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🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Matt Apodaca is known for three things. Liking cats. Being a nice person who everyone in podcasting loves. And caring more about Weezer than anyone else on the planet. And would someone who loves Weezer that much lie about the truth about their front man Rivers Cuomo? Namely the truth that ol 'Poindexter' Cuomo is in fact famously dead rockstar Kurt Cobain? Matt says he wouldn't! Yes this week we're exploring the theory that Kurt faked his own death to found the world's most beloved nerd rock band. Finally, Alexis gets to talk about music she likes!
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0:00.0 | Yeah, I think I am sort of just predisposed to just believe anything Carl says, so it is just sort of like, okay, well, I mean, yeah, maybe I could get a second opinion, but if Carl said it, I'm going to believe it. |
0:29.0 | Yeah, there have been a few people that I've just been like, you know what? You're smart and funny. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. |
0:34.5 | I'll buy it. I'll buy what you're selling. That's how leaders are made. |
0:38.9 | Wow. That's how people become Tom Cruise cult leaders. Absolutely. Absolutely. Sure. Whatever the garbage is coming out of your hole, I love it. |
0:48.4 | It just takes the least amount of like pushback, just like just the enough to be like, yeah, whatever. Yeah. I know that's maybe not right, but I don't have the energy. |
0:58.5 | And then, you know, next thing, you know, yeah, we all think we're too smart to fall for a cult until we meet someone a little cooler than us. And we're like, wow. Yeah. |
1:06.5 | That does make sense. Yeah. And here's the thing. |
1:11.5 | If there was like compelling evidence that they like one day they have a press conference, the Church of Scientology. |
1:18.5 | Tom Cruise comes out his skin opens and he's a fucking alien or something. |
1:25.5 | I'm in 100%. I'm just in because number one, it's all true. It's all true. Just whatever. Fine. Here's how I think that plays out. Tom Cruise comes out his skin splits. He's an alien. Yeah. |
1:40.5 | TMZ breaks it. Everybody's like, this is stupid. This is like a prank. CNN picks it up from TMZ. They fact checked it. They were also there. They just took a little longer to sort of have the reporters run it. |
1:53.5 | They had to, you know, they have more checks and balances than Harvey Levin. Exactly. Exactly. |
2:00.5 | Three hours later, the meme cycle has already gotten past it. |
2:05.5 | Oh, yeah, it's done because there's another balloon in the air or something. |
2:10.5 | Or like they found like a weird fish that looks like a vagina. Or like, yeah, some like kid was like yodeling in a Walmart again. |
2:20.5 | And I was like enough to like, hey, this kid's, you know, say what you want about yodeling. This kid's good. |
2:27.5 | Yeah, we think this kid's good at yodeling though. Yeah, it's this thing to everyone hate. He's good at it. |
2:34.5 | In this place, we like to make fun of but I'll go to. Yeah. I think really what they were responding to was his sweet little outfit. |
2:42.5 | Yeah, he was, he was so cute. Yeah, he could have been doing anything. Yeah, if it had been a kid and just like bug and sweatpants, I don't think it would have. |
2:51.5 | Yeah, he's wearing like a blue e-t-shirt or something who gives a shit. Cargo shorts. Yeah, okay. Great. Oh, a grass stain. Oh, you're a regular kid. |
3:00.5 | Yeah, I know. He's a little tiny cowboy singing about singing deep within his soul. Yeah. |
3:08.5 | About love, LaHost. Didn't he then like go on stage with little Masex? Is this another one of my false memories? |
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