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- 3 days ago17 min
Does Mother Know Best?
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.If you’re reading this in the app but missing it in your inbox, you can enable email delivery anytime in your account settings.Jennifer Bush was one of the sickest children in America. She had more than two hundred hospital visits, dozens of surgeries, and a mother who never left her side. Then the doctors began to ask a darker question: what if the person harming Jennifer Bush was the person who loved her most?Journalist Sara Ganim grew up in the same sun-bleached Florida town as Jennifer. Decades later, she returns to a case that split a family, a courtroom, and a community. It was a case built on a diagnosis that turns a mother’s every act of devotion into evidence against her.In Mother Knows Best, Sara digs into the doctors, the records, and the science, and she uncovers a question that reaches far beyond one family: how do we tell the difference between a parent who is harming a child and one who is simply refusing to give up?Sara and producer Karen Given start from the beginning of their exhaustive three year journey to produce the show. They wanted to find a story with a potentially unexpected ending. And local reporting in Florida led Sara to Jennifer Bush and her mother Kathy.The story brought to mind Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, but was this actually a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy? Sara and Karen initially hoped to tell a story less reliant on existing documents, but Kathy’s four month trial in 1999 meant reviewing thousands of pages and hours of testimony.In this episode, Vanessa Grigoriadis asks about their experience reporting on the medical community. Sara was most surprised by the amount of disagreement amongst doctors. There are unfortunately lots of unknowns in medicine, and parents in particular want answers.Sara and Karen discuss what constitutes justice, for a mother sent to jail and a daughter sent to foster care. At least here, both mother and daughter get the chance to tell their stories. And there is time, with an hours long podcast, to explore the people and issues deeply.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: questions@campsidemedia.com.We hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Mother Knows Best 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
- 3 weeks ago34 min
Following in Your Father’s Footsteps... When Your Father is Tony Hillerman
Matt here. Thanks for being part of the Campside community. Today we’re sharing the latest episode of Origin Stories, a conversation with Anne Hillerman.For most of her career, Anne had no intention of becoming a novelist. She was a journalist and nonfiction writer, covering everything from restaurants and travel to the landscapes and cultural history of the American Southwest.Fiction was her father’s territory.Tony Hillerman, the legendary mystery novelist, had spent decades chronicling life on the Navajo Nation through his beloved detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. But after Tony died in 2008, Anne began to realize how much she missed not only her father, but the fictional world he’d created— and especially one character, Bernadette Manuelito, a young Navajo police officer who had spent years on the margins of his books, never quite getting the chance to solve a mystery herself.So Anne decided to try something she’d never imagined doing: write a novel.The result was Spider Woman’s Daughter, published in 2013, which put Bernie at the center of the story and launched an enormously successful second chapter for the Hillerman mysteries.On this episode of Origin Stories, Anne joins host and Campside co-founder Matthew Shaer to talk about inheriting her father’s fictional universe, learning the mechanics of mystery writing, and finding her own voice in a world already familiar to millions of readers.She shares some helpfully grounded, practical advice for writers and other creatives. For example: Give yourself permission to write a terrible first draft. Aim for a thousand words a day. And protect your mornings from email intrusions!But our favorite part of the episode is Anne’s recounting of the nerve-racking experience of handing her first manuscript to her mother, who had been one of Tony Hillerman’s most trusted readers (spoiler alert: it went pretty dang well). This is an Origin Stories interview, where we get very smart writers, reporters and TV & movie people to explain how their most beloved works were created.The people I’ve spoken with have their own systems, habits, anxieties, tricks, and (occasionally) deeply strange methods for getting from a first glimmer of… something, to a masterpiece.If you’ve listened to the show before, thank you. And if you’re new to it, there’s plenty to catch up on.Origin Stories is a Campside Media podcast. Email us with questions or comments: questions@campsidemedia.com.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
- Sep 24, 202627 min
When You’re Not From A Nice Family
