How Were U Brainwashed?

Feb 28 2024
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How Were U Brainwashed? is a podcast hosted by your new best friends, Nicole Spiezio and Jenny Donheiser, that asks guests just that. What did you grow up thinking was true that you now know is just full brainwashing, babe? How did you unpack that bullshit and come out the other side?
From religion to Jersey Shore, from Monogamy to Pepé Le Pew, the pod tackles women stuff, fat/body stuff (Nicole is fat! Trendy!!!), mental health stuff (you know your girls are in therapy), and a fair share of lowbrow pop culture (hiiiiii Real Housewives).
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"Felicity Working at Dean & Deluca" (w/ Taylor Williams)

Feb 28 2024 59 mins  
Jenny & Nicole welcome dear friend and GIFTED & TALENTED Casting Director Taylor Williams to the pod!They get into if Henry Winkler mistook Nicole for Ricki Lake or if she's just delulu, if parents understand art or not, where to drink beer out of styrofoam cups, casting children and animals, the Wishbone dog (honestly surprised it's taken this long to come up on the pod),

"As A Water Sign the Shower is a Safe Space For Me" (w/ Preston Martin)

Feb 21 2024 69 mins  
Jenny & Nicole welcome genius actor, artist, and human ray of light Preston Martin to the pod!They get into whether learning about similes and metaphors should still be taught in schools, the original Tin Man's closed pores, when NY theater has a food/smell gimmick, being on a lifelong HEALING journey, being #rulefollowers, again questioning if we should do clown, and The Trait

"This Young 32 Year Old Ingénue" (w/ Anu Valia)

Feb 14 2024 66 mins  
Jenny & Nicole welcome filmmaker (We Strangers) and director of all your fav TV shows (The Other Two, And Just Like That, The Afterparty) Anu Valia to the pod!They get into Jenny's insatiable need for jalapenos + dairy, the dangers of Amazon overnight delivery, Nicole & Jenny's Vanderpump Rules inspired pregnancy pact, working with the icons of And Just Like That, how your

"Babies Love May December" (w/ Samy Burch)

Jan 31 2024 55 mins  
Jenny & Nicole welcome a damn OSCAR NOMINEE and writer of the deeply iconic May December Samy Burch to the pod!They get into everything you could ever want to know about your fav movie May December, Traitors Season 2 (spoilers for the first 3 eps!), how Suits is the Good Wife but bad, eating your cereal with non-dairy creamer, and how mashed potatoes and pasta are cousins.@serm

"Nicest Guy in Hollywood" (w/ Henry Melcher)

Jan 24 2024 55 mins  
Jenny & Nicole welcome Supervising Producer at Late Night with Seth Meyers and sweetie pie Henry Melcher to the pod!They get into Reality Von Tease-gate, Nicole no longer identifying as Below Deck resistant, how Seth Meyers is a beloved boss (boring but true), the Kellyanne Conway of it all, being at a comedy show when Tr*mp won in 2016, how copying SNL is a rite of passage for

"Long Thick Gray Braid" (w/ Andrew Farmer)

Jan 17 2024 58 mins  
Jenny & Nicole welcome writer, actor, fellow podcaster, and DAMN DELIGHT Andrew Farmer to the pod!They get into Sonja Morgan's boundaries, ripping toilets out of walls, whether Jenny's mom knows the Gilgo Beach Killer, the burping on The Jinx, if there are any valid reasons why someone would support one sport team over another, whether an assortment of dips makes a Super Bowl p

"My Baby Was a Wine Stopper" (w/ Jenny & Nicole)

Jan 10 2024 46 mins  
We're back with a classic Jenny & Nicole ep! They get into the birth of Jenny's son (!!!!!!), including his perfectly circular little face, eating a Caesar Salad Wrap at 3:30 AM, not wanting to have Tim Allen on the pod, May December being an absolute BOP of a movie, Nicole asking a question on WWHL, Jenny's amazing impression of The Crown, getting pumped for the new Vanderpump

"Gay Jaundice Son" (w/ Guy Branum)

Jan 03 2024 55 mins  
Jenny & Nicole welcome incredibly smart, funny, and charming comedian, actor (Bros, Hacks, Platonic) & writer (The Other Two, The Mindy Project, Q-Force) Guy Branum to the pod!They get into sad lights & testosterone increasing red lights (?), the liberation of taking off your shirt in a park, the amount of Family Guy references in Prince Harry's book, the undeniable bra

RE-RELEASE "How Were U Brainwashed LIVE" (w/ Jo Firestone)

Dec 27 2023 74 mins  
Jenny & Nicole are with family this Xmas! Please enjoy this re-release of our LIVE SHOW with funniest human alive JO FIRESTONE!---Jenny & Nicole record How Were U Brainwashed LIVE at the Green Room 42 with special guest JO FIRESTONE!They get into Jo's self-published book "Murder on Sex Island," conspiracies of Big Q-Tip, and a BIG life announcement from Jenny. Please enjoy

"Being Horny is Not Bad" (w/ Susan Casey)

Dec 20 2023 52 mins  
Jenny & Nicole welcome Comedian/Writer/Sister/Funny Lady Susan Casey to the pod!They get into predictions about Jenny's unborn baby, binge-watching The Sopranos, the Selling Sunset twins and their large pupils, how watching Ted Talks is like really important, the horniness & evilness of Cruel Intentions, who teen movies are *actually* for, Nicole being a child narc, and Jen