Dare to be Stupid: A Deep Dive - Side 1 - Beer‘d Al Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh my gosh, folks, it's uh, we're back at it.
We're at the end of side one of Dare to
be Stupid.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
And in case you don't know what you're doing or
where you are, this is the Beard Al Podcast, the
podcast where we talk about two of the greatest things
in the world, beer and weird al And I lied
to you just now because that was not a beer can.
That was a pompa moose lacroix. Because I have blood
work in the morning.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, welcome to the pomp la moose lacroix AL podcast.
That doesn't quite roll off the tongue as easy, does it.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
No, it really doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm not going to change the entire name of the
show just because I'm having a pampla moose lacroix right now.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Uh, papla moose lacroix. I feel like I opened for
them once. I I.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
And for those of you who may not be in
the not or did not read the blurb that goes
with this episode, that of the voice of jeering on
the other side of this is insane ian who's been
here before?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Hello, how are you?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
I have been here before? And I am here again? Yes, Hello,
I love your assumption that people are just randomly clicking
on blind links on the Internet not knowing what they
lead to. What what audiophile is this? I'm just gonna
start listening to this randomly, like people aren't like seeking
this thing out to purposely listen to it. Just everybody's
finding your show by accident. That's It's an amazing marketing scheme.

(01:59):
And I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yes man, if I only had a newsletter, note to self,
make a newsletter. Uh no, I I well, yeah, you
know what, here's the thing, as as a college instructor,
I can't assume that anybody has done their homework on anything,
or that they know what I'm about to be talking about.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
That is accurate, all right, I I I buy into
that that that that that's a good that's a good
explanation then.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
So, if there's any reason for it, it's it's the
it's the years of teaching college freshmen who are like, oh, I.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Didn't know we were supposed to read that in advance
of today.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'm like, well yeah, so, uh so those of you
who are listening to the show, if you've listened to
the past five episodes you've listened to his cover individually
these songs on side one of nineteen eighty five's Weird
Al Yankovic album, Dare to Be Stupid, starting with like
a Surgeon. And on that episode I had my husband

(02:58):
Russ and his son my steps so Zach.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Which was delightful, and yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It was super fun to have a you know, an
eighteen year old young man be like, okay, so like
a surgeon, here we go.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
So definitely go back and listen to that.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
And then I had wonderful human being friend of the
show and friend of mine, Noah, on to talk about
Dare to Be Stupid, which was again delightful. And I
had my friend and fellow podcaster Garrett from the Nodak
Nerd podcast on to talk about I Want a New Duck.
And then we had more people in the virtual room

(03:33):
than ever for one more minute where I had Casey
and Aaron from the Itch Rocks radio show podcast Palooza
and Russ's also here, and then Yoda was our friend
Stevie Midnight Smoke from the BFYGW podcast and Russ talking
about Yoda. So it's been a grand, grand grand thing.
And if you're thinking to yourself if you're sitting there saying, Gosh, Lauren,

(03:55):
you have a lot of dudes on this show.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I do.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
But well, when I get decide to I have, I
have at least one lady lined up, and it's a
lady we all know to talk about girls.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Just want to have lunch.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, your friend and mine, Lily Hirsh, will be here
to talk about girls much when we get to that
part of the album. So I'm excited about that because
I can think of no one more qualified.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh. Absolutely so, Lily would be very qualified, especially on
the subject of al of course, you know, having written
a whole book about him. Yeah, but also that song
in particular. I'm sure and tell Lily I said hi
when when you see her on the episode, I most
certainly will.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
I absolutely will.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, because you have participated in some of her insane
writings about music, I have.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
I have, indeed. Yeah. The her newest tone, which was
released Taking Funny Music Seriously, has several quotes and interviews
with me in it, mostly in the Doctor Demento section
of the book. But the fact that it is a
textbook about comedy music and I have kind of dedicated

(05:10):
my presence online to being a quote unquote expert on
comedy music. Expert is in heavy quotes when I say that,
I'm a person who does comedy music, so I feel
I have a room to speak about it in that capacity.
So I do a show about it on YouTube every week.
But because of that, and because of my association with

(05:31):
the Doctor Demento show, admitting it on Facebook and also
running the Logan Awards, I got a chance to be
interviewed by her for this amazing book that goes through
not just the history of comedy music in the different
styles in which this one style encapsulates, but also how
it is so much more than just merely a novelty,

(05:53):
as it has often been usually derided as.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I yeah, I mean we could. I love that.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
I love that I have a circle of people you
among them, and Lily and like all of the people
that are on and listen to the show that understand
that comedy music is more than quote just a novelty.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yes, absolutely, you know, and that you know, of course
tends to stend from Christmas novelty songs and people only
thinking about that kind of thing around the holidays. But yes,
it's been an art form that's been around for all
hundreds of years at this point, and yes, you know,
as long as they've been making music, sometimes music has
been funny. But anyway, we're getting off topic. We will

(06:36):
already as we've started.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
This is this is what happens here, you know. I mean,
Weirdo is arguably the the most well known comedy musician
of our times.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
And I don't, I don't there are there are very
few people that will dispute that.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's I feel like I'm on
solid ground saying that, you know, So like if you
were to like say to somebody, oh, you know, this
is funny music and they go like, what like weird Al,
you know, I will tell you I'm doing my very
best I have. I would say about fifty percent of
my college students are.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Not familiar with.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Weird Al, and I've noticed the familiarity rate drop like
over the years, and I was like, you guys, you guys.
I do my part every semester though, so people don't
get out of my class not knowing who weird Al is.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
They right right now? I can't imagine anyone who ever
takes a class that you are participating in will leave
any particular day of the week ending, and why not
knowing who mister al Yankovic is.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Right, right, right, and I don't know about you, and.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's your duty as an educator to educate.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Honestly, I feel like there is no like accredited union
institution of higher learning that should be handing out degrees
to anybody who is not familiar with one weird Al Yankovic. Right.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
I firmly stand by that point.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, yeah, yeah, So I mean I'm glad, I'm really
really I'm really glad we're in agreement because I also
take that kind of as a personal uh litmus test,
Like if somebody quote doesn't like weird Al, and I
was like, well, you know what you're probably I probably
don't trust you at least.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah. No, No, It's like it's like it's like when
dogs don't trust people. I listen to that dog. Yeah.
If people don't trust weird Al, I don't I don't
trust them either. Yes, they don't like Al. Yeah, See,
this is what this is.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
We know what we're doing.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
We know what we're doing exactly exactly. We have it's
a scientific method. You have your control, right right, that's it.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
So, and here's the thing, you know. So now that
we've we've we've laid the groundwork out for this. And
you know, if you've listened to the show, you heard
Ian here do the same thing with the weird Al
Yankovic in three D album a couple of months ago.
And so we're doing it again. We're taking a look
at the whole first side kind of as a as
an end in and of itself, right, so dare to

(09:02):
be stupid?

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Recording for it.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Began in January of nineteen eighty five and it was
released on June eighteenth, nineteen eighty five, And so we're
taking a look at the songs that are on what
I would call a pretty great side one. And I'm
not even tipping my hand here because I've been pretty
I've been pretty open about my thoughts about Side one
throughout the various episodes of this program. So I kind

(09:28):
of did the rundown a bit before. But just for
those of you who may need a recap again because
you're sure.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
From thirty seconds ago, well, I.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Mean, I don't trust anybody's attention span either, you know,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah, with all their their tiktoks and YouTube shorts all
being all oh, short, short.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Short, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
So I sounded like the crazy old man yells at cloud.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
All right, we do that here, we do that here.
That's usually what Rest does. At least once an episode
that he's on, he will say, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
old man yell at cloud here for a second. But
and I'm like, well, yeah, but you're right, you're right.
Yuh So, for those of you who may have too
short of an attention span, the shortest song on side

(10:17):
one is I Want a New Duck at three oh four,
and the longest is one more minute at four oh four.
It is exactly one more minute longer.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
It is ironic and hilarious.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
All right, so yeah. Like a Surgeon is the first
track on side one of Dare to Be Stupid. It
is a parody of Like a Virgin by Madonna, and
as we discussed on that episode, it is unique in
that it is the song idea.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
That Al did not come up with by himself.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah, it's the first single from the album. It is
the it was you know. The rumor goes that Madonna
was walking down the street with a friend and and
somebody said to her, why hasn't weird Al unlike a surgeon,
and she goes, yeah, why hasn't he and contacted Al

(11:04):
either himself or his label to kind of suggest that
song idea, and Al went, well, if they're gonna come
to me about this, I'll do that. Generally doesn't take
song ideas from fans or anything like that, because Al
likes to do them himself. Of course. This also this

(11:26):
situation was expertly parodied with Al himself on an episode
of How I Met Your Mother, Yes, where it was
revealed that Ted was the one who suggested like a
surgeon and a fan letter, we know the real history.
It's just like weird the Al Yankovic story, where it's
just been slightly altered, yes, from reality, just as effect.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
So, speaking of that very quick sidebar, I have you
know in my little world of people that I deal
with on a regular regular base, says I am the
I am the weird Al person.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay, And I.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Can't even tell you how many times somebody totally well.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Meaning I already knew where this is going.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Has been like I didn't know he had a relationship
with Madonna.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Do you know how popular of a Google search that
the game after that movie dropped that makes my heart
laugh so hard. It's so good, it's so incredible. It's
a testament to not only like how brilliant of a
biopic it is, but also the ridiculousness of biopics in general.

