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Seven years ago, journalist Justine van der Leun received a letter that would change her life. The sender was a woman named Kwaneta Harris, who was incarcerated at a prison in Texas.

Kwaneta’s story turned out to be more complicated, deceptive, and unhinged than Justine could have ever imagined.

Bad checks are cashed. Fibs turn into lies. Lies turn into scams. A mysterious man wrapped in bandages signs binding legal documents.

At one point, a young mother walks into a courthouse in Dallas and confesses to a murder she did not commit. None of it is real, or maybe all of it is. And somehow at every twist, behind every bizarre story, Justine kept finding her way back to one person: Kwaneta.

Matt begins by asking about Justine’s mission to learn about women in U.S. prisons on murder and manslaughter charges. She sent more than 10,000 letters and received more than 1,000 responses.

Kwaneta responded with a thoughtful note about the stigma of a murder accusation and the stigma of facing your past. Justine wanted to hear more.

Typically Justine communicated with women who had clearly acted in self defense. But Kwaneta’s story seemed quite a bit more complicated than that. Well, that turned out to be an understatement, and Justine’s journey turned into the What She Buried podcast.

Matt notes that there was in incredible level of access. Justine still can’t believe that even a judge in Texas was willing to talk on the record.

There seemed to be two reasons for the access: first, Kwaneta’s cooperation - at least initially - made others more willing to talk. Second, it was a case that was truly memorable, even to law enforcement professionals with decades of experience.

Justine tells Matt about one of the most surprising interviews she and producer Eric Benson conducted. And then she flags one of the most remarkable elements of the show: Justine became a part of the story.

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More than 60 million people watched the World Cup final in the U.S. alone. It was a huge moment for the sport, and for Spain of course. But what now? Well, Campside is here to fill that football-shaped hole in your heart.

First let’s go back to a classic episode of Sports Explains the World, our anthology of wild and surprising sports stories you’ve never heard.

The Engineer

As a kid, Kieran Morris, a cheeky lad from Liverpool, loved pulling pranks to fool the press. When England played Honduras in a friendly soccer match, he found a young player on the Honduran side, Alexander Lopez, and inflated his stats on Wikipedia to equal those of a young Messi and Ronaldo. Morris then dubbed the player the “Honduran Maradona.”

Sky News, a top outlet, fell for the prank. But so did an MLS soccer team. They signed the “Honduran Maradona” and the story became the jokester’s go-to tale at the pub.

But Kieran always held on to some low-grade guilt for tossing a player into a situation where he would no doubt fail. The Engineer is a comical and cautionary tale about fake news that takes us across continents, as Kieran Morris, now grown, sets about retracing his prank, culminating in a face-to-face meeting with the player whose life he altered: the “Honduran Maradona.”

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Sports Explains the World is a co-production of Meadowlark and Wondery in association with Campside Media.

Let’s turn to Owned, where former NBA player Rex Chapman interviews reporters, athletes and more about the wild world of pro sports owners.

Angel FC, with Natalie Portman and Julie Uhrman

Rex talked to Oscar-winner Natalie Portman about being a co-owner of the NWSL Angel FC!

He finds out why she wanted to help start a soccer (football) team and asks if it’s harder than winning an Oscar.

Rex then speaks to co-owner and (now former) CEO of the club, Julie Uhrman, about the nuts and bolts of running a team.

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Owned is a co-production of Smartless Media and Campside Media.

And we’ll leave you with part one of The Bison Project, an extraordinary story of redemption from Sports Explains the World.

Ian Bain and Alvin Henderson were just boys when they first met on the schoolyard soccer fields in Trinidad. They battled on the field with the same common goal, to become professional footballers. Years later, the duo is recruited to come to the United States and play soccer for the Howard University Bison.

Together, they are the young anchors of the first HBCU team to win an NCAA Division I soccer championship, in 1971. It’s a story of triumph, until the rumors start.

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In 2016, a rookie NASCAR driver from the Kahnawà:ke First Nations reserve, outside Montreal, was arrested in one of the biggest police raids in Canadian history. Overnight, Derek White went from an unknown driver to a front page headline.

