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Jennipod Episode 13: Dogs, Flies, Secret Wife Money, Air Fryers, and a new DMV Conspiracy
• Growing out natural hair color after 30 years of bleaching since 8th grade
• The secret to saving money: brunette hair is "cheap as hell" compared to blonde upkeep
• Dealing with the awkward growth phase and minimal gray hairs at 43
• Installing a dog door to prevent flies and HVAC issues from constant open doors
• Thoughts on Love is Blind Season 8 and the brilliant Severance season finale
• The strange interactions at European Wax Center and their relentless upselling
• My "secret wife money" system using physical checks from my part-time fitness job
• The mysterious case of weight data collected but not printed on Real ID licenses
• Adventures in joining Facebook air fryer groups filled with boomer cooking debates
Tell your mama, your granny, and your auntie to listen as I'm almost at one of my download goals again!
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What's up everyone, welcome to episode 13 of my podcast, JennaPod. Okay, people, I am almost at one of my download goals again, so tell your mama, your grantee, your grantee, your granny, your auntie to listen. Does this goal get me anything? It's just cool to see the numbers go up, since I do work pretty hard on this. That's what she said. Hmm, not a great one. That's what she said. I am recording this on Saturday, march 29th 2025. March went by fast and I know it's spring because flies are back. There are flies in my home. That's the telltale sign of spring. I put up those sticky bug catcher things in my kitchen. It looks amazing.
Speaker 1:I generally keep my back door propped open because of the two doggos that live with me, specifically my German short-haired pointer. This propped open door is on the completely other side of my house from my fireplace room where we generally hang in the evenings. This past winter was about all we could take going and you are bartering with your spouse on who has to get up and neither let in or let out the puppy because he's going apeshit at the door and it's 25 degrees out. So we have another door at the back of our house that we hope, sooner than later to install an actual dog door. Later to install an actual dog door as in a brand new door with the little opening. My mother-in-law was visiting in December and got to experience the magic and was so over it she said she would pay for it. We aren't making her pay for it. If anyone has any advice on these doors, please bring them my way. I know this installation will be a luxury, but we need it. I can't handle another summer of 1,000 flies in my home and my HVAC wondering why the back door is wide open. Did I mention the puppy can open the back door coming in if it isn't locked? Also, who do I use Home Depot? Help a girly out?
Speaker 1:The Cincinnati Reds opening day was Thursday. That's all I got on that they lost. I didn't watch an ounce of content besides what was on Twitter or Instagram. I got to go to a Reds game the summer of 2023, and I do miss them. It was very fun. It's just so different than an NFL football game, I think.
Speaker 1:If Nashville does get a team, I think the name they're throwing around is Nashville Stars. No clue where they are in that process. I'd be down to go to games, but not if they put a stadium downtown, I think it's a great location for tourists, but not for me. My friend Ann was driving through Nashville for, I assume, spring break last Saturday and yesterday and she texted that it took an hour to get from the south side of the city to the north side of the city on a Friday at 1 pm. Like, yes, if you live here, you know, and that's why I don't go to the office anymore. So, anyway, put the new baseball stadium next to my house so I can be the old lady that's been going to the games for 40 years. If I was that close, maybe I would work at the stadium. Just kidding, mama wants a cold beer, multiple cold beers.
Speaker 1:Season 2, finale of Severance. I laughed, I cried, I had my hands over my mouth, stressed the hell out. I loved it and I thought it was one of the best episodes of a show I have ever seen in my life. God bless the man who created, wrote and produced the show. His name is Dan Erickson. He's 41. Okay flex, the pilot script for the show has been around since 2016. 2016. He really didn't do anything big. Before Severance, he was a writer for Spike TV's Lip Sync Battle pre-show. According to Wikipedia, that pilot script was recognized by the Blood List. Now, the Blood List was an annual survey of the best unproduced horror and thriller screenplays, as voted on by industry officials. The list ran from 2009 to 2022. Eventually, the severance script came across Ben Stiller and his production company took it on. Script came across Ben Stiller and his production company took it on. So I guess the lesson is keep working hard and maybe one day Zoolander comes across your writing and makes you a lot of money.
