{"id":3305,"date":"2018-11-26T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2024-08-04T18:31:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T01:31:23","slug":"reply-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/reply-all","title":{"rendered":"Bonus Episode: Reply All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subhead\">Breakmaster Cylinder &#8211; Reply All Theme<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SongExploderBonus-ReplyAll-600x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SongExploderBonus-ReplyAll.jpg 600w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SongExploderBonus-ReplyAll-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SongExploderBonus-ReplyAll-560x392.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?uf=https%3A%2F%2Ff.prxu.org%2Fsong-exploder%2Ffeed-rss.xml&amp;ge=prx_93_fa16b02f-22c3-45dc-88b2-dac36c17085e\" width=\"650\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"download-links\">LISTEN: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.com\/songexploder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APPLE PODCASTS<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/radiopublic.com\/SongExploder\">RADIOPUBLIC<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/dovetail.prxu.org\/song-exploder\/fa16b02f-22c3-45dc-88b2-dac36c17085e\/SongExploderBonus_Reply-All-DT.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MP3<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Four years ago, on November 24, 2014, the first episode of the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimletmedia.com\/reply-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reply All<\/a> came out. It\u2019s a podcast about the internet hosted by Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt. And since then, they\u2019ve put out 131 episodes. The show has gotten over 100 million downloads so far. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2017\/02\/robert-downey-jr-to-star-in-film-based-on-reply-all-podcast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Downey Jr. is going to star in a movie based on one of their episodes.<\/a> And from the debut, it\u2019s been one of my favorite podcasts. A while back, in 2015, I did a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimletmedia.com\/reply-all\/39-reply-all-exploder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special edition of Song Exploder for Reply All<\/a>, about their theme song by <a href=\"https:\/\/breakmastercylinder.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breakmaster Cylinder<\/a>. I\u2019d hear the guys talk about &#8220;the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder&#8221; in the show\u2019s credits, but I didn\u2019t 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\u2019s launch, I\u2019m putting out this special crossover episode for the first time here on Song Exploder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/song.link\/i\/1017340850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy or stream Breakmaster Cylinder&#8217;s Reply All theme here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a transcript of this episode, <a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\/transcripts\/reply-all-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Illustration by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lerms.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlos Lerma<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"header\">footnotes<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/breakmastercylinder.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breakmaster Cylinder on Bandcamp<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pjvogt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PJ Vogt on Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agoldmund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Goldman on Twitter<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakmaster Cylinder &#8211; Reply All Theme LISTEN: APPLE PODCASTS \u00b7 RADIOPUBLIC \u00b7 MP3 Four years ago, on November 24, 2014, the first episode of the podcast Reply All came out. It\u2019s a podcast about the internet hosted by Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt. And since then, they\u2019ve put out 131 episodes. 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