Remember Your First Instrument? (with Jon Wurster)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In addition to playing drums for Superchunk, The Mountain Goats and Bob Mould today's guest Jon Wurster is one of the funniest people on the planet as evidenced by his work with former HDWGW guest Tom Scharpling on The Best Show. On this episode we discuss first instruments, why unearned confidence is such good comedy fodder and what it's like to punish your musical idols on the road. Finally, we discuss Jonah's history as a teenage scam artist. Did he ever get caught and did he single-handedly put both Waldenbooks and Borders out of business? 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	Who are extremely good listeners, if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Now, Jonah, I thought we could talk today about your history as kind of a teenage scam artist.
0:34.7	Do you want to kind of elaborate on that?
0:36.5	Yeah.
0:37.0	So I was thinking about topics, and I think that the kind of elaborate on that? Yeah. So I was thinking about topics and I think
0:39.2	that the statute of limitations on this has passed by a long time. Yeah, I don't think you're in any
0:44.3	trouble of getting arrested or anything. I don't think so. This was a very long time ago,
0:47.9	but yeah, I had a scam going to get free CDs when I was a teenager. I think we can say you
0:54.0	had it going with your friend. I think we can say you had it going with your friend.
0:55.0	I think we can name your friend.
0:55.9	My friend Dan.
0:56.7	And so my friend Dan, and he got introduced to it by someone else.
1:00.9	This was pre-message boards, word of mouth.
1:04.2	And we were told, if you go to Borders and you return a book, you don't need a receipt,
1:09.6	and they will give you the price on the jacket.
1:12.9	And borders sell CDs.
1:14.9	They had like a huge music section.
1:17.0	So they were like, you can get books, return them and buy CDs.
1:20.1	So we were like, okay, let's try this.
1:21.2	So we would go to this Walden Books down the street and they'd have like five hardcover books on sale for 20 bucks like on these
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