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Hello, everyone, and welcome to this exclusive interview going inside the monster franchise.

It's yours only on True Crime Plus.

I'm Laura from the Tenderfoot TV team,

and today I'm sitting down with the producers behind the podcast,

Matt Frederick and Trevor Young.

Matt has been the lead executive producer at IHeartMedia

behind what has become an award-winning

six-season true-crime franchise known as the Monster Series.

And today, we're going to dig into the long road that he and his team have taken over nearly a decade

to bring you this hard-hitting investigative journalism, case after case, and season after season.

Quick heads up for everyone today. It's pouring rain where I'm recording, so if you hear some

thunder in the background, don't freak out. I'm just hoping it's going to add a little bit to the mood as we dig into some of these gloomy topics.

Hey, Matt. Thank you for joining today. Hey, thank you for having me. I'm quite excited to be here.

This has been a huge part of my life and career. Yeah, I can only imagine.

Can you actually just start us off by sharing a little more about you and your background and how you got into podcasting in the first place?

Oh, sure. I'm a super nerdy actor-drumer kid that came out of high school, got a film degree, and didn't think I was going to get a job for a long time.

But then I got an internship at this place called How Stuff Works.

And I, you know, did everything there from logging videotape to doing metadata and all kinds of stuff like that, to then shooting videos, to then editing

videos, producing them. And eventually, we pivoted to audio and I became an audio producer and

then moved my way up there to a supervising producer and then executive producer.

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