Living in the Past

This week we go through the episodes of The Simpsons Season 8 that aired in 1996. We have Hank Scorpio, Larry Burns, voting for Kodos, burlesque houses and, of course, Can I Borrow a Feeling? Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-in-the-past-1549141 Email: livinginthepastpod@gmail.com Podcast Music by...

This week we are covering November 1996...Shakespeare. Ransoms. Curling. Crowded House. Greedy Flys. Wannabe my lover? Events - 08:58 Sport - 16:05 Film - 27:25 TV - 1:16:20 Music - 1:18:55 Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-in-the-past-1549141 Email: livinginthepastpod@gmail.com Podcast Music by A...

This week we cover October 1996. True Crime. Val Kilmer fighting lions. Hey Arnold. The unfortunate rise of nu metal. More embarrassing stories from Paul's teenage years. Do it to it! Events: 06:45 Sport: 22:55 Film: 30:50 TV: 1:23:55 Music: 1:31:40 Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-in-the-past-15...

This week we welcome back WOWFM's Shannon Mowling to help us go through the ARIA Top 10 Albums and Singles and Hottest 100 of 1996. We discover how a song in a bank commercial can help an album go platinum, find out who's dad is a Corrs fan, pick our favourite Spice Girl and avoid talking about The Macarena. ARIA Top 10 Albums - 02:15 ARIA Top 10 Singles - 35:25 Hottest 100 Top 10 - 58:10 Rate and...

This week we look back at September 1996 and have some current day breaking news to add to our events. We also have Emmy and MTV awards, buddy cop and buddy divorcee movies, all the TV pilot premieres and go through another strong September music month. Events - 06:40 Sport - 28:30 Film - 42:50 TV - 1:15:15 Music - 1:31:50 Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser...

This week we welcome our first international guest and friend of the show Paul Wright on to rank every song on Peal Jam's 1996 album, No Code. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-in-the-past-1549141 Email: livinginthepastpod@gmail.com Podcast Music by Andrew Goulding, check him out at www.antigold.b...

This week we cover August 1996 where we discover the brilliance of the sport Goalball, try to make Matilda required viewing for all kids (and adults), hear tales from the set of The Island Of Dr. Moreau then skank the night away to Reel Big Fish. Events - 07:35 Sport - 19:30 Film - 31:25 Tv - 1:16:35 Music - 1:23:10 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we infiltrate one of the darkest and notorious places this world has ever known...the beginning of Michael Bay's career. Yes we are talking about The Rock and don't you worry...there are many terrible Sean Connery impressions. We also talk about Nicholas Cage's acting choices, behind the scenes stories and, most importantly, Ben's encounter with a low level celebrity on MSN chat. Rate an...

This week we look at July 1996 and we are cloning sheep, get into some Olympics action, try to find the good in some very bad movies and bask in the brilliance that was Alice in Chains unplugged. Events - 08:00 Sports - 23:18 Film - 36:25 TV - 1:26:00 Music - 1:29:30 Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/liv...

This week we cover June 1996 where we are tracking chupacabras, watch Schwarzenegger punching alligators, suffer through the Nutty Professor and grab two turntables and a microphone with Beck. Events - 06:40 Sport - 18:45 Film - 34:40 TV - 1:08:30 Music - 1:12:20 Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-...

This week we cover May 1996 where we have death, disaster and Martin Lawrence. We also have the NBA finals, chase some tornadoes in Twister, walk on water in The Craft and once again bask in the glory of Soundgarden with Down on the Upside. If you are in the Adelaide area on September, come and see Ben play football in the Reclink Cup. https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/4675aaf2-b964-4ca5-8...

In this perfectly cromulent episode we go through the first half of The Simpsons episodes for 1996 where they get presidential new neighbours, Homer becomes Smithers, Bart gets a drivers license and we try and get to the bottom of Troy McClure's fish fetish. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's April 1996 and we have an oddly combative episode to celebrate. We are talking M.C. Hammer, get fooled by Edward Norton in Primal Fear, get some nice cozy murders in Forensic Files and will no doubt annoy everybody by playing OMC's How Bizarre in our music section. Sorry. Events - 08:55 Sports - 18:30 Film - 29:40 TV - 1:01:10 Music - 1:16:25 Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or c...

