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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Transcript

Podcast Tech Issues and Updates

Speaker 1 0:08

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 1:01

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 2:49

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

Baby Babe Soccer Coach Story

Speaker 1 3:02

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 3:14

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 .

Home Depot and Dog Door Drama

Speaker 1 5:13

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 6:02

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 7:19

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

In Defense of Red Lobster

Speaker 1 8:24

it climb a tree . So that is nightmare fuel .

Speaker 1 8:28

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 8:55

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 Refs and Starbucks Content Creators

Speaker 1 10:19

Robot .

Speaker 1 10:19

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 11:26

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 12:40

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 13:46

Well , this is kind of more robot talk , but it's about AI and basically

AI Expenses and Weather Manipulation

Speaker 1 13:53

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 14:57

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 16:14

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 17:27

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 18:08

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 19:59

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 21:06

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

First World Problems and Closing Thoughts

Speaker 1 21:58

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 22:09

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 22:51

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 23:57

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 24:34

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 25:09

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 25:41

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 .