Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Thanks for tuning in. This is Jonah and
Speaker 1: welcome to this bonus content from How Did We Get Weird.
Speaker 1: This month, we're revisiting the podcast in different ways, and
Speaker 1: today we're really proud to present our very first guest
Speaker 1: episode with Saturday Night Live cast member Beck Bennett.
Speaker 2: Beck is one of my favorite people in the world,
Speaker 2: and he just makes me laugh so much, and it
Speaker 2: is so perfect that the topic he wanted to talk
Speaker 2: about was lean pockets because there's something so specific and
Speaker 2: like just so hilarious about that, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: that's beck sense of humor. Beck and I used to
Speaker 2: have so much fun in SNL together, Like every time
Speaker 2: I see him still, I get so excited and I
Speaker 2: just love him, So I'm really excited that we're reairing
Speaker 2: this episode.
Speaker 1: We also gotten the origins of our dad, Todd Behar's
Speaker 1: status is the original Todd, and kind of learned about
Speaker 1: how that whole phenomenon came about, which comes up a
Speaker 1: lot on the podcast. Thanks to everyone for tuning in,
Speaker 1: and keep an eye up for next Monday for our
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Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 3: I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
Speaker 1: We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood
Speaker 1: in nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people
Speaker 1: we are today.
Speaker 3: Which are pretty red if I do say so myself.
Speaker 1: Welcome to How Did We Get Weird?
Speaker 3: So I want to.
Speaker 2: Talk to you about this kind of interesting thing about
Speaker 2: our dad, which is that, as you know, Jonah, our
Speaker 2: dad has told us since we were little, that he
Speaker 2: is the first Todd, meaning the first person ever to
Speaker 2: have Todd as their first name. He maintains that before
Speaker 2: he was named Todd, it was a last name, like
Speaker 2: Carson or something, and that his parents were the first
Speaker 2: ones to decide to use it as a first name,
Speaker 2: and that anybody who's older than him who goes by
Speaker 2: the name Todd is probably really named Theodore or something,
Speaker 2: but they just started calling themselves Todd after he was born.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm very familiar with this. I feel like we've
Speaker 1: done some research over the years. Todd Rundgren famous Todd
Speaker 1: is younger than our dad. Yes, so that checks out yeah,
Speaker 1: James Earl Jones is real. First name I think is Todd,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't count.
Speaker 2: I think it's not his first name though. I think
Speaker 2: there's a Todd in James Earl Jones's name, but.
Speaker 1: That probably wouldn't count because he doesn't go by Todd anyways, Right, right, right,
Speaker 1: And then there's a few different kind of sub rules
Speaker 1: to I feel like our dad's belief.
Speaker 3: First of all, do you believe it?
Speaker 1: I didn't believe it at first, but it reminds me
Speaker 1: of like a lot of stuff our Dada told us
Speaker 1: over the years. They didn't believe it first that ended
Speaker 1: up being true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Esperanto. We'll get into that another day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can talk about another day. But yeah, our
Speaker 1: dad told us there was a universal language and we
Speaker 1: didn't believe it and it turned out to be true.
Speaker 1: So I mean, someone has to be the first Todd.
Speaker 1: So I think it's yeah, I've never met a Todd
Speaker 1: older than our day. I think it's possible. It sounds
Speaker 1: made up, but someone has to it has to be someone.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, I just want to say that.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much you reference it in daily life,
Speaker 2: but I did A think particular leader in college where
Speaker 2: whenever I would meet people named Todd, I would go,
Speaker 2: did you know you're named after my dad?
Speaker 3: And it didn't always go great.
Speaker 1: I have to say people were confused a little.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well your production company is named what is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's named the first Todd.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just so, so whether or not I believe it,
Speaker 2: and and the truth is, I do think our grandparents
Speaker 2: had an independent thought to name him Todd. I will
Speaker 2: defend it forever because it's it's so important to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's a first Todd. I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think someone if someone like someone's listening to this
Speaker 1: and they wanted to do some research and maybe they
Speaker 1: could find something. But it's also like leave it alone,
Speaker 1: like yeah.
Speaker 2: Also be cool, don't do that research, Like, just act
Speaker 2: like a cool person.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go outside or something, you know, betiful, it's some
Speaker 5: fresh air jerk exactly. Well, speaking of jerks, I'm kidding.
Speaker 5: I'm fully kidding. This is one of the best people
Speaker 5: in the world. This is one of my Okay, I'm
Speaker 5: introducing our guests. By the way, John, I didn't know
Speaker 5: if you knew that, Yeah, I knew it. With a
Speaker 5: great segue. Okay, we have today. We are so lucky
Speaker 5: to have one of my close friends.
Speaker 2: He's an actor, he's a writer, he's called singer. He's
Speaker 2: just a true talent and such a joy. Please welcome
Speaker 2: my friend and yours, Beck Bennett.
Speaker 4: Hello. Hello, I'm a singer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're a singer.
Speaker 4: I can't help it. Guys, it's so great to be
Speaker 4: on the pod. As they say, thank you so much
Speaker 4: for having me.
Speaker 3: Thank you for being here.
Speaker 4: Beck. I love that discussion about the first time. I immediately
Speaker 4: you guys were just criticizing people for researching. When you
Speaker 4: were talking about I immediately looked up like as if
Speaker 4: this was going to do something where the hot Toddy
Speaker 4: came from, as if that was going to give me
Speaker 4: some insight into the name Todd. But it has nothing
Speaker 4: to do with the name Todd.
Speaker 3: What where did it come from?
Speaker 4: Tad Taddy? I think it's t a D d Y
Speaker 4: like something about SAP or something like that. So it's
Speaker 4: not the name Todd. But I was that person who
Speaker 4: immediately started researching.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I but you were doing it from a peer of heartway,
Speaker 2: like I feel like people were telling people who are
Speaker 2: doing it out of a like I'm going to you know,
Speaker 2: ruin their dad's dreams of being the first time, Like,
Speaker 2: those are the people that we want to avoid.
Speaker 4: I was actually doing it in support of your dream. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I wanted him to be the first Todd. I love that.
Speaker 4: I love that idea that he's the first.
Speaker 3: Hop do you believe it? It's okay, you can be
Speaker 3: honest with us.
Speaker 4: I actually, you know, it's I don't know if it's
Speaker 4: like a belief in truth. But when I hear this,
Speaker 4: and I don't know if it's just because I'm biased
Speaker 4: because I love you guys, but I'm like, I think
Speaker 4: he could be. It sounds like it sounds right. Yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe it was a name, but yeah, he was the
Speaker 4: first one to be with the first with the first
Speaker 4: name talk. Yeah for that to be yeah, yeah, nobody.
Speaker 3: Else is saying it, so yeah, nobody else is really
Speaker 3: claiming it.
Speaker 4: So it's like and also, yeah, if you do this here,
Speaker 4: if you put it out there enough, you might get
Speaker 4: a Todd, another Todd to come forward or somebody else
Speaker 4: to come forward and be like my dad was the
Speaker 4: first Todd. And then you can you can talk to
Speaker 4: them about right, and you can maybe figure this out,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Right, right, right right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, like a bit of a Todd bubble with just
Speaker 1: our Daddy.
Speaker 4: And you gotta you gotta pop that Todd bubble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just our dad and anyone who I told was
Speaker 2: named after him who immediately got offended.
Speaker 4: You guys, I gotta say, this is immediate. I not
Speaker 4: not that I've done a bunch of podcasts, but this
Speaker 4: is immediately the sweetest podcast I've ever been on. I
Speaker 4: feel I feel very comfortable to be here.
Speaker 3: Well, Beck, we are so happy that you're here. It's
Speaker 3: just so fun.
Speaker 2: Jonah brought something up to me earlier this week about
Speaker 2: your name and we we have. Did things change for
Speaker 2: you significantly when Beck became a popular musician?
Speaker 4: It it did? I remember I think in seventh grade
Speaker 4: huge loser, huge, and it didn't. That didn't do bad
Speaker 4: things for me. People didn't go around calling me a loser.
Speaker 4: Good am I saying the songs on my face, which
Speaker 4: is great. That could have been bad. He gave me
Speaker 4: a cassette like the tape of it for my birthday
Speaker 4: when it came out, and then I fell in love
Speaker 4: with it, and I don't I think, I mean, I
Speaker 4: do love his music, yeah, but I can't tell how
Speaker 4: much of that was, Like there's another back he's like
Speaker 4: a rock star and I love his music because of that,
Speaker 4: So I became part of my identity that I.
Speaker 1: Liked back wall who gave you the tape?
Speaker 4: Josh By Bruin? Wow? I s real middle name? Or
Speaker 4: if that's like his nickname that he like said, what's
Speaker 4: his middle name? But he went by Joshua Bruin. I
Speaker 4: still don't know if it's his.
Speaker 3: Actual name is well, who knows.
Speaker 1: It's just he could be the first person with the
Speaker 1: middle name.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is a good name. Boo yah? Wait, what does
Speaker 4: that mean? Like the slang boo yah? Does that mean
Speaker 4: like hell yeah boo yah?
Speaker 3: It's kind of it's kind of an yeah.
Speaker 2: It's like yeah, it means like hell yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: That's what's upo yeah.
