From Gimlett, this is Replyall. I'm Alex Goldman, and I'm PJ vote. And we're doing something

different this week. There's a podcast that we are both huge fans of that is called

Song Exploder, and the way that it works is the host, Risha K. Sherway, he takes one

song and he sort of tears it down to its component parts. He interviews the person who made

it and talks about exactly how it was made and why it was made.

Yeah, that's sort of what's cool about it. I feel like usually when musicians get interviewed,

they're like, I don't know, like you just came to me in some weird dream or whatever,

but because he talks to them about the mechanics, somehow a lot of times they'll be like, okay,

here's exactly what the song meant and what it was referring to, and it's really satisfying.

So this week's Replyall is two episodes of Song Exploder. The first is our theme song,

which was incredibly informative for us because even though we listen to that theme song

every week, there's a lot we don't really know about it.

We knew nothing about it. It turns out it's crazy. And then the second episode is an interview

with Phil Elvarm of The Microphones. It is the explosion of his song I Want Wint To Blow.

This was the Song Exploder episode that turned me into a Song Exploder fan because I like,

I sort of knew that song. I liked that song. I didn't think I had a lot of questions about

that song and instead, I don't know, it was fascinating. It sort of ends up just being

about how, getting to see all the tiny little creative decisions that go into making anything,

even something that sounds like it came into the world completely formed. It's really good.

All right, enjoy the show. My name is Rishikesh Hereway and this is a special

Replyall edition of My Podcast Song Exploder. On Song Exploder, I ask musicians to take apart

their recordings, to let listeners hear the inner workings of a song and learn how the whole

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