The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - Episode 38 - 'Weird Al' Yankovic

Episode Date: June 24, 2011

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Hey, mates. Welcome to another edition of the Little Dumb Dumb Club. My name is Tommy Dasolo. Sitting opposite me, my co-host, Carl Chandler. G'day, DK. iTunes reviews up the top, as always. Got a new one here. Oh, really?

Yep. Love it. Five stars. By one of the Wayans brothers. Me and all my brothers love your show. Tune in every week. By one of the Wayans brothers. Me and all my brothers love your show. Tune in every week. Wow. So the Wayans brothers are listening.

All of them. White chicks. Yes, of white chicks. What other ones have they done? What was that one where one of them's a baby? I'm serious. Like one of them's pretending to be. Isn't it like one of their heads is superimposed onto a child's body or whatever?

I don't know. Baby cop? I could definitely believe that, but it sounds so stupid that I would believe it. I don't know what would be more satisfying, if that's happened or if I've dreamed it up. Because if it's happened, it's awesome, but if I've dreamed it up, that's also pretty amazing. I actually think, even if that was one of the Wayan brothers that's commented on our page, I'm not even that impressed. That's how much I'm thinking of them.

Yeah, it is actually kind of better if it's not, because that's someone's pretty funny who's done that. Yeah. Me and all my brothers. Just the image of all the Wayans brothers sitting around a little laptop listening to a bit of Dum Dum. Yeah, just like they're finished watching Big Mama's House and they think, oh, we'll just listen to a bit of a podcast before we go to bed.

Why would they be watching Big Mama's House? I don't know. For inspiration. That's the sort of movies they make. Their mate Martin Lawrence. Yeah. And we're their little mates now. We're their little mates.

Big Dum Dum House. Yeah, yeah. I came in here today. On the way in, I was on the train. There's this big billboard on Punt Road, and it's a big ad. You're so from the country. Oh, there was a billboard. And a train.

Little chugga-chugga. Yeah. So there's this big billboard, this big ad, it's a new one, and it just, you tell me if this sounds weird, and it's not meant to be offensive or whatever it is, it just doesn't seem right to me. Here's the ad. It's a picture of a lady in a wheelchair and it said and it's a sort of ad i'm not sure who it is uh that's made the

ad but it's basically saying that we're all you know we've all got different abilities we've all got disabilities you know we're all contributing to society everyone's got a role to play um so it's a picture of this lady in a wheelchair. She's got this big camera and it said, this woman has helped make this ad. Oh, yeah. I've seen them. Yeah. How did she help make the ad if she's got the camera? She didn't take a picture of herself.

She's got the camera in the picture. She didn't take that picture. She did nothing in that ad. So what you're saying is there's a massive plot hole in this ad. Yes, exactly. She has done nothing in that ad. So what you're saying is there's a massive plot hole in this ad. Yes, exactly. She has done nothing in that ad. No offence to this lady in the wheelchair. If she is listening, if she is hanging out with the Wayans brothers.

If she is really in a wheelchair. She didn't just jump in one to get in the ad. Yeah. So are you just on the train just yelling out, going, this is bullshit. I'm the crazy man on the train. If you saw someone screaming at a billboard this morning at Richmond Station, that was me. Okay, here's something that I think you'll enjoy.

I was walking here and I was walking through. There were a group of schoolchildren getting on a bus to go on an excursion. Fellow schoolchildren. Well, here's the thing, because I kind of ended up sort of inadvertently being engulfed by the pack and their teacher standing by the bus ushering them on, and she sort of caught me and wasulfed by the pack. Oh, yes. And their teacher's standing by the bus, like, ushering them on. And she sort of caught me and was trying to usher me on, like, in the group.

And I'm like, no, I'm an adult. I'm a big boy now. I'm a big boy now. Yeah, I had to – and this ties in. When I was flying back from Brisbane, I was scanning my ticket to get on the plane. And you know how, like, the girl how the girl who will swipe your ticket, there were a few young kids ahead of me,

and so she was sort of turning it on for them and doing a bit of, oh, okay, Damien, now on you go onto the plane. And because she'd done that six times in a row, by the time she got to me she was kind of still in the zone of doing that. So she's like, okay, Thomas, just, and then sort of clocked me and gone, oh, and sort of seen the facial hair and gone, oh, I'm sorry. I'm like, it happens all the time. With this kid.

