This Knob Goes to Eleven: Bigger & Weirder Tour at Pine Knob Recap

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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Hello everybody, and welcome to yet another episode of the
beard On Podcast. The podcast about two of the greatest
things in the world, beer and weird out, and boy
howdy do we have a delightful topic today.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Coming out of using that kind of language, I see, well,
you know, I'll tell you how delightful a topic is today.
You already heard Lauren open her beer and you rarely
hear this from me on the show. But oh yeah,
that's right, that's right. I too, am drinking a beer
on the beard Al Podcast. And that's because we have
a insanely fun topic to discuss today, which is a

(01:14):
I don't know, it's kind of funny. I was when
I was editing our YouTube video on this topic, yes,
of the uh weird al Yankick and Weirder concerted Pineapple
Music Amphitheater. I was like, that was supposed to be
are extremely short thoughts on it. But then when I
was editing and I was like, this video is thirty
two damn minutes long.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I know we don't have short thoughts on this topic.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
So this will be more like.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
The like when an album comes out and then like
two years later they do their deluxe version where you
get like four more tracks.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yep, that's good version of this.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
That's going to be this the Beyonce of it, if
you will.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
That by the way, that's real.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Oh I believe that. That's for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
She's not the people who the poems that are the
ones that started that with her album. I should say.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, one could say that this episode is going to
be bigger and weirder than the YouTube episode.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
So speaking of this this bigger and weirder tour, I
chose the beer that I have almost for a reason.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Do we have more of that?

Speaker 1 (02:13):
We do have one more of this?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Such a good beer.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
I know. I'm having a victory golden Monkey. And the
reason I'm having a victory golden Monkey is because weird
Al is taking a victory lap with this tour.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
It really is.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's it's it's ridiculous, like in the best way. I mean,
we'll we'll talk about it more and like if I don't,
if I don't come back to it later, remind me
to talk about how like the feeling everything about the
feeling of this, like and I'm so glad we got
to see the Pineapple one because of the vast difference

(02:48):
in size in the second show that we're going to
go to. But this whole thing is just like the
only thing I could think standing in the middle of that.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Crowd in.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
This is weird Al's doing, but in many ways like
he's our guy, like he's I think that, I think.
I don't think it's lost on him that what is
happening right now all of us are sharing in and there.
There was a moment during that show where I literally
was looking around it all the only thing I could think,

(03:22):
The only words I could think was I won. Yeah,
like and and by I one, I mean I one,
and Al one and you one and everyone who's ever
been made fun of people that you and I have
met in real life in the past two years that
said such ridiculous things as I really don't get weirdel
like I win, like you don't Once and for all,

(03:46):
it has been announced worldwide and.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
With authority that you don't have to get weird ol.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh my god, We're not even four minutes into this
and I'm already starting to cry. I'm gonna cry a
lot during this episode.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, this is gonna be very disjointed by the way.
I'm sorry like we're literally three minutes in it, and
I jumped into this whole point well out of nowhere.
But like I I'm gonna I'm gonna go even a.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Little bit deeper.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
So you and I have had this discussion about this
is gonna get like kind of dark real quick, but
then it's gonna take an up swing. About how two
of my favorite artists of all time passed away. And
I told you that I that the time that passed
between their deaths, I grew a certain amount. And it's

(04:34):
just so I'm not like bearing the headline. So when
Michael Jackson passed away in two thousand and nine, I
am of the opinion. I am of the fact that
up until about three pm on June twenty fifth, two
thousand and nine, everyone you know had Michael Jackson joke.
And I don't mean just the accusations. I'm talking skin color.
People have the nerve to joke about how he was

(04:56):
raised and mistreated, his voice, just all sorts of things
about him that we were just allowed to make fun of. Right,
and then he passed away and suddenly the entirety of
the whole free world became the biggest fan. Oh, I
was just the biggest fan. Oh I was just no,
you were not. And I was flat out angry about

(05:17):
that for years. I just thought, no, no, no, no, no no,
that's not how this works. You don't get to jump
on the bandwagon now. And in many ways, that same
thing happened again when Prince passed. Where and there's so
many people now that might be like, oh, no, he
doesn't know what he's talking about, you know, like, oh,
we've always loved Prince. No we haven't. And I know

(05:38):
that because I used to stand in four hundred seaters
that weren't sold out. Yeah, with watching Prince, So no,
you all didn't love Prince. You know, go back and
watch any late night show, any late night show from
like ninety five to two thousand and five. You want
to know who, like most of the monologue is. But oh,
the Prince did something weird today. And then we all

(05:59):
laughed to Prince, you know, like, yeah, the super Bowl
halftime show happened. But other than that, by and large,
people were like making fun of prints. And then he
died and the whole world was like, oh, this is
the greatest thing ever. And I always asked you, this
is where it's gonna take it up swing. I always
asked you. I'm like, you know, like you don't know
how that feels because you weren't, like, you know, huge
fans of others. And you also didn't turn around and

(06:21):
be like, I'm now a big fan of this person
who they passed away. And I always thought, you know,
what if that happens, what if that happens if where
it aw passes away and that's when it finally happens,
right like when the whole world goes, oh, you know,
who's awesome and like and then like you know, how
would you feel? Right, But like you're never You're not

(06:41):
gonna have to deal with that because like we're seeing
it while he's still here. Yeah, this is it's incredible.
Like I'm still puzzled by that show that we saw,
like in the best way, by the way, I hope
I assume I don't have to keep No, we have so.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Much to unpack here and I'm like, I'm gonna cry
for the through this whole thing. So people, it just
so you know, I did not start a weird al
podcast for the fame.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
I did not start a weird Alt podcast for the fortune.
I started a weird Out podcast because I love weird
House so much.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm crying right now because I'm just so happy for oh.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
I'd also like to say that you did not start
a weird Out podcast because you heard an idea someone
else had and then took that for your own.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Didn't do that either, podcast. But I also did not
start a weird Out podcast to get a husband, but
that that happened.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
But yeah, I you know, we talked about this on
the on the on the original recap, and and this
goes for the whole tour, I understand, but like for
me specifically, when you know, for years I couldn't get
anybody go to a Weird Out concert. And the only
way I finally could get people to go is you know,

(07:54):
and this is going to be all back in Monday,
but back in my day, there was Amaco station that
was art the corner of Sasha bond Walden, right by
the pineapp Music Theater, and anytime you went there and sumwhere,
there were just stacks of tickets sitting out of the counter,
and it was like for not necessarily anybody bad, it
was just like people that didn't sell the place out
like any any money. For like twenty years, open Pineapp,

(08:16):
like he was always the first show you could walk
into the any money show, so like a month before
then you just go by the Ammico and be like, hey,
my Namco, who needs any money tickets? You know, and
there always be piles of tickets there, well weird out
when he always played in the summer, would always play
metow Brook, which is up the road from Pineapp and
it's like it seats like seventy five hundred or something

(08:37):
like that between the same thing. It's an outdoorian theater.
It's got a pavilion and an outdoor theater. I've shown
you footage of it with an Asia tour. And even
in a place half the size of Pineapp, less than
half the size of Pynob without fail, I could. I
knew I could just walk in there and grab as
many weird al tickets as I want to do, and
then I would still be like and weird all touches

(08:59):
on this in is hind the music. But like any
friends of mine, I would be like, so like can
I get you to go? And they just be like
like the white dirty guy, like is he still he's
still a thing?

