Part 2 of our 7th Anniversary Hoopla! Thanks to all the celebrities who appeared!
In this episode:
- we meet Weird Al Yankovic,
- Weird Al: The Book,
- finding a Weird Al LP in a messy used record store,
- Al’s least favorite album Polka Party!,
- Scotti Brothers Records,
- Crazy Eddie (his prices were insane!),
- bantering around with Weird Al,
- meeting friend and fellow NJ podcaster Brian Jude at the signing,
- Weird Al recording “Smells like Nirvana” instead of “Snack All Night”,
- how “I Lost on Jeopardy” revived the real Jeopardy! game show,
- The Weird Al Show (1997) on CBS,
- our trip to Chiller Theatre Expo 2012 in Parsippany, NJ,
- getting a picture with Tom Wopat a.k.a. Luke Duke,
- “Screech” Dustin Diamond teaching us a bar bet,
- Ian Ziering of Beverly Hills, 90210 seated in the horror room,
- John Wayne Bobbitt trying to talk to us,
- meeting nice guy Andrew McCarthy, star of Weekend at Bernie’s II (1993),
- meeting pop singer Samantha Fox,
- meeting a grumpy Frank Vincent,
- meeting Bronson Pinchot from Perfect Strangers,
- old ABC TGIF trading cards Laffs,
- Penny Marshall hiding from our camera,
- talking with Robert Duncan McNeill from Star Trek: Voyager,
- meeting a disinterested Shannon Elizabeth from American Pie (1999),
- meeting Lethal Weapon‘s Danny Glover,
- talking with the original voice of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney,
- the upcoming Caroll Spinney documentary I Am Big Bird (2013),
- our interview with Samantha Fox,
- TigerTime campaign to save wild tigers,
- and our new interview techniques.
Our pictures and videos from the Weird Al signing in Paramus, NJ:
Weird Al Yankovic book signing, Paramus, NJ 10/22/12
Our pictures from the Chiller Theatre Expo 2012 in Parsippany, NJ:
Chiller Theatre Expo, Parsippany, NJ 10/27/12
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weird al has always seemed like a decent and engaging fella – so nice it has been confirmed here by him recording a bumper for you. this expo sounds like something i’d like to attend one day; there is a bit of everything – even joan collins. i found it quite jarring to hear a british accent on your show; but i think samantha fox is famous over here for a couple of different reasons. ahem.
Love it. Thank you for posting this one ;-)
Yeah when Samantha Fox talked about reissuing her catalog I was wondering if any of the new albums would be like her original releases with topless pictures of her on the discs.
Man, that Screech guy looks so much like Shia LeBouff that if I saw him in person I’d have him sign my Optimus Prime and ask him what it was like working with Michael Bay. He’d probably do it, too.
Ivo, thanks for listening! :)
David and Esteban, I know Samantha Fox rose to fame because of teenage topless photos in British newspapers (I can’t believe that’s legal over there!), but I didn’t know that tidbit when I started listening to her music in the late 1980s. I genuinely liked her pop music.
Esteban, how cool would it be if Transformers 4 stars Dustin Diamond as Shia LaBeouf’s older brother and they have to fight the Decepticons together side-by-side?