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Episode 750: Parall-Al

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, streaming on the Roku Channel. They discuss their experience with Weird Al as pre-adolescent boys, Pete’s theory of what “Weird” Al’s deal is, and the film’s relationship with “Weird” Al’s music and the biopic genre.

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