'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' by Green Day (w/ Joanna Hausmann)

Punch Up The Jam

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Music, Comedy, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt like you were the only lonely person walking down a boulevard? Well we've got news for you. You're not alone. 90% of all humans have felt like they're the only one who can understand themselves before their brain finishes developing at age 25. Evan, Andrew, and Joanna Hausmann dive in to what makes Green Day the perfect band for the adolescent mind, why Boulevard of Broken Dreams is the musical equivalent of dogs playing poker, and if Green Day have sold out or not.

Guest: Joanna Hausmann

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0:00.0	This is a headgema region.
0:06.0	Yeah, my feeling is about Green Day.
0:09.0	I don't know, we've done like a whole show's worth of small talk leading up to this point.
0:14.0	We've just spent the last 45 minutes setting up what we're talking about.
0:17.0	Peeing your pants.
0:21.0	Learning about yourself on Facebook.
0:24.0	Too many things to recount and I need to really switch modes here.
0:28.0	I got to get my head in the game and start thinking about what are my feelings about Green Day.
0:32.0	I have a strong sense memory of seeing rocks and heirs where Green Day shirt to middle school
0:40.0	and knowing that like this band is really happening.
0:42.0	They're extremely cool.
0:43.0	All of my friends are into Green Day and I really wasn't though.
0:48.0	They didn't hit for you?
0:49.0	The first single basket case.
0:52.0	Do you have that time?
0:54.0	Am I just paranoid? Am I just don't?
0:58.0	Did not hit for me. It just was too annoying.
1:00.0	The guy literally whining and then singing about how he's whining.
1:04.0	I can't take the whining.
1:06.0	They are successfully making punk more pop and it's grating to me.
1:10.0	I've resented Green Day for a while.
1:12.0	This is not for me.
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