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.If you’re reading this in the app but missing it in your inbox, you can enable email delivery anytime in your account settings.From the outside, Diana Keough’s family looked like the kind everyone admired. Her father was a successful attorney. The family sat in the same church pew every Sunday. There were six children, sporting events and family vacations. Everything appeared picture perfect.Then, in 1988, her father was diagnosed with AIDS. People might describe that moment as the one that changed everything. But that’s not quite true. It was the moment everything hidden began to come into the light.Trained as a journalist, Keough did what came naturally: she picked up a tape recorder. Over the next several years, she recorded more than one hundred hours of conversations with her parents and siblings, never imagining those tapes would one day become the heart of a podcast.And she couldn’t have known then where the story would lead - not just to long-buried family secrets, but to unexpected grace. To a father transformed near the end of his life. To a mother whose heart was changed by a friendship with a woman on Texas’s death row.Diana and sound designer John Delore are both from the Milwaukee area and begin their conversation with an important question: where to find the best frozen custard. (Perhaps it’s Gilles!)And they move onto something even more pressing: why share the story of Not From A Nice Family publicly after thirty years? For Diana, it was about having perspective and the cooperation of her five siblings.John asks about the distinction between journalism and memoirs. For Diana, her experience as a journalist - reporting on the pain of others - prepared her to face her own past and to use the hours of cassette tapes to report on her own family.And Diana admits why she felt compelled to tape her mother over the years: she needed to fact check the woman who often retold stories as she wanted to remember them, rather than how they were.John asks about the experience of listening to old tapes and rereading old journals. For Diana, it was traumatic, but also a chance to process what happened. And making the show was a chance to tell a sensational story with care and find the elements of redemption.Finally, Diana and John acknowledge something we all have to face: parents keep secrets from their children. Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: questions@campsidemedia.com.We hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on Not From A Nice Family 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
- Sep 10, 202633 min
An Unsparing Investigation of the Canadian Indian Residential School System
Matt here. Thanks for being part of the Campside community. Today we are revisiting our Origin Stories conversation with Connie Walker, a veteran Cree journalist, and the first podcaster to win both the Pulitzer Prize and a Peabody Award in the same year.Connie is one of the most ethical journalists I know – she thinks deeply about the sensitivities of both her subjects and her listeners. It’s a surprisingly uncommon skill, and one I was eager to better understand.She talks about the backstory of “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s,” a deeply-personal investigation of the Canadian Indian residential school system, which she reported while at Gimlet.To Connie, all great audio documentaries should hinge on “a question that you’re trying to answer. It doesn’t have to be the question that you end up asking the whole way through,” she says. “But initially, you have to start with that.”This is an Origin Stories interview, where we get very smart writers, reporters and TV & movie people to explain how their most beloved works were created.The people I’ve spoken with have their own systems, habits, anxieties, tricks, and (occasionally) deeply strange methods for getting from a first glimmer of… something, to a masterpiece.If you’ve listened to the show before, thank you. And if you’re new to it, there’s plenty to catch up on.Origin Stories is a Campside Media podcast. Email us with questions or comments: questions@campsidemedia.com.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
- Aug 6, 202616 min
A Murder Case That Turned Out To Be More Complicated Than You Can Imagine
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.If you’re reading this in the app but missing it in your inbox, you can enable email delivery anytime in your account settings.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.Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: questions@campsidemedia.com.We hope to see you inside the tent again soon. Subscribe now for updates on What She Buried 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
- Jun 25, 202624 min
The Joy of a New York Knicks Championship and the Risk of Rancid Vibes
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.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!Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with questions or comments: questions@campsidemedia.com.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
- May 28, 202618 min
From The Book of Mormon to Jen Shah, Real Housewives Content Creator
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: questions@campsidemedia.com.We 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
- May 14, 202623 min
Should Timothee Chalamet Play a Manualist
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: questions@campsidemedia.com.We 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
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