Introducing: Origin Stories

Suspect

Audible | Campside

True Crime, Over My Dead Body, Arpana Jinaga, Matthew Shaer, The Shrink Next Door, Chameleon, Eric Benson, Exhibit C

4.2 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered exactly how your favorite movie or book –– or podcast, TV series, documentary, or article –– got made? Origin Stories has you covered. Each week, veteran journalist Matthew Shaer talks to a different writer or director about the creation of a work close to their own hearts (and ours). 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 early guests are Noah Hawley, creator of the new Alien show on FX; John Hoffman, co-creator of Only Murders in the Building, and memoirist Stephanie Foo. Hosted by Matthew Shaer, co-founder of Campside Media.

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, Matt here, the host of Suspect.
0:05.0	Have you ever wondered exactly how your favorite movie, your book, or podcast, or TV series got made?
0:12.0	I have, and in my new podcast, Origin Stories, I'm talking to a range of writers and directors
0:19.0	about how they made their best known works.
0:22.3	Nothing is off the table, not the frustrations and the joys, not the setbacks and the successes.
0:29.0	Intimate and incisive, instructive, and eye-opening, origin stories is the ultimate podcast for
0:35.3	anyone curious about the workings of the creative mind.
0:39.1	Among the guests appearing in the early episodes are Noah Hawley, the showrunner of the FX series Alien Earth.
0:45.9	Stephanie Fu, the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, What My Bones Know,
0:51.2	John Hoffman, the creator of only murders in the building, and Patrick Radden Keefe,
0:56.3	the New Yorker staff writer. In the episode I'm about to play you, I sit down with Dan Tversky,
1:03.0	the host of a different Wondery Show, hysterical. Stay tuned afterwards for more info on
1:09.2	origin stories.
1:19.8	Campside Media.
1:26.5	It starts with a teenage girl.
1:29.4	Her eyes twitch, their head jerks.
1:34.4	Then comes the stutter, followed by full-on vocal outbursts.
1:35.6	I pass out again.
1:37.9	The homecoming dance is awesome, right?
1:45.2	At first, it seems random.
1:47.1	Is this a prank or something?
1:48.9	I just said, what do you think?
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