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Homerpalooza (Revisited) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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Hey, cannon Ball, I like your statement. When life takes a cheap
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shadow you you stand your ground. Billy Corgan smashing pumpkins homage, Simpson smiling
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politely. You know, my kids think you're the greatest, and thanks to
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your gloomy music, they finally stop dreaming of a future I can possibly provide.
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Well, We try to make a difference. Four finger Discounted. Welcome
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to four figure discount A very special classic review gone all the way back to
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season seven of the Simpsons. This week, we're here to review Home a
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Paloozer. I'm Denk and I am gud. This is classic rock. You
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know, we we're excited. We rub a hands together sometimes and sometimes I
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couldn't believe how much I related to this one from a whole new perspective.
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I hadn't gone back and review this one since maybe twenty seventeen did this with
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Mitch. I've maybe watched it one or two times since then, But this
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one here, I watched it going, holy shit, I'm home now.
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When you're in, when you're at thirties and you're sort of reaching in mid
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thirties as you have, yeah, that's when it really starts to kick and
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it's like, oh, yeah, the generation gap is real and I am
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on one side of it. Yeah. The thing is this episode, right,
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it feels like a real time capsule. However, because of the story
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told within it, right, it's an episode that feels timeless as well,
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rather than dated, because it's a it's spoken Vickiet Generation X, right,
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and it's got a nineties vibe to it. But just the story of feeling
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out of touch will forever be relatable. Well, it's incredibly summed up in
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that bit the the Grandpa meme. Yeah, it was like, yeah,
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I used to be with it. Now what now? What it is is
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just scary and unfamiliar to me. It's going to happen to you too,
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It's like, and of course we'll change what it was. When you now
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see that as a young person, you're like, well, I think the
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zone're even saying this episode, No way, man, I'm cool forever,
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a rock on forever, forever forever. Yeah, and now it's incredible.
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I mean I've got a few, uh say, a few years, a
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few decades on you. But for me, it was funny looking at the
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way Generation X, my generation is depicted in this and how of course I'm
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an old man. I'm kind of shaking my fist at the Zoomers and the
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millennials, going, you're just not with it. Their mood, their attitude
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is very similar to me at least. It's like, oh, so this
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is how I probably looked to my parents order people like, oh, you
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know, you're apathetic and you know, oh you don't believe in anything,
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and you just you want everything handed to you. It's like, was I
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really like that? Because that's how I regard the kids these days. Every
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generation feels like the generation after them has it easy. Oh absolutely, in
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my day. Every once in a while someone will bring up it's like there
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was some graffiti on the walls in like ancient Greece or ancient Rome, we
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had a philosopher saying, but children they believe in nothing. Yeah, they
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are lazy and shiftless and all these kinds. Oh my god. It's always
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it has always been this way, and it will probably always be. It
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feels like generation always feels when he gets like forty to fifty, you feel
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like the younger generation you're scared of them, because now quite often he people.
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We used to be able to leave the front doors unlocked and it's like,
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we can't do that anymore. And it's like, I do think it
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feels a little bit more dangerous now too. But also the world is so
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much more accessible now where we're hearing all these horrible news stories on a more
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global scale. Yeah, and you wonder if it becomes a bit of a
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self perpetual, self fulfilling prophecy in that regard. It's like, oh,
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okay, so so I'm talking about I used to be able to leave my
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door unlocked, and now people think my door's unlocked. Way better lock my
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door. Yeah. Yeah, it's an interesting but that's just the dynamic.
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That's not necessarily the story here. No, the story here is Homer feeling
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out of touch with his kids. Yeah, this is just I used to
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be cool and now I'm not cool. Yeah, yeah, which I'm going
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through now. Or you know, you are still cool, but you're cool
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on your terms. Yeah, but someone else is setting the terms, or
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someone who is setting society's terms. Because we always think the kids know what's
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what. Sometimes they do sometimes they don't. I mean, is this they
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talk about what do they actually call the festival? And this they don't call
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it? Home holor loser holoor Palooser. But but this is based on Lollapalooser.
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Yeah, and I don't know if we actually talked about it on air,
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but there's a documentary on Paramount Plus I'm called Lola, the Story of
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Lollapalooza, the festival and how you said it's worth watching. It's pretty interesting.
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Yeah, it was the Woodstock one though, right, No, no,
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but that is so good. Well that's because it was such a you're
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talking about Woodstock ninety al. Yeah, I'm just so glad we have all
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the footage of it. I'm like, this was fucking crazy, I know.
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Yeah, but looking at this this three part doc o called Lola,
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I mean it's very much. It's executive produced by Perry Farrell, who was
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the front man of Jane's Addiction and basically established a Lola Paloser and so and
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so you a lot of You've got a lot of these people from say Rage
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against the Machine and all these other bands, right, yeah, yeah,
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you're thinking about Perry Farrell, is he is a genius? And then he
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got Perry Farrell saying I don't know, I think I just you know,
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I just wanted to get a lot of people together and have play some music.
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It's like, Perry, you're pumping up your own tires here. Lu
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and I were we watched together when we were Cut of Love. I think
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Perry Farrell might be the you know, president of the Perry Farrell fan club.
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By the n we're going. He was kind of onto something. He's
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a bit of a he's a little up himself, but justifiably so. If
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you are a subscriber to Paramount Plus or you want to get that Sweet Sweet
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you know what is it free week trial or something like that, Lola is
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definitely worth checking out. But you're watching that as as I said a member
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of Generation X. It was launched in the early nineties and had you know,
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these terrific bands that are now sort of iconic bands of that era in
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their early stages like yeah, Iced Tea is there? Yeah, Rage against
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the Machine, all these others, Pearl Jam, et cetera, et cetera.
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Nirvana thought it would be selling out, so they didn't do it.
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They did do They did Redding Festival. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
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but look at they go, Wow, that's so incredibly vibrant and cool.
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Look at these great bands. You know, music was never so good.
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And then Lolla Blois went away for a while, got re launched, and
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they were like, I don't recognize any of these bands are artists, and
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the one that they do, they straighten me is pop sellouts. They don't
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like them, Billy I, at least you do. That's cool. What
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was that festival that just went to ship about three or four years ago as
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a whole documentary about it, five Festival. Yeah, I still haven't watched
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that documentary. Pretty fun. Yeah, just if you're like watching shit go
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up in metaphorically go up in flames as opposed to Woodstock with the shit literally
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went up. Yeah, it was Fred Dorsa says break ship or something.
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Oh yeah, yeah, break stuff. It's like they did, okay,
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Fred, I love like there's a point like in the documentary was like mid
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like performance, everyone's like, oh shit, to cut the mics. Oh
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yeah. But this episode I also thought looked at the relationship with Homer and
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Bart in particular and sometimes Lisa. Yeah, but his main focus is the
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arc of Homer appearing uncool and embarrassing to his kids, particularly, but it
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embarrasses him in front of his friends, to the person that he admires the
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most, to by the end being the uncool parent again, despite the fact
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that he put his family first. I feel like I'm at the moment there
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with Aliott not not yet, but I'm dreading them where I'm not cool to
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ali anyonere because right now I'm not his world. But it's like everything I
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do, it's like he looks up to me. They'll get a point where
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he wants to take on the word himself and I won't be cool anymore.
