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 pretty charismatic, if I do say so myself.

Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Vanessa, today I'm so excited. We have our first guest we actually went to high school with.

Yes. So that is so exciting. You know, listeners probably know we grew up in Cleveland and sort of the theme of today's

episode is going to be jobs we had or first jobs. And so, you know, we both had a lot of jobs

growing up in Cleveland. Maybe we talked about that a little bit. What were some of the jobs you had?

Well, the one that really comes to mind as like my first real job in Cleveland was I worked

as a hostess at Bravo Kuchina Rustica, which you may have

remembered. I believe it was part of Eaton Collection, which is a beautiful collection of shops and

restaurants. And I was a hostess. One story that I remember being really funny was that they told us when they were

doing like our training for like the new hostesses and servers and stuff. They were like the people

who come to this restaurant who live around here, they're like not the nicest. They're kind of these

rich snobs, but they have a lot of money to spend. So be nice to them. Keep in mind, we lived probably like

five minutes. This isn't

going to help for like the comments we've gotten about being like really privileged. But anyway,

they're like, but they've got money to spend. So be nice to them. So then part of my job as a hostess

was I had to talk to people like the entire time from when they were like at the host stand to when I

sat them. And this was right after

college. I worked there. And they were all people I went to high school with like parents.

So like I was so excited to see them. And like I'm just like probably not surprisingly someone who

always got along with parents. So it was like I always knew who everyone's parents were.

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