Life, Love & How To Peel Garlic With Goodstory’s Lydia Keating And Hot Side’s Max Baroni

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guests are Lydia Keating and Max Baroni—content creators whose worlds span storytelling, cooking, and social media. Lydia is the founder of the Goodstory run club and is known for her thoughtful approach to online life and community-building. Max is a chef and author of the Hot Side Substack, where he shares approachable recipes and kitchen know-how. Lydia and Max join host Kerry Diamond to share the story of how they met (during Lydia’s not-so-successful tryout at the Michelin-starred Four Horsemen in Brooklyn). They also talk about their unconventional paths—Lydia’s journey from rowing at Yale and Hollywood comedy hopeful to marathon runner and creator, and Max’s route from sandwich shop cook to Substack and social media—plus, Lydia’s time at the legendary Ballymaloe Cookery School, and Max’s decision to bypass a formal culinary education. Thank you to Kerrygold and Peter Som’s “Family Style” cookbook for supporting our show. This interview was recorded at Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center. Cherry Bombe on Substack The Jubilee Business Owners Pass application Our new Mom’s the Bombe issue Visit cherrybombe.com for subscriptions, tickets to upcoming events, and more. More on Lydia: Instagram, Goodstory More on Max: Instagram, Substack More on Kerry: Instagram, “So You Want To Open A Restaurant” Substack series

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. You're listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming to you from New York City.
0:11.1	Today's guests are Lydia Keating and Max Barone. They're culinary creators and one of my favorite food couples.
0:17.9	I met them last year on a Kerry Gold brand trip to Ireland and couldn't wait
0:21.6	to have them on my show one day. Lydia went from Division I rowing at Yale to stand-up comedy in
0:26.7	Hollywood to discovering a love for running and cooking. She attended Ballymolu Cookery School in
0:32.5	Ireland, which I know so many of you want to attend one day, me included. Lydia has been busy lately
0:38.0	working to build community offline with Good Story, her running and storytelling club.
0:43.7	Lydia is all about inspiring creativity through movement and in-person connections.
0:48.9	Max, meanwhile, has a popular substack titled Hot Side, and he is making a name for himself
0:54.1	with his cooking videos
0:55.2	on Instagram. Max graduated from college, unsure what he wanted to do with his life. He loved cooking,
1:01.4	so he looked for work in restaurants, but no one would hire him. He eventually got a job at a
1:05.8	sandwich shop where he worked heads down for a year, and then went on to work at Haasdok Biet and the four horsemen.
1:12.5	We talk about their tenacity, their meat, cute story, our favorite parts of the Kerry
1:16.4	Gold trip, and what's next for them? Stay tuned for my chat with Lydia Keating and Max Barone.
1:22.0	By the way, this is Max's first podcast. Nice work, Max. Our interview was recorded at newsstand studios at Rockefeller Center.
1:30.9	Speaking of Kerry Golden Substack, just in time for St. Patrick's Day tomorrow, I have a new
1:35.2	substack that's all about the crisp sandwich. I'd never heard about the sandwich until Irish actor Colin
1:41.2	Farrell talked about it on one of his press tours last year. He talked about it a lot. I don't know. I think he was feeling homesick.
1:47.4	Anyway, it's the simplest sandwich ever.
1:49.9	Bread, carry gold butter, potato chips, which the Irish call crisps.
1:53.9	I share a recipe and instructions on how to make it, but truly you don't need a recipe.
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