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But I think we all go through that phase of our parents aren't cool.
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They're talking about they just trying to tell us off, tell us to do
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things because they are our parents. They want to boss us around. And
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you get to like maybe seventeen eighteen, you're like, oh shit, you
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were just trying to me up for life. Oh you had a point.
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Yeah, all those stories there was a meaning to them. Yes. So
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I just love the way that the arc there of it was uncool. He
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admired him. He's uncol but eventually he will, yeah, realize it's funny.
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Lou had to pick a daughter up in Melbourne, yeah, from a
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concert on Sunday night, and they were driving back and you know, the
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girls in the back are talking about something and have you tried anel as a
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conversations in jo of Nicholas. At one time, Nichola was out at a
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went out for dinner with her friends from mother's and the mom picked up the
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girls right, No, it was at a handstone note anyway, and the
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mother of one of the girls picked him up, was driving him home and
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when it was like, so if you guys tried anal and then one of
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the guys like, because I like the chick say it was in the front
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with her mum's just like Nicholas, like, it was so fucking awkward.
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Lou's story is relatively tame, I think to a conversation and basically, can
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you explain the Drake Kendrick Lamar beef to me? And the girls then did
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so and then put on some songs and now lose algorithm as but Spotify playlist
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is now just but you came. I think I'm I think I'm team Kendrick.
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Though Drake sounds like a dirt back just throws in a bit of a
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cally ca Well, that was my job back in the day. Also,
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I appreciated the satire of just music festivals in general and the specialization of them
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all just the ticket well that yeah, but that's very much what Lolapalooza is
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as well. Yeah. I mean I think music festivals prior of that probably
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had no they would have had setups of things like that. But again Perry
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Farrell sort of pumping up his own tires. He was like, yeah,
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we also had art stands and political stands, and you know, all these
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things could be all these showcases and not just one side of politics. We
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wanted to have everybody on this budget jump for racism or something, yeah,
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like exchange other ideas and things like that, and having them go into oh
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god, I forgot the name already home Hulla Blues Holabalooser Yeah, but with
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a Hella baloos Hella Balooser. Yeah, having them go in and it's all
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these different corporations and everything like that. Yeah, this feels very much like
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you're trying to thread the needle of art and commerce. Yeah. Yeah,
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so, and we also got a very thought a South parkish ending, not
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quite the end, but towards the end. Words like, we learned something
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today about with the music festival. I think it was especially Pumpkins, yeah,
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who were saying, it's just like you know what you know, and
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that's where they realized that they're rich. I think, Oh, Billy Corgan,
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especially Billy Corgan, he was. It was a real good sport.
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Yeah, him, him and em and Peter Frampton man. But let's talk
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a bit about the musical lineup. Yes, yes, they had in this
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episode because it was Cypress Hill was the one I think everyone remembers the most,
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maybe specially Pumpkins, but Cypress Hill and the fucking orchestra. Yeah,
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very much so. But prior to the people that they actually got for this,
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they wanted now a bunch of others and some turned them down and some
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were not included for other reasons because apparently they've got Peter Frampton in there.
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Frampton very big in the seventies. Anyone who's watched Wayne's Well knows, you
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know, they were Basically I still don't know who he is. I just
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know from the Simpsons. Yeah, you got his pig wouldn't work. That's
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not allies lunch. If you're in the if you're around in the nineteen seventies,
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basically every house had a copy of Frampton Comes Alive. Really okay,
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yeah, that was his live album. It was a double album. But
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yeah, just huge. In the nineteen seventies, Wain's Well says, you
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know, I think they're he and Wayne and Tea Carrera at like the record
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shop and like what's this? Yeah, every every home came with this.
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You bought a house, You've got a copy of Framden comes Live. He's
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kind of the elder statesman in this. They initially wanted Bob Dylan and yeah,
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and Dylan. I think she said no, thanks. Sorry anytime Dylan's
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mentioned I've got it. Oh again, Sorry, it's time for things.
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Guys saw on Twitter there was some tweet last night where this woman wrote,
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uh, my husband seeing wheels on the bus in the style of Bob Dylan,
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and now my baby is unbelievably angry. I saw that while I was
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on the couch with Lou and again I was just laughing at like why are
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you laughing. Sometimes you see things on social media like this is what the
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Internet's for very much. It's just just a snappy comment that you would normally
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hear at the pub or something. It's like oh, my husband saying it
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was on the buzz like Bob Dylan. It just pissed off the kid.
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The weird and the bad It's like, have you seen a video of people
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have frogs doing a frog splash? Have you seen a video? Is that
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the one you sent me with the frog on the ladder? Yeah? The
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frog on the table and they played John sens visico. Did the frogs flash
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through the table? This is what the Internet was made for? But someone
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else they wanted, well, they want to Courtney Love and Whole. Yeah,
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and or she originally had the line of the smiling politely that's right.
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I mean it would have been, oh, Homer, I'm a big fan
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Courtney Love, which when Homer replies, Homer grateful, which is not work
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as well. That's not unfunny, But for mine, it's it's a top
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ten Simpsons exchange. Its politely Yeah, Billy Corgan's smashing punkins. What was
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Simpson smiling? You could just retire? Yeah, written that, I mean,
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you might as well just hang up your guns. It was almost like
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Courtney Love and Hole turning down The Simpsons was like the universe trying to set
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them up for this perfect gag. But did they turn them down because apparently
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Sonic Youth, who appear in this episode were like, we're not going to
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be on this episode if Courtney Love is in this Well, they didn't respond
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to the to the quest. Yeah, Love was wanted specifically for one joke,
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which was the exchange, and they it's never got back. But that
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has been said that at something Weekly said that that johny Youth wouldn't appear.
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I just love this like into inter which they wouldn't appear if whole were there.
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Of Courtney Love was there. Well, of course there was this ongoing
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rumor slash urban legend that you know, Kirkerban didn't actually kill him stuff,
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all that'd vidiculousfomped Corney Love. It's yeah, I don't know kind of you
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know, riggs and misogyny and jealousy and all this kind of ship. Yeah,
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I think it's just let's okay, Yeah, let's not get let's not
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bring the mood down. But you're right, I mean, but no doubt
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we're also in this episode. They were. Indeed, it didn't have any
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line I noticed in the back because Eric was working. Was he right or
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was the animator on the show animator? I think I think it was an
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anime. It was an animated Yes, is he animator on the show?
