Remember Backyard Swing-Sets? (with Bridget Everett)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode, our incredibly talented friend Bridget Everett stops by the pod fresh off the premiere of her new HBO show “Somebody Somewhere” and a feature in The New Yorker. Together we question why anyone ever thought dodgeball was a good idea for kids and reminisce on the glory of being a tall kid playing tetherball. We also dig deeper than ever on a favorite topic, the rampant misuse of change.org, and discuss varied topics ranging from pyramid schemes to the origins of P.F. Chang himself. Finally, we answer that age old question: Are Amway products any good? You'll have to listen to find out.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.8	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 just little darlings, if I do say so myself.
0:13.8	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking, you know, we've talked before about some of your kind of failed business ideas from when you were younger.
0:36.0	And I think it might kind of be a genetic thing
0:39.2	because, you know, our dad had some businesses that didn't quite work out for him. And I thought
0:44.6	we could talk about that. Yeah, our dad had a bit of a transitional period, I think. He left his one
0:49.6	job and then eventually started his own business. But I felt like in between, there were some other things that didn't quite pan out.
0:58.1	Speaking of panning out, one was gold coins, I believe.
1:01.6	Yeah, one was gold coins.
1:02.8	He actually gave me the name of it.
1:04.8	It was called Circle of Gold.
1:06.8	Okay.
1:07.3	Already sounds like a scam.
1:09.0	Sounds like a full scam.
1:10.7	It was a thing where like you bought gold coins and then I don't know, you're just, they were investments or something, but then just probably someone was scamming him.
1:26.1	So that was circle of Gold, huge.
1:28.9	Yeah, I think it's also, I tried to look it up just, I think it's like a young adult novel from 1984 also maybe inspired that business.
1:37.3	If he had invested in that book instead, he probably would have made more money.
1:40.4	Yeah, that's true.
1:42.2	And then we've talked about his, you know, he almost started this gyro company.
1:46.9	Right.
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