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Speaker 1 (02:06):
Guys, what's going on? You are listening to this weekend
kick dot Nets Loose Cannon, the show that is dedicated
to movies, new old, obscure. You literally can't escape them
from TikTok or Instagram or wherever. But I'm one of
your video store clerks today. I am Mike the Birdman,
but I'm not alone. As I travel across these aisles

(02:27):
where they're usually filled with popcorn and weird crap that
I've never heard of. From the great state of New Jersey,
I'm joined with Ken from This Anime and Twig's regional
video store manager from the Paris of Ohio.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
David Denier from do you even Movie? Coming to you
from Ohio?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's right, guys, we are back here on the show,
and this is an idea that we've been cooking up
for quite some time. And I'm really glad I went
back to go back, and wow, I just said that
all a lot of times. I'm really glad I had
a chance to view these movies again. One of these
for the first time in easily probably twenty twenty five years,

(03:10):
and one I'd never seen, and I was highly skeptical
of it when I saw the casting. But when I
did watch it, it was a pleasant, pleasant surprise. So
what are we gonna be What are we gonna be
talking about today? Well, we're gonna look at the two
weird al movies. Now, he's had cameos and movies, like

(03:32):
he did the theme song for Spyheart. I'm pretty sure
he had a cameo in that. I think he had
a cameo one of the Naked Gun movies.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I think thirty two three of the Naked Gun movies.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh, I forgot he was a number two.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
He's in all three Hell movies.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Who knows he could appear in the in the re
boot that's coming up.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
I hope he does, like that'd be a nice way.
And weirdly enough, he's in Halloween two by Rob Zombie
because reasons my god.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
He he roast matth McDowell in that movie, and it
is like one of the best scenes. And I actually,
like we talked about on Halloween ranking. I appreciate things
in Zombies too, but that sequence of putting Malcolm McDowell
with Weird fucking Talk Show was genius.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Like, literally, Rob Zombie is a guy. You know what,
we're gonna have to talk about the films of Robs
maybe for a Halloween loose cannon. We're just gonna put
a pin in that, remember, and I think I might
have some fun because some of these movies I've grown
to love and some of them I've really grown to
dislike over the years. But anyway, I.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Would say, yeah, I would say just a just a
side note that real quick. I would say, we should
probably do the Firefly trilogy, which would be House Thousand, Corpses, Devils, Rejects,
and The Three from Hell. And then if we wanted
to toss in two that I think are decent, I
would say Lords of Salem in thirty one.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Those would be the two ones that I would pick
as well, because those are the ones I've heard a
lot about in the last couple of.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Lords of Salem is his masterpiece. He will never be
able to top Lords of Salem. And that's the problem
is people were not ready for Lords of Salem. So
I think that's a movie that as we get further
and further, it's going to get a praise.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
More and more, did he I forget? Did he direct
or just produce the haunted world of l super Bestow
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
No, that's it, that's his creation.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
That movie. Fuck, it is awesome. I was not the.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Biggest fan of it. It's been a good while since
I've seen it. It just it was just in that
in that era of Zombie being gratuitous for gratuitous sake,
because that movie is weird. But yeah, I mean, I
I'd be willing to give it another look. But yeah,
I think, honestly, I think thirty one is a good
movie in the standpoint that it's exactly what you would

(05:39):
expect from Rob Zombie to have his own Hunger Games
in a sense.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
So yeah, we are going to be talking about that
at some point later on this year. But we are
going to go from the hyper violent to the hyper weird,
and we're going to talk about weird. Al So, to
give a little bit of background on this, and I'd
love to how hear how you guys all got in
the weird awl. So, as I've told on the show
many times, I grew up in smalltown, rural Ontario, the

(06:04):
armpit of culture and dignity, and I did not have
of a I did not have a lot of exposure
to new music kind of growing up. I had the
AM five sixty CFOs, which is the local radio station
where I grew up. And how I got into radio
actually when I first had my first radio tour in
the early nineties, and then we had Mix one oh six,

(06:28):
which was the adult contemporary channel, and it was just
soccer mom radio all day, every day, the same six
songs you've heard with radio DJ JD Moffatt, and it
was terrible. But they would occasionally have something called the
all Request lunch break And anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. So

(06:48):
in the nineties I had this really good friend, my
best friend at the time, named Quincy, and I remember
he showed me a movie that his father had taped
off of TV called UA Chef, and obviously, being the
goofy kid that I am, found it absolutely hysterical. And

(07:09):
then he loaned me a cassette tape of smells what
I can't remember the name of the album. I think
it was just called what was the weird al album
that had smells like Nirvana on it?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh, Off the Deep End, Off.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
The Deep End, which where's we weird now in the
pool and there's a doughnut on a fucking hook, and like, okay,
this is pretty strange. So I got listened to and
I was obsessed with that. I actually got busted for
shoplifting a weird al tape when I was a kid.
Yeah that's right, I'm a criminal, but I was never

(07:46):
formally charged. I was just got stopped in the store,
so not a criminal expunged anyway. And then in nineteen
ninety three, Alapalooza came out with the Jurassic Park song
based on MacArthur Park, and I was off to the races,
so to speak. So I was buying CDs when I

(08:06):
got my first CD player back in nineteen ninety five.
I actually remember my first CD was I feel embarrassing
this out loud, but do you guys remember a song
by an artist called Wigfield called Saturday Night, Please Say No,
Please Say No? Oft Oh thank god. So now that
I'm not dying of cringe because I'm afraid of what

(08:29):
Dave might actually think of me. So I remember going
to a local store called music World, and I bought
every single weird al CD that I could find. I
remember them going out of their way to get me
his first album, I had Weird Out in three D
I had greatest hits. I was actually even buying the
compilation CDs that had album or that had tracks from

(08:52):
albums that I'd already had, and I literally had every
single weird Al CD by the time I think he
did dra Out of linn Wood, which would have been
around two thousand and four. I want to say, after
he did Ridner, White and Nerdy, which I still think
is one of his greatest songs he's ever done. And
I was obsessed with weird Al. That very much channeled