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Yeah, But Cyprus Hill playing to their strengths or playing into their stereotyp like
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they were stoned all the time, but also how great is just insane in
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the brain? Oh god? Or basically anything by Cypress Hill but just so
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distinctive, but particularly hearing the orchestra do it though, right. It's one
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of those things where in theory is like this could be cool, and here
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you're like, goes now this I life is like it's actually fucking amazing,
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Yeah, because I mean, is it insane the rain or they're sort of
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doing like no, itice it is, but it's like a it's like a
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jaunty version that they're doing, like his singing as as the violin. Yeah,
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I thought that was sort of doing another song that sounded a bit like
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it because a bit of a nerdy reference here, but you've seen The Godfather
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and Godfather part not all too there's a bit in the start of two where
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you know they're at this big event and there's an orchestra playing, and one
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of the mobster guys goes to the band is that you're not playing any Italian
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music player Tarantella. Yeah, and the band doesn't know it and they play
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pop goes the weasel instead. Never it's just all the all the whites are
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like, that's hilarious, and the mob going oh you uncle, And that's
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what it's sort of sounds like to me, is like we don't quite get
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this, but we do. Yeah, I know. I still thought it
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was very, very funny, but just all that stuff, did you we
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actually ordered the Oxtra Okay, fine, let's go. Let's go with that
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possibly high Cypress Hill. Yeah. I think that they captured the vibe of
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music traveling music festival as well, because you think of music festivals now right,
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and then they exist much in Australia at all, but it doesn't feel
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like a traveling music festival exists anymore when the bands are all like hanging out
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together. Yeah. I mean, well, one of the things about this
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Loblo documentary is that how it was a traveling thing, was it really thens
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just got two nuts and now it's just based in Chicago. Yeah okay,
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yeah, which because it's just now bands have their own rooms, they find
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their own way to get there, which I can get that, but just
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the idea of the comaraderie that would come with traveling together, yeah, well
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you see that on this documentary as well. Everyone's so yeah, backing each
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other up and having fun with each other. It's great. But yeah,
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I think you're right in that Smashing Pumpkins are kind of the MVP guest performance
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in this episode. I mean not just yeah, Billy Corgan, I think
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is great. Everyone has their moment, some of you have the cooler moment,
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Smashing Pumpkins especially, And then they actually play a song yeah we can't
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get insane in the brain as well, but also playing my probably my favorite
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Smashing Pumpkins song, I love zero. It's a fantastic. Yeah, I
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love it. I'm very much home with it and nod my head like I
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was in the band. Oh my god. The early bit of cultural appropriation
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from Homer. I love having a batch too cool for this planet. This
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really strike. This whole episode is great in terms of its references, because
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it's one thing that I think, you know, a lot of us love
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about, particularly classic bench Simpsons or whatever. How it throws in just references
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from all over the place, whether it's you know, I mean, this
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has got stuff that's very relevant to Lollapalooza and Generation X and all that kind
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of stuff. But you know, the bit where home is strutting around.
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That's like fabulous, very freak brothers. That's seventies alternative animation designed to designed
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to make him feel old as well. Yeah. Also, yeah, example
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of es. You know, oh, this was cool when he was a
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kid, but you know you're gonna have people who were Homer's age at this
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stage when this episode released, going, at least I got that bit,
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you know, that's when I was with it. Yeah, And also,
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I mean, sorry, what was the release date of this episode? This
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was in ninety six. Look at up hanging one second. It was released
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originally May nineteenth, ninety six. Yeah, even the bit where Homer wants
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to be sort of part of the cool crowd. Those guys at the what
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do they call it, oh, the second Basemobile, Yeah, they're all
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the Franken's sign what's the signs? A song by the Winner Group? Yeah,
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dirt dirt fucking What's a good song. Absolutely, But all the characters
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around the van are styled like characters from the movie Dazed and Confused, which
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came out a few earlier. Okay, yeah, I mean particularly the guy
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with the blonde hair who's sort of talking about second base. We were that's
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McConaughey's character from someone's talk about mcnaughey, he's got a bit of a welcome
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to the second basement. Yeah, so even throwing stuff like that, and
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I mean Days and FEUs was never a huge hit, but it became a
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cult hit over the following years. So even to throw that in, it's
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just like if you know, you know, and that's it's just be so
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great for that. It used to be really great. Even if you didn't
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get everything, there was going to be someone who got it. Because it
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feels like now that we're reviewing season nineteen episodes, it feels like the're trying
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to references that a pop culture current at that time, and it's like you
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forgot the lesson of home a Loser. Yeah, yeah, that's that strikes
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me as a bit a little bit sad, Yes, but I just yeah,
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this overall just really really relate to his episode from my host perspective,
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which really surprised me. And there's a lot of gags in this that I
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missed as a kid. I can't remember. I may have missed them when
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we did our last review, but get into them now with favorite moments.
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My favorite so one that I really loved. It's just a passing comment.
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When Homer and Barter in the kitchen and he's telling me the question, how
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do you wear boxes or briefs? Nope, nope, always lost on me.
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I was like, that's funny. Great, so many Nope gags like
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that are fantastic. I mean, everyone knows that I love you, Beware
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the Eyes of March. That one, that one's almost as good. So
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I not that the joke was over my head. I just never heard that.
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Yeah, yeah, it's the one that it's a throwaway and it's almost
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a perfect joke. Oh, it's so good. And the suicide Notes formally
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good vibrations. That is perfect. But suicide Notes is a great name for
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a for a music store. Yeah, it's not that it is, yeah,
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for that year, but also formerly they were walking in there, bright
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eyed, pushing tailed. Hey where's this? You know? Classic? Right?
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Yeah, old old oldies. Yeah, it's like, well, I
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don't know if you listen to the radio in your car or if you sometimes
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Yeah, but it's there's no more bracing moment I announced to the oldies stage.
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Yeah, yeah, the stuff that you grew up on is now on
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great, good times, great, it's on five are Kings of Leona is
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now in the classics, And I'm like, oh, I guess it's like
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that old. Yeah, apparently the good criteria now is ten years plus.
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Okay. I'm like, I don't think have de find classic or oldies like
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ten years. I guess it's old, but I think it used to be
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like twenty years to be twenty. Yeah, it used to be. You
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put class Gold one of four point three's, but isn't a Shaw Gold one
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of four point three classic great classic hits. That's what I whenever I use
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that phrase good times, great class Ye, that's their catch right. Essentially,
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it felt like when you put it on, it was always rolling stones
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or beetles or abbro. Now it's stuff from like mid to late two thousand.
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I'm like, oh shit, the killers are on here. Okay then,
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but I also enjoyed just the iconic used to be with it. And
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Homo Siems is smiling politey, But what else did you enjoy? Yeah,
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Homo Simson smiling polity is just an Ald timer. I think I've got down
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boxes and briefs as well. A really great cut in this episode was you
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know Homer when he's finally got the sort of approval of the crowd and he's
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shouting his slow they remember kids don't trust anybody over thirty and now Bitter Brampton,
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very very good. I like the shout out to the Jim Rose circus,
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which people's that's that's essentially the freak show because that was something that was
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that lollapalooza, but also to it itself. When I was riding for Street
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Press interview Jim Rose, this is baby Yeah. I mean I love how
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the guy the sort of the entrepreneur he calls it. I like you to
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be part of my what is it my page on the trans Mundane it's the
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freak trip at his office. But this is yeah, this guy called Jim
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Rose, he essentially set up what was basically an old time Carnie freak show
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where you had guys who were like, you know, they had weights on
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them, they had pierced nipples and they would put like weights on them.
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Or people who would you put a straw up there, a tube up their
22:22
nose and dawn it in their stomach and they would pump a lot of beer
22:25
into it and then they'd regurgitate it and drink it and one things that I'm
22:30
sorry I keep pumping up the tires of this Lollaballoozer documentary, But they show
22:33
footage of it where Eddie Vedder and a couple of others come out on stage.
22:37
While they're doing it, it's like, who's going to drink from this?
