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I'm recording from home. I mean I always do. Why did I just say that? What? I'm not even paying attention to what I'm doing. I'm recording from my living room. Those of you who have the video version and that is available on patreon.com slash gen.corkman.com

recording in my living room the power went out in my place. This podcast is being recorded due to the magic of the hotspot connection to my phone.

And my computer because you need the internet to use anything. Don't you. Anyway, okay. So I'm just a little discombobbed. You guys my power just went out an hour ago. It went out the I sat down had all my lighting lit up all the things I use for the video version ready to do the podcast and then it just all went out.

And so I'm recording here in the daytime. Luckily it's not in the sitting in the dark. But I've got to say like I didn't come to the microphone with a clear head. I came to the microphone going, okay. Let's hope the power comes back on.

I'm sure it will. It's a little outage in my area. It's fine. But when your power goes out, it's amazing. The first five minutes. How stupid you are about it. And you know what I'm going to stop saying you maybe you're like no I'm not actually how stupid I was about it. Let's keep things in the I statement. Thank you. Yeah.

Here's the thing. Power goes out. So I go to the little electric grid power grid. What the fuck ever you call it that thing in your home. You open up the little gray door. You flick the buttons left right left right.

Fuse box. Oh my god. I've been trying to think about word for five minutes. Fuse box.

But the fuse box is in a dark corner. So what do I do? I turn on the light that's lit by electricity in that corner so that I can see the buttons on the fuse box so that I can flip the buttons to see if the power will go back on. And I'm like.

What is this light work? Oh right. I'm standing here because the power is not on. That's why the light doesn't work. Okay. I could go get a flashlight. I have one. I have a whole kit people. I've got like a pandemic kit. I've got an earthquake kit. I've got stuff in my trunk. I'm ready.

But I'm too lazy to walk into the kitchen to get a flashlight out of the drawer.

So I just squint and I flick all the buttons and it's not a fuse in my place. It is condo wide. It is out of my control.

So then I think, well, I'm going to go downstairs, see what the door man has to say about this. But first let me pee. Well, my bathroom doesn't have natural light. There's no window in my bathroom. So I flick the light on so that I can pee. I guess I guess I guess I guess I've never really taken a look at the fact that I automatically flip a light on to pee. Now I can find the toilet. It's not pitch black. I see it there.

But I guess I put a light on to pee. Okay. So I put the light on. It doesn't go on and I think what's going on? All right. The power went out. And that's why I'm peeing because I want to empty my bladder before I go downstairs and maybe spend some time down there. I mean, you would think it's just constant.

And then I think, oh, well, maybe I'll just go somewhere. I'll change up my day. And then I think I can't because the parking garage is on an electric grid. And so now I can't even get my car out.

It's just every little thing, every minute of my life, every second of my life is connected to being completely dependent on electricity.

Now the more spiritual moments in my life, when I've felt like, you know, when I, when my explanation of God has to do with more of an intelligence to the universe or this one of my favorite quotes by the poet Rumi is live as if the universe is rigged in your favor.

And I think to myself, you don't actually need to say to myself, Jen, I think is always to yourself. You dumb, dumb, dumb. Anyway, so I think often, or when people ask me, can you define the tenant of your spiritual beliefs? I say, I don't know, maybe some connection to the universe, some flow is always there. It's like electricity. You just have to plug into it.

Think of how many things we rely on every day without thinking about it. We just put our faith in it. But we don't do that when it comes to, I don't know, surrendering to an all-nuring universe in some aspects of life in terms of when we can't let a thought, a thought rotation go or we obsess over something or we worry, you know, that kind of thing.

Well, now here's the great overlord electricity and I can't connect to it. So if I disproved all my theories, no, because electricity is still there, I just can't plug into it right now. And that's how I feel when I'm at a spiritual bottom. I know it's there. I can't tell it's there.

No, I'm not high. This is just how I am anyway. Anyway, no fun. The Jen Kirkman podcast. What is this podcast? Well, I'm Jen Kirkman. I'm a comedian. You may have seen my Netflix specials just keep living or I'm in a dialogue and I feel fine. I have written two books. One is about not one in kids. One is about getting divorced, turning 40, traveling, dating, blah, blah, blah. I would actually encourage you to buy them. The more you buy those books, I don't actually see the money.

In terms of there would have to be so many million sold for me to see residuals, but book sales do help the possibility that I would someday get a third book deal. I have tried to get a third book deal. I have given two elaborate pitches to my agent who has then pitch them to every publishing house ever and they have said her book sales need to be bigger for us to give her a third book deal. So there you go. Everything you do helps subscribe here. Give it five stars. Write a good review by a book brand new everything you do.

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