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 the 14th. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. I hope you're having a cozy, warm time with your loved ones.

We certainly are.

And in light of that, we took this week off, but it has become very, very clear to Russ

and I that now that we have hundreds and hundreds of episodes of this show,

many people have missed some of the early gems in the catalog. So we want to

take times like Thanksgiving, where we're taking the week off from making new content, to

bring back some of our favorite episodes from the past. So this is our second spin series. We have

done this a couple times in the past, but today I wanted to bring back one of the earliest successes

on Pop Pantheon, which was our Robin episode,

with the god herself, Gia Tolentino.

Again, I don't know if I can speak to my own self and how I did on this episode, but Gia

was so fantastic.

And I just remember this episode being a real moment where the show started to make sense

to me and where I saw the potential for how good

it could be, especially when the guests were as fantastic as Gia, of course, is so many insights

on one of my all-time favorite pop girlies. And also the episode where the niche legend category,

I believe, was officially invented. So a seminal episode of Pop Pantheon here. Please forgive some of the

mixing issues in this episode. I was still learning how to do this good. So bear with me on that part.

I just wanted to quickly remind you that we do have a live show coming up next week. We actually

have two. The second one on December 3rd is already sold out. But the one on Monday, December 2nd still has tickets available. This will be our greatest songs of the year show with Jason Frank, Jason Lipschitz, and Julianne Escobedo Shepard. So get out there and buy tickets to that. The link for that is in the show notes of this episode. And I will keep the housekeeping short and sweet for now. So that's the main thing that I'm going to plug.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving and enjoy this Pop Pantheon second spin throwback episode on Robin.

Hey, girl in the strobing light, what your mama never told you.

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