You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
Four years ago, on November 24th, 2014, the first episode of the podcast Reply All came out.
It's a podcast about the internet hosted by Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt.
And since then, they've put out 131 episodes.
The show's gotten over 100 million downloads so far.
Robert Downey Jr. is going to star in a movie based on one of their episodes.
And from the debut, it's been one of my favorite podcasts.
A while back, in 2015,
I did a special edition of Song Exploder for Reply All about their theme song by Breakmaster Cylinder.
I'd heard the guys talk about the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder in the show's credits,
but I didn't really know who or what that was, and I wanted to find out more.
So in honor of the four-year anniversary of Reply All's launch,
I'm putting out this special crossover edition for the first time here on Song Exploder.
I hope you enjoy it.
It starts with a Reply All theme song, which goes like this.
By the way, I'm not sure how many of you know this,
but before Reply All, Alex and PJ had another podcast about the internet called TLDR.