Remember MySpace? (with Laci Mosley)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week's new episode, the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome actress, comedian and host of the hit podcast "Scam Goddess" Laci Mosley! They're talking all about MySpace, from Jonah and Vanessa's hit songs that the website lost forever, to the coding pranks that Laci would pull on various classmates. And we touch down on what MySpace Tom is up to these days. Spoiler Alert: you're not gonna wanna mess with him. Plus, Jonah talks about taking the band Plain White T's to a very bad lunch and writing an even worse article about it. And finally, in a rousing game of YES/NO-STALGIA, the trio are talking the return of the Adult Happy Meal Box and what it must be like to show up to work with one, a film version of the beloved children's book "Harold and the Purple Crayon", and the return of the McDonald's snack wrap and, on the related note, the nostalgic Mary J. Blige Burger King commercial. Check it out!

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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 are so excited about today's guest, who is a goddess.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. We got us, Jonah, did you get that?
0:31.2	Right. Yep.
0:32.7	Okay. We're very excited for our guests today and her topic. And, well, spoiler alert, her topic is MySpace. But I think, Jonah, you and I have talked recently about how we had a brother-sister band and our music was only featured on MySpace. But we haven't really let our listeners in too much on like the history of the band and like the story of the band.
0:56.3	So do you want to elaborate on that a little bit, Jonah?
0:59.0	Yeah, I think we talked about this recently with Andy Sandberg, but wanted to elaborate a little bit.
1:03.3	Yeah, we had a band when our parents lived in the house we grew up in and we would, I feel like when we were both home from break for college or something.
1:10.3	Yeah. and we would, I feel like when we were both home from break for college or something, I had an old cassette four track and we would write song, I guess like we didn't really
1:15.0	have a lot going on, because we would write songs based on like, why weren't we hanging out
1:18.4	with our friends. Yeah, that's what I was just thinking. We'd write songs based on like relatives
1:22.8	that wrote us letters or like, like, like, like, sort of snacks that dad got at work. We kind of were just writing
1:30.9	really about like family related stuff and just setting it to acoustic guitar. Yeah. So Jonah,
1:36.1	just to go through some of our biggest hits and by biggest I mean only, and by hits I mean
1:41.1	songs that we wrote that no one ever heard. We had one called Pumpkin Roll, which was about how our dad's friend Phyllis would bring in pumpkin rolls, make pumpkin rolls for him every holiday season.
1:52.5	Makes sense because it was around the holidays. We probably wrote this. We had this one called Essensia that was about your coffee maker that I couldn't pronounce the name correctly of.
2:00.9	Right.
2:01.3	We had this one called My City of Cleveland.
2:03.3	We had a letter from Barry and Cynthia, which I think we've talked about them before, but
2:07.2	that's our mom's cousin who lived in this trailer that they named Homer and would write these
2:13.1	extremely detailed.
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