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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi. I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood
and the Soldia and how it shaped us into the
people we are today, who are pretty excited for this
week's episode. If I do say so myself, Yes, we're
so excited for this week's episode of our podcast How
did we get Weird? Incredible guests Will Ferrell, the head
of Big Money Players Network, with iHeartMedia, legendary comedian actor.
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This was such a fun episode to record. Oh my god,
we just had so much fun. Will and I got
to talk about our days at S and L. We
talked about Scooby Doo. We talked about how monopoly money
absolutely rocks. Yes, and we also played a really fun
game with Will called change dot Org. Where were you
kind of reviewed some petitions and changed out Org. We
got Will's take on if he should be the new Batman.
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I think we all agreed he should do. I also
got his take on, you know, other very very important
issues facing society today, so it was great to have
Will kind of weigh in on that stuff. He talked
about going to school with the guys from Raising Against Me.
You know, if you enjoy it. We're going to play
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about all those nostalgic topics with just a lot of
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If you like to have a blast, which we know
you do, and you gotta dude, that's true. So well,
you grew up in Irvine, Yes, Irvine, California, Irvine, California,
which is southern California. Yes, and there are a lot
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of But I like that you said it just alone,
as if the world would know. Where do you think
most people might not know? Yeah? Yeah, I know that
some people like rage against some Machines. Zach Larroco were
from there. It was that and it seems like around
the same year as you was that. Did you know
those guys when you were in high school? So so
here's a crazy another crazy s and L. Sorry oh sorry, Jonah,
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no please. My first year on the show, so ninety
five ninety six season and Tim and Zach who I
went to high school, Tim Comerford, who was in my class.
Zach was a year below us. Okay, Tim had been
playing in bands on the set and the other and
then next thing I know, they're part of this band
that everyone's talking about called Rage Against the Machine and
we're on the same show together. Wow, And it was
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like our It was in that first half of the season,
so within the first nine shows, and we were laughing,
going like, how crazy is this. We're on SNL these
three guys from Irvine. That's unbelievable, very cool. Did you
ever see Zack's band before that? Inside I'm a music journalistic,
like he had this band inside out? Did you ever saw? Okay, no,
but I think Tim was part. I did watch Tim
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form with a band called Crystal Pistol. Okay, I haven't
heard of that, but I'll have to check that out. Yeah,
which I believe is a reference to a penis. I
don't know. I feel like that's maybe something that you cooked.
I'm just kidding. That's Vanessa's out of the conversation. Yeah,
he was just playing in and I didn't even know
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Zach was into music. Really. I just remember Zach as
like a skateboarder guy and we'd probably pick up basketball. Yeah,
and then next I know he's this amazing lead singer.
And then full circle, Tom Morillo has become a friend
through our kids' school. Wow. So, oh my gosh, that's crazy. Okay,
that's incredible crazy wow. Wow. Well we are again, like, so,
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how are you guys feeling about the new setup here? Again,
this is only our second podcast. I'm used to doing
this in a room in my house. Yeah. Yeah, so
this is a little more involved, but it feels good
for our listeners. They've set up two luxurious couches. Yes, yes,
I'm on more of a love seat. Yeah. You guys
are on a full couch of the same with some
throw pillows, some throws. Yeah, we're just hanging. So we're
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just hanging. Yeah, yeah, super chi kind of a chill,
kind of kind of like friends in a friends in
an office office and abandon couches in it, Yeah, in
it and some equipment and some audio equipment. Just just
pretend it's not you know, I don't even see it.
