Recorded 11.11.20: In this chat, we talk to Conner Rush, the founder of Fyre Games, about his new video game (Summerland), how sound design can tell a story, and what happens when we die.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444110/Summerland/

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Recorded 3.16.20: In our first "Chats" episode, we talk through the early days of quarantine (due to COVID-19), ask each other the questions that will guide all future "Chats", and announce Talking Lion's new Patreon platform.

In this year's final episode, we talked to our friends & the multi-platinum duo Loote about growing up on the east coast, viral videos, hydrating, High School Musical, meeting at Purchase College, the quality of hit songs, collaborating with Lauv on "No Promises" by Cheat Codes & Demi Lovato, and the stories behind the songs off their new EP "lost".

In this episode, we talked to our new friend Ariana and the Rose about morality, friendship, writing in NYC/LA, living in London, women in music, discovering artists, her interactive concert, “Light & Space”, relationships, the music video for her song, “Night Owl”, and collaborating with RKCB on their song “Love You Lately”.

In this episode we talked to our new friends Eighty Ninety about being brothers, Disney films, concept albums, starting the band, Taylor Swift’s support for "Your Favorite Song", and the creation of their songs “Three Thirty”, “Dream” and “10k Summer Nights”.

In this episode we talked to our longtime friend Jackie Foster about the shows we played together in Boston, her old band (Self Portraits), our graduation, branding/virality, numerology/love languages, her time on Season 14 of The Voice, coming back to reality after reality TV, the stories behind her songs "Time"/"Great Escape", and how we came together to work on her single "Poison".

In this episode we talked to our new friend JUJ about growing up in Philadelphia as first generation American, Broadway musicals, serenity, Lyme disease, making friends in LA, and her recently released EP "JUJ, It's U" which includes her single "Mood" featuring Vic Mensa.

In this episode we talked to our good friend Evangelia about the music scene in NYC, childhood trips to Crete, hosting open mics at Rutgers University, teaching elementary school, collaborating with Christian Navarro (13 Reasons Why) on "Hello Again", the story behind our songs "Windowseat" & "Moments", and working with Stolar on her upcoming Greek-influenced songs.