Remember Landline Etiquette? (with Lisa Loeb)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode the Bayers welcome nineties icon and Grammy Award-winning musician Lisa Loeb! We talk (so all the time) about landline phone etiquette from growing up including prank calls and Vanessa's love for calling the numbers on catalogs with a pretend accent. We also get into Lilith Fair and guitar shredding and when Lisa toured with Sarah McLachlan. And don't worry, not only do we talk about Lisa's famous cat eyeglasses and her current line of glasses, but Vanessa does a deep dive into the Betsey Johnson dress Lisa wore in the "Stay" video. Dreams! You've got to listen to this episode even if you only hear what you want to!

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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.
0:10.7	Who are pretty comedy forward, if I do say so myself.
0:13.8	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So Jonah, our guest today is very known for her iconic glasses.
0:32.6	In honor of her, I thought that we could talk about this story from growing up about when you used to wear glasses as a kid.
0:39.3	Our listeners might not know that Jonah was like a very cute kid with glasses. And then like something
0:43.6	sort of crazy happened. Yeah. So I wore bifocals growing up. I think I was near sighted. I had like big kind of
0:49.0	80s clunky glasses and I would always break them. You're right.
0:55.3	And then lose them.
0:57.3	I felt like we went to like the local E.B. Brown optical at Beachwood Place like every other week.
0:59.8	So I was always destroying them.
1:01.9	And then I wanted to get kind of like thinner glasses around like my bar mitzvah.
1:05.5	I felt like I wanted something a little more low profile.
1:08.3	It's getting a little self-conscious.
1:09.7	And then something kind of interesting
1:11.8	happened. I went to the eye doctor. I had been wearing them. I don't know, maybe like, when do you
1:15.5	think I start wearing them? You started wearing them when you were like a little kid. Yeah. You were
1:19.3	probably like, I don't know, two or three. Yeah. So I'm wearing them basically my whole life. I'm 13. I go the eye doctor and he didn't eye test and he was like, the glasses have corrected
1:28.1	your vision. You no longer need glasses. He said that this could happen to a small amount of people,
1:33.4	I guess if you start wearing glasses when you're really young. So that was when I was probably
1:37.0	13 or 14. I'm not 42. I have not worn glasses since then. No reading glasses, no anything.
1:42.3	My eyes somehow were corrected by these glasses. And I feel like I tell people this story now. I'm like no one can believe it. But I'm pretty sure this is what happened. Did you have like an eye that crossed a little or something? I had one eye that I wasn't like seeing out of for a while. I would get cross-eyed. I had all kinds of weird eye problems. But I think maybe because my eyes were still developing or something, they were.
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