April 25, 2025 • 52 mins
🎉 It’s time to kick off our Polka Party deep dive—aka the Polka Party party! In this episode, Lauren and Russ are diving headfirst into the lead track: “Living with a Hernia.” And they’re not going it alone—friend of the show and all-around great guy KC from The Itch Rocks podcast joins the party!
We’re talking medical mayhem, James Brown flair, and all the glorious weirdness that only Weird Al can deliver. Whether you’re an Al-bum purist or a casual hernia-haver, this one’s for you.
So grab your abdominal support belt and let’s get going!
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We’re talking medical mayhem, James Brown flair, and all the glorious weirdness that only Weird Al can deliver. Whether you’re an Al-bum purist or a casual hernia-haver, this one’s for you.
So grab your abdominal support belt and let’s get going!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beer-d-al-podcast--5439475/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welcome to the beard Out Podcast, the podcast about two
of the greatest things in the world, beer and weird
al And it's a beautiful day here in the beard
ol Podcast neighborhood because we are kicking off Polka Party. Yes,
we are beginning our deep dive into weird Owl's nineteen
eighty six masterpiece. Yes, I said it, masterpiece album, Polka Party.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And for this discussion, I.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Have two of my favorite folks to talk weird out
with in the world. I mean, Russ is here. He's
one of my favorite folks in general. Let's talk about
most things with Hello, Russ.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Hello. That's what I get paid for to be one
of your favorite people. Also, before you keep going, did
you do that beer on purpose? Or is that happen
I did this beer on purpose?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm not that dumb.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, well no, I'm just it connects to this whole
thing in two different ways.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Okay, At no point was I suggesting that I.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I know, And speaking of not dumb. Casey from the
Itch Rocks Radio podcast Super Palooza is here. That's not
your whole show, but that's what I call it. How
are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Very good?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Happy to be here, wonderful. Yeah, so I gott oft
even know how many times you've been on this show.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Ah, I think it's either the fourth or the fifth.
I'm not one.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I feel like fifth feels better like that, I think
that makes more sense.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
All I know is you.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Still hold the record for the most actual beers had
on this show. Yes, so that that will stand forever.
Before I go any further though, since Russ did bring
it up, the beer that I cracked open is Hulk
Hogan's real American like.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Beer appropriate appropriate for two different reasons. Do you know
what both of them are?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I know that one of I so I went with
it because the Living with Hernia, which is what we're
here to talk about today, is a parody of Living
in America by James Brown, and that was from Rocky four, and.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Mister I know, mister T was in Rocky three.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
There you go, Hulk Hogan as the wonderfully named Well,
I'm gonna wait till you dre.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I didn't you were going to split your beer on
I told.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You Thunderlips Okay, yeah, that's right, and the.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Rocky three And for the sake of our sound equipment,
I waited till you were done drinking this and yeah, no,
I that beer is just bud light. That's all that is.
I'm not saying that. Well, no, I'm not saying that actually,
like I do know what's brewed, and no, it's just
all it's it's meant to be taste like bud light,
and that's what it does.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It does that.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, yes, it's probably serving the real American spirit. And
I'll tell you what the real American spirit is Bland
well liked.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I mean, that's it's literally it's all. It's literally meant
to be as a replacement for a Budlin I know.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
But so anyway, I did it on purpose because we
had this. We had it.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
So is the kid Rock approved? Is it?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't know, probably probably.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I mean that's and that's as far as I'm gonna
go down that rabbit hole. So, Casey, what is happening
with the Itch before we jump into the.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Rest of this.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
We are on a massive interview streak and we've done
like eleven in a row. We broke it up with
our Shiprock recap and we've attended Shiprock the last two
years and it's a music festival on a boat. And
we actually had the creator of the Shiprock Cruise on
(04:18):
our show recently. So yeah, what we do is typically
a interview artist interview podcast. So if you are inclined
to check out all things in current rock, we're here
for that.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Not to derail already oh boy. But well, when the
kid rock joke was made, I had this moment of
kid rock. Why did I think?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yes, And I had to go to my Facebook memories
because two years ago today a friend of mine shared
the following on my Facebook page. Kid rock makes music
for people who know exactly how much suit fed you
can get for a catalytic converter. Literally in my Facebook
memories from two years ago today.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That's a delight.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I love accurate.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It is accurate.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So yes, that is accurate. So yes, the beer is
approved by that guy.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I would as yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So so today we are here to discuss Living with
a Hernia, which is weird Al's parody of Living in
America by James Brown from the Rocky four movie and soundtrack,
and it is the song that kicks off the Polka
Party album, which is weird Al's fourth album. And uh,
(05:42):
we're going to talk about this as the tracks go
by on this album for sure, But this entire album
is very very underrated in Weird Owl's catalog.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Criminally underrated.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
There are two criminally underrated albums in Weird Euse catalog,
and this is the first one.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Stay tuned. Oh we'll get We'll get there eventually.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So I have a couple of fun facts about the song,
not too too many, but the first one is that
the music video for the Living with a Hernia song
was actually shot on the same stage where James Brown
shot his scenes for Rocky four. Like and I love that,
I love that At this point, you know, weird Al
(06:27):
kind of has that.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Cachet. I suppose is the word you know, to like
I'm going.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
To use the same sets, you know, and I know
Michael Jackson had a lot to do with that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I would think, so yeah, he this is this is
pretty fat. But yes, yeah, I mean I feel like
just MJ approving anything to do with weird Al made
it kind of like like without without that, Madonna is
not asking when's he going to do like a like
a surgeon and you know what I mean. Yeah, well
so that well that is to say, I'm sure whomever
(07:00):
I don't I don't think James Brown was like, man,
when's we're now going to get in here?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
But I think.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I feel like his handlers would have been like, this
is a good thing to do, sir you Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So so actually to that point, I think I mentioned
this on one of the episodes on the N three
D album Uh Yeah, to keep it in the Rocky family.
The fine folks in Survivor uh Once they heard that
Michael Jackson gave the okay, they were like, oh, alrighty,
then you can you can do the thing, and that's
(07:32):
how we got Ryan the Kaiser.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
So yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Also ties into Rocky.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, it's beautiful, like you just gotta, you know, keep
it in the family. And then this other fun fact.
I we just watched the music video for this and
I had to I double checked this just to make
sure it was true. When weird aw names the Hernias,
he lists nine of them, but the board of the
(08:01):
video says top ten.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I was definitely going to bring that up if you
did not, so.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's like, oh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
And in the original song there he says nine cities.
So that's basically the reason why. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Oh so it's James Brown's fault.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Oh yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So much. So much is James Brown's fault. No, no,
that's nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
At least one shotgun blast that was his fault. Sure, Oh,
it's not dark if it's facts.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
At least one, that's fair.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Now, at least one. Now we're getting into dark territory.
Who knows, who knows what else happened.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So with that, let's jump into the general discussion of
living with a hernia. What I had been doing with
these episodes for those of you who have been following
along as religion justly as you can with the series
that I've been doing, is we've been doing things that
we think work and things that we think don't work.
And we're still gonna do that, but we're going to
do it in a more holistic kind of way where
(09:10):
we're just going to see where the conversation goes, and
we're gonna gonna kind of give our pros and cons
as they come up naturally in discussion. And same with
that ad break that's going to show up naturally where
it would occur in.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Discussion, as ads break. Ad breaks do among friends.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You know, when you're having a conversation with your friends
and an ad break suddenly you know occurs, So that's
what's going to happen. That's what will happen here. So Casey,
since you are the guest, let's let's let you kick
it off. Why do you want to begin our living
with a hernia discussion?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Well, first off, his James Brown mannerisms are on point.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, like so, so what's interesting?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And I knew that this was what was going to
happen with this track, and that's there's nothing wrong with
it as I knew that the discussion was going to
be very in The song and the video for this
are almost like you can't you can't separate them.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean I would. Audio wise, he's perfect,
Like before you even bring the video into it, he's
absolutely spot on James Brown, Like have you ever listened
to any James Brown, Like from I Feel Good to
prop Papa's Got Brand New Beg It's a Man's World
like that he's saying, well, I mean to living in
(10:29):
America like he's he's doing a spot on wonderful. And
the thing with weird Al is most of the time
he's not trying to do an imitation of the people
like he's trying to sing the song. It's hard to
describe it. I mean, it isn't It is an imitation,
but it's not. Yeah, do you know what I'm saying, Like, like,
(10:49):
I don't think at any point in the studio was
he like I'm doing an imitation of James Brown. He's
just singing this song is if James Brown had sang it,
which I know someone is listening to this being like, oh,
you're singing an imitation that it, but like that's not.
I don't feel he's doing an invitation.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I get that well.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
And he's he's not making fun of James Brown. Yeah,
for sure, He's just singing a song like James Brown
about something else that is funny.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes, And I think that's a very salient point, Like
I don't think weird weird Al is never making fun
of anybody, And I think people often get that get
that confused, you know, Like what weird Al does is
not making fun of anybody or anything.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I would say the two closest times he ever came
to that off the top of my head is the
one that he is ashamed of, which is Aggy Breaky Song,
which I don't agree with him on, Like I get
why he feels bad about it, but I don't think
he should. And then I think I think most people
when sells like Nirvana came out, were like thought that
he was making fun of Nirvana, and to an extent
(11:51):
he is. But I don't take it. Let me say this,
it's not mean spirited. Yeah, you know, not mean spirit.
He didn't even do it does not smell like mean spirit.
So I'll here's the thing about this that cracks me up.
