Remember Being a Herb? (with Simon O'Connor of Modest Mouse)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome their friend, musician Simon O'Connor! You may know Simon as the lead guitarist for Modest Mouse, touring bassist of MGMT and bassist/vocalist of Spiral Heads, but do you know if he's a total herb? Or if you are? Don't be so sure you can answer this question until the three of us define the personality characteristics of a herb and do our best herb impressions. Plus, we reminisce about having a Discman in the nineties: The time Jonah sold his Discman to Vanessa and then immediately took it back, the time Simon's discman was stolen by a former friend-turned-bully—and ponder if the Discman was even a good invention in the first place given all the skipping? Finally, in a rousing new game that was definitely named by Jonah, CONGRATULATIONS, YOU BAKED YOURSELF, we decide which of three culinary dishes we're most excited about making a comeback, despite never knowing any of them existed in the first place. So don't be a herb and check out this fantastic episode, and be sure to pre-order Simon's band Spiral Heads’ new album TIL I’M DEAD, which comes out this Friday! You can also learn more about Simon and his music over at his Instagram page.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.0	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:11.0	Who are very modest, if I do say so myself.
0:13.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Jonah, you know, I know we're both really excited for our guests today and our topic,
0:31.9	and it reminded me, without giving too much away, of the time that you sold your disc man to me, your Sony Discman to me,
0:40.1	when we were probably like in middle school. Do you remember that?
0:44.3	Vaguely. I remember it mostly from you talking about it.
0:48.0	But how much did I get, do you remember how it came about?
0:51.0	You were like, can I listen to your disc man? I was like, I'll sell it to you.
0:53.6	Yeah, it was like I had gotten, I don't know, I guess I had gotten like the Janet CD,
0:59.6	the Janet Jackson CD Janet.
1:01.4	Of course.
1:02.1	And I really wanted to listen to it or something.
1:04.6	And you had a disc man and I was like, wow, it would be so cool to be able to listen
1:08.7	to it and walk around and stuff. So you said for $45, you can buy this disc man from me.
1:14.9	So I did.
1:15.9	And wouldn't you know, I'd say the next day it was back in your room.
1:20.1	Wow.
1:20.6	So it was sort of like you sold me something, but then you actually took it back.
1:24.6	And I'd always have to like go find it.
1:27.5	Right, right.
1:28.3	So if you were a store, I'd say, let's put this one, this store out of business.
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