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Covering Madonna's entire canon. Each short weekly episode focuses on one song. Starting at the very beginning and working our way forward.
Episodes
- S8- Ep 8 - Crazy
Kenny and Mark go a little nuts over Madonna’s yearning vocals on this spare and compelling gem from Madame X. Topics include Grindr and vinyl, app fantasies and selfies, Jason Evigan and Mike Dean, self-knowledge and mystery, …
- S8- Ep 7 - Crave (featuring Swae Lee)
Mark and Kenny confess their latest cravings while musing on this illusive and near-classic ballad from Madame X . Topics include paper clips and major keys, desire and experience, Starrah and Swae Lee, On the Waterfront and The Wiza…
- S8- Ep6 - Killers Who Are Partying
Kenny and Mark get vulnerable and stay sensitive to discuss one of the most polarizing and criticized songs in Madonna’s entire canon. Topics include: Portuguese lyrics, taking a big risk, embracing awkwardness and metaphors, privile…
- S8 -Ep5 - Batuka
In the midst of the “I Feel So Free” launch, Mark and Kenny flee to Cape Verde to dissect this anthemic duet w/ the mighty and inspiring Orquestra Batukadeiras. Topics include David Banda’s security, community singing, generati…
- S8-Ep4 - Future (featuring Quavo)
Kenny and Mark get out the oracles and peer into this reggae-tinged anthem from Madame X. Topics include scratchy pianos, Starrah, autotune vs. clean vocal, Quavo, Athens, GA, Sondheim & Streisand, being a sound level diva, rebirth,…
- S8-Ep3 - God Control
Mark and Kenny light up some clove cigarettes to discuss the daring and deliciously disconcerting third song from Madame X. Topics include illusionary disco, plethoras of motifs, threatening strings, the Wooster Group, nostalgic coo…
- S8-Ep2 - Dark Ballet
Kenny and Mark don their Supreme Hoodies to dive deep on the extreme and WHACKY second track from Madame X . Topics include the 2018 MetGala, Eurovision, Tchaikovsky, A Clockwork Orange, the material life, truth vs. fiction, screen e…
- S8-Ep1 - Medellin (featuring Maluma)
Mark and Kenny break out the wigs (and, yes, the eye patches) to launch Season Eight: Zero Fucks Given with an epic conversation about the first song and single from Madame X . Topics include: eye twitches, pineapple, pandemic impact…
- PATREON PREVIEW: BIG TIME GIRL TALK
As the launch of Season Eight nears, Kenny and Mark revive and explore one of the great long form interviews Madonna gave during the first decade of her career with the genius Carrie Fisher over two issues of Rolling Stone in the summer of…
- S7-Ep 26 - The Rebel Heart Tour
Mark and Kenny celebrate the end of Season Seven with a wide-ranging conversation about the Rebel Heart Tour - and it’s Heart Rebel companion, Tears of a Clown. Topics include Q-Tips, thumb ailments, the comment flurry, Saturda…
- S7 - Bonus - PHYSICAL ATTRACTION (Live at Iron/Feather)
Mark and Kenny travel way back to 1982 and revisit their 2019 conversation from the FIRST season of ALL I WANT TO DO IS TALK ABOUT MADONNA - LIVE in front of a very sexy SOLD OUT audience at Soho’s stunning Iron | Feather. Topics inc…
- S7- Ep 25 - Graffiti Heart
Kenny and Mark bust out the spray cans to celebrate the wrapping up of their conversations about the Rebel Heart album. Topics include Basquiat, the legality of graffiti, backup vocals, misleading choirs, Lizzo, Keith Haring’s POP! S…
- S7- Ep24 - Addicted (X-Rated Edition)
Mark and Kenny thrash their heads through a great lost bonus track from Rebel Heart. Topics include Avicii, femme fatales, Janet Jackson, deadlifting on Instagram, kiwis and plums, psychic pain, the value of time, yoga, Notes on a S…
- S7 - Ep 23 - Borrowed Time
Kenny and Mark piece together a fresh working theory about the Rebel Heart recording sessions with this true “fork in the road” lost album track. Topics include Avicii and country music voices, Julia Roberts, Malawi, sonic links, spi…
- S7 - Ep22 - Beautiful Scars
Kenny and Mark frolic through this fizzy and sentimental favorite bonus track from Rebel Heart . Topics include triptychs, AM/FM radio, New Wave synths, Rick Nowels, DJ Dahi, Blood Diamond, dancing through the streets in Lisbon, tali…
- S7 - Ep 21 - AutoTune Baby
Mark and Kenny boil the baby bottle and the burping blanket to discuss this wild and weird bonus track from Rebel Heart . Topics include joking with Mike Dean & Kanye West in the studio, friends with benefits, chemistry graduate stud…
- S7 - Ep20- Rebel Heart
S7, E20: REBEL HEART (w/ Special Guest Nick Rufca) Kenny and Mark embark on the home stretch of Season Seven (!!) with a deep dive discussion of the title track from Rebel Heart. Plus, a late Christmas gift arrives for su…
- S7 - Ep19 - Messiah
Mark and Kenny rejoice over this beautiful surprise at the tail end of the deluxe edition of Rebel Heart with acclaimed actor Tony Corrales, who picks up the phone to discuss his particular devotion to this album and who precis…
- S7 - A Special Message - Calling All Clowns!
