We're following up Christmas day with the second most famous resurrection story of all time. Except this California band rose not just once, but twice from the ashes. It's RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS week!

The clips this week surprisingly begin all the way back in 1984, with the first iteration of the band performing with the energy of 8th graders on Thicke of the Night. Clips on Arsenio and Letterman show the transformation from Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons to John Frusciante and Chad Smith. John bombs Under the Bridge on SNL in 1992 and Anthony Kiedis is not pleased. One of the biggest comeback records of all time is on display with Grandmaster Flash on The Chris Rock Show. And the Billboard Game this week forces us to examine the mind blowing chart domination of Taylor Swift.

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True Men Don't Kill Coyotes/Get Up and Jump, 3/16/1984 on Thicke of the Night

Fight Like a Brave/Organic Anti-Beat Box Band, 9/29/1987 on The Arsenio Hall Show

Higher Ground, 3/30/1990 on Late Night with David Letterman

Stone Cold Bush/Under the Bridge, 2/22/1992 on Saturday Night Live

Aeroplane, 2/13/1996 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Around the World, 9/24/1999 on The Chris Rock Show

Dani California/Snow ((Hey Oh))/Interview/By the Way, 11/21/2006 on Later...with Jools Holland

Pounding robotic trance desert stoner rock. Is that enough adjectives to describe what is maybe the last great mainstream hard rock band of the 21st century? We find more to use. It's QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE week!

For a band often described as "The Josh Homme Project", we find ways to discuss the careers of way too many musicians on the show this week. Early clips on Conan and Kilborn capture the short-lived magical chemistry of Homme and bassist Nick Olivieri. Our biggest cheat clip ever on the show brings us to the Werchter, Belgium rock festival in 2002 featuring Dave Grohl and Mark Lanegan. Homme surrounds himself with a shifting cast of band members across the 2000s, including a one-song appearance by Will Ferrell. And we discuss the outsized influence and legacy of QOTSA in the dying landscape of modern mainstream rock music.

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The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret, 11/14/2000 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Song for the Dead, 6/29/2002 on MTV2 Rock Werchter 

No One Knows, 2/20/2003 on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

Little Sister/In My Head, 5/14/2005 on Saturday Night Live

3s & 7s/Sick Sick Sick, 5/11/2007 on Transmission UK

I Sat By the Ocean/If I Had a Tail/Interview/My God is the Sun, 5/14/2013 on Later...with Jools Holland

Emotion Sickness, 12/14/2023 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Remembered as schmaltzy elevator music, this sister-brother duo dominated the charts for much of the 1970s. Driven by the one-of-a-kind voice of Karen Carpenter and the orchestration of brother Dick, they epitomize the former power of television monoculture and the murky arc of cultural memory. It's THE CARPENTERS week!

Almost unlike any other group covered on the show, the clips this week are bountiful, explanatory, and filled with medleys. A recent viral clip of Karen ripping it up on drums on Your All American College Show in 1968 kicks off the podcast this week. The Carpenters play a medley of Burt Bacharach covers for skeptical injured vets at the height of the Vietnam War. Karen steps out front for the first time in 1973 on Johnny Carson. The Carpenters' first of many TV specials in 1976 is both illuminating and extremely silly. And we discuss the tragic demise of Karen and the mark left by her across culture.

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Dancing in the Street, 8/31/1968 on Your All-American College Show

(They Long to Be) Close to You/Knowing When to Leave/Making It Easy on Yourself/(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me/I'll Never Fall in Love Again/Walk on By/Do You Know the Way to San Jose?, 11/8/1970 on The Ed Sullivan Show

Superstar/Rainy Days and Monday/Goodbye to Love/Mr. Guder, 11/6/1973 on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

The Carpenters' First Television Special, 12/8/1976

Please Mr. Postman/Merry Christmas, Darling/I Need To Be In Love/Christmas Medley, 12/24/1978 on Bruce Forsyth's Big Night

(Want You) Back in my Life Again, 11/2/1981 on The Merv Griffin Show

Garage Rock. Indie Sleaze. Electronic Dance Pop. This Brooklyn trio has done it all across a surprisingly long career, out lasting almost all of their early 2000s NYC contemporaries. It's YEAH YEAH YEAHS week!

