This week’s matchups: “Trippin’ Down the Freeway” vs “Smart Girls”, “Happy Hour” vs “Love is the Answer”, “Cold Dark World” vs “I’m your Daddy”, “My Best Friend” vs “Where’s My Sex?”

This Week: The Second round of the Bracket begins! “Holiday” vs “Beverly Hills”, “Keep Fishin’” vs “In the Mall”, “December” vs “Hash Pipe”, “Everybody Get Dangerous” vs “Back To The Shack”

Other conversations: The Magic Hour, Is Rivers Cuomo actually Kurt Cobain?, being mainstream, the UK charts, Ska, 2005’s Top Hit Singles (which neither of us was), the boys bregrudgingly discuss Coldplay’s “Fix U”, 50 Cents former dominance, Santana and Rob Thomas’ “Smooth”, Nick reveals more books he hasn’t read, we coin the phrase “Swimfan money” (so if you use it, please give us proper credit), What if Rivers Cuomo watched “Gotti”, there is a lot of “Gotti” discussion (you shouldn’t be surprised by this), One of us hasn’t seen “Billy Madison”, Shuffle/Libraries, a HUGE discussion about Kevin Smith, Phish, Jason Schwartzman, John Tesh, Andrew working for John Tesh, Nickrob being sued by John Tesh, creating characters, Weezer Karaoke, Moon truthers, legally changing your name, “Suffering for your art”, Does Rivers Cuomo support Trump?, teenage rebellion, and a call with Evan Dickson (@EvanDickson)

This week: Nick and Andrew join their friend Megan Costello for a Weezer demo listening party. They talk freeform about Weezer this week.

This week’s matchups: DaVinci vs Hold Me, Glorious Day vs Dreamin’, Let it All Hang Out vs Can’t Stop Partying, No Other One vs Getchoo

The last round of the first round of the bracket AND the Pinkerton matchup!

This week's matchups: "Time Flies" vs "Eulogy For A Rock Band", "Dope Nose" vs "The Other Way", "Weekend Woman" vs "Heart Songs", "Thank God For Girls" vs "Brave New World"

Other discussion: Jeff Wells, Metallica, Napster, Rick Rubin (again), 60s Country Music, Pac Sun, Lil Wayne, the first 12 minutes of WTF, Tenacious D, They Might Be Giants Die Hard Fans, Weird Al, Devo, First and Second Singles, Album Sequencing, Rivers’ Storytelling Songs

This week's matchups "Haunt You Every Day" vs "We Are All On Drugs", "Freak Me Out" vs "Thought I Knew", "Hang on" vs "Simple Pages", "Ruling Me" vs "Pardon Me"

“Automatic” vs “Possibilities”, “O Girlfriend” vs “Pork and Beans”, “I(f You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” vs “The Damage In Your Heart”, and “Smile” vs “The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)

Other discussion: Ringo Starr, Pat Wilson, Crushes, Drumming Prowess, Grand Turismo 5, Late Nite VH1, Macy’s Playground, Kobe Bryant’s Butterfly Crown Tattoo, Weezer Bracket Bingo, Actor Patrick Wilson, The Commuter, The Pixies, Punk Music, Memories, How to raise a child, O Girl, Soundcloud Rap, Emo, The Rens, Weezer (The Red Album), Guitar solos, Hit Songs, Old Memes, OK Go, Rivers’ Best Buy Purchases, Incels, Making the Move, KROQ, Weezer Music videos, Rick Rubin (reprise), Chilly Gonzales, A call from Tall Can Tony (IG: mcflyvintage), Weezer (The Green Album), Green Day (reprise), Rock Operas, A little known album called Pinkerton, and more. The boys stay focused this week more than most and there are also some really bad segues.

This week’s matchups, “Cold Dark World” VS “Feels Like Summer”, “Memories” VS “My Best Friend”, “I’m Your Daddy” VS “La Mancha Screwjob”, “Where’s My Sex” vs “Slave”

This week’s matchups: “Trippin’ Down The Freeway” vs “Lonely Girl”, “Happy Hour” vs “Endless Bummer”, “Smart Girls” vs “The Girl Got Hot”, and “Love is the Answer” vs “Love Explosion”

Derailments include: Our trip to a lightly-Weezer themed wedding, we met Jorge Garcia (from the Hurley album cover), Examining Shiri Appleby’s entire IMDB, Swimfan, t.A.T.u. circa 2009, Grunge Music/Late 90’s Grunge pop, The unexpected quality of Weezer (The White Album), the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies, Chillwave, Hipster Runoff (RIP), Becker, Tired of Sex, How you believe yourself younger vs how you actually were, mashups, The Offspring, a LOT of discussion about Sugar Ray, and a call from @BenMekler!

This week’s matchups: “Island in the Sun” vs “December”, “Peace” vs “Back To The Shack”, “Hashpipe” vs “Run Away”, and “Everybody Get Dangerous” vs “Put Me Back Together”

Other talk includes Album lengths, Alternate “Make Believe” titles, they make an unsolicited phone call to their friend Jamie, arguing over the lyrics to “Hashpipe”, “American Pie” movies, The Vans Warped Tour, Sumer Songs of 2000, Ryan Adams, Albert Hammond, Jr., divorce albums, Rick Rubin, Andrew tells a good story about seeing Hawthorne Heights, How many songs from Raditude are on The Weezer Bracket and, The best Raditude song.