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, And I'd be like mm hm yeah. Used toy. Yeah,
he still thinks very much still a thing, you.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Know, like insert's latest hit here. But you know they
oh that really he's still yep, yep, still thing.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
And like I just.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
I was there and I still can't wrap my head
around walking into a sold out Pine.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Knob fifteen forty people and.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Just I mean packed.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
It was.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I've seen Metallica in that venue and it was the
same amount of people.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
It was magical, you know. I've I've seen weird all
plenty of times. I've seen weird out in places as
small as the tiny little amphitheater inside an amusement park,
you know. And I've seen weird out at fair grounds,
and I've seen we're now in small theaters, you know,

(10:05):
and I've I've seen we'd all so many different kinds
of venues.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Well, it's like we talked to Scotty at Rock City
and he was telling you what I had told you
about how him and I were at We're not we
didn't know each other at the time, but we were
in the same shows in the early nineties where four
hundreds seat venue that wasn't even sold out for two
different shows. And this was after Nirvana came out yeah.
I mean this is like like big mainstream now.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Man, everybody was in the spit zone for that one.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
And I couldn't get anybody to go to those shows
with me. It's so funny to me that I couldn't
get anybody to go with me, Scotty couldn't get anybody
to go with him, And now we're like, no.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
You're friends, great friends.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
You know that's crazy, you know, and like it's a
lot of it is is very much what you said, Like, I,
you know, you have a storied history with pinab as
a venue. I don't, but I the magnitude of the
place was absent, absolutely not lost on me. I. You
and I both cried. I think we were crying more

(11:06):
than we were not crying during.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
This show with me for at least the first at
least the first four songs, like and I.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
You know what's funny is I didn't even think that
was coming. I mean like I was like, I was
like overjoyed and excited and everything, and when Taki started
just dun't du like it hit me. I was like,
this is happening. I don't know why it didn't hit

(11:38):
me until then, but I was just like this is happening. Yeah,
And then when he showed up on the screen and
I knew where he was coming from because you know,
I've been all over Pine up And then when I
realized he was going to be coming down the same
the other side of the aisle from us, like and
soon when he appeared on the screen, and and by
the way, we'll I want to touch on this a

(11:58):
little bit more later. The Detroit crowd. I know, you
got to see why why people go on about Detroit
as like it's why live albums have been recorded there
since the sixties, Like everybody looks at there to where
our itinerary and goes, but uh oh, you know there's
Detroit right there, Like you know, it's you saw firsthand.

(12:20):
Why the moment he showed up on the screen the roar,
I just it was like you just flipped the switch
and I just started ugly crying.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yep, it was. It was insane. And it's like I've
heard people cheer for Weird Out before. I've been in
the front row for Weird Out as many times as
I've not been in the front row for Weird Out,
do you know what I mean? And like we had
very good seats. We weren't in the front row obviously,
but we had very very good seats. And like I

(12:50):
it's like you said earlier, this is this is a
victory lap. This is vindication is the word that I
want to use for this, right. This is vindication for
like twelve year old me that wouldn't wear weird al
t shirts to school. This is vindication for you know,
Lauren in college, who wouldn't talk about weird al because
I'm an English major and that's not cool. He's too

(13:11):
low brow for us. He's smarter than all of you.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Seeing rich English major low brow. Not going to do
it right now. But when we talk about the meet
and great, we're going to talk about people who impressive
writers and weird al Yan convict. Yeah, and the thing that.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Occurred absolutely, you know, and like hearing a crowd of
that size and again this is not this is not
an anomaly on this tour. He's playing this this he's
playing Madison Square Garden. He sold out Madison Square Garden.
That happened after we saw him, obviously, but like it's
all happening. Everybody is just getting over their collective crap

(13:49):
and saying, you know what, this man is a treasure.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
And you know it's interesting because he's the one I
hate to even use that I hate you know, yeah,
you've heard me. I make a love of the term
pair metal. It's like the one way to describe it.
So like, I don't like the term nerd culture, like
because it's not like to me, there isn't nerdy. There's
like I'm more passionate about something than you. Yes, and

(14:15):
so if that makes me a nerd, then then so
be it. Yeah, then cool.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
But nerd culture quote unquote weird al is the only
thing in all of nerd culture that is not divisive.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
I name one thing in what nerd culture that's not
divisive other than word out and I'll wait. Star Wars nope,
Star Trek nope, Doctor Who nope, Comic Con nope, like
San Diego or any other one nope, Like Batman, Superman, DC, Marvel, Disney,
like anything name a cartoon. People are all over the internet.

(14:55):
People are just divisive about it constantly. You can't do
literally can't do anything right now. On the one hand,
I am a person who understands you can't uh, you
can't please everyone right So, like, no matter how like,
for example, most people love the movie The Dark Knight.
Somewhere out there there's a there's a Batman fan who
like is not being ironic and is not being a
jerk and just doesn't like that movie. And that's fine,

(15:17):
you know. But like, weird AL fans are not divisive,
Like we have never sat back and argued with each
other about you know, like some of us like al
Apocalypse better than others, some of us like poodle Hat
better than others, But none of us have ever been like, whoa,
I'm over you because I like this era better. Like

(15:39):
weird AL fans are like always united in something, right.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
So like.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's the one thing in nerd culture where like everybody
comes together and and if anything, it's just like people
dying of high fives, Like that's probably the double so
we should we should look into that when the tour
is over at its feet, see how many yeah would
imagine Like that's probably the most lethal thing that could
happen in the entire tours, Like many people like dying

(16:05):
of high fives probably.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
And like.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
There is not another thing out there. I mean, look
at music, like the biggest artists out there, you know,
you take a band like Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam can
announce tomorrow that they're going to play whatever Chase Stadium,
and they'll be able to put ten dates on sale,
and they'll sell all about you know what happened the
next day After every show, ninety percent of the comments
will be like I can't believe they didn't play this song.

(16:31):
Oh they played this song. Oh that was the worst
version of this ever, and like whatever, that doesn't happen
when right now, like you go in any comment section.
I think I've told you. I've seen like two comments
that were wholly ignorant, and they were just negativity for
the sake of being negative. Like that we saw the
one person complain that I don't think people were singing along.
You're wrong, Absolutely, you're wrong. Like you can go on

(16:53):
YouTube and look up the show and hear that you
were wrong. But there's just no room for negativity and
weird now stuff. And like that's because the leader guy
has always been that guy.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's the guy, Like that's the guy. And you know,
I think this is a good point to get to.
Like I have said countless times on this show that
I very literally am who I am, because like that's
the role model I've had since I was a kid.
And I actually said something at work to uh one

(17:26):
of my SVPs, Like last week, I mentioned that I
was having a difficult time with a particular colleague in
a different department, and I literally looked at her like
we were having a virtual meeting. And I looked at
her and I said, I just closed my eyes and
said to myself, what would weird Al do? And she
was like, that makes so much. I'm like, I know,
so anytime I find myself getting frustrated, I'm like, well,

(17:48):
what would weird Al do?