(09:14):
a lot of my humor kind of grown up if
you can't tell, but I really loved weird Al. I
would go out of my way if he was in
a movie or if he did like a song on
a soundtrack, like and as I mentioned, like Spy Hard
he did the theme song for that. I remember, like
I said, we mentioned the Naked Gun. I remember when

(09:34):
I saw him as we mentioned Rob Zombies Halloween t
he fucking shows up like what And I remember I
was in the theater this. I saw this when I
was in grad school for public relations and I was
at this little weird theater that was tucked in the
World's Most Dangerous Mall. I swear to God where I
think I saw Ninja Assassin. I think it was called

(09:55):
was like the other movie I saw, like the same
day or something. And I remember I'm in the theater.
I'm half a see because I'm so wiped out as
I was sleeping like three or four hours a night
doing college and I bolted up in my seat and
I remember what and I was just that was very,
very surreal. I literally thought I was dying or having

(10:16):
a heart attacks. I couldn't believe Rob Zombie put weird
Al in a movie. But yeah, like I just loved it.
I remember growing up. I hell, even right now, I
can still if you ask me to sing the saga Begins,
which was the song American Pie by Don McClain that
they did for Star Wars Episode one, I can do

(10:38):
that one almost off by heart. I can do.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Without seeing the movie. He had a treatment and he
wrote the song and that even seen the movie and
it's so incredible.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, like it's astounding. And just the fact that weird
Al has this very unique way of writing music. Just
it's so captivating and when we get talking about the
weird this the Al Yankovic story. I really can't appreciate
just how good of an artist he really is. Like literally,
once in a generation do you get someone this talented

(11:11):
as a songwriter.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
And what's crazy is he's multiple generations of popularity.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh yeah, I mean I stayed relevant so long and
it was because of his record contract too.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, like he knew exactly how to make I think
it was a Scotti Brothers. I want to say he
was with for the longest time. Think Scotti Now it's universal,
But yeah, it's just like this is a guy who
did so much, really stayed, like I said, so relevant
for so long. One other memory I'll share and this
will be Canadiana one one oh one. So we used

(11:46):
to have a channel. I don't think we have it anymore,
but it was called much Music and Much Music was
like your MTV. You would have VJs who'd come out
and introduce music videos. They talk. But in Toronto we
used to have this play. It's called Speaker's Corner. And
Speaker's Corner was a place down in Toronto where they
had a video camera setup. You would pop in. I

(12:07):
think it was free. Maybe it was like a doll
or whatever, and very famous Canadians to show up, like
Mike Myers, the bare naked ladies could be anybody, could be,
anybody off the street, whatever, and you would go and
just record shit, right, and it was just part of
the Canadian identity. On City TV and on Much Music whatever.
And we used to have a TV show called Speaker's Corner.
But anyway, so Much Music was the place to be

(12:30):
in Canada. However, in the early nineties and all the
way through the mid nineties, they would get weird out
to come in for an afternoon from like one pm
to four pm or something like that. It was at
least two or three hours, and you would get Al
Music and Al would literally take over the music station
and he would do MST three k riffing over music videos,

(12:56):
and he would recut interviews with famous people like James
where it would cut to him ask me a question,
and James Brown would give these non sensical answers, and
I remember, I can't I wish I could remember what
the James Brown answer was, but I remember the question
very well. It's like, so, how do you like your
hot dogs? And James Brow would give this really intense answer,

(13:20):
and weird I was like, I don't understand what you're
trying to say to me, but that sounds very intense.
How do you feel about this? And again nonsensical answer,
And it was so fucking weird. And because of Al music,
that's how I discovered bands like Pearl Jam because I
had never heard the song Jeremy before. Again, rural Ontario,

(13:41):
it's all country music and other bullshit, so when he
played the song Jeremy, that's how I found that out. First.
The only song i'd heard was Smells like Nirvana. I'd
never heard smells like teen Spirit, so weird Al also
did one return over the music video for Heart Shaped Box.

(14:03):
I'd never heard that before, and I was like, holy shit,
this is really fucking funny. But the song like this
is really good. And I discovered so many artists through this.
And I don't even know whether clips exist of Al
music on YouTube. I really hope they do, but it
was such an eye opening experience as a child that

(14:25):
it was really cool. So I hope other Canadians like
myself remember seeing weird Al on much music in the nineties,
because again, you're right, he was so culturally relevant at
that time, obviously things would change, and yeah, I mean
I remember some of his biggest hits at the time
was Amis Paradise, which was based on Gangster's Paradise by Coolio,

(14:45):
which hit big with the nineties movie Dangerous Minds, Bad
Hair Day, had Hold Me, Kissed Me, Kill Me, Thrill
Me by You two, which was parodied as drill Me,
which was like the dentist song. Yeah, then there was
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls by TLC, got parried into Don't

(15:06):
Go Making Phony Calls. Stuff like that. Again, just a
wonderful musical career that in the eighties, nineties and into
the early two thousands was so culturally relevant. Now kind
of changed after, I want to say, the after two
thousand and eight, I think the parodies became less good.

(15:26):
And again that's a very subjective thing because music had
changed so much. In my opinion, like, I don't know,
I haven't even listened to Mandatory Fun more than one
way through. And I think right now, out of this recording,
I think he has a residency in Vegas, which would
be very cool to see. But anyway, so I'm gonna
throw with the ken. How did you discover weird ow.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
I was a.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Middle schooler and this was it mainly his stuff that
became like viral on early YouTube. So like you go,
like Canadian idiot stuck in a drive through.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Uh, and that's trapped in the drive through. I just
want to trapped in drive through.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
Sorry, but just more of a passive love weird Al.
I'm not like a super fan of it his work.
Every so often, if if his stuff pops up in
rotation on anything I listened to music wise, it's like,

(16:38):
all right, cool, I'm I get a lot of the
I've been associated with a lot of the inspired by
weird Al stuff that has come out as a result
of his work. Like I'm a big fan of Ninja
Sex Party, which is quite which is very much you

(17:01):
can feel the weird Al in a Ninja Sex Party
coming out even though they're they do a lot of
original stuff, but the comedy stylings is very weird Al.
But yeah, no, that's pretty much my association with weird Al.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
All right, Dave, what about yourself? My friend?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
This might get a little long winded, so I apologize.
And this this is an artist to me that is
on the same tier as like Alice Cooper and kiss
as far as artists. That made me feel seen not
only as a fan, but also just as a person,
because the one thing about weird Al that always connects

