June 6, 2025 • 53 mins
It’s one of those days… but in the best way possible! Lauren is joined by the delightfully nerdy and wonderfully weird Jeff Nucera (aka UHJeff) to talk all about the song “One of Those Days” from Polka Party! You might know Jeff as one of the filmmakers behind Tight & Nerdy—the fabulous documentary about the world’s first Weird Al-themed burlesque troupe. (Yes, that’s a real thing, and yes, it’s amazing.)
We dive into this underrated Al deep cut and revel in its over-the-top absurdity, dark humor, and surprising relatability.
Oh—and we discover a truly wild coincidence about each other that will have you saying, “What are the odds?!”
So crack open a cold one, embrace the chaos, and settle in for a joyfully weird ride. Because even on one of those days, Beer’d Al makes everything better. 🍺🎶
Beer'd Al is one of THOSE members of the OddPods Media Network.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beer-d-al-podcast--5439475/support.
We dive into this underrated Al deep cut and revel in its over-the-top absurdity, dark humor, and surprising relatability.
Oh—and we discover a truly wild coincidence about each other that will have you saying, “What are the odds?!”
So crack open a cold one, embrace the chaos, and settle in for a joyfully weird ride. Because even on one of those days, Beer’d Al makes everything better. 🍺🎶
Beer'd Al is one of THOSE members of the OddPods Media Network.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beer-d-al-podcast--5439475/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
And I would like to welcome everybody to get another,
I know, get another episode of the beard Out podcast,
the podcast about two of the greatest things in the world,
Beer and Weird Now and I'm Lauren, I'm always here,
and I'm joined by a very special guest for this episode.
(00:54):
It's Jeff. You know him. You may know him as
just Jeff, or you h Jeff, or you know.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Just Jeff, or that jerk.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That jerk it's so like divisive.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
No, the Jerk Store called and they're running out of me.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Jeff, you've been here before. Welcome back, though I have.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I missed you.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I missed you too, like I'm hugging you from across
the country. So so Jeff. As you know, if you
are at all involved with the Weird l of Things,
you know you know Jeff and you know what he's
doing and you know what he's all about. But I
feel like right here at the beginning of the show,
for those who don't know, and I feel like anybody
(01:37):
listening to this show at this point haas to know.
But just in case, tell them, what's up?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Tell me what's up? What am I doing. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, talk about what do you got going? What do
you got? What you going on?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That? That's a great question. Thank you for asking you. Yeah,
I am, I'm a I'm making a movie. I think
you may have heard.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I have heard. I had the calendar.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, you did. Back when we thought that the we
sent out a calendar. Let me start from the beginning.
We're doing a documentary called Tight and nerdyeh and it's
the story of the world's first and only weird alburlesque troop.
And we sent out we did a kickstarter a couple
of years ago. We sent out calendars last year under
(02:23):
the impression that we would be done last year. And
guess what it's We're almost halfway through twenty twenty five
and we're not done yet. No, but we're so close.
I know, I'm we are so close. People have actually
seen private screenings of it. It's happening like we're so close.
(02:45):
We have a few more legal hurdles to jump over
or get pummeled by and uh and then we're and
then we're ready. That's so exist This year.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
This year, this year, I feel like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Maybe maybe even by the end of the show, maybe.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Who knows the people people you know set your watches,
who who knows? Who knows what's gonna happen? But Jeff,
I feel like you need to know this, right, So
I had the the calendar for your Yes, these beautiful
ladies doing these beautiful, weird out things, and it just
made me so happy. Every month I was like, Oh,
what's happening, what's happening? And then December rolled around and
(03:22):
I'm like, what am I going to What am I
going to do after this? So this hangs in my kitchen,
by the way, I want you to know that, like
they were in my kitchen like year, all year. And
so I found a calendar that I felt worthy to
follow that up with. Yes, it's called butts on Things,
(03:47):
butts on Things, butts on Things.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yes, I have there's a I have a butts on
Things book. Yeah you're somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, So I got the butts on Things calendar and
then we have the same taste. Well, of course it's right.
So that's what I felt that And so like a
friend of mine, unbeknownst to the fact that I had
the butts on Things calendar for Christmas, got me a
pack of butts on Things stickers, which I now used
to mark important dates on my Butts on Things calendar.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So you have it all set, I really do.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It's just all butts, all butts.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
All the time, which explains why I am on the
show again.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I guess so I am. So I can tell you
the beer that I have for this.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
How's it going over there?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
That's pretty good? It's pretty good, Okay. I I can't
make any connection to this song with this, like directly,
but I felt like you would appreciate the humor in
what this beer is doing. Yes, So, one of our
local breweries here in Jacksonville, they're called Ardwolf Brewing Company.
They're one of Jacksonville's original seven breweries. And I say
(04:57):
that original seven because we're up to like thirty now
that have opened and closed and all this, that and
the other. But this one's still there and they're amazing
again ard Wolf. And this is a a beer that
they released. The can release was just this past weekend
and I literally had to make a special trip out
to the brewery to pick this up because it's been
(05:20):
aged for two years in bourbon barrels. It's an oatmeal
cream pie imperial stout called large Deborah.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I respect, I respect everything about that.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
When they announced that, I was like, I'm going to
get this because it's just so funny.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That is excellent work.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'll tell you what it is dark, it is rich,
it is delicious, and I feel like if I have
to draw some kind of like tenuous connection with what's
happening with the song, one of those days, it's like,
you know, well, you have you have one of those day.
Maybe you reach for a little Debbie or a large
Deborra depending on Audrin, you.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Know, maybe both. Oh yeah, I'm not scared.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm not scared. This is marvelous, this is great, this
is great. I love having you on this show because like,
oh man, you just get you get where all of
this goes. I have guests on I love every guest
that has ever been on this show. Let me just
first say that I have to do thank you. I
(06:32):
have to do so much less setting up with you,
just to like level set where we're at with things
and I do with other people, which is why when
Russ was like, I'm just tired from the day. I
can't do it. I don't have the mental capacity, I
was like, oh, Jeff, and I will be fine for this.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I bring my own set of weirdness. It's fine, that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I love it. I love it so much. I love
it so much. I'm like, and I'm so excited for
your documentary.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You have no idea like to thank you. We are
so close and it's like, I just want it to
be done so everyone can see it. Yeah, and we're
so close. I just there's there's just a couple more
things that we just have to get under control and
then and then everyone will be sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
No, no, everyone will be so happy. I need to
find a way to like, I've got a couple local
places here in Jacksonville will be like, can I take
one of your big screens for the day?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
As Can I do that?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Can I do that?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You're yeah, you're in charge.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
They know me enough here. Don't let me do it.
They'll let me do it. Somebody, somebody, I promise you,
somebody will let me do Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Bring the beer because that always helps.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Right exactly. Oh my gosh, it'll be marvelous. But we
are nearing the end of side one of Polka Party
and poa party. It's a party. This is such an
underrated alt and I think I say that in every
episode so far. But it's true. So we're talking about
(08:06):
one of those days and.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
The last one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well obviously, like because the last time you were here,
I didn't have anybody else lined up for Poka Party.
And the last time you were on the show, I
remember after we had wrapped, Uh, I said to you, Hey,
you you can have your pick on Poka Party, like
whatever you want. You were like one of those days,
and you, like you just you picked this like months ago.
So I'm I'm so, I guess before we'd like jump
(08:32):
into anything like related to like the lyrical content or
any of that jazz. Why did you? Why did you
jump on this as fast as you did.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I have a very loving relationship with this song for
a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
My Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
When I was in college two hundred and ninety seven
years ago. Okay, my buddy Dave Bock, who is one
of the best we were just sort of getting to
know each other and he whipped out a line from
this song and I was like, are you quoting? Weird?
(09:11):
Al at me, like how dare you? And I see you?
And now we're in love forever and we're still in
love forever. And fast forward many many years to Al's
first Vanity tour, going to see the show in Atlantic City,
bringing Dave by a few other friends with me. Oh,
(09:33):
you were there, You're kidding.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I was totally I was way in the back.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So you know what I'm about to say. So weird
now comes on stage and you know, we're in the
middle of the show and he's like, here's a deep
cut original from Polka Party, which means it's a very
unpopular song from a very unpopular album. But uh, Jeff
wants to hear it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh, I was told this. I was totally there. I
was totally there. I was totally there.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's amazing. I am getting choked up even just thinking
about it now. I just started sobbing. It was like,
what is happening.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Oh, that's amazing, that's amazing. Oh my god, I this
is We were in the same room and we didn't
even know it, like all those Oh my god, that's incredible,
Like like okay. So I lived in Jacksonville at the
time of that, and I flew from Jacksonville to Philadelphia.
(10:35):
My brother and his wife picked me up in Philly
and we talked to Atlantic City and our parents met
us there. Oh, we we all went to the again.
We were in like the next to last role, like
in the back right and so, but we were there.
We saw the show. It was great. And then my
brother and his wife stayed in Atlantic City for a
(10:56):
romantic week in Atlantic City, where they claimed they didn't
conceive my niece, but I swear they. And then so
my parents took me back from Atlantic City to the
Philadelphia Airport on their way back home to northeast Pennsylvany.
Because my parents drove all the way back home after
that I had. I stayed literally in the Philadelphia Airport
(11:17):
hotel and then flew back the next day, like literally
totally worth it. Like it was the first time I
ever flew first class. I got upgraded on my flight home.
I was like, yeah, this is the best. But like, yeah,
it was uh thirty two hours tops the entire trip.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It was wild they did that. But I was there.
