I'm Kevin Rous, a tech columnist at the New York Times.

I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.

And this is Hard Fork.

This week, it's the music show, the mega mix of Hard Fork songs that you've been asking for has arrived.

Plus, we'll go behind the scenes and talk to some of the composers that make the music for this show. And the Hello Casey. Hi Kevin we're going to do something weird today. I'm excited about it.

So excited about this. So today instead of our normal show where we talk about the tech news we have got a very special episode this is one we've been wanting to do for months now and we have finally gotten our act together to do it.

We're going to tell you how to talk to your kids about drugs.

No, so this episode is the Hard Fork music episode.

And it is a direct response to one of the questions that we get

asked the most which is where can I find the amazing music that plays in your

episode? Yeah every week we give you the email address for this show and every

week you email us saying

where can we listen to that? The verdict is in people don't like the talking but they

do like the music. They said what if these two guys just didn't talk at all

would the show maybe be better and we're gonna find out this week?

And I think something that people don't realize is that Would the show maybe be better and we're going to find out this week?

And I think something that people don't realize is that we actually have at the New York Times

a team of in-house composers who make custom music for every podcast including ours. This is not the norm in the podcast industry.

Usually people you know go on to music libraries or they find songs that are sort of out there on the

internet and they pull those into their podcast but not us we are

artisanal and we make our music from scratch. Yeah and you know as somebody who

does not work at the New York Times when I joined to make this show and they said

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