(12:43):
H to have that kind of sway with people, it's
it's it's just magnificent and and we love it. We do.
As As an album opener, though, I think this is
a very strong start. I said this back on the
In three D side one in re encapsulation, if you

(13:07):
want to call it that, because that's totally a word.
Starting with the first single always a strong start. You know,
me personally, when I do albums, I tend to not
open with like the first single that I've had, but
at least a popular single. But starting with the first single,
you know, you want the album to start with the people,

(13:29):
the thing that the people bought the album for. Yeah,
and that is always usually a strong start. I remember
most of the songs I like, kind of kind of
jumping ahead a little bit of here to I have
stated before, and I stated on the In three D
album review stuff that There to Be Stupid is my

(13:52):
favorite album. It is. It was the first album that
I heard of Al's in totality the first time, I
rented it from the library on record on vinyl and
then copied it to a cassette and played that endlessly,
and then eventually got my own copy on vinyl and
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So this album was

(14:14):
like my really big introduction to Al other than the
Edit single at first on the Edit forty five, and
then of course went back and found In three D
because I didn't really listen to In three D right
when it came out, but I did listen to it roughly.
I mean, you know, it was like a year or no,
it was a year after because In three D was

(14:36):
was ninety eighty four, so it was it was it
was a year after after that. So I listened to
this when this album came came out, but I listened
to In three D a year late, and of course
did not even discover Al's first self tied to the
album until way later, which was really bizarre. A lot
of things out of order, yeah, but regardless, this album

(14:58):
was very formative to my appreciation of comedy music and
to the style of music that I was really getting into.
And so you know, starting with like a surgeon finding
this album and finding the video the complete al at
the same time, almost and that thing being such a

(15:21):
showcase for a lot of the songs from this album,
especially the title track, and being a showcase for for
you know, some of the other things to come along
with this with this album, because it was basically that
that's mockumentary was made to promote this album as well
as you know, showcase the videos from the previous albums,

(15:41):
so you know, to have this video be a showcase
for this album and also finding the album at the
same time as the video and just the the VHS,
I should say, uh, just kind of ingrained everything in
my brain as oh, yeah, this is what I'm going
to latch onto my for the rest of my life.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I know, and I feel that I that made. That
makes a complete sense, you know. Uh, I like, and
you bring up the complete out which we're not gonna
derail completely. Actually there's no derailing because it's my show.
I can do whatever I want, but the complete ol. Right,
there are so many people who before Weird the Al

(16:23):
Yankovic story came out, were like, is this gonna be
real biopick or like what is it and like I
had to be like, if you're a weird Alfan enough
to like be talking this deeply about stuff, I'm sure
you've seen the Complete out, Like it's gonna be the
bio biopic version of that.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Like yeah, Like a lot of people were like, oh,
al already did a biopic. It's called The Complete ol
No no, no no, because the Complete al is a mockumentary.
A mockumentary and a biopic are two different things. Go
get mob mob film critic hairs are raisin on the
back of my neck. Uh but uh yeah, no, no,

(16:59):
that's a that is a mockumentary. Uh In And and
the the Weird the Alliancvic Story is a biopic. Both
of them are parodies in nature, hence mock in the
title of mockumentary a mocking of a documentary. But you know,
by its nature it was supposed to be funny, so
it was a mockumentary. You know, things like Best in

(17:20):
Show or or this is Spinal Tap also both done
by a Christopher Guest and company. Uh, those are mockumentaries.
Those are you know, its purposely made to be funny.
They're not actually about real people. Even though this is
about Al. The person who plays his manager is not
Jay Levy. You know, the people who are involved in this, uh,

(17:43):
Flight of the Concords had an audio mockumentary they're uh.
They had a BBC show, a BBC radio show about
Flight of the Concords, which was later released on CD.
And Ryse Darby, who plays their manager Murray on the
TV version of Flight of the Concords, also played him

(18:04):
before that as their manager, but he was named Brian instead,
and the show was It's all audio, and it was
an audio mockumentary following the band from different gigs and
doing different things and everything. So they a lot of
these bands have like taken like their real life experiences
and tried to like parse it down into a documentary
or a comedy comedy show or a comedy biopick or

(18:26):
something like that. And of course, you know, ye if
Al has done it first and best.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yes, of course, yes he absolutely has. And it's ah,
we could go on and on and on.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
And that's the thing where it's gonna be a flurry
of tangents this entire episode I can already tell.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
And that's okay, that's totally okay.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Because track too, we have already dared to be stupid
by reviewing dared to be stupid. Exactly all of our tangents,
they just get stupider and stupider. And that's the amazing thing. Yeah,
I do want to say briefly about like a surgeon.
I'm sorry, go no, no, you're fine. You wanted to

(19:11):
keep things on track, and here I am derailing them
again an instant there. I wrote a song called We're
All Gonna Die and it was a collaborative song about
tropes in horror movies. And I wrote it with Keiki Cannon,
Devo Spice and Share for the Dark Lord, all playing
different archetypes of characters that you would find in a

(19:32):
horror movie. And I'm playing the the nerdy virgin who
ends up like almost being the final girl or whatever
like that in the song, and I had this lyric
where I was like, wait, I'm still alive because I'm
still a virgin. The killer chopped them up like he's

(19:53):
some kind of surgeon. Holy crap, that's an amazing rhyme.
I can't believe. I thought, wait a minute, like a
surgeon and like a virgin is a thing. That's what happened.
I thought. I was clever, but no, I just stole
that from from Al whoopsie doodle. Oh well, there was
a moment of me thinking, damn, I'm a good lyric

(20:13):
writer and no, no, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
No, I know, well, I mean you still are. He
doesn't have a monopoly on that particular rhyme, you know.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
True, true, But but you know where you got it from.
I thought I pulled that from from the ether, but
instead it came from the place in the back of
my head where all the weird a lyrics.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Are from the annals of your mind.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
That that sounds like some sort of medical conditioning. Let's
move on.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, that's right, So dert to be stupid speaking of
surgeons and medical.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Conditions this track.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
And again, folks, if you are listening to this because
you are a fan of Insane Ian's and you only
listen to the episodes of this show that he's on,
I urge you to go back and listen to my
dar to be Stupid episode because my guest Noah is
so freaking smart and observant when it comes to uh weird.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Al stuff, a huge contrast to the current guest Insanian.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
So no, I will say no and not that You're
not smart, Ian not you are Ian Noah.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Every single every single episode that.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I put out, I get like, uh, three or four
tweet thread of replies from him with observations and like
adding to the conversation. And so that's why I was like, dude,
you got it. You just gotta be on the show.
Like and he killed it. He absolutely crushed it.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Excellent.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah, and this is a great song to talk about
because this, I feel, is one of those weird Al
songs that that means a lot to your your diehard
weird Al fan, but it also anthem. It's an anthem,
absolutely an anthem, and it also means a lot to
the folks that just heard it in the Transformers movie.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Absolutely. I remember seeing Transformers of the movie with my
childhood best friend in the theaters when it came out
and hearing weird Al's song pop up in the junk
acn scene with Eric Idol spouting commercial catchphrases, and I went, Yes,