22:38
And anybody was like, I'll take a step, like, yeah,
22:41
I drank the bar. I would go into a I never forgot it.
22:45
It would have been like a maybe seven eight year old birthday party from school
22:48
and one kid put spaghetti up his nose in at his mouth, has poorn
22:51
it. Oh, mortified me. I've never forgotten that it would just like
22:56
this. Yeah, this bar guy is probably like the least a great he
23:00
just of the Jim Row circus, because you had a guy with like a
23:02
Prince Albert piercing and a dick and he would like put really heavy weights on
23:06
it. And I think I don't know if someone was like hammering nails into
23:10
their scroat set. But it was really transgressive top which is what we were
23:14
into in the nineties. We were like, yeah, let's push some boundaries.
23:15
Then it's not that far, not that far. Yeah, they used
23:19
to be with it. Memes just hilarious. Suicide notes again fantastic. You've
23:25
probably got your folder on your laptop of like you know, just pictures that
23:29
you've downloaded for the innet or memes or whatever downwards folder. Oh absolutely,
23:33
And yeah, one that I've got is home it just got You've got the
23:34
sass. You got the sass? Yeah, which is ja Turkey is a
23:41
bad person. Is a bad person, but just you've got to have things
23:48
on hand for when someone just is trying too hard to be cool. You
23:52
just throw that got assassin, do you assassin' it? So, yeah,
23:56
something I really love. But there's gonna be I'm sure there's gonna be more
24:00
coming. He found something people about something. As I said Generation X member,
24:04
here is a good line. Like I thought I had an appetite for
24:07
destruction. I just wanted a club sandwich. That's me. I mean there's
24:15
variations on that throughout the episode. I used to ruck and roll on it
24:18
and party every day. Now I can only find half an hour get party
24:22
every day every day. Appetite for destruction. All I won was a club
24:26
sandwhich is the better version of that for mine? So I like, I
24:30
love that a lot. Next question, you there eating the beast. All
24:34
right, trivia time. My first question for you is what is the station
24:37
at Homer is listening to? He is listening to k FSL Fossil one O
24:41
three. Yes, what done right? Your faxt question of mine? Who
24:44
provides the competent drum work in Grand Funk Growler, Damn, no, no
24:48
idea. It was Don Brewer. I like the as Grand Funk. You
24:52
guys don't know Grand Funk side. Feel free to cut this outside because this
24:57
is well, this is a semi relate. Listeners to the show will know
25:00
that Louise and I love the show ninety Day Fiance. There's a UK very
25:04
end called naetyd Fiance UK. Who knew but a lot of these people on
25:08
this show they're looking for love. They will go to the Dominican Republic,
25:11
which has been abbreviated to the DR. It gets referred to the DR as
25:17
a lot. This woman on ninety Day UK has found the love of her
25:22
life in the Dominican Republic and she says she's off to the dom rep LU
25:27
and I looked at it, so I said that ain't it. She didn't
25:33
get the memo she used to be with it. Now what now what whether
25:37
this change they changed what it was? Now? What she's with isn't it?
25:42
But it was the lairs that we both look at her. She means
25:45
the dr, the DR, the dom Rep, the dom Rep. Eh,
25:49
his tom is good. Your next question for me what worthy promotions on
25:56
the ticket? Oh? For authentic refreshment yet Clark bar Clark bars, and
26:03
I forgot cloud pass rings. Justin's Justin's what done? Yeah? Go Jostin's.
26:11
The guy behind the counter at Suicide Notes is reading what magazine? No
26:15
idea. It's called Mondo Frown, which honestly it does sound like the title
26:19
of a zine. It does. Yeah, oh zines? Oh good stuff.
26:22
They were the original blog. So my next question is the blog was
26:29
a what you had before podcasts? What do you get at the vet while
26:33
you wait? Oh? Oh god, damn it? Cat detailed, cat
26:37
detailing. Yes, do I have anymore for you? I've got one more.
26:42
I'll give it to you. Why are you looking for one? My
26:45
final one is what or where? Sorry? It? Did Peter Frampton buy
26:48
the pig? You got them a pink Floyd? Yes, I don't think
26:53
I've got any more for him because I had k K F s O L
26:57
A F L. Sorry, what's getting Review of Homer Palouser The visual air
27:02
date was May nineteenth, nineteen ninety six. Written by Brent Forrester and directed
27:07
by Wes Archer. The Cashgaer family enters in a black light haze. Lighting
27:11
returns to normal when Homer turns on the lights. I thought, just the
27:12
vibeent it just felt right for this episode as well. Absolutely it does.
27:17
Yeah, yeah, just the sort. It was all like Neon, wasn't
27:18
it. Yeah, that whole Clowe in the dark black light poster deal.
27:22
Yeah. This episode kicks off with Otto he's having a dream about winning the
27:26
safety award for bus drivers at the school district safety Awards. Millhouse wakes him
27:30
up. It nearly hits Jasper. I just thought it's a really fun sequence
27:33
where it ends up in the wrecking yard and it's squashing it as they're running
27:34
out. Yeah, it was just animated really well. Just a cool little
27:37
action sequence. Who's good to keep his secrets and cuts too Marge reading the
27:41
letter out loud waiving any legal responsibility on the school's part in perpetuity for threat
27:45
the universe forever. So Homer is now suggests well, it's gonna be like
27:49
a road trip to school with your dad, and it kind of comes out
27:55
of nowhere. But I guess they need to establish early. You can't waste
27:57
time of Homer becoming uncoollsh home it's just uncol And I guess at that age
28:02
your parents is always uncol aren't They are the idea of a roach it with
28:04
your dad. Yeah, not really not really working. And it's the I
28:08
think it's the enthusiasm home has for it too. It's like, ah,
28:11
you're a little too eager for this. I've certainly had times when I've had
28:15
to pick up lose kids from either from school or from their work, particularly
28:19
Lo's daughter who's a teenage girl who's just got no time for mum's uncle boyfriends.
28:25
I don't know this guy, stranger danger Amber alert. But I think
28:33
the first couple of times I was like, I'll make conversation and all of
28:34
a sudden, it's nice way for it to get to know each other.
28:37
Now it's just like, how's work? Cool? All right? No more
28:41
words until your phone comes out? Oh yeah, absolutely for the fifteen minute
28:45
drive home. So this is the way it is. No I can I
28:49
can imagine and that's understandable as well. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
28:52
Man. For a while I was like, I'm not like, oh,
28:56
we're going to be best buddies. But you know, this is a
28:57
nice way to break the ice. Like, no, this is breaking the
29:00
eyes. It probably is better that you can just becomfortable sitting in the car
29:03
like that. Oh yeah yeah, but he brings up those rainbow suspenders are
29:07
cool way to keep your pants up. But my favorite part about this whole
29:11
sequence was but continuing nervousness of going Dad, Dad, that Dad. You
29:17
can see, Oh, he's gonna say something that's going to really embarrass me.
