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Jennipod Episode 23: Red Lobster Is Fancy and I'll Die On This Hill
Jennifer shares the chaos of podcast recording software crashes, coaching at the gym, and being 18 years older than a handsome soccer coach she spotted during a Belmont campus tour.
• Installing a doggy door brings concerns about wildlife entering the house
• Defending Red Lobster as high-class cuisine despite friends' NASCAR jokes
• Sharing news about Tesla's Auto Robo Taxi debut and Starbucks' search for coffee-obsessed storytellers to travel the world
• Explaining how AI companies like XAI burn through $1 billion monthly for processors and infrastructure
• Discussing "cloud seeding" weather manipulation and the story of Charles Hatfield, whose rainmaking efforts caused deadly floods in 1916
• Lamenting expensive comedy show tickets ($207 for general admission) and confessing to stealing abandoned sunglasses at a party
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What's up everyone? Welcome to episode 23 of JennaPod. I'm Jennifer Y'all. I went to Open Audacity that is the platform I use for recording and it was like oh, do you want to do an update, software update, which I've done many times, and I did it and I and it crashed and then I couldn't even open the program, couldn't even open, it Couldn't open up an old episode, nothing. Anyway, redownloaded it but somehow had to pay $6.99 a month for a cloud. I don't know. I'm going to figure that out after this episode, because you know what If I've got to pay $6.99 for episode 23,. Well, that's where we are. Today is Friday, june 20th.
Speaker 1:Yes, I am all over the place right now with this podcast. I mean, I'm not that that far behind, but solely working on this on the weekends is taking up a lot of my weekend, and weekends are for fun stuff. So I'm trying to find pockets during the week when I can to do this and if you have any topics you would like me to attempt to cover, shoot me a message on the Instagram or my email, as the information is somewhere on one of these apps, and shout out to one of my youngest listeners, toddler Miss Lily Gagne, aunt Jen Jen loves and Earmuffs when I Say Bad Words. This podcast will continue to be an explicit three to four cuss word podcast until the networks give me a contract and a raise saying that I cannot cuss any further. I currently make zero dollars, so if my mother, sharon, wants me to stop saying the F word, she knows a certain amount of TJ Maxx gift cards could do the trick, and that number is unlimited. I heard this week on a podcast that Lindsay Lohan had a podcast of her own that only lasted 12 episodes in 2022. So I may not have her new face, but I do have a greater podcast legacy. I also heard she was paid $20 million to do said podcast. Now that is where we are vastly different on our podcast journeys.
Speaker 1:I am also coaching a little bit more at my gym right now. Shout out Redline Quality Fitness in Brentwood, tennessee. I have been coaching fitness classes part-time for 11 and a half years now. It's a good side gig. If you ever need secret wife money or a free gym membership, I totally recommend it.
Speaker 1:I forgot, last week I had a baby babe story. If you are new here, you can go back to episode 5 and listen to the titled episode. It's Not Creepy, he's a Baby. When I toured Belmont with my mother-in-law and my nephew, we were waiting for the tour to start and a coach from the Belmont soccer team walked by to get into one of the buildings. I thought to myself well, that is a very handsome dude long black hair, beard, athletic. I guessed he was 32 to 35. I saw him for 20 seconds and that's it. When we got back to the house, I looked at my mother-in-law and said I looked at my mother-in-law and said did you clock that Belmont soccer coach? And she said oh, my gosh, yes, and I'm like cool, I've got mother-in-law on my side. I said I'm going to Google me, this fella, all right, so I see he played soccer at Belmont. Cool, um, he graduated from Belmont in 2022. Oh, no, so this man is 25 years old. No, I screamed at Carol, he's a baby babe. I'm 18 years older than this little baby. I was graduating high school when he was born and I wasn't being creepy, I was just appreciating that he won the genetic lottery. Hell, I'd go to Belmont soccer games just to watch him walk around. Okay, now that's a little delusional. I promise I won't go on YouTube and look up his soccer highlight reels.
Speaker 1:I went to Home Depot this week finally to start the process for the doggy door. I probably could have just called, but I physically went to Home Depot and brought my mom because she gets that 10% spouse military discount. So the Home Depot is going to charge you $40 to have someone come out and measure your door. Very nice dude came to the house, maybe took five minutes to measure. The guy said hey, make sure you order an opening large enough for your dog. He said I was once at a house and they had a great day and during the 4th of July fireworks the dog tore up the door. I'm sorry, a dog door for whom?
