Yo Munir!

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“The happiest guys on the internet” celebrate creativity for people wondering what's next. Yo Munir! is a weekly conversation between two brothers about the creative forces shaping business, culture, and the future of work. Especially in the age of AI. We’re here for the people who feel the speed of change and want to stay human brining more joy, better taste, sharper trend fluency, and a wider lens on what it all means. Expect conversations about storytelling, brand, marketing, social platforms, art/music, and the inner game of making (fear, momentum, mistakes, reinvention).

  1. 3d ago

    Merri Eckert: Why "Pick One Thing By Third Grade" Is Bad Advice

    Merri Eckert grew up down the street from Munir and Rob Haddad in Tuckahoe, New York and went on to become an Emmy Award-winning producer for Major League Baseball, the NBA, and the New York Jets, with credits on CBS, NBC, Fox, and ESPN. She rebooted the legendary "This Week in Baseball". She produced MLB's first-ever high-definition television show. She was on the field for the All-Century Team ceremony at the 1999 All-Star Game -- an assignment she landed almost by accident, two days after the system holding months of her work crashed completely. On this episode, Merri and the guys talk about growing up bored in a small town (and why that boredom mattered), the mentor who taught her to "handle it with grace" before she ever picked up a camera professionally, the Mariano Rivera shot she still calls one of the best of her career, and why she thinks telling a kid to specialize by third grade is exactly backwards. Check out this episode's mixtape of songs that remind of a ('80s) high school dance. Yo Munir is a weekly conversation celebrating creativity and practice, hosted by "the happiest guys on the internet," Munir Haddad and Rob Haddad. New episodes every week. Follow the show so you don't miss what's next - and if you like this one, a rating helps us a lot.

  2. Aug 10

    Ryan Dempster: World Series Champ, Secret Magician & the Making of a Late-Night Show | Yo Munir Ep. 48

    He closed out Game 1 of the 2013 World Series for Boston. He also spent years as an undercover sleight-of-hand magician in minor league locker rooms. This week, Ryan Dempster — 16-year MLB veteran, two-time All-Star, and host of his own late-night style show, "Off the Mound" — joins Rob and Munir to talk about growing up quoting UHF with his brothers, what "team-run" leadership really looked like in a championship clubhouse, and the story behind why one Bob Marley song means more to his family than almost anything else. Plus: three songs that capture a sense of wonder in this week's Mixtape. Yo Munir is a weekly conversation celebrating creativity and practice, hosted by "the happiest guys on the internet."

  3. Aug 3

    What If The Players Said No? — Uncertainty | Ep. 47

    The docuseries was green-lit. Showtime was in. The Giants were six weeks off their first World Series parade. And Rob still didn't have the one signature that mattered: the MLB Players Association. This week Rob and Munir sit down with uncertainty on purpose. Rob tells the story of walking into a Scottsdale clubhouse meeting in February — spring training looming, no leverage, twelve years of relationships as his only anchor — to ask a room of professional baseball players to let cameras follow them all season. Some wanted more. Some wanted the crew nowhere near them. "The Franchise: A Season With the San Francisco Giants" won an Emmy for Best Edited Series. Munir goes back to a Dartmouth 3D design studio and a professor — a world-renowned artist who carved working typewriters out of wood — who kept refusing to let him start cutting. "Why does your clay model look the way it does? What's your reason?" Munir couldn't answer. "Not ready yet." He's been defending the why ever since. Also in this one: uncertainty as a gift rather than a threat, per Maggie Jackson ("To be in the suspense of uncertainty is one of the greatest gifts we can give each other"). Why "you're only uncertain until you make a choice." The cost of turning the thing you love into the thing that pays you. Rob's 2000-era flip phone as a fidget device. And a mixtape: Tom Petty, Springsteen, India.Arie, O.C., Marvin Gaye, George Benson, and Wilco. Chapters (00:00) "What if the players said no?" (01:15) The flip phone as fidget device (05:30) Maggie Jackson, "Uncertain" (08:00) How this episode got made (13:00) MLB, Showtime, and "The Franchise" (16:15) The clubhouse meeting in Scottsdale (21:45) "What if they said no?" → an Emmy (26:15) Munir's 3D design class, and "not ready yet" (33:45) Fine art, commercial art, and student debt (38:00) Uncertainty as a gift (40:00) The mixtape Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC9yFb_jTqo4sXoTxJ1-YpTw New episodes every Monday. Yo Munir! — the happiest guys on the internet celebrate creativity and practice. Hosted by Rob Haddad and Munir Haddad.

  4. Jul 28

    Ep 46: Sondra Bernstein — Who Am I Without The Girl & The Fig?

