Remember Scholastic Book Catalogs? (with Aimee Mann)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast we are so incredibly thrilled to welcome Grammy Award-winning musician Aimee Mann! Vanessa recalls the first time that the Bayers worked with Aimee on their old web series and how Jonah got so nervous about a joke they'd written he had to walk out of a taping with her to regain his composure. The three of us also discuss, you guessed, Scholastic Book Clubs and the sheer joy of getting a bundle of books delivered onto your desk by your homeroom teacher as a kid. We also discuss the brilliance of a perfectly crafted young adult novel, Aimee's experience working at the first Newbury Comics and talk about that time she and husband Michael Penn experienced the cultural phenomenon known as Four Loko. Finally, we play a captivating round of CHANGE DOT DORK where we review petitions for bringing back dessert-flavored gums, producing a proper physical release for the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES soundtrack and Snapple's not-so-memorable line of Elements drinks. Was Aimee a vocal advocate for Motorhead back in the day? 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.
0:11.0	Who will be excited about today's guest till after Tuesday, if I do say so myself.
0:17.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird?
0:33.8	Jonah, I know we're really excited to have our guests today.
0:40.4	And this is not the first time that she has participated in one of our endeavors, one of our sibling endeavors. If you'll recall, we used to have a web series called Sound Advice. And our
0:47.1	guest today came on one time. And do you want to...
0:50.3	Vanessa's alluding to this sort of panic attack I had, which she finds to be so funny.
0:56.8	Yeah, so we had this web series and we would have, when do you think this was, like 10 years ago?
1:00.9	Probably about 10 years ago.
1:02.2	Yeah, I guess so.
1:03.8	And so we get all these kind of big artists we really admired on it.
1:07.8	You know, we had on like Nora Jones and Slater Kinney and Drake and all of these
1:12.8	incredible musicians.
1:14.1	And Vanessa played this media coach, Janessa Slater.
1:17.1	And she would kind of give this condescending advice to.
1:19.9	So we basically were kind of like almost writing these like roasts.
1:22.3	Yes.
1:22.8	But of musicians like we were fans of.
1:24.9	Yes.
1:25.6	And I remember Amy was in this band with Ted Leo called The Both, and they had just kind
1:30.2	of put out a record, and we got them to do it, and we were so excited.
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