Remember Working at McDonald's? (with Stephen Browning of No Comply Foods)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast we are joined by the chef and co-owner of No Comply Foods, Stephen Browning! We delve into the restaurant industry from comping meals to having people post photos of Stephen's food with bad music. (For good music, request the JO-NAH COMPLY playlist next time you're in the restaurant.) We also get into our shared love of skateboarding, from building boards to watching online videos of tricks that are way too dangerous for anyone on this podcast to attempt in real life. Also what's up with Boomers' attachment to crew socks? Don't worry, we're gonna put an entire generation on blast today and absolutely no one can stop us!!! Finally we get into Stephen's first culinary job working at McDonald's as a way to pay court fees as a teenager and find out if he was "lovin' it." Finally we play a round of CHANGE DOT DORK where we debate the merits of all day breakfasts, black olives on sandwiches and should Wendy's bring back their sweet & sour sauce or is sweet chili sauce a worthy substitute? If you're in the Berkshires, be sure to check out No Comply Foods in Great Barrington and tell them that HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? sent you!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.0	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:12.0	Who aren't going to comply with what today's guest has to say.
0:16.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. did we get weird.
0:34.9	Oh, Jonah, what a cool little intro you wrote up today.
0:36.0	Thank you so much.
0:39.5	Yeah, so today's guest, yeah, I guess that will make sense in about a couple minutes when we introduce him, right? But today's guest, we met, you know,
0:46.7	probably five years ago or so out here in the Berkshires. And it was one of the few times I've been
0:53.4	recognized from my previous podcast going off track.
0:57.2	And I was in a parking lot.
0:58.9	And our guest was there.
1:00.1	And he was like, are you Jonah?
1:01.1	And I was like, yeah.
1:02.0	And then, you know, he was a chef at a different restaurant at the time.
1:07.9	Vicky was really impressed.
1:10.3	Then we ended up going there. And no big deal, got our whole meal comp.
1:14.7	Whoa.
1:15.4	Even more impressive.
1:17.4	Never has happened before or since.
1:20.8	And yeah, and then we kind of were in the same music, started hanging out.
1:25.1	Now I was one of my very good friends out here.
1:27.2	So very exciting how we met.
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