Remember Shallow Hal?
How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer
All Things Comedy
4.9 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Years ago, Jonah and Vanessa watched the 2001 Jack Black/Gwyneth Paltrow romantic comedy "Shallow Hal" together and Vanessa was so high that she reversed the plot of the film. For this special and incredibly important podcast episode, Jonah and Vanessa have rewatched the film in a more lucid state and they are ready to delve into it's complex plotlines. What did they think of the film the second time around? Spoiler alert: They didn't love it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah. |
| 0:06.0 | 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 extremely chic, if I do say so myself. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Okay, Jonah, today we're doing a very special episode about the movie Shallow Hal. |
| 0:32.9 | And, you know, it's really exciting because our podcast premieres on September 27th. This episode comes out on |
| 0:40.1 | September 27. And your birthday is September 27. Yes. So yeah, thank you. I guess it's like a roundabout way |
| 0:48.8 | of you wishing me happy birthday. Yes. So thank you for that. And what's also amazing about this is that this is also Gwyneth Paltrow's birthday. |
| 0:57.5 | Yes, who stars in Shallow. |
| 0:59.2 | Who stars in Shallow. |
| 1:00.2 | And probably on her birthday, it is like the thing she would least want to be reminded about. |
| 1:04.7 | So nothing personal about Gweth Paltrow, but it just happens to be like really good synergy and probably a great time to discuss |
| 1:11.9 | the movie Shallow How if you haven't seen this movie and you're wondering why we're talking about it, |
| 1:16.6 | there's just so many podcasts out there and we thought, you know, it's important to have like a |
| 1:20.8 | relevant topic. And so why not have me and Vanessa kind of do a deep dive? There's so much to unpack |
| 1:25.9 | about this film. I feel like we need like a whole |
| 1:27.9 | like a hundred suitcases. So I just want to start out by telling you the listener why this |
| 1:33.7 | movie is important to Jonah and I. And it goes back to a family trip we did that was shockingly only |
| 1:39.1 | five years ago. I think it was more than five years ago. It was definitely 2016. And where we went to Seattle with our parents and marijuana was legal in Seattle at the time |
| 1:52.7 | and that was very novel to us because it wasn't legal in New York where we were living. |
| 1:58.6 | And so we went to this dispensary and we bought these |
| 2:02.1 | edibles. We bought these carmels. And they had 10 milligrams of THD in each of them. And Jonah got on the |
| 2:08.6 | phone with his stoner friend who said, you won't get high. You won't feel anything unless you |
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