HOLIDAY RE-RELEASE: Remember Pretending to be Sick to Miss School? (with Susie Essman)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Vanessa and Jonah are thrilled to welcome to the pod Curb Your Enthusiasm star, Susie Essman! In this episode, we get into a real story about an encounter our parents had at their condo complex, Susie talks about how parking in NYC gives her faith in humanity and why having people fear you can be a positive thing when people compare her with her with Susie Greene. We also discuss Susie's strategy for getting out of school as a kid, her favorite shows to watch as a kid and that indefinable feeling of spending an entire day alone doing whatever you wanted. We also play a round of round of CHANGE DOT DORK where we debate the merits of a Curb Your Enthusiasm Movie, decide if the world needs gluten-free Oreos and should schools get the day off after Super Bowl... or do they have to pretend they're sick the way we did as kids?

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0:00.0	Hello, how did we get weird listeners? We are off for the holiday, but we are re-airing a wonderful
0:05.5	episode that we got to do with the hilarious and iconic Susie Esmond, where we talked about
0:10.6	pretending to be sick to miss school, which a lot of kids actually don't have to do today because
0:15.5	it is a holiday, but if they want to miss school tomorrow, they're going to have to pretend
0:19.8	they're sick. So please enjoy this episode.
0:22.2	And Jonah and I will be back next week
0:24.4	with a brand new episode of How Did We Get Weird?
0:27.1	Enjoy the holiday.
0:31.4	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer, and this is my brother, Jonah.
0:35.0	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how
0:38.3	it shaped us into the people we are today. Who need to curb our enthusiasm because we're so
0:43.0	excited about today's guest. Welcome to Cleveland several times this summer.
1:07.2	Right.
1:07.6	And, and on one of my visits, we had a, you know, you and I obviously talk about our dad a lot.
1:15.3	And we had a very big Todd moment happen, which was that I was on a walk with both of our parents,
1:22.9	which they do these four mile walks every day. And I was on a walk with our parents and we were walking through their condo community.
1:30.8	And we got into a bit of a confrontation.
1:34.9	Yes, I heard about this.
1:36.4	And I can't believe that you were there to witness at first.
1:38.4	It was incredible.
1:39.5	So what happened was they live in this condo community.
1:42.0	They walk there every day.
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