Speaker 5 (17:49):
Right?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
So, oh my god, I'm just crying people, I'm just
crying through this whole thing. I'm really sorry you.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
First of all, no one, no one listening to this
episode is at all going Okay, Well, maybe the one
guy that ripped off the idea for your show if
he's like, but he's gonna get writer's cramp from like
trying to come up with new ideas for his show
and call him its.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Own, right, Yeah, yeah, Levity, Levity, indeed, you know, well
when you talk about how universal like weird Al is
and everything, Like just the other day we were saying
to someone, weird ale' is the reason that we met,
and the person replied on the internet. U, I never
in my life expected to hear the phrase weird.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Al's the reason that when we met. But I'm so
glad that I did. Like again, there's not I'm not
using pearl Jam as a whipping post. I'm using pearl Jam.
I have to love Pearl Jam. I'm just they're just
in front of mine. Sure, if you put that out
of the pearl Jams the reason why we met there,
you're going to get ten comments underneath it, and at
least eight of them are going to be like, h
my boyfriend. But you know, know what you should because

(18:52):
it's their best record. But you know what I mean,
Like you're gonna get like with weird El's like, oh
that's great, Like you know, And here's my question for
you now. It's it's not lost on him that this
is happening. Okay, okay. Do you think he takes any

(19:15):
sort of vindication in this or do you think he's
just happy for us?

Speaker 1 (19:22):
I think a little bit of both. You can't be somebody.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
I guess it's fair to ask, do you think he's
happy for us? Or do you think he's like I
did this. No, I mean I know he's like and
I don't mean this in a sarcastic way. I know
he's mister a nice guy, but like, do you think
he's like, like, how nice of the rest of you
to show up like I've been doing this forever.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah. No, I think he's happy for us. Well, I
think a little in each bucket, right, I think he's
happy for us because like there's no like this is
gonna be such a weird thing to say, but like
he knows who has been like there for him this
entire time as fans, Right, he knows those people, and

(20:06):
he's like, look at this. Now you get to watch
everybody else watch me blow up. Like this is great
for you, Right, you get to have this experience with me,
And you can't be a guy who got called weird
so much that you were like, well screw it, I'm
just gonna put that in my name and then have
this happened to you and not be a little bit

(20:26):
like ha ha, I told you like this this is it.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, And I don't think it's it makes him not
nice to feel that way.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
No, he should. He he should be so proud of
himself I'm jumping ahead here, but when I got to
talk to him at the meet and greet, literally like
the only point I had for myself to say was
I am so happy for you.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah. Yeah, And we can we can talk about the now.
I mean we we come back and talk about the
show more, because I mean, the show was fantastic and
we can we can talk about it more. And and
actually we should probably talk about the me and greet
a little bit and then like you do your break
and then kind of do it like a spoiler warning,
because I don't we held back on talking about setless

(21:10):
specifics on video, and I don't want to do that.
I'm not saying we're going to go through every single time.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
I'm just saying I feel like this episode's going to
be long enough for two ad breaks, So why did
I put one right here?

Speaker 3 (21:20):
You do you?

Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's what we do.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
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I'm Sophia, Aaron is Dorothy, Kristen is sweet Rose, and
each week we'll have a guest sit in the Blanche spot.

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Speaker 1 (22:31):
Okay, we're back, man, I can get back of that,
thank you. So yeah, So, do you want to talk
about meet and greet or setlist?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
No, we'll do meet and greet. I think we talked
about this on the YouTube channel. We'll just quickly talk
about this that I didn't. I was confused by the
backstage thing because I didn't realize you want to do well.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, I feel like, you know, we should explain it well.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
I mean, I just look, the meet and greet stuff
I've done before is never been like like professional type stuff.
Like all I've ever done is and again this Grandpa's
a from a different time I've done like radio station
stuff or whatever else for like you like or or
or you know what. I've been fortunate enough to meet
some artists where I happened to be in the right

(23:15):
place at the right time. That type of thing, like
everything I've ever done is been like you wait in line,
there's a guy sitting there, ask him the TD you
tell him how much you love this album. He forgets
to forgets to spell your name right and signs it
and then moves on and tells you to make.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Sure to come to the show tonight.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, and that's what I'm used to, that type of thing.
With this, this is like very organized thing. It's like
you know you're gonna go through the line. Once you're
gonna everyone goes through the line, wants to take a
picture with al Uh and then you everybody goes back
through the line again because then he sat down with
a poster or whatever it is that you were a

(23:49):
writing device, and then you either have him signed the
poster or the thing. The only tips that I would
have for the people running it, and not that they're
asking or listening to.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
This, but.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
I didn't want to make any part of it inefficient, right,
And I kept saying to you, like, well, do you know,
like when we'll get a second to talk to him, like,
because I didn't want to go up in the picture
and be like I'm going to start telling my life
story and then because else it's so polite, I very
much know he would have just stod there and listened
to it.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
Right.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
But then my thing is I always think about enough
other people enough to where I didn't want someone else
to see that and then them do and then line right,
So I kept asking, and it was like nobody seemed
to know. It was just like, you'll get to talk
to him, okay, but when like you'll get to talk
to him, Yeah, I know, but I'm gonna be around
him twice like when it's but it turns out, at

(24:44):
least from the one we were at it seemed like
the when he was said sitting down doing the posters
was really the time that he even seemed more like, Hi,
I'm going to have a conversation with you now.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's good. You know, because he's sitting
down at that point, you know, you just put on
a big ass show. He might as well, you know,
talk to you while he's sitting. But yeah, So if
you are listening to this and you are doing a
meet and greet situation on the Bigger and Weirder twenty
twenty five weird al Yankovictur, be prepared to go through
the line twice, so you know, just mentally be ready

(25:16):
for that because it's going to be late, and it's
not and you're going to be there for a while.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
And also it's not the end of the world. Like
and it depends to like we went to a venue
where the fifteen thousand people in there, and I have
to assume that the meet and greets are probably done
by size of venue or something.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
It would would have to assume, I would think so.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
And so I mean there had to have been three
four hundred people back there. Yeah, I mean, once the
lines got moving, it was quick but again I think
that and this is more on the venue and the
you know, it's never the artist that hires these people.
It's these like event on Site and all these terrible
companies that are supposed to specialize in experiences.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
But on Stege experience, yeah, and the and they're terrible.
You know.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Those people are the ones that are unorganized, you know.
But once they finally got everything together, that was like,
oh okay, well now we're all going to move in
this direction, and then it was fine.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
So I'm not saying that.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
I'm just saying like, if you go back and you
start asking questions, like, don't be surprised that nobody knows
what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
And it's not. It is in no way where it
out or his people's fault.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
They were all just going where they.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Literally oh yeah, absolutely, Like having been on the other side,
I have a friend of mine who's in an artist
who's been in that situation, and it's very much just
hurting cattle for them as much as it is the fans.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yep, Like they literally are like what throw through this door?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Okay, no down there, Okay, No we're not sing I
thought we were sitting here. No, Well, we're over there,
like that's like and then they just sit there and
then the thing happens and the whole time like they
don't even know when they don't even know when it's over,
like the artists, they're just like you kind of no, oh,
there's more, okay.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Like okay, yeah, so but anyway, so I don't make
that mean does make that all sound terrible.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'm just making sure part of it's part of the experience, right,
But like obviously as you go through it, you get
what you get out of it, you know, yep. And
we were near the end of the line both times through,
which is fine. So we get finally get up to
the point where it's time for our picture with al,

(27:18):
And you tell this better than I do, because like
this happened to me.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, well, and I can't. I can't really like the
best time. I'll describe it the best I can. So
if you're listening, hopefully you understand what I'm saying. So
if you see somebody, if you've ever seen someone in
this type of line, or even like a real world scenario,
if you see like a higher up at a business
and like you know, everybody else goes to talk to them,
and you can tell they don't know anybody's name and
or they've been told like who's name to know or whatever.

(27:44):
And then they come up and the person's like, you
know Jim from accounting, and the guys like, God, yeah,
did you Jim? I know you Jim?

Speaker 3 (27:51):
You know?

