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Jennipod Episode 20: What Would the Inventor of Photography do with 10,000 Cat Pictures?
• Mr. Worldwide status with listeners from the Netherlands, Iran, and the Virgin Islands
• More Mars colonization questions about water, supplies, and how workers will build infrastructure
• Confession about secretly ordering McDonald's via Uber Eats
• Discussion about summer ending for kids and childhood memories of gymnastics camp
• Digital photo storage problems with over 10,000 photos on her phone
• The surprising history of photography dating back to 400 BC
• Encounter with a four-foot rat snake lounging on her front porch
• Bachelorette parties gone wild with nude male models for drawing classes
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What's up everyone. Welcome to episode 20 of JennaPod. I'm Jennifer. Today is Saturday, may 17th 2025. It already feels like the middle of summer. In Nashville Someone from the Netherlands listened to an episode. Hey you, I forgot if I mentioned, but someone from Iran also downloaded an episode. I was talking to my Navy SEAL friend at the gym a lot about that. Now I also did see the Virgin Islands show up and I assume that was my old co-worker, danelle. Hey, old work bestie, she an island girly. So, like Pitbull, I am Mr Worldwide. So, like Pitbull, I am Mr Worldwide.
Speaker 1:Update on Mars. I saw a tweet this week that said seismic data suggests Mars could have an ocean's worth of water beneath its surface. So that's cool. Like we gonna dig, we gonna get some ocean water and then filter it into drinking water and for some hot showers. But again, until that mechanism is invented, how many bottles of water are being shipped up for these workers building all the shit on Mars man?
Speaker 1:I could ask a lot of dumb questions to Elon about all of this, but this is how my brain works. Okay, we need toilet paper, we need food, we need medicine. Maybe they build a Costco Sam's situation first. Well, are robots going to build everything? That kind of sounds can we breathe on Mars? Maybe I should have Googled that first I. Are robots going to build everything? That kind of sounds can we breathe on Mars? Maybe I should have googled that first. I don't even know. Is it people telling robots what to do? Are the robots smart enough to build it? I'm just saying we probably could see some good old blue-collared workers up there also building shit. They'd just be needing their thermoses of coffee or Mountain Dew to get the day started. I joke, but really I have so many questions on the logistics of Mars colonization. Does anyone know a place where they update this information? I need to go to a Mars press conference to ask questions. Get a press pass, bitch.
Speaker 1:If hearing the name Ben Affleck triggers you, I'm sorry. You know who you are. I have mentioned Ben Affleck maybe three times on this podcast. Well, this will be the fourth. If you remember my talk about the movie Armageddon, I think that was two different episodes. So, again, sorry. We will never forget what he did to Batman. I recently listened to his interview on Theo Vaughn's podcast. I liked it, but the Jennifers do tend to like Ben Affleck. Heyo, hashtag, two ex-wives named Jennifer.
Speaker 1:Okay, confession, feeling very vulnerable, I ate McDonald's this week and I loved it. I'm loving it. Is that the tagline? I'm loving it, whatever it's not when you're here, your family. That's Applebee's, or is that Olive Garden, I don't know. So McDonald's didn't make me sick. I've had it only one other time this year. Those stats aren't bad. I've been eating so well more protein than I ever have, thanks to the air fryer.
Speaker 1:Oh, and the worst part about it was the delivery person. Yes, I ordered it on Uber Eats because I'm a piece of shit. I could walk to McDonald's from my home Anywho. The delivery person took it to my neighbor's house, who we are very good friends with, and they have a ring camera. So I embarrassingly walked up, saluted the camera and went on the walk of shame back to my own home Neighbor. Kyle clocked it and I assume his cell phone pinged, because then we got a group text and then my husband was out of town and he was like, why did you get Uber Eats? And I was sitting there sweating, hoping he didn't ask me from where I ordered.
Speaker 1:I think the issue is I saw a reel on Instagram about making a homemade crunch wrap supreme, and then I kept daydreaming about three crunchy taco supremes. Listen, if the algorithm shows me a tasty fast food treato, I can't help that this is Zuckerberg's fault. So then, for 24 hours, all I was thinking about was Taco Bell. So I ended up with a quarter pounder large fries and a large Coke. Sue me, at least I wasn't eating it in my car, hiding it from my husband.
Speaker 1:We've all been there. Okay, some of you haven't, but this is a safe space for treato car snacks. So should you eat fast food all the time? No, ma'am, no sir. But I'll also blame my parents, because your girl lived on Happy Meals growing up 10 out of 10. And all the toys Get out of here. They were awesome.
