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YO! THAT’S MY JAWN is the podcast/website/brand/movement/way of life dedicated to the embrace and championing of your passions. Join host Nate Runkel as he speaks to creatives about the obsessions that they have dedicated their lives to.
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Yo! That’s My Jawn is a podcast/website/brand/movement/way of life dedicated to the embrace and championing of your passions. Featuring conversations with musicians and creatives about finding their passions and acting on them, and segments celebrating anything you love unapologetically. Let’s take the guilt out of guilty pleasures. Displace the Guilt, Embrace the Pleasure…. and shout to the world, Yo! That’s My Jawn!
Back with an all new episode, Nate chats with songwriter/author Chris Dalla Riva about his new book, Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves. They discuss the relationship between music and data, growing up, first songs on guitar, going to college and studying math, early songwriting, writing, Chris's viral key change article, starting the Billboard listening project that would become the basis for the book, letting the data speak, the data points he compiled, what surprised him to discover in his findings, the saxophone, the demise of bands/groups on the charts, songs that were number one that he did not remember, poptimism and fandom, the value of music in the streaming era, Life of a Showgirl, new favorites found while working on the project, the best decade for music, the lost art of the instrumental, cultural stagnancy, and the recommendation algorithm. Then, Chris crunches the numbers of The Jawntlet!
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Nate Runkel is a singer/songwriter/podcaster/author/DJ/all-around-good guy who hails from the suburbs of Philadelphia. In a former life, he was the creator of the popular satire website, Cartoon Girls I Wanna Nail, which was featured in Complex magazine, the Washington Post and Maureen Dowd’s 2005 book, Are Men Necessary? Nate has performed in the bands the Swinging Cannons, the Impact Players & solo under the moniker nate.3.0. He is currently the Monday evening DJ on Y-Not Radio from 5-8pm.
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