Remember Local Morning Shows? (with Mark Proksch)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today you are in for a real treat because this week on HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? we are joined by our friend the hilarious Mark Proksch (The Office, Better Call Saul) who is as friendly as he is funny. We discuss what it's like to grow out of things as a child, Mark's current doughnut preferences and learn the origins of the term "goppy." We also get deep into the story behind Kenny "K-Strass" Strasser, a character of Mark's who made the morning TV talk show circuit as a yo-yo expert who couldn't actually yo-yo, and we talk about the various reactions he got from news crews once they realized they weren't in on the joke. Plus, we parlay this conversation into a broader discussion about local morning shows and learn that Good Morning America's roots lie Jonah and Vanessa's hometown of Cleveland. Finally we play a thrilling round of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARY GROAN where we debate church etiquette, if commercials should be interrupted by the Emergency Broadcast System and why cars are so expensive if you only go to one dealership and don't do a ton of research. Yo-yo better check it out!!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.6	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:10.6	Who are really yo-yo excited about our guests today.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So Jonah, I was thinking about when we were younger and how you were in this sort of advanced program in middle school for really smart kids that I wasn't able to join. I wasn't picked to join.
0:41.9	So do you want to elaborate on what you did in this program called Horizons?
0:45.9	Sure. Yeah. And it's funny you weren't in this program because you ended up going to an Ivy League
0:49.7	school getting way better grades in me in high school. But this was probably around like fifth grade.
0:55.6	And I don't know how they picked kids to be in Horizons. It might have been some kind of standardized
0:59.3	test. Yeah. Yeah, we would meet in the mornings and I designed their logo. I remember it said
1:04.7	horizons. It had like a mountain range in the back and the O was like one of those cubes everyone drew,
1:10.1	one of those like 3D squares with the two, the diagonal lines.
1:13.4	I remember it.
1:14.4	Yeah, and we would have just like other assignments.
1:16.7	Like we would do these assignments.
1:18.2	We would meet in the mornings.
1:19.5	And I don't remember a lot of the content.
1:21.4	This was, you know, a good 30 years ago.
1:23.7	And you guys would kind of come up with inventions and stuff.
1:26.0	Yeah, we would come up with inventions and stuff. Yeah, we'd come up with inventions.
1:28.5	Yeah, we would have projects, reports.
1:31.1	Yeah, but I mean, you know, we were young too.
1:33.4	I mean, I think we were like 10, 11, 12.
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