(22:31):
this is the best movie ever.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now wait, hold on, you know what you went, hold on,
hold on, this is what you said.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, anyway, appropriate sound bite, it's appropriate. I don't have many,
but I've got that one that's that's incredible. Uh so yeah, no,
I I definitely like this. For many weird Al fans,
this is their anthem, this is our anthem. You know.
We do what we do. We are who we are

(23:00):
because we dare to be stupid. Uh. And you know,
and and Al himself has has kind of echoed that
sentiment a lot, not just throughout his career musically, but
in other forms of media as well. In one of
the Transformers reboot TV series, he voiced the junk gun

(23:22):
at the Junkie on I can pronounce it right, but
he he he. He did the same voiced the same
character Eric Idol voiced in the movie. Uh. And the
junk bot looked more like Al. It like had his
signature mustache and everything, and you know, he had the line,
I dare to be stupid. Uh And so yeah, so
there's always references to that and everything. But also, you know,

(23:47):
this is one of those songs that Al has done
in concert almost every tour since this album came out.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
I think, yeah, yeah, this is an even and on
the ridiculously self indulgent, ill advised Vanity tours, both the
first iteration and the unfortunate return of the ridiculously self indulgent,
ill advised vanity tour.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
He did dare to be stupid, just rearranged.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yes, in different musical styles. So instead of it being
a devo pastiche, it was a grateful dead pastiche in
some shows, or the Lounge Act or the Lounge Act
version in some shows, and both of them amazingly done.
A credit to of course, the as they're called on
this album, the Stupid band, but every every album the

(24:40):
band has a different name and it's named after the album,
so on even worse, they were the even worst band
on this album. They're the Stupid band, So you know,
Jim Steve Bermuda and of course the rest of the
people who play things other than guitar, bass and drums.
This was before we've been of course joined the band
because he's the new baw because he's the new guy

(25:02):
still thirty years later.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
But I love that so much.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
But uh yeah, no, like it's a credit to them
to that that, you know, they were able to nail
not just the new styles to put it in in
the new tour, but also to be able to nail
it so well on this album that famously on the
on the the weird Al behind the Music On VH one,

(25:28):
Mark Motherslaw of Devo said he captured our sounds so well,
he did it better than us, and I hated him
for it, and me being a naive high school student,
when I saw that, I thought Mark mothers Ball actually
meant that he hated weird Al, and I was so sad.

(25:51):
I didn't know that he meant it sarcastically because he
says it's so deadpan yeah, that I took it for
for literal, for realness. And you know, only years later
I realized, Oh, he was just being ironic that he
hated him. He didn't actually hate Al. You're being silly Ian,
but no, in that moment, you know, it's saying knowing

(26:13):
that you know, he's getting a sound and getting a
tone that Mark and his other compatriots in Diva were
trying to achieve with their stuff, and Al actually accomplishing
it in his Pastiche was being so revered in such
a way that he quote unquote hated him. Is honestly
one of the highest compliments you can be paid by

(26:34):
an artist who you are attempting to do a pastichehop.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
And when Al recorded this he was twenty five.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, because if this was earlier eighty five, then he
was twenty five.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yes, So like, yeah, to have somebody who you've been
listening to be like, well, crap, you did this so well,
like it was absolutely a compliment and that that has
to be like a feather in the cap in such
a delightful way.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
But I feel you.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
I got that when I watched that behind the music,
I had a glimmer of that same thought at first,
but then I remembered that Mark mothers baw also did
the music for Rugrats, and I was like, that guy
can't hate weird now if he did.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
The music for.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Yeah, there there there's there's a there's a thread of
DNA between the music of people who do stuff for cartoons.
You know, Mark mothers baw On on Rugrats and Danny
Elfman for The Simpsons and and well the Simpsons theme.
Alf Klausen did did the music for the show itself.
I think that's his that's his name, uh, and and

(27:50):
also Alan in general. Just you know, there's there's such
a whimsy to to to their work that you know,
there's an a mutual appreciation society. I feel I don't
know if it's actually true, but I feel like there
should be with them.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, I feel like there should be. I mean, we
take whimsy very seriously on the show. And that's actually
Russ literally said that to me like the other day.
He was like, you know, I really appreciate how seriously
you take whimsy. I'm like, you're welcome, your gosh darn welcome.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Honestly, that's that's a T shirt slogan right there. We
take whimsy seriously. That's you.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Stop it.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
I might make have bumper stickers made and put them
in the shop for the show.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
I absolutely feel you should.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
I might do it.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Okay, Okay, note to self, start newsletter, make bumper stickers.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yes, Luckily we're recording this so you can retain these
notes you're making to yourself. Woo.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Any last thoughts on the dirty be Stupid song?

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Uh? More to the video itself?

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh please?

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh, because that's.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
All because the video is phenomenal and you know, not
just them doing the Devo outfits which look like has
Matt suits. Yeah, but the creation, the quote unquote creation
the way Al describes what he wants for the video
in the end of the Complete Al, where he's just

(29:19):
like he's having the biggest brain wave ever of super
artistic and in creative thoughts. You know, a doctor wrapped
in bandages, mint green, he's slicing into a kiwi, you know,
just like all of that going on, you know, and
like mashed potatoes, Minnie marshmallow, and just like everything that

(29:42):
he's talking about in it, just and seeing everything that
he's describing come up in the video after it. It
is such a like I almost feel, whenever you see
the music video for There to Be Stupid, you need
to see the meeting he's having with those that that

(30:05):
that room full of people, like in the to the
pitch meeting, as it were. You need to see that
that video pitch meeting from the Complete Al before seeing
the music video for There to Be Stupid. I think
these things should be shown in tandem together because it
is such a glorious revelation, a amazing reveal of what

(30:27):
his quote unquote vision is for this video based on
the weird things that he's suddenly like like he's speaking
in tongues, coming up with these ideas in the meeting,
and it's it's such a great combination of events that
I feel that, you know, they they they complement each other.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, it's important. I feel like I absolutely agree.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
I I oh gosh, it was several years ago. Now,
I was have do you know sometimes you have a
day and you're like, I'm going to watch this comfort thing.
But because I have this, I had then and I
still have now this podcast.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
I put on the complete.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Al and I opened a bottle of wine, and I
began live tweeting well my viewing of the completel and
I took pictures. I took video of myself singing along
with things. I took video of myself reacting to the
very scene that you are referring to right here. And yeah,

(31:30):
I think that's the last time I actually watched that movie.
I need to watch it again sometime soon, but.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
I have not seen it in many years. I did
pick it up when Shot Factory finally re released it
on DVD, but I have not I don't think I've
actually watched my DVD copy of it. I own a
copy of it on LaserDisc, oh bless you, which is
even more incredible. I don't have the player, but my

(31:55):
mom still has a laser disc player, so my copy
of it has at my mom's house. But yeah, so
I do still own that on LaserDisc and I have like,
I have not seen it in at least at the
very least twenty years, and I'm sure if I put
it on now, I would still be able to quote it.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Oh yeah, it's one of those things that gets built
built into your DNA.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
And again, like, because it's such a companion piece to
this album, I cannot talk about this album without talking
about the Complete AL. And I know we haven't gotten
to that side yet, but I do want to say briefly,
I had no idea this is the Life was a
song from the soundtrack for Johnny Dangerously because the version

(32:44):
of the music video for it that is on the
Complete AL does not include the clips from the movie
the way the original music video did.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Oh that's a story for side too. I love that.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
That's a side that's a story for side too. But yes,
we'll get further into that.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
But yeah, moving on.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yes, so to to segue, uh, since we were talking
about how uh you know, there to be Stupid needs
to be paired with the complete AWL, and that the
Complete OWL is part of your DNA. That gets me
thinking about dino DNA and what what what shares some
dino DNA birds birds?

