Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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well hello and welcome to crappy hour i'm ronnie that's ben over there hi ben hi ronnie what's going on tell us what's going on tonight with you you little buttercup well i am very excited because a it's always fun to do crappy hour this is our last one of 2025 another year has passed But we are sending out the year with a big bang, a big old bang.
First of all, there's actually some really good headlines, which we will get to a little bit later. But first, we have to welcome to the stage a very important person. Please welcome writer, cookbook, impresario, and general icon, Alison Roman. Hi, Alison.
Hi.
Hello.
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Chapter 2: What exciting news does Alison Roman share about her new cookbook?
Hello. I'm so happy to be here. Yeah, we're so excited to have you. You're one of the only cookbooks I own.
What a thrill. What prompted you to buy one cookbook?
Well, because I got obsessed with you over COVID and learned how to cook so many of your recipes. And also, I had started so late with you that I got to see so much of your evolution, your different apartments, stressed out in so many different tiny kitchens.
I will be stressed out in any four walls. Put me anywhere and I'll stress out in it.
It's a nice stress room. And I guess we should... We should promote your new cookbook by the way. You didn't even ask us to do this, but I'm doing it because I coincidentally am wearing the cookbook. You're both matching it actually.
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Chapter 3: How did Alison Roman's cooking evolve during the pandemic?
This was not even planned. I just put this on because it was like the closest sweater to put on today. And then I was like, guess what? I'm wearing the colors for something from nothing, which is like the sweater. But this is your cookbook that just came out like about a month ago, right?
Yeah. It's like a little, basically a month ago, which feels like it's been out for 5,000 years because you talk about it for so long, but like, yes, technically speaking came out November 11th.
So just, um, Fun fact about this, this book came out November 11th. And then like two days later, we went off to BravoCon and I literally brought this to BravoCon. I'm like, you know, my new Alison Roman cookbook is here and I'm just like not gonna go off to Vegas and let that thing sit back there.
So I was literally on the plane to BravoCon with like cast members, like Danny and Nia from the Valley were on the plane. And like, there were some other people, Jen Fessler from Real Housewives of New Jersey. I'm like, I don't care that there's Bravo Leopardies on this plane. I literally brought this on the flight to Vegas and I sat there reading it to get my... It makes me so happy.
You know what's funny? I feel like there's probably no place safer for me than like BravoCon. Like I can't, I feel like the crossover is nary. You know, like you are the crossover. Like this is the center of the Venn diagram. But like most, yeah, most reality, like celebrity genre type people, I feel like are not dipping into my whatever. You know what I mean?
What I have to offer. Your oeuvre?
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Chapter 4: What humorous anecdotes does Alison Roman share about her experiences with Bravo celebrities?
Yeah, my oeuvre. Yeah.
I think there's like a lot of Bravo fans that are Alison Roman fans for sure.
Yeah. Bravo fans for sure. But not Bravo. What do you call them? Bravo.
Yeah.
Well, the whole reason why we like created this while we, while we reached out to you is because I saw a picture of you with Heather Gay.
Heather Gay is the one exception, but I think she sort of found out who I was like tangentially, like through friends and was like, she seems awesome. Like, versus, like, oh, my God, the stew. You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Which I'll take. She took my breath away. I mean, yeah, she's amazing.
I love her. So no other Bravo celebrities have ever really reached out to you or anything like that?
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Chapter 5: What insights does Alison provide about the challenges of being a public figure?
I don't think I said this at the L.A. show, but or Ben, you were famously. But I was approached in I want to say summer of 2020 or 2021. It may have been 2021. Yeah, 2021. I was approached to, I was asked if I would consider perhaps auditioning.
yeah i was gonna ask you you would be perfect for this i would be bad no you would be perfect because this one isn't like loony cartoony older women like it has been for years this one's like they're like younger influencer cool chicks yeah but i would i would so not fit in and i
would get in so much trouble because I just would not, I couldn't, I don't think I could handle it.
No, that's what it's about. Yeah, they break you down, Allison. They would break you down because you'd get too rattled and then they'd build you up. You'd become a superstar. Tell you, do it, do it. Do you think you'd be too honest and you'd hurt people's feelings or do you think people would be like mean to you and you would cry?
Probably neither because I'm smart enough to not like, quote, be too honest. even like in the, in the like room where it's just you and the kid, it's like, no, of course that's not, you can't say anything there either. You can't say anything anywhere. But I think that I would, I would quickly like get worn down in the spiritual level. Like I would be like, this is not, and I can't be myself.
And I'm, I'm a bird with wings that are clipped and I, I, I have to fly and I can't fly here.
No, they clip your wings on that channel and then your wings come back bigger and stronger.
You know, maybe, you know, honestly, in like 20 years, maybe that's my final form. But but right now I have too much living to do. I have too much living to do in our current.
whatever you know yeah it would bravo would definitely you're right it would like it would bravo's not known for elevating people's spirits like making them spiritually grow it definitely is like a one-way direction that you go in once you're on bravo it's definitely like spiritually downward you know downward spiral in many different ways so it definitely requires a certain sort of fortitude but like ronnie said if you can like get through that you can yeah as an interesting form afterwards
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts and Alison discuss the impact of social media on public perception?
