Remember Jason Schwartzman Being The Absolute Best? (with Jason Schwartzman, Part 1)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

You know actor and musician Jason Schwartzman from his iconic roles in classic films like "Rushmore," "The Darjeeling Limited" and "Asteroid City," but did you also know he's one of the chillest and nicest people on the planet? On this episode of HOW DID WE GET WEIRD?, Vanessa and Jason reminisce about working together on the film "Polka King" and Vanessa's show "I Love That For You," Jason's relationships with his siblings and what it was like to recently play drums again live for the first time in twenty years. (You can check out this video of Jason playing the Phantom Planet song "California" with Alex Greenwald and Ben Kweller HERE.) We also talk about fitness habits, the power of going for walks and Jason's unexpected brush with achieving a state of maximum productivity and mental clarity for three weeks last September. If you enjoyed this episode you're in luck, because we will be releasing the second half of our epic conversation with Jason next week!

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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 couldn't rush more to talk to today's guest?
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird? So, Jonah, we're so excited about our guest today.
0:31.6	You know, I did a movie with him years ago, and I have a really funny story about it.
0:37.3	Do you want to hear it, Jonah?
0:38.4	Absolutely.
0:39.0	Okay. When we were filming this movie, it was like in Rhode Island, I think.
0:43.7	Anyway, we went to dinner one night with one of my closest friends, Ariel, and we were,
0:49.3	it was our guest today and Ariel. I don't know why I'm acting like it's a mystery
0:54.0	who it is. I know it says
0:54.9	in the episode description. You also haven't said what the name of the movie is either, so that might
0:57.7	help too. Okay, the movie was called the polka king. We were getting dinner one night and my friend
1:03.3	Ariel and I, and he started asking her what she does, like what her job is. And she's a professor, she was a professor at Harvard and she did all
1:13.5	this research and stuff. And he was asking her about all her research and stuff. And as she
1:17.2	was explaining what she does, I realized that I didn't really know what she did. There were like
1:22.9	so many cool details about her job that I had no idea about. And it's funny because, again,
1:28.2	this is, Jonah, you know, Ariel. I mean, she's one of my closest friends in the world.
1:32.0	And yet, it took having our guest today at dinner with us to really find out what she was doing
1:38.5	because he's so thoughtful and such a good listener. And I'm always just like, let's focus on me.
1:46.4	Yeah, well, she teaches business, too,
1:52.3	I think, which can be, that can be complicated. Yeah, a crossover between business and medicine and science because she's one of the smartest people in the world. Not to brag, Jonah. Yeah, no.
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