WEBVTT - Weird Al 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.720 My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of this podcast 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:08.520 is joy. I talk to interest in people about what 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:09.600 brings them happiness. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:13.680 Weird Aal Yankovic. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.720 If you don't love weird Dally Yankovic, I have one 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:17.520 question for you. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.919 How long have you been in Al Qaeda? Here is 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.159 I said, I feel like I feel like you know, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.080 I've done shows were like happen hour in like is 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.240 this the show? Are we doing the show? No, we 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.080 are doing the show. It's all right, So you know, 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:40.360 sit up straight, don't do anything. Don't radio voice, Yeah, 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.440 use your radio voice. Don't mention anything that will get 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.280 you or me canceled, or maybe you do. I think 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.199 that it's now come full circle and you have to 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.240 say something that gets you canceled so that you're participating. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.400 You don't get canceled every decadar So people wonder what's 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.160 wrong with you. Well, yeah, you get canceled. I don't 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.440 know if you if actually is the thing that you 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:02.080 get canceled. 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.120 Does anybody really get canceled? I mean yeah, I think 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.759 a couple of people got canceled. I mean, but they 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.160 were like really really bad. Really yeah, yeah, they're like 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.119 they were like jail canceled. Yes, but when you're jail canceled, yeah, 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.240 jail canceled. That that's like the gold standard of canceled. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:25.080 So listen to me and and say nothing until I finish. Okay, no, 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.240 listen to me. It's lovely to see you. I haven't 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.280 seen you since oh my god, since maybe Scotland. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.319 Was it that longer? Yeah, I guess it might have been. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.200 It may have been. Oh no, maybe I think you 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.280 know what I think I saw you. Maybe I saw 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.120 you in my host in Elia. I was getting a tattooed. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.600 And you can't have a look because you've never seen 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.800 anyone get a tattooed, not up clothes, which I have 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.920 to say out as someone who has the broken roller 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.720 dances you have. You're really, you're very You're lacking a 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:50.680 lot in tattoos. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.320 I'm not a big fan of needles, you know. I 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.680 just I just, actually, like an hour ago, got my 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.800 COVID booster and flu shots. Oh so Bill Gates knows 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:00.320 you're here that well, I don't know. It's oh my god. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:01.800 I either got the one where Bill Gates is going 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:03.840 to be controlling my mind, or I got the one 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:05.760 where my five g phone is going to turn me 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:07.440 into a zombie. So I'm not sure which one I got. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.040 I only just heard about that. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.079 The theory about that that noise on your phone goes 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:13.880 off triggers your COVID. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:19.639 Yeah, it turns you in Fuh. I like that cool. Yeah, 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.440 they think of a lot, they think of all the 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.679 cold so creative. Yeah, it's lovely, but I will see this. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.880 I got my COVID jabs in Scotland, so I think 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.280 it won't work in me. I think it basically if 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.120 it mang goes off, I turned into fat back. Once 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.880 you across the border, it's all bets are off. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.120 Did you get COVID? I did? Yeah, I was so 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.360 very very careful. But we toured last year for six months, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.040 and uh, I think I was the first one to 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.280 kick COVID. You got it and then you infected the 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.800 whole band. Yeah no, no, we all just took turns. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.120 We all thankfully nobody got not more than one person 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.120 in the band got COVID at the same time, but 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.120 we all took turns. Well. I think that that's very 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:03.040 profession it was a very professional way to approach the band. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.400 I think we could all have learned from that. What 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.079 do you call your band? Just the weird Al band? Yeah, 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:10.320 I mean I call him. 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.079 Jim Steve and John Ruban, I guess, but the collective 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.639 none for the band, just yeah Al's band. You know, 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.840 for a while, we're changing the name of the band 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.480 every tour, like back when Dirty Stupid was the album 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.440 there with a stupid band or you know, it's just 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:25.800 like a theme for the album, but we gave up 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.240 on that. Look, I have a name for a band, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.280 and I think you can have it if you think 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.160 it for free? Yeah, okay, you're ready, Yes, call on Floss, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.200 coll On Floss, coll on Floss. Yeah, what do you think? 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.840 Is it too too much? You know, I'm gonna I'm 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.600 gonna put that in my back pocket and near and 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.960 stick a pen in any well, see what you did say? 