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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

Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend Alison Rosen

    • Comedy
    • 4.5 • 6.3K Ratings

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

    Sadie’s Big Escape, Night Terrors, New Haterz!

    Sadie’s Big Escape, Night Terrors, New Haterz!

    (TW: self-harm)

    Matt Lieb is here making his triumphant Thursday Show debut. Robin Shorr is also here, shaken up but okay after Sadie's grand escape. All these years later we can still attract some new haters and I want to know about the whole Emily Fleming boob fiasco from Matt's point of view. Elliot had a night terror and we're talking about limericks, Paul F. Tompkins's Halt and Catch Fire song and so much more.

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    • 1 hr 43 min
    Daniel and Alison (Your Calls and Daniel's Over It!)

    Daniel and Alison (Your Calls and Daniel's Over It!)

    Daniel is here and he's not particularly interested in hearing about my new crush. I need to talk about two big lifestyle changes we're making and Daniel has some thoughts on my face and Walmart (unrelated). Plus we take your calls, Daniel shares some new baby names and we try to answer questions from a question deck. And then we talk about corner moments and pink moments. Plus foreign exchange students.

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    • 1 hr 21 min
    Supermarkets, Talkative Masseuses, Alison's New Crush

    Supermarkets, Talkative Masseuses, Alison's New Crush

    Matt Apodaca joins the show for the first time and as promised, he is a delight, even though he woke up on the wrong side of the bed and the vibes were off. Niccole Thurman is back and she's not afraid to tell a stranger she doesn't feel like chatting. I have a big announcement about grocery shopping and I've developed a crush on 1970s era Peter Cetera. Plus talkative masseuses, Joe Albertson's super market and more!

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    • 1 hr 39 min
    Rory Uphold

    Rory Uphold

    Rory Uphold, host of Crimes of the Heart and self-described skin care obsessive joins the show to talk about performing pop music at schools and ice cream shops, attending a performing arts high school, selling multiple television shows, being inspired by heartbreak, what music taught her, getting impregnated by a guy who was cheating on her, butt plugs, The Rules and so much more. Plus we talked about skin care and did rounds of Just Me Or Everyone and HGFY.

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    • 1 hr 44 min
    ENCORE: The Jenna Quiz! (Plus Greg's Drug Stories, DINKS, Night Terrors and John Boats)

    ENCORE: The Jenna Quiz! (Plus Greg's Drug Stories, DINKS, Night Terrors and John Boats)

    This week we're revisiting an episode that originally ran July 29, 2015. How well do you know Ms. Jenna Kim Jones? How well do Alison and the rest of the Thursday gang (Allan Moss, Jeff Fox, Greg Heller and Daniel Quantz)? Plus drug stories, DINKS, turtles, more John boats, night terrors AND MORE. And we did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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    • 1 hr 17 min
    Daniel and Alison (Your Calls and Slurp Alert)

    Daniel and Alison (Your Calls and Slurp Alert)

    Daniel is once again concerned about the health effects of being woken up in the middle of the night and I'm questioning where he's getting this alarming info. We discuss the world's smallest violin and did you know there's a sequel to Oedipus Rex? I have breaking eyeball news and we're taking not only your calls but your written communication. Plus a lot of info about fish tanks and and tattoos.

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    • 59 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
6.3K Ratings

6.3K Ratings

Dfgtti334574 ,

Daniel has a tell

He says “honey” when he’s about to be deliberately obtuse or outright condescending. The amount he feigns confusion is insane. Guy doesn’t know the difference between “Grand Canyon” and a town’s slogan, someone needs to step in and have a pet name to explain why that lil guy is wrong. One’s an ancient natural awe (quote: ‘do you expierence awe?’ Jerk off motion) and the other is wow we have kinda lame pink sunrises that we will beat you over the head with in tourist packages. Worlds different. But this is nothing new for him as i’ve been noticing the “honey” thing for a better part of a year.
TLDR Quantz is a C, but if it’s prefaced by “honey” he’s about to be a turbo-C.
Five stars.

Golden Retriever Lover Meghan ,

Ran out of my bedroom laughing

I have been listening to podcasts for over a decade and this is the first time I’ve ever written a review. I have been listening to this podcast after listening to Alison on Josh Wolf’s podcast in 2016. I was charmed by her humor, vocabulary, and vulnerability. I then shortly started listening to this podcast and have been loyal since. What has caused me to write a review what the posting of an encore podcast from 2015 and the phrases uttered by everyone like “do you need someone to hold you while you poop” caused me to run out of my bedroom in the middle of changing because my fiancé was still sleeping and I was about to bust out laughing. Thank you for the years of entertainment and the more to come.

Roksana Baiul ,

My old reliable

I’ve been listening since Alison was on Natch Beaut and have listened ever since. I find the conversations pleasant and asking the same questions that I would ask. Also Alison is always out here with these $100 words, really helping me with my adult vocabulary. Thanks for all the many hours and here’s to many more 🥂

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