The year is 2003, you and your best friend just walked home from your first day of 7th grade, there’s Capri Sun in the fridge, bagel bites in the freezer, and a new episode of Teen Girl Squad on homestarrrunner.com. You boot up the Gateway in the computer room and listen to the sweet sweet noise of calling the internet through copper wire.

After what feels like an eternity, you’re in.

You hear the familiar sounds of a creaky door opening, your friends list loads, and all of your loved ones are in one place, at the click of a button, on AOL Instant Messenger. But the bagel bites are still warm and we still need to find out where the frick Thomas the alien came from, so we throw on an away message… but there are so many options. So many cool songs.

What do we want our away message to say about us? What do we want our away message to say to others? To “the one”…. We draft those picks in this week’s episode.

BONUS EPISODES AND PHOTOS ON PATREON!

Links:

The AIM Lyric Draft Playlist on Apple Music

The AIM Lyric Draft Playlist on Spotify

The Reason by Hoobastank episode

The Hoobastank AIM article

The “I Feel So” Tee

Songs of the week:

All Eyes on Me by Bo Burnham

Late Reply by Keep Flying

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