Make My Day Episode 61: Sunday Rebrand with Alison Roman

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

Radio Point

News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Alison Roman (Home Movies, Nothing Fancy) competes to cheer Josh up. Alison does an amazing job being quizzed about how to throw a party. She then donates his grand prize winnings to the Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation! Plus, pep talks for half-empty drinks and people unsuccessfully bringing dates to parties. Watch Alison's video series Home Movies: https://www.youtube.com/user/alisoneroman Buy Alison's cookbooks: https://www.alisoneroman.com/ Donate to the Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation: https://www.restaurantworkerscf.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Josh Gondelman.
0:05.0	No, I'm sorry, I'm Josh Gondelman, and this is Make My Day, a comedy game show.
0:10.0	The world is a stressful place to be, so every week we on the show try to make it a little more pleasant, a little brighter, with our game.
0:17.0	I play a game with one guest who is guaranteed to win because they're the only
0:21.0	contestant. I assign them points throughout the game we play based on how much their answers
0:24.8	to my questions, cheer me up. Then, at the end, the winner receives a $100 donation or contribution
0:30.5	to the charity or aid cause of their choice, and we each give a pep talk to a person or group
0:35.4	that we think could use it this week because honestly
0:37.8	this isn't all about me, it's just primarily about me. Today's guest is the best-selling author
0:43.5	of the cookbooks Dining In and Nothing Fancy and the star of the series Home Movies with new videos
0:49.3	out every Tuesday on YouTube. Welcome to the show, Alison Roman. Hi, I am so happy to be here.
0:56.7	I'm so happy that you're here.
0:58.1	Thank you for taking the time.
0:59.3	You're so busy between books and videos and your newsletter, a newsletter.
1:05.0	It's a lot of like staring at a computer screen and not much work.
1:08.1	So this is, I feel like, giving me an actual purpose.
1:11.6	And for that, I'm grateful. That is the most lofty description of this podcast, or any podcast, I think.
1:19.1	Yeah. It's like great. It's like procrastinating with a purpose. You know what I mean?
1:23.1	I love procrastinating with a purpose. When you're like, oh, I have work to do.
1:31.3	So instead, I'm going to run this errand that I've been putting off.
1:32.3	I'm going to go to the post office.
1:32.8	Yeah.
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