Inside the Tent with Campside Media

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.On Infamous, Vanessa and Natalie give you a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to shine an unflattering light on the world’s most powerful people.From high-profile divorces to sex cults to the lies that started a war, the show takes you through the juiciest, most outrageous, celeb-filled stories of the last two decades.Infamous recently covered the story of Jen Shah in the miniseries, “The Rich Utah Wives and Their Scams.”Vanessa and Natalie discuss the case that sent Shah to prison. It started with a phone call. Victims of a telemarketing scheme paid thousands of dollars to start their own businesses from home.And those calls came from call centers filled with workers pitching the idea of setting up lucrative online shops. In theory, all you needed was coaching, tax prep and a website.According to prosectors Shah helped generate and sell lists of leads, meaning lists of individuals, often older and financially vulnerable, to contact.Natalie goes on to describe Shah’s recent interview after being released from prison. Shah expresses remorse and claims to have spent time at Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas with Elizabeth Holmes (former CEO of Theranos) and Ghislaine Maxwell (Jeffrey Epstein associate).Vanessa wonders if future telemarketing schemes will require much human involvement at all given the ability of artificial intelligence to carry on conversations.And the conversation moves on to Mormons as content creators, conquering pop culture. It’s a long way from The Book of Mormon and skepticism of Mitt Romney’s religious beliefs.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Infamous and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Each episode of Campside’s weekly podcast, Eclipsed, features a true story hidden in the shadow of another historical event.For example, the murder of an Australian pop star on the day of the moon landing was overshadowed by… the moon landing.But the episode of Eclipsed hosted by Layne was not about murder. It was about Cecil H. Dill, a well known 1930s manualist, a performer who makes music by squeezing air between his hands.To be clear about his claim to fame, a 1933 newsreel prominently featured Dill’s “hand farting.” And Layne’s episode featured a theme song composed of fart sounds.Layne and Anthony treat this topic with the seriousness it deserves. And Layne begins by explaining how she tracked down Dill’s nephew.Anthony wonders what separates the amateur manualists from the artists. And he relates all this to Marty Supreme and the notion of a niche king.Now, as you’re no doubt wondering, how could Layne avoid mentioning Weird Al? She could not. And also, should Chalamet play Dill in the inevitable biopic?The conversation then turns to the Hunt brothers, the subject of other episodes in the series. They were not hand farters, rather entrepreneurs who tried to corner the world’s silver market. The Hunts ultimately lost more than a billion dollars, but that did not stop the family from becoming NFL owners. Go Chiefs?To hear about more colorful characters in front of and behind the mic, listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Eclipsed and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.When a birthday party in suburban San Jose turns deadly, 18-year-old identical twins are arrested for suspected murder. One brother spends nearly two years in jail before the truth comes out: authorities locked up the wrong twin.How could one brother let his twin take the fall? And why would the other sacrifice his freedom for a crime he didn’t commit?Jen begins by recounting her first meeting with one of the twins, Trung, during a visit to San Quentin State Prison in 2020. She was reporting a story about therapeutic Shakespeare programs for incarcerated men.Matt wonders why the story was a better fit for a limited series podcast, rather than a magazine article. Jen explains that it was a complicated story that needed to be told in an expansive way, with the voices of the brothers literally heard. Trung and Anh ultimately participated even with death threats directed at them.Jen goes on to say that making Blood Will Tell was a collaborative experience and, in this instance, putting up a wall between the reporter and her sources was not the right way to go about it.Matt highlights that talking to reporters at all must be a difficult decision for sources. And Jen explains what motivated Trung in particular, who has actively worked to change his life.Finally, Jen compares the experience of finishing a book to completing a podcast and gives us insight into what the brothers thought of Blood Will Tell.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Blood Will Tell and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Our cities and towns are deceptively simple. You flip a switch, and the lights come on. You turn a faucet, and water flows. You tap “buy,” and a package lands at your door.Usually, we don’t think about how these systems work or how we interact with them… it all feels effortless. But behind each of those ordinary moments are invisible systems and the people who keep them running.From 99% Invisible and Campside Media, Service Request is a new series that starts small: a call to 311, a traffic jam or a single flipped switch. We then zoom out, tracing that moment through the networks that keep a community organized and comfortable.Delany starts at the beginning, when Campside approached 99% Invisible (99PI) with the idea of making a show about infrastructure. Together we developed the format: a question from a listener leads us into a system, and we dissect how it works.Shoshi goes back even further, when Delaney started at 99PI more than ten years ago. Delaney didn’t arrive fascinated with architecture and design, but appreciated the lens that Roman Mars and other colleagues brought to storytelling: the ordinary world is really interesting and worth exploring.Shoshi asks about episode one of Service Request, noting that 311 is not a typical example of infrastructure. Indeed, Delaney and Shoshi both settle on the idea that the show’s definition of infrastructure includes public services and systems that contribute to the public good.Delaney then describes something that stuck with her when making the first five episodes. It’s an approach to preparation that one guest calls, “remembering the floating luggage.”Finally Shoshi and Delaney discuss the Service Request episode suggestions already coming in from listeners, including elevators, toll roads and the pipes that bring us water. It turns out that many listeners are well aware of the importance of infrastructure and the consequences of a system not working!Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.We are living in a golden age of deception. It feels like everyone has an angle and that, everywhere you turn, someone’s trying to scam you.Chameleon is a weekly show hosted by veteran journalist and Campside co-founder Josh Dean. It takes you inside the incredible, stranger-than-fiction stories about people pretending to be something they aren’t.And today, hear about the band that’s not quite human, not quite machine: The Velvet Sundown.They were a hot new band and storming up the charts. But something seemed off. Was this the work of AI? When someone behind the band came out denying it, this looked like mystery solved. But this was only the beginning of an internet hoax with many layers.Here’s more from Josh:The episode is set last summer (2025), a long time ago in AI time. Even then, there were many people questioning whether AI could fool us into believing it was real. AI music, for better or worse, almost definitely worse, is now ubiquitous.As a kind of proof of concept, part of our investigation, and a fun easter egg, we asked AI to go to town and come up with a version of our theme (originally created by two brilliant, real-life musicians, Mark McAdams and Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan) as if written and performed by the band featured in this episode.The AI take on Chameleon’s theme music:And then we went further and asked it to make tracks about other episodes in this season of Chameleon. Check them out here.Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck. Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Origin Stories is a show for anyone curious about the workings of the creative mind.Hosted by veteran journalist Matthew Shaer, every episode takes you behind the scenes of your favorite book, magazine article, TV show, podcast, or movie - from the initial spark of curiosity to the long sessions in front of a white board.Nothing is off the table: not the frustrations and the joys, not the setbacks and the successes. Hear from Patrick Radden Keefe on Say Nothing, Mimi Leder on The Morning Show, and Connie Walker on Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s.And today, hear from Mo Amer on Mo.Mo Amer is a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose work blends raucous humor with serious conversations about borders, identity, and belonging. Spanning two wildly funny and deeply moving seasons, Mo follows a lightly fictionalized version of Amer navigating family, work, and love while also navigating the U.S. asylum system.In this episode, Amer talks to Matthew about concluding the series’ second season, building a show that’s both a meditation on belonging and a sharp commentary on what it means to be American right now, and carrying the emotional weight of telling a story so close to home.Origin Stories is a Campside Media production. Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.What if someone close to you just… vanished one day?That happens to tens of thousands of families a year in Japan, and it happened to Jake Adelstein too. In 2017, his friend and accountant disappeared just before tax day. Adelstein, the author of Tokyo Vice, and co-host Shoko Plambeck go in search of that missing accountant, and take us on a journey into the fascinating and bizarre world of Japan’s jouhatsu, or “evaporated” people.Campside co-founder Josh Dean asks Jake to take us back to the beginning of the story, when Jake went searching for his accountant. Shoko joined the team and was able to find a service that helps people “disappear,” often leaving their homes in the middle of the night (Night Moving).Josh wonders why this industry exists in Japan. Why are there guidebooks and companies that help you “evaporate”?Shoko and Jake discuss how debts, stalking and the Yakuza helped to shape the Night Moving industry in Japan.They describe the woman behind a Night Mover business featured in Evaporated. And Jake wonders if you can forgive someone who has chosen to disappear rather than face the consequences of bad decisions.Would you ever choose to run, leaving behind friends and family forever?Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Evaporated and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.On the weekly series So Your Parents Are Old, Campside co-founder Vanessa Grigoriadis talks to friends, experts, and celebrities about the chaos of dealing with aging parents.From Medicaid nightmares to emotional meltdowns in storage units, it’s a brutally honest, often hilarious look at one of life’s most disorienting stages. If you’re currently the parent to your parents, this show is your group chat in podcast form.You’re sure to find catharsis in the unfiltered conversations and gallows humor. And this week on Inside the Tent, we are sharing an episode of So Your Parents Are Old.Nobody Should Live This Long, with Comedian Lewis BlackIt’s an episode where Lewis and Vanessa get mad! Lewis cared for his elderly parents, who lived to 101 and 104. He talks about something nobody wants to even think about: what he'll do when he's too old to care for himself.So Your Parents Are Old is a Campside Media production. Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.How do you fake your own death? Can you deploy a swarm of bees to get rid of the cops? And if so, how (theoretically) would one do that?These questions and more are answered on CrimeLess, a weekly talk show that breaks down crazy crimes and answers the questions that you’re too embarrassed, or too afraid, to ask, lest it land you on an FBI watchlist.(Should a show this silly use the word ‘lest’ in its description? You be the judge.)You might know Rory from TV (Physical, Based on a True Story), movies (Babylon, Old Dads) or his standup specials (Religion, Sex, and a Few Things in Between). Now you’ll hear him wonder just how stupid criminals can be.The conversation begins with Josh acknowledging that Crimeless is quite a departure from shows he’s hosted like Hooked and White Devil, which are fairly described as dark, serious journalism.But the common theme is true crime. And where else but Crimeless can you learn how many black widow spiders it takes to equal the weight of a rattlesnake? Or explore the finer points of monkey gangs and Amish beard shaving?Rory wonders if he might make a more capable criminal than many of the culprits discussed on the show. And considers why the series couldn’t be called ‘Funny Murders.’The discussion moves from the crimes listeners won’t believe were committed to the crimes Josh and Rory might commit if they crossed to the wrong side of the law.To hear their thoughts on cults, road rage and golf, listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Crimeless and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers, both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes the third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang.Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship.But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other the toughest of questions.Matt and Sean begin by discussing how Sean and Gabe Ortiz first connected. There was little press coverage of the brothers’ story, and Gabe may have found recounting the story was therapeutic.Matt asks how to convince people to speak about their private lives and how to respect the wishes of those who won’t participate.Sean highlights the surprising source for videos of Larry and how the small production team decided on the best way to structure the show.And Sean considers the questions at the heart of The Brothers Ortiz: Can you be a career criminal and good person at the same time? What lengths will you go to protect your family?Finally, Matt and Sean wonder what it takes to keep a listener interested and acknowledge that you have just a few minutes each episode to convince someone to stick with it.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Obsessed is a weekly series about the things that consume us, the things we can’t let go of, and why it all matters.Every week, David Greene — the long-time co-host of NPR’s biggest show, Morning Edition — sits down with a new guest, to confront and discuss the things that consume them.David Greene is Obsessed is a show about connecting with people, sharing stories of our obsessions, and working through them. From politics to pizza, karaoke to knitting, name just about anything, and someone out there has an obsession with it.For David, wanting to host the show comes from an authentic place. His obsessions with Pittsburgh sports, Soul Cycle and karaoke say a lot about him. And he talks with Josh about blowing up our stereotypes about who is likely to be obsessed with what.From Barbie to public toilets to pedicures, David talks about unexpected insights and feeling a bit richer for having learned about something he might typically take for granted.Josh notes that famous guests in particular relish the chance to talk about their obsessions. Whether it’s comedian Tig Notaro (plant-based eating!), actor David Arquette (Bozo the Clown!) or musician Billy Corgan (wrestling!), the focus on something they wouldn’t normally discuss energizes and humanizes them.To be clear, these are not sad laments. These interviews are joyous celebrations of what makes us unique. And what is Josh obsessed with? Listen now to find out.