Remember Snack Commercials for Moms? (with Cole Escola)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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We are so lucky to have comedian, actor and singer Cole Escola drop by the podcast this week. You may know Cole from their scene-stealing roles in "Search Party," "At Home With Amy Sedaris" and "Difficult People," but before all that they were learning about sophisticated, cosmopolitan female leads on nineties shows like "Fired Up" and "Mad About You." We also get into how the calcium industry hijacked TV commercials in the nineties to the point where Cole ate so many Kraft single slices it made them puke, explore what will now be dubbed "The Snackwell aesthetic" and hear about the time Vanessa misunderstood what seems like a pretty straightforward reference from "Troop Beverly Hills" so deeply that it's still difficult to comprehend. The CEOs get a short-lived break this week as we bring back our "Back To The Present" segment where Jonah makes a compelling case for CD long boxes, Vanessa makes a plea to bring back WOW! chips (despite Olestra's uncomfortable side effects) and Cole would like to bring back Sunday night family movie programming, the latter of which should not cause intestinal bloating.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.9	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:10.8	Who are extremely well spoken, if I do say so myself.
0:13.7	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was thinking about how growing up our dad was really opinionated about certain food brands, but not from really a health perspective.
0:40.2	Do you remember that?
0:41.5	Yeah.
0:42.0	Dad was really into certain brands.
0:44.0	And I know you texted him kind of prior to this episode to kind of get his take because
0:47.3	I felt like we would hear a lot of this stuff growing up, but we weren't really old enough
0:50.5	to understand it.
0:51.4	Yeah.
0:51.8	We didn't know what his reasoning was.
0:53.3	So one thing he really
0:54.2	loved was Peter Pan crunchy peanut butter. You got a quote from him. Yeah, so I asked him why, and he said,
1:00.8	Peter Pan as well as Jif tastes like it has added sugar, even though I don't think it does. It definitely does.
1:05.9	Yeah, it definitely does. Both are very sweet, soft, and smooth. Okay, but he like chunky, but okay.
1:11.3	You can eat them right out of the jar without having to put them in the microwave to soften them up, even if you hadn't opened the hard in weeks.
1:20.1	So I think he made that even if you haven't opened them in weeks.
1:22.1	Yeah.
1:22.4	But I think it's not real peanut butter. I mean, I think that's something else that like, you know, Peter Pan and Jiff,
1:27.6	I think is like, there's a few peanuts and that's like a lot of corn syrup and like sugar and
1:31.9	stuff. But growing up, I felt like everyone ate that stuff. Yeah. And he, we one year for his
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