Finales are hard. The last episode of scrubs brought us to tears, Friends finale said goodbye to the people we had loved once a week for ten years and Cheers last episode was a send-off as bitter as a tall frosty beer drink. 2003 was the year Blink-182 released their finale Album, Self-Titled... Just like those shows they didn't stay gone, but Kyle and Alan consider this the finale season to the Blink-182 series. Find out why. Also find out a bunch of other stuff about out hero's on this weeks episode of, BEST! ALBUM! EVER! 

America is a white nationalist hell-scape, beer-loving-asshole-bros are IN and protecting trans people is OUT. It's time to talk about an album that is the opposite. An album who's creators address being queer women, falling in love, growing up, struggles with identity and failed relationships all set to the best fucking pop music heard in the last 20 years. Tegan and Sara give a master class in honesty, bravery, creativity and song writing on their album, "The Con". Kyle and Alan dig in and figure out what makes a music scene great and Alan argues that "The Con" should be taught in music college.

It's time to talk about something very serious. The singer of Atreyu says, "they invented metalcore". We all know he is just pulling from the Donald-Trump-grab-bag of attention getting buzz phrases to stir-up attention, but we still need to address this issue. The inventors of metalcore are a handful of bands from the late 90's, but the band and album that defined and brought into the mainstream this style of music is undoubtably Converge with the album "Jane Doe". Kyle and Alan sit down together and talk for a long time about how converge sounds like a wild animal attack that you hope to be the predator in. Head-walks, guitar tone, mastery  in the style of MEEEEN sound. This band has razor sharp teeth which works out as a great contrast to us because we mostly gum our way through everything we do in our suburban 30 year old lives.   

Do you remember Jesus? Underoath does. And so do Alan and Kyle. And much like Underoath used to believe and proselytize the good word, so did your two favorite 30-something year-old podcasters. This week we talk about the time we stole Wendys chicken nuggets from the singer of The Chariot when we were on the Underoath tour bus back in 2004. OMG! maybe our super religious upbringing is why we are such anxious and uptight grown-ups. Hopefully our work in the Church of Satan will help us lighten up. Lets find out in this episode of BEST! ALBUM! EVER! (read this in the "epic movie guy voice").

Our first episode! Warts and all. What can we say? We awkwardly talk about Jimmy Eat World's Album "Clarity", We want to be able to tell you it's our meta take on being middle school kids at a "home coming dance", too scared to ask anyone to hit the dance floor with us and are standing in the corner talking about how Jimmy Eat World, just gets our hearts in a way our parents don’t , but we don't want to lie to you. We are grown men who have known each other for 20 years figuring out that we are super anxious and uptight and are willing to put that on audio for the world to hear. So sit back and enjoy our episode about one of our favorite albums in the world.