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Jenny Pentland

By Alison Rosen on January 23, 2022 in podcast, Uncategorized

Jenny Pentland, author of the riveting memoir This Will Be Funny Later, was the real life inspiration for the Becky and Darlene characters on the series Roseanne, created by her mother Roseanne Barr. Jenny joins the show to talk about having been institutionalized between the ages of 13 and 18, how being a mother to five children of her own has kept her from feeling much anger at her own parents, weight issues, fame, gastric bypass, living in Hawaii, eating a squirrel, mysticism, her childhood friendship with Christina P, panic attacks, PTSD, her mom’s tweets and so much more.

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Jenna’s Family Fruit Farm, Al’s Email Tips, Daniel’s Hernia

By Alison Rosen on January 19, 2022 in podcast, Uncategorized

Jenna, Al and Jeff are here and how is it we’re only just now learning that Jenna’s family owned a fruit farm?? As such, Jenna is the perfect person to weigh in on the question of who are seedless grapes for. Plus we find out about Daniel’s possible hernia, the year of Jenna, my ongoing battle with exclamation points, email etiquette according to Al, Mike Tyson’s hype man, bunk beds and more!

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Sarah Marshall

By Alison Rosen on January 16, 2022 in podcast, Uncategorized

Journalist and podcaster Sarah Marshall of hugely popular You’re Wrong About and You Are Good joins the show to talk about how she envisions the word “juggernaut,” growing up in Oregon and Hawaii as a “lonely, adultified kid,” her theory that loneliness is an American problem, grad school, fan fiction, television about television, memory, Tonya Harding, Go Ask Alice, Flowers in the Attic, the Sex and the City reboot and continuing You’re Wrong About after her cohost Michael Hobbes left. We also took your questions, and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and HGFY.

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Daniel and Alison (Your Calls and Daniel’s Announcement)

By Alison Rosen on January 2, 2022 in podcast, Uncategorized

Happy New Year! We listen to the rest of your voicemails and take an important two part call from Wendy Molyneux regarding Tony’s nickname. Daniel shares his feelings about the song “Santa Baby” which leads to some stylings from DQ. Is this the Quantz method for holiday songs? Plus an announcement from Daniel and more.

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Lizz Winstead

By Alison Rosen on December 19, 2021 in podcast, Uncategorized

Comic, writer, and activist Lizz Winstead (host of Feminist Buzzkills, co-creator of The Daily Show) returns to the show to talk about Abortion Access Front, fake clinics, growing up in a religious conservative house, what’s happening with Roe and why the recent Mississippi ruling is important, incels, working as a clinic escort, why this cause is so important to her, creating the Daily Show, her new pup, living with Dana Gould, Robin Williams and more. We also took your questions and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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Alie Ward is Back!

By Alison Rosen on December 12, 2021 in podcast, Uncategorized

Writer, host, science correspondent and artist Alie Ward is the host of the incredibly popular science podcast Ologies. She’s also a correspondent on Innovation Nation, the science friend on Netflix’s Brainchild, and a consultant on Ada Twist, Scientist. We talked about her wedding to “cookie dough guy,” boosters, coupons, the vacuum I bought because of her recommendation, hair dryers, the perfect dog she almost gave back, middle parts, skinny jeans, mental health, wedding advice, cockroaches, embarrassment and so much more. We also took your questions.

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Connor Franta

By Alison Rosen on December 5, 2021 in podcast, Uncategorized

Author, Youtuber, entrepreneur and artist Connor Franta joins the show to talk about House Fires, the third in a trilogy of New York Times bestselling books, managing anxiety, running, shower routines, his relationship with his parents, feeling like a bowling ball tossed into an alternate lane, playing sports, leaving college, coming out, O2L (Our 2nd Life), leaving O2L, depression, being recognized, writing and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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Danielle Koenig

By Alison Rosen on November 28, 2021 in podcast, Uncategorized

Writer and podcast host Danielle Koenig stops by the show to talk about whether she knows bad boy Tony Thaxton or not, her new podcast How To Survive, being an “unattractive” child in Hollywood, growing up in a showbiz family, the natural and unnatural disasters that her new podcast covers, writing comedy for TV, her she met her husband Jimmy Pardo, thinking she was going to be giving birth to a girl, self-loathing, Life Goes On and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone!

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Renee’s Berry Farm, Ken’s Maledictorian, Happy Thanksgiving!

By Alison Rosen on November 24, 2021 in podcast, Uncategorized

Daniel was salutatorian in high school but didn’t give a speech. Also the valedictorian didn’t give a speech or even attend the graduation because his high school was, as we find out, cruel. Ken Reid wanted his high school to have a maledictorian. Renee Colvert went to Knott’s Merry Farm and saw a show which raises some questions about the rapture. I don’t like haunted houses. Tony might be the headliner tonight, but I doubt it. Also, a laser went up Ken’s pee hole!

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Carlye Wisel

By Alison Rosen on November 22, 2021 in podcast, Uncategorized

Theme park journalist and host of Very Amusing, Carlye Wisel (Travel and Leisure, Vanity Fair, The New York Times) joins the show to talk about an alternate reality where she’s driving a weiner mobile, her sponcon past, having toggled between writing and working in the music industry, putting on a likely illegal show in Austin, accessing joy, nachos, journalism, rickety coasters, Phish and so much more. She also answered your questions and we did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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