Episode #1651: Weird Al!
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2014
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Luke checks in from San Francisco and chats with "Weird" Al Yankovic. The most popular recording artist in America today.
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| 0:00.0 | I never book commercials because I'm too angry and the commercial world is that ridiculous |
| 0:05.7 | like honey, how'd you get the shirt so fresh? |
| 0:09.9 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:10.9 | Like that ridiculous like the world is falling a shit but the biggest thing is how did you |
| 0:17.5 | get? |
| 0:18.9 | So I'm always improvising like honey, honey, honey, how do you get the shirt so fresh? |
| 0:26.1 | I mean one out of three people are in jail these days, people are stabbing each other |
| 0:33.8 | for food, not half a block away from this audition, yet you get the shirt so fresh. |
| 0:43.5 | How do you do it? |
| 0:45.2 | We're trapped in a loveless thing? |
| 0:51.0 | I mean I just stay in my room, it's stare, and I stare, and when you knock and say |
| 0:57.3 | oh you are right, I pretend, I say yes, it's not true, yet you got the shirt fresh, how |
| 1:06.7 | do you get the shirt fresh amid so much sorrow? |
| 1:14.1 | I mean the sorrow is incomparable, especially in our household, and in your parents household, |
| 1:23.9 | it's just been a history, it's been generational of absolutely so crushing sorrow, but you and |
| 1:33.3 | your mother get the shirts fresh. |
| 1:38.3 | You know it's funny, is people stop laughing at this bit after a while? |
| 1:46.9 | So what I would do is I put on Afro Caribbean paint, like a white and black paint and black |
| 1:51.5 | at my eye, so I look like this sort of Afro Caribbean voodoo icon, then wouldn't speak |
| 1:56.4 | to anybody, wouldn't say a word, so I projected this aura of horror, oh my god, he sounds |
| 2:02.6 | like a good lover. |
| 2:03.6 | You don't have to make rude noises. |
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