Remember Lab Schools? (with Kim Gordon)
How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer
All Things Comedy
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome the iconic musician, visual artist and author Kim Gordon of the band Sonic Youth and more! You may know Kim today as an absolute music legend but did you know she went to a lab school as a little kid where she sawed wood to make boats she could actually ride in? We get more into Kim's childhood growing up first in Rochester (and will she take up Rochester Music Hall of Fame on their offer?...) and then in LA. And speaking of, Kim explains to us what the LA tarpits are even though we should know. Plus, Vanessa makes sure to ask Kim about the snack situation at her ad shoot of H&M. And in a rousing game of "YES OR NO-STALGIA" Kim calls a soda's comeback "desperate" (when she's right she's right), we get into a reboot of a popular franchise, and a Costco lasagna's return makes us wonder, how punk would it be to see Kim at Costco?? (Its seems like it could happen.) Ya gotta check out this fantastic ep!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah. |
| 0:06.1 | We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today. |
| 0:11.0 | Who are very excited to talk about our youth with today's guest. |
| 0:14.3 | Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. I'm John, I know we're excited for today's guest. |
| 0:35.2 | Yes. |
| 0:36.0 | So excited. |
| 0:37.1 | And so we met today's guest, I think, I don't know if she'll remember it. |
| 0:40.3 | It was many years ago at Carrie Brownstein's book party in New York, I think. Yes. I think so too. |
| 0:49.2 | Well, maybe we can introduce her and ask her if you remember. I know that I met Vanessa. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:55.6 | And you told me about the podcast, but I think it was at some like Natasha Leon kind of related thing. |
| 1:06.3 | It might have been at Jacqueline's comedy. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.6 | Exactly. |
| 1:12.0 | At her comedy show or premiere for her special. |
| 1:14.9 | And you told me about the podcast. |
| 1:17.3 | And I was like, yeah, that sounds cool. |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.6 | I was so. |
| 1:22.6 | What a, what a jarring thing for someone to come up to you with like a big smile go hey do you want to do our podcast |
| 1:30.0 | well you know it wasn't exactly like that thank you thank you i don't know i probably didn't remind |
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