Hey, hysterical listeners, Matthew Cher here, the host of origin stories. Have you ever wondered

exactly how your favorite movie, her book, or podcast, TV series, or documentary film got made?

I have. And in my new podcast, Origin Stories, I'm talking to a range of writers and directors

about how they made their best known works.

Nothing is off the table, not the frustrations and the joys, not the setbacks and the successes.

Intimate and incisive, instructive, and eye-opening, Origin Stories is the ultimate podcast

for anyone curious about the workings of the creative mind.

Among the guests appearing in the early episodes are Noah Hawley, the showrunner of the

FX series Alien Earth, Stephanie Fu, the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir,

What My Bones Know, John Hoffman, the creator of only murders in the building,

and Patrick Radin-Keefe, the New Yorker staff writer.

In the episode I'm about to play you, I talk with Dan Tiberski, the host of hysterical,

about how he made this show.

Stay tuned afterwards for more info on origin stories.

Campside Media.

It starts with a teenage girl.

Her eyes twitch, their head jerks.

Then comes the stutter, followed by full-on vocal outbursts.

I pass out again.

The homecoming dance is awesome, right?

At first, it seems random.

Is this a prank or something?

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