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Jennipod Episode 18: The Croc Life Chose Me, and That Piano Wasn't Free
• Dealing with my 19-year-old cat's apparent dementia and late-night screaming episodes
• Records of the world's oldest pets, including Cream Puff the 38-year-old cat and Bluey the 29-year-old dog
• Preparing for a Jersey Boys dance class and considering community theater auditions
• The true cost of a "free" piano: $426 to move and another $500 in repairs
• College drinking culture reflections on dangerous spirits like Bacardi 151 and Everclear
• Converting to Crocs after years of resistance—now a self-proclaimed "Croc lifer"
• The surprising revelation that my mom briefly quit her job to be a stay-at-home parent
• Final reminder about Real ID requirements going into effect May 7th for air travel
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What's up everyone. Welcome to episode 18 of JennaPod. Today is Saturday, may 3rd 2025. It's gonna be May.
Speaker 1:I saw a post earlier that was like halfway to Halloween shut, shut up. Just no one needs that energy right now. No one needs it. Did everyone start their training to become a professional dancer? What teams are we trying out for? I would choose one that already has a dome Pro tip if you are from Fairfield Ohio, specifically the class of 2000,.
Speaker 1:Does anyone know what happened to Ronnie Swain? The last time I saw him was probably the early 2000s, partying at Miami University. Plot twist if you go to our senior yearbook, his senior picture isn't there. Was he real? My friends and I need to know. Anywho, reach out to me if you have any intel. Anywho, reach out to me if you have any intel.
Speaker 1:I think my 19-year-and-two-month-old cat has a bit of ye olde dementia or some type of cognitive issue going on. Twice she has randomly started screaming and it's been first thing in the morning, like 5 am, and I shoot out of bed like the house is on fire to check on her. When I get to her she's like whoa bitch, settle down, I'm fine and good morning, according to a random cat to human age calendar I found on almanaccom. Cinders is like a 92-year-old lady and I talk to her like she's one Very loud, very clear words. According to USA Today and Wikipedia, the oldest domestic cat ever recorded was named Cream Puff, who lived to be 38 years old from August 3, 1967 to August 6, 2005. 38. I can't even fathom Little gremlin skeleton walking around.
Speaker 1:We have some drama on who is the oldest dog to ever live. According to DogTimecom, the oldest dog that ever lived whose claim was verified was Bluey not the show an Australian cattle dog who lived to be 29 years old. Bluey's record has stood since 1939, only being briefly broken by Bobi, a Raffiro de Alentejo, which is also called a Portuguese watchdog, or the Alentejo Mastiff, which is crazy. It was a big dog and not the Taco Bell dog. Bobi was first certified by Guinness World Records to be 31 years old in February of 2023. However, his record was suspended in January 2024 due to questions about a lack of evidence. So Bluey not the show at least temporarily regains her 85-year-old record as the world's oldest dog. Get it Bluey. They needed their real IDs for real verification.
Speaker 1:Next Tuesday I am attending a musical theater dance class Jersey Boys. The Musical is coming to the Franklin Theater and my parents and I are going to see it on Mother's Day. I have seen Jersey Boys down at our big theater downtown, loved it Phenomenal music so they advertised a two-hour Jersey Boys style dance class for $10. We love a deal. I'll report back on that. So virtual auditions for this theater for next year are going on right now and then in-person auditions. No, I'm not trying out, but maybe that is something I could work towards for next spring. I looked at the audition information and it said send your headshot, need one resume. Okay, a private YouTube link of your audition video. I mean no clue on how to do that. The video can include one 16-bar cut of a song in a one-minute monologue or two contrasting one-minute monologues.
Speaker 1:Now, back in my youth, I was a decent singer, not a great singer. I was surrounded by many great singers. I'm more of a chorus girl, a girly. I have never even attempted. A monologue Sounds terrifying, but I do this, so why not? What should my monologue be? This, so why not? What should my monologue be? Suggestions, please. But do I have an impulse bot piano in my home?
