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Each week Matt Kelly (Geekscape) and Matthew Milligan (Wheatus) work their way through Weird Al's entire discography one track at a time. Logo from Little Yanks who can be found on IG under @littleyanks
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This week the Matts tackle one of the more divisive tracks in Al's recording history. One of the Matt's at one time actively said this was the worst Al original ... does that still stand? Listen and find out!
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This week we are joined by Kevin Shinick. Kevin's love of Al and Mad Magazine as child helped him find a career working on Robot Chicken and co-creating the Mad TV series. Kevin and us dive into the Aerosmith parody Livin' in the Fridge and discuss how it's possible one of the Matt's had little knowledge of the Aerosmith original.
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This week we discuss the forgotten early years of E!'s daily show celebrating trash TV and the rejected theme song Al wrote for them!
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This week we are talking about legally not Prince's Let's go Crazy (but basically Prince's Let's Go Crazy) ... Traffic Jam by Weird Al!
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This week we are joined by Taylor Morden who's horror film Bampire is currently running an IndieGoGo Campaign to hit it's funding! We discuss one of the most mean spirited songs Al's ever written ... Achy Breaky Song!
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This week we are joined by Josh Forbes. Josh recently wrote and directed Destroy All Neighbors for Shudder but is also a die-hard Weird Al-coholic. Beyond making one of the more unique horror comedies in recent memory, he also directed a music video for Jonah Ray's cover of Frank's 2000" TV which you have to track down and watch!
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Matt Kelly never slows down on producing podcasting and he has yet another one! Enjoy this little preview of the newest episode of Matt's new podcast YA-OK. Subscribe to the show if you like what you hear!
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Yabba Dabba Do Now Listeners! We are joined by Matt "Team Goldie" DiStefano this week to discuss Al's attempt at capturing the sound of Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as trying to get a song on the Flintstones Soundtrack!
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This week we dive into Al's attempt to do an AC/DC style parody. We're torn on how successful the attempt ultimately ended up being but how do we like it as an Al original in general?
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We are finally kicking off our Alapalooza coverage with Al's bizarre tribute to Jurassic Park via one of the strangest hit songs of all time MacArthur Park!
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We have hit 100 episodes and it's perfectly timed with the release of The Food Album! Instead of a regular episodes we are doing a draft episode with regular guest Jim Logrando!
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It's time for another MAL-Bag episode! Besides answering listener mail we dive into Al's appearances on Square TV and his song Patterns.
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This week we visit the an episode of Wheel of Fortune where Al Yankovic plays against Little Richard and James Brown (as a team) and Lee Greenwood. This was a hard one to find a quality version of but we're glad we watched it for the bizarre relationship between Little Richard and James Brown
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We are back with yet another Al-TV episode this time covering the 6th episode that aired to promote Off the Deep End in 1992. We are joined by 91 Donkey Lane host Nate Lopez this week as well. This is a CRAZY episode we watched.
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This week we are joined by Bowling For Soup vocalist Jaret Reddick to discuss Al's folk-y tribute to heartbreak with You Don't Love Me Anymore! For years people say it's a style parody of Extreme but we think that's strictly because of the iconic music video, stylistically it appears Al dug into a much more obscure and personal reference point!
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This week we discuss The Plumbing Song. This is the first time Al has parodied 2 songs but the same artist in a single song, but unfortunately by the time Off the Deep End was released it felt like a punch down on the the disgraced pop group Milli Vanilli.
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This week Matt and Matthew discuss the Al original Airline Amy. This is one of the more divisive songs in Al's catalogue made apparent by how differently these two Al loving podcasters think about it. One loves it and one finds it ultimately forgettable. Which side do you fall on?
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We've referenced author Lily Hirsch's booked Weird Al Seriously quite a few times on the show so we were beyond thrilled to have the author on the podcast to discuss Al's take on Gerardo's "Rico Suave". We discuss how sometimes Al's parodies help us fix a song that's lyrics can be off putting and Taco Grande is a great early example of that!
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This week on the podcast we are joined by returning guest MC Lars and new guest Schäffer The Darklord to discuss the dark side of Disney, the dark carnival, old Monty Python sketches and the dangers of nostalgia with the original song When I Was Your Age!
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This week Jim Logrando is back to give us an exciting update on the Weird Al game he made... and then to discuss our collective obsession with Oreos!
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