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.

We have an upcoming

dance party, Maine Pop Girls. It's our Pride edition at Parkside Lounge on June 7th. We're also

going to be joined once again by our fabulous podcast and colleagues, Bradley and T. Kyle from

Legends only. So grab your tickets for that while you

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all access this past week. We did a huge long-awated deep dive where we returned to the

tortured poets department after a year with Friend of the Podshod Desusa. It was a really interesting

conversation and it was very fun to get to return to that album with fresh ears out of the

context of so much context. So you won't want to miss that episode. Subscribe at patreon.com

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audio only directly in the Apple Podcast app. Now, I'm going to pass the mic over to the actual ringmaster

of this episode. Russ Martin is here. Hello, Russ. I have no idea really what we're doing today. I have

only a very basic idea of what we're doing today. So I'm going to let you take over from here.

Louis, welcome to summer season.

Yes. For some of us, not such a great season. Are you a summer boy? So I'm of two minds. I don't like

the heat, but I do like working less. Right, because of your school schedule. See, like my working

schedule doesn't change. In fact, I'm staring down the barrel of an incredibly stressful summer work-wise, and I hate the heat. And New York, I think, is, like, particularly kind of a miserable place to be in the summer. Although many think that summer in New York is, like, this special magical season. I've never understood it.

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