Author Archive | Alison Rosen

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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Jackie’s Juicy Pregnancy Butt, Kevin’s Casting Success, Exclamation Points!

By Alison Rosen on January 13, 2022 in podcast

Jackie Johnson is here with some fantastic info about the effects of pregnancy on her bootay. Kevin T. Porter is here and honestly, his story about pretending to be the casting director of Super Mario Brothers is the best thing I’ve heard in a very long time. I want to know if 2022 is the year I finally downsize my exclamation points but everyone’s telling me I need to ditch “no worries” as well which is not going to be easy. Plus Just Me Or Everyone, liars who lie, unvaxxed celeb rumors, TV talk and more!

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Dalton Ross

By Alison Rosen on January 9, 2022 in podcast

Dalton Ross, Executive-Editor-at-Large for Entertainment Weekly (and old friend of mine) joins the show to talk about fighting Oscar De La Hoya for a story, how he and I met, playing the long game to get on my show, the frog he bought his son that’s still alive, empty nest syndrome, meeting his iconic wife (Christina Kelly of Sassy fame), how competition reality shows are filmed, Survivor, Temptation Island, growing up in the DC hardcore scene, starting a zine and so much more. We also did around of Just Me Or Everyone and Hey Go F*ck Yourself!

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Robin’s Hallmark Movie, Jordan’s Goth Vampire Giantess, Podcast Bosses

By Alison Rosen on January 5, 2022 in podcast

It’s our first show recorded in 2022! Robin Shorr is here and she once starred in a Hallmark movie with Steve Gutenberg! Also she was passionate about salad in a Golden Corral commercial. Jordan Morris puts down the video game controller long enough to join us. Thanks to him now we know about Lady Dimitrescu and goth vampire giantesses. And we also talk about Sweet James and James Lipton. And more including cool seventh grade girl languages, Yellow Jackets, the SATC reboot, Amish people and more! Plus Chef Jeff is filling in for Tony!

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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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Dave Grohl’s Train Podcast, Wendy’s Garfield NFT, Happy New Year!

By Alison Rosen on December 29, 2021 in podcast

Happy almost New Year’s Eve! Wendy Molyneux, Dave Huntsberger, Tony and Daniel join me plus special appearances by Dave Grohl, Wendy’s son and more!

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Daniel and Alison (Your Calls Plus Greg Heller!)

By Alison Rosen on December 26, 2021 in podcast

After a discussion of the way sickness (but not THAT sickness) has tried to ruin our Christmas spirit we share some deleted tweets, listen to your calls about resolutions and discuss the phenomenon of Julia Allison. Plus Greg calls in from inside a musical toy factory and we share our own resolutions.

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Wendy’s Zoo Tube, Tony’s Cross-Country Trip, Merry Xmas

By Alison Rosen on December 22, 2021 in podcast

Wendy Molyneux is here and she’s planned a horror-movie style gift for each of us. I’ll be trapped in a tube! Daniel is getting sicker by the second and Tony has driven across the country with his beefy son Bentley. Dave is educating us about feathers and Daniel and I almost went out to eat. Almost! Merry Christmas!

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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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