Jenny Pentland
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Alison Rosen
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Jenny Pentland, author of the riveting memoir This Will Be Funny Later, was the real life inspiration for the Becky and Darlene characters on the series Roseanne, created by her mother Roseanne Barr. Jenny joins the show to talk about having been institutionalized between the ages of 13 and 18, how being a mother to five children of her own has kept her from feeling much anger at her own parents, weight issues, fame, gastric bypass, living in Hawaii, eating a squirrel, mysticism, her childhood friendship with Christina P, panic attacks, PTSD, her mom's tweets and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's me Allison the show is about to start but just real fast a quick reminder |
| 0:05.7 | I want to tell you guys |
| 0:07.7 | If you are doing some shopping perhaps some black Friday shopping holiday shopping et cetera like Christmas type shopping |
| 0:15.0 | Christmas types any sort of shopping at all I have put together some lists on Amazon |
| 0:23.0 | List with things on them Daniel just pipe down for one second beauty stuff makeup stuff |
| 0:29.7 | Home stuff kid stuff podcast equipment books. I recommend all of this stuff and |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, yeah Daniel's corner where I put stuff that I know that he likes but |
| 0:41.9 | Daniel has recently gotten way more involved and he put together a special Christmas spectacular gift guide for you |
| 0:52.9 | You guys will not even believe it. I mean I'm not gonna tell you what's on there |
| 0:57.7 | But it's literally up some things lots of things and the whole big caption explaining |
| 1:04.7 | You know someone who's exactly like me. They are gonna love it and |
| 1:10.0 | Here's where you go to see all of this Amazon calm slash shop slash Allison Rosen Amazon calm slash shop slash Allison Rosen and we'll be adding to it |
| 1:20.5 | It's none stop you guys |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah, okay, here's the show |
| 1:25.6 | Bye |
| 1:27.1 | You guys I lied I said the show was starting right now, but I have one more quick announcement |
| 1:31.8 | I'm co-hosting a new podcast. It's brand new. It's called Upworthy Weekly |
| 1:35.9 | I'm co-hosting it with a guy named Todd Perry who I'm having so much fun with although |
| 1:41.1 | He is wrong about so many things |
| 1:44.5 | especially Christmas music but also other stuff but anyway |
| 1:48.8 | Upworthy weekly what we come out on Saturdays |
| 1:51.8 | Please give it a listen |
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