Nikolai gets Shanghai'd into washing dishes at Denny's against his will, survives a summer at Build-A-Bear where he named a T-Rex in a wedding dress T. Ranny, sang London Bridge with two lesbians over a Meowth Pokemon, roasted high school girls until there was a line out the door, and finally quit by telling his wig-wearing manager she should consider a lace front. Chad, meanwhile, gets fired from a record store after running a weekly free-for-all with his crew, then drives a 1984 Audi from New Mexico to Alaska to work at a fish cannery ,arriving in penny loafers and a Ralph Lauren sweater, and ends up squishing six inches of fish guts into a drain for the summer.

Two gay men, two generations, two absolutely unhinged career origin stories.

"You are inebriated." Allison, manager of Strawberries Records & Tapes, probably 1994.

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In this episode of Hula Baloo, the boys sit down with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, one of the best-selling books in human history, and neither of them was prepared for how hard it would hit. Chad called it a 10 out of 10 from the first page. Nikolai gives it a five-star, no-notes, A+. They're both reading it again.

They get into everything: the fox and what taming really means, the rose as ego and vulnerability, the snake as the death of childhood, why the book was banned by the Nazis, and the line that stopped them both cold, "What is essential is invisible to the eye." Plus, Nikolai shares the story of his stepmom letting him be a detective as a kid, complete with a hat, a coat, and decaffeinated coffee. It might be the sweetest thing ever said on this podcast.

Also: Chad's Italian property drama, Nikolai preparing to live out of a suitcase in Barcelona, and the two of them accidentally walking into a Little Prince hater forum on Goodreads.

A reminder that childlike wonder is not something to grow out of, it's something to protect.

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In this episode, Nikolai and Chad review LLLUX, Rosalía's fourth album and arguably her most ambitious yet — a sweeping, ethereal meditation on the divine, surrender, and what it means to reach for something transcendental. Chad calls it a 10 out of 10 from the very first listen. Nico gives it a 9.5 and cries every single time track five comes on.

They get into how she went from getting booed on a Spanish reality show at 16 to becoming one of the most important artists alive, why LLLUX is the sister album to Björk's Vespertine, the Burghain music video that left Nico and his friend completely speechless, and what it actually means to be a pop artist who refuses to make pop music.

Also: Prague, edibles that were basically hallucinogens, Taylor Swift's alleged bot farms, and Chad's S550 Mercedes having a very bad month.

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Then the boys sit down to review Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? — both the legendary 1962 Bette Davis & Joan Crawford original AND the forgotten 1991 remake with the Redgrave sisters. One is a psychological masterpiece. The other... they made a movie.

Also on the table: what makes a great adaptation, the claustrophobia of great storytelling, why Misery owes everything to Baby Jane, the uncomfortable racial politics hiding in plain sight, and why good art always picks a side.

Chad gives the original a 5/5. Nikolai gives it a 4.5. The remake gets a 2 and a 2.7 respectively. Somebody had to say it.

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We get into the power dynamics from episode one, the fantasy aesthetics (those apartments are NOT the apartments of closeted men, honey), the music that made us want to scream, and that final kiss that stuck the landing in a way we weren't expecting.

Plus: a deep dive into gay sexuality as connection, the silence from the NHL, yaoi manga, water buffaloes jumping off cliffs, and why the Queer as Folk comparison both holds up and falls short.

10 out of 10. No notes. Well, maybe one note about the smoothie subplot.

🎭 Nikolai is also performing his solo show Fever Dream TV in NYC this April — dates and tickets in the comments!

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That line from The Simpsons' "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" (1991) has become a Gen Z meme, a t-shirt, a rallying cry. But what did it mean when it first aired? And what does it mean now?

In this episode of Hullabaloo, Chad (Gen X) and Nikolai (Gen Z) compare two pieces of political satire made 35 years apart:

📺 The Simpsons — "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" (Season 3, 1991)

🎭 SNL — "Mom Confession" sketch (2026)

What they explore:

- The innocence of 90s political satire vs. the exhaustion of today

- How The Simpsons became a comfort text for Gen Z

- Why SNL's Ashley Padilla is channeling old-school brilliance

- The "different internet" phenomenon — how algorithms create alternate realities

- Whether morality is objective or subjective (a 2,000-year-old debate)

- Tracy Ullman's bitterness over The Simpsons (and what it teaches us about ego)

- Epstein conspiracy theories (yes, Chad went there)

- Why Lisa Simpson is the ultimate Gen Z icon

- The "Red Queen Effect" and why everyone is on Ozempic, Botox, and testosterone

Plus: Chad's Top Cat obsession, Nikolai's Simpsons-as-therapy confession, and why being wrong might be the most important thing you can learn.

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A Gen Xer and a Gen Zer — both from the queer community — bridge generations through classic films, new music, and the cultural conversations nobody else is having. Sometimes movies. Sometimes cartoons. Always real.

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