About Us

Heather is a noted emo/pop punk enthusiast who attends so many concerts each year that she had custom earplugs made. Ramsey chooses to listen to Wings, They Might Be Giants, and Stephen Sondheim cast recordings. Somehow, they are friends.

"If You’re Listening” is all about one person’s mission to force her friend to listen to all the music he missed in high school. Sometimes it goes well and Heather broadens her friend’s horizons just a little bit. Often times it doesn’t go so well and Ramsey spends the episode wondering why anyone would listen to this music, or in extreme cases, launching empty threats at the band that recorded it.

It's a show that celebrates being passionate about the thing you love, sharing it, and not being too upset if your friend says something stupid like “it’s too loud.”

Heather Hynes

Heather is a project manager/designer living in Brooklyn. She has (accurately) been called "the world's oldest teen," and Vice.com has literally referred to her as a "noted emo enthusiast." She is a supervising producer at First We Feast.

Ramsey Ess

Ramsey Ess is a writer and comedian living in Queens. His current and past projects include crafting puzzles for my monthly newsletter, The Puzzleboy, creating comic books, both self published and for Jonathan Hickman's 3W3M and writing about comedy history for New York Magazine. He genuinely loves the band Wings.