Remember Halloween?

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In honor of today being Halloween, we thought we would reminisce about some of our favorite Halloween memories from childhood costumes to shaving cream hijinks. We also discuss the condescending nature of giving out healthy snacks (don't be this person), Vanessa talks about having a dance recital at the famed Orange Jubilee and we explore why a chain buffet restaurant with fluorescent lighting is Jonah's equivalent of a haunted house. We also discuss feeling pressured to dress up for Halloween parties, people who get very into decorations and the time we replaced our American flag with a pirate flag at a childhood home (amazing, this was not Halloween-related.) We also dig into a holiday-fueled round of change.dork where we discuss petitions that make a case for giving students the day off after Halloween, wearing costumes to school and making Halloween fall on the last Saturday of October every month regardless of what our calendar or the Farmer's Almanac wants us to believe. Whether you're dressing up as a friendly ghost or an embittered CEO, you'll find something to boo-lieve in on this episode of the podcast.

EXCLUSIVE: Change.org petition to make Jonah Bayer a notable alumna at Orange High!

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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 are pretty spooktacular, if I do say so myself.
0:15.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Jonah, I'm so excited because it's, you know, that time of year, and I'm talking about Halloween.
0:34.6	Yep, Halloween. So it's a holiday that we've celebrated our whole life,
0:38.8	and it always kind of makes me, I think this Halloween is very nostalgic for most people,
0:43.3	because adults, you're thinking back to the time when you dressed up, when you trick or treat as
0:47.4	kids, maybe you have kids now. And so it's always a time that makes me think of childhood and
0:51.8	obviously candy. Yes, totally, totally.
0:54.3	And today, to celebrate Halloween, we thought we would make this a Bayer's only session
0:58.7	and wrap, that's Jonah's joke, about Halloween in a very cool way.
1:05.3	Okay, let's start from the beginning.
1:07.0	Now, do you remember Jonah when we were really little,
1:10.7	Dad would take us trick-or-treating on our street.
1:13.2	It was very fun, but kind of a so-so street for trick-or-treating because the houses were kind of spaced out.
1:18.4	Yeah.
1:18.8	I feel like best candy experience houses are right next to each other.
1:22.1	But I really have a visceral memory of this.
1:24.3	We would really use those, like, like pumpkin bucket like baskets. Those plastic
1:29.3	ones. Yeah, I remember that. To be honest, my most visceral memory of trick or treating is being so
1:35.2	upset that I had to wear a jacket. Yes. Because I felt like it would always be so cold and I would
1:40.7	spend all this time getting my costume together. And then I feel like mom and day would be like, okay, well, it's freezing out. You have to wear this big jacket over and I would be all this time getting my costume together. And then I feel like, Mom, they would be like, okay, well, it's freezing out.
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