Ashley Flowers, the undisputed queen of true-crime podcasts thanks to her show Crime Junkie and her Audiochuck network, was starstruck. As she arrived at the Sun Rose Hotel on Sunset Boulevard for the taping of THR ‘s first Podcasters Roundtable , she found veteran Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison, resting an elbow on the bar, true to his much-memed tendency to lean on things. She gathered the courage to ask him if he would record a quick video for her millions of followers in his ominously mellifluous voice. He obliged; the moment felt like an anointment. Next came the two interviewers of the bunch, best-selling self-help phenom Mel Robbins and actor and comedian Dax Shepard, who has had about 1,000 conversations with A-listers and scholars since 2018 on his show Armchair Ex

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