Remember Saving UPC Labels? (with Mike O'Brien)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode we talk to our friend and one of the funniest people in the world, Mike O'Brien. We hear the stories behind Mike's epic tattoos, plus he and Vanessa discuss their early Chicago comedy days, and he and Jonah discuss the trials and tribulations of being hghly acclaimed brand ambassadors. We also hear about the time Mike's family got a free day trip to Boston by eating a year's worth of Cheerio's. Was it worth it? You'll have to listen to find out...but obviously it was not.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.9	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 extremely pleasant if I do say so myself.
0:13.5	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking about when we were kids and we were told that we could never get tattoos
0:32.7	because we wouldn't be allowed to be eventually buried in a Jewish cemetery.
0:37.9	Do you remember mom telling us that?
0:39.7	Yeah, I remember, like, all of my friends getting tattoos and me feeling, like, totally,
0:45.5	like, I had to choose between, like, being buried with my family or getting, like, Operation IV tattoo.
0:51.6	And it was a tough decision, but I was like too scared to do it because it seemed too
0:55.7	big of a thing. Yeah, you particularly had friends who were like, you were the only one of your
1:01.4	friends who didn't have tattoos. None of my friends really had tattoos. And then the first
1:05.8	women's march happened. And all of my friends from like growing up, my closest friends were like, we're all going to get like tattoos like that are like pro women. And all of my friends from like growing up, my closest friends were like, we're all going
1:12.1	to get like tattoos like that are like pro women and stuff. And I was like, yeah, guys, I'd love to
1:18.1	join you, but I got to be buried in a Jewish cemetery. And I'm fully in my 30s at this point.
1:23.2	And I feel like I even mentioned it to you. And I was like, Jonah, I can't. Mom would like free.
1:27.9	And you were like, you totally could and mom wouldn't like, it wouldn't be that big of a deal to her.
1:32.1	And I realized that I was kind of using it as a crutch because I in fact didn't want to get a tattoo.
1:37.6	Yeah.
1:38.0	And I don't think I haven't done a lot of research, but I don't think that that could be true about the Jewish cemetery thing because so many people, there would be able to be buried there.
1:46.3	I mean, I think it has changed a lot.
1:48.7	Yeah, I think it's like an old wives tale that Jewish parents tell their kids to try to keep them.
1:54.9	I mean, maybe there is some history to it, so I don't want to.
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