We are with you this month, listeners, as we calm things down a bit and review the seminal sorta-pop-punk, sorta-pop, sorta-country, barely-nu-metal "Let Go" by Avril Lavigne, an album that sold an absurd number of copies and turned John into a loyal fan of a pop artist for one of the first times in his young life. We both remember our flirtations with skateboarding as teens, and John recalls having a monster crush on Avril when the "Complicated" video first dropped. We also chat about the album itself, as Bryan finds himself surprised that he doesn't hate it, John likes it even more than he remembers, and while reading the articles, we get a glimpse back into a time period where being a teenage pop star--especially a female one--was an absolute disaster.

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