Weird Al Returns

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2011

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When we last spoke to Weird Al, he was working on his top-secret new album. Now he's returned to talk about "Alpocalypse" and the process of parodying other artists.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Josh Newman from Toronto, Canada.
0:02.0	I'm Matt from Savannah, Georgia.
0:03.3	I'm Eric from Durham, North Carolina.
0:05.2	The sound of young America is an independent production
0:07.5	supported by listeners like you and me.
0:08.9	If you'd like to support the show like I did,
0:10.6	visit MaximumFund.org and click on donate.
0:13.4	I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.
0:16.6	It's the sound of young America from MaximumFund.org
0:19.8	and PRI, public radio, international.
0:22.9	It's the sound of young America, I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:30.8	We booked Weird Al Yankovic to appear on our show six or nine months ago
0:35.0	and it was a great pleasure to get to book him to appear on our show.
0:38.3	At the time, he had a new children's book out and he was
0:41.5	putting the finishing touches on his new album.
0:45.2	We asked if we could hear the album and they said,
0:48.6	no, absolutely not.
0:50.5	Everything that Weird Al does is kept under lock and key
0:54.4	until he decides to release it.
0:57.6	He will not even allude to the new album in the conversation.
1:02.7	So this was the compromise that we came up with.
1:05.3	We do our interview with Weird Al Yankovic.
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