29:19
But then he tries to teach me how to say jive. Oh see
29:22
these kids now with jive printed on their shirts. Now I can teach you
29:26
how you're supposed to say jive. Dad. Please just drive the car,
29:30
Dad, I'm watching the road, sweetie. You Jeff Turkey, See,
29:36
you got to assess it. Quit javing me, Turkey, You got to
29:40
assesss it. Turkey is a band brutude. Then he puts on the radio
29:45
and the station is now for playing Abbato Zeppelin and the Comma Lid. Yes,
29:52
they put on puts on the track and Nelson's just like you tell me
29:55
time, So he gets me house to say he change the station, and
29:56
home is just disgusted. Then they don't know. You guys don't know Grand
30:00
Funk and the way he details every every person brings their own little element to
30:03
the band. More information can set you school Ybrary another way of showing these
30:07
out of touch. I guess in nineteen ninety six, I guess the library
30:10
is still library. Still question. Yeah, yeah we have the internet,
30:12
Yeah, yeah, it's true. The next day have it, but yeah
30:15
it's not as yeah not the go to yeh in ninety six? Do we
30:18
really the kids was accessible in ninety sixty incident? Did everyone have ourahome computer
30:22
with the incident? Oh? I don't think so, but betting Carter and
30:25
Cyclopedia correct. Next day though, Homer is he's playing Mississippi Queen and he
30:30
says, yeah, you know, you notice for a good song sometimes no,
30:33
no, no, don't start the rocket. But he's trying to help
30:37
in terms of like, well these guys led to Jeffers air Plane, which
30:41
then provided the lift up for Jefferson Starship. He's trying to help, but
30:44
he's also trying to make himself feel Oh yeah, he's well cool, Yeah,
30:48
this is real credible stuff. Yeah. Everyone feels like they're passing on
30:52
the wisdom, and in a way they are, because it's like, well
30:56
whatever, you're an ever an elder person who went to Ford, right,
30:59
whatever. They'd be telling me things. I always listen because I'm like,
31:02
these guys have waited for thirty years. They know what's up. So I'm
31:04
just a dumb fucking kid. Yeah, And I mean even with culture,
31:07
I mean, sure, you've got to have your ownership of the stuff that's
31:10
yours. Yeah, of your era. But I think as you get a
31:12
little bit further down the line, maybe just a year or two, you
31:15
realize, oh, well there wouldn't be this without that, So maybe I
31:19
should listen to that and find out where it came from. Well maybe I'm
31:22
just an outliwer and a big old nerd. They would make fun of me
31:26
for doing my podcast or what's this super Simpsons thing you do? And I'm
31:29
like, have fun stacking car parts forever, buddy or not? May be?
31:34
But Bart says this is here related, but says you embarrassed me.
31:40
No, I'm not. I dread the moment where I embarrass my kids but
31:44
I don't realize that I am. It's like, oh no, officially I'm
31:47
that guy. But but then yells at him, so I'm just trying to
31:49
party with you. Guys. You actually feel really sorry for homing you,
31:52
don't you. Yeah, so he says, you know, they say they
31:55
wouldn't party with you if you'd a last out on Earth, which I thought
31:56
was a bit harsh. But then Hope and then goes to suicide. It's
32:00
formally good Vibrations and I'm asked for let's release from uh Bread? Is it?
32:04
Oh? Yeah, yeah, it's in the oldies Holdies? Where can
32:07
I find the latest releases by Bread? Oldies Holdies? But you've got all
32:12
the top bands in here sticks. I just heard them on the King Biscuit
32:15
Flower Hour. Now here are some of your no name bands. Sonic Youth,
32:22
nine Inch Nails. Hallabalooza Hollabaloosa is a music festival, the greatest music
32:28
festival of all time. There can only be one truly great music festival a
32:31
lifetime, and it's the US Festival, the What Festival, the Art Festival.
32:37
Geez It was sponsored by that guy from Apple Computers. What Computers.
32:44
This is a data joke. A joke that doesn't make sense now sponsored by
32:46
what computers. It's like Apple runs the world now, but there was a
32:52
time where it didn't. Eh, it's crazy to think that Apple in ninety
32:55
six was seen as like the dying Oh absolutely, the old fashion one.
33:00
Yeah, one thing I really liked as well. I mean I talked about
33:01
how this is sort of very representative Generation X, but that whole kind of
33:06
voice yeah, and passionizing, smart ass tone. Yeah, and I'm just
33:10
talking to you, you know. It was like, oh, but as
33:14
a generation exer, I'm like, my boy never talk like that, And
33:16
now thinking that's how Zoomer's talk. Yes, it's like, oh no,
33:20
every young every young generation sort of goes, don't you go get it all
33:23
man, and has the flashback here that this is arguably the most relatable moment
33:29
in the history of the Simpsons. I think with that, it'll happen to
33:30
you. Oh, you'll make me feel like dancing. I want to dance
33:36
a mat of way. What the hell are you two doing? That's cold
33:38
rocking out. You wouldn't understand dead You're not with it. I used to
33:44
be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm
33:47
with, isn't it? And what's it? Seems weird and scary to me.
33:52
It'll happen to you. Everyone will experience this in their life, and
33:57
I just don't think it can be sort of summed up in words anymore.
34:00
Then what happens in this moment? Yeah, I think I might have been
34:02
mixing up this and Buzz Colder as well, because there is this. Is
34:06
there a similar thing with buzz Coler No, I don't know about buzz coll
34:08
Oh. Grandpa tries to be Yeah, he tries to be with it and
34:13
he's like, uh, he tries to like I'm cool and he's running a
34:17
bike and he falls off. Maybe he also drinks buzz. The bubbles are
34:21
killing. This is a different This is completely level, but just let us
34:24
break it down. I used to be with it, but then they change
34:27
what it was like that that then they changed what it was. Now what
34:30
I'm with, isn't it? And what it is? Weird and scary?
34:32
To me? It's like that is just life. You can't say anything just
34:37
changing what it was. Whoever wrote that one line is a genius. I
34:42
absolutely love that. But of course, you know, being young and dumb,
34:45
we're gonna rock on Forever. I also appreciated the fact that they're singing
34:49
Leo Sayer, but we also get the I think actually we have skipped ahead
34:57
a bit first, be before that they'll be a second basement Bill. What
35:00
I really appreciated the most about this was the animation of the strobe blinding being
35:04
used to full effect here, of him getting closer and closer and then nope,
35:08
just coming to further, further and further back to the start again.
35:12
Beautiful animation. Yeah, it's great when Yeah, there used to be sort
35:15
of terrific visual gags like this as well. Yeah, so so great.
35:20
So now this is what we get that it'll happen to you, And we
35:22
get the transition to him looking in the mirror saying forever forever. Now he's
35:25
fat, bold, and feeling like he's he's out of touch, he tells
35:29
Marjor he feels old and march so much. Music store has always been crazy
35:32
to me. Music's none of my business. I feel like I was kind
35:37
of in this moment recently where it's like I'm sending to get out of this
35:40
rut. I felt like just doing the same shit over and over again.
35:44
Wake Up, here's the school do the same shows. That's why we're starting
35:46
the pilot podcast something fresh, shaking it up a bit, and he needs
35:50
to get out of this rut. So Marge says, you need to include
35:52
button Lisa, if you do this please, So then we cut to the
35:54
next day and he's driving to pick up the kids, but you straight past
35:58
millhouse. My Mom'll got me the other end. You know what's great about
36:02
that is that they didn't have to set it up previously. It's just you
36:06
can imagine what the conversation will you smell? And they find the tickets in
36:13
the glove box easy authenticator spots and Home is very, very excited, and
36:16
they're kind of like, okay, well we're gonna go to Lolla Losers.
