Inside the Tent with Campside Media

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 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-tent-with-campside-media/id1768758485], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3N4ktEpZU47ttwVreP59Mw], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLurr_1up60T0MjZVHT5Jfre8MbX98qxM] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com/p/eclipsed-podcast-series-overview] 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 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-tent-with-campside-media/id1768758485], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3N4ktEpZU47ttwVreP59Mw], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLurr_1up60T0MjZVHT5Jfre8MbX98qxM] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

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 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-tent-with-campside-media/id1768758485], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3N4ktEpZU47ttwVreP59Mw], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLurr_1up60T0MjZVHT5Jfre8MbX98qxM] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com/p/blood-will-tell-podcast-series-overview] 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 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-tent-with-campside-media/id1768758485], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3N4ktEpZU47ttwVreP59Mw], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLurr_1up60T0MjZVHT5Jfre8MbX98qxM] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

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 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-tent-with-campside-media/id1768758485], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3N4ktEpZU47ttwVreP59Mw], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLurr_1up60T0MjZVHT5Jfre8MbX98qxM] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com/p/service-request-series-overview] 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 [https://99percentinvisible.org/] 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 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-tent-with-campside-media/id1768758485], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3N4ktEpZU47ttwVreP59Mw], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLurr_1up60T0MjZVHT5Jfre8MbX98qxM] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

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 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-tent-with-campside-media/id1768758485], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3N4ktEpZU47ttwVreP59Mw], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLurr_1up60T0MjZVHT5Jfre8MbX98qxM] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com/p/chameleon-the-weekly-podcast-series-overview] 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 [https://soundcloud.com/user-238195908-384869208/sets/chameleon-by-velvet-sundown/s-FTy2cye7Bsw?]. Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck. Listen to Inside the Tent on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-tent-with-campside-media/id1768758485], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3N4ktEpZU47ttwVreP59Mw], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLurr_1up60T0MjZVHT5Jfre8MbX98qxM] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

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 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-tent-with-campside-media/id1768758485], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3N4ktEpZU47ttwVreP59Mw], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLurr_1up60T0MjZVHT5Jfre8MbX98qxM] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com/p/campside-media-welcome-to-origin-stories-matt-shaer] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com/p/origin-stories-campside-podcast-keefe-leder-taberski-matt-shaer] 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 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-tent-with-campside-media/id1768758485], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3N4ktEpZU47ttwVreP59Mw], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLurr_1up60T0MjZVHT5Jfre8MbX98qxM] 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 [https://join.campsidemedia.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]