Remember Ab Machines from the 90s? (with John Early)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On today's ep the Bayers welcome their good friend, the hilarious and supremely talented John Early! They reminisce about hanging out at Bonnaroo in Nashville and Vanessa does a really good rendition of an Ellie Goulding song and tries to convince everyone that she's genuinely friends with Chance the Rapper. They also get into nineties ab machines and how the Bayers owned an ab roller that Jonah didn't even know about, and how John almost burned himself many times with an ab toning belt. Finally, they play an incredible round of Change.Dork where they debate whether it's more important to support adding a burger chain to Nashville or a teenager who is fighting to keep the blender on the counter. You won't want to miss this honestly perfect episode.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.7	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:10.6	Who are pretty introspective, if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did eight years ago. I don't know exactly how long ago it was. It could have been 10 years ago. We both kind of independently
0:38.0	went to the same Bonneroo and we got to hang out and honestly have a blast in our guest today's
0:43.8	hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. Yeah, you were there what you were performing in the comedy tent.
0:49.3	I think I was doing stand-up, yes, in the comedy tent. And I was there working for the fixture company,
0:55.2	Kohler. Shower fixture. And you had never heard of it before, which is really funny because it's a
0:59.1	pretty popular. I had never heard of it. Yeah, an old editor of mine who's a friend, Randy, who is
1:03.9	nice enough to hire me. And it was like a sponsored thing. And they had showers there. It was sponsored by Kohler and you because it was like they
1:10.9	camping and stuff. You could like buy a shower, but then we had bands come there and like perform at
1:15.9	the showers and I would interview them and it just happened to be the same year. You were there
1:19.8	performing. Got it. Got it. Got it. Okay. Yeah. And then our guest today was also performing standup.
1:26.0	And I remember the comedy tent where we could perform
1:28.9	stand-up, it was like the coolest spot at Bonner. It was like very air-conditioned. And I remember also
1:34.1	that the audience wasn't really into either mine nor John's comedy. They're kind of like,
1:39.9	I don't know what they were looking for, but they weren't getting it from us.
1:44.3	They were drunk, I think.
1:45.9	They were drunk.
1:46.6	And truly just wanted the AC.
1:48.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:48.9	That's right.
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