Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.

We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us

into the people we are today.

Who are extremely thoughtful if I do say so myself.

Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Now, Jonah, today we were thinking of talking about, you know, every family has them, those unique characters who, you know, when you're a kid, you're just kind of obsessed

with hearing about. And for you and I, it was one of our mom's cousins and his wife, just out

of respect for them, even though we say all of this with love, we're going to not say their

names, although our dad suggested that we change one of

their names by like one letter, as if that would have made the difference.

They would just probably would have just thought we were mispronouncing their names.

Yeah, totally. But anyways, you know, our dad's full of good ideas. And sometimes we take them, sometimes we don't. So this cousin of our moms and his wife, for as long as we've known them, have lived in this RV that they named Homer. And basically the whole thing with them is that they would send our mom periodically and other members of our mom's family,

like these really long letters detailing their adventures in Homer. Yeah, so we would get these letters.

I actually don't remember ever meeting these relatives in person. I know you do. Yes. But I don't

remember. But yeah, at some point when we were kids, we got really into reading these letters, and then we sort of had a band.

We had a song that was just, I think, us, you just reading the whole letter.

And these are like incredibly long, detailed letters, along to like a musical interlude.

And what was a chorus?

Okay, it goes like this.

This is a letter from Barry and Cynthia.

This is a letter from berry and cynthia this is a letter from berry and cynthia and then you would read the letter and there was like some guitar in the background but yeah these were i think you

would read some of the letter i would read some of it too i think we would harmonize but so we harmonize. But so we, we found some of these old

emails, which were forwarded from our grandma who sadly has passed away. And she was probably,

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