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Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
Alison Rosen
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
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Joel Stein and Robin Shorr are here to talk about an incredibly risky compliment that Joel paid me, Orthodox Jews stepping outside marriage, Time Out New York, Invisalign, new merch for me, a drag bar in the East Village that we can't remember the name of, how Joel met his wife, flow strength, Joel speaking at a menopause convention, Natalie and Snake, rumpus rooms, my eye situation and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you to Poise for sponsoring today's episode. Learn more at Poise.com. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello, my little coconut lemon bars. Welcome to another exciting episode of Alice and Rosen is your new best friend. That particular carbohydrates was sent in on Patreon. Patreon by Megan Hunecki or Hunecki. I feel like at some point she might have told me and I've already forgotten it. It's H-U-N-E-K-E and later when I Hunecki, for sure. Do you know a Hunecki? I know a lot of Huneckis. Like how Robin has a lot of jodies in her life. It turns out |
| 0:59.4 | it's just one. And then I said maybe she's larger than life. It's never been to Minnesota. Oh, is that a common Minnesota name really? No, I don't know how to pronounce it. I think it's Robin. What do you think it is? I was going to say why Nuke for so long. Like that. I don't know. That's right. Does the name take a left turn? Yeah. Or maybe it's like Hunecki Hunecki Hunecki Hunecki Hunecki Hunecki Hunecki Hunecki Hunecki Hunecki Hunecki |
| 1:29.4 | Hunecki Hunecki is where I'm going, Tony. Solid-bullying name. I want it to be Hunecki. It's kind of fun to say. Yeah, Negen, if it's not, could it be Hunecki? Anyway, I'm on Patreon. Also, it's a fun step. I'm about to record and ask me anything. And they are asking me everything. And then there's episodes of The Friend. Oh my god, The Fun Zone is not my show, but that sounds like a fun show. The Friend Zone, which is my bonus podcast. There's a little break in text, but I'll text you back. Also, it's fun stuff and you can submit carbohydrates. |
| 1:59.4 | Do an annual subscription and get two months free Patreon.com slash Alice and Rosen. Okay. I would like to say hello to my guests whom you've already heard from a little bit, Joel Stein. Hello. Welcome to the show. This is only a compliment. I'm sure you've heard this a lot. Your beautiful hair looks a little bit like an orthodox shoe wig. Oh my god. I know you don't. I know you wanted to be a calm. No. |
| 2:29.4 | I know what he means. It's always a head turner. Your hair does look great. Thank you. I just got it. Yeah. And colored. But I do know what Joel means having lived in New York. Yeah. They're here too. They're old neighborhood. Yeah. For some reason. Yeah. This is true. But I noticed it more in New York. I was like these modest, shrouded women have amazing hair. It's so thick. I mean, thank you. They're hiding their hair from other men and God, but they're replacing it with pretty amazing with like |
| 2:59.4 | this. It's interesting. Here's a question. Let's go around. Hi, Robin. Oh, hi. Hi. Hello. Hello, Tony. Hi. Okay. If it turned out that you had to wear an orthodox shoe wig. Yeah. What style would you opt for? Are there a lot of options? Yeah. I think there's like a bob. They're never blind. You're right. Always dark. They could be blonde. You know, I happen to know the Hebrew word for this, which is it's a shidal. It's like, oh, |
| 3:29.4 | she wears a shidal. The wig is a shidal. It's called a shidal. I mean, wow. What is this language? Like it's so Jewish. Wait, that's the Yiddish word for it. No, that's the Hebrew word. That's a shidal. Wow. It's like she wear. Did you have you seen Louie Aunt? Louie Aunt? Have you seen Marilyn? She's got a new shidal. I don't know if that's it. I don't know. Are the stores called shidal stores? No. Oh, I think they're just called wig stores. I could be wrong. We should go to Pico and feel a trip on Pico. Yeah. |
| 3:59.4 | Oh, we can all get wigs. Yes, it's time to think now. What's your shidal? Only men get the shidal. I think we just think of New York Yankees cap, right? But in this universe, you are getting away. So you can have lady. You can have long bodacious lady hair. Not I'm like former mullet. Yeah. I think I go the other way because I think I go fro. All right. Fun. Yeah. So like a Halloween, like a fright cap. Not like no, not like a pose of the clown, just like a jufer. Okay. |
