Remember Taping Songs Off The Radio? (with Benjamin Gibbard)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin Gibbard may follow you in the dark, but he will not follow you in the trendy brunch spot in your neighborhood. On this episode on HOW DID WE GET WEIRD?, we catch up with the frontman for Death Cab For Cutie and The Postal Service to discuss 20 years of random Bayer hangouts ranging from breakfast to Bonnarroo, what being vegan was like during DCFC's early years and why he is unlikely to become the spokesman for Dunkin' Donuts anytime soon. We also discuss taping songs off the radio as a teenager, the enduring influence of Minor Threat and why "ordering something for the table" is the best way to get something indulgent without a side order of guilt.

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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
0:09.3	into the people we are today.
0:10.6	Who are pretty fun if I do say so myself.
0:13.2	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking about when I used to live in Chicago, and you used to come visit me for some honestly pretty epic trips.
0:35.1	Yeah, I sometimes would come through with my band.
0:37.1	And then sometimes I feel like I would
0:38.2	just come through to visit you. And I remember at one point you had a roommate, our friend, and I think
0:42.9	maybe a friend of our guest today, David Lewis would go and we were like obsessed with this
0:47.5	guy who lived with because he had like a really good video game collection or something. Right. My first
0:51.5	roommate, Don, you guys are really obsessed with. And I was like,
0:55.3	you're here to kind of like hang out with me. Yeah. You guys are really obsessed with him.
0:58.9	Speaking of David Lewis, very cool friend of yours before I even moved to Chicago, he let me stay
1:03.3	with him, never having met me because you're my brother. And he was just like a sister of Jonas is a
1:08.6	sister of mine. Yes. So we used to come through, you know, we've talked about on the podcast.
1:12.2	You used to open up for us at the Empty Bottle.
1:14.3	Yes.
1:14.7	When my band would come through.
1:16.0	Yeah.
1:16.4	I would come see her comedy shows.
1:18.3	Yeah.
1:18.6	So I feel like Chicago is always, you know, been a fun place for us to hang out, especially,
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