No Fun with Jen Kirkman

This week: Jen talks about her four hour morning self-care ritual, fear of scary movies even in the morning, a dream about Kurt Cobain coming back to life, the horror when you accidentally send an email ABOUT someone TO that someone instead of your friend, it’s scientifically proven that power can cause brain damage and there is some chicken and rooster draaaama on the Next Door app this week...

This week: Jen talks about her leftover thoughts on the Academy Awards and Chris Rock’s new stand-up special. Is the documentary Inside The Mind Of A Cat going to help bring cats some due respect? Leaving a therapist who hated cats. Fake assistants are the cool new thing, a trend Jen was ahead of. Jen’s thoughts on her past friendship with the latest predator in Hollywood. And Jen has started...

This episode (like all episodes) was only available in full and ad-free on Patreon - but for a special bonus this month, this episode is unlocked and available to all free subscribers.  SEASON 11: EPISODE 2: “FOOT” ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE 1/12/2022: Jen talks about getting her right ear triple pierced as she enters her “funky aunt” stage of life, getting foot surgery and making a stink abo...

This week: Jen talks about Tom Brady’s future as a stand-up comedian, people who tape their mouth shut to sleep, rom-com movie tropes she’s sick of like kissing before brushing teeth or falling in the front door kissing while removing coats, would you hire a coach to help you make a decision that your therapist won’t? And more fun with the Next Door app as one woman is angry that she can make...

This week: Jen talks about a found alligator in Brooklyn and laments not being the one to find it, the vulnerability of talking about money goals, not feeling the need to find a purpose in life, and the “life is meaningless without kids” people are now new to self-care and preaching stuff to childfree people who already knew. To hear this episode in it’s entirety (60-90 minutes) and without a...

This week: Jen talks about how when making a doctor’s appointment she was told she couldn’t unless she remembered her landline phone number from 1998, celebrities need to talk about menopause, the UK has decided that women can’t get menopause relief at work because men will feel left out, lots of couples who moved in together during lockdown broke up just before Valentine’s Day this year, and...

This week: Jen shares stories clients who left their kooky therapists after one session, ghosting her own therapist after a decade, everyone is mad at Marie Kondo for giving up cleaning, advice for people with ADHD, Jen’s final conclusion in the search for the perfect day planner - ends up being a realization that she’s addicted to finding one and two women have invented a divorce registry to...

This week: Jen talks about watching a guy on a subway ask a woman he doesn’t know if she’s a poet, Jen’s secret life of talking to strangers about their lives, loving talking about other people’s jobs, why is everyone acting like a zombie these days, trying to avoid other people’s ‘dreams and schemes’ and the President of Ireland wants to do away with homework.  For full one hour AD-FREE...

This week: Jen talks about being approached by a stranger who said she says “like” too much, Hilaria Baldwin is still rocking her Spanish accent, the PM of New Zealand stepped down because of Covid conspiracy theorists, America is fine with bearing arms but not a woman’s bare arms, and other random thoughts from Jen.  For full one hour AD-FREE episodes of “No Fun” every week - join Patre...

This week: Jen talks about grifters and frauds - starting with the story of a Grey’s Anatomy writer who pretended that she had cancer, a story of a girl Jen went to college with pretending that she had AIDS in the 1990’s, Jen recommends her favorite podcasts about cults and scammers, it’s been proven that Vitamin C “immunity boosts” are not a thing, and Jen reveals the truth about acting scho...

This week: Jen dissects an article that says Gen-Z are offended by the thumbs-up emoji. Jen talks about how she got confused about which book she was reading and thought Prince Harry wrote a self-help book, how scary some white women are when you try to tell them that it’s a GOOD thing that Harry and Meghan are walking away from the Royal Family, an update on Jen’s parents social life and eve...

This week: Jen talks about getting her right ear triple pierced as she enters her “funky aunt” stage of life, getting foot surgery and making a stink about taking a pregnancy test, not being a white woman who doesn’t shower, finding out that Stockholm Syndrome is a sexist myth, and the bullying a woman got who left the Next Door app due to it’s negativity. For full one hour AD-FREE episodes o...