    Sondra Bernstein spent nearly 30 years building The Girl & The Fig into one of Sonoma's most beloved restaurants. Then she walked away to become an artist — at 60. She went back to the fine arts photography degree she earned at 22, dove into AI and digital art, and now creates as 4EverKurious. Her work has shown on the billboards of Times Square, at the NFC Conference in Lisbon, and in galleries in Paris. Her digital gallery, PROTO.logue, just opened inside Dead Letter in Sonoma. She tells Rob and Munir about the six months of tears it took to leave, why she refused to keep being "the brand," being the worst server in TGI Fridays history before becoming the best, months spent silently lurking on Clubhouse, the day Beeple walked into a room having just sold a JPEG for $69 million, the hate mail she got for hanging her own AI work in her own restaurant, and why winemaking and making art with AI are the same act: curation. "Don't doubt yourself. If it appeals to you, it'll appeal to somebody else — if you care." The Mixtape this week is Songs for the Kurious. Sondra picked Gil Scott-Heron, The Tragically Hip, U2 and CSN. Rob picked Slick Rick, The Who and The Jackson 5. Munir picked Jack Johnson, Bowie and Daft Punk. Playlist: [LINK] Yo Munir! is a weekly conversation about creativity and practice, hosted by "the happiest guys on the internet," Rob Haddad and Munir Haddad. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/opW3ACyBtMA FIND SONDRA4EverKurious: https://www.instagram.com/4everkurious/The Curator's Notebook on Substack: https://sondrabernstein.substack.com/PROTO.logue at Dead Letter, Sonoma: https://www.protologue.digital/Dead Letter, Sonoma: https://www.deadlettersonoma.com/The Girl & The Fig: https://www.thegirlandthefig.com/

  5. Jul 21

    Alfonso Pozzo: 5 Emmys, 5 World Cups, and the Making of a Sports Storyteller

    "Is your name Alfonso?" — a stranger returns a lost World Cup ticket, and a career built on hustle, identity, and storytelling comes full circle.  This week, the happiest guys on the internet welcome 5-time Emmy winner Alfonso Pozzo — director, showrunner, and founder of Juxtapozz Films, with 18 years at MLB Productions and MLB Network. Alfonso and Rob first crossed paths in an MLB edit bay in 1999, and this conversation catches up on everything in between: growing up between Spain, Honduras, Cuba, and Miami, a wall of rejection letters before the big break, building MLB's Spanish-language show Sabor from scratch, and why singing his country's national anthem in a packed stadium — thousands of miles from home — is the moment he keeps chasing.  Plus: five World Cups ranked, and a mixtape of the songs that sound like football.  Yo Munir! is a weekly conversation celebrating creativity and practice, hosted by brothers Rob and Munir Haddad. New episodes every week. Follow @yo.munir on Instagram and watch full episodes on YouTube.

  6. Jul 13

    My Dad's Last Letter to Me Just Said “Smile More” | Yo Munir Ep. 44: Letters

    Before emojis, there was Dad — handwriting letters from Beirut with little doodles instead of words. This week Rob and Munir open up the actual family letter archive (typewriter and all) to talk about why a handwritten note is so much better than a text: a real UPS run to mail a birthday card, a pitch for a post-office-meets-gift-shop business, the Santa note that gave away an aircraft carrier at age 9, and the letter Munir found near the end of his dad's life that just said “smile more often.” Plus a Ross Gay reading on joy and dueling mixtapes about letters, from The Cure to Bruce Springsteen. New episodes every Monday. Yo Munir is a weekly conversation celebrating creativity and practice, hosted by “the happiest guys on the internet.” Follow the show so you don't miss next week's conversation — and if this one moved you, a rating helps more people find it.

  7. Jul 7

    Cooking as Creative Practice — Lebanese Food, Dad's Recipes & José Andrés | Yo Munir! Ep. 43

    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 Tea Room, their late father's mujadarra recipe read aloud, a José Andrés detour ("I try to be a storyteller"), and a mixtape built for the kitchen. New episodes weekly — follow so you never miss one.

  8. Jun 30

    Summer Travel: Creativity, Constraints & the Open Road | Yo Munir! Ep. 42

    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, they make it. It all rolls into a road-trip mixtape, a Noah Kahan show, a solo night with Bleachers, and a little Mark Twain.Two brothers, the open road, and the case that travel rewires how you create.

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“The happiest guys on the internet” celebrate creativity for people wondering what's next. Yo Munir! is a weekly conversation between two brothers about the creative forces shaping business, culture, and the future of work. Especially in the age of AI. We’re here for the people who feel the speed of change and want to stay human brining more joy, better taste, sharper trend fluency, and a wider lens on what it all means. Expect conversations about storytelling, brand, marketing, social platforms, art/music, and the inner game of making (fear, momentum, mistakes, reinvention).

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  • Creator
    Yo Enterprises
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Explicit
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