(17:50):
with my brain is the name. Weird Al Yankovic is
such a creative name that is synonymous to so many
people people now because he was the pop culture zeitgeist
of our time, and that could span to anybody's time
because from the eighties and the nineties to the early
two thousands to the early twenty tens, like he was

(18:12):
always around and like I mentioned that, you know, the
whole thing with his record contract was absolutely why he was,
you know, pumping out those albums and being able to
stay in that life. But on top of that, what
made me very aware of weird Al first and foremost
was VH one. VH one would highlight, you know, have
hours of his videos. They'd have the each true Hollywood

(18:33):
music special as well on there on the network. So
I mean he was on multiple networks, his music videos, interviews,
all that stuff, and he would pop up on Award
and all this stuff. But I remember being young and
seeing the video for fat or even an advertisement for
like a weird Ol hour and the videot and eat
it and being like to my parents like, you know,

(18:53):
oh my god, who, like who is this? And my
parents been like, oh, that's weird how And then look,
Dad had like Polka Party on cassette tape and then
he ended up getting me a VHS that I still
have to this day. That's the weird album music video
collection that had all of them like up to the
late nineties and whatnot. So it's funny because he became
somebody to me that was not only just an icon,

(19:15):
but his music gave me comfort, not only the laughs
that I got from it, but like songs like she
never told me she was a mime and he breaky song,
and I mean the list goes on and on the
night Santa went Crazy Albuquerque. I mean these songs I
still know lyric by lyric to this day because of
how much of a fan I was of his work

(19:37):
and then seeing interviews with him and hearing his story
like he was genuinely just just a nerd who found
his niche in doing parodies. And like you said, Ken
alerted me to so many you know, music art, not
just hearing the original songs and then hearing his versions
of them or or vice versa hearing his verse and
then finding the original song. Because that's one thing I

(19:58):
think that a lot of people don't give him credit
for is his band. Him on vocals, His band are
fucking incredible because the amount that they can replicate, the
amount that they can make the songs sound exactly like
the other song. I remember one time scrap booking party
over and I was just on the on the computer
listening to music, and it was funny because Addicted to

(20:20):
Spuds came on, and my mom and her friends were
like noding their heads and getting ready to sing lyrics,
and then all of a sudden, you hear potato skins
potato cakes and they're just like, what the hell are
you listening to it? And I'm like, it's weird out,
and they're just like, oh my god, Like, you know,
they were ready to throw down on Addicted to Love,
but you know, because that song sounds exactly like it.
And that's that is one big epitome of his career

(20:44):
is that his music has never laxed, His lyrics have
never laxed. It's just been like Ken said it perfectly,
Sometimes the music have changed, and therefore the parodies that
he can create well, what he has is you know,
not amazing, but like it's still good. He doesn't have
a bad song in my opinion. He's always put his
heart and soul into it, just like songs like Hardware Store.
If anybody knows the song hardware Store, they know the
infamist part. Where would you look at all that stuff

(21:08):
they got? Alii just you know, I can't even do it.
I used to be able to do it, but I
can't even do that lyrics spread right now. I mean
he's done it live at concerts and has done it
verbatim perfectly. I mean, it's the man is so talented,
The man is so incredible, He's so smart and still
is so fucking weird to this day. He retains that

(21:29):
name because a normal person couldn't just come up with
the amount of parodies off the stuff he has, and
you know, him becoming a dad, him getting married, you
could see a lot of that also in his music.
But he's always stayed the same to creating these these
parodies that are just laugh out loud, funny, bizarre, violent sometimes.

(21:50):
I mean the fact that Albuquerque literally you know, has
has part about him stabbing a guy in the face
and like you know all the stuff. One of my
all time favorites is uh, how why this has always
happened to me? Where he talks about being in a
forty car pile up and seeing that his buddy Rob
is dead and he's like, poor Rob, I just had
lunch with him. Hey, wait a minute, he still owes

(22:11):
me money? What a jerk. Well there's five bucks that
I'm never gonna see again. Like the cynicalness and the
humors that are in these lyrics are so original and funny.
But like, one thing I've always loved about him in
regards to his audience is he's a big hit with
the Christian crowd. But what's funny about the Christian crowd too,
is that they only play a certain amount of his
songs because like, once you get to the violent ones

(22:32):
and the weird ones, they kind of tap out. But
the amount of like overnights and stuff I went to
when I was like involved with by church ship when
I was really young, weird Al was a popular person
among that crowd too. So it just like he expands
to so many different cultures and has been a reason
that I've had so many friends connect with me is
because like we've connected over weird Out. And what's funny
even more so with that is like you know, we're

(22:54):
getting ready to talk about UAGEF and weird UAHEF. I
didn't see until probably my mid teens, when I'd already
been a weird Alt fan for like, you know, a decade,
easy UAHF came onto my zite guyst a little late,
and so then when I discovered UAHF and then you know,
went even further into the weird Ol TV show, and

(23:15):
like you were saying, like the music clips and whatnot,
like one of my old time favorites the interviews you
were talking about is weird Out gets Whiplashed, where they
cut together weird Out and Whiplashed with JK. Simmons, and
it's the scene where he's confronting the guy about being
off tempo. It is the funniest fucking edit that I've
seen in a long long time. And I luckily had
seen it when my dad, who was a big purveyor

(23:38):
of getting me into weird Ol, because you know, he
had gotten me vhs and he had had the old
cassette that he passed off to me. I actually about
probably eight years ago, got to take him on the
Mandatory Fun tour, and that was kind of almost like
a full circle moment because it was like, you know,
the mentor got to be taken out by his mentee
of seeing this guy that he'd never actually seen live,

(23:59):
neither of has seen him live before, and he is
just as ecstatic and energetic on those albums as he
is on stage every single performance. I Mean, the man
is a is a legend, and it's not anything light
because of that. He just has a career that has
been so strong throughout the years that he's been going

