Welcome everyone to a special episode of Dysect. I'm your host, Cole Kushna.

Today's somewhat emergency episode is on MacMiller's balloonerism. A beautiful, fantastic project

released this past Friday on January 17th. I wasn't planning to do an episode on this album,

but after hearing it, I just have to. There is so much to talk about. There are so many important themes, very deep kind of spiritual meditations on this thing. I found a lot of cool connections and Easter eggs in the project as well as potential connections to his next bodies of work in Good AM. So I am very excited to talk

about this with you. But first, I wanted to give you guys an update on season 13. I know it's been a

long time coming. You'll understand why very shortly. But let me just reveal here that season 13 is

going to release on February 4th. So season 13 will premiere Tuesday, February

4th. That is two weeks from when this episode is being published. And one week from today on

Tuesday, January 28th, I'm going to be revealing the album. I'm also going to be revealing

something I can't really talk about without just giving it away, but it is a

extra layer to the podcast that I'm very excited about. You'll understand what I'm talking about in one week.

So look for that. It'll be a more formal announcement here on the feed and also on social media.

And starting today, leading up to next week's album reveal, I'm going to be posting my traditional

hints on Instagram stories. This is where I give you a picture, which is a kind of Easter egg

that relates to the album being dissected. And if you decode all the clues correctly,

you can be entered to win the entire season 13 merchandise line.

So I know for most diehard listeners of Dysect,

you kind of already know where the season is going.

It's been pretty obvious or at least more obvious than past seasons.

And because of that, I'm going to make the clues even harder.

So even if you think you know what the album is,

I think you'll still have fun with the clues.

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