Our first episode explores the Magna Carta of novelty music, the Weird “Al” Yankovic Devo-pastiche song “Dare to be Stupid”. We discuss out-Devoing Devo, cliche stupidity vs. situational stupidity, primitivist synthesizer programming, and a grand unified geo-gastronomical theory of the western hemisphere. Reggie from “Chris and Reggie’s Cosmic Treadmill” podcast talks to us about using a technique called “fast forward” to hear, more immediately, this call-to-arms for the funny-shirt set.