Remember Educational Media? (with Adam Conover)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

You've seen comedian and writer Adam Conover break down important topics on his hit TV shows "Adam Ruins Everything" and "The G Word With Adam Conover," but his intellectual expertise also extends to nostalgia. On this episode of the podcast, Adam tells us about the video games he played on his graphing calculator in school, his his indie rock/funny folk music band and why he hopes no one listening to this podcast will ever hear it. We also dive deep into the educational television series Square One Television, Vanessa and Jonah reminisce about Ben Affleck's memorable role in "Voyage of the Mimi" and we trace the career traject of the vocal group Rockapella from Carmen Sandiego's house band to Folgers instant coffee fame. Finally, we play a round of YESTOLGIA OR NOSTALGIA where we debate the merits of Cinnabon-flavored cereal, the return of Taco Bell's Enchirito and the rebooted Teletubbies. If you're looking for a podcast that's entertaining as it is educational (especially when it comes to the properties of the number nine) look no further, podcast listener!

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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 friends to others if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking about, this kind of plays into our topic with our incredible guests today.
0:34.0	But I was thinking about when we were kids and you used to sit for hours and play,
0:40.3	I believe it was this game called Kings Quest. Oh yeah. Kings Quest. It was like kind of a medieval
0:45.2	kind of game where you had to walk around and then you had to, you kind of just talk to people.
0:49.7	Yes. Like you had to like ask people where a key was and then do all this stuff. It was a slow moving game.
0:55.5	And do you remember that the place that you would play the game was where we had our, honestly, now very cool.
1:01.8	But at the time, took a break in being cool while we were teens.
1:05.1	But we had an Apple computer.
1:07.5	Would you call it a Macintosh at the time?
1:09.6	It was Apple 2C.
1:10.5	It was an Apple 2C, that's right. And it was in our
1:12.9	guest room, which later would turn into your bedroom. Yeah. And we had like that big like entertainment
1:18.8	center thing with it in it. And I just remember it always being really dark in that room. It was dark,
1:24.2	yeah. And just you playing King's Quest. In the dark. In the dark. Yeah.
1:28.5	And me just like sitting by the side and kind of like sitting next to you and watching. And then it would,
1:34.2	or like slightly behind you. That was kind of our setup for like the ref for video games through.
1:38.8	Yeah. As boring of a game that was to play, I imagine much more boring just to watch someone else.
1:43.6	Well, I just remember that there were a couple times that I tried to play, I imagine, much more boring just to watch someone else. Well, I just
1:44.4	remember that there were a couple times that I tried to play it, like, on my own. And I just didn't
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