February 14, 2025 • 55 mins
Pop the champagne and polish your monocles, because we’re living the high life on this episode of Beer’d Al! Lauren and Russ are joined by fellow Weird Al aficionado UH-Jeff, who’s here to talk all about “This is the Life” from the Dare to Be Stupid album. But that’s not all—Jeff is also promoting his documentary, Tight & Nerdy, a deep dive into the world of Weird Al-inspired burlesque. Yes, you read that right!
We have a blast dissecting the song, its classic gangster movie vibes, and what it really means to “have money, money, money and stacks on stacks.” Plus, we may or may not do a little time traveling along the way!
So whether you're spending this Valentine's Day with someone special or just treating yourself to a little Weird Al goodness, grab a fancy drink, sit back, and enjoy this wild ride through Al-verse opulence.
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We have a blast dissecting the song, its classic gangster movie vibes, and what it really means to “have money, money, money and stacks on stacks.” Plus, we may or may not do a little time traveling along the way!
So whether you're spending this Valentine's Day with someone special or just treating yourself to a little Weird Al goodness, grab a fancy drink, sit back, and enjoy this wild ride through Al-verse opulence.
Beer'd Al is a member of the OddPods Media Network.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beer-d-al-podcast--5439475/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M m.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
M hey everybody, we are here for yet another episode
(00:37):
of the Weird Podcast, the podcast about two of the
greatest things in the world, Beer and weird al.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And I've got a room full of some of my
favorite gentlemen in the in the weird al space. The
one who happens to live with me and rolled his
way in from the from the living room, my husband
ress Hello, ress.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hell us. And then secondly, and absolutely not leastly is
possibly possibly is uh Jeff or better known to our
weird alfiscionados as uh Jeff. Who You've been here before,
You're here again, and we're here to have a good time.
(01:21):
But hello, how are you?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Hello?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I'm well, thank you. I don't have beer today, but
I do have some uh.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Sparkling worse that is well, I mean we are talking.
This is the life. I feel like. That's fancy. I
almost had wine today for this, but then I checked
in our beer fridge and I remembered that we had
a can of this particular beer that I thought it
fit somehow the theme. It is from Doucala Brewing Company
(01:52):
in Ewing, New Jersey. That's not the fancy part.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The fancy is.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, this beer is called the Pastriarchy Unicorn Farts after dark.
It is a chocolate cinnamon breakfast stout with edible glitter.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Wow, that does sound fancy, and so I'm a little
I'm a little jazzed about it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This feels like chocolate cinnamon breakfast stout. I've recently been
obsessed with the the brown sugar shaken espresso Dunkin Donuts
drink because of Sabrina Carpenter, and she like sponsors that drink,
and I love herself very very much, and I'm just
like all in this space. And so I have a
lot of brown sugar cinnamon things happening lately. So I'm like, well,
I had one of those this morning. I will have
(02:42):
this this evening and we'll see what happens. But a
sparkling rosett it does sound amazing. I will will find out.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I can't see the glitter.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Maybe very well, could have settled all the way to
the bottom.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Maybe I should have shaking it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I mean that also sounds risky.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, maybe I'll see the glitter tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Very possible.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Cheers, cheers, poop.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Anyway, poop, I mean I started my the last episode
of this show. I had our friend Lily hirsh On
and she's within the first five minutes we were talking
about colonoscope and poop. So I feel like I've got
a streak going No no pun intended there either, But
(03:42):
I'm the worst.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You're the best.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Thank you. This is pretty good. Actually, Okay, so we're
talking about the song This is the Life because we're
nearing the end of side two of Dare to Be Stupid,
and you volunteered for this song you got you were
so close to first DIBs on stuff. You're one of
the first people I asked for this album, and then
you picked a track almost all the way at the end.
(04:06):
So before I jump into like the regular part of this,
why did you why did you so badly want to
talk about This is the Life?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I just really loved this song. I love the energy
of it, I love the vibe of it. I just
it's so fun and it's it's just classy like me.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Right, Yeah, it's this is the uh Jeff of weird
al songs.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Oh goodness, I would have thought.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I would have thought that would have been one of
those days.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well maybe if you combine those two, like it depends
on the day I love it? Oh man? Uh so
this is the life? Yeah it is. Technically so we're
getting into like the fun fact ish part of the
of this whole thing here, And this was technically the
first single from the Dare to Be Stupid album, Like
(05:01):
if you if you look it up, it's like, yeah,
this is the first song off of it that was
released as a single. But I don't think of it
that way.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
No, No, because it's you know, what is it track
nine or ten?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, we're near the end.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
All we have after this is Cable TV and Hooked
on Pokas.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, two very solid tracks.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Also, yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
This came out as a as a single.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Before the album, well before the album, because of the
film Johnny Dangerously, which is the other part of the
fun fact here is this The song was the opening
credits movic to music to the movie Johnny Dangerously, But
uh apparently not all home video releases of the film
feature it correct.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
For a while on VHS it was not. It was
not on the VHS I think, but it was somehow
on the cable releases.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
That would have been a rights issue at the time,
right for sure. Yeah, Okay, I just I was.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Low back of the back of the forty five does
have this Johnny dangerously you know logo.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
To just big flex with your forty five over there.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
So I had these out for a different reason, and
I just was like, oh, it's sitting right here.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I mean, first of all, that's almost that's not even
almost better, that's like totally better that You're like, I
just had this weird al forty five out for like
a completely different reason. Yes, and you know, here we go,
you know, just hanging out. This is what we do.
This is how it goes. See, this is why, this
is why you're here. It's beautiful. So the other thing,
(06:38):
I I feel kind of dumb because the other day,
when I was kind of gathering whatever information I wanted
to gather about this is the Life to bring to
the table here today, I was an artist was brought
to my attention that I don't know how I hadn't
(07:01):
heard of before, especially like knowing what I know about
like comedy and novelty music. And I feel really really
stupid because apparently This is the Life has a tempo
and like beat and chord pattern resemblance to a song
by George form be called when I'm cleaning windows. Okay,
(07:25):
maybe if you don't know, then I feel a little
less stupid. So then I went down this George form
be rabbit.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Hole, like so many others before you.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Like everyone before me, I went down a George Formby
rabbit hole. For those who don't know, I'm about to
make your life just a little bit better. So I
was like, I came across that bit of information about
the song when I'm cleaning windows, and I was like, huh, well,
I need to know, and I went to YouTube. I
found it right away and I heard it, and I
was like, oh my gosh, like I get that, I
get the similarities in these tracks. Then I started looking
(07:59):
more into George four. George form Me was a British
novelty recording artist and actor in the thirties and forties
and fifties who had been banned by the BBC several
times for the naughty nature of his lyrical content. But
(08:24):
his songs were filthy without ever saying a filthy word.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I love everything about this.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I loved it. He had a track called My Little
Piece of Blackpool Rock, which if you find My Little
Piece of Blackpool Rock on YouTube and you read through
the comments. There's so many like British people being like,
oh my god, this was my grandma's favorite song and
she didn't realize it was about a wiener.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, oh it was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like yeah, so it's it's like, oh my gosh, she didn't.
She would just like hummet and sing it around the
house and she didn't realize how filthy it was. And
then you start look like looking into like what he
did at the time, and you're like, oh my god.
So then my brain like exploded a little bit because
(09:12):
I heard you did hear from me?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So so George Formby was obviously like saying things without
saying things, and then this weird al song, this is
the Life is It is similar to a George Formby
song for the movie Johnny Dangerously, which famously used a
whole bunch of like malpropisms like throughout it where they're
(09:36):
saying things that they don't mean to say something different,
And I'm like, how on purpose could this have been?
Because am I putting too much faith in Al for
like doing this thing that makes so much sense now
to me and my mind like forty years later or what.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
I don't think there is such a thing as putting
too much faith in Al.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
But I mean, listen, Al has proven time and again
that he puts some crazy thought into these things that
maybe maybe he didn't think that we would ever stumble
upon these things. But I mean, Johnny Dangerously was set
in the thirties, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It's set in the thirties at the time George Formby
was doing his thing.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, like that very much makes sense to me. So
I'm I could.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I have not proven this, I have not looked this up,
but I'm certain that.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, let's just look him up real quick. Was this
guy ever on the Doctor Demento show?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Is really good question?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh he might have here. You know what, while you're
looking that up, I'll play the thing that I do
while people look things up.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Oh wait a minute, I'll go check.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I love how every time nobody sees that coming, I
get that exact same reaction because it's like, oh, no,
you've got a button for.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That amazing Hornby.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
He had to have been like that.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Absolutely, he's all over.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
From from the seventies on up. So then Al has
and yeah, when I'm cleaning windows was played many.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Times, So so that makes sense. If you haven't yet, Like,
after you're done, after you're done listening to this episode,
don't stop it to do it, because you won't come back.
I don't trust you. After you're done listening to this episode,
listen to when I'm cleaning windows, and then listen to
this as the life or the other way around. Listen
(11:35):
to them right next to each other, because I'm excited.
I'm very excited it will Like I was like, oh
my god, this is this is I was. I was
telling Russ, like I have been excited to talk about
this for like days now because I felt like I
uncovered something.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And much might have.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I feel like that's that's that's part of like what
being a a weird al fan is is like you
enjoy these things for such a long time and then
something happens where you're like, there's more to it than
I thought.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
I can't tell you the number of times since I
was when did I get into where I was? Yeah,
so I was nine. So I can't tell you the
amount of times that I've had that exact from something
that seems simple to something like this complex where I've
literally like driven in my car arguing with myself being
(12:31):
like being like, I wonder if he did it. There's
no way he didn't do it. Well, I don't know,
maybe he no, he knows. Like you know, I've literally
like had that this guy and then had to start
the song over, you know, because I like, you know
what I mean, Like I literally argued with myself.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Out loud, yeah over, I understand.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
But that's why my immediate reaction to Lauren was like, no,
let's just say I'll did it, like you don't want
to start that argument with yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
No, I mean it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I mean he's he's listening to, you know, music, trying
to emulate that style for this movie, and you know,
why not why not go after this this doctor dementto.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Hit yeah and fun. One last final fun fact about
that is that George Harrison was actually a card carrying
member of the George fromby fan Club Wow George for
fan Club Yeah, which also totally tracks because George Harrison
was the beatle that totally did the comedy thing with
like money, python and stuff. Right, So it's like and
(13:32):
then you've got out performing what is life at the
George Fest thing and it's like, how big is this circle?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I need?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I never and it's as big as earth.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I know, I need like pins and a wall to
like connect all of it.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
And it won't be released date. But the day that
we're recording this episode was the day that George Harrison
joined The Quarryman, which which would end up being that's
where he met John and Paul. I should clarify. They
went on to form another band, like I you know
what I mean, They were in another band after that
that was like a bigger deal.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I think they had a different drummer in that band
too that.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm familiar with that but okay, yeah, I trust you.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
No, Yeah, it's I can't even remember their name now. Yeah. Yeah.