Speaker 2 (27:51):
And then like and everyone else around is like that
guy doesn't know who Jim is, you know, So you
could see that happening, and again everyone listening to us
knows where ELL's the nicest guy on Earth. So I'm
not at all being like, you know, like oh he
was being rude or anything. It wasn't being rude at all.
But he's going through the motions, mostly because what else
are you supposed to do? Right, You're standing there staring

(28:13):
in one direction. They keep pointing you to the right,
and some person who you may have met somewhere along
the lines, but you know, so many people are on
planet Earth you there's no way you can remember all.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
These people.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Comes up, they tell you their name or whatever else,
and in some cases they're crying. Some cases they're like
scared in a good way. Sometimes they're like over confident bros, like,
you know, you never know what to do you know
you're doing You're doing four hundred first impressions in a row.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
I've been all three meeting Weird now at this point.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, and then you know, and then you turn around.
And with Weird al though, and with with many celebrities
and rock stars and stuff, it's like they're just like, oh, okay, cool,
and then they turn and they take the picture and
that's it. Like with Weird aw, he like he was
like full on, like what are we doing? And like
guys were like, well, I'm gonna throw my up here
and you're gonna do this and like whatever, and he
was just going along with all of it. But then

(29:05):
it was like very like, you know, like okay, all right,
then okay by and he'd like shake, you know, and
very like going.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Through the Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
So then Lauren comes up to talk to him, and
he like turns to the side as if he's gonna
do what he's done with like the thirty people in
front of her, and then he saw her. He just
was kind of like oh, oh hi, Like he like
face lit up, like like oh, nice to meet you.
And then like you could see his eyes get big,
like oh, it's you. And then he was like, oh, hi,

(29:32):
and then like, without you even trying, he just instantly
hugged you again. Yeah, and then me from my but
from my perspective though, and maybe this is people won't
understand what I'm trying to say, but he like he
like closed his eyes when he hugged you, like like
and like literally had that like hallmark look on his face, like, oh,

(29:53):
good to see you, friend.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
And I told you.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
And I'm not trying to speak for word out in
any way, shape or form, but I have a friend
of mine who's who's toured all over the world, and
he was telling me about how musicians very much silo
people into cities, like they just know of like oh,
when we get here, I'm going to see even if
they don't know by name. When we get there, I'm
gonna see that one girl, or when we get to

(30:16):
that city, that one guy with the with the with
the back patches on his jacket will be there like that,
I tell you of a thing. And when they see people
like that in other cities, they're like, oh, like they
you know, they're they're they're surprised by them. And the
fact that he had that the only way I can
describe is he had a look on his face like
he was like pleasant, so pleasantly surprised to see you,
and where he wasn't expecting to see who like you

(30:37):
in his mind?

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Are is your Florida?

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah, and he just kind of looked like oh, like oh,
like look at this, like he was so excited.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
To see where you're not I'm not supposed to.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
And so when we get to when we get to
the Saint Augustine show, I would be surprised if there's
not something along the lines of like you again or
like something like that, you know, but it was so
genuine and sweet and like just to be like, you
know he and again. You know, people get so hung
up on like these people. You know, each one of

(31:08):
us thinks is of Al as our guy. You know,
we every person listening to this has their story of
that time they were made fun of for listening to
whord Al or the stories like I was saying he
couldn't get anybody to go with you or you were
made fun of or whatever, and you have to remember
that like, yes, he's our guy, but like he's also
sold fourteen million records. He's also played every TV show

(31:32):
there is to play other than SNL in the Super Bowl.
I'd be shocked if he's not finally going in the
Hall of Fame this year after this scene that seems
like an explanaial point on the victory lab. This is
not like he's our guy, but he's not our guy, right,
and people get too hung up on he didn't remember

(31:59):
this or that or whatever, like or you know, like
if you get any sort of recognition out of someone
like Weirdell of his stature and what he's been doing
for as long as he's been doing, and how many
faces that guy has seen, then you're doing all right,
and you shouldn't not this isn't directed at you, but

(32:20):
you shouldn't be saying like, oh, I can't believe he
didn't get my joke, or like, oh I thought he
was gonna you know, like you know, get like, no,
you don't place expectations on this man, like you know, like.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
This this.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
You're dealing with a person who has taught you to
be yourself, So you can't turn back around to him
and go, this is how I thought you should behave.
I mean, if weird Al spent his entire life behaving
the way people thought he should behave, we would have Weirdel,
we would have normal Alfred the architect, who, by the way,
is the worst.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
I'm sure in some other dimensions.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Oh my gosh, there's some parallel universe work is just
designing really bland buildings.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Or alreadys doing like parody buildings.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Oh my gosh, this is the google Heim, but the
Great Square, but the Great Googlygan, the Great googlely Mougenheim.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
But you know what I mean, Like and all that
is to say, like I was overjoyed for you in
that moment, and and and.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Then tell him about it.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Kind of cracked myself up because I then went over
to weird Now and a person who like when who
when I had the same feeling when he was coming
out in front of fifteen thousand people, and I was
kind of looking back at everybody like this is my guy.
You guys like where were I couldn't get any of you?
And it was you know, where were the fourteen thousand,

(33:47):
six hundred of you when we couldn't fill the ritz?
You know, I very much had that same attitude to
weird Now when like you went to walk away, I
was like, that's my wife, Like that's like that, you
know how you're all like, oh, good to see you.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, yeah, me too. That's my wife.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Know.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
I was like all excited and he was like he
was like okay, you know. I was like m and
then uh, I keep telling people this, but it's absolutely true.
Weird Al gave you a hug. I took one, like
I literally just like you know, like you know when
you like you have that one male friend who's like
not comfortable with like hugs and stuff, and like they
go in for like they won't even like handshake, they'll

(34:21):
like put their fist out and you go and you
have that awkward like oh no, we were gonna write.
He like was not expecting that, and I would literally
was just like bring it in, man, like totally like
you know because I literally again it's like my guy
and and and there's my wife, and he like you
bring joy to him, and he's brought joy to millions,
So no, I'm.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Getting my hug.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
And then we did a quote normal pose and then
we did the Devil Horns and it was funny because
I could not wipe the smile off of my face.
So in the Devil Horns picture, I look like a
kid who just like a five year old who learned
to just throw up the devil horse. Uh and weird
now looks like the Prince of Darkness himself.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yeah, he gave his whole face.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Uh huh. So it's just a very The picture itself.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Is perfect, it's perfect. I did thumbs up. I had
him do double thumbs up with me because that's my
picture pose just in general.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
And what's funny is when we reverse it.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Then the other one is where I have like the
slightly longer story because when we went back through we
got to talk to him.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
For a minute.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yep, you like you said you kind of just wanted
to tell him, like, you know, I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
So just yeah, yeah, I got up there and I
had a oh.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Tell you when he said, what do you want me
to write on your poster?