Speaker 1:Yes, I grew up playing piano for maybe two to three years legit lessons. And then it got hard and I was like no, my parents did not move my piano from Cincinnati because it's expensive as hell. So within the past two years I'm like I want a piano, let's get it, I'll play every day. Well, I get on the Nextdoor app and there is a free piano. I'm talking to Nancy, who owns this piano and it's only two miles from my home. I call a piano moving company and they say it will be $277 to move it. So this free piano cost me $426. Then the tuning dude was like well, this piano was asleep for a very, very long time. Aka, no one played it. So we got it tuned as best he could. It's half a note flat and it's going to take another $500 to make it super functional. The action of the piano needs to be taken out, whatever that means, and the axles need to be lubricated. So there is no such thing as a free piano. All I'm saying is that I want to play my piano and sing along and give small concerts in my fireplace room while people drink wine. When's the last time I attempted to play this piano? When's the last time I attempted to play this piano? That's none of your business.
Speaker 1:Speaking of drinking, I learned this week from another podcast that Bacardi 151 was discontinued, also known just as 151. The story from the podcast was about a bartender who had an older gentleman customer order a Bacardi and Coke a rum and Coke, if you will but the bartender used 151 instead and an ambulance had to be called because the man was so intoxicated he couldn't walk. When I got to college in August of 2000, I hadn't drank much alcohol before, but I did not like the taste of beer. So someone in the dorm said here, take a shot of this. And I did, and from then on if we were going out I would take three shots of 151. It tasted like gasoline.
Speaker 1:Bacardi was sold in the United States and Canada from at least 1963 until 2016, when production was discontinued. It was named for its alcohol concentration level of 151. Us proof that is 75.5% alcohol by volume. A bottle of Michelob Ultra, the beer of my mother, is only 4.2% ABV, aka alcohol by volume. The Wikipedia page on Bacardi 151 is very short, but it does have a banner called Safety and Lawsuits. It was highly flammable and the company faced at least two lawsuits from consumers claiming having been badly injured by said flames.
Speaker 1:I was 18 years old, ingesting this into my body and walking to uptown Oxford, ohio. I was thriving. Then I remembered another liquor that still exists to this day and I'm shocked, and that's Everclear. The puking-induced hangovers I have from this product make me shudder with fear. Everclear has four levels of alcohol, by volume, ranging from 60% up to 95%. If you ever had Everclear, it was probably in a large rubber trash bin that has been sitting with fruit and an array of mixers probably Hawaiian Punch or Kool-Aid for hours, and you would get your red Solo cup and have the time of your life until you couldn't remember the time of your life. Everclear is also used as a household food-grade cleaner, disinfectant or stove fuel alcohol, because its fumes and odor are less offensive than isopropyl and rubbing alcohol.
Speaker 1:How do I still have insides? At Miami University, we called it Jungle Juice. I've also heard it called Harry Buffalo. Jungle Juice, according to PunchDrinkcom, was concocted by American soldiers in the Southwest Pacific in the 1940s. Okay history. Do the baby college youths of America still do this? Or are they just downing their trulies and white claws or their mocktails, electrolytes and skincare? Maybe I'll go out this weekend and get some Mad Dog 2020, orange Jubilee and head downtown to Broadway let's not and say we did. And head downtown to Broadway let's not and say we did.
Speaker 1:I ordered some True Classic active polos for my husband because he was going on a golf trip and didn't have anything to wear because he hasn't been golfing in a very long time. But now True Classic is emailing me daily. Now I could have ordered these on Amazon and that's where I went wrong, but I actually used an influencer's discount code and honestly, with shipping, I'm not even sure if I saved money, but I get it. Companies need to email out discounts and fun stuff, but I am maybe buying these products once a year. I am not buying a product weekly. I'm not Jeff Bezos. So then if I unsubscribe from them, I'm not getting any discounts, so then I have to pay full price when I go back to order and truly this sounds like a scam. Does anyone work in the clothing email industry and can anyone explain this to me? Thank you.
