Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
Speaker 3: We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood
Speaker 3: and nostalgia and how it shape this into the people
Speaker 3: we are today.
Speaker 4: You can't wait to dive purse first into today's episode
Speaker 4: if I do say so myself.
Speaker 3: Welcome to how did we get weird?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 6: Jonah?
Speaker 4: I was thinking about, you know, the Jewish holidays of
Speaker 4: Rushhashana and Yom Kipor are coming up, and I was
Speaker 4: thinking about how we used to always go to our
Speaker 4: grandma Marge's house around that holiday time and just honestly
Speaker 4: have a blast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember Grandma Marge lived it the same place
Speaker 3: pretty much the whole time we knew her, so like
Speaker 3: our whole lives. Yes, And it was in a big
Speaker 3: apartment complex and you walked in and she had these
Speaker 3: mirrored closets, so it fell.
Speaker 2: Yes, enormous, enormous, especially when we were little.
Speaker 3: Yes, And a lot of like art up on sort
Speaker 3: of pedestals, a felt very fancy to me.
Speaker 2: Very fancy.
Speaker 4: There was a sculpture of mercury, which I think was
Speaker 4: our grandpa Jerome had bought that. And one time I
Speaker 4: did a report in Middle school on the element Mercury
Speaker 4: and I took a picture with the statue of Mercury.
Speaker 2: Wow, and I thought that was really great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we would basically go over there. I feel
Speaker 3: like for Jewish holidays, You're right, so Russaurant, our Unpaporn
Speaker 3: and there would be our cousins would be there and
Speaker 3: that was sort of like the main hangout time there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we would have a lot of fun. We would
Speaker 2: eat a huge meal.
Speaker 4: Our grandma would bring out her mants of ball soup,
Speaker 4: which we thought was the best mants of ball soup ever.
Speaker 2: It's also we've talked about.
Speaker 4: This on here before where our uncle Richard coined the
Speaker 4: term of something going right through him when he was
Speaker 4: talking about frozen yogurt we think, or diet ice cream.
Speaker 2: And how it goes right through him.
Speaker 4: And then I kind of figured out what that was
Speaker 4: and that that was a phrase.
Speaker 3: It's pretty good.
Speaker 4: And oh the other thing that we were going to
Speaker 4: talk about was that our grandma would say a prayer
Speaker 4: and we would all have to be quiet for it,
Speaker 4: and she would say the prayer to herself and then
Speaker 4: she would go around the table looking at each one
Speaker 4: of us, making eye contact with each one of us,
Speaker 4: and that really made us want to start laughing. It
Speaker 4: was very sweet, but also very hard to not get
Speaker 4: the giggles.
Speaker 3: As a kid, it's tough to have a serious moment. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I think it was mostly just trying not to
Speaker 3: laugh that whole time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thinking of the serious moment that it's tough to
Speaker 4: have because it's having so much fun.
Speaker 2: Should we introduce our guests for today?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I have a tough moment.
Speaker 4: No, it's tough to have a serious moment because we're
Speaker 4: so excited to have fun with you.
Speaker 1: Well, don't you I can ruin anything.
Speaker 2: With that incredible endorsement. Well, we'll get to your intro.
Speaker 4: Our guest today is a comedian, actor, activist, musician, and
Speaker 4: drag You may know from guest starring on some of
Speaker 4: your favorite shows like A Black Lady's Sketch Show or
Speaker 4: High Maintenance, but you've also got to know him as
Speaker 4: the winner of season eight of RuPaul's Drag Race and
Speaker 4: his HBO Max show We're Here, or his podcast Sibling Rivalry.
Speaker 2: We are so thrilled to welcome Bob the Drag Queen.
Speaker 1: How are you all? Thank you to the Beyars for
Speaker 1: having having me over.
Speaker 2: I like the name Beyer too, Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I think that.
Speaker 5: Before Vanessa entered my brain. Now, Jonah, it was mostly
Speaker 5: the drug.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, totally.
Speaker 1: Are you of the Beyars? You get asked that a lot.
Speaker 4: Well, A joke that we like to make, or at
Speaker 4: least I like to make, is whereever anyone asked me
Speaker 4: I go. If I was, I wouldn't be here right now.
Speaker 1: Yep, you know, I see that. I could see that
Speaker 1: a being, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: But but now it doesn't work because you're going to
Speaker 5: be like at the oscars, like.
Speaker 4: If I was, right, becomes like a sort of a
Speaker 4: public figure. It's less powerful of them. You know, when
Speaker 4: I was like an improviser in chicag Go, it really.
Speaker 5: Would you hit roll up like a like a you
Speaker 5: know Maserati. You're like, if I was, would I be
Speaker 5: in this Maserati.
Speaker 2: Right right right right?
Speaker 1: Probably?
Speaker 5: But I will say there is a difference between the
Speaker 5: money and big pharma. Oh in comedy.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we would live in just enormous. I mean I
Speaker 4: actually met someone god where.
Speaker 3: I don't even met a pharmacist or something, right who?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I met a pharmacist or someone who like knew
Speaker 4: the Bayer family and said told me I kind of
Speaker 4: look like them, and I was like what, And I don't,
Speaker 4: and we're Jewish and I don't think they're Jewish. But
Speaker 4: also you never know, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 4: someone told me they have a big town in Germany
Speaker 4: and that they were like, you should go there.
Speaker 2: They'll treat you like, you know, you're one of the families.
Speaker 4: Yes, so I actually do think that you're hitting on
Speaker 4: something important, which is.
Speaker 2: We don't think we're part of the family, but what
Speaker 2: do we know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you might be. You never know.
Speaker 4: It might be sort of like that movie with Anne
Speaker 4: Hathaway where she finds out she's a princess, The Princess Diaries,
Speaker 4: that movie where.
Speaker 5: She was like writing a diary, but the princess was
Speaker 5: she's like writing in a diary about being a princess.
Speaker 4: Diary princess in it and she's writing a diary. What's that?
Speaker 4: I can't remember the journaling royal girl that was the one.
Speaker 1: The girl you too kind of kind of look alike too.
Speaker 5: I mean, the hair is displaced because one is on
Speaker 5: top of the head, ones on the price right by
Speaker 5: the way, I am also bald that is not that's
Speaker 5: not a dig at Jonah. I am also one of
Speaker 5: the bald head batties now batties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we look alike, and I wonder if so which
Speaker 4: to your point, this Pharmers sister whoever would have probably
Speaker 4: said to Jonah too, you look like you're part of
Speaker 4: that family, and it's like, go claim your fortune kind
Speaker 4: of a thing.
Speaker 1: Ja.
Speaker 5: Do you also have the because you have a pretty
Speaker 5: iconic smile. I feel like if I saw just your smile,
Speaker 5: if I saw just this part of your face, I'd
Speaker 5: be like, oh, that's Vanessa Beyer.
Speaker 1: You're kind of you're kind of known for your smile.
Speaker 4: Do you think I think so? I think because I
Speaker 4: smile a lot. It's it's hard for me to stop.
Speaker 1: What's that like?
Speaker 5: You describe smiling and happiness to me in great detail?
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got a beautiful smile. What are you
Speaker 4: talking about?
Speaker 5: I didn't say that beautiful. It's just not instantly recognized it.
Speaker 5: I was instantly recognized.
Speaker 4: But also you were implying that I'm a much happier
Speaker 4: like and I don't think that that's true because I
Speaker 4: feel like you are kind of a comedy icon, like
Speaker 4: I'll take it. I was just rewatching some of your
Speaker 4: drag Race stuff and I just I think you're just
Speaker 4: so funny obviously.
Speaker 2: I mean opening up for Madonna. Ever heard of it?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: You know, it's so funny because I ended up in
Speaker 5: the world of like feel good TV with reality TV
Speaker 5: if We're Here and Repulse drag Race. But I'm actually
Speaker 5: a stand up comedian. I've been doing stand up for
Speaker 5: about fifteen years now.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: And then and then I kind of just trip and
Speaker 5: fell into it into reality TV, which drag Race is
Speaker 5: pretty camp, whilst We're Here is not camp at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, extremely Actually that's not truly it is camp.
Speaker 5: It's it's not a hilarious show like it's going to
Speaker 5: leave you boohoo ing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Well it's interesting because and I guess I
Speaker 4: knew that about you, but I wasn't putting it together
Speaker 4: that you you're a stand up to It makes sense
Speaker 4: because you could even tell when you were on drag Race,
Speaker 4: like you can tell when people are comedians, Like you're
Speaker 4: just so funny, but also you have a real I'm
Speaker 4: really impressed with you on We're Here because thank you
Speaker 4: you have to really, I mean, I was just I've
Speaker 4: seen a lot of it. I was just watching the episode.
Speaker 4: I think it's in Mississippi where you have to. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you have to really get in with people and have
Speaker 4: some really emotional talks with them. And I think a
Speaker 4: lot of the funniest people kind of have that. I'm
Speaker 4: not trying to compliment myself, okay, but I think a
Speaker 4: lot of the I don't know, it doesn't matter, just
Speaker 4: I just get you have such empathy for everybody, and
Speaker 4: you so you really understand what they're going through and
Speaker 4: are able to actually say things that are helpful in
Speaker 4: a way.
Speaker 2: That's really so impressive.
