Ep. 234: Diplo | Branding Decides Who Wins
And The Writer Is... Diplo! This episode isn’t about hits. It’s about how culture actually gets made. Taste, burnout, and building culture without permission. From growing up in Florida crate-digging ...
6 Jan 1h 13min
Ep. 233: Alex Warren | Surviving on Delusional Self-Belief
And The Writer Is… Alex Warren.Alex joins the podcast to talk openly about resilience, finding his voice, and what it actually takes to turn pain into songs that connect.In this episode, he breaks dow...
23 Dec 20251h 33min
Ep. 232: FINNEAS | The Long Game of a Music Career
Today’s guest didn’t just enter the music industry — he grew up inside it. He isn’t just a Grammy-winning producer or a respected solo artist. He’s one of the rare creatives who’s built a career roote...
16 Dec 20251h 54min
Ep. 231: Seth MacFarlane | The Discipline and Craft Behind a Creative Legacy
Today’s guest has carved out one of the most improbable creative legacies of his generation — commanding animation, comedy, film, and orchestral music with the same relentless discipline and near-obse...
10 Dec 20251h 17min
Ep. 230: Cirkut | The Secrets of a Pop Super Producer
Today’s guest is the producer behind some of the biggest songs of the last 15 years — from “Wrecking Ball,” “Timber,” and “Dark Horse” to early records with The Weeknd and Britney Spears.From teaching...
2 Dec 20251h 49min
Ep. 229: Zedd | Inside the Mind Behind a Decade of Anthems
Today's guest went from making songs on a floppy-disk keyboard, sampling off a Kellogg’s cereal box DAW, and sending blind MySpace messages… to producing the some of the biggest crossover dance anthem...
24 Nov 20251h 8min
Ep. 228: Hit-Boy | Success, Betrayal, & The Stories Behind Hip-Hop’s Biggest Anthems
Today’s guest has rewired modern hip-hop. His fingerprints live all over the last decade but the real story behind that success is far more human, painful, and transformative than the headlines ever s...
17 Nov 20251h 9min
Ep. 227: Ryan Tedder pt.4 | The Modern Music Economy, A.I. and The Future, and How to Win
Today's guest is a familiar face... A friend to the podcast and one of the most successful and influential creators in music history.He isn’t just a hitmaker. He's perhaps one of the few people in the...
4 Nov 20251h 59min