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.You think you know the NXIVM story. The secretive self-help empire. The sex cult headlines. The downfall of its leader, Keith Raniere.But the most famous woman at the center of the story has remained largely silent. Allison after NXIVM tells the story of Allison Mack: former Smallville actress, high-ranking NXIVM member, and convicted felon.With exclusive access following her release from prison, this series traces her astonishing path from Smallville fame to NXIVM’s inner circle - and her effort to rebuild a life in the wreckage.Natalie begins by admitting she was reluctant to host the show given what she’d read about Allison. But she agreed to a meeting arranged by Campside co-founder Vanessa Grigoriadis, who wrote a key 2018 story in the New York Times Magazine about NXIVM.And Natalie found someone charming and beautiful - this is Hollywood after all - and seemingly willingly to take responsibility for her actions.Lily then wonders how you can interview someone compassionately, while also asking intensely personal questions. Is a traumatized person stable enough to tell their story? And are they telling the truth?Natalie describes spending hours and hours interviewing Allison, learning about controlling behavior and sexual abuse that began even before NXIVM.The conversation then touches on fact checking, unexpectedly tracking down one of the cult’s leaders, Lauren Salzman, and the potential healing powers of a new tattoo.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.It feels like everyone has an angle. Everywhere you turn, someone’s trying to scam you. Campside’s newest weekly series, Chameleon, takes you inside incredible, stranger-than-fiction stories about people pretending to be something, or someone, they aren’t.Josh and Jo go back to the beginning, to talk about Campside’s first-ever limited series podcast Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen and how it gave rise to a franchise. Over multiple seasons, the Campside team learned there is an endless fascination with cons and frauds.Jo starts by wondering what drives someone to pretend to be something they’re not. It might be about money, sex and power. But Josh flags there’s not always a clear reason why.Still, listeners are sure to be fascinated by the scammer. And sympathize with the victim.Josh and Jo jump into the range of stories you’ll hear in the new weekly show. While today, it’s easier than ever to scam and be scammed, there are endless stories to be mined from the past.Sadly, of course, it starts with trust, a willingness to be betrayed.You’ll hear about fake Zombies - the band, not the undead - and a teenager who posed as a police officer. You’ll travel around the world and wonder why scammers and frauds - chameleons! - take these risks, often for very little upside.Josh even teases an update on Hollywood Con Queen, the story that launched the franchise five years ago.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Crimeless: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer in this case includes diamond rings, mansions and velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.It starts in 1996 in rural North Carolina, where an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there.The show’s host Johnny Knoxville unspools a wild tale about a group of regular folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life.And this episode of Inside the Tent goes back to the beginning of the show Hillbilly Heist, when Liz and Stewart both found themselves looking for what’s next. Liz’s documentary background and Stewart’s comedy background proved to be the perfect combination for a story that combined true crime and levity.Layne speaks with the producers about rooting for a character, a desperate person, who committed a serious crime. And they ask whether a ‘would-be assassin’ can be a sweet guy.That naturally ties back to the unholy trinity of cocaine, hookers and hot tubs - and leads to a story about Knoxville struggling to get through his lines without laughing.Things turn serious when they discuss how to avoid caricatures and tell a story, even an absurd one, with respect.And the episode ends with an answer to the age old question: is there such thing as a funny FBI agent?Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.On So Your Parents Are Old, Vanessa talks to friends, experts and celebrities about the chaos of dealing with aging parents.It’s a look at one of life’s most disorienting stages. Come for the catharsis, stay for the gallows humor and unfiltered conversations.Shoshi starts by asking what led Vanessa to make the show? Well, it started with the sudden shock of becoming a caretaker to her mom and having it take over her life.And realizing there are millions of people taking care of their parents while also trying to care of themselves (and, often, their own kids).Shoshi, who has not (yet) been through it, realizes that everyone will be a caretaker or be on the receiving end at some point. And Vanessa offers some practical advice based on the interviews she’s conducted so far - including one with a comedian whose dad was a… mobster.After reflecting on how an AI Vanessa might help with all the administrative tasks that come with being a caretaker, the conversation turns to an SNL skit with Amy Poehler that captures all the feelings of So Your Parents Are Old.Remember to breathe in, breathe out and listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.On the surface, the modeling industry in the 80s was about parties and pretty clothes, but underneath the flash, there were drugs, sex, and violence. And Paul Fisher, a former straight-A student from the San Fernando Valley, rose to prominence amidst the turmoil.After a chance encounter with an alleged mobster, Paul suddenly found himself with a million dollars in funding and the chance to start a modeling agency in New York City. The city was then embroiled in a “model war” between industry titans Eileen Ford and John Casablancas, and Paul tried to make his mark.But even as Paul thrived in the party-heavy culture of the time, burning cash like a furnace, he came face to face with the darkest forces in the industry.Vanessa and Anthony start by giving credit to film producer Rachel Winter (Dallas Buyers Club) who brought Paul Fisher to Campside to tell his unbelievable story.Paul took the unusual step of truly opening up, telling wild stories about the modeling industry that make him look unsympathetic, to put it mildly.And they tackle this confounding question: how do you end up rooting for someone you definitely shouldn’t root for? It starts with the surprising number of people willing to participate in the show, who give a sense of all the sides of Fisher, for better or worse.And Vanessa discusses the goal of entertaining listeners without exploiting the characters in the story, many of whom were women preyed upon.They finish up by wondering who is the Paul Fisher of today, in the world of influencers.