Speaker 3: It's like hell yeah, but you mean it so much.
Speaker 3: It's like hell yeah.
Speaker 2: To the like times ten is boo yeah, hell yeah,
Speaker 2: it's boom yeah.
Speaker 1: So were you a fan? Did you follow his career
Speaker 1: kind of throughout?
Speaker 4: I did? I did, and like I got a book,
Speaker 4: not that that's a big deal. It was like a
Speaker 4: book about like how he changed as an artist from
Speaker 4: record to record and I loved that about him too.
Speaker 4: I like saw him as an artist as like not
Speaker 4: just a musician. And then I think around I want
Speaker 4: to say, maybe Sea Change was the last album that
Speaker 4: made an impact on me. I think it was like
Speaker 4: up through high school and then after that I sort
Speaker 4: of fall off a little bit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I was the same. I was the same.
Speaker 1: I kind of stopped it for that, although you know
Speaker 1: I did when he played SNL. I went because father
Speaker 1: Jem Misty was in his backing band for that TA Yeah,
Speaker 1: which was cool, and I got to meet him during
Speaker 1: the rehearsals. I was excited about that. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: haven't really followed his music as much since Sea Change.
Speaker 3: I think I took a picture of you with him
Speaker 3: back at SNL.
Speaker 4: He was like one of the few people like I
Speaker 4: went to. You know, I've watched like a lot of
Speaker 4: rehearsals on Thursday, but watched him on Thursday and was like,
Speaker 4: I think I was crying because it was like my
Speaker 4: second year maybe or like I think it was maybe
Speaker 4: my first. It was early on and I was like,
Speaker 4: I can't believe, like he was like one of the
Speaker 4: he was like the first musician I loved so to
Speaker 4: see him, and he was playing like really like deep
Speaker 4: emotional slow songs and I was standing back there and
Speaker 4: being like I can't believe this is happening, and I
Speaker 4: like cried them like night and then yeah, and then
Speaker 4: somebody introduced me to him. I forget who. Maybe you
Speaker 4: was it you? Probably you, you're kind of a music head.
Speaker 2: I remember as being by the page desk where all
Speaker 2: that happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 4: It was maybe you. I don't know. Somebody was like, Beck,
Speaker 4: this is Beck. He's a big fan. And we talked
Speaker 4: for a little bit and then the yeah, that was it,
Speaker 4: but it was so it was a really moment.
Speaker 3: That's so nice. And is that the only other person
Speaker 3: you've ever met who's named Beck?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 4: So and also he's Beck Hanson. That was his first name, right,
Speaker 4: official official first name. My middle name is Beck. It's
Speaker 4: my mom's maiden name, right. And my first name is Christopher,
Speaker 4: and they just never called me Christopher.
Speaker 2: I always forget that your first name is Christopher because
Speaker 2: you seem so much more like a Beck than a Christopher.
Speaker 4: I grew into my name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and his first name is Beck, I think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so maybe he's the first Beck which what an
Speaker 2: honor for you to be named after him, which I
Speaker 2: know you people technically weren't, but as according to the
Speaker 2: logic that I've given people, anyone who's born even six
Speaker 2: months after you is named after you after first Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was named after him, and it's an absolute honor.
Speaker 4: I feel like I just had another sset bunny snl
Speaker 4: story of something else, but it escapes me.
Speaker 3: Now we had a lot, We had a lot of
Speaker 3: fun there, and we.
Speaker 4: Had so much fun there. How many years did we overlap? Five?
Speaker 3: We overlapped four?
Speaker 2: Four years, I think, because did you just finish your
Speaker 2: eighth season?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Wow, crazy, right.
Speaker 3: You've outlasted I was going to say the Master.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I out lasted the Master. That's a bear. I
Speaker 4: was there for seven, you were there for seven. Now
Speaker 4: I'm more important than you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now you're more important.
Speaker 4: It's like when I hire status.
Speaker 2: It's like when we were little, Jonah said, because he
Speaker 2: was two years older than me, mom and our mom
Speaker 2: and dad had two more things of love for him.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, two more things things I didn't have, actual unit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, things you didn't have that I don't have. The
Speaker 1: logic made sense to me at the time, yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I like things. Yeah sure, Yeah, I have one
Speaker 4: more thing of SNL than you. I have one more
Speaker 4: thing of Lauren's love than you. Yeah, that's tru. That's
Speaker 4: how I look By.
Speaker 1: The way, speaking of like seventh grade, when you discover back,
Speaker 1: I mean and SNL, like, it seems like you, you
Speaker 1: and Kyle play so many of these like adolescent boy
Speaker 1: kind of characters. I mean, do you find I think,
Speaker 1: like Vanessa too like and me like find that period
Speaker 1: of life so funny? I mean is that fun for you?
Speaker 1: Like what kind of draws you to like that period
Speaker 1: of growing up? I guess, well, like I.
Speaker 4: Guess I'm trying to think of like some of the characters,
Speaker 4: some of the nostalgia stuff. It's like, I mean there's
Speaker 4: well there's like initially, like we've done a lot of
Speaker 4: like sitcomy sort of sketches and that comes from like
Speaker 4: definitely TGIF and like sort of those types of things
Speaker 4: and old kids movies. I mean, I think there's a
Speaker 4: lot there that we would watch and just find that
Speaker 4: the bad acting and like the kids trying to like
Speaker 4: express ideas or feelings that they clearly don't understand our own,
Speaker 4: And it's like that disconnect is really funny. I also
Speaker 4: think that like that whatever age, it is like that
Speaker 4: pure excitement and this is like, you know, it's a
Speaker 4: different thing, but kids being like yeah, it's just like
Speaker 4: so just like like sugar high stuff, like kids spazzing
Speaker 4: out and just being like.
Speaker 3: This is awesome.
Speaker 4: Yes, Oh my god, this is so cool, like that
Speaker 4: sort of stuff, or like getting so upset and throwing
Speaker 4: temper tantrums and like losing control of their bodies and minds.
Speaker 4: I mean, both of those are like my immediate attractions
Speaker 4: to that like time period and playing characters like that,
Speaker 4: And so they're kind of two different things. One is
Speaker 4: like fully you know, a kid being in their body
Speaker 4: and being so emotional and so excited or so upset,
Speaker 4: and the other one is like kids like trying to
Speaker 4: be adults and not understanding it but saying it anyway,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. It's like one is very
Speaker 4: connected to the emotional experience and one is fully separated.
Speaker 4: So those are kind of like my immediate connections to
Speaker 4: making fun of that that period.
Speaker 3: I think that's so great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And with the sitcoms, like I feel like all
Speaker 1: the audience noise, like the laugh tracks oohs and ahs.
Speaker 1: Is so that also sounds so weird today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well yeah, because we don't have shows with laugh
Speaker 4: tracks anymore.
Speaker 3: Not really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And also like the like that interstitial like music
Speaker 2: where it's like so jarring, it's like it's like electric guitar,
Speaker 2: like so loud, and you're like, well, where.
Speaker 4: What was that shot? You go back and watch and
Speaker 4: it's like, Okay, I gonna just add something more generic.
Speaker 4: It doesn't need to take that thing. We don't need
Speaker 4: to be commenting on the interlude music and how great
Speaker 4: it was, and it doesn't need to be upstaging the
Speaker 4: characters in the story. But yeah, it does feel I
Speaker 4: think that's one of the things we like to do
Speaker 4: with those sketches. It just feels so surreal to watch
Speaker 4: those old shows and hear the gasps and like the laughter,
Speaker 4: and it's like what is this world that they're in?
Speaker 4: It just feels like a dream, And like back then
Speaker 4: it was so natural to hear all those sounds, you know,
Speaker 4: back then it would be I think even now to
Speaker 4: see like a full soundstage set and seeing those characters
Speaker 4: interacting with silence would probably be even more surreal, you know,
Speaker 4: with nothing totally, which is something I feel like we
Speaker 4: never never really did, but that would be funny to
Speaker 4: experiment with and just like take the laugh track out
Speaker 4: of the things that we did.
Speaker 1: What were some of your favorites.
Speaker 4: Of those like types of those sitcoms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like from that era kind of shows.
Speaker 4: I mean the first one we did with Andrew Garfield,
Speaker 4: it was called Wing, and I really like that one.
Speaker 4: I think like the because we would a lot of
Speaker 4: the sitcom sketches that I did with Kyle and Dave,
Speaker 4: and Kyle, Kyle was like he was He's really obsessed
Speaker 4: with this period and it would kind of come from
Speaker 4: his brain and how much he would watch, uh, these
Speaker 4: sketches and he would share them with us and we
Speaker 4: would like come up with, you know, stuff for them.
Speaker 4: But I really liked Wing because I think it really
Speaker 4: worked really well, and that was a little different. It
Speaker 4: wasn't on a sound stage. It shot more like an
Speaker 4: internet video or something, but it had all the audience sounds.
Speaker 4: And then the one I like after that would probably
Speaker 4: be the one let's see we did with Chris Pratt.
Speaker 4: And then like, sorry, now I'm like naming half of
Speaker 4: them Ryan Gosling, the Ryan Goslin want to I love
Speaker 4: that one. The reason I think I hesitated. I think
Speaker 4: that was like a sort of like everything coming together,
Speaker 4: like the sets, the looks, like everything really like elevated it.
