259 - SUMMER INSANITY

The Jen Fulwiler Show

Jen Fulwiler

Catholic, Kids & Family, Momlife, Parenting, Mom, Kids, Comedy, Standup, Family

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Jen’s house has reached the apex of chaos this week. She shares those details, and also talks about:

The winner of the US Open, JJ Spaun, had to get his daughter medicine at 3 AM the night before he won
The viral “my boyfriend wants to show you his plants” trend
People who say there is only one correct way to be a wife, husband, mother, father, etc. are acting out of trauma

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Jen Fulwiler is a mom with zero domestic skills. Her natural habitat is a martini bar in Manhattan, yet she finds herself raising a family in suburban Texas with her country boy husband who thinks his inflatable hot tub is the summit of the human experience. Her stories of failing her way through life will resonate with anyone who doesn’t have it all together.

Jen is a viral standup comic, bestselling author, and former SiriusXM radio host who has released three comedy specials: The Naughty Corner, Maternal Instinct, and Shabby Chic. She has been featured on Nate Bargatze’s Nateland Presents; Where My Moms At with Christina P, Dr. Drew After Dark, the Today Show, CNN, and Fox News. She was featured in the viral article, “5 Comedians Like Nate Bargatze Who Make Everyone Laugh.” She lives with her husband and six kids in Austin, Texas.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you again for your wonderful response to my brand new comedy special Shabby Sheik, which is out now on YouTube.
0:17.1	You can watch it right this instant for free.
0:20.0	And if you would give it a mention on your
0:21.6	social media, I would really, really appreciate it. What is my marketing plan? It's you. It's you.
0:27.8	So please mention it on your Instagram stories, on your Facebook. Fire up MySpace. Find your
0:35.4	MySpace password. Okay. You bet. you know what? Maybe that's the strategy.
0:39.6	Maybe I should market this comedy special on MySpace because that, you know, that would be new.
0:44.9	Like, people would be like, why am I getting an allure? I didn't know this account still worked.
0:48.3	Listen, I'm open to all possibilities here. So, um, let us begin by me telling you about the past 24 hours.
1:00.9	As you guys know, my 12 year old son enjoys creating World War I trench warfare with Nerf guns.
1:09.9	I mean, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree in terms
1:14.9	of eccentric hobbies in this house. He's a big history buff. And he's so fascinated with World
1:22.7	War I. So he and his buddies like to do these trench wars.
1:30.5	He's also a very independent kid.
1:38.1	One of the things that Joe and I are big on is we encourage our kids to be very independent.
1:40.5	Is it because we are lazy?
1:45.2	A hater could make that statement that we're like, we just don't. We have six kids. And also having them so close together in age, it's like, it is, it's a lot. There's a lot to do.
1:53.2	Caitlin, you know, you're, you have four kids. They're pretty close together in age. It's a lot.
1:57.2	It's a lot of work. And so we, it's not out of some high-minded, I read this parenting book that said that children need to be independent.
2:08.6	I am raising my kids to be independent out of survival.
2:12.2	It's like, because I don't have the mental bandwidth to check all of these little boxes and make sure everything's perfect.
2:17.5	It's like, if we're going to get through this, you guys have to be really independent.
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