Mark and Kenny are taking a breather this week to recover from PHYSICAL ATTRACTION: LIVE @ IRON | FEATHER (were you there?) with a small request and assignment for the listening fans Down Under and in Miami. Can you guess? See…
- S7 - Ep18 - S.E.X.
Kenny and Mark critique/celebrate this lesson in sexology while Madonna resurrects and re-embraces Dita Parlo. Topics include being Game & Giving, Sniffies, blatant innuendo, the Summer of Spitting, licorice, golden showers, breaking…
- S7 - Bonus Episode - Two Steps Behind
ark and Kenny investigate who the culprit of this lost, sassy demo. Topics include dissing friends, BOMBOCLAT, taking to twitter, Guy Oseary, “appreciating” Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, recipes, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Paula Abd…
- S7 - Ep17 - Veni Vidi Vici (feat. Nas)
Mark and Kenny grapple with a feeling that they cannot explain while discussing the meaning (and mythology) behind this would-be anthem. Topics include Julius Caesar, perception, the value of the underdog, generational ed…
- S7- Ep 16 - Best Night
Kenny and Mark head back into the shadows of Hollywood noir and portraiture on this slinky gem that opens the deluxe edition of Rebel Heart. Topics include the M Experience, the fucking GRILLZ, nom de plumes, Art of Noise, Vangelis,…
- S7- Ep 15 - Wash All Over Me (w/special guest Jeff Vicente)
WASH ALL OVER ME (w/ Special Guest Jeff Vincente) Mark and Kenny wrap up the standard edition of Rebel Heart with this intense and beautiful ballad (and its THREE versions!) with events guru Jeff Vincente. Topics include…
- S7- Ep14 - Inside Out
Kenny and Mark grapple with the proper arrival of producer Mike Dean on this miss of an anthem from Rebel Heart . Topics include patchwork songwriting, sweatpants energy, loving the scars, lazy strings, switching “tactics”, spontaneo…
- S7- Ep 13 - Holy Water (X-rated)
Mark and Kenny get down to the nitty-gritty (and steamy) throw back to 1992’s Erotica. Topics include game-changing weather, cunnilingus, vitamins and filth, Kanye West and Yeezus, baseline and hand claps, gold star gays, pole dancin…
- S7-Ep 12 - Body Shop (w/special guest Wayne Parker!)
Kenny and Mark pop up the hood and take this romantic romp of a song out for a spin with Madonna Get Together podcast host Wayne Parker! Topics include vehicular high jinks, having fun, over-thinking and staying out of the way, electro-sho…
- S7-Ep 11 - Heartbreak City (featurning Jess Rothschild)
Mark and Kenny amp up the drama (and military drums) with special guest Jess Rothschild (host of Hot Takes & Deep Dives and Finding Fire Island) to discuss one of the most vulnerable songs in the entire canon. Topics include piano de…
- S7-Ep10- Iconic
Kenny and Mark explore the part that no one sees in the soaring (and strange) anthem from Rebel Heart . Topics include being in an “era”, current slang, mite bites, Mike Tyson Mysteries, Head of the Class, Mohammed Ali, Robin Givens,…
- S7-Ep9 - Joan of Arc
Mark and Kenny unsheathe their swords to discuss this powerful and beautiful ballad about mortality, battle, inspiration, and the pulsating humanity that lies beneath it all. Special Guest Jesse Factor joins the conversation to discu…
- S7 - Ep8 - Hold Tight
Kenny and Mark pick up the story of this anthemic, enduring tracks from Rebel Heart . Topics include: the haunting MNEK, Ryan Tedder, apocalyptic lyrics, Joan Rivers, survival techniques, alternative melodies, drumming, and the power…
- S7 - Ep 7 - Bitch I'm Madonna
Mark and Kenny conclude the Season of the Bitch by twerking their way through this maximalist third single from Rebel Heart . Topic include Diplo, finales, taking the day, the return of Nicki Minaj, colorful pop art synths, boundarie…
- S7- Ep 6 - Illuminati
Kenny and Mark hide from the all-seeing eye to wrestle with this polarizing track from Rebel Heart . Topic include the golden calf, the arrival of Mike Dean, stoners, the true definition of the illuminati, the potential to dance, a r…
- Special bonus -Trust No Bitch
Mark and Kenny continue the Season of the Bitch w/ this bratty lost demo from the Rebel Heart era. Topics include Natalia Kills, Rosalind Shays, STDs, Anne Sexton, Brahim Zaibat, Nicole Winhoffer, the allure of vindictive cleverness,…
