2025 Petties Award Show - Part 1

Episode Summary

It’s a new year, which means it’s time to emotionally process one of the worst years of our lives… by celebrating the best crimes of 2025. Before the awards begin, Trevin and Amanda ease back into things with fresh dilemmas after not seeing each other for a while.

No murders, just bad decisions.

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What This Episode Covers

• It’s a new year, which means it’s time to emotionally process one of the worst years of our lives… by celebrating the best crimes of 2025.
• Before the awards begin, Trevin and Amanda ease back into things with fresh dilemmas after not seeing each other for a while.
• Trevin recounts a Christmas mishap involving his new rescue pup, Sammy—starting with her epic glow-up since adoption and ending with a Christmas morning escape that sparks a long, stressful search.
• Amanda shares her own holiday chaos, when the infamous 2025 Christmas sickness wiped out her entire family and turned their break into an extended quarantine.
• Then it’s time for the first five categories of the
• Who delivered the most dreadful dilemma of the year? What were each host’s most killer facts? Trevin pulls back the curtain on how he produces the show, including a behind-the-scenes look at the first major audio mistake

Why Listen?

If you like true crime but think most true crime got a little too murdery, this episode brings petty crimes, dumb criminals, and dramatic storytelling without the heavy stuff.

Original Episode Description

It’s a new year, which means it’s time to emotionally process one of the worst years of our lives… by celebrating the best crimes of 2025.

Before the awards begin, Trevin and Amanda ease back into things with fresh dilemmas after not seeing each other for a while. Trevin recounts a Christmas mishap involving his new rescue pup, Sammy—starting with her epic glow-up since adoption and ending with a Christmas morning escape that sparks a long, stressful search. Amanda shares her own holiday chaos, when the infamous 2025 Christmas sickness wiped out her entire family and turned their break into an extended quarantine.

Then it’s time for the first five categories of the

2025 Petties Awards

. Who delivered the most dreadful dilemma of the year? What were each host’s most killer facts? Trevin pulls back the curtain on how he produces the show, including a behind-the-scenes look at the first major audio mistake in nearly five years of

Live, Laugh, Larceny

. Plus, the award for Best Naked Criminal leads to an unsettling realization: was 2025… the least sexy year on record?

To close things out, Trevin revisits his favorite story of 2025, listening back with Amanda and breaking down why it stuck with him. Was it the man who faked his own death? Zin Zhang and the infamous cold chicken? Or the Florida boy who called the cops to ask why they hadn’t found him yet?

Tune in for

Part 1 of the 2025 Petties

, then come back next week for the remaining categories and Amanda’s favorite story of the year. Bring on the Petties—because 2026 already has plenty of criminals waiting in the wings.

Take a break from the heavy and get petty.