Rider Strong

So I've been really working hard for over a year on a project that I can now share with you and with our listeners.

And it really goes back to like my love of mysteries and crime stories, crime books, especially like novels.

I'm a huge fan of like Tana French and Michael Connelly.

And I just, not only do I read these, but I also listen to them on audio books a lot.

And

I also love podcasts, true crime podcasts, any kind of podcast.

I've been listening forever.

Yeah, I think I got into them in like 2008, you know, like when I still had like a regular old iPod and had to download it.

So it actually made sense to call it a podcast.

Um, but anyway, yeah.

So I, um, I started this project.

Um, I had, I had an idea at first it was full documentary, which was that I would interview, uh, people that I grew up with because, you know, there's a lot of, um, where I grew up was like a lot of alternative family situations.

Like, um, the high school that I went to, you know, I graduated in the class of 12, um,

A lot of like kids growing up with like communes, some may say cults, situations where like people would be like, oh, they're half brothers and half sisters.

And it's like, because they're the child of the same leader of their like group.

And you'd be like, your cousins, you're related.

How does this all work?

And how, you know.

So I decided to like interview some of my old friends and my family about those situations and just see like if there was material there or something to make a sort of podcast out of it.

And I quickly realized that there might be a fun way to do this and actually fictionalize it.