You're listening a song exploder where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece

tell the story of how they were made.

My name is Tao Win.

The Daily is a hit podcast from the New York Times hosted by Michael Barbaro.

Every weekday, over 1.7 million people download the show.

We've launched in February 2017 in an honor of its two year anniversary.

We're publishing a bonus episode about the show's theme song.

It was originally published on the New York Times website in 2018.

Here's song exploder producer Rishikesh Heerwe.

The theme song for a show, whether it's on TV or on the radio or on a podcast, faces

a lot of pressure.

Often before anything else, it's the theme that tells you something about the personality

of a show and its point of view.

And while the content of every episode changes, a theme has to stay the same, while still

setting the stage appropriately for what's to come.

And ultimately, it becomes an indelible part of the show itself.

So when the team from the New York Times was getting the Daily podcast started, they were

thinking about all these challenges.

Here's Michael Barbaro.

There are some really unique needs on a show like this.

You have to listen to it every morning.

It needs to announce the world to you.

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