Speaker 1:Does anyone have a shameful food confession this week? I know a mom that ate half a tub of French onion dip on Mother's Day. That is my dream meal. Bag of Lay's French onion dip, two liter of Coke that will get you as good as the hot chicken, if you know. You know, parents, are you panicking, school being almost out Around these Nashville parts? The kiddos have one more week, I think. But it's so different now. There's like testing and they just leave school. We just like went to school until the last day. You know you really didn't do anything, but we weren't allowed to leave. I feel like my Ohio people. Maybe it's two weeks more and the camps now. Finding camps for your kids is a full-time job. I saw a video on Instagram earlier about how parents take advantage of every single vacation. Bible school Doesn't matter the religion, they're just like. Here we go.
Speaker 1:I never went to daily summer camps because my mom normally worked first shift and my dad worked second shift, so I always had coverage. I mentioned up until 12, I was a gymnast, but my whole childhood my dad owned a gymnastics facility and I was there all the time. I did go to a week-long gymnastics camp until I was 12, and it was traumatizing. It wasn't fun. It wasn't fun. Our coach went with us and was very hard on us and made us try more advanced, terrifying skills that would leave me in tears. So, yeah, I hated it. But one year we had a skit night and one other girl there, like me, knew every single line from Wayne's World, so a small group of us acted out basically the entire movie.
Speaker 1:Not sure if we owe Paramount Pictures or Lorne Michaels any money. Also, I don't know if there is any photographic evidence of this experience. That will have to be discovered in one of my mom's 75 photo albums. What are we doing with photo albums and pictures? We doing with photo albums and pictures?
Speaker 1:I have one tub in a closet filled with pictures from, let's say, 1996 to 2008. And then everything went digital. I mean, at one point we had them on CDs at Walgreens. And then I have picture albums on Facebook from like 2007 to 2016-ish. And right now I have 10,183 pictures on my iPhone going back to 2012. That's 783 pics a year. That doesn't seem too crazy. 65 pictures a month.
Speaker 1:I would hire someone to organize all my pictures and get them digitized. I really just need to go through and declutter and keep the highlights. I think. Of the 10,000 pictures, 5,000 of them are of Cind's, the 19-year-old cat that lives here. Girlfriend has been around since printable pictures. Let me know who has the largest amount of pictures on their phone? My friend Kelsey once said 60,000. Do you have more than that? And you know we just keep paying the Apple Skynet for more storage instead of being more organized.
Speaker 1:Imagine explaining to the inventor of photography the pickle he has put us in. According to Wiki and the Library of Congress. Louis-jacques-monday de Gury sorry, I never took French is credited with the invention of photography in 1839, specifically the daguerreotype process. I'm going to assume it's daguerreotype. This process was the first publicly announced and commercially viable method of capturing images. Also a British dude named William Henry Fox Talbot why so many names? Who was a big pioneer in photography, but like the oldest dog drama we have who invented photography drama? There was a third dude named Hippolyte Bayard who invented his own process that produced direct positive paper prints and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on June 24, 1839, claiming to have invented photography earlier than the other two dudes. I mean y'all each got a Wikipedia page. So everyone is tied and everyone gets a participation field day ribbon and everyone gets a participation field day ribbon. So photography was invented 186 years ago and also commercially sold that same year after Alphonse Giraud built them, built a camera.
Speaker 1:Honestly, the more I got into this, it's giving like like. Well, a German astronomer said the word camera in 1604. And then the history of photography dates back to 400 BC, when a Chinese philosopher known as Mozu noticed that light from an illuminated object, when passed through a pinhole onto a wall in a dark room, could create an inverted image. So, all's to say, too much history of photography. It was too much to read on the interwebs, so let's go through the main bullet points. In 1947, instant photography was invented by American physicist Dr Edward Land with a Polaroid picture. Shake it, shake it.
Speaker 1:In 1975, the digital camera was invented by either Stephen Sasson or Gareth Lloyd I love the name, gareth where the image was stored on a cassette tape. That sounds insane. In 1991, the first commercial digital camera came into play by Kodak. Then, finally, in the year 2000, the first camera phone was made in Japan and then ruined society. And now we have tens of thousands of pictures on our phone and mostly screenshots of shit we will never buy, use or cook.
Speaker 1:I'm over this subject. Please let this help someone win a trivia night somewhere. Go clean out your photos, folks. Where are scammers getting my resume? The scam text I received the other day said you must be 28 years and older, and it gave me the name of a company but didn't describe what the work was. It said I could work 60 to 90 minutes 4 days a week and make $1,000. Why 28 years old? Why 28 years old? That's when I quit binge drinking. So yeah, a great, appropriate age for me to settle down and work.
