Remember Being Obsessed With Vampires? (with Jenny Owen Youngs & Kristin Russo)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

You may know our guests today from their popular podcast series "Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure," but did you know they also co-wrote a fantastic new book “Slayers, Every One Of Us” that is out now! Are you noticing a theme? That’s right, this week the Bayer siblings welcome their DREAM guests and old friends: Musician Jenny Owen Youngs and producer, speaker and consultant Kristin Russo! The group dive into the world of nostalgic TV from Buffy to Angel to My So-Called Life. And speaking of, they each call out their own Jordan Catalano’s of yore and you wouldn’t believe what some of them are up to these days… Plus the crew dives deep on vampires, why we live them, why and how some of us dressed like them and how did the ending of Interview with the Vampire differ from book to movie. (Warning: there will be spoilers!)(Other Warning: Vanessa tries out the term “smoke show” to describe Christian Slater and honestly it goes pretty well?) Finally, in a wonderful game of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARY GROAN we’re talking swooshing and banging on tv, a former DHL driver with a controversial car and sandwiches on flights. None of the topics make a ton of sense but we have a great time discussing them! So check out this vamp-tastic episode and be sure to pick up Jenny and Kristin’s new book, "Slayers, Every One Of Us” out now!!

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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 can't wait to slay with today's guests.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I think you had a story you wanted to tell about seeing one of our guests today recently.
0:36.7	Yes, I recently saw one of our guests perform.
0:39.6	We were just talking about it before the recording.
0:42.0	And they gave an amazing concert.
0:45.0	It was great.
0:45.6	It was in Northampton, I believe.
0:49.2	Wow.
0:51.9	People were so into it.
0:53.4	And so I wanted to say hi afterwards. and there was like this like mad dash to like people to buy things and so our guest was selling things so I waited in line for like for a long time but like not an insulting way like it was great all these people were buying stuff and I had a copy copy of both of our guest today's book. And it was
1:14.5	like, I don't know why I brought the book. It wasn't out yet. I kind of wanted to show her that I had,
1:21.3	I'm not sure. For some reason, I was like, I should bring this. And then I got there and realized it was
1:25.1	actually like the worst idea to bring it because all these people were like huge fans and they were like, how'd you get that book?
1:30.4	Like what's going on?
1:31.5	Like, hey, like what?
1:32.8	And it was like I was getting all this kind of attention but like in a kind of a suspicious way.
1:38.0	And I was just like, oh man, I shouldn't have brought this because I thought I could read it in line.
1:41.9	Yeah, yeah.
1:42.6	Taking a while.
1:43.4	And then I said hi it was very nice and then I just kind of like escape yeah you had to get
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