Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

Updated: 29 May 2025 • 1358 episodes
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A twice weekly podcast hosted by award-winning interviewer and everyone's new best friend Alison Rosen. Mondays are one-on-ones featuring surprisingly honest conversations that are equal parts silly, serious and revelatory. Thursdays are roundtable group shows. You will laugh, think, and feel less alone. (Unless you don't feel alone at all in which case, congrats! You've done it!) Support the show on Patreon. Sign up for a year and get two months free. Patreon.com/alisonrosen

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Daniel may or may not have a new segment and we may or may not have a new regular guest. We discuss the family restaurants of our youth, Tony's trip to New Mexico, a public scissoring, the "loud chair," shallots, fish who are bullies and so much more. Plus we did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and Podcast Pals Product

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Daniel has already watched his whole life come and go based on a theory I can barely follow. I need to issue a pet update and also explain how it is a tiny turtle has come into our life. Owen makes his debut on the show and we listen to some voicemails. Plus Daniel brings up a memory I still feel deep shame about and I

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Taylor Williamson makes his debut on the show and he has a little surprise hidden in his backpack. You'll have to listen to find out what it is. We discuss alpha male bootcamps, our miserable Renaissance Faire experience, Daniel's kween Taylor Swift's latest controversy, nudist parents, wrestling, Heidi Klum, Chex Mix

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19 May 2025 • EN

Mike Drucker

Comedy writer Mike Drucker (Fallon, Samantha Bee, SNL) is here to talk about his memoir Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games. The thing is, while it's his debut memoir it's not the first book he's written. We dig into his scholastically nerdy past, his love of video games, his ill-fated Mario-themed weddin

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Danny Ricker joins us to talk about milestone birthdays, our trip to Knott's Berry Farm for said event, his Jimmy Kimmel appearance, kid manipulations, the drum set in the studio, boysenberries, bike riding and so much more. Plus we did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and Podcast Pals Product Picks. Get yourself some ne

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12 May 2025 • EN

Jane Borden

Writer Jane Borden joins us to talk about her sensational book Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives Americawherein she traces this country's fundamental and foundational cultishness from the puritans to MLMs and beyond. Jane and I used to work at Time Out New York together and I am so impressed by this tome. Plu

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