Remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? (with Chris Farren)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week on HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? Jonah and Vanessa are joined by musician and longtime friend of the Bayers, Chris Farren. We discuss our favorite iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as Chris's childhood toy preferences. We also get into Chris's amazing ability to create viral merch and Vanessa chimes in with her own expert opinion of how to price band merchandise. Finally, we debut a new segment called CEO TAKEDOWN where we critique the all-CEO band The Moderators who you probably read about on about cheifexecutive.net aka Pitchfork for CEOs. You don't have to be a multi-billionaire to enjoy this episode of the podcast. In fact, it's probably better if you aren't one.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.0	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 are pretty solidly down to earth if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking today, in honor of our guest, who's like, honestly, kind of the king of merch.
0:34.3	We could talk a little bit about, like, stories from our past and growing up where, like, banned merch or other kinds of merch. We could talk a little bit about like stories from our past and growing up where like
0:39.3	banned merch or other kinds of merch really came into play. Look, we've made merch, we bought
0:44.4	merch, we've loved merch. Where to start? I mean, I bought you a bad religion shirt on the Grey
0:49.6	Race Tour. That was the first time I remember buying merch for you. That was like in the mid-90s probably.
0:53.9	Yeah. You went to this bad religion concert. I thought they were really cool. And you got me like a
0:58.4	ringer shirt. Ringers were really big during that era. Every band had a ringer shirt.
1:03.0	Yeah. It was blue with yellow like piping, I guess you could call it. I think technically piping is correct. I'm impressed that you know that. Well, look, I'm working on a home shopping show, so I kind of know all the terms.
1:14.3	It's not a big deal.
1:15.3	Right.
1:15.7	But you bought me that.
1:16.9	And then, like, I think that kind of kicked off my love of band merch.
1:20.7	I don't know if it would say kicked off your love of that.
1:22.6	I don't really remember you having any band merch after that for a while. Well, I guess it's kind of got me into the band merch scene because I was going to talk about,
1:30.3	I'll call it 10 years later, you were doing a show with this band frameworks.
1:35.1	I would say more like probably 20 years later.
1:37.1	Okay, whatever, Jonah.
1:39.8	You were doing this show with this band frameworks.
1:42.5	I'm going to call it 15 years.
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