Hosted by Ryan Poole · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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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.
Ryan Poole hosts Ryan Meets World, a society show with 20 episodes published.
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, worki
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 R
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. Ke
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, Dwigh
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
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 th
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 li
What happens when a grown man writes Mr.Rogers a letter asking, “Would you be proud of me?”. For journalist Tim Madigan, that single act of vulnerability led to an extraordinary friendship with Fred Rogers, one that chan
Chris Cron quit music until one day fate intervened. In a few short years he went viral, and got a life-changing call from John Stamos inviting him to perform with The Beach Boys. This is the story of the moment that bro
Jacob Tolliver’s life reads like a music fairy tale. A kid obsessed with old records somehow ends up becoming friends with Willie Nelson, The Beach Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mick Jagger, and more. In this episode, Jacob sha
moony joins Ryan for a deep conversation about creativity, identity, and what it means to make real art in a moment when AI-generated music is climbing the charts. While the viral AI country artist Breaking Rust hits #1,
Beatles Drumming Expert JOE MONTAGUE reveals the secret human instinct behind every legendary song, and why AI will never truly make great music.Joe Montague is a drummer, creator of "All You Need Is Drums", and host of
Was The Beatles’ success pure magic, or a perfect storm of timing, talent, and Liverpool grit? Liverpool insider Dale Roberts is a professional tour guide, Beatles expert, and co-owner of George Harrison’s childhood home
Konnor Dolberry from The Band Light joins Ryan to share the truth behind their biggest show yet — opening for Louis Tomlinson of One Direction. We dive into what fame actually feels like on the inside, how the band went
The true story behind Lay Zhang’s hit ‘Other Side’. How a song written in a hotel room in LA somehow went on to break the music charts in China & go 'Gold' in just 47 minutes!Songwriter Mark Siegel joins me to share the
The journalists behind Murder on Music Row join me to unpack the 1998 killing of David “Skull” Schulman, the outlaw who ran Skull’s Rainbow Room in Printer’s Alley. They share the untold story of Nashville’s Gatsby—how h
Paul Tremblay is the New York Times bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, and Horror Movie. In 2023, M. Night Shyamalan adapted Cabin... into the f
A record deal turned a million-dollar year into a $40 check—and it made him a lawyer. Ryan Schmidt (entertainment attorney, ex-artist, The Voice S3) breaks down how fine print steals your lunch, why he refuses 100% AI-ge
Quinn Eaton thought he was applying to be a songwriter. Instead, he became a writer & podcast host for Whiskey Riff, one of the internet’s go-to destinations for country music and culture. After writing 4,500 articles, Q
Geoff Duncan is a producer/songwriter who used AI to finish an album for America’s Got Talent star Nightbirde after her tragic passing from cancer. In this conversation, we dive into the ethics and future of AI, creativi
Caroline Romano
1 appearance on this show
Jeremy Garrett
Dr. · The Infamous Stringdusters
1 appearance on this show
Dale Roberts
Beatles expert, co-owner of George Harrison’s childhood home · Aussievision
1 appearance on this show
Mark Siegel
director of Yale's internal medicine residency program · Golfasian
1 appearance on this show
Paul Tremblay
Author of Survivor Song
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Schmidt
entertainment attorney, ex-artist, The Voice S3 · Swampdrab
1 appearance on this show
Geoff Duncan
former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
1 appearance on this show
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