Speaker 4: And to someone who doesn't understand that, that's sometimes many
Speaker 4: people to ken do that, it's like really impressive that
Speaker 4: you're so funny and yet also so thoughtful and empathetic
Speaker 4: with these people.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, thank you for starters.
Speaker 5: And I feel like a lot of times nowadays, not
Speaker 5: I don't want to sound on one of these people.
Speaker 1: You prap them with comedy today.
Speaker 5: I hate to be one of those, but I think
Speaker 5: that a lot of comedians, not just today, for a
Speaker 5: long time, are kind of edge lords. Like I'm just
Speaker 5: saying with nobody's thinking. It is like it's like it's like, well,
Speaker 5: I have intrusive thoughts. I thought about pushing three people
Speaker 5: on the train today just because I'm not saying just
Speaker 5: because you're saying what I'm thinking doesn't make it funny.
Speaker 1: It's just those are my thoughts.
Speaker 5: And you know, I think that sometimes in stand up comedy,
Speaker 5: people end up just going for noise from the audience,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, right, instead of laughter, like
Speaker 5: you like, the thing about stand up is you want
Speaker 5: a specific noise, like like like when a comedian is
Speaker 5: kind of bumming and they go give it up for
Speaker 5: this beautiful club.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, I I.
Speaker 4: When I've done stand up, I do that. That's a
Speaker 4: trick I would use all the time. Give it up
Speaker 4: for the host, give it up for the menue. Just
Speaker 4: getting as many claps as you can get.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you just want you just want noise. Or
Speaker 5: they'll or they'll say a joke that's just so out
Speaker 5: of pocket. The crowd goes ooh, and for them, they're like,
Speaker 5: well I got a noise, Yeah, I got noise. And
Speaker 5: then they always go, oh, is that too much for you?
Speaker 5: And everyone's like, it's just that we were eating chicken
Speaker 5: tenders and we weren't expecting like jokes about slavery.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I don't know if it's too much, And
Speaker 5: I don't know that that that the juice was worth
Speaker 5: a squeeze for that particular joke, right right, I don't
Speaker 5: even know how I got on.
Speaker 1: I go on tangents.
Speaker 3: I know it's it's good, it's good we're talking. I mean,
Speaker 3: who were some of the comedians you were kind of
Speaker 3: into growing up, Like, who are your big as a kid?
Speaker 1: I love some More.
Speaker 5: I love Monique, I love Chris rock I love Diale Hughley,
Speaker 5: I love Cedric the Entertainer.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love Bernie Mac.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love Wanda Sykes.
Speaker 2: Yes, so funny.
Speaker 5: They're just so so so funny. I mean, I think
Speaker 5: Chris Rocking one of things is probably my two favorite
Speaker 5: comedians growing up. But and then of course, in terms
Speaker 5: of acting, it'd be like Whoopi Goldberg, Carol Channing, Bernadette Peters,
Speaker 5: people like that, Kaptain and.
Speaker 7: Jimmy Yeah yeah, I love her. Oh, David Allen Greer
Speaker 7: and the Wayans, Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And did you watch a lot of like in Living
Speaker 4: Color and that kind of like, did you watch a
Speaker 4: lot of oh yeah, the like comedy when you were
Speaker 4: growing up?
Speaker 5: Absolutely was very It was very I mean the Wayns
Speaker 5: were really a big part of Matchip my childhood into
Speaker 5: my teenage years with the Ways with the Ways Brother Show, Yeah,
Speaker 5: and learned Her to Shame and the scary movies, and
Speaker 5: you know, there's so many of the things they were
Speaker 5: doing that were just so like formative to me as
Speaker 5: a humorist, as a young humorist, I guess yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 5: I love them.
Speaker 1: I loved loved Homie the Clown.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jane carry as Fire Marshall Bill, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you have any thoughts on a movie that I
Speaker 3: that we haven't talked about in this podcast before, but Stars,
Speaker 3: I believe Damon Wayne's The Last Boy Scout.
Speaker 5: I've not seen this movie. I was afraid that you
Speaker 5: were in a same movie I hadn't seen. And my
Speaker 5: worst fear came, sure.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 5: I had someone to ask you about a movie, and
Speaker 5: then you you think to yourself, do I act like
Speaker 5: I saw.
Speaker 2: It one hundred percent?
Speaker 1: Do I tell the truth?
Speaker 2: And in real.
Speaker 4: Life in conversation, I got to say this I'm coming clean.
Speaker 4: Fifty percent of the time, I pretend that I know
Speaker 4: what they're talking because if I think it's gonna pass
Speaker 4: quickly enough, I just go, oh, yeah, it's so good,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: I do I ever do something where someone says something
Speaker 3: you don't even hear what they said. You don't know
Speaker 3: if it's a movie or a book, and you're just like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: uh huh, because you just want to move past it,
Speaker 3: because I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm the worst.
Speaker 5: I call harp on things until the end of time,
Speaker 5: because I don't want to end in a situation where
Speaker 5: like like where Vanessa's like, oh, yeah, I love that movie,
Speaker 5: and then that becomes the crux of you and that
Speaker 5: person's friendship, and I'm like, I've never met anyone else
Speaker 5: who loved the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
Speaker 1: Billy Bop Goat Girl. No, never's even heard about it.
Speaker 5: And then and now I found the DVD, So Vanessa,
Speaker 5: you're gonna come over and watch Billy Bop Goat Girl.
Speaker 5: You watch it? Now you hate this movie? Now yeah
Speaker 5: or yeah yeah? And at random time, the person's turning
Speaker 5: you and go and as they say nay boo, and
Speaker 5: You're like, what and they're like it's from Billy Bob
Speaker 5: Goat girl.
Speaker 1: You're like, yea very.
Speaker 2: Extreme version of how this could go.
Speaker 4: For all if you pretend but I hear you, but
Speaker 4: also I hear you. I do a version of that
Speaker 4: that's almost worse, which is I'll pretend, like you said, Jonah,
Speaker 4: that I hear them, and then, because I kind of
Speaker 4: tend to obsess over things, sometimes thirty seconds in the conversation,
Speaker 4: I'll go.
Speaker 2: Wait, what did you say? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: And then it's the worst version of it because now
Speaker 4: the pretending you did to kind of put the other person,
Speaker 4: you know, at ease and make them.
Speaker 2: Feel like, oh, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 4: Now they know that I've been lying to them for
Speaker 4: thirty seconds, and but I can't. I but I'm putting
Speaker 4: myself first and my obsessiveness first, and saying, now I
Speaker 4: really have to know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: I did this TikTok live and this guy was like,
Speaker 5: he goes, we were arguing about something. It was like
Speaker 5: a TikTok debate, and he goes, how do you feel
Speaker 5: about the war in Rwanda or something like that. He
Speaker 5: didn't say Rwanda, he said some like African country. He said,
Speaker 5: he said, do you care about the war in Rwanda?
Speaker 5: And I just said yeah. He goes, there was no
Speaker 5: there is no war in Rwanda. Oh.
Speaker 1: What I was saying was if there is a war,
Speaker 1: then yeah, I care.
Speaker 5: Sure, but I did, But I did, but I wasn't
Speaker 5: like I am well versed in the war in Rwanda
Speaker 5: and I was. I was like, oh, but instead of
Speaker 5: saying if there is a war going on that I
Speaker 5: care about that, all I said was yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, that person sucks. They were trapping you.
Speaker 1: And they're trying to get me. Yeah they're yeah, because
Speaker 1: I got that ass.
Speaker 4: But also, it would be so crazy for you to
Speaker 4: be like no, So there's almost no way you'd have
Speaker 4: to know about everything in the world to be like, oh,
Speaker 4: that doesn't exist. It's like, by the way, whatever place
Speaker 4: that person said there probably was some kind of a
Speaker 4: war there.
Speaker 1: Well, that'd be.
Speaker 5: Like being like, do you care that my mom beat me?
Speaker 5: And I go yeah, yeah, and I go of course
Speaker 5: I can. My mom never beat me, And I'm like, well, well.
Speaker 2: Guess what get I Honestly.
Speaker 1: Maybe she should have.
Speaker 5: Now it's not too fla your adulthood if you're a
Speaker 5: mom to come and give you a left hook right
Speaker 5: to the chief.
Speaker 4: I don't know what this person's profile is and in
Speaker 4: terms of you know, but I don't ever want them
Speaker 4: coming on this podcast because I hate them.
Speaker 5: Your band, whoever you were, you just know that you're band.
Speaker 5: So do you two live in the same town.
Speaker 4: No, we used to. We used to both be in
Speaker 4: New York. When I was on SNL. Jonah lived in
Speaker 4: Brooklyn and he would come to SNL shows.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm calling it every other week all the time.
Speaker 3: But now of Vanessa's in La, I'm in western mass
Speaker 3: in like the Berkshire's.
Speaker 1: Okay, we know.
Speaker 5: My best friend Monet is really close friends with love Money.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I can't think of her name right now,
Speaker 5: in this moment, I can't think of her name.
Speaker 1: Money. Money is like really good. What's her name? She's
Speaker 1: from CNL brown.
Speaker 3: Hair, Cecily Strong.
Speaker 2: Monet is best friends of Cecily.
Speaker 1: No, not best friend.
Speaker 5: Money is my best friend, and Money and Cicely are
Speaker 5: our friends.
