Jen Hatmaker

[Anonymous]

“I need the Internet to know that I spoke with my face and mouth today to Ina Garten.”

This just sounds so dopey. With my face and mouth? Huuuh? It does not sound cool when you talk like this.

[Anonymous]

Someone has commented on the podcast post on Instagram asking Amy to please not whisper and basically commenting that the audio is cringe!

[Anonymous]

Part of me wonders if her adult child is really in crisis or if her publicist has noticed that the parenting posts are the only thing getting comments or likes!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“I need the Internet to know that I spoke with my face and mouth today to Ina Garten.”

This just sounds so dopey. With my face and mouth? Huuuh? It does not sound cool when you talk like this.

There is something DEEPLY unsettling about middle aged women acting fangirlish around other, more famous, women. How demeaning and unsettling. Privately, I am sure that Ina is rolling her eyes. Just like Jen privately rolls her eyes with her dwindling cluster of corn eaters fangirl over her.

How many of the confident, professional, solid and grounded women in your real life that you admire act like 16 year olds meeting Taylor Swift?

[Anonymous]

We went from The Barefoot Contessa to plant death and we're rounding out the day cleaning our bed pillows!

[Anonymous]

FTL podcast has become a joke! JH is fake. Period. Shes as genuine as a rock. She’s about her and “feeling like she’s succeeding”. Her “tribe” is her ego boost. Her “friends” are like a bunch of high school mean girls. Who are her friends because she pays for their fancy vacations and feels important when she posts about them with her dwindling following. It’s just sickening. She was once someone worth following and was relatable or at least better at hiding. Honestly, it seems like she needs an intervention. If her friends were real, they’d tell her this. I feel sorry for her.

[Anonymous]

I can’t imagine more than 300-500 people download/listen to her podcast. She has zero business acumen to make a podcast successful. Adding a co-host was a good idea but this Amy person? I watched the preview and saw Amy’s laptop of strategically placed stickers on it and thought about her sitting at home and applying those in an effort to look cool and immediately felt sad for her.

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I’m really bothered that she seems to proudly claim she got mad at someone over her stupid interview with Ina. Jen sounds like such a nasty person. I’d suggest she listen to this interview beginning at the 4 minute mark. She owes someone an apology and needs to get over herself: https://youtu.be/ozhPumrtFR0?si=XPl2oPBnpl2qqzRr

I can’t believe I used to actually respect her.

[Anonymous]

The podcast "rebrand" is a major fail and I feel bad for Amy. She does not have the media skills or personality to be a podcast host and I am guessing she has no experience om anything like this. She isn't funny at all, her volume is all over the place, and their conversations are just super awkward. I think Jen picked her because she's local and she probably didn't have to pay her that much and because like others said, she serves as a bland partner to give Jen more reason to talk about herself. But it was a bad decision and I am wondering how long Jen keeps her on because it is so obviously not working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The podcast "rebrand" is a major fail and I feel bad for Amy. She does not have the media skills or personality to be a podcast host and I am guessing she has no experience om anything like this. She isn't funny at all, her volume is all over the place, and their conversations are just super awkward. I think Jen picked her because she's local and she probably didn't have to pay her that much and because like others said, she serves as a bland partner to give Jen more reason to talk about herself. But it was a bad decision and I am wondering how long Jen keeps her on because it is so obviously not working.

Sounds like something I would do over too much wine-- "OMG we are so funny! You should be on my podcast with me!"

Except... I wouldn't actually HAVE a podcast.

[Anonymous]

We haven't heard much lately about the book Jen was working on at MeCamp this summer. The one that Simon and Shuster was salivating over where Jen was going to willing to just row out to open waters with no energy for the row back home.

[Anonymous]

Is Amy famous in some specific subculture? When Jen announced her as a co-host, there were a handful of comments that were like “AMY FREAKING HARDIN!!!” but not one word has been said about what Amy’s specific niche / job / claim to fame is. Nothing about her persona on mic makes the choice make sense, so is there something behind the scenes? Like she’s a leader in a demographic that Jen wanted to try reaching?

[Anonymous]

Is Amy famous in some specific subculture? When Jen announced her as a co-host, there were a handful of comments that were like “AMY FREAKING HARDIN!!!” but not one word has been said about what Amy’s specific niche / job / claim to fame is. Nothing about her persona on mic makes the choice make sense, so is there something behind the scenes? Like she’s a leader in a demographic that Jen wanted to try reaching?

She has zero online presence that I can see. I assumed the people making comments were just locals who know her from church. I don't get it, either. I guess Jen was limited to finding someone in her town who had an open schedule since she's filming in her studio.

[Anonymous]

Jen just strikes me as some entitled brat who has never been told “no” in her life nor has ever once had a single difficult conversation.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like something I would do over too much wine-- "OMG we are so funny! You should be on my podcast with me!"

I feel like that is exactly what happened. I also think Jen chose someone who makes HER feel funny rather than someone who is actually funny. Amy laughs at her jokes and lets her be the main character. But that doesn't make her a good cohost.