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Oh my gosh. So yeah, I get there and I
get the poster and he looks at me. He goes, okay,
so you want me to want me to want me
to write on it? And I was like, I wasn't
expecting that question, you know, and so I was like,
I don't know, write whatever moves you.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
That's the first thing that came out of my mouth.
And then he goes, I am moved to write my name.
I'm like, okay, weird. Now you got me with that one.
He sure got me with that one. So yeah, he
wrote his name and it's great.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
But then you had a chance to tell him that
you're I got a.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Chance to tell him that. I'm so happy for him.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
I hope he hears that from everyone, Like I just
got done saying how much I think fans can be
not weird of fans, but fans in general can be selfish.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Yeah, And I hope he's hearing.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
That from like all of us, like like, yeah, we're
all getting to partakeing this, but like it's got to
be a killer feeling for him, man.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
I mean not like we're talking about our experience at
at Pine Knob. But there's been a lot of press
about his Madison Square Garden show. And one of the
things that's making the rounds about his Madison Square Garden
show is like if you okay, sidebar, like, if you
know we're now at all you know that his shows
like this are timed like to the second, you know

(36:43):
what I mean, It's like it's clock right.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
We saw they did have an extra thirty thirty.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Eight seconds, so could they threw an extra song in there,
but they're time to the second and he stopped in
Madison Square Garden and literally said, you know what, hold on,
I need to take this in for me, you know.
And I think more people should do that in their

(37:09):
life when something good happens, like just stop and like
take it in for a second.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
It's funny.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Two of my favorite moments ever in the history of
entertainment happened that way at the same venue that in
Triple h T when he returned from his squad injury.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Oh yeah, and literally that's how he developed.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
The standing at that ramp for so long, because in
that moment he said there and wanted to take it
in and it happened at MSG.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Plus it's the first live though they ever bought in
my whole life.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah, we're good, So that's true. But yeah, so you
got to tell him that, and that was great. So
when I went through, I wanted to find a way
to like make sure I was like, I was like,
I want to say this in a way that he
knows how much I mean this and what I mean
by it.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
But I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Be like, Okay, you know, conversations with that We're going
to sit down and talk twenty minutes about each of
these people, you know, But and I mean this in
every way. The three writers who have had the biggest
impact on my life like far and away, and I
can't even honestly, you know, I came up with this
list like a couple of days before the show, and

(38:12):
since then, I've been trying to think, and I've been like, now,
I think I pretty much nailed it, Like I can't
think of anybody else, you know, not necessarily in this order,
but the three writers who have had the biggest impact
on my life is Aaron Sarkin, Roger Waters, and weird
Al Yankovic. And for varying degrees, and Weirdel, like, yes,
you and I met because of weird Al, but like

(38:33):
that is not where the impact on my life from
Wedell stops. Like there's like so much before that, and
since you know, it's an enormous impact, you know, And
I could go on and have about Aaron Sarkin and
Roger Waters. But just because I think someone is great
doesn't mean that whomoever else I appreciate will also have

(38:57):
that same opinion. Right to say that if I walk
up to an Aaron Sorkin and say Roger Waters and
Ali Yank Mackard the other people who have the most
impacted in my life. Aaron Sorkin might be like, I've
never understood what the big deal is about Roger Waters, you.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Like, I'm not saying I have no I'm not saying
he's a jerk. What I'm saying is like they might
not all the all three might not matter to someone, right.
So that was kind of my fear was I thought, well,
you know, like, and I'm not saying like, I'm not
saying where my fear was weird. I was gonna be like,
I don't like Pink Floyd. That's not what I mean.
What I mean is I wanted him to just because

(39:37):
a bunch of people praise Roger Waters and Aaron Sorkin
doesn't make them great. I wanted him to also think
that they're great. If that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
I totally get what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
And so when he was signing his name, I said,
you know, I was trying to figure out a way
to say this right, and the easiest way is just
to say that the three writers in my lifetime have
had the biggest impact on me have been Aaron Sarkin,
Roger Waters and you, and he like I think, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
If you saw.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
What he put his hand on his chest.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Well, no, that's in a minute he was, but he
just like was like, well, he's like doing his thing,
and he like stopped and looked up and was like what.
And I was like, yeah, like the but far and
away the biggest writers writers, they have the biggest impact
on my life are you, Roger Waters and Aaron Sarkin.
And and we're coming up to when he put his

(40:32):
hand on his chest and he then then he said, uh,
the he made the noise that made me go, oh,
he does get it.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
He goes.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Like and kind of like a like really because he
already said what and then yeah, they and then you
know did that. And then I said and the only
other thing that I want to say is I don't
know that I'll ever get to meet Aaron Sarkin, but
I did get to meet Roger Waters, and I got
to thank him for the impact that he had in
my life. And now I want to say thank you
to you. And that's when he put his hand on
es and he just said he goes thank you. That

(41:02):
really means a lot to me. And and the way
he said it, what I mean, you saw it it
was it wasn't just like oh neat And then I
walk away He's like who those Roger Waters? You know,
like not that he wouldn't you know what I'm saying, Yeah,
Like did you hear that? Like I thought that Aaron
Sorker was impressive? Like no, he like got it. And again,

(41:22):
like I say, I don't expect anyone again in sports
or whatever. If you walk up to somebody in sports
and you're like, oh man, I looked up to you.
This guy and this guy you know what's coming is like, oh, well,
you know I'm the bad you know. And in that moment,
like I think, Al he just had this air to
him like that's high society, you know. And and if

(41:46):
I was gonna rank him, Al's not at the bottom
of that list, you know, Like I mean, he's I
think he's insanely brilliant. Like you and I we're driving along,
I think in Detroit still we were driving along talking
about on how many different levels people don't understand what
it is it where it out really does and I
and I hope that when he hears me compare him to,

(42:09):
not compare him to, but the impact that they had
on me is comparative to Roger Waters and Aaron Sarkin,
you know. And if you're not familiar with Aaron Sarkin,
by the way, I'm not going to go into like
here's some things you should know, but like, the man
has written some of the most quoted dialogue in the
history of film, Like if you've ever said to anyone
you can't handle the truth, or anyone's that ever said
it to you, that guy wrote that like he wrote

(42:30):
he wrote the entire dialogue, that entire scene. If you
if you haven't seen that scene in The Few Good
Men that leads up to you can't handle the Truth,
you are missing out on life. Nicholson's just eats up
the screen fully with his whole face. Yeah, in the
in the dialogue is brilliant. Aaron Sarkin's written some of
the most celebrated TV shows in the history of television,
The Newsroom and in Studio sixty and The West Wing.

(42:56):
And I'm going way easy by just mentioning a few
good Men. But he's a ridiculous on the Social network,
He's just written insane dialogue and One of the things
that he's always said is people say, well, why do
you write the way you do, And he says, he
grew up in a house with two very educated parents
that were both litigators, and so they the sound of

(43:17):
is how the music of his house was smart people arguing.
So that's what he writes, is the sound of smart
people arguing. Roger Waters, the way he writes is deeply
affected by what happened to him as a kid, and
the way Roger I'm sorry, the weird al rights is
from his experience where he never wanted to be laughed at.
He wanted to be left with. And that goes for

(43:40):
the artist and who he's singing about, and it certainly
goes for his listeners as well. And I'm not saying
that in the moment that I said all that, where
I was like, I understand all of those moments right now.
I just he had that look like if the risk
of sounding rudimentary, he had that look like that's high society.
And and the fact that I said, you know, I
did get to thank Roger Water, and I want to

(44:00):
thank you now, Like I think even that, like when
he said that means a lot to me. I think
that probably meant more to him than being in the
same breath with those two guys, like the fact that
I just want to be like, I just want to
thank you man, like you know, they if that guy
at any point and he could have took the money
and ran and eat it. You know, it's like any
point in this guy's career if he just goes like

(44:20):
you know, if again to bring up that point again, uh,
if at any point after you know, Hernia or fat
or or Nirvana or whatever, when they come to and go.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Did we already do this?

