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Jennipod Episode 11: Confessions of a Weather-Obsessed Podcaster Who Can't Put Makeup on While Driving
• Weather tracking obsession during Nashville severe storm warnings
• Podcasting as both a creative outlet and potential voiceover career stepping stone
• First improv class experience and meeting someone who performed with Chris Farley
• The joy of pursuing new activities at any age regardless of societal expectations
• Type A vs Type B personalities and my experience as a "passenger princess"
• Southwest Airlines' upcoming changes affecting credit card holders
• Netflix compatibility issues on older iPads
• Throwback to bizarre Facebook memories from 16 years ago
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What's up everyone? Welcome to episode 11 of Jenna of mouth. That would be sick as opposed to me forcing this upon friends and family, and to those of you who have listened to all 10 episodes. Again, I love you. It is Saturday, march 15th, and as I record this, it is a super severe weather day. Luckily, friday night it stayed calm in Nashville, but they are saying this afternoon will be bad. Tbd In Nashville.
Speaker 1:We are lucky to have dedicated Twitter accounts to follow the weather, but if you are crazy like me and obsessed with tracking severe weather, you need to get on YouTube and follow Ryan Hall, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all. Ryan Hall, y'all. He goes live during severe weather Tornado warnings in Arkansas. Don't worry, I'm here supporting you. Is anyone else like this?
Speaker 1:I can't remember if I told this story, but a couple years ago my nephew was in town for a soccer tournament about 30 minutes southeast of where I live in Murfreesboro, tennessee. On that Saturday of the tournament, severe weather was coming and they ended up canceling the late afternoon-evening games. I was obsessively checking my phone for updates. I was on Twitter. I was following like a different Twitter account for Rutherford County. I'm out of control. It's not the healthiest use of my time. My husband stayed with my nephew at the hotel in Murfreesboro and my mother-in-law and I drove back home. I had the radio on the entire time and we were getting those kind of old-school warnings like shh warning, there is a possible tornado, blah, blah, blah, and all the interstate electric signs had the warnings up. I was hyped up. We got home and I immediately turned on the news to watch the beautiful Danielle Breezy tell us about the weather. How about that? Your last name is Breezy and you end up a meteorologist. Love it. Now here is the thing Once the storm passes, I will still continue to watch the coverage. I'm worried about everyone. And finally, my mother-in-law was like sweetie, you need to turn this off, this is too much. And we did, and we watched a movie Again. I should have been a meteorologist, but one who sucks at math and science. I would thrive at the hurricane parties I hear about. Invite me down to one of yours. Invite me down to one of yours.
Speaker 1:After last week's podcast, my husband said my sailfish isn't ugly. And for some reason we got hooked on watching Florida real estate YouTube videos this week and every house had a sailfish or some type of fish up on the wall and he's like, look, see, this is a million dollar house. And I'm like but it's Florida, it makes sense. You go fishing for sailfish in Florida. We are in middle Tennessee and I said this sailfish has literally terrified our neighbor, elle, from the ages of five to seven, like crying. She won't go into the fireplace room because the sailfish is so scary. I don't like its eye. She says Neither do I, elle, neither do I. Catch Elle and I devising a plan to eradicate the big-ass ugly fish in my house.
Speaker 1:I was educating myself on podcasts this week and Buzzcast was discussing how successful small podcasts can be, even if it only ends up being your friends and family, and the biggest thing is ensuring it's a hobby that you enjoy and not it turning into something that stresses you out, because obviously I am doing this for the fun of it. So I am doing that for friends and family and also trying to slowly build my voiceover career outside of my normal nine to five job, and actually podcasting is getting my voice out to more people than I could do just doing auditions, so maybe someday the right person will hear it. The goal is to one day have a voiceover agent, maybe Question mark. This process is fluid and ever-evolving people, but the podcast I was listening to went into the thinking of everyone and anyone could podcast. It's just another platform of social media, just like everyone has Instagram or Facebook. They talked about how even teachers and professors are doing podcasts for their classes and I'm like, well, that's pretty sweet. I think I would have enjoyed that. Maybe you are an expert in something that may help another person. Maybe you have experienced an illness, loss, sad things, happy things and you can share that with people. Maybe you are an expert in your field and can create a podcast for your work.
