Episode 28: The boards with Matt Belknap

It’s episode NUMBER TWENTY EIGHT of Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here. This week, Sara and Matt are joined by Matt Belknap of the podcast Never Not Funny about the overlap between Tenacious D and Weezer fans in the early 2000s, messageboard culture and… Beastie Boys. LINKS: Smile Train: https://www.smiletrain.org/ An oral history of A Special Thing, the world’s most important comedy message board: https://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/15503/the-most-important-comedy-message-board-in-the-world-an-oral-history-of-a-special-thing/ All Things Not Weezer' Was an Internet Paradise and Then We Paved Over It: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezvggp/all-things-not-weezer-was-an-internet-paradise-and-then-we-paved-over-it WATCH FOO FIGHTERS AND TENACIOUS D GO HEAD TO HEAD IN A COLOMBIAN GAME, TEJO: https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/watch-foo-fighters-and-tenacious-d-go-head-to-head-in-a-colombian-game-tejo/ Never Not Funny: http://nevernotfunny.com/ Pardcast-a-Thon: https://www.pardcastathon.com/ Jimmy's Records and Tapes: https://www.youtube.com/nevernotfunny/ Never Not Funny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nevernotfunny Never Not Funny on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nevernotfunny Weezer Has Turned and Left Us Here is a podcast for both Weezer lovers and lapsed Weezer fans alike. Every week is a look at a different aspect of the band and its history. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Email us at [e-mail] Follow us on Twitter at @weezerpod Follow us on Instagram at @weezerpod Like us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/weezerpod Follow Sara on Twitter at https://twitter.com/saraanjuliiyer Follow Sara on Instagram at https://instagram.com/saraiyer for cat videos Follow Matt on Twitter at https://twitter.com/fbihop Follow Matt on Instagram at https://instagram.com/fbihop for pictures of baseball hats Sara’s other podcasts are The Purrrcast (https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/the-purrrcast) and The Bluth, The Whole Bluth and Nothing But the Bluth (https://anchor.fm/tbtwbanbtb/). Logo by Dax Schaffer: http://www.daxschaffer.com/ https://www.instagram.com/daxschaffer/