Speaker 2 (44:33):
He could have just been like yep and just been done,
you know, at any point, yeah, you know, and that
so for me, that's like that's what I mean when
I say thank you, like thanks for keeping on for
all that, Like I don't you know, and he released
his last record over ten years ago and you're selling
out you know, a venue I used to walk to
and dream about ever having him be booked. I would

(44:54):
have gone to see where now there if he back
in the day, like he was just booked in there
and then because like a smaller act would come through
Pine now, but they just booked just the pavilion or
even the center of the pavilion, like and they'd have
the stuff like roped off of the Yeah, I would
love to see him just.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
There with that, you know.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
So that's just the whole thing was just such like
a dream. And to get to stand there and tell
him that and have that be the reaction was really cool.
And I don't want to spoil it. Lauren is very aware.
But if I get to talk to him anywhere near
at length in Saint Oxine, I have another story that
I want to share with him because I think I
finally found a way to ward it to where it
won't it will. I was insulted very heavily at once

(45:34):
as a child of no I know, but I want
to share. I don't want to spoil how.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
I want to share it.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
I'm hoping to share that with him in a way
that doesn't make it sound like and I got insulted
because I was a fan of you, like you know,
I want to like present it better and I think
I've figured that out.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Yeah, I don't know. If you want to take us
a break.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
I think we need to take a break again.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
I am so or I can't believe them do the
lyric right.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
By Chairmensity I.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Was just so overwhelmed by its Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Well, I am so overwhelmed by the share immensity of
this episode that I'm going to go get another because
I'm gonna have to pop myself a beer.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
I had myself a beer. I'm the one that made that. Damn.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
I know. All right, we'll be back after these messages.

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Oh my lord, fantastic, fantastic. Well, we really are back,
and we're gonna be talking about just We're not going
to run through the entire set list because I know
that some people want to avoid entire spoilers, but honestly,
like you're the Internet is you know a thing, So
that's going to happen. But we're just going to talk
about the stuff that stood out for us, the stuff

(48:10):
that we really enjoyed, and just kind of highlight what
we thought was special about this tour.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Well, I'll start by saying, I don't think there's anything
that doesn't work. Like, I don't think there was no
point in the show where I was like, oh yeah, yeah,
like I was. I was a little surprised by the
amount of originals, but like I don't care because I
love them all. But like, and also the Detroit crowd
did not care at all.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
So that's a really I like that point, And I
feel like, what's really cool about this tour now at
this point is, you know, under his belt, Al has
the ridiculously self indulgent ill advis Vanity Tour and the
unfortunate return of the ridiculous and self indulgent Illivis Vanity Tour.
So I think he has kind of proof of concept

(48:57):
that at least his hardcore fans enjoy his originals and
will appreciate them. And he definitely put those in there
basically saying, look, we like doing these, We know you
like them, so you know what, We're going to do
some of these and if that's when people want to
go pee, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Speaking only for the Detroit Show, lowest amount of people
I've ever seen leaven droves for eight I mean at
that venue, I've seen Lindsey Buckingham set up to do
the big Love thing that's like wildly impressive, and seen
what can only be described as a cavalcade of people
leaving up like in light still by the way, like

(49:37):
it was like like a quarter after eight pm orso,
like it's still very likely in no way like Lindsay
didn't see this, you know, I mean you were there,
pin not you see like I mean, I mean just
packed with people growing up. And I mean to tell
you there was like I think us about seven other
people went to the bathroom at any point during the show.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
I know, I know, And that's just I have the
world's smallest bladder. I've peed during this show. Yeah, people
were enthralled. And again, like speaking from for myself as
far as Originals goes, I was beyond thrilled for the
live tour debut of Everything you Know Is Wrong. I

(50:20):
wept openly. I was so happy and people around us
were singing all of the words.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
People all the words. There was like uh like large
sloths of sections were singing along with it.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Loudly happening. Can I tell you this, especially with everything
you Know is Wrong? I think one of the things
I've said on this show so many times is your
first weird Al album says a lot about you and
the age range of people that were at this show.
A lot of them Bad Hair Day was their first

(50:55):
weird Al album, So that means everything you Know is
wrong is in their blood.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
And it's you know, I mean where it else obviously
very astute. I'm sure things like that were.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Yeahs because but then again, I was also in this
speaks to the list.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
I was also surprised by Nirvana just kind of was
there like like it, I mean, like people cheered. So
but I would argue that Nirvana was one of the
lower crowd energy songs of the night.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Full disclosure and this is my show, and you can
come at me for this if you want. Every time
I've seen it, conventional weird al show smells like Nirvana
is my bathroom song.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Yeah, well it's whatever.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
It's my bathroom song.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
First of all, nobody should come for you. And second
of all, it's totally acceptable to have any bathroom song.
I go to the Guns and Roses and Sweet Child
in mind it's my bathroom song. And I don't care
who knows it, like I've I bet it probably fifty
g in our shows. In my life, there's only so
many times I can hear that song before I gotta go.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Yeah, you gotta go. And it's like just just because
there's a Billy Joel poster behind you. The reason I
knew my friend Trish was my best friend was about
a month into our friendship we went to see Billy
Joel together and we were both sitting there and I
could tell that we both had to pee. And as
soon as rever of Dreams started, We're like, can we
go pe?

Speaker 3 (52:08):
Now?

Speaker 1 (52:09):
That was we were like, yeah, we could go be
during this song. You all have your p song. But
that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
I mean, I could be wrong. It seemed like the lowest,
lowest crowd energy of.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
The whole night.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, I I you could tell it.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
I mean, it's it's it's I like it. It's got
it's it's it's gotta be in the set list.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Yeah, he's gotta do.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Plus we got a tube solo.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
Well that was that was an added thing to it.
And I liked the staging of it, you know, with
the they really brought the video to life more than
they had both. You know, I thought that was really great.
I was really extoked to see mission statement.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
That was very good, you.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Know, as an adult, incorporate almost.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
What's interesting too is that almost is like to me tacky,
and that is one two punt is like almost for
old older l F hands. It's like, hey, here's what
this new band is capable of.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah, or the expanded band, the expanded.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Between those two songs. It was really a showcase for
like this is how good this is gonna sound.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
And like I love mission statements so much, and like
he couldn't have done that without the expanded band, and
I just need to share this again like with like
just just just for your mind's I right, like a
week and a half after we saw al at pinab
Do Mission statement, you got to do it at Bethel

(53:39):
Woods Mission statement, where Woodstock was like, yeah, what.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
What, I know what?

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Uh, I'm trying to think of that. I mean, I
don't want to skip right to it. There was my
hands on my favorite song of the whole night. I
don't want to skip right to that. The medley I
thought worked really really well, the quick costume changes.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
In the middle, aggressive harmonica work.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Yeah, well I think where now looked at Longe annoyed
with them at times standing there. Well you know that's
that's between the two of them.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
That's not mine to tell.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
But that was a lot of fun. Fat was fantastic.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
It's oh my god, like this is like a totally
full circle like for me because I said that the
first time I saw Weirdel was at the Amphitheater inside
Hershey Park and I was in front row for that.
So the first time I ever saw the fat fat suit,
like I could almost touch the fat suit, and then
to see it at a place this large was like,

(54:47):
I don't obviously it's the same fat suit right doing
the same same kind of thing, but like the fat
suit was dwarfed by the crowd, you know, like the
fat suit looked huge the for first time I ever
saw it.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Oh yeah, Well, and you are also right in front
of him at a much smaller venue, you know, and.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Now it's like, look at this, this is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Yeah, I thought that was great. Yeah, I mean, I'll
just skip right to it far and away. The highlight
of the night for me was eBay, Like I know,
I mean, it went over like wildfire, like approving yet
again that it should have been the first single off
that record. The band the expanded Man absolutely held helped

