Remember Lean Pockets? (with Beck Bennett)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this seminal episode, Jonah and Vanessa sit down with the incomparable Beck Bennett (Saturday Night Live) to discuss his love for Lean Pockets and other cultural touchstones from the past. They also delve into the infamous lore that Jonah and Vanessa's dad is, in fact, the first person to ever be named "Todd." Spoiler alert: Vanessa is a great wedding guest and she just might come to your party if you invite her.

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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 it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:10.7	Which are pretty rad if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So I wanted to talk to you about this kind of interesting thing about our dad, which is that, as you know, Jonah, our dad has told us since we were little that he is the first Todd,
0:39.3	meaning the first person ever to have Todd as their first name.
0:43.2	He maintains that before he was named Todd, it was a last name like Carson or something,
0:49.8	and that his parents were the first ones to decide to use it as a first name.
0:54.8	And that anybody who's older than him, who goes by the name Todd, is probably really named Theodore or something.
1:01.7	But they just started calling themselves Todd after he was born.
1:05.8	Yes, I'm very familiar with this.
1:07.7	I feel like we've done some research over the years.
1:09.7	Todd Rungren. Famous
1:10.9	Todd is younger than our dad. Yes. So that checks out. Yeah. James Earl Jones is real first
1:16.7	name, I think, is Todd, I think, it's not his first name, though. I think there's a Todd in
1:21.4	James Earl Jones's name. But that probably wouldn't count because he doesn't go by Todd anyways. Right, right, right, right. I mean, there's a few different kind of sub-rules to, to, I feel like our dad's belief. First of all, do you believe it?
1:32.7	I didn't believe it at first, but it reminds me of, like, a lot of stuff our dad has told us
1:37.8	over the years. They didn't believe at first. It ended up being true. Yeah, like Esperanto. We'll get into that another day. made up, but someone has to, it has to be someone. Right. Well, I just want to say that I don't know
2:01.6	how much you reference it in daily life, but I did a thing particularly during college where
2:05.9	whenever I would meet people named Todd, I would go, did you know you're named after my dad?
2:11.1	And it didn't always go great, I have to say. People were confused a little. Yeah.
2:17.9	Yeah.
2:20.1	Well, your production company is named, what is it? Yeah.
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