But then George went solo after that band. After that
band actually only had a very short run. It was
like five six years, the one after The Quarryman. Yeah. Uh.
And then George went solo, and that's what everyone really
knows them from.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, this is beautiful.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It's the cover of the songs just I got my
mindset on you, is what I meant to say.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Which, oh that two gulps of.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Wine and I'm already I've lost my mind.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well, this is this is what we do here.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
I will say that I did not know that I
Got My Mind Set On You was a cover until
I saw them. And this is recent. This movie came
out within the last five years. I saw the movie
last night in Soho and the original version of I
Got My Mindset On You was in that movie, and
I literally, as I was watching the movie, I was like,
I think I'm having my mind blone right now, Like
(15:05):
I think I think I'm hearing what is the original version?
Oh no? And then I had to google it when
we got out of the theater, and it was instantly
felt like an idiot because since whenever Cloud nine came
out in eighty seven, it is probably eighty six eighty seven,
I have thought that song was an original ever since then.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, because why would you cover that song?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah? As a beatle, as a George, you know it
just I don't know, as a as a.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
George, Yeah, representing George's and you're doing.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Covers like all of the Georges.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
How do you.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Catch George thoroughgood covering that song?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Goodness gracious? But yeah, that's all the trivia I have
about this track. There wasn't really much other than the
Johnny Dangerously and then my My George formby rabbit hole
than I fell down.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
So I had one little bit of trivia, I think,
and I kind of I should have done more research
before show now and drinking about it. But because this
video came out in eighty four, you know, before before
(16:11):
Like a Surgeon, and was recorded kind of early ones
in the day to be stupid area, this may be
the first visual representation of a number twenty seven in.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
L's Yes, because when the when the women are waiting
in line outside his door and they've been there since
the week before, who could ask for more? As they
go in? He services twenty five, twenty six, and twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yep, now serving twenty seven comes up and then it
happens again in Like a Surgeon and cable TV.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He has seen Porky's twenty seven times this week.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
This is like very much Yeah, the era of like
we're going in, We're going all in on twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Twenty seven, Laura is being built now yes, yeah, huh well.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
The quote where now from? UHF this means something.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
This is really important.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
This is important.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Oh man, you know what I forgot to do, Jeff,
I forgot to let you talk at the beginning about
your your whole project that you're working on there, that
you've been working on for quite some time with the
Lovely Ladies and stuff, So you can you go ahead
and do that now before we talk about what we
like about this track, otherwise I will feel like the
worst podcast hosts in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You're an amazing podcast.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Thank you, and thank you for allowing me to talk
about Tight and Nerdy, the world's first and only burlesque
tribute till Weird Al Yankovic.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I love it so much.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
They are a troop.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Of amazing people who do oburlesque performances to weird Al.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Songs that we all know and love.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
And I am doing a documentary on this troupe that
will maybe be out this year.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So excited. How about that.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
We had a little secret screening a couple of weeks
ago and Sam fran I was so jealous after a
Titan Nerdy performance, uh as I have sketch Fest.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Which they sold out, which was it was a wild crowd.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I've seen a lot of their shows, and I don't
know that I've seen a more appreciative crowd.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Their show is as good as ever, if not better.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
They they took a number of years off for COVID
and you know life, and so this was their triumphant return.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
To the stage and boy was it epic.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Uh. And then the next day we we gathered some
of the performers and their spouses and some and some
close personal friends and we we had a little secret
screening of the film that is still not done yet,
but it's it's close.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It's it's good.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
It's close enough because we could people could see it.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Oh my gosh, that's so exciting. Like I feel like
y'all have been part of our household for well over
a year because we I contributed and I got the
calendar and stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Thank you for that, by the way.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
For sure, the calendar was in our kitchen for the
entire year, you know where else would obviously, like I
don't know, I don't know. I didn't know what to
replace it with this year, so I literally I literally
got a calendar called Butts on Things.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
So one of my favorite things about the calendar being
right there in the kitchen is right off the kitchen
is where our dining room is supposed to be, but
instead is our drinking and listening to music area. And
so when we sit there playing records and this has happened, geez,
I don't know. At least ten times someone will be
talking to me because the calendar will be over my
shoulder and like conversation, why someone will you know that
(19:47):
thing where someone's paying attention to you, but then like
a car wreck happens like behind you and they're like,
you know, they're like looking at that instead. At least
ten times I've had people like lose their focus and
then they'll like I could be like and so anyways,
the cure for this disease is and they're like they'll
be like a excuse me? Is that a weird al
burlesque calendar behind you?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
You know?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Why are there half naked ladies with accordions?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Is she wearing those can of spam?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Yeah? But I've had that that's happening like no, no
kidding at least ten times over the past, like since
its where people have literally just been like, excuse me,
I have to stop you. Is that I'm like, yes, So.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
That's and that gave us the opportunity to be like, yes,
and this.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Is and you'll see it soon look.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
At yeah, I mean as soon as I can see it.
Everybody that I know.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Is good and I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So like I'm just telling you what, like, I'm really excited,
and I would have been remiss if I didn't let
you talk about that as early in the episode as
I could. I didn't let you talk about it as
early in the episode as I could.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
But as you're not remiss. How's that?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Well, look at it this way. Just say you're doing
the episode like Quentin Tarantino style, Like the beginning is
in the middle right now, Oh.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
A flashback to the thirties and then a flashback.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, you know the movie.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Having said that, thanks for listening, everybody. Lauren will be
back next week. So there was the ending. This was
the life, yehye, So there was the ending to the episode.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
You guys. That's fabulous.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Now you can go back and do the whole middle of.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
The episode, right, Okay, this is the middle, the middle
of our story. The middle.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Oh no, this episode ever gets adapted to film, you'll
just have the title cards like Tarantino does, like between Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, I love.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Looking for my next documentary project, so that.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Maybe do a whole documentary on this episode.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, this episode, that's it, that'll be it. I think
that's a really great idea. Actually, you know this is
so many tawdry things are occurring. It's Valentine's Day when
this episode comes out.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, times day.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah, everyone, Happy Valentine's Day. That's why I made sure
I had some chocolate in my beer.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Smart that's very smart.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
And glitter a smart beer and glitter beer and glitter,
chocolate and beer, glitter and beer. All right, this is
a life. Let's start talking about the stuff that we
like about the song. I have a couple of everything. Yay, done,
episode cut. No, uh, I do have a couple specific
things that I wanted to make sure that I mentioned,
(22:29):
and I figure we'll just kind of have a free
form convo about that as we as we do. So, Jeff,
did you have anything specific that you wanted to bring
up first before I stepped on it like I have
done before.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
No, I really my big excitement about this song in
this video is that you know, this is an early,
an early.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Instance of the number twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I love that love, I love the old timey vibe.
I it mixed with some like eighties era DJing, some scratching.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So yes, I'm gonna stop you right there with that,
because that was one of the things I wrote down
was the guitar solo and the rap scratching breakdown are
perfectly out of place.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Pre twister scratching.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
It is pre twister scratching. Yeah, this is like I
love that. I love watching the video too, because you've
got the old timey thing happening, and then the guitar
solo comes and you're transported to the eighties for like
a brief moment, you know, and then you feel like
you're settled back into the thirties, and then the whoop
(23:42):
wow wow, like that breakdown happens and you're like, oh
my gosh, like everything is happening all at once. This
was everything together all at once before everything together all
at once.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yes, it and.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
It's it blends somehow, so seamlessly like it appears and
you're like, I mean, it belongs there, but it doesn't.
It's just it's just this this thing that Al can
do where he bends genres together and and it's just
this thing that I admire about him so much, and
(24:13):
this is why it's this is one of my favorite
tracks off this album.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah. Yeah, I think, like truthfully, I will be doing
a whole side to recap at the end of the album.
But I feel like this for me is absolutely like
one of the one of if not the shining star
of side too. Like this song is great, this song
is This is a no skip for me?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Yeap so oh No, I would totally agree. I don't
think I would ever. I don't think I have ever
skipped the song for any reason.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well that's good.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
No, unless unless you've perished right for three minutes and
you're brought back to life.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
There's no reason to not listen.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
To this unless you've perished for three minutes and seven seconds. Yeah,
So this was this movie, this movie. This song is
in the film Johnny Dangerously, and the video itself is
also in the Complete AL mocumentary.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Correct, But it's a it's a it's a slightly different
version of the music video.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, I don't know if you've seen. The original version
of the video has clips from the movie y woven through. Yes,
and then the complete.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
AL version has some nineteen thirties in nineteen twenties thirties
era stock footage mixed in instead.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yes, probably another right.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
And and the song is shorter and so in the
complete AL version there it's it is not quite video accurate.
So like the tap dancers are there when there is
no tap dancing to be had audio wise, but there
performed is still in the video.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It's a very it's a very odd.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Edit the video, it truly is. And I the reason
I bring that up is because probably somewhere around four
years ago, I it was probably it was a Saturday night,
I had nothing better to do. I was home by myself.
(26:24):
I was drinking wine and I decided to watch the
complete al because I hadn't seen it in such an
incredibly long time and it is so good and that
this is the life happened. And I was I was
live tweeting, live tweeting my viewing of the complete OWL
whilst drinking wine. Okay, this was for an audience of
(26:45):
like three tops, right, and this is the life happened.
And I literally I still remember having the this isn't right.
There's something wrong about that's like, but I couldn't put
my at the time. You know, at the time, obviously
I couldn't put my finger on, like what's wrong here?
