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