Welcome to Start with this, a podcast featuring Night Vale creators Jeffrey Cranor and me, Joseph Fink.
This is the show where we get you making stuff.
Hey, you should make stuff.
Start with this.
As it happens.
Art is hard.
Starting is hard.
If you wanna start somewhere, you can start with this.
You can start with this.
So this is usually where we have a pre written intro taking us into the subject of today's episode, but this episode is a little bit different.
We're going to be featuring an episode of a different podcast, a podcast called as It Happens, but one that we think applies a lot to what we do here with Start with this.
I really love what Jonathan Mann does with this podcast because he takes you through the creative process and I think he does it in a way that is so relevant to our show to start with this.
And he's somebody we've talked about on this show before with his song a day YouTube channel.
What he does with as It Happens is you really do go through the process.
Not only of where did the idea come from, what little phrase did he start with?
What are the different elements he's considering for writing lyrics, for choosing a key for why it's similar to something else and whether or not that's a good thing.
And he edits together this thing.
So interestingly, to sort of like show you almost like peel back the curtain on the creative process.
It's like seeing into a person's brain.
Yeah.