Joining the show this week is Boston-based musician Matt Ozelius! As drummers for him in recent years, Matt weighs in on the great debate over who is better behind the kit-Jon or Alex-before diving into the theatrical TV appearances of Karen O and co! The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are on Letterman a lot, and unfortunately Dave is a weird creep for over a decade. A garden-themed performance of "Maps" on the MTV Movie Awards is equally pretty and impressive. A broadway choir backs up the band in 2013, and Karen sings on top of molten lava nine years later on Kimmel.

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Date with the Night, 6/26/2003 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Maps, 6/5/2004 on The MTV Movie Awards

Gold Lion, 3/29/2006 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Down Boy, 7/26/2007 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Zero, 4/14/2009 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Sacrilege, 4/5/2013 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Burning, 9/29/2022 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Inarguably the biggest and most successful band of the grunge era, they persisted while others could not. They fought the man at every turn, did it their way, and are an undeniable live juggernaut. It's PEARL JAM week!

Joining the show as our second-ever returning guest is show promoter and pod-favorite Ryan Agate aka Ryan the Terrible! Back to back performances on SNL capture the big early moments of Pearl Jam, including a super rare 3-song stint a week after the death of Kurt Cobain. David Letterman can't get Black out of his head, has the band on his show multiple times, and ultimately inducts them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jeff Ament wears lots of hats. And Ryan and the guys somehow watch multiple movies and tv series during the record.

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Alive/Porch, 4/11/1992 on Saturday Night Live

Not For You/Rearviewmirror/Daughter, 4/16/1994 on Saturday Night Live

Hail Hail, 9/20/1996 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Wishlist, 5/1/1998 on The Late Show with David Letterman

World Wide Suicide/Severed Hand/Alive, 5/6/2006 on Later...with Jools Holland

Alive/Given to Fly/Better Man/Rockin' in the Free World, 4/7/2017 on The Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

They're quietly one of the most successful bands of the 90s, selling over 50 million records over the course of their career. Dominating the softer side of alt-rock radio, they took over America out of nowhere as the biggest Irish band since U2. It's THE CRANBERRIES week!

We begin this week with two very different performances of "Dreams" and "Linger" on the Irish late night show Kenny Live, with the two clips 9 months apart across 1993. The album No Need to Argue is a massive hit and the group shows it off with a dirgy performance of "Zombie" on SNL. The Cranberries burn out hard by 1996, and a clip on the MTV VMA's makes that pretty clear. And we discuss the unique global superstardom of the late great Dolores O'Riordan, exemplified by our first clip ever from the Annual Vatican Christmas Concert in 2001 hosted by da pope!

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Dreams, 3/6/1993 on Kenny Live

Linger, 12/18/1993 on Kenny Live

Zombie/Ode to My Family, 2/25/1995 on Saturday Night Live

Salvation, 9/4/1996 on the MTV Video Music Awards

Promises (11:15 mark), 4/26/1999 on The Late Show with David Letterman

Analyse/Panis Angelicus/Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night, 12/24/2001 on the 9th Annual Vatican Christmas Concert

Tomorrow, 2/7/2012 on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

They were cool looking boys from the large apple. Leaders of a NYC and retro guitar rock revival, they wrote two of the catchiest and most memorable records of the early 2000s. Was that it? It's THE STROKES week!

The Strokes make their network TV debut on Conan with a perfect sounding rendition of "The Modern Age". An early performance on SNL with a dreamy Julian Casablancas propels the band up the charts. We have our first ever Late Night TV show residency, with The Strokes performing Room on Fire songs every Tuesday in November 2003 on Conan. A return to SNL in 2006 does not go as well as the first time. The band makes multiple comeback attempts, some better than others. And Fabrizio Moretti wears lot of red shirts.