Speaker 2: Our friends. Okay, so now now I'm your best friend.
Speaker 1: So now I need to one up Monet and you
Speaker 1: and I need to be.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, that's right. Look, I'm in.
Speaker 1: Are you strong?
Speaker 4: I mean close, we're friends, I mean I haven't spoken
Speaker 4: to her a ton since we've both not been on
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 1: But are you guys fighting.
Speaker 2: We're in the middle of kind of a feud.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of weird that you bring that up
Speaker 4: right now because I just texted her.
Speaker 3: Vanessa is always talking about this feud.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and now I'm going to text her after this
Speaker 4: and say, wow, just became friends with Bob and the
Speaker 4: drag Queen. Have fun with Monee, you bitch. That's what
Speaker 4: I'm going to text her.
Speaker 5: So we we are the antithesis to Monette and Cecily.
Speaker 5: Is me and Vanessa? Yes, and then Monet and Cecily Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I was trying to work in like a cool thing
Speaker 2: to show you, like what a fan.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, they're gonna need all those
Speaker 4: sponges to wipe up the you know, to.
Speaker 5: Soak up their uh uh schmid. They're gonna shmiga they're
Speaker 5: d sponge Yeah.
Speaker 4: Maybe because maybe maybe they're gonna have to smiga doing
Speaker 4: those sponges to clean up what big losers they are. Sorry,
Speaker 4: I started a fight between me and Cecily and you
Speaker 4: and money that might make things awkward.
Speaker 5: You're going to use our purses and and and and
Speaker 5: and love that for ourselves.
Speaker 3: Yeh is the most antagonistic I've ever seen Vanessa on
Speaker 3: this podcast.
Speaker 5: So I have that effect on people. I bring out
Speaker 5: the worst in everyone. I really do, I really really do.
Speaker 5: I feel like I've derailed.
Speaker 2: You all, not at all. This is so fun. I've look.
Speaker 4: Everyone needs to know when an absolute megga bitch face
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know. And on that note, let's take
Speaker 1: our first break.
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna say that, perfect, and we're back. Jonah,
Speaker 4: what were you going to say before.
Speaker 3: Before we went to that commercial break? Perfect, seg I
Speaker 3: was curious about how you feel about asking people about
Speaker 3: their names. That's one that I struggle with a lot.
Speaker 3: Someone introduces himself, I'm not paying attention.
Speaker 5: Baby baby, baby, baby baby. That is where I This
Speaker 5: is what I do. I say, I meet someone and
Speaker 5: I'll say, what's your name? And like the second time,
Speaker 5: ibout what's your name again? And I say and I'll
Speaker 5: be like, I'm I will keep asking that I want
Speaker 5: to remember, but I'm never gonna lie to you, whether
Speaker 5: then there comes a day or on like the third
Speaker 5: time where I just big, big guy.
Speaker 1: You a girl, girl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a point where you can't ask anymore, and
Speaker 3: that's when you're really stuck.
Speaker 5: When I was in high school, this girl who was
Speaker 5: I can't remember her name, obviously, but let's call her Vanessa.
Speaker 5: Let's call her Vanessa. So Vanessa. I looked at her,
Speaker 5: I said, can I borrow your book? She gave me
Speaker 5: her Spanish book. I took the book and I used
Speaker 5: it for Spanish class, and then she shared a book
Speaker 5: and then I gave the book back to her and
Speaker 5: I wanted to thank her, but.
Speaker 1: I forgot her name.
Speaker 5: So I looked in the front of the book and
Speaker 5: I saw the name and I was like, thanks, thanks Jonah,
Speaker 5: and she and she was like, excuse me. I was like,
Speaker 5: thank you, Jonah. And she's like, why did you call
Speaker 5: me Jonah? I was like, your name's Jonah and she's like,
Speaker 5: why would you think my name is. I was like,
Speaker 5: that's the name written in the front of your book.
Speaker 5: And she was like, I'm borrowing Jonah's book. My name
Speaker 5: is Vanessa, my god. And I was like, I have
Speaker 5: been caught. I had been caught redhand, and she got
Speaker 5: me guilty covered in blood.
Speaker 3: Is she related to this TikTok live guy because they
Speaker 3: got the same kind of vibe trying to.
Speaker 1: Call you out?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean giving you a book that has a
Speaker 4: different person's name in it when you don't know.
Speaker 3: Her, You're not calling them out. You're just trying to
Speaker 3: say thank you.
Speaker 1: It's like I've been sitting next to her the entire
Speaker 1: school year.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, so little contacts.
Speaker 4: I get it, you know, I okay, I've been on
Speaker 4: the other side of that, and I don't know. I
Speaker 4: don't know if this makes us more on your side
Speaker 4: or on this person's side. But I used to work
Speaker 4: at this ad agency and this one guy, I think
Speaker 4: I've told this story on here before. This one guy
Speaker 4: who worked there called me Jessica. Okay, he called me
Speaker 4: Jessica once or twice, and I just thought, he's not
Speaker 4: in the same like department as me. I'm never gonna
Speaker 4: see this guy again. And so then it became like
Speaker 4: I had been there maybe like six months or so,
Speaker 4: and every time I would maybe see him once every
Speaker 4: few weeks, he'd say hi, Jessica, and I'd be like, Then,
Speaker 4: this one fateful day, I was in an elevator with
Speaker 4: him and these two other these two women that I
Speaker 4: work with that I knew very well, and they go
Speaker 4: and I like, got the elevator and they're like, hey, Vanessa,
Speaker 4: and he was in the elevator, and it was just
Speaker 4: this moment of at this point, it's on me, like
Speaker 4: it's it's he shouldn't even be embarrassed. I'm the one
Speaker 4: who let him call me Jessica for six months. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and it was one of the most uncomfortable elevator I
Speaker 4: think it's the most uncomfortable elevator ride I've ever been in.
Speaker 1: Did you guys ever reconcile this would say anything.
Speaker 2: About it was just sort of understood.
Speaker 4: I honestly don't remember any time after that him calling
Speaker 4: me Vanessa, and that might be because he completely avoided
Speaker 4: me or something for the rest of the I think
Speaker 4: I was there like a year and a half. It
Speaker 4: was so awkward, and I could have stopped it at
Speaker 4: any time, but it's like once you let it go
Speaker 4: a few times, then it becomes.
Speaker 2: So hard.
Speaker 5: To fucking l And I feel that way to like
Speaker 5: whatever whenever I you know, another question.
Speaker 1: I hate this question.
Speaker 5: It's such a shady, shady question when someone goes, do
Speaker 5: you remember me?
Speaker 7: Oh, that's one that fuck you seriously, that is the
Speaker 7: most I hate that so much, Like I don't I
Speaker 7: don't want.
Speaker 5: To pop quiz in the middle of whatever. First of all,
Speaker 5: we just ran into each other as CBS. You think
Speaker 5: I want a pop quiz? Do you remember me? And
Speaker 5: they always take a step back and they say her name?
Speaker 5: Do you remember me? Vanessa? Jonah?
Speaker 1: You have a podcast How We Got Weird? Do you
Speaker 1: remember me? I hate Jonah in the Berkshires? Do you
Speaker 1: remember me?
Speaker 2: I hate that so much.
Speaker 7: It's so it would be so easy for that person
Speaker 7: to say, like do you remember me?
Speaker 2: Like, Hi, do you remember me? I'm Suzanne.
Speaker 4: We were in puppet class together or whatever, or hey,
Speaker 4: Vanessa's me.
Speaker 5: As you saying, from pupet class. How are you? You don't
Speaker 5: even have It's me Suzanne from puppic class.
Speaker 1: Do you remember me? Now you don't even have to
Speaker 1: say remember me, just say how are you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's me Suzanne from public class, or even or
Speaker 4: even if you want to be extra whatever, you go,
Speaker 4: it's me Suzanne from public class. You might not remember,
Speaker 4: but it's so nice to see, just like give the
Speaker 4: other person the benefit of the doubt instead of setting
Speaker 4: them up for failure.
Speaker 5: My response is usually no, and I don't feel bad
Speaker 5: about it because it gives them because it lets them
Speaker 5: know you can't you cannot weaponize this against me. I
Speaker 5: say no, and I don't feel bad about it.
Speaker 3: What about what about this? So you say nice to
Speaker 3: meet you to someone, they go, actually we've met before.
Speaker 5: Oh I I hate like they are actually we've met
Speaker 5: beoth or and I'm like, you're a monster. You're a
Speaker 5: bad person, You're a monster. A pox on your house.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've noticed some people will say, I think, especially
Speaker 3: kind celebrity of notes will say nice to see you.
Speaker 3: Like they won't even say nice to meet you. They'll
Speaker 3: say nice to see you to everyone. And I think
Speaker 3: that sort of cover those situations.
Speaker 2: You're saying a celebrity will say that to people.
Speaker 3: I think just people who or maybe people who don't
Speaker 3: remember meeting people.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I know some people I met for the first time
Speaker 3: and they're like, nice to see you, And I think
Speaker 3: that's just their line so so they can't get called out,
Speaker 3: which is good.
Speaker 2: But it's like, why should they even have to do that?
Speaker 1: True?
Speaker 3: True, that's tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh I hate try.
Speaker 5: Trying to catch you or trick you again, like back
Speaker 5: you into a corner, especially in the right aid.
