Remember Lilith Fair? (with Jessica Hopper)
How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer
All Things Comedy
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
On today's new episode the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome their friend writer and executive producer on the documentary "Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery", Jessica Hopper! You may know Jessica has written incredible books such as "The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic" and "The Girls Guide To Rocking", but did you know was the publicist for pretty much every Emo band in the late nineties and early 2000's? Plus Jessica and Jonah get into their time in the trenches together at Warped Tour. But don't worry, we also get into Vanessa's favorite music festival, Lilith Fair! Jessica tells us about working on the new documentary "Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery" which was inspired by an oral history of the festival she wrote for Vanity Fair! We get in all the deets, from the music to how the festival gave a dollar from each ticket to a local charity, to how they changed the iced coffee scene in America, to Justice for Paula Cole! And finally, in a rousing game of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARY GROAN, we get into some controversies over paying for garbage disposal, cigarette butt etiquette and complaining about the weather. You gotta hear this fascinating and funny episode and if you haven't yet, you MUST check out the documentary "LILITH FAIR: BUILDING A MYSTERY" directed by Ally Pankiw and streaming on Hulu!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah. We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today. Who are very excited because today's today, and I think you had something we wanted to talk about. |
| 0:34.7 | Yes, I have a quick story about today's guests, and it shows how little I know about children, how little I used to know about children and still know about |
| 0:41.6 | children, because our guests gave a book reading in New York at the Strand. Um, okay. For her first |
| 0:47.7 | book called The Girl's Guide to Rocking, I believe a former guest in the podcast, Craig Finn from the |
| 0:52.8 | Hold Steady introduced her. Yes. Okay, she's |
| 0:54.8 | nodding yet. So I bought this book. I was in a band, The Love Kill, and our bass player, Carla, |
| 1:02.2 | and her husband, Robert, had just had a child very recently, like that year. And I bought this book, |
| 1:07.3 | and I had Jessica sign it to their daughter, Ursula. And I saw them a few months months later and I was like, I got Ursula this book, Jessica signed it and they were like, cool, she'll probably really like it when she's old enough to read. Like I kind of thought like she would just start reading it and they were like, no, kids like can't like read when they're like one year old um so it kind of was a little bit i was |
| 1:29.3 | like oh yeah they're probably going to like now hold on to this book for like i don't know how old |
| 1:33.4 | our kids when they can read yeah yeah like a few years you're don't forget you were in horizons |
| 1:38.5 | you were kind of ahead of your which was a fast reader gifted program you were a pretty fast early reader |
| 1:44.1 | I bet. |
| 1:44.6 | Yeah, but book probably not. |
| 1:45.8 | But probably not when you were one. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah, probably like she wasn't going to need to navigate like garage band as like a six month old. |
| 1:52.9 | But still a very cool book. |
| 1:54.8 | Great memory. |
| 1:56.1 | And I was recently in Los Angeles. |
| 1:58.5 | And I was at a meba. |
| 2:00.2 | I had to buy something to validate my parking. |
| 2:02.7 | So I also got another one in Jessica's books. |
| 2:06.3 | This one for me, the first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic. |
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