PEL Presents NEM#247: John S. Hall (King Missile): Daily Poet
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
John has released at least fifteen albums, more than half of these under the name King Missile, but even this name covers three different bands, since John until recently didn't play any instruments, so his music is always collaborative with one or more music writers. Apart from his various musical projects, he's published around 50 books of poetry and publishes poems every day on his Facebook page.
We discuss "Her Cock is True" from the yet-to-be-released King Missile album Quest for Fire, "Eating People" from The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (2003), and "Sensitive Artist" from Fluting on the Hump (1987). End song: "Garden" by You, Me and This Fuckin' Guy from Garden Variety Fuckers (2020). Intro: "Detachable Penis" from Happy Hour (1992).
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Gusto, all-in-one online payroll and benefit software built for small businesses. |
| 0:16.0 | You're listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters. |
| 0:20.3 | My name is Mark |
| 0:20.9 | Lintonmeyer. My guest for episode 247 is John S. Hall, best known for his work with King |
| 0:27.8 | Missile. You're right now hearing King Missile's big hit, detachable penis from the 1992 LP Happy |
| 0:34.7 | Hour. He was doing solo poetry readings when he asked his friend Dog Bowl, Stephen Tunney, |
| 0:40.7 | to back him with some guitar. So they formed King Missile Dogfly Religion, recorded two albums |
| 0:46.5 | together in the late 80s. Then Dog Bowl left Dave a Rick from Bongwater, joined up, and they |
| 0:53.4 | recorded four more albums together. |
| 0:55.5 | The last three of which were on a major label until that broke up in 1994 and he went to law school. |
| 1:01.8 | He also did some work early on as we'll discuss with Kramer, who is a label guy that was the producer on the early King Missile stuff. |
| 1:09.6 | He then recorded four albums with a group that was the early King Missile stuff. He then recorded four albums with a group |
| 1:12.4 | that was eventually dubbed King Missile 3 through 2004, and has continued since then to write poetry, |
| 1:18.9 | do occasional musical projects such as Unusual Squirrel, You, Me, and This Fucking Guy, and Silk Cut. |
| 1:25.7 | There will be a new King Missile album with Dog Bowl sometime this year, and I cut there will be a new king missile album with dog bowl sometime this year |
| 1:30.4 | and i got to hear all the rough mixes of it so you will be hearing and we'll be discussing |
| 1:34.6 | her cock is true from that upcoming a new album quest for fire then we'll look back to king |
| 1:41.2 | missile three from their 2003 album, The Psychopathology of Everyday |
| 1:45.3 | Life. The song is called Eating People, which was written with his keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist |
| 1:50.4 | Bradford Reed. And then we'll look back to that first King Missile lineup with Dog Bowl. |
| 1:56.2 | Their first album was called Fluting on the Hump, 1987. and we'll talk about the song, Sensitive Artist, |
| 2:01.8 | one of the singles from that, and we'll conclude by listening to Garden by that group, |
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