“Weird Al” Yankovic makes it….weird!
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Episode 246:
You Made It Weird
"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic
“Weird Al” Yankovic makes it….weird!
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Absolute joy to listen to this. Kudos to Weird Al and his well-deserved career.
the holocaust denier date sounds like something from a Seinfeld episode omg…actually maybe I am thinking of the Debra Messing episode
Damn gooooooood advice at 58:24 – 58:41
This is a FREE PODCAST people!!!
crazy
Ouch- I heard so many painful forced-laughs from Pete. Entertaining, none the less.
All my college friends thought for sure I was going ot marry Al.
Ah, it’s the tragically ironic hypocrisy. Weird Al says he doesn’t like to talk about religion and politics and stuff because he might lose a chunk of his fanbase if he’s too open (which would actually be courageous and sincere), and then he says “I believe in global warming”. Like that’s not a heated topic with negative connotations, lol. But yeah, if it’s science, it’s not really belief, riiiiiight? 😉
Since the porpoise of life is already figuring out the big questions, let me ask you: “Why did the Big Ben happen?”
Does that question ring any bell?
I totally know the feeling of wanting to distract oneself from awareness of infinity, haha.
By the way, you say infinity goes both ways. Sorry to cause you even more mental discomfort, but infinity goes infinite ways. Infinite ways means no ways at all, because ways imply movement and movement requires a finite space to define itself. Everything is always. Nothing is moving. ^^
I have a possible answer for the question of whether if ‘fun’damentalist Christians believe when the Dalai Lama dies, he goes to hell, he does: He goes to a place that for those Christians would be hell, but not for him.
This should explain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ben
Global Warming is not a “heated topic” (nice unintentional pun, tho). It’s also not controversial. Others may THINK it is a heated and controversial topic, but it is not.
You tend towards assuming, and that habit made you commit two mistakes.
1) Assuming the pun was unintended.
2) Swallowing authoritative propaganda. If you are doing that, you can go ahead and start a war with evil Iran and evil Russia and all those fairy tales, because it’s the same crap. Selective perception, believing what you want to believe. Devoted sheeple swallow the blue pill and get an erection.
Even worse, you not only just adopted the BS about the official line, but you also deny the obvious existence of a significant debate about the issue. It’s your own little phantasy world of comforting certainty. As long as you are told who the enemy is, you can remain in blissful ignorance.
Do you think, when Weird Al’s first album hit, his agent said, “You made it, Weird Al!”?
Also, maybe death is nothing to be afraid of because life isn’t real either. #existentialcrisisfundad
Your original identity dies, but the observer consciousness does not, since it’s immortal. There is no scary eternal nonexistence. There’s only eternal existence, in various roles. In all roles.
(typo – replace original with individual)
It’d be cool if you are right, @Dowlphin. Let’s hope it’s a long, fulfilling time before we find out for sure. Personally, I think doubt is the spice of life, even in the existential crises it can sometimes bring. But I also think that faith is for each individual — which is to say that I admire your convictions.
Scrolled down to the comments just to make someone made this joke.
It was low hanging fruit, @unswift! Consider the line both of ours’. (c:
I have so much respect for Al and I would have really loved to hear him get deeper into his personal philosophy. But I also have to respect that he is able to keep a portion of his life private after all these years in the spotlight despite prying people like me.
The episode was absolutely delightful and entertaining, it seemed to be over in half an hour. Great show!
Such a freaking funny podcast, so fun to listen to!
Al is one of the best interview subjects on the planet! Always a joy to hear him make it weird!
This might be in my top five YMIW podcast episodes. I’ve always liked Weird Al, but now I sort of love him. So quick and funny, and he genuinely seems like a great person. He even got Katie to laugh a couple of times!
Freeligious!
So you have a podcast that has the word “weird” in it’s name…and…also…SIMULTANEOUSLY…your guest has the word “weird” in HIS name. Well that’s just…words fail me. But it’s something.
meta?
Weird Al is so goddamn delightful.