Lauren Spohr

We have a voicemail from Sherry.

We have a voicemail from Sherry.

I feel like I'm at an impasse here. Like, do I lie? No, no.

I feel like I'm at an impasse here. Like, do I lie? No, no.

I do like to cook tempeh and tofu. I think I just don't cook... I'm going to revise the question to say my favorite meal to eat at home that I think is better at home than at a restaurant is a beautiful small steak and a really beautiful kale salad. And having those things prepared for me by someone else in the home environment, that's my number one.

I do like to cook tempeh and tofu. I think I just don't cook... I'm going to revise the question to say my favorite meal to eat at home that I think is better at home than at a restaurant is a beautiful small steak and a really beautiful kale salad. And having those things prepared for me by someone else in the home environment, that's my number one.

And I could eat it, you know, seven nights a week. I really, I think it's wonderful. What about when you go to a restaurant, Phoebe?

And I could eat it, you know, seven nights a week. I really, I think it's wonderful. What about when you go to a restaurant, Phoebe?

Yeah, I think I would – I like to go out for dumplings. I also really like to go out for, like, fancy Neapolitan-style pizza. All right.

Yeah, I think I would – I like to go out for dumplings. I also really like to go out for, like, fancy Neapolitan-style pizza. All right.

It's all about just the salt. I think if you really like salty foods, the simplicity of that tomato sauce and bread is so perfect. Phoebe, what from Donna, a question from Donna, what's your process for adding music to the episodes and who's responsible for picking the tracks? And then she's specifically curious, Phoebe, about your role in the final package.

It's all about just the salt. I think if you really like salty foods, the simplicity of that tomato sauce and bread is so perfect. Phoebe, what from Donna, a question from Donna, what's your process for adding music to the episodes and who's responsible for picking the tracks? And then she's specifically curious, Phoebe, about your role in the final package.

And another producer joins at that phase also who's totally fresh to it and knows nothing about it.

And another producer joins at that phase also who's totally fresh to it and knows nothing about it.

But sometimes they're more ephemeral. Like, this song is kind of depressing under this funny moment in the story. Like, does it feel dissonant to anyone else? So you end up with sometimes five or six pages of time-stamped notes. notes. Some are really small technical and some are more big picture.

But sometimes they're more ephemeral. Like, this song is kind of depressing under this funny moment in the story. Like, does it feel dissonant to anyone else? So you end up with sometimes five or six pages of time-stamped notes. notes. Some are really small technical and some are more big picture.

Often, even at this stage, we'll say, listening to it all put together, I got kind of bored here or I got confused here. And we'll go back to the drawing board and have to like write new copy for Phoebe or, you know, maybe we'll have to like read some legal document that we hadn't located before because we have uncovered some question that we didn't know we had yet.

Often, even at this stage, we'll say, listening to it all put together, I got kind of bored here or I got confused here. And we'll go back to the drawing board and have to like write new copy for Phoebe or, you know, maybe we'll have to like read some legal document that we hadn't located before because we have uncovered some question that we didn't know we had yet.

And one of my favorite things that happens even and can happen at any stage of the process and is one of my favorite things and one of the things I'm most proud of about how we work is that at any stage, if the producer has any kind of funny feeling like, hey, just putting this, these two ideas next to each other, you know, create some sort of sense of correlation that we didn't intend.

And one of my favorite things that happens even and can happen at any stage of the process and is one of my favorite things and one of the things I'm most proud of about how we work is that at any stage, if the producer has any kind of funny feeling like, hey, just putting this, these two ideas next to each other, you know, create some sort of sense of correlation that we didn't intend.