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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear

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Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. Kyle
Gordon is a New York City based improvisational

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comedian, actor, and writer,
and he's got a new album out called

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Kyle Gordon Is Great. I guess
we don't have to ask how you're doing

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because we already know. Yeah,
feeling good, feeling amazing, feeling great,

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thank you. And upon this album, You've got a lot of great

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new parody songs. But it's almost
like a concept album, isn't it to

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the listener? Yeah? Yeah,
exactly. Yeah. So, as you

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mentioned, it's a comedy album,
and each song on the album is a

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parody of a different genre of music. So there's like, you know,

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some country music, some pop punk
music, some Irish music. So it

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really kind of spans a lot of
different genres. But I sort of tether

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it together with these inter ludes of
radio stations, so when you're listening to

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the album, it sort of feels
like you're in the car flipping the station,

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listening to all these different genres.
So yeah, in that sense,

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there is a one cohesive concept that
kind of ties all these weird genres and

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weird songs together. Well, let's
talk about one of those songs, Antonio

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Frankfurt's Ugliest Girl on the Beach.
Is this a Boston Nova spoof? Yes,

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exactly? Yeah right, so,
yeah, listeners might know if Boston

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Nova it's like a Brazilian smooth jazz. It was popular in the early sixties.

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Girl from Ipanima is probably the most
famous song in that genre. So

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this was a parody of that style
of music. Yeah, so tall and

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tan and young, young and lovely. Yeh, there we go. Yeah,

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although although this girl, this girl
is not that ravishing, I guess

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no, Yeah, I mean he
comes right out with it. He doesn't

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beat around the bush. She's the
ugliest girl on the beach, but he

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still wants a piece. Sure,
because she's Brazilian, of course, that's

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the vibe. Well, I grew
up, I mean, that's why I

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got into this. But I knew
at the age of five this is what

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I wanted to do with my life. I don't know why, but you

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too must. I mean, I've
been a fan of radio all along my

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whole life. You must have been
a real good fan of it too.

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Yeah, I mean that's I mean
a lot of my early musical taste was

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shaped by listening to the radio in
New York, specifically listening to a lot

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of classic rock radio and top forty
pop radio. So yeah, absolutely,

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I had a lot many, many, many many hours in the car,

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you know, driving all over listening
to radio. So that absolutely has shaped

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my taste and perspective for sure.
Kyle Gordon and the name of the album

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is Kyle Gordon Is Great, featuring
his release from Antonio Frankfurt, Ugliest Girl

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on the Beach available everywhere. Yeah, I too have. I've been in

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the business long enough to know that
I can make fun of that with driving

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and weather together room because I was
one of those guys. I love it.

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Yeah. Yeah, you're listening to
Kyle krd new album. Everybody those

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tripping now, Yeah, Jackson in
the Morning, Sandy to the Afternoon.

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Uh, that's awesome, it is. But also you know, there's there's

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there were these uh, these genres
of radio that like when you go back

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to the old days of the Golden
age of radio, there seemed to be

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this idea that you everything had to
either rhyme or have assimilation, Like Sonny

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It's hona solely under the sun,
you know that kind of thing. Uh

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yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's worth worth making fun of,

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definitely. So what what got you
started in comedy? Yeah? So,

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I mean, if you want to
go all the way back, it's

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kind of the cliche story, kind
of class clown type personality my whole life.

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But yeah, then after college,
it's kind of hard to even think,

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like where do you even get started
doing something like that? But I,

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you know, essentially just moved to
New York started doing improv comedy.

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That's that's where I kind of cut
my teeth. But after a while I

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wanted to develop sort of a solo
comedy act, but I wasn't a stand

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up so I developed this weird kind
of act where I have the you know,

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I'd play music and each song was
a different character. So all the

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songs that you hear on this album, these are songs that I'd been playing

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live in New York for many,
many, many years. So it's very

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cool for me to now be able
to release these songs fully produced to the

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world because you know, they've been
in my DNA for so many years.

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I imagine bouncing around your head too. Oh yeah, absolutely. And my

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girlfriend is she wants to kill me. I chose to have it bouncing around

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my head. She did not.
Yeah. Yeah, lovely wife has plenty

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of periods where she wants to strangle
me as well. Kyle, It's part

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of it. Yep, Kyle Gordon
is Great is the name of the album

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eight of the best, funniest and
most unique music musical comedy songs of all

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time. And let's talk about the
heritage of your character that sings Ugliest Girl

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on the Beach. He's kind an
interesting story on Toni Antonio Frankfurt. His

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name is half Brazilian, half German. Yes, it's quite interesting. Yeah,

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the Yeah, the origin of that
character is Yeah, he and his

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family moved to Brazil from Germany under
curious circumstances in nineteen forty five. Yeah,

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escaping with the other nazis right,
Yeah, well I guess yeah,

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that's yeah. Yeah, we want
to come right out with it. That's

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probably you know there, aren't You
know? If you have a blonde haired,

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blue eyed guy in Brazil with the
last name Frankfurt, who in nineteen

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you know, sixty three is twenty
five years old, you can kind of,

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you know, put the pieces together. Yeah, how did he get

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into music. Yeah. So the
background, the background of this character,

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Antonio Frankfurt, he was a you
know, he was an aspiring football player

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in Brazil, but unfortunately he was
stabbed in the leg after he incided a

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riot in a postgame match, and
so as a way to continue to meet

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women, he just picked up the
guitar and you know, it took off

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from there. You know, he
became one of the best known and horniest

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musicians in Brazil. And his song
Ugliest Girl on the Beach was actually the

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English language translation of the of the
original Portuguese song moher Norenta the Hideous Woman.

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And yeah, so that song sort
of blew up in the States,

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and you know it was his career
took off from there. Oh, it's

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fantastic and you got to hear it. I love it. I also love

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that. You know, you have
to have a backstory to these characters,

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you really do. Yeah. Yeah, I dig in deep, I dig

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in Deep. Kyle Gordon is Great
is the album eight of the best funniest

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and most unique musical comedy songs of
all time. If you love improv comedy

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in this kind of quirky style,
I think you'll really love this and just

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in time for the holidays too.
Kyle Gordon, thanks for joining us,

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Thank you so much for having me, Thanks for listening to Later with Lee

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Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast,
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