We're All Fat and Poor Now
The Jen Fulwiler Show
Jen Fulwiler
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
If you, like me, soothed your quarantine stress by drinking, eating, and shopping, and now the number on the scale is as grim as the number on the credit card bill, I have some words of encouragement.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm fat and poor. That's how we all feel coming out of quarantine. We've spent the past few weeks suddenly homeschooling our kids were stuck in our houses for the longest time we had no toilet paper |
| 0:16.3 | paper towels suddenly seemed like a really exciting thing in your life |
| 0:21.1 | dealing with Zoom calls, |
| 0:23.4 | am I on mute? |
| 0:24.4 | No, I think you're on mute. |
| 0:25.3 | Am I doing the Zoom sign language? |
| 0:28.0 | Where it's like, no, I think you're the one on mute. |
| 0:31.3 | You know what got us through all of this is we search for random things on Amazon, |
| 0:37.3 | we compulsively hit Add to Kart, or better yet I got a lot of use out of the Buy It Now button. Let's just know let's |
| 0:45.3 | Let's skip the formalities just get this on the way to my house and we did it all with a family sized bag of the extra crispy pretzels in one hand and a gin and tonic and the other. |
| 1:00.0 | And now we are faced with the consequences of those choices. |
| 1:05.0 | Did anyone else actually wonder at any point |
| 1:09.0 | if something happened to their drier during quarantine that it shrunk their clothes. I was putting |
| 1:18.0 | on jeans the other day and I actually thought, man we need a new dryer. I mean it's funny that we've had this for seven years. |
| 1:25.8 | Never noticed a problem with it before, but now I can't button my genes. What is with this, this is, |
| 1:31.5 | this dryer sucks, we, I'm absolutely we need to need to get a new one there's a real problem with this dryer |
| 1:37.9 | You know didn't occur to me that maybe it was my newly developed love of extra spicy Cheetos. |
| 1:47.0 | Not that I generally like extra spicy Cheetos, |
| 1:49.2 | but they're the only ones left in the grocery store. No, that couldn't have anything to do with it's probably the |
| 1:54.5 | dryer. Then we're getting the credit card bill from the Amazon purchases. That's |
| 1:59.4 | fun. I don't know what got in my head during quarantine, but I took our entire savings account |
| 2:06.2 | and I just mentally categorized it as monopoly money. |
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