Oh hai. I feel like I haven’t done a write-up in a minute. Um…how’s everyone doing? Oh me?--I’m Living The Dream–see how my joking tone and desperate chuckle convey the opposite? That’s comedy, baybeeee. Quick, I don’t want to accidentally reveal anything Too Real™ l about myself–pivot to more questions. How was [your] weekend? Let’s engage in Obligatory Weather Conversation. Try to avoid mentioning climate change–it bums people out. Water Cooler Show? Oh, I haven’t seen it–too many streaming services, amirite? Internally workshop a joke about subscription services on necessary-to-live things, realize we’re probably six months from that, trash it. Awkward Silence. Eh, close enough. It’s been about 90 seconds. Sick, we did it. We have Officially Caught Up, Corporate Office Call Style. We Should Probably Get Started. So…what is this?, you may be asking yourself. You guys talk about the list of episode topics being ever-expanding, and yet you’re treading back into Weezer discourse? First of all, that episode was released years ago, thank you Long Time Listener, but the answer is no, this is different. This mini-series is here to learn more about the folks behind what is arguably one of the most interesting and unique bands of that generation. “Interesting and unique?” you ask yourself, unable to hold back your skepticism. “The meme band where people rickroll that one guitar solo into social media videos?” Again, you’re asking the hard-hitting questions, I enjoy that about you, Listener. Thank you for coming to this meeting prepared unlike the rest of these simpletons. Yes, the meme band. Because behind the meme band is a Human** (**cannot actually confirm he is a human, he could be an alien or several small animals stacked comically in a trenchcoat, I would not be surprised) who approaches creative endeavors like they are a science experiment and mundane tasks like they are trapped in an opera. I don’t want to give too big of a peek behind the curtain, but this band’s history and discography are full of strange choices that have kept your hosts up at night (both figuratively and literally) and after having too many conversations about it over the years, we cannot continue to keep this to ourselves and must share the things we’ve learned with you, Listener. So. We hope you enjoy the first part of our presentation. Anyway with that, the meeting's over, I’ll email out any takeaways or action items, unless I forget, in which case you weren’t going to read it anyway, let’s be so incredibly for real. Please review our presentation and come to the next meeting with any questions or notes. (or send ‘em to our social media, we can address them there.) Enjoy whatever time period feels appropriate to place here. Hang up call. Turn off face. Disassociate until the next one.
