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Remember Your First Car? (with Matt Walsh)

Published May 23, 2022, 10:00 AM

This week we are joined by legendary actor and comedian Matt Walsh, who you may know from his work with Upright Citizens Brigade, his role as Mike McLintock on "Veep" or a million other hilarious appearances. Together we discuss the career trajectory of Steven Seagal from actor to cop to guy who gets mocked in Brian Cox's memoir, the time Jonah and his friends threw a block of ice on his car engine, and Matt's experiences using a sock as a gas cap. Vanessa also gives her thoughts on the return of thin eyebrow and together we debate the merits of artificial grape flavoring and our hopes for the "Quantum Leap" reboot. Whether you want to learn about Walsh's cameo "The Conners" or hear three people who've never lived in condos discuss the pros and cons of Homeowner's Associations, you'll find something to laugh about on this hilarious episode of the podcast.

Hi. I'm Vanessa Beyor and this is my brother Jonah. We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped this into the people we are today, who are pretty expressive, if I do say so myself. Welcome to How did We Get Week? Jonah, you recently visited l A and I wanted to talk a little bit about your visit. You're coming to town to come to the premiere of my new show I Love That for You, premiering on Showtime streaming every Friday and Sunday's on this Showtime channel, and so you came to the premiere and that was a really fun night. But we also had another really fun night where you were staying with me, and one night we went to dinner with our parents, we got ice cream, and then I downloaded the Pluto app so that we could watch a show that I believe you've seen. The entire series. It came out I think in two thousand nine. No longer is on the air, but again you can find it on the Pluto app, which maybe they'll fonsor us. I feel like I'm really plugging them and Jonah, do you want to talk about what show. This was, Yeah, so this is a show. I don't know why we started talking about Steven Seagal and I said, he's one of your childhood here es well, he was someone whose movies I liked when I was a kid. Yeah. Yeah, tough to calm the here, especially given his present day behavior. Kind of a flawed guy. But he has this show where he was like, I'm not only an actor, I'm also a cop, and he was in like I think it's in the New Orleans area and it's basically it's called Steven Seagal Lawman and it's him basically out with real cops acting like he's I don't know if he's an honorary cop. I don't know, feels honorary to me, but it's him kind of solving crimes, him with these cops, him sort of like showing them how to you know, you know, they go to target practice and he's like, let me show you. I'll help you pass this test. Basically he sort of has all the skills kind of mastered, and he's kind of like helping the community. Is how the show is framed. And I guess mastered according to who, because when I was watching it as like someone new to this show. It seemed like these cops were like going out on their car rides, I guess, and Steven Seagal would be like, I'm gonna come with you, and it always felt like the cop would be like kind of bummed out and they'd be like okay, cool, and then like Steven Seagale from the car would be kind of like explaining like how being a cop works, and you could tell again that the cops in the car with him were like, I gotta take this guy with us again. Yeah. And then I think the episode we specifically We're looking forward is the one where his band plays Yes, and I think I fell asleep during it, but go ahead, yes, because I actually saw his band play when I lived in Cleveland, and it was like Steven Seagal, I believe it's called like the Mojo Man, and it was like he kind of can't really play guitar, but he had a really good band and he kind of just walks around and kind of plays guitar, and of course he integrates it into the show. Is sort of like promoting as his music, promoting his in and his work as a cop. Now I want to get to our guest because he's so incredible today. But before we do, I just want to say a couple of other things about Steven Seagal. One is, when I worked at sn L, he was known as the worst host of all time. He was there decades before I was in the cast, but everyone talked about how he was the all time worst host. And a couple of other things that Jonah, you found out about Steven Seagal. I just was reading Brian Cox's memoir. Brian Cox plays the father on Succession and his whole intro is about how you have to give yourself to every role. Brian Cox's intro, Yeah, and he once worked with Steven Seagal, and basically the whole intro is kind of shooting at Steven Seagal. But every actor has humility except Steven Seagal. But I'm such a great actor that even in this role, I tried my hardest. And he said stevens Agal wouldn't like run lines with him, like basically was just kind of above everything. I found it that to be very funny. And then I google to see what Steven Seagal is up to, and you recently, I guess he's friends with Vladimir Putin and gave some comments it ll puttin seventieth birthday and this was like a month ago. This is not you know, this was while all this stuff has happened to Ukraine that hasn't affected their friendship. I mean, it's a lot going on with Steven Seagal. It's so funny to me that the fact that like one of the most popular shows on TV, the star of it opens his book by talking about how much he hates Steven Seagal, and then also even crazier that he went to Vladimir Putin's seventieth birthday party in his friends And I want to say for Brian Cox, like he works it in as like a metaphor for his artistic process. It's right. But yeah, so that was our trip. Tele and Vanessa, do you want to introduce today's guests who were so excited about today's guest. He's nothing like Steven Seagale, nothing like Steven Seagal. They both act. They both act. Yeah, they've both been in a lot of films that we've seen. Neil, Yeah, I never rocked the pony. Yeah, but you both kind of have you know, get out of my face or you're in trouble. But yeah, yeah, yeah, I could break your arm. I have a signature arm break. Jonah and I would line up to see as catch shows because we'd be like, MAT's gonna kick somebody's but in this show. Okay, So today's guest Matt while she's a comedian and actor best known for his role Mike McClintock and VI, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He's a founding member of Uprights Citizens Brigade Sketch comedy Troupe, which he co starred in the original television series and the two thousand fifty reboot. You've also seen him in films such as Road Trip, Old School, to do Over, and many more, and you can see him along with Evil Longoria and the newly released film Unplugging, written by Everyone's friend Brad Morris. Yeah, welcome to the podcast, Matt. Thank you. We're so excited to have you. As I said, Jonah and I used to line up to watch you an ask cat and I'm not going to link the joke again to kick people. Then I would take on Ian Roberts every show because I'm stronger than he in were your parents board with your Steven Seagal watch where they is because you're obsessed Jonah obviously, or you were he was you were obsessed? Yeah, yeah, which