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.On December 7, 2003, thirteen year old Daniel Morcombe disappeared in broad daylight while waiting for a bus on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. His case sparked one of the largest investigations in Australian history and captured the attention of the nation.Daniel became known nationwide as “The Boy in the Red Shirt.” Police investigators kept coming up short, and for years the trail remained cold.Thanks to the determination of Daniel’s parents, Denise and Bruce, the Australian police ultimately staged an elaborate sting operation to bring the perpetrator to justice after more than a decade.Matt begins by explaining how his fascination with the case began seven years ago. Somehow, Where is Daniel Morcombe? became a story of both heartbreak and inspiration.There were so many questions for Matt and the production team to answer when making the show:How do you ask parents who lost their child to revisit what happened?How do you avoid salaciousness and tell the story with respect?How did Denise and Bruce have the strength to channel their pain and help teach a nation how to keep its children safe?Matt and Josh discuss whether Daniel’s parents could be described as vigilantes as they pursued leads even when police insisted they back off.Finally, the conversation turns to how Denise and Bruce are doing now, as they continue to support the annual Day for Daniel.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.On New Year’s Eve 1969, Jock Yablonski was mysteriously gunned down in his bed. Jock’s son is convinced the head of the United Mine Worker’s Union is behind it.But why, and can he prove it? Decades later, for the second season of Shadow Kingdom, lawyer Nicolo Majnoni embarks on a journey to find out who killed Jock and uncovers a conspiracy at the heart of the union.Nic and Anthony start by discussing what captured Nic’s attention in the first place: it turns out this is the unbelievable story of a family friend.Then they turn to just a few of the characters who populate Coal Survivor: the teenagers who took over the union, including 17-year-old Bob, who became treasurer; the prosecutor who was also involved in the investigation of JFK’s assassination; and the infamous union leader Tony Boyle.Nic describes what had to be left out in order to tell an epic story in just eight episodes. And Anthony highlights how the production team managed to work in moments of humor amidst such a terrible sequence of events.Finally, they remember previous adaptations of the story featuring none other than Charles Bronson and Wilford Brimley.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.When comedian Barry Rothbart was growing up in Queens in the 90s, there were two things he knew for sure: his father, Allan, was his best friend, and Allan was Jon Bon Jovi’s manager. But everything changed in 1997, when Barry’s dad got arrested and admitted that he actually worked for the Italian mafia, running the largest bookmaking operation in the United States.High school Barry jumped in to work alongside him, making more money than most teenagers had ever seen. It all seemed like a perfect buddy comedy…. until it wasn’t.Years after Allan’s death from cancer in 2007, Barry discovered cassette tapes that his dad had recorded on his deathbed. These tapes contained confessions that, again, shattered everything Barry thought he knew about his father.Barry and Josh discuss why it’s so easy to make hours and hours of recordings, but so hard to edit those recordings down to make a show… especially when it’s about your family, your father and yourself.Barry opens about going to therapy and how Searching for Allan Rothbart made a positive impact on his relationship with his mom.And Barry asks Josh about the ethics of reporting in general and podcasting in particular.Their discussion gives a funny and honest window into a show that is equal parts true-crime, family memoir and late-in-life coming-of-age tale.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Many argue that the massive sugar industry has somehow managed to avoid the scrutiny that oil and tobacco have faced for decades.Campside has partnered with Weekday Fun Productions and Imagine Audio to present the re-release of Big Sugar, a series that takes you deep inside the secretive, multi-billion dollar sugar industry. Listeners will hear the dramatic story of the court battle that exposed how the addictive substance is grown, cultivated and sold.Josh and Celeste discuss why this series was a such a perfect fit for her as a journalist, author and host. But, Celeste didn’t come to the series knowing the backstory, the impact of the millions of tons of sugar we eat every year.It all started with a Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner. That inspired Big Sugar, a surprising true crime story that touches on our health, the environment, government subsidies and workers’ rights. Celeste specifically describes to Josh the conditions cane cutters faced everyday in the hot, Florida sun.And she recounts trying to track down the Fanjul brothers, whose wealth and power seemed to insulate them from having to answer questions about the industry that made them fabulously wealthy.Finally Celeste tells Josh what it was like standing in an elementary school parking lot as the sugar fields nearby were burned in preparation for harvesting.Listen to all episodes of "Big Sugar" wherever you get your podcasts.And you can find Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and more. We hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Just as Ashley Fantz was leaving CNN, a headline caught her attention, and she was determined to follow up. A conversation with Matt turned into a pitch, which turned into the second season of the hit franchise Suspect.Jonelle Matthews was abducted in December, 1984. She was one of the first kids featured on milk cartons, drawing national attention to the missing girl. Suspect Steven Pankey was finally indicted for murder and kidnapping in 2020.Ashley tells Matt what it’s like to report on a case that is still being adjudicated - both the challenges and opportunities. On the one hand, the trial helped to clearly establish the facts of the crime. But only certain people were willing and able to talk to Ashley.Was she able to speak with the victim’s sister and parents? What about the detectives who investigated the case in the 1980’s? And the suspect’s ex-wife?Ashley describes the reporter rules she follows - what’s on the record and how to treat sources delicately.Finally, listen to find out Pankey’s response to Ashley’s letter five years ago and what she’d ask him now if given the chance.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Shootings are not unusual in Belize. But the shooting at the center of White Devil is not just unusual, it turned out to be that country's biggest news story in years.Josh investigated the shooting of Henry Jemmott, a senior Belizean Police Officer, by a Canadian property developer named Jasmine Hartin — and then continued with the story for two years after. What started as tabloid fodder turned out to be a complicated story of colonialism, corruption, and the mysterious billionaire at the story's center.Josh and Adam start at the beginning, a conversation with filmmaker Will Gluck (Anyone But You) about finding a project to work on together. The goal was to find something fairly straightforward, and White Devil turned out to be anything but.Josh couldn’t travel to Belize initially - pandemic times - so got in contact with a local journalist who helped him learn the essentials of this surprisingly small-feeling country where everyone seems to know one another. Eventually, he connected directly with the accused shooter, Jasmine Hartin, who had two children with the son of legendary British businessman Michael Ashcroft.Josh opens up about the drawbacks of ‘parachute journalism,’ some valid criticism of the show that he is still unsure how to address, and what's happened lately with the show's protagonist, Jasmine.