Welcome to this is Jen probably episode 57. I'm not we've learned the hard

way that I'm not great at numbering. I'm guessing that's what this number is. We

have Shady Ray here with us and she is our onsite producer and then

Halle Lorde does all the behind-the-scenes stuff. They are amazing. I have a

lot of new people checking out my stuff so a quick intro. I am an atheist to

Catholic convert. I always say that first because all of my crazy takes on

things kind of come back to that even when I'm not overtly talking about

atheism or Catholicism. I feel like that is the salient bit of knowledge about

me that makes everything kind of click for you and I didn't convert because of

marriage. My husband and I both converted and I have six kids and I do stand

up comedy and I quit my job as a daily national talk radio host. I had a daily

talk radio show on a national platform and I went ahead and quit that. I made

that decision in March of 2020. I was like you know I don't need that stable

job. The benefits for my whole family and salary and no no what I'm going to do

is stand up comedy touring. That's my new life now. That was me in 2020 so I hope

that you are on this podcast for advice because obviously I have it all figured

out. We have a bunch of stuff to talk about today and today is a big day for me.

Shady knows this. This is the first time in more than a year that I will be doing

stand up comedy at. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. One woman round of applause here.

Yes. That I will be doing stand up comedy at a comedy club. I've done a little

bit of comedy at these like socially distance private events but the comedy

clubs are finally opening back up with social distance stuff going on. They're

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