(24:19):
that even the fact that the Mandatory Fun was his
last album, he just released a Poka compilation like not
even four months ago that was you know, all the
popular songs pocalized like he does, and it's still great,
and I mean, it's it's so awesome that I've got
to travel with him through this point. And I mean,
you know, seeing the original image of like what he
looks like in the fat videos and the edit videos

(24:41):
compared to what he looks like now, he still looks
like the same guy. He's just lost his facial air
and he's gotten older, but you know what, he ain't
stopping and he's weird fucking Al, and he is has
cemented himself in music history and pop culture history forever.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, Like, I'm so surprised that he has stayed, as
far as I know, controversy free. He has always remained
super accessible to anybody who wants to see him. I said,
I've never heard a bad weird Ol story, not once.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
The ons is the Coolio thing, and then that was
settled years ago. I mean it was just a hot
topic because it was just like Coolio's mad at.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Weird Al, like yeah, fucking right, like yeah, and like
evidently they squashed beef and stuff like that, and yeah,
and I remember there was the big joke around the
music industry. You know, you've made it big when weird
Al parodies you, and I think it's insanely true. Like
I was surprised when white and Nerdy came out because

(25:44):
like Chamillionaire, I'm not gonna say he is, you know,
the most wholesome person in the world. Yeah, but you
let him do a parody of it and it was
so good. Or it's all about the Benjamins, because it's
all about the pentiumss.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
I love germs, which is not necessarily a ripoff of
any particular nine inch nail song, but it's definitely a
you know, it has pieces closer in there and inspired
by one of my all time favorites of this day
is Grapefruit Diet, which is Jab's U shoot Riot. My
dad and I still sing Grapefruit Diet to this day
because again, the music in the lyrics, it sounds like

(26:19):
the real song, but you're singing about a diet that's
like cutting out everything fun to eat, and it's just,
oh my god, I love weird.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Heow yeah, And I'm so glad when you pitch this because,
in my opinion, weird Al should have been bigger in movies.
And when UACHF came out, actually, let's talk about UJEFF.
So Dave give us the pertinent dates on UACHEF.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah, So UHF comes out in the glorious year of
nineteen eighty nine, the same year as Batman, for you know,
competition wise to know its place and why it kind
of got dogged a bit one hour and thirty seven
minutes read a PG. Thirteen stars weird Al Yankovic, Victoria Jackson,
Kevin McCarthy, directed by Jay and he is the man
that basically directed a huge, huge, huge portion of weird

(27:06):
House famous videos, if not damn near all of them.
Also written by weird Al written by Jay Levy and
gets credit to Charles Holloway for the Conan, the Barbarian
or Cone in the Librarian Sketch, so UHF synopsis says,
an unemployed visionary becomes the manager of a local television station.
The station becomes a success with all sorts of hilarious

(27:27):
site gags and wacky humor. Basic premise is weird ay
Yankevic plays George, who is down on his luck. He's
gotten fired from his burger job. His uncle is a
gambler who ends up winning the rights of the TV
station in a game and he passes the station off
to George to run because his aunt wants to see
George succeed. George gets there, realizes they show nothing but rerun,

(27:48):
so he's like, what if you do some programming. Meanwhile,
you've got this, You've got this tycoon that wants to
get his hands on the station and make an ultra station.
And so becomes a battle of them in the ratings,
and I mean the show, the shows that he puts
on the air are absolutely bad shit, absolutely hilarious. UHF
is one of those movies that you either like it

(28:09):
or there is no in between. On UAHF.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, Like, I was surprised how well a lot of
the humor holds up. I watched this obviously for this podcast,
but I watched it with my next door neighbor Liam,
one of my best friends, and I was like, I'm
surprised how well this still lands and considering we live
in the era of the YouTube and TikTok viral skit,

(28:33):
any of those interstitial commercials like Wheel of Fish, Spatealless City,
Hell's there's a guy on Facebook who every year makes
it a point to go to where Spatuless City is
and does like this. There's like pictures of it, and
I found that fucking hysterical. But like it's just like
it's almost like the precursor to the YouTube skit. And

(28:57):
again it just it went off so well. Plus very
young Michael Richards before he went into.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Science Padowski, Yeah, I mean, Stanley Spadowski is kind of
steals the movie because it's the guy that Al ends
up putting on as the main guy. You got Stanley's
because one of my all time favorite bits in UHF
is is Uncle Nutsy's Clubhouse because weird al as the
joyful children's show host dealing with shit shitlord kids, because like,

(29:24):
my all time favorite of that entire segment is what's
your name?

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Billy?

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Billy? What spits on him? And then you've got George
going through the break up later on, Hey kids, where
do you want to go? That's right, Uncle Nutsy's Clubhouse.
And then you've got the one kid that goes There's
so much, so many different types of humor in this

(29:51):
because you've got the absurdiest humor, you've got the you've
got the slapstick humor, you've got just the the general
Like I know, I use this world all the time
of the batshitness of this movie, Like today we're teaching
poodles how to fly, Come here, Fifi and just throwing
pets out of a window, shaking an ant farm and
being like, oh, they're pissed.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Now.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Like the amount of weird ass, absurdist humor in this
movie that still holds up today and genuinely is clean.
It's clean humor because I mean there's not a lot
of raunchy jokes or even racist jokes for that matter,
except for like you know, the the sony and then
supplies and like that's the stuff that like, you know,

(30:30):
you kind of expect that from this movie in era.
But I mean even with that stuff in there, you
could show this movie to damn near anybody today and
you're not gonna have any Oh.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
I think that's just where Al's entire mantra is y.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
It's eternal, no one's world to laugh.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
No one's off limits from his jokes, which is kind
of like that Don Rickles approach of roasting anybody. But
one thing that is great about Alan general is he
has no problem roasting himself, which which is what a
lot of this movie does.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
I mean, both of the elms that we're talking about
roast himself.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Well, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Mean Weird is a little bit different in the aspect
that it's supposed to be his biopick, but it's it's
the only way that you would expect his biopick to go.
But yeah, uhf just has a timelessness to it, even
though it's dated. Is all get out from the concept
of the television station in and of itself. I mean,
you're talking about seeing episodes of Mister Ed and all
this stuff that they're talking about like you kind of

