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A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.

Well by my math I think I listened to maybe 16 hours of Green Day leading up to this

taping. And I don't know if you guys had the same reaction, Daou, Tyler, Amin, and Stephen

Thompson, but it felt pretty good to me. I mean, 16 hours of any

band. That's a fair bit of time. It is, but I don't know. I could see it feeling really

punishing and for some reason they rarely did anything

that was just flat out embarrassing they came close there were some weird swings well we'll talk more about this, but big time for Green Day.

They just dropped a new album called Saviors.

It is coming at the same time as the 30th anniversary of Dookie

and the 20th anniversary of American Idiot, this confluence of

event.

So it felt like the right time to look back at the legacy of Green Day and talk about why we still

love this band so much.

But let's start by going back to 1994 when Dookie, that album, was released.

I'll sit around and watch the tube, but nothing's on.

I change the channels for it now or two.

Tweet all my drums just for a bit.

I'm sick of all the same old shit.

In the house with unlocked doors and up the get laid.

Fight my lip and close my eyes.

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