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Episode 12: “Automatic” vs “The Damage in Your Heart”, “Smile” vs “O Girlfriend”, “We Are All on Drugs” vs “Hang On”, “Thought I Knew” vs “Ruling Me” Jul 23, 2018

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This week’s matchups “Automatic” vs “The Damage in Your Heart”, “Smile” vs “O Girlfriend”, “We Are All on Drugs” vs “Hang On”, “Thought I Knew” vs “Ruling Me”

Kevin Smith, Hollyweed, The Drawing Room, Napoleon Dynamite, Vipasanna, Pat and River’s relationship, Weezer Groupies/Band-Aids, Rivers on Tinder, Rivers being dumper or a dumpee, How much Waze sucks, our worst Uber ride ever, we call Ben Miller, We give Ben Miller gambling tips and life advice, Game 1 of the NBA Finals, our toilet habits, the age of Weezer members, whether drugs are good or bad, platinum/gold record plaques, the awfulness of the Sunset Strip, our favorite Michael Cera performances, Eagle Eye Cherry, the possibility of a non-Rivers song winning the bracket, The Strokes, the credits to comedy movies, a scavenger hunt for our listeners to find weird videos of the hosts, the time co-host Andrew got nominated for an Oscar, we admit to Wikipedia vandalism, a very timely discussion of Factory Girl, heroin, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, then we have a *very* special phone call, Nick briefly dotes about OFF—WHITEs, more Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James discussion, David Lynch, Andrew becomes VERY disrespectful to a guest of ours

Episode 11: “Trippin’ Down the Freeway” vs “Smart Girls”, “Happy Hour” vs “Love is the Answer”, “Cold Dark World” vs “I’m your Daddy”, “My Best Friend” vs “Where’s My Sex?” Jul 11, 2018

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This week’s matchups: “Trippin’ Down the Freeway” vs “Smart Girls”, “Happy Hour” vs “Love is the Answer”, “Cold Dark World” vs “I’m your Daddy”, “My Best Friend” vs “Where’s My Sex?”

This week the boys talk about Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise’s Awesome haircuts, Sugar Ray B Sides, the Scream 2 Soundtrack, Kevin Smith (somehow fucking again), Costco, Which members of Weezer shop at Costco, MATT SHARP!!, Andrew tells about taking guitar lessons, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Ray Vaughan, Oliver Stone soundtracks, a call from Bowfingers International Pictures' own @BDGrabinski, Skiptrace, the boys finally reveal their opinions about incest, holding on to songs post release, Gomer Pyle USMC, Jim Neighbors, Ernest P Worell, Uncle Drew/Kyrie Irving, The best song from Red, Rivers’ assistant, the boys reveal and copyright their idea for a Rivers Cuomo biopic, Death Grips, songs not from the bracket that we like, Juggalos, furries, Smash Mouth, Guy Fieri, Nick reviews “Billy Madison”, modern comedies, and then Andrew proposes a theory that melts both their minds.

This one goes off the rails.

Episode 10: Second Round Begins Jul 07, 2018

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The Second round of the Bracket begins! “Holiday” vs “Beverly Hills”, “Keep Fishin’” vs “In the Mall”, “December” vs “Hash Pipe”, “Everybody Get Dangerous” vs “Back To The Shack”

Other conversations: The Magic Hour, Is Rivers Cuomo actually Kurt Cobain?, being mainstream, the UK charts, Ska, 2005’s Top Hit Singles (which neither of us was), the boys bregrudgingly discuss Coldplay’s “Fix U”, 50 Cents former dominance, Santana and Rob Thomas’ “Smooth”, Nick reveals more books he hasn’t read, we coin the phrase “Swimfan money” (so if you use it, please give us proper credit), What if Rivers Cuomo watched “Gotti”, there is a lot of “Gotti” discussion (you shouldn’t be surprised by this), One of us hasn’t seen “Billy Madison”, Shuffle/Libraries, a HUGE discussion about Kevin Smith, Phish, Jason Schwartzman, John Tesh, Andrew working for John Tesh, Nickrob being sued by John Tesh, creating characters, Weezer Karaoke, Moon truthers, legally changing your name, “Suffering for your art”, Does Rivers Cuomo support Trump?, teenage rebellion, and a call with Evan Dickson (@EvanDickson)

Demo Listening Party Jun 29, 2018

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This week: Nick and Andrew join their friend Megan Costello for a Weezer demo listening party. They talk freeform about Weezer this week.

