Remember the dELia*s Catalog? (with Emily Heller)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Whether you're a fashionista or a dELIa*s-ista, we've got something for you on this nineties-fashion-forward episode of the podcast thanks to our guest, writer/comedian Emily Heller. Emily comes by the pod to discuss the time 11-year-old Emily wrote a complaint letter to then-president Bill Clinton about her gym teacher who she later found out was actually Zendaya's dad? We also discuss how she made a zine out of some of her childhood momentos (including the infamous letter) and how New Moon magazine inspired her as a kid. Plus, we dig deep into the cultural impact of the dELIa*s catalog and how it's style impacted pop-culture. And speaking of style, Jonah comes clean about his Girbaud Jeans-phase and Emily discusses her parents' confusion about the nineties thrift-store aesthetic. Finally we play an unforgettable game of YES/NO-STALGIA where we discuss the return of wearing vests as shirts, slip dresses and the incredibly polarizing bucket hat. So put on your chicest ill-fitting hat and check it out!

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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 kind of geniuses, if I do say so myself.
0:15.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Vanessa, were you okay with reading that? You sounded a little...
0:31.6	Well, look what I wrote. I wrote, who are kind of geniuses on this podcast. Why did I write that?
0:37.2	I don't know. I just noticed it. Well,
0:39.3	I guess I handled it pretty well, so what I would appreciate is a compliment, Jonah. Okay,
0:44.2	good save there. Good save there. Thank you. I took several years of improv in Chicago.
0:50.0	Okay. Jonah, what I wanted to talk about today was we're going to get into a lot of publications with our guest today. And I wanted to talk about, do you remember what magazines we subscribed to as kids growing up?
1:02.5	Yeah. I remember we got Rolling Stone for sure. I got Guitar World. And then maybe we got TV Guide at one point. I'm not really sure. Okay. So Rolling Stone was like something that our
1:14.1	parents got because it was kind of, I felt it was kind of our mom's like sort of a, she's cool. She still,
1:21.0	you know, loves music. You know, I felt like that was a family thing. Like even when we were really little,
1:25.6	we got Rolling Stone. That was a family magazine.
1:28.4	You got Guitar World.
1:29.6	I got a little something called Teen Magazine.
1:32.4	And the way that it was spelled, and I'm curious of our guest once we introduce her, or whenever, wants to weigh.
1:37.5	And if she, the way that it was spelled was apostrophe T-E-E-N, all in caps.
1:44.5	And there were like three really popular teen magazines when we were kids.
1:48.5	One was Teen Magazine.
1:50.1	One was 17, and one was Y-M.
1:53.1	And I feel like Teen Magazine was probably the least cool.
1:57.4	And one of the reasons I think they were the least cool is because they were sort of the
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