Okay, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to your podcast that you listen to. It's called Musical explaining and you're here with your friends who you've never met but

we talk and we're inside of your earholes all the time and you love us and it's very

intimate now this is just a creepy intro but anyway

Lindsay we're just dudes hanging out we're just we're all just some dudes

hanging out you know it's it's it's it's getting to my brain anyway I'm

Kavitt Taharian I'm one of the hosts, I'm 50% of it. That's Lindsay Ellis, she's the, I'm sorry, I'll let you talk, I don't want to talk over. I don't want to explain over you. No, that's, yeah, I guess that's my job. I'm the

Spainer.

How are you doing?

How are you doing? How are you doing, Lens?

I'm doing all right. I'm having a big Green Day stand moment in my life that I didn't anticipate, but here we are.

Yeah, it's kind of interesting. You and I talked last week and you said you had found this recording of a Green Day musical which I guess is a thing

You might say I found Jesus of suburbia and you told me that and I said, yeah, let's do it. Let's talk about Green Day. That would be exciting because I know Green Day. So I already know the songs so I can focus on the story, which I'm sure is going to be extremely sophisticated. It's going to be like really like nuanced.

It's going to be like war and peace.

It's going to like cover like decades.

It's going to like go through several governmental changes.

A lot of nuanced characters dozens. governmental changes. It's going to be intense.

A lot of nuanced characters, dozens.

A cast of thousands, they say.

But yes, today we are covering the Green Day musical, American Idiot. Ma, I really, I relate to that title very much, especially these days.

What's your relationship to Green Day prior to the musical?

Well, I would say, I'm having very mixed feelings about like even looking at this because I'm honestly probably dreading it a little bit because I listen to a little bit of it and there's just something about hearing Green Day songs coming out of like

Classically trained Broadway performer mouths I was actually thinking about that too or I was like how much are they

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