Speaker 3 (33:22):
This is This is the the thinnest stretch of a
segue ever and I love every moment of it.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
I want a new duck.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
I uh an amazing song. It's like like there are
some incredible, incredible puns throughout this song. I only found
out recently that a friend of mine did not realize
he can teach me how to get down was a

(33:55):
joke more not about dancing.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
I have famously admitted several times on the show that
I did not get that until embarrassingly recently.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yeah, you're You're not the only friend of mine who's
who said that? Uh and so, So you needn't be embarrassed.
It apparently is a common thing.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
I'm not embarrassed. I hear, I Hear's how I take it.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
You said embarrassingly So well, I.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Guess embarrassingly recently, but I'm not actually embarrassed by the
fact that it was recently. It's that's fair. That's fair. See,
this is why I couldn't be a politician, because I
don't I don't say what I mean, and I don't
mean when I.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Say that's them now, I know.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
But what I take from that, you know, is like, like, yeah,
there's part of me that maybe is a little embarrassed
that I didn't get to show me how to get down,
how to get down baby yet, especially because he goes.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Get it, get it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
But but that to me speaks to the fact that
I can be a fan of this music for literally
decades and still find new things.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Oh. Absolutely absolutely, And I'm one hundred percent a big
fan of that. Like I said back on the N
three D album, I had the benefit of, like, when
I was listening to these, my mom would listen to
them with me, because she has an appreciation for music
and for funny music. Like I said, she was you know,

(35:24):
my parents were in a filk group when I was
growing up, and so you know, she appreciated music and
liked listening to music with me when I would listen
to it in the car going to school or if
I was listening at home or what have you. And
there would be certain things in the songs and I'm like,
this is this seems like this is supposed to be funny,
but I don't get it, and Mom would be there

(35:45):
thankfully to explain it to me, like the line in
another one rides the bus, which most people who hear
this song don't know this reference of I haven't been
in the crowd like this since I went to see
the Who Who Yeah, which is which is a dark joke.
Most people. Most people hear that and think, oh, it

(36:08):
was a crowded concert, not remembering that in nineteen seventy
nine there was such a crowded Who concert that people
were trampled to death. Ad this is a dark joke.
This is a darkly comedic joke based on a real thing.
But most people who hear that song do not have
that frame of reference, and so there's going to be
a lot of disconnect, especially with older albums, on things

(36:30):
like that. But at the same time, growing older and
then learning about these things, you find new appreciations for
these songs that you've heard billions and billions of times before.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
I love that. I'm thinking out loud right now.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
At some point I would love to do at the
very least an episode with just like people, even if
like people send me in things I might call it
like like like weird al missed connections, like.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Like jokes that are there that like either you didn't
get until recently, or that like you know somebody that
didn't get or people don't fully appreciate all of the
things that we just mentioned here because there's so much
and I'd just love to like help people dig into
the brilliance.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
But note to self, write that episode idea down.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Well, there have been there have been several Gosners that
have been played. Yeah, and uh, I say Gosners. And
for the uninitiated who may not know what a Gosner is,
it's appropriate that I'm mentioned on this because the name
came from this album Like a Surgeon. Uh In the

(37:32):
song Al says better give me all your Gosners, which
is better give me all your gauze nurse. But everyone
has heard that lyric as gosners go o Z n
E r s and what what the hell is a
what is a Gosners? So any misheard weird al lyric

(37:53):
is known as a Gosner. Uh. So in the song
such a Groovy Guy on the first album, the lyric
is and then attach electrodes to your brain and watch
you dance, But my Gosner for that lyric and apparently
one that many people have shared.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I don't have a gosner for this, so I'm like,
I'm like, I'm putting it off a little bit because, like,
I'm so excited to hear that, I also want to
build up the anticipation with the people listening.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
So yeah, So for me, and I found out later
for many other people, we all heard and then a
batch of egg rolls to your brain and watch you
dance wow, which doesn't make lyrical sense at all. And
then when you realize what the lyrics are, Oh, of

(38:46):
course you would have danced because electrodes are attached to
your brain. That makes sense. But a batch of egg
rolls to your brain? What does that even mean? I
don't know, but it's a great funny visual and I'm
laughing at it for that reason and not the true
reason of what the lyric is.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Sure, sure, I love that. I love that.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Yeah, okay, so then it absolutely I have to do
an episode like that at some point while we're still
on I want a new Duck. I need to say
again because I know I said it on this episode.
This is such an underrated parody kind of like outside
the like, uh, it really those that are deeply ingrained

(39:26):
to wear in weird how stuff, and even those who
are like, this parody is so good and like, it's
not super deep, it's not super nuanced.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
It's just very It doesn't need to be right right,
it's it is. It is literally the what some people
might think of as the hacky version of a parody,
initially of just taking one word and changing it to
a word that sounds similar. So instead of I want

(39:58):
a new drug, it's I want a new duck, and
that idea in itself has can be perceived as being hacky. However,
where this song stands above and beyond for that concept
is the execution.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Yes, I would go so far as to say, literally.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Every parody on this album, the title of it just
changes one word.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yeah. Yeah, the good, the good majority of them are
are are definitely in that realm, and that this.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Is all this to say, there's nothing.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Even the one word titles.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, it's just like, oh, well this rhymes, let's.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Go exactly or sounds enough, has enough syllables to match. Yeah,
but yeah, the idea. And when I first heard this song,
of course I didn't know what was a parody. So
I you know the fact that there are ducks quacking
in the background, in the in the background layers of
the music is just brilliant to me. We've written a
song about a duck and there's dozens of duck puns

(41:05):
per capita in each verse. Uh. It is. It is
such a well researched and it really is a testament
to the way Al writes songs like, Hey, I'm gonna
immerse myself in everything about ducks and this is going
to be a three minute song about ducks and why

(41:25):
I want a duck? I do think rock and roll
some some YouTuber calls himself rock and roll doctor or
something like that. Interviewed Al recently in a video about
this this particular song and another song. Uh, and this
was one of the previous thumbnails and thumbnails changed since then.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
But I saw the previous thumbnail, I was like, gonna
come on, now, we need.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Yeah like it like we didn't know that. Yeah, but
still there are there are people out there who who
aren't as immersed in the culture trust But but but yeah, no,
it's it's it's it's such a testament to to the
dedication outputs in to really crafting a song about a

(42:12):
concept and having there to be Stupid be the lead
into this song is kind of like almost a warning
for the album. Yeah, you know, like there to be
stupid here we A lot of the things that I'm doing.
This album is called there to be Stupid. The second
song is there to be Stupid. So you're gonna have

(42:35):
some stupid things that you may realize are kind of
stupid but still amazically brilliant and funny. Stupid can still
be funny coming at you. And what is more stupid
of an idea? And I use that in heavy air quotes, yep,
than a song about wanting a duck? Yes?

Speaker 2 (42:54):
And now so Yeah, I was just gonna say, while
we're talking about things that the average listener may not know,
and I did. I did mention this on the episode
that we did about I Want a New Duck. But
the wiki fandom page for the Huey Lewis song I

(43:15):
Want a New Drug does have a little blurb about
the Weird Al Yankovic parody.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
Oh good as it should.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
As it should, I'm going to read it to you verbatim,
and I would like your initial thoughts. In nineteen eighty five,
Weird Al Yankovic made a parody of the song called
I Want a New Duck on his third album Dare
to Be Stupid. The song is about Al wanting a
new duck with various features that his previous ducks did
not have.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
I mean, that's mostly accurate.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
I I would I would dispute that it is Al
saying these things meet, because if there's one thing that
I appreciate in different artists performing comedy music, most times

(44:15):
an artist performing the comedy music or doing the song,
the narrator of the song, if you will, is never.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Actually the artists themselves. Correct, you know, it's they're playing
a character. This person wants a duck, and it wants
it to have these features that the duck they previously
had did not have. That does not necessarily mean it's Al.
Al is playing this narrator in the song. For example,
Al has never been to Jurassic Park and been torn apart.

