Case Files 12: Talking Shop with Brittani Ard
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Who are Andrea Dunlop and Brittani Ard?
True Story Media. Hello, it's Andrea, and I've got a fun bonus episode for you today. Today we are chatting with Brittany Ard from You Probably Think This Show Is About You. This show was a huge breakout hit when it launched last year, and it went to number one on Apple and Spotify. Britt and I are both here in Seattle, and she's on my new network, True Story Media. In this conversation today, we are talking about all the behind the scenes of podcasting and what it's like to make all of this work as an independent podcaster. I love talking shop with other podcasters, and I hope you enjoy. Well, friends, it's 2025. It's here. This year is going to be... Well, one thing it won't be is boring, and that's about the only prediction I'm going to make right now.
But one piece of news that I am excited to share is that the wait for my new book, The Mother Next Door, is almost over. It is coming at you on February 4th from St. Martin's Press. So soon! I co-authored this book with friend and beloved contributor of this show, Detective Mike Weber, about three of the most impactful cases of his career. Even if you are one of the OG-est of OG listeners to this show, I promise you are going to learn so many new and shocking details about the three cases we cover. We just go into so much more depth on these stories, and you're also going to learn a ton about Mike's story. Now, I know y'all love Detective Mike because he gets his very own fan mail here at Nobody Should Believe Me.
And if you've ever wondered how did Mike become the detective when it came to Munchausen by proxy cases, you are going to learn all about his origin story in this book. And I know we've got many audiobook listeners out there, so I'm very excited to share with you the audiobook is read by me, Andrea Dunlop, your humble narrator of this very show. I really loved getting to read this book and I'm so excited to share this with you. If you are able to pre-order the book, doing so will really help us out. It will signal to our publisher that there is excitement about the book, and it will also give us a shot at that all important bestseller list. And of course, if that's simply not in the budget right now, we get it. Books are not cheap.
Library sales are also extremely important for books. So putting in a request at your local library is another way that you can help. So you can pre-order the book right now in all formats at the link in our show notes. And if you are in Seattle or Fort Worth, Mike and I are doing live events the week of launch, which you can also find more information about at the link in our show notes. These events will be free to attend, but please do RSVP so that we can plan accordingly. See you out there. We made the first seasons of our shows with the same production company. So that is how we met through your lovely, now producer, Syd, who I also worked with on some seasons of my show while I was there.
So that is actually how we met, not while we were both working with that studio, but afterwards. So how did you make the choice to go down that particular road of hiring a production company?
Theoretically, I was originally gonna do like a DIY sort of thing. Like I'll just record this. I can learn it and hire, have the production company do the sound engineering and sort of the, some of the stuff that I didn't want to learn, but you know, I can get a microphone and figure out how to get the audio That was my original plan. And then once I met with them and we sort of went through, like, here's what the cost would be to get a season and how long it would take to sort of recover that cost, you know, if the show gets monetized with ads and stuff. But even when I first went in, I didn't understand any of that part of it. So I would say that I had some delusions about how it worked and in probably a good way because I was like, okay, I'm going to do this. And I ended up going with the production company and having them do the majority of everything. I did have a lot, I would say a lot of input in some of the storyline stuff, like the I wanted it to be a certain way.
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