is normal. And then but I'm just wondering, like, as you're scanning through, like where's the episode where he does the band or whatever? Were your parents like can we just watch like a Pixar movie or something? Or were they as curious as YouTube or I don't know if you were, Vanessa, were you curious not as much? Not as much. I'm just curious. Yea. So my parents, I think had already gone home at this point. Okay, they're pretty good sports, Vanessa. I want to say, like, you know, not as much I thought you meant as kids. No. I brought it up the night you went into this deep No, no, no, okay, this night I was like, we got to see this because I thought it was so funny when Jonah started mentioning it to me, and it's so fun for us to watch TV and make fun of it. So I was like, I got my brother in town for a few nights. We got to a great show to watch and make fun of it, and so it was really thrilling for me. So yes, recently, Yes, I was really into watching this. I feel like for me, it was that thing where it's like you go back and you're like, oh, I watched this, and I was like, yeah, it's entertained, and I'm watching it now. I'm like, I can't believe I watched this? What was wrong with me a little bit? Do you ever have that feeling, Matt, where like things just don't age well and then you're watching it now and you're like, what's wrong with me? Sure? Well, you fall in love with stuff and then you yeah, I understand that. I totally understand that. What do you think about like actors crossing over into music, What do you think it can work? Do you think I mean in this case, I don't think it works super well. I think in some cases it's worked a lot better. What are your thoughts on it? I have to say, because I'm not musical, I respect anyone who can play an instrument with some competency. I really do. So when you said, like Seagal's has a band, I'm like, you, guys, so ridiculous, but like he can play guitar, Like I took it as a way to like shame myself, like even that guy can play it are So I was like giving props, but like in terms of like celebrity bands, like it feels a little gimmicky. But again, if you have musicality, like why not, like why not try to make a song and make a band, like, you know, because some people are good at like I would assume, like Kevin Bacon is a good musician, you know what I mean. Or these other people that have bands, I would assume that they're pretty good musicians, so why not and they probably love it. But I have not fallen in love with a celebrity band that I can think of. But I also respect people's ability to play music anybody, honestly. Yeah, the only one I can think of really is Jenny Lewis Is she was, you know, a child actor and now she's a musician. It seems like a lot of these adult I guess actors when they become musicians, it's probably hard for them to tell if people are coming to their shows, you know, like if their music is good or not. Well, yeah, and you know, like the biggest version of it is truly the Blues Brother. If you think those guys were sketch stars on that show, SNL and then they blew it up and then they were bigger than anything like and they were also characters. They weren't like Jenny Lewis being herself. They were like characters. But then they pulled in like John Goodman, and so they like really did it well. Like I remember liking those album They made a couple albums and Blues Brothers, and I do remember really liking them, and I suspect they probably hold up because they got the best musicians in the world, you know, joined the band. Yeah, so it is interesting like that that's a success story of it. Yeah, totally. I will say the best part about the show is coming back to me is some guy kept requesting movie titles in between songs for what, like yelling at Seagal, like do a song about this movie now? Like Above the Law Are Hard to Kill. I don't know if that's a heckl or request, but I found that to be very That's really funny. That's so funny funny. I bet that someone say I love you like you know, like they're there because Seagal, it's almost like remember that movie. You did fucking love that movie, man, But just knowing kind of Seagal's temperament. It feels like that probably made it mad. Proudly he ignored it. He played a cool He was playing a cool Matt when you were a kid, like young Matt Walsh liked do one more hot take, please please please? In that what I don't like about musicians because I think a lot of people like Billy Bob and have had bands, etcetera. Keanu. Maybe perhaps what I don't like about actors is when like, say you're Michael Corleone and your al Pacino and you're sitting down on a couch and it's like Johnny Carson, I'm going I'm dating it. But say it's at the peak of Godfather and you're Johnny Carson and it's Michael corleon and al Pacino and he just did a song with his band, and Carson wants to ask him a question about the Godfather and he's like, I'm not here to talk about my acting, man, Like that's ridiculous, Like you have to have humility, you have to understand the reason we're even slightly curious about your band is because you were Michael Corleo. Right, Yeah, that's the part I don't like. So when people I don't have an example of somewhere but where they're like, hey, man, I'm here to talk about the band. I don't want to talk about the movie. It's like, come on, man, really, yeah, there's no connection between why we love you and the reason you're parlaying that popularity into this other interests of yours. We have to be completely under your rules, like come on, yeah, yeah, it feels a little pretentious. I agree. They're trading on their celebrities, so we get to ask questions about, yeah, your celebrities totally. What if Steven Seagal had stopped between songs and like told like a story from each of those films and just been like, that'd be amazing. It would be so out of his character. Maybe he would have gotten a season two if he had just been a little nicer. How many seasons were there, Jonah, I think there were two? Maybe, but yeah, I don't. I was curious, Matt. I know you don't play an instrument, but like when you were a kid, did you kind of fantasize about being a rock star or did you ever have those moments or were you more focused on comedy or did that come later? What was your the young Matt Walsh dreaming about the young Matt Walsh, like dreaming about Yeah, I think like probably in the world of athletics, like playing basketball or freezing the back driveway and playing hockey or football and imagining the fourth quarter catch or you know points. Yeah, probably when I was little, little and maybe like action any stuff like pretending you're in a war movie. Perhaps, but not like rockstar fantasies. No, I don't think I ever had a rock star fantasy. I'm not cool enough to even dream of that. Well, come on, I don't think I mean whatever, I don't mind saying I'm not cool. It doesn't really hurt me, Like, I think that's okay ultimately whatever. Fine, Well, we're going to take a quick commercial break, but we'll be right back with the toughest guy in coomany. Okay, and we're back so Matt today, obviously we talked about a nostalgic topic on every past more questions. Yes, please, who's the older of the two? Jonah, I'm two years old, two years older, two years older. When's your