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Origin Stories is a podcast by creatives - and for anyone curious about the workings of the creative mind. Hosted by Campside’s own Matthew Shaer, a veteran journalist and podcast host, every episode of the show takes you behind the scenes of your favorite book, TV show, magazine article or podcast.Matt and his guests cover the initial spark of curiosity to the long sessions in front of a white board. Nothing is off the table: not the frustrations and the joys, not the setbacks and the successes.Geoff starts by introducing Matt, just as Matt does for his guests at the top of each episode of Origin Stories. That gives Matt a false sense of security before jumping into the hard-hitting interview!Matt describes how the team selects, or tries to pursue, guests from across media - from Alien showrunner Noah Hawley to Pulitzer Prize winning podcaster Connie Walker.They discuss how writing has changed for impatient audiences and what that meant for the first-ever episode of Only Murders in the Building.And Matt admits who he was scared to interview and why Timothy Olyphant is a dream guest on every show he makes.Finally, Geoff pushes Matt to consider whether he’d invite a sculptor on the show. Do you think a sculptor has an Origin Story to tell about her work? You can join the Origin Stories community to discuss this and more.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.This story started with very little on the public record. But what appeared to be a small-time scam turned out to include fake companies, cryptocurrency, multiple countries and families torn apart.Host Natalie Robehmed notes her own similarities to the main character of Catch Me If You Ken. They both hailed from countries associated with wealth, developed hard-to-place accents and made their way to the United States.And Campside Senior Producer Abukar Adan discusses reporting on Ken’s early life and marvels at how effectively Ken covered his digital tracks.And what little detail about the story stuck with Natalie? Ken’s interest in a sport that’s played alone, requires intense focus and involves spinning your way to a strike.Stepping back, Natalie and Abukar touch on language barriers, legal jurisdictions and the difficulties of following a story from Singapore to Spain and Germany to the U.S.Finally, there’s the pain Ken allegedly caused to friends and family… and the unexpected clue to his last known location.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.This is the story of Campside Media's first ever podcast, Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen. Over seven years, hundreds of Hollywood workers were fooled into flying to Indonesia for a movie that didn’t exist. Someone was impersonating female, Hollywood executives - it was one of the weirdest scams in history. Vanessa and Josh discuss what it means to want something so badly that you only see what you want to see - and how the truth can shatter your confidence.They reflect on their time spent chasing a story with an elusive ending. And how to find someone once you have photos and a list of aliases.Then, Josh even hints at new Con Queen information to be revealed in the new Chameleon weekly series, coming soon.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Roger Caron was a legend in Canada, with 78 bank robberies and 13 prison escapes to his name. He was a violent man described as kind and generous. His best friend was his sister.Sam and Anthony discuss his complicated life, fueled by fear and excitement… and what happened when his 15 minutes of fame were up.For a time, Roger lived in a penthouse, drove a fast car and gave hundreds of interviews about his exploits. But ultimately, this is what he wanted people to remember: “I’m not a hero.”And Sam describes how he was introduced to Roger’s story, shocked that the world didn’t remember this thief, brawler and writer.They end the conversation by suggesting what actors might play Roger, a rough and tender bundle of contradictions, in a movie.To hear more from Sam, check out his Campside hits Wild Boys and Dr. Dante. And listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Email us with questions or comments: [email protected]! is a production of Campside Media and iHeart Podcasts.We hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.On the weekly show Infamous, Vanessa and her co-host Natalie Robehmed have dug into the office culture of many companies as they deal with the duress of a scandal. But few companies have had to contend with a murder on the premises.Vanessa and Adam start by diving into Lululemon’s company culture:As an employee, you’re going to help women’s butts look incredible, but you’re also going to live by a code. You will spend hours in seminars, share your fears and learn how to lead a better life. You will set goals, and you will be set up to achieve them.And then Vanessa and Adam jump into the crime that shocked a Maryland neighborhood and led police down a path of lies.Two women were found. They were both gorgeous, upwardly mobile, intelligent, athletic women. They were the best version of 20-something American females; by rights they should not have ended up hurt in the back of an American retail store.Vanessa describes how they got access to the police files and how Infamous combines true crime stories with cultural analysis.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] is a production of Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment.We hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.As God’s Banker climbs the podcast charts in the United States and Italy, Nic, Adam and Anthony gather Inside the Tent to discuss how you might approach an adaptation of the show. To start, it sounds like the podcast series premise was made up:Roberto Calvi, a man guarding a dangerous secret about the Vatican Bank’s criminal activities, sends a threatening letter to the Pope. A week later on June 17th, 1982, he’s found dead hanging from a bridge in London. British police call it suicide, but questions and conspiracies swirl.Forty years on, Nic gets a tip there might be more to the story and embarks on a quest to uncover the truth. Was Roberto Calvi, known as God’s Banker, killed? And if so, by whom?This is not a Dan Brown novel. God’s Banker is a true story, and it’s a story about money that takes us from Rome to the Bahamas and ultimately London.Notably, this is a podcast that can be adapted into a limited series, a movie or even an unlimited series. The conversation covers threads overlooked in the audio version that could be part of an adaptation and all the potential ways to draw in an audience. Could God’s Banker be turned into a European version of The Wire?Shadow Kingdom: God’s Banker is a production of Campside Media and Crooked Media.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.For eight years, Megan Hess ran Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in the small town of Montrose, Colorado. She promised clients discounts on normally expensive cremations, a seeming kindness in a town where many are poor.But in the back of the funeral home, Megan’s elderly mother Shirley was actually dismembering the dead. They were body brokers. Megan was selling the body parts - heads, torsos, legs - to companies that claimed to do medical research.So where did Ashley start? Megan and Shirley had been convicted, so there were plenty of court documents and media coverage to review. And then she began contacting the victims.The victims were the families that trusted Megan. When they came to pick up the ashes of their loved ones, they instead received a mixture of ashes of various people.The moment that Adam and Campside reached out to Ashley about Body Brokers was surprisingly emotional. Ashley was recovering from open heart surgery and was personally confronting issues of death and mortality. That said, the unregulated industry of body brokering was not familiar to her.Adam and Ashley discuss the FBI’s approach to the case and reporting on the sense of betrayal felt by residents of the small town, who were taken advantage of at their most vulnerable moments.Body Brokers is a production of Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment, in association with Black Bar Mitzvah.