Speaker 4: It's almost like we did a couple of them and
Speaker 4: they were like they gave us more money to pull
Speaker 4: off our idea how we like really wanted to and
Speaker 4: then we like we were laughing so much. We love
Speaker 4: the edit. And then it went to dress and it died.
Speaker 2: Do you want to explain to the audience because it
Speaker 2: was sort of a dark premise if I remember.
Speaker 4: Okay, so yeah, it's Kyle. Wait, I haven't like even
Speaker 4: thought about it a long time, but like Kyle, Kyle
Speaker 4: wants to be cool. He's Dougie and he it's it's
Speaker 4: based on this Family Matters episode where oh where you know,
Speaker 4: where Erkle becomes Stefan, right, you know, So he goes
Speaker 4: in this cool machine and yeah, Kyle does, and he
Speaker 4: comes out and I think he turns in from Dougie
Speaker 4: to do Gay. Wait, no, wait what it's it's do Gay. No,
Speaker 4: they're gay. I think it's do Gay instead of Dougie. Anyway,
Speaker 4: it's been a long time. And then but then I'm
Speaker 4: now I forgetting that. But there's like a drunk car.
Speaker 2: Crash right, and doesn't Ryan Gossling's character die. I think
Speaker 2: he died, and you guys come back in and you're like,
Speaker 2: he died.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. It's like let's party and there's like a
Speaker 4: scene where yeah, like Kyle becomes the cool guy at
Speaker 4: the party and Ryan Gosling's like, whoa cool man? And
Speaker 4: there's like a dance where the whole where everybody.
Speaker 3: Dances like kind of the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, it was was that was a video where
Speaker 4: like Lauren came to set and it was like everything
Speaker 4: going good and it was like, yep, everything's great, and
Speaker 4: then at dress rehearsal people were just not responding to it.
Speaker 4: There was like no laughter and then it's still it
Speaker 4: still went online and I love it, But.
Speaker 3: Did it not make it to air? It just went online.
Speaker 4: It just went online. Yeah it didn't make it to air.
Speaker 4: Wow yeah wow Yeah. I think for me the wing,
Speaker 4: I mean there, I like those first three a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Nice. That would so smooth. That was like, it seems
Speaker 4: like you guys have been doing this for forever. Like
Speaker 4: the back and forth is just I mean what you
Speaker 4: guys grew up together.
Speaker 1: So we are up together. But for me, because you
Speaker 1: too are obviously such kind of high energy performers, so
Speaker 1: rude from.
Speaker 2: Some of the world some of the country's greatest punk
Speaker 2: bands in America's Jonah Bayer.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: And I laughed because I was telling that.
Speaker 2: I laughed for fun, enjoying the moment, not because I
Speaker 2: was kidding.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'll take it. I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 4: I know what you're talking about. I understand what's happening now, Beck.
Speaker 3: You were seeing something very sweet during the commercial press
Speaker 3: who was like one of your favorite people to see
Speaker 3: at your wedding.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, that's interesting that you bring that up, because
Speaker 4: I have said that one of the best guests was you.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's why I brought for the.
Speaker 4: Listeners and for Joanah. I don't know if you've heard this.
Speaker 4: Vanessa was a fantastic guest this Oh really so she
Speaker 4: like she showed up in a fun way. She like
Speaker 4: showed up in a car and like me and my
Speaker 4: brothers were there on the parking lot of this venue
Speaker 4: in like the Redwoods in northern California, and she was
Speaker 4: like hanging out with us right away. She was like
Speaker 4: she always had a smile on. So because as as
Speaker 4: somebody who's getting married, you like this. You like to
Speaker 4: look out at your guests and see them enjoying themselves.
Speaker 4: So a lot of people would just be like humhm.
Speaker 4: For people can't see that's not a smile. It's like
Speaker 4: a I don't know what to do, I don't know
Speaker 4: who to talk to, and you're like, oh, no, I
Speaker 4: hope they're having fun. Every time I looked at Vanessa,
Speaker 4: it was like she's having fun, She's talking to people.
Speaker 4: She was like present. I think also the other thing
Speaker 4: is that a lot of people are like, oh, it's
Speaker 4: your wedding.
Speaker 7: I want to get out of your way.
Speaker 4: I don't want to talk to you. And it's great
Speaker 4: you want people around you, because it can feel like
Speaker 4: you can feel so separated from all these people that
Speaker 4: you want to be interacting with, and I think they
Speaker 4: like are trying to be respectful and give you space
Speaker 4: and not talk to you, which is like not what
Speaker 4: you want, which is something I've done weddings too. But
Speaker 4: you know, but you are a fantastic guest.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I kind of I kind of fed you.
Speaker 4: You fed it to me, but I was thinking I
Speaker 4: was going to say it. That's why I came out here.
Speaker 4: I want to tell people. And also I have so
Speaker 4: many photos to show you. You're in so many like
Speaker 4: you're like, you're just like talking to people and you'll
Speaker 4: be like expressions like this, like what Beck.
Speaker 2: Is doing right now, just so you know, is he's
Speaker 2: mid talking with his hands up, which I do gesture
Speaker 2: a lot, and like halfway through a blank like yeah,
Speaker 2: a blank, very flattering.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, yeah, next topic.
Speaker 3: Differently, I took us a little off.
Speaker 2: I took us a little off, which I'm happy I did,
Speaker 2: because I wanted everyone to know what a good guest
Speaker 2: I was at your wedding.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's important. Absolutely, But also you.
Speaker 2: Know, obviously our podcast is about nostalgia, so we asked
Speaker 2: you to come in with kind of an idea of
Speaker 2: something nostalgic that you wanted to talk about, and you
Speaker 2: gave us just you know, maybe gave us an amazing
Speaker 2: list of commercials and toys and products, And the one
Speaker 2: that we settled on that we were really impressed that
Speaker 2: you had thought of was lean pockets.
Speaker 4: Really impressed that to me is like you are impressed
Speaker 4: that I thought of that, but it's almost like, wow,
Speaker 4: we're really impressed that you thought of that for nostalgia.
Speaker 4: Nostalgia nostalgia because it's like that isn't necessarily a nostalgic thing.
Speaker 4: It's something that exists now. It's not like something from
Speaker 4: I mean a lot of those things from our childhood
Speaker 4: still exist, right, But I don't know if somebody would
Speaker 4: be like, oh, remember lean pockets.
Speaker 1: I have a couple. I mean, why lean pockets over
Speaker 1: hot pockets seems like the obvious choice.
Speaker 4: Of course that is, that's like, yeah, that's what everybody
Speaker 4: gets excited about. Lean pockets are kind of but that's
Speaker 4: what we were allowed to have in our house. My
Speaker 4: mom was a health nut. We had like the healthy
Speaker 4: choice reduced fat stuff, you know, non fat all that,
Speaker 4: which was like a huge which that is because that
Speaker 4: was a huge crazy yes snack wells. Yeah, that was
Speaker 4: the thing that people all these diet foods and and
Speaker 4: so we were allowed to have lean pockets, and I
Speaker 4: like that was like the best healthy, healthy snack that
Speaker 4: we were allowed to have in the house. So like
Speaker 4: after school having a lean pocket was was amazing because
Speaker 4: like that was about as far as I could get
Speaker 4: in the house, you know, like closest to what I wanted,
Speaker 4: which was like fake cheese and like like basically you know,
Speaker 4: a little pizza. I think we had the ham and.
Speaker 3: Cheese ones got it, got it.
Speaker 4: And not I mean not the pepperoni, although sometimes we did.
Speaker 4: And like it was just I just remember those little
Speaker 4: the pockets that they the microwave sleep eve. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: would put it in, like put it in for two
Speaker 4: and a half minutes, and I would take that hop
Speaker 4: that lean pocket and like watch some TV after school,
Speaker 4: and that was that that gooey, that gooey little pocket
Speaker 4: of cheese was like really, I don't know, it was
Speaker 4: just the the height of after school snacking for me,
Speaker 4: you know, and like which which combines with like the
Speaker 4: TV shows and like, yeah, it's like that seventh grade,
Speaker 4: eighth grade because it's also kind of an adultish snack.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not cheese and crackers, I.
Speaker 3: Guess, right, right, right, So it's like.
Speaker 4: The sophisticated version of the healthy snacks that we were
Speaker 4: allowed in the house when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: What makes it healthier than a hot pocket? Do you know?
Speaker 4: That's a good question. And I did want to do
Speaker 4: a little bit of research on the lean pockets before
Speaker 4: I came in here, but I didn't. I came in
Speaker 4: here blind.
Speaker 2: I think they're just lower in calories, Like I think
Speaker 2: it's just what they put in them, is they They're
Speaker 2: just like there are certain there and there's I look
Speaker 2: this up, there's seven grams of fat in them, which
Speaker 2: remember in the nineties, like we didn't really think about
Speaker 2: I don't even know, honestly, I don't know if they're
Speaker 2: lowering calories. I just know they're lowering fat. And that
Speaker 2: was the thing in the nineties was like you could
Speaker 2: you could have as many calories and as much sugar
Speaker 2: and stuff as you wanted, but you just couldn't have
Speaker 2: grams of fat in it, right, Which is.
