Sheltered Kids Who Grew Up To Be Funny: Trey + Katie Kennedy and Jake Triplett

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We’re back with more funny, and this week doesn’t disappoint. For those of you who grew up in the Bible Belt and maybe went to a conservative church (or even if you didn’t), perhaps you were a bit sheltered like our guests this week. Before racking up over 12 million combined followers on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and elsewhere, and hosting the hit podcast Correct Opinions, comedian Trey Kennedy came to fame on the short-form videosharing app Vine. His hilarious and pointed videos ranged from imitating a church youth pastor who is cornily trying to be cool and up on pop culture, to an overly sunny Dad who tries to drag his teenage son out of bed to go to church. Now, Trey has teamed up with his friend Jake Triplett, who he met at a Christian camp, and the two co host the podcast, along with Trey’s wife Katie (who keeps the pair on track and from going down too many rabbit holes). In this episode, the trio and Jen share the commonalities of their Baptist church upbringings, their naivete about dating customs (hearing Jake’s assessment of what he thought french kissing was will make you howl), and how Trey’s Bible wielding grandmother had a serious talk with him about rumours of him being gay (He’s not. Not that there’s anything wrong with that). They've managed to turn being 'sheltered' into comedy gold, and they’ve been taking their brand of comedy all around the country with their recent “Grow Up” tour and their clean comedy is resonating everywhere. Their funny spin on their past doesn't just give us a good laugh; it also makes anyone who had a similar childhood feel like part of a big, quirky family.

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Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Vine

Correct Opinions (Podcast hosted by Trey, Katie, and Jake)

Trey Kennedy’s Grow Up Comedy Tour

Jake Triplett’s Sheltered Kid Special

Shiny Happy People Docuseries

For the Love Episode ft. John Crist

Make Me Care About Podcast Interview with Melinda Gates

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Jim Hatman, you're here, your host of Be For The Love podcast.
0:07.3	You guys, welcome to the show.
0:09.2	This is so fun.
0:11.0	This is kind of some of my favorite stuff to do on this show because we're in a series
0:15.0	called For The Love of Funny.
0:17.2	And I love all the like, serious and so reminded and important and big conversations that
0:25.8	we host on the show.
0:27.5	But I also love to laugh.
0:29.4	And I love funny people.
0:31.2	And so if I had my brothers, we'd be doing a humor series like every third series.
0:36.6	And so I've been so looking forward to this one and for good reason.
0:40.3	Today, you guys, we have a hilarious trio on today.
0:45.2	And you probably know them already, of course.
0:48.7	We have Trey Kennedy and his wife Katie on today and Jake Tripplet.
0:53.8	So I love these guys.
0:56.1	I've been consuming like, Trey's content for years.
0:59.8	He is so funny and he's got kind of short videos that you've positively seen.
1:05.0	And I think I just relate to so much of his stuff because I grew up in a similar way.
1:09.7	In church, every time the doors were open, sort of in the buckle in the Bible belt.
1:14.2	And that is a ton of their source material.
1:16.2	And so I think just for me, because it's so familiar, it's hysterical.
1:20.2	But no matter what your childhood was, they are hilarious.
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