Remember Participation Trophies? (with A.J. Jacobs)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On today's new episode the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author and lifestyle-experiment master, A.J. Jacobs! They're talking all about childhood Participation Trophies, from the meaningful to the demeaning. Plus, humor that upset us as kids from the Trix Rabbit not getting his Trix to the Home Alone villians getting violently pranked by Kevin McCallister. A.J. also tells us the hilarious but intense way he broke his dried mango habit! But, wait, there's more! In a rousing game of CHANGE.DORK, we're talking games with this gaming extraordinaire, from (Rubik's) cubing being taught at school to Wordle having a theme. A.J. even has a great tip for playing Connections that really foiled the game's creator. We even read a petition by A.J. that he wrote while writing his fantastic new book, "The Year of Living Constitutionally," which is out now! Be sure sure to check it out! Order "The Year Of Living Constitutionally" HERE.

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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 unpuzzlingly pleased about our guests today.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We get Weird. Jonah, I know we're both really excited about our guests today.
0:31.4	And we recently did his podcast and something kind of funny happened. Do you want to talk about it? Yes. Our guest has a
0:39.3	really great podcast called The Puzzler and was nice enough to invite us to come on together.
0:45.4	And I had some sort of technical issue where my audio was very slow. Everyone's out. Yeah. So my audio
0:52.9	was very slow and it was in my headphones too.
0:56.0	And so I was sort of matching my own cadence as I was hearing myself.
1:00.6	So instead of talking like this, I was like, hey, guys, what's going?
1:07.2	And it was so hard for me to also chime into a conversation because I'm moving so slowly.
1:11.9	What did it sound like to you?
1:12.9	To me, it was just funny because our guest today and the other hosts like don't know you.
1:18.5	So they don't really know what you talk like.
1:21.4	Sure.
1:21.6	And so it sounded like we were playing games and you'd be like, I don't know the answer, but I will guess.
1:35.6	And I at some point had to say, just so you guys know, like, this isn't how Jonah talks.
1:40.9	Like, and he's not like high or anything.
1:42.8	It just, yeah, I said this,
1:44.6	something's going on
1:45.5	with the audio.
1:46.1	So I'm,
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