Yeah. So, uh, I thought you'd enjoy those two little things of me, uh, maybe subtle listeners of the show. Like maybe that teacher and that flight attendant have, uh, have heard the show and they're trying to do a bit of dumb dumb out in the real world. Did you get your own seat or did you have to sit on someone's lap? I sat at the very back. Yep.

And I got a little colouring in book. Oh, great. And some little crayons. And I got to visit the captain. I don't think that happens anymore. Yeah. Does it? It could.

How could it? What, in case the kid is a terrorist? Yes. Now there's a Wayans Brothers movie. Yeah. Kid terrorist. Hey, on the show today. Big guest.

Big time guest. The biggest? Probably the biggest. The biggest. Yet the most distance we've ever been. Yeah. Because we're able to talk about it like this because they're not in the room with us. No.

Not to break the illusion that this is going to happen over the phone. So you're not listening to someone who's smoked too many durries and now has one of those electric voice box things. That's not why the sound is all muffled. This is the true legitimization of us as media personalities. We're having a live satellite hookup with an international guest. It's pretty fascinating. So we've made it. So should we build it up?

Sure. I think that's what we're doing. Grammy Award winner. Oh, yeah. New York Times best-selling author. What else? Professional dickhead? Is that fair? And the biggest of all. The biggest of all.

Friend of the show. Friend, new friend of the show. Weird Al Yankovic. Do we? Yeah, do we do that? Alright, let's do that. He's never going to hear it, but let's do it. So, uh... Should we get on to him? Well, should we get on to him? Yeah, do we do that? All right, let's do that. You're never going to hear it, but let's do it. Yep. So, uh... Should we get on to him? Well, should we get on to him?

Yeah, he's calling in. Yeah, he's ringing us. He is ringing us. He is ringing us. And I don't know how this is going to go, because I'm not good talking on the phone full stop, regardless of who it is. No, I agree. Like, I hate talking to anyone on the phone.

Yep. I hate when my parents call me. I hate when my girlfriend calls. I hate anyone talking to me on the phone. It'll be all right. It'll be all right. This'll be all right. All right, so let's get into it.

Let's have a chat to... He's calling in now. Let's have a chat to Weird Al Yankovic. Hello. Hello, is this Al? It is. Hey, Al. Welcome into the little dum-dum club.

I'm Tommy Dasolo, and sitting opposite me is Carl Chandler. Hi, Al. Hey, guys. Thanks so much for joining us, opposite me is Carl Chandler. Hi, Al. Hey, guys. Thanks so much for joining us, man. This is really exciting. My pleasure. Yeah, so this is actually the first time we've done a phone interview, so I imagine you're a bit of a

seasoned pro and we're kind of novices at this, so we will need you to hold our hands considerably at this. I'll do my best. Great, great. So, yeah, so, Carl, any questions? Hey, I'll... I think you asked me the question.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, we're big fans and everything. Obviously exciting. We're getting a lot of coverage of your stuff at the moment over here with the new single with Lady Gaga and everything, so I imagine it's quite big over there as well at the moment? Yeah, my album is on track on the States TV, my highest-charting album ever.

The video on YouTube is getting more than a million hits a day. So it's pretty crazy. I'm having a big week. That's awesome. And what I love about it is the process of the Lady Gaga song, of the Perform This Way thing. I've been following it on the internet and on Twitter and stuff like that. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, this is the way I've read it,

that, you know, you've made this Lady Gaga song, you've sent it to them, they've sort of gone no and knocked it back. So then you go on the internet to say, hey, I had this great Lady Gaga parody, but they wouldn't let me do it, everyone. So here it is anyway, just to let you know, Lady Gaga didn't want me to do it. Then, of course, they come back, the PR people come back and go, oh, no, Lady Gaga loves it. But it was some management kerf to let you know, Lady Gaga didn't want me to do it. Then of course they come back, the PR people come back and go, oh no, Lady Gaga loves it. But it was some

management kerfuffle, you know, some misunderstanding. So of course you can do it. So it sort of seems to me like, you know, when you're a kid and you've gone to your mum and said, can I have a bit of chocolate? And she says, no. And then all of her friends come over and you go, hey mum, can I have that bit of chocolate? Okay, yes. I don't want to look bad in front of everyone else, so yes, of course you can. Would that be far off the mark? That's sort of it in a nutshell. I mean, I wasn't really trying to... You're not as cynical as me.

