Hey, y'all. This is DJ Louis, and I'm dropping this special little bonus episode.

As many of you know, our Patreon launched last week. It's called Pot Pantheon All Access,

and we're so excited about a bunch of new podcast content that we're offering on there.

And as goes without saying probably because a lot of you have heard we say this already.

If you join at the $5 icon tier, you're getting at least one bonus episode of the show per month.

And right now, there's three episodes up there right now.

An episode with Britney Spanos of Rolling Stone about reputation,

a conversation with my sister about our history of pop music fandom together.

And then an episode with Russ and I where we talk about something that's going to be a

huge part of these Patreon episodes, which is new music.

So this particular episode, we spend the entire episode talking about songs by artists like

Lizzo and Tuvei Lou and Rihanna and Sam Smith, Kim Petrus, Rina Sahuyama, etc., etc.

Carly Ray, our favorite news legend. And we discuss their new music and we discuss what we think

about it, what we think it means for their careers, et cetera. And then at the end of that episode,

we play a game Russ invented called Step Up, Step Down, where he talks about major events in the pop culture news ecosystem,

and he and I debate whether it has the potential to step them up in the Pantheon or step them down in

the Pantheon.

And I wanted to give you guys a little preview of that episode and a snippet from that episode,

which is us talking about Rihanna's announcement,

obviously that she's going to be doing the Super Bowl and whether that has the potential

to bump her from tier two to tier one in the Potan.

So here's a little snippet from our Patreon episode about new music.

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