• 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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Speaker 1 (00:09):
What's up everyone.
Welcome to episode 19 ofJennaPod.
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 everyaspect of my life, but where are
(00:34):
they?
I know I had them on thismorning, so I think it's time
for me to add some croquis,maybe a very jeweled, croaky
situation.
So I just have them at alltimes of my life Because, listen
, we're in the Middle Ages.
Your girl can't see Real ID.
(00:55):
Implementation day was a letdown.
I heard of zero drama Perneighbor, kyle and Twitter.
If you showed up without a realID at the Nashville
International Airport, you werejust handed a red card that gave
you information about the realID and that you may be pulled
(01:19):
for additional screening, butnot all will be screened.
Additional screening, but notall will be screened.
Kyle also said he had agentleman in front of him who
had no idea what the real ID was.
It's like come on, man, come on.
My girlfriend Ann fromCincinnati was listening to the
radio and they said it was allcalm at CVG.
(01:41):
They had extra people workingand it was no problem.
Best friend Reby flew back fromOrlando and said it was a piece
of cake Like the moral of thestory is.
It sounds like you don't needone, but when your license
expires, if you don't alreadyhave one, you will end up with
(02:02):
one automatically.
So people were missing half aday of work for no reason.
Goodbye, real ID Stories on thepodcast.
My gym friend Melissa said myvoice finally sounded back to
normal.
Last podcast, thank God.
(02:23):
You all don't know how many.
I had to edit out the last twoto three episodes.
Save the bees, but can wedisperse the pollen another way
and not into my nasal cavity andthroat?
Allergy season was just batshitthis year.
(02:46):
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 carpetfolded over on the top of normal
(03:07):
carpet because we have aworkshop under our home and I
have extra blankets, with oneeven up against the bottom of
the door.
If you were claustrophobic,this may be your nightmare.
So the issue is I am sucking upall the oxygen as I talk in
(03:28):
here and there is no new airbeing piped in.
Some people in the voiceoverworld will even get CO2 readers
to put in their studios toensure they are in the safe zone
.
When I was sick, I was recordingand my black lab started
barking and I ended up deletingabout 20 minutes of the episode
(03:53):
to redo it.
Well, I went right back intorecording for 30 minutes after
being in here for 20 minutes andI legit started getting
lightheaded.
I had to keep opening the doorto suck in oxygen.
My husband wasn't home and Iwas finishing recording, come
(04:13):
hell or high water.
But I was like what if I passout in here?
I mean, I don't think I wouldhave died, but see, this is why
I have Siri turned on, because Icould have been like hey girl,
hey Siri, baby, call 911 and geta hot firefighter over here
(04:35):
with an oxygen tank stat.
I have told my husband if I gomissing, he is to learn all my
equipment to do a podcast aboutit.
Like he will be the number onesuspect, because husbands always
are.
But like, after they clear hisname, get on in the studio and
go viral.
(04:56):
And if any of my friends gomissing, 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 thissituation.
If you need some money, let'sget some sponsorships.
Let's get you on the mic.
(05:18):
Let's learn more about youAnywho, learn more about you
Anywho.
In conclusion, if you decide tomake a small, closet studio,
make sure there's enough air soyou don't end up on the news.
I am not the only person gettinginundated with true classic tea
(05:39):
emails.
My friend Kate has two18-year-old senior boys.
My friend Kate has two18-year-old senior boys.
Same first world problems withthe too many emails.
When it comes to email, I amvery organized as far as clean
out.
I have four email addresses.
Listen, I'm important, and ifyou need a time to unsubscribe
(06:02):
to emails, that day will beBlack Friday.
One Black Friday I was inCincinnati at my in-laws and I
spent the entire dayunsubscribing to every single
random deal email that camethrough.
It was annoying, but throughperseverance it changed my email
(06:26):
life.
Thursday I was typing a workemail on my laptop and I typed
the letter U for the word Y-O-Uand I felt my brain glitch.
I remember taking one of mysenior groups to one of the art
museums in Tulsa and there wasan exhibition on Egyptian
(06:48):
hieroglyphics and it made methink deep about how people used
to communicate through pictures, logographic elements, and that
was from 3250 BC to 400 AD.
The Phoenician alphabet camearound 1050 BC and it used 22
(07:10):
consonant letters.
The Phoenicians createdalphabetical order to make it
easier to learn and share withothers, but the Phoenicians and
Egyptians used only consonants.
Eventually, as people began towrite more and more, and more
words were needed to be createdto describe different things.
