Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vogel-Zang. Today we are talking to

Weird Al Yankovic. This is just a treat for me.

I have to tell you.

Weird how Yankovic has outlasted and in some cases outsold the artists whose songs he's parodied.

I think that and nerdy.

white and nerdy.

I love white and nerdy.

I can just totally relate my youth absolutely.

And I think it's really important to point out that the

video for that song has twice as many YouTube views as the original song

Riden and and although Weird Al doesn't always get as much attention for it, the master of comedic

songwriting also writes his own original song. You used to think I was nice.

Now you tell all your friends that I'm the Antichrist.

Oh, why did you disconnect the brakes on my car?

That kind of thing is hard to ignore.

Got a funny feeling. Weird Al has been the king of parity for 30 years. He's won three Grammys and he's released

his 14th album. It's called Mandatory Fun. He's touring in support of that album and all the rest of his great music

and he's joining me from his 2016 summer tour. He's going to be appearing at Wolf Trap National Park here in Virginia on

September 11th 2016. Thank you, Weard Al Yakeovich, for joining us today.

My pleasure, thank you. So, mandatory fun is the name of your

album. Is that how you describe your approach to life? I think it's very important to have fun in fact let's say it's mandatory yeah

that was just an oxymoron that I've always been amused by it's used a lot in

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