Or well, look here's how it's gonna go. Another commercial. Everybody,
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keep it going, keep it going. So we've asked you
to bring in a topic today. You gave us several. Yeah,
and the one that we picked, right is Scooby Doo. Yes, okay,
to kind of talk about, to kind of riff on. Yeah, okay,
so what does Scooby do I'm about to rhyme here
mean to you? You know? Yeah, I didn't. I don't
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see that coming. It's thrown me. I huge Saturday Morning
cartoon junkie kid, right, and Scooby I just between the
solving of the mysteries, which were super scary in my
brain at that time, and the suspension of disbelief every week,
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yes that maybe they weren't going to solve it. Yeah
they still did, Yeah, but somehow, like I kept coming
back for more and just the camaraderie. Yeah. Fred's ascot right, right,
you were an ascot scarf. Yeah, and you liked that
I loved his style. Yeah, I think I had a
crush on Vela Velma yes. And then just you know, Shaggy.
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I don't know so much about Shaggy was weird to me. Yeah,
like why he was allowed to hang around. Yeah, I
don't know he needed to. I don't know where his
skill set was. His best friend was a dog. Yeah,
but still but you know, okay, yeah, that's cool of them. Yeah,
do all the hard work. Yeah, but yeah, I just
love it was just my favorite cartoon. Yeah. Yeah. And
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what was that? And the Mystery Machine, which was their van?
They traveled around it right right, right, right right, which
I drove a van in high school that was similar
to the Mystery Machine. My dad had a Chevy van
that I would sometimes use as my car to drive
to high school, which had you guys won't know what this.
It was a manual transmission. But it's called three on
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a tree. It's just three gears. It's up here. Okay,
you got the clutch, but you're shifting. He just hauled
his music equipment around. And it was a windowless van.
This doesn't sound good, no, But the Mystery Machine I
don't think had windows either. Was it really cool? That
when you would drive that van tour. Because I remember
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being in high school and kids who had cars like that.
It was like we were all like, we got to
get in that car. It was cool because it was
kind of beat up, yeah, and a little bit a
little bit vengacie. I hung out with a group of
friends who liked doing weird stuff, so we celebrated the
nonconformist kind of thing. While all these young Irvine suburban
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kids had brand new cars. I had this beat up
yeah equipment van that became cool banana yellow. Yes. Yeah.
There was a kid in your grade, Jonah, who had
like a big yellow truck, YEP truck, and it was
like the coolest thing. Like I grew up kind of
your Molly in near Shaker, and we both did, and
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and there were a lot of kids who had these
really nice cars, but I feel like that yellow yeah
truck was like I had a lot of bumper stickers
on my car, like just covered with band We actually
would sneak bumper stickers on each other's cars to mess, Okay,
Like I would come out and there just be a
US Marines bumper stickers on the back of the other Cardro,
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which was a beat up VW bug Okay, yeah, they
got me. So we'd have bumpers really funny. Yeah. Jonah
drove a Jetta and it was like we would drive
in to school and he would be like blasting no
effects and stuff and felt but I felt so cool.
Believe it or not. I wasn't very punk in high school.
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That's hard to believe, Jonah. And so I'd come in
like so studious and all my books, but we'd be blasting,
like you know you got a little street credit, yeah,
and I'd feel like, I guess I'm getting out of
my brother's car. I was probably sometimes annoyed because we
were late, but like I was, I was like so
like I felt like it was such a cool way
to show up to school, you know, like whatever, I
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guess I'm just listening to this punk music and that
but scooted back to Scooby Doo music. They always have
a music montage. Oh yeah, yeah, I was thought that
was so cool. Yeah, do you remember like being a
kid on Saturday mornings and watching it or like do
you have a memory of what that? I just knew
I was like early Riser. Yeah, I would get it,
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and there was just kind of a lineup between like
Scooby Doo, Sigment and the Sea Monster okay, and Johnny Quest. Yeah.
It was a big Saturday morning part. Yeah. Here's where
I was also a weird. My younger brother, though, still
wouldn't wake up before I would, okay. And I loved
playing Monopoly okay by myself because the whole house was
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still sleeping. Yeah. And so I would set up the
board and i'd play, and then when it wasn't my turn,
I'd sneak into my mom's room and I would move
her piece. I'd set up for two players, okay, I
would be you know, the dog or the guitar or
the shoe or whatever. I'd move around the board and
then what was the other person's certain I roll for
them they'd land on and so I'd go into my
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mom's or like, Mom, yes or no? On park place.