I was there with you when you were there.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I didn't even the moment.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I didn't even know. I didn't even know.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
The moment was very special to me obviously for many reasons,
but that was I mean, I just it just I
was like oh. I did not expect to sob at
a weird awl show.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I mean I saw but every single weird.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And it was so just like and my friends were like,
are you okay? And I was like, I don't know,
I don't think so it was wild. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I don't think I have. Oh that's that's amazing, that's amazing.
Oh my god, I've got.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yes, I love the song.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'm all goose bumpy now look at that. So this
is great. This is great. I don't even know where
to go from here. People listening, I'm like, really sorry,
Jeff and are just having a moment now, So you're
gonna have to live with that moment. This is a
good moment.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You guys, take a moment to take a.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Minute like talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic.
Rape Find's name is spelled. This is amazing. So yeah,
one of those days it's just been your favorite.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's just been a favorite. It's just that they've always
just loved it. I love the way just abject destruction
of humanity is on the same playing field as you know,
I bit my tongue or you know.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yes, So let's let's let's dig into that. Shall we
let's dig in the juxtaposition of the absolute apocalyptic and
the minor inconvenience is so beautiful in this song. Russ
(13:34):
the one thing he wanted to make sure that I
mentioned from him was he was like, He's like, the
only thing I really have to add is he goes
every single time I take the laundry out of the dryer,
he goes lots another sock in the dryer, and like
he just just because he does that part of the laundry,
he's always the one pulling it out of the dryer.
He goes. So that goes through my head three times
a week when I am taking the laundry out. I'm like,
(13:56):
that's kind of beautiful. So thank you. I'll make sure
that that gets mentioned. So there we go. I mentioned it.
But yeah, So like what I think is so cool
about this is it's like they're just interwoven together. It's
like it's like, you know, my hair is on fire,
(14:17):
Oh no, I bit my tongue, or they're dropping the bomb,
you know.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, And it's just like the way it starts, just
like oh I'm late for work, slept through the alarm,
whatever alarm was busted, late for work, everyone's bad m
And then socks are not in the dryer, can't find
my wallet, Oh and my hair is on fire?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah wait what so where are we going with this?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Like suddenly, what is happening? Where are we going? I
just like the way he lulls us into complacency, and
then it becomes a cartoon.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yes, a cartoon that's like absolutely what this is. This
is like an auditory cartoon. Ye yeah, because like there's
no way to picture this a day, you know, but
it's in that trope of somebody complaining about their day, yeah,
whatever that day may happen to be. And like when
(15:17):
I first heard this song, like I was a kid kid,
and I just I didn't fully appreciate it until obviously,
like later on it's like, oh, this song makes so
much because.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Once your hair caught fire, right the first time your.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Hair catches on fire, then you're like, oh, I understand
you it out now understood, Like you you appreciate like
the deadpan that is happening where it's like every single
thing and this holds the same weight no matter what
it is.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's neither a big deal, nor is it not a
big deal. It's it's somehow all just the same.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, Like I like, so this is not the only
time he's kind of done this kind of thing in
a song, right yeah, And that's okay. Like I love
a good weird al trope, Like I love like, oh
this is this is this bucket, this is this bucket
(16:19):
because obviously this isn't the same bucket as like why
does this always happen to me? Right?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And I had that moment virtually every day during the
early days of the COVID pandemic when they would interrupt
the prices right for the news about the and I'm like,
first of all, I need Drew carry to cope with
all of this, So like why are you taking that
(16:46):
away from me?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You know?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Why does this always happen? But then like you know,
you get all this and it's like but I literally
was like I had to take a step back, and
I was like, I am being why does this always
happen to me? Right now? I am being one of
those days right now out like this is not hold on,
hold on, Lauren, like take a step back, Like, but.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You need Plinko to live, like you do?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Do you look at do you I have a Plinko
board over here.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You do. Yeah, mine has been moved. But have you
seen the giant one at Costco. No, it is gigantic
and we both need one.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I love a plank board. So this was this was
my surprise Christmas present, was this Plinko game. It's great.
So actually, I feel like this is a good time
for a fun little story about Plinko, if you don't mind,
because like, why not. We're just a chatting man. We're
just a chatting So about ten years ago, The Price
Is Right Live show came to town here and and
(17:49):
my best friend and I went.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And we was Todd Newton hosting it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It wasn't he kissed me on the mouth?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
What a dog? That guy already went.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Full Richard Dawson on me. And I was, so that's
not the story.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Sorry, I worked with him years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Really, Oh my gosh. Yeah, well he like, yeah, he
kissed me on the mouth. He pulled me up on
stage like during like a set change. I was the
person that like he vamped with while they were changing
all the stuff by the curtain. Yeah it was. It
was a lot of fun. But yeah, he totally kissed
me on the mouth. Anyway, Now, I'm getting I'm over.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Clemped though he never kissed me.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Oh, I'm sorry with a jerk. So my best friend
and I we each bought these Plinko coasters. Just they're
just like those rubber like silicone kind of coaster things, right,
but they look like a Plinko chip.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, they were awesome, And so I took mine to
work with me and it was on my desk. It's
a It's really good because it's the right size for
a coaster. It makes so much sense. So that was
my work coaster. And now, if you're familiar with how
condensation and suction work, okay, So I had a big
(19:05):
water bottle thing, you know, and it was sitting on
my Planko chip coaster at my desk and I picked
it up to go to the breakroom to refill it
with water. And I guess at some point my plancoa
chip coaster had stuck to the bottom of my water
bottle and I dropped it fell off sometime between my
desk and the breakroom and the back. I didn't notice
until it was too late, okay, till I got back
(19:26):
to my desk and I was like, oh, no, where
is this fast forward two years. I'm still working in
the same office. I have to have a meeting with
somebody who I've never talked to before in my office
and I go over to his desk and I'm sitting
there and he has a Planko chip coaster sitting on
his desk and I'm like, I'm like, where did you
(19:49):
get that? And he goes, somebody threw it at my
head two years ago, and I'm like, what do you mean.
He goes, well, somebody found it on the floor in
the office threw it at my head, and I just
picked it up and I was like, that's my coast.
(20:10):
So anyway, he gave it back to me, and it's
on my coffee table at home now.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah smart so yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Mean I work from home now anyway. So it's not
like I'm losing coasters in the office, but it's like
it was I lost it for two years.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
That was one of those days.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
That was one of those days, like, you know, yeah,
I was really upset. That was a one of those days. Moment,
you know, I.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Don't blame you. That is like a treasure. It was
great dressed. I dressed up as Plinko one year for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I've seen the pictures and I think it's beautiful. I
think it's absolutely beautiful. Yeah, I mean I love it.
I love your Halloween situation.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I love I love a plinko, I love an oversized costume. Yea,
because you may have noticed, that's.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Great, that's great. So I mean, look at people listening
to this. You know where we're going. We're we're going
to be tenuously on topic this entire Yay.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No, we've got problems, and it's fine.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's fine. We're going to keep circling back. We're going
to keep circling back. So obviously this is not a
parody of anything in particular one of those days. This
is correct, it's not even a pastiche of anything in particular.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It Actually, here's what I've learned thanks to the weird algorithm. Guys, Oh,
the Knack Ducks on the Wall, I'm sorry, the Kinks
Ducks on the Wall. I get the kings and the
neck used sometimes, but the Kinks have a nineteen seventy
five song called Ducks on the Wall, and if you
(21:39):
play it, you can hear very much this song inside
of it.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay, Yes, that's interesting. So you because you were on
where you you were here the last time that I discovered, yes,
something that write George from Yeah yeah, so okay.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So there were still uncovering things.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Weird, just layers.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
It's just like layers on layers.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It's interesting because you know, yeah, okay, okay, so yeah,
And it blew.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
My mind because I was like, I love this song
and I just thought it was, you know, a classic
weird al original, but it's very inspired by Ducks on
the Wall.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Interesting. I mean, I I love the Kinks. I've never
heard Ducks on the Wall.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Though I've never heard it either, I've.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Never dug too deeply into them.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I guess I highly recommended that one.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Okay, well, I'm gonna have to check that out then,
because huh all right, yeah indeed, huh okay, because like
the things that stand out for me in this song
is just like how perfect for the time period. The
production on the song is right, because like, the guitar
is very clean, the vibe great piano, Yeah, great piano. Yeah,
(22:58):
I'm a piano person, so like that.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Uh, no spoilers, But in my upcoming film, Tight and Nerdy,
our friend Summer Woods did a a haunting minor key
piano slow version of one of those days for as
we transition into some super serious stuff in the film,
(23:24):
we go from wacky to like, now we have to
have some heart.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh my gosh, Summer Summer Woods.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Has has done it for us using this song that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I'm like, I'm excited to hear, like hear just that.
Like she has done so many little piano piano interludes
for for this show that I still use sometimes to
throw it, like as like bumpers between like ads and stuff.
I feel like because she she threw them at me.
