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It's Christmas time and the Dissect DJs are celebrating by breaking down one of the all-time Christmas Classics with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's WHAM holiday hit - "Last Christmas". Is the greatest holiday song ever? Is it a sad or happy song? And what memories are most treasured and despised in our Christmas past? It's all dissected NEXT! Full Video Episode - https://...

Episode 153 of the Dissect DJs podcast breaks down possibly the most classic Holiday movie of them all - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964). This is not the cozy, cute, and cuddly Christmas cult classic it appears on the surface, Rudolph has some of the most rough around the edges holiday characters you will find on screen, including Santa! With this in mind, Castle runs through the full story...

Episode 152 introduces a brand new segment - What the F*ck IS this Song? As we dissect Buster Poindexter's 1987 wild hit "Hot Hot Hot". What was happening in the 80s? Remember Mick Jagger and David Bowie's "Dancing in the Street"? What are the best and worst examples of "Hot"? And who is Buster Poindexter anyways? It all gets dissected to the ultimate HOT Mix NEXT!...

The NFL is officially in midseason form, and so is Castle as he's back to dissect all 32 teams in the NFL to determine one specific thing - is anyone actually good? Are the Eagles and Chiefs running it bacK? Are the Rams and Seahawks for real? What about the Patriots? Is the NFC North the cream of the crop or the garbage in the dumpster? Will The Browns or Jets ever be good again? Is it finall...

On Episode 150 The Dissect DJs take on the new music craze taking the world by storm, for better or worse - AI Remixes! We dissect multiple 50 Cent jams re-created as 50's/60's soul and see what all the noise is about. What does AI's influence mean for the music industry and entertainment as a whole? How far can this go and what are the core differences between real and AI music? And c...

It's the Dissect DJs FAVORITE time of year - Halloween Season! In honor of spook season we hit all the all the topics while dissecting our Halloween freak mix featuring Whodini, Missy Elliott and TJR with "The Freaks Come Out at Night", "Get Your Freak On", and "Dracula Freaks". What's the best age to experience Halloween? What's the best hour for the freaks to...

Episode 148 takes us to the mysterious, melodic world that exists in Tom's Diner, as laid out by Suzanne Vega in 1987. What is Tom's Diner? Does anything happen there? And why does it sound so magical? This song has been reworked countless times, and we go through as many of them as we can, some of them are memorable, some of them you're better off never hearing by artists that may sur...

We're feeling spicy on Episode 147 as we break out some of the hottest takes to the hottest tunes! What movie character would actually completely suck to be around, the most overrated member of a band, the best inventions ever made, the right and wrong ways to eat your food, and which city cares wayyy too much how you do it! No person, thing or topic is safe - NEXT! Watch the video podcast on...

We're back with another classic throwback dissect as we break down Shania Twain's 1997 hit "That Don't Impress Me Much". From Brad Pitt, to Elvis, to rocket scientists, nothing much impresses this woman! We cover it all and throw in some other logs on the fire that don't much impress us, as our attempt to find the 2025 song of the summer has brought us kicking and spinning...

The MTV Video Music Awards are a thing I haven't thought about in at least 10 years, and haven't watched in close to 20! With that in mind, I gave it another try and watched the 2025 VMA's and gave it a full review! Along with a quick rundown of the history of the show, we take a look at what the show looks like now, who are the stars of the show, and if it holds up to the historic mom...

The NFL is back! And with it, let's bring it a new segment where we fire through all the important notes from Week 1 in quick hitter fashion! Everything you need to know about the NFL's opening week in under 10 minutes: The Ravens vs Bills, did we just see the greatest game ever? - The Eagles splashy title defense has begun - The Browns go full Browns - Macho Mahomes is back - 49ers remind...

The song of the summer search continues on as we dissect the gnarliest jam of the season with "Gnarly" by KATSEYE. A dissection which conjures up some of life's most gnarly scenarios - like bears, the formation of birds, samurai swords, the bottom of the ocean, siamese twins, bow and arrows, the beast from Beauty and the Beast, meth, life in the 1930s, boomerangs, and the word gnarly i...

After last week's thorough breakdown of Happy Gilmore, it's time to run it back with the 2025 update, as Ryan Castle dissects the brand new Adam Sandler comedy that's got the whole world buzzing - Happy Gilmore 2!   Did it live up to the hype after 30 years in the making? We break it down with 3 simple categories: What worked? What didn't work? And what the F*ck was that?   Was the...

