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 about to run like a river because we can't wait to talk to today's guest.

Welcome to How Did We Get Weird?

So Jonah, as you know, I recently went back to our high school slash school district because they were celebrating their 100th anniversary.

And I got to have a really, I guess I'd say kind of cleansing experience.

Do you want to hear about it?

Yes, absolutely.

So I was about to give my speech at this program that was highly attended by teachers.

Not as many of my former classmates there, but I don't care.

And a lot of people, a lot of classmates that were there were ones that I wanted there.

So that's good.

Okay.

Anyway, when I was there, my friend Kitty, whose sister is our friend, Ann, pointed out to me that my 10th grade chemistry teacher, Mr. Mesh, was in the audience.

And as I've talked about on here before, I was pretty pissed off when I was in 10th grade at one point because he gave us this stoichiometry problem and he said, if you solve this tonight, then, and you bring in

your answer tomorrow, you can be a part of team stoic. So I proceeded to solve it and then come in the

next day and turn in my paper. And he said,

you can't be a member of Team Stoic because you solve this by guess and check, which to me was an

absolute bullshit response because not only is guess and check a valid way of solving a problem,

but also he never said, like, you have to,

you have to, uh, you can't do guess and check. So anyways, I really, uh, I added to my speech,

kind of did an impromptu section about how Mr. Mesh was there and how I'm still pretty mad

...