Remember Trying to be Cool? (with Zora Bikangaga)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On today's new episode, the Bayer siblings welcome their delightful friend, writer and actor Zora Bikangaga! They ask whether their childhood selves would have found their adult selves cool? (Spoiler alert: They can stay up as late as they want and eat candy whenever they want, so...) Plus, they get into the ways they tried to act cool as kids i.e. one overall strap down, enormous pants that made it hard to walk, etc. Along those lines, Zora gets into a prolonged prank he did in college that years later ended up making him a perfect fit for the "I Love That For You" writers room! Plus Jonah reminisces about his childhood days of listening to NYPD Blue like it was on the radio, and they dig into the controversy of showing Dennis Franz's bare butt on TV (Which obviously Jonah couldn't see, but could hear?) Finally, in a rousing game of CONGRATULATIONS, YOU PLAYED YOURSELF: PRODUCT EDITION, the trio discusses what they will miss most out of the recently discontinued Starry Soda, McDonald’s McCafé baked goods or—the only one most of them remember—Fruit Striped Gum. So be cool and listen to this episode!!

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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 are very excited for today's guest indeed.
0:14.4	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So Jonah, today's episode is all about trying to act cool and being cool and stuff like that.
0:35.2	And I have a question for you.
0:37.5	Do you think today, Jonah, as an adult, you're cool?
0:41.2	Wow.
0:42.0	That's a really good question.
0:43.7	Yeah.
0:44.5	I think as like a kid version of Jonah, looking at me today, I would think that I was cool
0:49.2	because I can, you know, stay up as late as I want.
0:53.1	I like, you know, I can play guitar. Right. I played in bands.
1:01.3	You know, I have a lot of records. So yeah, I think I think pretty cool overall. I think I would
1:06.0	think for the most part. What about you, Vanessa? Yeah, I like the way that you thought about that.
1:11.2	Would child me think that I was cool today?
1:14.7	And I think the answer is yes because I'm an actor.
1:19.8	And I think like being an actress, I would be so, I would, as a really little kid,
1:24.3	I would put on a lot of performances.
1:26.2	So getting to keep putting on performances
1:28.5	and make money for it, I think I'd be like, okay, this absolutely rocks. Also, I have a lot of dresses,
1:35.0	not to brag, but I own so many dresses from various things I've done throughout the years. And so
1:40.3	I think I'd be excited about that. And own several pairs of high heels too which was something
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