So I know you're this way, Lauren, and uh you
(12:13):
probably are to a certain extent Casey, And I'm not
trying to rank weird Al fans. I'm just trying to
say how much, how much Weird Al I've listened to
in my life. So you know that thing where when
you hear a song like like we'll say Gangster's Paradise,
and you you at least hear some of the weird
(12:35):
Al lyrics like in your head, like if you're if
you're like out in public and you hear Gangster's Paradise,
you know the thing of like how you're gonna at
least hear some of Weird Al's lyrics. Yes, yeah, right, Okay,
I don't know how to say this exactly right. Anytime
I ever hear living in America, it's like, that's the parody.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, I get that, I don't know any words in America.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Well I've heard I've heard living with a Hernia so
many times in my life that And the only time
I ever hear living with living in America is if
if like Rocky four happens to be on TV or
we listen to a lot of Casey case some countdowns recently. Yeah,
and when it when it, it's like it makes me
(13:19):
be like this must this must be what it feels
like to not be a weird Al fan, Like when
you hear the alternate lyrics and you're like, that's not right,
Like that's that's how I feel. When I hear the song.
I'm always like, well, that's not right, Like you know
what I mean, Yes, yes, I think I think this
is done so stunningly well like the That's what I'm
(13:43):
trying to say, Like you know, the first time you
hear new weird Al parody and you go here, like
the first time you heard word crimes and the h
you would not use it's in this case and you're like, oh, brilliant, right,
Like when I hear living in Living in America, it's
that in reverse. I'm like, oh he made that said
(14:04):
he fit where where it all said that Hernia?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, like and that's the best way I can think
to describe it.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, and it's it's it's just amazing to me how
spot on that they can recreate the videos that they
end up doing, like shot for shot, like exactly how
it was well.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Even now in this is what Lauren was saying, how
they're so intertwined. And since you brought up the video,
like James Brown's performance style fits well with a Hernia,
Like the whole being doubled over thing and the guy
putting the cape on him and helping him and stuff
(14:48):
like all of that is like, you know, goes in
line with like looking like I mean, that's part of
the shtick was James Brown was acting as if he
was like you know, de bill tated, you know, like
you just couldn't move because he had used up all
the souls, you know. Yeah, And it's just funny to me,
like you're just like, I mean, there's some gags in
(15:09):
the video that I let me say it weren't funny
for me after the first time, like his foot spinning around.
I know that. And there's there's another thing that you
laugh at every time too, that which doesn't make it
not funny. No, wait a minute, it's hilarious when he
slides off the screen, and it doesn't make it not funny.
(15:32):
It's just things that the first time I saw the video,
I was like, hilarious, and then it's like, I know
it's coming, so I can't laugh at you know what
I mean, It's not so funny. But there's other stuff
in the video that is so ridiculous that I laughed
so like the part where the old people are passing
him in the walker. And I love that he's dressed
(15:53):
James Brown stage clothes, in out at the grocery store, everything.
And maybe I've said this so many times on your show.
Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I feel like that's a
statement on James Brown, is that, like James Brown probably
goes everywhere dressed like that.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Like I don't, because he could have he could have
just left the wig on and come out dressed as
a normal person from the grocery store. But I think
the statement there is like James Brown would go bowling
in his stage outfit, or he would go grocery shopping
in his stage outfit.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
So, any of you listening to this podcast, have you
ever seen James Brown in street close? If so, comment below.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I don't think anybody's ever seen James Brown off stage ever.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Other than on Wheel of Fortune, but that's still a stage.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
James Brown was actually on an episode of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Do you think on that episode he even hit any idea?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That? Where it else? Again?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Not? Wait, I made my question too long. On that episode,
do you think he had any idea? Nope at all?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No alone, have you ever seen that? Have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
No, dude, you gotta just go google James Brown, weird
al Wheel of Fortune.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Let me let me.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Tell you later, let me tell you why you don't
want to do that?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You do?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Okay? You know when there's funny things that happen and
people are like, oh go look like okay. So, because
she was such a good sport about it, I can
say this without making fun of her. If you go
watch the Becky Lynch episode of Celebrity Jeopardy, she was
so bad on it. But when you watch it, it's
at least funny because she's in on the joke. The
James Brown thing is so uncomfortable, like he's it's just uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Like, Oh, I just like watching weird al handle it.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
No, yeah, yeah, in the most weird al way possible,
you know, just like but anyway, I just I forgot
about that until this moment.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I was like, wait, we've got this other. Wait a minute,
I stop, wait a minute. Uh yeah, so that's a
connection there. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
This song absolutely just like to your point, Russell, the
song stands alone for me, like the James Brown song. Yes,
this is a parody of that, but this song exists
for me before that. So this song is the thing
for me. Casey, are you the same way or do
you have a different relation to it?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
It I mean I watched the Rocky movie and I
know the living in America, you know, Apollo, Creed, Entrance
and whatnot. But being a big weird Alt fans at
such a young age, you know, whenever they have the
videos and being able to see those, that's what I
(18:43):
associate with the song more than you know, being in Rocky.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yes, yeah, I definitely heard this before i'd seen Rocky four. Yeah,
so then when I don't think, okay, so this is fun.
I don't think I actually watched Rocky four in its
entirety until I was in college. My boyfriend at the
time and I we watched all at the time five
(19:09):
Rocky movies.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Oh man, I'm glad Balbo came along to save that.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So he watched all at six is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, we watched at the time all five Rocky movies.
And I was excited because obviously Ryana Kaiser and I
was like, oh, I know what the time, right, so
that was the thing that was happening. But but then
we got to Rocky four and like I forgot that
this was a thing, right, And so then then Rocky
four happens, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Like, oh my god, oh my god, it's all fun
and games until the match starts.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, right, and I go oh no, oh no, oh no,
you know, and then you've got what is it hearts
on fire?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, because of the awful and bad thing that happens
in Rocky For whenever, I like if if like you
know how you have towels over like the rock in
the in the kitchen and stuff like if a towel
ever falls on the floor. I see it in slow motion,
and I go through the towe because like in my head,
(20:18):
that happens every time, and then you just see Apollo
falling down and it's all bad.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's all bad. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I've been known to, like to a towel that fell
down to no one else in the room, just be like,
if he dies, he dies.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
He dies, he dies. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Uh yeah. For that to come up in the movie,
he must have been like, oh, Nate, I was like,
oh my.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
God, oh my god, because you know, I've been a
weird al person, you know, it's for such a long time.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
And I was just like, oh.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
My god, Okay, I'm putting all of this together now,
right right right, And then yeah, what happened happened, And
I was like, oh no, but I didn't let it
ruin living with a herniafore me.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I didn't even let it ruin hernias for me.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
They are they are known to be such fun.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Such fun, such fun, so many such fun.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I mean, like we have talked so many times on
this show about how I think one thing that a
lot of of I guess passerby weird our listeners don't
necessarily know off right off the bat is that his
band recreates the music. They're not playing over He's not.
(21:29):
It's not just weird Al singing over a track, right.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I think that's a way bigger misconception than people realize this.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Because it was never my misconception.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
No either, Like I'm like, every time somebody says to me, oh, wait,
he just co he just does the cover, I'm like, wait, no, no,
But they do the they do the whole all of it.
They do the all the all of the things about that.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Actually, when we were watching the video, just now the
bassline and this is out of control, way to go.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, Steve, Yeah, that's Steve j on base doing it
doing what he does. You know, very very tight band,
very tight band. Is weird Al coming anywhere near you
on his upcoming short Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
And I actually already have tickets for it.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Then that was going to be my next question. I
was like, are you being a good boy.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And going we accidentally have tickets to two shows, so.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I was going to ask I was going to ask
you how many year attending?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So for real is accidental though, because when they announced
the first leg, he wasn't coming anywhere near us, and
he has a show in the first week of July
at Pine Knob in Detroit, which is like my home venue.
I used to walk there. I've seen like everyone ever
at Pine Knob, and it's besides it being special for
(22:52):
that reason, like Lawrence never been to that venue. I've
literally seen a thousand shows there. And I don't know
why where Alice booked into such big venues on this tour,
Like I'm totally fine with it, but I don't know
why he is. But like, Pine Knob is an outdoor
venue that seats like seven sixteen or seventeen thousand, and
(23:14):
he whenever he's played Michigan, whenever I've seen him, he's
always booked into the Amphitheater that's down the road from there,
that seats four thousand. So like, I'm just like really
excited about that. So we were we were like, well,
we'll just go to Detroit and see him for all
these reasons. It'll be super special. And then like a
month later, he was like, and also, I'm coming a
half hour from your house in Jacksonville, and we were like,
(23:35):
damn it. So we had bought tickets in that too,
but it's well, we'll see it in July, and then
we'll see it again in September Nomber.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah, yeah, I'll be seeing him September ninth, So.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Ray a couple of weeks before we see you'll be
in the middle. Then we'll see him in July, then
you'll see him, then we'll see him again after that Sandwich.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, I have no idea what to expect from this tour,
and I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I don't think I've ever seen him do living with hernia.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I don't think so either, So so like that's the thing,
and this is absolutely salient to this conversation, is like
one of the things on this tour is that he's
going to be doing stuff that either hasn't done in
a long time or he's never done before.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Like it's this.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Bigger, like whatever, like fantastical, magical, mystical tour, you know.
