[BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 8: When This is Over, We Deserve A Parade: Jim Gaffigan’s Lockdown Life

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Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Quarantine Queens is back with another episode as we continue to muddle through this weird time of isolation and the ongoing search for the elusive “new normal,” including; when is it okay to take a break from the seriousness of it all to have fun and laugh? Enter this week’s guest, best-selling author and award winning comedian Jim Gaffigan. Like Jen, Jim is quarantining with his spouse and 5 kids, but unlike Jen, they literally can’t go one step out the door—as Jim describes it—“taking out the trash is my ‘me’ time.” Like so many of us, Jim and his family are navigating completely unknown territory where questions of “what’s next” with jobs, school, trips and obligations remain vague at best—and he’s graciously invited us to take a peek at how his family is handling it all with his hilarious online series “Dinner with The Gaffigans.” If you think you deserve a parade because you cooked 3 meals for your family in a day while in quarantine, or because you changed a water filter without calling anyone, Jim and Jen are your staunch advocates. Ultimately, they discuss what they hope we’ll walk away with from this unsettling season, and Jim even gives Jen a pep talk about the pros and cons of launching a new book during a pandemic.

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0:00.0	Everybody! Welcome to our special quarantine queen series on the Fourth Love podcast.
0:14.0	Today is a day, man. It's a good day. I'm so happy that you've downloaded today's episode.
0:21.6	We are, you know, in this weird moment of isolation and some of you are alone.
0:27.2	Some of you are with a whole gang of other people like my family.
0:30.9	And we're all sort of figuring out this new normal and figuring out how to break up these days,
0:37.2	figuring out how to connect with people. Now that our normal channels are not available to us,
0:42.8	figuring out how and when we can laugh because that still matters. You know, I reached for humor.
0:49.2	Humor is my number one outlet. It is my favorite thing in the whole world. I have loved it forever.
0:56.8	All my heroes are comics and comedians. So, I mean, I don't even know what to say.
1:04.9	Like today's guest is just, I have been such a fan for so long.
1:13.2	And so having him on the show right now at this time means the world to me.
1:18.4	Guys, Jim Gaffigan is here today. Jim Gaffigan on the show. It's the greatest.
1:26.1	He has been making us laugh for so long. And I mean, sincerely, Jim has been this connecting
1:33.7	point with me and my family for years. We took Gavin to see Jim's live show for his 13th birthday.
1:40.5	And he turns 22 next week. I'm just thrilled that he came on today. And he makes us laugh.
1:45.8	He's going to make you laugh in this episode, of course. He can't help it. He just can't even help being funny.
1:51.1	But it's also like a really earnest conversation. You know, Jim and I both have five kids.
1:56.6	And he's in New York and they literally cannot go out of their front door. And so we kind of talk
2:02.4	right now about what this moment looks like for him and for his wife, Jeannie and their five.
2:07.1	And what we're hanging on to and what we're letting go of. And he is just as great as you would
2:14.0	want to be. In case you've been living under a rock, I don't know. Jim has countless award-winning
2:19.9	comedy specials, countless for his stand-up shows, for his books, for his spots on CBS Sunday Morning,
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