That was a pretty big nutshell, though. It was a nice nutshell. But you know, it was more that I just wanted people to hear it because I just spent a considerable amount of money and a lot of time working on this song, and it would have just killed me for nobody to ever hear it. So I just figured, like, okay, it's not going to be the album. Here it is. And I explained exactly what happened.

And I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams, I mean, I couldn't have written a better script for it. I mean, within a few hours, not only had, like, you know, two million people heard the song, but Lady Gaga had heard it and completely, you know, flipped it around and all of a sudden I had a single and an album release. It's like a telemovie. It's got a really feel-good ending. Yeah, I'll license the rights to you guys. Yeah, yeah. Oh, great. Yeah, we can make the Weird Al little dum-dum story.

Yeah. There you go. I just think it's funny that the management have been like, you know, they've got the song and gone, oh no, we can't have you, Weird Al, making the lady wearing the steak dress look silly. The big thing for me, this is what drove me crazy. The manager

said, okay, well, we need to hear the song before we'll approve it. And I thought, well, we need to hear the song before we'll approve it. And I thought, well, obviously that means you need to see the lyrics, so okay, I'll write the lyrics. And I was in Australia at the time. I was doing my Australian tour earlier this year, and in the middle of the tour I wrote the lyrics for Perform This Way and sent them in.

And he got them and he said, no, we need to hear the song. And I was like, why? I hear the lyrics. I think you probably know how the song goes at this point. It's these lyrics with your song. You put them together in your head. That's how it goes. And basically, they wouldn't budge. They were like, if we don't hear a finished version of the song, the answer is no. So I actually went through all the trouble of recording it

and sent it in, and they said is no. So I actually went through all the trouble of recording it and sent it in, and they said, hmm, no. So I just could not understand the logic there. Yeah, but, you know, thankfully it got out there in the end, and people can hear it. Because, I mean, you're quite, I guess, well-known for seeking the approval of the artists that you parody kind of before you put it out there. Who are some sort of big names that have, you know, kind of knocked you back or kind of, you know, not been too keen on you parody kind of before you put it out there. Who are some sort of big names that have, you know, kind of knocked you back or kind of, you know,

not been too keen on you parodying them? Everybody focuses on the negatives. That's right. You know, really the only person over the years who has consistently said no has been Prince. Right. He has never given a reason why. I don't know what the deal was, but he just, for whatever,

and, you know, it's his prerogative, you know, that's his choice, but he is, for whatever, and you know, it's his prerogative, you know, that's his choice, but he is the one guy that's always said no. So would you say that's kind of like the Holy Grail for you, is like finally getting to do a Prince song? Well, it would have been the Holy Grail in the 80s when I really wanted to do a Prince song.

You should just go nuts if he finally turns around and goes, yes, and just do like a whole album of Prince parodies. At this point, probably not. But it'll be nice. I'd like to think that Prince has mellowed out, or at least is not as crazy as he was perhaps 20 years ago. Yeah, right.

Well, what about the other way? Has there ever been any film clips that you would have loved to have had a crack at, but maybe the song, you couldn't fit it with the song, maybe? You know, like, I mean, you're well-known for all your awesome film clips. Would you like to, you know what I mean, like to have a crack at a film clip without the song, maybe? I'm not sure you mean it. Oh, sorry.

Are there any parodies I wanted to do, but I couldn't think of a good enough idea, or what do you mean? I guess, like, a film clip that's ripe for parody that you would love to have parodied the film clip, but maybe the song wasn't as strong to bother doing? Yeah, I mean, that happens a lot. I mean, there's a lot of videos or pop songs that would be great candidates,

and it's like, oh, I'd love to do something with this, but sometimes I just can't think of a clever enough idea. I mean, I can always come up with ideas. There's no shortage of ideas, but a lot of times I can't think of a good idea, and those are the only ones that count. So a lot of times those songs wind up in my polka medleys because, you know, everything sounds better than polka style.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Do you ever get people hitting you up to parody them, like wanting you to give them the weird out-treatment? You know, every now and then I'll come across some artist who will approach me at a party or at an awards show or something and say, Hey, how come you haven't gotten around to doing my song? Or they'll actually pitch me like, you know, it'll be funny. You can do a parody of blah, blah, blah.