(07:32):
The Greeks adopted vowels.
I know there are people outthere who are expert in writing
systems and languages.
That is not me.
However, back to my trip to themuseum and it got me thinking.
So we used to communicate withpictures.
Then we got letters, words,sentences, and at the time let's
(07:57):
say it was 2009, texting wasbecoming more prominent.
Texting was becoming moreprominent, 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'scell phone, I'm sure it's like a
(08:18):
foreign language.
When I still see T-Y as thankyou, my brain can't comprehend
it.
I still don't know what it ismost of the time.
At my government job, we arehyper aware of emailing very
professionally, but we do useslang in team messages.
But I wonder, as time goes on,will the English language look
(08:43):
more like slang, more short-formwords?
Will they come about?
Do younger generations careabout professional writing, or
is it?
I just want the shortest formof getting my point across.
What languages are we taking toMars?
Languages are we taking to Mars?
That's interesting and trippyto think about.
(09:07):
It takes nine months to get toMars from Earth and three years
to return.
So when the constructionworkers and engineers start
building the all-inclusive Marsresorts, are they staying?
Is it a one-way trip?
Is it like the movies, wherethere will be a central library
(09:31):
with all the information on thehistory of Earth, or are we
winging a new way of life?
I don't think I want to go toMars unless, as I mentioned in
my last podcast, I'm at myassisted living with all my
besties and the July 2062activity calendar comes out and
(09:57):
it's like hey, 10 am onWednesday, trip to Mars, sign up
at the front desk.
And then it's like sure, whynot?
What else do I have going on?
The sun is eventually going toexplode.
So, as John McClane in Die Hardsaid, yippee-ki-yay-yay,
(10:20):
motherfucker.
I went to the movie theater withmy parents to see the
Accountant 2, starring BenAffleck, last Saturday, since it
was a rainy, rainy weekend inNashville.
I still love going to themovies, specifically the dine-in
(10:40):
theaters with the reclinerchairs 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 withthat, but I enjoyed it.
The plot of the Accountant 2was very challenging to follow
(11:01):
and, oh my, how the movietheater booking experience has
changed.
We love to open an app, book ourseats, get some treedos zero
stress involved.
According to the interwebs,reserved seating became popular
in early 2010, but before thatwe were fighting for our lives.
(11:26):
It was war.
We had to check the newspaperor call the movie phone line to
see when a movie was playing andthen we had to get to the
theater 30 to 60 minutes earlyto stand in line for a physical
ticket.
If you remember when Titaniccame out, there were lines out
(11:49):
the door and you didn't evenknow 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'sand order some potato skins and
wait for our parents to pick usup.
And, god forbid, you were 16trying to see a rated R movie.
(12:13):
It was like a bouncer at a clubthey would turn your ass away
Like.
Also, we had the parentaladvisory warning for explicit
lyrics on CDs, which wasestablished in 1990.
I remember being at Barnes,noble or Borders in the
(12:35):
Tri-County area and purposelygoing in to buy the Fugees album
the Score featuring Killing MeSoftly in 1996.
I was 14.
The checkout person said no,ma'am.
So you know what I boughtinstead LaBouche's album Sweet
(12:57):
Dreams featuring Be my Lover.
We love some Eurodance music.
Can Gen Alpha and Gen Z imaginerolling 20 people deep to the
movie theater, not knowing ifyou will get to sit next to your
(13:20):
friends?
And like you, dressed up cuteback in the day, late 90s, I'm
going to the theater on a Fridaynight.
I'm in a cute top, I'm in jeans, hair makeup, probably some
brown lipstick.
These days it's like theairport at the movie theater.
We've got PJs, we've gotblankets, we've got PJs, we've
(13:48):
got blankets.
When the movie was over I sawsomeone behind me with a Stanley
cup Like how did we get thatinside?
Are you filling that up withsome cherry Coke?
I don't think the workers care.
My dad had dropped us off atthe theater since it was raining
.
No ticket, he just walked onback without us.
Before I came down to Nashville,I lived in my in-law's basement
(14:11):
for three months while myhusband finished work up in
Tulsa, oklahoma.
It was at that time that Ifinally went to a movie by
myself, and if you have neverbeen to a movie by yourself, try
it out.
It's amazing.
It's very freeing.
(14:31):
One of the movies I saw bymyself was 2010's Black Swan
starring Natalie Portman, and ifyou ended up at the theater
with family members seeing it,you know, shit got real, real
uncomfortable, real real fast.