And I don't think I've ever seen living with hernia
and I would kind.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Of love it.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Oh, there's a kind of Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I'm just trying to be like low key, like you know,
like gen Z.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know, I don't want to I.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Do wonder sometimes though, and we don't have to get
too deep into these weeds. But I do wonder sometimes
how like you know, the whole like, uh oh, you
couldn't get away with that today. I wonder if he
was to bust out with living with Hernia, if there
would be a kerfuffle today, because like, social media doesn't
understand nuance. So I wonder if like there could be
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like a thing where like it ends up on TikTok
and people are like, oh, weird, I was making fun
of a black guy, you know what I mean, which
we all know is not even remotely accurate, right, But
like also again social media with like zero idea of
nuance and whatnot. So I just wonder what I'm saying
is I wonder if things like that crossed his mind. Well, Like,
for example, he has mentioned before that he's none too
(25:25):
pleased with buy Me a Condo, which again I think
is hilarious, and I think I get the nuance in it,
and I think that he doesn't want to be associated
with it because other people take it wrong. Do you
know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
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you know what?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I Am going to take this nuance conversation as a
Q to say, you know, what. I'm gonna throw this
to some ads before I forget to do so, because
this feels like a healthy place to take a break,
because I am digging this convo. But you know again,
these ads are based off of.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
What you have googled.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
None of it's my fault other than the ones that
I put in there. See if you can figure out
what those are.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Okay, we'll catch you on
the other side.
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Speaker 3 (27:44):
What is happening? Why were you waiting for me?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I wasn't waiting for you. I was trying to give
myself enough dead air.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Oh hand to guy. I thought you were like waiting for.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Me to do something and goofy.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Never mind.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Okay, you've got an outtake from this episode.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
You said that like you're gonna blackmail me with it.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Okay, you won't know when, you won't know where.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Listen to Rust. He's so bad at podcasts. He's the
worst at it.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
But I don't know if you're trying to do how
do you want to do the what don't you like?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
We're not really going to do it. I'm just going
to continue the conversation.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Okay, because let me say this, there's nothing wrong with this,
and I'll fight someone.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
No, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I think there's gonna be enough. What don't you like
to even have a part of that? So I just
took a break.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I don't know what I maybe do you hate this?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
No, it's awesome, but there is there was There was
two things that I was gonna mention. One one was
the top ten, which we already yes, uh.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The other before you go to the other, let's let's
take a ride on this for a second.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Do you think that like weird all thought a anybody
would notice?
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Or b?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Because there were nine cities in the James Brown song,
he was like, well, I gotta do nine hernias. And
do you think he would have thought it would be
weird to have the sign say top nine?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
So maybe there were ten on the charge?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
The sign is a play on ut yeah, yeah, And
and the way they shoot it you only see eight
and up.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, so maybe there were ten on there?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Oh no, no, I don't think yeah, I think there
were just eight but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
But yeah, I just yeah, I totally get the issue.
But I think I think the idea was like, well,
we'll do the Letterman site gag, but we're bound by
what the song as a list.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
And I'll be honest, I didn't recognize that that was
even an issue until right today. Yeah, so watching the video,
watching the video, and I was like, wait a minute,
are there ten on there? No that there's not?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah, yeah, so but you had another one.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
The other and it's just a minor nitpick since it's,
you know, based off Living in America and Rocky four,
I think that they should have had a boxer somewhere
in the video experiencing a hernia.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
So the I'm about to have no facts to share,
I'm just going to take a guess here. I will
say that people have had say in where it ELL's
visuals before when okaying the song. For example, it's the
reason why there is no video at all for Couch Potato,
(30:54):
because that was part of the agreement. Eminem was like,
you can do this song, but you absolutely will not
parody like anything about like the way I look and whatever.
So he was not allowed to do a video for
that song again, not yeah, you know what I'm saying,
but uh so with zero facts to back this up,
(31:15):
maybe there was a thing that was like, and you
can't parody Rocky like specifically, yeah, maybe maybe maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I mean the only thing that's close to parodying it
specifically is like Verso.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
With the Ring Girl.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that cracks me up every time too.
That absolutely kills me.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
And I will say there are two versions of the
like with a lot of songs at that time, there
are two versions of the living uh in America video.
There's one with Rocky forest scenes interspersed, and then there's
one without that's just the performance, which is that and
that's not breaking ground, that's like take My Breath Away
and Footloose and all every one of all the big soundtracks. Yes,
(31:57):
there are always two versions of a video. But it
also could be a rights thing too, because whoever wrote
the song doesn't own the rights to the Rocky character
or not that he had to have Rocky in there.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
But like, oh, I mean yeah, even I guess you're
you're very right, Like even any mention of like old
timey fisticuffs could have right.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Ben yeah, who knows, you know, But I mean it's
a valid point. It just makes me think there was
probably there was probably a reason why.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, Also, wait a minute, when did Rocky four come out?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I will have to google that?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Eighty five?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
You have you have a button to hit?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Okay, hold on, wait a minute, I'll go check.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yes, November twenty seventh, nineteen eighty five. And what is
the next question.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
No, I was just trying to think about Rocky four
in correlation with the this album and the video and stuff.
I was like, well, there was some kind of a
timing issue, like why that.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Well, with everything they shot for this, they could have
had a guy in boxing clubs, right.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And I get that. I get that.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I just or him just or him and the James
Brown get up, like trying to do a speedbag or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, they could have something, I guess, but who knows?
And I would I'm wondering, like, did weird Al at
the time he had to have done this and some
in some of his shows. I wonder if he did
a Rocky bit at all then, But I'm not gonna
waste time looking that up on this episode. If any
of you out there in beard out podcast listening land
(33:38):
know the answer to that, then you feel free to
feel free to chime in with that, you know, with
that kind of information.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Like I think, okay.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
So, in the context of this album, the Polka Party album,
this is the album opener.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And when you.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Take a look at albums up to this point, you
know they are all kind of opening with well, outside
of the self titled debut, so I'm kind of looking
at there to be stupid and in three D as
kind of the prototypes for this. They're all kind of
opening with what would be like the big parody, right, And.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
They used to bump me out as a kid by the.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Way that they opened with the big parody.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, because and again this is Grandpa and his old
timing thiss over here. But this is a fact the
way albums used to be sequenced at that time, many many,
many big albums UH during like Vinyls Absolute Heyday, like
the seventies and the and the most of the eighties
albums were sequenced on purpose where the lead single was
(34:47):
usually somewhere near the start of side too, and the
thinking was, if you had bought the record, you would
like listen to it through to get to the single.
So yeah, people would do that more. They would listen
to the record more because they were like getting to
the singhole. And as a kid, it always bummed me
out because people I know would buy the Weird Al
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album and it would start with the parody and then
they would like be done with it, like they would
be like, oh, that's the thing I bought this for.
So it used to bump me out. Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I never really thought about it because I've always all
his stuff was always on CD for me, so there
was no flipping.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
You know.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Oh I'm Lauren. I listened to things on the new Compact. Goodness,
I've never heard weird Al on wax cylinder. I'm a
new fangled listener.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Well, no I have, because I married somebody that had squeezbugs.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
No I was doing. I was doing an older joke
than that wax cylinder from before seventy eighth. Oh God,
you see, there used to be never mind.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Let's consult the oracle, right.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I do like though that Dan Hartman had a part
in writing uh, living in America. I always want to
say living with America, living living in America. I like
that Dan Hartman is the lead songwriter around that because
one song I always wanted Weird Al to parody around
that time was I Can Dream about You, and it didn't,
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so at least he's still parodied.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
And then I can dream about food.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Oh. I'm certain I was on the the dock at
some point till something was a bigger hit or something,
you know.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
But yeah, this opens it and you take kind of
take a look at Poka Party as a whole. I
can't see a single that would have been like a
like a parody that would have been a bigger you know,
go that other than Addicted.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Addicted to Love was a much bigger hit than Living
in America. I like, I can say that without even
looking at charts. Addicted to Love was enormous, I believe,
But I would argue, and we can get when we
get there. I think Addicted to Spuds is nowhere near
as good of a parody as Living with a Hernia.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Oh that's fair, That's totally fair.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
So maybe Weird I was just prouder of this.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
I well, I would be. I'm not one hundred percent sure,
but I believe that when they picked this parody, the
record company wanted him to pick somebody that was on
the same record label.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Oh then, yeah, there you go. That's good too good.
I did too, that'll do.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
So I think I think that was the reason, but
I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Well you know, I'm not fact checking anybody. I'll buy it.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
I mean, that's it. That's a very that's very good thing.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I mean that makes sense, that absolutely makes sense. Yeah,
So I don't really have anything negative to say about
this track. I think it's a good album opener. I
think it's a superb weird Al parody, even though I
don't really care about the original song. I think it's
just a superb weird Al song. I think the word
(37:52):
play in it is absolutely phenomenal, and like, even if
you don't know this as a James Brown song, it's
bill works sonically and visually when you're watching the video
as a James Brown like pastiche right yeah, So like
even if like this James Brown song didn't exist, this
Weird Al song could exist in a.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Similar form, right, Yeah. So I love it.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I love it very much for that, and I love
Weird Al's whole get up in it too, Like it's
you know, like yes, you know, like looking back in
the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five. Other people
who don't appreciate nuance anywhere near as much as the
fine intelligent folks here on the beard Ou podcast might
look at what weird al was doing and bulk a
little bit. But like, you look at it, right, he's
(38:37):
wearing a wig and a costume. He's not doing blackface.
He's not doing anything other than physically imitating a performer
in a way that absolutely makes sense, right, yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
The only other things I'd point out I have and
this this goes along with what you were saying about.
