Clanking chains! Ghastly ghouls! A carved pumpkin! That's right, it's time for the Number One With A Bullet Halloween Special. What does that mean? We do a regular episode, talk about movies for way too long, and then discuss a Cyndi Lauper ballad from the mid-80s. BooOOoOooOoOOoo!

Once upon a time, America was a country without sexy. The people were lost and afraid, unsure of if they would ever have sexy again. Then, in the fall of 2006, a young man with a newly shaved head arrived and brought back all the sexy that the American public could handle. He also brought his friend Timbaland. This is their story.

It seems like just yesterday Andrew and Dan were taking about the Rolling Stones and their early dreams of becoming blues rockers. Here we find them ten years older and a lot more addicted to drugs. Still, they managed to top the charts for the seventh time with this sweet ballad about a mysterious woman. Warm up that Goats Head Soup why don't ya!

Old Rodney Stewart is back on the top of the charts this week with an ode to sleeping with older women and Andrew and Dan are along for the ride. We're talking jazz festivals, we're talking mandolins, and we're talking about whether or not we should tell Rod he's sexy. Someone has to let him know!

Load that 300-pound phonograph recorder into the trunk of your car, because it's time to hit the road and record some folk music for the Library of Congress. This week, Andrew and Dan take a winding trip through the history of folk, blues, and Americana, all in the name of this rather boring mid-century hit.

Long before Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber were inspired by the 2020 pandemic, your dad's good friend Huey Lewis had the idea to write a song about being emotionally trapped in a relationship. But he did it on an island! With a buffet! And a shark!

It's a country song. About a Parent Teacher Association. And it has no chorus. What more needs to be said? Apparently a lot because this song's legacy is long, convoluted, and exhausting, but Andrew and Dan are determined to cover it all.

Listeners, all we can do is apologize. Each week, we try to bring you good songs. But sometimes the god's of fate bring as a number one hit that was better left forgotten. The most remarkable thing about Paul Anka's 1970s ode to pregnancy is that it is a universally reviled chart-topping single. Join Andrew and Dan in hating this thing!

Hopefully you've got your DNA test prepped and ready to go because, this week, Andrew and Dan are traveling back a single calendar year to discuss the viral sleeper hit from America's favorite flutist, Lizzo. We don't want to spoil anything, but you might want to keep your controversy hats close by on this one.

Once again the hosts of this podcasts of fallen victim to Batman fever. This time around, however, instead of discussing the eccentricities of Prince, they're talking about incomprehensible lyrics, baroque musical stylings, and the twisted mind of Joel Schumacher.