birthday? Jonah? September sev Vanessa November September, November both autumn birthdays? Interesting? When is your birthday October? Oh my god, so we're September. Are you a Libra, Matt, I'm a Libra too interested? Is that right? Yeah? I think i'm early or later? But yeah, oh wow. That means we're like fair minded and we can hear both sides and yep, also we're wishy washy, perhaps would be the downside. Yes, So Libra is the scales? Do you feel like you are justice minded? Like you're weighing things out in your mind a lot? And yeah, I do think I have a good capacity for that. I don't attribute it to my stars, but I do think I have a good capacity for that. How about you? Yeah, I think I do too. Sometimes it makes it very hard to make decisions. You know, I'm a Scorpio, so I guess I'm only one sign away from you, guys, Joanna, I thought there was a sign in between us, but I guess not. What is a Scorpio? Typically, I'm supposed to be like moody and mysterious. Yeah, you know, I'm always like always like I'm thinking of something, but you won't know what it is. I don't think that mysterious. I think you would like to be that way, But yeah. I remember like reading like teen magazines what I was growing up, Like about a scorpion. It's like you're like loyal, but like you're moody and your mysterious. And it would always be like a girl kind of dressed like goth and I'd be like, that's me, you know, but I don't did you ever go go? No? Joan kind of did, and I used to put embraced it a little. I guess goth is the wrong term for what Joan for something. I was more punk more like, yeah, same universe. What about you, Matt? I think I had like edge in the world of like I don't know what it would be called. My rebellion was like I didn't care, so I would wear like pajama bottoms and bowling shoes to class, do you know what I mean? And like to restore everything and like you know, untangled hair when I had hair and like all that, like just kind of didn't care, throw it together. That was sort of my aesthetic. That sounds like an awesome Yeah, I guess it's in the world of punk. That's kind of punk. I remember like we could get out of class when we were in high school for like on Halloween if we dressed up to like being a picture or something, and I remember I was wearing like huge Doc Martin's camouflage pants and like a band T shirt. That's just how I dressed. And I remember just being like, oh, well, I can leave class and like one it's going to say I don't look dressed up and worked. That's awesome. It worked, It paid off, totally paid off. I bet you guys dressed sort of like I bet if we compared ave photo of you both in high school, you would sort of because I feel like what Matt is describing is kind of how you dressed. Jonah, Yeah, a little bit. I remember I don't know if I had bowling shoes, but I remember really wanting them, but like maybe not knowing how to get them or something. Yeah, you know, geeky slash punk would be in the world of category like I always wanted. I never bought it, but I always wanted a mail truck because it had the door and the driving wheel on the wrong side. Yeah, so that's sort of alternative stuff was always fascinating to me, and it felt rebellious and different, you know. That was sort of my vibe for a long time. I really wanted a hearse and our dad I didn't think I knew that. Yeah, we'll have to ask him about my dad. Like new someone who owned a funeral home or something, and I had talked about getting this used hurt to me. I thought it would be the coolest thing ever to roll up in a school in a hearse, right, Yes, I really wanted one, and there was It was like a hand possibility for the WI This could actually be a great segue into our topic. I guess, yes, yeah, which is first cars. This was not my first car, but I think could have been my first car and could have changed the whole trajector in my life. If I was like the hearse guy, well, you know, I got bought Mitz fed with Brad book Ats, whose dad is famously Bart book Cats of Berkowitz Human Funeral Homes in Cleveland, and that was going to be our hook up. Probably the book Cats is probably and they're still there and have helped our family through many you know, losses, losses, and I bet Bart book Cats. Bart probably has a fleet of these horses. Yeah, probably so weird. If dad was like, hey, Jonah is looking to maybe do you have any of these rses that took a lot of miles on them. That's fun though, that's like the Ghostbusters carse right, Yeah, it was it. Yeah, it was hers They suped it up and changed it, but it was a Herse, big old Cadillac engine and everything. Yeah, Matt, what was your first car? Like, speaking of cars, I think my first car was a Diesel Rabbit eighty two perhaps, so imagine a tutor Oor Volkswagen Rabbit that was diesel of all things. And I got it like eight hundred dollars, which even then was cheap. And I was working summers at a place as like a teacher's aid at a school for like behavior disordered children, because I was studying psychology and I thought I was gonna be a psychologist. And this woman, Collette, had a car, and by the end of the summer, I bought it from her. So she was my teacher that I worked under. I remember I went to Northern Illinois College, which is just onside of Chicago. And because it's diesel and it's so cold, you have to plug in a diesel engine at night otherwise it will freeze because there's oil in the gas. And where I lived, I lived in a us with like ten people. It was like my senior year in college. There was no garage, There was no street parking, so I had to like park at a Joe and Fabrics like a block away on the main They had an outdoor outlet, and I would plug into an outdoor outlet, so I was like stealing power from them every night and parking my Diesel rabbit in there like parking lot every night, Matt, can you So there was an outlet that plugged into the actual engine. Diesel cars trucks to have a block warmer, So underneath the engine is literally a plug that you would plug into a wall and then you just get an extension cord and plug that into any outlet. And what that does is it just runs current around the engine to keep the oil from slushing up or freezing for whatever reason that fuel has a low freezing point or high freezing point whatever would make it hard to start. And so I never knew that. I never knew that either. Yeah, obviously centervated diesel engine. Yeah, and it was classic, like very much in keeping with the sort of like bowling shoes and not carrying vibe. I remember I lost my gas calf and then I just had a sock and I twisted up a sock and I shoved the so Jonah and my dad or my grandpa. My grandpa was like, what are you doing that? That's like a rolling Molotov cocktail man, Like that's insane. He's like, here's some money, go buy a gas calf now, because I left it on the gas tank somewhere when I was filling it up. Chair. That's the other thing with diesel. You never know where you're gonna get diesel from. It's not as common. So that was like a whole world I never really paid attention to until I had a diesel car. And then I remember the window was broken for a long time so I never fixed it, so it was like this much down and it was always cold, so it was basically like snow in the car. I had a sock for a gas tang. It was like totally like crazy Town times. This