- S7- Ep 5 Unapologetic Bitch
Mark and Kenny get their Reggaeton swagger going to discuss the sassy shoulda-been-a-single from Rebel Heart . Topics include Toby Gad, Garcia & Teenwolf, the primal urge to get up and go out post-break-up, Justin Bieber, ex-boyfrien…
- S7-Ep 4 - Ghosttown
Kenny and Mark celebrate the return of the power ballad with Boy Culture himself (and author of the essential Encyclopedia Madonnica) Matthew Rettenmund! Topics include: nepo babies, Celine Dion, potential cover albums, illegal downl…
- S7- Ep3 - Devil Pray
Mark and Kenny break out the guitars, the oracles (and the glue) to examine the folky, funky - even freaky - second track on Rebel Heart . Topics include the arrival of Aviccii, the Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun”, The Rake…
- S7- Ep2 - Living for Love
Kenny and Mark welcome Billboard Magazine’s Keith Caulfield (co-host of the Billboard Pop Shop podcast) to discuss the vibrant - yet troublesome - first song and lead single from Rebel Heart . Topics include THE LEAK and techno…
- S7- Ep1 - Secret Project Revolution
Mark and Kenny begin Season Seven: Defending the Crown with a detailed discussion of Madonna’s most politically urgent (and last - for now!) film project, in collaboration with Steven Klein as well as the debut of a now oft-covered Elliott…
- s6- Ep17- MDNA TOUR
Join Kenny and Mark for an ultra-thick FOUR HOUR conversation about the Mount L’Olympia of Madonna tours - 2012’s MDNA Tour. Topics include the legacy of Christopher Ciccone, trading recipes, the first selection for the Alain Delon F…
- S6- Ep16- Best Friend
Mark and Kenny decode the restlessly bold and confessional final track on the deluxe edition of MDNA. Topics include the final return of the Benassi Brothers, the slender difference between friendship and romantic love, Sheridan Smi…
- S6-Ep15 - B'Day Song
Kenny and Mark light some candles to celebrate one of the most frequently-streamed song in the Madonna canon - and the return of M.I.A.! Should MDNA have had THIRTEEN official album tracks? Topics include: M.I.A.’s “Come Walk…
- S6- Ep14 - I Fucked Up
Mark and Kenny bust out their decoder rings to interpret the diaristic lyrics on this bonus track from MDNA and fight over what constitutes a “bonus track.” Topics include swimming pools, Madonna’s art collection, Rocco’s canvases, M…
- S6- Ep13- Beautiful Killer
Kenny and Mark pull on their Burberry trenches to investigate this fan favorite from the deluxe edition of MDNA while Madonna role plays femme fatale with Martin Solveig, the Alain Delon Appreciation Film Festival is launched, and the girl…
- S6-Ep12 - Falling Free
Mark and Kenny wrap up the standard album version of MDNA with a deep and vulnerable discussion about heartbreak, relationships, mortality, and freedom. William Orbit collaborates with Torch Song bandmate Laurie Mayer and Joe Henry’s…
- S6-Ep11 - Love Spent
Kenny and Mark re-string their banjos to break down BOTH versions of this fan favorite ballad (?) from MDNA. Topics include family prenups, Sex and the City’s Bunny MacDougal (as well as Charlotte and Trey’s doomed marriage), Marian…
- S6- Ep10 - I'm A Sinner
Mark and Kenny get down on their knees to discuss the sparkling and oh-so-Catholic shoulda-been single from MDNA . Topics include Kelis and the album she co-wrote with Jean Baptiste Flesh Tone , the return of poppy William Orbi…
- S6-Ep9 - I Don't Give A...
Kenny and Mark bust out their To-Do lists and revisit this autobiographic and confessional track from MDNA . Topics include a return to rap, operatic escalations, time management lessons from Trixie Mattel and Joan Rivers, meeting th…
- S6- Ep8 - Superstar
Mark and Kenny take their insulin shots to survive the sugary-sweet return to 1980s Madonna, Topics include a pair of mystery songwriter/producers, a special suprise remix, and - oh no! - Lola starts smoking! Ooh La La indeed!
- S6- Ep7 - Some Girls
Kenny and Mark strap on their pumps and dance with one of the darker, secret tracks on MDNA. Topics include William Orbit, the brilliant Klas Åhlund & his collaborations with Robyn, lyrical weaponry, the sleaze of the Rolling Stones,…