Remember Winning A Date with Tom Cruise? (with Claudia O'Doherty)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

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Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

You know Claudia O'Doherty from her roles on Love and Inside Amy Schumer, but did you also know she shares an unhealthy habit of late-night online shopping with Vanessa? On this episode of the HDWGW, Claudia looks back on her childhood in Australia and reminisces about a popular commercial for lamb where Naomi Watts turns down a date with Tom Cruise. Crazier yet, Claudia would star in a commercial with Naomi Watts years later, blurring her sense of fiction and reality. Along the way, Jonah laments the demise of Taco Bell's 7-Layer Burrito, Vanessa waxes nostalgic about the defunct prime rib chain Mountain Jack's, and Claudia tells us why she is not a fan of kettle chips. If you like controversial takes, this is the episode for you!

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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.
0:11.0	Who are extraordinarily kind, if I do say so myself.
0:14.6	Welcome to How Did We get weird. So, Vanessa, do you remember your favorite restaurant growing up?
0:31.8	Yes, Jonah.
0:32.7	I believe you're talking about renowned steakhouse and more specifically prime rib house mountain jacks yeah yeah
0:41.8	you really loved steak when you were little yeah i really did and i could eat a lot of it uh you
0:46.8	know it was just a little tot eating an entire um medium rare prime rib steak on a lot of birthdays and special occasions. I really loved it.
0:57.4	Yeah, I remember not really liking it. It felt like kind of too stuffy for me. It was kind of like a
1:02.1	fancy restaurant for like a little kid to be really into. Yes, it was very classy of me to have
1:08.7	liked it when I was so small. I mean, I do think looking back, you know, we've looked into the history of Mountain Jacks a little bit.
1:17.0	It was a, you know, it was a chain, as I said, and there were about 21 of them around the Midwest and California.
1:24.1	And I think now, like looking back, it was probably about as fancy as like
1:30.1	outback, but just, it was like that level of niceness, I think. I think it was lower based on,
1:36.7	like, the commercials I've seen from like the 90s. Right, right, right, right. And they did have
1:41.3	the thing which we were reminded of when we were researching it,
1:45.2	which is that they would bring a little salad bar to the side of your table and they would kind of
1:50.2	make a little salad for you based on, you know, what fix-ins and toppings you wanted.
1:55.9	Yeah, you can make your own salad. I guess that's fun for some. I don't remember that being really
1:59.4	fun for me, but that could be
2:00.8	fun for some kids. Yeah, Jonah. It could be. And it was. So like we were saying, you know, it was one of
2:07.1	my favorite places. And I think the one in Cleveland that we used to go to, which there are a few in
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