Even if you didn't know this was a James Brown
direct parody, you would hear it be like, oh, well
he's doing James Brown there, right.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
I love the fact that this song the first thing
you hear and the last thing you hear are two
very well known James Brown is yeah, and there the
opposite of what the original is because James Brown always
said count me in and like and actually that's a
whole joke in Ocean's thirteen too, But James Brown always
say count me in, right, like won on two three
four one two three four right, and it would go
(39:22):
but the fact that it works with because he's got
a hernia, you have to count him out of whatever
is going on is brilliant. Like when I was a
kid and I got this on because that actually we
were joking earlier about the CD thing. This was the
first weird album I bought on CD. I literally started
the song over when it was like dun dun't dn't
(39:44):
count me out. I was like, oh my god, and
like started it over because I just thought that was
so hilarious, Like the joke works twice, like it's the
opposite of count me in, and also like I will
not be able to participate on account of the hernia yep.
And then of course, when I was a kid, my
favorite James Brown song, like when I was like six five,
six seven years old, was I Feel Good? Sure, And
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so the fact that it ends with I feel bad,
you know, just it's just it's perfect. It's just like
what a way to bookend the song with like two
very common James Brown isms and they're both flipped backwards
and they both work because he's talking about a hernia.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
I think that's the most brilliant point that was made
on this episode today.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
So it's what I come here for.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
I mean, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I could just sit in the living room and not
share this stuff, I.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Know, and then nobody would listen and it wouldn't even matter,
you know. I'm yeah, this used to be my show.
I'm kidding, it's still my show. So with that, I think,
I think now it's a good time for us to
give this track a rating on a scale of one
(40:53):
to twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
And you know, it's just for fun. It is what
it is. You know.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I'm trying not to take myself too seriously on this
because I've got this whole album to go, and rass
you probably have most of this album to go, because
you know, we're talking to a lot of people that
you'll probably also want to join in with me on.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Yeah. Like, I know you're wildly joking with what you
just said a minute ago, but like, you know, my deal,
Like if you you you do your own show and
whatever you want me on it cool, you know what
I mean. Like, there's not going to come a point
where I'm going to be like, oh man, I wish
I was on Like.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
Yeah, you know, but you did.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
The other thing is and I've told this story at
least twenty times on your show. But this record in
particular is important to me because it was the one
that I got made fun of at a record store
for like by the staff, not by some more. I'm
just standing at the record store, like the people that
I was trying to give money to for this album
were like making fun of me for it. And now
(41:48):
that I'm still upset about it or anything at fifty
years over it it was Aspen Records on Telegraph Road
just south.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Of Square like brug tell me, are they still open?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (41:57):
And you know how you know because I drove you
by where it was in Detroit and went That's where
that damn record store was that made fun of me
for buying a Bolka party. But here now today, at
the age that I'm at now and the woman that
I'm married to, I would give anything to go back
in time and be like a bitches and you might
have to you might have to edit that. Sorry, No,
it's fine, but uh so that's this record is like
(42:22):
there's two things. You know, I root for an underdog
in life all the time, and I think this record
is criminally underrated. And then it's also a like sensitive album.
To me because and I'll censor myself on this one
because f you like making making fun of me for
buying a weird al album.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
So the same people were all excited the week before
when I was buying Run dmc rais in Hell. They
were like, Oh, that's really cool, and then they go
and make fun of me for buying a weird al.
I'm like, well, or it's called culture. Look it up,
like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Like, you know, diversify your portfolio, bitches.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Yes, So to that, I'll I'll go first to give
everybody kind of like a baseline on this living with
a Hernia honestly, the track itself and all this and
the other as an album opener for this, I'm gonna
have a hard time giving it anything less than a
twenty seven. So I'm gonna have to do that, and
I'm gonna, as you know what, like when I was
(43:18):
looking at Dare to Be Stupid from a bird's eye view,
when I started this whole series, I was like, man,
I'm gonna start off giving all these high points and
like it's gonna dip. I think Polka Party is a
stronger album, So I'm excited to have higher ratings on this.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Poka Party is a way stronger.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yeah, so I'm given. I'm given Living with a Hernia
a twenty seven out of twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Very nice.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Who would like to go next? Have Casey Casey?
Speaker 4 (43:45):
I was gonna give it a twenty two. Uh no
real reason, but.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
I love it. It's your one rating on you olum.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Because that's what James Brown would do. And if you question, yeah,
James Brown would just not give reason why I could
give it a twenty two. So yeah, that's fair. But
yeah I came. I literally have been struggling with this,
like most of the day today because it was like no,
because I was like, how do is there any reason
why I can give this less than a twenty seven?
And like if I if I were making you know
(44:17):
how some bad well everyone has like the greatest hits
album that's the corporate greatest Set's like it's really the
singles that that okay, And but then a lot of
bands get a chance to put out like their the
songs they like the most as a compilation, you know,
like if I was to put out a weird al
compilation that's like some hits, but the songs I love
(44:39):
the most there's no planet on which this wouldn't be
on it.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
That's fact.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
So for me, that's an automatic twenty seven oh plus
is what was the track length on it? Just now
you just you just run the screen. That's I think
hither sixteen. Yeah, so so see stone Cold would approve
of it.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Yeah, I just can't think of any way. Like It's
just this is one of those tracks that the more
I go back to it, the more I just find
more to be impressed about. And for something that, as
we just said, is over three minutes long, that's pretty
crazy and still find stuff you love about.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
It new Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
I mean it made a non the greatest Hits Volume one.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
We're just saying something. You know, it's there for a reason.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
So so Casey, before we go, anything cool happening on
the itch that our listeners should look forward to that
you can share. If you can't share anything, that's also okay.
I put you on the spot.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
No, you're good, I will say, uh. Like I said,
if you are a fan of rock music and want
to hear some conversations about the people that make the music,
you can check us out at its Rocks dot com
or just search the it wherever you enjoy podcasts. We're
at its rocks on all social media, so be on
(46:09):
the lookout. We, like I said, we're on a massive
interview streak and it just keeps going and I don't
see it's flown down anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
So I think that's so awesome that you have a
platform where like folks that are like up and coming,
are like new on on the larger kind of rock scene,
like are so happy to jump on your show. I
think that's fantastic because we've known y'all for for a
while on this podcasting journey, and like your show and
(46:41):
what y'all do has definitely like changed and evolved in
the time that like we've known you, and I think
that I think that's awesome. Is this more like what
you have? Kind of this is kind of what you
wanted to have happened, right, You wanted it to be
more this?
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (46:55):
Yeah, yeah, To put it into your perspective, we just
recorded episode I guess it would be to sixty four
and we've done We didn't start doing interviews until like
year two of the podcast More Give or Take, and
we just recorded interview one on one nice. So in
(47:21):
about four years we've recorded ninety eight interviews.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
So that's awesome. I think that's so cool. I love it.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
I love The biggest thing I always tell people about
their show is like people, you know, nearly every year,
there's well every year since like nineteen sixty eight, people
have been like, rock and roll is dead, and rock
and roll is never dead, but every year the cries
get louder and people go, oh, there's no new, there's
no new, Like if you if you are a person
who sits around and complains about how there's no new
rock music, like, these are the guys to go see,
(47:50):
like they have found all of it and will sure.
And it doesn't mean you're gonna listen to them and
be like, oh my god, I love all these bands,
but like, at least you'll find that there is a
bunch of rock out there that you haven't heard, and
some stuff you will like and some you won't, just
like any other genre.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
So I love it.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
Yeah, yeah, and we don't we don't discriminate. We've interviewed
bands from Finland, from Canada, all over the world.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
So that's so cool. You're not finished.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait what did the
Canadian guests talk aboot?
Speaker 4 (48:25):
Yeah? Well played.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
I mean, that's that's such low thing fruit. But I
always have to say, like every time.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
What is a Canadian idiot? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (48:34):
Right?
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Weird al joke.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
I have to do it, That's what I do.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
And you know, Russ, anybody uh listening to this show
knows you as my husband who rolls his office chair
in from the other room.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
But also we do other things.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
Can we talk about the Infectious Yeah, the Infectious Crew
podcast is no more, but the YouTube channel is uh
ran strong. You can actually still listen to your podcast.
We're just not making new episodes of it. But the
YouTube channel has three videos every single week. A vinyl
review video on Sunday, us sitting around yap in our
(49:08):
Gum is about just different types of general music topics
that we love on Thursdays, and then reaction videos on Saturday,
which range all over the place for reaction videos and
we are as as of the recording of this episode,
we're just shy of I think just have either forty
seven or forty hundred subscribers, which is nice, and then
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we're probably about a week or two away from hitting
eight hundred thousand videos, which I know, for like in
a world with like mister Beasts and stuff, that's like minuscule.
Speaker 4 (49:41):
But for.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
What we started out wanting to do, that's that's that's impressive.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
Yeah, I love it and I'm happy to be a
part of it. And you know what this is note
to learn when you're editing. But also I'm just gonna
leave this here for the people. I will be putting
a link to one of our weird al reaction videos
in the episode notes of this, so that my weird
how people, if you haven't gone over there, there's a
taste of what happens, and then go check out more.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
That was fun. Well, obviously it's a fun reaction because
it's the song.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
I don't know. We probably ate a guest off time
I have. We probably do.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
Yeah, we've done several. I've got to figure out which
one I'm going to put down there.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
Well, why don't you put this one? We reacted to this?
That would be a solid way to go about it.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
Look at look at that cohesion.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
I know.
Speaker 3 (50:36):
Anyway fits right in like a real American beer terrible.
Speaker 4 (50:43):
Case.
Speaker 1 (50:44):
Thank you so much for joining us to kick off
our Polka Party, UH Deep Dive Palooza extravaganza.