She's like, you know, just have fun and have fun
with you. So I do, and she's great and I
love her. I'm so like it's this is going to
(23:57):
be like such a weird thing to say because I
had nothing to do with it, but I'm so proud
of her, like do you know what I mean? Like
she's just kicking so much butt and I'm just too
proud of making so much butt.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And she's so talented and so wonderful and so she
has done like a ton of work for Titan Neardy
the film, like like a lot of our score is
her when it's not you know, weird Al's originals. Yeah,
but it's but it is all weird Al songs that
(24:34):
she has sort of reinterpreted for us beautiful, you know,
in these various ways to get us in the you know,
the right mood vibe.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, yes, I love that. I think that's fantastic. I
think that's marvelous. Yeah, so, you know what, I think
this is a good point in the episode for me
to throw it to an ad break and we'll come
back on the other side talk about some more of
the themes in style or whatever of one of those days,
see where the conversation takes us, and maybe we'll talk
(25:07):
about us some having one of those days. All right,
all right, we'll catch you on the other side of
these ads.
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each week we'll have a guest sit in the blanche
spot the note come join us on the Lunai for
some cheesecake. Part of the media network, and we're back. Yeah.
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Those were great, weren't they.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Consumerism?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yay, look at I can't do this for free? Yeah
all the time.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Did you guys enjoy one of those ads.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
So I could get one of those pays?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yes, there we go. You made it work. I couldn't.
I couldn't get there.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's all right, we do what we need to do.
You know. It's how it goes. It's how it goes.
So yeah, this song one of those days, right, like obviously,
like you globbed onto it, like right from the jump,
as somebody who understands what it's like to just like
(26:54):
have a bad day.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh yeah, right, yeah, I am a bad day.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I am a bad and.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
No wait, I'm a bad gay. Sorry different, I apologize.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well that is a totally different thing. I can't speak
from personal experience, but I'm sure you're a good gay, right.
I don't know what's happening either, So yeah, this song
(27:26):
plays on that trope in pop culture where people vent
about their bad days, and it kind of happens all
over the place in pop culture, right, you know, Like
if you take a look at like Cheers, the sitcom,
everybody walks in and complains about like what happened during
their day, Like pretty much any TV show, Like people
are gonna do that, and people are just complaining about
(27:49):
what happened to them in their day. But this takes
it to the edge of absurdity in the most beautiful
way possible.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, It's one of those things where there are people
who can complain, but they're exhausting about it, and then
there are the people who know how to complain. And
I like to think I'm in that pool, but maybe
I'm not. But but weird Al certainly is. He knows
how to complain in this song in a way that
is just delightful.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yes, there is an art to being a delightful complainer, y,
you know, And part of what weird Al is doing
in this song is delightful complaining in a way that like, yes,
obviously he takes to the extreme in this particular uh
with the lyrics of this song, But if you think
(28:37):
about it, it's that it's that a lot of it's
that compliment sandwich thing that that happens right where it's
like two not so bad things with a really bad
thing in the middle, so you don't feel so bad
about the whole thing because like some things aren't so
so incredibly terrible. You like, yeah, they're burning crosses on
(28:57):
your lawn, but like, you know, the cheetahs are gone,
and that's not that's not that bad. We can just
get more Cheetos.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I'm not sure which i'd be more upset about.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's totally fair. That's totally fair. I don't
know what I'd be more upset about either. I actually
had one of those days today. Oh no, Like I
mentioned at the beginning, so my my husband got a
new job and yay. This week he has been working
(29:31):
in the office, like so yeah, I know, so he's
had to go into the office. And what's weird is
like the entirety of our relationship and marriage we were
we've both been working from home together, right, having our
separate jobs, but it's like we're both kind of here.
So if we you know, if something pops into my head,
I could just go tell him, like that's just kind
(29:52):
of been our our vibe, right, Yes, And it works great,
you know, like I would have been sick of any
other human being by now, but I'm like, okay, no,
like this is this is great, you know, married right exactly.
So he has had to go into the office so
far this week, and it's been weird because I've been
(30:17):
home by myself with the dogs, like doing my job,
doing my teaching online and doing all this, that and
the other, and I'm just like, it's really it's it's
quiet in here.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
It's odd. It's odd. And the reason I was having
one of those days is because today I had a
couple of errands I needed to run and I realized
in this day that the world outside this house is
far more annoying when I have to do it without him.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
That's a.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Like thank you. I literally I literally realized it today
because I don't even if this isn't, I can't hip
a violate myself. So I I, but.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
You had a cook bottle on your.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah right, No, yeah exactly, had a cook bottle on
the tip of my tongue and it was a whole thing. No.
I have high blood pressure and like it is what
it is, you know, but I'm I have medication for this. Now. Yes,
I was without it for a day because my pharmacy
is terrible. And I called them as soon as they
(31:27):
opened this morning to be like, hey, you guys, I'm
gonna need this right and they're like, oh, yeah, no,
we can have that for you today, you know, by
like ten or whatever. I'm like, sweet, okay, cool. So
I go it's like ten thirty. I go over there,
(31:50):
and I'm I am not you know how some people
say like I waited for twenty minutes, Like I literally
waited for twenty minutes, like right standing in line where
like they have one poor person like working behind like
trying to deal with the people in the pharmacy and
at the drive through window and like everybody standing there forever.
And I'm like already getting angry at the situation. But
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then I also haven't had my blood pressure.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Medication yet, right, not helping.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Not helping. Right. So anybody listening to this show knows
that I'm one of the nicest people. Yes, in the world. Yes,
I yelled at the farmacists. Oh no, no, I was like,
what is happening here? You can't have a standing here
for twenty minutes. I'm like I need I'm like I'm
(32:40):
I literally yelled at her. I'm usually really nice, but
I need my blood pressure me the case drugs because
like I'm not that like I'm feeling myself not be
nice now. I know, so like I got I ended
up getting it and stuff, but I was just like,
this is terrible. And then I go to my regular
(33:02):
grocery store at the same time of the day on
a Wednesday that I usually go to. All of the
parking spots in the area of the parking lot that
I usually park in are full, and I'm like, what
is even happening? And I'm like, if Russ were with me,
I would have been like, oh, we'll just park over here,
but like today I.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Was like a hat.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
My like my emotional support human was gone.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
No, like no, what is happening?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Human kind of kind of yeah, but this is the
onboarding is temporary. He'll be working from home starting, you know,
it's a remote job in general, Like I couldn't handle
this like regularly. And I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
That makes me like codependent, and I also don't really
care if it does.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Someone's got to clean up the toxic waste on your brandy.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Pants right exactly that Yeah, yeah, something something like that,
something like that. Speaking of which, I had to buy
rust pants for this job.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Oh who wears pants?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
He doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
And a boy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
He was like, I'm going to be in the office
four days. I have one pair of pants. And he
literally bought that one pair of pants for the fancy
dinner on the last time we went on a cruise.
So I'm like, yeah, we'll just go catch some pants.
He hasn't spilled toxic waste on them yet, and he's
got two more days, so fingers crossed.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
All right, it's a short week. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
It is, it is, It's gonna be delightful. Yeah, so so, Jeff, Yes,
what would you just la? You just make me giggle.
I'm not People who listen to this know that I'm
not usually this giggly all the time. But you make
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me giggle and me in large Deborah, No large Debra's large.
Deb's doing just fine. Yeah, it's got a gingham can
and everything's pretty great. Large Debra. Yeah, it's delightful. I mean,
come on, like, well, so so that's why I love
(35:18):
craft beer humor so much though, because it's right in
line with all of this. You know, it's the puns.
It's all over.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I love a theme. I love it all.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, so puns themes. I guess I feel like I
need to ask you this question. Then yes, because I
am one of the biggest RuPaul's Drag Race fans. Okay, yes,
I want weird Out to be a guest judge on
that show so badly because of the puns and the
(35:53):
levity and the humor. Like it is so it's fairy,
it's so right there, and I feel like if they
had the right theme week, he would be perfect.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I feel like drag queens love weird Out.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Drag queens absolutely love weird Out.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I worked with not to keep dropping names all day long,
but I'm gonna drop Jimbo.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Oh my gosh, my favorite. She's one of the few
I follow on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh nice, Jimbo. Jimbo had a show for five minutes
on the Wow streaming platform whatever that was, uh, and
just Jimbo and I bonded over our love of weird
al Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh that makes see I don't follow all of them, Okay,
something about Jimbo made me go I'm gonna keep following Jimbo.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Jimbo is a wild person who's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Oh I love wild wonderful people. Yes, yes, Like that
was seriously like there was something that made me go,
I think I need to continue seeing what this person
is doing. And knowing that you bonded over ye with
Jimbo over weird, like that makes all of the sense.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, Like I'm like obviously, obviously, like I should have
known this. I should have known this, but like that
human it lines up right, this is how That's how
I explain like that whole area of entertainment to people
that don't get it, like they were like, why are
you watching? I'm like, well, here's the thing. This is there.
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It's funny and it's puns like yes.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
And and there they elevate the lunacy.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
They elevate the lunacy. Yes, that's it. That's exactly it.
Like I discovered the the reboot of at Midnight After
Midnight with Taylor Thomasinson, okay because of the episode that
weird al and Drew Carey and Thomas Lennon, we're all on.
So that started making the round. So I was like,
oh man, this is the thing, and I showed it
(37:49):
to my husband. He's like, I loved the original, and
I was like, okay, So then we started right we
started watching the whole thing, you know, and I literally
right before I came in here with you, we watched
the one that was on like a couple of days ago.
It was Thomas Lennon, his most recent appearance on the show.
And I can tell you this, you're my friend. I
(38:12):
have like a weird I have a very weird crush
on Thomas Lennon. Okay, uh, I like I will watch
him do anything like that's I'm like, okay, that's my guy.
Like he just makes me laugh so much because he's
just his delivery is so perfect. Yeah, so like hiss
(38:32):
been in like weird de Al Yankovic story. I was like,
makes sense, so good, perfect, this makes so much sense.