Speaker 1: This is too much.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to buy a bag of you know, cheddar
Speaker 5: jalapenno cheetos.
Speaker 3: Yez.
Speaker 2: So we're not in puppet class.
Speaker 4: It would be one thing if you were in puppet
Speaker 4: class with that person and they were like hey, and
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, yeah, I know this person front. But
Speaker 4: to see when you see people out of context in
Speaker 4: different places, yeah, yeah, so yeah, actually.
Speaker 1: You don't remember me.
Speaker 5: I was in the puppet By the way, I have
Speaker 5: lost one hundred and thirty pounds, I've dyed my hair, yeah,
Speaker 5: and I've changed my entire style of dress. I've it's
Speaker 5: also oh, by the way, Vanessa, it has been fifteen years.
Speaker 5: But the question remains, do you fucking remember me? Put
Speaker 5: down those goddamn cheetos. They take out their phone, they
Speaker 5: start filming.
Speaker 1: You answer the.
Speaker 4: Fucking question, Oh my god, that's the nightmare scenario.
Speaker 2: Has that ever happened to you?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I take everything to the extremes, to the most rididuous.
Speaker 2: So you're thinking that's what my therapist says to do.
Speaker 4: It's like to think through to the end of like,
Speaker 4: how if you're stressed about something like what's the worst
Speaker 4: that could happen?
Speaker 3: Because normally, yeah, you're more stressed about the idea of
Speaker 3: what could happen than the reality of it actually happened.
Speaker 5: Well, the real truth is my negative trait is that
Speaker 5: instead of de escalating, I immediately escalate like no, and
Speaker 5: I don't know and I don't and I don't feel
Speaker 5: bad about it. It's just that's just escalating. I could
Speaker 5: just be like no, but instead I'm like no and
Speaker 5: fuck you. You're a fuck me. Bit I about a
Speaker 5: fuck you right here in the fucking next of the
Speaker 5: ice cream. You think you got me, bitch? I got you, bitch.
Speaker 1: It is though I.
Speaker 2: Can't say that that's what I do. But wouldn't that
Speaker 2: be so cool if I could?
Speaker 1: Can you say no? Can you just say no? And
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad about it because it sounds like
Speaker 1: something you wouldn't say. Can I hear you say it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Let's roll playing, okay, Vanessa?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, how are you? It's so good to
Speaker 1: see you. Oh wait, you don't remember do you? Do you?
Speaker 5: Even?
Speaker 1: Do you remember me?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: And I don't feel bad about it for our listeners.
Speaker 2: Bomas is my love.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Officualie being in the same aisle, being like, I
Speaker 8: just saw Vanessa Player shut some puppeteer bitch down.
Speaker 1: This is dumb bitch pup is. Vanessa just creamed her.
Speaker 5: And I'd be like Vanessa Bayer like, yes, I'm telling you,
Speaker 5: the one who's always awkward. Vanessa Bear just and she
Speaker 5: did the smile and then she just smiled at her
Speaker 5: and the lady melted into the earth.
Speaker 1: It was crazy.
Speaker 5: That's more of a Jennifer Lewis move than a Vanessa
Speaker 5: Bayer mind.
Speaker 4: It's way more of a My impression of Jennifer Lewis,
Speaker 4: which she's helped me with, is her going oh, no, bitch,
Speaker 4: and her impression of me, which I don't know.
Speaker 2: We have got to get her on this podcast too.
Speaker 4: Her impression of me is like she goes like she
Speaker 4: kind of hunches over.
Speaker 2: And she goes like this.
Speaker 4: Because she thinks that I for the audience, I'm lifting
Speaker 4: my hands in sort of a weird kind of weak gesture.
Speaker 4: She thinks like I had like sort of weak hands,
Speaker 4: and she kind of lopes over and she kind of
Speaker 4: goes that.
Speaker 3: So feels more like a roast a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she Now I want to just go back and
Speaker 2: say one more thing about what Jonah was saying about
Speaker 2: when people say we've met.
Speaker 7: Before, Actually, actually we've met before, Vanessa.
Speaker 1: So it's an iconic alter ego for you.
Speaker 2: Do you want Wait?
Speaker 4: What was the line that you say no and I
Speaker 4: don't know and I don't feel bad about it?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to say it in that voice. Now,
Speaker 2: will you ask me again?
Speaker 6: Oh my god, Vanessa? Right, yeah, that is so crazy.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, you don't remember me doing you?
Speaker 4: No, and I don't feel bad about it.
Speaker 2: That's how I should say it.
Speaker 7: I guess it had way more staying the first with
Speaker 7: the first. You're right, you're right if I was in
Speaker 7: character this time, but the.
Speaker 5: First time you said it had the staying of a thousand,
Speaker 5: it was. It was vicious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was more.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, now I just work shopping.
Speaker 2: We're shopping. I want to say this.
Speaker 4: People have said to me so many times, it's so
Speaker 4: nice to meet you, and I know that I've met
Speaker 4: them before, and I just because I know it will
Speaker 4: make the person feel bad and it will turn it
Speaker 4: into like a thing. I just pretend that we're meeting
Speaker 4: for the first time, and the fact that people don't
Speaker 4: have the wherewithal to do that and to know, like
Speaker 4: just leave things alone. What do you Where do you
Speaker 4: fall on this? I'm very curious where you fall in this.
Speaker 5: Well. Also, I feel like when they say it's nice
Speaker 5: to meet you, that does not necessarily have to mean
Speaker 5: this is my friend.
Speaker 1: Is nice to now know that you are.
Speaker 5: Like I say, I'm going to meet a friend, I'm
Speaker 5: going to meet I'm not going to meet them for
Speaker 5: the first time ever, so just say it was nice
Speaker 5: to meet in the.
Speaker 4: Moment, Yeah, you're right. Now, where do you fall now?
Speaker 4: I want to ask you another question for both of you.
Speaker 4: Let's say, for example, and because of the SAG strike,
Speaker 4: I'm going to bring up something that's not currently on. Like,
Speaker 4: let's say someone says to you, oh my god, Independence Day.
Speaker 2: I don't know why that movie came to my mind.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Independence.
Speaker 4: Day is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2: And let's say you really.
Speaker 1: Like it, got it?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I want you to know that it's in passing though,
Speaker 2: how can I so?
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, I might have a scenario like this, I
Speaker 5: have a dear friend of mine. She's dry queen and
Speaker 5: her name is Sudden Lee Seymour, like Suddenly Seymore from
Speaker 5: the musical.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, great.
Speaker 5: And we both love Chicago. We both every day love Chicago.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, great.
Speaker 5: For some weird reason, she thinks Renees z Elwerger did
Speaker 5: a bad job in the movie, which is an insane opinion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5: It's to the point where, like she had had this
Speaker 5: whole bit in her show about how Chicago is the
Speaker 5: perfect movie except Renee's Wiger, And it's to the point
Speaker 5: where she's making these jokes and I can't even laugh,
Speaker 5: even if the joke itself is funny. I'm like, the
Speaker 5: premise is so off right but also not ironically off.
Speaker 5: It'd be like if someone made like, if someone makes
Speaker 5: a joke about how Soldier Boy's a bad rapper, you
Speaker 5: can laugh at it, but if someone's like, you know,
Speaker 5: how jay Z's a horrible rapper, We're like, I'm sorry, wait,
Speaker 5: I can't get past the fact that you think jay
Speaker 5: Z's a bad rapper in order to laugh at any
Speaker 5: jokes about that you're making about him being a bad rapper.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that if that is if that
Speaker 5: if that scenario correlates to this. The first time she
Speaker 5: did in her show, I did go to after the
Speaker 5: show and I was like, Renee's el worker was brilliant
Speaker 5: in Chicago. Everyone in the cast, Queen Latifa, Richard gear, Cathern,
Speaker 5: Zanda Jones, everyone, even Lucy Lows like short cameo. Everyone
Speaker 5: in this movie was amazing. Yeah, And she was like, no,
Speaker 5: Renee's ell Wiger was bad. And I was like, this
Speaker 5: is I know, these are all opinions. You can't, Yeah,
Speaker 5: they can't be categorically false and true. But this just
Speaker 5: feels categorically false and I cannot.
Speaker 2: You can't. Yeah, let me ask you this.
Speaker 4: If you were in a group of people, okay, and
Speaker 4: let's say someone like Cecily, who you're not as good
Speaker 4: at friends with, but it's crazy basically, you know, but
Speaker 4: it's friends with Monette. You're in a group of people,
Speaker 4: and off the cough, Cecily just says like, I don't
Speaker 4: think Renee's Alliger was very good in Chicago. I'm not
Speaker 4: saying she feels that way. I don't want to misrepresent her.
Speaker 4: Let's say she said that, okay, and you don't know her, well,
Speaker 4: she's a friend of your friends, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Then would you.
Speaker 4: Just let it slide or would you go actually excuse me?
Speaker 5: Okay, so where where are we this all matters? Are
Speaker 5: we at someone's houses?
Speaker 1: At house?
Speaker 3: You're in someone's backyard at like a house party?
Speaker 1: And is it mone can.
Speaker 2: Day tell you it's a house party?
Speaker 3: But it's a national house party? Neither is no one's house.