(55:34):
hold everything together on a cut like that, The fact
that we're all a sixty five and still singing that
song in the right key or in the original key
rather and you know, for anybody it's like, oh yeah,
but he's got all those people singing with him. He
hit on highest bidder on his own, had had the
microphone about four feet out from his mouth, shades of
two of my favorite vocalists, Elvis and Michael, and just

(55:58):
nailed it, you know, and not not for like cheap promotion,
but if you go on our YouTube channel, the infectious
Grew Music YouTube channel, just like swipe through the shorts,
still you get to it. I took video of fourteen
thousand people with their phones out like lights on, like
as if the Backstreet Boys were there, except they were

(56:18):
all like singing at the top of their lungs for
where now, and and I did get all the way
up through where he hit the the.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
It's beautiful and I'm not.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
I'm just just far away. That the highlight of.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
Oh like honestly very much for me too, Like there
were so many highlights of that show. But yeah, see
an eBay happened that way was just so cool. They
did such a good job for it, you know. And again,
longtime listeners of this show know that poodle hat is
kind of our thing here and for that that poodle

(56:53):
hat track to get to get its flowers.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
That way and get it sounds so good and yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Like I again, I think I was weeping openly the
entire time. I'm still crying right now.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Well, you have to remember, you know, there's so much
that comes with us, and we talked about this. But
you know when you when you say it's not fun
to say, oh I got picked on for weird al
or like these are like horrible things that happened, Like
it wasn't fun and it wasn't cute. And to this day,

(57:28):
like I said, I reference it again. We just met
someone within the past two years who was looking so
far down their damn knows at us that they were
like standing on the top of the Empire State Building
looking at us. Oh well, I've never really understood I
don't really get weird al.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Like who in the do you? Who do you think
you are? Like what?

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Like what do you what do you do here? Like
what do you bring to the table? Like, because I
know what weird Out brings to the table, and I
know what his fans bringing to the table, Like help
me understand what you do? Like if if somebody needs
to be explained here, it's sure shit not wear it out,
you know. And so when you when you say like, oh,

(58:11):
I'm you know, I was crying. Oh I'm still crying.
Are you apologizing? Like no, like this is an emotional thing,
Like this is like I had turned famously fifty years
old two weeks before that concert. I've been going to
Pineab for since ninety one or ninety two somewhere on there.
I still got to figure that out somewhere on there. Anyways,
I've been going to Pineab since before the dawn of time.

(58:33):
As previously stated, I've seen everybody that I saw the
first three lallapalouses at that place. The first time in
my life I ever heard heard a Pearl Jam song
was in that building a wall close up. The only
time I can remember crying at Pine Ob. It's probably
happened other times because literally ridiculous amount of shows. But

(58:58):
the only memory I have of crying prior to that
was the summer after my mom passed away. Train came
through and they did what I looked to the sky
and I was like not even ready for that, Like
I know the song and it was current at the time,
and I was like, well, they're going to do that
for sure as soon as the as soon as it
wasn't even the piano, it was when Pat May started singing.
I just we were up when we were up on

(59:19):
the lawn, I just instantly started It was as if
someone played d minor because I started weeping instantly.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Yeah, And like I said, as soon as the he
came on the screen, like that just this release of like.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
You know, I'm not going to say the totally go
off the deep end on your show here, no no
pun intended, but like you know, there was just a
big release of f all of you, and I mean
all of you from like like you know, my older
brothers who like made fun of me for even buying

(59:55):
Edith the day that the single was uh, you know,
seventy five cents a kmart and I like we're like, really,
you're gonna waste my Yes, I'm going to waste three
whole quarters on this, Like yeah, to the Aspen Records thing,
to not being able to to going down and parking
in Roseville by myself. You were in Roseville the other
day in the middle of the daytime. Did it look
like somewhere you wanted to be at night? No, be

(01:00:17):
me in nineteen ninety two, parking the air by myself
to walk into to where it out, you know, to
you know, getting up to the self indulgent stuff and
people really like what is that? You know, like what like,
oh yeah, look he's playing these like tenuing places. Yeah
on purpose my design, dammit, like you know, all the

(01:00:37):
way up to and including like I say, people just
you know, like really like you know, I don't get it.
You know, there's this release of just yes.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Really yes, really yes yes.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
And and also a dendum go f yourself like this
is my guy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
And we won. We won like he won and I
won by adendum.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
We won, and like I just kept looking out over
the crowd there singing like I won, like I won,
like I've wanted this forever, like I've wanted other people
to even remotely understand this near a level that I
understand it. And here are fourteen thousand people who totally
are here and investment there. I saw one a total
of one person scrolling on their phone and it wasn't

(01:01:19):
even egregious, like I think it was during a song
he didn't know. Like I said afore mentioned, we saw
like four people go to the bathroom maybe during the
entire show. H D they closed the main set with
a paradise. I think, yeah, I thought for sure, I
again not to be the dead Horse. I've seen bon

(01:01:40):
Jovi in that building. I've seen them close like their
main st with like whatever their their current single was,
right and then like over half the places like all.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
Well, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
You know they're gonna do his limit in the prayer,
like nobody left. No, I mean nobody left. I mean
no one, Like there was no one going up the steps,
and I was just standing there being like, is this
is this for real? I kept I kept elbowing you
and going Detroit, Detroit because the roar that kept happening.

(01:02:15):
That's why it's okay to get emotional now that you
need my permission, but that's why, like it's an emotional thing.
This is your guy, Like this is the you know
this day, in this day and age, in social media,
we hear a lot about standing on the right side
of history, which is one of the dumbest phrases I've
ever heard, right up there with virtue signaling, Like as
far as people trying to justify what they're doing right now,

(01:02:36):
like you don't know that you're standing on the right
side of history yet with all of your like political movements,
I can tell you, as far as music history goes,
you've been standing on the right side of history for
the longest time, and like the validation, in my opinion,
has just begun.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
I would be shocked if he's.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Not on the Hall of the Hall of Fame Bill
finally this year, and he's gonna be a first time er,
like if if they if they, if they put him
on there, he's going in, Like there's not They're not
gonna put him on there and then leave him off
for like several years like they did with Sabbath or
anybody like that. Like if he goes if he goes
out there, he goes in. I don't know that they've
talked about the super Bowl yet this year, but that,
like I know every every year.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
People go, this is the super Bowl show we really want.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Wouldn't surprise me if that's already in the works, Like
you're probably gonna get an SNL performance like this. I
would love this guy, like this is the this is
the thing where he's finally being like vindicated is the word.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
I'm crying and have full body chills right now.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Well that's me and that's fully except here's my thing.
If you don't feel that way about this, then I
don't know, Like what are you doing here.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
There's nothing and like just like just so like people
listening to this don't have any idea. Like we're sitting,
you know where we always record the show, and like
there's just the wall of weird owl stuff in here.
There's pictures of me with him, all the posters on
my autographs and just like albums and all this stuff.
And like every time I like overly emotional, I just

(01:04:01):
kind of I have to I keep looking.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
So, like I said, you know, the show, it was
everything that we wanted to be. I hope all I
can't see how all these dates are everything that I
want them to be, Like, I mean, they have to be.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
It's it's beautiful, and I feel like we would be
remiss if we did it. I I was trying to
go here before, but then we went off in another
beautiful direction. And I would like to steer back just
to the fact that, like by virtue of the fact
that we were in you know, in Michigan. Zach your
son by step son, was there with his girlfriend and

