Kelly Carlin Returns

Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

Alison Rosen

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4.6 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Carlin returns to Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to talk about her new book A Carlin Home Companion, growing up in the shadow of her larger than life father George Carlin, suffering panic attacks as a young person, getting into an abusive relationship in high school, the magnetic draw of certain personalities, psychology, her mother's alcoholism and her own drug experiences, enmeshment, family systems, the time her dad freaked out on bad acid, becoming aware of family dysfunction, her relationship with her dad near the end of his life and his relationship with the species, feelings of betrayal and so much more. Plus we took your questions over twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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0:00.0	Hey you guys before the show officially starts I wanted to talk to you a little bit about Club W
0:05.3	which is going to be your new favorite wine club. I don't know if you're like me but I am frankly
0:10.9	kind of embarrassed that I don't know more about wine than I do and I don't know very much at all
0:16.0	and I just feel like at this point in my life given how many years I've walked the earth and how
0:21.3	much I know about stuff I should I should have like a workable knowledge base about wine. However,
0:28.2	I find it all very overwhelming and when people start to talk about wine my brain just turns into like
0:34.4	like there's white noise and there's also a hum because I don't understand what they're talking
0:38.1	about and also to be fully honest which I'm going to be perfectly honest perfectly fully. I just
0:46.0	assume it's BS but that is where Club W comes in they take all the the guesswork and the stress
0:55.6	and the feeling overwhelmed and the thing we are standing there in front of a bazillion bottles
1:00.1	of wine at a wine shop and you're like I'm going I want to bring someone a nice bottle of wine
1:05.0	but I don't know if I should choose an odd or an even year or whatever they just help you because
1:11.6	they give you a palette profile test and you and it's fun it's just six questions it's very easy
1:16.8	filled out and they tell you what kind of wines you will like and then you get your wines and then
1:23.2	you try them and then the more wines you try the sort of better they will get at targeting exactly
1:29.6	what you want and you can also always overrule their suggestions and choose other ones it's just
1:35.7	it's pretty amazing it's easy you just go to clubw.com and answer six simple questions and their
1:42.6	algorithm creates a palette profile just for you they send wine directly to your door perfectly
1:47.6	customized to match your taste clubw is leading the grape to glass wine revolution so they work
1:53.4	directly with vineyards to cut out the middleman which saves you money so the wine that you get is
1:58.7	really good and really high quality and it's there's not this insane markup which there is pretty
2:04.0	much everywhere that's not grape to glass so with clubw you get premium wine customized to your taste
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