36:20
So is it yes, because it's got Homo Pollo. It's actually Lola's Hulla
36:28
Balooes. It's so confusi. But they're on their way to Capital City,
36:30
which is thirty miles away. So they arrived though. You get a free
36:34
nose piercing with every admission, and it's like Woodstock with advertisements everywhere and tons
36:38
of security guards and they throw out Mackey throw at everything, which apparently was
36:42
something that one of the writers experience when you went the threat to throw at
36:45
his homemade make allure, but yeah, throw it at the cameras, any
36:49
forms of ID throw them in the bin, please Generation X. They may
36:52
be show, but at least that tolerant and respect all people. And we
36:55
get the freak Show, and we introduced to Cypress Hill and they're about to
37:00
sing this one of those songs, but there's a lost child within an hour
37:02
and become a property of Blockbuster Entertainment. Blockbuster yeah, gone, yeah,
37:07
yeah, that was that what they were referring to, was that Blockbuster Entertainment.
37:10
Yes, but then smells he smells something his jacket. There was another
37:16
gag they used on The Simpsons. I believe that smells like the teacher's room.
37:19
Is that? Yeah, similar kind of vibe hom and then buys his
37:22
restafarian hat. Did karma karma karma? Oh? I get it. The
37:30
way that guy says karma always annoyed me. I'm like, I know what
37:34
it is is karma karma And I'm like, funk off, you didn't do
37:38
anything. I'm already paying these. You get to a festival, prices are
37:43
already through the ring. Oh they get it. Tips at a festival,
37:45
completely extortionate. Yeah, so kids say you can't wear that, but he's
37:49
too cool for this planet. Badge a strut, which was from what we're
37:52
saying, fabulous fairy Freak Brothers. I don't think is an our Crumb cartoon.
37:55
Was that a take off of when they did the Itching Scrutchy cartoon for
37:58
adults? Was that what that was? Yeah, a similar vibe with him
38:00
walking I'm cool baby. Yeah, well I don't have Chrumin's responsible. Oh
38:06
no, that's rough. Back in Fritz the Cat, which the cat was
38:08
what it was? Yeah, Like the tagline says it's X rated and animated,
38:15
let the kids watch it. What was the X rated Muppets? Was
38:19
it the Mupets or something that feebles feebles Peter Jackson, Yeah, I'm hiring
38:23
it as a kid, going, oh my, your video store clerk was
38:30
derelict in his duty that day. Yes, he was a good dude.
38:35
You high species. The video store guy, Chris absolute legend because whenever I
38:40
would hire a movie that I knew Mum wouldn't let me. I put it
38:44
in the middle of the pile and you see Chris looking at you and go,
38:46
look at me. Put it through and I'm like, what a what
38:50
a lord? He knew all I was supposed to be watching this, but
38:52
He's like, fucking go for it. This is what Generation X for all
38:55
Man. You could make a make a decent living being a goddamn video They
39:00
were the coolest people in the world to me. People that for me as
39:02
a kid was the dream. It was on a video store and a books
39:07
on a record store, yeah, a rental store. Just felt like you
39:10
were the coolest person in the world to me because you knew all about the
39:14
movies. You just legends. You know you didn't. You wouldn't necessarily had
39:20
to make a huge living. But I can make my rent and you know
39:23
you bag at the end of the week. I'm happy. And I would
39:25
go there and I would hang out like an hour. You didn't tell me
39:28
to leave. You just you'd make small small talk with me. Yeah,
39:30
and you know you could get your own term. Just reading the back of
39:34
the covers, Oh my god, what a time. Look at this cover
39:37
for Kreeberzoids. I really want to go check out video Land that displayed yesterday
39:43
was up in Melbourne where if you haven't if you live in near Melbourne,
39:45
in Australia check out video Land. So basically the guy for an exhibition has
39:52
the theme is joy and he says the most joyous thing for him was video
39:55
stores and the feeling of being in a video store, and his got like
40:00
hundreds. It looks like a video stores video land. It's a custom car
40:02
park, carpet. Sorry, posters on the wall, box old sr T
40:08
TVs. The old boxing, whatever it is with with commercials playing, it's
40:13
just I want to go there, I want to go. What do you
40:15
What would you say is the smell of a video store? What's the one?
40:17
What's the smell for you? How would you define the smell? Because
40:22
you can smell it when you think of a videos, so you can smell
40:23
it, But how would you describe the smell of a video It's kind of
40:25
it's kind of neutral with a slight well I mean plastic, yeah, covers,
40:31
slightly disinfectant. Yeah, the tapes. Yeah, it's an inter requestion
40:38
because I think if you're talking about to say, like a video easy or
40:42
a Blockbuster. Yeah, it's a little more clinical and a little more corporate.
40:46
But yeah, indie ones are a bit so as like a wardrobe.
40:50
Yeah, it's a little a little musty, yeah, maybe a sort of
40:52
a slight tinger of cigarette smoke because someone's gone out back for a dark couple
40:57
of faded posters on the wall. Correct, what a time? What?
41:04
But yes, So they're at there at the festival and Home is now being
41:07
called a narc hate crime, hate crime, and he gets tossed out.
41:09
Then it's a Smashing Pumpkins playing your song that you love playing zero, and
41:15
the teens are dancing in their zombie dance that they're enjoying themselves, maybe ablee,
41:19
but they're really getting to the crowd home that doesn't understand. Why am
41:22
I cool? I don't understand. Maybe I just am He's lost, now
41:24
kicks the balloon gun pick Peter Friendom's pig comes out, boom, hits him
41:28
in the guts and I was just him of the guts. Now it does.
41:31
They were hitting the guts and he's okay if I'm like, oh my
41:32
god, I can't believe it. And then the guy with the pageant of
41:35
the transmandine the fiction probably not a shout out or an unexpected connection, but
41:43
I don't go. Oh, it's a bit sort of mored Flanders vibes,
41:47
which oh yeah, that came after this of course. Yeah, yeah,
41:50
yep, But so he wants having to be that I want you to be
41:53
that fatso and he wants him to get shot with the cannon. Marge is
41:57
not impressed at all. So I don't think I always this here again.
42:02
So you want to go on tour with a traveling freak show. I don't
42:07
think I have a choice, March. Of course I'll have a choice.
42:09
How do you figure you don't have to join a freak show just because the
42:13
opportunity came along, you know, our March. In some ways you and
42:16
I are very different people. I don't remember this scene, but it was
42:21
just so funny. It says like I don't have of course you do.
42:23
In some way, you and I, it's very different people love that.
42:27
Yeah when you that strikes me as like the best possible version of like a
42:30
Homer and Marge's not disagreement, not fighting. Yeah, or there weree times
42:36
when home is kind of like I've got to do this, yeah, actively
42:38
sort of loathing towards March though, when she's when when they're not on the
42:42
same page, Yeah, and this like sometimes we just very feel like we're
42:45
very different people. I like it when he's sort of snooty or he feels
42:52
like he's got the upper hand in the way. It's also a good way
42:53
of just justifying why he's going to do this as well, I've got to
42:57
do it, and it's true. Ninety six get invited to go on is
43:01
traveling Lola Blues and Festival? You're doing it? Oh god? Yeah.