Speaker 4: It's sort of like casual food like sort of like
Speaker 4: maybe there's like someone's grilling some stuff, but it's not
Speaker 4: like a it's not like a very it's sort of
Speaker 4: like an afternoon party. Come over, like see my I
Speaker 4: just we just redid the backyard. Come see you know,
Speaker 4: see what you think?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: Maybe it's a pool party. I would say, not everyone
Speaker 4: goes in the pool. I mean, I'm not going in that.
Speaker 5: I'm not going in the pool. I would go. I
Speaker 5: thought she was really good. I would say like that,
Speaker 5: but I wouldn't go. I wouldn't like part the seas
Speaker 5: and be like, right the fuck did you just say?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would go.
Speaker 5: I thought she was a really good I thought everyone
Speaker 5: in the move was just It's one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 1: Everyone was just so perfectly cast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 5: I was at a party with Charlie's thereon because the
Speaker 5: guy who created the show We're here is her lawyer,
Speaker 5: and we were just hanging out and then Charlie's pointed
Speaker 5: at a group of women and she said, I remember
Speaker 5: thinking to myself, like I literally had my boyfriend. This
Speaker 5: feels like a situation the Vanessa Bearer's character. We get
Speaker 5: called in. She put out a group of women and
Speaker 5: she said, that's my mom. I said, that's your mom.
Speaker 5: She goes, yeah, I said her, and she goes yeah.
Speaker 5: I said, that's how is that possible? This woman literally
Speaker 5: looks like your literally looks like your sister. And she
Speaker 5: was like what I said, this woman could be your sister.
Speaker 5: This is crazy. And then she goes, yes, that's my
Speaker 5: she goes. Then she calls the woman over. Then a
Speaker 5: different woman who is clearly her mom, comes forward, and
Speaker 5: then she goes, Bob, I said. And then before I
Speaker 5: came over, she goes, that's not good. I said, what
Speaker 5: do you mean. She goes, that's good for her, it's
Speaker 5: not good for me, and I said, no, she looks
Speaker 5: so young. So then the woman come over and then
Speaker 5: a woman who is obviously her mom comes over and
Speaker 5: then she goes, mom, Bob thinks.
Speaker 1: That you look the same age as me. But I
Speaker 1: couldn't be like, no.
Speaker 4: There's no way out of it, because you're you've already
Speaker 4: insulted her.
Speaker 2: Now you don't want to insult her mom.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I can't go no, no, no, you definitely look
Speaker 5: so I just go yep, yep. Now her mom is
Speaker 5: flaunting in her face. She's like, yes, Charlie's I can
Speaker 5: be your sister. And I was like, and so, now
Speaker 5: I look like someone who gives disingenuous compliments. I look
Speaker 5: like a person who goes, what do you use sisters?
Speaker 5: I look like that asshole, But I'm not. That's not
Speaker 5: who I am. But I look like the person who says,
Speaker 5: what are you twins? So then later on I find
Speaker 5: Charlie's and I go, I just want you to know.
Speaker 5: I thought you were pointing at that woman. And Charlie's going, oh, no,
Speaker 5: we are the same age. That's my friend, so and
Speaker 5: so we're the same age. And I said, no, I
Speaker 5: did not think that your I thought you were putting
Speaker 5: a different woman. So then Charlie's elated calls her mother
Speaker 5: over to let her know no, oh no, because her
Speaker 5: mother was gloating about how she was so like she's like, yes,
Speaker 5: Charlee's with the same age looking honey, and this really
Speaker 5: just like whatever.
Speaker 1: So then so then Esraley's calling her mother over to.
Speaker 5: Gloat that I that I had mistaken her for a
Speaker 5: younger woman.
Speaker 1: I just left the party.
Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say. I would just
Speaker 2: run away.
Speaker 5: I immediately immediately left the party. Immediately, I was like,
Speaker 5: I'm leaving.
Speaker 4: It's the only because you kind of were in an
Speaker 4: impossible situation in that. Yes, well, I'm sure that when
Speaker 4: she first told you that's my mom, and you thought
Speaker 4: this younger woman was who she was talking about, you
Speaker 4: were probably so emphatic about it, like you were probably
Speaker 4: not being like, no, you guys look the same age,
Speaker 4: like you could be sister. You were probably like, oh
Speaker 4: my god, that's insane. You like, I'm sure you were
Speaker 4: so convincing, and so there's no way to get out
Speaker 4: of it except to I would have done the exact
Speaker 4: same thing. I would have found a moment where she
Speaker 4: was away from her and said just so you know,
Speaker 4: like so you're not insulted, but yeah, of course you
Speaker 4: would want that.
Speaker 3: That's tough.
Speaker 5: It would literally be like if you're at a party
Speaker 5: and you pointed at Cecily Strong, I was like, that's
Speaker 5: my mom. Someone's like what and You're like, I know, crazy,
Speaker 5: and I was like, no, that's your mother.
Speaker 1: And I was like, that was like your mom.
Speaker 5: Like this woman gave births you eraised you or something
Speaker 5: like she was an adult when you were a.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is so funny. There's nothing you could do.
Speaker 2: I mean, Jonah, you did.
Speaker 4: You did this when you got caught using a fake
Speaker 4: idea at Borders bookstore.
Speaker 2: You just left.
Speaker 5: That's using a fake idea Borders. What is happening at Borders?
Speaker 3: I had a little bit of a scam going where
Speaker 3: I was buying these books at Walden Books on sale
Speaker 3: and then returning them to Borders to get store credit
Speaker 3: to buy CDs with. So I'd spend like twenty bucks
Speaker 3: on books at Walden Books on sale.
Speaker 2: I guess sale books at Borders.
Speaker 3: And so I was using a fake ID because I
Speaker 3: had one from this guy I went to college with,
Speaker 3: and I would use it.
Speaker 2: Wait, you probably didn't even need an ID.
Speaker 3: To do Yes, you need an idea. You did need
Speaker 3: an ID, and I got nervous at Borders Corporate was
Speaker 3: keeping track of all these transactions. I was going to
Speaker 3: catch on. So I used this fake ID. But the
Speaker 3: woman working at Borders it was my friend Matt's older sister,
Speaker 3: and so I had this idea out with this guy Paul,
Speaker 3: and I had it out and I was doing this transaction.
Speaker 3: She came over and she goes, oh, hey, Jonah, and
Speaker 3: then she the guy was like, is your name Jonah
Speaker 3: or Paul? And they were both looking at me, and
Speaker 3: I was trying to return all these weird books and
Speaker 3: then I was just like hold on, I forgot something
Speaker 3: in my car and I just left. And then my
Speaker 3: friend called me that night. He's like, yeah, my sister said,
Speaker 3: you came into Borders. You were turning all these books
Speaker 3: with a fake ID, and then she asked you about it.
Speaker 3: You just left. I was like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's weird, right, I don't. I was like a teenager.
Speaker 3: I just kind of my brain couldn't compute what to do.
Speaker 3: So I was like, I guess I should just like leave.
Speaker 5: Like I would have been like, yeah, but my real
Speaker 5: name is Paul. But everyone calls everyone.
Speaker 3: Calls me ide this person looked nothing like me.
Speaker 1: See, there was little to know ever going in it was.
Speaker 3: It was such a weird I probably didn't have to
Speaker 3: use the idea. It was an extra step of security.
Speaker 3: But it's actually what sunk me there. It is when.
Speaker 2: Charlie's called her mom over, where did you go? Hold on,
Speaker 2: I have to go to my car.
Speaker 5: Well, so what happened was okay, So the first time
Speaker 5: she called her over this group of women and then
Speaker 5: this one woman emerged who was her mother.
Speaker 1: Incredible, yes, mother.
Speaker 5: But the second time when she calls her mom over,
Speaker 5: she's like yes, she's like kind of doing one of
Speaker 5: these like she's like looking around like mom. And then
Speaker 5: she finally got her mom and I was like, I'm leaving,
Speaker 5: and I was. I made it that I was leaving
Speaker 5: because I didn't want to face her mother worse. So
Speaker 5: I was like, I was like, I'm leaving, I am leaving. Jacob,
Speaker 5: my boyfriend, Jacob, let's go, we need to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my gosh, wow, wow. Yeah, that's an incredible story.
Speaker 5: I'm I don't know why because it was because it
Speaker 5: was it felt like it felt like a Vanessa Barr MoMA.
Speaker 5: So at this party I'm really bad with faces and names,
Speaker 5: especially especially famous white women with brown hair. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: think she is, like, no, Charlie's is blonde. I know
Speaker 5: I know Charlie's. But there were these people at the
Speaker 5: party and I was introduce myself to them. But I
Speaker 5: think they thought I was trying to play it cool
Speaker 5: because I'd be like, what's your name and she'd be
Speaker 5: like January Jones.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, also, but she didn't know.
Speaker 5: She didn't say like that. She said January. She said, Okay,
Speaker 5: want to be clear. She didn't go, she didn't go no,
Speaker 5: And I don't feel bad about it.
Speaker 3: But she said.
Speaker 5: She goes, she goes, my name is January because I
Speaker 5: had never I had never heard of January Jones, and
Speaker 5: I was like oh, and I was like, oh, I've
Speaker 5: never been any one named January before, like and then
Speaker 5: I said, how do you know Charlie's. So I think
Speaker 5: it looked like I was this like unfamous person being like,
Speaker 5: I don't know who you guys are. But some of
Speaker 5: them I didn't know who they were. But it's not
Speaker 5: a testament to them not being famous, as a testament
Speaker 5: to me not knowing every famous person. So I felt
Speaker 5: like it felt really silly for me to go to
Speaker 5: like a three or four families.
