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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Get ready for an exciting behind-the-scenes look at how great music ends up on your favorite shows!
Grammy & Emmy-nominated Music Supervisor Alex Patsavas joins Jenna and Kevin to chat about her journey from working in the mailroom of a talent agency straight out of college to becoming a music supervisor working on projects like The O.C., Grey’s Anatomy, the Twilight soundtracks, Bridgerton, and more! It’s a pitch-perfect chat that pulls back the curtain on what it takes to get the right song on the right show!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.6 | And that's what you really missed with Jenna. |
| 0:08.7 | And Kevin, an IHeart Radio podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to and that's what you really miss podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | We have a very special guest today, Alex Patsavas. |
| 0:19.2 | Very excited. |
| 0:19.8 | Are you so excited, Kevin? Jenna. Alex Patsavas. Very excited. Are you so excited, Kevin? |
| 0:21.7 | Jenna. |
| 0:24.3 | Alex literally has shaped our world. No, truly. |
| 0:28.7 | She has shaped it as a music supervisor. Well, she tells, she breaks it down also, like, sort of the unknown world of what music supervision is. |
| 0:38.3 | Yep. |
| 0:38.5 | And how all of us have been directly impacted by it, our entire lives. |
| 0:44.9 | And yeah, specifically impacted by her. |
| 0:47.2 | And also like, I will say like I don't think I, unbeknownst to me, like a lot of the way that I consume music is through film and TV. |
| 0:54.6 | And not, you know, turning, yeah, of course turning on the radio or not even these days. |
| 0:59.5 | But like the way I used to be influenced by music was what I was watching and what I was seeing. |
| 1:05.3 | And so this is so, she really did shape the way that we or had her hand in shaping the way that a lot of us were consuming new artists, new music. |
| 1:17.0 | And even like how you said, you know, there's other ways to listen like the radio. |
| 1:20.9 | Alex's so good at her job. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.6 | That she so many times has influenced what's played on the radio. |
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