From Western Sound in AECAS Studios, this is the score, the Bank robber Diaries.

I'm Benadare and hope you're doing okay during these times.

We've been trying to roll out some bonus episodes for you to

entertain you give you some stuff to do while you're hunkered down wherever you

happen to be we had in the first bonus episode an interview with Piper Kermin, the author of Orange is the New Black.

Joe Loya was a huge influence on her as she was getting ready to write her book, which then turned into the hit Netflix TV show. And then in the last

episode we had Richard Rodriguez who was a huge influence on Joe when he was

in prison. Today we're going to switch it up a little bit and we're not going to

talk about the story necessarily,

but we are going to talk a lot about the podcast and kind of what made the podcast, what it was.

And by that I mean we're going to talk specifically about the music and sound design that went into it.

Here at Western Sound when we make shows we think a lot about how they sound, about what kind of music, how to use music,

how to use other sound effects to emphasize a storytelling,

and the person who really thinks the most deeply about this and was so instrumental in creating

the sound of Bank robber diaries is Dan Lione, one of the producers on staff.

So Dan is joining me now on here. Dan, how are you?

Hi Ben, I'm okay, how are you?

Normally we'd be recording this in our studio at work, but I am sitting here in my home studio.

I'm going to put air quotes around my home studio because it's really just kind of like this

empty room that I'm sitting in recording.

Dan is not too far away, just like as the crow flies

maybe a mile or two in his own home studio.

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