Remember Pagers? (with Michael James Scott)
How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer
All Things Comedy
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome their friend, star of Broadway's Aladdin and of the new Scrubs revival, Michael James Scott! First they check in on their parents' cruise and a very honest critique by their dad. Then Michael and Vanessa get into the absolute blast they had filming Scrubs together and Jonah asks them how much time was spent filming vs. in craft services and the honest answer is 50/50? Plus Michael tells us about his journey from his childhood in Orlando to living his dream of being the longest running Genie in Aladdin on Broadway and around the world! And we reminisce about when pagers were popular- Michael tells us about his actual pager and we all talk about using the brief recording window when calling collect as kind of makeshift pagers. And pagers obviously leads us into The Real World and current status of Chef Puck? Finally, in a rousing game of YES OR NO-STALGIA we discuss "Indie Sleaze", "Fibermaxxing" and the the triumphant return of "The Devil Wears Prada 2." Check out this absolutely hilarious episode and watch Scrubs on ABC on Wednesday night or honestly the next day on Hulu! Michael we 143 you!!
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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. |
| 0:11.1 | Who are very excited to talk to today's guests because we ain't never had a friend like him. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. I'm so excited. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm so excited for our guest today. |
| 0:34.6 | He's a dear friend of mine. |
| 0:40.1 | But before we introduce him, I just want to say, you know, our parents are on a cruise. |
| 0:47.7 | Yes. And they will probably, I think they'll be back by the time this airs. But I got a, I got a little update from dad. |
| 0:48.2 | Okay. |
| 1:11.7 | Over WhatsApp. And I just wanted to read it to you. Well, I also got an update over WhatsApp. And I'm wondering if we got the same one, but it was sent as an announcement to me, so I can't respond to it. Oh, okay. Well, I'll read you mine. It's pretty short. It says, going quite well. We're on the ship and have been since Thursday. Our first trip on land will be Tuesday going to a bee farm in Barbados. We've been walking every day and did a stretching and yoga class, both of which I did not care for. Food, food, poos, and |
| 1:19.8 | weather have been great, although we decided that every few days we should not have alcohol, |
| 1:24.5 | which is free and very high quality. Wow. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you got a little more |
| 1:30.6 | details. Yeah. I did get, I did get a mention that dad did take a yoga class, but didn't get his |
| 1:37.1 | sounds like it was not, uh, he did not care for it. Yeah, which is interesting. I, I, |
| 1:42.0 | because I do yoga like almost every day. I love it, but yeah. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, but yeah, we've talked about this. |
| 1:46.9 | Good to try new things. |
| 1:48.5 | I was going to say we've talked about how dad and I are made of the same stuff and you and |
| 1:51.5 | mom are made the same stuff. |
| 1:52.5 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:52.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:53.0 | But glad to hear they're getting high quality stuff on the cruise. |
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