Weird Al Yankovic

Le Batard & Friends - South Beach Sessions

Dan Le Batard, Stugotz

Sports, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The soundtrack to your childhood… and probably everyone else’s, too… it’s “Weird Al” Yankovic. Al joins Dan for a chat about his legendary 40 year career (he’s one of the best-charting musicians of all time), from how he became “Weird” to his 5 Grammy Award wins to embarking on his latest tour around the country. Al, a consummate performer, also opens up about performing immediately after the loss of his parents, what it was like growing up incredibly sheltered, and how he maintains his sterling reputation and sparkling attitude through it all. Weird Al’s “Bigger & Weirder” Tour is on sale now - visiting 65 cities across North America from June through September. For tour dates and tickets, visit weirdal.com/tour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.1	I'm sure this man hears this a lot.
1:01.6	Welcome to South Beach Sessions.
1:04.7	I'm Dan Lebitard, and this is Weird Al Yankovic.
1:08.7	Somebody I have feel, I feel like, has been in my life since childhood.
1:10.9	You get a lot of that, I imagine. From you, yes, all the time, yeah.
1:12.7	You're also...
1:13.3	Go shut up about it.
1:14.2	The biggest selling comedy recording artist in history.
1:18.4	That still has to be crazy for you to hear.
1:20.9	That's impressive.
1:21.3	I'm impressed by that.
1:22.8	Thank you for being with us.
1:24.8	We do a lot of parody songs on our, what used to be a radio show that is now
1:29.1	a podcast, and all of those are homage to you because it feels like you're the inventor of these things.
1:34.9	Do you feel like you're the inventor of these things? You're more famous for it than anybody else.
1:40.3	That's nice of you to say, but obviously they didn't invent the concept of song parody. That's been around since, I mean, our national anthem is basically a song parody.
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