(31:31):
have to be an old school TV fan to also
get a lot of the humor in this movie. But
even if you're not, you're still going to have a
good time with it, if you love absurdist, batshit and
just plain wacky humor that you would expect from a
movie primarily written by Al himself. And I mean, it's
one thing that you have all the humor, but then
also the cameos in the past of the movie, like

(31:53):
it's just a jugger of a film that I'm happy
is kind of that is finally getting its due with
its cult status nowadays.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, Like I found, when movies are written to be
for a star, they're either incredibly self indulgent, they're bad,
and the comedian is supposed to uplift everybody else around them,
whereas with this movie, everybody hits their mark, Like there
are very few bad performances in this And there was

(32:21):
one guy. I wish I could remember this actor's name,
but the second I saw him, I was overfilled with
joy because I know him from another movie Four Rooms,
where he plays this guy with a gun or whatever.
He's one of the TV station's goons. And yes, that

(32:43):
guy he shows up. I know that guy.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Can't think of his name, but he's he's a great
like he's a great mobster guy. I think David Proble.
David Probe.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, so that guy. Fucking love that dude. But there
is one thing about this movie that has always stuck
with me, and if you've been my friend for any
length of time, there's a moment in UHF where weird
Al calls his girlfriend Terry and it's about the breakup,
and he's screaming.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Terry, I'm dying, I'm party.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Oh god, oh god. That is how I sub up
my feelings on certain things. And I know I've texted
Dave and I've texted Ken like this is how I
feel right now, and that's exactly what I'm referencing.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
It's so funny.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Again, It's just it's just so relatable to me, Like
like when you mentioned Al has this very clean humor.
The thing that I've always appreciated about him. He wants
everybody to have a laugh, Like there's no like, it's
not like, say, when you mentioned the Dawn Rickles approach,

(33:52):
nobody is off limits. The only person I've heard say
something similar, but it's in a cruel sense. Is the
South Park people where they say, we're gonna make fun
of everybody, but you can tell there's a mean street
to it with Al. It's you.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
They have a raunchy side to the edge of your side,
and Al has that cleaner everybody deserves a laugh, but
like insanity level, Yeah, absurd is it serve is a
great way to put it. It's it. It's a touching mantra.
If he covers you, like if he wants to do
a parody of your song, that's like it writes a
passage to most of these artists.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, and like it's just when you watch a movie
like this, it's something even your grandparents can laugh because again,
it's so there's no other way to say. It's so
weird and so absurd that it's funny. And it's not like, oh,
we're gonna make fun of this guy because he voted
this way. We're gonna make fun of this guy because
he looks strange. No, they literally do everything. It's like, oh,

(34:52):
that guy likes hot dogs, isn't that weird? Like, well,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
He literally has a joke in here about Heraldo rivera
opening of al Capone's Ball because He's like, he's the
reporter that tackled al Capone's glock compartment, Aha.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Road, Like it's so just bizarre, and how when you
look at the thing, like he was making fun of
daytime television before Springer, before Sally Jesse, before Montell Williams,
all these guys and you just see them go down
the row of people, the Nazi, the serial killer, the

(35:25):
clans mean well, the girl scouts.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Not to mention too. He also he also pokes fun
at movies. Inside his own movie. He opens it with
the with the homage to Raiders. The Lost Arc has
the whole daving Stanley scene dedicated to Rambo. Like you
can tell that was he had his finger on the
pulse of what would get people's attention. And you know,
I mean, it's no surprise at all that the movie

(35:50):
unfortunately bombed the way it did. I mean, given that
it was in a giant year of nineteen eighty nine,
which had so many big movies. But again, it's just
like it it's a movie that is still so timeless
even though it's dated, and it's because the way that
he approached the humor to it was so genuine his style.
Because there's no other way he could do it. And

(36:10):
I mean, I guess it goes with that saying too
that like at this point in his career, Yeah, he
was definitely, you know, a big name, because how the
hell else would he get a movie? But was everybody
ready for a weird al movie at this point is
the question? And I I think if they had done
it maybe a couple of years earlier, it might have
been bigger. But the fact that we were just getting
ready to enter the nineties, Batman was blowing up, movies

(36:32):
were kind of getting taken more seriously, and these assertest
comedies were getting left behind the eighties. I think that's
why it's gotten its staying power now on video and uh,
you know, film festivals and whatnot showing it because it's
just that movie that unfortunately got dumped when it did
I'm a premiere, and now people are discovering that it's

(36:53):
actually a genuinely heartfelt, funny, absurd little comedy.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, because like as it has a like can see, Yeah,
legacy is a great way. Yeah, because like you look
at some of the other movies we've covered on this show,
Like we've covered Jerry Springer's Ring Master, We've covered Howard
Stearn's private parts. And you look at these people who
are icons in their field and get their own movies,

(37:18):
some of them more memorable than not. But I always
think people will look more favorably upon UACHEF because it
is so accessible, whereas the other movies are you know,
one is having explosive diarrhea is more fun, and the
other one is only covers their career up to a

(37:40):
certain point.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Well, and I think it also takes a lot to
make a parody film that can last this long and
not have dated jokes. Yeah, that's I think a really
really big thing with UHF is the reason that you
can show it to anybody is, like I said, the
jokes are primarily clean and just comedy, whereas it's not like,
you know, attacking a certain group of people, or there's like,

(38:05):
you know, jokes that just didn't farewell. It's it's a
challenge to have a movie that is a parody film
and still have it be acceptable. I mean this day
and age in that sense, because I mean, like you
look back at the original scary movies, those have some
problems down.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Oh yeah, and like I mean, one of the jokes
that I could think of I mean, you think of
absurdist humor. We look at the naked gun movies done
by the Zucker Brothers. One joke that you could not
get away with today, or at least it might be
somewhat frowned upon, is Lisa Marie and Leslie Nielsen are

(38:41):
bringing stuff down from an addict and it looks like
he's clearly looking up her skirt and he goes, oh
nic she hands down. Yeah, like okay, that's funny. But
you know, a five year old is gonna be go, what's that?
Whereas you know, who wants to drink from the fire hose?
You know, there's two separate bits of humor, And like
I said, one you could show to a classroom, one

