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Something’s Burning: Things Get Weird with Al Yankovic and Thomas Lennon | S4 E23
04 Feb 2025
Chapter 1: What culinary delights do Weird Al and Thomas Lennon prepare?
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He's coming?
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Chapter 2: What are the origins of Weird Al's parody songs?
Yeah. You've got to be a really good friend. Really? Otherwise, you do. Because you'll never, I mean, all royalties are based on whose name is on it, you know? So it's basically always worth arbitrating unless you're going to end a friendship, which it could end a friendship.
Yeah.
You know, so you've got to be careful about that.
Did you expect Reno 911 to be as good as it was?
No, and I don't know if it is as good as it is or was. I think it's getting better, the shorter the clips keep becoming, the better Reno seems. Look at this, you're not looking at recipes, you're just crazy. This is so messy.
I almost spilled my wine though. No, you know, I kind of like the idea of, do you cook much? No.
If it revolves more than, I can follow a recipe, but generally if it's more than one step, like if you have to take it out of the can and heat it up, no, I don't want to deal with that.
You don't strike, you strike me as like a... You're very good at ordering. You seem like a fast food guy.
I used to be a big fast food guy. I try to eat a little healthier now, but we order in a lot. You live very clean, I gotta say. Yeah, mostly. Yeah, I can barely talk you into wine, and yeah, I can barely talk you into pizza. There's a lot of stuff I can't talk you into, so, yeah.
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Chapter 3: How do Weird Al and Thomas Lennon connect through comedy?
Ozzy's son. Yeah, give me the phone. Yeah.
No. Ozzy and I go to the same pharmacy here. We did for a while. Really?
We did for a while, yeah.
You think it's your prescriptions mixed up?
You're just sitting sedated on a couch.
What the fuck did I say?
Sharon! One day I'm at the pharmacy line and there's like a dude in front of me who's dressed like a bat, you know. He's in like a cape. I'm like, hey, there's just a straight up Nosferatu in front of me at the pharmacy. And he's like kind of flapping his bat hands. And he's like, for John Osborne. And I'm like, oh, fuck. Ozzy's getting his prescriptions at the same place as me. Yeah.
He picks up some stuff. I've got some stuff there, too. You've got some stuff to help with that.
If I knew what it would do to me, I'd take more meds like that. Like, if I knew what it would turn off.
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Chapter 4: What insights do they share about the music industry?
I might. You like half of ours?
It's weirdly terrific. It's weirdly good. It was like when you got a blowjob and a girl put a finger in your ass and you're like, okay, all right.
I was going to say that. That was verbatim what Al was about to say. If you know Al, that was like the next thing that he would always say.
I didn't even think, when I started talking to you, I was like, I should probably keep it a little PG because you don't really curse really. Never. Never. Never that I've seen. You curse out loud? No. No. Never. Not even in my head. No. You know that was my New Year's resolution?
He's a very good example to me.
My New Year's resolution was to stop cursing. Because here's the deal. No one will notice if you stop cursing. But people will notice when you curse. You know what I've tried to replace stuff with?
What's that? I've started doing a lot of, oh, for fart's sake. And you know what? Or this farting thing or something like that. And you know what? It's just a lot of fun. It's also just a slightly more interesting choice. But when you stand inside a fart... Well, then I can't do that. You've got to give me fart.
So I was like, you've got to give me the C word. If I can say the C word.
Well, that's very British.
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