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The Dave Chang Show

Dinner Music, With Hrishikesh Hirway of 'Song Exploder'

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

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: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Pxi5QSinRtBvQfselifLB?si=9d06714e63a34cd8 Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Hrishikesh Hirway Associate Producer: Sasha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What we do with Dave Chang show, part of the Ringer podcast and I work presented by

0:14.8

Major Demo Media.

0:16.1

We have one of the best guests, one of the most accomplished guests in quite some time.

0:22.1

Rishi Keish here away of Song Exploder, of 1am radio.

0:27.9

He's also known for his wildly successful podcast with Simeon Nosrat, home cooking.

0:34.2

He also has this podcast, The West Wing Weekly.

0:37.8

I have never listened to it unfortunately because I've never seen an episode of West Wing.

0:42.3

But Chris is one of the biggest fans of West Wing.

0:45.1

How is that possible?

0:46.4

I've never seen the office.

0:47.8

Never seen West Wing.

0:48.8

Are those intentional?

0:51.7

The office.

0:52.7

You just missed it.

0:53.7

You just missed the office.

0:54.7

When did West Wing come out?

0:56.4

99.

0:57.4

Let me tell you why I knew I was in New York.

0:59.4

I was in New Japan and I was cooking.

1:01.6

And I had no idea what happened from 1999 to like 2012 for 2014 cultural things.

1:08.6

No idea.

1:09.6

Yeah.

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