White was the first indigenous driver to reach the NASCAR Cup Series. But his arrest - for tobacco smuggling - wasn’t a clear-cut crime story. It was a complicated case, hinging on the sovereign rights of the Mohawk Nation, that reached all the way to Canada’s Supreme Court. And White’s future as a race car driver hung in the balance.

In 2022, Campside Media teamed up with iHeart and the Dan Patrick Podcast Network to produce the podcast series Running Smoke, hosted by Rajiv Golla, about Derek White’s incredible saga.

Here is the CBC description:

Running Smoke is the thrilling true story of a NASCAR driver, the biggest tobacco-smuggling bust in North American history, and quite possibly the future of Indigenous rights.

Derek White, a Mohawk from Kahnawà:ke was the first Indigenous driver to compete in NASCAR’s premier Sprint Cup Series. Less than a year later, Derek’s dream disintegrates after he was arrested in the largest cross border police sting of its kind.

He was charged with smuggling and defrauding the government and indefinitely suspended from NASCAR. Derek is faced with an existential choice: take a plea deal or fight the charges and the constitution.

Contemplating the rich history of his people and the future of his family, Derek makes a daring decision to risk it all.

The documentary is directed by award-winning filmmaker Alexandra Lazarowich. Producers include Lazarowich, Chad Charlie, Kaniehtiio Horn, Michael Kronish, Jonas Prupas and Joe Tuck. Produced by Muse Entertainment in association with Campside Media.

And while you await the release of the doc, you can listen to the podcast series now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

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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.

During his tenure, the Knicks have 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!

After chronicling Dolan’s stewardship of the Knicks in Reign of Error three years ago, there was an awfully good reason to look back at the show. The Knicks are NBA champions!

Josh and Mike jump right in to ask, did we get it wrong? Not long ago, there was no sign that the team might be capable of an epic run.

So did Dolan do things differently? Mike shares his theory about the blessed distraction provided by the Sphere Las Vegas (which also happens to be a huge success). The spectacular venue also came up in a discussion with Reign of Error host David Greene.

Josh expresses pleasant surprise at the assembly of the most lovable team you can imagine: Jalen Brunson, OG Anunoby, Karl-Anthony Towns, Mikal Bridges and more.

And together, Mike and Josh cover the crucial roles played by an unlikely trio in the story of the championship series: Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani, President of the United States Donald Trump and, of course, the Wu-Tang Clan.

Mike goes on to break down the surprising speeches Dolan gave to his team before the playoffs and the fans after the championship was clinched. And Josh notes that unfortunately, all is not yet well with Dolan and Knicks legend Charles Oakley.

Wu-Tang forever!

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This week we are sharing the most popular Inside the Tent episodes of the past year. They exemplify the idea that Campside was born to tell stories: surprising, personal, original stories that can only originate from the beats — and the brains — of the world's best creators. Happy Summer!

The Brothers Ortiz: 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.

Hear more from host Sean Flynn and Campside Executive Producer Matt Shaer.

Catch Me If You Ken: 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 and Campside Senior Producer Abukar Adan discuss how boyish charm and the appearance of wealth can be leveraged to scam victims all over the world.

Natalie even notes her own similarities to the main character: they both hailed from countries associated with wealth, developed hard-to-place accents and made their way to the United States.

Searching for Allan Rothbart: 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 Campside Co-founder Josh Dean discuss the shocking and cathartic experience of making a show about Barry's family, his father and himself.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Campside has produced more than forty (40!) limited series, and we are very often asked about Wild Boys. It’s the story of two half-starved brothers who told a welcoming Canadian community about their upbringing in the wilderness.

It was 2003, and the boys had never seen a TV, gone to school, or registered for IDs. So the community took them in and set about introducing them to the modern world. Before long, the international media descended on the town, enthralled by the mysterious “Bush Boys.”

There was just one problem: not a word the boys said was true.

Nearly 20 years later, award-winning journalist Sam Mullins revisited the bizarre true story of the strangers who turned his hometown upside-down. That was the Campside audio series Wild Boys.

