Remember WWF Wrestling? (with Max Silvestri)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

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Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Get ready to rumble because this week on HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? we are joined by hilarious comedian, writer and actor Max Silvestri! What's in a name? Apparently a lot. Jonah discusses how he was almost named Max and why he thinks he would have been a completely different and more confident person if he had Max's moniker. Max also discusses his various adolescent aliases while Vanessa reveals that she was almost named after a Bob Dylan song. The three of us also discuss the allure of eighties action movies and, of course, WWF Wrestling. Max elaborates on what it was like to witness Wrestlemania 10, why he related to Shawn Michaels and Bret "The Hitman'' Hart and recounts how the WWF eventually got body slammed by that cute panda from the World Wildlife Fund. As if that weren't enough, we also play a round of CHANGE.DORK where we discuss Randy "Macho Man" Savage's legacy, if the return of Diet Cherry Coke is worth our precious digital ink and should there be an actual videogame modeled after The Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1999 video for "Californication"? You'll have to listen to find out!!

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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	We're quite terrific, if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We get Weird. So Jonah, I know we were talking earlier about what our parents almost named us.
0:34.4	And do you want to share what you were almost named?
0:38.5	Because I think you thought of this because of our guests today. I did. Yeah. So we're thinking about what to talk in the story. And I had this
0:43.3	vague memory that our parents almost named me Maxwell. That was kind of the runner up to Jonah.
0:49.9	Yes. Well, I think mom really loved it. And dad liked Jonah more, right?
0:56.1	And yeah, and I never really actually talked to them. We talked to them more about it today than I ever have in my life.
1:02.3	Right. But I always growing up sort of pictured what my life, how it would be different if my name were Maxwell.
1:08.9	And I pictured going by Max and I pictured wearing sunglasses all the time.
1:13.1	All the time.
1:14.2	All the time.
1:15.0	And I thought I would actually kind of be like cooler.
1:18.4	Like, because I feel like it was a cool name.
1:20.8	It sounded kind of almost like jazzy or something.
1:23.9	I don't know.
1:24.4	I always pictured it as like being like a very, I thought maybe I would be more confident. I don't know. I always pictured it as like being like a very, I thought maybe I would be
1:28.2	more confident. I don't know. Like you'd be walking down the street playing a saxophone.
1:33.1	Yes. Yes. Yeah. You would carry all the coolness of jazz and to be a working jazz musician
1:39.3	in your bones. Yeah, because I don't know if I was familiar with like Max Roach or something, but yeah,
1:45.0	I had this, for me, it just sounded like such a cool name. And I think part of me was always just
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