Speaker 4 (50:51):
Wo yes, happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (50:54):
Yeah, And unlike Rocky four, nobody died.
Speaker 4 (50:57):
Nobody died, nobody died.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
That's great. You're welcome back anytime, sir. Thank you, and
Russ you know we'll see Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
If I were you with the jury would absolutely be
out on me.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
All right, folks, I think that that's gonna be it
for this UH Vocal Party kickoff episode. Stay tuned next
time when we get into a Dog eat Dog and
if you are a close personal friend of how you
will recognize our very special guest on that episode.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
I'm not going to give it away though, so stay tuned,
all right. Bye,
Welcome to the beard Out Podcast, the podcast about two
of the greatest things in the world, beer and weird
al And it's a beautiful day here in the beard
ol Podcast neighborhood because we are kicking off Polka Party. Yes,
we are beginning our deep dive into weird Owl's nineteen
eighty six masterpiece. Yes, I said it, masterpiece album, Polka Party.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And for this discussion, I.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Have two of my favorite folks to talk weird out
with in the world. I mean, Russ is here. He's
one of my favorite folks in general. Let's talk about
most things with Hello, Russ.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Hello. That's what I get paid for to be one
of your favorite people. Also, before you keep going, did
you do that beer on purpose? Or is that happen
I did this beer on purpose?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm not that dumb.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, well no, I'm just it connects to this whole
thing in two different ways.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Okay, At no point was I suggesting that I.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I know, And speaking of not dumb. Casey from the
Itch Rocks Radio podcast Super Palooza is here. That's not
your whole show, but that's what I call it. How
are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Very good?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Happy to be here, wonderful. Yeah, so I gott oft
even know how many times you've been on this show.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Ah, I think it's either the fourth or the fifth.
I'm not one.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I feel like fifth feels better like that, I think
that makes more sense.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
All I know is you.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Still hold the record for the most actual beers had
on this show. Yes, so that that will stand forever.
Before I go any further though, since Russ did bring
it up, the beer that I cracked open is Hulk
Hogan's real American like.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Beer appropriate appropriate for two different reasons. Do you know
what both of them are?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I know that one of I so I went with
it because the Living with Hernia, which is what we're
here to talk about today, is a parody of Living
in America by James Brown, and that was from Rocky four, and.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Mister I know, mister T was in Rocky three.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
There you go, Hulk Hogan as the wonderfully named Well,
I'm gonna wait till you dre.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I didn't you were going to split your beer on
I told.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You Thunderlips Okay, yeah, that's right, and the.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Rocky three And for the sake of our sound equipment,
I waited till you were done drinking this and yeah, no,
I that beer is just bud light. That's all that is.
I'm not saying that. Well, no, I'm not saying that actually,
like I do know what's brewed, and no, it's just
all it's it's meant to be taste like bud light,
and that's what it does.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It does that.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, yes, it's probably serving the real American spirit. And
I'll tell you what the real American spirit is Bland
well liked.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I mean, that's it's literally it's all. It's literally meant
to be as a replacement for a Budlin I know.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
But so anyway, I did it on purpose because we
had this. We had it.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
So is the kid Rock approved? Is it?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't know, probably probably.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I mean that's and that's as far as I'm gonna
go down that rabbit hole. So, Casey, what is happening
with the Itch before we jump into the.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Rest of this.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
We are on a massive interview streak and we've done
like eleven in a row. We broke it up with
our Shiprock recap and we've attended Shiprock the last two
years and it's a music festival on a boat. And
we actually had the creator of the Shiprock Cruise on
(04:18):
our show recently. So yeah, what we do is typically
a interview artist interview podcast. So if you are inclined
to check out all things in current rock, we're here
for that.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Not to derail already oh boy. But well, when the
kid rock joke was made, I had this moment of
kid rock. Why did I think?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yes, And I had to go to my Facebook memories
because two years ago today a friend of mine shared
the following on my Facebook page. Kid rock makes music
for people who know exactly how much suit fed you
can get for a catalytic converter. Literally in my Facebook
memories from two years ago today.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That's a delight.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I love accurate.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It is accurate.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So yes, that is accurate. So yes, the beer is
approved by that guy.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I would as yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So so today we are here to discuss Living with
a Hernia, which is weird Al's parody of Living in
America by James Brown from the Rocky four movie and soundtrack,
and it is the song that kicks off the Polka
Party album, which is weird Al's fourth album. And uh,
(05:42):
we're going to talk about this as the tracks go
by on this album for sure, But this entire album
is very very underrated in Weird Owl's catalog.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Criminally underrated.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
There are two criminally underrated albums in Weird Euse catalog,
and this is the first one.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Stay tuned. Oh we'll get We'll get there eventually.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So I have a couple of fun facts about the song,
not too too many, but the first one is that
the music video for the Living with a Hernia song
was actually shot on the same stage where James Brown
shot his scenes for Rocky four. Like and I love that,
I love that At this point, you know, weird Al
(06:27):
kind of has that.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Cachet. I suppose is the word you know, to like
I'm going.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
To use the same sets, you know, and I know
Michael Jackson had a lot to do with that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I would think, so yeah, he this is this is
pretty fat. But yes, yeah, I mean I feel like
just MJ approving anything to do with weird Al made
it kind of like like without without that, Madonna is
not asking when's he going to do like a like
a surgeon and you know what I mean. Yeah, well
so that well that is to say, I'm sure whomever
(07:00):
I don't I don't think James Brown was like, man,
when's we're now going to get in here?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
But I think.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I feel like his handlers would have been like, this
is a good thing to do, sir you Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So so actually to that point, I think I mentioned
this on one of the episodes on the N three
D album Uh Yeah, to keep it in the Rocky family.
The fine folks in Survivor uh Once they heard that
Michael Jackson gave the okay, they were like, oh, alrighty,
then you can you can do the thing, and that's
(07:32):
how we got Ryan the Kaiser.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
So yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Also ties into Rocky.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, it's beautiful, like you just gotta, you know, keep
it in the family. And then this other fun fact.
I we just watched the music video for this and
I had to I double checked this just to make
sure it was true. When weird aw names the Hernias,
he lists nine of them, but the board of the
(08:01):
video says top ten.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I was definitely going to bring that up if you
did not, so.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's like, oh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
And in the original song there he says nine cities.
So that's basically the reason why. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Oh so it's James Brown's fault.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Oh yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So much. So much is James Brown's fault. No, no,
that's nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
At least one shotgun blast that was his fault. Sure, Oh,
it's not dark if it's facts.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
At least one, that's fair.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Now, at least one. Now we're getting into dark territory.
Who knows, who knows what else happened.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So with that, let's jump into the general discussion of
living with a hernia. What I had been doing with
these episodes for those of you who have been following
along as religion justly as you can with the series
that I've been doing, is we've been doing things that
we think work and things that we think don't work.
And we're still gonna do that, but we're going to
do it in a more holistic kind of way where
(09:10):
we're just going to see where the conversation goes, and
we're gonna gonna kind of give our pros and cons
as they come up naturally in discussion. And same with
that ad break that's going to show up naturally where
it would occur in.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Discussion, as ads break. Ad breaks do among friends.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You know, when you're having a conversation with your friends
and an ad break suddenly you know occurs, So that's
what's going to happen. That's what will happen here. So Casey,
since you are the guest, let's let's let you kick
it off. Why do you want to begin our living
with a hernia discussion?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Well, first off, his James Brown mannerisms are on point.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, like so, so what's interesting?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And I knew that this was what was going to
happen with this track, and that's there's nothing wrong with
it as I knew that the discussion was going to
be very in The song and the video for this
are almost like you can't you can't separate them.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean I would. Audio wise, he's perfect,
Like before you even bring the video into it, he's
absolutely spot on James Brown, Like have you ever listened
to any James Brown, Like from I Feel Good to
prop Papa's Got Brand New Beg It's a Man's World
like that he's saying, well, I mean to living in
(10:29):
America like he's he's doing a spot on wonderful. And
the thing with weird Al is most of the time
he's not trying to do an imitation of the people
like he's trying to sing the song. It's hard to
describe it. I mean, it isn't It is an imitation,
but it's not. Yeah, do you know what I'm saying, Like, like,
(10:49):
I don't think at any point in the studio was
he like I'm doing an imitation of James Brown. He's
just singing this song is if James Brown had sang it,
which I know someone is listening to this being like, oh,
you're singing an imitation that it, but like that's not.
I don't feel he's doing an invitation.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I get that well.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
And he's he's not making fun of James Brown. Yeah,
for sure, He's just singing a song like James Brown
about something else that is funny.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes, And I think that's a very salient point, Like
I don't think weird weird Al is never making fun
of anybody, And I think people often get that get
that confused, you know, Like what weird Al does is
not making fun of anybody or anything.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I would say the two closest times he ever came
to that off the top of my head is the
one that he is ashamed of, which is Aggy Breaky Song,
which I don't agree with him on, Like I get
why he feels bad about it, but I don't think
he should. And then I think I think most people
when sells like Nirvana came out, were like thought that
he was making fun of Nirvana, and to an extent
(11:51):
he is. But I don't take it. Let me say this,
it's not mean spirited. Yeah, you know, not mean spirit.
He didn't even do it does not smell like mean spirit.
So I'll here's the thing about this that cracks me up.
