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Jennipod Episode 19: My podcast studio is suffocating me, but at least I found patio chairs.
• Real ID implementation day turned out to be relatively drama-free, with travelers simply being handed information cards at airports
• Recording in a tiny closet studio with soundproof panels nearly caused oxygen deprivation and lightheadedness
• The evolution of human communication from hieroglyphics to shorthand texting raises questions about our linguistic future
• Modern movie theater experiences with reserved seating and recliners are a far cry from the 90s battle for seats
• A musical theater dance class taught by the Jersey Boys choreographer provided a refreshing break from social media-obsessed dance environments
• Facebook Marketplace adventures led to scoring patio chairs from a $4 million home and subsequent internet stalking of the owners
• Contemplating attending a high school reunion after 25 years brings up memories of wedding planning delegation
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What's up everyone. Welcome to episode 19 of JennaPod. We've done 19 weeks straight, folks. Today is Saturday, may 10th and, of course, as I sit down to do this, I can't find my glasses. I am so organized in every aspect of my life, but where are they? I know I had them on this morning, so I think it's time for me to add some croquis, maybe a very jeweled, croaky situation. So I just have them at all times of my life Because, listen, we're in the Middle Ages. Your girl can't see Real ID.
Speaker 1:Implementation day was a letdown. I heard of zero drama Per neighbor, kyle and Twitter. If you showed up without a real ID at the Nashville International Airport, you were just handed a red card that gave you information about the real ID and that you may be pulled for additional screening, but not all will be screened. Additional screening, but not all will be screened. Kyle also said he had a gentleman in front of him who had no idea what the real ID was. It's like come on, man, come on.
Speaker 1:My girlfriend Ann from Cincinnati was listening to the radio and they said it was all calm at CVG. They had extra people working and it was no problem. Best friend Reby flew back from Orlando and said it was a piece of cake Like the moral of the story is. It sounds like you don't need one, but when your license expires, if you don't already have one, you will end up with one automatically. So people were missing half a day of work for no reason. Goodbye, real ID Stories on the podcast. My gym friend Melissa said my voice finally sounded back to normal. Last podcast, thank God. You all don't know how many.
Speaker 1:I had to edit out the last two to three episodes. Save the bees, but can we disperse the pollen another way and not into my nasal cavity and throat? Allergy season was just batshit this year. So, as some of you may recall, my podcast studio is in a closet under my stairs. I put two-inch acoustic, soundproof foam panels covering every square inch. I even have a rug of carpet folded over on the top of normal carpet because we have a workshop under our home and I have extra blankets, with one even up against the bottom of the door. If you were claustrophobic, this may be your nightmare. So the issue is I am sucking up all the oxygen as I talk in here and there is no new air being piped in. Some people in the voiceover world will even get CO2 readers to put in their studios to ensure they are in the safe zone.
Speaker 1:When I was sick, I was recording and my black lab started barking and I ended up deleting about 20 minutes of the episode to redo it. Well, I went right back into recording for 30 minutes after being in here for 20 minutes and I legit started getting lightheaded. I had to keep opening the door to suck in oxygen. My husband wasn't home and I was finishing recording, come hell or high water. But I was like what if I pass out in here? I mean, I don't think I would have died, but see, this is why I have Siri turned on, because I could have been like hey girl, hey Siri, baby, call 911 and get a hot firefighter over here with an oxygen tank stat.
Speaker 1:I have told my husband if I go missing, he is to learn all my equipment to do a podcast about it. Like he will be the number one suspect, because husbands always are. But like, after they clear his name, get on in the studio and go viral. And if any of my friends go missing, you bet your ass, I'm podcasting about it. If I am personally kidnapped, I'll be like hey, kidnapper, can we live podcast about this situation. If you need some money, let's get some sponsorships. Let's get you on the mic. Let's learn more about you Anywho, learn more about you Anywho. In conclusion, if you decide to make a small, closet studio, make sure there's enough air so you don't end up on the news.
Speaker 1:I am not the only person getting inundated with true classic tea emails. My friend Kate has two 18-year-old senior boys. My friend Kate has two 18-year-old senior boys. Same first world problems with the too many emails. When it comes to email, I am very organized as far as clean out. I have four email addresses. Listen, I'm important, and if you need a time to unsubscribe to emails, that day will be Black Friday. One Black Friday I was in Cincinnati at my in-laws and I spent the entire day unsubscribing to every single random deal email that came through. It was annoying, but through perseverance it changed my email life. Thursday I was typing a work email on my laptop and I typed the letter U for the word Y-O-U and I felt my brain glitch.