Speaker 1:Do you all respond to scammers? Our neighbors and I keep getting texts from an Amy. She has offered to sell our homes, install a pool and trim our trees. Amy is a go-getter. Amy probably heads up a pyramid scheme. I'm flattered Amy thinks I can afford a pool. It probably costs an extra $50,000 to jackhammer through the limestone here in Tennessee to even get started.
Speaker 1:Damn, I miss a pool. I think I've mentioned I grew up with an in-ground pool and summers were magic. Now my neighbor's property does back up to a creek and it's gorgeous. So when it's 200 degrees and 200% humidity, catch me in a chair in my crocs sipping on a cold, delightful adult beverage all summer in the creek. Now will there be critters and bugs in the creek For sure. I am not really an outdoor girly, I am more of a patio lady.
Speaker 1:Now back to critters. I know there will be critters because at 6.30 am Friday morning I opened the front door to snag my Boost Membership Kroger delivery order and a four-foot rat snake was just chilling on one of my front porch chairs. I didn't notice him until I had the groceries in hand. A heads up from the delivery driver would have been cool. I then shut the door and texted my neighbors asking where their indoor-outdoor cat was, because popcorn needed to do something with this anaconda. The snake sat in the chair for two hours and then slithered away and as it was slowly leaving I looked at my husband and said If this fucker starts climbing one of the pillars, I'm calling the city non-emergency hotline. We think it's living in the wood pile. My other neighbor has left after paying someone to remove trees, so I'm sure it's an amazing hang for all the snakes and scary spiders. We don't have an HOA, praise Jesus. But like I may have to set fire to that wood pile. But like I may have to set fire to that wood pile, I can't wait to see if he comes back again, just to chill. I'll get a selfie with him and get my phone storage pictures up to 10,184.
Speaker 1:One of my friends from high school and college, actually a college roommate for two years, miss Brittany, has lived in England for 20 years, maybe over 20 years. We are both 43, born two days apart, and I know she is near that timeline of where she's like living over there longer than she did in America. We voice memo a lot and that's why I love voice memos, because we have been able to reconnect the past two to three years a lot, because I don't think I physically have seen her in like 13 years, if I am guessing right. Anywho, she was asking me if American bachelorette parties have gotten out of control because they have over in England. I said yes, ma'am, no longer is it one night out to dinner and a bar. We all know it's a $2,500 weekend to Scottsdale to lay on a penis float in a pool. Over in England they call a bachelorette party and then England, ireland and Australia say hen night. Brittany told me a lot of Hindus go abroad to other European countries and they are so popular there that a lot of hotels and Airbnbs won't allow them to book rooms. Hotels and Airbnbs won't allow them to book rooms. If you have ever been to downtown Nashville, it's Bachelorette Central and it's a great place for it. Brittany says so.
Speaker 1:My friend let's call her Sally is the maid of honor at this hen do and Sally just posted a drawing of a naked man on her Instagram stories. Not a live, actual naked man, not a photo of a naked man, a drawing of a naked man. Brittany messaged Sally and said do you have a nude male model at this bachelorette party? And everyone is drawing him. Sally said we do. And I will have to say, folks, I've never heard of this. Nothing screams last fling than sitting in a room drawing someone's dong. Gotta take that to Michael's and get it professionally framed. Men, how do we feel about this? I can't draw for shit. So with bottomless mimosas, this sounds amazing.
Speaker 1:It's giving Rose from Titanic. It's also giving the October 1998 SNL sketch when Will Ferrell plays Terrence Maddox, a replacement model for a sculpture class at a community college. I could go over the famous quotes from it, but I would lose half of you. I'd probably lose two-thirds of you. Give it a Google. It's part of his Will Ferrell best of DVD.
Speaker 1:There is a throwback sentence for you. Have any of my listeners been a naked model? Have you been on a bachelorette party Drawing some naky dudes? No judgment here. I don't think young bachelor parties would want to see my middle-aged body for a new drawing class. But you know how much does it pay asking for a friend? Make sure you code that ARC class on your public Venmo. Feed you crazies. My mother, sharon, was at it again this week. She got me two brand new free outdoor coffee tables for my back patio. Let's go. We are day three into the ball removal surgery from my little German short-haired pointer and he is doing great. Let's go. Isn't that annoying? Let's go. Thank you all for listening to episode 20 of JennaPod. Your support is beyond appreciated. I hope everyone has 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. Thank you.
