The Weird Al Show: The Obligatory Holiday Episode

<p>🎄 It’s 1997, and we couldn’t decide which holiday to end the season with, so we’re celebrating them all. Pack up your accordion and join us on a journey 20 miles below the surface of the Earth to the very <i>Pee-wee’s Playhouse</i>-like split-level cave of “Weird Al” Yankovic as he learns to listen to his friends and family.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Joey O. (<a href="https://www.ynotradio.net/">Y-Not Radio</a>, <a href="https://www.ynotradio.net/pages.php?page=words-with-nerds">Words With Nerds</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/imgonnadj24">@imgonnadj24</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. <a href="https://weirdle.glitch.me">Weirdle</a>, the “Weird Al”-themed offshoot of Heardle, the music-themed offshoot of Wordle.  </p><p>2. <a href="https://www.nathanrabin.com/shop"><i>The Weird Accordion to Al</i></a>, by Nathan Rabin.  </p><p>3. <a href="https://www.ynotradio.net/ondemand.php?id=455">Joey interviews Ben Kweller</a> about his appearance with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfW7kk-tS8Q">Radish on <i>The Weird Al Show</i></a>.  </p><p>4. Al’s got a thing for <a href="https://www.weirdalstar.com/uhf/txt/27.list.html">the number 27</a>, which makes its way into this episode.  </p><p>5. Stan Freberg’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUcEnZZxO9Y"><i>Christmas Dragnet</i></a>, which I know from a <a href="https://www.oldies.com/product-view/15172.html">compilation CD from Philadelphia radio station WOGL</a>.  </p><p>6. Ed Marques (Varna) as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jZCjfzojKY&t=1019s">the Surf Guru on ZDTV’s <i>Internet Tonight</i></a>.  </p><p>7. I had no idea <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ"><i>I Lost on Jeopardy!</i></a> was a full parody of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAJNwPWVmNc">an actual song</a>.  </p><p>8. “Weird Al,” Paul Reubens, and Danny Elfman singing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UstQsJjgFTs"><i>Kidnap the Sandy Claws</i></a>.  </p><p>9. National Hamster Day exists. It’s <a href="