Remember Choose Your Own Adventure Books? (with Justin Courtney Pierre)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week on the podcast we are joined by the Bayers' longtime friend, solo artist and the frontman of the band Motion City Soundtrack, Justin Courtney Pierre, to reminisce about CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE books. We discuss why this book series was the most interactive entertainment a kid could find in the 1980s and how it encouraged creativity in a way we didn't fully comprehend at the time. Along the way we dig into formative childhood memories, why Jonah rebelled against pencil grips to write in a way that has never once interfered with his life and Vanessa's guess-and-check chemistry class controversy that has led her on a decades-long campaign against a certain high-school teacher's reasoning. We dig deep into the new Dunkin Donuts' inferior new rewards program on a segment called CONGRATULATIONS, YOU PLAYED YOURSELF and explore how corporate profits and diluted coffee go down even smoother than a Peanut Butter Cup latte. We also talk CEO culture, frequent flyer point strategies and the slippery slope of stoichiometry. If you're looking for a podcast where the coefficient equals tons of laughs plus psychological insights, you've come to the right place.

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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 pretty good examples for the generations to come, if I do say so myself.
0:15.0	Wow, welcome to How Did We Get Weird. how did we get weird?
0:30.8	Hey, everyone.
0:35.2	So a little update on our episode with Gabe Leidman a few weeks ago.
0:38.9	We talked about Manic Panic Harrod dye and talked a lot about record revolution.
0:41.7	The record store me and Vanessa used to go to a lot growing up.
0:46.7	And right after this episode aired, we learned that it was going to be closing after 55 years.
0:55.9	And so we just wanted to give a little shout out to Record Rev and let people know that you have until December 31st if you're in Cleveland to pick up some hair dye, some Doc Martins, anything like that. Vanessa, do you have any thoughts on this?
0:59.7	Yeah, I just wanted to say, I feel like we're so lucky because over Thanksgiving, we actually
1:04.2	stopped into Record Revolution and noticed that it was a little bit smaller than it was when we
1:09.0	were growing up, but still had that awesome punk feel, tons of manic panic products. And yeah, I would just say to any Clevelanders,
1:16.5	if you're able to head to Coventry while you're home for the holidays, again, they're open
1:21.6	until December 31st. You could stop by Tomies and get an absolutely delicious lunch and then go to Record Revolution and pick up some
1:29.4	pick up some Minutemen vinyl I have a copy of Minutemen's why do men start fires I got from record
1:33.9	rev and I think they still have the basement of the vinyl I wasn't we didn't really have time to go down
1:37.7	there too much but yeah shout out to record rev and if you're in town go check it out they did not
1:42.6	pay for this ad but we just wanted to give
1:44.3	a shout out because they were around for over 50 years. Jonah, I was thinking about our guest today,
1:49.3	who we've known for a pretty long time. Something that I thought was kind of interesting is,
1:54.3	you know, when you were in bands and stuff, like, you know, when I was in Chicago, you would always let me kind of do these rows of your various
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