Speaker 4: So which is so wrong, Which is the opposite of
Speaker 4: what people say now, which is like, yeah, fat as healthy,
Speaker 4: Yeah there's good fats, and yeah they help you, and yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, Beck, we have some bad news, bad news, oh god,
Speaker 1: and that is that lean pockets were discontinued in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Oh shit.
Speaker 2: Now if you're mad, oh god, if you're upset back,
Speaker 2: you are not alone. If you go on the Hot
Speaker 2: Pockets Facebook or Twitter, people are furious.
Speaker 3: People are so mad.
Speaker 4: They should be. Yeah, like, what did they Is there
Speaker 4: a reason out there for why they discontinued.
Speaker 1: I guess they weren't. They were not bringing in enough
Speaker 1: sales about hot pockets apparently went up a lot during
Speaker 1: the pandemic. People were loving them, but I just, yeah,
Speaker 1: it didn't work.
Speaker 4: Wow, that is so sad for all those people who
Speaker 4: still depended on lean pockets for their healthy snack. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that is I mean it makes sense because that whole
Speaker 4: I feel like in the past couple of years, the
Speaker 4: health trend of healthy fats or whatever is like, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe they just don't make sense anymore, and people just
Speaker 4: aren't buying those things to like, if they're trying to
Speaker 4: stay in shape or something, they're not buying lean pockets
Speaker 4: to stay in shape anymore.
Speaker 2: Our producer Doug just said it's number three on the
Speaker 2: list of best products discontinued, which must be a pretty
Speaker 2: recent list because they were just discontinued. I wonder, Doug,
Speaker 2: who made this list.
Speaker 1: You know, I also have a bit of a conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory because Lean Pockets and Hot Pockets are owned by Nessley.
Speaker 1: Yesty also owns a Li Cuisine who makes Lin Cuisine pizzas.
Speaker 1: I don't know, seems a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, but what is the conspiracy theory that they own
Speaker 2: all three?
Speaker 1: No, maybe they wanted to push these Lin Cuisine pizzas,
Speaker 1: so they were like, we don't need to compete with ourselves.
Speaker 3: Right right, right, right right.
Speaker 4: Maybe they're maybe like the way that they're making the
Speaker 4: lean Lin Cuisine pizzas, the profit margin is higher, so
Speaker 4: they're like, discontinue these pockets, we want the regular pizzas exactly.
Speaker 2: I think like it's I read something where like in
Speaker 2: twenty eleven or something, they realized like they weren't selling
Speaker 2: as well, so they cut out the kinds of certain
Speaker 2: Lean pockets got discontinued because they're dope. There's like more
Speaker 2: dough in them, so they're more maybe it was like
Speaker 2: the cal zones or something. There's more dough in them,
Speaker 2: so they're more expensive to make, which that dough doesn't
Speaker 2: seem super high end.
Speaker 4: No, no, you have by expensive, they're like this thing
Speaker 4: costs five cents to make and it's too much. We
Speaker 4: can't afford it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also there was a Philly cheese steak lean pocket, like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you ever try that one back?
Speaker 4: Yes? I did, I remember that one? Yeah you do? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was it good?
Speaker 4: It was? It was all right. It wasn't my favorite.
Speaker 4: I like the I like the cheese and ham, yeah,
Speaker 4: because that was a big, like a big thing that
Speaker 4: I still like and loved as a kid. And I
Speaker 4: didn't put this on the list because I loved fake
Speaker 4: cheese like I loved like American cheese. And we were
Speaker 4: definitely not allowed to have that in the.
Speaker 3: House really, even the Craft singles.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, absolutely not your mom. So ahead of the game,
Speaker 1: end of the game. Everyone was just eating crap back then,
Speaker 1: and no one.
Speaker 2: Knew well to sar Jonah and I don't want to
Speaker 2: throw our mom under the but she was very healthy too.
Speaker 3: We mostly had healthy food in our.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a lot of pizza rollso and like
Speaker 1: and that's okay.
Speaker 4: That's okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess I didn't even notice it because Jonah
Speaker 2: was the only one who ate that stuff.
Speaker 3: I guess in our dad was the.
Speaker 4: Only one who ate that crap.
Speaker 1: Do you remember at what point our dad was going
Speaker 1: to buy a gyro company. Yes, like like like euro
Speaker 1: some people say gyro. I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the right pronunciation is. But he was going to
Speaker 1: buy this company that made them. So he got tons
Speaker 1: of thick the bread and the sauce and the meat
Speaker 1: in this freezer we kept in the garage and like
Speaker 1: a year's worth, and I would just make them all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 4: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: We had read so much and I remember I tried
Speaker 2: to stay away from them because they seemed unhealthy. And
Speaker 2: I remember once making it and just the bread alone,
Speaker 2: like the quote unquote Peta was like so it was
Speaker 2: like so oily. It was just like this big thing,
Speaker 2: like it was so gray. We did we had like
Speaker 2: a year.
Speaker 1: So I mean, you do you eat one of those
Speaker 1: who washed it down with the peach snapple and you're good.
Speaker 4: To go, Oh my gosh, that is so cool, like
Speaker 4: just like to be the kid in whatever grade you
Speaker 4: are to be like, yeah, we got year's fly on
Speaker 4: the fridge. You want like that is? You are so cool?
Speaker 3: With Jonna, we never really talked about how crazy that was.
Speaker 3: We had so much of it.
Speaker 2: We had another thing that our dad almost did, and
Speaker 2: I remember telling I remember telling ingrid Olson about it
Speaker 2: on the bus. Is he almost at one point, this
Speaker 2: is very brief, he almost bought like a franchise, like
Speaker 2: a regional franchise of I think it was Baskin Robbins.
Speaker 1: Or Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 3: Dunkin Donuts, yeah, Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 2: And I remember being on the bus with Ingerdolson and
Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, this is a secret,
Speaker 2: but my dad might buy.
Speaker 3: Duncan donuts and she was like, was like yeah, because
Speaker 3: I thought I thought he was.
Speaker 2: He was going to buy all of Duncan, Like I
Speaker 2: thought we were gonna be like phoning Duncan donuts.
Speaker 1: Well, he was gonna have to go this donut university.
Speaker 1: You have to go for like three weeks or something
Speaker 1: to learn how to actually make the donuts, like the
Speaker 1: whole You have to get up at like two am,
Speaker 1: like hents, Yeah, you have to go away.
Speaker 3: He was gonna have to go every year, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that. But you know what's so crazy
Speaker 1: is the Duncannots he was going to buy was in
Speaker 1: this town called soul in, Ohio. And I hung out
Speaker 1: at the Dunkin Donuts When I was like fifteen sixteen
Speaker 1: with all these punk kids, we would like hang out
Speaker 1: outside and this is how long ago people used to
Speaker 1: smoke cigarettes inside And it was like a bunch of
Speaker 1: teenagers wow. And they banned indoor smoking because smoke was
Speaker 1: getting into the donuts and we thought, kids were like,
Speaker 1: this is fascism. You can't tell us about to smoke
Speaker 1: inside of a restaurant. This is insane, Like it was
Speaker 1: such a foreign concept to not be able to smoke
Speaker 1: inside of like a restaurant.
Speaker 4: Right where they are making, yeah, where they're making, just
Speaker 4: filling it with smoke.
Speaker 2: It's also so funny because my friends would all go
Speaker 2: to this place called Coffee and Creations. It was like
Speaker 2: hat like cappuccinos and latches and stuff, and that was like,
Speaker 2: I feel like so dorky to you, but you guys
Speaker 2: were going to Dunkin Donuts, which feels like kind of yeah.
Speaker 4: It sounds like cuter like thet because it's like that
Speaker 4: is that is a bakery, that's right, cute pastry shop.
Speaker 4: Like my friends would go to uh like a cap
Speaker 4: like a big cafe and get like fries and grilled
Speaker 4: cheese and coffee and smoked cigarettes and like a booth. Right,
Speaker 4: Like that's like, yeah, I never did that. I was
Speaker 4: a smoker.
Speaker 3: But where did you go?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Like honestly, I think in high school
Speaker 4: I was so and I don't I haven't fully unpacked this,
Speaker 4: but like, I was always busy after school. It was
Speaker 4: always like play rehearsal or practice for like a sport.
Speaker 4: I was fine.
Speaker 3: Did you go to college for theater?
Speaker 4: Did you to? I did. I got my Bachelor of
Speaker 4: Fine Arts a BFAH in acting at USC.
Speaker 3: I don't think I knew that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, I'm a trained actor, trained dramatic actor whoa drama.
Speaker 4: I went to London for one semester.
Speaker 1: Shakespeare, Yes, you went to the Globe.
Speaker 4: I went to the Globe.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 4: And I studied there by myself, no teachers, okay, just
Speaker 4: I found I found plays and I just spoke them
Speaker 4: in the streets of London, like Shakespeare of old.
Speaker 2: You are such a good actor back, and it makes
Speaker 2: sense that you were classically trained in London.
Speaker 4: Lodge in that, right, chat man, some of us.
Speaker 3: Can do accents and didn't get to do it. Almost
Speaker 3: show very much.
Speaker 4: You do great accents.