Speaker 1: And what do you do well?
Speaker 2: And to their credit, they didn't go, oh, they could
Speaker 2: have you.
Speaker 5: They could have went bananas on me. They could have
Speaker 5: been like, they could have given me the famous version
Speaker 5: of actually we've already met.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, or they could have given you a
Speaker 4: twist on no and I don't care. Or they could
Speaker 4: have gone they could have gone, I'm famous and like
Speaker 4: you should be absolutely you know.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They offered me a lot of grace.
Speaker 5: January Jones and the guy who plays Beast in X
Speaker 5: Men offered me a lot of grace when I was
Speaker 5: like because I was. I was talking to his girlfriend
Speaker 5: who's also an actor, his wife who's also an actor,
Speaker 5: and then he was introduced as her husband, and I
Speaker 5: was like, oh, so what do you guys doing? And
Speaker 5: everyone I'm like, well, who are you?
Speaker 1: What do you do?
Speaker 5: Because I always say my name, my name is Bob.
Speaker 5: I have a show on HBO just so people don't
Speaker 5: feel the awkwardness of having to like be like, and
Speaker 5: you should know who I am.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: But this is good because it makes you look like
Speaker 3: you said, it makes you look pretty cool, like you're
Speaker 3: you're not starstruck, You're not you know, You're just like, oh, hey,
Speaker 3: we're regular people.
Speaker 1: But I hope they don't think I was trying to
Speaker 1: play it cool.
Speaker 2: No, they don't, and they probably they don't and.
Speaker 3: Probably appreciated it too.
Speaker 4: They totally appreciated to be But also, can I ask you,
Speaker 4: this made me think of one other thing?
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I guess I'm sure you've done other things like this
Speaker 4: where you could go back, but like I'm thinking if
Speaker 4: you had like some kind of a like drag Race
Speaker 4: reunion or something like that. And what I'm saying is,
Speaker 4: I went to a SNL party at the beginning of
Speaker 4: this most current season because I happened to be in
Speaker 4: town for this other thing I was in New York.
Speaker 4: I ended up going to the SNL after party, and
Speaker 4: I have not I had not seen that season of
Speaker 4: SNL yet really, and I certainly didn't know who any
Speaker 4: you know, I used to know who all the writers,
Speaker 4: all the crew, everybody was, and I didn't know.
Speaker 1: That were you on with this year?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, this year?
Speaker 4: And I left at the same time actually, so I
Speaker 4: was at this party, and I wanted to congratulate everyone
Speaker 4: on a great show. And I even though I hadn't
Speaker 4: seen the show because I just came to the party,
Speaker 4: but I'm sure it was a great show. And I
Speaker 4: started saying congratulations to this group of people, and I
Speaker 4: knew that at least one or two of them were
Speaker 4: writers on the show. But so I just looked around
Speaker 4: a circle of people and I said, congrats, your sketches
Speaker 4: were so good and.
Speaker 2: What a show.
Speaker 4: And I know for a fact that I now know
Speaker 4: in retrospect that like one of the people I was
Speaker 4: talking to, like I was congratulating his girlfriend almost he
Speaker 4: was a writer. I was congratulating his girlfriend almost more
Speaker 4: than him. And I was just saying to everyone in
Speaker 4: this circle of people because I was like, this has
Speaker 4: got to be at least fifty percent.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's exassrate.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: A cater was like Vanessa Bayer on my sketchule and
Speaker 1: I go, you.
Speaker 4: Did so good, And just looking around, cause again, very talent.
Speaker 4: I know that whoever did write it is very talented.
Speaker 4: I just don't kind of been there for a long time.
Speaker 4: It's weird to be It's kind of how I feel
Speaker 4: like whenever I go to Chicago too now, like I
Speaker 4: used to do comedy in Chicago. That's where it kind
Speaker 4: of started, and I just am like everybody here. So
Speaker 4: when people like this happened to me yesterday, when people
Speaker 4: say to me, have we met?
Speaker 3: Have you?
Speaker 4: And I can tell they're being genuine like they genuinely
Speaker 4: are like, why do I look familiar? I say, I
Speaker 4: used to be on SNL And then immediately they're like,
Speaker 4: that's it.
Speaker 2: And then because I used to not do.
Speaker 4: That when people would recognize me and it's you sort
Speaker 4: of look like an asshole if you're like, no, I
Speaker 4: don't think so, and then they're like do I know
Speaker 4: you from this? And you're like no, And then like
Speaker 4: if it does get if you do get to the
Speaker 4: point where they realize it's from SNL, then you look
Speaker 4: like sort of a jerk or I look like sort
Speaker 4: of a jerk for not just like cut but if
Speaker 4: someone so, if I saw you at I like us
Speaker 4: making up the full scenario.
Speaker 2: If I saw you.
Speaker 1: At air one, my goodness.
Speaker 4: Sorry because you wanted to get a really smooth.
Speaker 2: Five dollars smoothie.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a waygoo beef at Airwe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, you're just having so you're getting your waygoo beef,
Speaker 4: you're smoothie, You're getting those little macaroons that are like
Speaker 4: sort of an impulse by when you're in the line
Speaker 4: and I see you, it's not me, it's this.
Speaker 1: Some lady.
Speaker 4: Some lady comes up to you and says, do I
Speaker 4: know you from somewhere? What is your response?
Speaker 1: So this happened to me a lot. Yes, I'm on guard.
Speaker 5: I'm on guard because I get a mistaken for two
Speaker 5: other celebrities.
Speaker 3: All the time you do.
Speaker 5: Yes, I get mistaken for Miss Jay from Project Runway, Okay,
Speaker 5: which is only wow to be because she is sixty
Speaker 5: five years old and I'm thirty.
Speaker 4: Yes, this is like when Jonah got mistaken Jonah, who
Speaker 4: did you get mistaken for?
Speaker 3: Malcolm Gladwell.
Speaker 1: Let me google Malcolm Gladwell.
Speaker 5: Malcolm Gladwell, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Jonah used to have the said bigger hair, bigger hair
Speaker 3: and no mustache, but.
Speaker 2: Malcolm Gladwell's got to be.
Speaker 3: Someone did a double take in Vanessa's building and they
Speaker 3: came over like, looked at me, looked away, then looked
Speaker 3: back at me, walked over, excuse me, and Malcolm Gladwell
Speaker 3: is he black?
Speaker 1: Is Malcolm Gladwell black?
Speaker 5: For those you don't know. For those of you who
Speaker 5: don't know, Jonah does not look black. I'm just gonna
Speaker 5: pive it out in the air right now. Jonah does
Speaker 5: not look black. So I get him taken for Miss
Speaker 5: j from I Get Mistaken. I get was taken for
Speaker 5: Titus and Burgess from Unbreakable Jimmy Schmidt.
Speaker 1: All the time, I had this lady in the in the.
Speaker 5: San Francisco airport and she's holding my ID hostage as
Speaker 5: she she's like holding it back and she's like, if
Speaker 5: you don't know, like imagine if I hold it out.
Speaker 5: But then she she puts it back to her shoulder
Speaker 5: and she goes, do I know you from somewhere? And
Speaker 5: I just said I don't know, and she goes, I
Speaker 5: feel like, were you on TV? I said, yeah, I
Speaker 5: was on TV. And she goes, oh, you're Miss Jay
Speaker 5: and I said I'm not Miss Jane. And she goes
Speaker 5: and they always say this.
Speaker 1: Are you sure? Always?
Speaker 5: And I say, I'm sure I'm not, Miss Jay. Can
Speaker 5: I please have my pass word back?
Speaker 1: Please? So?
Speaker 5: And then another lady at the same airport the same day,
Speaker 5: coning she goes, do I know you for somewhere? And
Speaker 5: I goes, I don't know, do you? And then then
Speaker 5: she's like, are you like famous? And I was like,
Speaker 5: I mean kind of, And then she goes, you're tightest burgess.
Speaker 5: She actually, you're tightest and ramaedon is what she said.
Speaker 5: And I said, oh no, that's not that's not who
Speaker 5: I am. And she goes and those every time. Are
Speaker 5: you sure? And I said I am. I'm positive. So
Speaker 5: then I don't want to go into being because the
Speaker 5: reason why I don't want to do is because they
Speaker 5: might think I'm someone else and they're like, actually, I
Speaker 5: don't know who you are, And then I'm in that
Speaker 5: really awkward situation.
Speaker 1: My resume. I'm like, I wan't drag race, I don't
Speaker 1: watch that.
Speaker 5: I was on we hear, I don't watch to have
Speaker 5: a podcast, not do that either, And I'm like, well,
Speaker 5: then I don't know where you don't be from lady.
Speaker 3: Like you got to prove your relevance to some stranger,
Speaker 3: you know. It's like too much.
Speaker 5: Whenever I'm sitting on the plane and someone like walks
Speaker 5: past and working nice to me and they go, oh
Speaker 5: my god, I love you, and I go oh my god,
Speaker 5: think I go, thank you, and the person next to
Speaker 5: me does.