With the newly released Happy Gilmore 2 hitting the streams on Netflix, Episode 141 takes on one of our most formative comedies of the 90's as we dissect the Adam Sandler classic - Happy Gilmore! We break down all the legendary moments of the '96 comedy, discuss the career retrospective of Adam Sandler, the best and worst sequels of all time, funniest movie death scenes, kick around a few...

Episode 140 takes on the mission to find the song of the summer (for the third year in a row!) beginning with our dissection of MK's dance-pop hitter featuring Chrystal - "Dior".  Castle and JAG are back and in a brand new setup to take on a fresh beat that's tearing up the chart, that may have been created just to net Chrystal some fresh Christian Dior bags. Do these DJs know what...

Episode 139 explores a working theory headed up by DJ JAG comparing Billy Paul's 1972 classic "Me and Mrs. Jones" to Whitney Houston's 1987 hit "Saving All My Love".  We dissect the background story of each and determine if there's more here than meets the eye... or ears. Who was Mrs Jones? Who was Whitney saving all her love for? And was there ever anybody who did it b...

Episode 138 brings a classic movie review throwback, as we have 3 things we need to discuss about Willy Wonka and his crazy chocolate factory - with Ryan Castle, 'DJ JAG' Justino Garcia, and Jason Malabuyoc. 1) Is Willy the most irresponsible business owner of all time? 2) What is up with those grandparents though?? 3) We give out The Thingy Awards: MVP, 6th Man off the bench and Practice...

In this special edition of the Dissect DJs we open up the Grab Bag and ask some of the most thought-provoking, mind-shattering, inquisitive questions to ever be discussed in podcast form, to the soulful sounds of Young-Holt Unlimited's 1968 classic "Soulful Strut". Would you rather be an Oompa Loompa or one of The Lost Boys from Hook? Climb the beanstalk from Super Mario or run the loo...

Episode 136 throws it way back to 1958 when Ritchie Valens made this classic that still gets played today - "La Bamba", that then Los Lobos imitated in 1987. It's our second ever translation episode (first being Gangnam Style) where we try to decipher what this song is really all about, who did it better, and determine if it might have the best guitar breakdown in music history. LA BAM...

Episode 135 breaks down Bruno Mars' latest hit single alongside K-Pop star ROSÉ titled "APT."  What does APT mean? How do you pronounce it? Why does this sound so familiar? Is Bruno Mars the best modern performer we got right now? And what is his all-time greatest jam? We dissect it all in this electric pink video, check out the full video episode here: https://youtu.be/YGbNtlzhw9c NEX...

Episode 134 breaks down the ultimate dick-measuring jam with Mickey Avalon's 2006 classic "My Dick".  We open up the Dissect DJ soundbox and put it to work as our rating system to judge each dick joke bar for bar.  Which line is best, and is this the all time dick track? We go through all the top contenders, let's DISSECT! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy...

Episode 133 throws it back to 1986 to break down the legendary RnB troop Midnight Star's "Midas Touch", which gets your DJs asking the question - What would be your ideal Golden Touch scenario? If you could have the Midas Touch in any situation, what would it be? We Dissect! Video Podcast: https://youtu.be/1-Be2H_l0Lw Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Ou...

Episode 132 dissects the groundbreaking football film that broke all the rules with the 1999 Oliver Stone classic Any Given Sunday!  Starring Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, we go full blitz on the movie that did everything it could to peel back the curtain to show what it takes charge from the locker room to the gridiron to the Super Bowl... or Pantheon Cup. Is it the best football movie...

On Episode 131 we hop on the Double Dutch Bus and try to figure out what exactly it is, and what the hell Frankie Smith is saying in this 1981 jam.  This song influenced hip hop vernacular for YEARS to come, and on the surface seems to have a bunch of gibberish speak, but we may have decoded what exactly it is he was trying to say all along. It's the Double Dutch Bus MOVE your feet! Advertisin...

We're back to break down the ICONIC theme song of the hometown city of your World Series Champions - Randy Newman's 1983 classic "I Love LA"! Is LA really a city worth loving? Has anyone ever got along farther in the music industry with a voice like Randy Newman? And what the hell is Randy really talking about in this song? We break it all down NEXT in Episode 130!  GO DODGERS! Adv...