And, you know, it's a little awkward because, you know, I write my own material, thank you very much. And I'm never sure if they're being sincere. They might just be making conversation or goofing on me, but it has happened. I like the idea that a pop star would write a deliberately shit song just to get you to parody it. Yeah, like they write a song called I Love Art, and they're like, hey, Weird Al, what about I Like Fart?

There you go. You're making it easy for me. Well, I guess speaking of that, that, it is like a very different, I guess the industry has changed a lot since you started out, and particularly with YouTube and people being able to put their own parodies up there quite easily. Has that sort of thing changed the way that you approach kind of what you do? I try not to let it because, you know, what I have to do is I have to put blinders on and just keep doing my job.

And I just still try to be the best at what I do. But it's a little troublesome because in the back of my head, every time I do a parody now, I know, okay, well, I'm probably the 20,000th person to do a Miley Cyrus parody at this point. But, oh, well, I'm going to do it anyway. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to do it anyway. Yeah, yeah. And I mean, it is a testament to you that in the face of that, like, pop culture and the internet being saturated with parody, that people still keep coming back to you and, you know, you're having, you know, your albums are selling kind of better than ever, like, now. What do you think it is about you that keeps people coming back, like, in the face of there being so much other stuff that's so readily accessible?

Well, I don't know. so much other stuff that's so readily accessible? Well, I don't know. I like to think that, you know, over the years, I've gotten to be pretty good at what I do, and people appreciate my humor, and, you know, I'm sort of a brand name. I get a... That's also a bit of a pet peeve,

because, you know, because I'm so well-known as a comedy musician, that, like, half the songs on the Internet that are funny get attributed to me even though they're not by me. So like there's a lot of songs out there. A lot of them are vulgar or mediocre, but they're like, oh yeah, that's Ray Al Yankovic. It's got to be.

Who else would it be? Yeah. Isn't it? There's a whole website devoted to songs that aren't you, isn't there? I read somewhere. That's right. It's like the Not Al website. I like it because it's like, you know, you're like the Not Al website. I like it because

it's like, you know, you're like the Mad Magazine of music, and we're big Mad Magazine fans here, a big part of our childhood and stuff like that. But I guess Mad must be, I guess, frustrated with you because you're like the only person they can't parody. You know what,

I'm very thrilled about this because obviously I was a huge fan of Mad Magazine growing up. And I don't know if it was released this way in Australia, but in the new Mad Magazine in the States, there's a full-page ad for Apocalypse on the back of the magazine. So that's one of those things where I wish I could go back in time and show that copy of Mad Magazine to my 12-year-old self, because he would just freak out. Is the ad a folding? Yes, the other side of the folding. and show that copy of Mad Magazine to my 12-year-old self because he would just freak out. Yeah, that's awesome. Is the ad a folding?

Yes, the other side of the folding. Oh! Your ad's going to be damaged by every 8-year-old that buys that copy. That's not good. They're not going to read that at all. There'll just be a big fold mark down the middle of your head. Oh, do you get any sort of sweet contra where maybe you get a bit of the Alfred E. Newman treatment on the front?

Alfred E. style? I've never had a full-on cover, but my face was included in sort of like a Sgt. Pepper version of current pop culture people a year or two ago. So I can say that I have had my face on the cover of Mad Magazine. Oh, awesome. So, well, I mean, that's a good example of something that you can sort of take to your grave or whatever with you. What are the things you're most proud of, like interesting things like that?

Like, that's what I would put in my glory box. You know, I've been on the front cover partially of Mad Magazine. Yeah. There's a lot of cool things that I've done. I might have to go with being on The Simpsons. I was on The Sim that's, there's a lot of cool things that I've done. I might have to go with being on The Simpsons. I was on The Simpsons before.

