RE-RELEASE SEASON 1, EP 1 “What’s The Hook?"
No Fun with Jen Kirkman
Misfit Toys
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week: It’s the very first episode of No Fun: The Jen Kirkman Podcast - back when it was called “I Seem Fun: The Diary of Jen Kirkman Podcast.” There isn't a hook. Jen talks into a microphone. By herself. It's stream of consciousness with a point. It's like this - Jen wants to talk to you so that you know who she is. Then we can go from there. It's an easy and free thing to do for thoughts that are too long to tweet and ideas that aren't quite yet stand-up or other things. It's your friend leaving you a REALLY LONG voicemail message - hopefully an entertaining one.
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| 0:00.0 | Miss Fit toys |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, it's me Jen Kirkton and this is my first podcast. I might not play in the right order like you might have heard |
| 0:42.9 | Three episodes so far and been like what do you mean this is the first but this is the first time that I'm recording and |
| 0:49.4 | It seems really dumb like I'm laying in my bed |
| 0:52.2 | I'm in my bedroom talking into a microphone and I used to do this when I was a little kid |
| 0:56.6 | I didn't podcast but I would take tape deck put a tape in it hit record and talk into it and then I would take another |
| 1:03.5 | Radio and play music over and then pretend I was a DJ so |
| 1:08.8 | That is an appropriate thing to do when you're eight and you don't have any money of your own and you live in your parents' house |
| 1:14.8 | And you're in your room and they told you to go to bed, but you can't sleep and you're trying to sneak some fun activity but I'm |
| 1:21.0 | 38 I have a car. I have some dough |
| 1:24.5 | I'm sure I could maybe find a cute guy somewhere as not even nine at night and |
| 1:30.0 | I'm sitting in my room talking into a microphone |
| 1:32.4 | So and I'm not trying to be self-conscious about it and I don't want to and I didn't even want to do a podcast for the longest time |
| 1:37.9 | So no, I don't want to hear the feedback. I don't this is what I basically want to do |
| 1:41.2 | I want to talk to you. I want it to feel like I'm talking to you. I don't want to talk to other people |
| 1:46.5 | I just don't I don't want to have to deal with the responsibility of keeping it into interesting |
| 1:51.6 | It's may not be interesting, but I'd rather take the hit for that myself |
| 1:55.0 | I just have always just wanted to get on to the microphone and talk |
| 1:58.2 | Which is why I like doing stand up, but then stand up you have to have punchlines and someone might be drunk |
| 2:03.6 | So you can be drunk listening now and you can heckle me. I can't hear you see |
| 2:07.3 | This is the beauty of this for me and so I feel like I'm talking to you now |
| 2:11.2 | I've been on the road quite a bit and a lot of the people that come to my shows are |
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