(44:42):
Al is not Obi Wan Kenobi recounting the events of
episode one in the saga begins, you know he's he's
playing a narrator in these songs. Very rarely in comedy music,
with some exceptions, do you have the narrator the song
be the same character throughout the artist's entire catalog Ninja

(45:05):
sex Party. Of course, every song is done by Danny
sex Bang's perspective. They are about Danny sex Bang and
Ninja Bryan and their exploits. So every song of theirs
is in character. That's fair, But that is a rarity
in comedy music, right right.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Nobody is asserting that Gala Pev really wanted a hippopotamus
for Christmas exactly exactly.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Uh and uh, but I love that. That's my sticking
point with that Wikipedia too, the.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Fact that like I just got like, the thing that
got me was with traits that are different from his
previous ducks.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
I'm like, okay, well, I mean, like technically in the
lyrics that is true du duck.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
I want a nude duck better than the old duck.
You know, that's almost like his is uh led Zeppelin
parody one a nude duck same as the old duck.
That was that was the who, not not.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Not meet the new duck, same as the old duck.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
Yeah, that was that was who led Zeppelin sirey.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Well, no, that's fine, You're just stuck on the Who
for whatever dark reason that may be.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
But can't imagine. Uh. But yeah, no, I I I
love that, and I also love if this hasn't been
brought up before in the previous episode where you discussed
this song. The revisiting of this in pop culture with
with the twentieth anniversary release of Huey Lewis and The

(46:38):
News' album Sports, of which this was the lead single.
For their twentieth anniversary, Huey Lewis and Al did a
recreation of the scene from American Psycho between Christian Bale
and uh Jared Letop. I was almost gonna call CULTI

(47:00):
mcculterson either way, but yeah, So the scene between Christian
Bale and Jared Leto's seen the Hey Paul scene where
where he goes in the discussion about Huey Lewis and
The News' album Sports. Funnier Die did a recreation of that,

(47:22):
changing a lot of the dialogue to be about Huey
and his animosity toward Al. Because of the parody obviously
all fabricated, but still it is an amazing sketch. It
is a shot for shot remake, which is something that
I of course appreciate, and and it's just it's it's
very funny, it's late. Yeah, and I still get people

(47:45):
sending it to me now, like have you seen this?
I just found this and I go, of course I've
seen it, but yes, thank you for sharing it with me.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
One place to be, right, the one who people send
those things to, like, because yeah, there's there's literally an
entire episode of this very podcast about that very Funnier
Die sketch with friend of the show, Robert Yannis Junior
from the Crooked Table Productions family of podcasts.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
It's all about movies.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
So when he wants to talk weird Al and he
wants to talk movies, he comes over here and we do.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
We do that.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
He's the one who was on the show with me
where we manifested and willed into existence a Weird Al biopic.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Excellent. Well we have him to thank Yes.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
We do, I mean, and we firmly believe this.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
We did that.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
We did an episode we were talking about. It was
the episode actually where we were talking about the the
Huey Lewis Funnier Die Sketch and we were like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Man, like we were like overdue for a weird Alo movie.
It wouldn't be fun if he did this.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
And then we kind of like, you know, wax poetic
about it, and then like literally like two months later,
they announced that they were going to be doing this,
and we're like, oh my god, we did it. But
it had been in the work since before that. But
I still like to believe that I willed some of
it into the universe somehow.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
I mean, like I believe that I willed weird Al
and Chris Blue of the President's the United States of
America hooking up with each other again to have Al
direct a video for them. So, you know, I sometimes
like to think that I'm responsible for that, because apparently

(49:19):
they lost contact with each other and I passed on
an email address. So I'm like, yeah, I'm the I'm
I'm the loose connection between the two. They never would
have been able to connect with each other, you know,
living so close to each other.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Again, I am the conduit.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Yeah, I am the reason they have been able to
collaborate repeatedly since the parody of of of Lump. Yeah,
that's like they had the one connection with that. And
then like apparently Al lost an email and I passed
along an email and like, I'm I I know it's
not true, but in the back of my head, I'm like,

(49:57):
I like to think yeah, that's all because of me. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Yeah, we are all bigger cogs in this machine than
the world believes we are.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
So so so there is it. There is a.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Song that is exactly one minute longer than I Want
a New Duck?

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Is it? Is it exactly one more minute longer?

Speaker 2 (50:18):
It is exactly one more minute longer than I want
a new Duck?

Speaker 1 (50:23):
And that song is one more minute.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
I never could have guessed.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
I know. It's like it's like it was done on purpose.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
You'd think, you'd think, but but but who's to say,
not me, not me, No, no, we we we are
not any purported experts in this field. But we can
also of course make assumptions, right because you know, it's
what we do, what we do, and we'd like to
think that. But I'm sure if it were true, someone

(50:53):
would confirm it at some point in time. But yes,
one more Minute the the insanely popular single from this album,
made ever more popular from Al's live performance of it.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Yes now, now, I need to say this as as
a girl who has gone to many weird alt concerts,
I've been very upset every single time I've seen him
perform this song live.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Because I have.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Some odd reason always been sitting on the wrong aisle.
Oh yeah, and made me upset. And here's the thing.
For the longest time, this was my favorite weird al song.
Oh yeah, I overdid it on to myself with this song,
so I still love it very very much. But like
you know what I mean, I was like, you need
a break from one more minute?

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Yeah, well, I mean I can relate to that because
this song was such a popular and cathartic song for
a friend of mine in college after he got dumped
that the band that he and I were in together
would cover it.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
That's precious.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Uh So it was one of the few songs in
that band, the band being insane Ian and Crotch, that
I did not do the lead vocals on. Glenn God
of Rock Deviage, who was our guitarist, took over the
lead vocals on this. Uh and at the end of

(52:31):
the the end of the song I would do I
would do the noise in the middle of it because
he couldn't. But uh uh, I'm gonna rid my heart
right and my rib cage and the slam it on
the boor. Yeah, I did. I did the gas for
that part and I was doing the backing vocals for
him for that, but uh it when whenever we would
perform that song, uh, then spend one more minute with

(52:56):
you was changed to then spend one more minute with
and the name of the girl who dumped him.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
I thought I was ey to get a scoop.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
You know, I'm not gonna out anybody on here. But yeah,
so there was, you know, a lot of bitterness that
he got to exercise whenever we would perform live in
our first band, insane Ian and Crotch. The band, of
course was called Insanean and Crouch because it featured me
insane Ian Glenn God of Rock Deviage on guitar, and

(53:27):
Pete no nickname Connor on drums. And we were called
Crotch because we were two nuts in a peter. So
it was really easy.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
That's fabulous.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
We actually really got our name from a fellow band
that was in college as a band called Satellite Feed,
and they had a song called Einstein and the chorus
of which goes, kicking Einstein in the crotch, kicking Einstein
in the crotch. We've even got some people to watch
while we're kicking Einstein in the crotch. And we were

(54:01):
singing that during our first rehearsal, and we went, yeah,
let's call our band Crotch. So these were the the
mature thoughts we were having as twenty year olds in
college making a comedy band.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
First of all, that's brilliant.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
And I can speak to this as a grown woman
who has a clean not clean magnet on her dishwasher.
That is the poop emoji perfect. So you're you're in
very good company. There's there's nothing immature or I'm sorry,
I'm sorry if we're being grown ups here. There's nothing

(54:37):
immature about Aha.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Yes, correct pronunciation because you have to put the right
emposis on the right salable.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
The right Yeah. No, no, we're being mature. I love that.
That's a great story. And but yeah, I mean this
song is this song has.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
I mean, it gets spoken about at nauseum uh, but
it's you know, get a very dirty, weird Al joke
in it.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Absolutely, yes, I was going to say, speaking of the
clean and dirty magnet that you have. This has one
of Al's most ribbled jokes up to this point, not
counting anything that had not appeared on an album that
he would do in concert. Right, you know this this
has one of the most well hidden ribbled jokes in

(55:28):
it one of the most It's it's a dirty joke,
but only if you really think about it, right, And
it is like it took many an al fan several
years into maturity to realize that that joke was not
quite face value.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Yes, and coming and for me, coming from a family
who you know, we we my mom would only go
to a particular gas station because it was one of
the few in town that had full service where the
other people might do the pumping of the gas for her.
My mom had not pumped her own gas and I'm

(56:08):
literally talking about cars in till she was in her thirties, right, Okay,
So my fat that's also.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
A thing that like not a lot of people unless
you live in certain states, is a joke that people
will get, right, because full service stations aren't a thing anymore.
Most gas stations are self service unless you live in
New Jersey, right, and one other state still does it.
So you know, even the idea behind the line as

(56:40):
a line on face value may not make sense anymore, right.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Right, right, right, So like like you know, I'm a kid,
I'm hearing this, and I'm like self service pumps like
I don't.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
I didn't understand it, you know.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
And then by the time my mom figured, you know,
learned how to use the self service pumps, I got
the joke and I was like, you know, so that
was cute, but like, yeah, it's it's so covert and
it's really.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
Is and it and that's that is the brilliance behind
good writing is too, like it's it's a layered joke
and and and to be able to to peel back
those layers and realize that you got away with a
joke that we didn't realize you were getting away with
is great. Yep. And also like you'd think that would

(57:33):
have been the line they would have censored on the
TV version on American Bandstand, and it was so they
they like I would talk about this during the Vanity tour.
Uh and and uh. It ended up being the the
word tongue I think in in Cleaning all the Banths

(57:58):
and the Grand Social Station with my tongue. So when
you believe that, it actually makes it sound even more
illicit than it actually is.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
It makes it sound even worse.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
It sounds yeah, well that's you know, a couple albums
to come. But uh, but yeah, it's Uh, it makes
it sound filthier than it is.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Because then you start imagining what is he cleaning and
the brain immediately goes.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Of course, because you know, it's a song about broken
hearts that you know in relationships, and relationships sometimes have
to do with crotches. That's a weird segue. That's a
sentence that no one said, I'm.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Sure what relationships sometimes have to do with crotches?