is the most Jonah thing I've ever love. It very similar. I could see this that our parents had a rabbit, and I said, do you remember that orange rabbit. It's the first car I can remember our parents hadn't We were really young, so you must have been very I remember it. I think I must have been. They had an orange one. It was right when we moved to the house who grew up in. Yeah, And I remember like when they sold it, the person driving it away, and I was like so upset because I love the car, because that was so cool because it was like fluorescent orange. Yeah, this was like a fluorescent green. It had like a ton of a c foam fluorescent green. But Volkswagen had those colors and they're pretty simple boxing cars. And mine was a stick and it got crazy mileage, like it got like sixty miles of the gallon or something. I don't know why, but wow. So and then I ended up crashing it, but I fixed it. I crashed it into like a concrete wall because I had to pull over. I had too many drinks one night and I pulled over, like this is not good. So I got off the highway. But I got off too quick and I hit a curb and I crashed it. Man, but nobody got nobody. How did you feel about the two doors? Did you like it? Did you? I've never had a two door car. I guess it was kind of perfect, even though like I would put three full sized friends in the back we did a road trip from northern to You have I in that car, and there was always something wrong with that car, Like I said, the window, et cetera. So like, we were driving down and we ran to a rest stop and then we all got back in the car. But one of my friends thought he'd be funny, so he pulled a corn stalk out of the field. He pinned it under my windshield wiper, you know what I mean, And then we started driving. I'm like, that's I turned the windshield wipers on to see if it would fall off, and it wouldn't fall off. So then do you remember what cigarette windows are there? The triangle windows, so you have like a square window. Of course it was a hand craning, yeah, and then in front of that was a triangle window that you could just swivel out, and they called it a cigarette window. So I figured, well, I'll reach out the cigarette window and I'll grab the corn. You know, when I opened the cigarette window, it just fell out and shattered on the highway and we just kept rolling. So it was like a car that had many lives and it felt very disposed well, and it was very much in keeping with I don't care attitude and uh yeah, I had a lot of lives. That's incredible. But I get your nostalgia for your rabbit because I eventually sold it to this guy, Bob Basta, who was dating my old girlfriend. He was a good guy, and I'm like, sure, I'll give it to you for like whatever. I don't even know what I sold it for. And he drove it away because it was sitting in our backyard for a while. I wasn't even using it. It's incredible that you were able to sell it, I know. I think it was literally two hundred or three hundred dollars or something. This thing about diesel engines is they do run forever, like they're so sturdy. So the thing I had to fix when I crashed into a curb was mostly like exterior stuff, Like the engine was a monster and it ran forever and it got really good. So I think he got a lot of use out of it. And then the other car it makes me think of is when I drove like UC beat in New York and had a Volkswagen Vanagon, which is one of those pop up camp personal Wow, that's like the first car I ever bought when I had money, Like I had a real job for a while. It was kind of like I could get anything. You don't even kind of like the hearst like if I had any kind of money, what kind of car when I get So the first car when I had real money was a pop up camper van. Eventually drove that to New York and it died on the way there. But that's right before I started touring with Second City. Because I know you had Second City. Then he went back to having no money. Yeah, exactly exactly. I was like, you had a car when you were trying. This is like I had a real job for like a year. I kind of kept doing comedy at night, but I had a real job working for my dad's business. So I saved up a fair amount of money. And my brothers like, you should get a real car, man, Like, I don't even know what I was driving, probably something rusty Nova, so the best car I could think it was like, oh my god, I saw it, and like I bought it. Then when I started working a Second City, I could never fix it because I didn't have any money, and when I drove it out to New York it broke down eventually. Well, I feel like you've had some really incredible cars, and Jonah, I don't mean to keep comparing you guys. It just is really shocking how you guys just have a lot in common. And Jonah, a lot of Volkswagens in our family as well. I had at Volkswagen then met an untimely end as well, really untimely. Yeah. Yeah, my middle name is Matthew. I feel like we have a lot of connections here. Matt give me the untimely ending of the volt Well. I had this l It was a Jetta I believe it was probably early nineties. It had been our mom's. I think it had been our mom's and I had covered the back and stickers, like tons of stickers, but mostly band related. And I'm driving one night and it's me and I think Arthur and this guy Eric and maybe from Brian and we're driving and all of a sudden, that's steering wheel kind of locks up. It's hard for me to turn it. And like for some reason, we grew up there like tons of traffic circles, so many, so I'm driving and I'm it's really hard for me to get around these circles, and we finally get I think this guy Eric's house. We pull in the driveway and the engine is kind of smoking or something, and this is where it gets really weird. Somehow I think the car is going to explode, thinking I'm afraid. I'm like, oh my god, the car is gonna explode in this guy's driveway. We're all like, this is gonna be so we popped the hood. It's smoking. One of our friends grabs a block of ice and we decided we should throw this ice at the engine. And I can't remember whose idea. It was a terrible idea, I know, I know, so we're thinking this will cool off the engine. Anyway, So someone throws this block of ice at the engine. I don't remember what happens, but eventually I find out, okay, the engine block is cracked. Now the engine itself, I guess, was okay, But now repairing this engine block is like two thousand dollars, like more expensive than the car is worth. And I remember kind of like, oh, I should maybe be mad at this guy who did this, but I think we're on the same and then I feel like, two weeks later, it was like we're friends again. It was like, you know, no big deal, but I didn't have a car for a while. I remember just being kind of upset about that, but I don't Vanessa, do you remember this? Yes, I totally remember. I mean, you're being nice. It was definitely Arthur who did it. And you don't like Arthur, Vanessa, you don't know. I just remember Arthur through the ice. I but I think it was in a moment of panic. I yeah, I think he was, as you all were trying to save your car from exploding and save your lives, you know, more important. But it is really funny that you guys did that. And then I guess that's when you got Grandma Marge is Honda right. Then I got a Honda Accord a year later, so I got a lot of hand