Of course. That's one of my all-time favorite shows and it's still great after, gosh, I don't know what season they're in.

400, I think it is. Season 400, you're right. But it's one of those shows that's been around for so long and it's showing no signs of stopping.

So I like to think it's my one real claim to immortality because I think that that show in some form will be in syndication for the next 5,000 years. Yeah, definitely. And it was also, you know, a good episode and it's a memorable moment when you were on there other than, you know, there tends to be a little bit now where people don't sort of watch it anymore.

It's a bit like wallpaper or whatever, but that was still, when it was going strong, that was still a good ep. Yeah, I mean, they were both really great episodes. In fact, I think the first one that I was on won an Emmy that year, so yeah, it was a real thrill. And just to be in a, the whole experience, I mean, I was in a recording booth with Dan Castellaneta, who does the voice of Homer Simpson, and I'm doing a scene, I'm doing a scene with Homer Simpson.

It's hard to articulate how surrealistic that is, just to be talking to Homer. A friend of mine saw you in concert here a few years ago, and he wanted to point out that he noticed that in between, you do two different Star Wars songs, and he very much appreciated and respected that between those two songs, you actually changed costume from an old Jedi into a new Jedi, and that really kind of tickled him as a bit of a pop culture aficionado,

your devotion to it. When you were first doing your accordion songs in the 70s, did you ever anticipate that would be the kind of groupie sort of adoration that you would get? Did you foresee anything like this? No, when I first started doing it, it was really just to amuse my friends and to have some grins.

And I thought maybe I'd get some airplay on the Dr. D'Amato radio show. And I certainly didn't think I'd have a career that would be like 30 years plus. And that there would be fans that, you know, care about the minutiae of my work and dissect my lyrics and pick apart my live performances and video clips. So it's, it's, uh, yeah, that's one of the

reasons why, you know, I'm going so long between albums is because I really, you know, every album that I put out now, it's an event in a way because I, I, you know, I realized the fans look forward to them so much. I want to give them something, you know, that's worth looking forward to. Yeah, yeah. Well, I hope it's... It's obviously a great thing to have that many fans and whatever, but I hope it's...

It sounds like from Tommy's story there that you've got a lot of fans that you're encouraging not to grow up, and they sound like they're 40-year-old guys that still live with their mum and dad by the sound of it. Well, for those people, I give you permission to move out of your basement. That's good. Men in their 40s all over the country have been waiting to hear that.

Go forth, my friend. Be fruitful. It seems to me like most other artists who've been in the music industry for as long as you have have kind of become a bit bitter and jaded by the whole thing of it. You've managed to keep this keep this real kind of enthusiasm and innocence about you. Like, how do you keep smiling? Like, you know, what keeps you positive?

Oh, I love what I do. I mean, you know, my dad told me a long time ago, when I was a kid, he basically said that the secret to success is figuring out what you want to do for a living, you know, figuring out what makes you happy and then figure out a way to make a living at that. And, uh, you know, I love music. I love comedy.

Uh, I can't imagine anything in the world I'd rather be doing. Uh, and I just have a blast, you know, doing what I do. Every, every, everything that I do is like a dream thing for me. So, um, you know, there's nothing for me not to be happy about every morning when I wake up. Yeah, absolutely. And I guess I suppose you get this a lot, but the stuff on your album is quite musically sound, and this album in particular, there's a lot of sort of,

I guess, original sort of non-parody songs. Have you got any desire to kind of move into doing kind of, you know, more serious stuff, like more, you know, serious side of Al? No, I think there's probably enough people in the world that do serious songs already. I really love the comedy thing. I don't think my brain would allow me to write any kind of like heartfelt love ballads or anything like that or any soul-searching kind of tunes.

You know, I've got my niche. My brain is wired a certain way, and, you know, I have no real compulsion to change. Well, what about this? This is an idea I had on the way here. What if, like, you were trying to write some parodies, and the musical landscape was just so barren that you couldn't find anything worthy of parody?