(01:04:44):
group of friends, which was fair kids.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
In the mixed shout out they were I was like, oh,
you kids are gonna walk.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
They were like wait, he does the thing, and I
was like, oh, yeah, yeah, you're about to die.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
None of them had ever seen weird Now before in concert,
and what a way to see weird aw for the
first time.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
And I like to them, that's normal, by the way,
like yeah, I know, you know, like when you go
to see where else.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
But you know, and like that was just so impressive,
and you know, I love that Zach was able to
give us kind of a recap of his group's like
thoughts of it afterwards and was like everybody walked away impressed.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
I said, No one kid said he was eternally grateful.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Yeah, yeah, which I'm like, I'm just I'm trying to articulate.
I'm not trying to make fun of that. I'm articulating
that that's it's a great like what a wonderful phrase
for him was that, Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Yai Ian, I'm glad you're eternally grateful because you should
be for weird Hew. But you know what, like that,
we we met up with like other people kind of
in our peripheral like friend group ahead of time and
stuff like that. And I also feel like you need
to mention here your friend Nick from Rock City. Yeah,

(01:06:00):
well we ran into him. You mentioned it on the
YouTube channel, but I feel like the people here also
need to hear. But like we ran into him and
like in the you know, as the show was going on,
and you were just like I started crying when tacky happened.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
And then oh yeah, I mean I told and you know,
we've talked about him before.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
But a very good friend of mine, Nick runs Roxdy
Music in Detroit. And and when I say he's a
metal guy, I don't ever want to discount metal fans
in the first place, but like he's a metal guy,
he's not the first guy that you'd ever be like, Oh,
that guy, for sure is going to be a huge
Redale fan. But like he's he's a son of Detroit.
He's very cultured, he's more than one thing. He's certainly

(01:06:39):
not just a metal guy. And he's also a dude
who knows how to be able to express himself. And
you know, when we ran up to go to the restroom,
I think it was one of the only times we
actually saw him at the show, and he just happened
to be running back from He was like literally like
running back from the bathroom and I kind of ran
by me and like dude, and he was like, dude,

(01:07:01):
because you know it's Detroit. There's a thousand words were
uttered in those two dudes. And he goes, this is
just just amazing. This is amazing, And I said, yude,
I don't have any problem telling you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Uh I was.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
I was ugly crying when he came down the steps
for uh techie and he goes, dude, I was literally
just wiping tears a minute ago, just thinking about like
you know, and like like they this is the guy
who's like hangs out with guys from like Slayer and
BlackBerry Smoke and Alice Cooper and stuff, like in real
life he hangs out with these people, you know, and
he's like wiping tears at a weird all show and

(01:07:35):
you gotta love it, you know, it's so beautiful. And again,
also I should clarify it's not like Nick did not
just come to the sermon that day like he's been
in church for years, like yeah, I just want to
be clear. It wasn't like I'm not just like oh.
And also he finally gets it, like no, he gets it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
No, So and I think the point that need that
was made here right talking about Zach and his group
of friends and then you know Nick and then like
us and all this that and the other is that
the crowd was fifteen thousand strong for a reason, right,
It was people finally did the thing that people weren't
doing for you. Where somebody was like, hey, you want
to come to the Weird I'll show with us. They

(01:08:12):
said yes, And so you had people there that were
seeing Weird Out for the first time, You had people
there that were seeing Weird Out for the twenty seventh time,
you know, and everywhere in between, and everybody was there
for that that shared experience of it. And gosh, he
just I'll just delivered. He just delivered, and he's going

(01:08:35):
to keep delivering until this time. I'm so excited to
see it again in Saint Augustine. We're going to have
another recap of that because we're going to do this
for that again, because it's going to be a different experience.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
I mean, a whole different experience.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
And for those of you curious why we keep saying,
like if you're like, it's the same tour and it's
an amphitheater first of all, and not to be that guy,
but I will put Detroit up against the concert in
any other city on planet Earth and that I and
by the way, in that discussion is London, Tokyo, La, Chicago,
and New York. I won't put any of those. I've
been to concerts in three of the five of those cities,

(01:09:08):
and I can tell you that it's not even close
to the to the vibe in a Detroit room. And
on top of that, as previously mentioned, pinab Amphitheater in
a sold out setting seats fifteen forty people, whereas the
Saint Augustine Amphitheater seats forty four hundred people. So there's
gonna be a third or less than a third of
this amount of people at the show in Saint Euxtine.

(01:09:30):
So it's gonna be a wholey different vibe, like all
the way across the board. I mean, it's gonna be
like almost like one of those things where it's like,
you know, when Garth's doing an arena tour and he
shows up and does like a club show or whatever
like that will be like almost the same type of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
You know, it's gonna feel weird.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
Yeah, it's but I mean, you don't get me wrong,
I'm not at all downplaying it's just gonna be a
whole different thing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Yeah, and we're gonna do it all different to him.
And I'm just projecting because we don't have great seats
for that, but.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Well, I believe I kid you not, we probably have.
We're probably almost sitting as close as we were at pineab.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
Probably because the whole venue of.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
The amp can fit easily inside the pavilion of Pineapple Yea,
I mean like easily.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Yeah, yeah, you know what, I'll give it to you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
So yeah, even if we go up to the last
row of the thing, we'd probably still we sitting around
where we were sitting at in Detroit.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
And if you haven't, yeah, and again not to plug
our content, but if you go over the YouTube channel
and watch the review recap over there, we put a
bunch of pictures in that, and like you, you don't
get it until you see pineapb like with and without
people in the seats, and I took pictures of both
and put it in there.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
I mean you, no matter how much I tried to
prepare you, I think when you finally got in there,
you were like, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
I know I'm going to do It's huge. I'm going
to do my best to remember to put a link
to the YouTube video in the show notes. But if
I don't, don't pay.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
That's why it's good. That's why it's good to record
this so close to the release date.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
That's true. Remember that I might remember it when I
edit this tomorrow. So but then it is a wonderful time.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
And they ever invent time travel, do yourself favorite and
go back and catch the show.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
That's true. That's true. It was.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
It was like, if they invent time travel, go back
and listen to this show again. Then after you listen
to this show, then go to that show.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
I mean, yeah, or you know, go back to last
Thursday night so you can pay your phone bill on time.
Well done, thank you. Yeah, I think that's it. Uh
So this has been our little break in between sides
of Polka Party. Next week, not next week, two weeks

(01:11:52):
the next episode, which comes out in two weeks from today,
because the show comes out every other week, not every week.
So next time we're going to have a newcomer to
the show, into the podcasting world in general. Our friend Kevin.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Very sweet individual, music lover extraordinaire, extremely kind individual and
has never done anything along the lines of any sort
of podcasting, and he's very anxious about it. And I
can't think of a better place to dip your toe
in the water of podcasting than with the show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
Yeah, so hope you here to talk about. Here's Johnny
as we kick off side too of Polka Party.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
We should watch short second between now and then. I
like part two better, but no one else does. But
you know, we could watch it again.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
We've got a lot that's going to happen beside to
a polka party. We're gonna have to watch ruthless people. Okay,
So anyway, thank you so much for listening to our
recap of the Bigger and Weirder thought.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
While you're heading out, thank you. Maybe you want to thank.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Me for thank you Russ for rolling in from the
other room. I didn't think you at the beginning for that.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
We'll see what happens next time.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
Okay, you know, not roll in?

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
You don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
Okay, Well tune in to see if Russ rolls in
or not. Okay, do thank you so much. Anyboy,

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