Dissect DJs

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 itself, it all goes down NEXT!

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 there a different way it could've be...

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 fan theories, run through the epic ...

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 Christian Dior is? Do you have an ...

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 better than '87 Whitney? It's...

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 Squad Player (character we didn't ...

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 loop in Sonic the Hedgehog? Be granted ...

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 BAMBA is NEXT!

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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

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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!

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

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 of all time? Is Tony D'Amato act...

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!

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!

We're going back to the 90s with another classic review of this 1993 throwback jam that might not be what you thought you've always heard, it's Positive K - "I Got A Man".

We dive deep into how it was put together, discuss approach game, 90s hip hop, and a thorough breakdown of the back and forth rap convo in full dissect mode as we do. Positive K is NEXT!

Will Smith is back and so are the Dissect DJs!  Breaking down his latest single release featuring his son Jaden and a guy named Russ - "Work of Art".
We try to understand what Will is trying to say and why he's trying to say it, check in on a couple other recent releases by Willy from Philly, and discuss where he's at this point in his career. Is "Work of Art" a true work of art? Let's dissect!

The summer of baseball movie reviews continues on the Dissect DJs, as we break down the iconic 1993 film - The Sandlot!

We run through this entire 90s classic that anchored the greatest era of baseball movie history, asking and answering all the curious questions that  rise along the way. Why can't Smalls throw a baseball? Why was his stepdad Dennis Leary such a dick? Was Babe Ruth really the legend he's made out to be? What...

In Episode 126 we uncover a rare song from the 80s that turns out to be rarely heard for a very good reason... It's Benny Mardones - "Into the Night".

DJ JAG brings a deep cut to the table with some lyrics that must be heard to be believed. It's time to dissect some problematic throwback music from the 80s, Benny you're NEXT!

We do a deep dive from the archives from The 3 Things About podcast and pull out our thorough breakdown on the 1992 cinema classic A League of Their Own! 

We crown our MVPs of the movie, the 6th Man Off the Bench Award, The "Practice Squad Player" who we could've done without, and hit all the longstanding eternal questions - Did Dottie drop the ball on purpose? Why don't women play baseball anymore? And did you know ...