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The Modern Age, 11/1/2001 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Last Nite/Hard to Explain, 1/19/2002 on Saturday Night Live

Reptilia/Whatever Happened/Under Control/I Can't Win, November 2003 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Juicebox/You Only Live Once, 1/21/2006 on Saturday Night Live

Under the Cover of Darkness/Life is Simple in the Moonlight, 3/5/2011 on Saturday Night Live

The Adults are Talking/Bad Decisions, 10/31/2020 on Saturday Night Live

They came from the heartland to destroy us all. More brutal death metal than nu, maggots from every corner of America rejoiced at their one-of-a-kind stage show, technical precision, and devil-fueled aggression. It's SLIPKNOT week!

The guys explore the incredible backstory, lore, and turmoil of one of the most visually arresting bands the show has ever discussed. Slipknot make their UK television debut on TFI Friday, destroying cameras in the process. A 2001 Conan performance of "The Heretic Anthem" is potentially the peak of civilization. The show bends the rules in order to talk about Mistress Juliya from Uranium on Fuse TV, and it's badass. And later era clips on Kimmel show a band stretching their boundaries, for good and bad.

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Wait and Bleed, 3/3/2000 on TFI Friday

The Heretic Anthem, 8/10/2001 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Duality/The Blister Exists (16:00 mark), 7/30/2004 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

N/A, 3/5/2005 on Uranium on Fuse TV

Snuff/Psychosocial, 10/30/2009 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Unsainted/All Out Life, 5/27/2019 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

They exploded onto the 90s Britpop scene with fresh faces and clean teeth. Steven Spielberg wanted to turn them into the next Monkees. Instead, this UK phenomenon eschewed America and just did it their way. It's SUPERGRASS week!

Joining the show is a long-time musical hero of Alex and Jon: lead singer and guitarist of the legendary Boston-based band Piebald, Travis Shettel! The guys and Travis talk through the past and present of Piebald before breaking down the unique and winding career path of Supergrass. Gaz Coombes and co. bus in all their Oxford buds for their TV debut on The Word. Ray Cokes of MTV Europe has the band flush a smashed watch down a toilet in between peformances of the big 'I Should Coco' hits. And Jonathan Ross returns to the show to the dismay of all involved. Plus the debut of "Chunk, Drag, or Grass?"!

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Mansize Rooster, 2/10/1995 on The Word UK

Ray Tripper/Alright/Caught by the Fuzz, 7/11/1995 on MTV Europe's Most Wanted with Ray Cokes

Going Out, 3/11/1996 on TFI Friday

Moving/Mary/Faraway, 11/28/1999 on Later...with Jools Holland

Rush Hour Soul, 12/6/2002 on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

St. Petersburg, 9/25/2005 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

She holds eye-popping album sale records, ushered a whole new style of pop music into the mainstream, and did it all as a socially conscious black woman in conservative white America. But one TV performance clouded all of it. It's JANET JACKSON week!

Joining the show this week to help uncloud that cultural memory is music journalist Robby Seabrook III! Robby and the guys discuss Janet's early Jackson family life and mall pop career, including an American Bandstand clip featuring a creepy Dick Clark. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis change the game with Janet on Control and perform with her on the Grammys. Janet takes over the pop world, to the point MTV dedicates its entire 1993 New Year's Eve programming to her. And we return to the Super Bowl for a clip that changes everything about TV musical guest performances forever.

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Young Love/Come Give Your Love to Me, 10/30/1982 on American Bandstand

What Have You Done for Me Lately?, 2/24/1987 on The Grammy Awards

Miss You Much/Rhythm Nation, 11/17/1989 on Peter's Pop Show

Because of Love, 12/31/1993 on MTV Janet's New Year's Eve Jam

The Way You Move" (Spirit of Houston and Ocean of Soul marching bands)/All for You(Janet Jackson)/Bad Boy for Life(P. Diddy)/Diddy to the tune of "Mickey"/Hot in Herre(Nelly)/Mo Money Mo Problems(P. Diddy)/Bawitdaba(Kid Rock)/Cowboy(Kid Rock)/Rhythm Nation(Janet Jackson)/Rock Your Body(Justin Timberlake with Janet Jackson), 2/1/2004 on The Super Bowl

Nasty/Throb, 5/20/2018 on The Billboard Awards