Speaker 1:I finished season eight of Love is Blind. Spoiler alert. Only one couple got married. When Devin and Virginia broke up at the altar, I was so mad I turned the show off. Devin was crying and I was so sad. Now, at the reunion show, why are all of the girls dressed like they are going to the Oscars and the men look like they are going to a casual wedding? Either tone the girls down or tone the boys up. Who out there would go on this show? I do see the next season is filming in Denver. Nashville would be an amazing shooting location for this. Anyway, it's the only reality TV I watch and I love it, and this Cincinnati girlie loves some Nick Lachey. Back in 2013, when we went to the Reds when they were playing the Giants in the playoffs. We went back for two games and we were outside of a bar and my husband's best friend said Nick Lachey's in there and I had never moved more quickly in my life. He was doing a radio show. I was tickled. Nick Lachey is 51 years old, so he fits in category Babe.
Speaker 1:What do we do if Wikipedia goes away? Like, is someone copying and pasting all the articles on another web page? Is AI taking over? How we will get information? Yes, I am the generation where we had to go to the library to look something up or grab an encyclopedia, or you ask someone older than you. Now we just wiki it.
Speaker 1:I keep Siri on my cell phone because I ask her a lot of questions as I'm wandering around with my earbuds in and my thumbs not on my cell phone. I mostly utilize her because when I lose my phone, I yell hey, siri. And she says what girl? And I'm like bitch, where did I leave my phone? Another reason I keep her is because I feel I'm going to need her in a 911 situation someday. I'm going to need her in a 911 situation someday. I told you the last episode. I always have my earbuds in. Someone breaks into my home. I'm going to tell Siri to call 911. Now I know the Apple Watch can detect if you are in a car wreck, but I don't rock smartwatches. So as I'm hanging upside down in my car I'ma say hey, babe, siri, can you get me some help?
Speaker 1:I asked Siri something recently and after she answered I said thank you and she said don't mention it. Is she my new best friend TBD? Are we still doing thank you notes? Are we doing them? Thank you notes are big in the south. Now I I am not hating on thank you notes at all. I enjoy getting them. However, as a minimalist, I am not keeping them. If you send me a gift, can I leave you a voice memo back instead? I feel that that is just as intimate as a thank you card. Stamps are 73 cents right now. 50 years ago they were 13 cents. Also, I'm left-handed and most likely to smudge what I'm writing anyway. I mean, if I went to someone's wedding and received a personalized voice note, I would be delighted and it confirms you received the present. I guess what I'm saying is you don't have to waste 73 cents on me. Hell, you can call me while I answer 50-50 if I'm in the mood. This is a pro voice memo. Thank you podcast mood. This is a pro voice memo. Thank you podcast.
Speaker 1:I will be starting a new journey this week. As I type this, I have a free air fryer coming from Cincinnati. I've never had one. I didn't jump on the craze. My kitchen is teeny, teeny, teeny tiny and there's not a lot of counter space, so I'm going to have to leave it out in the way or put it in my pantry every day. Does anyone have an aunt or a family member that just gets free shit, sometimes legal, maybe sometimes illegally? Shout out to Aunt Linda for this new activity coming my way. My mom has been using an air fryer forever and is pumped. She is so excited. She sent me an invite on Facebook to a public group called Air Fryer Daily Recipes and Tips. I have not joined because Facebook is where crazy people hang out. There are over 556,000 people in this group. Now I get weird like what if I join this group and a crazy person finds me? Also, I can just Google recipes. I will say in this group you can search. So I tried it out and I searched burger. Because I'm thinking, with this air fryer I can cook more protein, because I have never learned to grill. If you are a woman who grills, you are a far superior species. I have cut the grass three times and I do feel like a colonial woman when I clean out the fireplace. Okay, back to burger search.