(14:53):
I had never been happier.
I was alone at a theater.
These days and age, there couldprobably be a reality show of
having teenagers attempt to goto a movie, but it's 1998.
Logistics Basically the HungerGames.
Will we have dine-in reservedtheaters on Mars?
(15:16):
Tbd.
I'll tweet Elon about that.
I went to the musical theaterdance class on Tuesday.
It was awesome and it filled mycup.
It filled my cup.
I mentioned Jersey Boys.
The Musical is playing rightnow in Franklin, tennessee, and
(15:37):
the choreographer of the showcame and taught the class.
She was asked to choreographthe show three days before their
rehearsal started.
That is mad talent.
Back in high school, I coached afive and six-year-old all-star
cheer team and I tried to teachthem a dance to a Britney Spears
(16:00):
song.
It didn't go well.
To a Britney Spears song.
It didn't go well.
Anyway, back to Tuesday, therewere about 15 of us, I'd say two
teenagers, one girl, giverador,retriever, energy, and I liked
it, and none of these peoplewere dancers.
(16:39):
So it was awesome to see peoplehaving the courage to attend
something out of theirwheelhouse.
Was I the best dancer in theroom?
Maybe I was and maybe I was.
I have attended many danceclasses over the past 13 years
in Nashville and I tell you what?
It was nice to go somewherewhere the choreography was
(17:03):
simple, clean and enjoyable.
You could actually perform itinstead of being stressed the
fuck out at an advanced hip-hopclass.
And no one wanted to filmthemselves for social media.
It was just people who lovedmusical theater coming together
(17:24):
for two hours of fun.
I would go weekly if theyoffered it.
I was in my happy place.
Hashtag jazz hands.
Hashtag grapevine.
Allegedly I graduated highschool 25 years ago, which feels
insane, but it appearsclassmates are organizing a
(17:47):
reunion for the fall.
I was planning on going to my20th, but I can't recall why I
didn't drive up to Ohio Now.
I was a class officer who wassupposed to help plan parts of
the reunion way back, but Ihaven't lived in Cincinnati
since 2007, but luckily now I'ma four and a half, five and a
(18:12):
half hour drive away.
I joked with my friend Jillian,who is also from Fairfield and
lives in Nashville, and myhusband and I said and I said
someone has to drive me becauseI am not a road driving warrior.
That's right.
I'd rather fly than drivemyself 300 miles.
(18:39):
Sue me, I was an only child andI had the luxury of sleeping
every road trip I ever took, Iwould say through college.
When I met my husband, I said Igo sleepy in the car rides.
I didn't even plan my ownwedding.
I literally went and picked outa dress and organized my
wedding playlist for the DJ,which I discussed on another
(19:01):
episode.
We lived in Oklahoma in 2008 andtraveled back to Westchester,
ohio, to get married.
So a destination wedding for us, if you will.
My parents and in-laws dideverything.
I mean everything.
They tasted the food, pickedflowers, centerpieces, etc.
(19:25):
I showed up like nice.
The florist was shocked.
I didn't want to see my bouquetthe day before the wedding Like
boo-boo, I trust you.
So catch me maybe at my firstclass reunion ever in August or
September.
My college roommate Laurenalready knows I need her to scan
(19:45):
me our senior yearbook so Iknow what and who is going on.
Go Indians.
I have told y'all how thrifty mymom is and how she accesses my
Kroger account and downloads mycoupons.
Well, I needed some new patiochairs because, as some of you
(20:06):
know, if you leave them outsidefor 10 years, they start to
deteriorate.
When your friend's butts startfalling through that textile,
mesh fabric, it's time.
So my mom finds four nicechairs on Facebook in Brentwood
for $40.
My mom and I just had to gopick them up.
(20:29):
We drove separately in our RAV4s, looking like a scene out of
the Italian Job.
We roll up to a gated $4million 8,500 square foot, 5
bedroom, 10 bath house.
And how do we know thisinformation?
Everyone, fucking Zillow.
God bless that website.
(20:52):
The home, the outside, wasgorgeous.
I enjoyed perusing the 95pictures on Zillow Chef's kiss.
A British man and his goldenretriever greeted us.
I said how much for the dogJokes.
The man said, yeah, we hadthese chairs in storage forever.
(21:14):
And I'm thinking, uh, hell.
What else do you have?
I'm here, let's go.
If you need a mechanism to getrid of nice stuff, I'm your girl
.
The next morning I got ascreenshot from my mom of a
family picture and it says sheis a gynecologist.
