Jena Friedman Knows You'll Hate This

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Jena Friedman, comic and author of new book Not Funny: Essays On Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera, has a frank conversation with Bridget about motherhood, parenting, and losing her mom while she was pregnant with her son. They cover the perils of turning to the internet for advice on sleep training, what gets you through grief and a staggering loss, the writer's strike, the middle class struggle, feeling disconnected, and what happened when comedians started to turn on each other. They also discuss trans activism, abortion rights, gun violence, media bias, and the process of writing a book - among other things.

Bridget Phetasy admires grit and authenticity. On Walk-Ins Welcome, she talks about the beautiful failures and frightening successes of her own life and the lives of her guests. She doesn’t conduct interviews—she has conversations. Conversations with real people about the real struggle and will remind you that we can laugh in pain and cry in joy but there’s no greater mistake than hiding from it all. By embracing it all, and celebrating it with the stories she’ll bring listeners, she believes that our lowest moments can be the building blocks for our eventual fulfillment.

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0:00.0	This week we welcome comedian, filmmaker, and author Jenna Friedman.
0:05.0	I thought that the story is about my experience, my personal experiences.
0:09.0	If I could have like universal themes attached to them that maybe it would like
0:13.2	resonate and I also I don't want to be like a political pundit I don't know if I
0:16.7	mean it shit shit from some of the things I say on this podcast by your
0:19.9	supporters I hope they're still listening I talk about cancel culture because it was like hard at the time to write a book about comedy and culture without talking about that kind of weird elephant in the room. But yeah, I mean I hope that somebody who doesn't align with me politically will still appreciate what I'm saying in the book because it just really is my own experiences.
0:37.0	It's not, I don't have like a larger agenda.
0:39.0	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Fetticy. I'm Br Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:55.0	the drill.
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1:15.6	merch, and the ability to submit questions for some of our upcoming guests.
1:20.4	Support your favorite scrappy little internet heroes at fetacy.com
1:25.0	I'm with Jenna Friedman everybody welcome to walk-ins welcome.
1:30.0	I'm glad to have you and meet you I I feel like I feel like I feel like I
1:34.8	I feel like we've met but maybe we just haven't maybe I just feel like I know you but I
1:39.7	think I've seen you maybe I just bumped into you in New York when I was with
1:45.0	Adrian Apaluchi one night and I think you are performing I know I love her she's cool
1:52.4	she's just the most fearless.
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