Speaker 1:Now, I have never gotten into listening to audiobooks. I do like to read. I wish I had more time to read. If you listened to an audiobook, do you tell people you read the book? Because I don't think you did. You listened to the book. Reading is a different skill, so if you had a podcast, what would it be about? Mine is about nothing. I'm Seinfeld. I'm just rambling off my internal dialogue, mixed with trying to make people laugh, and I know I've made some of you laugh a lot and that warms my middle ages heart. I've read a couple times where there is a small portion of the population that doesn't have an internal dialogue. There went some thunder. Can the listeners hear that? Back to the internal dialogue. I cannot conceptualize that I be constantly nonstop in this noggin. If you do not have a internal dialogue, please call into the show right now and we're going to talk about it.
Speaker 1:I went to an improv class this week, my first one ever. Shout out to Oddity Improv that currently performs at the Franklin Theater at the Factory. It was cool. I grew up doing musicals and show choir, but I never did drama club or like actual acting. I played piano, did some voice lessons, yada, yada. Now, if I ever go back and go through all my home videos that my parents have, your girl was doing improv on her own with a giant camcorder from a very young age Hashtag only child. My gymnastics friends and I made millions of videos and then through high school my friends and I would do skits. My friend Jenny went to Princeton. Friends and I made millions of videos and then through high school my friends and I would do skits. My friend Jenny went to Princeton and I know she listens, hey girl. And at her house once we recorded the entirety of Disney's Aladdin, like I'm pretty sure we did dialogue and every song did dialogue. And every song she may remember better than I Costumes jumping around on furniture running around Basically a full working movie studio.
Speaker 1:I hope, I fucking hope, there is a video somewhere at my parents' house of me dancing to Silk's 1993 hit Freak Me. I was 11, and just like last week, we are going to do a reading, a reading from Silk's Freak Me. Let me lick you up and down till you say stop. Up and down till you say stop. Let me play with your body, baby, make you real hot. Let me do all the things you want me to do, cuz tonight I want to get freaky with you and scene. Now you may ask Jennifer, how did you have access to such freaky music? It was on the radio, I'll assume Q102. And I remember we were playing around with the camera and it came on and, just like Spielberg, I yelled action and my friends and I started dancing. So my goal is to find this video. I'll do it for the fans.
Speaker 1:I know I had bangs and Bermuda shorts on, with either a leotard or a swimsuit. I was spoiled and had an in-ground pool growing up and to this day I hate public pools. Get out of here. I am way too good for that nonsense, unless it's at an all-inclusive resort with delightful cocktails. So back to improv. The only improv I am familiar with is Whose Line Is it Anyway? And Michael Scott going to his improv class on the Office. As most of you know, most SNL cast members come from the improv world. This class wasn't so scary, it was so welcoming. The two gentlemen that put it on were outstanding and everyone was equally nervous, enthusiastic and supportive.
Speaker 1:I talked to some women who, like me, were very into performing growing up and hadn't done anything since high school. One older woman was there, I'll assume in her mid to late 50s, in a boot because she had a stress fracture in her foot. She got the stress fracture from taking a ton of dance classes and she called it maybe I'm having a midlife crisis and I hated that. She thought that, like I didn't become an NFL cheerleader till I was 32, while most girls were doing that like between the ages of 18 and 22. Throughout my career in gerontology I have seen all levels of aging as far as how to do it well and how to do it poorly.
Speaker 1:At any age you should go do the damn activity that makes you happy. Go discover a brand new activity you always wanted to do. I've seen many, many people get into new hobbies in their 60s, 70s and 80s. I'm sure you've had parents or grandparents discover painting and they end up being amazing at it. Or maybe they pursue a new instrument, whatever that you know. Think of just any type of new thing to get into. And, good lord, go work out, because at any age you can improve cardio and muscle mass. And that is a fact. Ladies, you need muscle. I repeat, you need muscle. Also, working out equals independent. Go walk, and I digress Back to foot.
