Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon.

This is your host, DJ Louis X 14th. This is a very special episode

of the podcast where we are going to be answering all of your incredible, smart, insightful,

sometimes pretty funny questions that you guys have sent in over the last couple of weeks

about pop, about pop stars, about the Pantheon,

about how we make the podcast, et cetera, et cetera. So I'm really excited to get into that with

everybody shortly. As always, please follow the podcast on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod.

Follow me on social media at DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V. So the way we're going to

structure this episode is that I have recently brought on a podcast helper who wears many hats

over the last six or so weeks. It's Russ Martin.

He has been incredible.

He's honestly like helped take this whole thing to a new level.

And I'm so appreciative of him and all of his wisdom, insights, organization.

He's really a man of many trades, a Renaissance person.

And I brought him on today on Mike to help feed me

some of these questions and maybe weigh in a couple of times about thoughts he has as a

non-American pop fan, as a lot of these questions pertain to my American bias in certain instances

as we'll get to.

But anyway, Russ is also a writer and an editor in his own right.

And as I said, practitioner of many things.

So Russ Martin, thanks for coming on the pod today.

Louis, what an intro.

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