This is an opinion piece on Jen Kirkman’s podcast “Having Funlessness with Jen Kirkman.” I’m not calling it a review because as she states in her podcast multiple times reviews are subjective. Reviewers may not like a joke or get something but if everyone else does or is laughing than the reviewer is the odd one out but no one reading it will know unless they were there. So these are all my opinions.
I LOVE her podcast. One of my favorite things about it is that you just never quite know what you’re going to get, besides fabulousness that is. Some of her podcasts are hilarious, some are vulnerable, some are sad, some are fired up about the current state of the world, but all are 100% real.
I was recently listening to some of her older episodes and I came across an episode called “The Half-Assed Thanksgiving Episode” at around 50:38 she says “I pretend I’m an earthquake” and I started laughing uncontrollably at this. She is talking about a hutch that she has and how it is not attached to a wall so she occasionally goes over to it and pretends she’s an earthquake and shakes it a little to see how stable it is since she lives in California and there are so many earthquakes there. That is one of her many hilarious moments/episodes. Also during this time on the podcast she is going through voice therapy and is working on “m” sounds so she’ll just randomly say “my arm is numb” sometimes just in the middle of the podcast and I think it is hilarious.
One of my favorite things about this podcast is the randomness. Listening to this podcasts makes me feel like I’m listening to her stream of consciousness which makes me feel better about my own because if someone were to listen to mine I’m sure it would sound pretty similar as far as the randomness goes.
I also want to point out that in a newer episode “The 300th Episode” my boyfriend got a shout out from Jen. Him and I had went to her show in Nashville (which I’m also going to do an opinion piece on) and he wore his Trump hat which says “Make Liberals Cry Again”. However, Jen gave him a shout out for not shouting anything out during her show even though they basically disagree on everything. After the show when Jen was signing books my boyfriend and I went up to have her sign the books that I had bought and she read his hat and asked him something along the lines of if he listened to her podcast. He told her that I listen to her podcast all the time and so he does too. She was super sweet and really nice and I was internally freaking out while talking to her because I am such a fan and couldn’t believe I got to meet her. Later on though when that podcast episode came out I was listening and my boyfriend was not with me at the time but as soon as I got home I immediately messaged him to tell him about the episode. I heard her say something about the Nashville show and a guy in a Trump hat and I started freaking out. She also mentioned his girlfriend (me) and I was just so excited. Basically though she just gave him a shout out for listening through her show and not shouting things out even though as I said before they basically disagree on everything. She shouldn’t have to say things like that because it should be basic decency to not shout things out at her shows unless she is specifically asking audience members for participation but nevertheless I was still super excited.
This podcast though really makes me look forward to Wednesday mornings and gets me through the midweek slump that I usually find myself in. In case you want to give it a listen, it comes out Wednesday mornings. I have been listening to this podcast for a while now and am so glad I found it. I found it when I was thinking about whether or not I wanted a divorce from my husband and have been listening ever since. Her podcast is really everything I didn’t know I needed in a podcast: random, funny, smart, informative, and real.
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