Remember High School Hangouts?
How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer
All Things Comedy
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This week on the podcast, the Bayer siblings lament the demise of the Dunkin' Donuts in Solon where Jonah spent his teenage years with other young punks, talking about NOFX and eating Bavarian cream doughnuts. We explore why you need to tear down an entire building to build a drive-through, the rise of "grab and go" food culture (the breakfast crowd is lovin' it) and the rise of the "third place." We also discuss our own third places growing up, from the roller rink to friends' houses and explain why a cafe inside of a bank will never be a fun place to hang out, no matter how much the marketers want to convince you otherwise! We also deter into our teenaged fashion choices and if we ever truly felt cool as kids in any environment. Finally we play a round of CHANGE DOT DORK where we debate the merits of rebranding Chuck E. Cheese as an escape room, building a multi-purpose ice and roller skating rink in Kentucky and preventing Dunkin' Donuts from building a dive through in one community who values city planning over crullers.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah. |
| 0:06.1 | We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today. |
| 0:11.3 | Who can't wait to hang out with each other today. |
| 0:13.8 | Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Wow, Jonah, I know this is quite a chapter in your life is happening right now. |
| 0:35.9 | Yeah, so big news. |
| 0:37.2 | A couple people have |
| 0:37.7 | texting me about this. Most notably, my friend Brian McConville has been keeping me posted on this |
| 0:42.9 | breaking news in Solon, Ohio. They have torn down the Dunkin' Donuts in Solon where I spent my |
| 0:50.3 | childhood hanging out in the parking lot and inside the store and it's been reduced to |
| 0:55.5 | a bunch of rubble and they are rebuilding it building a new duncan apparently the current duncan |
| 1:03.4 | doesn't have a drive-through so they're building one with the drive-thru and there's a lot of rumors |
| 1:09.3 | swirling around about they're not even possibly being a seating |
| 1:12.1 | area inside of this Duncan. |
| 1:13.9 | What? |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah, they're saying they're really, it could be more of a grab and go location. |
| 1:19.2 | So the city of Solon posted a Facebook update and they actually posted plans, like |
| 1:26.6 | architectural plans of the new Dunkin' Donut. |
| 1:29.9 | Okay, I'm looking at this. |
| 1:31.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.4 | It's tough to read what's happening. |
| 1:34.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.3 | It's a lot of really small print, but I went to the Facebook post to really try to, like, hear what the community is saying about this. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from All Things Comedy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of All Things Comedy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.