Booyah 90s Now

BRL. This British guy Thomas requested Doctor Who, so here we are. We're talking about how thinking about their racism makes people even more racist, that Shawn Mendes songs about being in stitches, and how Sylvester Stallone keeps cranking out the sequels so he can own more tigers or whatever. 

Rob's pretty pleased and Joe's just fine with this episode of Doctor Who starring Peter Capaldi as the puzzle-solving Time Lord. 

Hey! You better hit that play button! Because if you do, you'll get to hear us wax eloquent about Taylor Dayne, Tig Notaro, sexual weightlifting, muscular puppets, buxom representations of April O'Neil, Fraggle Rock, Phil Collins, NFL Films, cult leaders, and a talking rat. Plus, Robert gets mad about how his home state of Texas is always represented by real scum bags, and Joe posits that TMNT is a stoner's fever dream. Grab some nunchucks and pizza, dudes and dudettes! Let's talk turtles! Cowabunga! Roundhouse kick! Tubular! Righteous! Yeah! 

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Booyah is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look. 

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Rundown

(:30) puppet talk, but don’t even talk to me about Fragile Rock; (1:45) the many, many incarnations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, some of which are not so good; (3:25) Rob takes his kid to see that first Michael Bay-produced dud at a cool little small town theater; (5:45) Rob’s history with Ninja Turtles, including action figures, with a quick discussion of how Raph is the best; (7:30) March 1990 pop culture after some talk of how TMNT seems like some real stoner stuff and how Eastman and Laird were trying to satirize comics; (10:10) Rob thinks Opportunity Knocks is Carrier Opportunities and (11:03) thinks Courtney Thorne-Smith was the one in that Harley Jane Kozak scene from Side Out; (12:08) the Billboard number 1 makes Rob sing, unfortunately; (12:50) these guys don’t know what a ballad is, but (13:22) Genuwine’s “Pony” sure is a sexy ballad for pumping iron; (14:40) dang, the number 2 song made him sing, too, and then (14:50) they talk about how Tig Nataro is funny; (16:42) some Phil Collins talk involving more NFL players than you might expect; (17:45) thank goodness it’s Friday TV, as always; (18:25) old Johnny Apple dissects the state of government funding and people hating taxes; (21:07) Texas is all up in a governor's race where one candidate says terrible stuff & the other candidate is Ann Richards; (25:42) Rob gets a little worked up about how his old home state embarrasses itself with its moronic politics, and the boys get up on their high horses about immigration and mock certain folks; (27:52) Sunday afternoons were for roundhouse kicks and feeling good before going back to the elementary school grind because (29:40) having constraints sure helps you thrive; (32:29) GAME TIME! this movie has a distinct look and some 1990 action movie music & the factually inaccurate closing credits Ninja Turtles rap; (34:27) April O’Neil is poppin!; (36:12) more puppet talk; (37:15) Judith Hoag’s feelings about the movie; (37:51) shadows everywhere!; (38:45) that first fight scene; (39:10) the Turtles revealed in the sewer; (39:46) an overview of the movie’s pros and cons; (41:40) some talk about the sequel, including those sausage nunchucks; (41:28) Joe might be saying “numchucks,” wonderfully, and Rob attempted a home invasion with Trader’s Village foam-covered plastic nunchucks; (44:33) Rob was a tempermental little fella and his Dad wasn’t tryin to deal with too much of that; (45:42) parents are legends; (46:23) Felix just has to make fun of his old man’s fondness for meditation, which is treated here in the Ninja Turtles movie like some kind of magic; (48:26) shortest halftime ever; (48:39) the opening scene of teenagers stealin stuff; (51:30) Shredder’s a cult leader, just like a certain Baptist pastor; (52:54) Shredder’s cool except not entirely; (54:38) the claymation-lookin origin story flashback weirdness; (56:30) the voice cast, which includes Corey Feldman and former Brady Bunch cutie Robbie Rist and whatever Josh Pais is up to with Raph; (58:44) why Donatello was — brace yourself — Joe’s favorite; (1:00:28) the farmhouse comes out of nowhere to slow things way down while Casey Jones badgers April into somehow liking him for no reason, then everybody gets geared up and pumped and ready to...snooze; (1:03:47) so how is it that April’s drawing tips Shredder off?; (1:04:36) time to climax with yet another confused memory; (1:06:16) you know, them turtles probably stink, like even for turtles; (1:07:23) pizza is the greatest; (1:07:54) the pizza delivery scene & Dominos vs. Pizza Hut for TMNT tie-in supremacy; odds & ends like (1:09:00) Raph’s Cagney, (1:09:45) classic 90s crappy jokes, and (1:10:23) weird British anti-ninja shenanigans; (1:11:30) some thoughts on the franchise and, finally, (1:14:47) we get grumpy about CGI. Cowabungus, Everyone!

In today's show, we talk about psychopathic murderers, both fictional and real. Our conversational hit list includes (but is not limited to) Hannibal Lecter, Buffalo Bill, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and George W. Bush. We also talk about Jodi Foster's marble-mouthed West Virginia accent and Anthony Hopkins' ability to win us over even when he's laying it on extra thick. What else? There's a discussion about how tourism is nothing to get all arrogant about and how the good old CIA were homophobic af back in the 90s. Has that changed? I sure hope so. Listen, you've had enough of this episode description and so have I. Why don't you grab yourself gigantic bowl of fava beans and a blood red glass of chianti and have a nice giggle to this booyah right here. It's a good one, mofo. 