me down cars. Yeah, you always drove these sort of I wouldn't say necessarily like feminine cars, but you always took these cars that were kind of like well kept by either our mom or grandma, and then you would completely cover the backs in band stickers and make them look like really different. These cars had like second lives as like these kind of punk put some subwiffers in the back. Bless and misfits like Jonah used to drive me to cool and I was like a really good student. And Jonah would drive to school and we'd have like the windows open and he'd be like blasting this punk music and it was like my favorite part of the day because like I was so not like that, and it would be so cool to like show up to school like that. And I'd be like, yeah, whatever, I'm just showing up to school of my brother who's blast and no effects or whatever. And Vanessa recently got her first car in many years. I recently. I didn't get my first car until I moved to l A a few years ago. Really, yes, you never had one in Ohio. No, I never had one. I would borrow our parents cars, you know, usually borrow my mom's car, So I was really used to driving corollas or cameras. That's you never had a car. How come I had a car. I never had a car. Well, when there were four of us at home, it was helpful, like because mom and dad would use their to go to work, so we would kind of like share a third car, but it would sort of be your car. And then once you went to college, we didn't necessarily need to have an X your car as much. So yeah, I never had a car, I would just borrow one of our parents cars. And so I got my first car. I bought again a few years ago. So once I had money to buy a car, it wasn't like a tent. What did you get me at the top? Camper top? Yeah, it was a Tesla. It's the Tesla Model three. I talked about it so much, you know, do I wish the founder wasn't kind of you? But what was really crazy is that, you know, when I was in Cleveland growing up, like I'd have to drive most places. But like I went to college in Philadelphia, I never drove. I didn't have a car there. Then I moved to Chicago. I didn't have a car in Chicago. Then I moved to New York. I didn't have a car in New York. So, like moving to l A was like the first time I needed to drive places really since high school. And so I really took to Tesla very easily because I think, you know, the self driving stuff, like it drives you, especially when you're on the freeway and stuff. It can just sort of like dry view and you have your hands on the steering wheel and stuff. But it's sort of like doing the whole thing. And I think for people who are used to driving normal cars where they're in control, that's like very scary. It's like a thing to get used to. But for me, I was like, this is great. It can just drive. And a lot of my friends would be like, isn't this scary for you? Because sometimes it doesn't totally sense what's going on, it kind of like, but I'd be like, it's good, it's fine. It knows what it's doing. And so I probably put too much trust in my car. But the thing that I also really love about a Tesla is that I don't have to go to the gas station, because whenever I would go to gas stations, I would realize I would get a lot of anxiety because I'd be like, what side is the gas thing on? And I have to pull into this thing. And people would always be in bad moods and stuff, And now they're really in bad moods, you know, the pres and and just working out my set. It's about ellen and just like gas stations and I go, you ever seen it in a good mood at gas station? Okay? First of all, you see what they're charging for a can of cocoo, says you got to say, especially with the press of gas, that's really everyone can relate to that. Vanessa totally. This guy's honking at me, I'm because you're honking at me, or is hanging at this whole system because are being so supportive of my gas station. Well, I have an electric car too. I have the keya Nero great, Okay, same thing. I love it and I love not going to a gas station. And it's the best. It's the best, isn't it. It's so nice to not have to go to gas station. Like I have the smallest and cheapest Tesla and it still was like really a big car to me because I was used to driving, which I guess they're bigger now, but at the time in the nineties, Toyota Corollas were so small and I was like, this Tesla is too big for me. I think some people think it's like cool to have a big car and like, you know, but I'm always I want to be in the tiniest car so that I can park easily, etcetera. I had a camera that when I started dating Morgan, my wife, she had the camera, and then when we moved in together, she got a good car. We had a couple of kids by that point, and I kept her camera and I loved it because it had like two thirty five thousand miles on it, which is amazing, Like those things can run forever. And at our school, our little preschool, everybody had like you know, tesla's and BMW's and you know, nice cars in l A Are very common. And I had the shittiest car at our preschool, but I was so proud of it. It was kind of like putting stickers on it. I felt very rebellious at our little preschool and Morgan's like, you have to get it. And it was a two door too. It was a heavy two door, so I had to let two little kids out of the back. The seats were a little ripped, but I loved I would look at that thing and like, this thing is two ter thirties five thousand miles on it. This thing is amazing. And then eventually Morgan's like, we gotta get, we gotta get. So we did, we all we. I don't know if you remember this, Jonah. Growing up, we had like one kind of nice car and one less nice car. Yeah, I do remember that. I also remember our dad got a truck. Yeah, he got a pick up truck at one point, like kind of recently, Like I remember getting picked up from the airport and then having to get in that weird like back seat that isn't really a back seat with like my stuff. I want to say, like our mom hated it. Well, it was stick shift too, I think so it was like he was the only one who could drive it. But I also want to say, maybe they weren't allowed to park it outside of their I think their condo had some weird rules about truck. They had to park it in the garage, just like I find these homeowner rules to be insane. I can't imagine buying a house and then having someone tell me where I can park my car. You know what I'm saying, man is unsightly or something. Yeah, it was unsightly or wasn't up to their standards of their commandity. Yeah, that is a weird rule. I find that very I find it strange too. There are kind of a lot of rules where they live. They of in this like condo community with all of these beautiful man made lakes those Yeah, have you ever lived in a like a homeowner h O A type place? No? I have never lived in one of those places, don't. Okay, I got really into and this is like a common thing. The podcast is me just researching stuff that doesn't affect me at all. And when I was buying my house, I got really into this site city Data, which is people just posting stuff about real estate. And these people post all of these complaints about their homeowners associations and I would read them. I would just be like, I'm home from work, I'm just gonna read about home But I mean, they have crazy demands and you know, you can't plant