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No Fun with Jen Kirkman

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No Fun with Jen Kirkman

Misfit Toys

I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself, 485516, Arts, Performing Arts, I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), I Know What I’m Doing And Other Lies I Tell Myself, Comedian, Society & Culture, Ast Records, Just Keep Livin’?, 396180, Personal Journals, Comedy

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jen talks about watching the Challenger documentary and loving seeing ashtrays in a board room, how the planet Venus might have life but we’re too busy poking around dusty old Mars instead. And listener emails about irrational fears.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Jen Kirkman.

0:04.8

Before you listen to this episode, this is a little special disclaimer that is not taped

0:09.2

from any sort of professional recording device.

0:12.5

So please, this is not really what the podcast normally sounds like.

0:16.7

And I would advise if you're new to the podcast, maybe start with a different episode, but

0:21.8

I wanted to add a little disclaimer because I taped this episode over the past weekend.

0:28.4

And I was talking about some certain comedy clubs that had booked a recently accused,

0:35.4

recently accused Ray Best, who is also a comedian.

0:38.8

He has multiple allegations against him.

0:40.6

He is in the LA Times with those allegations and a bunch of comedy clubs were booking him

0:47.9

and this episode you will see is largely about me battling with those clubs on Twitter.

0:55.0

Since I recorded the episode two of those clubs, the one that I was going to be in the

0:58.2

one specifically that I talk about in this episode, they no longer have this comedian

1:04.9

on their calendar.

1:05.9

So I don't know what happened.

1:07.1

I don't know if the pressure from the internet mounted and they decided they did not want

1:11.2

to do business with an alleged rapist after all.

1:14.5

But if anyone's getting riled up by listening to this episode and they want to take a reaction

1:19.7

against those clubs, they don't need to because they are no longer have an alleged rapist

1:26.7

on their calendar.

1:28.0

So if you're like, what the hell kind of disclaimer is this?

1:31.3

I'm just trying to check out this new podcast I never heard of.

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