Remember Piano Lessons? (with Andrew McMahon)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the podcast, Vanessa and Jonah are joined by musician Andrew McMahon (Something Corporate, Jack's Mannequin) to discuss how he defied the odds and instead of quitting piano lessons like we did, became a professional musician who wheeled a sticker-covered piano onto the stage of the Warped Tour and has became a well-respected musician who admittedly never really uses music theory. Vanessa and Andrew also finally reconcile a long-standing dispute about Andrew not emailing her back when she reached out to him as a complete stranger to talk about their shared cancer diagnosis and Jonah admits that he recently pulled a similar move when he was diagnosed with his own type of leukemia in 2019. We also play a special version of CEO TAKEDOWN: SOMETHING CORPORATE edition where we debate the Ok Go/Post Cereal controversy, the "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?" documentary and our complicated thoughts about A&W Root Beer's mascot. Be sure to check out Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness' new album "Tilt At The Wind No More" when it comes out on March 31st, just don't email him to tell him your thoughts because he probably won't write you back!

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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 very into the wilderness, if I do say so myself.
0:15.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking about, I guess two weeks ago, kind of a more recent story,
0:36.7	when I kind of gave you an ultimate posting dare on
0:42.8	Twitter. Do you want to elaborate? Sure. Yeah. So me and my wife, Vicky, we're out in L.A.
0:49.8	And we're hanging out. We're doing some podcasts, in-person podcasts, which everyone will hear more about later.
0:56.0	But we were spending some time together, catching up, and we went to get lunch.
1:01.0	And I don't know how this happened, but you dared me $20 to take a photo of this sandwich that was like, I'd already eaten half of it.
1:07.4	So it wasn't looking so great.
1:08.7	Well, let's specify.
1:10.2	It was a turkey club sandwich, right? Yeah, turkey club sandwich. But it was like a,
1:18.3	it was like a $24 turkey club sandwich. So it was a really nice sandwich. Yeah.
1:24.2	A really expensive sandwich. A really expensive sandwich.
1:28.0	Yes.
1:33.2	And I basically said, Jonah, you'd only eaten half of it.
1:39.0	I said, what if you took a picture of the leftover half of sandwich and you posted it?
1:46.3	And you said, a glow up on a classic turkey club sandwich.
1:49.3	And then you wrote hashtag glow-up.
1:49.5	Yeah.
1:52.4	So this is not really what the type of stuff that I post.
1:55.6	I don't really use terms like this.
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