a tree, you can't paint in your house a certain color, you can't. I mean, it's they can be really intense. Yeah that sounds like a m Yeah. I've had friends who want to run to be like the you know, on the board or whatever. Yeah, it's like a whole I think the power can really go to people's heads. I think so too. Yeah, I don't think I could handle that if people were like, I don't know, I would be fresh right if I had a pickup truck and they're telling me I got to park it underneath or whatever, Like, yeah, it's not like you're having like a a ja ky RV that with like you're living out of in the parking lot. It's like, a, yeah, pickups are nice, they're expensive. Yeah, they are expensive. I don't what is the aesthetic? Is it? Like we don't want anyone thinking that cowboy lives here? Like what do they What does a pickup represent? It doesn't represent poverty? Right, They're expensive, they're expensive. I don't know. I mean it's like, I think the argument for them, based on all my research, which is way too much research for someone that is not connected us at all, is like if the name or next to use house is falling apart or it's unsightly, it's bringing down there's like standards and that, you know. Yeah, to me, it doesn't appeal. It's an inconsistent argument because pickups are nice. I agree with you in the pickup thing. And the big controversy at our parents h A was something with like the lights, the street lamps. They wanted to leave the street lamps on certain amount of hours and they wanted to change it, and it was going to be more expensive. I mean, it's like every decision just seems like a huge, huge ordeal. Yeah, the one thing I want, Like my mom lives in one of those and I always want her to have a dog, but her building, for some reason, I can't have dogs. There's a couple of buildings where people have pets or they're sneaking pets or you know what I mean. Definitely her building, you can't have a pet. And I'm like, that's like I wish that would change for her. Yeah, I'm with you. Well, maybe we can work on that. Maybe we can. Maybe I'll look into it. If I need help, I'll use your knowledge. Yeah, definitely feel free to contact me. You'll be my legal Yeah, I'm so glad we figured that out. We're going to take a quick commercial break and we'll be right back into that wall. Okay, and we're back now that we've had a lot of fun with you today, and to keep that fun going, we'd like to play a game with you now called Yes slash No Instalgia. So we're going to bring up nostalgic products, shows, etcetera that are making a comeback, and if you're into them, you can give them a yes stalgia salia and if you're not into them, you can give them a nostalgia no stalgia. Do you get it. It's kind of a plan words can I ask for an example sentence or so, if I said they're bringing back a certain kind of socks or something that's not one of our topics today, you could say, I'll give that a yes, Stalgia, we'll read an article about it, we'll discuss it, and then at the end we'll say, mattyestalgia, nostalgia, what's your vote? Yeah, Jonah kind of explained about it. I'm in, I'm in, I'm caught up, all right, I'm gonna kick us off. Okay, you don't mind, Vanessa. Yes, I don't know why I'm so excited about this topic, but I am. This is just announced of the return of frosted grape pop Tarts, and I guess that it was one of their original flavors in nineteen sixty seven, grape jelly with white icing and a little crunchlets for extra pop. I guess this flavor, Matt, I don't know how familiar with the pop Tarts flavors. This one's been on again, off again. According to this article in Food and Wine, they're brought back limited time two thousand fourteen, than completely discontinued in the two thousand seventeen and apparently this Slaver had a toy Day in the nineties, and I just want to read this quote. I feel like these people have these very important jobs, who work for these companies, and then they have to give quotes about pop Tarts and I just find this hilarious. So this is Heidi Ray, the senior director of Marketing, I guess at Kelloggs says, at pop Tarts, we know what our fans want. Frosted grape has been among the top flavors fans have been asking us to bring back, so we could not be more stoked to finally bring back this pop Tarts goat greatest of all time. Which I actually really like this Heidi Ray, because she's not take some of the times these people sound so serious. I appreciate the pond. I like it. And these are rolling out starting this month in Walmart and then they're gonna be go nationwide retail price three dollars nineteen cents. What do we think about this one, hard nosed, hard nostalgia because I'm not a grape person at all. Grape soda, grape flavoring, grape cool aid, grape Like I'll have a grape jelly on a sandwich for whatever, reason, and the reason is the synthetic grapes usually hit my palate as way too sweet. They never dial it incorrectly like jellies. I feel like they get it. Yeah, it feels like fruit. It feels like it's from the original source. But when you get into pop tart land, it's all like space age, technology and synthetics, and it's just like cotton candy sweet. I just can't take it. How do you feel about just a red or green grape on its own, like a legitimate, like a regular grape's grape, little cheese, little wine. Sure, I mean I'm in green grapes. I'm in yeah, Vanessa. What about you? What are your thoughts on this? Well, look, I'm nostalgia for this because recently, when we're filming my show, there were pop tarts on set and I thought I hadn't eaten a pop tart since I was a kid, maybe college, And I was like, first of all, pop tarts are so good. Guess what, you don't even have to heat them up. They're great cold. I know we're talking about a specific kind of pop tart, though, and I am a great person. I have to say, like, I like grape jolly ranchers. I like all the grape stuff. I've never thought of it until today, but I really am a person who likes grape artificial flavoring. So I'm going to give it a nostalgia, but respecting that you gave it a no. Matt, Jonah, this is disappointing. I feel like I have everything in common with Jonah and nothing in common with I know. Well, let's see what Jonah a pot tart. I do love cherry. I'll eat a cherry pop tart because it does feel like it's in the world of fruit, and even a blueberry. I do love pop tarts, and I do agree they're great raw like you, so you don't need to tell us toast good too. But you don't don't need to Jonah, what do you. I'm gonna also give this a nostalgia I knew it. I'm not a pop tart kind of guy. I agree with what Matt says about the artificial grape being incredibly sweet and just pop tarts are just something that just are not on my grater. I will say what I do like, and I don't know if you either of you have tried these are Have you had these cotton candy flavored grapes. They're real grapes, but they're like called cotton candy grapes, right, I've heard of them. They really taste like cotton candy, but it's like a kind of a subtle taste and they are actual fruit. Those I think are pretty good. That's about as crazy as I can get. That's probably something you would like, Matt. You probably would like that kind of I don't like cotton candy, Like that's too sweet. Okay. I always have this conversation with my