Speaker 1:I know I have mentioned my dream man is a 90s Abercrombie guy, but in 2025, I want my man in some short shorts. We are talking seven inches and shorter. That's what she said. That's what she said. No, they aren't booty shorts. Show some thigh. Your shorts shouldn't be touching your kneecaps. Do I wear shorts? No, that is because I need a tan and also as a middle ages lady, the spider veins are coming in hot. No one prepares you for that, and I'm not looking at my legs 24-7, and then you happen to look down and you scream and it looks like a map of rivers and creeks. The internet says spider veins affect more than 50% of women. Yeah, um, 50% of the population is over 40, and, oh, it's more common after the age of 80. No shit. Well, I'll be wearing muumus around my assisted living at that point. I have already had many friends who have claimed me as their assisted living roommate. So get in line. We will create havoc, but we will also make sure we take all of our medications.
Speaker 1:On Sunday, my mom and some out-of-town family members went down to Arrington Vineyards in Arrington, tennessee, for some wine and snacks. Love a winery in any capacity. Take me to Napa. I heard you should always have a bottle of Prosecco at your home, ready with like meat, cheese and crackers so you can entertain at any moment. But how do you not consume these things while waiting to entertain? Is it like a locked refrigerator situation.
Speaker 1:So we got into the discussion at the winery of stay-at-home moms versus working moms and my mom said I stayed home with you for a while. I had no idea she quit her job as a property building manager to stay home with me. How sweet Her next sentence was I hated it, excuse me. She said. She lasted six months and went back to work. I was like, okay, you hated me. You said fuck this baby, I'm out of here. Her previous job begged her to come back. So did I suck as a baby? It sounds like it. I think I've made up for it, though, things that happened to me since the last podcast.
Speaker 1:I got a real OG pair of Crocs. Now I have been to the Crocs store several times but I had bought their platform sandals. But I had bought their platform sandals. It's the most comfy shoe ever. And then I ended up with three pairs of Crocs platform sandals and they're the only thing I wore last spring and summer.
Speaker 1:Crocs are primarily made from a closed-cell resin material called Croslite, I think, cell resin material called cross light, I think, which is a type of foam made from ethylene vinyl acetate. Sounds like the ingredients from 151, but they say they are non-toxic, waterproof and bacteria resistant. However, the big issue with the fancy dress croc shoes is when they scuff and scratch. There's absolutely nothing you can do. Can you run a 5k in them? Yes, do they look like you ran a 5k in them? Yes, but anyway, I received a DSW gift card for my birthday and went and got me some good old, regular Crocs. There weren't many color options, so I got like a light blue gray color and I want to wear them everywhere for the rest of my life. So I get it. Everyone that has been wearing Crocs since 2002. I apologize, I used to call them fugly, aka fucking ugly, and you know I am late to the game, but I am a Croc lifer. Now, if Crocs invents a workout sneaker, watch out. If Crocs invents a workout sneaker, watch out.
Speaker 1:We got through the third episode of Season 1 of the Last of Us on HBO. It's the episode with Nick Offerman, aka Ron Swanson. I cried, I cried. It was so sad but beautifully done, and that's all I have to say about that.
Speaker 1:We are approaching Real ID Week. People. This is my Super Bowl. Wednesday, may 7th is the day this Real ID goes into effect. At the airport, I have had a lot of people talking about this and asking questions. The news is saying this is do or die as far as TSA. So catch me for the first time in my life purposely watching network news Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. If you are flying this week, specifically Wednesday and on, please reach out to me and let me know the vibe. If anyone gets arrested, please film it. I have motivated people to find their passports they haven't seen in five years. I promise after next episode I will never mention Real ID again, maybe Lies. All right, y'all. That's episode 18. Thank you for listening and everyone have a great week. Thank you for listening and everyone have a great week Laters.