Speaker 1:I remember taking one of my senior groups to one of the art museums in Tulsa and there was an exhibition on Egyptian hieroglyphics and it made me think deep about how people used to communicate through pictures, logographic elements, and that was from 3250 BC to 400 AD. The Phoenician alphabet came around 1050 BC and it used 22 consonant letters. The Phoenicians created alphabetical order to make it easier to learn and share with others, but the Phoenicians and Egyptians used only consonants. Eventually, as people began to write more and more, and more words were needed to be created to describe different things. The Greeks adopted vowels.
Speaker 1:I know there are people out there who are expert in writing systems and languages. That is not me. However, back to my trip to the museum and it got me thinking. So we used to communicate with pictures. Then we got letters, words, sentences, and at the time let's say it was 2009, texting was becoming more prominent. Texting was becoming more prominent, so humans in general started short-forming words. As you know, instead of okay, it's K In 2025,. If you look at a teenager's cell phone, I'm sure it's like a foreign language. When I still see T-Y as thank you, my brain can't comprehend it. I still don't know what it is most of the time. At my government job, we are hyper aware of emailing very professionally, but we do use slang in team messages. But I wonder, as time goes on, will the English language look more like slang, more short-form words? Will they come about? Do younger generations care about professional writing, or is it? I just want the shortest form of getting my point across. What languages are we taking to Mars? Languages are we taking to Mars? That's interesting and trippy to think about.
Speaker 1:It takes nine months to get to Mars from Earth and three years to return. So when the construction workers and engineers start building the all-inclusive Mars resorts, are they staying? Is it a one-way trip? Is it like the movies, where there will be a central library with all the information on the history of Earth, or are we winging a new way of life? I don't think I want to go to Mars unless, as I mentioned in my last podcast, I'm at my assisted living with all my besties and the July 2062 activity calendar comes out and it's like hey, 10 am on Wednesday, trip to Mars, sign up at the front desk. And then it's like sure, why not? What else do I have going on? The sun is eventually going to explode. So, as John McClane in Die Hard said, yippee-ki-yay-yay, motherfucker.
Speaker 1:I went to the movie theater with my parents to see the Accountant 2, starring Ben Affleck, last Saturday, since it was a rainy, rainy weekend in Nashville. I still love going to the movies, specifically the dine-in theaters with the recliner chairs the dine-in theaters with the recliner chairs. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the Accountant 2 had better reviews than the original movie, the Accountant. I don't know if I agree with that, but I enjoyed it. The plot of the Accountant 2 was very challenging to follow and, oh my, how the movie theater booking experience has changed.
Speaker 1:We love to open an app, book our seats, get some treedos zero stress involved. According to the interwebs, reserved seating became popular in early 2010, but before that we were fighting for our lives. It was war. We had to check the newspaper or call the movie phone line to see when a movie was playing and then we had to get to the theater 30 to 60 minutes early to stand in line for a physical ticket. If you remember when Titanic came out, there were lines out the door and you didn't even know if you were going to get a seat. It was a gamble Like, I guess, if we don't get in, we will go across the street to Bennigan's and order some potato skins and wait for our parents to pick us up. And, god forbid, you were 16 trying to see a rated R movie. It was like a bouncer at a club they would turn your ass away Like. Also, we had the parental advisory warning for explicit lyrics on CDs, which was established in 1990.
Speaker 1:I remember being at Barnes, noble or Borders in the Tri-County area and purposely going in to buy the Fugees album the Score featuring Killing Me Softly in 1996. I was 14. The checkout person said no, ma'am. So you know what I bought instead LaBouche's album Sweet Dreams featuring Be my Lover. We love some Eurodance music.
Speaker 1:Can Gen Alpha and Gen Z imagine rolling 20 people deep to the movie theater, not knowing if you will get to sit next to your friends? And like you, dressed up cute back in the day, late 90s, I'm going to the theater on a Friday night. I'm in a cute top, I'm in jeans, hair makeup, probably some brown lipstick. These days it's like the airport at the movie theater. We've got PJs, we've got blankets, we've got PJs, we've got blankets. When the movie was over I saw someone behind me with a Stanley cup Like how did we get that inside? Are you filling that up with some cherry Coke? I don't think the workers care. My dad had dropped us off at the theater since it was raining. No ticket, he just walked on back without us.
Speaker 1:Before I came down to Nashville, I lived in my in-law's basement for three months while my husband finished work up in Tulsa, oklahoma. It was at that time that I finally went to a movie by myself, and if you have never been to a movie by yourself, try it out. It's amazing. It's very freeing. One of the movies I saw by myself was 2010's Black Swan starring Natalie Portman, and if you ended up at the theater with family members seeing it, you know, shit got real, real uncomfortable, real real fast. I had never been happier. I was alone at a theater. These days and age, there could probably be a reality show of having teenagers attempt to go to a movie, but it's 1998. Logistics Basically the Hunger Games. Will we have dine-in reserved theaters on Mars? Tbd. I'll tweet Elon about that.