This makes so much sense. So like anyhow, yeah, I
had to explain to my husband. I was like, yeah,
Thomas Lennon is that's like if you were gone, I
would go.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
There mustachur or without.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
I don't. I really don't care. I don't like I
maybe with if I had to pick, but also it
doesn't matter, that's fair. It's weird. I have facial have
preference on my own husband, not Thomas.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I mean that sort of tracks.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I know, I know, I love how delightfully derailed this guy.
Do you have anything more specific to one of those
days that you felt like you really really really really
really needed to make sure got said today?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
The only thing I will say is that. And this
has been brought up before, but not by me, So it's.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Started.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
There was someone built a what do they call it,
the Weird Now body count I think it's called and
it's basically like, how how many people like perish in
over the course of a weird hol song?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Oh, this is gotta be the highest, right, this.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Is the highest. This end Christmas at ground zero, which
is coming up later in Polka Party. But yeah, these
two are the highest death tolls.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
This album is just full of that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, it just delights me to know end well, I
mean obviously it should.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
I love that. Like I'd say, the side one closer
is Polka Party, but the track right before that Everybody dies,
and then the album ends with pretty much everybody dying.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, it's sort of the same way nuclear annihilation. Yeah,
so I mean, I guess the world blowing up it's
not necessarily well no, no, they're they're dropping the bomb
after he cuts itself.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Shiites, it's the same thing. What does that have to
say about the mid eighties?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Cold war was tough on a lot of us. I
was in. I was firmly in you know, fifth sixth
grade during this.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Okay, Oh you and my husband are about the same age,
so that makes sense, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
And so you know, it was it was just like
we're terrified.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Yes, yeah, it was just you know, just one of
those you.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Know, because you get it through the little kid lens,
and so it's it's catastrophized, like, well, we're seconds away
from just getting blown up.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah, weird. I was really good at that too, like
the way he used all that old timey like footage
in you know, obviously the Christmas at Ground Zero video,
which he think that's famously the first one he directed
for himself. But like he was, Polka Party is dark.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
This is a dark, dark album and I love it.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
So great, And I keep saying Poka Party is like
my foot I have the first one to three four
five albums up on the like on the wall in here,
because those are the ones that I came into this
marriage with and then my husband had the the box set,
so I was like, oh, yes, Squeezebox. I was like,
that's why I married him. I was like I don't
(42:07):
need these, you know like that. So yeah, so you know,
I was like I couldn't afford sqeez box. So I
just married this guy.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Perfect, perfect plan'st no notes.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Right, that's how you do it. So the reason like,
if Jeff, you're looking at me and if I keep
looking up like this direction, it's because that's where Poka
Party is. It's it's like, oh, it's like right in
front of my face. But yeah, it's this is dark.
It's dark and.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Dark and joyous, just like this song.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yes, this song kind of weirdly encapsulates the like the
entire ethos right of Poke Party. You know, it is
dark and joyous. You know, oh so much fun, so.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
So many dead people.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
I mean, you know, it's the way it is. It's
just the way it's got to be. It's just the
way it's got to be. The only other Like, I
made notes for myself here ahead of time, and I
was like discussion ideas, how does humor help us process
with everyday stress? And I'm like well, like, Lauren, why
did you write that down? How does obviously obviously right?
(43:28):
Like so like so like truthfully, like that's probably one
of the reasons why Al wrote this song in the
first place, right, is because like he stuff was stressful
and he's like, oh, it's just one of those days,
you know, like finding that like that swing between like
it could be worse or like this is what's happening,
you know, and it's like, I don't know about you,
(43:49):
but like I am that person where if I'm going
through something or if I have a friend who's going
through something, I am so not great at being that
like serious like let me help you through this kind
of person.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
I'm that it's not what I'm for.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
No, right, I'm like I'm that like, Okay, look at
I recognize what's happening here. Yeah, when you need to laugh,
let me.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Know because that bugs Bunny because right.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Like like that's what I'm here for, Like I'm here
for like to levity, you know, the levity, the levity
of it all. But like that doesn't always work for everybody,
and not everybody gets that, like you care when you're like,
look at, I can't I can't wallow with you, but
I can giggle with you.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
I have another Dave Box story. Dave back, who I
mentioned earlier, My buddy, my one of those days buddy, Yes,
one of those daves him. A couple of holidays ago.
We were at someone's house for a party and Dave Uh,
(44:58):
I may have said something uh, and he may have
started laughing and started choking just a little bit. He
got up to go clear his throat, but he clapped
he's fine, but he collapsed. He hit his head on
the way down and we called nine one one, and
the just the group of us is not who you
(45:21):
want in an emergency. No dickishness was off the charts,
Like the EMTs come and they're like, what's the last
thing he ate? And someone pipes in the floor like
just I mean, it was just non stop heinousness. Even
(45:43):
Alexi started playing another one bites the dust. I mean,
it was just it was salt. He you know, he survived, thankfully,
although I'm not sure how grateful he was by the
time he was done.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
But oh no, that's that's it. That's it. I don't
I don't know how to be when bad things happen, right,
because I'm like, let me know when you want a
fart joke, because that's I'm coming in, you know. Like
I've had a couple of friends recently go through some
like stuff and like they know I'm there for them.
(46:18):
I'm like, you know, if you need a ride or
like this or that and the other like like, I'm
absolutely here for you. But I'm like, it's a joke.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
I'm there for you, but I'm also not helpful. I'm
not helpful.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
I'm not helpful, you know, And I.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Give you a hug and I'll just crack jokes until
you're ready to laugh.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
That's it. That's it, And I think there's there's truth
to the laughter is the best medicine thing. Yeah, you know,
people are going to go through stuff and you can't
you can't help that, and you can't always help them
in a meaningful way. But if you can make somebody smile,
and if you can make them laugh when they're going
through something terrible, then that's a gift in and of itself.
(47:00):
And I think that's one of the things that the
song can teach us. And I'm not trying to be like, yes,
that's that's exactly Yes, that's what he does. That's why
he's my hero.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yes, you know.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
It's true, you know, and you know it.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
You know it like this I do.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
I know. This is what we mirror our entire lives
off of.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
Like this is also one of those songs that's like,
you know, I heard it when I was pretty young.
The parodies did not grab me like the other parodies did.
I just wasn't familiar enough with the original material. But
the originals on this album are so good and and
and it was sort of a strange way for like,
(47:47):
you know, fifth grade, sixth grade me to to have this.
It was like, wait, what you know? His his parodies
are what I would normally chunt to. But these originals
are so good and they're they're sort of out shining them.
And so but like this song specifically, it's like it's
(48:08):
you know, it is cartoony, and it's and it's funny.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
And I think as you get older, it gets funnier,
I think to me.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
I absolutely agree. I think a lot of weird Al's
work gets funnier as you get older. Yeah, it's just
because either you get more or it takes on a
different meaning for you, or you just understand, you know,
where some things are coming from in a in a
more in a more intimate sort of way. It's like, oh, oh,
(48:38):
I've alright, I guess that I have lost socks in
the dryer. So yeah, that's totally I totally, I totally
get it. I love it. So I think we're down
to the one last thing that we have to do
with this song, okay, is give it a rating on
a scale of one to twenty seven. I can go
(49:01):
first if you want me to.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Yeah, I mean, it's not going to change my mind,
but god, I know.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
I because I have to do this for every single
song on this album. So I also I can't give
every single one at twenty seven because I pigeonholed myself
with in three D and I learned my lesson because
I went like way too high on songs, and you know,
so I'm going to I'm going to give the song
a twenty twenty three out of twenty.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Seve What could he have done? To point?
Speaker 1 (49:33):
What could he have done? Honestly, it could I could
remember this song more frequently. That's literally it. It's just
that's not it.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
That's not on him.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
That's not on him. That's absolutely user error. And that's
that's saying that, like, this is one of those songs
that I think it took me too long to get that.
It doesn't sit in like my my holster of like
I'm immediately going to go to the this one kind
of deals.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
So you saw it live and everything.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
I did see it live and everything with you in
the same room. Yes, but yeah, this is this is
still very good. It's higher than some other things I've done.
So take that.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
You know. I'm giving this a perfect twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
I just I just it is for so many reasons,
just among my favorites. It's so good, it's so fun
and and emotionally, it holds a very special place in
my cold dead heart.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
I think that's beautiful. And I love things the whole
places and anybody's cold dead heart. You know, I think
your heart is more warm and alive than you think
it is. But who knows. I don't know it for certain.
I can't say I haven't seen it. I have have
a look, have a look. Yeah, so you know what.
(50:55):
I don't often pull this particular sound white with people,
but I feel like I'm going to give this one
to you today. So since we're gonna wrap this episode up. Yes,
here we go, and then that's when those security guards
threw us out. Yes, yes you know so, Jeff, thank
(51:16):
you so much. I will put the links to the
stuff for your this beautiful documentary that I'm so excited
about you in, and so folks check that out because
like I am, like ridiculously excited, and Jeff, the door
is open. You almost have carte blanche on even worse.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Careful, So I'll see you at six words long.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
Okay, you know what, Yeah, yeah, I'll let you take that.
You want six words long.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
You can have six words.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Long, Okay, then that's fine. The only only other thing
was and I'll tell you this, it's because my friend Bob,
who on the last album was recently dubbed Polka Bob.
