Mindy Cohn
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
Alison Rosen
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2016
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Mindy Cohn (Facts of Life, Scooby-Doo) stops by the show this week and if you know anything about me it's that I'm a huge lifelong fan so you can only imagine how excited and nervous I was. Mindy did not disappoint. We talked about her unusual childhood—being discovered by Norman Lear, Alan Horn and Charlotte Rae when they were researching girls' schools to bring authenticity to Facts of Life, attending regular school while also working on the show, having "once in a lifetime experiences all the time," going "hog ass wild" when she was 17, the discrepancy between how she appears and how she feels inside, wanting to be a doctor at one point and eventually realizing she was already doing the thing she loved, realizing you don't have to be friends with someone just because they want to be friends with you, feeling drawn to alcoholics, drug addicts and narcissists, compulsive behaviors, anxiety, romance, reality shows, the movie she's currently shooting and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone. Also: a Facts of Life quiz!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me, Allison Rosen and I'm sitting here in dining room studios |
| 0:28.8 | with the Mindy Cone and I could not be more delighted. We've already bonded, shared |
| 0:35.7 | he taught me a Yiddish word that I didn't know, Pish. I don't know how I didn't |
| 0:40.2 | know that. Now I know. That's right. Yeah, my humility, keep learning. Real life |
| 0:46.3 | starts today now that I know that word. We've talked about hair. Here's the thing. |
| 0:51.3 | For people that have been long-time listeners or even just new listeners of |
| 0:57.4 | me, a thing you probably know about me is that I am the world's biggest facts of life |
| 1:02.1 | fan. I can't remember a time that I didn't watch that show. As long as I've known myself, |
| 1:09.4 | I have watched that show. People have recommended to me in the past like, why don't you try to |
| 1:13.1 | get someone, you know, a cast member on your show. We will all do it. I have to do that. |
| 1:19.5 | We're very friendly lot. I'm gonna push myself. Am I using it right? |
| 1:23.4 | Oh my God, brilliant. It felt so natural. Yeah. But I, this is the first time I ever had |
| 1:29.0 | someone from the show on my podcast because I haven't known if I've been able to hold, |
| 1:33.8 | if I will be able to hold it to see already the words aren't coming. I've been afraid. |
| 1:36.8 | You sound good, though. What if I can't hold it together because it's just like, I've |
| 1:40.5 | likened it to flying too close to the sun. Like, what if I can't be adult, competent, |
| 1:46.3 | interviewer me because childhood me is like, oh my God. So anyway, we'll see how this |
| 1:52.7 | goes. I already, you're very easy to talk to. The approval junkie in me is less letting |
| 1:58.1 | you know you're setting the bar very high. And so I too, I'm a little nervous and apprehensive. |
| 2:04.6 | So let's like do this together. Okay. Have I made you nervous and apprehensive? No. |
| 2:09.4 | Do you just come that way? I'm wired that way. I don't come that way. I tend to come |
| 2:13.3 | very relaxed for those of you if that's too TMI, that's where I go. No, I'm actually, |
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