Speaker 1:Per the American Kennel Club, a male Great Dane will be 30 to 32 inches tall and up to 140 to 175 pounds. For this instance, I feel like you need a Dutch door, the kind they have at a daycare, where they are divided horizontally, allowing the top half to open independently from the bottom half. My black lab mix is 23 inches tall and like 69 pounds and the GSP not much smaller. So we will be good with a large door, possibly an extra large door, because what if I do end up with a giant puppers again in my life. Our Newfoundland golden retriever mix was 105 pounds. By the way, the rescue we got our Black Lab mix from said he was part Great Pyrenees and we were like sweet, a large fluffy dog. Nope lies. We got a Black Lab pity mix, but he's the love of my life. So it all worked out in the end. So anyway, I will let you know the updates on the dog door for those interested in a possible dog door.
Speaker 1:This podcast is not sponsored by Home Depot and I know this dog door will help with bringing in humidity and bugs into the house. But here's the thing my German short haired pointer now has access to bring whatever he wants into the house whenever he wants. For example, tuesday morning I had him locked outside and when I went to let him in he had a dead bird in his mouth. So in the future that dead bird will also be in my house. He has also brought a live turtle into the house before and lots of random sticks and branches and then chew them up and scatter them like confetti all over my floors. We also have foxes, groundhogs and armadillos in our backyard, so I hope word doesn't get out that our house is all-inclusive for water, food and shelter. I haven't seen another snake yet, but Saturday evening one was in my neighbor's yard and my husband watched it climb a tree. So that is nightmare fuel.
Speaker 1:We have a new country listener not the genre of music Puerto Rico. I assume someone was on a fancy vacation. I hope it was wonderful and I'm jealous. Was it all inclusive? Was the food good? I tell you where the food is good Fucking red lobster. And some of you be hatin' on red lobster.
Speaker 1:For the seafood lover in you, growing up in the suburbs of Ohio in the 80s and 90s, red Lobster was a fancy restaurant that you went to maybe once a year for like your grandma's birthday. When we moved to Tulsa we once told a group of friends, hey, let's go to Red Lobster. And they were like what in the NASCAR are you talking about? I was offended, like um, red Lobster is high class cuisine. The night before my mother-in-law went back to Ohio we decided to go for her birthday. Now I knew they were somewhere in the middle of filing bankruptcy, so I went to the Google Maps to see if they were even open in Cool Springs. And yay they were. They have a 4.3 out of five star out of over 1600 reviews on Google. That ain't bad. I got some calamari as an appetizer, got some bacon-wrapped scallops and some crunchy brussels Y'all it was delicious. No hate from here. There weren't that many people there. Everyone was about the age of 75, but I loved it. Would go back. Please go support your local Red Lobster Robot.
Speaker 1:News of the week the Tesla Auto Robo Taxi is set to debut in Austin, texas, around June 22nd. Also, some of y'all mentioned, when I was talking about sports and winning and losing, that in soccer you can tie. Maybe Gary, the robot ref, could determine who played better when there is a tie and then Gary decides who is the winner, and parents aren't going to argue again because, reminder, he's dressed as the Terminator. In soccer, the rules and systems for a tie protect the players from injury by limiting the amount of extra time play, as soccer has fewer breaks compared to other sports. I think I'm done talking about soccer for now. Maybe I can be a boots ground correspondent for the. Is it FIFA, fifa, fifa World Cup that will take place in the US, canada and Mexico next July. Psych.
