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Ahoihoi, everybody and welcome to Talking Simpsons, the podcast that provides a comforting snugness.

I'm your host, the podcast spokesjack Bob Mackie, and this is our chronological exploration of

the Simpsons who is here with me today, as always. The always-redorculated Henry Gilbert,

and who do we have on the line? I'm Eric Peacock, you know me on Twitter as Ube Bollocks,

if you follow me on there. And this week's episode is The Blunder Years.

This week's episode originally aired on December 9th, 2001, and as always,

Henry will tell us what happened on this mythical day in real-world history.

Oh boy, Bobby. Oceans 11 is first at the box office, surviving Nirvana members,

Chris Novicellik, and Dave Grohl, Sue Courtney Love, and Creed's weathered top to the album charts.

That's the one with my sacrifice, so that's the number one album, perfect for post-9-11.

Yeah, we're two months out from such a dire time for music. It was such a dire time for music.

Yeah, you didn't buy that weathered album yourself, Eric, or did you?

Okay, I will make a small admission, and so around where I'm from, we had one cool radio station,

and it was 89X, which is it's a country station now, which is what all of these stations

have seemed to have done, but you know, they played a lot of that new metal stuff, and so like 19,

or whatever at the time. Yeah, I was really, really into some of that stuff, and like my own prison

album, like I remember thinking, this is pretty cool, but by the time weathered came out, it was like,

and yeah, I remember being sad at the time of the hearing of the Nirvana members were

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