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The happiest guys on the internet welcome their most universal guest yet: cooking. Brothers Munir and Rob Haddad grew up in a Lebanese home where an abundant table was everything — and in this episode they explore cooking as a creative practice: improvisation vs. process, learning to release control, and why feeding people is a love language. Expect first food memories from Beirut to the Russian T...

The guest this week is a theme: Summer Travel. Munir and Rob trace it back to childhood summers between London and a wartime Beirut — standby flights and the 747 bar, packing two months into one suitcase, flashlight tag interrupted by snipers, Galaga tournaments and a backgammon sponsorship that turns out to be a family advertising story. The throughline: constraints don't kill creativity, the...

Tom Rome is many things. Emmy Award-winning cinematographer. Stand-up comedian. Drummer. Inventor. And now, a media teacher shaping the next generation of storytellers at Bergen Tech in New Jersey. He spent years as a Director of Photography at MLB Productions — bringing baseball to life on film , at a time when everyone else had gone to video — and earned an Emmy Award doing it. Before that, he w...

Episode 40 | Barbara Gorder: Top Gun, Cannes Lions & Saving the Wine Industry Barbara Gorder has spent 30+ years solving marketing problems at the highest level — and she's not done yet. She started at Leo Burnett Chicago, rising to SVP and working on Super Bowl campaigns for Reebok, GM, P&G, Hallmark, and Toys R Us, winning Cannes Lions along the way. After Burnett, she spent two deca...

Ruth Hubbard has spent her career connecting dots most people don't even see are on the same map. As a product and partnership leader at Fiserv, she works with billions of transaction data points, turning how people spend money into stories about who they actually are. She's a Fellow of the Economic Club of New York, a 2026 Semafor World Economic Summit principal, and hosts the NY Public L...

What happens when a stranger at a yoga festival gives you the nudge that changes your entire life? For Elizabeth Arnold, it meant quitting a soul-crushing bank job, leaving her apartment lease (and her cat) behind, and moving solo to the Costa Rican jungle — where she built an oceanfront yoga and surf hotel near the longest warmest wave in the world, ran women's travel retreats, and marketed t...

Lane Soelberg started in a Sears Craftsman red vest and ended up in rooms where deals between The Trade Desk, Pinterest, and Yahoo got shaped. Along the way he produced an indie film for $100K, scaled Madhive from $25M to $100M, pitched the first AMA-style online talk show with AOL, and learned the lesson that has defined his entire career: metrics beat no metrics. In Episode 37, Lane joins Robert...

Andrea Greer is Senior Advisor for Strategy & Research at Project Row Houses in Houston — the Third Ward institution behind the recent restoration of the Eldorado Ballroom. In Part 2 of our conversation, Andrea walks us through the founding story of Project Row Houses — seven Black artists in Houston in the late '80s, a bus tour where city leaders called Third Ward's shotgun shacks &qu...

Andrea Greer's career has been shaped, start to finish, by artists, activists, and the places they build. A lifelong Houstonian, she started out interning for Houston's Art Car Parade and is now Senior Advisor for Strategy & Research at Project Row Houses, the Third Ward institution behind the recent restoration of the Eldorado Ballroom. In Part 1, Andrea takes us back to the beginning...

Glenn Chin takes Rob and Munir from EA's customer support desk in 1992 to the VP suite, revealing how entry-level hustle and authentic cultural connections built some of the most iconic campaigns in sports and gaming. As a fifth-generation San Franciscan who grew up navigating diverse communities on the Peninsula, Glenn discovered his superpower: being curious about people. This insight became...

She took one look at me and said, 'No, absolutely not. You don't have the training, you don't have a business degree. We don't allow people to jump silos.' Monica Nassif saw who the stars were in retail and wanted to move into a role that would have her on track to succeed. When she was denied by HR, she knew that was the last day she was going to work in corporate America. Tha...

What if your basement could be your first stage? Heather Brown takes Rob and Munir from her childhood Staten Island basement—where she performed solo concerts to Elton John, Billy Joel, and Rod Stewart—through the legendary halls of LaGuardia High School, where she studied drama alongside future Emmy winner Sarah Paulson. Her journey winds through the University of Michigan theater program, an adv...

What does growing up as a military brat have in common with transitioning from Emmy-winning sports TV to leading global tech marketing campaigns? Meleata Pinto joins Rob and Munir to unpack how constant childhood moves, from Germany to Iowa to Alabama to Virginia, built the adaptability superpower that would later fuel her creative success across completely different industries. She reveals how he...

What happens when a former pro baseball player discovers that the same focus that drove his fastball can power his filmmaking dreams? Rob and Munir sit down with Anthony Seratelli, whose journey from the Arizona Fall League to founding award-winning production company Jersey Filmmaker proves that creativity often begins in the most unexpected places. Anthony shares how his father's illustrated...

What if practice isn't just about getting better at something, but about connecting to something larger than yourself? Rob and Munir dive deep into how practice becomes a form of creative spirituality by transforming mundane repetition into meaningful ritual. Whether it's Munir's late-start acting journey at age 30 through the Susan Batson Acting Studio, or Rob's ongoing battle wit...

There is no safety net. You make the shot or you don't. That's how legendary sports photographer Rob Tringali describes a career that has taken him to nearly half of all Super Bowls ever played, countless World Series, the Olympics, and the FIFA World Cup. It's the same pressure an athlete feels stepping to the plate or lining up for a free throw — except Rob's instrument is a came...

“If your work isn’t what you love, then something isn’t right” - Talking Heads Rob and Munir explore the delicate art of creative pivots through unexpected teachers and bold career moves. Munir discovers the transformative power of encouraging instruction at his local library's ballroom dancing class, where the teacher focuses on building confidence rather than pointing out mistakes. This spar...

What happens when a latchkey kid with ADD discovers that music isn't just sound—it's a celebration? Keith Overton grew up in Tuckahoe with his grandmother's strict no-video-games rule pushing him toward classical piano at age 10. His digital distraction free upbringing also created space for vinyl discovery. What started as structured practice and curiosity became something deeper: a c...

Kevin Frank spent years trying to make his headlines perfect. What he eventually learned after Apple, after building LinkedIn's brand from the ground up, after writing Raising Creative Teams is that the best work doesn't come from the work. It comes from the relationships. That realization didn't arrive in a boardroom. It started with a shark fin pun in a 1970s kids' magazine, a sk...

In 1980, Jim Henson walked into 20th Century Fox with an idea for a film where audiences choose their own ending — 72 possible variations of the same movie. They told him it couldn't be done. His daughter Lisa later said: "Really where it all ended up was in video games. We just didn't know that at the time." That's the kind of story Munir and Rob bring back from a week that...

Two brothers. One feed. A conversation that turned out to be ahead of its time. In this early episode, Munir and Rob introduce themselves properly for the first time. And the origin story is worth the price of admission alone. Munir traces how the Madden video game cover quietly shifted from John Madden to player covers, why it happened first in Europe, and how Eddie George ended up on the box. Ro...