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.120 What you did? Now? 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.480 Listen, you've been on tour. I was talking to Suzan, 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.560 your lovely lady wife about this. You've been on tour 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:01.400 a lot, like like for the past like thirty years continually. Yeah, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.440 pretty much? Right, well a lot a lot? 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.760 Yeah? Do you still love it? I do? You know, 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.920 it's my favorite part of what I do. I mean, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.120 I don't like being away from my loved ones. Oh 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.480 you take them with you. They do it now now 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.440 that we're empty nesting. My wife and I actually my 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.600 wife joined me on the entire last flag of the 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.239 tour because we did Australia and euro up in Hawaiian 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:22.920 and she thought, oh, that might be fun, so we 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.680 got She got to actually tour with me. So that 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.160 was nice. That was nice. It was your daughter in college? 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.880 She is, Yeah, she's she's on the East Coast. I 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.800 can't believe that. I'm so old. She used to be 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.160 a baby and now she's in college. I've got one 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:36.760 of them that used to be a baby and is 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.480 finished college. Wow. And then the other one used to 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.760 be a baby and does it school and is a teenager. Ooh, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.880 that's pretty rough. You know, the teenagers thing. What would 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:53.240 you like as a teenager? You rebellious? Well, in not 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.720 as such. I mean I was. You know, you've heard 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.800 my song white and Nerdy. That was me. I graduated 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.080 high school when I was sixteen as the valedictorian. So 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:03.680 I was one of those straighting nerds that people like 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.440 to beat up at recess. Wait, so you were bullied 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.280 a little? I mean, you know, I did I didn't 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:11.960 literally get beat up all the time, but I go 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.880 totally Barbara on right now, I'm going, I'm going to 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.320 do it. Alice, it was like, no Ah, you you 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.520 were bullied, right, It's true. It's a repressed memory. It's 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.200 all coming back now. So you were you were bullied 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:23.440 in that. 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.360 Because we've talked about this, and it's about every single 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.560 time I talked to you in a recording format. We 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.640 talked about eat It because it was my first exposure 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.520 to weird. Awa Yankovic was in a I was in 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.040 a cab in New York. I was very, very affected 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:42.560 by the narcotics that I've had fairly recently. To the 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.720 cab right starting and I heard eat It. And it 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:47.880 was the cab driver I remember was Egyptian. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.240 And when when you sang have a banana, half a 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.520 whole bunch, it doesn't matter what you've had for lunch, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.760 he had to pull over. We were both laughing so hard, 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.840 and I don't think he'd been taking some narcotics. I 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.680 had said, we have a lot more narcotics. But you know, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.240 it was dangerous. Hell people could have got hurt, you know. 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.400 I I don't hold myself liable for any of that. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.280 I had my record label sign a waiver that if 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:15.880 anybody is any traffic accidents. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.240 It's an interesting world you've comeved for yourself though, because 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.040 it's not like who's the new WEIRDL or who is 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:23.400 the weird al before weird Ow. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.240 It's just weird hell. I mean, you know they're there 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.560 for a while, I was getting pitched a bunch of teeth. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.920 There's a period of time where I literally had six 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.640 different production companies say we want you to host a 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.520 show called find a New Weird Al. No, you know, 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.160 one of these reality shows. And I was like, why 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.520 would I want to do that? I'm already and still 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.360 and continue to be weird al. Why don't we want 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:46.000 a new weird al? 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.280 But that's it seems so strange to me because they 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.920 that's that. I feel that's rude. But was that, like 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:55.960 Simon cow You can tell me it was it, Simon Cole? 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.000 Is that? I mean? I might have bad I don't know. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.200 He sends to me like a try and fight America's 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.640 new weird Right? How does how did you get the 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.719 name weird? It was something that was kind of foisted 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.640 on me in college. I think my freshman year in 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.160 the dorms in college is ironic because you're not weird. 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.120 Well no, I think you know, they thought I was 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.360 weird because I were a little weird. That's gonna say. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:20.520 It's come full circle. It's like drinking yourself sober. It's like, 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.560 he's not weird, We'll call him weird, but yeah, actually 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:23.000 are weird. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.600 Yeah. I would be roaming around the halls of my 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.559 dorm and people would say, Oh, who's that just weird? 