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How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

Remember MTV's "The Real World"? (with Hari Kondabolu)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9680 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week we stop being polite and start getting real with comedian, writer and podcaster Hari Kondabolu! We reminisce about our internships: Vanessa's time at the Oxygen network and Sesame Street, Hari's time as a "Clintern" for Hilary Clinton and Jonah's days interning in the music department at the production company behind this week's topic: MTV's THE REAL WORLD! Together, the three of us reminisce about the groundbreaking reality show, our favorite memories from the early seasons, how the show mirrored our culture—and Jonah gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse about working the front desk of Bunim/Murray Productions in fear of an appearance by Puck! Finally we play a round of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARY GROAN where we debate the difference between bedspreads and quilts, the trend of false advertising when it comes to fast food commercials and why there aren't enough greeting cards for super specific events. Hari's new comedy special VACATION BABY is now streaming for free on YouTube and the companion album (EXTENDED) VACATION BABY is available on Bandcamp. 

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.

0:05.8

We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.

0:10.5

Who are definitely not basic, if I do say so myself.

0:14.0

Welcome to How Did We Get Weird.

0:15.5

Music Jonah, I like that you said we're definitely not basic.

0:30.8

Well, I'm kind of running out of adjectives to put in this intro, so I actually went on a website of millennial slang terms.

0:42.0

But I think they're pretty much all outdated by the time they're on like a website like that.

0:44.5

Yeah, I thought Basic was sort of an older one.

0:45.6

Yeah, I know.

0:46.9

You know, I'm doing my best.

0:48.8

A lot of them I didn't know what they meant also.

0:50.0

And so I don't know.

0:50.6

I wanted to... Right.

0:51.1

I know.

0:51.5

I thought you were maybe going to say we were a straight fire.

0:54.7

Yeah.

0:55.1

I'm saving that one for a future one, I think.

0:57.1

Okay.

0:57.5

I like Not Basic more because I know it more.

1:00.2

Yeah.

1:00.6

Yeah.

1:00.9

Same here.

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