001 - Dan Reynolds (Imagine Dragons)

The Good Parts with Andy Grammer

Andy Grammer | Multi-Platinum Selling Pop Artist

Arts, Music

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Dan Reynolds is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and the lead vocalist of the multi-platinum selling band Imagine Dragons. In the inaugural episode of The Good Part’s Podcast, Andy and Dan sit down to discuss Dan's new film "Believer", an HBO documentary that exposes the harsh reality of being an LGBTQ member of the Mormon church. They dive into religion, the art of melody writing in the age of Spotify and more.

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0:00.0	Hey Andy Grammer here and you are listening to the Good Parts podcast.
0:04.0	Tell me your story, but don't leave the good parts out.
0:12.0	All right, welcome to episode one of the Good Parts. I could not have gotten a better guest.
0:18.0	I have Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons and we get into some pretty touchy subjects here.
0:24.6	He just released a movie called Believer, and we got to go down to HBO and talk to him about it.
0:29.9	It is unbelievable.
0:32.2	It tackles a really kind of hot button issue.
0:36.9	He's a Mormon, and he made a whole movie
0:40.5	about how the Mormons treat the LBGTQ community.
0:44.2	He throws a whole festival.
0:45.6	It's really amazing.
0:46.6	It pulls on your heartstrings.
0:48.4	The most interesting part of it for me
0:50.4	was that he's staying Mormon while just being loud
0:53.6	about the issues that he disagrees with.
0:55.5	It makes for a very interesting conversation about faith. What do you do when you don't believe
1:00.5	parts of your faith? We get into it and it's incredible. Other things we get into are the levels
1:04.5	of heaven in the Mormon faith, which are super interesting to me. We get into upper butt pain,
1:08.6	lower back pain. We get into horror stories while being on tour.
1:13.3	We get into just a lot of really interesting, amazing stuff.
1:17.7	So episode one is going to be really, really good.
1:20.3	If you like this, please rate it, subscribe to it, tell your friends about it.
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