Remember Youth Center Dances in 6th Grade? (with Jillian Bell)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On today's new episode, the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome the hilarious Jillan Bell! They dive deep into community centers and Vanessa talks about a step class that was so popular at the JCC growing up, that it got one of Jonah's friend's mom's to show her true colors when she didn't get in. Yikes! Plus, Jillian gets into the sixth grade youth center dances that she attended every week and the very consequential last dance where there is a villain, but it's debatable who that is. And, Jonah schools Vanessa on The Spasmatics and the Jillian talks about the time she brought the show Rescue 911 into her real life. And along those lines, Unsolved Mysteries is back, but how do we feel about that? Vanessa also talks about the DJ at her Whirly Ball Bat Mitzvah party (correction: 7th grade was Bas Mitzvahs, not 6th, Vanessa!) and Jonah shares his dream of being introduced at the her party with Metallica blasting in the background. Finally, in a thrilling game of CHANGE DOT DORK, the trio debates the merits of the return of "Bless the Harts," Emilio Estevez being in a Psych movie (and they really get into Emilio's past), and ask, what is Teen Beach Movie and should it be played at Movie Night? And speaking of movies, be sure to check out Jillian's directorial debut, the wildly hilarious and heartwarming "Summer of 69" streaming now on HULU!!

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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.
0:12.0	Who are very excited for today's guest, if that rings a bell.
0:15.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. get weird.
0:39.9	I'm so excited about our guest today. I know that you are too. She's a friend. I've known her for years and based on kind of what we're going to talk with her about today, I was thinking about, do you remember when
0:44.4	we used to go to the JCC and going there and working out? I do remember going there. I remember playing
0:51.1	a lot of basketball, a lot of hoops. a lot of hoops. I think you did more the
0:55.8	kind of aerobic type stuff. We should say our mom worked there, so we got like a free membership, I think.
1:01.1	Oh, yeah, that was cool. But, you know, the thing that we didn't get that she got that I don't know
1:05.2	if you remember this was there were like really fancy locker rooms at the JCC. And then there were like really shitty ones that were for like the kind of basic people
1:15.0	who didn't want to pay for the fancy ones or like little kids.
1:18.1	Okay.
1:18.2	So I remember trying to use moms, like using mom's JCC membership card as a fake ID
1:24.5	to get into the locker room, the nice locker room. And,
1:29.4	um, you know, it was, it felt like a real luxury. And then yeah, those aerobics classes,
1:34.6	I mean, I have so much to say, I, I, we should get into introducing our guests, but I do
1:40.0	remember the step classes with like this guy gym or something were really really competitive to get
1:45.8	into they would fill up really quickly and I do remember seeing such a dark side of one of your
1:52.1	friend's parents one of your friends moms couldn't get into a class I still remember who it is I
1:57.8	won't I want to hear off yeah well that's ironic because I had to take step aerobics in high school and hated it.
2:02.7	So I would have gladly traded spots with this person.
2:06.0	This woman was so mad.
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