Speaker 3 (58:38):
Yes, yes, that is. That is my hallmark card to
my family this year.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
All the best relationships have to do with crutch.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Yeah you know, I mean I was in a band
called Crotch. I may as well some of my favorite
relationships of that. Yes.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Look, we're deep enough into this episode that people either
stop listening or.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
They're like all in now.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
Yeah, well, I mean after that, how can you not
be all in?

Speaker 1 (59:09):
Speaking of all in Diegoba.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
Oh my god, you are the queen of Segus tonight.
That is. I don't I don't even know how any
of that connects, nor do I think I want to.
Are you using it as the puppet? No one can, No,
that's not it is not that a mudge handsOn improved.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
No, oh, I mean, I mean I could make a
segue somehow with the original song Lola.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
But I'm you you could there could be there. You
know what. That's you've got me there, You've gotten me there.
That is more clever and and more more appropriate on
on making the segue connection. Bravo. I like that.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Thank you very much, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Yoda a parody of Lola by The Kinks, all about
everybody's everybody's favorite little.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Jedi, everybody's favorite green little frog like Creacher. Yeah. This
song for me. The first time I heard it was
a revelation. I had not known the original Kinks song Lola.
I just knew Yoda. And growing up in Star Trek

(01:00:28):
fandom and in convention scene fandom, and in the filk scene,
where people are writing songs and occasionally comedic songs about
their favorite science fiction and fantasy books, novels, TV shows, movies,
what have you making filk songs about them. I was
familiar with songs about Star Wars, songs about Star Trek,

(01:00:51):
what have you. This was the first one I'd heard
on a major label, on a thing that could be
on the radio, and you know, to have it be
this big rock song as opposed to a couple of
people playing guitars in a drum circle and to have
it be so so funny, you know, knowing the movie

(01:01:14):
so well, and you know, I'll be playing this part
time old and gray, not realizing how prophetic that line
could be. And also this is the oldest song on.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
This album for darn sure.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Because you know, unbeknownst to me at the time, because
I wasn't able to listen to the show, but Al
had a bedroom demo of this of him and just
him and the accordion that he recorded and had been
on the Doctor Demento show for years, and he hadn't
been able to put it on an album because he
hadn't been able to get a hold of the Kinks

(01:01:51):
to get permission. And the fact that he finally got
a hold of Ray Davies and was able to get
this cleared for the album, uh, and have it go
on to be you know, the song that he closes
his shows with. And to have the life of the

(01:02:13):
Yoda chant in the center of the song start and
then grow exponentially with every tour is you know, this
is for a lot of people the weird Al song
for a lot of weird Al like diehard fans. This
is the the weird al song, like we have the

(01:02:34):
anthem in Dare to Be Stupid, But the song that
everybody sings along with is Yoda because it's the it's
the show closer, it's it's the song he goes out
with every night out of performance. And it's that connection
between your comedy music nerds and your sci fi nerds,

(01:02:57):
and just your nerds of every color and ilk and
and and creed and just every style of nerd that
you can be. It's all coming together in one glorious
song that celebrates one of the biggest pop culture franchises
of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Yes, I I think it's a magical thing and it's
a wonderful song to close side one of Dare to
Be Stupid with, I will I will say, I will
reserve other comments for the flip side of of of
my Little Adbreak that's about to have it. And I
think Yoda is also wonderful because you know, I'm sure

(01:03:40):
that you've you've heard the demo version, the very accordion
heavy door version, right and you know, my one, my
one tiny flex is that uh we've got the uh
the Squeeze Box box set in the house there. I
jokingly say that that's why I married my husband because

(01:04:00):
he had that. Of course, there's actually an episode of
this very podcast where he and I are talking about
that box set when he before we were together, he
owned it, and it ends with, well, maybe you'll have
this box set someday, and lo, I am looking at
it right now.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
That's incredible he did. That sounds exactly like how I
married my wife, but only instead of the Squeeze Box
box set, it was health insurance.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
So oh my god, I'm not laughing at it. I'm
laughing with it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
No, you can laugh at it. It's funny.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
I welcome to America.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
Yeah, and obviously love and all that junk.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
But sure, oh for sure, for sure. I mean, but like,
here's the thing. Yeah, yeah, you can have you can
have love without marriage. Okay, and my husband and I
have love, but now that we're married, I have you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
Have it that much more because you have the Squeeze
Box box set.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
And I have legal rights to that Squeeze Box box
set because he didn't say anything, so.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
It's the only thing on the prenup.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
Could you imagine, Like, no, Lauren like you know, I
bought the house, but like you know, the squeeze box. Ah,
that's amazing. I mean, I don't even know what's worth
more anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
I don't know the prices. I keep seeing it for
it on eBay. They keep going up.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
That's the thing, man. I was like, Okay, do I
marry this guy? Or do I save five thousand dollars?

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
I'm kidding. He will never listen this far.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
All right, he knows I love him, But yeah, Yoda
is is like I love that demo version and like
how it started and the thought prop and like the
the complete like the I was I'm just gonna say it,
like the nuts to put it out. After all the

(01:06:08):
original Star Wars had come out, We're like, well, I
guess we finally got all the rights to it. This
is the album that it's going on, Like Star Wars
wasn't timely anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
But the beautiful thing was that fandom was, and fandom
latched onto it, and weird Al knowing his audience and
knowing that, like him, we're all a little weird. We're all,
you know, not for nothing, we're all a little nerdy.

(01:06:40):
And you know a song that, yeah, it may be
about something that's kind of not really popular quote unquote
per se in bigger circles right now. But I know
that my fans will probably appreciate this song because it's
something that I appreciate, says a lot, and it definitely
made that song go a long way and live a

(01:07:01):
life bigger than maybe even was expected for it. Yeah,
I will say kind of a personal story about this song.
My very first acting gig, my very first paid acting gig.

(01:07:23):
I was an extra in the Barry Levinson movie Avalon,
which filmed in Baltimore, where I'm from. Barry Levinson liked
to film a lot of movies in Baltimore. He and
John Waters, both from Baltimore, both filmed a lot of
movies in Baltimore. Both filmed a lot of movies about Baltimore.
Avalon is about basically his life growing up in Baltimore.

(01:07:48):
I was an extra in this movie, my first job
as an extra. I was nine years old and we
would take the bus to set. We were filming at
the Senator Theater, which is a historic theater in Baltimore,
and it was a group of like hundreds of kids
to go see like this one big scene that needed

(01:08:10):
a ton of kids in the crowd of a movie
theater watching a serial of like Zombies of the Stratosphere
or something like that, which at me being I was
the only nine year old in nineteen ninety who had
actually already seen Zombies of the Stratosphere outside of any
of these other kids. But because that's the girl, the
upbringing that I had. But you know, it's this black

(01:08:32):
and white superheroes cereal but ceial s e R I
al not breakfast cereal. So but regardless, the point being,
whenever they would transport us to set, they'd put us
on a bus and carry us through and like everybody's
being rowdy and like bored and sitting on the bus

(01:08:54):
and you're sitting and holding for forever because movie making
is a lot of hurry up and wait, even for
the kids, which you know, they want to get the
kids in and out of there because the attention to
get them to do what they need to do, they're
going to lose their attention span. But me being me,
I just started singing Yoda randomly at the back of

(01:09:14):
the bus and by the time we got left, uh
holding got to set on that bus ride, I had
the entire buses attention singing along Yo Yo Yo Yo
Yoda with me on this this trip through uh while
waiting to film, and it was like I entertained the

(01:09:39):
crowd of kids by just singing a weird AL song
I love that I love I have.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
No, I have nothing further to add to that sort
because it just speaks so beautifully to what you know.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
Yeah, this is why I'm the way I am.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
This is because why this is why like I love that,
I love that. I think unless you have anything else
to add about Yoda as a side one closer, I'm
gonna throw it two adds and then we'll come back
in the flip side with any any critical critiques that
we may have, because while we love word al, he
is human.

