This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

You ever heard anybody say, I'd do that job for free.

It's one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

I've said that about a lot of things.

Yeah, me too.

I like to say when it turns out somebody's making, you know, $50 million.

I'll do that for half that.

That's my favorite.

Before we get into that, were you ever a Dr. Demento fan?

No.

Not really.

I'm familiar with him.

He would feature wacky songs and song parodies and stuff like that.

He has finally called it quits after 55 years.

I didn't know he was still live.

On the radio, Dr. DeMento, real name Barry Hanson, been doing it 55 years,

introducing audiences to figures such as Tom Lerer and cult songs like Fishhads.

He also is revered and condemned for popularizing and mentoring Weird Al Yankovic.

It was a big booster of Weird Al's breakout song, Another One Rides the Bus, a parody of the obvious queen title, portrayed with wit and a plumb by the office's Rain Wilson in the underappreciated 2022 biopic, Weird, the Al Yankovic story. I've heard that was a good movie. I didn't see it. You know, I've heard of this, too. I don't watch many movies at all, but I could see watching that someday. Maybe when Judy's out. You know what my son and I watched last night? Like the first third of and he actually liked it? He's 14. Odd thing for a kid to like Annie Hall by Woody Allen. Really? I was watching it the other night in the middle of the night. I mentioned it last week because I couldn't sleep, and I thought, I'll bet Henry would actually like this.

...