Remember Pure Moods? (with Daniel Armbruster of Joywave)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Show some respect because this week on the podcast we are joined by the pride and joy of Rochester, Daniel Armbruster of Joywave! In this episode we discuss if the return to the golden age of travel is in the cards and why Daniel won't even get near an airport without his trusty Adidas tracksuit. We also take a moment to press the "easy" button and learn about his time working at Staples and internalizing Steve Winwood songs. Speaking of music (or muzak?), we go straight to Europe to learn about the history of the PURE MOODS compilation albums. From Enya to Enigma to the X-Files Theme song, why were these albums so influential and who the hell is the enigmatic graphic designer, Joe Cheese? Finally in a round of CHANGE DOT DORK we discuss if Daniel should be a character in Fortnite, does Rochester need a casino and is there room in the drug store aisle for Baja Blast-flavored Tums? You'll have to listen to this episode to find out!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.8	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:11.4	Who can't wait to talk to today's guest because he's such a wave of joy.
0:15.5	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. it weird.
0:39.6	Oh my God, Jonah, so, okay, the Secretary of State, Sean Duffy just released a PSA that I think is really aligns with some of your values about how people dress when they go on airplanes.
0:44.5	Yeah.
0:45.3	So I don't know if our guest is familiar with this.
0:48.4	It's a video called The Golden Age of Travel starts with you.
0:52.0	And it's basically this guy Sean Duffy asking in the video
0:58.1	are you dressing with respect are you keeping control of your children and then it basically shows
1:02.3	people flipping out on planes and it's basically like we should go back to like the 50s when
1:08.1	people had respect for air travel like shoes yeah like suits yeah
1:13.6	dress up yeah that's cool and familiar with the TSA but not this guy's media work okay yeah so
1:20.8	this so Vanessa I've been saying sort of been saying stuff like this for a long time but this
1:26.0	video has actually made me flip and now I'm like like, no, everyone should just wear sweatpants. Yeah. Everyone should wear pajamas. Like, who this, these, like, you're so out of touch. Like, these airlines and airports are like charging everyone so much. Air travel's so horrible. It's like, no, just be comfortable. The idea that people should dress up in suits or
1:45.2	something, because this guy says, do you have respect? Yeah, well, I think, to be fair, you've never
1:52.3	said people should wear suits on airplanes. You've just kind of complained about people wearing
1:56.2	their pajamas, which, funny enough, the name of this New York Times article was, what was it, Jonah?
2:02.3	It's people.
2:03.6	It was Sean Duffy asked travelers to stop wearing PJs on the plane.
2:10.3	Yeah, that's the name of the article.
2:11.5	And that's his new civility campaign, the Golden Age of Travel Star Trek.
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