You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
My name is Tao Nguyen.
This is Rishi Keshe.
About a year and a half ago,
I asked Tao Nguyen if she'd be up for guest hosting Song Exploder for a year.
It was an experiment.
I started this podcast in 2014,
and I wanted to see
if I had built it with enough structural integrity that it could still work with someone else doing the interviews and someone else's voice introducing the episodes.
Part of what fueled the experiment was curiosity,
but part of it was also trying to get back to a feeling that I had when I first came up with Song Exploder.
Taking a daydream and trying to see it through.
But I'd been so wrapped up in the work of making Song Exploder that I hadn't had a lot of room for the daydreaming part.
And I definitely didn't have time to act on a daydream and try and turn it into something.
But the idea was that I would have more room to work on some new ideas.
And I'm happy to say that I've got some new projects coming out next year that I'm really excited to share.
But none of this would have been possible if it weren't for Radiotopia,
the podcast network that Song Exploder is part of.
And if not for the support of the people who listen to Song Exploder and donate to Radiotopia.