0:00.0	Welcome to Pop Pantheon the podcast where we completely overanalyze all your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon.
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1:02.5	I am here with my summer jam, Russ Martin. Russ. Russ is staring at me through an extremely
1:09.6	large pair of white sunglasses that I think are
1:12.5	meant to signify the summer months.
1:14.6	We are here for what is now an annual tradition that has become a favorite of mine.
1:20.9	We are going to be guessing today what the song of the summer of 2026 will be, which is a cuckoo banana thing to do on the date that we are recording it with the information that we have.
1:36.3	But it is an incredible amount of fun to do this with you.
1:41.3	This fall, we will check in on the bets that we will make today, and we will see
1:49.4	who is the winner. Do you remember who won last year? You? By a hair. In a landslide.
1:56.4	Oh, by a landslide. Yeah, by quite a bit. Right. Okay. The only thing I could think about when you said the
2:01.6	fall was like, oh my God, like when we do the rejoinder to this episode, like, will my book be done?
2:06.8	It will be. Wow. That's really fun to think about. Isn't it? Yes. It's going to be a summer. Oh,
2:14.7	it's going to be a summer. So what is's going to be a summer. So, what is the song of the summer?
2:20.2	We have covered in the past, but worth checking in on and also worth pointing towards our good
2:27.6	old pal Chris Malanthe's work in Slate. In 2013, he tracked the history of the song this summer. These debates sort of begin
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