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All Access, where we do weekly bonus episodes of this show. This past week, we did a little

breakdown of the Michael

Biopic, and we were discussing Kaylani's new record, so you won't want to miss that. You can also

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this coming weekend, you can go to Gorgeous, Gorgeous at Los Globos and Silver Lake and buy tickets

in the show notes of this episode. And if you are in New York next weekend, the weekend after this one,

on May 8th, you can come to Gorgeous Gorgeous at the Sultan Room in Bushwick. And you can also

buy tickets for that in the show notes of this episode. So see y'all there. I am here with

Russ Martin. Russ, hello. Hi, Louie. Delighted to be here. We are doing something that I think is so much fun. It is a

silly idea that we came up with last year on the Patreon. We are bringing it over to the main free feed of

this show. It is called the Hot 100 Dumpster Dive.

So what this is is an opportunity for the two of us to look through the charts,

listen to songs that are otherwise outside our purview.

We explore the world of pop in great detail, but over here on the main feed, we're often looking

historically and on all access. We have sort of a vibe on how we're defining pop. We're

looking at the main pop girls. We're looking at gay pop for the girls and the gays that

the queens and the queens were pumping that shit. Mm-hmm.

Gays, gals.

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