What if you recorded an album of serious songs under a pseudonym, and then that album went massive, and then you could just record a parody album of your serious album under a pseudonym, and then that album went massive, and then you could just record a parody album of your serious album under the weird almonica. Okay, I wasn't going to tell you guys this because I've been keeping it a secret my whole life, but I actually recorded a number of albums over the last few decades

under the name Kenny G. Yes, we've got a scoop. You're in here first. Well, I guess the next next scoop what we're really after the big question that everyone's asking is has the sequel to UHF been greenlit yet it has not and if I were you

I probably wouldn't hold my breath oh man that's such a shame I know that it's a big fan favorite it's a big cult hit but it didn't do well when it was released at the box office in 1989. So I think the chances of that getting a sequel are pretty slim. But I would love to do another movie, I'd love to do another feature.

I think that's within the realm of possibility. So maybe sometime in the next 30 or 40 years, that'll happen. That'd be so awesome, because it's, it's like, you know, Family Guy or, you know, there's shows that weren't as popular to start with because of that word of mouth and that cult favourite sort of phenomenon that happens. And obviously that's happened to UHF. I mean, it'd be half a chance of being quite successful, I would imagine. Well, here's the thing.

If you guys ever wind up running a major motion picture studio, give me a call, we'll talk about it. What if you just did a bit of George Lucas and just released a special edition anniversary cut of it? Just advising you have one minute remaining.

Insert some crazy CGI dogs or whatever, because that seems to be what's big and popular in cinema at the moment. Or three prequels to UHS. Everybody wants to know the backstory. You can CGI me to look even younger than I was in UHS. I mean, who built Specialist City? That's what we all want to know.

Yeah, there you go. Got to get the whole backstory in there. Yeah, yeah. Hey, it's been great to talk to you, Al. Thanks very much for giving us your valuable time. Oh, my pleasure. It was fun. Thank you.

Yeah, thanks, man. We really appreciate it. Good luck with everything. All right, take care. valuable time. Oh, my pleasure. It was fun. Thank you. Yeah, thanks, man. We really appreciate it. Good luck with everything. All right, take care. Thanks again. See you, man. So there you have it. Weird Al Yankovic.

We just talked to Weird Al Yankovic. We just talked to Weird Al Yankovic. That's pretty cool. That's awesome. That's a bit of a childhood dream. You know what my favourite... Was that really a dream of yours to talk to Weird Al Yankovic? I know it's good, but I don't think you were dreaming of that.

No. Well, I was dreaming of it last night because I knew I was doing it today and I was worried about... You never saw that Like a Surgeon film clip and went, one day I want to talk to him. I don't think you were dreaming of that. No. Well, I was dreaming of it last night because I knew I was doing it today and I was worried about, you know. You never saw that Like a Surgeon film clip and went, one day I want to talk to him. Well, my earliest memory of Weird Al is The Saga Begins. Oh, yeah. His Star Wars American Pie.

And a friend of mine in year seven had the album. And this is in the days where you couldn't just download things easily. And, you know, you could barely afford to buy a CD on your own. You know what I mean? So if one person in the class could barely afford to buy a cd on your own you know what i mean so if one person in the class had the funds to have a cd it was like it would get passed around yeah and i borrowed it from him and then i kind of lost it because i'm bad at borrowing things from people and we nearly stopped being friends because he was like i need my running with scissors cd back and i was like oh yeah i forgot to bring it again and then i'd go home

and frantically where, where is it? And then I gave it back to him. And that shit effort where it's all scratched and there's a page missing out of the booklet. Well, here's my favorite bit about that interview just then. Is that before the show, you told me how much research you'd done and you'd been working on it yesterday. I don't know if I really bigged it up that much. And then we start the interview and it's like oh hey hey al carl have you got any questions oh i just i i freaked i felt confident going in and then we got on the phone and it was

like this such a weird awkward setup and i just realized how strange this was to just launch into a question and then straight onto this guy massive handball. But you helped it out a lot. Yeah, but I did find that very funny. Hi, Al. Can someone else talk to you? Because, you know what? Okay, I'll be honest. Do you know why that happened? I'll be honest.

We got going and I looked down at my page of notes. You know what my first note for a question is? What? How many Hawaiian shirts do you own? I'm glad that happened now. That's why. You put that happened now. That's a lie. You put that at the top of your bullet points. What sort of idiot are you?

