Greg Eisenberg
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first heard May 2024
last heard 11 Feb
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Exactly. Fast forward to about eight months ago. And... I tweet something and it just, it goes ballistic. It goes viral.
It was... What was the tweet? The internet used to be an escape from reality, but now reality is an escape from the internet.
Yeah, yeah. That's good. So I tweeted that.
Well, it doesn't matter if you don't like it because you know who liked it. Rivers Cuomo.
Yeah, he liked it. So it's like 11 p.m. I'm just about to close my eyes. I'm aimlessly scrolling in bed. Oh, I know that problem.
And I see he likes it. So I go and DM him right away. And I say, and this is a tip for whenever you DM someone busy, be short. So I say, I bet you hear this a ton. Your art has been life-changing to me. Often in LA, would be cool to hang out sometimes.
sometimes interesting yeah so sometimes you wrote it wrong no i said it wrong i'm a better typer than i am uh sayer of things so let's just break it down a little bit i bet you hear this a ton your ideas your art has been life-changing to me so saying the word art to like a musician like he's like oh it's art you know it's like this is something that's a compliment i think
Any thoughts?
You're with me? Okay. Then often in LA, I know that he lives in LA. I did the research, right? Do the research. And then I wrote, would be cool to hang out sometime. I'm not like would want to pick your brain. And you know what I mean? It's like very like nonchalant. Like if it works out, it works out. He responds instantly. Let's do it. I'll be here until June. What part of the world are you in?
So then I respond. Love that. I'm based in Miami, often in LA. I'll hit you up next time I'm there. And let me know if you ever come to Miami. I give him my number. Then he goes, we'll do. We're in Tampa in a few weeks with Green Day. And he just puts his number in there.
I'm pretty sure that was Bono by U2.
Totally. Yeah.
What's the why? Everyone is busy. That's the truth. Everyone is busy. And the people that are going to be lazy with those types of DMs, I don't want to spend my time with them. I'd rather support... People who... Non-lazy people. Non-lazy people. Because those are the people that I think are going to actually do cool things in this world.
And then going back to the river story, what's really cool about reaching out to someone who's above you is all of a sudden, if you show value to that person, they give you access to their whole world. Exactly. So all of a sudden... Like forget Weezer for a second. Green Day, like I'm hanging out with Green Day. Like that's really cool.
You know, and what ended up happening with that story is I texted him and he's like, I'm in Tampa in a few weeks. I was like, okay, great. I'll see you there. And I went to hang out with him at the show backstage in front of like 50,000 people, which was really cool.
Oh, the whole thing happened. So I'm backstage. I brought a friend with me. Thanks for the invite, by the way.
Well, you're more of a YouTube fan. If I was meeting Bono, I would hit you up. So I'm backstage. And now all of a sudden... I can't even believe that he's hanging out with me. He could be hanging out with all these cool people, but he's hanging out with me. And I don't want to make this conversation about me at all.
So 100% of the conversation is about trying to figure out what is interesting to him and how can I add value to him. And what did I know about the situation? I knew that based on the like of his tweet of mine, like obviously this idea of, being too glued to our phones and social media addiction was something that he was thinking a lot about. So we started talking about that.
And from that, I learned that he's actually a bit of a nerd like me and you, and he's really into AI and he's really, he's like, oh, I coded up this like discord bot. So all of a sudden now I understood that. And I was like, oh, let me tell you, let's talk about how we can make your discord bot better. Let's talk about how you can make an interesting community for Weezer.
Oh, hey, we just worked on something for Fred again that I think might be really interesting for you. And then it was just at the end of the conversation, he was like, oh, dude, I want to hang out with you again. Like, let me know next time we can hang out.
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