kids. My kids love cotton candy, and I'm like, that's crazy, Like cotton candy is a disaster. This is almost hard to explain. It's almost like the essence of cotton candy, but in a grape. I would try it because it's coming from fruit. Yeah. I will also say I recently tried pop tarts. They have pop tarts that come in like a bag with like mini pop tarts. They're almost like little cookies. Yes, that's can I say this. Though, they're not as good as real pop tarts because you can't get that much stuff in them, you know what I mean, Not in a filling, Not in a filling. Yeah, it's not about the crust either, like pop tarts are about that filing, yeah, exactly, and the crispy frosting. Yeah. Do all pop tarts have frosting or only some of them? I know what you're saying, Jonah, because there's like a cinnamon sugar one that you're like, maybe that. I think even that has some form of frosting on it, maybe even if it's translucent. I think a frosting is always on a pop tart. I think so, or it should be should be. Now Here comes the second one, Matt. I want to say, nineties beauty trends are set to make a huge comeback, and this article says the nineties isn't just back in fashion, it's also making a comeback in beauty. That's right this year, according to Laficial, which I don't know if I trust this publication that much because they've spelled a lot of people's names wrong. I'm noticing. But we're returning to trends like pencil thin brows, frosted eye shadow, heavy lip line, or space buns, and claw clips. While you're at it, you can pull out your old flavored lip glosses and butterfly clips too. You could even revive those two sins up of hair pulled from your ponytail. Soon enough, you'll be channeling. And they spelled channeling wrong. Your favorite nineties stars like Jennifer Anderson spelled wrong, Drew Barrymore, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Winona Writer. Okay, Now, according to Laura Up to Power Brow artists of Benefit, the skinny brow is indeed back. So that's the main thing now. She says, the version is fuller than the infamous nineties brow. So I guess what I wanted to kind of whittle this down to one thing. Nineties trends are back. But the biggest trend that seems like is back is the skinny brows that we used to have in the nineties. Now. I don't know if either of you paid that close of attention to this, but in the nineties, women would like pluck their eyebrows super thin, and they'd like really fill them in, and it's much more common these days to have a fuller eyebrow. Some women plug their eyebrows so much in the nineties that they never came back haunting. So I just I'm curious, Matt, what do you think about this trend coming back of the skinny brow. I know this is probably huge news. I have a lot to ask about this, So yeah, I didn't notice it. Like you said, you guys probably didn't notice it. I don't know that I noticed the brow trend when I was living in the nineties, Like, I like attractive women, but I don't think the brow is where I'm focusing myself. But I'm sure I did notice unconsciously. Yes, And when you say phill in, do you mean just darken it with mascara with a brow pencil pencil? Start there's a brow pencil and you would just have these like really skinny lines. It was like a real nineties thing. I was gonna say, my mom. Unfortunately, I think she plucked her eyebrows too much and they didn't come back. I don't know when, but it was like fifties or sixties when she did it. It was on trend. People still do it, but it was like, really in the nineties, they were like so skinny. And you know, now people, because I think you're right, like for decades, have plucked their brows a lot. Now you can do this thing called micro needling, which is basically getting tattoos of brows on your brow line, and a lot of people I think you lost their brows in the nineties or before or after do that or have just naturally lost their brows. But like as a woman who were you were makeup? Right, that's sure? Do I mean, I'm not wearing any right now and you never have to back to my stand up and I apologize, does like a brow pull your eyes out? Like what exactly what does the brow do for a face? Here's what I will say when you were saying, like I've never noticed people's brows really do change people's faces when you put makeup on. Like one of the things you're taught is like brows are huge, and some people are more or less believers of that. But I do think a strong brow can really make a face. Like as an actor, Like we're comedians, right, so our brows tell jokes. Basically, our reactions tell jokes. So I do like when I get makeup a thin eyebrows, so I'm like, make sure you extend it a little, or just like yeah, cover the whiskey so it looks like I have a fuller end, you know what I mean. But that to me is like so my jokes register or like I don't necessarily think it makes me more pretty. I just think like it helps me tell you know, reactions, right, I think from now on or not now on, but maybe today you could just pay attention to, like your wife's brows, pay attention to like women's brows that you see in ads and stuff like, people really pay like a lot of attention to like making their brows look perfect. But my question for you then is if you have a bushy brow versus a slender brow, but you're still having a brow, Yeah, what's the benefit of bushy versus thin or thin versus like what what is it doing to your eyes? That's a great question. I don't really know. And I'm sure if I was like a makeup artist or something, I'm sure they know more in general what they do. But kind of depending I think on your face shape, you know, like your hair type and all that kind of stuff. Like I think it can change the way your face looks a little bit. Like if you think about like Gwen Stefani in the nineties, do you remember she had like these really skinny brows with like a lot of like white highlighter under them, like a lot of white eyeshadow like that was like a very nineties look. It's sort of like a trend thing too. It's like it was cooler now to have like thicker brows. It goes in and out of fashion, like what kind of brows to have to So part of it is like what's the most fluttering to your face? But part of it is fashion. Well my question, and like if you cut your eyebrows that they don't grow back, or they do grow back, Like if you went from thick to thin, then are you just can you go back to thick or is that kind of it? I don't know. I'm not a doctor, but it seems like if you're constantly like using a depilatory and removing things from your face, I think your face figures out, like oh, evolution takes place and they're like, oh, maybe we don't need these hairs anymore. Yeah, I got it. It's interesting because it doesn't happen like with other you know, you can cut your hair, you can shave and it'll grow back. It's interesting, but we're not pulling the follicle, right, We're plucking. That's true. That's true. When you pluck, you're pulling the whole tree. And some people have successfully done that, Like some people had skinny brows in the nineties and they have thicker brows now because they just grew them back. Got it? But the end his back And I got to ask you, Matt, yes or nostalgia? Wow, this is a really tough one. I'm looking at a picture of Gwen Stefani, So I guess I'm gonna say, can