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  • Year of the Weasel Episode 2: Peak Weasel

    Year of the Weasel Episode 2: Peak Weasel

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    When we last left our hero, it was 1989 and the world was teetering on the brink of full-blown Weaselmania; now, we’re picking up for a deep dive into the peak of Pauly Shore‘s pre-movie fame, including his MTV show Totally (Different) Pauly, his two (!) imperial-era standup comedy albums, and his 1992 victory-lap HBO special Pauly Does Dallas. Next time, we’ll finally talk about Encino Man! Sound good, buuu-ddies? Cool.

    Video version (with much better audio syncing than last time) below:

    00:00:00 Pauly’s Totally Buff Special

    00:02:30 A representative example of the Totally Different Pauly opening

    00:07:03 Richard Simmons’ Facebook statement about The Court Jester

    00:07:37 The Court Jester (Jake Lewis, 2024)

    00:08:13 Totally (Different) Pauly Episode 473: “Day 1 L.A. School of Gymnastics”

    00:09:18 “Pauly Shore sued by man for alleged battery and assault at The Comedy Store club” by Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, January 28, 2024

    00:10:58 “Lisa, Lisa (The One I Adore)” Official Music Video by Pauly Shore

    00:13:25 We promise “12 Months of Mike” wasn’t that bad

    00:16:46 “Behind the Weasic” by Greg Beato, SPIN, October 1999

    00:18:25 Another iconic awkward moment involving Buster Poindexter

    00:19:32 The 1988 MTV Spring Break special footage we could find

    00:20:32 Another random Pauly Shore/Corey Feldman moment

    00:26:54 Totally Different Pauly Episode 482: “Day 1 Scuba”

    00:27:52 Totally Pauly Episode 33: “Day 5 Running Mom Errands”

    00:28:26 Totally Pauly Episode 1: “Hollywood”

    00:28:51 Totally Pauly Episode 2: “Business 9 to 5”

    00:30:12 Our episode on David Lee Roth‘s Crazy from the Heat

    00:30:26 Totally Pauly Episode 6: “Working from Home”

    00:31:25 Totally Pauly Episode 11: “Hotel Attendant”

    00:35:11 Totally Pauly Episode 325: “Day 5 Encino Man Filming Sound Stage”

    00:36:16 Ken Tucker’s 1991 Entertainment Weekly review of Totally Pauly

    00:38:46 “Hey dude, the Weasel is, like, the future of America” by Jim Sullivan, Boston Globe, June 1991

    00:39:47 Chillin’ with the Wiez 1993 Spring Break Special

    00:42:34 Totally Different Pauly Episode 477: “Day 1 Charlie Sheen”

    00:43:37 Chillin’ with the Wiez 1993 Spring Break Special

    00:45:00 Totally Different Pauly Episode 477: “Day 1 Charlie Sheen”

    00:45:59 Totally Different Pauly Episode 483: “Day 4 Scuba”

    00:46:21 Totally Different Pauly Episode 482: “Day 1 Scuba”

    00:48:34 Totally Different Pauly Episode 467: “Day 4 South Padre Island Texas”

    00:50:05 Totally Pauly Episode 71: “Prince’s Paisley Park Studios”

    00:50:22 Zach’s Prince blog

    00:52:53 Callie’s other podcast, Baby Lee Roth

    00:54:44 Totally Pauly Episode 12: “Day 1 At Sam Kinison’s House”

    00:56:52 (This Dipshit)

    00:57:51 Totally Different Pauly Episode 472: “Day 5 Great Expectations”

    01:03:54 “Lisa, Lisa (The One I Adore)” Official Music Video by Pauly Shore

    01:05:47 Pauly’s Totally Buff Special

    01:08:24 Pauly Does Dallas (Joel Gallen, Greg Johnston, and Robert Leacock, 1992)

    01:10:54 Apparently taking bubble baths in front of teenagers was a thing for him?

    01:12:07 (Actually she didn’t say she had sex with him, Zach just can’t read)

    01:13:15 Follow us on Instagram!

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    01:13:29 Email us! (heybuuuddy@dystopiandanceparty.com)

    01:14:40 We’re back on Spotify

    01:14:56 Pauly’s Totally Buff Special

  • Jheri Curl June Special: André Cymone

    It’s a poetic fluke of the cosmos that so many Jheri Curl Music innovators’ birthdays fall in June, the genre’s holiest month. So far, we’ve highlighted Prince (June 7), Jimmy Jam (June 6), L.A. Reid (also June 7), and Jesse Johnson (June 1)–as well as Michael Jackson, who passed away on June 25, 2009. Now, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, it’s finally time to induct André Cymone into the JCM Hall of Fame.

    As Prince’s earliest musical collaborator, André Cymone played an integral, but regrettably overshadowed part in the creation of the Jheri Curl Music strain more popularly known as the Minneapolis Sound. On our Prince associates podcast from a couple of years ago, I described Cymone as the twin Prince (figuratively, of course) consumed in utero. So many of the more famous artist’s stylistic choices in the first three years of his career–from his embrace of New Wave sounds and fashions to the whole song “Do Me, Baby”–can be more accurately interpreted as a collaborative effort between himself and his one-time surrogate brother. By the time André, understandably fed up with the lack of credit for his work, went solo in early 1981, the persona known as “Prince” had been more or less fully formed; this inevitably did his longtime partner a disservice by making his solo career look like an imitation.

    But today we celebrate André Cymone not as an imitator, but as the innovator he was. While he may not have scaled the critical or commercial heights of his musical other half, his efforts–both behind the scenes and in the spotlight–left an indelible mark on Jheri Curl Music, and on the last 30 years of pop and R&B in general.

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