Speaker 1:A couple weeks ago, starbucks announced they were looking for two coffee-obsessed storytellers to travel the world to capture the craft that goes into every cup of Starbucks coffee. I know content creator jobs have been evolving, but this is pretty cool and will be life-changing for someone. One hire has to be a current Starbucks employee and the other one is to be an external hire. These are paid full-time, 12-month roles with travel costs covered and travel support provided by Delta Airlines and Marriott Bonvoy. I saw where the range of pay is $80,000 to $136,000. I mean, for one year I could abandon my family. Well, not Blue, because again, he's the love of my life. I had one cocktail this week and looked at Blue and started telling him how much I loved him and started crying. And that is womanhood in a nutshell. So back to Starbucks.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing you have to become a full-time content creator for 365 days, and that shit ain't easy. If you told me all I had to do was record my voice, take pictures and film videos, I'd be in. But if you said I had to edit every single day of my life, no sir. Now some little baby babes are going to jump on this because, hell yeah, I would have in my 20s, not in these middle ages. We ain't doing it. Well, shit. I just saw the cutoff for the applications was June 13th, so sorry for my listeners out there who were jumping on the Starbucks website. I wonder if you would be contractually obligated to only do Starbucks content or if you could have any other sponsors, because if so, you could probably make a shit ton of money. So it'd be interesting, going forward, if other brands take this approach to hire content creators for a year at a time.
Speaker 1:Well, this is kind of more robot talk, but it's about AI and basically I don't know how AI works. Basically, I don't know how AI works. Also, as a woman who is not great at science in high school or college, it's interesting that I share a lot of science on here. I saw a tweet this week from Raw Alerts that Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk's XAI is burning through an astonishing $1 billion per month as costs pile up, and I was like I don't comprehend. Just like delete the search history for everyone. But then someone tweeted at Grok which is the XAI why it itself is so expensive, why it itself is so expensive, and the AI tweeted, quote the high cost of running me is from XAI's mass investment in AI tech. Think powerful GPUs those are graphic processing units, data centers and top-notch research to keep up with the AI race.
Speaker 1:Posts on X and reports suggest XAI's burning of $1 billion monthly, mostly for hardware and infrastructure, like the Memphis supercomputer, but with only $500 million in projected 2025 revenue. Some question if this spending is sustainable. It's a gamble to stay competitive, but long-term profitability is isn't guaranteed. End of tweet. I tried finding out how much it costs monthly to run chat GPT, but the only answers I found were that humans can pay $20 a month for chat GPT plus or $200 a month for chat GPT pro, like why do you even need that? I don't know. Grok is a chat box developed by XAI, while ChatGPT is a conversational AI model created by OpenAI. Both serve similar purposes in generating text-based responses, but they are products of different companies and have distinct features and capabilities. Companies and have distinct features and capabilities, so AI is expensive because of energy.
Speaker 1:This sounds like a combination of the movie Ferngully and Avatar. A lot of you had told me that you are kind of using AI at work, but you are saying people are really bad at using it for emails and it doesn't sound like a human. Anyway, get off your phones and go take a hot girl walk. So Nashville just had its seventh rainiest wettest May on record, with 8.49 inches of rain. It's been a muggy ass rainforest here for two weeks, like walking into a wet blanket. But the last rain was June 19th and then the heat index will reach 100 to 105 this weekend. Fantastic Driving home from coaching Tuesday night I had never drove through so much ponding and rushing water. It was nuts. At the gym this week I was talking to my gym dudes, tj and Navy Seal. Matt and TJ was like okay, I have a topic for you. I said shoot. He said look up the Rainmaker. No, not the 1997 movie starring Matt Damon.
Speaker 1:Rainmaking, the Science of Pluviculture, also known these days as cloud seeding. Now, this has been used for since the 1800s, so over 100 years for farmers. But if you recall, in April 2024, dubai had had record flooding for 24 hours, where normally they receive 3.9 inches of rain a year. You know because it's a desert. Well, this is the first time I had heard about cloud seeding and weather manipulation. If you saw the videos from Dubai, they were crazy.
Speaker 1:According to Wikipedia, rainmaking, also known as artificial precipitation, artificial rainfall and pluviculture, it is the act of attempting to artificially induce or increase precipitation, usually to stave off drought According to the cloud's different physical properties. This can be done using airplanes or rockets to sow to the clouds with catalysts such as dry ice, silver iodide and salt powder to make clouds rain or increase precipitation, to remove or mitigate farmland drought, to increase reservoir irrigation water and water supply capacity, or to increase water levels for hydropower generation. One famous rainmaker was Charles Hatfield, who was born in 1875. I found an article called Charles Hatfield, the Rainmaker who Brought on a Deadly Flood in 1916, san Diego, by Gina DiMuro D-I-M-U-R-O. Desperate to end a dry spell, the San Diego Council hired self-proclaimed moisture accelerator Charles Hatfield to fill the Morena Reservoir. He did much, much more than that. In his spare time, hatfield studied pluviculture and mixed his own methods for rain production. By 1902, he had created a mixture of 23 chemicals in evaporating tanks which he claimed, attracted rain. Charles Hatfield thus dubbed himself a moisture accelerator.