It's in chronological order. That's the question that you dreamt of, that you dreamt of talking to Weird Al Yankovic about when you were a kid. I can't wait to ask him about his wardrobe. So you see why I had to handball it off to you. I'm glad to get that handball now. I could have wrecked our career. That was fun though. Do you think that went okay? Yeah, it off to you. I'm glad to get that handball now. I could have wrecked our career. That was fun, though.

Do you think that went okay? Yeah, it was all right. It was fine. You did a good job, little Tommy. I don't know about interviewing people. It's hard. Yeah. The thing, because I guess for us, you know, you want to, you know,

it's a comedian that we look up to and it's someone who we would see as, I guess, you know, we're in the same biz. We're peers or whatever, I guess, in a loose way. Very loose. Very loose way. Very loose. Very loose way. But then you're doing an interview over a conference call, and you just feel like you're an inconvenience in the person's day. Do you know what I mean?

Like you're one of about 600 calls, and you're thinking, I don't want him to think, oh, I've got to call the little dumb, dumb club in Australia. I want him to go, it's my mates. It's my mates from Australia, my silly mates. We're all going to pal around. Yeah, we'll probably stay with him when we go over there. Yeah?

Yeah. Well, I've got his number now. It's saved in the machine. Oh, yes! No, it's not. Damn. That'd be good if it was, though. That would be very good.

We could just prank call him. Yeah, and it's always great in an interview having some guy come in and go, you've got one minute to go. I want to institute that policy in all my phone calls. Maybe that can help me with hating being on the phone. Yeah, that's a service. That's some service that he's paid for or that someone's paid for. Yeah.

You could hire that person to do that for you. Yeah, that'd be great. Every time mum's like going, so we'd just like to really catch up with you and your girlfriend and have dinner and just letting you know there's one minute to go. Sorry, mum. I'd love to make dinner plans, but as you can hear. Big brother. Yeah, Sony Records is getting angry.

That's why I would love A record contract Just to be able To have all my phone calls Go through conferences You've got these weird aims You want to talk to A song parodist

When you're 12 And you want to Cut your mum off If Just the big The big Good bit about being famous Is to cut your mum off

My priorities are Slightly out of whack Yeah But say what you will about me One thing you can't deny, I got a lot of Hawaiian shirts. I tried to be the Hawaiian shirt guy in year eight. I thought I had a few.

Mad Dog Dassolo. Mad Dog Dassolo. And they were all huge too. They were all way too big for me. Yeah. I don't think you can buy them in. I think it's against the law to buy one in a normal size. If it fits you snugly, they go, is that for a midget that you know?

Yeah, we haven't got any in big sizes. We've only got XXL. Nothing small on that. No, that was good. That was all right. Look, it's a good start to the day. It's a Friday morning, and before noon, we've already chatted to Weird Al Yankovic. That's a good day.

That is a good day. The other thing is it can only go downhill from here. That's true. Who could we talk to? Let's go to the casino. We always say we're going to go to the casino after the show. Maybe this is the day where we finally do it. Let's go.

Let's go. We tried to go with the Anyone for Tennis Boys a few weeks ago after that, but we sort of were walking down, and we were full of enthusiasm at the start of the walk, and then that kind of deteriorated to them. When we got there, everyone just had a Coke. Yeah. We left after half an hour.

We went to the casino. Where'd you have a Coke? Oh. No, that's it. Because we wanted to go onto the floor, like, and play some slots or whatever. But we couldn't because they had their... Guitar case. They had their guitar case.

It looks slightly like gangsters. Full of poker cheating equipment. Yeah. Yeah. Full of card counters. Yeah. Full of rain men. Yeah. Full of card counters. Yeah. Full of rain men. Yeah.

Full of rain men. Should we do it? Are we going to do it now? I think we are. We'll go to the casino. We'll chat to Weird Al, then we'll go to a casino. Yeah. That is a great Friday.

The sun's out. I feel good. All right. Well, I guess that's it for another episode of The Little Dumb Dumb Club. Thanks for listening. A bit of a weird, different one this week, but we hope you enjoyed our awkward start to a chat with Weird Al Yankovic. I did.

I hope the Wayans brothers enjoyed hearing it. I hope that woman in the disabled had heard it and enjoyed it. And we'll see you next time. See you, mate. See you, mate.