But I'm like, huh, that's unusual. So that was and
(27:11):
now look here we are. I'm remembering this fact, and
so to the on the flip side of the guitar
solo and the rap scratchy bits feeling how they feel.
I would also be remiss if I didn't mention how
awesome I think the ragtime piano is in this song,
like as somebody who plays keyboards, like, I couldn't do this.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's so good. It's so good, like you try, like
there's something it's it's jaunty. That that's the word, right,
I love it. I think it's I think it's one
of you know, up to that point, it's probably one
of Al's better like like straight like piano moments.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
It's a beautiful song and it's so much fun.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, like so so the last thing I have on
my list that I really love about this, I literally
wrote lyrical content. It's what Al does best, the exaggerations.
And I've talked so many times on this show about
how one of the things I love so much about
Al is like how he takes he takes either something
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really mundane and exaggerates it out of the water, or
there's something that's really really terrible and he downplays it.
You know. I love those those two jextapositions that are happening,
and this lands on the exaggeration like area so much.
I've talked about this song on this show before. It
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was a couple of years ago. But somebody did the
math about how like a solid gold Cadillac like could
not move.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yeah, you could do a gold plate. It wanted to
be fine, but no, just be.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Too heavy to like function. You know.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Luckily he makes a fortune while he sleeps, so right
to carry it?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I don't know really?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well, I mean he hires somebody to chew his food,
you're right, So that then brings up the thought, now
he eats Fileme and Yon seven times a day. First
of all the constipation.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Well, I was gonna say, there's nothing in the song
about how long he's going to live.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
True, this is the incredibly short life is what it
might actually do? Right like.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So, But then then my brain always goes and balances
it with the I eat Flame and Yon seven times
a day. And then you go on a little bit
and I hire somebody to chew my food. Then are
you really enjoying that? Fillame in.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
I don't think that's the concern. I think the bragging
matters more than the enjoyment. Yeah, the guy in this
song could is in no way, shape or form, cares
about any other human being on earth like it's all
and doesn't even care about the uh all of the
great things that he has. It's more about showing you
that he's better than you. Yes, so yeah that to
(30:17):
me that see now that here we go, I would argue.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
With my whole world and he thinks it's pretty swell.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Right. This is the type of thing I would argue
with myself in the car, Like does the character does
he say that about having someone chew his food for him?
Because he's telling you how much he doesn't care about
being able to eat, blaming you on seven times a day.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Potent?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yes, it is. It is a flex.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
This is literally the thing that I would argue with
myself in the car. And I'm probably going to tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Why not do it here? Let's just let's just do.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
It well, you know, but you know what I'm saying, Like,
does is that? Am I overthinking that?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Like?
Speaker 6 (30:53):
If if if al himself heard me say that, do
you think he would be like, oh wow, that's kind
of a fortunate thing. Or he would be like, yep,
that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Like that's what I wrote. That's what I meant when
I wrote it. You know, thanks, thanks for getting it
forty years later.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
That's pretty swell. Yeah, I don't know, Like I my
I always like jokingly do the well if money camp
by happiness. I guess I'll have to rent it. Line. Like,
I think that's a brilliant lyric.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
It's a great lyric, as as spotted and weird. The
Al Yankovic story, do you'll call it? It's on the bedroom.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Mirror just it is just just after he has hooked
up with Madonna. You can see it.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I love stuff like that. Again, the layers that are
happening here, we're just can we just keep peeling them away?
And it's such a wonderful thing. It's a wonderful thing.
This is a really good song. It's a good song.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
There's a lot about it. Well, actually there's nothing that
doesn't work for me. It's spoiler. But there's two things
about this song that are special to me. And one
is I've talked about this on the show before. But
you know, I was brought to the dance because I
was a huge Michael Jackson fan like everybody else. And
when Edith came out, I went to buy in three D.
So Weirdeal was a thing that I found out about
(32:17):
and picked up in three D after the fact, Right
Dare to Be Stupid was the first Weirdal album that
I went to buy like au pon release, you know
what I mean. So, and this album helped me understand
more of what was going on, like the fact that
there were parodies and originals and pastiches and because you know,
(32:38):
like this, so this being the first one that I
listened to from beginning to end was that type of
thing for me where I was like, like, very firmly
in my mind there was a difference between between say
a girl's just when I have launched in this song
because this was in my mind of Weirdeal original and
something that he had totally done on his own. And
(32:59):
then this is where I started to be like, wait
a minute, I bet I missed the point on in
three D right, So, like when I went back and
listened to three D again, like so this song helped
me like start down that path. So it's special to
me for that reason. And then, and this is very
real the amount of times in my life that I
have put this word in another song, or said it
(33:22):
under my breath, or said it as an affirmative to someone.
The amount of times that I have said what up?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
What up?
Speaker 6 (33:30):
To someone is like like I have used it as
I've used that. I think it was replaced eventually by
waka waka do doo. Yeah, as like like if a
friend was like, uh, okay, well you go do that,
and I'll go do that and then I'll call you
later and we'll hang out at the place, I'd be like,
(33:51):
walka walk a doo doo. Yeah, like uh but before that,
I'm pretty sure my whole life it was what what up?
And I would put it that yeah. Yeah, but I
would do it in like songs where there was like
a breakdown anywhere there was like a second for me
to work it in, like I would you know, or
just you know, brush my teeth in the morning, you know,
(34:13):
like the amount of time that that little bit lives
has and continues to live rent free in my head
since the moment I.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Moved into my head, I'm going to be very upset
with you.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Well, we'll try using it as many different words in
ways that I have. It's very it's it's very versatile.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Yeah, I think so so so know it being a
Valentine's Day, Like, y'all, you can see why I married
this guy, right, like this was I didn't do this.
This is what happened.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Her mother and I had a conversation soon after I
really got to know her parents, and her mom says, now,
have you been a weird Al fan the whole time?
Or and I said, and I said, how do I say?
This is nicely? They can I literally bought my first
weird al album before she was born, Like, yes, I've
(35:09):
been a weird Al fan the whole time, like like
before she even had a chance to buy a weird
Ol album. And so her mom was like, oh okay, yeah,
but I also liked that. That was my My favorite
part about that is that's like, you know, most moms
are like, well, where did you go to school? And
what are you? You know, She's like, now tell me
about your weird Al fandom. You know. Luckily, luckily I
(35:32):
was ready for that conversation.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, priorities, right, that's great, that's wonderful. Oh well, this
feels like a good time to kick it over to
an ad break to pay to pay some Williams for
the beard Ol podcast. You know the formal bills that
need to be paid.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I understand.
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Speaker 3 (37:18):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Wild that was a wild trip, I.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Know, right, I feel like I need to make sure
that my listeners know that you can totally fast forward
through those and I still get paid. So, uh, yeah,
I don't know that. Yeah, I know, I figured i'd
hit you on You are the one that told me that. Yeah,
so I'll hit you on the you know, I'll hit
you on the back side of those with these this time,
(37:43):
but yeah, next time, you're listening, you can just go
buzz through them until you hear the we're black and
then you're fine. It's great. So on this flip side, yes,
we do the stuff that we think made. Maybe does
it works so well? And judging by the conversation that
(38:03):
I've had with both of you on either side of this,
I'm guessing neither of you have any qualms whatsoever. However
nitpicky they might be.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
I really don't either. I just it's like listening to
the song preparing for today and it's just like so
much fun.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
My only complaint is I wish that the tap dancers
got their proper due in the complete OWL version of
this video.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
How's that?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
That's a solid point. And I love how nitpicky that is.
That's beautiful. That's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Want to start a picket line over it?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
A nit picket line?
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Yeah? Yeah, nail? Oh wow, what are those people nitpicking?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (38:52):
You don't want to you don't want to go there. Yeah,
it's all sorts of union stuff. Oh wow. Unions are
pretty serious. No, no, they're worried about like the Union
of the Snake by Devin Duran Duran, it's very nitpicky.
I love it so but I will tell you yes,
So I don't love picking apart Weirdel stuff, and I
(39:13):
what I what I what I mean to say is
if I come to the show and I go, Okay,
here's what doesn't work for me for this, Like I've
talked to you before, like the guitar tone I smells
like Nirvana and the solo and eat it and stuff
like that, like those are things that like, Since the
first time I heard it, I was like, I don't
like that. Right. Having said that, the other day, when
we were watching the video for the song on YouTube,
(39:35):
I purposely was like, Okay, I'm gonna try and pick
something that I don't like. And I couldn't come.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Up with anything, So that's great.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
I just wanted to put it in start contrast. If anything,
I just don't want anybody being like, oh, big surprise,
the weird El fans don't have anything bad to say,
like h I like, I I really listened in being like, well,
there's got to be something I can buy to go on.
I don't and damn praise. I was doing fine then
mill I was like, ah.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
I also wish that it was about like four minutes longer.
Speaker 6 (40:06):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Well okay, so yeah, we need an extended version of
This is Life?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yes, orches get.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
As longer, solo, more tab dancing.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
We could see if al would do an updated version
like this is five Yeah, for like.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
The one hundredth anniversary of when it would take place.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yes, there you go towards it.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
I think something's yeah, I feel like something, something's bruin something.
Oh well, you know what's really funny. So this is
a little inside baseball because the people who are listening
don't know that we were supposed to record this two
days before. We were doing it now. And I was
all excited because two days ago we actually had filet
mignon for and I was gonna be like we have today,
(40:58):
but like, we're really not fancy that we have a
meat shop I don't know, like a mile and a
half away from the house that the last Friday of
every month they do a really deep discount on bacon
wrapped filets.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
So if so now, so if I were to say
to you, I am able to get bacon wrapped an
eight ounce bacon rapp filet mignon for eight dollars.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
And they're good.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
They're really good, and we've got one of though, we
got a Blackstone griddle. He cooks them up.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
We essentially, I don't want to, you know, make anybody
feel bad, but the guy that we have cook him
out on the Blackstone really Oh wait, that's me.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yeah. So we we end up once a month having
like a meat and I make the world's best baked potato.
Speaker 6 (41:49):
She really does.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
We end up having what amounts to like a meal
that you'd probably spend fifty sixty dollars for each each
for less than twenty bucks amazing total.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
It just feels weird that I was relegated to a
digital version of this interview as opposed to just being
invited for dinner.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
That's fine, we don't.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Have the budget to fly you out here. Okay, you
can't afford not to have me. Then, oh my god,
that's great.