He's taking he's taking all the polkas, but there's no
Polka on even worse. So I told Polka Bob, I
was like, you can have carte blanche to pick whatever
song you'd like. I'll just tell him that six words
(52:07):
long is the only one that's off limits. And Poke
Bob has everything else nice.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
I mean, Lazanga is accordion based that.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah, you know what, we'll see what Poke Bob has
to say about that, like Bob, Bob's the best. No,
but no, you get six words on I'll get you.
Got that absolutely, So I see, and I am leaving
this in the episode. It's recorded, so the people will
he done, so they know it. It's done. I can't,
I can't reneg on it now, So folks, we'll actually
(52:35):
come back at you again next time with the aforementioned
polka Bob what talking about polka party?
Speaker 2 (52:43):
He's knocking on the door right now.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Oh no, Bob, not yet. We're not ready. All right,
we'll see you again, ten people. Goodbye,
And I would like to welcome everybody to get another,
I know, get another episode of the beard Out podcast,
the podcast about two of the greatest things in the world,
Beer and Weird Now and I'm Lauren, I'm always here,
and I'm joined by a very special guest for this episode.
(00:54):
It's Jeff. You know him. You may know him as
just Jeff, or you h Jeff, or you know.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Just Jeff, or that jerk.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That jerk it's so like divisive.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
No, the Jerk Store called and they're running out of me.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Jeff, you've been here before. Welcome back, though I have.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I missed you.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I missed you too, like I'm hugging you from across
the country. So so Jeff. As you know, if you
are at all involved with the Weird l of Things,
you know you know Jeff and you know what he's
doing and you know what he's all about. But I
feel like right here at the beginning of the show,
for those who don't know, and I feel like anybody
(01:37):
listening to this show at this point haas to know.
But just in case, tell them, what's up?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Tell me what's up? What am I doing. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, talk about what do you got going? What do
you got? What you going on?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That? That's a great question. Thank you for asking you. Yeah,
I am, I'm a I'm making a movie. I think
you may have heard.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I have heard. I had the calendar.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, you did. Back when we thought that the we
sent out a calendar. Let me start from the beginning.
We're doing a documentary called Tight and nerdyeh and it's
the story of the world's first and only weird alburlesque troop.
And we sent out we did a kickstarter a couple
of years ago. We sent out calendars last year under
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the impression that we would be done last year. And
guess what it's We're almost halfway through twenty twenty five
and we're not done yet. No, but we're so close.
I know, I'm we are so close. People have actually
seen private screenings of it. It's happening like we're so close.
(02:45):
We have a few more legal hurdles to jump over
or get pummeled by and uh and then we're and
then we're ready. That's so exist This year.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
This year, this year, I feel like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Maybe maybe even by the end of the show, maybe.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Who knows the people people you know set your watches,
who who knows? Who knows what's gonna happen? But Jeff,
I feel like you need to know this, right, So
I had the the calendar for your Yes, these beautiful
ladies doing these beautiful, weird out things, and it just
made me so happy. Every month I was like, Oh,
what's happening, what's happening? And then December rolled around and
(03:22):
I'm like, what am I going to What am I
going to do after this? So this hangs in my kitchen,
by the way, I want you to know that, like
they were in my kitchen like year, all year. And
so I found a calendar that I felt worthy to
follow that up with. Yes, it's called butts on Things,
(03:47):
butts on Things, butts on Things.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yes, I have there's a I have a butts on
Things book. Yeah you're somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, So I got the butts on Things calendar and
then we have the same taste. Well, of course it's right.
So that's what I felt that And so like a
friend of mine, unbeknownst to the fact that I had
the butts on Things calendar for Christmas, got me a
pack of butts on Things stickers, which I now used
to mark important dates on my Butts on Things calendar.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So you have it all set, I really do.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It's just all butts, all butts.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
All the time, which explains why I am on the
show again.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I guess so I am. So I can tell you
the beer that I have for this.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
How's it going over there?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
That's pretty good? It's pretty good, Okay. I I can't
make any connection to this song with this, like directly,
but I felt like you would appreciate the humor in
what this beer is doing. Yes, So, one of our
local breweries here in Jacksonville, they're called Ardwolf Brewing Company.
They're one of Jacksonville's original seven breweries. And I say
(04:57):
that original seven because we're up to like thirty now
that have opened and closed and all this, that and
the other. But this one's still there and they're amazing
again ard Wolf. And this is a a beer that
they released. The can release was just this past weekend
and I literally had to make a special trip out
to the brewery to pick this up because it's been
(05:20):
aged for two years in bourbon barrels. It's an oatmeal
cream pie imperial stout called large Deborah.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I respect, I respect everything about that.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
When they announced that, I was like, I'm going to
get this because it's just so funny.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That is excellent work.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'll tell you what it is dark, it is rich,
it is delicious, and I feel like if I have
to draw some kind of like tenuous connection with what's
happening with the song, one of those days, it's like,
you know, well, you have you have one of those day.
Maybe you reach for a little Debbie or a large
Deborra depending on Audrin, you.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Know, maybe both. Oh yeah, I'm not scared.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm not scared. This is marvelous, this is great, this
is great. I love having you on this show because like,
oh man, you just get you get where all of
this goes. I have guests on I love every guest
that has ever been on this show. Let me just
first say that I have to do thank you. I
(06:32):
have to do so much less setting up with you,
just to like level set where we're at with things
and I do with other people, which is why when
Russ was like, I'm just tired from the day. I
can't do it. I don't have the mental capacity, I
was like, oh, Jeff, and I will be fine for this.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I bring my own set of weirdness. It's fine, that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I love it. I love it so much. I love
it so much. I'm like, and I'm so excited for
your documentary.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You have no idea like to thank you. We are
so close and it's like, I just want it to
be done so everyone can see it. Yeah, and we're
so close. I just there's there's just a couple more
things that we just have to get under control and
then and then everyone will be sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
No, no, everyone will be so happy. I need to
find a way to like, I've got a couple local
places here in Jacksonville will be like, can I take
one of your big screens for the day?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
As Can I do that?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Can I do that?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You're yeah, you're in charge.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
They know me enough here. Don't let me do it.
They'll let me do it. Somebody, somebody, I promise you,
somebody will let me do Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Bring the beer because that always helps.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Right exactly. Oh my gosh, it'll be marvelous. But we
are nearing the end of side one of Polka Party
and poa party. It's a party. This is such an
underrated alt and I think I say that in every
episode so far. But it's true. So we're talking about
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one of those days and.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
The last one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well obviously, like because the last time you were here,
I didn't have anybody else lined up for Poka Party.
And the last time you were on the show, I
remember after we had wrapped, Uh, I said to you, Hey,
you you can have your pick on Poka Party, like
whatever you want. You were like one of those days,
and you, like you just you picked this like months ago.
So I'm I'm so, I guess before we'd like jump
(08:32):
into anything like related to like the lyrical content or
any of that jazz. Why did you? Why did you
jump on this as fast as you did.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I have a very loving relationship with this song for
a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
My Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
When I was in college two hundred and ninety seven
years ago. Okay, my buddy Dave Bock, who is one
of the best we were just sort of getting to
know each other and he whipped out a line from
this song and I was like, are you quoting? Weird?
(09:11):
Al at me, like how dare you? And I see you?
And now we're in love forever and we're still in
love forever. And fast forward many many years to Al's
first Vanity tour, going to see the show in Atlantic City,
bringing Dave by a few other friends with me. Oh,
(09:33):
you were there, You're kidding.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I was totally I was way in the back.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So you know what I'm about to say. So weird
now comes on stage and you know, we're in the
middle of the show and he's like, here's a deep
cut original from Polka Party, which means it's a very
unpopular song from a very unpopular album. But uh, Jeff
wants to hear it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh, I was told this. I was totally there. I
was totally there. I was totally there.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's amazing. I am getting choked up even just thinking
about it now. I just started sobbing. It was like,
what is happening.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Oh, that's amazing, that's amazing. Oh my god, I this
is We were in the same room and we didn't
even know it, like all those Oh my god, that's incredible,
Like like okay. So I lived in Jacksonville at the
time of that, and I flew from Jacksonville to Philadelphia.
(10:35):
My brother and his wife picked me up in Philly
and we talked to Atlantic City and our parents met
us there. Oh, we we all went to the again.
We were in like the next to last role, like
in the back right and so, but we were there.
We saw the show. It was great. And then my
brother and his wife stayed in Atlantic City for a
(10:56):
romantic week in Atlantic City, where they claimed they didn't
conceive my niece, but I swear they. And then so
my parents took me back from Atlantic City to the
Philadelphia Airport on their way back home to northeast Pennsylvany.
Because my parents drove all the way back home after
that I had. I stayed literally in the Philadelphia Airport
(11:17):
hotel and then flew back the next day, like literally
totally worth it. Like it was the first time I
ever flew first class. I got upgraded on my flight home.
I was like, yeah, this is the best. But like, yeah,
it was uh thirty two hours tops the entire trip.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It was wild they did that. But I was there.
I was there with you when you were there.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I didn't even the moment.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I didn't even know. I didn't even know.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
The moment was very special to me obviously for many reasons,
but that was I mean, I just it just I
was like oh. I did not expect to sob at
a weird awl show.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I mean I saw but every single weird.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And it was so just like and my friends were like,
are you okay? And I was like, I don't know,
I don't think so it was wild. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I don't think I have. Oh that's that's amazing, that's amazing.