Speaker 1: Come on that was so.
Speaker 4: Great, right.
Speaker 3: Then going from the thing.
Speaker 2: But to go back to your high school slash middle
Speaker 2: school place you hung it sounds like, you know, Jonah
Speaker 2: was at Dunkey Donuts.
Speaker 3: I was at coffee and Creations. You were at home
Speaker 3: having a lean pocket.
Speaker 4: I was at home having a lean pocket in like
Speaker 4: seventh and eighth grade. And then usually after that, like
Speaker 4: high school was like never home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you were never Oh right, you were never home.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4: I don't think I had a Yeah, if anything, it
Speaker 4: would be like Friday in front of the school. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like maybe hanging out and seeing where people were going. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know, like I would just yeah, and then
Speaker 4: going to somebody's house. You know.
Speaker 2: Jonah used to when we would get home from school.
Speaker 2: We had two TV's in our house. We had one
Speaker 2: in our living room and one upstairs in my parents' room. Cool,
Speaker 2: and Jonah would and I would want to be in
Speaker 2: the living room going on that. We had a treadmill
Speaker 2: in the living room, and so Jonah would be like
Speaker 2: watching TV in the living room, and I'd be like, Jonah,
Speaker 2: can you go upstairs and watch TV in mom and
Speaker 2: Dad's room so that I can run on the treadmill
Speaker 2: and like I would watch like music videos like I
Speaker 2: basically it would be and he would be like he
Speaker 2: would be like he would be like, only if you
Speaker 2: make me a snack. So I'd have to like make
Speaker 2: him like if we had lean pockets at that time,
Speaker 2: it would have been so much easier. So I'd have
Speaker 2: to like make him a sandwich and like a whole thing. Oh,
Speaker 2: to get him to go upstairs.
Speaker 4: I mean that's that's actually like that's really sort of
Speaker 4: decent sibling behaviors, Like, yeah, you know, I will do
Speaker 4: this for you, but you got to give me something,
Speaker 4: not like no, I'm not going to go do what
Speaker 4: the it is.
Speaker 1: The TV upstairs is a lot smaller. In my defense, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm not saying that was the right
Speaker 1: way to handle it, but I mean it wasn't like,
Speaker 1: you know, it was different. It's different viewing experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that's that's decent. It's like I'm
Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna sacrifice my viewing experience for you. Let's
Speaker 4: make it a little bit better. I'll get a snap
Speaker 4: to go with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're really Jonah's coming off pretty great.
Speaker 1: In this.
Speaker 4: Nice guy, What kind of snack would you make for him? Like,
Speaker 4: what was a classic snack? Just a sandwich?
Speaker 3: I think it was usually a sandwich, right, Jonah.
Speaker 1: I don't. I actually don't really remember this, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't say I totally believe that this is what happened.
Speaker 2: I bet there was some kind of a hot pocket
Speaker 2: or maybe pizza rolls or something.
Speaker 1: I like those red barre and pizzas. You remember those?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, those are really good?
Speaker 3: Those still exist?
Speaker 1: Does still exist?
Speaker 4: I like then? Was my favorite kind of pizza frozen pizza?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh, speaking of which I mean obviously the Djorno commercials
Speaker 2: are very very well.
Speaker 4: Iconic.
Speaker 2: Is it's they're basically like, it's the same as delivery.
Speaker 4: It's not delivery, is it?
Speaker 2: But we Jonah and I were looking at the lean
Speaker 2: pockets commercials and the premise of them is all the same,
Speaker 2: which I don't know if you remember it, which is
Speaker 2: basically that there's a guy eating a lean pocket and
Speaker 2: then his wife or partner who's a woman, says, honey,
Speaker 2: did you see my lean pockets? And then the guy
Speaker 2: is shocked that what he's eating is actually a lean
Speaker 2: pocket and not a hot pocket. But he's enjoying it
Speaker 2: so much that he hides from the woman and acts
Speaker 2: like he's never seen it.
Speaker 1: And he's always doing something very masculine, like fixing the pipe.
Speaker 3: You know, the logic is not it's so illogical.
Speaker 2: I was saying to Jona earlier today, like the idea
Speaker 2: that this guy doesn't know he's at first is shocked
Speaker 2: to hear that he's eating a lean pocket when he
Speaker 2: had to open the box that says lean pockets. Look
Speaker 2: at the instruction, see how long he's supposed to microwave
Speaker 2: it for eat it, and he's surprised.
Speaker 3: Like was he closing his eye? And also the idea
Speaker 3: that like it's.
Speaker 2: Just so Jonah was pointing out, it's just so like
Speaker 2: it's so weirdly like gender that it's like only it's
Speaker 2: the woman's lean pocket and the guy's like eating it
Speaker 2: by accident, but he's enjoying it so much that he
Speaker 2: has to hide from her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, guys, it's like, okay, guys, to eat a pocket,
Speaker 1: you could still be a.
Speaker 4: Man, right. And it's also like it's saying like this
Speaker 4: is for women, like it's it's still like going towards women,
Speaker 4: being like this is this is for you women, but
Speaker 4: also like guys, pretty cool too, win win for both
Speaker 4: of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: Look at that cheese and me coming out of that
Speaker 4: pastry dough puff thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, So see she's looking for it, she can't find it.
Speaker 2: He's under and he's the he's fixing the thing. He's
Speaker 2: under the sink eating a lean pocket, which just like
Speaker 2: do one then do the other have your snack after
Speaker 2: you fix the sink. So he's under there and he's like,
Speaker 2: I can't believe it's a lean pocket, right, and then
Speaker 2: it's a commercial for a lean pocket, and he's like
Speaker 2: trying to eat it really quickly, and he's pretending he
Speaker 2: hasn't seen it. Oh, she's looking through the drain. She
Speaker 2: sees him. She's like knows what he's up to.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: There's another one where the woman for the meatballs in Mozzarella,
Speaker 2: where she's looking all over the kitchen. He's sitting in
Speaker 2: front of the TV.
Speaker 3: And also it's like.
Speaker 2: He can't Also she's like shaking the box. She's like,
Speaker 2: what happened to lean pocket? It's like, well, there's one
Speaker 2: other human in your house.
Speaker 4: And it's like there's almost kind of two things having
Speaker 4: is why is he hiding it because he doesn't want
Speaker 4: to get caught. But that doesn't have anything to do
Speaker 4: with He's not like, oh, I'm not a chick. I
Speaker 4: don't want to be caught, right. That's like not, that's
Speaker 4: not what is being insinuated.
Speaker 2: It's like these are her lean pockets, like she bought them,
Speaker 2: the one for her, and.
Speaker 4: The lean pockets are for the woman and for the
Speaker 4: guy to be a little sneaky, little bastard and take
Speaker 4: them away from her.
Speaker 1: Like the guy's not just like, oh yeah, this is
Speaker 1: actually pretty good, like I was hungry, you know. He's
Speaker 1: just like nope, haven't seen him around, Like I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna lie, just gonna lie to your face.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like the women are like like I
Speaker 4: could see women being like, look, I bought the fucking
Speaker 4: lean pockets for myself, and the ads are telling husbands
Speaker 4: it's okay, they don't buy them. He's too embarrassed to
Speaker 4: check out with the lean pockets, so I have to
Speaker 4: buy the lean pockets because I want them, and then
Speaker 4: he eats them. They're really setting up a problem here
Speaker 4: for American couple. Couple trying to cohabitate.
Speaker 2: My biggest issue, though, is the fact that the guy
Speaker 2: acts like he didn't know they were lean poets, Like
Speaker 2: he's genuinely surprised when she says, like, where are my
Speaker 2: lean pockets?
Speaker 3: And it's like, how did you not know you made them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there should be something else in there commenting on
Speaker 4: how dumb the guy is, like another thing, like really
Speaker 4: like nailing it home, like a little button.
Speaker 1: Like like like I ate the box or something yes,
Speaker 1: or like yeah, yeah, yeah, I hate the box like
Speaker 1: I love Yeah, that would be good.
Speaker 2: I also want to do a shout out to my
Speaker 2: fans about the Totino's commercials, which obviously there's some overlap.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely some overlap. And I'm in those commercials' and.
Speaker 3: You're in those commercials.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but those are those are kind of making fun
Speaker 2: of the gender thing of those snacks, But those are
Speaker 2: those are the pizza rolls. I don't know if pizza rolls,
Speaker 2: if Totinos ever came out with like a diet pizza rolls.
Speaker 3: And sorry that I said. I wanted to do a
Speaker 3: shout out to my fans.
Speaker 2: I was saying it as a bit, but then I
Speaker 2: didn't follow it with like a strong enough like thing
Speaker 2: for it to seem funny.
Speaker 3: So it seems like I was saying that seriously.
Speaker 4: And you should be able to hit this podcast. You
Speaker 4: should always be able to say shout out to my
Speaker 4: fans and something that you've done or been in. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: type of thing, and you never have to explain it.
Speaker 4: That should be like, yeah, you're welcome. Yeah, I give
Speaker 4: that to you.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to take a quick commercial breaker.
Speaker 3: We rive back with the favorite of all time back Bennett.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, welcome back back now.