43:05
So now we're at the at Raleigh Durham. I believe it's pronounced sure at
43:09
Rally Rally Rally Durham. Yeah, at a new event for Lola Bloeser.
43:15
It's a Holod Blueser. Sorry, homers into it, but you know,
43:17
he's very, very nervous. Is everybody good? And he gets shot and
43:22
we get the famous slow mo of the cannon hitting the man. Yeah.
43:25
Now this is a bit of a pop culture I think the name of the
43:29
actual guy Frank Marshall. Let's look it up. There will be references on
43:34
the cutter references. So yeah, Frank cannon Ball, Richard's Richards. Yes.
43:37
Now, I was wondering where i'd seen that picture, and of course
43:40
it's been around river, but it was I think the main reason I remember
43:44
it. It was on the cover of Van Halen three. Oh okay was
43:47
it really yeah? Released in nineteen ninety eight. Rightly, by the way,
43:50
Dazing Confused was the van and the opening album version of Prince's song nine
43:54
Times in nine was where They're talking shoes is based on Okay, yeah,
43:58
so yeah, so he's been shot with the cannon everyone thinks. Everyone's a
44:00
huge fan of it. I don't know if I could wash this, could
44:01
you wash this the guy getting shot with the cannon ball, I'll be like,
44:05
I don't know, I'm like, ugh, this has thezars are written
44:07
all over it does certainly, and the fact that they've gone from the inflatable
44:12
pig to an actual cannonball, I don't know. But then, like I
44:15
said, I we went we went crazy for the gym Rows circus and that
44:19
was just, you know, some pretty gross stuff. Yeah, okay,
44:22
Well he signs the cannon ball for the kid. He's famous. Now does
44:24
they stay in school or something something like that. But Billy Corgan now introduced
44:28
him smiff and we get the iconic smiling politely. Yeah. I got to
44:31
think you're gloomy music stop my kids from jimming or a future they can't possibly
44:36
provide see now this, that's that's great. That feels as fresh as tomorrow.
44:39
It really does, doesn't it. I think things just keep getting more
44:45
and more expensive. Well, our wages go up, but shit always feels
44:47
like it's just getting more and more expensive, doesn't it. Absolutely, But
44:50
for him to say this in ninety six, yeah, oh wait a minute,
44:53
it's still relevant in twenty four yep. But then reads the letter from
44:58
home A home is telling detailing his his his trip away, and they're driving
45:00
on the bus. They go to Cleveland, Cincinnati, turn around and don't
45:04
go to either of them. Sometimes you get a message cross as well.
45:07
He's got no litter written on his stomach. Then he's tacking in to the
45:09
spirit of the self destruction, which is the rock and roll lifestyle. And
45:14
Astragon behind the bus with Fryan Pansy frying pans for skis. Oh, here
45:17
comes that cannon ball guy. He's cool, you mean, sarcastic, dude,
45:23
I don't even know anymore. That's a pretty good way of summing up
45:27
this generation pretty much. I think. I don't think you know anymore.
45:30
I think, yeah, even back in ninety six, when being a generation
45:34
extra, I was like, yeah, they got out number is they don't
45:36
trust anyone over thirty or twenty. It's not trusting anyone over thirty, which
45:39
was very much as hippies. And then Peter Frampton, Now what was with
45:44
the I know they explained the commentary. I forgot to watch it. With
45:45
the commentary, he does the weird dance as he gets he strums the catan
45:49
does like the yeah, I don't know, it's a weird thing. Yeah,
45:52
I know there is a thing. Nan I would have discussed it when
45:53
I did the review years ago, but anyway, tuned into that one may
45:57
yeah, smashing pumpkins. Then about Springfield, like what's it like? And
46:01
you know they all mentioned how that they were all freaks as well. You
46:05
know, she's part of the Audio Visual Club. And Home was like I
46:07
got kicked out because my political leads and I'm slim projectives home and drix the
46:12
beer though, and his stomach starts making weird sounds and they're not, like,
46:15
that's not right. So I'm gonna look after You're gonna send you to
46:17
a vet. Then the vet basically says, you know, if you keep
46:22
doing this, you're going to die, and Home's like not not have any
46:24
man by the way got any messages for Jimy Hendrix up your dog Hendrix.
46:29
So Bart is now asking questions to Homer. Homan doesn't really know why he
46:32
could comes back home new because they've done in the Springfield shown next, and
46:36
turns out for a report the person I admired the most. It was a
46:38
very sweet moment, was like, but then he eats the pie and he's
46:42
getting the stomach sounds as well. It's almost like, Okay, I'm now
46:45
the person that my son admires the most. So Cash twenty two. He
46:47
loves me because I'm doing this, but also I want to be around for
46:51
him if I do this, It's like, what do I do? What's
46:52
the best decision here? At what cost? Yeah, And he makes the
46:55
right decision in the end, obviously be rare for his family. But they
46:58
all arrive at the fairgrounds. Homer is now the pride of Springfield. He's
47:00
got the billboard there. Marge is really excited. Last time she was backstage
47:05
went but with his pants at the Christmas play and be real Cypress Hill.
47:08
This is where we get the iconic London Symphony Orchestra. This episode had a
47:13
lot of iconic moments. Yeah, it's so so great. But yeah,
47:16
possibly while high Cypress Hill, look in your direction and as you were saying
47:21
earlier, the whole let's go for it. What not? Hey man,
47:27
we order an orchestra? What's up with this orchestra? Where'd orchestra come from?
47:30
I don't know, man, I didn't tell me about this. Man
47:34
do something? Oh yeah, yeah, we think we did. Uh do
47:37
you know what's saying in the brain? We mostly no classical, but we
47:43
could give it a shot. Marges. Now, this, I like,
47:59
is the perfect way to some up that that music. I think I just
48:00
thought it was sounded so it was like you never picked these two things to
48:04
blend together like that. But they there's magic Peter Frampton know he's playing his
48:09
songs and oh man, that guy's guitar is talking, and my shoes are
48:13
talking too, And I don't like the apparently the video clip for ninty nine
48:15
or something. I don't know. Yeah, I've been I don't to consider
48:19
themself a bit of a Prince fan, but I'm not sure I remember that.
48:21
I mean from I don't know if it's from the song so much as
48:22
the album nineteen ninety nine. It says here so when was it? When
48:25
was the album? So it says here Otto's drug induice hallucination of his Talking
48:30
Shoes is based on the opening of the album version of Prince's song nineteen ninety
48:35
nine, Oh I think that. Yeah, it doesn't sound with don't worry
48:39
everything is oh that bit? Yes, yeah, okay, it's a bit
48:44
of a long bird. I really I wouldn't have made that connection if I
48:45
hadn't really got Wikipedia, which never lies. Of course not. But this
48:51
is where the pet doesn't work, because it's just I was fucked it up.
48:57
But before that we actually get Burns mentioned that he's bought Ticketmaster surcharges again
49:00
relevant of course we discussed recently. It's like, what is with these surcharges?
