COLE ESCOLA RE-RELEASE: 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

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

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	Hello, how did we get weird listeners?
0:02.8	Jonah and I are hoping that you're having a wonderful Memorial Day and in honor of the holiday,
0:07.4	we wanted to re-release one of our favorite episodes.
0:10.4	This episode is from back in 2022 and it is with the brilliantly talented Cole Escola.
0:17.1	This came out a couple years before their incredible show, O'Mary, premiered, and made them the hottest thing in New York, honestly.
0:25.2	So please enjoy this episode and we'll see you next week with an all-new episode of How Did We Get Weird?
0:31.0	Bye.
0:35.7	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:38.8	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:43.5	Who are extremely well spoken, if I do say so myself.
0:46.6	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird.
0:47.9	Yeah. Dad. about certain food brands, but not from really a health perspective. Do you remember that?
1:14.2	Yeah. Dad was really into certain brands. And I know you texted him kind of prior to this episode to
1:19.2	kind of get his take because I felt like we would hear a lot of this stuff growing up, but we weren't
1:22.6	really old enough to understand it. Yeah. We didn't know what his reasoning was. So one thing he really
1:26.9	loved was Peter Pan Crunchy Peanut Butter. You got a quote from him. Yeah. we didn't know what his reasoning was. So one thing he really loved was Peter Pan crunchy peanut butter.
1:29.2	You got a quote from him.
1:30.7	Yeah, so I asked him why, and he said, Peter Pan as well as Jif tastes like it has added
1:35.8	sugar, even though I don't think it does.
1:37.8	It definitely does.
1:38.5	Yeah, it definitely does.
1:39.4	Both are very sweet, soft, and smooth.
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