Speaker 5 (42:23):
I would have brought the big cheese.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Don't sleep on this, Guda, I do have. So I
try to have something for the want want portion of
the show every time, because most times people don't. But
I will tell you this, if I had a gripe,
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and the gripe stems from the song, but it's an
album wide gripe. Okay, I feel, and I've said this before,
this is no secret that Side one of Dare to
Be Stupid is so packed and so perfect that you
don't need side two right, Like it's a perfect EP.
(43:12):
You know, there's so much good stuff on it that
then when you get to side too, when it opens
with George of the Jungle and Slime Creatures and stuff
like that, and then girls just want to have lunch,
you're like, it's as a whole entire side Side two
of the album is like a letdown. Like if I'm
listening to it on cassette or on vinyl, it's like,
I am so rarely compelled to flip. This is the
(43:35):
one song then I would flip for I.
Speaker 6 (43:40):
Would for me. This is where the side takes an
upturn because cable TV is great.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Yeah, it's it's but you gotta you gotta get here now.
For those of you who are like, but you just
talked two weeks ago with Lily Hirsh about how girls
just want to have lunches and all that bad and
it's not bad, okay, but when.
Speaker 6 (44:00):
You're dealing with word l not bad is not the
standard with which you listen correct, great and above.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
So I have a whole issue with the sequencing of
There to Be Stupid. We can keep every single song
on there that's on there, but I think I think
it needs re sequencing to give the great songs some
time to breathe, and the good songs and even the
not bad songs a little more room to like be
(44:29):
themselves interesting.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
So you feel like it's it's a little top heavy.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
It's more than a little top heavy. It's like really
really top heavy that like this is the life. I
feel like by the time you get to it on
side two of this album, you're like, and then this
song happens and it's great. It's great. You're like, oh
my god, this is this is great. But like I
think it needs I think it just needs more balance.
(44:55):
The album is a whole, and.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Is it it is the the issue maybe and I
don't want to put words in your mouth, but is
part of the the issue that there's there's only one
parody on side to you and it's girls.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
It's when I have Lunch with which he is not
into you as we know. Yeah, is that part of it?
Speaker 4 (45:16):
Like do you want Yoda or I want a new
duck coming coming into side to and and moving this
is the life somewhere you got?
Speaker 3 (45:25):
I feel like yes, and so like a part of
me I said this, I.
Speaker 6 (45:30):
Don't know if this is life would go I would
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
I wouldn't move it.
Speaker 6 (45:33):
I would move creatures, maybe off a side too, and
put a parody there instead of not there but on
side too.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Inside what I would do? And I feel I said
I where I was going. I had a conversation with
Insaney and about the end of Side one, and I said,
I think I'm gonna need to do an episode where
we re sequenced there to be stupid and explain why,
because I've been laying nuggets of this throughout this entire series.
At this point, I am gonna say when we do
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the episode about it too. I hate the fact that
the Polka is the last song on this album. That's
not where the Polka ghosts. That's just not where the
Polka goes. Okay, So from you.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
May I ask a question, have you considered writing all
a strongly worded letter about this.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
You can listen to this.
Speaker 6 (46:16):
You seem pretty passionate.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
I am very passionate about this, and I respect Thank
you and so.
Speaker 6 (46:22):
Maybe rent an airplane with like a message on the
back of it. You know they like fly over Polka.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Shouldn't close your albums.
Speaker 6 (46:31):
Or or run for office on that platform. Oh oh,
that will show them.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
That will show them, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (46:39):
We'll be running on the Polka party.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
That's what time everybody could know.
Speaker 8 (46:47):
So, oh my, that's a fancy cup. Is that a goblet?
Speaker 4 (46:58):
It's a goblet from the Madonna in the Oh you
shut up in San Luisabethpo where Al went to college.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
Nice, that's brilliant. I'm being very self serving and I'm
drinking beer out of a beard olglass.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
As you should, as I should.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
So as you go to take another drink, here's what well, no,
I meant to like do that, And I'll go ahead
and talk for a second, because you really look like
you want to take another drink. What I feel like
you're proposing. Here is a super deluxe box set of
There to Be Stupid, where you get two things, your
resequencing of the record, and then we get the longer
(47:31):
version of This is Life.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Perhaps perhaps four.
Speaker 4 (47:37):
It's a four sided mega box and one of the
sides is just this is the one.
Speaker 6 (47:43):
Yeah, I would say so cut at forty five rpm.
Speaker 4 (47:49):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (47:50):
I love it. You know what, somebody important here's this.
They're going to find a way to make money off.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
I do.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
I do one more piece of trivia? Wait?
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Bring it?
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Do you know what the U with the B side?
Speaker 6 (48:05):
You know what? I was going to ask you that earlier,
and I forgot to ask you.
Speaker 4 (48:09):
The B side of the single was was was a
track from N three D because Jeb Stuper wasn't out.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
Oh that does make sense.
Speaker 6 (48:17):
What track is it?
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Any guesses?
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Wait? Hold on, don't wear those shoes.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Three D?
Speaker 3 (48:24):
No, it's not. I'm sorry because I was just I don't.
I don't know why I even said that, because that's
on that's not even on that album. Okay, why am
I doing this? I've had a do claw now.
Speaker 6 (48:35):
I mean I feel I feel like I'm just going
to cycle through all condo.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
I don't know condo. Yes, look at that.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
Yeah, and so it was.
Speaker 5 (48:48):
A big This was also the first al original to
be released.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
As its own single.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
H Oh, that's true.
Speaker 6 (48:54):
I was going to ask that as well. So I'm
glad those came up because there's two questions I had
that I neglect.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
The that's brilliant. I love it.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
It would be more brilliant if I brought it up
during the trivia Sorry.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
No, well, look at we both had our remiss moments.
Speaker 6 (49:08):
This is the Tarantino of it.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, you did that on.
Speaker 6 (49:13):
Were suddenly back in the trivia portion. Where are we
going next? Who knows? I guarantee you it's intentional though
absolutely not by accident purpose.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
Oh no, you would do that absolutely, But yeah, it
was the first. It was the first Alaris want to
be released to a single and also as a video obviously.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Huh yeah, Well now I'm going to have to I
don't expect anybody to have the answer to this right now.
He can't have released too too many originals and singles,
obviously there to be stupid was, but just off the
top of my head, I can't think of too too
many more. There were more, I'm sure more.
Speaker 5 (49:50):
Yeah, but you don't love be anymore?
Speaker 1 (49:53):
The next one?
Speaker 4 (49:54):
I mean five years later? M yeah, no, eight years later,
My goodness with you and Jeff.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (50:05):
I have said so much wine, You've got.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Your Madonna completence. I'm good, You're great. So I think
all we have left to do then, is everyone gives
the song a rating on a scale of one to
twenty seven. I will go first because I feel comfortable
giving this song with where it is on this side
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of the album and all of this, that and the other.
I'm going to give it a twenty three because I
like this song very very much. It's not perfect, but
it's not enough for me to put it anywhere below
a twenty three. But don't let my rating skew you
at all. I've had to rate every song on the album,
so I'm trying to keep myself organized. Who would like
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to go next?
Speaker 6 (50:56):
I don't have any issue with the song at all? Okay,
And I think I've told you before, like how I
grade things in life is like you start at the
full markings and then when I find problems, I mark
you down. Sure, So for me, it's a twenty seven,
ok because it's just I can't think of anything. I
literally listen to it and watch the video the other
(51:17):
day to try and find something I didn't like, and
I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
So I love it it is.
Speaker 4 (51:22):
It's it's iconic, and it's perfect, and it's a twenty
seven for me.
Speaker 3 (51:27):
I think that's great, and I don't even feel bad
not giving it a perfect twenty seven because between the
three of us it averages out to a twenty five
and to twenty five and two thirds nice, So I
feel like that's good. That's a really good rating for
this song.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
So Chloe seems happy with it.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Yeah, so that your cat says hello Chloe, Chloe.
Speaker 5 (51:50):
Yeah, yeah, Chloe.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
We've had Belladonna the German Shepherd in the room pretty
much the entire time. She has decided to move her
fat butt to the hallway, so that's where she is
at the moment. But Jeff, it has been an absolute
delight to have you here to talk about just some
weird al song, and because the only other time I
(52:13):
think you've been on the show is to talk about
you were starting the documentary project.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
Right, Yes, I think we were doing.
Speaker 5 (52:22):
Yes, yes, which I very much appreciate you having me
for that.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
Look it I don't I don't give to many causes,
but that one felt very worthy to me. So no,
and I mean the calendar changed our lives and it
made everybody's life better in our house for a little while.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
And it's said the rest of the March is coming soon.
Speaker 3 (52:43):
I'm so excited. You know, I'm a very patient person
when it comes to that kind of thing, So we
take our time, and it's good. I'm just very excited
to see it, and I was very happy to have
you here. You are.
Speaker 6 (52:54):
I'll tell you what, if there's going to be a
like since I had a screening for it, if there's
going to be like an actual premiere for it when
it comes out, we should find a way to get
out there and be involved in that.
Speaker 4 (53:04):
M Maybe they to a handful of festivals and hopefully
one of them will pick us up and we'll.
Speaker 5 (53:12):
Be able to invite everyone to whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (53:16):
I get to be fancy, Okay, that would be great.
That would be so cool. I also don't count any
chickens either. I'm just like, look it, like if it
has to come to the point where like I get
it and I can just watch it and like have
people over and make them dress up to come to
my house to watch it, Like that's what will happen.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
A portable red carpet.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
Yeah, you know what, right, I'm just just roll it
out of my purse. But yeah, Jeff, you are welcome
back here anytime. Polka Party is going to be the
album that's up next to If there's a track on
Polka Party that you want to talk about, there is,
Oh gosh, talk to me when we stop recording, and
I'll put you down on my list because I don't
I don't need to spoiler it that early.
Speaker 6 (54:00):
I say, that's not the type of thing you can
just give away to the audience for free.