Speaker 1: Know who I am, and then they're like, who are
Speaker 1: who are you?
Speaker 5: And I go, my name is Caldwell and they go
Speaker 5: but like, why does why does that guy know you?
Speaker 5: And I always go, I was going, we're friends from
Speaker 5: high school. We've been doing this bit for years. Every
Speaker 5: time we see each other in public, we always act
Speaker 5: like the other one's famous and he got me this time,
Speaker 5: and that is that is what I say every single time.
Speaker 4: That is so smart. You know, I will say too
Speaker 4: before we go to a commercial break. The other thing
Speaker 4: that happens to me a lot, and I don't know
Speaker 4: if this happens to you, is people used to come
Speaker 4: up to me a lot, and still sometimes this happens.
Speaker 4: They go, I don't really watch TV and I don't
Speaker 4: watch SNL or anything, but my wife is a huge fan.
Speaker 1: Oh oh.
Speaker 5: I always run into the sisters, brothers and wives and
Speaker 5: husband of huge fans of mine because I or they'll say,
Speaker 5: or they'll be like like they'll meet you at a
Speaker 5: party with them.
Speaker 1: They'll be like, and I didn't watch your show.
Speaker 4: Sorry, sorry to watch it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, but I didn't. I didn't I know you
Speaker 1: had your show, your show.
Speaker 4: Like I don't really watch I don't watch shows, but
Speaker 4: like I know my wife, Like I have no idea
Speaker 4: who you are, but I know that.
Speaker 2: Like like I I'm.
Speaker 4: So sorry, Like you look like every other person to me,
Speaker 4: and literally, like I have no reaction to seeing you.
Speaker 2: But my cousin is like a huge.
Speaker 4: Fan, and so if they knew that I saw you,
Speaker 4: they would care, which I absolutely.
Speaker 5: Do not when they tell you how much they don't,
Speaker 5: they aren't there, I'm familiar they are with you.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen your show. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, like you're gonna care if they've seen your
Speaker 3: show or not.
Speaker 4: Also, you don't have to come up to me just
Speaker 4: to tell me you don't know I have any idea
Speaker 4: who I am, and you've never.
Speaker 2: Seen any of my work. Yeah, it's okay, just skip it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they will make a bee line therectly.
Speaker 2: Like to tell you they've never heard of you.
Speaker 1: I don't know who you are. I don't. I don't, honestly, I.
Speaker 4: Don't really care, but I know someone who does and
Speaker 4: I don't know why because I don't see I'm not familiar.
Speaker 1: Well with that.
Speaker 2: We're going to take a quick commercial break and we'll
Speaker 2: be right back.
Speaker 3: With the dragon.
Speaker 4: And we're back now, Bob, we'd like to play a
Speaker 4: game with you that we call back to the present.
Speaker 2: We've got to go back to the present, and this name.
Speaker 4: Is obviously a hilarious take on this nostalgic back to
Speaker 4: the Future film franchise. In this segment, we each get
Speaker 4: to say something from our childhood that we wish would
Speaker 4: come back, and to give you a little time to think,
Speaker 4: we'll do our answers first, and just remember there are
Speaker 4: no wrong answers.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm ready, So, Vanessa, what's your what's your pick?
Speaker 3: Pack back to the present?
Speaker 4: Do you remember from when we were kids, there were
Speaker 4: these Fisher Price microphones that were attached to a portable
Speaker 4: speaker and maybe like a little radio, and you could
Speaker 4: carry this little cube thing around and you could sing
Speaker 4: into it and you had sort of a speaker and
Speaker 4: you could sort of sing your heart out to whatever
Speaker 4: you wanted.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the thing would kind of vibrate inside. The
Speaker 5: thing would kind of like like there was like a
Speaker 5: thing in the thing, because was it an actual portable
Speaker 5: was it the one that kind of vibrated The one.
Speaker 4: That I had had a microphone that kind of it
Speaker 4: was almost like a cube thing and it had like
Speaker 4: a little handle and a microphone and you could see
Speaker 4: it actually yeah, and it actually amplified. And I remember
Speaker 4: I was so into it that I remember I had
Speaker 4: to get a new one because I kept the batteries
Speaker 4: in the first one too long and they sort of
Speaker 4: started to rot. But I used it a lot, and
Speaker 4: I would just go around singing into my portable microphone thing.
Speaker 4: And I wish I had one now because I do
Speaker 4: think it would be fun, like when people came over
Speaker 4: to be like, who wants to sing into the microphone?
Speaker 2: You know, given that we have phones and stuff, I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's a way to do this. This is more
Speaker 2: high tech. But I really liked it.
Speaker 1: There's a microphone right in front of you. You actually
Speaker 1: have a mic right right there.
Speaker 2: It's true, and get what you're saying, but it's not amplify.
Speaker 2: I don't have a speaker.
Speaker 1: This is true. That is true, True to that true?
Speaker 1: At what those singing?
Speaker 3: Great question?
Speaker 2: A lot of.
Speaker 4: A lot of Cyndy Lapper. I think I would do
Speaker 4: what to do with it, but I would do more
Speaker 4: lip syncing to that, Like we.
Speaker 5: Were singing like like which we don't like get into
Speaker 5: the groove or material.
Speaker 2: Girl, I really love True Colors.
Speaker 1: True Colors, Cydey Lapper, that's.
Speaker 2: That's oh which Madonna? You're right? Well, how do I
Speaker 2: not know the difference between Sidney Law. It's like get
Speaker 2: a life, Vanessa.
Speaker 1: I thought you were jumping over to Cydy. I thought thought, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, but.
Speaker 4: What Madonna's song? I sang like a Virgin a lot.
Speaker 4: I didn't know what it meant. And Jesus, yeah, I
Speaker 4: sing a lot of like a virgin was the thing
Speaker 4: I sang the most. And True Colors.
Speaker 5: You strike me as a child who looked the way
Speaker 5: you look now Like I feel like if I saw
Speaker 5: a picture of you as it is, isn't your podcast
Speaker 5: like a picture of you as a kid. Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 5: I feel like if I saw a picture of you
Speaker 5: as a child out of the blue, I would be like,
Speaker 5: that is Vanessa Beyer.
Speaker 1: I feel that in my heart of hearts.
Speaker 5: Eighteen things to know about Jewish comedian Vanessa Bayer.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, whoa.
Speaker 1: Do you know this article?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: You want to verify a few of these.
Speaker 5: You were born in Ohio, that's right in nineteen eighty
Speaker 5: one to reform Jewish family.
Speaker 3: True, that's.
Speaker 2: This must have been some kind of Jewish publication.
Speaker 1: You have an older brother named Jonah.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: Vanessa and her brother at Tennis Sunday School and Hebrew
Speaker 5: school every week, well kind of Hebrew school.
Speaker 2: Just when we were getting ready for a bar and
Speaker 2: bought Mitzvah's.
Speaker 1: Vanessa had her by Mitzvah on Masada Messada.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in Israel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: At fifteen, Vanessa was diagnosed with a cute limb.
Speaker 2: Ful p plastic leukemia.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 2: Not really Jewish of me.
Speaker 5: But Vanessa went to the University of Pennsylvania, where she
Speaker 5: first got into comedy with our all female group Bloomers.
Speaker 1: Bloomers There it is there, it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an easy one to find out. This is
Speaker 3: still talks about it constantly.
Speaker 5: After college, Vanessa moved to Chicago and studied at Second
Speaker 5: Second City. I am, you're very good at these things then,
Speaker 5: and let's go to that. Vanessa felt like she had
Speaker 5: a very special job. And that's not as fact. Few
Speaker 5: The fact thirteen is, Vanessa felt like she had a
Speaker 5: very special job.
Speaker 1: At I did.
Speaker 2: That's absolutely a fact, What the fuck.
Speaker 1: You hung out with Heim the band? Yes, and you
Speaker 1: left twenty seventeen. That's right. Oh, those are all that.
Speaker 4: Jewish publication has it all right? And I wish I
Speaker 4: could find one of these things about you. So Olivia,
Speaker 4: maybe get on that note. Jonah, what would you bring
Speaker 4: back to the present if you could bring anything from
Speaker 4: your childhood back to the present.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was thinking the Carvin guitar mail order catalog.
Speaker 3: I don't know if either you probably remember this, but Carvin,
Speaker 3: do you remember? It's called Kaiso Guitars. Now, they had
Speaker 3: like electric guitars and basses that they would sell these
Speaker 3: catalogs mail orders. So they didn't sell these guitars at stores,
Speaker 3: but you could nail these kind of flame finishes and amps.
Speaker 3: And I would look at this catalog for hours and
Speaker 3: just pick out the guitars i'd want. And I thought
Speaker 3: that was kind of cool to mail order a guitar.
Speaker 3: What do you two thing?
Speaker 1: And you you would be able to like design it
Speaker 1: or they're just are they already design?
Speaker 3: No? I think they're like they had different ones, but
Speaker 3: you could like add different features to them and stuff
Speaker 3: and kind of customize them.
Speaker 1: What was the dream guitar.
Speaker 3: Oh, such a good question.
Speaker 2: Actually, great question.
Speaker 3: I found a carbon catalog.