Speaker 1:In 1904, the Quaker from Kansas City began by charging clients, mostly small farmers, $50 for his services, but word of his skills soon spread. After a series of successful rainfalls. A year later he upped his price to $1,000 per inch of rain. In 2025, that would be over $36,000. The 40-year-old rainmaker made a deal with the San Diego City Council, in which he would either fill the Moreno Reservoir or induce between 30 to 50 centimeters of rain at the cost of $10,000, to be paid after the shower started. Of course, the council amazingly agreed to the proposal, but verbally only, and Hatfield, together with his younger brother, constructed a tower where he could conduct his secret work.
Speaker 1:In early January 1916, it began to rain over San Diego after weeks of drought. Joy turned into apprehension and then dismay, as the rain turned to storms and water overflowed the reservoirs. By January 27th, the floods had destroyed everything in their path. When the Hatfield flood ended, an estimated 30 inches of rain had fallen and around 20 people were killed. Hatfield said my bad, and he skipped town. He tried to return and collect his $10,000 and the city council basically said are you fucking serious, bro? They said sure, but you have to go live on TikTok and say you ruined everything and you killed all those people and you're going to pay the city back for the damage it caused. Hatfield said nah, I'm good, and cut his losses In his career.
Speaker 1:Hatfield said he made it rain more than 500 times, so I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but do you all think people out there are manipulating the weather for funsies. Can humans create hurricanes or tornadoes? The internet says no. We can only create rain. You need specific atmospheric conditions for those. But it would be cool like okay, from now on it's only going to rain on Wednesdays. Don't worry, karen, your son's baseball game won't get rained out and you can yell at the ump when he makes a slight mistake.
Speaker 1:I've got a couple last thoughts for the podcast. This morning I went online to buy tickets to a comedy show and this is a content creator who I love. He's so funny on Instagram, the Reels. I listened to his podcast. The tickets were $207 a piece for general admission with possible standing room. So it was going to be at Marathon Music Works in Nashville. $207? We just bought two tickets to a Notre Dame game and it was $238. I saw Kesha at the Ryman for like $60. And I understand, people need to make money. It's a business. But is this what everyone else is experiencing? I said we ain't going. I texted my friend. I said no, ma'am, that's as much as going to see. That's more expensive than going to TPAC. Anyway, I digress, I was sad, but oh well, just watch them on the internet for free.
Speaker 1:I went to an engagement party Saturday night. I had a total of three cocktails and I stole someone's sunglasses that were left on a table. Now, granted, I clocked them there and three hours later I was like everyone's gone. They're men's sunglasses. They look horrible on me, but this is kind of. If you remember when I discussed weddings, when I get tipsy, I will steal center pieces. At weddings I will steal flowers. So again, if I go to a party, watch your stuff.
Speaker 1:I would like to talk about a first world problem. Since my hair is now brunette, I had someone suggest to use brown mascara. I think it looks nice, until I see a picture of myself and my eyes looked closed and I look sleepy. So then I went back to black, black black mascara, but then it's like so coated on and I look like a raccoon and it takes like three days to get it off. So I don't know what to do with this scenario.
Speaker 1:Another issue I'm having in my life, another first world problem, is when I go to a restaurant, why does there have to be a menu, a drink menu and a dessert menu? I don't want. It's like. I don't want to hold this many things, like if it's out, like if the drink's not there, just let me know. But I'm over it. I want one menu. I don't want multiple menus. Just print it out and put it in the little pocket thingy.
Speaker 1:My husband asked me when I talk about my assisted living, why am I alone and with friends and he is not there and I'm like, oh sweet man, I'm sorry, women live longer than men, so you probably aren't alive and I'm sorry, but that's how the statistics work. So it's not like you weren't invited. You're dead. You have been cremated and you are in a beautiful little urn and you're there and I'm occasionally like you know, we're cheersing, you know for a drink. Anyway, you're dead. I'm sorry. The funeral was fun, but not as fun as my funeral. All right y'all. Thank you for listening to episode 23 and 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.
