"Weird Al" Yankovic Celebrates 10 Years of "Mandatory Fun"

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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"Weird Al" Yankovic previews his latest single "Polkamania!", and takes calls from his multi-generational fanbase.

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0:00.0	There's no cops of traffic lights living in an Irish paradise,
0:05.0	but you'd probably think it bites living in an Irish paradise.
0:11.0	No that's not the Brian Larrushell theme not even close although with today's
0:16.8	global internet outage were probably closer to living in an Amish paradise
0:21.0	than we have been in quite a while.
0:23.2	Anyway, I'm sure some of you are very excited for our next guest.
0:26.4	We're Al Yankovic singer of Amish Paradise and countless parodies of your favorite songs over the last four decades. Today he's with us
0:35.1	to celebrate his release of a new medley of the latest pop hits out. It's called
0:40.7	Polka-Mania, we'll preview at the end of the segment.
0:44.6	Weird Al, welcome to WNYC.
0:46.8	Thank you so much.
0:48.0	And I feel weird calling you Weird Al.
0:51.0	Is that how I should address you or just Al or just weird?
0:55.0	Well, we're old friends now, so like Paul Simon says, you can call me Al.
0:59.4	And listeners will open up the phones right away for those of you who are fans of Weirdau Yankovic.
1:04.8	Do you have a burning question for the master of parody?
1:07.6	Maybe you have a pop culture question for the man who's met everyone from Paul McCartney to
1:12.1	Kurt Cobain,
1:13.5	What's the Weird Al song of your generation
1:16.2	or the ones you enjoyed with multiple generations?
1:18.7	The most call or text us with your Weird Al memories or questions at 212
1:24.6	433 WNYC 212 433 9692 so Amish Paradise the song we just played from was the first time you covered a rap song.
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