Speaker 1:A couple recipes show up and then it's like Boomer Central with this post. It read do you take turkey crown out of the plastic bag to defrost at room temp night before? So A, this has nothing to do with burgers. I opened the post and five people asked what the hell is a turkey crown? Someone said it's a turkey breast that still has the bone on, with no wings or legs. All this to say I just want to make some burgers. And now I'm deep in a boomer thread of people arguing on how to defrost a turkey. Another woman named Karen says I have been defrosting full turkeys at room temperature for 50 years. Never killed anyone. Yet Okay, slay, avoiding manslaughter. And then the next post is Sue saying please defrost in the fridge, it's too risky. There are 72 comments. Also, everyone is posting air fryer as AF, so I keep reading it as fuck. Anyway, I could have an entire podcast about this Facebook group and maybe I will it's too good Call into the show and tell me your favorite air fryer recipes.
Speaker 1:So I've reached a point in my life that I never thought I would get to and as a woman it can be very rare and that is I do not need a hair appointment. Right now I'm going to say that again, I don't need a hair appointment and I don't know the next time I will need one. Two years ago I decided the blonde was enough. I have been coloring my hair for 30 years, since 1995, when I was in 8th grade, and by coloring I mean bleaching my brunette hair blonde. I was born a cute little blonde girl. In a middle school that all started to fade and turn dirty blonde, my mom said, hell, no, not my baby blonde doll, we are taking you to a salon Now. Twice in those 30 years I box dyed my hair brunette and then I always went back to the hot mothership of blonde Love being blonde. So anyway, two years ago I was like I can't do this anymore. My blonde hair is gross, it's crunchy, it looks like hay, it's horrendous. So I started the process of growing it out. And when you're blonde and your roots come in, you're like, wow, my hair grows so fast. But then when you start growing out your real color, you're like, oh, this is going to take years. When I cheered for the Titans the first year I was porn star blonde. Now I will say, my first little gray hairs didn't start coming in until I was 41. And at 43, I still really don't have a lot. I think they are cute. They look like those little shiny glitter extensions all the young girls are putting in their hair these days.
Speaker 1:I used to get my hair done at the Dillard's at Tri-County Mall when I was in high school. Like Dillard's had salons, was that everywhere? To this day I am a department store girl. If I'm going to the mall, I'm going to Macy's and Dillard's first, because that's the Ohio girl in me. So I know gray hair is a factor for some of you ladies right now. And you're like bitch. I've been dying my hair dark since I was 20.
Speaker 1:I've learned my natural color goes better with my complexion and I do feel my makeup is a lot easier and I can make it more natural. I was supposed to have a hair appointment here in two to three weeks and I just canceled it because there's no need to just go in and spend money for the fun of it. Does my husband understand how much money I am saving this family now on an annual basis? Being and maintaining blonde hair has to be the most expensive hobby out there, because you have to go every six to eight weeks or you look ratchet. If you are currently growing out your natural color and need a support group, I'm here for you, as I've had other friends do it. I've had to send voice memos to them like I can't do it anymore. I can't, I look fugly. My friend, kelly Cooper, kept saying trust the process. You got this. Another catalyst for growing my blonde out is that at an acting class maybe two years ago, we got to do on-camera work and the color of my hair and my roots looked so whacked I had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself. Now I'm not trying to put anyone out of business, but being brunette is cheap as hell.
Speaker 1:The past couple weeks I have been doing a lot of driving for work and Pandora with Commercials is really changing up my ads. One of those ads has been for Abercrombie and I'm like well, abercrombie is cool, so they must think cool people are listening to Pandora with commercials. Therefore I am cool. The ad was like come to Abercrombie, our suits are on sale. I said suits. When in the hell did Abercrombie get suits? I just learned my closest mall doesn't have Abercrombie anymore. Are these suits in stores or just online?
