ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Welcome to Ryan Meets World, a long-form interview podcast hosted by Nashville music producer Ryan Poole.
With 30M+ streams across projects and over a decade in the studio trenches, I’ve seen how much more goes into success than talent alone. Here, I bring you into the room with the producers, songwriters, creators, and tech innovators who are reshaping music, media, and culture.
Expect candid conversations, real stories from behind the curtain, and lessons you won’t hear anywhere else.
With 30M+ streams across projects and over a decade in the studio trenches, I’ve seen how much more goes into success than talent alone. Here, I bring you into the room with the producers, songwriters, creators, and tech innovators who are reshaping music, media, and culture.
Expect candid conversations, real stories from behind the curtain, and lessons you won’t hear anywhere else.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 23 days
Average audio length:
100 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
24 episodes
since Sept. 2, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Singer-songwriter Lizzie Weber joins me in the studio to talk about her new album, Wraiths in the Wake, making music through grief, and the pressure
Lizzie is based in St. Louis, and her third album was co-produced with Nathan Yaccino, whose credits include Soundgarden and Brandi Carlile. We get in…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Before a song ever makes it into the studio, there's a phase almost nobody gets to see.
Singer-songwriter Ruby Rae and I sit down with the original voice memos for her upcoming record and begin the pre-production process in real time. We listen through unfinished demos, talk about the stories behin…
Mark Needham is a Los Angeles & Nashville based RIAA Diamond selling, Grammy nominated record producer and mixer, whose credits include a diverse array of internationally recognized superstar artists including The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Dolly Parton, Fleetwood Mac, Shakira, Pink, Chris Isaak…
Atticus Roness (Recording Artist/Songwriter) talks about bringing real rock & roll energy into the modern music world, without just copying the past. Atticus breaks down his upcoming album Rock ’n’ Roll Hit Parade, working with Will Turpin of Collective Soul, chasing big hooks, building eras li…
Caroline Romano joins Ryan Meets World to talk about her new EP It Took Me Falling, the shift from heartbreak songs to real love, and the alt-rock/emo/pop influences that shaped her sound, from Paramore and My Chemical Romance to Taylor Swift and Queen.
Justin C. Key is a psychiatrist and author of The Hospital at the End of the World, a sci-fi medical thriller about artificial intelligence, healthcare, and the fight to keep medicine human.
In this episode, Justin C. Key joins Ryan Poole to talk about the strange and complicated future of AI in m…
Grammy Award Winning Photographer Alan Messer shares unbelievable first-hand stories about working around John Lennon, George Harrison, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Ravi Shankar, Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, Tanya Tucker, Steve Earle, Robert Duvall, and many more. He talks abo…
Jonathan Wyndham is an artist and producer from Nashville, Tennessee. He has toured and recorded as a session guitarist for artists like Jessie James Decker and Colbie Caillat. In 2014 he gained notoriety as a contestant on The Voice Season 7. In 2020, he shifted his focus to his own music, releasi…
2018 GRAMMY® Award winners The Infamous Stringdusters aren’t just bluegrass legends, they’re still pushing the genre forward.Andy Falco and Jeremy Garrett sit down with Ryan Poole for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of music, the rise of AI, creative evolution, and what it takes to sta…
Who Is Chloe? opens up about leaving her marriage, facing a cancer diagnosis, losing her mother, and starting over in pursuit of her own music. A powerful conversation about grief, identity, and finding the courage to live honestly.
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