So I know you're this way, Lauren, and uh you
(12:13):
probably are to a certain extent Casey, And I'm not
trying to rank weird Al fans. I'm just trying to
say how much, how much Weird Al I've listened to
in my life. So you know that thing where when
you hear a song like like we'll say Gangster's Paradise,
and you you at least hear some of the weird
(12:35):
Al lyrics like in your head, like if you're if
you're like out in public and you hear Gangster's Paradise,
you know the thing of like how you're gonna at
least hear some of Weird Al's lyrics. Yes, yeah, right, Okay,
I don't know how to say this exactly right. Anytime
I ever hear living in America, it's like, that's the parody.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, I get that, I don't know any words in America.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Well I've heard I've heard living with a Hernia so
many times in my life that And the only time
I ever hear living with living in America is if
if like Rocky four happens to be on TV or
we listen to a lot of Casey case some countdowns recently. Yeah,
and when it when it, it's like it makes me
(13:19):
be like this must this must be what it feels
like to not be a weird Al fan, Like when
you hear the alternate lyrics and you're like, that's not right,
Like that's that's how I feel. When I hear the song.
I'm always like, well, that's not right, Like you know
what I mean, Yes, yes, I think I think this
is done so stunningly well like the That's what I'm
(13:43):
trying to say, Like you know, the first time you
hear new weird Al parody and you go here, like
the first time you heard word crimes and the h
you would not use it's in this case and you're like, oh, brilliant, right,
Like when I hear living in Living in America, it's
that in reverse. I'm like, oh he made that said
(14:04):
he fit where where it all said that Hernia?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, like and that's the best way I can think
to describe it.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, and it's it's it's just amazing to me how
spot on that they can recreate the videos that they
end up doing, like shot for shot, like exactly how
it was well.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Even now in this is what Lauren was saying, how
they're so intertwined. And since you brought up the video,
like James Brown's performance style fits well with a Hernia,
Like the whole being doubled over thing and the guy
putting the cape on him and helping him and stuff
(14:48):
like all of that is like, you know, goes in
line with like looking like I mean, that's part of
the shtick was James Brown was acting as if he
was like you know, de bill tated, you know, like
you just couldn't move because he had used up all
the souls, you know. Yeah, And it's just funny to me,
like you're just like, I mean, there's some gags in
(15:09):
the video that I let me say it weren't funny
for me after the first time, like his foot spinning around.
I know that. And there's there's another thing that you
laugh at every time too, that which doesn't make it
not funny. No, wait a minute, it's hilarious when he
slides off the screen, and it doesn't make it not funny.
(15:32):
It's just things that the first time I saw the video,
I was like, hilarious, and then it's like, I know
it's coming, so I can't laugh at you know what
I mean, It's not so funny. But there's other stuff
in the video that is so ridiculous that I laughed
so like the part where the old people are passing
him in the walker. And I love that he's dressed
(15:53):
James Brown stage clothes, in out at the grocery store, everything.
And maybe I've said this so many times on your show.
Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I feel like that's a
statement on James Brown, is that, like James Brown probably
goes everywhere dressed like that.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Like I don't, because he could have he could have
just left the wig on and come out dressed as
a normal person from the grocery store. But I think
the statement there is like James Brown would go bowling
in his stage outfit, or he would go grocery shopping
in his stage outfit.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
So, any of you listening to this podcast, have you
ever seen James Brown in street close? If so, comment below.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I don't think anybody's ever seen James Brown off stage ever.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Other than on Wheel of Fortune, but that's still a stage.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
James Brown was actually on an episode of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Do you think on that episode he even hit any idea?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That? Where it else? Again?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Not? Wait, I made my question too long. On that episode,
do you think he had any idea? Nope at all?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No alone, have you ever seen that? Have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
No, dude, you gotta just go google James Brown, weird
al Wheel of Fortune.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Let me let me.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Tell you later, let me tell you why you don't
want to do that?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You do?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Okay? You know when there's funny things that happen and
people are like, oh go look like okay. So, because
she was such a good sport about it, I can
say this without making fun of her. If you go
watch the Becky Lynch episode of Celebrity Jeopardy, she was
so bad on it. But when you watch it, it's
at least funny because she's in on the joke. The
James Brown thing is so uncomfortable, like he's it's just uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Like, Oh, I just like watching weird al handle it.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
No, yeah, yeah, in the most weird al way possible,
you know, just like but anyway, I just I forgot
about that until this moment.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I was like, wait, we've got this other. Wait a minute,
I stop, wait a minute. Uh yeah, so that's a
connection there. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
This song absolutely just like to your point, Russell, the
song stands alone for me, like the James Brown song. Yes,
this is a parody of that, but this song exists
for me before that. So this song is the thing
for me. Casey, are you the same way or do
you have a different relation to it?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
It I mean I watched the Rocky movie and I
know the living in America, you know, Apollo, Creed, Entrance
and whatnot. But being a big weird Alt fans at
such a young age, you know, whenever they have the
videos and being able to see those, that's what I
(18:43):
associate with the song more than you know, being in Rocky.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yes, yeah, I definitely heard this before i'd seen Rocky four. Yeah,
so then when I don't think, okay, so this is fun.
I don't think I actually watched Rocky four in its
entirety until I was in college. My boyfriend at the
time and I we watched all at the time five
(19:09):
Rocky movies.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Oh man, I'm glad Balbo came along to save that.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So he watched all at six is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, we watched at the time all five Rocky movies.
And I was excited because obviously Ryana Kaiser and I
was like, oh, I know what the time, right, so
that was the thing that was happening. But but then
we got to Rocky four and like I forgot that
this was a thing, right, And so then then Rocky
four happens, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Like, oh my god, oh my god, it's all fun
and games until the match starts.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, right, and I go oh no, oh no, oh no,
you know, and then you've got what is it hearts
on fire?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, because of the awful and bad thing that happens
in Rocky For whenever, I like if if like you
know how you have towels over like the rock in
the in the kitchen and stuff like if a towel
ever falls on the floor. I see it in slow motion,
and I go through the towe because like in my head,
(20:18):
that happens every time, and then you just see Apollo
falling down and it's all bad.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's all bad. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I've been known to, like to a towel that fell
down to no one else in the room, just be like,
if he dies, he dies.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
He dies, he dies. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Uh yeah. For that to come up in the movie,
he must have been like, oh, Nate, I was like,
oh my.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
God, oh my god, because you know, I've been a
weird al person, you know, it's for such a long time.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
And I was just like, oh.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
My god, Okay, I'm putting all of this together now,
right right right, And then yeah, what happened happened, And
I was like, oh no, but I didn't let it
ruin living with a herniafore me.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I didn't even let it ruin hernias for me.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
They are they are known to be such fun.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Such fun, such fun, so many such fun.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I mean, like we have talked so many times on
this show about how I think one thing that a
lot of of I guess passerby weird our listeners don't
necessarily know off right off the bat is that his
band recreates the music. They're not playing over He's not.
(21:29):
It's not just weird Al singing over a track, right.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I think that's a way bigger misconception than people realize this.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Because it was never my misconception.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
No either, Like I'm like, every time somebody says to me, oh, wait,
he just co he just does the cover, I'm like, wait, no, no,
But they do the they do the whole all of it.
They do the all the all of the things about that.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Actually, when we were watching the video, just now the
bassline and this is out of control, way to go.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yeah, Steve, Yeah, that's Steve j on base doing it
doing what he does. You know, very very tight band,
very tight band. Is weird Al coming anywhere near you
on his upcoming short Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
And I actually already have tickets for it.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Then that was going to be my next question. I
was like, are you being a good boy.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And going we accidentally have tickets to two shows, so.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I was going to ask I was going to ask
you how many year attending?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So for real is accidental though, because when they announced
the first leg, he wasn't coming anywhere near us, and
he has a show in the first week of July
at Pine Knob in Detroit, which is like my home venue.
I used to walk there. I've seen like everyone ever
at Pine Knob, and it's besides it being special for
(22:52):
that reason, like Lawrence never been to that venue. I've
literally seen a thousand shows there. And I don't know
why where Alice booked into such big venues on this tour,
Like I'm totally fine with it, but I don't know
why he is. But like, Pine Knob is an outdoor
venue that seats like seven sixteen or seventeen thousand, and
(23:14):
he whenever he's played Michigan, whenever I've seen him, he's
always booked into the Amphitheater that's down the road from there,
that seats four thousand. So like, I'm just like really
excited about that. So we were we were like, well,
we'll just go to Detroit and see him for all
these reasons. It'll be super special. And then like a
month later, he was like, and also, I'm coming a
half hour from your house in Jacksonville, and we were like,
(23:35):
damn it. So we had bought tickets in that too,
but it's well, we'll see it in July, and then
we'll see it again in September Nomber.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah, yeah, I'll be seeing him September ninth, So.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Ray a couple of weeks before we see you'll be
in the middle. Then we'll see him in July, then
you'll see him, then we'll see him again after that Sandwich.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, I have no idea what to expect from this tour,
and I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I don't think I've ever seen him do living with hernia.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I don't think so either, So so like that's the thing,
and this is absolutely salient to this conversation, is like
one of the things on this tour is that he's
going to be doing stuff that either hasn't done in
a long time or he's never done before.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Like it's this.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Bigger, like whatever, like fantastical, magical, mystical tour, you know.