This week: Jen talks about how her family might operate like a cult, everyone needs to CALM DOWN and ease into the New Year - nobody should be sending emails on January 2nd, an upcoming toe surgery, Jen’s three New Years resolutions - one which she breaks during the podcast, a boring story about how her wool dryer balls were annoying her neighbor, and how knowing who Houdini is makes Jen feel...

Jen talks about the holiday season AND how you can listen to this week’s new episode. Hint. It’s Patreon only. Join for only $3 a month at  patreon.com/jenkirkman   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This week: Jen talks a young woman telling her she looks twenty-five and thinking that’s a compliment, family members who’ve never been to NYC who warn Jen that it’s dangerous, meeting cult figures and knowing something is off, according to The NY Times Gen-X are living alone as they get older, people on the Next Door app are concerned about a neighbor with a mountain lion and more!&nbsp...

This week: Jen celebrates a French man who sued his Parisian workplace and won the right to be “not fun” at work. Jen also talks about the Bling Ring documentary, the world changing with social media, the under-the-radar days of late 1990’s message boards, the Gen-X damaging worry of “selling out”, Kirk Cameron is a cry-baby about his bible books, freaking out about how to use a tap to p...

This week: Jen tells you what pundits should have said about Kanye and Alex Jones, every brand of herbal tea you love was started by a psychopath, an emotional journey realizing that she isn’t a planner person, fantasizing about being a bio-terrorist on an airplane, and Jen meets (and judges) her neighbors as she gives away free stuff.  For full one hour AD-FREE episodes of “No Fun” ever...

This week: Jen reviews the Lindsay Lohan Christmas movie on Netflix, and talks about her thoughts on the new Julia Roberts & George Clooney movie - they’re great, young people getting married is dumb, more Next Door app weirdos, good and bad reviews, being sick, celebs who sell water, ADHD & canceling plans, and a plan to not have a day-planner.  For full one hour AD-FREE episode...

This week: Jen talks about her worst Thanksgiving food ever and your special Black Friday Week (is that a thing now?) deal to join Patreon at 16% off. Click here to join:  patreon.com/jenkirkman   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This week: Jen reads more ridiculous comments from people on the Next Door app who are afraid of everything. Jen also talks about her Shingles, and the world’s most boring and yet exciting story about waiting in a three hour line for a car at the Boston airport and no one seemed bothered by the line - and she’s convinced she went through a portal or something and landed in a new universe of c...

This week: Jen talks about what she did and didn’t do on Halloween, walking home through peak trick-or-treat-time and wanting to be part of it, missing out on Ethan Hawke answering his door in Brooklyn in his Black Phone costume, and potential psychos driving ice cream trucks that night. In the Patreon version Jen also talks about her 83-year-old dad getting his first iPhone after using a fli...

This week: Jen talks about how a bad review about her complaining is spot on, being a former salesperson for a fake magazine, realizing how “loving Halloween” to everyone else seems to involve going to a party the Saturday night before Halloween?, lamenting not being in the cultural zeitgeist during a looming nuclear threat, how to stay safe during a nuclear war - it involves a plastic bag, a...

This week: Jen talks about a stupid article announcing that podcasts are dead - maybe three sitcom star millionaires didn’t need an $80 million deal? Jen talks about an old resentment at a friend who told her to talk quieter, more ADHD revelations, a story about getting glasses tightened, Jen thinks the only place she could really dance is Mar-A-Lago, the history of 2 Buck Chuck wine, and som...

This week: Jen talks about she’s worried Americans will disappoint her by not getting vaccinated and not voting thus ruining the holidays with new variants and fascism, bats in Russia have a new kind of Covid that evades all vaccines so far, Jen found her perfect dayplanner (she thinks) and wrote an emotional email to the CEO of the company, a dog jumped on Jen while she was asleep during a f...

This week: Jen talks about how NASA exploded a meteor and wonders if anyone is opposed to big government saving the planet against their will? Also, Jen talks about her mom’s thoughts on Prince Charles becoming King, the end of Jen’s bullet journaling and the lonely existence of not having the planner you want, trying to pay cash at a coffee shop leads to a generational divide, and financial...