Remember The Blair Witch Project?

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Happy Halloween! To celebrate this spooky holiday, Vanessa and Jonah decided to sit down and watch the nostalgic 1999 horror film, "The Blair Witch Project" and see how it aged over the past 20+ years. Along the way we discuss the groundbreaking nature of the film's viral marketing, why the directors chose to include so much banal footage in a fake "documentary" and what's up with the pacing of this thing? Vanessa also does some excellent impressions of the characters while Jonah gets called out for the way he pronounces the word "legacy." We also dig into what the cast of the film are up to these days and collectively wonder how this movie made $250 million dollars. Finally, we play a Holiday edition of our segment CHANGE DOT DORK where we discuss petitions about replacing candy corn with actual corn, making Halloween a national holiday and getting rid of yellow Starburst. Be safe out there everyone!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer, and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.8	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:10.9	Who are ready to smash some pumpkins this week.
0:13.5	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So Jonah, this is the official Halloween episode.
0:32.0	And I know that you've been really checking out some Halloween films while you've been sort of overcoming this
0:38.6	bout of COVID. How are you feeling, by the way? I'm feeling good. I'm feeling a lot better.
0:43.6	Yeah, I had got test-a-posit for COVID about a week ago, so I ended up kind of spending the last
0:50.1	week quarantine and watching movies. And it sounds like it would be fun at first. It quickly
0:55.9	became very boring, and I got very deep into a little stream in sight called Tooby. Okay, okay, yes.
1:03.1	And they got some stuff maybe a little lower budget than your Netflix, or Hulu's out there.
1:07.2	Sure. Although I dabbled around. Last night, I finished up watching the Jim Carrey movie, Liar, Liar.
1:13.5	And I also, early in the week, watched the Jim Carrey movie, Bruce Almighty.
1:17.9	Right, right.
1:20.0	There was a few genres I wanted to.
1:21.7	I went into, like, Jim Carrey movies.
1:23.7	Like, a lot of times when I'm sick or something, I'll watch like early 2000s, Adam Sandler movies,
1:29.7	Jim Carrey movies, or then I go the other way into action and I'll get into like the Nicholas Cage universe.
1:35.5	Right.
1:36.0	And every time I'm sick, there's like 25 more Nicholas Cage movies to watch.
1:40.9	Okay, okay.
1:42.2	So what were your thoughts on these films?
1:46.9	Where to start? I don't know.
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