Remember Digimon? (with Bowen Yang)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Friend of the pod Bowen Yang stopped by this week to discuss his childhood obsession with Pokeman's less popular but more badass peer, Digimon. Along the way Jonah pitches Bowen on a potentially lucrative business deal, Vanessa sings some of your favorite commercial jingles and we debate the return of Oreo Cakesters. We also discuss the pros and cons of curated subscription services, discuss Bowen's brief tenure as a fashion designer and get nostalgic about our favorite scents from childhood. If you're looking for a podcast that's as entertaining as it is educational, this is the episode for you!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.4	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 extremely laid back if I do say so myself.
0:14.2	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking about how you're like a really enterprising guy.
0:33.8	And I was thinking about a business idea you had when we were younger.
0:38.2	Do you want to elaborate on that?
0:40.6	Sure.
0:41.2	Yeah, a lot of people don't know how enterprising I am.
0:43.7	But yeah, big fan of Shark Tank.
0:46.1	Huge.
0:47.1	Yep.
0:47.6	You emailed Mark Cuban once and he emailed you back, right?
0:50.2	I did find Mark Cuban's email and I asked him to be in my old podcast and he did write me back right away and said I've been doing a lot of podcasts but email me next year and I still have his email.
0:59.9	Yeah.
1:01.5	We may have to have Mark Huberon on this podcast.
1:04.3	I haven't reached out to him in a few years.
1:06.4	Yeah.
1:06.8	You know, when I lived in Cleveland, my friend John, his name is John Stewart, different John Stewart.
1:11.4	Different John Stewart. Yeah, different John Stewart than most people will know. But he had this idea for a
1:15.1	company that we almost started called Surprise Enterprise. The idea was, this was before subscription
1:20.7	services were like a big thing like they are now. This was probably like 15 years ago.
1:24.9	Yeah, maybe longer. Maybe longer. And the idea was you sign up, you go online, you pick like the things you're into,
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