Remember This Old House? (with Susannah Cahalan)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast we are joined by New York Times bestselling author, Susannah Cahalan! We talk about the phenomenon of the Sharper Image stores, the ubiquity of tetherball courts in the nineties and why are kids seriously still playing Dodgeball? We also discuss Susannah's experience of landing a coveted job at Abercrombie & Fitch when she was in high school and why she didn't like the job despite getting a thirty percent discount. Plus we get into Vanessa's experience as a judge on "Nailed It!" and the phenomenon of the Bob Vila era of "This Old House" in the pre-Internet age. We also discuss famous people from Summit, New Jersey, and play a round of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARY GROAN where we debate accidental gender reveals, the need for 15-minutes of fame and if newspapers need more columns about people complaining. Check out Susannah's amazing new book THE ACID QUEEN: THE PSYCHEDELIC LIFE AND COUNTERCULTURE REBELLION OF ROSEMARY WOODRUFF LEARY and make sure to catch her on her book tour and tell her you listened to this episode!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.5	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:12.0	Who aren't great pretenders when it comes to how excited we are for today's guest.
0:16.8	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird?
0:39.5	So, Jonah, I know we have a very special guest on today for a lot of reasons, but this guest holds sort of a very special place in your heart would you like to explain why yes i would like to explain why so yeah today's guest um
0:45.9	is the person who i met my wife through well her and her husband steve and so so they kind of set us up many years ago.
0:57.8	And we hit it off and now we're married and we have a house and everything.
1:02.8	And without them, probably we never would have met.
1:06.2	So I owed them a lot.
1:08.3	Did they set you up like, did you go on a double date with them or they just introduced you?
1:13.1	No, they just kind of introduced us kind of actually over email and then we ended up meeting in person a little while.
1:23.0	But yeah, we ended up meeting through them.
1:24.8	They kind of got the ball rolling essentially and then
1:27.8	then it kind of went from there. And then you took it from there. Yes, exactly. I took it from there.
1:33.3	Okay. So yeah, so very exciting. And I will say, yeah, just want to say thank them because, yeah,
1:39.2	Vicki's great and we're very happy. And so we really, we really owe today's guests big time.
1:44.6	Yeah.
1:44.9	And I hope that since you've been with Vicky for such a long time, this isn't the first
1:48.8	time you've thanked them.
1:50.0	It's not.
1:50.4	I don't think it is.
1:51.3	I mean, it's not something I do, we do like all the time.
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