Mental health is definitely an issue that can be appropriately broached in a kooky novelty song, at least according to the 60's. We dive into this terrifying one-hit-wonder that started from a guy tinkering with a Variable Frequency Oscillator and ended in madness, and along the way Mike compares and contrasts his own experience at the 'funny farm' with Napoleon XIV's.

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Marvel hasn't always been the hugely successful, money-printing juggernaut it is today, and this was especially true when it came to their "music inspired by the movie" output. On this week's episode we break down 3 less-than-marvelous songs from the studios' darker, more Chad-Kroeger-y days. But if you need a palette cleanser afterwards, why not head over to https://www.dapperdevilproductions.com/dairys-of-our-lives and check out Mike Russell's milk-soaked dramatic web series! 

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In celebration of Father's Day coming up, we take a look at the hit song "Daddy" by infamous artsy-fartsy South African hip-hop duo Die Antwoord. Is this song celebrating the same kind of daddy that typically gets recognized on Father's Day? Or is it a kinky, potentially troubling song by a group that has recently come under a harsh spotlight due to some alarming allegations? 

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This week we dissect Rammstein vocalist Till Lindemann's English side-project all about peeing on people. Is there some deep, subversive poetry at play in this industrial metal banger? Or is it literally just a song that describes getting peed on?

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If our podcast was a sitcom this would be the "special episode." This week we take a look at some of the artists that many of you suggested we dissect that, for one reason or another, we won't touch with a ten-foot pole. What could possibly cause us to neglect our solemn duty to dissect the most bad, bizarre, or otherwise noteworthy music out there? Listen to find out, and then check out "Dairys of Our Lives" below for a palette cleanser.

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It's 20 years old and is described as an"unkillable" song, so how can we dissect it??? This week we try, as we dive into the countlessly covered, parodied, licensed, remixed, reinterpreted hit song that is simply a part of our lives at this point. Along the way we shed some light on the songwriting process for "All Star," we unearth some hidden environmental messages, and somehow we tie this song to the plot of "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace."

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We dive into the forgotten sub-genre of trucker music on this week's episode and dissect the 70's classic "spoken-word recitation" hit about a paraplegic boy with a CB Radio and a whole bunch of eager truckers. Stay tuned to the end to hear the beautiful, totally improvised Steven Trolinger original trucker song "10 Tacos for Timmy!"

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American Idol alumni and legitimately amazing humanitarian Clay Aiken nevertheless performed a song on his debut album that will forever be embraced as the anthem of stalkers. We dissect the song that literally states "if I was invisible then I would just watch you in your room" and along the way Steve hands out a superpower quiz, Mike discusses Casper-the-friendly-ghost-fetishes, and Nick fends off accusations by his own cohosts.

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When he's not busy paying the SEC 20 million dollars for stock manipulation, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is busy writing rap songs about 3-year-old memes. We dissect the corpse of a song about the corpse of a gorilla on this week's episode and along the way Mike shares some theories about Musk's coping mechanisms, Nick blames the parents, and Steven translates ghost-gorilla hand signals.

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Once again you, the listeners, have dredged up some absolute gems of bad, bizarre, or otherwise noteworthy music that we dissect on our fourth listener-submitted episode! From Five Finger Death Punch to Hot Ham and Cheese to...Unicorns Killed My Girlfriend, this one is doozy, and it's dedicated to Louie Anderson, who definitely is NOT featured in one of these songs...

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