Remember Mix Tapes? (with Alison Roman)
How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer
All Things Comedy
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome chef extraordinaire and absolute delight Alison Roman to the podcast! You may know that Alison is a New York Times best-selling food writer who makes incredible food, but did you know she also makes incredible mix tapes? In fact, we dig into an old-school mix tape that Alison made for a friend (shoutout to last week's guest Jeremy Bolm) and Alison teaches us how making a mix tape and creating a cookbook have a lot in common! Plus Alison tells us what her favorite kitchen gadgets are, we discuss reciepe comment etiquette and she teaches Vanessa how to clean a cutting board (it's confusing!) Finally, in a tasty game of YES OR NO-STALGIA, the trio get into the Cheez-It wrap, Carne Asada returning to Chipotle and fall flavors entering the chat on Dairy Queen's Blizzard menu! You've gotta check out this tasty and hilarious episode and also be sure to check out Alison's new book, "Something From Nothing" out November 11th and available to order here!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah. |
| 0:06.3 | We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today. |
| 0:11.3 | Who can't wait to dine in with today's guest. |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So, Jonah, I know we're very excited about our guest today. |
| 0:32.9 | We're thrilled. |
| 0:34.1 | And I know you had a little story you wanted to tell. |
| 0:36.9 | Yes. |
| 0:37.2 | So this guest, I was really familiar with her writing. |
| 0:41.2 | Me and Vicky have made a bunch of her recipes, but I heard her on my friend Jeremy |
| 0:46.1 | Bollum's podcast, first ever podcast. |
| 0:48.9 | And she was not, I would say, I think Jeremy would agree, maybe not the typical guest on the podcast. |
| 0:55.3 | It's usually guys in bands or women in bands, but people I know or I know from like the hardcore punk scene. |
| 1:02.5 | And I was like, oh, is this like the same Alison Roman, like the New York Times cooking person is on here? |
| 1:08.2 | And so I was sort of confused. |
| 1:10.0 | I think they grew up together in Los Angeles. |
| 1:12.4 | But I was so impressed, like she knew so much about punk and hardcore, which was just not |
| 1:19.1 | what I had expected, I guess, based on, like, cooking, like getting these chickpea recipes |
| 1:24.0 | or whatever. |
| 1:24.8 | So that was really amazing. |
| 1:26.9 | And then a couple months ago, |
| 1:29.8 | Vicki and I were at this place W collective, this really great kind of boutique in Vermont. |
| 1:35.4 | And they had nothing fancy Allison's cookbook there. And I was like, oh, she knows a lot about |
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