Remember Free To Be... You And Me? (with Gillian Jacobs)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week on the podcast we are thrilled to be joined by actress, director and friend Gillian Jacobs! Gillian and Vanessa talk about co-starring along with Phoebe Robinson in the 2018 film "Ibiza," and give some crucial behind-the-scenes info about the production, including Vanessa's mission to take as much free stuff as possible. We also discuss Gillian's respect for the public library, get a few more physical and digital book scams from Jonah and hear why staying out of trouble as a teenager is actually a really cool move. Finally we dig into Marlo Thomas' incredible creative project "Free To Be... You And Me," which had a huge impact on all of us as kids—and also learn about the time Gillian interviewed Marlo all about the project for Glamour magazine. Finally we play a round of CHANGE DOT DORK where we discuss the merits of bringing back Taco Bell's brownie sandwich, changing "knitting to gnitting" for all you Palindrome-heads and if gym class should be optional for kids who have no interest in sports and are there to actually, you know, learn. Glad to have a friend like Gillian because this is a fantastic episode!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:05.8	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:10.7	Who are really part of a community, if I do say so myself.
0:14.2	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I was really excited for our guests today, not only because she's a friend,
0:33.4	but because the reason I know her and the reason we became friends is from working together.
0:38.7	And she's a real class act compared to me.
0:42.1	And I'm going to give you an example of why.
0:44.4	Okay.
0:45.0	We filmed this movie Abiza together.
0:48.4	And it was so much fun.
0:49.8	We were in Serbia and Croatia together.
0:51.7	And you'd think I would be telling a story from when we were in
0:54.5	Serbia or Croatia, but I'm not going to. I'm going to tell you another story, which is that
0:58.9	after we were done filming, we did a photo shoot. I think it was in New York. It might have been
1:04.4	in L.A., but I think it was in New York. And at the end of the photo shoot, they had like all of our clothes and everything that we wore in the movie at this photo shoot. And they said, if there's any clothes from the movie that you want, you can take them home. So I took home almost every single thing. I wore in the movie. And Gillian took home like a pair of shoes. And she wore this unicorn onesie costume in the movie and i was like
1:32.3	you're taking that home right and she was like no what would i do with it and i was like should i
1:36.7	take it home but like literally wouldn't even fit me so i didn't take it home i do think after
1:41.8	she left i took home some of her stuff which again would not fit me but I just couldn't leave it there. And I also took home a suitcase that we didn't even have during the shoot, but was just, didn't have during the filming, but was just there for the photo shoot that I somehow talked them into giving me. It wasn't a way suitcase. You know, those are expensive. Anyways, those are nice suitcases. Those are nice suitcases. So, Jonah,
2:02.9	should we introduce our guest now that everyone
2:04.7	knows? Yeah. Yeah, let's get into it.
2:07.0	Okay, sounds good. So our guest
2:08.7	today is an actress
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