Speaker 1:I went to the musical theater dance class on Tuesday. It was awesome and it filled my cup. It filled my cup. I mentioned Jersey Boys. The Musical is playing right now in Franklin, tennessee, and the choreographer of the show came and taught the class. She was asked to choreograph the show three days before their rehearsal started. That is mad talent.
Speaker 1:Back in high school, I coached a five and six-year-old all-star cheer team and I tried to teach them a dance to a Britney Spears song. It didn't go well. To a Britney Spears song. It didn't go well. Anyway, back to Tuesday, there were about 15 of us, I'd say two teenagers, one girl, giverador, retriever, energy, and I liked it, and none of these people were dancers. So it was awesome to see people having the courage to attend something out of their wheelhouse. Was I the best dancer in the room? Maybe I was and maybe I was. I have attended many dance classes over the past 13 years in Nashville and I tell you what? It was nice to go somewhere where the choreography was simple, clean and enjoyable. You could actually perform it instead of being stressed the fuck out at an advanced hip-hop class. And no one wanted to film themselves for social media. It was just people who loved musical theater coming together for two hours of fun. I would go weekly if they offered it. I was in my happy place. Hashtag jazz hands. Hashtag grapevine.
Speaker 1:Allegedly I graduated high school 25 years ago, which feels insane, but it appears classmates are organizing a reunion for the fall. I was planning on going to my 20th, but I can't recall why I didn't drive up to Ohio Now. I was a class officer who was supposed to help plan parts of the reunion way back, but I haven't lived in Cincinnati since 2007, but luckily now I'm a four and a half, five and a half hour drive away. I joked with my friend Jillian, who is also from Fairfield and lives in Nashville, and my husband and I said and I said someone has to drive me because I am not a road driving warrior. That's right. I'd rather fly than drive myself 300 miles. Sue me, I was an only child and I had the luxury of sleeping every road trip I ever took, I would say through college. When I met my husband, I said I go sleepy in the car rides. I didn't even plan my own wedding. I literally went and picked out a dress and organized my wedding playlist for the DJ, which I discussed on another episode.
Speaker 1:We lived in Oklahoma in 2008 and traveled back to Westchester, ohio, to get married. So a destination wedding for us, if you will. My parents and in-laws did everything. I mean everything. They tasted the food, picked flowers, centerpieces, etc. I showed up like nice. The florist was shocked. I didn't want to see my bouquet the day before the wedding Like boo-boo, I trust you. So catch me maybe at my first class reunion ever in August or September. My college roommate Lauren already knows I need her to scan me our senior yearbook so I know what and who is going on. Go Indians.
Speaker 1:I have told y'all how thrifty my mom is and how she accesses my Kroger account and downloads my coupons. Well, I needed some new patio chairs because, as some of you know, if you leave them outside for 10 years, they start to deteriorate. When your friend's butts start falling through that textile, mesh fabric, it's time. So my mom finds four nice chairs on Facebook in Brentwood for $40. My mom and I just had to go pick them up.
Speaker 1:We drove separately in our RAV4s, looking like a scene out of the Italian Job. We roll up to a gated $4 million 8,500 square foot, 5 bedroom, 10 bath house. And how do we know this information? Everyone, fucking Zillow. God bless that website. The home, the outside, was gorgeous.
Speaker 1:I enjoyed perusing the 95 pictures on Zillow Chef's kiss. A British man and his golden retriever greeted us. I said how much for the dog Jokes. The man said, yeah, we had these chairs in storage forever. And I'm thinking, uh, hell. What else do you have? I'm here, let's go. If you need a mechanism to get rid of nice stuff, I'm your girl.
Speaker 1:The next morning I got a screenshot from my mom of a family picture and it says she is a gynecologist. No info on him. Sorry, I'm bored and stalking. I audibly cackled. Does everyone Google themselves at least once a year to see what's out there? I am pretty much nowhere except my work staff directory information comes up, but it's no personal information. My LinkedIn is deactivated right now.
Speaker 1:I keep hearing an ad on podcasts about Delete Me. It's a company that basically scrubs you from the interwebs. I have always wondered how content creators and influencers keep their personal information safe, especially if you have the kiddos. But also, everyone puts everything out there these days, so maybe it isn't an issue. I have no idea.
Speaker 1:I did create a podcast, but I feel it's different than posting videos and pictures every day. Maybe it isn't. This feels very vanilla. I like when podcasts post their episode on Instagram and then add pictures called without context, so maybe I start doing that, like this week. It would have been a picture of the four chairs. We got like generic pictures. Oh man, speaking of being on the internet. Is there anyone from the FHS Class of 2000 on OnlyFans? That will be a great conversation starter at the reunion. All right, y'all. Thank you for listening. Prayers up for my GSP getting his ball snipped next Thursday and me no longer getting teabagged. Everyone have a great 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.