Speaker 1:Thursday at the gym, when I was thinking about this ad on Pandora with commercials, I thought for me the quintessential hot guy is the late 90s. I'm thinking a 1998 man in all Abercrombie, not American Eagle. I'm talking a polo, those dark long cargo shorts with a million pockets for me to put my stuff in, maybe some flip-flops or your cool Jordans. You've got on some nice cologne, a backwards hat, a hemp necklace. Okay, I feel like a lot of women in my cohort of life could appreciate just the aesthetic of that hot guy at school. Oh, and if you are popping that polo collar, I 100% popped my collars in college. Never did the double popped collar, but I like it. So if anyone ever gets me a stripper at a party, just be like she would like a Retros 90 Abercrombie man.
Speaker 1:Update on the Real ID story. If you are new here, you will need to go back and listen to episode 9 with my story about going to the DMV to get my Real ID. I went to the DMV Friday, february 28th and I finally got my Real ID Tuesday, march 25th so a solid month to get the new ID in the mail. It is completely different than my old license. If you recall the story, the guy doing the final paperwork was like do you still weigh this amount? And I was like no guy, let's add some on. And I gave him a number. There's no fucking weight on my ID. It has my height. There was no weight. So was this guy just fucking with me? Or is the government collecting all of our weights and they're in a database and they're doing something with the weight numbers because there is no weight on my real ID? Now, hold on, I have my old ID in front of me and it doesn't have the weight on it either. What the hell have they been tracking our weight since we were 16? And they're like oh look, what happened to Jennifer? Like I don't need AI knowing what happened to me personally over the years. Ai doesn't know my muscle mass or body fat percent, it's fitness level Suck it. So I hope I never make the news where the police are describing my weight If someone still has to go through this process. Will you ask someone at the DMV for me? Will you ask someone at the DMV for me? This is very important. Do any other states have the weight on it? Anyway, conspiracy.
Speaker 1:I had one of the oddest interactions with a human. On Friday I was checking out at European Wax. Now there's a sponsor to get because that shit is expensive. So I go to check out and what I assume is a Gen Z girl says you were Jennifer, right? And I say yes, and she asks were you in a frat? At this point I'm so confused. Well, the answer was no, I wasn't in a fr frat. But then did she mean to say Greek? And then I thought does she think I'm a man? She said, oh, your name sounds familiar. And I'm like did I say my name was Jerry? Now, listen, I had a man with latestage Alzheimer's at my first job out of college. Tell me I was a handsome man and I thanked him. So I'm not offended, I was just confused.
Speaker 1:And then, if you ever go to European Wax, they attempt, like car salesmen, to sell you a wax pass. They are like if you give us $900 right now, it will save you $37 for the year and I'm like, what if I die? Does my husband have to call? He has to go into my Excel spreadsheet and call European Wax and demand my prepaid wax money back. They are relentless. So back to Gen Z girl. She was like I know you know the speech on the wax pass, but seriously, why don't you do it? In my head I'm like bitch because I don't have hundreds of magical dollars sitting around for this first world problem hobby of mine.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about secret wife money. I work a part-time fitness job where I get paid with a check Checks, Please google the SNL skit called checks. So I get a small check every two weeks and mama goes and cashes that at the bank. Yep, no direct mobile deposit here. My husband actually just found out about this like three weeks ago. I've been doing this for years. I'm not stopping. It's my secret wife money to do things like I said wax, get my hair done, facials, tj Maxx, what have you.
Speaker 1:So I look at Gen C baby and say I work a part-time job and when I have the cash I come here. She said, yeah, my parents still oversee my checking account and I had to get cash out the other day to go get another tattoo. At this point I'm like please let this interaction be over, because I can't handle it anymore. Be over, because I can't handle it anymore. I keep saying I'm going to leave European wax because of how much they harassed me for the wax pass, but I love their app for booking the appointments. So what's a girl to do, or maybe what's a guy to do. Thanks everyone for listening. Have a great week. Thanks everyone for listening. Have a great week, thank you.