Episode 3 of Hrishikesh Hirway’s podcast Partners featuring Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman out now!

EPISODE FOUR FEATURING WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF RON KLAIN AND HIS DEPUTY CHIEFS OF STAFF, JEN O’MALLEY DILLON AND BRUCE REED COMING MAY 4

SEASON TWO PODCAST EPISODES EVERY WEDNESDAY
THROUGH MAY 25

April 27, 2022—Episode three of the new season of Hrishikesh Hirway’s acclaimed Partners Podcast is live now. Power couple Roxane Gay—best-selling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist—and design legend Debbie Millman, host of the award-winning podcast Design Matters, talk about how Millman’s professional interest in interviewing Gay about her work ended up blossoming into a romance that neither expected. Partners from Hrishikesh Hirway and Mailchimp is a part of the Radiotopia podcast network from PRX. Watch/share the new trailer here

and listen to the podcast here.On May 4, Ron Klain, President Joe Biden’s Chief of Staff, and his deputy Chiefs of Staff, Jen O’Malley Dillon and Bruce Reed, discuss how they forged their professional chemistry on the campaign trail, and then brought that dynamic to the White House. 

Partners explores all kinds of partnerships—business, romantic, creative—and is an intimate portrait of its guests and the complex bond that’s formed when two people connect, as told in their own words. Additional guests this season include Kim Malek and Tyler Malek of Salt & Straw, WesleyMorris and Jenna Wortham—co-hosts of TheNew York Times culture podcast Still Processing, and more.

For each episode Hirway records a joint interview but edits the podcast to present each story to sound like it’s told by the guests, directly to the listeners, without an interviewer. The nature of the various partnerships is different, but the structure and format of the show ties the episodes together. 

Besides creating and hosting the Song Exploder podcast and Netflix series, Hirway produces and co-hosts the award-winning podcasts Home Cooking with Samin Nosrat and The West WingWeekly with Joshua Malina, all of which are a part of the Radiotopia podcast network. He helped Google launch their first original podcast, and is the executive producer of Shirley Manson’s podcast, The Jump, for Mailchimp. Additionally, Hirway’s first EP under his own name, Rooms I Used to Call My Own, is out now, and marks the first time Hirway has released music under his own name. Hirway has been producing music for over two decades; first with his project The One AM Radio, and later with MOORS, a collaboration with Oscar-nominated rapper/actor Lakeith Stanfield. As a composer, his credits include the Netflix original series Everything Sucks!, the theme for ESPN’s 30 for 30 podcast and the theme for the Song Exploder series on Netflix.

SEASON 2: PARTNERSApril 13—Composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail tell the story of their    longtime creative partnership.April 20— Legendary musicians Robert Plant and Alison Krauss tell the story of their       Grammy-winning partnership. April 27— Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman tell the story of how they met and fell in love.May 4—White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain and his Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Jen O’Malley Dillon and Bruce Reed, discuss how they work together.May 11—The co-hosts of TheNew York Times culture podcast Still Processing, Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, tell the story of their partnership.May 18—Co-founders (and cousins) Kim Malek and Tyler Malek tell the story of creating their ice cream company, Salt & Straw.May 25—The co-creators of the television series The Other Two, Sarah Schneider and Chris Kelly, tell the story of their decade-long partnership.