Speaker 3 (54:03):
No, but hey, you get to hear You'll get to
hear Jeff again. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (54:08):
So I plan to tell my story about Polka Party
every single episode I'm on the entire I'm gonna tell
it like I've like, it's the first time I've ever
told it.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
I think that'll be a really fun gag. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (54:18):
I can't wait to hear it for the eleven times
I know.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
But all right, yeah, Jeff, thank you so much for
being here on the beard much and Happy Valentine's Day, everybody.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
Happy Valentine's Day to us all. Happy Alentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (54:40):
Oh Alentine's Day. Whoop woop woop. Okay, we'll come at
you again next time. We've got cable TV and hooked
on Polkas to close out the album, good stuff coming up, hooray, Okay, bye,
M m.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
M hey everybody, we are here for yet another episode
(00:37):
of the Weird Podcast, the podcast about two of the
greatest things in the world, Beer and weird al.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And I've got a room full of some of my
favorite gentlemen in the in the weird al space. The
one who happens to live with me and rolled his
way in from the from the living room, my husband
ress Hello, ress.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hell us. And then secondly, and absolutely not leastly is
possibly possibly is uh Jeff or better known to our
weird alfiscionados as uh Jeff. Who You've been here before,
You're here again, and we're here to have a good time.
(01:21):
But hello, how are you?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Hello?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I'm well, thank you. I don't have beer today, but
I do have some uh.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Sparkling worse that is well, I mean we are talking.
This is the life. I feel like. That's fancy. I
almost had wine today for this, but then I checked
in our beer fridge and I remembered that we had
a can of this particular beer that I thought it
fit somehow the theme. It is from Doucala Brewing Company
(01:52):
in Ewing, New Jersey. That's not the fancy part.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The fancy is.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, this beer is called the Pastriarchy Unicorn Farts after dark.
It is a chocolate cinnamon breakfast stout with edible glitter.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Wow, that does sound fancy, and so I'm a little
I'm a little jazzed about it.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This feels like chocolate cinnamon breakfast stout. I've recently been
obsessed with the the brown sugar shaken espresso Dunkin Donuts
drink because of Sabrina Carpenter, and she like sponsors that drink,
and I love herself very very much, and I'm just
like all in this space. And so I have a
lot of brown sugar cinnamon things happening lately. So I'm like, well,
I had one of those this morning. I will have
(02:42):
this this evening and we'll see what happens. But a
sparkling rosett it does sound amazing. I will will find out.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I can't see the glitter.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Maybe very well, could have settled all the way to
the bottom.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Maybe I should have shaking it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I mean that also sounds risky.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, maybe I'll see the glitter tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Very possible.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Cheers, cheers, poop.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Anyway, poop, I mean I started my the last episode
of this show. I had our friend Lily hirsh On
and she's within the first five minutes we were talking
about colonoscope and poop. So I feel like I've got
a streak going No no pun intended there either, But
(03:42):
I'm the worst.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You're the best.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Thank you. This is pretty good. Actually, Okay, so we're
talking about the song This is the Life because we're
nearing the end of side two of Dare to Be Stupid,
and you volunteered for this song you got you were
so close to first DIBs on stuff. You're one of
the first people I asked for this album, and then
you picked a track almost all the way at the end.
(04:06):
So before I jump into like the regular part of this,
why did you why did you so badly want to
talk about This is the Life?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I just really loved this song. I love the energy
of it, I love the vibe of it. I just
it's so fun and it's it's just classy like me.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Right, Yeah, it's this is the uh Jeff of weird
al songs.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Oh goodness, I would have thought.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I would have thought that would have been one of
those days.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well maybe if you combine those two, like it depends
on the day I love it? Oh man? Uh so
this is the life? Yeah it is. Technically so we're
getting into like the fun fact ish part of the
of this whole thing here, And this was technically the
first single from the Dare to Be Stupid album, Like
(05:01):
if you if you look it up, it's like, yeah,
this is the first song off of it that was
released as a single. But I don't think of it
that way.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
No, No, because it's you know, what is it track
nine or ten?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, we're near the end.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
All we have after this is Cable TV and Hooked
on Pokas.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, two very solid tracks.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Also, yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
This came out as a as a single.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Before the album, well before the album, because of the
film Johnny Dangerously, which is the other part of the
fun fact here is this The song was the opening
credits movic to music to the movie Johnny Dangerously, But
uh apparently not all home video releases of the film
feature it correct.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
For a while on VHS it was not. It was
not on the VHS I think, but it was somehow
on the cable releases.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
That would have been a rights issue at the time,
right for sure. Yeah, Okay, I just I was.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Low back of the back of the forty five does
have this Johnny dangerously you know logo.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
To just big flex with your forty five over there.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
So I had these out for a different reason, and
I just was like, oh, it's sitting right here.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I mean, first of all, that's almost that's not even
almost better, that's like totally better that You're like, I
just had this weird al forty five out for like
a completely different reason. Yes, and you know, here we go,
you know, just hanging out. This is what we do.
This is how it goes. See, this is why, this
is why you're here. It's beautiful. So the other thing,
(06:38):
I I feel kind of dumb because the other day,
when I was kind of gathering whatever information I wanted
to gather about this is the Life to bring to
the table here today, I was an artist was brought
to my attention that I don't know how I hadn't
(07:01):
heard of before, especially like knowing what I know about
like comedy and novelty music. And I feel really really
stupid because apparently This is the Life has a tempo
and like beat and chord pattern resemblance to a song
by George form be called when I'm cleaning windows. Okay,
(07:25):
maybe if you don't know, then I feel a little
less stupid. So then I went down this George form
be rabbit.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Hole, like so many others before you.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Like everyone before me, I went down a George Formby
rabbit hole. For those who don't know, I'm about to
make your life just a little bit better. So I
was like, I came across that bit of information about
the song when I'm cleaning windows, and I was like, huh, well,
I need to know, and I went to YouTube. I
found it right away and I heard it, and I
was like, oh my gosh, like I get that, I
get the similarities in these tracks. Then I started looking
(07:59):
more into George four. George form Me was a British
novelty recording artist and actor in the thirties and forties
and fifties who had been banned by the BBC several
times for the naughty nature of his lyrical content. But
(08:24):
his songs were filthy without ever saying a filthy word.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I love everything about this.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I loved it. He had a track called My Little
Piece of Blackpool Rock, which if you find My Little
Piece of Blackpool Rock on YouTube and you read through
the comments. There's so many like British people being like,
oh my god, this was my grandma's favorite song and
she didn't realize it was about a wiener.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, oh it was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like yeah, so it's it's like, oh my gosh, she didn't.
She would just like hummet and sing it around the
house and she didn't realize how filthy it was. And
then you start look like looking into like what he
did at the time, and you're like, oh my god.
So then my brain like exploded a little bit because
(09:12):
I heard you did hear from me?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So so George Formby was obviously like saying things without
saying things, and then this weird al song, this is
the Life is It is similar to a George Formby
song for the movie Johnny Dangerously, which famously used a
whole bunch of like malpropisms like throughout it where they're
(09:36):
saying things that they don't mean to say something different,
And I'm like, how on purpose could this have been?
Because am I putting too much faith in Al for
like doing this thing that makes so much sense now
to me and my mind like forty years later or what.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
I don't think there is such a thing as putting
too much faith in Al.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
But I mean, listen, Al has proven time and again
that he puts some crazy thought into these things that
maybe maybe he didn't think that we would ever stumble
upon these things. But I mean, Johnny Dangerously was set
in the thirties, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It's set in the thirties at the time George Formby
was doing his thing.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, like that very much makes sense to me. So
I'm I could.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I have not proven this, I have not looked this up,
but I'm certain that.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, let's just look him up real quick. Was this
guy ever on the Doctor Demento show?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Is really good question?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh he might have here. You know what, while you're
looking that up, I'll play the thing that I do
while people look things up.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Oh wait a minute, I'll go check.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I love how every time nobody sees that coming, I
get that exact same reaction because it's like, oh, no,
you've got a button for.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That amazing Hornby.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
He had to have been like that.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Absolutely, he's all over.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
From from the seventies on up. So then Al has
and yeah, when I'm cleaning windows was played many.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Times, So so that makes sense. If you haven't yet, Like,
after you're done, after you're done listening to this episode,
don't stop it to do it, because you won't come back.
I don't trust you. After you're done listening to this episode,
listen to when I'm cleaning windows, and then listen to
this as the life or the other way around. Listen
(11:35):
to them right next to each other, because I'm excited.
I'm very excited it will Like I was like, oh
my god, this is this is I was. I was
telling Russ, like I have been excited to talk about
this for like days now because I felt like I
uncovered something.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And much might have.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I feel like that's that's that's part of like what
being a a weird al fan is is like you
enjoy these things for such a long time and then
something happens where you're like, there's more to it than
I thought.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
I can't tell you the number of times since I
was when did I get into where I was? Yeah,
so I was nine. So I can't tell you the
amount of times that I've had that exact from something
that seems simple to something like this complex where I've
literally like driven in my car arguing with myself being
(12:31):
like being like, I wonder if he did it. There's
no way he didn't do it. Well, I don't know,
maybe he no, he knows. Like you know, I've literally
like had that this guy and then had to start
the song over, you know, because I like, you know
what I mean, Like I literally argued with myself.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Out loud, yeah over, I understand.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
But that's why my immediate reaction to Lauren was like, no,
let's just say I'll did it, like you don't want
to start that argument with yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
No, I mean it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I mean he's he's listening to, you know, music, trying
to emulate that style for this movie, and you know,
why not why not go after this this doctor dementto.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Hit yeah and fun. One last final fun fact about
that is that George Harrison was actually a card carrying
member of the George fromby fan Club Wow George for
fan Club Yeah, which also totally tracks because George Harrison
was the beatle that totally did the comedy thing with
like money, python and stuff. Right, So it's like and
(13:32):
then you've got out performing what is life at the
George Fest thing and it's like, how big is this circle?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I need?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I never and it's as big as earth.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I know, I need like pins and a wall to
like connect all of it.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
And it won't be released date. But the day that
we're recording this episode was the day that George Harrison
joined The Quarryman, which which would end up being that's
where he met John and Paul. I should clarify. They
went on to form another band, like I you know
what I mean, They were in another band after that
that was like a bigger deal.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I think they had a different drummer in that band
too that.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm familiar with that but okay, yeah, I trust you.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
No, Yeah, it's I can't even remember their name now. Yeah. Yeah.
