Welcome to this is Jen, the finest podcast in the universe created by a mom of six standup comic and I just want to say I hope that you are enjoying all the next level upgrades that have been added to this podcast in this episode you may hear an echo you may hear bird noises.

Cats meowing husbands knocking on doors kids asking for snacks and that's you know and and.

Visionaries are always misunderstood me and Elon are you know it's where we're always misunderstood because I know people who have their basic podcast and it has a deep resonance sound without an echo and there are not.

A flock of birds just sitting right outside the window like my enemies sent them there and there aren't kids on spring break asking for things husbands stopping by to show their weird green St Patrick's day beard and top hat when by the way as of this recording it is not St Patrick's day so other podcasts don't have that but what they don't know is that the new trend in podcasting.

Is to sound like you are recording in an airplane hanger that is full of birds where you are also running a daycare and I do feel bad for the podcast that have that like clean deep sound because they are not at the level that I am at and I pity them and and I pray for them so I will keep them in my prayers.

But we look where as you know we moved studios we moved studios well it was it was six weeks ago at this point however you know what this actually leads perfectly into my point for today so let me pause to say get your tickets to my tour because now I'm going on a whole thing because this is such a perfect transition my tour oh oh big announcement big tour announcement this is actually a really big deal.

None of my venues are checking Vax cards now and we had an issue we had an issue where there were a couple of venues that were actually requiring the booster so I was hearing from people who said well I'm vaccinated but like I didn't get the booster and now these events are telling me I can't get in.

It's it's been an ordeal but it's done no no venues are doing any covid door checks now all are welcome come one come all every single venue and the cities are Topeka there are literally three seats left in Topeka Topeka San Antonio Dallas Boston New York DC I'm doing this off the top of my head Orlando Fort Lauderdale Nashville Atlanta.

None of them are checking covid anything at the door at the door and you get your tickets at jf comedy tour dot com thank you shady Ray now okay so to my point so on this podcast you you must listen to weeks of us getting the new studio in order why why is there an echo in the room that Jen records and why are there birds and cats why why does Jen have a whole

menagerie in the background of her podcast do you realize that by putting up with this you are fighting the battle for the salvation of western civilization you are you literally are because here's the thing what will save western civilization is if we demolish this culture of obsessive individualism that says that not having any deep lasting connections with the

people is the way to go my personal needs and my personal moods the whole world has to turn upside down to accommodate these kind of things that it's ruining our culture it it is destroying western civilization I mean no one's there no one's going to paint the cysteen chapel now

and by the N Gen X is in this I can't totally blame blame Jane Gen Z in the millennials we started it while the boomers kind of started it Gen X really picked up the torch we're all too self indulgent nobody would have the fortitude to do what Michael Angelou did we'd all be on tiktok I mean that there's literally there's like a Michael Angelou alive today

who's who's just like scrolling tiktok and I'm not even sure that's that's the wrong decision but it is what it is the civilization it's falling it's falling apart and what will save this culture is if people start having what you would call a culture of life you usually hear that term in the abortion debate but it is so far beyond it's so more widely encompass that the idea of a culture of life is that more people around you

are good and so maybe maybe you don't have children maybe you're not married but if you have a culture of life mentality you see that connection with other human beings is a positive thing this is a good thing this is something to be sought out

we resisted in this culture because in order to have deep and meaningful connections with people you have to sacrifice something of yourself

you can't do what you personally feel like doing 24-7 and I've talked before how there are a few cultures that have what you would call a culture of life it's very family oriented

you see it often in Catholic culture you also see it quite a bit in Muslim culture and Mormon culture and a lot of just traditional tribal cultures that have not been completely eaten up by Western individualistic mentality and what you see in those cultures is that they are not efficient in fact I would say that one of the hallmarks of cultures of life is their inefficiency

think about it when you visit Italy think about old world traditional Italy where everyone has a million siblings and cousins and mamas come into visit and she's bringing her sister and then your sister and her five kids are talking about nothing gets done

nothing gets done in these cultures and I grew up in the culture of death which is like let's be efficient even if we have to kill people to get it done

what we got to get it done let's let the weak fed for themselves let's be all out for ourselves and just have money and free time and complete control over our lives and good Lord are my people efficient

you can count on us to get the job done and in the culture that I grew up in just sort of this wider culture hardly anyone had kids if they did it was like max two children that was considered an enormous family

in the circles that I grew up in I'm an only child I said before my husband's an only child we are the most efficient people on planet earth and so those of us and now you guys also know that my dad grew up in Mexico so I had a childhood that was very closely connected to Mexico

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