It's another episode Bryan absolutely did not want to do, as his attempt to juice the poll in favour of Far went sideways and we are forced to cover Hoobastank's major-label debut album. And what a debut album it is, as it sounds an awful lot like Incubus and we try to figure out what the drummer means when he says they were destined to sound the same because they grew up 5 minutes from each other. We also get into Doug Robb's attempts to be a "funny guy" in interviews, how good the singles are (very good), and Bryan reveals that he actually likes "The Reason" a great deal. PLUS! It's huge nu-metal news as Disturbed frontman David Draiman is back on Twitter and we find out live on the show that he blocked us.

 

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