| 4:29.4 | Yeah. Got it. All right. I would get, and it's similar to the hairstyle I have right now, but I would get the haircut of Janice the Muppet. Oh, yeah. Just because it would just look more like an approximation of me. But I do want to say, um, and this might not go over very well. The women are not allowed to look attractive to other men. But there is no rule barring the other men from having sex with literally whoever they want. Sex workers included. |
| 4:59.4 | Orthodox men. Yeah. Can sleep with whoever they want. And they do in New York. They're always getting arrested for prostitution. Then they do. I mean, there's a huge HIV. High rate of a, at least it was high a few years ago, but it's a huge thing. And the women are like locked in cages, literally starting with their own hair. |
| 5:17.4 | Okay. Okay. So they can, but like they can't like Maryland, Maryland's husband can't sleep with like Luan, right? I don't think so. I think you're, you can sleep with your wife. And then everybody else is just sort of like, I don't think you could it should, I don't know that like, what's it called? That's called adultery. Yeah. If you're sleeping with somebody's wife. Right. But I think if you have sex workers and you're employing them, there's some sort of loophole. There's some sort of... That's right. |
| 5:47.4 | That's so interesting. Yeah. And I don't like it. No, there's a lot in Orthodox. There's a lot of problem. That is so problematic. Yeah. Yeah, when I was at time out in New York, I was where Joel Stein also was. Did you know Catherine push car? No, she must not been there. I guess not. But anyway, she assigned me for the out there, remember the out there section. Those are gay section. No. Oh, out there. |
| 6:17.1 | I also sound like it was just gay section after gay section because everything was some pun on out. Yeah. I also made that mistake when someone said they were taking photos for out there. I'm like, oh, that must be the, yeah. But it's not out there was, it got changed to one thing. But it was like, it was the very, very front of the book, stuff going on in the city. Yeah. |
| 6:36.1 | So anyway, they sent me to this thing at like the lower east side. Yeah. So this event called music and manuscripts or something. Sure. And it was like, it wasn't clever music, but it may as well have been. It was just like a bunch of, I don't know, I'm like, were they hostage? I don't know, dudes with like the spit curls and stuff. Yeah. And I felt like a piece of meat in there. And I remember being surprised because |
| 7:06.4 | I didn't know that much about I still don't know that like as much as everyone would think I would about Judaism. But I assumed that like extremely religious people are chased. No, not these guys. Right. And I think when they saw you, they were like, look at her, shadow. Like, wow. Like, this isn't going to take a lot of work. You know, she's already, you know, whatever. |
| 7:28.2 | But yeah, I don't love it. I was telling Sam, my boyfriend last night that we had a really cute cousin in San Diego in like the 70s and 80s. He was just like so good looking and awesome. And then he went to the way I want became a |
| 7:42.7 | Jerusalem and became a gossip. And then the next time we saw him, we both ran up to him that my mom and I did like give him a hug. And he was like, no, no, no. Yeah. I cannot touch it. But it's like, but then you can touch horse. |
| 7:55.0 | And like they it's I have to look it up. I don't know that what I'm saying is 100,000 percent accurate. But I think it is. I wonder if they're allowed to sleep with Jewish horse. I bet they're not. Now I'm talking out of my ass. I don't know. Listen, they exist. I don't know. Maybe, but I think it's more just like if there's not going to be some sort of like, I don't know big dramatic thing. I think they just see this transactional in a way. Like on the DL. Yeah. |
| 8:25.3 | What jaw, I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Yeah. You don't know. Are you nervous about how as usual problematic Robin might be. No, no, I think I think she's tapping a rich man here. What are you saying? You don't know about that. I don't know if it's I think it's different for different Orthodox Jews or |
| 8:46.1 | It's different for difference. |
| 8:47.5 | Is it the orthodox Jews or the Hossids specifically? |
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