY special. We're talking about ID Channel's Secret Lives of Stepford Wives, and in honor of our heroine, the cheating and murdering socialite Nancy Kissel, Kimberly and Katie have decided to follow her example! They're murdering! No, they're not. But they're CHEATING! Introducing a new offshoot of A Double Date With Dateline called… A Cheat Date With Dateline (which is ac...

This week, Dateline brought us the disturbing (even for 2020) tale of a "charismatic" cult leader (him?) who left a tale of suspicious deaths and destruction in his wake. No, not Chad Daybell. A different one. ANGELS AND DEMONS brings us exactly that— A thousand year old fingerprintless DEMON who has an affinity for corvettes (again, him?)… and the only one strong enough to meet him face to face i...

Kimberly and Katie are switching it up for this week's Double Date and checking out a Netflix series called DIRTY MONEY thanks to a recommendation from patronus (patroni, patroperson) Jenna! Roll out the blue barrel for one of the sweetest swindles in the history of heists- it's "The Maple Syrup Heist"! In this episode K & K get transported to one of the nicest places on earth, Canada, and learn a...