(21:34):
No info on him.
Sorry, I'm bored and stalking.
I audibly cackled.
Does everyone Google themselvesat least once a year to see
what's out there?
I am pretty much nowhere exceptmy work staff directory
information comes up, but it'sno personal information.
(21:56):
My LinkedIn is deactivatedright now.
I keep hearing an ad on podcastsabout Delete Me.
It's a company that basicallyscrubs you from the interwebs.
I have always wondered howcontent creators and influencers
keep their personal informationsafe, especially if you have
(22:20):
the kiddos.
But also, everyone putseverything out there these days,
so maybe it isn't an issue.
I have no idea.
I did create a podcast, but Ifeel it's different than posting
videos and pictures every day.
Maybe it isn't.
This feels very vanilla.
(22:40):
I like when podcasts post theirepisode on Instagram and then
add pictures called withoutcontext, so maybe I start doing
that, like this week.
It would have been a picture ofthe four chairs.
We got like generic pictures.
Oh man, speaking of being onthe internet.
Is there anyone from the FHSClass of 2000 on OnlyFans?
(23:04):
That will be a greatconversation starter at the
reunion.
All right, y'all.
Thank you for listening.
Prayers up for my GSP gettinghis ball snipped next Thursday
and me no longer gettingteabagged.
Everyone have a great week.
(23:25):
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What's up everyone.
Welcome to episode 19 ofJennaPod.
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 everyaspect of my life, but where are
(00:34):
they?
I know I had them on thismorning, so I think it's time
for me to add some croquis,maybe a very jeweled, croaky
situation.
So I just have them at alltimes of my life Because, listen
, we're in the Middle Ages.
Your girl can't see Real ID.
(00:55):
Implementation day was a letdown.
I heard of zero drama Perneighbor, kyle and Twitter.
If you showed up without a realID at the Nashville
International Airport, you werejust handed a red card that gave
you information about the realID and that you may be pulled
(01:19):
for additional screening, butnot all will be screened.
Additional screening, but notall will be screened.
Kyle also said he had agentleman in front of him who
had no idea what the real ID was.
It's like come on, man, come on.
My girlfriend Ann fromCincinnati was listening to the
radio and they said it was allcalm at CVG.
(01:41):
They had extra people workingand it was no problem.
Best friend Reby flew back fromOrlando and said it was a piece
of cake Like the moral of thestory is.
It sounds like you don't needone, but when your license
expires, if you don't alreadyhave one, you will end up with
(02:02):
one automatically.
So people were missing half aday of work for no reason.
Goodbye, real ID Stories on thepodcast.
My gym friend Melissa said myvoice finally sounded back to
normal.
Last podcast, thank God.
(02:23):
You all don't know how many.
I had to edit out the last twoto three episodes.
Save the bees, but can wedisperse the pollen another way
and not into my nasal cavity andthroat?
Allergy season was just batshitthis year.
(02:46):
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 carpetfolded over on the top of normal
(03:07):
carpet because we have aworkshop under our home and I
have extra blankets, with oneeven up against the bottom of
the door.
If you were claustrophobic,this may be your nightmare.
So the issue is I am sucking upall the oxygen as I talk in
(03:28):
here and there is no new airbeing piped in.
Some people in the voiceoverworld will even get CO2 readers
to put in their studios toensure they are in the safe zone
.
When I was sick, I was recordingand my black lab started
barking and I ended up deletingabout 20 minutes of the episode
(03:53):
to redo it.
Well, I went right back intorecording for 30 minutes after
being in here for 20 minutes andI legit started getting
lightheaded.
I had to keep opening the doorto suck in oxygen.
My husband wasn't home and Iwas finishing recording, come
(04:13):
hell or high water.
But I was like what if I passout in here?
I mean, I don't think I wouldhave died, but see, this is why
I have Siri turned on, because Icould have been like hey girl,
hey Siri, baby, call 911 and geta hot firefighter over here
(04:35):
with an oxygen tank stat.
I have told my husband if I gomissing, he is to learn all my
equipment to do a podcast aboutit.
Like he will be the number onesuspect, because husbands always
are.
But like, after they clear hisname, get on in the studio and
go viral.
(04:56):
And if any of my friends gomissing, 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 thissituation.
If you need some money, let'sget some sponsorships.
Let's get you on the mic.
(05:18):
Let's learn more about youAnywho, learn more about you
Anywho.
In conclusion, if you decide tomake a small, closet studio,
make sure there's enough air soyou don't end up on the news.