Speaker 1:In Boot Lady, she did theater at Marquette with the Chris Farley. Could you imagine having that in your back pocket for small talk? Now I got on the Wikipedia and it said he graduated college in 1986, and that would make the woman in the boot 61, so I was way off Hashtag math. So I was way off Hashtag math. She said their senior final was a three-page reading from a famous play I can't remember the name of it and he had to perform it as if he was drunk and he got an A. And that's your Chris Farley fun fact of the week, rip. So if you are into improv and have any suggestions, let me know. I do hope to attend more classes soon.
Speaker 1:Type A versus Type B people. I see so many definitions of these characteristics. Some I'm like yeah, I get it, and some I'm like it just seems so way off. But a quick AI Google and it says type A personalities are typically ambitious, competitive and often experience high levels of stress, while type B personalities are more relaxed, easygoing and less driven by urgency. Easygoing and less driven by urgency. I am definitely a more type A person, especially when it comes to forethought organization. I will put something in my calendar years out, but I'm so organized I rarely enjoy the moment at hand because I am always two to three steps ahead, worried about the next thing. I get this from my mother. Shout out, sharon. Now.
Speaker 1:I came across a type B person driving behind me this week and it was girl who is doing her makeup in the car. She was swerving around and stressing me out. Now, how does this happen? Has one forgotten to put her makeup on? And says to oneself I know what I'll do. I'll throw it all in the car and look into this tiny mirror while driving 50 miles per hour in this death trap vehicle. I have never put makeup on in the car, even as a passenger. I am a car sick girly. Couldn't do it if I wanted. Makeup is messy. That's a bathroom only activity. Anyway, girl, just wake up five minutes earlier.
Speaker 1:Some other characteristics I don't think the premise of extroverts and introverts exist. I think, pending the day, you either feel like interacting with people or you don't. I'm pretty outgoing, but I have skipped parties because I didn't feel like talking to anyone. I just didn't have the energy for small talk. Oh, I'm an introvert. I like to stay home all day. No, girl, that's agoraphobia. If you are on your phone texting, sending memes, you are interacting with people. Get over yourself. Take a shot of fireball when you leave the house to get jazzed up. Just kidding. Love you introverts. Just kidding. Love you introverts With being a type A-ish person.
Speaker 1:I always have a cooler packed wherever I go. I fear being hangry. I feel naked if I don't have a bottle of water with me. There always has to be a plan for food, always. If I have plans with a friend who I don't trust to make reservations, who said they will make reservations, I will make backup reservations just in case I have been hungry every second, I have been alive. You never have to ask me if I'm hungry. The answer is yes.
Speaker 1:Now, as a type A person, I will gladly get to the airport very early. I love the airport. Now, I'm sure if I was a business, a business lady who had to fly every week, I would hate the airport, but as someone who only flies a couple times a year, I find it exciting. I think I would work at the airport if it was a 10-minute drive from home. I have three friends who will show up to the airport as their flight is boarding Hello Stormy, brianna and Kelsey.
Speaker 1:One time on a girl's trip for a wedding, I remember approaching the gate and Stormy texted just pulling into the parking garage no, ma'am, now listen. I wish I was this chill. I do think I have calmed down by about 10% as I have gotten older. We don't have TSA pre-check, but it's on my mental to-do list. However, I can travel on the weekend with a backpack only. I stayed in a hotel with Kelsey back in October and the difference between the type A and type B person coexisting in a hotel room were very comically apparent. Love you, beautiful Kelsey. Oddly enough, for that trip I left my entire makeup bag in Tennessee.