And I don't think I've ever seen living with hernia
and I would kind.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Of love it.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Oh, there's a kind of Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I'm just trying to be like low key, like you know,
like gen Z.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know, I don't want to I.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Do wonder sometimes though, and we don't have to get
too deep into these weeds. But I do wonder sometimes
how like you know, the whole like, uh oh, you
couldn't get away with that today. I wonder if he
was to bust out with living with Hernia, if there
would be a kerfuffle today, because like, social media doesn't
understand nuance. So I wonder if like there could be
(25:02):
like a thing where like it ends up on TikTok
and people are like, oh, weird, I was making fun
of a black guy, you know what I mean, which
we all know is not even remotely accurate, right, But
like also again social media with like zero idea of
nuance and whatnot. So I just wonder what I'm saying
is I wonder if things like that crossed his mind. Well, Like,
for example, he has mentioned before that he's none too
(25:25):
pleased with buy Me a Condo, which again I think
is hilarious, and I think I get the nuance in it,
and I think that he doesn't want to be associated
with it because other people take it wrong. Do you
know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I do, absolutely do, I absolutely do. I absolutely do
you know what?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I Am going to take this nuance conversation as a
Q to say, you know, what. I'm gonna throw this
to some ads before I forget to do so, because
this feels like a healthy place to take a break,
because I am digging this convo. But you know again,
these ads are based off of.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
What you have googled.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
None of it's my fault other than the ones that
I put in there. See if you can figure out
what those are.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Okay, we'll catch you on
the other side.
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Speaker 3 (27:44):
What is happening? Why were you waiting for me?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I wasn't waiting for you. I was trying to give
myself enough dead air.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Oh hand to guy. I thought you were like waiting for.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Me to do something and goofy.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Never mind.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Okay, you've got an outtake from this episode.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
You said that like you're gonna blackmail me with it.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Okay, you won't know when, you won't know where.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Listen to Rust. He's so bad at podcasts. He's the
worst at it.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
But I don't know if you're trying to do how
do you want to do the what don't you like?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
We're not really going to do it. I'm just going
to continue the conversation.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Okay, because let me say this, there's nothing wrong with this,
and I'll fight someone.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
No, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I think there's gonna be enough. What don't you like
to even have a part of that? So I just
took a break.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I don't know what I maybe do you hate this?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
No, it's awesome, but there is there was There was
two things that I was gonna mention. One one was
the top ten, which we already yes, uh.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The other before you go to the other, let's let's
take a ride on this for a second.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Do you think that like weird all thought a anybody
would notice?
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Or b?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Because there were nine cities in the James Brown song,
he was like, well, I gotta do nine hernias. And
do you think he would have thought it would be
weird to have the sign say top nine?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
So maybe there were ten on the charge?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
The sign is a play on ut yeah, yeah, And
and the way they shoot it you only see eight
and up.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, so maybe there were ten on there?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Oh no, no, I don't think yeah, I think there
were just eight but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
But yeah, I just yeah, I totally get the issue.
But I think I think the idea was like, well,
we'll do the Letterman site gag, but we're bound by
what the song as a list.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
And I'll be honest, I didn't recognize that that was
even an issue until right today. Yeah, so watching the video,
watching the video, and I was like, wait a minute,
are there ten on there? No that there's not?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah, yeah, so but you had another one.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
The other and it's just a minor nitpick since it's,
you know, based off Living in America and Rocky four,
I think that they should have had a boxer somewhere
in the video experiencing a hernia.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
So the I'm about to have no facts to share,
I'm just going to take a guess here. I will
say that people have had say in where it ELL's
visuals before when okaying the song. For example, it's the
reason why there is no video at all for Couch Potato,
(30:54):
because that was part of the agreement. Eminem was like,
you can do this song, but you absolutely will not
parody like anything about like the way I look and whatever.
So he was not allowed to do a video for
that song again, not yeah, you know what I'm saying,
but uh so with zero facts to back this up,
(31:15):
maybe there was a thing that was like, and you
can't parody Rocky like specifically, yeah, maybe maybe maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I mean the only thing that's close to parodying it
specifically is like Verso.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
With the Ring Girl.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that cracks me up every time too.
That absolutely kills me.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
And I will say there are two versions of the
like with a lot of songs at that time, there
are two versions of the living uh in America video.
There's one with Rocky forest scenes interspersed, and then there's
one without that's just the performance, which is that and
that's not breaking ground, that's like take My Breath Away
and Footloose and all every one of all the big soundtracks. Yes,
(31:57):
there are always two versions of a video. But it
also could be a rights thing too, because whoever wrote
the song doesn't own the rights to the Rocky character
or not that he had to have Rocky in there.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
But like, oh, I mean yeah, even I guess you're
you're very right, Like even any mention of like old
timey fisticuffs could have right.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Ben yeah, who knows, you know, But I mean it's
a valid point. It just makes me think there was
probably there was probably a reason why.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, Also, wait a minute, when did Rocky four come out?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I will have to google that?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Eighty five?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
You have you have a button to hit?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Okay, hold on, wait a minute, I'll go check.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yes, November twenty seventh, nineteen eighty five. And what is
the next question.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
No, I was just trying to think about Rocky four
in correlation with the this album and the video and stuff.
I was like, well, there was some kind of a
timing issue, like why that.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Well, with everything they shot for this, they could have
had a guy in boxing clubs, right.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And I get that. I get that.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I just or him just or him and the James
Brown get up, like trying to do a speedbag or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, they could have something, I guess, but who knows?
And I would I'm wondering, like, did weird Al at
the time he had to have done this and some
in some of his shows. I wonder if he did
a Rocky bit at all then, But I'm not gonna
waste time looking that up on this episode. If any
of you out there in beard out podcast listening land
(33:38):
know the answer to that, then you feel free to
feel free to chime in with that, you know, with
that kind of information.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Like I think, okay.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
So, in the context of this album, the Polka Party album,
this is the album opener.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And when you.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Take a look at albums up to this point, you
know they are all kind of opening with well, outside
of the self titled debut, so I'm kind of looking
at there to be stupid and in three D as
kind of the prototypes for this. They're all kind of
opening with what would be like the big parody, right, And.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
They used to bump me out as a kid by the.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Way that they opened with the big parody.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, because and again this is Grandpa and his old
timing thiss over here. But this is a fact the
way albums used to be sequenced at that time, many many,
many big albums UH during like Vinyls Absolute Heyday, like
the seventies and the and the most of the eighties
albums were sequenced on purpose where the lead single was
(34:47):
usually somewhere near the start of side too, and the
thinking was, if you had bought the record, you would
like listen to it through to get to the single.
So yeah, people would do that more. They would listen
to the record more because they were like getting to
the singhole. And as a kid, it always bummed me
out because people I know would buy the Weird Al
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album and it would start with the parody and then
they would like be done with it, like they would
be like, oh, that's the thing I bought this for.
So it used to bump me out. Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I never really thought about it because I've always all
his stuff was always on CD for me, so there
was no flipping.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
You know.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Oh I'm Lauren. I listened to things on the new Compact. Goodness,
I've never heard weird Al on wax cylinder. I'm a
new fangled listener.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Well, no I have, because I married somebody that had squeezbugs.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
No I was doing. I was doing an older joke
than that wax cylinder from before seventy eighth. Oh God,
you see, there used to be never mind.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Let's consult the oracle, right.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I do like though that Dan Hartman had a part
in writing uh, living in America. I always want to
say living with America, living living in America. I like
that Dan Hartman is the lead songwriter around that because
one song I always wanted Weird Al to parody around
that time was I Can Dream about You, and it didn't,
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so at least he's still parodied.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
And then I can dream about food.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Oh. I'm certain I was on the the dock at
some point till something was a bigger hit or something,
you know.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
But yeah, this opens it and you take kind of
take a look at Poka Party as a whole. I
can't see a single that would have been like a
like a parody that would have been a bigger you know,
go that other than Addicted.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Addicted to Love was a much bigger hit than Living
in America. I like, I can say that without even
looking at charts. Addicted to Love was enormous, I believe,
But I would argue, and we can get when we
get there. I think Addicted to Spuds is nowhere near
as good of a parody as Living with a Hernia.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Oh that's fair, That's totally fair.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
So maybe Weird I was just prouder of this.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
I well, I would be. I'm not one hundred percent sure,
but I believe that when they picked this parody, the
record company wanted him to pick somebody that was on
the same record label.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Oh then, yeah, there you go. That's good too good.
I did too, that'll do.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
So I think I think that was the reason, but
I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Well you know, I'm not fact checking anybody. I'll buy it.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
I mean, that's it. That's a very that's very good thing.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I mean that makes sense, that absolutely makes sense. Yeah,
So I don't really have anything negative to say about
this track. I think it's a good album opener. I
think it's a superb weird Al parody, even though I
don't really care about the original song. I think it's
just a superb weird Al song. I think the word
(37:52):
play in it is absolutely phenomenal, and like, even if
you don't know this as a James Brown song, it's
bill works sonically and visually when you're watching the video
as a James Brown like pastiche right yeah, So like
even if like this James Brown song didn't exist, this
Weird Al song could exist in a.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Similar form, right, Yeah. So I love it.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I love it very much for that, and I love
Weird Al's whole get up in it too, Like it's
you know, like yes, you know, like looking back in
the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five. Other people
who don't appreciate nuance anywhere near as much as the
fine intelligent folks here on the beard Ou podcast might
look at what weird al was doing and bulk a
little bit. But like, you look at it, right, he's
(38:37):
wearing a wig and a costume. He's not doing blackface.
He's not doing anything other than physically imitating a performer
in a way that absolutely makes sense, right, yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
The only other things I'd point out I have and
this this goes along with what you were saying about.