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
Yes, indeed, the structure of this album, of this of
this side.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
One, yeah I forgot, Like, let's talk about side one
as a whole.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
Yes, you're right, Yeah, because we we've kind of done
the breakdown of the songs, but let's let's go let's
talk about the structure of the side as a whole.
By this point, album number three Al has down the
idea of how to lay out an album, and it is,
you know, parody original, parody original, and that's kind of

(01:10:43):
what side one does, and does really strongly. I think
as a side one, there isn't a skippable song on
this side.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
Hard agree.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Some people might disagree with that in thinking that I
Want a New Duck is not as strong a song
as the others on this side.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
They are full.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
I can see that perspective. I don't agree with it,
but I can understand where they're coming from. But because
because the idea of that song is initially at first
glance a little simple, but listening to the song you
realize the scope and the dedication to it, and realize

(01:11:33):
how much of a banger it is.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
Of course, and then and then, if you think about it,
if you look at this as a complete side one,
opening with like a Surgeon, ending with Yoda with there
to be Stupid and one more minute on the either
side being sandwiched in the middle is the perfect place
for I Want a New Duck, even if you feel
like that's the weakest track, so like, there is nothing
wrong with the track listing and the flow it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
It is definitely a side full of peaks and valley
but all mostly staying up on many highs. This is
this is a particular al side.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Great side one. It flows really well.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
It absolutely does.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
I can't I can't disagree.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
I love side one of this album very very much.

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
It starts out strong with your strong lead single. It
sets you up for for the the like absolute balls
out bizarreness of the rest of the album. You dare
to be stupid and it it just gives you this.
Those two songs are your amuse boosh for the rest

(01:12:39):
of the meal that is presented to you. That this
album is very very true.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
Yeah, yeah, I like.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
I think that's probably why thank you for for steering
me back in the right direction. That's probably why I've
forgot to like talk about how much I like about
side one as a whole, because it's like I've been
I've been saying for the past five episodes, like yeah,
like I had one rocks you know, So thanks for
making sure that we put a bow on that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
Of course, of course I wanted. I wanted to make
sure because usually I'm the one who's leading us off track,
but I thought i'd switch it up for once.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
No, yeah, it's right back where we belong.

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
So but yes, no, Also, it's because I love this
album so much and because it has meant so much
to me. Uh yeah, I I I definitely like as
far as side ones go, it is a real strong
side one yep for many of his albums, and so yeah,
you you start out with two real bangers of tracks

(01:13:38):
and then the other tracks on there keep it at
a good high.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, I love it. I I've
got nothing further to add to that. I think the
only thing I have to add.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
Or some ads.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
So we'll add the ads, then we'll add the ads.
We'll see you on the flip side of the ads
that we've added.

Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
Addition.

Speaker 5 (01:14:22):
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Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
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Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
No ninety is over. Ask is again.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
God mm hmmm.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
And we're back. We're back from those ads were great,
weren't they.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
I loved them. I appreciate any of those products and
or services.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
Yeah exactly. I like to see the word appreciate is
great and I appreciate that those.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Ads happened.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
So that the show could happen.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Exactly, Yeah, exactly. So speaking of commerce, yeah, capitalism, so
so so Side one, Dare to be Stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:16:14):
We talked about so much.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
And we did. We talked a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
We did talk a lot, and we're going to talk
a lot less on this side of the ads, probably
probably almost definitely, because this is the side where we're
we're doing two things.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
Over here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
We're talking about what if anything we feel doesn't work
about this side, and two we're giving this side as
a whole experience a rating on a scale of one
to twenty seven. So, first and foremost, do you have
anything really substantive that you are critical about regarding this

(01:16:49):
side of the album.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Possibly go for it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:54):
Then.

Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
So the thing that probably may not be the strongest
part of this album is the fact that I Want
a New Drug was the second single from Sports Yep,

(01:17:17):
The Heart and Soul was the first one. It was
a top ten hit. This is a love song where
drug is used and wasn't as was it nearly as
possible popular. I don't know. I don't know if if

(01:17:38):
I want a new drug at the time was more
popular than Heart and Soul when it was released.

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
Let me see here, I'm gonna I'm gonna like, here's
the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
I'm gonna do this thing, and this gives me an
opportunity to hit another one of my buttons.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
Wait a minute, I'll go check and perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
I don't have too many sound bites, but I have
the ones I have. They work well for me.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
It did. It did appear to be in the Billboard
Hot one hundred, peaking at number.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Six, okay, Heart and Soul. Heart and Soul peaked at
number eight on the Billboard Hot.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
One home okay, so it definitely did better. And this
is This is an issue that I had with one
of the songs from N three D and the like
King of Swede. I wasn't as familiar with King of Suede,
King of Pain, I should say, as I was the
other songs from Synchronicity that were popular. So this was
a this is this was another one of those cases

(01:18:34):
where I wasn't as familiar with I want a New
Drug as I was Heart and Soul fun at the time.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Fun fact.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
I love this heart Heart and Soul peak position number eight.
I want a new drugs number six, Heart of Rock
and Roll number six if this is it, number six.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
So yeah, those like interesting, really interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
The The the biggest thing that I remember about I
Want a New Drug that kind of made me realize
als song was a parody of it was the fact
that when Ghostbusters came out, Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker
Junior in Columbia Pictures for copyright in fringement, claiming that
Parker had stolen the melody from I Won a New

(01:19:21):
Drug for the Ghostbusters theme song. Of course, it was
settled out of court. It was in the Behind the Music,
et cetera. But yeah, that well, actually, wait, I'm seeing
this on Wikipedia. This is interesting. There were three parties
settled out of court. Details of the settlement, specifically that
Columbia paid Lewis a settlement, were confidential until two thousand

(01:19:43):
and one, when Lewis commented on the payment in an
episode of vh ones Behind the Music. Ray Parker Junior
subsequently sued Lewis for breaching confidentiality.

Speaker 1 (01:19:54):
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, that's interesting that there's a whole.

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
Lot there and I will I I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
I don't take many stances on this show.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
And the one small stance that I will have is like,
regardless of this whole Ghostbusters thing, whatever it was, Ray
Parker Junior Is so much more talented than he gets
credit for.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
Like absolutely, Ray Parker Jr. Gets a lot of flack
for many things too. There is an amazing key and
Peel sketch about Ray Parker Jr. And the other theme
songs for movies that he's written other than Ghostbusters.

Speaker 1 (01:20:33):
Jesus.

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
Yeah, it's a hilarious sketch. But also because when this
album was recorded and when it came out, I Want
a New Duck is not the only slight Ghostbusters reference
on this album.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Yeah, on side too, we get slam creatures come in.

Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
We have slams, which you say he seemed to be
saying with disgust, which means when we get to talking
about that side, I have something to look forward to. Yeah,
I'm we'll save it. We'll save another discussions. We will.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
I've been laying breadcrumbs the entire first sight I was
decided to is gonna be a completely different discussion.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
Side one.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
I feel as though it may be especially between the
two of us. As I've already prefaced, this is my
favorite album, but I I love in the end of
Slime Creature from Matter Space in the fade out who
You're Gonna call Slime Creatures? There is that connection between
the two on this album. But in bringing up all

(01:21:41):
of that, the point being, you know, I Want a
New Duck for me wasn't as prevalent a song to
recognize it as being a parody for my young self
until much later when I heard it finally on the

(01:22:02):
radio and then heard the Ghostbusters theme when went, hey,
these kind of sounded the same. I'm a huge Ghostbusters
fan as well, so of course that was very exciting
for me as well. So you know, that is really,
to me the only minor and it's so it's like
it's picking at the nittiest of nits. It is. It

(01:22:24):
is such a tiny, minuscule, unimportant nit pick, but it
is a knit that I am picking. Nevertheless, I Want
a New Duck not being as familiar to me, Although
when I was listening to this album that didn't matter
because they were just songs. I didn't know whether it