This we week we are joined by Ben's partner Laura to talk over the top of one of the best horror movies of the 90's, and of all time....Scream. We cover all the important parts like background actors giving it their all, who is in the photo next to Tatum's bed (Richard Dean Anderson??) and the depressing note Stu's parents left for him...and there's a killer or something as well. Rate and review u...

This week we go though all that was wonderful in March 1996. Clint Eastwood love triangles, Frasier in a submarine, Buscemi in a skivvy! All this and Paul getting to sing Shaggy's 'Bombastic' one last time. Enjoy! Events - 06:15 Sport - 18:15 Film - 29:25 TV - 1:15:50 Music - 1:24:25 Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser...

This week we go back to February 1996 and cover the 'Jarvis Cocker Mooning Scandal', bask in the glory that is Broken Arrow, fall in love with The Fugees all over again and watch an aging cricketer try to endanger the public for $50 on Who Dares Wins. Events - 08:50 Sports - 23:00 Film - 36:30 TV - 1:23:30 Music - 1:33:30 Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser i...

This week we are going through the best and most videos games of 1996. We talk about the weird setting of Quake, the shameless misogyny of Duke Nukem 3D, the amazing (well a third of it) Die Hard Trilogy game and Ben tells a tale about the joy of getting a Nintendo 64 and the sorrow of choosing Mario 64 as his first game. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser i...

We are back for a new season with our January 1996 episode where we learn most bands avoided our hometown Adelaide on the Big Day Out, dip our toes back into true crime, find that the icky outweighs the cool in From Dusk til Dawn and premiere a new song for Ben to forget the melody to for our Conan segment. Sit back, look back and relax. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us ou...

It's time to say goodbye to 1995, but before we do we have our Top Movies, Top 5 Albums and Top 10 songs to go through. It seemed like a stellar year for movies...but was it? We had a wide variety of music to choose from....but will Paul just pick Rancid for everything? Will Ben include Foo Fighters? The answers lie in this looong finale episode to a brilliant season. Thanks for listening, we shal...

It's our December episode, and this year 90s Santa left a crapload of movies to watch under our tree. We talk DeNiro and Pacino in Heat, Van Damme as the fire warden with all the connections in Sudden Death, Paul retells Sabrina in 3 minutes and we try, and spectacularly fail, to explain 12 Monkeys. All of this plus Darryl Strawberry news in Sports and some slim pickings in Music. Sit back, look b...

Ah Hoi Hoi! This week we go through our Top 10 Simpsons episodes for 1995. Spanning seasons 6 and 7 this was still, truly the Golden Age of the series and whittling our favourites down to 10 was a task not even Radioactive Man could achieve. We talk about Stonecutters, songs about vests, Lisa going vegetarian, Marge being the emotional center of the show, Walt Freakin Whitman, guys who eat people'...

This week go through everything that went down in November 1995...plus some stuff we forgot from October. We talk about the time where way too many people thought 'Smelly Cat' was funny, try and find some gems (or guano!) in a pretty thin film month, try and fail to find anything wrong with Empire Records and get nice and sludgy with Alice in Chains in Music. Sit back, look back and relax. Events...

This week we go the U.S. and Australian Top 10 Box Office movies of 1995...and what different lists they are!! We also look at the most rented and top ten selling VHS movies with a rich diversity od Disney films, Beavis and Butthead and Penthouse rounding out the list. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/l...

This week we are talking about October 1995 where we bid farewell to the trial of the decade, have a major case of quantity over quality in the film section, mishear a bunch of lyrics in this month's albums and get a little melancholy with Mr. Corgan. Events - 6:25 Sport - 17:20 Film - 25:15 TV - 56:20 Music - 1:01:45 Sit back, look back and relax. Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or...

This week we revisit Kevin Smith's sophomore film, Mallrats. We're talking stinkpalms, Easter Bunny fights, baby Affleck, the intolerable T.S. and the lore of the Askewniverse. Sit back, look back and relax...snoogans! Rate and review us on Spotify, Apple podcasts or check us out on Podchaser in the link below: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-in-the-past-1549141 Email: livinginthepastpod...