Even if you didn't know this was a James Brown
direct parody, you would hear it be like, oh, well
he's doing James Brown there, right.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
I love the fact that this song the first thing
you hear and the last thing you hear are two
very well known James Brown is yeah, and there the
opposite of what the original is because James Brown always
said count me in and like and actually that's a
whole joke in Ocean's thirteen too, But James Brown always
say count me in, right, like won on two three
four one two three four right, and it would go
(39:22):
but the fact that it works with because he's got
a hernia, you have to count him out of whatever
is going on is brilliant. Like when I was a
kid and I got this on because that actually we
were joking earlier about the CD thing. This was the
first weird album I bought on CD. I literally started
the song over when it was like dun dun't dn't
(39:44):
count me out. I was like, oh my god, and
like started it over because I just thought that was
so hilarious, Like the joke works twice, like it's the
opposite of count me in, and also like I will
not be able to participate on account of the hernia yep.
And then of course, when I was a kid, my
favorite James Brown song, like when I was like six five,
six seven years old, was I Feel Good? Sure, And
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so the fact that it ends with I feel bad,
you know, just it's just it's perfect. It's just like
what a way to bookend the song with like two
very common James Brown isms and they're both flipped backwards
and they both work because he's talking about a hernia.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
I think that's the most brilliant point that was made
on this episode today.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
So it's what I come here for.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
I mean, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I could just sit in the living room and not
share this stuff, I.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Know, and then nobody would listen and it wouldn't even matter,
you know. I'm yeah, this used to be my show.
I'm kidding, it's still my show. So with that, I think,
I think now it's a good time for us to
give this track a rating on a scale of one
(40:53):
to twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
And you know, it's just for fun. It is what
it is. You know.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I'm trying not to take myself too seriously on this
because I've got this whole album to go, and rass
you probably have most of this album to go, because
you know, we're talking to a lot of people that
you'll probably also want to join in with me on.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Yeah. Like, I know you're wildly joking with what you
just said a minute ago, but like, you know, my deal,
Like if you you you do your own show and
whatever you want me on it cool, you know what
I mean. Like, there's not going to come a point
where I'm going to be like, oh man, I wish
I was on Like.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
Yeah, you know, but you did.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
The other thing is and I've told this story at
least twenty times on your show. But this record in
particular is important to me because it was the one
that I got made fun of at a record store
for like by the staff, not by some more. I'm
just standing at the record store, like the people that
I was trying to give money to for this album
were like making fun of me for it. And now
(41:48):
that I'm still upset about it or anything at fifty
years over it it was Aspen Records on Telegraph Road
just south.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Of Square like brug tell me, are they still open?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (41:57):
And you know how you know because I drove you
by where it was in Detroit and went That's where
that damn record store was that made fun of me
for buying a Bolka party. But here now today, at
the age that I'm at now and the woman that
I'm married to, I would give anything to go back
in time and be like a bitches and you might
have to you might have to edit that. Sorry, No,
it's fine, but uh so that's this record is like
(42:22):
there's two things. You know, I root for an underdog
in life all the time, and I think this record
is criminally underrated. And then it's also a like sensitive album.
To me because and I'll censor myself on this one
because f you like making making fun of me for
buying a weird al album.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
So the same people were all excited the week before
when I was buying Run dmc rais in Hell. They
were like, Oh, that's really cool, and then they go
and make fun of me for buying a weird al.
I'm like, well, or it's called culture. Look it up,
like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Like, you know, diversify your portfolio, bitches.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Yes, So to that, I'll I'll go first to give
everybody kind of like a baseline on this living with
a Hernia honestly, the track itself and all this and
the other as an album opener for this, I'm gonna
have a hard time giving it anything less than a
twenty seven. So I'm gonna have to do that, and
I'm gonna, as you know what, like when I was
(43:18):
looking at Dare to Be Stupid from a bird's eye view,
when I started this whole series, I was like, man,
I'm gonna start off giving all these high points and
like it's gonna dip. I think Polka Party is a
stronger album, So I'm excited to have higher ratings on this.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Poka Party is a way stronger.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yeah, so I'm given. I'm given Living with a Hernia
a twenty seven out of twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Very nice.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Who would like to go next? Have Casey Casey?
Speaker 4 (43:45):
I was gonna give it a twenty two. Uh no
real reason, but.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
I love it. It's your one rating on you olum.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Because that's what James Brown would do. And if you question, yeah,
James Brown would just not give reason why I could
give it a twenty two. So yeah, that's fair. But
yeah I came. I literally have been struggling with this,
like most of the day today because it was like no,
because I was like, how do is there any reason
why I can give this less than a twenty seven?
And like if I if I were making you know
(44:17):
how some bad well everyone has like the greatest hits
album that's the corporate greatest Set's like it's really the
singles that that okay, And but then a lot of
bands get a chance to put out like their the
songs they like the most as a compilation, you know,
like if I was to put out a weird al
compilation that's like some hits, but the songs I love
(44:39):
the most there's no planet on which this wouldn't be
on it.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
That's fact.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
So for me, that's an automatic twenty seven oh plus
is what was the track length on it? Just now
you just you just run the screen. That's I think
hither sixteen. Yeah, so so see stone Cold would approve
of it.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Yeah, I just can't think of any way. Like It's
just this is one of those tracks that the more
I go back to it, the more I just find
more to be impressed about. And for something that, as
we just said, is over three minutes long, that's pretty
crazy and still find stuff you love about.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
It new Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
I mean it made a non the greatest Hits Volume one.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
We're just saying something. You know, it's there for a reason.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
So so Casey, before we go, anything cool happening on
the itch that our listeners should look forward to that
you can share. If you can't share anything, that's also okay.
I put you on the spot.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
No, you're good, I will say, uh. Like I said,
if you are a fan of rock music and want
to hear some conversations about the people that make the music,
you can check us out at its Rocks dot com
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the lookout. We, like I said, we're on a massive
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see it's flown down anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
So I think that's so awesome that you have a
platform where like folks that are like up and coming,
are like new on on the larger kind of rock scene,
like are so happy to jump on your show. I
think that's fantastic because we've known y'all for for a
while on this podcasting journey, and like your show and
(46:41):
what y'all do has definitely like changed and evolved in
the time that like we've known you, and I think
that I think that's awesome. Is this more like what
you have? Kind of this is kind of what you
wanted to have happened, right, You wanted it to be
more this?
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (46:55):
Yeah, yeah, To put it into your perspective, we just
recorded episode I guess it would be to sixty four
and we've done We didn't start doing interviews until like
year two of the podcast More Give or Take, and
we just recorded interview one on one nice. So in
(47:21):
about four years we've recorded ninety eight interviews.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
So that's awesome. I think that's so cool. I love it.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
I love The biggest thing I always tell people about
their show is like people, you know, nearly every year,
there's well every year since like nineteen sixty eight, people
have been like, rock and roll is dead, and rock
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(47:50):
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And it doesn't mean you're gonna listen to them and
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some stuff you will like and some you won't, just
like any other genre.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
So I love it.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
Yeah, yeah, and we don't we don't discriminate. We've interviewed
bands from Finland, from Canada, all over the world.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
So that's so cool. You're not finished.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait what did the
Canadian guests talk aboot?
Speaker 4 (48:25):
Yeah? Well played.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
I mean, that's that's such low thing fruit. But I
always have to say, like every time.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
What is a Canadian idiot? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (48:34):
Right?
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Weird al joke.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
I have to do it, That's what I do.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
And you know, Russ, anybody uh listening to this show
knows you as my husband who rolls his office chair
in from the other room.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
But also we do other things.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
Can we talk about the Infectious Yeah, the Infectious Crew
podcast is no more, but the YouTube channel is uh
ran strong. You can actually still listen to your podcast.
We're just not making new episodes of it. But the
YouTube channel has three videos every single week. A vinyl
review video on Sunday, us sitting around yap in our
(49:08):
Gum is about just different types of general music topics
that we love on Thursdays, and then reaction videos on Saturday,
which range all over the place for reaction videos and
we are as as of the recording of this episode,
we're just shy of I think just have either forty
seven or forty hundred subscribers, which is nice, and then
(49:30):
we're probably about a week or two away from hitting
eight hundred thousand videos, which I know, for like in
a world with like mister Beasts and stuff, that's like minuscule.
Speaker 4 (49:41):
But for.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
What we started out wanting to do, that's that's that's impressive.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
Yeah, I love it and I'm happy to be a
part of it. And you know what this is note
to learn when you're editing. But also I'm just gonna
leave this here for the people. I will be putting
a link to one of our weird al reaction videos
in the episode notes of this, so that my weird
how people, if you haven't gone over there, there's a
taste of what happens, and then go check out more.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
That was fun. Well, obviously it's a fun reaction because
it's the song.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
I don't know. We probably ate a guest off time
I have. We probably do.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
Yeah, we've done several. I've got to figure out which
one I'm going to put down there.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
Well, why don't you put this one? We reacted to this?
That would be a solid way to go about it.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
Look at look at that cohesion.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
I know.
Speaker 3 (50:36):
Anyway fits right in like a real American beer terrible.
Speaker 4 (50:43):
Case.
Speaker 1 (50:44):
Thank you so much for joining us to kick off
our Polka Party, UH Deep Dive Palooza extravaganza.
Speaker 4 (50:51):
Wo yes, happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (50:54):
Yeah, And unlike Rocky four, nobody died.
Speaker 4 (50:57):
Nobody died, nobody died.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
That's great. You're welcome back anytime, sir. Thank you, and
Russ you know we'll see Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
If I were you with the jury would absolutely be
out on me.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
All right, folks, I think that that's gonna be it
for this UH Vocal Party kickoff episode. Stay tuned next
time when we get into a Dog eat Dog and
if you are a close personal friend of how you
will recognize our very special guest on that episode.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
I'm not going to give it away though, so stay tuned,
all right. Bye,
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