"Jillin Off" with Jen Murphy and Christina Walkinshaw · Comedy Pop-Up Podcast Network

Strong Women, Big Crickets!

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Jen says a comic called her "a strong woman" and mocked her for ending on crickets.

1. Jillin Off with Jen Murphy and Christina Walkinshaw centers on a cruise-ship crossing through Alaska, Tokyo time, and Japan. 2. Jen Murphy and Christina Walkinshaw host the conversation and speak as working comedians living on the Norwegian Sun. 3. The episode asks what cruise life looks like when show schedules, time zones, and comedian gossip all blur together. 4. Christina shows a certificate proving she crossed the international date line on the Norwegian Sun. 5. The ship loses an hour almost every day after Alaska, and Christina says one day became "tomorrow" after crossing the date line. 6. Jen and Christina compare clock times in Thursday, October 30th and Wednesday, October 29th while they are on different sides of the time shift. 7. Jen says she had two good shows and cared about what the other comics thought more than what the audience thought. 8. She names Derek Ling Venice as a comic who told her, "I could tell when you got on stage, it was going to be a great show." 9. Jen describes a hostile-feeling but funny moment when another comic introduced her as "a strong woman" who can "end on crickets." 10. She says the line did not bother her much, but she heard it as a backhanded compliment. 11. Jen praises Julia Ladkowitz and says she is "falling more and more in love with her" after seeing her on Instagram. 12. Christina remembers meeting Julia Ladkowitz through Jen at the Laugh Factory and says she is now working constantly in Los Angeles. 13. Jen says the cruise channel bleeps Taylor Swift’s word "alcoholic" in "Fortnight," which surprises both hosts. 14. The hosts connect that censorship to the heavy drinking culture on the ship and to their own mixed feelings about alcohol. 15. Jen describes a Ketchikan bar called The Asylum and says the bartender Carlos flirts in an old-school New York way. 16. She tells the story of an Australian man who simply says he is "pissed" drunk, which she finds clearer than her own careful phrasing. 17. The conversation stays loose and fast, with both hosts interrupting, laughing, and jumping from cruise gossip to jokes about sobriety and stage work. 18. The tone is conversational and unruly, with long riffs, shared memories, and specific callback jokes about comedy and travel. 19. Best for listeners who enjoy comedian banter, cruise-ship stories, and live-show gossip. 20. Skip if you want a tightly structured interview or a sober travel report.

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Cruise-season banter turns into a tense, funny dinner detour.

The episode moves quickly from cruise-season deals and a yellow hat to Blue Jays talk, then jumps into Tokyo time before landing in a post-show dinner scene that turns uneasy when the table starts circling Charlie Kirk and Michelle Obama.

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You want a hangout episode that keeps swerving into weirder territory.

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