How did you get lyn manuell miranda to write and perform a west wing theme rap for the pudcas intro music? The original idea was to do a super cut of all these sort of moments of martin shen saying the present bartlet's catch phrase, which is how we would end every episode of the podcast. And then i realized they had a little bit of cadence and musicality to them, and i started to arrange them with this remix of our intro track.
From practicing on his first piano—drawn on a piece of paper—to recording albums and launching the podcast and Netflix show “Song Exploder,” Hrishikesh Hirway has lived a marvelous life of music.