#804 Queer Erotica, Endometriosis & Survey Bonanza - Jenny Zigrino Returns
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Summary
Jenny Zigrino (a.k.a. Peggy Poundstone) is a comedian and writer of smut. She discusses the loss of her beloved sister, her struggles with endometriosis, and what inspired her to begin writing queer erotica. Keep an eye out for her new stand-up tour, Afterbirth. This interview with Jenny is bookended with roughly 40 mins before and 40 mins after of surveys from an ep in 2014.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 804 with my guest, Jenny Zagrino, a return guest, Jenny Zagrino. |
| 0:06.6 | And we also are going to bookend this interview with an old episode of Just Survey. |
| 0:15.1 | So if you were missing having surveys in the last couple of months. |
| 0:22.9 | Feast. |
| 0:26.9 | Feast on these surveys. |
| 0:30.3 | They were originally aired in 2014. |
| 0:43.3 | So if you don't want to hear surveys, roughly the first half of these, the part before the interview lasts about 40 minutes, and then the interview with Jenny, and then roughly another 40 minutes of surveys after |
| 0:49.1 | that. |
| 0:49.7 | So there you have it. |
| 0:53.2 | For those of you that are regular, oh, my name's Paul. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm the podcast host. |
| 0:59.2 | What other kind of host would I be? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, I was a TV host. |
| 1:03.5 | I cooked chicken on basic cable and made dick jokes. |
| 1:06.3 | It has been a while since I made that reference. |
| 1:09.6 | For those of you that are regular, oh, one more thing have to say, I'm not a therapist. |
| 1:15.7 | So if you are a new listener, just remember, again, I'm a jackass that used to cook chicken |
| 1:22.4 | on basic cable and showed the movie Rush Hour 3 about a hundred times. |
| 1:31.3 | Where do I start? |
| 1:33.5 | Those you that are regular listeners know that despite my upbeat tone, which is partly |
| 1:43.7 | performative. |
| 1:46.8 | I am... |
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