Like, cool life, lady. Like, people were so mad at her. And she's like, what are we saying? Nice thing to post in this economy. Exactly. Yeah. So, you know, God bless. God bless anyone who willingly steps into the arena. I'm in the arena not because it's where I want to be, but because it's where I am.
Yeah, it's just where you were meant to be. Yeah, because I was going to say the comment, just reading comments on YouTube videos on cooking videos, and not just yours, but I think universally, people just are so nasty. Even cooking blogs that are some of the nicest people you see are like, I made this brownie for my children. Your brownie sucks. You're killing your children.
You know, they're horrible. They can be horrible.
Yeah, I think that it's like a very... interesting place that we are at as a society, because it's very freeing for people to be their worst self when there are no consequences. And the internet is a playground of no consequences. Like you can hop on and say the worst things you've ever thought. And no one even has to know that it's you.
Like you can, you can be the worst version of yourself publicly. And some people like, I guess really need that release. I personally don't feel that way.
You know, it's freeing is when you can be your worst self on the internet and people do know it to you. That's what I do every day. I can be. I have been at times.
I am jealous of people that feel that way and behave that way.
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Chapter 7: What are the best tips for hosting a TV watch party according to Alison?
Not that I'm fighting terrible impulses, but it's more just like... I feel like in another life, I would be a restaurant critic because I feel like I have really good opinions on restaurants and what makes them good or bad, but I could never...
tell people why i think a restaurant is bad i could never think if you were to like yeah if you were just if you were to like weigh in on some restaurants people would just be like you think because you've already established yourself as a food writer people it's like actually like incredible poor form it's like well how dare she say that because no no no i just think i think it has no nothing to do with me it has everything to do with just being a person on the internet to have an opinion
And if you're like, here's what I think people will be like, well, here's why you're wrong. Or here's why that's insensitive. Or here's why you're not considering X, Y, and Z. It's like, okay. You know, it's, it's like a battle. It's like, you have to like mentally prepare yourself for like the most intense battle of your life.
When I did subway takes, I thought what my subway take was, was like pretty unimpeachable. I was like, I need to have a subway take so ironclad that like nobody, can like come at me for it. Like nobody can, can find a way to turn it into something negative. And my take was, we know too many people.
Yeah. Yeah.
And, and what I, of course, what I meant by that is like, there's, there's too many open channels. I mean, you guys, this, this is a, the show is a great example. We know too many people. Like we, we have so much information about so many people's lives that like it floods our brain. And like,
would we be better off if we, what was the bad, what was the bad response?
Like what were the, Oh, I mean, most, it was honestly like overwhelmingly positive. It was honestly best case scenario. Most people agreed and was like, yeah, that's actually a great take. But of course some people are like, that's just the, what is it? There's like a, fervor, not fervor, that's the cry, baby crying. There's like a sort of like- Like a fervor?
No, it's like a theory, like a person's theory that's like, we're only meant to know 100 people. And it's a very old, and someone's like, well, that's just that there, but repack it. And like, but of course you're talking about social media, but not about like real community.
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Chapter 8: What are the latest Bravo news highlights discussed in this episode?
We get to know your neighbors, go talk to your neighbors. And it's like this whole thing.
And that's horrible. I've got my neighbors. Trust me. It was terrible. Don't take it. I like for the most, for, for a lot of, a lot of, a lot of them. I mean, some of them are cool, but a lot of them are like, no, I don't want, you know, any knowing anything about me. And I don't want notes in my mailbox about where my trash is. You know, like, it's too close.
Where is your trash? Oh, God, we don't want that. That's how I find out that sometimes the trash isn't getting picked up that next day.
my neighbors i definitely like in terms of like knowing too much about too many people i i definitely have to say like it makes me sad that like i feel like i know more about someone who's on real housewives of beverly hills season five through seven than i do anything i learned in college like there's so much so much interesting our brains are pushed up
Yeah, I used to know the best stuff were cocktail parties. And now I do find that I go to a cocktail party and I'm kind of like nodding along and like waiting for someone to mention something about Bravo or Love Island. Aging. Yeah. We're aging. Yeah, aging. Yeah, that's true.
And it doesn't matter how old you are. We're all aging. You know what I mean?
Yeah, and I'll meet anybody at this point as long as I can just sit down. Like I'm fine with how many other people there are. I mean, the whole thing about don't know too many people, I actually kind of like the oversaturation because I'm finding that the more people you know, the more you realize that everybody's kind of the same.
Like there's maybe 20 different kinds of people, you know, and then, you know, we have like little things that switch us up. But I think it's almost easier to understand people once you realize we're all kind of similar, no? Or do you not think we are?
No, I think we are. But I think that that's when you get into a trap of like clocking someone immediately and being like, well, you're this type of person and you're the, you know what I mean? Like it feels like, but, but the older you get, the more you allow yourself to be surprised, I think by like, oh, you know, I had a really nice time or like, oh, you know, who's really cool.
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