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.560 Hell weird? Uh yeah, and then I just took it 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.560 on as a radio name professionally. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.960 Now I'm going to ask you something about this because 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.160 you strike me as someone who should have gone through 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:39.360 a goth period. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.520 But I don't think dead. Did you a goth period? Yeah, 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.000 you should have been a goth man, there's still time. Yeah, 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.200 well that's kind of where I was going with this. 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.280 I feel like it's I didn't become a goth either, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.880 and we could do goth things together, likeng out and 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.960 be in a bad mood pot phase and I had punk. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.680 Yeah, but it's not the same. Yeah, you know you 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.520 don't know anything about it. Shut up, Dad, I hate you. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.720 But what I'm saying is we could wear black lipstick 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.600 and hang out and mat and go to the I 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:11.559 just where we record. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.960 This place is right next to the Museum of Death. Oh, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.440 I didn't even know about that. Yeah, it's a museum 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.960 right nearby and it's called the Museum of the Graveyard. No, 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.120 I don't think so, I'm too scared to go in. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.960 I think they should rebrand graveyards as museums of death. Right. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.400 There's a road sign in the town that I drive 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.160 into in Scotland sometimes and it says retail park and 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.839 it points to the left, and cemetery and it points 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.800 to the right. And every time we drive by, Megan 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.520 who you know, my wife always says, buying it, bought it. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:49.720 So listen, you leave school at sixteen having been horribly bullied. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.280 Hell, let's go with that. Yeah you weren't really were 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.559 you it? This is in La though, right, Yeah, yeah, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:59.480 Lynnwood Linwood Knights represent no lynn Wood. I don't even 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.400 I live alley for twenty over twenty years. I haven't 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.480 even heard a line. Would I went to the same 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.320 high school as Sugar Night and who else? Mark House? 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.199 How's he doing? He never calls, he never writes. I'm 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.920 worried sick about him, did does see you in the 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:19.520 school hall of fame schools? I didn't know either if 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.920 I was talking to Vetna Cole Brown about it. Here's 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.679 this will annoy you as much as annoyed me. Vetnicole 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.480 Brown went to the same school as our Senior Hall 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:33.280 and their school has a Hall of Fame and they 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.920 have a hall which you know, like the gym like 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.160 the gymnasium as a hall, and they named the hall. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.760 Now remember our Senior Hall went to this this. I'm 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:52.120 with you, Nicole Brown Hall. I'm like you, oh my god, 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.280 and it should have beout our Senio Hall Hall. 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.760 Senior Hall Hall is what I said, and that is 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.160 hall Hall, right, And then you can have a Vetnicole Brown, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.880 you know else staff toilet. 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.840 Or something, but no territorial clock. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.920 I mean she she can, you know, she's a very 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.800 magnificent human being, but nothing else but a whole Come 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.960 on the hall if you have or cito. I mean, 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.640 I love it, but but come on exactly anyway, That's 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.440 that was when I found out schools have halls of fame. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.640 But you just doesn't right. Maybe it's a secret one, 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:22.320 maybe after being a guild or. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.319 Maybe you know, and it's Shug's in it and you're 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.319 not in it, saying that's probably what happened. So did 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.000 you graduate school at sixteen? 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.000 Yeah? Yeah, so I started high school when I was twelve. Wow. Yeah? 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.920 Were you like some like Doogie Housers? You know? I 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.760 mean I think my parents had me start kindergarten a 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.320 year before they should have, and then in second grade 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.280 they thought I was too advanced that they just brought 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.080 me right in the third grade. So my whole youth, 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.439 I was like two years younger than most of my classmates. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.360 That's kind of interesting because that's going to make you 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.880 feel like a little bit of an outsider. Did you 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.079 feel like an outside? Well, yes, I did, But I 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:00.800 don't think it was totally because of my age, because, 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.400 like I said, I was I was pretty nerdy, and 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.319 I was I was pretty you know, awkwardly and not 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.439 very social. So I think even if I was the 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.199 same age, I still would have kind of stood out 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.319 and not really fit in. Yeah. I think that's possibly true. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.040 And the thing is about it as well, I think 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.839 maybe a lot of people don't know this about you. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:22.000 You're very techy, aren't you. I mean you're very You're 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:26.400 very knowledgeable about particularly musical stuff. Is what I'm going 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.480 to say, Like, do you keep up on like all 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.319 the like synth technology and the like super like what 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.400 does it call that thing again? 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.079 Auto beep or something erotic? 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.560 Auto erotic massage? I think that's it's that musical thing. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.360 It seems to be. Actually it's done with a few musicians, 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:42.760 for sure. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.280 It would it be terrible though, if I was gonna 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.240 do that, and I'm not saying I haven't, but I 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:49.560 haven't done it today. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.800 Yes, but if I was going to do that, I'd 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.640 be scared. You know, well you should be. Oh yeah, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.439 I don't like to feel scared when I'm on my own. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.120 You should not feel that way. All right, let's get 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:01.800 that us. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.360 So, so if you graduate high school at sixty WHATBS 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:06.040 did you go to college? 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.920 I did? I went to the California Polytechnic State University 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.599 at San Luis Obispo. That's a catchy one, you know. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.800 T shirts are three feet wide. Get the whole name 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:18.199 on there. Wow, Sant Louis Episto Abispo Abisspe. Is that 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.240 where they have the hotel? That's yes, they have a 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.760 hotel there, but it's good. Madonna's Madonna and Yeah, have 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.360 you been there? I have you? 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:32.040 Oh, that's that's the you know, tourist attraction in San Labe. Yeah, 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.040 I went to the I think I stayed in the 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.520 flint Stones room. Oh, the Caveman room. 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.400 Right, Caveman. There's like a three three year waiting list 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.559 for that room. He must be like important or something. No, No, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:42.959 this was way back in the day. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.760 This is before the internet had snuck up with the 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.360 Madonna and there's the other one. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.800 Have you stayed there? I I think I think one 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.360 time when we the band played sant Luisibiso, I think 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.160 they arranged to actually have a stay at Madonna and 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.199 which is pretty cool. Yeah. Do you remember what room 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.120 you were in? Not the cave Man room. I wasn't 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.520 quite that. That's maybe then I have seen it. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.120 It was for a whole event I was doing on 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.880 my own about auto erotic cave dwelling. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:14.280 Yes, So what did you study at college? Architecture? No? See, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.079 what the hell? What was I doing? I don't know. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.840 Are you still into architecture? You know, not so much. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.480 I mean I appreciate a good building, but you know 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.760 it kind do you like do you like a brutalist 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.080 you know, kind of German bowhouse type of brown ones, 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.680 brown buildings, and you would have been a terrible architect. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.920 I was the worst. Yeah, because you have what kind 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.520 of building you gotta put up out brown one? I 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.199 think this needs a brown one? Can we see a drawing? 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.160 But you the reason I say about the techie stuff 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.240 is because you do the best birthday cars in the world. 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.400 Anybody who's a friend of yours that you do the greatest, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.880 greatest birthday car and. 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:53.800 No thank you. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:55.679 And I showed the last one you did for me, 0:13:55.760 --> 0:14:00.400 which was sensational, and I showed it to my youngest 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.360 son and he's like, Liam, who you of course, and 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:04.080 he was. 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.000 Like, oh my god, that must have taken him weeks 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.400 to do that. And I was like, yeah, I think 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.079 it really did. But it didn't. I'll did it well, 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.360 it did, but I have to confess you're not the 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:19.000 only person who sent that card too. I changed the 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.120 names for the other people though. But so it's a 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.160 kind of like super high tech jib jab thing. It is. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.480 You know, it's a I guess we'll give him a plug. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.600 It's American Greetings and it's a it's a birthday card. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.880 People think oh, it's a I they had you like 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.520 doing like all these different names. You like, they made 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.080 your mouth move and made the word no. It's old school. 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.480 I literally had to go through like over a thousand 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:43.560 names to do that, and every single age and every 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.880 you know, so I had to you know, there are 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.800 like two different times when I mentioned somebody's names, so 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.480 I had to go twice through the entire scene with 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.560 a thousand names. It's a lot of work. Why did 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.040 you do this? I mean, because the card is fine, Well, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:57.880 you know, I just wanted to freak you out. It 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.960 freaked me out. Or when I go to I was like, oh, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.480 oh my god, it's crazy. I really genuine I mean, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.720 I'm not illiterate in the world of tech, but I'm like, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.040 I have no idea how he did this. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.720 I have genuinely no idea. And I remember years ago. 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.000 You might not remember that, but when I was on 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.000 the Drew Carey Show. I played Drew's English boss, of course, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.200 mister Wick, and you came on the show and you 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.880 did a like a rap video type thing with Drew. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.920 Do you remember that a rap video? 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.080 I think I can't know it was. I was joining 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.040 Drew's band at the very end or something like that. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.600 They made another recordion player. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.000 Yeah, it was something, didn't you do some kind of 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.720 like it looked like a kind of nineties rap thing. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.800 I can't remember, but you're probably confused me. The only thing, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.920 the main thing I remember about doing the Drew Carry 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.040 show was it was right after I had my laser surgery, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.800 so I wasn't doing the glasses and the mustache anymore, 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.960 and the producers insisted that I have the glasses of 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.480 the mustache otherwise how are. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:53.760 They gonna help? You know? 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.600 They did the same with Drew Drew on that show, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.680 he got lasix and he lost like forty pounds and 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:00.560 these to make. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:06.360 Wear a fats really seasons. I was like, he's coming in, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.040 Like I got, I got a fatso on and put 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.480 the glasses on, so they knew it was Drew Carry. 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.080 But he had lost the way. I don't feel so 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.280 bad now. I also didn't have to wear a fatster. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.920 I wasn't English either. I had to plan to be English. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.640 Was it was a mess. It's a mess, you gotta 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:32.080 do it. Yeah, did you ever do a sitcom for 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.920 atlant at time? Not in a length at time? No, 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.360 I did some animated stuff. I was. I was Mile 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.280 Murphy and Mile Murphy's Law, but I was never in 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:39.640 any kind of live action. Right. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:44.000 Okay, so let me ask you this. You're in doing architecture. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:45.360 Did you graduate as an architect? 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.000 I did, got my degree. I could design your house tomorrow, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:53.880 very very very badly. So if really, yeah, yeah, I 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:55.600 never knew this, But I don't know why I don't 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.000 know this. I've done you for quite a long time. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.760 I didn't know you were an architect. Well I'm not. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.360 I have a degreking an architect. And there's a few 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.040 other steps you have to go through before you didn't 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.600 actually practice? No, you never did, did you do? What 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.440 about you any of your houses that you live in? 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.800 Have you ever designed them? No? What about shoving? Did 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.440 you even divine as shoving? Universal? You know, I will 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.200 say I designed a couple of my bathroom remodels. Okay, 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:16.680 fair enough. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.080 That doesn't make your own, you know, it just makes 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.359 you a guy who goes to the bathroom service. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:22.359 Yeah. I think the. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:27.359 Series closets would be nice, Yes, they would be lovely. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.359 So what happened? You graduate as an architect? But radio 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.440 is what you love? Right? Yeah? I just you know, 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:33.879 I didn't know what I was going to do when 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.960 I graduated. I didn't think I'd have a career in 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.440 showbiz or anything like that. But I figured, like I graduated, 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.080 I was like, what nineteen twenty and I figured, actually 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.760 my senior year in college, Capital Records put out my 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.040 Bologna because I recorded that in the bathroom across the 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:53.240 radio station. But yeah, it was. And I still didn't think, like, oh, 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:54.719 this is when I when I'm going to be doing 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.520 for the next forty years. But I thought, well, you 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.440 know what, I've got a sinkle on Capitol Records. I 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.840 might as well knock on some doors and see if 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.000 I can make anything out of this kooky career thing. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.639 There wasn't like a plan then. It just kind of 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:08.400 you followed the hood of the car and it took 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.520 you where it was going. Pretty much. I think that's great. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.760 You know, I was a found of the Doctor Demanto show, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:15.080 and he was giving me a lot of as talked 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:19.120 to me, adulta dementto because I'm illiterate in the world 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.560 Adulta Demanto, okay, other than what I've seen portrayed fictionally. 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.800 So you have to take me through what eyes because 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.080 it's a real cult thing in LA. Right, you have 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.080 to join a cult to listen to the show. Yes, right, 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.200 Well there's a few cults in LA and I get that, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.720 but this particular one and it was a real cult favorite, right. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.520