The story fascinated listeners... and now, in 2026, it’s fascinating viewers.

Wild Boys: Strangers in Town is a new documentary on Paramount+ from Endless Eye Productions, Candle True Stories and Campside. It’s a chance to see footage of the brothers and the townspeople who cared for them. It’s a very different way of experiencing the bizarre story.

And then there’s the Inside the Tent interview with Wild Boys podcast host Sam Mullins.

Sam recalls growing up just a few hundred yards from where the boys were cared for by the openhearted community. He makes the argument that with the passage of time, a story can properly be processed and revisited.

And Sam explains how he tracked down the brothers, now grown up, in Carson City, Nevada.

There are many ways to explore a story, and we hope you make time to listen, watch and go behind the scenes.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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 Black

It’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.

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Tell Me Lies for Hulu. Percy Jackson for Disney+. White Lotus for HBO. Producing companions that delight a show's fans is an exciting part of Campside Media’s business.

Alongside our weekly and limited series, we have the pleasure of working with the spectacularly talented casts of these shows and more. And it’s always a close collaboration with the hardworking companion teams at Disney, Hulu and HBO.

Here’s where it all starts: we’re already huge fans of these shows! Catch up now.

Tell Me Lies

Each week, host Stassi Schroeder digs deep into the drama with the cast, crew, and select superfans of Tell Me Lies season three on this cozy, lively, and slightly chaotic audio and video podcast.

Tune in to hear from stars Grace Van Patten, Jackson White and more; showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer; and Tell Me Lies diehards like Lauren Mayberry and Katie Maloney on the latest relationship drama and each week’s most jaw-dropping scenes.

Watch on Hulu and YouTube. Listen on Spotify and Apple.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Step behind the scenes of season two of the hit Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians with host Aryan Simhadri, who plays Grover Underwood.

Joined by cast members like Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Daniel Diemer, the podcast shares stories of bringing Rick Riordan’s books to life. Hear about friendships, adventures, and challenges at Camp Half-Blood, plus candid cast and crew interviews—including Rick Riordan.

Each weekly episode uncovers set secrets, the creative process, and untold myths, offering fans laughter, insights, and a personal window into the Percy Jackson universe.

Watch on Disney+ and YouTube. Listen on Spotify and Apple.

White Lotus

Join Jia Tolentino and Josh Bearman, the hosts of The White Lotus Official Season 3 companion podcast.

Every week they will break down each episode of the HBO Original Series with the cast and crew. They’ll get an exclusive look behind the scenes, examine the guests and staff, and ask the burning questions we all want answered.

Watch on HBO Max and YouTube. Listen on Spotify and Apple.

And check out an interview with Campside’s White Lotus companion producing team.

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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.

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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.

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Are you obsessed with cons, frauds, and impostors? Then this is the podcast for you.

Chameleon is the new weekly show from veteran journalist Josh Dean that takes you inside incredible, stranger-than-fiction stories about someone — or some people —pretending to be something they aren’t.

Here’s your chance to catch up on the top episodes:

The de Kooning Job

In 1985, a priceless painting vanished from a university museum in Arizona. The FBI had no leads. 32 years later, it turned up behind a bedroom door in a suburban New Mexico home.

Turns out the retired couple living there may have pulled off one of the most audacious art heists of the 20th century.

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The Spine Collector

For years, someone was tricking publishers into handing over yet-to-be-published manuscripts—from bestselling authors and total unknowns alike. There were no ransom demands. The books were not leaked. The motive was unclear. An international mystery that baffled the publishing world for years.

But two journalists in lockdown set out to solve the mystery and uncover the peculiarly obsessed culprit.

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The Barefoot Bandit

Colton Harris-Moore was just a teenager when he began breaking into homes across the Pacific Northwest. But soon, he was stealing cars, boats... and then planes.

This is the unbelievable true story of a kid outrunning the cops to become one of the first folk heroes of the internet age.

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Catch up now on all the Chameleon episodes, and hear from Josh about the origins of the series here. Email us with questions or comments: questions@campsidemedia.com.

Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck.

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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.

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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.

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