Remember Muppet Babies? (with Tony Thaxton)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode, good friend and amazing musician Tony Thaxton stops by the podcast this week. Tony is the drummer for Motion City Soundtrack and a podcaster himself, what can this guy not do?! We talk about our deep fondness of Muppet Babies and how we do not care for the reboot, especially the theme song. Diving into celebrity voice-over actors on the show like Howie Mandel and Dave Coulier and learning that Skeeter was not an original muppet. Plus discussion of celebrity albums and talking about performing with Weird Al Yankovic being a dream come true. They play "Back To The Present" segment where Jonah discusses the Cleveland Mosh Line and how it was meant to resolve pit fights and keep it safe, Vanessa talks Swatch Watches and all the styles they provided for everyone and Tony would like to bring back non-singer celebrity songs to the radio.

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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.
0:10.9	Who are extremely thoughtful if I do say so myself.
0:13.8	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, today I wanted to talk about a really incredible restaurant slash diner.
0:34.3	Kind of an honor of our grandma who passed away about a year ago, you know, her place
0:42.1	has finally been sold. So I don't think we'll have as many opportunities to visit the restaurant
0:47.3	slash diner in her building. But man, do we have enough memories to last a lifetime?
0:52.5	We do. Yeah. So this restaurant is called Little Pete's. And I don't know how to explain it.
0:57.0	They had like 9,000 things on the menu. They had a handwritten menu that they wrote every day.
1:03.1	That must have taken an hour with, I'm not exaggerating. In the restaurant, they had like, they had like plastic menus.
1:08.7	But then like every day they would drop off to i i don't know if
1:12.8	they dropped off to every apartment or just our grandma's probably somewhere in between this like
1:18.7	piece of lined paper with like a hundred but it was always kind of the same specials yes it was always
1:25.3	like fish with choice of rice you know know, carrots, broccoli. Like it was,
1:30.9	it was such a long menu when you would go there. It was one of those kind of like, it was like a
1:35.3	Greek place, but it was also a diner. So you could also get eggs. And you could also get like pasta or
1:41.8	fish or truly anything you want.
1:44.6	I think lobster maybe.
1:46.1	I never went there.
1:47.1	But yeah, you could get all kinds of stuff there.
1:49.5	And also, our grandma had this really incredibly confusing tipping structure.
1:53.1	Right, because they would deliver to her apartment.
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