(01:22:46):
was a parody or original or not. I didn't know
what parody or original meant. I was reading the liner
notes and going, oh, this says this is a parody
and it's written by a bunch of people in al
and then this song is just written by al whatever.
Uh so that is why it is a a a
a nats gonad hair of a length of a nitpick.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
Uh yeah, I I am with you on nitpicking on
side one, and so I'm gonna I'm gonna try and
do this in the most huh, in the fairest way
that I possibly can. The problem that I have with
side one is I feel like it's too good.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
So I think, I think in your diplomacy here and
you're trying to be diplomatic, there is an unspoken end
of that sentence.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
Maybe a little bit. And so here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
I'm trying not to do this because I don't I'm
there is there's a can of worms, and I'm not
gonna open with myself.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
But there's not like there's not a terrible song on
this album.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
Okay, there are peaks and valleys, as with anything. I
just feel like this album is so front heavy that worry, I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
Will, I will agree with that assessment that it is
it is a little top heavy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
Yeah, So I feel like and I haven't really taken
the time and I could like mentally do this, like
like kind of reorder dare to be stupid in a
way that it might be more balanced for a sad
ay and SIDEB, But then that would bust up this
perfect side A, right, So like, I don't know if

(01:24:38):
i'd prefer an album where I you know, if I'm
thinking about listening to it on vinyl, right like or
cassette or whatever, something where we have to flip it
where where where I would put side one on and
say all right, it's gonna start and like okay, you
know that song's happening, Like that's fine, but like, oh,
this next one's great, right, or have it the way
that it is and be me. I mean, because there's

(01:25:00):
great songs on side too, But there is not a
single song on side two that I like more than
a song on side one.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
Do you know what I mean? I would, I would,
I would. I understand what you're saying, and I would
agree with that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
So I just I think it just needs reworking and
we can talk about this more when we talk about
side two at the when we get to the end
of this. Because my main beef, which i'll say now
and I will bring up again later, I hate. It's
a strong word, but I am. I am very uncomfortable
with this album ending with the polka.

Speaker 1 (01:25:40):
So I have a lot of things.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
I have a lot of things that I feel like
need just just the track listing is off. This is
a great album, and if I put this album on shuffle,
I'm fine.

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
I just don't like. But but if we're.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Talking about it as a straight side A side B,
it's side A all day. And my so if my
my only critique then again is that side A is.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
So good that like it's almost too good.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
Yes, Side A would make me want to listen to
side B right because of how good it is, But
then side B would be a letdown, and so so
I don't want that to happen. So I need to
think of something to do with that. So that's that's
my that's my critique.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
I uh, I completely agree with that, And we'll get
into the reorganization when we get to side B. But
I can already see one place where it would diminish
side a slightly, but would make the album as a

(01:26:43):
whole more I well, I don't want to say cohesive,
but balanced.

Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
Yeah, we can talk about this later. I like this.
Let's let's leave the let's leave the people hanging. I
think we should do our own.

Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely no, But I agree with that assessment.
Will also say, with all of that, I think side
is too short.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
It's five songs, and we're all albums generally aren't long albums.
They tend to be eleven or twelve songs.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Sure, And to that point, in my mind, there's five
songs on each side of this album because George of
the Jungle is just kind of there.

Speaker 3 (01:27:33):
Yeah, but George of the Jungle is there because.

Speaker 1 (01:27:39):
Uh, because of side.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
It helps, it helps to keep with the UH way.
Albums are usually separated for l meaning parody or musical
cover and original. Okay, so where the music is a

(01:28:02):
cover but the lyrics are different. This is one where
the lyrics are the same as the original. It's just
a straight up cover that it's in trying to keep
with that. But if you take it as a whole,
well we'll get into that, we'll get in right. But anyway, regardless, regardless,
that is problem for me. I think, yes, this is

(01:28:23):
this is just problems for future. This is Let's see
if I actually remember any of this that I'm babbling
about by the time we get to.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
This, maybe I'll write it down reorder.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
Yes, pomegranate, lacroix, papla, moose, lacroix, whatever you call it.
It's grapefruit your memory to write things down.

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
So all we have to do now is rate it
on a scale of when it's twenty seven. When I
say rate it, I mean Saday, just as Sriday for
what it is, just.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
As sad Ay for what it is. All right, well,
do you want me to go first or do you
want to go first?

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
I mean I'll go first because I think, you know,
if this existed as an EP.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
Okay, yeah, this is perfect. So I'm going twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
You know what. I think that is an accurate assessment.
I think, despite my misgivings about I want a New Duck,
I would still agree with that. And I would also
say if this just side A by itself is a
twenty seven, because I've listened to this side so many

(01:29:38):
times and it is my favorite album. So of course, unexpectedly,
I'm giving it at twenty seven. I love it so
And also, you know, on January twenty seventh of nineteen
eighty six, little less than a year afterwards release, the
album was certified gold. So there's your another twenty seven

(01:29:59):
for for this, for this episode.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
That's beautiful. I love it. Oh, we've got a trifecta
of twenty sevens.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
I think that there's never been a better way to
end an episode of The beard On podcast where there.

Speaker 3 (01:30:10):
Has been no beer, but there has been plenty of al.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
There's been plenty of al. And you know what, I
will say, the Beard to Al ratio is pretty much
like nine to one most of the time.

Speaker 1 (01:30:22):
Anyway, that is true.

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
Well, I mean I have a beard, so that's cool.

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
You do, okay, very good, very good. I forgot to
grow mine for this.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
That's okay. It's an audio format. No one will know,
thank goodness unless we tell them in an audio format.

Speaker 1 (01:30:37):
Oh no, curses foiled.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
Again, me and my internal external monologue.

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
I've done it to myself. So insaney, and thank you
for being here and for being insane.

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
Loony Lauren, Thank you for having me and being alliterative.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
I dyeah, you're just for those who don't know. I
havenade myself on our chat software. Here is Looney Lauren
for this just to feel like I'm part of the
part of the group.

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
Just to just to make me feel welcome with other
alliterative names, a liter.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
Of names about my my, my questionable uh mental state.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
Well, I mean like it ill. The name insane Ian,
of course, comes from the hero worship of weird al,
but it also comes from the name of the cast
members of the Doctor Demento show. You had Whimsical Will,
you had b Below Bill, you had Jungle Judy, you
had good Time Gill. A lot of them ended in ill,
I noticed, but there were there were sums that didn't too,

(01:31:38):
you know. And you there there's a lot of uh
mysterious mos. You know, there's there's a lot of cast
members and people who work on the Doctor Demento Show
who have had alliterative names. So, uh, this is just
a tradition. I'm carrying on from that as well.

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
I love that you're a liter of alliteratively insane Ian.

Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
Yes, yeah, I'm I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
Only professly insane.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
It's yeah, yeah, I'm looney Lauren and I'm lovely. Uh. So,
I think we will leave you now.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Uh, I think I'm done with my alliteration. So and
thank you for being here. I will put links to
your stuff in the in the show notes for people
to click on.

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
You and thank you for having me on. Beyond this,
I I love doing these these recaps with you. Uh.
These are always a load of fun for us to record.
I hope it's a load of fun for people to
listen to.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
It is it is, And I can say that because
people people let me know. People let me know when
they have a good time, and people let me know
when they have a bad time.

Speaker 3 (01:32:36):
Whether you want them to let you know about that
one or not.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
Hey, you know, I'm all for I'm all for constructive
criticism and making things better.

Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
So hit me with it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
It's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Uh Anyhow, thank you for being here, and everybody out there,
thank you so much for listening. We will get to
side to dare to be stupid and a little bit.
I have a slightly less insane uh less, yes, a
slightly less insane ian to doing a guest but I
think as our next episode, I hope I don't have
that quite lined up as of the recording of this.

(01:33:06):
But that is my plan and my hope. If not,
then you know, I will just I'll just make Russ
roll in from the living room and do something so
that you have.

Speaker 3 (01:33:14):
Something to do.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
He's good for this, Yeah, he's Yeah, he's someone to
banter with and he's good for that. And he loves
weird Out just as much, if not more than I do.
He's loved him longer.

Speaker 1 (01:33:24):
Than I have. So that's a that's something.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
And anyway, all right, everybody, have a have a great day,
great weekend, great weekend, great life, and stay weird bye.

Speaker 3 (01:33:36):
We'll say yeah, goodbye, good bye, good black, good bye,
good Black, good bye.

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