Cole Imperi (Encore)
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
Alison Rosen
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
After a sad announcement at the top and an update on a wee Tik Tok beef I've found myself in, we revisit this wonderful episode which originally ran in Feb, 2023.
Cole Imperi is a thanatologist which means she studies death, dying, loss and grief. Friend of the show and frequent guest Alie Ward recommended her some time ago when I was looking to talk to someone about loss in 2020. We finally made it happen—in person, no less—since Cole now lives in Los Angeles. Also, she brought bread and butter! And she made the butter herself while hanging out with Alie Ward earlier in the day! On this episode we discussed pepperoni rolls, Kentucky, her relationship with religion, feeling drawn to study death and dying, interning at a crematorium, what people get wrong about grief, funeral directors, misconceptions about people in the deathcare industry, whether the industry is predatory, why living forever isn't what we should want, infertility, shadowloss (a term she coined), roller derby, cicadas, thanabotany, pickle ball, making daisy chains, Ruby and so much more. We also took your questions and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone wherein I revealed some things I've never revealed on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:02.1 | Before the episode starts, I just wanted to hop on and say, first of all, this is the |
| 0:07.0 | third time I've tried to record this, which is a little silly. |
| 0:11.8 | Like, hello, Allison. |
| 0:13.4 | You know how to talk to people. |
| 0:16.2 | What's going on? |
| 0:17.4 | But there is something going on. |
| 0:20.3 | It went, it something occurred and it's sad and I'm going to tell you, today's Friday |
| 0:27.3 | and on Wednesday night, my dad died. |
| 0:34.0 | So yeah, you know, I usually post immediately. |
| 0:40.4 | I usually announce things right away and I talk about everything and I don't fart without |
| 0:47.9 | Patreon knowing about it. |
| 0:51.6 | And yet this is just I have not felt ready to talk about it yet. |
| 0:57.5 | I know it's only less than two days ago. |
| 1:02.0 | But I think I actually still, I don't know if I'm ready even right now. |
| 1:10.6 | But I don't know, I'm like, I'm testing the waters of seeing how it feels to say it |
| 1:17.1 | and to talk about it a little bit. |
| 1:19.1 | Anyway, it he was asleep. |
| 1:22.6 | I think that all things considered it was a really good fortunate way to go. |
| 1:32.2 | We're all sad, but we'll be okay. |
| 1:36.2 | It was not completely a surprise. |
| 1:40.8 | Although it still feels like a surprise. |
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