"Weird Al" Yankovic and Geoffrey Nunberg

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2013

⏱️ 63 minutes

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[r] "Weird Al" Yankovic is a master of parody music and one of the all-time bestselling accordionists. He and Jesse talk about Yankovic's multi-decade career. Plus, Bullseye's rap contributor Andrew Noz talks about some his all-time favorite tracks. Then Geoffrey Nunberg discusses the origins of the word A-hole, and how its cultural significance has changed over time. Lastly, Jesse reveals who, for his money, is the all-time king of late night talk shows.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm D.W. from Houston.
0:01.7	Hi, I'm Kristen from San Francisco.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm Graham from Vancouver, Canada.
0:08.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:12.6	You should support the show like I did. It's easy.
0:15.2	Just visit MaximumFun.org-flash-donate.
0:19.0	Yes.
0:21.2	I'm Jesse Thorn, coming up all talk to a man who's a master of the accordion.
0:25.6	Also, not a bad rapper.
0:28.0	It's weird, Aliankovik.
0:30.0	I don't know where the skill comes from.
0:32.0	I think it comes from just a lot of unwarranted confidence in myself.
0:35.8	It's Bullseye.
0:43.6	Coming up, I talked to Weird Al about his multi-decade career in song parody.
0:47.3	From another one rides the bus to eat it to white and nerdy.
0:51.2	Find out how it all started.
0:53.2	I don't think I ever had any aspirations to be cool.
0:55.5	I thought that was sort of out of the question.
0:58.4	I just wanted to amuse my friends.
1:00.5	Plus, Jeff Nunberg explores the meaning of a word that we can't say on the radio.
1:04.9	It's a place to say it starts with an A and ends with old dictionaries.
1:12.5	Don't really give it much attention.
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