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected], this is not the only Campside Media podcast to center around cremation. Noble, released in 2024, focused on 300 bodies on a property in the tiny town of Noble, Georgia and one of the most expensive investigations in the history of the American South.We hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.It starts here: host Sam Mullins is from the Canadian town where two brothers, the Wild Boys, unexpectedly showed up in 2003 with their miraculous story.They’d been raised in the British Columbia wilderness, and this was their first-ever contact with society - they’d never seen a TV, gone to school, or registered for IDs. So the town took them in and set about introducing them to the modern world.Sam recalls growing up just a few hundred yards from where the boys were cared for by the openhearted community. But were the Wild Boys just looking for attention? Were they actually… suburban kids from California.Making the show was a huge learning experience for both Abukar and Sam, who had to team up make a complicated show, with reluctant participants.Sam makes the argument that with the passage of time, a story can properly be processed and revisited. But why wouldn’t people from his hometown want to talk?Finally, how did Sam track down the brothers, now grown up, in Carson City, Nevada? And were they finally willing to talk?Wild Boys is a Sony Music Podcast produced by Campside Media.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.All my friends are watching The White Lotus and then listening to the Official Podcast right after. So I’m getting a lot of texts and feeling pressure to produce the best possible show.That’s Natalia telling Josh about how this podcast series is different from any other she has produced.And it’s based on a tv show that is unlike any other, too. Writer and director Mike White and his producer Dave Bernad managed to make season one during the pandemic by taking advantage of an empty luxury hotel… and by drawing from some fascinating details from White’s life.What was originally envisioned as a one-off turned into a massive hit, with two more seasons already done, and a fourth - set in a fabulous location yet to be announced - already greenlit by HBO.Josh and Natalia talk about the thoughtful approach of the Official Podcast: the hosts recorded their reactions immediately after watching each episode of Season 3, without the benefit of knowing what’s coming in later episodes. They play the part of the audience and offer their insight and predictions.One of the other Campside companion podcasts to make a huge impression on Josh and Natalia: The Wire at 20, hosted by none other than Method Man.To hear more about trying to book stars for a podcast, listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Out of the terrifying mind of Rodney Barnes comes Run, Fool!, weekly tales guaranteed to make you scream. And while those tales start with Rodney’s incomparable voice, the monsters, demons and vampires are brought to life by Kevin’s sound design.Garrett and Kevin discuss the art and science of finding the right sound week after week and how making mix tapes as teenagers hinted at their work to come.Kevin admits he’s got a couple favorite episodes - including The Phantom Hitchhiker (which you can listen to ad free by joining the Run, Fool! community).You’ll hear references to Hitchcock, David Lynch and even Tom Waits, who said, “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”He might have been referencing Kevin’s work on this series!You can also read the origin story of Run, Fool! while imagining how a swarm of radioactive hornets might sound.So join us to hear a new breed of modern ghost story, and if you get too scared ... Run, Fool!Run, Fool! is a production from Ballen Studios, At-Will Media & Campside Media.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Campside’s most recent show follows Vienna, who travels to the Atlanta forest to protest the construction of a facility critics call “Cop City.” She finds a community, love - and a cause.But over the ensuing months, tensions mount between forest-dwelling activists and a state intent on their removal.Matt and Tommy discuss how you can admire the passion of those willing to move across the country to protest, while also wondering if these are just aimless kids struggling to find direction.And they turn their attention to the purpose of Cop City - better training for police. What does better training mean: More effective deescalation? More highly militarized operations?Matt and Tommy also examine the long process of making We Came to the Forest. When the team unexpectedly received a trove of files near the end of production, it made the final weeks even more chaotic than usual. So they were faced with a choice: weave in the new information or simply allude to it at the end.Last week Matt wrote about the odyssey of trying to access the official Georgia Bureau of Investigation file on the shooting of one of the protesters. That was the start of a journey where the team learned how idealism can dangerously collide with reality.We Came to the Forest is a co-production from Wondery, Campside Media, and Tenderfoot TV.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.One of Campside’s first shows was about a father and son, Tony and Conner Hathaway, who were both addicted to heroin… and who robbed a bank together.Campside Co-founder Josh Dean was initially looking for a heist story. What he found was that and much more: a story about family and a window into the opioid epidemic.After Conner’s arrest, his father Tony went on to confound multiple police departments and the FBI: he robbed 30 banks in 54 weeks. But that streak could only last so long.Josh discusses his first visit to the Washington state prison where Tony was serving his sentence. While there were rules about taking notes or recording conversations with inmates, Josh found a workaround.And Tony was an open book. Rather than the story someone might want to hear, he told the unvarnished truth. And the truth was, he wasn’t chasing a high; he was desperately trying to avoid feeling dopesick. And it ruined his life.Before Tony was a masterful bank robber — and while he was a bank robber — he was a top design engineer at Boeing. Hathaway traveled the world in business class, working on the 747, while hiding a gigantic secret: an OxyContin addiction that ultimately unraveled his life.Josh and Tony went on to have phone conversations and exchange emails for years. They still do. Those conversations formed the basis of Hooked.Adam and Josh discuss the potential for a television adaptation written by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime), journalistic objectivity and how a perfect ending for Hooked almost came true.Hooked is an Apple Original produced by Campside Media.