Inside the Tent with Campside Media

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Campside was born to tell stories: big, surprising, original stories that can only originate from the beats of the world's best journalists. We’ve made dozens of hit podcasts and we’re now welcoming you inside the tent. Listen now to go behind the scenes of our shows. join.campsidemedia.com

  1. The Wrong Identical Twin Locked Up For Murder

    20H AGO

    The Wrong Identical Twin Locked Up For Murder

    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: questions@campsidemedia.com. We 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

    23 min
  2. Remember the Floating Luggage

    APR 2

    Remember the Floating Luggage

    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: 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

    17 min
  3. Not Quite Human, Not Quite Machine: The Velvet Sundown

    MAR 19

    Not Quite Human, Not Quite Machine: The Velvet Sundown

    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: 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

    41 min

  4. MAR 5

    Behind the Scenes of the Hit Netflix Series, Mo

    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: 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

    35 min

  5. FEB 19

    What if Someone Close to You... Vanished One Day?

    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: questions@campsidemedia.com. We 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

    23 min
  6. Nobody Should Live This Long

    FEB 5

    Nobody Should Live This Long

    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 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. 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: 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

    43 min
  7. The Criminally Stupid Crimes at the Center of Crimeless

    JAN 22

    The Criminally Stupid Crimes at the Center of Crimeless

    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: questions@campsidemedia.com. We 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

    14 min
  8. One Ortiz Brother Chose a Life of Crime and the Other Became a Cop

    JAN 8

    One Ortiz Brother Chose a Life of Crime and the Other Became a Cop

    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: 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

    17 min
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Campside was born to tell stories: big, surprising, original stories that can only originate from the beats of the world's best journalists. We’ve made dozens of hit podcasts and we’re now welcoming you inside the tent. Listen now to go behind the scenes of our shows. join.campsidemedia.com

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