Remember Video Rental Stores? (with Jonah Ray Rodrigues)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In addition to having a very cool first name, Jonah Ray Rodrigues is a hilarious writer, comedian, actor and the current host of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Jonah and Vanessa caught up with Jonah Ray Rodrigues to discuss what it was like growing up in Hawaii, his adolescent insecurities and the psychic connection between Steven Seagal and punk rock. We also discuss our experiences renting videos during our formative years, how we discovered we're too old for mosh pits and what exactly is an NFT??? If you've ever been forced to workout to Buns Of Steel for an entire semester just to pass a high school gym class, you will find this podcast to be both entertaining and relatable.

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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 extremely tough, if I do say so myself.
0:13.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking about when we were in high school, and you, I guess, needed to take a gym credit.
0:36.9	And the only gym class you could get into was body fitness with
0:41.2	Miss Pignettella. Do you want to talk about that a little bit? Yeah, I was in, I can't remember what grade
0:45.8	this is, but I was old. I mean, old for high school. I was probably 11th or 12th grade. Yeah,
0:50.0	you were in 11th or 12th grade for sure. And I wanted, I had to take gym. Something happened.
0:54.8	I was in gym.
0:55.7	I got out of it.
0:57.0	I wanted to take this weight training class.
0:59.2	Right.
0:59.5	I wanted to take a weight training class.
1:01.0	I don't know.
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:02.4	But, you know, I was listening to a lot of aggressive music.
1:04.3	Maybe I felt like, you know, wanted to bulk up a little.
1:07.4	For some reason, this class was full. I couldn't get back into gym, so I had to take this class body fitness, which was me, and I feel like we're like a bunch of eighth grade
1:16.3	girls, because our high school started in eighth grade. Yeah, you were definitely in it with my
1:18.9	best friend Gwen. I think we were probably in ninth grade, maybe. Okay, so maybe eighth and ninth grade,
1:23.8	and there was only one other guy in the class and I remember we had to do buns
1:28.1	of steel videos and step aerobics. Those were like the two things we had to do. And I remember,
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