Speaker 3: Are you ready to come? And Jonah, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: Just want to check in.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I'm really excited for this next segment
Speaker 1: you're about to introduce.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too. I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 4: Let's go, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna play a
Speaker 3: game with you called nostalgia.
Speaker 7: No no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no nostalgia
Speaker 7: or nostalgia y'all stall ja okay, And we're going to
Speaker 7: bring up nostalgic products, shows, et cetera that are kind
Speaker 7: of making a comeback now and if you're into them,
Speaker 7: you're going to give them.
Speaker 3: A y'all, stall jaw and if you're not into them,
Speaker 3: you're going to give them a no.
Speaker 4: Nostalgia Okay, wait, no, wait, how do you say nostalgia? Stall?
Speaker 3: I Saystalgia, but you can say Stalgia if you want.
Speaker 4: That's my Chicago coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're from Cleveland, so we love you know, we
Speaker 2: love a Midwestern accent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sharpe a shock?
Speaker 5: Is that what it is?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Like Colorado or like I guess those are o's.
Speaker 2: All I remember is that when this this one woman
Speaker 2: was selling our house. I can't remember her name, but
Speaker 2: she she was selling our house and she left this
Speaker 2: she left this message or on our voicemail of my parents'
Speaker 2: house that had such a strong Midwestern accent that we
Speaker 2: saved it and we do it all the time because
Speaker 2: she was like she would say stuff like my blabia
Speaker 2: and she'd be like, yeah, I think the house is
Speaker 2: gonna like I can't even do the whole thing, but
Speaker 2: it was so funny that we saved it.
Speaker 4: We played it over and over, so fun I missed
Speaker 4: that about like voice machine answering machine.
Speaker 2: I know you could just save someone's message and listen
Speaker 2: to it and laugh. I think our parents still have
Speaker 2: one anyway. Okay, so the first thing that is making
Speaker 2: a comeback is dunk a Ruse. Dunk a Ruse, the
Speaker 2: small cookies with the miniature tubs of dippable frosting. Our backyestalgia, yes, algia.
Speaker 4: R yes algia. I love dunk Ruse, love them. They
Speaker 4: were hard to find. The dipping area for the dunk
Speaker 4: a roo is so deep. You have frosting left.
Speaker 3: Over after all, right, it is really deep.
Speaker 4: It's deep like versus the ritz which I loved with
Speaker 4: the little little red, little spreadable knife that came in it.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah, yes, crackers, the cheese dip. I could
Speaker 4: have used more cheese.
Speaker 2: Dip, yeah, Dunker Ruse did. It was a really deep
Speaker 2: well of frosting. And you know they're bringing back the
Speaker 2: same exact ingredients. They're not changing anything. Great, So same cookie,
Speaker 2: same frosting. They went away in twenty twelve, which you
Speaker 2: may or may not know. They disappeared in twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: so they've been They stayed around for a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, around for a while. I knew that they disappeared.
Speaker 3: They disappeared into that now they disappeared from Canada in
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4: Why you asked yeah, why what happened?
Speaker 2: Well, because I guess the US, the US part of
Speaker 2: General Mills was really pushing healthier snacks, so they were like,
Speaker 2: this is but apparently this has been in the works
Speaker 2: for a while because people have been furious, I mean,
Speaker 2: assuming that it's going to be the same with lean pockets.
Speaker 2: It's like if people give you enough guff about your
Speaker 2: snack going away.
Speaker 4: And now people have a voice with the Internet, they
Speaker 4: can rally together, get a get a petition going change
Speaker 4: dot org. Yeah, get on there and make yeah, and
Speaker 4: get their snacks back and.
Speaker 3: Get their snacks back.
Speaker 2: And apparently there was a tweet that Kim Kardashian did
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago where she is like, I
Speaker 2: missed Dunkaruz so much, and they use that to like
Speaker 2: when they were saying they were coming back, which that's
Speaker 2: you know, if you want to have a great company
Speaker 2: and a great and do a great job, you got
Speaker 2: to have that marketing element.
Speaker 3: You got to be now and.
Speaker 2: Bring back something from the nineties. That's great, we miss it,
Speaker 2: but make it now. But use Kim Kardashian any everybody's.
Speaker 4: Happen, Yeah, put her on there. All you need is
Speaker 4: a tweet from Ki Kardashian she gets you get any
Speaker 4: snack back she wants just say I want this snack bag.
Speaker 4: Way take it.
Speaker 3: Smart move by Kim Gardashian.
Speaker 2: Now she's probably got her Probably her home is full
Speaker 2: of She's probably got a year supply of free dunkar rooz.
Speaker 7: Oh my.
Speaker 4: Yeah. When I see that show, Jesse will watch it
Speaker 4: and like Jesse, my wife, the glass containers that they
Speaker 4: have with oreos stecked up? Do you see? I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't watch it regular.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like so many bags of oreos in there.
Speaker 4: It's crazy, and it's like you don't eat those cookies. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyway, well maybe it'll be so many things of dunker Ruse,
Speaker 2: but we won't know because the show's ending, and so
Speaker 2: that really stinks for everybody.
Speaker 4: It really stinks for the dunker Ruse resurgence.
Speaker 3: Jonah. And how do you feel about it, Johannah?
Speaker 1: Are you? I never really ate them, but I feel
Speaker 1: like I think it's Yeah, I mean why not. I
Speaker 1: like the fact that they're not changing them. I like
Speaker 1: the fact they're just bringing it back. They're not trying
Speaker 1: to add like Keen want. Yeah, I like I like
Speaker 1: to bring it back. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's I think that's right. You're less
Speaker 2: of a sweets person, so I think it never was
Speaker 2: like a huge snack for you.
Speaker 1: But I like that. I like, you know what's interesting though,
Speaker 1: I've gotten more into sweets as an adult, like of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to. I never really cared about it in
Speaker 1: my twenties and and now I feel like I'm always
Speaker 1: one with my wife, like we should get ice cream
Speaker 1: or like we should you know, like I'm now shocking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love like a little pastry with my coffee,
Speaker 4: like I like a little dirt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jonah, way to catch up to the rest of
Speaker 2: the Bayers. Because we've been eating desserts for years. You'd
Speaker 2: always be like Joana would always be like, I don't
Speaker 2: want dessert, and we'd be like, is he from this family?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: And he'd be like like maybe at the restaurant. You'd
Speaker 4: be like, go sit over there with another family, get
Speaker 4: out of here, you go get to have dessert wherever
Speaker 4: a dessert family.
Speaker 1: We'd be out in New York when I visited when
Speaker 1: I was living in New York, and we'd go to
Speaker 1: like a like a store by like by m Yu
Speaker 1: or something that's jany. Do you want all these cookies?
Speaker 1: You want four cookies for you? You really want to
Speaker 1: I'd be like, yeah, this is what I want.
Speaker 4: I don't know how use like this.
Speaker 2: My first few years on SNL, I lived in this
Speaker 2: building that was really like basically on NYU's campus, and
Speaker 2: so I would go buy snacks at this bodega that
Speaker 2: was all students, and Jonah be like, We'd be like,
Speaker 2: oh man, we have to go study.
Speaker 4: This sucks.
Speaker 2: And I'd be like, Tony, you want to buy all
Speaker 2: these cookies for studying? And I was like, okay, if
Speaker 2: it helps you with your homework, and then we buy
Speaker 2: all these cookies the whole time the room.
Speaker 3: I just did a similar I just I just did
Speaker 3: a similar thing.
Speaker 1: I do. I still do it. I was, I was.
Speaker 2: I had my first Livene cookies in New York and
Speaker 2: and I I was, I was there briefly back I
Speaker 2: didn't see you there because I needed to you there here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And.
Speaker 2: And I was with our you know America do you
Speaker 2: know America? America were there and I was like, America,
Speaker 2: which cookies do you want?
Speaker 3: You want three? And I was like, God, just for me.
Speaker 4: Right there, she's dancing you want three and she's like no,
Speaker 4: It's like, okay, I'll get you.
Speaker 3: She was like, yes, Vanessa, I want that. And I
Speaker 3: was like, and Marika, do you want this flavor too?
Speaker 1: And she was like, yeah, I do.
Speaker 3: I've been really lucky.
Speaker 2: Because all my friends and family who've done this with
Speaker 2: me have really played along.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really good move. I'm gonna try that
Speaker 4: in the future, the Vanessa the Vanessa dessert hack exactly.
Speaker 1: But I do feel that the the NYU thing we would.
Speaker 1: I felt like, if we're in this space, we had
Speaker 1: to pretend we're students even though we're so much older
Speaker 1: and everyone needs your brain food and we'd be like,
Speaker 1: I got this final exand tomorrow it's gonna be so hard,
Speaker 1: and we talked super loud, these guys are up to something.
Speaker 2: What I thought you were going to say is I
Speaker 2: remember I would order in insomnia cookies and I didn't
Speaker 2: which were like these delivery cookies that you'd get like
Speaker 2: in a pizza box, and I didn't want people to
Speaker 2: know it was me in case they recognize my name,
Speaker 2: so I would order them to Jonah Bayer at my apartment,
Speaker 2: so it would always so if anyone was like suspicious,
Speaker 2: they'd be like if they ever took the time to
Speaker 2: think through it, which I think it was just all
Speaker 2: Stoners who worked there, but they would.
