I'm Nate and I sing.

Sam and I play guitar.

I feel like you've known each other for a while now.

30 years this later this year. Wait, you've keeping track of the official like a lot of years? I mean, it's December. If it was like, if it was like, you got the month too? Well, I mean, we know this because it was a, there was a show. It's a very, you know, prominent show in our life, or at least in mine. I mean, I met you there. Definitely prominent show. Yeah, but I still don't remember when that was. I know the day. Wait, so what show? There's a Weezer show on the Pinkerton tour, December of 1996. Wow. And you sort of, do you remember, what were your first impressions of each other obviously, it's a very memorable day for you. I mean, it was brief. I mean, it was brief. Because we just were both there and I went with, we have mutual friends. We had mutual friend. So he was there with one friend. I was there with a couple friends. And then at some point in time, there was just like, oh up you know what's going on I'm a situation but

well Sam Sam uh ran the official weiser fan club website oh okay and so he got to go backstage

so I was just coding in 96 you know so I was so I was just like walking by just being like what

the fuck how did he get to do? Like, wait, I love this.

So wait, how did that work?

You're a kid, you're obviously good on the internet. Yeah, my dad had a computer, so I just, um. You were homeschooled as well. I was homeschooled, which helped. But how old are you in 96? 16. 16, okay. Did they, did you reach out to them or do they find you?

I reached out to them.

So I, like, I, when the first Weiser album came out in 95, 16, okay. Did they reach out to them or do they find you? I reached out to them.

So I, like, when the first Weezer album came out in 94, I just was like obsessed with

it as I think a lot of us were in that time.

And I really started getting to computers and I started just trying to discover more music.

So I started finding all these music sites. And then I realized

you could just look at the source of it and you could literally just take like a block

of the code and put it in a text editor and then just like change stuff from there. And I was like

pretty basic at that point. So I just started making websites. So I made a Weezer website and I was like, hey, you guys don't have a website for your, I was in the fan club. It was 10 bucks, which was awesome. They'd send you a zine every quarter and like a little merch item. And I love merch. So I was psyched. And I was like, hey, do you guys need like a fan site, like an official fan site? And these two girls, Michael and Carly ran it. And they're like, yes, that would be awesome. We don't know how to do this. We'll just send you stuff. We'll send you my mom or my, yeah, my mom had a fax machine for some reason. They were like fax me tour dates from the management. and like they just sent, I was just like running a little website, like little website guy.

As a,

as a fan of, I mean,

weas is amazing. tour dates from the management and like they just sent I was just like running a little website guy.

As a fan, I mean, Weez is amazing, but as a fan at that age, what was that like?

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