Remember Hanging Out At Bars? (with Barry Johnson of Joyce Manor)
How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer
All Things Comedy
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week we have a very special podcast with Joyce Manor guitarist/vocalist, Barry Johnson whose new Lance Bangs-directed video for "Whatever It Was" is inspired by the "The Great British Bake-Off!," a spin-off of which Vanessa won in real life! Barry talks about growing up in Torrance, California, where his single mom was a bartender. From having childhood birthday parties at the Descendents' favorite Mexican restaurant Alfredo's to pretending to study for tests inside of a video game booth shaped like a car, we learn a lot about what it was like for him growing up in the South Bay. Vanessa also grills Barry on his neck tattoo and learns that it was motivated by peer pressure, Barry talks about his stint as a bartender and we discuss the proper etiquette for trying to get served in a timely fashion. Finally in a round of CHANGE.DORK, we debate the return of Panera's controversial charged lemonades, a skate park in Torrance and—wait for it—is the country ready to come together to change the national anthem to Weezer's "Say It Ain't So"? Regardless of how you land on these issues, make sure you check out Joyce Manor's new album "I Used To Go To This Bar" which comes out on Epitaph Records on January 30th!
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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 going to mind our manners for today's guest. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I know we're super excited for our guests today, but I know you had a little story to kick us off. |
| 0:37.9 | Well, so our guests today, you know, they recently released a music video directed by our friend, friend of the podcast, Lance Bangs. |
| 0:46.2 | Yes, former guest. |
| 0:47.6 | Former guest. |
| 0:48.3 | He's been the show. |
| 0:48.9 | We've known Lance a long time. |
| 0:50.5 | Hung out with him in Portland. |
| 0:52.1 | Incredible. |
| 0:52.8 | Incredible guy. |
| 0:53.5 | And they shot a video for a song called Well, Whatever It Was. And it's like a parody of the Great British Bake Off, Brick British Baking Show, which... Right. Well, Great British Bake-Ot. What is it? You are honored. You can sort of call it either one. Okay. It's... Yeah, yeah. It's kind of called both. I honestly couldn't give you a definitive answer here. Okay, got it. So one of those. And, you know, I know you were on the show and you won, spoiler alert. Yeah, if you guys haven't watched yet, you got to catch up. You got to catch up. I watched it a few months late, but I got to try a lot of the desserts in person. So, it's hard to keep up on all your media appearances. But I thought maybe we could get into the podcast and maybe you and our guests could talk about the experience, having been on the show and also made a video with Lance kind of based on it and see what's |
| 1:45.1 | the same, what's different. So let's just get into it. Our guest today, Best Knows, the lead singer |
| 1:51.1 | guitarist of the punk band Joyce Manor, whose new album I used to go to this bar comes up on January 30th. |
| 1:56.6 | Let's welcome Barry Johnson. Barry, how's it going? Hey, I'm good. Thank you for having me. |
| 2:01.3 | Of course. Yeah. So what was it like shooting that video with Lance? Were you getting into it? |
| 2:05.7 | Were you a fan of the show at all? Or was that more like a... How did that come together? Yeah, yeah, |
| 2:09.7 | how'd the concept happen? I wish I could say that I'm like a bake-off head. But honestly, it was |
| 2:16.6 | Lance's concept that he pitched. The original |
| 2:19.3 | concept was like super grand. Like we were going to have somebody on the couch like flipping |
| 2:25.1 | through different streaming services. And like one of the things that he's watching was a like British |
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