But then George went solo after that band. After that
band actually only had a very short run. It was
like five six years, the one after The Quarryman. Yeah. Uh.
And then George went solo, and that's what everyone really
knows them from.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, this is beautiful.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It's the cover of the songs just I got my
mindset on you, is what I meant to say.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Which, oh that two gulps of.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Wine and I'm already I've lost my mind.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well, this is this is what we do here.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
I will say that I did not know that I
Got My Mind Set On You was a cover until
I saw them. And this is recent. This movie came
out within the last five years. I saw the movie
last night in Soho and the original version of I
Got My Mindset On You was in that movie, and
I literally, as I was watching the movie, I was like,
I think I'm having my mind blone right now, Like
(15:05):
I think I think I'm hearing what is the original version?
Oh no? And then I had to google it when
we got out of the theater, and it was instantly
felt like an idiot because since whenever Cloud nine came
out in eighty seven, it is probably eighty six eighty seven,
I have thought that song was an original ever since then.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, because why would you cover that song?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah? As a beatle, as a George, you know it
just I don't know, as a as a.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
George, Yeah, representing George's and you're doing.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Covers like all of the Georges.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
How do you.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Catch George thoroughgood covering that song?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Goodness gracious? But yeah, that's all the trivia I have
about this track. There wasn't really much other than the
Johnny Dangerously and then my My George formby rabbit hole
than I fell down.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
So I had one little bit of trivia, I think,
and I kind of I should have done more research
before show now and drinking about it. But because this
video came out in eighty four, you know, before before
(16:11):
Like a Surgeon, and was recorded kind of early ones
in the day to be stupid area, this may be
the first visual representation of a number twenty seven in.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
L's Yes, because when the when the women are waiting
in line outside his door and they've been there since
the week before, who could ask for more? As they
go in? He services twenty five, twenty six, and twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yep, now serving twenty seven comes up and then it
happens again in Like a Surgeon and cable TV.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He has seen Porky's twenty seven times this week.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
This is like very much Yeah, the era of like
we're going in, We're going all in on twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Twenty seven, Laura is being built now yes, yeah, huh well.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
The quote where now from? UHF this means something.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
This is really important.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
This is important.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Oh man, you know what I forgot to do, Jeff,
I forgot to let you talk at the beginning about
your your whole project that you're working on there, that
you've been working on for quite some time with the
Lovely Ladies and stuff, So you can you go ahead
and do that now before we talk about what we
like about this track, otherwise I will feel like the
worst podcast hosts in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You're an amazing podcast.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Thank you, and thank you for allowing me to talk
about Tight and Nerdy, the world's first and only burlesque
tribute till Weird Al Yankovic.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I love it so much.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
They are a troop.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Of amazing people who do oburlesque performances to weird Al.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Songs that we all know and love.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
And I am doing a documentary on this troupe that
will maybe be out this year.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So excited. How about that.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
We had a little secret screening a couple of weeks
ago and Sam fran I was so jealous after a
Titan Nerdy performance, uh as I have sketch Fest.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Which they sold out, which was it was a wild crowd.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I've seen a lot of their shows, and I don't
know that I've seen a more appreciative crowd.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Their show is as good as ever, if not better.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
They they took a number of years off for COVID
and you know life, and so this was their triumphant return.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
To the stage and boy was it epic.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Uh. And then the next day we we gathered some
of the performers and their spouses and some and some
close personal friends and we we had a little secret
screening of the film that is still not done yet,
but it's it's close.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It's it's good.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
It's close enough because we could people could see it.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Oh my gosh, that's so exciting. Like I feel like
y'all have been part of our household for well over
a year because we I contributed and I got the
calendar and stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Thank you for that, by the way.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
For sure, the calendar was in our kitchen for the
entire year, you know where else would obviously, like I
don't know, I don't know. I didn't know what to
replace it with this year, so I literally I literally
got a calendar called Butts on Things.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
So one of my favorite things about the calendar being
right there in the kitchen is right off the kitchen
is where our dining room is supposed to be, but
instead is our drinking and listening to music area. And
so when we sit there playing records and this has happened, geez,
I don't know. At least ten times someone will be
talking to me because the calendar will be over my
shoulder and like conversation, why someone will you know that
(19:47):
thing where someone's paying attention to you, but then like
a car wreck happens like behind you and they're like,
you know, they're like looking at that instead. At least
ten times I've had people like lose their focus and
then they'll like I could be like and so anyways,
the cure for this disease is and they're like they'll
be like a excuse me? Is that a weird al
burlesque calendar behind you?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
You know?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Why are there half naked ladies with accordions?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Is she wearing those can of spam?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Yeah? But I've had that that's happening like no, no
kidding at least ten times over the past, like since
its where people have literally just been like, excuse me,
I have to stop you. Is that I'm like, yes, So.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
That's and that gave us the opportunity to be like, yes,
and this.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Is and you'll see it soon look.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
At yeah, I mean as soon as I can see it.
Everybody that I know.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Is good and I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So like I'm just telling you what, like, I'm really excited,
and I would have been remiss if I didn't let
you talk about that as early in the episode as
I could. I didn't let you talk about it as
early in the episode as I could.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
But as you're not remiss. How's that?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Well, look at it this way. Just say you're doing
the episode like Quentin Tarantino style, Like the beginning is
in the middle right now, Oh.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
A flashback to the thirties and then a flashback.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, you know the movie.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Having said that, thanks for listening, everybody. Lauren will be
back next week. So there was the ending. This was
the life, yehye, So there was the ending to the episode.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
You guys. That's fabulous.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Now you can go back and do the whole middle of.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
The episode, right, Okay, this is the middle, the middle
of our story. The middle.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Oh no, this episode ever gets adapted to film, you'll
just have the title cards like Tarantino does, like between Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, I love.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Looking for my next documentary project, so that.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Maybe do a whole documentary on this episode.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, this episode, that's it, that'll be it. I think
that's a really great idea. Actually, you know this is
so many tawdry things are occurring. It's Valentine's Day when
this episode comes out.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, times day.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah, everyone, Happy Valentine's Day. That's why I made sure
I had some chocolate in my beer.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Smart that's very smart.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
And glitter a smart beer and glitter beer and glitter,
chocolate and beer, glitter and beer. All right, this is
a life. Let's start talking about the stuff that we
like about the song. I have a couple of everything. Yay, done,
episode cut. No, uh, I do have a couple specific
things that I wanted to make sure that I mentioned,
(22:29):
and I figure we'll just kind of have a free
form convo about that as we as we do. So, Jeff,
did you have anything specific that you wanted to bring
up first before I stepped on it like I have
done before.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
No, I really my big excitement about this song in
this video is that you know, this is an early,
an early.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Instance of the number twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I love that love, I love the old timey vibe.
I it mixed with some like eighties era DJing, some scratching.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So yes, I'm gonna stop you right there with that,
because that was one of the things I wrote down
was the guitar solo and the rap scratching breakdown are
perfectly out of place.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Pre twister scratching.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
It is pre twister scratching. Yeah, this is like I
love that. I love watching the video too, because you've
got the old timey thing happening, and then the guitar
solo comes and you're transported to the eighties for like
a brief moment, you know, and then you feel like
you're settled back into the thirties, and then the whoop
(23:42):
wow wow, like that breakdown happens and you're like, oh
my gosh, like everything is happening all at once. This
was everything together all at once before everything together all
at once.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yes, it and.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
It's it blends somehow, so seamlessly like it appears and
you're like, I mean, it belongs there, but it doesn't.
It's just it's just this this thing that Al can
do where he bends genres together and and it's just
this thing that I admire about him so much, and
(24:13):
this is why it's this is one of my favorite
tracks off this album.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah. Yeah, I think, like truthfully, I will be doing
a whole side to recap at the end of the album.
But I feel like this for me is absolutely like
one of the one of if not the shining star
of side too. Like this song is great, this song
is This is a no skip for me?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Yeap so oh No, I would totally agree. I don't
think I would ever. I don't think I have ever
skipped the song for any reason.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well that's good.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
No, unless unless you've perished right for three minutes and
you're brought back to life.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
There's no reason to not listen.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
To this unless you've perished for three minutes and seven seconds. Yeah,
So this was this movie, this movie. This song is
in the film Johnny Dangerously, and the video itself is
also in the Complete AL mocumentary.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Correct, But it's a it's a it's a slightly different
version of the music video.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, I don't know if you've seen. The original version
of the video has clips from the movie y woven through. Yes,
and then the complete.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
AL version has some nineteen thirties in nineteen twenties thirties
era stock footage mixed in instead.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yes, probably another right.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
And and the song is shorter and so in the
complete AL version there it's it is not quite video accurate.
So like the tap dancers are there when there is
no tap dancing to be had audio wise, but there
performed is still in the video.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It's a very it's a very odd.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Edit the video, it truly is. And I the reason
I bring that up is because probably somewhere around four
years ago, I it was probably it was a Saturday night,
I had nothing better to do. I was home by myself.
(26:24):
I was drinking wine and I decided to watch the
complete al because I hadn't seen it in such an
incredibly long time and it is so good and that
this is the life happened. And I was I was
live tweeting, live tweeting my viewing of the complete OWL
whilst drinking wine. Okay, this was for an audience of
(26:45):
like three tops, right, and this is the life happened.
And I literally I still remember having the this isn't right.
There's something wrong about that's like, but I couldn't put
my at the time. You know, at the time, obviously
I couldn't put my finger on, like what's wrong here?
But I'm like, huh, that's unusual. So that was and
(27:11):
now look here we are. I'm remembering this fact, and
so to the on the flip side of the guitar
solo and the rap scratchy bits feeling how they feel.
I would also be remiss if I didn't mention how
awesome I think the ragtime piano is in this song,
like as somebody who plays keyboards, like, I couldn't do this.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's so good. It's so good, like you try, like
there's something it's it's jaunty. That that's the word, right,
I love it. I think it's I think it's one
of you know, up to that point, it's probably one
of Al's better like like straight like piano moments.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
It's a beautiful song and it's so much fun.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, like so so the last thing I have on
my list that I really love about this, I literally
wrote lyrical content. It's what Al does best, the exaggerations.
