Episode 271: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and Top 5 Weird Movies

This episode may seem like it’s a mess, but trust me, it’s all going accordion to plan.  Join Robert and Ira as they discuss WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY and share their top 5 weird movies.  Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a weird kid who likes to make up goofy lyrics to songs, but both of your parents think you’re freaking nuts, but mom buys you an accordion anyway, and you meet this DJ who becomes your manager and invites you to a pool party and all your heroes are there including Divine, Pee-wee Herman, and Tiny Tim, and your novelty song with your goofy lyrics gets played on the radio and Madonna hits on you so her songs will be more popular with your goofy lyrics but Michael Jackson takes your “original” song and does his own version of it, and you and Madonna go to some Third World country with lots of trees and meet with a drug lord, then you drink a lot, have a meltdown, turn on your bandmates, drink more, crash your car and almost die, and your dad explains his backstory, he grew up in an Amish community and also played the accordion and got ridiculed, so he didn’t want you to go through all that shit, and then you perform at a huge concert packed with cheering fans and the drug lord kills you, then this podcast is for you!

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