Remember Getting Beat Up? (with Craig Wedren of Shudder To Think)
How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer
All Things Comedy
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
You know Craig Wedren as the frontman for the post-hardcore band Shudder To Think and composer for the soundtrack of your favorite television shows and movies, but were you aware he grew up as a scrappy kid in the Cleveland suburbs just like us? From sharing the same hangouts as Jonah to participating in his high school's theatre program like Vanessa, we share a long list of similarities. However one thing we don't share is getting beat up, something that happened to Craig quite a few times due to his dedication to punk fashion and desire for attention from girls. However it's not all dark: We also talk about Craig's lifelong friendship with collaborator (and former band manager) David Wain, what it was like performing on Lollapalooza '94 and the origins of his seventh grade band, Immoral Majority. As if that wasn't enough, we play a game of YESTOLGIA OR NOSTALIGA where we debate the Robocop reboot, the return of Kentucky Fried Chicken's honey barbeque flavor and Mr. Pibb's second act. Be sure to pick up the deluxe edition of Craig's album, "Dream Dreaming" which is available now!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah. |
| 0:06.1 | We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how shaped us into the people we are today. |
| 0:11.2 | Who shuddered to think about how great today's guest will be. |
| 0:14.2 | Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Okay, so, Jonah, I know we're really excited about our guest today, but we also heard quite a bit about him growing up. |
| 0:35.7 | Yes, our mom worked at the JCC growing up, and she had a co-worker Carol, and Carol's nephew |
| 0:42.4 | was in a band, and my mom would come home from work and be like, oh, Carol's nephew's band |
| 0:46.8 | is doing this, is doing that. And I just kind of assumed it wouldn't be something I was |
| 0:50.4 | into, because I was like, I'm into, like,'m into like punk and hardcore and like this is probably |
| 0:55.4 | not going to be my thing but I always remember yeah the name shutter to think and then I felt like |
| 1:01.2 | way too late in my kind of musical listening career I realized like they were a DC band they were on |
| 1:07.6 | discord they had played they were the sort of influential post-harkcore band, |
| 1:11.6 | and I was so surprised to learn it was actually like a very cool, relevant band. |
| 1:17.4 | Wait, but are you saying, are you saying that you realized that once your mom told you the name |
| 1:23.0 | of the band or years later? |
| 1:24.6 | Years later, I saw the name again and I was like, oh, wait, this can't be the same band like this. |
| 1:42.2 | That's like related to the Cleveland JCC. Yeah. How we just, we just dismiss anything falls out of it. Oh, I know. I know. I was like, this is probably like a cover band or some like weird. They do, yeah. |
| 1:46.3 | Like, yeah, I don't know what I thought, but I was like, this is not going to be relevant for me. |
| 1:45.0 | Yes. or some like weird they do yeah like yeah I don't know what I thought but I was like this is not going to be relevant for me yes but it turned out to actually be a really cool band and I uh totally blew it |
| 1:52.2 | so you didn't blow it Jonah look at where we are now that's true that's true nobody blew it okay |
| 1:58.1 | yeah you blew it with your mom. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 2:01.2 | Yeah. |
| 2:01.5 | Yeah. |
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