Remember Working at Toys "R" Us? (with Dan Ozzi)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week the Bayers are joined by bestselling author, Dan Ozzi whose book "Sellout" comes out on paperback tomorrow! To celebrate we reminisce about the time Dan had a VIP experience with Jonah and his parents at a New York Yankees game (thanks to Vanessa and Lorne Michaels) and which corporations have the best snacks, ranging from free Luna bars at Dan's ex-employer VICE to the time he loaded up on free desserts at Google. From there we get into our topic, where Dan compares his job working at a Toys "R" Us on Staten Island to Jonah's experience of working at a Kids "R" Us in suburban Ohio. It turns out Dan's job was like a Coen Safdie brothers movie with Simpsons figurines while Jonah's job was more like a movie directed by a very boring director that ends with him getting fired for playing a Tori Amos song on the local news. Finally, we play another round of "Legit Moan or Unnecessary Groan" where we debate if the United States are Un-united, discuss how littering with garbage is different than littering with language and recap the basic tenets of tipping for those Cleveland Plain Dealer readers who feel that working at Pizza Hut for minimum wage is a job that you should be grateful to have. Did we mention Dan's book is coming out in paperback?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.9	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:10.5	Who are pretty hilarious, if I do say so myself.
0:13.7	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So Jonah, we have an incredible guest today. He's a friend, we're fans. And look, did we share an incredible experience with him once where we went to a Yankees game?
0:40.3	Yes.
0:40.8	Yes.
0:41.2	We went to a Yankees game, I believe.
0:43.3	I think I went a couple times, but memorably with our guests.
0:45.8	I believe you had Lauren Michael's seats, which were right behind home base.
0:49.7	And they had...
0:50.1	Yeah, we would call those seats one through four, not exaggerating.
0:53.6	One through four.
0:54.4	Yeah.
0:54.7	But I feel like the real draw was the food inside.
0:58.0	Yes.
0:58.7	And how would you describe the kind of inside food setup?
1:01.8	Well, I would say, yeah, if you get those primo seats, you're getting access to a full-on buffet.
1:08.2	There's a raw bar.
1:09.2	That's the thing I remember the most.
1:10.6	There's dessert bar.
1:11.7	There's all. So yeah, for a lot of the game, we would go inside and eat. And then whenever I would
1:16.1	use those seats, you could order food to your seat too. But then everyone watching the game on their
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