Oh my god, I've got.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yes, I love the song.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'm all goose bumpy now look at that. So this
is great. This is great. I don't even know where
to go from here. People listening, I'm like, really sorry,
Jeff and are just having a moment now, So you're
gonna have to live with that moment. This is a
good moment.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You guys, take a moment to take a.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Minute like talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic.
Rape Find's name is spelled. This is amazing. So yeah,
one of those days it's just been your favorite.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's just been a favorite. It's just that they've always
just loved it. I love the way just abject destruction
of humanity is on the same playing field as you know,
I bit my tongue or you know.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yes, So let's let's let's dig into that. Shall we
let's dig in the juxtaposition of the absolute apocalyptic and
the minor inconvenience is so beautiful in this song. Russ
(13:34):
the one thing he wanted to make sure that I
mentioned from him was he was like, He's like, the
only thing I really have to add is he goes
every single time I take the laundry out of the dryer,
he goes lots another sock in the dryer, and like
he just just because he does that part of the laundry,
he's always the one pulling it out of the dryer.
He goes. So that goes through my head three times
a week when I am taking the laundry out. I'm like,
(13:56):
that's kind of beautiful. So thank you. I'll make sure
that that gets mentioned. So there we go. I mentioned it.
But yeah, So like what I think is so cool
about this is it's like they're just interwoven together. It's
like it's like, you know, my hair is on fire,
(14:17):
Oh no, I bit my tongue, or they're dropping the bomb,
you know.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, And it's just like the way it starts, just
like oh I'm late for work, slept through the alarm,
whatever alarm was busted, late for work, everyone's bad m
And then socks are not in the dryer, can't find
my wallet, Oh and my hair is on fire?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah wait what so where are we going with this?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Like suddenly, what is happening? Where are we going? I
just like the way he lulls us into complacency, and
then it becomes a cartoon.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yes, a cartoon that's like absolutely what this is. This
is like an auditory cartoon. Ye yeah, because like there's
no way to picture this a day, you know, but
it's in that trope of somebody complaining about their day, yeah,
whatever that day may happen to be. And like when
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I first heard this song, like I was a kid kid,
and I just I didn't fully appreciate it until obviously,
like later on it's like, oh, this song makes so
much because.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Once your hair caught fire, right the first time your.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Hair catches on fire, then you're like, oh, I understand
you it out now understood, Like you you appreciate like
the deadpan that is happening where it's like every single
thing and this holds the same weight no matter what
it is.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's neither a big deal, nor is it not a
big deal. It's it's somehow all just the same.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, Like I like, so this is not the only
time he's kind of done this kind of thing in
a song, right yeah, And that's okay. Like I love
a good weird al trope, Like I love like, oh
this is this is this bucket, this is this bucket
(16:19):
because obviously this isn't the same bucket as like why
does this always happen to me? Right?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And I had that moment virtually every day during the
early days of the COVID pandemic when they would interrupt
the prices right for the news about the and I'm like,
first of all, I need Drew carry to cope with
all of this, So like why are you taking that
(16:46):
away from me?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You know?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Why does this always happen? But then like you know,
you get all this and it's like but I literally
was like I had to take a step back, and
I was like, I am being why does this always
happen to me? Right now? I am being one of
those days right now out like this is not hold on,
hold on, Lauren, like take a step back, Like, but.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You need Plinko to live, like you do?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Do you look at do you I have a Plinko
board over here.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You do. Yeah, mine has been moved. But have you
seen the giant one at Costco. No, it is gigantic
and we both need one.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I love a plank board. So this was this was
my surprise Christmas present, was this Plinko game. It's great.
So actually, I feel like this is a good time
for a fun little story about Plinko, if you don't mind,
because like, why not. We're just a chatting man. We're
just a chatting So about ten years ago, The Price
Is Right Live show came to town here and and
(17:49):
my best friend and I went.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And we was Todd Newton hosting it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It wasn't he kissed me on the mouth?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
What a dog? That guy already went.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Full Richard Dawson on me. And I was, so that's
not the story.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Sorry, I worked with him years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Really, Oh my gosh. Yeah, well he like, yeah, he
kissed me on the mouth. He pulled me up on
stage like during like a set change. I was the
person that like he vamped with while they were changing
all the stuff by the curtain. Yeah it was. It
was a lot of fun. But yeah, he totally kissed
me on the mouth. Anyway, Now, I'm getting I'm over.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Clemped though he never kissed me.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Oh, I'm sorry with a jerk. So my best friend
and I we each bought these Plinko coasters. Just they're
just like those rubber like silicone kind of coaster things, right,
but they look like a Plinko chip.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, they were awesome, And so I took mine to
work with me and it was on my desk. It's
a It's really good because it's the right size for
a coaster. It makes so much sense. So that was
my work coaster. And now, if you're familiar with how
condensation and suction work, okay, So I had a big
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water bottle thing, you know, and it was sitting on
my Planko chip coaster at my desk and I picked
it up to go to the breakroom to refill it
with water. And I guess at some point my plancoa
chip coaster had stuck to the bottom of my water
bottle and I dropped it fell off sometime between my
desk and the breakroom and the back. I didn't notice
until it was too late, okay, till I got back
(19:26):
to my desk and I was like, oh, no, where
is this fast forward two years. I'm still working in
the same office. I have to have a meeting with
somebody who I've never talked to before in my office
and I go over to his desk and I'm sitting
there and he has a Planko chip coaster sitting on
his desk and I'm like, I'm like, where did you
(19:49):
get that? And he goes, somebody threw it at my
head two years ago, and I'm like, what do you mean.
He goes, well, somebody found it on the floor in
the office threw it at my head, and I just
picked it up and I was like, that's my coast.
(20:10):
So anyway, he gave it back to me, and it's
on my coffee table at home now.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah smart so yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Mean I work from home now anyway. So it's not
like I'm losing coasters in the office, but it's like
it was I lost it for two years.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
That was one of those days.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
That was one of those days, like, you know, yeah,
I was really upset. That was a one of those days. Moment,
you know, I.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Don't blame you. That is like a treasure. It was
great dressed. I dressed up as Plinko one year for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I've seen the pictures and I think it's beautiful. I
think it's absolutely beautiful. Yeah, I mean I love it.
I love your Halloween situation.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I love I love a plinko, I love an oversized costume. Yea,
because you may have noticed, that's.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Great, that's great. So I mean, look at people listening
to this. You know where we're going. We're we're going
to be tenuously on topic this entire Yay.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No, we've got problems, and it's fine.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's fine. We're going to keep circling back. We're going
to keep circling back. So obviously this is not a
parody of anything in particular one of those days. This
is correct, it's not even a pastiche of anything in particular.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It Actually, here's what I've learned thanks to the weird algorithm. Guys, Oh,
the Knack Ducks on the Wall, I'm sorry, the Kinks
Ducks on the Wall. I get the kings and the
neck used sometimes, but the Kinks have a nineteen seventy
five song called Ducks on the Wall, and if you
(21:39):
play it, you can hear very much this song inside
of it.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay, Yes, that's interesting. So you because you were on
where you you were here the last time that I discovered, yes,
something that write George from Yeah yeah, so okay.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So there were still uncovering things.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Weird, just layers.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
It's just like layers on layers.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It's interesting because you know, yeah, okay, okay, so yeah,
And it blew.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
My mind because I was like, I love this song
and I just thought it was, you know, a classic
weird al original, but it's very inspired by Ducks on
the Wall.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Interesting. I mean, I I love the Kinks. I've never
heard Ducks on the Wall.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Though I've never heard it either, I've.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Never dug too deeply into them.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I guess I highly recommended that one.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Okay, well, I'm gonna have to check that out then,
because huh all right, yeah indeed, huh okay, because like
the things that stand out for me in this song
is just like how perfect for the time period. The
production on the song is right, because like, the guitar
is very clean, the vibe great piano, Yeah, great piano. Yeah,
(22:58):
I'm a piano person, so like that.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Uh, no spoilers, But in my upcoming film, Tight and Nerdy,
our friend Summer Woods did a a haunting minor key
piano slow version of one of those days for as
we transition into some super serious stuff in the film,
(23:24):
we go from wacky to like, now we have to
have some heart.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh my gosh, Summer Summer Woods.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Has has done it for us using this song that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I'm like, I'm excited to hear, like hear just that.
Like she has done so many little piano piano interludes
for for this show that I still use sometimes to
throw it, like as like bumpers between like ads and stuff.
I feel like because she she threw them at me.
She's like, you know, just have fun and have fun
with you. So I do, and she's great and I
love her. I'm so like it's this is going to
(23:57):
be like such a weird thing to say because I
had nothing to do with it, but I'm so proud
of her, like do you know what I mean? Like
she's just kicking so much butt and I'm just too
proud of making so much butt.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And she's so talented and so wonderful and so she
has done like a ton of work for Titan Neardy
the film, like like a lot of our score is
her when it's not you know, weird Al's originals. Yeah,
but it's but it is all weird Al songs that
(24:34):
she has sort of reinterpreted for us beautiful, you know,
in these various ways to get us in the you know,
the right mood vibe.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, yes, I love that. I think that's fantastic. I
think that's marvelous. Yeah, so, you know what, I think
this is a good point in the episode for me
to throw it to an ad break and we'll come
back on the other side talk about some more of
the themes in style or whatever of one of those days,
see where the conversation takes us, and maybe we'll talk
(25:07):
about us some having one of those days. All right,
all right, we'll catch you on the other side of
these ads.
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Those were great, weren't they.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Consumerism?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yay, look at I can't do this for free? Yeah
all the time.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Did you guys enjoy one of those ads.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
So I could get one of those pays?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yes, there we go. You made it work. I couldn't.