49:06
That the processing fee? And I'm like, but I'm not dealing with
49:09
the human here. Why am I paying a processing fee? Yeah, isn't
49:14
technology meant to make it? You've you've built your website, you've paid it
49:17
off, it's been the same website for a decade plus. Now you're not
49:21
paying anything else to make the infrastructure any better. Why am I paying a
49:23
processing fee? Going on a booking fee? What if I want to if
49:28
I want to book online, I've got to pay a nextra ten percent or
49:30
something. But if I go to the cinema, speak to a human being,
49:32
no booking fee, just whatever. And I had some for the cinema.
49:37
Tell me was because you get the book where your seats are? And
49:38
I'm like, no, no, no no, because I went there and
49:43
she said, she turned the screen and said which seats would you like?
49:45
And I'm like, so I can actually book my seats here as well?
49:47
What the hell is the booking fee for? By the way, you will
49:51
not see it, but Dano did a very nice fingerwag need you style.
49:57
But this is where Peter Frampton's had his It doesn't work. The cyper Seals
50:00
stole his orchestra. I'm like, that's a great little buttons out game.
50:04
And then so rating is cooler. You' don't gonna need all that watermelon.
50:08
Mister franp I they call him. Mister Frampton is the old guy on campus.
50:13
But it's our time for Homer, the man who embodies everything about rock
50:15
and roll except the music. And Milu what Homer says? Okay, Homer,
50:20
don't feel the reaper. Maybe I doe remember I know, Milhouse says,
50:22
I used to a couple of that guy Marge is really worried though kind
50:25
of cannon the design to hurt, design to hurt. It reminds me very
50:30
similar vibe to when he's in the boxing ring. Uh what does she yell
50:35
at? Though? Because I know Homer says you gotta fight back. I
50:37
was like that bull cactus is right, is right. But the family they're
50:42
putting on the brave face for Homer, I don't let's not see him,
50:44
let's not let him see us worry, but says you're the coolest that alive.
50:47
Everyone's incredibly nervous or ale watching and Homer jumps out of the way,
50:51
which was the right decision. Then this is where he says that I thought
50:53
I didn't have enough of destruction. All I wanted was the club Sandwich sonic
50:59
youth. Then say your hold, loser, it's not about the freaks,
51:00
It's about the music, the advertising, youth orientated product placing placement, and
51:05
get nicely toasted the manager that the manager that expects Home's letter of resignation to
51:12
end his office at the end of the day, which is the hood of
51:14
his car. Homer then says, you know, I can't I'm sorry,
51:16
Billy, I just can't set share your bleak world view. I've got too
51:22
much to live for. But Billy say, I'm just gonna have to settle
51:25
for. What is it my legions of fans, millions of dollars, and
51:30
and my youth. Ye yes, let's go, fir coat, I want
51:32
to walk in humid off. Apparently Billy Corgan did like really good impersonations of
51:37
Homer and marg Julie. Okay, said Wrestling Company, I know the n
51:40
w WA. It's so bizarre. And the family are now driving home and
51:46
well, I guess being a family is more important than being cool, and
51:50
they're just trying to say it was a hip to be square, that they're
51:52
being uncool, and the family, the kids are trying to explain, you're
51:55
not cool, and it's not okay. Me not caring that I'm not cool
51:59
makes me cool? Right? No? What does make me cool? Maybe
52:01
if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told that you're cool.
52:05
Of course you do. How is it? You know? It's like that
52:07
conversation to me is a lot of the epitome of no one actually knows what
52:10
cool is? The eternal quandary, Yes, like, how do you be
52:14
called nobody knows you just some people are call some people aren't. But also,
52:16
you can't call yourself cool, no, No, being cool is like
52:21
being tough or being a lady. If you need to say you're you're not.
52:23
If you need to say you're the best, you're probably not. Well
52:27
the quote was it Ti in Taiwan Lanister, He's like, any man who
52:31
has to call himself king is no true king. Yes, So then we
52:36
get the closing credit, So I'm like Dando, who's just the king doing
52:38
their zombie dance sort of just deep. Yeah, is really getting to them,
52:42
but they're not really doing anything different. And that's just the end of
52:45
Homer Palooza, an episode that I knew was iconic but forgot to how many
52:49
iconic moments we're in it. It's just so fun iconic and just playing fun,
52:52
playing and playing funny. Yeah, would you say it was funnier or
52:57
just fun? What did you like it was pretty funny? Didn't? Yeah?
53:00
I think yeah, But I think for people at have various stages of
53:06
I don't know, societal development and the various demographics that we're in, which
53:10
I think the lot of the writers are probably going through at that point in
53:13
time as well. Yeah, it's a good time capsule. Yeah, it
53:16
doesn't feel dated, but it doesn't feel dated because you know everything old is
53:20
new again and you know, some things just remain. It's forever. It's
53:22
the story of the forever theme of just being out of touch. Yeah.
53:24
But yeah, the Quota band that is eternally cool. The song remains the
53:29
same. I think, yeah, A say that, do they sometimes?
53:34
But I think this episode I've never appreciated it more. I think I've always
53:38
liked this episode, but now that I've truly entered that phase of what Home
53:42
is going through, I think that's how you really truly appreciate this episode and
53:45
enjoy it for what it is. You used to enjoy it, now you're
53:47
living now I'll live it and I love it. Yeah. I just thought
53:50
this episode was fantastic. So that has been our classic review for this monthe
53:53
you guys enjoyed it. Homer Blueser come back with another classic review next month
53:57
as well. Also got some season nineteen reviews and some upcoming guest stars as
54:00
well, which is pretty exciting. Don't forget guys, if you haven't yet
54:02
checked it out, We've just launched a brand new podcast available every single Friday.
54:07
It is called TV Launch pat you blew it, you had one light
54:13
and you blew it, It's called TV Launch TV Launch pots So basically go
54:20
back and we review the pilot episodes of particular TV shows and it's gonna be
54:23
a lot of fun. And the first episode we recorded this week we recorded
54:27
today actually as we recorded this one, it is Bob's Burger's, a show
54:30
is very near and dear to our hearts, and as we still say,
54:34
we will launch it Bobs Burger's Podcast if we get enough supporters on Patreon so
54:37
you can do it so for as little as just one single dollar per month,
54:39
and yeah, we'll kick off the Bobsburgers podcast. But it's just fun
54:43
to go back and movies at the pilot, wasn't it. We had an
54:44
absolute blast doing so. Yeah, and some upcoming shows are gonna be doing
54:47
this month. We want to keep it a surprise, but let's tease one
54:50
more. We're gonna be Buffy the vampires Layer. We are indeed, yes,
54:52
that's gonna be not coming on as well, but every single week it's
54:54
gonna be doing no animation sitcoms dramas, dramas. You just you don't know
54:59
what's gonna be coming. It's gonna be a variety of pilot episodes are gonna
55:01
be a lot of fun because we just thought we do side fellow shows on
55:05
Patreon, but you're King of the Hill. It's the same show I've and
55:07
over and it's good, great shows, but we want to switch up a
55:09
bit, just a bit of variety. Yeah, because I'm a swifty let's
55:12
shake it up a little bit. Yeah. And again, it's gonna be
55:14
some shows we watched the pilot of that we've never actually seen the show.
55:16
I think I feel like those pilot reviews will be genuinely the best ones because
55:20
we don't know what's coming. They will be completely uninformed and thoroughly entertained.
55:24
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