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Dear Campside Community,This is an unusual update, in that we are discussing a German language show - produced by Campside and Wondery - coming out on January 27th, 2025. But it’s a story we think worth learning about one way or the other.And one way is to listen to this interview - in English - with host Antonia Woloshyn. When Semiya and Gamze’s fathers were murdered, the German police did something strange: instead of conducting a thorough investigation, they focused on the families. Meanwhile the killing spree continued, with nine immigrants murdered in the early 2000’s. It even turned out that a German intelligence agent was present during one of the murders.This brings us to the NSU. The National Socialist Underground, or NSU, was a German neo-Nazi militant organization active between 2001 and 2010. The story of the anti-immigrant murders carried out by NSU members and the human rights lawyer who doggedly pursued justice is well known in Germany, and should be well known generally.Antonia and Josh discuss the making of Land ohne Vater, a story about a coverup that forced a country to face its past… again. The title roughly translates to ‘Country Without A Father,’ a play on the powerful German notion of a fatherland.An interesting note: the working title was ‘Operation Confetti,’ a reference to the shredding of key documents by officials likely motivated by racism and fear of prosecution.Antonia suggests that Germans in particular wanted to ignore this story because the country tries to convince itself that they’ve overcome its past atrocities. But this show highlights that it’s awfully hard to outrun the past and a mistake to ignore it. The far right is very present in Germany today, and that trend is echoed around the world.Land ohne Vater was produced by a team in multiple time zones, speaking multiple languages. It was a true team effort.Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Our thoughts are with colleagues and friends in Los Angeles.A crew of 47 aboard an Alaskan fishing boat ominously nicknamed "The Danger Ranger" had been counting on a final run deep into the Bering Sea as a last-ditch effort to save a mediocre fishing season.Before ever arriving, they had to abandon ship in 32-degree water amidst 20-foot swells and driving snow.Their last hope? A cook making the key calls, a helicopter running out of fuel and a rookie rescue swimmer who had never saved anyone in open water.This was initially recounted in Sean’s 2008 GQ article The Longest Night. Forty-seven people were on board and many spent hours floating in the frigid, dark waters. Miraculously, forty-two were rescued, and thirteen years later Sean and the Campside team revisited the story to make The Bering.Adam and Sean discuss the transition from print to audio and the magic of crafting the perfect sound design.On the heels of tragic events, Sean has regularly interviewed people about the worst day of their lives. That proximity to death takes a toll, but here Sean was struck by how the survivors processed their emotions over the years and found ways to move on with their lives.It was a reminder of how the luxury of time can change the tone and depth of a project.Adam also explored the impact of time in a prior piece about the ongoing journey to adapt The Bering for television. No matter the medium, at its core it’s a story about people doing whatever it takes to save other people.Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on The Bering and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Happy holidays - see you in 2025!When Matt received a letter from a man awaiting trial for a murder he swore he hadn't committed, a certain type of evidence was particularly noteworthy: "Touch" DNA — traces of human matter so small and complex that they require algorithmic software to make sense of.This was a crime that received little press coverage, yet featured a deadly Halloween party and the potential perils of evidence collection.Matt and Eric talk about the podcast company that passed on Suspect - big mistake! - and the desire to always do more reporting for a show.Matt has shared in the past a letter from the suspect, Emanuel Fair, and notes in the episode what a difference just one individual can make, especially a juror.They discuss the intersection of race, policing and the justice system. And the shocking admission by a prosecutor interviewed in Suspect who believed a second person was involved in the murder.Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Suspect and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Laurie Bembenek was a Milwaukee police officer and Playboy Club bunny before being arrested for the murder of her husband’s ex-wife, a crime she insisted she did not commit.When Vanessa learned about the story, she questioned everything she was told: was Bembenek really a feminist icon? Or was she the tabloid-friendly, killer Playboy bunny who escaped from prison?Over two years, Vanessa and the team read Bembenek’s letters from prison and discovered a straight A student who also wanted to challenge the sexist status quo.But how do you make a story feel relevant when so many people at the center of it are dead or dying? Start by relentlessly tracking down anyone still able to talk on tape. And be sure to read through all the material available to get any color on the story you can. In a past column, Vanessa explains what attracted her to the story of Bambi Bembenek in the first place.With sound design and writing support from Campside’s Mark McAdam, Run, Bambi, Run became a stylized retelling of a complicated life.Listen to the interview with Vanessa on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. And let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Run, Bambi, Run and all of Campside’s hit shows.Run, Bambi, Run is an Apple Original produced by Campside Media. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.On March 16, 2000, two police officers were shot in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods.One officer died and the other claimed the shooter was Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the leader of a local mosque. Once known as H. Rap Brown, Al-Amin was a charismatic leader of the Black Power Movement, and an honorary officer in the Black Panther Party.He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. But was Al-Amin truly guilty? Or was it payback for decades of work against the establishment?Secret, a former reporter for The New York Times and ProPublica, speaks with Matt about learning to write for audio and his personal connection to the case at the center of Radical.He singles out producer Johnny Kauffman’s relentless pursuit of public records and how reporters can be blocked from accessing what they have a legal right to review.It’s been one year since the release of the show, and Secret reflects on investigating what really happened the night of the shootout in Atlanta and who really deserves to be called ‘radical.’Thanks for listening. Let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Radical and all of Campside’s hit shows.Radical is a production of Campside Media, Tenderfoot TV, and iHeart Podcasts. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.James Dolan was born into immense privilege. He could have done anything with his life. But he chose the family business — a cable television empire that came to include ownership of the New York Knicks, a valuable and beloved franchise that, during Dolan's tenure, has been one of the least successful teams in all of sports. Which has made his relationship with the fans, and the city, quite an adventure!Reign of Error chases the answer to one elusive question: Why won't James Dolan just sell the team?Greene is formerly the host of NPR’s Morning Edition and Up First. He and Josh discuss facial recognition at Madison Square Garden, having your voice recognized at restaurants and the incredible success of the Sphere in Las Vegas.And Greene of course highlights his passion for his hometown Pittsburgh teams.Thanks for listening. Let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Reign of Error and all of Campside’s hit shows.Reign of Error is a co-production of Campside Media and Smartless Media. