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The Dave Chang Show

'Best of Dave Chang Show’: Dinner Music, With Hrishikesh Hirway of ‘Song Exploder’

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.88.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Dave is revisiting some of his favorite episodes and interviews for his ‘Best of Dave Chang Show’ series. In this episode, the creator of the captivating podcast turned TV show ‘Song Exploder’ joins Dave and Chris to explore the kitchen equivalent of demo tapes, the as-yet-unrealized dream that is Cookie Exploder, that time U2 put an album on everyone’s phone, eating like a Buddhist monk, disrobing at a dinner party, what makes great restaurant music, and Dave’s unbroken record of never having watched 'The West Wing.' Listen to Hrishikesh’s dinner party playlist here. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Hrishikesh Hirway Producers: Sasha Ashall and Victoria Valencia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network, presented by Major Doma Media.

0:06.0

Thank you Yolotengo as always.

0:08.0

This is Best of Part 6.

0:11.0

Chris Ying and I will be back very soon.

0:15.4

I've been saying that for six weeks,

0:17.2

but I think that's still in the world of very soon.

0:20.0

And this was one of our most popular episodes,

0:23.6

and I think it's because we had a professional podcaster

0:26.4

joining us as well.

0:27.6

And he really outdid himself in creating a playlist

0:31.2

that people like quite a bit.

0:32.4

And that's with Rishi Heroay of Song Exploder and how do I pronounce his first name in its long form

0:38.0

Rishi Riche, Riche, a song-exploder, very popular.

0:43.0

It's a, yeah, so if you've ever heard Ritchie's podcast song Exploder became a TV show,

0:49.0

TV show made with our friend Morgan Neville, but he basically interviews people about how they made

0:54.8

songs and you listen to the original demos he talks about just like how these

0:59.5

these beats and melodies come together it It's really, really fascinating.

1:02.7

I'm like, like you said, Dave, like,

1:05.2

he's a professional podcaster, which some would say we are too.

1:08.6

No, no, no, no, no, but it certainly doesn't feel that way

1:12.1

when you have somebody like Ritchie around for you just think we are not professionals

1:16.7

That's why we've never had them back on before

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