Remember The Nightmare Before Christmas? (with Billy Martin of Good Charlotte)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa and Jonah are thrilled to welcome graphic artist and Good Charlotte guitarist Billy Martin to the podcast this week. We get nostalgic right off the bat, talking about how Jonah wrote the first ever cover story on Good Charlotte back in 2002 and the time Jonah and Billy spent together on the Vans Warped Tour back when they were very young adults! We also get into Billy's love of Silverchair, what it was like being a great artist in high school and why Billy never felt the need to prove how "punk" he was... mainly because he was busy listening to Disney soundtracks instead of D.O.A. In that spirit, we take a deep dive into Billy's obsession with "The Nightmare Before Christmas," why he decided to get the artwork from the film tattooed on his arms and what made Tim. Burton's aesthetic so memorable. (Jonah also admits walking out on the film as a teenager, which in retrospect wasn't a great move.) Finally we play a round of YESTOLGIA OR NOSTALGIA where we discuss the new Transformers film, the return of Tiny Toons Adventures and Old Bay-flavored Goldfish crackers. Make sure to visit Billy's site if you want to learn more about his art and music!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.7	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:12.1	Who aren't feeling young or hopeless when it comes to today's guest.
0:16.5	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird?
0:32.3	I can kick us off.
0:34.3	Yeah, so today we're very excited for our guest.
0:38.6	As you know, I worked for this magazine, Turner Press, in the early 2000s, and I went out on the Warp Tour in 2002, and this was like the first band I wrote,
0:45.1	our guest today was in a band, the first band I wrote like a big story on in 2002.
0:48.8	Cover story. Cover story, yes. I had done one other cover, but it was kind of a split cover. This was like my first
0:55.3	big cover story, and I spent like two months on this tour, and I felt like I would interview
1:01.0	this band all the time, and it gave me a totally unrealistic expectation of how much access I would
1:07.2	have to a band and how much time I would have to write a story. I'd be like, oh, I forgot to ask something yesterday. I'll just like go find them today and ask them.
1:14.4	Which is not usually the way it works, but they were super nice, great band. They became a lot
1:20.0	bigger after this story. They're still going strong. And it was kind of a formative,
1:24.4	journalistic experience for me.
1:31.5	So, and we also, yeah, we also worked with them in our WebSeries Sounded advice.
1:33.3	We worked with some of the members as well.
1:35.1	Right, right, right, right, right.
1:37.0	Yeah, a lot of connections here with the Bay. A lot of connections.
1:38.2	But yeah, let's get into it.
1:41.5	Our guest today, you probably have guessed this already, as a musician and an artist.
1:46.4	You probably best know him as a longtime guitarist of the rock band Good Charlotte.
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