(39:04):
probably not so much. I'll be very curious to see
how the Seth McFarlane version deals later on this summer,
and I think it'd almost be something worth checking out.
At some point.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
With the trailer making a no Jay joke, I'm like, okay,
we're we're in good hair.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Yeah, well, and I think I think also keep in
mind that McFarlane and Neison have a relationship. Because of relationship,
yeah once about Time to Die in the West and
his appearance is still one of absolute best things he's
ever done, and it's it's five minutes of screen time.
If that, I mean, just again going back to the

(39:42):
sert of humor, when you have that balance of I
mean literally, would you if you put on paper that
Liam Neeson's gonna go in this store and ask if
tricks are okay for him to buy, because technically tricks
are for kids, You're just immediately you're just like what, Yeah,
But the way that they stretch it out in Ted
two is what tell it And it's his comedic job.
So him taking over the role of Frank Drevin, I'm

(40:04):
all in.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
I think it's gonna work. Yeah, I mean, I'll be
very curious to see how it works. Because Leslie Nielsen
was a was a comedy, was a comedian for everybody,
but you'd see him do roles that weren't necessarily family friendly,
Like I know, one of the first shows you and
I ever did, we talked about him in Creep Show.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
In Creep Show. Yeah, but I mean, and and also
keep in mind Nielsen and this is you know, this
is what a lot of people don't realize. His career
got revitalized halfway through his lifetime.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Yeah, so like airplane changed his entire career.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah, which I don't think I've actually never seen airplane,
so I know, airplane, you.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Are, airplane, airplane actually holds up?

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, airplane out, air airplane holds up. It does have
some of those jokes like we but it's still pretty
damn funny. It's again, I feel like you can give
more a claim to a movie on it's if it
has some problematic elements, if it does have also an
absurd surrounding to it. And there are those parody films
that have that, like Airplane and Naked Gun and you know,

(41:08):
Blanket on some other ones. But like those type of movies,
I think you can kind of give a little bit
of a pass to whereas you know, if it's something
like scary movie that was going for an aim and
you can tell the time that it was made was
two thousand. When I say this numerous times on Letterbox
that the two thousands were just lawless. You could you
could do a lot of things in movies cannot do now.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
I say, yeah, they just kind of let it go,
and that would be something for us to like kind
of chat about, like I've been often wondering whether I
should go back and rewatch the scary movies, because I
remember when parody movies were like epic movie, date movie,
scary movie, Meet the Spartan twitch.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Why there's pieces of those movies that I like, Like
one of my all times to this day in Disaster
Movie is the Chipmunks that sing Cannibal Corpse. I have
never laughed harder in my life, So they come up,
so keep in mind when keep in mind when Disaster
came out, it was the heyday of the Alan and
the Chipmunk movie. So there's a scene where they've gotten

(42:05):
into this place where they're hiding, and the chipmunks come
out and they start singing. I think it's I can't
remember what. I think it's we wish you a Merry Christmas.
And then like you know, the whole crowd's just like, oh,
that's so sweet, and then it cuts into cuts back
to them. Their eyes go red and they start going
into Cannibal Corse, and it is one of the funniest
whiplash moments of those movies that I died laughing at

(42:27):
because it's just hilarious to watch the chipmunks sing Cannibal Corpse.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Gonna have to find that clip on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Oh, I'm sending it in our chat right now while
I'm thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yeah, it's like I guess our final closing thoughts on
Uichef it It is an absolute gem, it really is.
It's a nice snapshot of the nineteen eighties. But as
you mentioned, it's weirdly sorry, it is unusually timeless in
that regard that if there's older people that are television fans,
you know what the Uichef band is, but you also

(43:00):
talk about older things of like mister Ed, my three Sons,
et cetera, the old nick at night sort of stuff.
It's there, but again, just so out there humor that
doesn't feel out of place, doesn't. It's not cringe. That's
the thing too. It's not cringey dad humor. It's your

(43:21):
fucked up uncle humor. Yeah, but it's not the fucked
up uncle's human where he's gonna end up on a
watch list. It's your weird, fucked up uncle who's like,
I didn't expect you to say that, Okay, welly and
I didn't think.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
One thing that you can say both about UHF and
weird before we get into weird is while both movies
have a level of comedy that is absurd and just
oh my god, I can't believe like I'm seeing this,
there's a lot of heart in both movies because Al
is genuinely appreciative to his fans, and therefore, when he
is writing like these characters that he creates, even if

(43:55):
one is himself, there's still a lot of that love
in his music and his art that portrays back or
that goes back into the fans because he's just he
wouldn't do these levels if he didn't know that we
were not wanting them, or like you know, meeting it.
And I mean that's also something that I take into
account with him, is that he's always had that point
of bringing out humor key moments absolutely.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
So, Ken, what are your thoughts on UCHF before we
move on to Weird?

Speaker 4 (44:24):
I mean, UHF is just it. It survived. It has
survived the curse of a lot of films of that
era in terms of comedy, and I can't really complain
too much.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
So there we go. So that is our thoughts on
nineteen eighty nine. UACHEF so weird Al Yankovic story. This
is a Roku movie which was announced and when they
announced some of the casting for this, with Daniel Radcliffe
aka Harry Potter himself starring as Al Yankovic as a
young Al Yankovic at the beginning of his career, being

(45:04):
discovered by doctor Demento early on going through his record career,
I guess up to probably his Eat It In era,
which would have been on his In three or was
it the INN three D album or fat I'm not
sure anyway.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
On oh Shit Blanking Well, it was on the Food
album for one, but I think he also had to
appear on Not There to be stupid. I think it
is the INN three D. I think you're right, Yeah,
I think it is.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
So this is a look at his career and you
think it's going to be serious and then it starts
and it is just so unabashedly weird out. It's very
hard to describe. So when I sat down and watch
this for the first time with again Liam, because he's

(45:54):
like my movie buddy, we watched this and I do
not know what to expect. I was kind of expecting
some last ha ha, but I wasn't expecting what I
got out of this, and this was, I dare to
say one of the most unexpected joys I've had this year,
because again it is so fucking strange, Like there's a

(46:18):
shootout at Pablo Escobar's birthday party, rescuing trying.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
To rescue Madonna.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Yep, yeah, it's like what what then it gets busted
by the cops, like found your son. It's a poker party,
and it's just it's played so fucking serious. It's like,
I want to play the accordion.