I couldn't get there.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's all right, we do what we need to do.
You know. It's how it goes. It's how it goes.
So yeah, this song one of those days, right, like obviously,
like you globbed onto it, like right from the jump,
as somebody who understands what it's like to just like
(26:54):
have a bad day.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh yeah, right, yeah, I am a bad day.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I am a bad and.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
No wait, I'm a bad gay. Sorry different, I apologize.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well that is a totally different thing. I can't speak
from personal experience, but I'm sure you're a good gay, right.
I don't know what's happening either, So yeah, this song
(27:26):
plays on that trope in pop culture where people vent
about their bad days, and it kind of happens all
over the place in pop culture, right, you know, Like
if you take a look at like Cheers, the sitcom,
everybody walks in and complains about like what happened during
their day, Like pretty much any TV show, Like people
are gonna do that, and people are just complaining about
(27:49):
what happened to them in their day. But this takes
it to the edge of absurdity in the most beautiful
way possible.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, It's one of those things where there are people
who can complain, but they're exhausting about it, and then
there are the people who know how to complain. And
I like to think I'm in that pool, but maybe
I'm not. But but weird Al certainly is. He knows
how to complain in this song in a way that
is just delightful.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yes, there is an art to being a delightful complainer, y,
you know, And part of what weird Al is doing
in this song is delightful complaining in a way that like, yes,
obviously he takes to the extreme in this particular uh
with the lyrics of this song, But if you think
(28:37):
about it, it's that it's that a lot of it's
that compliment sandwich thing that that happens right where it's
like two not so bad things with a really bad
thing in the middle, so you don't feel so bad
about the whole thing because like some things aren't so
so incredibly terrible. You like, yeah, they're burning crosses on
(28:57):
your lawn, but like, you know, the cheetahs are gone,
and that's not that's not that bad. We can just
get more Cheetos.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I'm not sure which i'd be more upset about.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's totally fair. That's totally fair. I don't
know what I'd be more upset about either. I actually
had one of those days today. Oh no, Like I
mentioned at the beginning, so my my husband got a
new job and yay. This week he has been working
(29:31):
in the office, like so yeah, I know, so he's
had to go into the office. And what's weird is
like the entirety of our relationship and marriage we were
we've both been working from home together, right, having our
separate jobs, but it's like we're both kind of here.
So if we you know, if something pops into my head,
I could just go tell him, like that's just kind
(29:52):
of been our our vibe, right, Yes, And it works great,
you know, like I would have been sick of any
other human being by now, but I'm like, okay, no,
like this is this is great, you know, married right exactly.
So he has had to go into the office so
far this week, and it's been weird because I've been
(30:17):
home by myself with the dogs, like doing my job,
doing my teaching online and doing all this, that and
the other, and I'm just like, it's really it's it's
quiet in here.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
It's odd. It's odd. And the reason I was having
one of those days is because today I had a
couple of errands I needed to run and I realized
in this day that the world outside this house is
far more annoying when I have to do it without him.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
That's a.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Like thank you. I literally I literally realized it today
because I don't even if this isn't, I can't hip
a violate myself. So I I, but.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
You had a cook bottle on your.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah right, No, yeah exactly, had a cook bottle on
the tip of my tongue and it was a whole thing. No.
I have high blood pressure and like it is what
it is, you know, but I'm I have medication for this. Now. Yes,
I was without it for a day because my pharmacy
is terrible. And I called them as soon as they
(31:27):
opened this morning to be like, hey, you guys, I'm
gonna need this right and they're like, oh, yeah, no,
we can have that for you today, you know, by
like ten or whatever. I'm like, sweet, okay, cool. So
I go it's like ten thirty. I go over there,
(31:50):
and I'm I am not you know how some people
say like I waited for twenty minutes, Like I literally
waited for twenty minutes, like right standing in line where
like they have one poor person like working behind like
trying to deal with the people in the pharmacy and
at the drive through window and like everybody standing there forever.
And I'm like already getting angry at the situation. But
(32:14):
then I also haven't had my blood pressure.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Medication yet, right, not helping.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Not helping. Right. So anybody listening to this show knows
that I'm one of the nicest people. Yes, in the world. Yes,
I yelled at the farmacists. Oh no, no, I was like,
what is happening here? You can't have a standing here
for twenty minutes. I'm like I need I'm like I'm
(32:40):
I literally yelled at her. I'm usually really nice, but
I need my blood pressure me the case drugs because
like I'm not that like I'm feeling myself not be
nice now. I know, so like I got I ended
up getting it and stuff, but I was just like,
this is terrible. And then I go to my regular
(33:02):
grocery store at the same time of the day on
a Wednesday that I usually go to. All of the
parking spots in the area of the parking lot that
I usually park in are full, and I'm like, what
is even happening? And I'm like, if Russ were with me,
I would have been like, oh, we'll just park over here,
but like today I.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Was like a hat.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
My like my emotional support human was gone.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
No, like no, what is happening?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Human kind of kind of yeah, but this is the
onboarding is temporary. He'll be working from home starting, you know,
it's a remote job in general, Like I couldn't handle
this like regularly. And I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
That makes me like codependent, and I also don't really
care if it does.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Someone's got to clean up the toxic waste on your brandy.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Pants right exactly that Yeah, yeah, something something like that,
something like that. Speaking of which, I had to buy
rust pants for this job.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Oh who wears pants?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
He doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
And a boy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
He was like, I'm going to be in the office
four days. I have one pair of pants. And he
literally bought that one pair of pants for the fancy
dinner on the last time we went on a cruise.
So I'm like, yeah, we'll just go catch some pants.
He hasn't spilled toxic waste on them yet, and he's
got two more days, so fingers crossed.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
All right, it's a short week. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
It is, it is, It's gonna be delightful. Yeah, so so, Jeff, Yes,
what would you just la? You just make me giggle.
I'm not People who listen to this know that I'm
not usually this giggly all the time. But you make
(34:58):
me giggle and me in large Deborah, No large Debra's large.
Deb's doing just fine. Yeah, it's got a gingham can
and everything's pretty great. Large Debra. Yeah, it's delightful. I mean,
come on, like, well, so so that's why I love
(35:18):
craft beer humor so much though, because it's right in
line with all of this. You know, it's the puns.
It's all over.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I love a theme. I love it all.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah, so puns themes. I guess I feel like I
need to ask you this question. Then yes, because I
am one of the biggest RuPaul's Drag Race fans. Okay, yes,
I want weird Out to be a guest judge on
that show so badly because of the puns and the
(35:53):
levity and the humor. Like it is so it's fairy,
it's so right there, and I feel like if they
had the right theme week, he would be perfect.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I feel like drag queens love weird Out.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Drag queens absolutely love weird Out.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I worked with not to keep dropping names all day long,
but I'm gonna drop Jimbo.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Oh my gosh, my favorite. She's one of the few
I follow on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh nice, Jimbo. Jimbo had a show for five minutes
on the Wow streaming platform whatever that was, uh, and
just Jimbo and I bonded over our love of weird
al Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh that makes see I don't follow all of them, Okay,
something about Jimbo made me go I'm gonna keep following Jimbo.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Jimbo is a wild person who's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Oh I love wild wonderful people. Yes, yes, Like that
was seriously like there was something that made me go,
I think I need to continue seeing what this person
is doing. And knowing that you bonded over ye with
Jimbo over weird, like that makes all of the sense.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, Like I'm like obviously, obviously, like I should have
known this. I should have known this, but like that
human it lines up right, this is how That's how
I explain like that whole area of entertainment to people
that don't get it, like they were like, why are
you watching? I'm like, well, here's the thing. This is there.
(37:22):
It's funny and it's puns like yes.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
And and there they elevate the lunacy.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
They elevate the lunacy. Yes, that's it. That's exactly it.
Like I discovered the the reboot of at Midnight After
Midnight with Taylor Thomasinson, okay because of the episode that
weird al and Drew Carey and Thomas Lennon, we're all on.
So that started making the round. So I was like,
oh man, this is the thing, and I showed it
(37:49):
to my husband. He's like, I loved the original, and
I was like, okay, So then we started right we
started watching the whole thing, you know, and I literally
right before I came in here with you, we watched
the one that was on like a couple of days ago.
It was Thomas Lennon, his most recent appearance on the show.
And I can tell you this, you're my friend. I
(38:12):
have like a weird I have a very weird crush
on Thomas Lennon. Okay, uh, I like I will watch
him do anything like that's I'm like, okay, that's my guy.
Like he just makes me laugh so much because he's
just his delivery is so perfect. Yeah, so like hiss
(38:32):
been in like weird de Al Yankovic story. I was like,
makes sense, so good, perfect, this makes so much sense.
This makes so much sense. So like anyhow, yeah, I
had to explain to my husband. I was like, yeah,
Thomas Lennon is that's like if you were gone, I
would go.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
There mustachur or without.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
I don't. I really don't care. I don't like I
maybe with if I had to pick, but also it
doesn't matter, that's fair. It's weird. I have facial have
preference on my own husband, not Thomas.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I mean that sort of tracks.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I know, I know, I love how delightfully derailed this guy.
