Did you ever like a movie but don't know if you still do? Us too! Every month indie rapper, writer and comedian SJ The Wordburglar is joined by a special guest to revisit a movie they used to like. And if you want more Wordburglar check out our cousin podcast "Weekend At Burgie's".
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Rapper, writer, retired paperboy and comic shop veteran SJ the Wordburglar waxes comedic and drops knowledge. An engaging and funny podcast about music, comic books, food, sports and everything in between. Spend the weekend with your host, Wordburglar, in this highly entertaining and kaleidoscopic journey through the world of comic books, hip-hop, character based comedy and so much more. Whether you’re a fan of his critically acclaimed albums, or just generally into the nerdier side of pop-c ...
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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 If you want to let us know your thoughts, stories, insights or anything else send us an email at weirdalgorithmpodcast@gmail.com. Check us out on: Instagram - @weirdalgorithmpodcast Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1338865813603270 Or visit our brand new website where you can see ou ...
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This week on the podcast Matt and Matt discuss their love of Elvis Costello and the perfect (and fairly underappreciated) way that Al locks into Costello's signature sound on the song "I'm So Sick of You" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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C Philip Zarina is back this week to talk about the unique instruments of Presidents of the United States of America, the 1994 Best Picture Winner and how Al blended both into a perfect parody! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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Since You've Been Gone (f/Kelly Phillips)
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Our friend Kelly Phillips is back to discuss barber shop, acapella and violent acts. Additionally we learn why she choose Since You've Been Gone as the song she animated for the Illustrated Al book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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The Alternative Polka (f/Ray Padgett)
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This week we are joined by Ray Padgett to discuss the Alternative Polka. Ray's claim to fame is when writing a book about cover songs was able to talk to Al about EXCLUSIVELY his Polkas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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This week we talk about bad jobs, scary movies and post-grunge music with Al's Nirvana inspired original Callin' In Sick Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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Al released his first polka in 6 years and despite being on opposite sides of the country this weekend that Matt's found a way to make sure we got your our immediate and honest thoughts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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This week we talk about dentists, Batman and U2 while discussing the song Cavity Search, Al's parody of "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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Everything You Know is Wrong (f/Jeff "UHJeff" Nucera)
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This week we are joined by returning guest Jeff "UHJeff" Nucera to discuss Al's perfect tribute to They Might Be Giants with the fan favorite "Everything You Know is Wrong! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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We finally enter our Bad Hair Day era of Weird Al's career with Amish Paradise. For Matt & Matt this is the first Al song they were ever exposed to so it holds a special place in both their hearts. We are joined by die-hard Al fan and comedic podcaster Robert Bacon to break down this massive song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f…
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Al Music Vol 3 (f/Sean "The Wordburglar" Jordan)
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We've reached the final Al Music appearance on MuchMusic and we had to bring rapper Sean "Wordburglar" Jordan who unexpectedly appeared in the previous Al Music special! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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In possibly the most obscure thing we've ever discussed on this podcast we dive into Al's appearances on the short lived educational kids series The Eddie Files Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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MAL Bag: Circus of the Stars, Naked Gun 33 1/3 and Your Letters
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We're back with another MAL-Bag episode and boy did y'all send some amazing letters for us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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This week we check out Al's appearance on the first season of Space Ghost Coast to Coast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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This week we dive into the first non-album single from Weird Al ... the Crash Test Dummies parody Headline News! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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This week we are back at the Great White North to discuss the 2nd of Al's 3 AL Music Appearances! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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We have officially hit the end of Alapalooza with the first (and only) Weird Al Polka-Cover song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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This week we are joined again by UHJeff to discuss Al's Peter Gabriel homage Waffle King. Is this an unfairly ignored Al original? We dive in and try to decide! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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This week we celebrate Al with easily his most popular short song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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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. Learn more about …
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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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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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! Donate to Taylor's Film at Bampiremovie.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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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! Learn more about y…
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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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc…
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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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You Don't Love Me Anymore (f/Jaret Reddick)
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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! Lea…
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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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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! Learn …
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When I Was Your Age (f/MC Lars & Schäffer The Darklord)
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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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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Al is back to doing a style parody of Tonio K for the second time with I Was Only Kidding. Is this a better attempt than Happy Birthday off his self titled debut album? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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This week Mark Hampton returns to break down Al's first polka from the 90's ... made up of ALOT of songs from the 80's. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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EP44 - Secrets of The Spinner Rack EP Commentary with R-Lex The Robot
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Burgie is joined by his great pal R-Lex The Robot to get into the behind the scenes of the new Wordburglar EP "THE SPINNER RACK" (available now wherever you hear music!). Don't miss the new EP and video for 1980 FORCE at wordburglar.com and 1980FORCE.com
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This week we tackle Al's take on M.C. Hammer's U Can't Touch This. As a kid I just remembered it being a funny song about TV but maybe there's a much smarter deeper thing Al is saying about the state of Television. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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This week we are joined by returning guest A.J. Santini to discuss The Beach Boys inspired song Trigger Happy. In many ways this is Al's most politically driven song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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This week we officially enter the 90's albums with a returning fan favorite guest MC Lars. We dive into this iconic cover that gave Al's career a second breath of life after the financial failure of UHF and is the perfect opening track to Off the Deep End. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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This week we dive into forgotten and delightful MTV Game-show Remote Control. Al appeared on the show twice, once as a category and another time as a contestant. This show also featured the first appearances of Adam Sandler and Colin Quinn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Did you know that MuchMusic was the Canadian answer to MTV? Also did you know Al made a totally separate series of sketch comedy videos for them! Well now you do! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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We sign off of the 80's era of Al with a Mal-Bag from you listeners. We also dive into Al's second cameo in the Naked Gun franchise as well as the bizarre TV Special "Seriously... Phil Collins" that he appears in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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We have finally reached the end of UHF and the end of Al's 80's era with the first truly epic song in Al's discography ... The Biggest Ball of Twin in Minnesota Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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Singer Olive Hui joins us to discuss Al's R.E.M. influenced tribute to canned meats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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For the first time (and probably the only time) we attempt to cover a Weird Al instrumental. Wish us luck! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Geekscape
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