Remember Being a Latchkey Kid? (with Geoff Rickly)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

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Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly took a break from playing arenas with My Chemical Romance to talk to us about what it was like being a latchkey kid in the suburbs of New Jersey during the "Home Alone" era of parental supervision. Along the way we also discuss the time Geoff and Jonah's screamo band, United Nations, were sued by the actual United Nations; the fine line between art and absurdity; and Geoff's memories of his first-period chorus class. We also discuss how Jonah stayed at Geoff's childhood home nearly two decades ago for work and recall Vanessa's cherished childhood cat, Pumpkin. Finally. we play an inaugural round of a new segment called "CEO TAKEDOWN" where we look at three CEOs who have made headlines lately and determine which one needs to be taken down a notch. If you're a fan of "the system" you might not enjoy this podcast because this one is for the true punks and outcasts, not the Wall Street billionaires or corrupt cookie corporations who thrive on conceit and complacency. (You know who you are.)

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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
0:09.5	the people we are today.
0:10.6	Who are sort of emo, if I do say so myself.
0:13.4	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So good email, huh?
0:28.5	Yeah, we pick a different adjective every week, and I thought emo in celebration of our
0:32.8	guests, although I'm not sure I'm super psyched about that.
0:35.7	But hey, always good to start off with a weird reference.
0:39.8	Yeah, so today, our guest, it's someone who I've been in a band with for a long time.
0:43.9	And the band is called United Nations.
0:45.8	And there's a story about the band that our singer Jeff, who's our guest today, who will give a formal intro, used to tell on stage about us being sued by the United Nations.
0:53.6	And I think that there's sort of a lot of
0:55.3	purposeful misinformation about the band. But I think a lot of people thought that this was made up.
1:01.2	And I don't think it was. It wasn't. It wasn't. And so, Jeff, I'm wondering if you can tell the
1:07.3	story a little bit and then we'll give you an introduction, but I feel like you know
1:10.9	it sort of better than anyone else. But we wanted to tell a story kind of related to the band
1:14.8	in celebration of you coming on the pod. This is the genius of that band is I'm not sure I always
1:19.7	knew everything that was going on in the band either. Like it was so decentralized to like,
1:23.4	there were lots of times that maybe one of us knew one thing and then somebody else knew another thing, but like it never fully got around.
1:29.5	But the way that I came to find out that the United Nations was coming after us was we put
1:33.6	out the first record and immediately, I think MySpace had done like a premiere of it or something.
1:40.8	It was insane.
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