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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Writer-producer Danny Ricker (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) joins the show to talk about his new comedy book Wow You Look Terrible!: How to Parent Less and Live More. We also talk about ska, his journey from nervous high school freshman to dominating late-night, dating a college woman (who is now his wife) while still in high school, the idea for his book, his fear of scary movies, getting rid of kids' toys and so much more. Plus we did a round of Just Me Or Everyone and Podcast Pals Product Picks.
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0:22.6 | Hey, everyone. Hi, hello. Welcome to another exciting episode of Allison Rosen is your new best friend. |
0:28.2 | I'm sitting here in the pod cabin with Jimmy Kimmel writer. He's written for the Oscars. He's won multiple Emmys. |
0:37.4 | And now he has a hilarious new book out called, |
0:41.1 | Wow, You Look Terrible, How to Parent Less and Live More. Please put your hands together for Danny Ricker. |
0:46.8 | Oh, thank you. I've been nominated for Emmys. I haven't won them, but I'm going to not, but I'm not even going to correct you because let's get that out there as a rumor. That's great. Yeah. In my mind, I changed it to, in my mind, |
0:59.5 | you had won like 13 Emmys. And as soon as I read that, which I imagined, I guess, but I read it. |
1:06.1 | As soon as the fact went into my head, I was like, oh, you have one of those houses. And you know exactly the house I |
1:11.4 | mean, right? The kind of where you walk in and you're like, oh, look at your Emmys. Look at all of your |
1:15.5 | if I do ever win one, I think I'll be so racked with like shame weirdly. I'll put them in a box and |
1:22.4 | put them in the attic and then I'll take them down if I ever need like a confidence boost. Right. So we need to talk about a lot of stuff, namely your book, because I was reading it and related so intensely. |
1:35.9 | We should get this out of the way. |
1:38.2 | We have sons in the same grade at the same school. |
1:40.9 | The name of which we won't say, then no one will ever find out. |
1:47.2 | You have two kids. I have two kids. I was relating a lot to it. And it's really funny. |
1:55.0 | It's a comedy book. But there's, I kind of want to, what I want to know is like how much truth is in it about how you feel about parenting. |
2:04.8 | So we'll get to that. |
2:05.7 | But first, let's talk about, in addition to us having children at the same school, we have friends in common. |
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