Speaker 5: Oh, Vanessa, this is a good take your headphones off
Speaker 5: for one second, Jones, to take your headphones off for
Speaker 5: just one just Jonah, No, just Jonah, No, Vanessa, players
Speaker 5: back on, players back on. So whatever, he says, this
Speaker 5: is a good birthday gift the kid for him when
Speaker 5: he described.
Speaker 1: Come on back, Jonah. The perfect guitar, perfect guitar.
Speaker 3: It's tough. It's tough. I like this DC one twenty seven,
Speaker 3: just like a wooden strat. You never see like those
Speaker 3: guitars are Google that natural wood.
Speaker 2: A wooden strat, fer star.
Speaker 3: Caster, stratocaster shape, body shape. But yeah, I liked all these.
Speaker 3: I just really liked looking at them. I just like
Speaker 3: looking at all them.
Speaker 1: And I still don't. You don't want flames, right thing?
Speaker 1: Because you you mentioned of flames.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, yeah, more of like a flamed finish like wood,
Speaker 3: flamed wood like kind of like with like the different
Speaker 3: textures and layers.
Speaker 2: I go, oh, I thought I also thought you meant
Speaker 2: like drawings of like fire in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you thought you were like red or something, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 3: A sticker on there, But yeah, I don't know, was it.
Speaker 3: I just you know, and I do this now. Actually,
Speaker 3: I go to like guitar sites and just look at
Speaker 3: pictures of guitars I'm never going to buy.
Speaker 2: I remember because we had so many catalogs in our house.
Speaker 4: I do remember the carbon catalog because I remember being
Speaker 4: bummed out if that was the one I picked up.
Speaker 4: Not to burn your thing, but because I was more
Speaker 4: interested in like clothes and jewelry and stuff. I would
Speaker 4: pick up a catalog and I'd be like, and if
Speaker 4: the Carvin was the only one that was around, you know,
Speaker 4: I'd have to just look at pages and pages of
Speaker 4: guitar stuff that you know, as someone who didn't play guitar,
Speaker 4: I didn't have that sort of Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's not fun to look at a catalog of a
Speaker 3: product you're not interested in. That's right, Yeah, makes sense,
Speaker 3: that's right, Bob. What would you like to bring back
Speaker 3: to the present.
Speaker 1: So it was something that I didn't experience.
Speaker 5: I don't actually experiencing myself, but I saw it and
Speaker 5: it was one of the weirdest things of the early
Speaker 5: two thousands. I don't know what happened, why this thing
Speaker 5: was a thing. It was everywhere. It was undescribable. It
Speaker 5: made no sense when you looked at it. I want
Speaker 5: a company to do one now and update it. The
Speaker 5: PT Cruiser, Yeah, wow, those of you who don't know
Speaker 5: the PT Cruiser was. It wasn't a mini van. It's
Speaker 5: not a station wagon, the PT Cruiser. Imagine if you
Speaker 5: made a mini van, okay, but chopped off the last
Speaker 5: third of the car, and then now there's wood paneling.
Speaker 5: There's wood paneling on the side of the PT Cruiser, right.
Speaker 5: And I felt like in the early two thousands on
Speaker 5: the road there were there were only three cars on
Speaker 5: the road, and there was there was a Ford Focus Okay,
Speaker 5: there was a PT Cruiser, and there was the remake
Speaker 5: of the Volkswagen Beetle, which was huge. When the Beetle
Speaker 5: came back, people went bananas, yes, buying these Beetles.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know.
Speaker 3: The other car I'm thinking about two in this category
Speaker 3: that was really popular for what was the Mini Cooper?
Speaker 1: Remember those the Mini Cooper. There's a Mini Coopers in
Speaker 1: my building. There's two.
Speaker 5: There are some Mini Cooper extremists who live in my
Speaker 5: building and they have two tandem parking spots with two
Speaker 5: two Mini Coopers.
Speaker 1: Back to back wow. Wow.
Speaker 5: And I remember being younger and for some reason thinking
Speaker 5: that Mini Driver had something to do with the Mini.
Speaker 2: Cooper And I don't know what sense.
Speaker 4: What about the Neon cars that the commercial In the
Speaker 4: commercial they said, Hi, yeah, all the ads were just
Speaker 4: like high Oh.
Speaker 1: Was that one?
Speaker 3: I remember those. I don't think those were as desirable.
Speaker 2: I think it those cars must have not been out
Speaker 2: for very long Neon.
Speaker 5: I also remember that car commercial was really great. But
Speaker 5: there was a do you remember Dirty Vegas? Dirty Vegas
Speaker 5: had this one huge song. I'm gonna try to remember
Speaker 5: it real quick. I'm typing it in.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The big song is called Days Go By, Days Go By,
Speaker 1: and still I think of you.
Speaker 8: Days.
Speaker 5: But anyway, it was like a big techno thing and
Speaker 5: they were in this like car commercial. I think, I said,
Speaker 5: I man, did a scared sketch about it one one, actually,
Speaker 5: but you were too young to have it was way
Speaker 5: before you had have been older than you. But but no,
Speaker 5: but but you were in you were like in high
Speaker 5: school at the time when this video, because I was
Speaker 5: in the middle school.
Speaker 4: I was school okay, sorry and sorry I kind of
Speaker 4: said I'm older than you in the same way that
Speaker 4: I could have said no, and I don't feel bad
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 1: I love Bitchy Beyer. BITCHI Beyer.
Speaker 5: Is this needs to be a new character. Hi, it's
Speaker 5: me Bitchy Bayer, and I don't give a fuck about anything.
Speaker 5: I don't care about your feelings and I don't care
Speaker 5: about how you feel because I'm bitchy Bayer. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I answered, the PT Cruiser, what an interesting card I
Speaker 5: want And I want to see an updated too, not
Speaker 5: just bring it back, but I want to see a
Speaker 5: company I don't know who makes the PT Cruiser.
Speaker 3: Is it a Chrysler, Yeah, it's a Chrysler. It's a Chrysler.
Speaker 5: The Mitsubishi Eclipse was the commercial that used the Dirty Vegas.
Speaker 1: Song days go by.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: It looks like a PT cruisers in production from two
Speaker 3: thousand to twenty ten. So yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 2: And was what you loved about it? Partially the faux
Speaker 2: would well the wood.
Speaker 5: So not every PT Cruiser had wood paneling on it,
Speaker 5: but some of them did, which was just such a weird.
Speaker 2: Such a weird choice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, truly truly strange, And I think what I what
Speaker 5: I really loved about the PT Cruiser was how people
Speaker 5: who had them were really into personalizing them, like in
Speaker 5: the way that someone personalized like like like a Toyota
Speaker 5: Camri or like one of these tricked out little cars.
Speaker 5: But it's not a sports car. It's a big, clunky yeah,
Speaker 5: piece of equipment. Yeah, And if you google PT Cruiser,
Speaker 5: there's people who have them on like Monster truck wheels.
Speaker 5: People will have them, like someone has made a PT
Speaker 5: Cruiser limousine. And by the way, all I google all
Speaker 5: of it was Google PC Cruise. I didn't go like
Speaker 5: tricked out crazy PC crewse.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this car just inspired people to just do some
Speaker 5: really interesting stuff. And I want a PT Cruiser, but
Speaker 5: I don't want to I don't want to vinage car,
Speaker 5: but I want a nice new car.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you want a new PT Cruiser. That makes sense,
Speaker 4: Like I want a new Fisher Price microphone, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean? Like I want we want new versions. Jonah,
Speaker 4: you probably want a new carving catalog.
Speaker 3: With it all the you know, new technology, guitar tech. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it would be great.
Speaker 1: Are you tech people?
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit I'm not great. Vanessa is definitely not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm kind of like, what button do I press
Speaker 2: to one.
Speaker 5: Of my best friends. Her home, her entire home is Google.
Speaker 5: She has everything in her home is Google, Google everything.
Speaker 5: She just tells Google to do things. And one time
Speaker 5: we were on like a zoom call and one of
Speaker 5: my friends jokingly said, hey, Google, turn off all the
Speaker 5: lights and her house went completely. She did not find
Speaker 5: it funny. Well, we were dying laughing and she thought, Harry, unfunny.
Speaker 1: But we never did. He never did it again. That
Speaker 1: sounds But what would bitch Bearer say about it?
Speaker 2: Am I at the thing I think is at my house?
Speaker 1: I think you're just on the zoom call and you
Speaker 1: saw us make her lights go out, and we're like, oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm always yeah, I go the lights were
Speaker 4: already out for me because I'm so freaking bored assholes.
Speaker 1: That's with Bitchy Bear.
Speaker 4: She's here when she's here for you anytime. Now, Where
Speaker 4: can people find you? If people want to learn more
Speaker 4: and et cetera, you.
Speaker 1: Can go to Baba Dragweed dot com.
Speaker 5: I will be on tour with the Icon of Madonna
Speaker 5: starting in October in the UK and they were coming
Speaker 5: to America. But you gonna have to check out my
Speaker 5: I have three specials out on Amazon and iTunes and
Speaker 5: my ones, all suspiciously large Woman. My second special is
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Speaker 2: Carolines, Did Caroline's Closed?
Speaker 1: Caroline's Close? Yeah, Carolines Closed.
Speaker 5: And then my third special, which was filmed at a
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Speaker 5: it is available exclusively on my Patreon right now.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, wow, sounds amazing. So check all those
Speaker 3: out everyone.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, thank you so much for being here and
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