Remember First Memorable Candy Experiences? (with Martin Starr)
How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer
All Things Comedy
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On today's new episode the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome actor, producer and writer Martin Starr to the podcast! You may know that Martin played the adorably geeky Bill Haverchuck on the iconic show "Freaks and Geeks" but did you know he had to make the difficult decision to leave his beloved arts highschool to play that role? And speaking of schools, will Jonah and Vanessa pursue their nominations to potentially join their school's Hall of Fame, especially after complaining so much on this podcast that they weren't already a part of it? Plus we get into Martin's love for candy and our first memorable candy experiences, from Hot Tamales being good until they're bad to Martin being "banned" from a store for stealing Gummy Bears. Plus Martin tells us about his new candy company SWEET STASH and Vanessa attests to the fact that their gummy candy "Jams" is extremely delicious. And in a delightful game of CHANGE DOT DORK: CANDY EDITION, the trio decides which candy they'd like to come back the most, between Sweet Tart Shockers, Jujubes and Milky Way Midnight. So jam out this delightful episode to some Jams candy- you'll be happy you did!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah. |
| 0:06.2 | We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today. |
| 0:11.4 | Who are very excited to talk to today's guest because he's a real star. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. weird. Wow, Jonah, we've got a very exciting guest today, and we've got some very exciting |
| 0:34.8 | news. Yes, yes. Why don't you get into that news update we have? |
| 0:39.5 | Jonah, I believe we both received a letter last week that says, congratulations. Your name has been |
| 0:46.8 | submitted for consideration as a candidate for the Orange City Schools Alumni Hall of Fame. |
| 0:52.5 | So we both received, I guess, we didn't get nominated for the Hall of Fame. So we both received, I guess we didn't get nominated for the |
| 0:57.1 | Hall of Fame at our high school, but we got nominated to submit. This is something that we've |
| 1:04.3 | talked about on this podcast before, that we're kind of pissed that we're not in it. Yeah. Yeah, |
| 1:09.8 | we're not in our high school's Hall of Fame. |
| 1:11.8 | It's been a long road. |
| 1:14.5 | The thing about this is if you're selected to be in the Hall of Fame, the award must be |
| 1:19.8 | accepted in person. |
| 1:22.0 | And this is going to be in the fall at our high school. |
| 1:25.2 | And so, yeah. |
| 1:27.1 | I guess if you accept the nomination, you have to know you may have to go there |
| 1:30.7 | in the fall to get it. |
| 1:32.2 | And I also, if you, if you, I guess you find out before you go if you were selected. |
| 1:41.0 | Because it's like, it would be like like I wonder how many people get this letter and |
| 1:45.5 | aren't selected yeah it does say if you're not selected this year information we kept for future |
| 1:50.5 | hall of fame inductions so it's it's yeah so essentially someone nominated us no promises |
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