True crime with rough-edged comic detours.
Murder, My Dude is a true-crime comedy show built around murder cases, infamous crimes, and the strange details orbiting them. The rhythm is chatty and chaotic, moving from case narration to riffing on names, movies, sports, politics, and whatever derails the room.
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Murder, My Dude is a murder-case comedy show with a deliberately unruly table-talk feel. The cases are real and often bleak. The delivery is anything but solemn. Episodes open with jokes, fake identities, production hiccups, personal digressions, and small arguments over wording before the story locks in. Recent subjects range from Dorothy Stratten and the fallout around her death to Reena Virk, Kitty Genovese, John Billington, Rex Heuermann, and violent crimes pulled from contemporary headlines. The show often uses a headline segment or case update as a ramp into the main story. Then the conversation keeps bending. A suspect's name becomes a bit. A court detail turns into a tangent about movies. A historical crime leads to jokes about old ships, colonial troublemakers, or wrestlers. The pacing is loose and reactive, with one speaker narrating facts while the other pokes at phrasing, assumptions, and the absurdity around the edges. It is blunt. It is frequently inappropriate in tone, though the underlying structure stays rooted in murder cases and reported details. The show is most comfortable when tragedy, trivia, and dumb wordplay are all occupying the same room. That mix gives it a specific lane: true crime for listeners who are tired of hushed prestige narration and prefer a rougher, funnier, more conversational format. It also asks for tolerance. The humor can be abrasive, the tangents can sprawl, and the emotional distance can feel sharp when the subject turns especially painful. For the right audience, that friction is the appeal. Murder, My Dude turns crime stories into a back-and-forth that sounds less like a lecture and more like two people trying to get through darkness by refusing to sit still.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who like case details, current-crime updates, and historical murders delivered through abrasive banter rather than somber narration. It best suits an audience comfortable with dark humor around disturbing material.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its loose conversational pacing: serious murder coverage keeps getting interrupted by name riffs, pop-culture tangents, production jokes, and blunt reactions. Its comedy comes from collision, not polish.
Join hosts B.P. Burke and Rev. Jackson Welles as they take a comedic look at murders, murderers, and mur-diddly-urderers, my dude.
A murder case arrives; B.P. Burke and Rev. Jackson Welles find you the strangest available exit ramp.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Dorothy Stratton's rise toward Hollywood promise gets a loose, darkly comic telling shaped by murder, banter, and noir-leaning tragedy.
Episode 168 traces Dorothy Stratton from the Hoekstraatens' Dutch immigrant beginnings in Vancouver toward the Hollywood promise the show places at the edge of the 1980s.
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Duane Keith Davis identifies his role in the 1996 Tupac Shakur shooting and names Orlando Anderson as the alleged shooter.
["Murder, My Dude episode 168 centers on Dorothy Stratten, the Vancouver-born model and actress whose early-1980s rise is framed as a Hollywood story built around Paul Snyder.", "BP Burke and Jackson Wells spend the early stretch recalling Collingdale, Pennsylvania, barbers Bill and Tony, including Tony's racist remark about Leon and Burke's father's anger.", "The episode also detours through Burke's 'murder kitty' story, where a stray kitten dies outside a makeshift shelter on his son's 16th birthday and the surviving orange kitten is rehomed.", "Before the Dorothy Stratten feature fully opens, the hosts summarize the Romeoville, Illinois family killings and the London case of Turkish DJ Mehmet Alpergin, then start tracing Dorothy's path from Vancouver, Dairy Queen, and Paul Snyder's Vancouver underworld reputation."]
Murder, My Dude’s Episode 164, “Iceman, My Dude,” combines extended banter between BP Burke and Wells Jackson with two true-crime news stories.
Murder, My Dude’s Episode 163, “Under The Bridge, My Dude,” is framed as a British Columbia true-crime episode but spends substantial time on the hosts’ dating-app experiences.
Murder, My Dude’s “America, My Dude” is a July 4 special combining holiday banter with murder stories from Florida, California, Plymouth, and Boston.
Barry Lee Jones, sentenced to death in 1995, walked free after 29 years under a second-degree murder plea carrying 25 years.
The envelope was marked 'burn after reading' and mentioned a shovel, a buried body and a cake with a shiv in it.
Murder, My Dude Episode 159 opens with BP Burke's birthday banter and a tangent on The Shining, which Stanley Kubrick directed and which came out on May 23, 1980.
Hosts B.P.
Hosts B.P.
Hosts comically discuss murder cases and make jokes about the perpetrators' names.
Hosts B.P.