Touch base here to suggest a show or tell a story about your life in the 90s.

Booyah is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look. 

Thanks for listening. Take care.

Rundown

(:30) Joe and Rob don’t know about fancy people food like caviar and chianti, plus Rob probably would pee his pants on purpose in kindergarten because that’s how he is; (3:12) remember when W was all we had to worry about & that was plenty but now people romanticize him; (4:55) politics is the worst and it’s stupid and soulless; (5:39) Silence of the Lambs and how it was a hit and won awards; (6:15) the news of February 1991 — Schwarzkopf and the moon; (8:16) Joe and Rob haven’t travelled much and people judge them some times, but that’s a bunch of garbage; (14:05) Joe pops a cough drop in his mouth while he’s on mic recording an audio program; (14:20) Jim Bakker’s big old sentence for fraud or whatever is overturned; (15:25) government agencies are so bigoted that they get anti-bigotry measures dropped by UVA; (17:03) pop culture of February 1991 — C+C Music Factory, Whitney — stop everything: Vanilla Ice is handsome and his movie is awesome; (22:10) some movies from back then, including NeverEnding Story II and Sleeping with the Enemy, which becomes a joyful celebration of Jennifer Lopez’s Enough because we have a divine animal right to love that movie; (27:14) Dahmer’s doing Dahmer things & My Friend Dahmer was pretty good; (27:57) we’re all interested in serial killers because they’re scary and get away with it for a while and Rob thinks at least one of them was a genius, apparently; (33:39) serial killers just hanging around not killing serially but probably eyeing cashiers; (38:29) GAME TIME: synopsis; (39:31) key scenes — Clarice & Lecter meet cute; Rob calling Manhunter Mind Hunter; Joe finds out that Buffalo Bill is a Silence of the Lambs thing; (45:07) halftime; (47:02) Rob calling Ted Levine Ted Devine for goodness sake; (47:58) that awesome tracking shot through Buffalo Bill’s basement lair; (50:41) that amazing last scene with the nightvision, with Rob not knowing Brooke Smith’s name; (54:04) Buffalo Bill and the mystery of Q Lazarus; (56:32) quick bit about the mystery of Bambi Woods; (58:16) Lecter’s escape from that weird glass cage thing — what?; (59:14) how the editing of Silence of the Lambs helps make the movie so much fun; (1:02:22) Rob thought the sequel sucked; (1:03:14) what would a conversation about Silence of the Lambs be without some Joe Dirt talk?

Back in 1993, Jalen Rose was skinny, Chris Webber was thinking too hard, and Juwan Howard already looked like somebody's dad. In this episode of Booyah, we contemplate the Fab 5 and their star player's very famous mental mistake. We also talk about Dolph Lundgren's sexy bod and whether or not college athletes should get paid (spoiler alert: they should). Plus, Leslie Visor and Isaiah Thomas somehow end up driving the Goodyear Blimp through the stadium parking lot. Listen now. This is a good one. 

Recorded: May 2018

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Booyah Request Live. A listener named Adam said we should watch Cartoon Network's Space Ghost Coast to Coast. We did that and then talked about it in our inaugural episode of Booyah Requests Live (BRL). Remember Carrot Top? He's in here. So is a conversation about how cool it is that humans have invented fastening ways to die horribly. There's also an alien praying mantis hanging out with a Boba Fett's loser cousin. Oh, I almost forgot: Susan Powter rears her spikey head and encourages us to stop the insanity. 

Once upon a 1990-something, teenage Rob went on vacation with his family and fell in love with a girl. On The Wonder Years, Kevin Arnold did that too. Rob probably copied him. In this Booyah, we talk about that. We also discuss the cold war, Marv from Home Alone, and primetime television's old habit of sexualizing underage girls. Plus, we try to figure how we feel about great artists who do crappy things in their personal lives. It's a ton of fun.

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World's Scariest Police Chases 2! The Simpsons! King of the Hill! The X-Files! Some of these shows are better than others, I tell you what. It's April of '97, and we're talking the Spice Girls, Republican power grabs, an incompetent FBI, and Romy & Michele's High School Reunion. Plus, there's a bunch of stuff about fathers and mothers.

Episodes we talk about:

The Simpsons - "In Marge we Trust" 

King of the Hill - "Keeping Up with Our Joneses"

The X-Files - "Zero Sum"

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Booyah 90s Sports. The unreleased last recording from our original run as Booyah 90s Sports! Some movies came out back in 1991. Maybe some music. Some news. Who knows what we talk about on this episode. Listen to find out.

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In 1990, Joe was just a tiny child who'd grow up feeling not quite as Italian as all his Italian friends and all the Italians on his dad's TV. Rob was a paper artist. And Martin Scorsese filled a mob movie with a bunch of interesting performances and little details that make it immersive and memorable. There's a reason Goodfellas is a big old certified cultural treasure of a film. On this episode, we talk about Joe's experience revisiting a staple of his childhood TV diet and Rob's experience finally watching a modern classic.

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Booyah is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look. 

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Rob talks about loving stand-up comedy. Joe talks about pregnancy. Mitch Hedberg tells jokes and worries that the crowd doesn't like him. Rob liked Everlast because he was a serious teenager with thoughts. Joe didn't really like rock but pretended to. Mitch Hedberg liked a Kit Kat unless he was with four or more people.

Touch base here to suggest a show or tell a story about your life in the 90s.

Booyah is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look. 

Thanks for listening. Take care.