Other discussions: There’s a lot of talk about Jay Leno, Jeff Goldblum’s Jazz career, Coachella, Arcade Fire, The Unicorns, The Firey Furnaces, Songs from the Black Hole, the movie Angus, the kids from Jurassic Park, MORE RICK RUBIN TALK, Billy Joel, Belle and Sebastian, Prince and the Chicago Bulls, Nick hating on soccer, MATT SHARP!!!!, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (our apologies), Ska (again, we apologize), Smash Mouth (no apologies), The Olsen twins, LeBron James, Roller Derby, Glam rock vs Hair Metal, Mad Cow Disease, and more.

Episode 8 Jun 15, 2018

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This week’s matchups: DaVinci vs Hold Me, Glorious Day vs Dreamin’, Let it All Hang Out vs Can’t Stop Partying, No Other One vs Getchoo

Dem Bracket boys celebrate finishing up the very first round of the bracket and then get to their usual malarky. They talk about Weezer charting performance, Andrew gets really upset about one of Nick’s opinions, the creative process, Rick Rubin again, Christmas in July, Rivers Cuomo’s spotify, Soundcloud Rap, John Daly (not the Golfer), The Pizza Underground, Brian Bell’s voice, The Arcade Fire/Baroque Pop, The Polyphonic Spree, Singles, American Idiot, License to ill, teen angst, Rivers’ dad calling Rivers, a bad interpretation of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, chickens, Nick gets upset when Andrew brings up the Human Centipede, there is a lot of Jermaine Dupri discussion this week and I mean a lot, Pollow Da Don, R. Kelly’s “Best Friend”, The AOL sessions with Chamillionaire, Eddie Murphy and MTV, How Justin Bieber is responsible for “Can’t Stop Partying”, Scooter Braun, Blue (not the raptor), Pinkerton, Coheed and Cambria, art, then they call Film Crit Hulk for his opinion, AIM usernames,

Episode 7 Jun 07, 2018

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This week's matchups: "Time Flies" vs "Eulogy For A Rock Band", "Dope Nose" vs "The Other Way", "Weekend Woman" vs "Heart Songs", "Thank God For Girls" vs "Brave New World"

Other discussion: Jeff Wells, Metallica, Napster, Rick Rubin (again), 60s Country Music, Pac Sun, Lil Wayne, the first 12 minutes of WTF, Tenacious D, They Might Be Giants Die Hard Fans, Weird Al, Devo, First and Second Singles, Album Sequencing, Rivers’ Storytelling Songs

Episode 6 May 31, 2018

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This week's matchups "Haunt You Every Day" vs "We Are All On Drugs", "Freak Me Out" vs "Thought I Knew", "Hang on" vs "Simple Pages", "Ruling Me" vs "Pardon Me"

This week the boys chime in with more opinions on Weezer, including the two new Weezer songs (that are just covers of Toto songs) songwriting, Michael Cera, Rick Rubin for the millionth fucking time, "The Last American Virgin", LFO, Fried Pickles, Endless discussion about Rivers Cuomo, they discuss the Toto songs for a second time but are more fired up, Bonny Bear, Bret Easton Ellis, and Andrew pushes Nick past the edge of decorum with something I STILL think he is lying about, and we talk to Joe John - the man with a vaguely Weezer themed wedding.

Episode 5 May 17, 2018

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“Automatic” vs “Possibilities”, “O Girlfriend” vs “Pork and Beans”, “I(f You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” vs “The Damage In Your Heart”, and “Smile” vs “The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)

Episode 4 May 10, 2018

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This week’s matchups, “Cold Dark World” VS “Feels Like Summer”, “Memories” VS “My Best Friend”, “I’m Your Daddy” VS “La Mancha Screwjob”, “Where’s My Sex” vs “Slave”

Other discussion: Scott Shriner, The Raditude Club, Being aggressively nice, Minor vs Major key, Bow Wow vs Bow Wow Wow, “Mexican Fender”, “Everything Will Be Alright in the End”, Dave Chapelle’s new Netflix special, Collaboration, “Thought I Knew”, Synthesizers in Weezer, Cohesion post Pinkerton, Rivers Cuomo’s songwriting formula, The best use of 3D in a movie, Andrew tells everyone about his trip to Gettysberg, places we have peed, Jackass Movies, The Epitaph Records discography, Shrek, Smash Mouth, AOL, Kenny G, Dr. Luke, Ke$ha, B.o.B. and River’s collab, The Greatest Showman, Blink-182, Angels and Airwaves, The sheer volume of Rivers’ output. Plus a call from Joaquin Poblete from the This is Awesome podcast.

Episode 3 May 02, 2018

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This week’s matchups: “Trippin’ Down The Freeway” vs “Lonely Girl”, “Happy Hour” vs “Endless Bummer”, “Smart Girls” vs “The Girl Got Hot”, and “Love is the Answer” vs “Love Explosion”

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