The Hardest Podcast to Podcast
Ryan Schaap Visit website › Music · EN · 66 episodes · latest 2026-11-10
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2025
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Hello. Nice to meet you. Let's shake hands! In 1998, Dave Buick approached Jack White with an idea to produce a single for the White Stripes. Italy Records would go on to release the band's first two singles, playing a…
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Jack and Meg found an incredible way to avoid signing over the rights to their music, all while honouring one of their biggest influences, Captain Beefheart. It's a party on the podcast this week as Hotel Mira's Mike…
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It's the White Stripes' breakout hit. Just 110 seconds of fury, 'Fell in Love With a Girl' captures Jack and Meg at their catchiest, creating one of their most explosive songs amid the frantic, stressful environment…
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Jack and Meg loved Bob Dylan. And with the White Stripes' future still unknown when they recorded their first album in 1999, it made perfect sense to include a Dylan cover on the record. Jack Riedy and Ryan discuss this…
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Are you finding it harder to be a gentleman every day? That's okay, it happens to the best of us! Ryan is joined by Toronto musician Marlon Chaplin to discuss one of the countless standout tracks off 2001's White Blood…
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Ryan starts and ends the episode recording live from Third Man Records London! 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues perfectly encapsulates the White Stripes and the chaos of their final album, 2007's Icky Thump. Brett…
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The White Stripes recorded and released their cover of "Walking with a Ghost" in December 2005, fourteen months after Tegan and Sara's 2004 album So Jealous was released, with the song chosen as the album's first…
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Effect and Cause is the final song on the White Stripes' album Icky Thump and, subsequently, the final song of the band's album discography. Ryan and Discord discuss the song's clever wordplay and the underlying story…
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"Nobody sang the blues like Blind Willie McTell." Jack White said it best, and in late 2000, the White Stripes released an amalgamation of two of McTell's songs, "Lord, Send Me an Angel" and "Ticket Agent Blues." Ryan…
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After receiving an invitation to an exclusive event featuring Jack White at Reverb in Chicago, Ryan hopped aboard a red-eye flight, made his way to Goose Island, and did what we've all been waiting more than a year for…
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