Speaker 1:You can't always be 100% prepared. Now, as a typish A person, I realized last year that I'm always on like on as in brains on doing things that type of on, and I got to experience being a passenger princess, traveling with my mother to Cabo. I didn't have to plan anything except pack. I did not use my brain for seven days. It was the calmest I have ever felt as an adult. I would wake up and say what are we doing? Today, sharon? She would try and sneak in well, okay, we're doing this, and tomorrow we are, and I would say, no, shh, don't tell me a thing. We are only focused on today. Now, some people enjoy vacation planning. I am not one of those people. I feel too much pressure to ensure everyone is having a good time. So give your friends or significant other the gift of passenger princessing. It's 10 out of 10. It's 10 out of 10.
Speaker 1:Now, speaking of the airport, southwest has a lot of drama going on, with changes coming May 28th. I've come across all the videos on social media. I haven't seen anything like formally, like an email from Southwest. Say this but we are a Southwest credit card family. But we are a Southwest credit card family Never have had a problem with Southwest, so are you all giving Southwest the middle finger and canceling your credit card? Now, if you do have their credit card, you still get one free checked bag per ticket purchased. Now I need to learn more about how their points are changing, expiring. I don't like that. I don't fly much, so I definitely feel like that could affect me. Can someone send a detailed spreadsheet comparing Southwest Delta American and just shoot me the pros and cons? I feel as if I only need another airline credit card if I'm going international and need to save up for a trip. What rewards credit card do you have that you feel is better utilized than my Southwest credit card? Is it Amazon? Is it Shell Gas? Please let me know.
Speaker 1:So maybe four times a year I will set up ye old iPad and have a movie or television show on in the background while I work, specifically when I know I'm going to be sitting all day at my desk and I'm not moving. The iPad currently on my desk came from one of my husband's old jobs. I have never bought an iPad. My parents got me an iPad for my 30th birthday. I never used it and ended up giving it back to them. So, anyway, this week I'm working, I go on and open up Netflix and to binge Love is Blind, season 8, and it says this little warning comes up. And it says this little warning comes up. Unfortunately, netflix will no longer be available on this device after March 20th 2025. Visit Netflixcom compatible devices to see a list of supported devices. Um, I feel this is unacceptable. Netflix, your prices literally just went up last month. I'm streaming this show today, so just ensure I can stream it after March 20th. So, anyway, if someone has an old iPad laying around that they don't use like maybe it's your kid's old one can you see if Netflix works and ship it to me? Okay, thanks.
Speaker 1:Early on, someone on Instagram asked me the question if you could live in any show or movie. What would it be? I would want to live in parks and recreation and I would want to live in Parks and Recreation and I would like to work at the Parks Department in Pawnee, indiana. I've worked in the government for a total of almost 16 years and it is not as fun as that show makes it to be A really good watch if you have never watched it. Very, very funny. About eight friends sent me that Instagram reel that was popular this week. It was called New Game Night Idea. Read Facebook status updates and wall posts from 18 years ago and guess who posted it. And I do appreciate you people who are sending me all the memesy videos that reference what I've talked about on this podcast. So this week, 16 years ago, on Facebook, I said if you haven't seen the video of the turtle and the shoe, you are missing out. And I'm like what in the world was I talking about? So I did some googling and a search for turtle shoe videos from 2009. And I found it. So if you have time today, youtube, the title turtle trying to hump a shoe. I remembered it vividly and I was screaming laughing. I remembered it vividly and I was screaming laughing.
Speaker 1:On Thursday I was in the office supply aisle at Kroger and an older gentleman stopped me and asked me where can openers were. I think he thought I worked at Kroger and I loved that. He seemed to be a widow or a husband where the wife had sent him to Kroger and he never goes and doesn't know where anything is. I helped him. With my mom being in Cabo all last week, we didn't get to talk much and she wasn't in my Kroger account. But yesterday she started sending me some clipped coupons from my Kroger account and she said I'm back. I said, yes, you are bitch. Go find me some more coupons for your only child, who will not find coupons for herself. Stay safe out there during tornado season y'all, and have a good week. Jennapod is directed, produced and edited by me, your girl, jennifer. Please rate, review and subscribe to this on Apple podcasts, spotify or wherever you are listening to my lovely voice Laters.