Remember Being a Mall Rat? (with Abbi Jacobson)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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On today's new episode, Vanessa and Jonah are thrilled to welcome their friend Abbi Jacobson! The trio talk about spring holidays, from looking for the afikomen at Passover (Vanessa feels their family's game may have been rigged) to decorating Easter eggs! And remember being a kid with a signature book? Plus, Vanessa attempts to solve the mystery of whether Abbi is related to the Cleveland Jacobsons? And we get into the wild world of the mall, which leads us to The Body Shop, which leads us to the nostalgic favorite CK One perfume (cologne?) We reminisce about the amazing CK One ad campaign and wonder, did Melissa Ethridge do a music video to promote CK One or was that video of hot people climbing each other unrelated? And finally, in a rousing game of Change.dork, we weigh the merits of increasing the seasoning of Cool Ranch Doritos, getting rid of silent lunch, and changing the age limit for R movies. Be sure to check out this fantastically nostalgic ep! NOTE: Soon after we recorded Abbi figured out that the name of the Melissa Ethridge song in question is "Your Little Secret"!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.4	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:11.1	Whose guest today is so fantastic, she's in a league of her own.
0:14.3	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. You know, Jonah, the Jewish holiday of Passover is coming up.
0:35.6	And we were talking yesterday about how our grandma would hide, or our uncle, we would go to their, we would go to our grandmas for a sater and our uncle would hide the Afi Komen.
0:48.0	And you were talking, it's so funny because you were saying, remember how fun that was.
0:51.5	And for me, as the youngest cousin, it was actually not fun okay it wasn't fun why not because i was so young everybody was at least two years older than me
1:01.5	yeah and it was like i'm not going to find that thing and we were in our grandma's apartment which was not
1:08.3	very by the way the afy komen is when for people it's basically
1:12.5	you it's a i don't know exactly why but it's like it's a passover tradition like you you you hide a piece of
1:20.1	matza and like the kids have to find it and whatever kid finds it gets like five bucks or something
1:26.0	yeah yeah and i think it was always under like a chair cushion.
1:29.0	I never found it either, by the way.
1:30.3	You didn't?
1:30.8	No.
1:31.2	Well, our cousins, Amy and Jody.
1:32.7	So to be fair, there were usually four of us there, four kids.
1:36.0	And our cousins, Amy and Jody were significantly older than us.
1:39.4	Like Jody was maybe a couple years older than you, but Amy was probably like four years.
1:44.9	So this is, at certain points, this is like a six-year-old against, and I'm talking about myself, against like a 13-year-old.
1:53.4	I don't even, I don't know if it was that extreme, but maybe.
1:55.8	There weren't that many places to hide it.
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