Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.

We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.

Who are quite empathetic if I do say so myself.

Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking about when we were younger and how you weren't always the smartest with money.

Yeah, that is true.

My friend Bruce recently brought up the story that I thought would be great for the podcast. This

podcast is great because so many embarrassing stories from like being a teenager come up in my day-to-day

life and I'm like, oh, I should write this down and talk about it. So when I think I was a sophomore

in college, I was in Ithaca, New York, very cold, very cold in the winter is very snowy. But Ithaca is gorgeous. But it's gorgeous. And my mom, our mom,

gave me $100 to buy a winter jacket. I had this like Adidas track jacket that was not very warm,

not made for upstate New York winters. And I went to the mall with my friend Bruce in Ithaca.

And we were walking around the mall and I couldn't find a jacket I liked. I was probably 18 or 19.

And I was getting frustrated.

And then Bruce noticed that PlayStation had just dropped this prices.

And I could actually get a PlayStation for $99.

And so we were like, well, I could get this winter jacket or I could have like a PlayStation

that we could play for like the whole, the whole year.

And so clearly I bought the PlayStation and did not have a winter jacket for that whole school year.

And it was like freezing snow.

I was so cold, but I would just like go home and just play Tony Hawk and just sort of just deal with it.

Yeah.

Jonah, in retrospect, do you think you made the right decision?

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