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green.Through first-person accounts, original reporting, and dramatized scenes, Ben Austen and Harrison David Rivers tell the story of Dantrell Davis and his mother Annette Freeman – while at the same time exploring how Cabrini-Green’s rise and fall changed the course of American public housing.Ashleyanne and Ben discuss the ambitious blend of fiction and non-fiction that transports listeners back to The Last Days of Cabrini-Green.They also reflect on a visit to freezing Chicago to spend time with Annette and what the show says about the city itself.Thanks for listening. Let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on The Last Days of Cabrini Green and all of Campside’s hit shows.An Audible Original produced by Campside Media and At Will Media, available now to Audible subscribers, with a free sample available to everyone. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Behind every infamous news story is a journalist trying to hold power to account. And behind the Campside podcast Infamous are Vanessa Grigoriadis, Natalie Robehmed, Lily Houston Smith, Julia Case-Levine and more.Infamous covers everything from the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders to The Apprentice, from Mr. Beast to The Truth About Ruby Franke.Listen now for insight into how the show mixes medicine and sweets - much like classic issues of Vanity Fair. Hear what it takes to shine an unflattering light on the world’s most powerful people.Thanks for listening, and let us know what you think by emailing [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Infamous and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Dr. Ronald Dante was a talented hypnotist (and not an actual doctor) whose mind-bending schemes spanned decades.Dante worked the smoke-filled nightclubs of 1960s Hollywood and rode the self-help craze of the 1980s and 90s, hypnotizing women out of their fortunes, taking out his rivals and opening up one of the biggest fake universities in history.Host Sam Mullins says Dante loved being onstage and loved controlling people - hypnotism was his calling. Dante was even the person whose relationship with Lana Turner made her swear off men forever.Mullins (host of Campside’s chart-topping Wild Boys) tracks him through yacht clubs, prison cells, trailer parks and theme parks to uncover the unbelievable true story of the greatest con man you’ve never heard of.Thanks for listening. Let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Dr. Dante and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.In the fall of 2020, 14 men were arrested across three states in a series of FBI raids that shocked the nation. The government alleged that these men conspired to kidnap, and possibly even kill, the sitting governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. But is that really what happened?Season 7 of Chameleon explores that notorious plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer, from its inception, by taking listeners on an unprecedented journey inside the investigation. Here you can learn how Jessica and Ken brought this series from the page to your podcast app.Ken notes, “It was a reminder of how powerful the government can be.” And “how even unsympathetic people deserve fair treatment.”Through hundreds of hours of wire recordings that had never before been heard by the public, listeners had the chance to ride along in the pocket of an FBI informant posing as a militia member, as he infiltrated an anti-government group that seemed dangerous. But were they?The Michigan Plot asks if a plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer was the sophisticated plan the government said it was, or just the stoned fantasies of a group of down-on-their-luck gun nuts? Did the FBI stop a dangerous plot in motion…or did it help to create it?If this sounds like it could be a television show, you’re not wrong. And you can learn more about the adaptation journey here, as the series makes its way from audio to video.Thanks for listening. Let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on The Michigan Plot and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Doctor Miracle explores a wellness center some called Miracle Ranch, nestled in the scenic mountains of Southern California, that promised a luxurious escape and a path to wellness through clean, alkaline living.Its leader, Dr. Robert O. Young, attracted wealthy clientele with his “groundbreaking” health protocols and friendly, family-man persona.But beneath the serene surface, Miracle Ranch harbored a dark secret. The people who stayed there didn’t get better; they got worse. Through legal documents and candid interviews with former patients and employees, this series unravels the chilling true story of one man who convinced scores of people that cancer is not a cell but an “acidic, poisonous liquid”, and how his popular “alkaline diet” turned deadly.One document we’ve shared with you comes from Dolores McCullough, a sick mom who spent time on the alkaline diet ranch trying to be healed.In this episode, Campside Co-founder Vanessa Grigoriadis and host Larrison Campbell talk about how popular the alkaline diet became and how Miracle Ranch took advantage to attract patients desperate for their diseases could be cured.Thanks for listening. Let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Doctor Miracle and all of Campside’s hit shows.Doctor Miracle is a production of Campside Media, Sony Music Entertainment, and Dorothy Street Pictures. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Night Shift reinvestigates a 1992 case involving a series of suspicious deaths at a VA hospital that seemed to all have one very disturbing thing in common.A nurse may have murdered dozens of veterans. But rather than investigate the deaths, the hospital leadership seemed only to care about keeping the case quiet. Journalists Jake Adelstein (author of Tokyo Vice) and Shoko Plambeck go back to Jake’s hometown of Columbia, Missouri to investigate the crimes, the families and the cover-up. And they talk to the whistleblowers — including Jake’s own father, Eddie Adelstein.Campside Co-founder Josh Dean and Jake talk about what drew Japan-based Jake back home, why retired FBI employees are willing to speak to reporters… and what really happened on the night shift.Thanks for listening. Let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Night Shift and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

This is the first episode of the Inside the Tent podcast, a series going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.In the winter of 2002, police discovered more than 300 bodies on one property in the tiny town of Noble, Georgia. What followed was one of the biggest and most expensive investigations in the history of the American South.To get to the bottom of this case, journalist Shaun Raviv visits a rural community with plenty of secrets.It started with the well respected Marsh family. And the name McCracken Poston, a defense attorney who has made his name working on high profile cases.And it led to a question: what do the living owe the dead? That’s just the beginning of the podcast Noble.Campside Co-founder Matt Shaer and Shaun discuss the case, how Shaun got interested and what it was like to ask people to revisit an unimaginable scene on the property of a crematorium. Thanks for listening. Let us know what you think: [email protected] hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Noble and all of Campside’s hit shows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com

Campside was born to tell stories: big, surprising, original stories that can only originate from the beats — and the brains — of the world's best journalists.Our new podcast - going behind the scenes of our hit shows - is coming soon.Our shows include Suspect, The Michigan Plot, Wild Boys, Infamous, Run Fool!… and many more.Please send along questions to: [email protected]. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit join.campsidemedia.com