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Pride party lineup schedule on June 7th at Parkside Lounge.

We are doing our main pop girls party.

Celebrating Pride with our hosts, Bradley and T. Kyle from Legends Only.

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directly in the Apple Podcasts app. I'm here with Russ today. Russ, we're here for the mailbag. We're here to answer all of your

questions. What we got going on, Russ. Hi, Louie. I am so excited to pull stuff out of the mailbag.

We have questions about pop stars of this very moment, pop stars of the past, a whole bunch of stuff.

We got calls, emails, Instagram comments. I want to tackle a bunch of them today. Sound like fun?

Yeah, can't wait. On Instagram, somebody asked us for our Grammy album of the year frontrunners for 2026. And my first instinct was,

wow, it's way too soon for that. But as it turns out, the eligibility period means that there's

just three months left for albums to come out for the 2026 Grammys. Isn't that wild?

Yeah, that's crazy. Thinking about the year that we have had, so it's August 31st to August 30th

of this year. That is the eligibility period. I have a bunch of thoughts on this. Do you have any

gut reactions? I want to hear

your thoughts first. I mean, last year was obviously defined by the major pop girlie releases.

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