Remember Navel Piercings? (with Alicia Bognanno aka Bully)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Break out the Manic Panic and Doc Martens because this week we dig deep into nineties fashion with musician Alicia Bognanno aka Bully. We talk about our experiences taking foreign languages in high school, respective anxiety dreams and the year Jonah and Vanessa took a French class together despite the fact that he was two grades ahead. We also dig deep into the history of belly button rings, discuss whether they're making a comeback and share other piercing stories from our adolescent years. Finally, we play a round of BACK TO THE PRESENT where we reminisce about now-defunct mailorder catalogs ranging from Carvin Guitars (Jonah) to Delia's (Vanessa) as well as those Best Cuts catalogs where you could pick out your future hairstyle (Alicia). Did Jonah actually visit the NYU school of dentistry and have college kids work on his teeth in order to save money? You'll have to listen to this episode to find out—and while you're at it you should also pre-order Bully's upcoming album LUCKY FOR YOU, which comes out on Sub Pop Records on June 2nd.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.0	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:10.0	Who are supremely chill if I do say so myself.
0:13.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So Jonah, I was thinking about when we were in high school and the one year when we were in French class together, even though you're two years ahead of me.
0:37.0	Yeah, you were in more kind of advanced classes.
0:39.9	And so I don't know.
0:41.1	I first took a class called Phenomenon of Language, which was Latin.
0:44.0	Right.
0:44.5	Which is, I think they kind of phased that out.
0:46.8	I think by the 90s they were Latin was on its way out.
0:50.1	But we did take French together and we each had to pick a French name.
0:53.4	Yes.
0:53.9	And do you remember yours?
0:55.1	Okay.
0:55.5	Well, I started taking French when I was in, I wanted to say fifth grade.
0:59.7	I know that sounds pretty advanced, but that's when I think you could start really early in Brady Middle School.
1:05.8	Okay.
1:06.3	Yeah, I definitely wasn't doing that.
1:07.5	The name that I chose was Ver virginie because our cousin Jeremy's
1:12.1	wife is French and that's her name. And then once I was in high school, just because American
1:18.2	kids are just such little demons, I thought it sounded too much like virgin and I thought I'd get
1:25.1	made fun of. So I changed it to Verononique which if I'm being honest I think
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