Hello, everyone. My name is Stephanie Wilder Taylor and welcome to my podcast, Drunkish. A little over a year ago,

I published a book called Drunkish, where I told my own story about quitting drinking, but now

I have a podcast because I want to hear from other people about quitting drinking and drugs and other stuff. So whether you're

sober, you're sober, curious, or you just like hearing stories about winos and addicts,

welcome. And before we get to today's guest, please follow the show on your podcast thing that you use or like or subscribe, please just support the

show. It will help me grow. And now, my guest today is Alison Rosen. You may know her from her super

popular long running podcast called Allison Rosen is your new best friend,

which I have been a guest on several times.

She also has a really cool substack, which has over 2,000 subscribers, and you can find that

at Allison Rosen.substack.com, where she talks about tons of stuff, including for four years as the newsgirl

on the Adam Carolla show. Also check out her podcast, Childish, with another past guest on this show,

Greg Fitzsimmons. But right now, we're talking to Allison. Well, hello, Allison. Welcome to Drunkish. Hello. Thank you for having me, Stephanie.

Well, no, thank you for coming on here. I've been chasing you.

I have, I'm usually not someone who plays hard to get guest-wise. My life has been crazy recently,

not to spend too much time talking about it because it is depressing, but my mom passed away

in December kind of suddenly and my dad had died a year and a half before. So my whole life

for the last six months has, or actually five months. I've been thinking of it as six months, but it's five months, has just been settling the estate, which is like a full-time job.

Someone had said that to me. It's like 40 hours of work a week and I thought it can't be, but it is. So that's in my life. So apologies for how long it took to get me here.

But here I am. And I'm yours. Yes. And I remember because I have done your podcast several times,

you've done my podcast. We have a, I don't want to say a storied history. But so my podcast for crying out loud with Lynette Corolla,

you were the newsgirl for Lynette's ex-husband Adam Carolla's podcast for many years.

Many years.

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