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The Jen Fulwiler Show

296 - What Being Catholic Did to My Life

The Jen Fulwiler Show

Jen Fulwiler

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

I had a moment the other day that made me say to myself, "Wow. Being Catholic has made my life soooo different than what I expected it to be." I talk about that, as well as:

-- the latest in my handicapped parking tag saga

-- remembering the time I was on the front page of the New York Times without makeup

-- I went a little too hard on editing a pic of myself for a news article

 

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Jen Fulwiler is a standup comic, bestselling author, and former SiriusXM radio host who has released three comedy specials: The Naughty Corner (2020), Maternal Instinct (2024), and Shabby Chic (2025). 

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Jen is a mom with zero domestic skills, and a Catholic who hopes that heaven has an AP exam so she can test out of being a good person. Her stories of failing her way through life will resonate with anyone who doesn't have it all together. 

Normally she lives with her husband and six kids in Austin, Texas, but right now she divides her time between Austin and Memphis as one of her children is being treated at St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

I still don't have a handicapped parking tag.

0:12.0

I still don't have it.

0:14.3

It is getting to the point that I may need a police escort going into the tax office the next time I try for other people's safety.

0:26.6

Not for mine, not to protect me, to protect other people.

0:30.7

We're going to talk about that today.

0:32.3

How could it be, how could it be, you ask, that you still don't have a handicapped parking tag?

0:39.3

For those of you who heard all the madness that was episode 295, the one right before this, we went into that.

0:45.7

No, I don't know.

0:46.5

It's honestly amazing that I still do not have one.

0:49.4

So I will give you the update on that rolling saga.

0:54.0

We will talk about, as usual, every week I give you the update on what's going on with

0:57.9

my daughter, Lane, who's battling cancer, how we are doing with that sort of thing.

1:02.8

And a bunch of stuff that I said I was going to get to in the last episode, but we,

1:07.2

other topics came up that were a bit of a distraction to me. But I will say the comments to that

1:15.2

episode are really they're fun. Have you checked out the comments? Yeah, I meant to text you. Okay,

1:22.0

Caitlin will be reading the comments as well. They're actually, as of this recording, still coming in.

1:26.4

There are a lot of fun. So look up episode

1:28.2

295 on YouTube, actually, and Spotify. Those are the two platforms where you can leave comments.

1:34.9

And there are a lot of fun. I am enjoying. It was a fun episode. We were having fun. And I'm finally, I'm going to talk about my daughter Lucy's confirmation. And it was one of those

1:49.9

moments that was a snapshot of how different my life is compared to the track that I was on.

1:56.9

I was on a very typical track of people from my generation, children of the 80s and 90s,

2:05.0

where we were told that certain things bring you happiness and your life should turn out a certain

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