Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me, Allison Rosen. Welcome to another episode of Allison Rosen's

Unibest Friend. I'm sitting here in Diningroom Studios with Return Guest Ben Hoffman. Hello and welcome back. It's an honor and a pleasure to be here. I can't apologize enough for my tardiness. It usually doesn't happen. You both said it was fine. We're going to move past it. It's more difficult for me to move past it, but let's move on. You do. You have mentioned it. You've been here for probably five or six minutes and you've mentioned it.

How many times did I text about it? I think it only texted me three or so. That's while driving on the highway. Yeah, I know. That's counts as ten. What were you doing? Or can you not say? It's just work stuff. I thought I'd be done. You know this fucking ten. You can curse on podcasts. I was like, I'll be done at 5.30 and let's play it safe and do 6.45.

For my hyper-local listeners, you are coming from Santa Monica to like Hancock Park area, which to your allowing ample time. Yeah, so I get done with my thing. Look at my look at the time. It's 6.30. So making it like Santa Monica to here in 15 minutes. I mean, could you? It's impossible. It's not. Not even by helicopter.

I was just the park again that Kentucky me thinking I was like, even if I rent if there's no cars on the road, but I forget that it's actually kind of close. It's just a traffic. Yeah, but yeah, no, it was in. But you call me down. I drove safely.

And I was told, promise, Stephen, that this might be the quote unquote, the most real Ben interview that anyone's going to get because you're in such a calm state after being in traffic.

Well, no, yeah, well, defeated. Call or defeated. I would say defeated. But yeah, usually I was just telling your producer over here. Jeff.

Well, I prefer to call him producer until you say his name and then I can remember it. Yeah, I was helping you. Thank you.

I listened to myself. I rarely listen to myself on podcasts and I don't do a ton of them anyway. But I sound like I'm on speed. Like I don't really talk that fast. And this day, usually you do them earlier. Maybe I had some coffee or something. This is actual normal. Me slow.

Calm, unexcitable, boring. I'm going to say is this supposed to be better? No, that's where we actually started the podcast. I was about to tell you this is the most real honest Ben, which will make it the worst podcast ever.

Oh, okay.

You're going to find who I really am with this. Just a fucking bore. So I was about to apologize for the new press record.

Oh, yeah, I didn't know where that was going. Well, it's interesting that you mentioned the most real Ben and that the real you might be boring. Which by the way, I disagree.

I thought you were great when you were on my show in March of 2013. It hasn't been long.

I'm sorry for interrupting, but I'm, you know, I was kind of doing the podcast rounds, which is for me two or three, because I just don't do a lot of them.

And I was thinking it was like, I had really fought a lot of fun on that podcast. I'd like to do it. And then I reached out to you. You did.

I was like, I'd like to do that. If I'm going to do a couple, because you know, I'm trying to, you know, get out, get out there. Just get out there in general. I was like, oh, it's out to Allison. I haven't talked to her in a while.

And I really, I remember that what part of it I remember is my car wouldn't lock outside the podcast. I was going to bring that up. You really, I literally was. Yeah.

So we can finally the three year conclusion for that story. It was a new least of all, though. And I came in because it's always something with me this time. And it was late in that time. I parent. It was my car wouldn't lock. So I was going to break into my car.

And I go back to my car. And I was spent. I was outside that studio for 45 minutes trying to figure it out. The trunk wasn't closed.

I mean, it's not exciting. I'm sorry.

Oh, my God. I have been wondering. Yeah, you obviously for no other reason I had to come back here and finish that story because you've been.

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