Speaker 3: Be like, oh, Jonah Beyer's ordering.
Speaker 4: Her brother was there ordering them. If it was like
Speaker 4: a full pseudonym, like a fake name, they'd be like,
Speaker 4: she's embarrassed about the cookie ordering and she's ordering on
Speaker 4: a fake name. But yeah, this, yeah, this is better.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what about Evan Essay? Yeah that's a nostalgi Yes.
Speaker 3: I love junk a Ruse. You know I love Dunker Ruse,
Speaker 3: love them.
Speaker 1: All right, great, so next one we got this is
Speaker 1: an interesting piece of news, a little punk tie in. Actually, uh,
Speaker 1: horror fan a fiicionado, Rob Zombie is directing a Monster's reboot.
Speaker 1: He announced this on Instagram. He wrote, attention boils and Ghouls.
Speaker 1: The rumors are true. My next film project would be
Speaker 1: the one I've been chasing for twenty years. The Monsters
Speaker 1: stay tuned for exciting these as things progress. And then
Speaker 1: I made this joke that looks like he's been chasing
Speaker 1: something called shampoo for the last twenty years as well.
Speaker 3: Good one, Johanna, thank you.
Speaker 1: Although, to be honest, I was a huge white Zombie
Speaker 1: fan in the nineties. I did see them Jesus Co
Speaker 1: headline tour with the Ramones, and I really, I actually
Speaker 1: really do like white zombies, So I feel kind of
Speaker 1: bad about that joke. I think he actually has a
Speaker 1: pretty cool look, so I made him was jealous that
Speaker 1: he has so much more hair than me.
Speaker 3: I know there's legal rules around using songs, but did
Speaker 3: he sing the song thoughing like this more human than human?
Speaker 3: More human than human?
Speaker 1: Probably? I think that is so far from what the
Speaker 1: song sounds like that we could definitely use that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, that's more human than human. They had that
Speaker 1: Thunderciss sixty five song that didn't and they had a
Speaker 1: bunch of big songs in that era there were they
Speaker 1: were actually were a very cool band. And then he's
Speaker 1: had a huge solo career. But Beck, what do you
Speaker 1: think of And he's also directed a ton of horror movies.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Trust the list of horror movies, and now I'm not
Speaker 2: a horror movie person. I don't I don't see them,
Speaker 2: although back I think I saw Get Out with You really, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think we.
Speaker 3: Saw in theaters together.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, and that was one of the that's
Speaker 2: one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. Because I
Speaker 2: really highly avoid scary movies.
Speaker 3: I did like it a lot. I thought it was great.
Speaker 4: I like movies like Get Out, Cabin in the Woods,
Speaker 4: Drag Me to Hell, Like I like.
Speaker 3: I just made a face.
Speaker 4: They're like they're like they're horror movies, but they're not.
Speaker 4: They don't rely on gore. Yeah, some of them might
Speaker 4: have a little bit, but it's like they're creative and
Speaker 4: they're you know, they're like their genre e more than horror,
Speaker 4: I would say sometimes. But yeah, I walked. I was
Speaker 4: like in a movie theater. I missed the movies, remember
Speaker 4: the movies, and I like, I was there earlier something
Speaker 4: you know, walked into uh think the Something Rejects, Hell's Rejects. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I watched some of it and I was like,
Speaker 4: maybe me so uncomfortable. It's kind of like Texas Chainsaw
Speaker 4: Massacre style.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, so his vibe is more
Speaker 1: like I think, like the really gory kind of classic
Speaker 1: yeah part of movies. So, so, Beck, would you did
Speaker 1: you ever watch the Monsters? Growing up?
Speaker 4: Never watched the Monsters, and so that's a it's I
Speaker 4: gotta say, it's a nostalgia for me, mm hmm, because
Speaker 4: it doesn't it just doesn't. It doesn't do anything for me.
Speaker 4: You know, I might like it, but it does. It's
Speaker 4: a nostalgia for me because I didn't watch the Monsters,
Speaker 4: don't really know what they are.
Speaker 2: I realized, I really, I mean, and they were saying
Speaker 2: there's going to be an Adams Family reboot from Tim Burton, right,
Speaker 2: yeah too, So I always confuse the Monsters. I always
Speaker 2: assume they're the Adams Family, and then I realized that
Speaker 2: they're not.
Speaker 3: And what a great story, what a.
Speaker 4: Great story to have to like bring up to the pod. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I think think that's a good point because apparently
Speaker 1: the Monsters and the Adams Family the Munsters only aired
Speaker 1: for two years, but the Munster and the n Family
Speaker 1: aired at the exact same time. Oh so they almost
Speaker 1: had like the same premise at the exact same time.
Speaker 1: So it's understandable why you'd confused those. But I think
Speaker 1: that Adams familer is a lot more kind of popular
Speaker 1: as far as I impact on pop culture.
Speaker 2: Although when I was really excited when I looked up
Speaker 2: the Monsters that the Herman Monster, the dad was played
Speaker 2: by Fred Gwynn, who was the judge in My Cousin Vinnie.
Speaker 1: Oh, who was so good.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys remember that, but he
Speaker 2: was so good in My Cousin Vinnie and so what
Speaker 2: a storied career.
Speaker 3: And I but truly truly, but but yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know that there's like a real appetite for
Speaker 2: the monsters, especially like if an Adam's family read. But
Speaker 2: it is coming out, but I wonder if it will
Speaker 2: be similar to like Rob Zombie stuff in general, where
Speaker 2: it's like he has his following of people who like, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and is.
Speaker 4: It a TV show or is it a movie?
Speaker 3: It's a movie, I think.
Speaker 2: But it's going to be on they think it will
Speaker 2: be on Peacock because of it's owned by like something
Speaker 2: some studio by Universal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'll have to tone it down so
Speaker 1: maybe it'll be yeah, easier for like mass consumption. I guess.
Speaker 1: I think his movies are a little like I know,
Speaker 1: he's a movie house of a thousand corpses. I think
Speaker 1: his movies are a little more fringy. But I think
Speaker 1: his fans, and I think it fits his whole aesthetic.
Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, we're talking about two kooky, spooky families,
Speaker 4: and I feel like with Rob he might go more
Speaker 4: spooky than kooky. Yeah. Yes, but you know what makes
Speaker 4: it work is the balance and that the family dynamics.
Speaker 1: So yeah, spooky.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I also wonder what took twenty years for him to
Speaker 3: be able to do it.
Speaker 4: He's a question. I would love to see you ask
Speaker 4: him like that. I wonder what took twenty years for
Speaker 4: you to do this?
Speaker 3: I wonder if it's a licensing thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We should have wrapped down the on
Speaker 1: the show for sure.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that'd be great. Yeah, talk about it.
Speaker 4: That would be a scary episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I worked with him. I didn't work directly with him.
Speaker 1: I worked on an award show that he was a
Speaker 1: part of, but I didn't get to meet him. But
Speaker 1: I got to work with the singer Slipknod, who gave
Speaker 1: him an award.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, nice it was.
Speaker 1: Corey, the singer for Slipnod. He's just very nice. He's
Speaker 1: very kind of He's written a bunch of books too.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a pretty pretty Yeah. He's like just
Speaker 1: kind of a mild manner, kind of regular guy.
Speaker 4: You never know, a lot of punk people are right
Speaker 4: metal people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: You know Jonah's friend Jeff Rosenstock, who's who's a musician.
Speaker 2: His sister Kim, who's a friend of mine, always says
Speaker 2: like Jeff is like one of the nicest people in
Speaker 2: the world because he gets a lot of his like
Speaker 2: any of his like aggression or whatever he gets out
Speaker 2: in his ka, which Jonah could say the same thing
Speaker 2: about you. Who could be a more gentle soul than
Speaker 2: my brother Jonah?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you, thank you?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Jeff and Jeff's newest record, No Dream, is
Speaker 1: it a great record as an aside, and he just
Speaker 1: put out a SKA version of his record called sty
Speaker 1: Dream where he recorded all the songs sky versions.
Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah, nineties nineties music is coming back, Yeah for sure. Big.
Speaker 1: So just just to recap about this, this, yes, nostalgia.
Speaker 1: So we got a nostalgia from back.
Speaker 3: A nostalgia from me, Johanah, what do you think.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna This is kind of hard for me because
Speaker 1: I know, I said I am a fan of Rob Zombie.
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge Monsters fan, but I'm curious what
Speaker 1: he would do. I'm going to go with the nostalgia.
Speaker 1: I think I would probably, I think I would check
Speaker 1: this out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Now, our last and final thing that's making a comeback
Speaker 2: is micro Machines. One of the most popular toy car
Speaker 2: lines from the nineteen eighties and nineties, Micro Machines is
Speaker 2: making a comeback. The line of toy cars and sets
Speaker 2: is returning for the first time in twelve years back.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say, for that's a nostalgia. I can't
Speaker 4: believe I'm saying. You know, I want to say yes
Speaker 4: to nostalgia. Nostalgia, But for me, I'm like, first of all,
Speaker 4: I ain't going to be playing with no cars.
