CONVERSATION
No Fun with Jen Kirkman
Misfit Toys
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
This week: Jen talks about talking to strangers in NYC, helping strangers take a photo and the kindness of a stranger who snuck her into a subway station. Jen also talks about the art of conversation that doesn’t devolve into debate, women giving up dating apps over the summer, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Miss Fit Toys. |
| 0:02.0 | Well, she's got a lot of things on her mind to talk about now. |
| 0:09.0 | She's taking care of her voice so you know that she's not going to shout now |
| 0:15.4 | She's not going to shout now. So get your headphones ready to hear what it's all |
| 0:20.7 | about now when it's all about now what it's all about |
| 0:23.4 | we'll have no fun fun cushion group with vodka scrubs that today |
| 0:28.4 | we'll have no fun fun clucchen group with vodka scrups that today No fun the Jen Kirkman podcast, Kirkman podcast, Kirkman Podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | No, on the Jen Kirkman Podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | Episode 34 season 11, back after Labor Day even though I'm recording this before that. |
| 0:47.2 | Whatever who cares you don't need to know these behind the scenes things why am I |
| 0:51.2 | taking you behind the curtain when I don't need to. the week I'll be talking about a million things having to do with talking to strangers |
| 1:04.7 | an article about good conversation why is America so mean lots of things so |
| 1:12.0 | so Lots of things. So where should we begin? Where should we begin? I was thinking about how I'm always like I hate small talk blah blah and trust me I |
| 1:27.2 | hate people who hate small talk if that makes any sense because I'm not trying to sound cool or like I'm above it you know whatever you |
| 1:38.4 | think of when somebody says I hate small talk I promise I'm none of those things I'm not |
| 1:44.8 | boosy and looking down on people I can't possibly talk to the plumber that's not what I mean |
| 1:50.6 | I don't mean that I'm so cool, a small talk stupid and I'm so |
| 1:56.4 | punk rock and that's like what people in the suburbs do with a white picket fence |
| 2:00.6 | and I'm out here in the city with a safety pin through my nose that's not what I mean either. |
| 2:05.0 | I just mean the routine things people say, hi, how's your day going? |
| 2:12.8 | That's all fine. |
| 2:16.4 | I sometimes wish we could liven it up a little |
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