Speaker 4 (46:37):
Dad.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Well, you know that this is based off this is
a remake of a twenty ten Funnier Die internet.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Sketch, right, I did not know that.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Yeah, So twenty ten, twenty ten Funnier Die releases a
sketch called weird the Story of weird Out that is
a it's a fake trailer that is a story of
weird Out. But one thing about weird Out anytime he's
been on those True Hollywood stories or interviewed is like
you said it at the beginning of the show, this
man has no controversy with him except for a few
things that have already been surpassed by this point. And

(47:07):
he even says that, like, you know, I didn't marry
my cousin, I didn't have a drug out point, and
everything he did with weird was tell his life story
in the way that you would expect it to be,
inculpilating every single other style of rock stars bio that
has the horrible drug use and the craze sex and
the controlling parents and all this stuff. So, I mean,

(47:28):
it's it is just the absolute result of what you
would expect weird El's biopick to be, like, if he
had his chance to write it, how he would want
it to go, given that, you know, the surpassings of
all these other rockstar bios that we have that are
just absolute showcases of debauchery.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yeah. Like I remember when like Netflix did The Dirty
About like and all that true, and I'm thinking, all right,
that's pretty fucking out there. But again, you see, you're
right with all these rockstar bars like the.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Doors Rhapsody, the Doors rock Star rocket Man. Yeah, I
mean it, there's no there's no argument that we we
as consumers of media, do not love a good rock
biopick or bio music biopick in general. I mean, you know,
this past year we just had what is the name
of the Bob Dylan one complete Yeah, yeah, complete unknown,

(48:30):
you know, and it's we we crave these things, so
naturally if Weird as like, you know what, you want
to know? My story, My story so boring. And that's
the thing is like, if you actually watch his bio,
his story is boring. But I mean it is interesting
in the aspect that you know, he was a broke
college kid who started doing parodies recorded uh my Bologna
or another one rides the bus in a bathroom stall

(48:51):
and Doctor Demento played it, and I mean from there
it just room grew and grew. But it is a
boring story. So naturally, let's introduce the element of Madonna
getting me into a world of rhyme and drugs. And
my dad was so against polka, and Polka was like
all like the devil in this house. Like all of
that stuff is just so funny. And yeah, the twenty
ten Funnier Die Sketch did it first, which is directed

(49:12):
by the same guy that did the Airic Apple.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Yeah. And like when I went into Weird, like I said,
I didn't know what to expect. And I'll admit, if
you've been following my social media this last year, my
mental health hasn't been great.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
But I'm sure you're just alone on that buddy, it's
been right skies since twenty twenty five, started blue skies
every single day.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Oh yeah, nothing but sunshine and rainbows and.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
It really brought me up. And that's something I'm noticing
a lot about the weird Al vibe, the humor. He
is not just an artist and a comedian. He is
a vibe and if you're willing to let yourself get
into that, even for just a few minutes, it can

(50:06):
really uplift you. Like to share another memory. When I
was younger, before I met my wife Blair, I used
to have a friend and we could literally sing certain
weird Al songs back to each other because we knew
them so so well, and it was just constantly on

(50:28):
in their car when we would just drive around aimlessly,
like fucking twenty somethings are wont to go do, and
it was such a care free time. I think that's
what I associate with weird Al, is that care free
sense of youth. But even as I get older into
my forties, something now I see weird Al as that

(50:48):
escape that always makes me smile. And when I got
into weird I didn't know what to expect and what
I got, like I said, my favorite part is where
he breaks up Pablo Escobar's birthday part with like a
machine gun he's wielding dua kimbo pistols. Now I'm like,
what the fuck? And it was just so out there

(51:09):
laugh And so I guess let's go into the deats
about this, because tell me more about weird, all right?

Speaker 2 (51:15):
So Pertinent Deeds of Weird twenty twenty two, rated TV
fourteen were released on Roku one hour and forty eight minutes,
titled Weird The Al Yankovic Story synopsis, exploration of every
facet of weird Al Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise
to fame, his parody songs, to his tourd celebrity love
affairs and famously depraved lifestyle. Movie stars Daniel Radcliffe, Lynn Well,

(51:39):
Oh my God, Lynn Manuel, Miranda Rain Wilson, Julian Nicholson.
I mean, the list goes on. Non Dedrich Vader plays
your freaking narrat no Matter, directed by Eric Apple and
written by Al and Eric Apple. I mean, first and foremost,
the movie is nothing but absolute bullshit. There is not
a shed of truth in this movie. And what's best

(52:02):
about it is it opens with weird out telling you
that this is the absolutely true, factual story. Nothing was changed,
even though the producer said, I probably should. This is
how it happens. So I mean you open with that
opening from him of telling you like this is this
is exactly the facts, is exactly what it is. And
then we are introduced to, like you said, the concept

(52:23):
of kids going to a polka party, which is like
the drug party of that era and whatnot. And yeah,
him getting busted with a with a Hawaiian shirt and
wanting to learn the accordion because an Accordian salesman comes
to the house. It's just absolute insanity from the start
and only gets more and more insane. My all time
favorite segment of this movie too, actually that I have

(52:43):
the first one being the creation of my blow because
the fact that he takes a parody and is having
his buddies make a sandwich while he's putting these lyrics together,
and then they go and get it on Doctor Demento,
which leads them to the party at Doctor Demento's, which
is if you are a comedy fan of the absurd

(53:06):
level but also a pop culture junkie, you will have
so much fun seeing how many people have been coppled
at this party at doctor Demento's house, all done up
like their stage outfits, Like you've got Alice Cooper, You've
got fre Ken Elvira or a vampire at Like, there's
so many faces throughout this tiny tim is there like
and it leads into this whole standoff between who is it?

(53:28):
Who's he black black Yeah?

Speaker 1 (53:31):
And who's he flaying Jack wolf Jack?