I pass until Jonah goes? Yeah, Jonah, what do you say? It's funny. It's like I was like, I don't care. I probably just say whatever Matt says. Sure, I'll say yes. I mean to me, I don't really notice brows that much, or maybe I do subconsciously. It's not something I'm hyper aware of. So if people want to do that to me, it doesn't really affect me. Why not. Sure, I'm gonna go with Jonah because we're identical, we have the same Yes, I'm so much more like Jonah than you, Vanessa. I just want to stay with the caveat that. Like, for all your listener ladies out there, you all look great, so you don't need to do anything if you don't want to. Yes, And I feel like I have so much in common with Matt, which is weird because me Vanessa have the same d NA. Yes, that's true, and I'm going to give it a nostalgia because I like to kind of go counter to what you two do, but also because I feel like once they're gone, it's hard to get him act. You know, you never know and kind of a harsh look to me. But maybe I'll change my mind if I see it in a lot of print ads, etcetera. Now, Jonah, would you like to give our last one? Yes? So our last one is yeah, why don't you introduce it? Okay? The Quantum Leap reboot has been picked up by NBC. They're bringing back the popular sci fi drama, which starts Raymond Lee, reported by Deadlines. So this is in the trades. In the trades, there's a first look photo, which I guess means like YouTube our actor. That's like a trade term, I guess where it's like, this is like the first image of this that this proves it exists and it's going to take place in modern day. So present day. It's been thirty years since Dr sam Beck had stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it. Matt, what are your thoughts on the Quantum Leap reboot? I just pulled up a picture. I think I like this guy. Okay, I don't know what I've seen him in, but I feel like I've have seen him and stuff. I do like the Quantum Leap engine. I did like that show. I think it's a solid engine to go into different worlds and figure out what you gotta fix. And I'm on board like nostalgia and Matt, you're recently on a high profile reboot yourself the Connors. I was, yes, what was sort of that? Because these reboots can because I here to miss that seems to be a well received one. What's it like going into like a reboot or what's it like going into a show you watched when you were younger and then all of a sudden being with the actors. Is that surreal? Is that exciting? It was exciting? I think similarly, maybe did your job at s and Albana says You're going into a place that's revered and a tallowed ground. So I went into stage and they have that kitchen that was from Roseanne and they had that couch and I took a picture of it on the phone and I'm like, this is crazy. And then the people who have been playing those roles for like thirty years on and off, obviously they went away and came back. They're there. So I felt this incredible rev Prince not to screw it up. He created a lot of anxiety as an actor for me actually to go into that. I felt very nervous and like reverential, sort of like wow, wow, wow, this is crazy. This show has been wrong forever. But I did enjoy it, like I like the stuff I got to do, but made me anxious to be inside something that felt like I grew up with and I didn't want to screw it up or I don't know. Yeah that makes sense. But so you're into this reboot and who knows, maybe you'll come do Steven Seagal ask martial arts. Maybe Unquantum Lead. I'm sorry, I can't drop this bit on Quantum Leap. Yeah, maybe they'll stop me from getting in the car because the cops hate when I get in the car, and that'll save the day. Getting ready to go ride along on patrol or whatever, and then Quantum Leap guy Raymond Leap comes in and hey, man, not today, not today man, and it saves somebody's life somehow. Well, Jonah, are you what do you think? Is this a yes or no for you? I'm conflicted about this one. I really did like Quantum Leap as a kid. I thought it was a cool premise for a show. Yeah. I also think maybe you know, just a memo to Hollywood, like make new stuff, get some original ideas. Yeah. I mean to me, it's like there's just so much of this kind of regurgitation from the past, and to me it seems like a bit like and I've heard someone talk about. I think it's like the studios are like, well, people like this originally it has a better chance of succeeding people are familiar with it. But Matt says this actor is good. I trust mats opinion. So I think if the casting is right, the concept, I like, why not? I mean, I like the original. I feel like it could it could work. The technology might be better now, like the effects might be better. I would probably watch it, would probably check out. I'll give it a yes. Stalgia Vanessa, what about you for the first time I'm going to agree with you, guys. I'm gonna give this a gyes Stalgia. I'm excited to see what they do with it. I was pretty young when Quantum Leap was on. I mean, I guess the repeats used to play when I was in high school and stuff, but I always really liked it. I'm going to take the leap. Okay, I stand a bit of this, and then you can leap into this show. Hopefully I don't have to go through time to enjoy this there. Maybe go back to a price where there's cheaper gas prices, right, Yeah. The only quantum leap I want to make is to pre inflation fill up your guess thank you know, in the seventies, and then maybe leap back to its quantum leap, guys, onto something. If this show isn't good, it's more like quantum sleep. You know what I'm saying exactly the sleeping Yeah? Yeah, are you going back in time because I was asleep? Well, on that note, Matt, we wanted to thank you so much for being such a great sport and coming on the podcast. Matt, Where can people find you? What are you promoting? You know? I was looking at your IMDb. You've got so many projects all the time. You're such a busy actor, comedian. What do you want to promote? Where can people find out more about Matt Walsh. I just did a movie called Unplugging that's on demand with Eva Longoria. That's funny that I wrote with Bred Morris. And then I have a podcast, like everyone, we have a rewatch podcast. Note to Hollywood, we don't need any more rewatch, but it's with Tim Simmons from VEEP and it's called Second in Command And that's been really fun to like have people, you know, everyone from Tony to Juliet to Sam Richardson come through and we talk about episodes and didn't Tim Simon's played Jonah, Yeah, weirdly and yeah, there's not a lot of Jonah. I gotta check out that podcast. What incredible casting and I can't. Yeah, it must be amazing. It's fun. Yeah. Yeah, So he doesn't probably help the name, right because he's kind of a tool. Yeah right, but yeah, there aren't a ton of us, but there's more. There's been more and more, but yeah yeah yeah, yeah, So hopefully people know other Jonas. Hopefully people know other Jonas. If you enjoyed this podcast, please subscribe to the podcast and keep an eye out for next week's episode of How did We Get Weird? When we were discussed more stories from our childhood and cultural touchdowns like first cars. Thanks so much, Matt, it was such a pleasure. Thanks so much, Matt. It's just so great. Hav Ill

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