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Remember that podcast I posted last week? Well, I decided to do another one. You can find the audio player at the bottom of this post. You now have the option to pop it out into its own player, or download the file directly. This all thanks to the creators of the Wordpress plugin PodPress, as well as my brother, who alerted to me how wonky my initial post is. I went back and edited that post, by the way, so you shouldn't be having any problems with it.

This week's podcast is about Weezer. As I mentioned in the podcast, I decided to do this in the spirit of "write what you know." Except, you know, I'm podcasting. The podcast runs a bit longer than last week's and features rare/unreleased Weezer songs. I made sure not to include anything ever released on an album, single or compilation. So, hopefully this will be new stuff to most of you. There's a lot of crap to wade through when it comes to Weezer, and I hope I did that for you.

Finally, if you'd like to subscribe to the podcast exclusively, you can now do that. Enjoy, folks.

Well, I did it. Despite my better judgment, I did it. I recorded a podcast. I know what you're thinking: "John, how could you? That's such a blogger thing to do, and you're a terrible blogger." You're right. You're right. I just couldn't help myself.

So, Episode 1 of what I've named "JUST REHEAT" is below. I decided to be obscure, but not so obscure that I would have to do much work to find what I wanted. If I actually follow through with this, I actually have some decent ideas for future podcasts. For now, this was essentially a test run. But I will gladly release a test run as my first episode.

How did this all come about? I was listening to an NPR podcast with Thom Yorke, and it was actually pretty good. I was annoyed, though, at how they cut off every song. And it got me thinking that I am largely annoyed by podcasts. I don't listen to many, and can easily find faults with those that I do follow. So, I thought to myself, "If these people can release lousy podcasts, why can't I?"

And thus, "JUST REHEAT" is born. I hate the sound of my voice, so I don't know if I can even call this a podcast -- it's me talking, but only to introduce the music as quickly as possible. So, you can put this on and forget about it, or perhaps let it capture your attention. Either way, I hope you'll give it a shot -- I assure you, it's as lousy as all the other stuff.

The podcast is embedded in the audio player below. If you want to -- God forbid -- put this on your iPod or a CD or some other musical device, you can download the MP3 here.