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:34):
And you've got this standoff between wolf fan Jack and
and Al. The movie just is not something that you
have to pay a lot of attention to. It's just
nothing but jokes, but also giving you a very very
very very diet summary of Al's life with so many
things changed. Like you said him having the gunfight with

(53:56):
Pablo Escobar. There's the part where he has the freak
out on stage like Jim Moore and did it the
one concert where he's about to take his dick out.
He's addicted to drugs. He gets woken up on the table,
He gets brought back to life on the operating table
and like has a thing of whiskey in his hand,
like it's insane. Al literally only ever drank like margaritas.
According to him, which is very, very briefly, he's never

(54:18):
done a single drug in his life and has lived
a very quiet life. And so the idea that he
did this ultimate biopic, putting all these rock stars craziest
stories together in one movie. And then at the very end,
spoiler alert dies in an assassination at the Grammys, and
then we have this weird al song about that's the

(54:40):
whole story now, you know, like it's a perfect movie
coming from the source material and the creator of what
you would expect a biopick to do.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Yeah, it is so weirdly out there. It's so hard
to not use that phrase in this. But after he
gets assassinated, this fascinations.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
An assassination with an M sixteen like Rambo gun, Like
he gets gunned down on stage like an eighties action feat.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
Oh yeah, and then like Madonna comes to his grave
and like, shed's a single tier at all.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
She has a single tier, but she also betrayed him
at Pablo Escobar's house. I mean, like, oh my god,
I've watched this movie I think a total three times now,
and probably when we get off of this podcast, I'm
probably gonna go watch it again because I was gonna
do it before the show, but I was like, no,
it's fresh in your brain because everything you remember exactly happened,
how it happened.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Oh yeah, Like again, it's it's so rare for me
to find something that literally just expresses joy and fun
and considering you know, twenty twenty five is a very
unusual year, to say the least. It's nice that I
discovered this movie when I did. I think if I
saw it when it came out during the pandemic, I

(55:54):
wonder if I might have forgotten it during the time since.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
I watched the Roku premiere. My friend me and Jeff
our buddy Keith, we were all at his place watching
the premiere of it on Roku with the countdown and
the little premiere and everything like it was a big
fucking deal.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
Yeah, like I wanted.

Speaker 4 (56:13):
This was the This was huge for Roku to just
pick it up in the first place. Yeah, huge gamble.
And I mean, like, I really want to highlight how
amazing Daniel Radcliffe is as al it is. The man
has even he admits was a terrible actor when he

(56:37):
was a kid in the r Potters I And he admits, yeah,
I'm a kid. He the moment where he said I
actually became an actor was in the fifth Harry Potter.
I believe he said is when he was like, oh,
I'm an actual actor now, and he has become so

(57:03):
great at comedy it is insane. He is absolutely hilarious
and his comedic timing is absolutely amazing. And speaking of which,
you know there's a four K Blu ray of this
that's available through Umbrella.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
And Umbrella yeah has one and Umbrella has one.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
Yeah, which is the better release?

Speaker 2 (57:30):
I think Umbrella probably.

Speaker 4 (57:32):
That would.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Umbrella did. I think the terrifyer releases, and I think
there they.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Also just did the one I really really really want
but I cannot bring myself to spend the money that
Super Mario Box.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Yeah. I really thought about that too, thinking oh I
really want to get this, but yeah, Like, ultimately, both
of these movies are incredibly worthwhile watching. They're very accessible,
they're very easy to find multiple releases. If you want
to spend the extra money, you can find them. But
they're also I think they're both. I don't know is

(58:05):
Utch have easy to stream right now?

Speaker 2 (58:08):
I think it's on like and to b and roku
actually right now.

Speaker 4 (58:12):
Yeah, so you can find that and the twentieth anniversary
Blu Ray is still available.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
In print and for kave.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
Yeah, so go out there find these movies. Guys. This
has been a real trip to talk about weird Al.
I'm very surprised how much of weird al has been
in my life, Like I like, I'm forty three now,
and just again, the fact that I can quote so
many of these things, the fact that I I never
I don't think I've ever told anybody that I used

(58:38):
to collect all the weird alcbs and I knew all
this stuff. And I'm genuine surpised how much this stuff
I can just recall off the top of my head.
So it felt nice. This was a nice cleansing edition
of Loose Cannon. I'm very glad we got a chance
to talk about this. I'm sure we'll talk about something
fucked up next time here on the show. But hey,
thank you guys for joining us. If you have any

(59:00):
memories of weird Al, we'd love to hear them, feedback
at this we can geek dot net, or you can
find us out on Blue sky can If people want
to find you, where would they have to go?

Speaker 4 (59:10):
I'm at Kenreels dot com at Blue Sky and kenreels
pretty much everywhere.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Else and Dave, what about You?

Speaker 2 (59:18):
You can find me on letterbox at david SWMA, which
stands for David's Watching Movies Again. You can also find
me on Instagram at that same name David's Watching Movies Again.
And you can find me every Tuesday on the podcast
To Do with a Buddy Enrique Kuto? Do you even movie?
Currently available? Where you stream your podcast?

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Fantastic and me? You guys know where to find me
this we can geek dot net also over on Blue Sky,
but also make sure to check out this episode post.
On this we can geek dot net to find all
of our letterboxes and our social media accounts. So guys,
until next time, from the great state of New Jersey,
we have.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
Been Ken from this aname from.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
The world's best place.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Ever, David Denoier. Do you even movie? Coming to you?
From Ohio? Remind I knew that it is okay to
be weird and you should absolutely be stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
I love it and I've been Mike the Birdman saying,
be excellent to each other. We'll catch you guys again
next time right here on this weekend geek dot Net,
and we're We're gonna go teach poodles how to fly.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Never before in the history of motion pictures has there
been a screen presence so commanding, so powerful.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
So deadly. He's Conan the Librarian. Can you tell me
where I can find a book on astronomy?

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Don't you know that deathmal system?

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
Conan the Librarian, it's a whole new weekend on you
sixty two.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
No reason television was intented be.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
There are either one of these any good sir? What
are either one of these?

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Any good I don't watch movies.

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
Quick change the child.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
You're wasting your life making shit.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
Nobody cares.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
These movies are terrible.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
You're still here. It's over.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Go home, Go

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