Do you have anything more specific to one of those
days that you felt like you really really really really
really needed to make sure got said today?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
The only thing I will say is that. And this
has been brought up before, but not by me, So it's.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Started.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
There was someone built a what do they call it,
the Weird Now body count I think it's called and
it's basically like, how how many people like perish in
over the course of a weird hol song?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Oh, this is gotta be the highest, right, this.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Is the highest. This end Christmas at ground zero, which
is coming up later in Polka Party. But yeah, these
two are the highest death tolls.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
This album is just full of that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, it just delights me to know end well, I
mean obviously it should.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
I love that. Like I'd say, the side one closer
is Polka Party, but the track right before that Everybody dies,
and then the album ends with pretty much everybody dying.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, it's sort of the same way nuclear annihilation. Yeah,
so I mean, I guess the world blowing up it's
not necessarily well no, no, they're they're dropping the bomb
after he cuts itself.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Shiites, it's the same thing. What does that have to
say about the mid eighties?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Cold war was tough on a lot of us. I
was in. I was firmly in you know, fifth sixth
grade during this.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Okay, Oh you and my husband are about the same age,
so that makes sense, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
And so you know, it was it was just like
we're terrified.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Yes, yeah, it was just you know, just one of
those you.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Know, because you get it through the little kid lens,
and so it's it's catastrophized, like, well, we're seconds away
from just getting blown up.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah, weird. I was really good at that too, like
the way he used all that old timey like footage
in you know, obviously the Christmas at Ground Zero video,
which he think that's famously the first one he directed
for himself. But like he was, Polka Party is dark.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
This is a dark, dark album and I love it.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
So great, And I keep saying Poka Party is like
my foot I have the first one to three four
five albums up on the like on the wall in here,
because those are the ones that I came into this
marriage with and then my husband had the the box set,
so I was like, oh, yes, Squeezebox. I was like,
that's why I married him. I was like I don't
(42:07):
need these, you know like that. So yeah, so you know,
I was like I couldn't afford sqeez box. So I
just married this guy.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Perfect, perfect plan'st no notes.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Right, that's how you do it. So the reason like,
if Jeff, you're looking at me and if I keep
looking up like this direction, it's because that's where Poka
Party is. It's it's like, oh, it's like right in
front of my face. But yeah, it's this is dark.
It's dark and.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Dark and joyous, just like this song.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yes, this song kind of weirdly encapsulates the like the
entire ethos right of Poke Party. You know, it is
dark and joyous. You know, oh so much fun, so.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
So many dead people.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
I mean, you know, it's the way it is. It's
just the way it's got to be. It's just the
way it's got to be. The only other Like, I
made notes for myself here ahead of time, and I
was like discussion ideas, how does humor help us process
with everyday stress? And I'm like well, like, Lauren, why
did you write that down? How does obviously obviously right?
(43:28):
Like so like so like truthfully, like that's probably one
of the reasons why Al wrote this song in the
first place, right, is because like he stuff was stressful
and he's like, oh, it's just one of those days,
you know, like finding that like that swing between like
it could be worse or like this is what's happening,
you know, and it's like, I don't know about you,
(43:49):
but like I am that person where if I'm going
through something or if I have a friend who's going
through something, I am so not great at being that
like serious like let me help you through this kind
of person.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
I'm that it's not what I'm for.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
No, right, I'm like I'm that like, Okay, look at
I recognize what's happening here. Yeah, when you need to laugh,
let me.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Know because that bugs Bunny because right.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Like like that's what I'm here for, Like I'm here
for like to levity, you know, the levity, the levity
of it all. But like that doesn't always work for everybody,
and not everybody gets that, like you care when you're like,
look at, I can't I can't wallow with you, but
I can giggle with you.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
I have another Dave Box story. Dave back, who I
mentioned earlier, My buddy, my one of those days buddy, Yes,
one of those daves him. A couple of holidays ago.
We were at someone's house for a party and Dave Uh,
(44:58):
I may have said something uh, and he may have
started laughing and started choking just a little bit. He
got up to go clear his throat, but he clapped
he's fine, but he collapsed. He hit his head on
the way down and we called nine one one, and
the just the group of us is not who you
(45:21):
want in an emergency. No dickishness was off the charts,
Like the EMTs come and they're like, what's the last
thing he ate? And someone pipes in the floor like
just I mean, it was just non stop heinousness. Even
(45:43):
Alexi started playing another one bites the dust. I mean,
it was just it was salt. He you know, he survived, thankfully,
although I'm not sure how grateful he was by the
time he was done.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
But oh no, that's that's it. That's it. I don't
I don't know how to be when bad things happen, right,
because I'm like, let me know when you want a
fart joke, because that's I'm coming in, you know. Like
I've had a couple of friends recently go through some
like stuff and like they know I'm there for them.
(46:18):
I'm like, you know, if you need a ride or
like this or that and the other like like, I'm
absolutely here for you. But I'm like, it's a joke.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
I'm there for you, but I'm also not helpful. I'm
not helpful.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
I'm not helpful, you know, And I.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Give you a hug and I'll just crack jokes until
you're ready to laugh.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
That's it. That's it, And I think there's there's truth
to the laughter is the best medicine thing. Yeah, you know,
people are going to go through stuff and you can't
you can't help that, and you can't always help them
in a meaningful way. But if you can make somebody smile,
and if you can make them laugh when they're going
through something terrible, then that's a gift in and of itself.
(47:00):
And I think that's one of the things that the
song can teach us. And I'm not trying to be like, yes,
that's that's exactly Yes, that's what he does. That's why
he's my hero.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yes, you know.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
It's true, you know, and you know it.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
You know it like this I do.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
I know. This is what we mirror our entire lives
off of.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
Like this is also one of those songs that's like,
you know, I heard it when I was pretty young.
The parodies did not grab me like the other parodies did.
I just wasn't familiar enough with the original material. But
the originals on this album are so good and and
and it was sort of a strange way for like,
(47:47):
you know, fifth grade, sixth grade me to to have this.
It was like, wait, what you know? His his parodies
are what I would normally chunt to. But these originals
are so good and they're they're sort of out shining them.
And so but like this song specifically, it's like it's
(48:08):
you know, it is cartoony, and it's and it's funny.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
And I think as you get older, it gets funnier,
I think to me.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
I absolutely agree. I think a lot of weird Al's
work gets funnier as you get older. Yeah, it's just
because either you get more or it takes on a
different meaning for you, or you just understand, you know,
where some things are coming from in a in a
more in a more intimate sort of way. It's like, oh, oh,
(48:38):
I've alright, I guess that I have lost socks in
the dryer. So yeah, that's totally I totally, I totally
get it. I love it. So I think we're down
to the one last thing that we have to do
with this song, okay, is give it a rating on
a scale of one to twenty seven. I can go
(49:01):
first if you want me to.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
Yeah, I mean, it's not going to change my mind,
but god, I know.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
I because I have to do this for every single
song on this album. So I also I can't give
every single one at twenty seven because I pigeonholed myself
with in three D and I learned my lesson because
I went like way too high on songs, and you know,
so I'm going to I'm going to give the song
a twenty twenty three out of twenty.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Seve What could he have done? To point?
Speaker 1 (49:33):
What could he have done? Honestly, it could I could
remember this song more frequently. That's literally it. It's just
that's not it.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
That's not on him.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
That's not on him. That's absolutely user error. And that's
that's saying that, like, this is one of those songs
that I think it took me too long to get that.
It doesn't sit in like my my holster of like
I'm immediately going to go to the this one kind
of deals.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
So you saw it live and everything.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
I did see it live and everything with you in
the same room. Yes, but yeah, this is this is
still very good. It's higher than some other things I've done.
So take that.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
You know. I'm giving this a perfect twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
I just I just it is for so many reasons,
just among my favorites. It's so good, it's so fun
and and emotionally, it holds a very special place in
my cold dead heart.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
I think that's beautiful. And I love things the whole
places and anybody's cold dead heart. You know, I think
your heart is more warm and alive than you think
it is. But who knows. I don't know it for certain.
I can't say I haven't seen it. I have have
a look, have a look. Yeah, so you know what.
(50:55):
I don't often pull this particular sound white with people,
but I feel like I'm going to give this one
to you today. So since we're gonna wrap this episode up. Yes,
here we go, and then that's when those security guards
threw us out. Yes, yes you know so, Jeff, thank
(51:16):
you so much. I will put the links to the
stuff for your this beautiful documentary that I'm so excited
about you in, and so folks check that out because
like I am, like ridiculously excited, and Jeff, the door
is open. You almost have carte blanche on even worse.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Careful, So I'll see you at six words long.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
Okay, you know what, Yeah, yeah, I'll let you take that.
You want six words long.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
You can have six words.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Long, Okay, then that's fine. The only only other thing
was and I'll tell you this, it's because my friend Bob,
who on the last album was recently dubbed Polka Bob.
He's taking he's taking all the polkas, but there's no
Polka on even worse. So I told Polka Bob, I
was like, you can have carte blanche to pick whatever
song you'd like. I'll just tell him that six words
(52:07):
long is the only one that's off limits. And Poke
Bob has everything else nice.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
I mean, Lazanga is accordion based that.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah, you know what, we'll see what Poke Bob has
to say about that, like Bob, Bob's the best. No,
but no, you get six words on I'll get you.
Got that absolutely, So I see, and I am leaving
this in the episode. It's recorded, so the people will
he done, so they know it. It's done. I can't,
I can't reneg on it now, So folks, we'll actually
(52:35):
come back at you again next time with the aforementioned
polka Bob what talking about polka party?
Speaker 2 (52:43):
He's knocking on the door right now.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Oh no, Bob, not yet. We're not ready. All right,
we'll see you again, ten people. Goodbye,
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