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How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast we are joined by... no one! That's right, on this episode Jonah and Vanessa are reminiscing about the phenomenon of going to shoe stores as a kid and trying on shoes the old-fashioned way. We also discuss real-life current shopping experiences at malls, the time Jonah accidentally wore Vanessa's Doc Martens to school and are Vans just cooler versions of Keds? We also get deep into the history and demise of the Reebok Pump, although we still aren't sure if they actually do anything other than look cool. But that's not all. We also play a round of a game called CEO TAKEDOWN: THE SHOE IS ON THE OTHER FOOT, where we examine some statements made by Foot Locker's CEO about online shopping versus going to the mall to try on shoes and explore if the company has enough "runway" and "brand awareness" to offset the inevitable demise of mall culture. (Spoiler alert: Jonah doesn't think so although he would consider a leadership position on the company's board of executives should that opportunity become available.)

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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.
0:10.6	Who are absolutely going to slam dunk this episode if I do say so myself.
0:14.8	Welcome to How Did We get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking about when we were growing up, we sort of got into this last week with the episode we did with Jeremy Beiler.
0:35.9	And do you remember what it was like going to shop for shoes
0:39.2	as a kid? I do. You know, it's so funny about shopping for shoes as a kid is your feet are growing so
0:43.9	fast, so I feel like you're constantly shopping for shoes. Yes, that's true. Remember, it's the thing
0:49.3	when your kid, like, buy them, like give yourself some room in the front. Right. Because you're going to grow into them.
0:54.6	And that's not, obviously as adults, that's not something we do. I'm not like, well, I should get
0:58.2	these a couple sizes up just, you know, because my foot's going to grow. We kind of take that for
1:02.5	granted that we can buy shoes and probably wear them for years to come. Yeah. Yeah. So, but I do remember we had a local shoe store, I believe it was called Allen's Shoes.
1:12.0	Yes.
1:12.6	In Pepper Pike, and we would go there.
1:15.6	And, you know, something we talked about with Jeremy Little, too, were those contraptions that look like these kind of like medieval, like torture devices that were gray and black.
1:24.2	And you'd put your, they're like those old kind of scales where you kind of slide the
1:27.7	thing, right?
1:28.5	Yes, yes.
1:29.8	And you'd slide it right to the top of your toe.
1:32.8	Yeah, and they'd be like, yeah, to go top of your toe and how wide it is, which is interesting
1:37.6	because shoes don't come in a lot of different wists.
1:39.9	I think they do, but yeah, you're right. Yeah, well, I think you can get like wide or narrow shoes
1:45.1	if you like really look for them, but right, it feels like not as, as common of a sizing thing.
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