Speaker 2: It seems like it seems like we're I don't know
Speaker 2: that we're asking if it's like for you personally, but
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And I also think that like when I was
Speaker 4: a kid, I remember there was like one like wait, wait,
Speaker 4: hot wheels are minimals, minimals micro Wait what are we
Speaker 4: talking about.
Speaker 2: We're talking about micro machines. So they were competitive, they
Speaker 2: were competitive with hot wheels and all that stuff. And
Speaker 2: did they transform No, I don't believe they did so,
Speaker 2: so you're so for like two years, micro machines were
Speaker 2: more successful than like hot wheels and all the other ones,
Speaker 2: and micro machines were the tiny ones. And this guy,
Speaker 2: John Machida Junior Machete did the voiceover who spoke really fast.
Speaker 3: And actually and actually we looked at the picture of
Speaker 3: him today, he looks a lot like our dad really, yeah,
Speaker 3: the original And also he won.
Speaker 2: Again his Book of World Records for like fastest Talker
Speaker 2: and then his record was beat in nineteen ninety and
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five. And he has said, like I think
Speaker 2: on the record, he's on the record. He's said that
Speaker 2: he doesn't believe. He thinks there's like he's not sure.
Speaker 1: That he questions the legitimacy.
Speaker 2: He questions the legitimate legitimacy, which is very like our
Speaker 2: dad when he questions the legitimacy of people saying that
Speaker 2: they were named Todd before. Oh yeah, so there's like
Speaker 2: a lot of parallels with our guy. But those are
Speaker 2: the tiny ones, and actually they tried to bring them
Speaker 2: back for like different movie releases and stuff, and people
Speaker 2: only like them when they're like the classic cars.
Speaker 3: That's like what makes them the most.
Speaker 4: Oh, okay, and do they do they have like a
Speaker 4: little track that they fly on or are they going solo?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's the big thing with them is that like they
Speaker 2: have this set, they have this world called sorry that
Speaker 2: I wasn't a big dork growing up, so I don't
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: They have this world called I'm looking at him.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 4: Oh, you know what, that's a nostalgia for me. Wow,
Speaker 4: I take it back. I like little things. I mean
Speaker 4: we all like little things. Right, there's a show right now,
Speaker 4: the show that's on TV about like little sets and stuff.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I would be into this, Oh, micromachines,
Speaker 4: Supervan City place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Supervan City that's the name of it. Supervan City.
Speaker 2: People were really into and so they're bringing it back.
Speaker 2: That's part of the reason I think people love micro
Speaker 2: machines is because they came with these sets.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think I think I'm into that. That's a yes.
Speaker 4: I mean, like my first thought is that, like I
Speaker 4: for that sort of thing. I would I would rather
Speaker 4: play with legos, I think as a kid, and I
Speaker 4: still like legos, but I think micro machines are a
Speaker 4: nostalgia for me. I think that's fine. I like little
Speaker 4: worlds and the big the big sets like the micro
Speaker 4: machine or not micro machines or hot wheels whatever, those sets,
Speaker 4: I don't know, doesn't do it for me. I think
Speaker 4: that they're too they're too big to really have fun
Speaker 4: with them. When something's small, though.
Speaker 2: It's cute to it's so cute, and that guy talking
Speaker 2: so fast, I really associate him with micro machines.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, what about you, guys, are you yes or nostalgia?
Speaker 2: I'm a nostalgia, but I don't I don't have kids. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at the moment that I know of, just kidding, that's
Speaker 2: not a joke that would give me.
Speaker 4: Somewhere. But I think I think it's definitely a funnier
Speaker 4: show guys making that joke.
Speaker 2: In some ways, it's very similar to the thing in
Speaker 2: the in the Lean Pockets commercial where the guys like
Speaker 2: these are lean pockets.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, you made them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would have to. You would have to know
Speaker 4: if you had a child, you would know I would
Speaker 4: make them.
Speaker 2: Anyways, I would think the only thing that I would
Speaker 2: say about micro machines is I don't really know exactly
Speaker 2: how small they are, but I would be worried about
Speaker 2: them being lightly a choking hazard for it, like they
Speaker 2: might be kind of a little bit of an issue
Speaker 2: with small kids.
Speaker 4: See, and I worry about them being also a hazard
Speaker 4: for the parents of the children stepping on them all
Speaker 4: over the house because they got wheels and they're moving around. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so there's that, you know, there's that.
Speaker 2: But I think overall, I would say nostalgia because they
Speaker 2: are very cute. And look, that guy is still around,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure he'd.
Speaker 3: Love to prove like our dad, he'd like to prove
Speaker 3: that he can still talk really fast.
Speaker 4: But what if he doesn't have it anymore? He does
Speaker 4: he does, I would see him come back more than anything.
Speaker 4: I want to see that guy that voiceover I was
Speaker 4: come back.
Speaker 3: I think he's doing great. And he looks so much
Speaker 3: like our dad.
Speaker 4: And he looks so much like your dad, which I
Speaker 4: guess he.
Speaker 2: Always in some ways did, but he's really grown in
Speaker 2: to have a similar look. Now our dad will hear
Speaker 2: this and look him up, and maybe I don't know
Speaker 2: what our Dad's reaction will be.
Speaker 3: Jonah, what do you think.
Speaker 1: I mean? He's basically like a guy without a lot
Speaker 1: of hair with the mustaches, is basically what I look
Speaker 1: like also, so I feel like we can just fast
Speaker 1: forward maybe forty years. It's a similar it's a similar kind.
Speaker 4: Of look, Joe, I really hope your dad looks exactly
Speaker 4: like you. I'd be honest, but.
Speaker 1: I would say I'll give it a nostalgia. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't feel super super strongly about it
Speaker 1: either way, but sure, why not?
Speaker 4: This kind of feels like a medium stylega maybe yeah, sure,
Speaker 4: that's how I feel for all of us.
Speaker 1: I think like this is going to make me sound
Speaker 1: maybe kind of judgmental, but I think at least it's
Speaker 1: like an actual thing kids will play with versus like
Speaker 1: a screen or something like. At least you're doing sort
Speaker 1: moving around using your imagination, you know, not having technology
Speaker 1: do all the work for you.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And what I would like, which I feel like,
Speaker 4: is never really like all those like I was looking for,
Speaker 4: like hot wheels, toys for my nephew and stuff, and
Speaker 4: I feel like they always have like a very specific track.
Speaker 4: But what I think would be cool is if they
Speaker 4: could have a track sort of like Legos, where you
Speaker 4: could build a track and like have this whole set
Speaker 4: and like put a car at the top and see
Speaker 4: it go through the whole course. I think that would
Speaker 4: be really fun. So if they're listening, I don't know,
Speaker 4: that could be a really good idea.
Speaker 3: I do think that super Van's world or whatever whatever.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: You were in a door crowd up.
Speaker 3: So it's a thing where I.
Speaker 2: Do think it is a cool thing where like you
Speaker 2: open it up and it's almost like, you know, like
Speaker 2: when you get those like cards where it's like you
Speaker 2: open up the greeting card and it's like three D.
Speaker 3: It's like I think they have like, yeah, that's what
Speaker 3: it is. It's called bump.
Speaker 2: I think they have sort of pop up worlds in
Speaker 2: a cool way. Now I don't quote me on that,
Speaker 2: like when you're flying, because I.
Speaker 1: Might be wrong.
Speaker 4: Vanessa Beyer I have a quote from her that says
Speaker 4: that these pop up and they are all sorts of
Speaker 4: different worlds.
Speaker 3: Well, guys, that's why I said not to do.
Speaker 4: But also she's not sure because she wasn't a huge
Speaker 4: door grown up. Do you guys have that stuff that's
Speaker 4: gonna happen and you're gonna get in trouble on the internet.
Speaker 3: They're gonna come out, you know, and I you know
Speaker 3: what it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I'll probably get free micro machines because I said the nostalgia.
Speaker 4: Yes, and you're gonna become a microhead. Oh man, oh brother,
Speaker 4: oh sister.
Speaker 3: Well we should say at the end of yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you should.
Speaker 2: Say brother, brother, oh sister.
Speaker 3: That sounded that sounded like too much like quakery.
Speaker 4: I agree, I agree.
Speaker 3: Great, we'll pack. This has been just just a delight.
Speaker 4: Well, Vanini, I have had so much fun, Jonah, Janini, Uh,
Speaker 4: this is was an absolute pleasure. You guys are sweet, smart, funny,
Speaker 4: warm little hugs.
Speaker 2: Hey, Beck, we're a rubber, you're glue. Whatever you say
Speaker 2: bounces off of us, and Land's right square on you
Speaker 2: works for me.
Speaker 4: Well, thanks for having me you guys as well.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thanks so much for being here.
Speaker 3: Thank you to everyone who listened. Thank you to Beck.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're welcome now.
Speaker 2: Everybody, please keep a lookout for next week's episode of
Speaker 2: How Did We Get Weird, where we'll discuss more stories
Speaker 2: from childhood and Jonah, is there anything you want to
Speaker 2: say about Lean Pockets?
Speaker 1: Yeah, rip Lean Pockets.
Speaker 4: We're going to miss you, Rip Lean Pockets. Thank you
Speaker 4: for all that you did for me and my childhood.
Speaker 4: Thank thank you.
Speaker 2: We don't rest
Speaker 1: Time A very