They showed up to interview him, as a west-coast artist, and instead walked into a (rather sad) pitch for a music publishing network. It would be atone to going to a party and seeing an agent and trying the agent pester them to switch record labels or something. It was awkward because it was Tom DeLonge who they respected too much to say 'what the fuck' half way through.

How can anyone see this as them being 'too-cool-for-school'?