The pair only met in person after recording the show remotely for the first five months.
The show began after Hobbes reached out to Marshall and proposed that they try to recreate their deep-dive research processes in audio format. She is known for an interest in the mischaracterization of women by the mainstream media best demonstrated in her 2014 long-form profile of Tonya Harding. Sarah Marshall is an American writer whose work has appeared in BuzzFeed, The Believer, and The New Republic. He is also the co-host of the podcast Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon. Michael Hobbes is an American journalist and a former reporter for HuffPost.
