Dan Patrick & ‘Hollywood Con Queen’ Producer Campside Media Rev Up Another Wild Podcast Tale

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EXCLUSIVE: Campside Media, the company behind Chameleon: The Hollywood Con Queen podcast, has found another wild story to tell in audio form – this time featuring NASCAR, true crime, and civil rights.The Sister-backed company has teamed with sports broadcaster Dan Patrick and iHeartRadio on Running Smoke.The series, which is hosted by journalist Rajiv Golla, follows the colorful saga of Derek White, a native of the Kahnawake reservation, who made his professional racing debut in 2015 as the first indigenous driver to race at NASCAR.

Less than a year later, White was banned from the racing after being arrested in one of the largest tobacco smuggling busts in Canadian history when a border sting erupted and ensnared everyone in its path.

Now, White is fighting to clear his name in court and stands as a very unlikely native rights warrior — at the center of a sovereignty fight he never really wanted in the first place.Running Smoke, which will debut later this year via iHeartRadio, is produced by Campside alongside Patrick and Workhouse Media.It is Campside’s latest podcast series following Apple Original Hooked, Victoria Secret series Fallen Angel and Audible’s The Bering.The deal was done by Paul Anderson and Nick Panella of Workhouse Media.

Campside is represented by Oren Rosenbaum and Jed Baker at UTA.Golla said, “My father was a NASCAR fan, and his father before him…well, I don’t think he ever saw a V8 in his life.