Remember Nintendo 64? (with Gabe Saporta of Midtown & Cobra Starship)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week on the podcast we joined by musician, music manager and car wash enthusiaist, Gabe Saporta of the bands Midtown and Cobra Starship We talk about Gabe's journey from Uruguay to New Jersey and how he became involved in the punk and hardcore scene as a kid. We also talk the inspiration behind Gabe's moisturizer company Brotege, get a lesson in entrenpeneurship and learn what it was like to write a hit song for the soundtrack of the flim, "Snakes On A Plane." We also learn that 2026 is the year of the Libra and get tips from Gabe on how to solve a Rubik's Cube in two minutes! Finally, we get into our topic of Nintendo 64, from playing GoldenEye 007 to calling the Nintendo Tip Hotline with help beating Zelda, we get deep into the history for this legendary console. For today's game, We also hear about Gabe's ingenous idea to prevent cheating during the GoldeEye split screen view. We also play a game of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARRY GROAN where we discuss complaining about red light cameras, doctor office waiting rooms and cell phone etiquette. Our listeners can use the code "WEIRD" to get their first month's subscription of Brotege for $10 or use the link brotege.com/discount/WEIRD.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.7	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 can't wait to catch up with our bro-dege today.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Um, Jonah, oh, Jonah, you're, I thought today you'd want to tell your story about the car wash.
0:37.0	Oh, yeah.
0:37.8	You know, sometimes even ask a text about nostalgic things, things that happen that remind us of stuff.
0:44.9	And the other day, I went through a car wash.
0:47.1	I'll ask our guests about this.
0:49.0	And I had so many...
0:49.9	Car wash is not that weird, by the way.
0:51.6	Well, they're not weird.
0:52.8	I agree.
0:53.4	But there are nostalgic, because I feel like for some reason our parents never had really fancy cars, but we were always going through this car wash.
1:01.1	And I had that sensation of sitting in it and having those, like, things drape over the front and just it being, as a kid, but being so fun.
1:10.1	So fun, but also a little little scary it was like going on a
1:13.0	haunted hay ride yeah yeah so i just did that recently and usually i wash my own car i kind of
1:18.5	spray the bot you know but this was i did i did i tried to wash my own car so many times i get left
1:24.9	with all these spots yeah and then like the sun hits it because the water in L.A.
1:29.3	is just like you have to get like purified water to be washed your own car. It's a problem. I tried. And like it's drying in the sun while you're doing it. You're getting, getting like you're ruining your paint. So then I just, I go to a car wash now actually. It's called, It's called Catalina Car Wash, which reminds me in a
1:44.6	win mixer, but it's called Catalina Street.
1:46.9	And I'm like, and it was like $40. wash now, actually. It's called, it's called Catalina Car Wash, which reminds of a Catalina
1:44.5	Wine Mixer, but it's called Catalina Street. And I'm like, and it was like 40 bucks for like a membership, a monthly membership. And you can go as many times as you want. And I'm never one to pass up a deal. Yeah. So I definitely, I'm just like, okay, I'll set up for this. 40 bucks. I got to get my car wash more. I'm done, like, trying to wash it myself.
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