Remember G.I. Joe? (with Laura Jane Grace)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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You know Laura Jane Grace from Against Me! and her solo career, but we bet you don't know about her childhood obsession with action figures. This week Laura stopped by the podcast to discuss her decades-long relationship with G.I.Joes and the detailed storylines she would build around them. We also discuss getting cappuccinos at Lilith Fair, band reunions ranging from Genesis to the Black Crowes, and Vanessa and Laura's experiences hanging out with Cyndi Lauper and seeing her "true colors." (Spoiler alert: She's very nice.) Whether you're a fan of Aus Rotten or Sarah McLachlan, this episode truly has something for everyone.

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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 chill but classy, if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, you're telling me about how you just went to an outdoor concert. You know,
0:32.3	you took me to my first outdoor and maybe my first ever concert, which was actually Lilith Fair. Yes, I did. I took you to
0:40.8	Lilith Fair. We were in high school. I won tickets off the radio. Yes, which was so crazy. I remember
0:46.2	being so impressed by that. Yeah, I would just, you know, got on the landline called. I was like,
0:51.0	whatever number caller. And it was a Blossom Music Center outside of Cleveland.
0:55.7	And the one takeaway I have from this show is that I had my first ever cappuccino at Lilith Fair.
1:01.2	Yeah, that was a huge first for you.
1:03.1	It was like, and whenever I tell this story to people, I'm like, Jonah had his first.
1:06.8	And people always think I'm going to say kiss, but I always say cappuccino.
1:10.8	Yeah, yeah. I remember. And people always think I'm going to say kiss, but I always say cappuccino.
1:15.4	Yeah, yeah. I remember. I mean, I don't know how old we were. I was old enough to drive at this. I was probably like 16. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you were 14. Yeah. I don't know somewhere around that. And yeah, I remember
1:20.5	being at the venue and I remember they had like the vending machine, like coffee machines. And you being like like Joni, you went to cappuccino. I remember being like, what's that? Yeah. Getting it and it was like one of those really sugary ones and I was like a teenager
1:31.9	so. I thought it was great. It tried tasting nothing like coffee. Well, it was also just very cool.
1:36.4	Like I remember it was so fun going to that concert with you because, you know, you weren't like a huge Lilith Fair person. It was more artists that I was, I was always very into,
1:47.6	Tori Amos was my first CD and I was always into her and like Sarah McLaughlin.
1:51.1	And Fiona Apple, I think, was there.
1:52.7	For me, it was truly heaven.
1:54.6	And it was cool to walk around with my kind of punk brother.
1:57.5	But it's like a little give and take on each end because, like, you know,
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