Remember Nerds Candy? (with Brian Posehn)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Listeners, you're in for a treat this week because we are joined by comedian, actor and writer Brian Posehn. We discuss Brian's formative years and how he managed to befriend both metalheads and popular kids in high school, even if that was way less dramatic than it is in John Hughes movies. We also discuss how he got his start in comedy, his current reality television picks and the time Vanessa forced all of her friends to watch an episode of "Say Yes To The Dress" when they were trying to be social at a party. For our topic, we get deep into the history of NERDS candies and its many offshoots including Nerds Rope, Nerds Cereal and Big Chewy Nerds. Finally, we play a spirited round of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARY GROAN where we try to get to the bottom of several complaints from some pretty unreliable narrators. But take it from a RELIABLE narrator, this episode is a must-listen!

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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 confident without being cocky, if I do say so myself.
0:15.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Shona, speaking of confidence, I just wanted to bring us back to the time when I was in eighth grade and you were in 10th grade.
0:35.8	Okay.
0:36.3	And I don't know if you remember this,
0:37.8	but an announcement came on the PA at our high school at the end of the day. Our high school was
0:43.3	eighth grade through senior year. And it announced the homecoming court from each grade. This means
0:48.8	kind of the homecoming queen and king of each grade. Okay. Okay. Who announces the eighth grade homecoming court,
0:55.9	but you're sis? Right. I don't remember that specific moment. I'm sorry to say. I thought it was more of
1:03.3	like an assembly maybe. No, it was over the PA. Well, then an assembly happened where we were honored
1:07.7	and where, okay, so just to put things in order, just to make a
1:11.4	timeline for you. So yeah, I was voted eighth grade homecoming court. It was very extremely cool.
1:17.6	Now, mom told me years later that you came home from school that day. You obviously don't remember
1:23.0	this. And you were like, Mom, Vanessa's homecoming court. And you were really impressed, which I think is so sweet. Now, I will say this, Marley Greenbaum, very cool, still to this day, very cool person who is in your grade. Wait, was I in ninth grade when I was homecoming court court actually? Now I'm thinking I was in ninth grade.
1:45.0	Okay, get it together, Vanessa. But either way, I was homecoming court. I think it was actually ninth grade.
1:51.1	Now I think it's ninth grade. I take back eighth grade. And Marla let me borrow all these shirts to
1:56.8	order to the big assembly where the homecoming court of each grade got to come out and like wave to
2:01.5	everybody. And I remember I tried on all of her shirts and none of them really fit me. They were all too
2:06.4	cool for me. And I ended up wearing my own shirt. But it was so cool to borrow Marla's shirts and very
2:11.8	cool of her. And a shout out to Marla Greenbaum, Bass, I believe her last name now, for letting me borrow her shirts. But Jonah,
2:17.7	I just think it's very sweet that you came home from school that day and you told mom about it
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