Remember Xena: Warrior Princess? (with Jenny Owen Youngs)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jenny Owen Youngs is not only a successful musician and songwriter who has worked with some of the biggest artists on the planet, she is also a TV scholar who co-hosts popular podcasts about Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars. In other words, she's the perfect guest for HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? On this episode, Jonah recalls the magical night he attended both Jenny's wedding and MTV Video Music Awards where Vanessa introduced Miley Cyrus' performance, Jenny talks about what it's like living in the lobster roll mecca of Maine and Vanessa does a truly stellar impression of Jenny's collaborator Pitbull that is so uncanny it's difficult to believe Mr. Worldwide is not in the room with us. For our topic, we take a collective deep dive into the popular fantasy/adventure television series "Xena: Warrior Princess," specifically when it comes to the impact it had on a young Jenny Owen Youngs and the pioneering plot twists that have since become hallmarks of the genre. Finally, we play a snack-themed round of" Change Dot Dork" and try to guess which unhealthy treat from the past is currently back in rotation at your local grocery store. Enjoy.

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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 cool, if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I have this story today that kind of involves our guest.
0:31.7	Do you remember back in 2013 when you came to the MTV VMAs, that's short for video music awards, and I was there introducing Miley Cyrus.
0:44.9	I do remember.
0:45.8	That was my only time into VMAs, but we watched the VMAs a lot growing up.
0:49.8	They were a very big deal.
0:51.0	And yeah, I remember you performed.
0:53.3	I think we sat together. I was like not
0:55.6	really up on pop music and pop culture. So I was like, oh, there's these guys three seats down from me
1:01.3	these weird masks. I was sitting in the same row as deaf punk the whole night, didn't really know
1:04.7	who they were. They were like walking through the aisles of where the seats were. And I was like,
1:09.3	that's so funny that MTV hired these guys to
1:12.1	like dress up as robots. But they were tough punk. Yeah, I feel like we should have known that.
1:17.0	It was like Niles Rogers. I think Richard Simmons was there. It was all of these really
1:21.5	recognizable celebrities. And I felt like I was just very out of place and that probably
1:26.8	I should have recognized a lot more people.
1:28.4	Just to be clear, I think you were having a blast. I think you were sitting with my friend Julie.
1:32.6	I think Julie came. We were all sitting kind of near Lady Gaga too. Remember like she was sitting right in
1:37.6	the front and she was kind of dressed like a mermaid? I don't remember. I kind of vaguely remember.
1:41.4	I mean, I remember Justin Timberlake performing. I remember you introducing
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