And I've talked so many times on this show about
how one of the things I love so much about
Al is like how he takes he takes either something
(28:26):
really mundane and exaggerates it out of the water, or
there's something that's really really terrible and he downplays it.
You know. I love those those two jextapositions that are happening,
and this lands on the exaggeration like area so much.
I've talked about this song on this show before. It
(28:46):
was a couple of years ago. But somebody did the
math about how like a solid gold Cadillac like could
not move.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yeah, you could do a gold plate. It wanted to
be fine, but no, just be.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Too heavy to like function. You know.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Luckily he makes a fortune while he sleeps, so right
to carry it?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I don't know really?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well, I mean he hires somebody to chew his food,
you're right, So that then brings up the thought, now
he eats Fileme and Yon seven times a day. First
of all the constipation.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Well, I was gonna say, there's nothing in the song
about how long he's going to live.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
True, this is the incredibly short life is what it
might actually do? Right like.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So, But then then my brain always goes and balances
it with the I eat Flame and Yon seven times
a day. And then you go on a little bit
and I hire somebody to chew my food. Then are
you really enjoying that? Fillame in.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
I don't think that's the concern. I think the bragging
matters more than the enjoyment. Yeah, the guy in this
song could is in no way, shape or form, cares
about any other human being on earth like it's all
and doesn't even care about the uh all of the
great things that he has. It's more about showing you
that he's better than you. Yes, so yeah that to
(30:17):
me that see now that here we go, I would argue.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
With my whole world and he thinks it's pretty swell.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Right. This is the type of thing I would argue
with myself in the car, Like does the character does
he say that about having someone chew his food for him?
Because he's telling you how much he doesn't care about
being able to eat, blaming you on seven times a day.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Potent?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yes, it is. It is a flex.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
This is literally the thing that I would argue with
myself in the car. And I'm probably going to tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Why not do it here? Let's just let's just do.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
It well, you know, but you know what I'm saying, Like,
does is that? Am I overthinking that?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Like?
Speaker 6 (30:53):
If if if al himself heard me say that, do
you think he would be like, oh wow, that's kind
of a fortunate thing. Or he would be like, yep,
that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Like that's what I wrote. That's what I meant when
I wrote it. You know, thanks, thanks for getting it
forty years later.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
That's pretty swell. Yeah, I don't know, Like I my
I always like jokingly do the well if money camp
by happiness. I guess I'll have to rent it. Line. Like,
I think that's a brilliant lyric.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
It's a great lyric, as as spotted and weird. The
Al Yankovic story, do you'll call it? It's on the bedroom.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Mirror just it is just just after he has hooked
up with Madonna. You can see it.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I love stuff like that. Again, the layers that are
happening here, we're just can we just keep peeling them away?
And it's such a wonderful thing. It's a wonderful thing.
This is a really good song. It's a good song.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
There's a lot about it. Well, actually there's nothing that
doesn't work for me. It's spoiler. But there's two things
about this song that are special to me. And one
is I've talked about this on the show before. But
you know, I was brought to the dance because I
was a huge Michael Jackson fan like everybody else. And
when Edith came out, I went to buy in three D.
So Weirdeal was a thing that I found out about
(32:17):
and picked up in three D after the fact, Right
Dare to Be Stupid was the first Weirdal album that
I went to buy like au pon release, you know
what I mean. So, and this album helped me understand
more of what was going on, like the fact that
there were parodies and originals and pastiches and because you know,
(32:38):
like this, so this being the first one that I
listened to from beginning to end was that type of
thing for me where I was like, like, very firmly
in my mind there was a difference between between say
a girl's just when I have launched in this song
because this was in my mind of Weirdeal original and
something that he had totally done on his own. And
(32:59):
then this is where I started to be like, wait
a minute, I bet I missed the point on in
three D right, So, like when I went back and
listened to three D again, like so this song helped
me like start down that path. So it's special to
me for that reason. And then, and this is very
real the amount of times in my life that I
have put this word in another song, or said it
(33:22):
under my breath, or said it as an affirmative to someone.
The amount of times that I have said what up?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
What up?
Speaker 6 (33:30):
To someone is like like I have used it as
I've used that. I think it was replaced eventually by
waka waka do doo. Yeah, as like like if a
friend was like, uh, okay, well you go do that,
and I'll go do that and then I'll call you
later and we'll hang out at the place, I'd be like,
(33:51):
walka walk a doo doo. Yeah, like uh but before that,
I'm pretty sure my whole life it was what what up?
And I would put it that yeah. Yeah, but I
would do it in like songs where there was like
a breakdown anywhere there was like a second for me
to work it in, like I would you know, or
just you know, brush my teeth in the morning, you know,
(34:13):
like the amount of time that that little bit lives
has and continues to live rent free in my head
since the moment I.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Moved into my head, I'm going to be very upset
with you.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Well, we'll try using it as many different words in
ways that I have. It's very it's it's very versatile.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Yeah, I think so so so know it being a
Valentine's Day, Like, y'all, you can see why I married
this guy, right, like this was I didn't do this.
This is what happened.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Her mother and I had a conversation soon after I
really got to know her parents, and her mom says, now,
have you been a weird Al fan the whole time?
Or and I said, and I said, how do I say?
This is nicely? They can I literally bought my first
weird al album before she was born, Like, yes, I've
(35:09):
been a weird Al fan the whole time, like like
before she even had a chance to buy a weird
Ol album. And so her mom was like, oh okay, yeah,
but I also liked that. That was my My favorite
part about that is that's like, you know, most moms
are like, well, where did you go to school? And
what are you? You know, She's like, now tell me
about your weird Al fandom. You know. Luckily, luckily I
(35:32):
was ready for that conversation.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, priorities, right, that's great, that's wonderful. Oh well, this
feels like a good time to kick it over to
an ad break to pay to pay some Williams for
the beard Ol podcast. You know the formal bills that
need to be paid.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I understand.
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Speaker 3 (37:18):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Wild that was a wild trip, I.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Know, right, I feel like I need to make sure
that my listeners know that you can totally fast forward
through those and I still get paid. So, uh, yeah,
I don't know that. Yeah, I know, I figured i'd
hit you on You are the one that told me that. Yeah,
so I'll hit you on the you know, I'll hit
you on the back side of those with these this time,
(37:43):
but yeah, next time, you're listening, you can just go
buzz through them until you hear the we're black and
then you're fine. It's great. So on this flip side, yes,
we do the stuff that we think made. Maybe does
it works so well? And judging by the conversation that
(38:03):
I've had with both of you on either side of this,
I'm guessing neither of you have any qualms whatsoever. However
nitpicky they might be.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
I really don't either. I just it's like listening to
the song preparing for today and it's just like so
much fun.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
My only complaint is I wish that the tap dancers
got their proper due in the complete OWL version of
this video.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
How's that?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
That's a solid point. And I love how nitpicky that is.
That's beautiful. That's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Want to start a picket line over it?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
A nit picket line?
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Yeah? Yeah, nail? Oh wow, what are those people nitpicking?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (38:52):
You don't want to you don't want to go there. Yeah,
it's all sorts of union stuff. Oh wow. Unions are
pretty serious. No, no, they're worried about like the Union
of the Snake by Devin Duran Duran, it's very nitpicky.
I love it so but I will tell you yes,
So I don't love picking apart Weirdel stuff, and I
(39:13):
what I what I what I mean to say is
if I come to the show and I go, Okay,
here's what doesn't work for me for this, Like I've
talked to you before, like the guitar tone I smells
like Nirvana and the solo and eat it and stuff
like that, like those are things that like, Since the
first time I heard it, I was like, I don't
like that. Right. Having said that, the other day, when
we were watching the video for the song on YouTube,
(39:35):
I purposely was like, Okay, I'm gonna try and pick
something that I don't like. And I couldn't come.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Up with anything, So that's great.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
I just wanted to put it in start contrast. If anything,
I just don't want anybody being like, oh, big surprise,
the weird El fans don't have anything bad to say,
like h I like, I I really listened in being like, well,
there's got to be something I can buy to go on.
I don't and damn praise. I was doing fine then
mill I was like, ah.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
I also wish that it was about like four minutes longer.
Speaker 6 (40:06):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Well okay, so yeah, we need an extended version of
This is Life?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yes, orches get.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
As longer, solo, more tab dancing.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
We could see if al would do an updated version
like this is five Yeah, for like.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
The one hundredth anniversary of when it would take place.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yes, there you go towards it.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
I think something's yeah, I feel like something, something's bruin something.
Oh well, you know what's really funny. So this is
a little inside baseball because the people who are listening
don't know that we were supposed to record this two
days before. We were doing it now. And I was
all excited because two days ago we actually had filet
mignon for and I was gonna be like we have today,
(40:58):
but like, we're really not fancy that we have a
meat shop I don't know, like a mile and a
half away from the house that the last Friday of
every month they do a really deep discount on bacon
wrapped filets.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
So if so now, so if I were to say
to you, I am able to get bacon wrapped an
eight ounce bacon rapp filet mignon for eight dollars.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
And they're good.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
They're really good, and we've got one of though, we
got a Blackstone griddle. He cooks them up.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
We essentially, I don't want to, you know, make anybody
feel bad, but the guy that we have cook him
out on the Blackstone really Oh wait, that's me.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yeah. So we we end up once a month having
like a meat and I make the world's best baked potato.
Speaker 6 (41:49):
She really does.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
We end up having what amounts to like a meal
that you'd probably spend fifty sixty dollars for each each
for less than twenty bucks amazing total.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
It just feels weird that I was relegated to a
digital version of this interview as opposed to just being
invited for dinner.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
That's fine, we don't.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Have the budget to fly you out here. Okay, you
can't afford not to have me. Then, oh my god,
that's great.
Speaker 5 (42:23):
I would have brought the big cheese.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Don't sleep on this, Guda, I do have. So I
try to have something for the want want portion of
the show every time, because most times people don't. But
I will tell you this, if I had a gripe,
(42:49):
and the gripe stems from the song, but it's an
album wide gripe. Okay, I feel, and I've said this before,
this is no secret that Side one of Dare to
Be Stupid is so packed and so perfect that you
don't need side two right, Like it's a perfect EP.
