Remember Prank Calls? (with Craig Finn)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Craig Finn is best known as the frontman for The Hold Steady and a successful solo artist but some of his formative years were influenced by peer pressure when it came to teenagers' favorite hobby in the nineties: Prank phone calls. On this episode we recount our own largely anticlimactic stories of receiving and making prank calls, Vanessa explains the way she views conversations between musicians from a comedian's perspective and of course we explore Craig's Cleveland connection, whether that means shaking it up in Shaker Heights as a child or playing to sparse audiences at the Euclid Tavern as an adult. Finally we once against revisit our "Legit Moan or Unnecessary Groan" segment, which sees us discussing if it's OK to talk at movie theatres before the previews start, if Browns fans should be ejected for standing at a football game and if income inequality can truly be blamed on the fact that Nicholas Cage reportedly sold a Superman comic book for $2.1 million dollars in 2011.One thing that we don't think you'll be complaining about is Craig's new solo album "A Legacy Of Rentals," which is out now and in Jonah's constant musical rotation. Trust us, it is very good.

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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.
0:10.0	Who are pretty considerate, if I do say so myself.
0:13.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Jonah, I was just thinking the other day about the epic story of when Jewish Federation called our house during dinner asking for donations.
0:36.7	Do you remember when that happened? Yeah, I remember our dad was not a fan of people calling during dinner asking for donations. Do you remember when that happened?
0:37.9	Yeah, I remember our dad was not a fan of people calling during dinner time. Yeah.
0:42.1	This was something that could really set them off. Yeah. And they called. He got up. I do have a
0:47.2	vague memory. You might remember the specifics better. Well, I just remember like he got up from the
0:51.9	dinner table, picked it up. It was Jewish Federation asking for
0:55.5	money. And he said, we've converted. Yeah, and hung up. And then I think, did he come back and tell us
1:00.8	immediately about it? Yeah, I think he was pretty proud of it. You know, the thing that was pretty
1:06.9	incredible about it, because I think we could hear it too like I think he did it without like
1:11.3	any hesitation yeah our dad's a real improviser I would say any kind of skills that I have from improv
1:17.9	that I didn't learn you know in classes it came to me probably from genetics of having a dad or
1:24.5	just from observing a dad who was so quick on his feet, you know, with that stuff.
1:28.7	But wouldn't you say if like from the Delclose school that would be the opposite of yes and
1:32.6	being like, no, we've converted and then hanging up?
1:35.1	Well, I wouldn't say it would be the opposite.
1:37.1	I would say then he'd have to like, I've converted and, you know, I no longer believe in the Jewish
1:43.6	religion. and, you know, I no longer believe in the Jewish religion, but if you want to call back with, you know, I guess I don't have a great.
1:48.7	And it's a tough one.
1:50.9	It's a tough one.
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