Remember Having Funyuns and Pepsi for Breakfast? (with Shalita Grant)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week's guest Shalita Grant has not only been nominated for a Tony Award, she's also an actress who you know from Search Party, NCIS: New Orleans and You. We hear about her experiences as a drama student at the prestigious Juilliard School and the "Juilliard Curse," deep dive into the history of Funyuns and reminisce about our childhood pets. Jonah also reveals that he occasionally looks at his the lunch menu at his old high school and we explore the hidden relationship between the educational system and the pizza industry. Speaking of which, we also roast the inventor of Pizza Hut's Double Cheeseburger pizza and fondly recall the franchise's Accelerated Reader & Book It! programs in our wildly popular "Back To The Present" segment.

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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.
0:10.6	Who are extremely smart, if I do say so myself.
0:13.5	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird.
0:38.7	Yeah. So, Jonah, I was thinking about our cat, Pumpkin Garfield Bayer from growing up. And I thought maybe we could just do a little tribute to him today, just talking about our favorite memories him yeah i don't really have any i mean i feel like you really took care of this cat in high
0:44.5	school was like a stray cat and i never really connected because he was neutered so we knew he wasn't
0:49.6	stray oh he was neutered i never knew that yeah there's a lot of stuff that i was we were talking about
0:53.8	before this that you didn't quite remember, which is cool.
0:57.4	I was really in my own kind of zone at that point, I think, like really into music and practicing with my bands and I was not really connecting with animals.
1:06.4	Yeah, you and mom were not as into the cat. Me and dad were kind of more into it. You know, I don't know if you
1:12.3	remember like the true origin story of pumpkin was that he was just hanging around our neighborhood.
1:17.9	And I remember on the bus being in kind of a light competition for him with the Paglio family.
1:23.5	Like they kind of wanted to adopt him to. I think we might have put signs up to try and find the owner of
1:29.0	Pumpkin and we couldn't. And so then I think we like kind of adopted him. We took him to the vet. That's how we
1:34.2	found out he was neutered. And like, well, if his owners are, you know, not looking for him and we tried to
1:41.1	find them, then we're just going to adopt him. And again, I think dad and I were more
1:46.0	into him than you and mom. But according to my friend Kitty, she was the only one who was into him.
1:51.2	Well, I remember him dismembering a lot of animals and leaving them for us. Yeah, which is, I think,
1:56.8	a thing that cats do to, like, show you that they like you is they like, he would like find mice and kill them and then leave their guts and I think one time scared our grandma marge really
2:05.9	badly because she was leaving the house and like on the stoop was like a bunch of guts.
2:10.9	Yeah. Yeah, that could be scary. You know, something about him that I told you about that you
2:15.1	didn't know was that he would go missing sometimes
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