Remember VHS Tapes? (with Michelle Zauner)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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You may know Michelle Zauner from her Grammy-nominated musical act Japanese Breakfast or New York Times best-selling memoir "Crying in H Mart," but before all that she was just a kid who loved Sailor Moon. Michelle dropped by the pod this week to talk about watching and rewatching her favorite childhood VHS tapes, taking guitar lessons in the world's most corporate setting and the lessons she learned growing up about dining etiquette. Along the way Michelle helps Jonah and Vanessa call out their middle school music teacher for not lightening up and letting Jonah listen to Metallica in class, the three of us discuss the green room cheese plate situation for Japanese Breakfast's performance on this year's SNL season finale. As if that weren't enough, we also introduce a BRAND NEW SEGMENT called "Legit Moan Or Unnecessary Groan" that is kind of difficult to explain but should not be missed and sees us tackling the legacy of Crankshaft, Lawrence Welk and Giant Eagle supermarket's controversial stocking decisions. EPISODE NOTE: we accidentally say the Silent Generation came before the Greatest Greatest Generation when it's actually the other way around and we apologize for the mix-up, but honestly don't focus on that, Boomer.

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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.
0:10.0	Who are pretty young at heart and in age, if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So Jonah, I was thinking in honor of our guest today being the musical guest for the finale of the most recent season of S&L, we could talk about this thing that used to happen when I was at S&L,
0:40.0	which is, well, let me back up because this is a nostalgic podcast
0:43.3	and this story is based in nostalgia.
0:45.3	When we were growing up, everybody used to call me Jonah's little sister.
0:48.8	Do you remember that?
0:49.6	I don't remember that because, like,
0:50.8	I don't think I heard that reference as much, probably.
0:52.9	Right, because I guess it was referenced towards me. It would be like your sister. Yeah. And it would be like when I was like walking in the hallway at school or something, people would be like, that's Jonah's little sister. That's how all your friends talks. And I always thought it was cool though because I was like, yeah, whatever. It's whatever. And then once I got on SNL, when you would come visit, people would be like,
1:13.8	that's Vanessa's brother. However, here's where the twist comes in. Because you were such a cool
1:18.6	music guy, whenever the bands would come, they would usually know you or they would often know you.
1:23.7	And they'd be like, that's Jonah's little sister again. And I loved that I was back to being
1:28.7	Jonah's little sister when I was at SNL. Yeah, that was nice for you. I mean, I felt like I had no real
1:33.9	status at SNL unless you were actually physically with me. Like, I remember if we wanted to see
1:38.0	the band or something, I'd walk out. If I wasn't with you, they'd be like, yeah, no. And if I was with you, I was like, okay, I can kind of, like, have free reign a little more. Well, you didn't have status with the security people.
1:47.8	The security was not impressed with, like, my status in high school or something. Right. But the
1:52.5	bands oftentimes would be like, yeah, we were at pitchfork together. Remember? This is you guys. That was an awesome set. That's like probably a verbatim conversation I had with someone. Yeah. I felt like it was actually a lot more like the crews and like the tax and stuff where people generally I knew. Some of the bands. Right. But a lot of the people that work in the touring industry. But yeah, that's a crazy full circle moment, huh Vanessa? Yeah. Okay. Well, speaking of today, our guest played the SNL finale this season. She's a singer,
2:19.3	musician, director, and author, best known as a vocalist and songwriter of Japanese Breakfast.
2:23.7	She leads her book, Crying in Hmark in 2021, which is a New York Times bestseller. Let's please welcome
2:29.1	Michelle Soner. Hey, Michelle. Hi. How's it going? Good. Thanks for being here. Did you enjoy that story?
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