Vanessa Bayer and her brother Jonah dig up childhood gems in their 'How Did We Get Weird' podcast

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(CNN)Living connected other sides of the country, Vanessa Bayer and her member Jonah Bayer recovered they missed each other.

Whenever they spoke, they would commencement reminiscing astir their childhood, specifically toys, nutrient and different nostalgia that person someway disappeared. (Think Garbage Pail Kids.) Eventually, they decided to commencement a podcast astir it, wherever they invitation guests connected to dredge up their ain puerility obsessions.

They titled it "How Did We Get Weird?" and got Will Ferrell and iHeartMedia's Big Money Players web to nutrient it. CNN spoke to the erstwhile "Saturday Night Live" castmember astir the podcast and however it each came together.

"My member and I, we truly were precise adjacent and we emotion hanging retired unneurotic and spending clip unneurotic and moving unneurotic arsenic well," Bayer says. "When we were reasoning astir the topic, you know, what we wanted to speech about, evidently we person nostalgic memories of hanging retired together, but besides we're some benignant of precise into texting oregon calling the different and saying, 'Do you retrieve this happening from our puerility oregon that happening from our childhood?'"

Bayer says items became ace specific, similar a peculiar publication oregon artifact that was nary longer available.

"We were doing each this probe and researching each these insane things from our childhood," she laughs.

Vanessa Bayer's caller podcast "How Did We Get Weird?"

What she recovered successful her probe is that determination is simply a full satellite of online petitions radical person created to effort to get their favourite discontinued snack oregon artifact backmost into production.

"There are truthful galore change.org, petitions connected snacks," Bayer says, "If there's immoderate snack that you like, and it has been discontinued, for astir of them there's a petition to bring them back. The level of passionateness radical person astir snacks disappearing and them wanting them backmost is truly unbelievable. They did bring backmost Dunkaroos and I deliberation radical are truly thrilled astir that."

"SNL" prima Beck Bennett was a caller impermanent connected the podcast, and helium shared his interest that Lean Pockets had been discontinued.

Beyond grieving pizza Lean Pockets, Bayer and her member besides screen mixtapes, "Jumanji" and aboriginal Tom Cruise successful their discussions.

A caller episode releases each week with a wide array of actors and comedians connected arsenic guests.

"How Did We Get Weird" tin beryllium recovered connected iHeart vigor oregon immoderate podcast streaming service.

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