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In keeping with my New Year’s resolution to be more social, I attended Greg Fitzsimmons 50th birthday party where I both had a good time and endured a shockingly painful massage. We also talked about Jenna’s cling wrap battles, banana bread, whether women actually get mad at men for holding doors, not knowing about wine, bagging your own groceries, fears of home invasion and so much more. Plus we did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and talked about an adoptable dog named Alpine.

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Here’s Alpine

And here’s a fun pre-show video:

On this episode we recounted the recent shooting of my pilot and Greg’s affinity for on-set pranks. Plus all the coffee I drink while performing, whether people have better sides, sausages, Vanderpump Rules, what #AL knows about pillows, everyone’s pillow preference, how to write numbers, frozen dinners and upsetting revelations courtesy of my husband. Plus we did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and talked about an adoptable dog named Mr. Wilson.

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Here’s Mr. Wilson:

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For this very special episode, we went on location to Margaret Cho’s house to talk with her about her recent appearance on Korean SNL, things that frighten her, learning how to talk about sexual abuse onstage and the challenge of asking people to laugh instead of cry, choosing anger over forgiveness, the role of violence in art, her upcoming album American Myth (it comes out April 29 and the songs are beautiful and haunting and still stuck in my head and you should definitely get the album), growing up the unhappy daughter of a Korean joke book author, getting English credit for working a phone sex line, the profound effect Robin Williams and Joan Rivers had on her, her favorite style of porn, thinking she was gay and then realizing she was bisexual, evil twin crime shows, body image and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul) returns to the show to chat about being paralyzed by indecision, the audition process for Better Call Saul (it involved fake scripts and fake characters), the ways in which she is and isn’t like BCS‘s Kim Wexler, auditioning in general and her evolving approach, the “agenda” she had for the first third of her career, what she used to look like, growing up in a chaotic household, why she considers Blink a “spiritual text,” the surprising and hilarious way she met her fiance, hanging on to her beat up car as an act of rebellion, adult acne, therapy and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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On this episode we talked about complicated restaurant orders, #Al’s intense email system, drifter butlers, everyone’s bad Australian accents, The Grateful Dead, John Mayer and the return of Yes Please or No Thank You Or Oh, Puh-leeze. We also did around of Just Me Or Everyone and talked about an adoptable dog named Pernelia. (Update, Pernelia has been adopted. But check out Gus and Azul!)

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And here’s Pernelia (update, Pernelia has been adopted!)

And here’s Gus

And here’s Azul (Azul’s situation is URGENT)

Stevie Ryan returns to the show to talk about kidney stones, being stoned, ballet and how it’s helped her depression, depression in general, suicidal tendencies and cutting, being “on pointe,” hypnotherapy, sleep eating, body dysmorphia, comedy pilots, auditions, drugs, dudes grinding on you, Tetris and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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Do I give the kind of hugs that could best be described as non-committal and tentative? I think of myself as a distributor of warm snuggly hugs however the feedback I’ve received of late would suggest otherwise. We delved into this gritty topic along with a discussion of a sex dream involving Jimmy Pardo, my recent consecutive social engagements, a backhanded insult which isn’t a thing but it was, Phil Rosenthal’s food and travel show, Jenna’s tour de force as a cat from the South, St. Patrick’s Day, Al getting a tweet from LL Cool J and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and talked about an adoptable dog named Leonna.

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Here’s Leonna:

And here’s a fun pre-show video:

Jen Kirkman returns to Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to talk about all sorts of stuff including her new book which I loved so much I wanted to crawl inside and live there, I Know What I’m Doing And Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction (out April 12th but available for pre-order now), Twitter battles which aren’t really battles, Bernie Bros, commonsenseytocin, “lulz,” how she used to see herself, the feeling that one’s too loud, Mittens, fun coats, how she chooses a restaurant, Ronnie Kirkman, Australia, relationships and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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