(43:12):
You know, there's so much good stuff on it that
then when you get to side too, when it opens
with George of the Jungle and Slime Creatures and stuff
like that, and then girls just want to have lunch,
you're like, it's as a whole entire side Side two
of the album is like a letdown. Like if I'm
listening to it on cassette or on vinyl, it's like,
I am so rarely compelled to flip. This is the
(43:35):
one song then I would flip for I.
Speaker 6 (43:40):
Would for me. This is where the side takes an
upturn because cable TV is great.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Yeah, it's it's but you gotta you gotta get here now.
For those of you who are like, but you just
talked two weeks ago with Lily Hirsh about how girls
just want to have lunches and all that bad and
it's not bad, okay, but when.
Speaker 6 (44:00):
You're dealing with word l not bad is not the
standard with which you listen correct, great and above.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
So I have a whole issue with the sequencing of
There to Be Stupid. We can keep every single song
on there that's on there, but I think I think
it needs re sequencing to give the great songs some
time to breathe, and the good songs and even the
not bad songs a little more room to like be
(44:29):
themselves interesting.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
So you feel like it's it's a little top heavy.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
It's more than a little top heavy. It's like really
really top heavy that like this is the life. I
feel like by the time you get to it on
side two of this album, you're like, and then this
song happens and it's great. It's great. You're like, oh
my god, this is this is great. But like I
think it needs I think it just needs more balance.
(44:55):
The album is a whole, and.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Is it it is the the issue maybe and I
don't want to put words in your mouth, but is
part of the the issue that there's there's only one
parody on side to you and it's girls.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
It's when I have Lunch with which he is not
into you as we know. Yeah, is that part of it?
Speaker 4 (45:16):
Like do you want Yoda or I want a new
duck coming coming into side to and and moving this
is the life somewhere you got?
Speaker 3 (45:25):
I feel like yes, and so like a part of
me I said this, I.
Speaker 6 (45:30):
Don't know if this is life would go I would
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
I wouldn't move it.
Speaker 6 (45:33):
I would move creatures, maybe off a side too, and
put a parody there instead of not there but on
side too.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Inside what I would do? And I feel I said
I where I was going. I had a conversation with
Insaney and about the end of Side one, and I said,
I think I'm gonna need to do an episode where
we re sequenced there to be stupid and explain why,
because I've been laying nuggets of this throughout this entire series.
At this point, I am gonna say when we do
(46:00):
the episode about it too. I hate the fact that
the Polka is the last song on this album. That's
not where the Polka ghosts. That's just not where the
Polka goes. Okay, So from you.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
May I ask a question, have you considered writing all
a strongly worded letter about this.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
You can listen to this.
Speaker 6 (46:16):
You seem pretty passionate.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
I am very passionate about this, and I respect Thank
you and so.
Speaker 6 (46:22):
Maybe rent an airplane with like a message on the
back of it. You know they like fly over Polka.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Shouldn't close your albums.
Speaker 6 (46:31):
Or or run for office on that platform. Oh oh,
that will show them.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
That will show them, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (46:39):
We'll be running on the Polka party.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
That's what time everybody could know.
Speaker 8 (46:47):
So, oh my, that's a fancy cup. Is that a goblet?
Speaker 4 (46:58):
It's a goblet from the Madonna in the Oh you
shut up in San Luisabethpo where Al went to college.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
Nice, that's brilliant. I'm being very self serving and I'm
drinking beer out of a beard olglass.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
As you should, as I should.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
So as you go to take another drink, here's what well, no,
I meant to like do that, And I'll go ahead
and talk for a second, because you really look like
you want to take another drink. What I feel like
you're proposing. Here is a super deluxe box set of
There to Be Stupid, where you get two things, your
resequencing of the record, and then we get the longer
(47:31):
version of This is Life.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Perhaps perhaps four.
Speaker 4 (47:37):
It's a four sided mega box and one of the
sides is just this is the one.
Speaker 6 (47:43):
Yeah, I would say so cut at forty five rpm.
Speaker 4 (47:49):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (47:50):
I love it. You know what, somebody important here's this.
They're going to find a way to make money off.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
I do.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
I do one more piece of trivia? Wait?
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Bring it?
Speaker 5 (48:01):
Do you know what the U with the B side?
Speaker 6 (48:05):
You know what? I was going to ask you that earlier,
and I forgot to ask you.
Speaker 4 (48:09):
The B side of the single was was was a
track from N three D because Jeb Stuper wasn't out.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
Oh that does make sense.
Speaker 6 (48:17):
What track is it?
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Any guesses?
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Wait? Hold on, don't wear those shoes.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Three D?
Speaker 3 (48:24):
No, it's not. I'm sorry because I was just I don't.
I don't know why I even said that, because that's
on that's not even on that album. Okay, why am
I doing this? I've had a do claw now.
Speaker 6 (48:35):
I mean I feel I feel like I'm just going
to cycle through all condo.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
I don't know condo. Yes, look at that.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
Yeah, and so it was.
Speaker 5 (48:48):
A big This was also the first al original to
be released.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
As its own single.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
H Oh, that's true.
Speaker 6 (48:54):
I was going to ask that as well. So I'm
glad those came up because there's two questions I had
that I neglect.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
The that's brilliant. I love it.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
It would be more brilliant if I brought it up
during the trivia Sorry.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
No, well, look at we both had our remiss moments.
Speaker 6 (49:08):
This is the Tarantino of it.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, you did that on.
Speaker 6 (49:13):
Were suddenly back in the trivia portion. Where are we
going next? Who knows? I guarantee you it's intentional though
absolutely not by accident purpose.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
Oh no, you would do that absolutely, But yeah, it
was the first. It was the first Alaris want to
be released to a single and also as a video obviously.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Huh yeah, Well now I'm going to have to I
don't expect anybody to have the answer to this right now.
He can't have released too too many originals and singles,
obviously there to be stupid was, but just off the
top of my head, I can't think of too too
many more. There were more, I'm sure more.
Speaker 5 (49:50):
Yeah, but you don't love be anymore?
Speaker 1 (49:53):
The next one?
Speaker 4 (49:54):
I mean five years later? M yeah, no, eight years later,
My goodness with you and Jeff.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (50:05):
I have said so much wine, You've got.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Your Madonna completence. I'm good, You're great. So I think
all we have left to do then, is everyone gives
the song a rating on a scale of one to
twenty seven. I will go first because I feel comfortable
giving this song with where it is on this side
(50:29):
of the album and all of this, that and the other.
I'm going to give it a twenty three because I
like this song very very much. It's not perfect, but
it's not enough for me to put it anywhere below
a twenty three. But don't let my rating skew you
at all. I've had to rate every song on the album,
so I'm trying to keep myself organized. Who would like
(50:54):
to go next?
Speaker 6 (50:56):
I don't have any issue with the song at all? Okay,
And I think I've told you before, like how I
grade things in life is like you start at the
full markings and then when I find problems, I mark
you down. Sure, So for me, it's a twenty seven,
ok because it's just I can't think of anything. I
literally listen to it and watch the video the other
(51:17):
day to try and find something I didn't like, and
I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
So I love it it is.
Speaker 4 (51:22):
It's it's iconic, and it's perfect, and it's a twenty
seven for me.
Speaker 3 (51:27):
I think that's great, and I don't even feel bad
not giving it a perfect twenty seven because between the
three of us it averages out to a twenty five
and to twenty five and two thirds nice, So I
feel like that's good. That's a really good rating for
this song.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
So Chloe seems happy with it.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Yeah, so that your cat says hello Chloe, Chloe.
Speaker 5 (51:50):
Yeah, yeah, Chloe.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
We've had Belladonna the German Shepherd in the room pretty
much the entire time. She has decided to move her
fat butt to the hallway, so that's where she is
at the moment. But Jeff, it has been an absolute
delight to have you here to talk about just some
weird al song, and because the only other time I
(52:13):
think you've been on the show is to talk about
you were starting the documentary project.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
Right, Yes, I think we were doing.
Speaker 5 (52:22):
Yes, yes, which I very much appreciate you having me
for that.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
Look it I don't I don't give to many causes,
but that one felt very worthy to me. So no,
and I mean the calendar changed our lives and it
made everybody's life better in our house for a little while.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
And it's said the rest of the March is coming soon.
Speaker 3 (52:43):
I'm so excited. You know, I'm a very patient person
when it comes to that kind of thing, So we
take our time, and it's good. I'm just very excited
to see it, and I was very happy to have
you here. You are.
Speaker 6 (52:54):
I'll tell you what, if there's going to be a
like since I had a screening for it, if there's
going to be like an actual premiere for it when
it comes out, we should find a way to get
out there and be involved in that.
Speaker 4 (53:04):
M Maybe they to a handful of festivals and hopefully
one of them will pick us up and we'll.
Speaker 5 (53:12):
Be able to invite everyone to whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (53:16):
I get to be fancy, Okay, that would be great.
That would be so cool. I also don't count any
chickens either. I'm just like, look it, like if it
has to come to the point where like I get
it and I can just watch it and like have
people over and make them dress up to come to
my house to watch it, Like that's what will happen.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
A portable red carpet.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
Yeah, you know what, right, I'm just just roll it
out of my purse. But yeah, Jeff, you are welcome
back here anytime. Polka Party is going to be the
album that's up next to If there's a track on
Polka Party that you want to talk about, there is,
Oh gosh, talk to me when we stop recording, and
I'll put you down on my list because I don't
I don't need to spoiler it that early.
Speaker 6 (54:00):
I say, that's not the type of thing you can
just give away to the audience for free.
Speaker 3 (54:03):
No, but hey, you get to hear You'll get to
hear Jeff again. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (54:08):
So I plan to tell my story about Polka Party
every single episode I'm on the entire I'm gonna tell
it like I've like, it's the first time I've ever
told it.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
I think that'll be a really fun gag. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (54:18):
I can't wait to hear it for the eleven times
I know.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
But all right, yeah, Jeff, thank you so much for
being here on the beard much and Happy Valentine's Day, everybody.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
Happy Valentine's Day to us all. Happy Alentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (54:40):
Oh Alentine's Day. Whoop woop woop. Okay, we'll come at
you again next time. We've got cable TV and hooked
on Polkas to close out the album, good stuff coming up, hooray, Okay, bye,
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