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podcasts

Gimlet and Crimetown presents

 

Operation: Tradebom

Producer, Composer, Sound Designer

Truth Media x Brillstien Entertainment

The new Apple Original podcast “Operation: Tradebom” details the events surrounding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, dissecting the investigation and following a period of modern terrorism starting in Cairo in 1981 and ending in the U.S. on September 11, 2001.

 

The Emerald Triangle

Additional Music

A truth.media & Sony Music Entertainment production.

Journalist Sam Anderson learns that one of his high school classmates has been accused of murder in California, and travels west to find out what happened. Sam becomes immersed in the Emerald Triangle, the legendary home of pot growers, hippies, and outlaws. He discovers that his classmate became drawn into the orbit of a cultish and charismatic pot grower obsessed with psychedelic drugs. Desperation, greed, and a seemingly never-ending acid trip create a perfect storm of paranoia that ends in a moment of unspeakable violence.

 

Crooked City

Additional Music

Truth Media

From Marc Smerling, the creator of Crimetown and The Jinx, welcome to CROOKED CITY.  The Saturday Evening Post dubbed Youngstown, Ohio “Crimetown U.S.A.” It was a mob town. Illegal gambling was so lucrative that a mob war raged for decades, and bodies piled  up. Then, Jim Traficant ran for sheriff, riding into office as the city’s steel industry fell on hard times. Traficant battles the local newspaper, then the FBI, the IRS and finally his own demons as an eight-term, twice-indicted congressman.

 

Funny My Way

Music Supervision, Sound Design and Mix

Team Coco X AYR Media

Take a deep dive into the personal and political lives of six trailblazing Black comedy icons with your host comedian/actor JB Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm). This engaging docuseries shows you how these fearless heroes of comedy broke color barriers and challenged the racist status quo, all while making audiences roar with laughter. Without them, we wouldn’t have the superstars we have today.

 

FIREBUG

Additional Music, Sound design supervision

truth media

From Marc Smerling, the creator behind The Jinx and Crimetown.

For ten years, a fire bug terrorized Southern California, burning down businesses in broad daylight. Four people had died. Then a manuscript for a novel leads investigators to the last person they would have ever suspected. Host Kary Antholis goes on a journey to figure out where fiction meets reality.

 

The MURDER OF ROBERT WONE

Title music, sound design, music supervisor

AYR MEDIA

Robert Wone and Joseph Price were unlikely friends. Having met in college, both went on to become promising young lawyers in Washington, DC. This is where their similarities ended. Robert, a fourth-generation Chinese American, was newly married to his wife Kathy and was about to embark on a new career. Joseph, a prominent LGBT activist, became known for his wealth and his unconventional sexual relationship with his partner, Victor Zaborsky, and the third man in their relationship, Dylan Ward.

On the night of August 2, 2006, the lives of these two unlikely friends change forever when Robert is found stabbed to death in Joseph’s guest room. True crime junkie H. Alan Scott re-investigates this cold case, hoping to discover more about who murdered Robert Wone, talking to those who lived it, covered it and from within the LGBTQ community.

 

MORALLY INDEFENSIBLE

music, sound design and mix

truth media

From Marc Smerling, the creator behind The Jinx and Crimetown.

When Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald is sent to prison for killing his family, a storm of swirling narratives challenges our very ability to find the truth all the while overshadowing a chilling possibility: MacDonald may be an innocent man.


the ballad of billy balls

music, sound design and mix

crimetown presents

created by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier.

Author and activist iO Tillett Wright and Crimetown Producer Austin Mitchell unravel a mystery of love and loss, the tender binds of family, and the stories we tell ourselves just to survive.

crimetown season 2

sound design, mix and additional music

gimlet media

created by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier.

Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan.

the rfk tapes

music, sound design and mix

crimetown presents

created by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier.

The RFK Tapes is an audio documentary series that takes a new look at the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. 

crimetown season 1

additional music, sound design and mix

gimlet media

Crimetown is a serial documentary podcast hosted by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier which looks at how organized crime has shaped particular American cities. The first season started in 2016 and focused on the city of Providence, Rhode Island.