Remember Your FIrst Car? (With Jessy Hodges)

About this episode

The Bayer siblings welcome Jessy Hodges to discuss first cars, childhood experiences, and a mystery involving Jessy's first car.

On today's new episode the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome their friend hilarious and extremely cool friend Jessy Hodges! You may know that Jessy starts in the new hit Apple show MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED but did you know that she has tried chewing tobacco?? And now that we're getting into it, did you know that Vanessa has snorted Pixy Stix (sorry that's actually how they're spelled?) Plus we get into being a kid at the mall and the exclusive Detroit shopping destination that is Somerset Collection. And Jessy tells us about starting to swim competitively when she was only five years old and we all agree that Swim Team is just too much as is honestly any kind of swimming in the morning at school. Then we get into Jessy's topic which is our first cars! And Jonah and Jessy get into the major incidents with each of their cars including A MYSTERY WE MUST SOLVE! (Note: If you went to high school with Jessy you need to listen and start sleuthing immediately!!) And finally in a delightful game of CHANGE DOT DORK we're debating the merits of updating school dress code rules around hair color and piercings, limiting online shipping to save malls, and getting a square donut emoji…

People in this episode

Hosts: Vanessa Bayer, Jonah Bayer

Guest: Jessy Hodges

Topics covered

• first cars
• childhood memories
• swimming
• mall culture
• dress code
• friendship

Keywords

• first car
• Jessy Hodges
• swimming
• childhood
• mall
• dress code
• Pixy Stix
• chewing tobacco
• mystery

Mentioned in this episode

Products: MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED

Places: Detroit, Somerset Collection

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