The Mash-Up Americans is a boutique creative studio working with select clients who want to understand and connect to the dynamic, diverse, modern American audience. We reveal and re-center stories on the voices of the future — the voices you don’t hear enough today.

We specialize in premium audio content, from concept development to production to distribution strategy. We develop, produce, cast, and launch high-quality content that audiences love.

Here’s one of them!

Over the last decade, large swaths of evangelicals in the U.S. have embraced an extremist politics that threatens to turn our democracy into a theocracy. Through the eyes of one pastor in Phoenix, WHEN THE WOLVES CAME shows how some evangelicals are banding together to fight back – and how their efforts can fit into a bigger movement to defend democracy in the U.S.

Hosted by Dr. Ruth Braunstein, When The Wolves Came: Evangelics Resisting Extremism is a six-part audio documentary that follows this story, launching on March 4, 2025. 

When The Wolves Came is a project of Ruth Braunstein and The Mash-Up Americans. Executive produced by Ruth Braunstein (Meanings of Democracy Lab), Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer (The Mash-Up Americans). Senior Editor and Supervising Producer is Maria Luisa Tucker. Story Consultant is Jeff Seelbach. Development Producer is Stacy E. Wood. Production Manager is Shelby Sandlin. Sound Designer is Kyle Murdock.