She'd been like what, just say yes or no. She'd
be like no, ok, which means she didn't want to
buy it. Yeah, I whole rounds of playing until everyone
finally woke up. What a patient kid. The patience? Yeah,
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did you find like having that money? We played kind
of a lot of Monopoly in our house and I
remember just like the feeling of having a lot of
that money just truly made me feel rich and like,
I just it was hard for me to like give
up that money. I have a money story too, I
have two money stories, right, so yes, I can totally
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identify with it. And I always felt like we were
running out of five five hundred dollar bills. Yeah there
was in plenty of hundreds, but the five hundreds would
go through quickly. Okay, okay, maybe there were less. Yeah.
There was a neighborhood across the street from the apartment
complex I grew up in was Damber Drugs, and I
was walking through the toy section one day. You could
buy refills of Monopoly money. I've never heard of that. Wow,
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let's just say the only time I've ever shoplifted. I
took a stack of five hundreds. I stole fake money,
and I put in my pocket and I walked out
really stiffly. I'm sure if there was a camera, I'd
be like the worst kid actor. Very I'm just I'm
walking out of the drug store. No, no need to
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look over here. And then I ran home and I
stole Monopoly money to add to our games. We had
plenty of five hundreds. Oh my god, and you still
remember it? You still, of course I still remember. What
a big yeah. And then I brought I didn't realize
we're gonna be talking about money, But is this the
other story? I brought my favorite Christmas present that I
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got this year from my wife. It's a little at
a shakecase. Guess what, It's filled with tiny stacks of money.
Everyone here in the room. That's like ten grand at
least she got this worry. That's such a great Yeah,
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and you keep it on your person. I just thought,
maybe we'll talk about this today. Maybe there's will be
a good reason for me to show you guys, Yeah,
you knew you're meeting with the bears, money might come out.
And then and then that relates to snla because when
I met Lauren, because I had read a story about
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how Adam Sandler did something where he just pretended to
hump a chair or something and was signed on the spot. Okay,
And I remember reading that going, you know what, he
didn't worry about pleasantries or he just was like funny
right away and they signed him and that's the way
to do it. Yeah, And so I thought if and
I knew I had to meet Lauren for my second audition.
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It was a meeting before you, and I thought, I'm
going to walk in with a briefcase. I'm going to
fill it full of fake counterfeit money, and as he's
talking to me, I'm just going to go, like, Lauren,
we can all talk till the cows come home, but
we all know there's only one thing that really talks,
and it's hard gold cash. And I was going to
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open it up and set it on his desk, and
then I was gonna like, so I'm gonna walk out
of this room, and no one needs to know. You
can take that money or you don't have to whatever,
and you can decide whether I should be on this
show or not. So I walked into the room and
Steve Higgins had just been hired as a producer with
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a brief comedian walks into a room with a briefcase,
a leather briefcase. It wasn't even a cool looking one.
And I walk in. I can tell the vibe is
not for joking around, and it was super serious and
I was like, oh my god, I got so freaked
out and I never got to my bit. So I'm
just holding a briefcase. Did he ask you what it was?
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What a funny thing? Ever? A weird, shy quiet It's
supposed to be funny, Like I'm supposed to be humping
a chair. My inspiration was gonna go, hump a chair
is something active? And I'm just like, uh huh, well
I was thinking about doing this character. I wouldn't do that.
Oh okay. Finally, after twenty minutes, Higgins goes, nice briefcase.
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I'm like, yeah, thanks, it's like anything else you want
to ask me, I'm like no, I walked out and
I never knew. I told him later and he thought
it was so funny that I couldn't pull the trigger
on the bit. So anyway,