This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

I don't have a favorite podcast. It'd be too unfair.

There are too many I like. It is hard to choose just one.

But when people ask me that question, I always

make sure to mention the radiotopia show Song Exploder. I think it is the

perfect concept for a podcast.

If you haven't heard it, my friend Rischkehirway,

he interviews musical artists and gets them

to break down a song into its component parts

to show how it all came together.

It's recently been adapted into a Netflix TV show

is so much fun to watch.

I hope you check it out.

And we love Song Explorer here on the show so much

that in a meeting a few months ago,

we thought, well, what if we tried to do that for one of our own songs?

You might know that we have our own composer here at 99 p.I. Her name is Sean Rial

and hiring her was one of the best decisions I ever made. I love that we have our own in-house composer.

I love working with Sean. And Sean works with all the producers to score our episodes with

original music that she writes and records right here in Oakland. So on this episode, we are bringing you and

we are bringing you a tribute to the brilliant podcast Song Exploder and our brilliant

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