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Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

The Return of Mary Katharine Ham

Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

Alison Rosen

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2016

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Mary Katharine Ham, author of End of Discussion and CNN political commentator, makes her fourth appearance on the show to talk about life after the sudden and tragic loss of her beloved husband Jake Brewer. He was killed in a cycling accident in September during a ride for charity. Because both Mary Katharine and Jake were public figures (Jake worked at the White House and had previously worked at Change.org), there was a bit of a media circus that surrounded the news. We discussed this experience as well as the adjustment from happily married mother with another on the way (she was seven months pregnant at the time of the accident) to widow with two young children. In the midst of it all, Mary Katharine made a career transition as well, leaving Fox News and joining CNN. We also talked about childbirth, the way young children form and keep memories, grieving as an extrovert, a memory of Jake that Mary Katharine's older daughter recently shared, meditative prayer, therapy, strength, what Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper are like behind the scenes, mini quiches and Starbucks, the current election, a PSA about wills and what Mary Katharine wants people to remember about Jake. In addition we took listener questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.3

I was saying, I was saying, we've got to get times to hurry.

0:11.9

I was saying rose in, we need to dance again.

0:17.6

I was saying, rose in, I was saying, it's your best friend.

0:22.6

Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me, Allison Rosen.

0:25.9

Welcome to another episode of Allison Rosen is your new best friend.

0:28.7

I'm sitting here with Mary Catherine Ham and this is your fourth time on the show.

0:33.4

I also was surprised because I thought maybe it was your third, but no, you're in a special

0:38.8

club of four.

0:39.8

Wow, I thought it was third too.

0:41.5

Nope, there was another one.

0:42.7

There was another one in there somewhere.

0:44.0

All right, well, I have had two kids so I can be forgiven for getting things.

0:47.9

Yes, and last time you were on you a pregnant with your second.

0:50.6

I was and I don't think I had told anybody at that point.

0:53.7

No, I think you told me privately after the show.

0:57.4

That's true.

0:58.5

I think either the first or second time I'm wondering if you were pregnant then as well.

1:06.2

One of the times I was seven months pregnant.

1:08.6

I remember.

1:09.6

I like fairly pregnant.

1:10.6

Yes, I just remember being fairly pregnant.

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