I am not the only person gettinginundated with true classic tea
(05:39):
emails.
My friend Kate has two18-year-old senior boys.
My friend Kate has two18-year-old senior boys.
Same first world problems withthe too many emails.
When it comes to email, I amvery organized as far as clean
out.
I have four email addresses.
Listen, I'm important, and ifyou need a time to unsubscribe
(06:02):
to emails, that day will beBlack Friday.
One Black Friday I was inCincinnati at my in-laws and I
spent the entire dayunsubscribing to every single
random deal email that camethrough.
It was annoying, but throughperseverance it changed my email
(06:26):
life.
Thursday I was typing a workemail on my laptop and I typed
the letter U for the word Y-O-Uand I felt my brain glitch.
I remember taking one of mysenior groups to one of the art
museums in Tulsa and there wasan exhibition on Egyptian
(06:48):
hieroglyphics and it made methink deep about how people used
to communicate through pictures, logographic elements, and that
was from 3250 BC to 400 AD.
The Phoenician alphabet camearound 1050 BC and it used 22
(07:10):
consonant letters.
The Phoenicians createdalphabetical order to make it
easier to learn and share withothers, but the Phoenicians and
Egyptians used only consonants.
Eventually, as people began towrite more and more, and more
words were needed to be createdto describe different things.
(07:32):
The Greeks adopted vowels.
I know there are people outthere who are expert in writing
systems and languages.
That is not me.
However, back to my trip to themuseum and it got me thinking.
So we used to communicate withpictures.
Then we got letters, words,sentences, and at the time let's
(07:57):
say it was 2009, texting wasbecoming more prominent.
Texting was becoming moreprominent, 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'scell phone, I'm sure it's like a
(08:18):
foreign language.
When I still see T-Y as thankyou, my brain can't comprehend
it.
I still don't know what it ismost of the time.
At my government job, we arehyper aware of emailing very
professionally, but we do useslang in team messages.
But I wonder, as time goes on,will the English language look
(08:43):
more like slang, more short-formwords?
Will they come about?
Do younger generations careabout professional writing, or
is it?
I just want the shortest formof getting my point across.
What languages are we taking toMars?
Languages are we taking to Mars?
That's interesting and trippyto think about.
(09:07):
It takes nine months to get toMars from Earth and three years
to return.
So when the constructionworkers and engineers start
building the all-inclusive Marsresorts, are they staying?
Is it a one-way trip?
Is it like the movies, wherethere will be a central library
(09:31):
with all the information on thehistory of Earth, or are we
winging a new way of life?
I don't think I want to go toMars unless, as I mentioned in
my last podcast, I'm at myassisted living with all my
besties and the July 2062activity calendar comes out and
(09:57):
it's like hey, 10 am onWednesday, trip to Mars, sign up
at the front desk.
And then it's like sure, whynot?
What else do I have going on?
The sun is eventually going toexplode.
So, as John McClane in Die Hardsaid, yippee-ki-yay-yay,
(10:20):
motherfucker.
I went to the movie theater withmy parents to see the
Accountant 2, starring BenAffleck, last Saturday, since it
was a rainy, rainy weekend inNashville.
I still love going to themovies, specifically the dine-in
(10:40):
theaters with the reclinerchairs 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 withthat, but I enjoyed it.
The plot of the Accountant 2was very challenging to follow
(11:01):
and, oh my, how the movietheater booking experience has
changed.
We love to open an app, book ourseats, get some treedos zero
stress involved.
According to the interwebs,reserved seating became popular
in early 2010, but before thatwe were fighting for our lives.
(11:26):
It was war.
We had to check the newspaperor call the movie phone line to
see when a movie was playing andthen we had to get to the
theater 30 to 60 minutes earlyto stand in line for a physical
ticket.
If you remember when Titaniccame out, there were lines out
(11:49):
the door and you didn't evenknow 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'sand order some potato skins and
wait for our parents to pick usup.
And, god forbid, you were 16trying to see a rated R movie.
(12:13):
It was like a bouncer at a clubthey would turn your ass away
Like.
Also, we had the parentaladvisory warning for explicit
lyrics on CDs, which wasestablished in 1990.
I remember being at Barnes,noble or Borders in the
(12:35):
Tri-County area and purposelygoing in to buy the Fugees album
the Score featuring Killing MeSoftly in 1996.
I was 14.
The checkout person said no,ma'am.
So you know what I boughtinstead LaBouche's album Sweet
(12:57):
Dreams featuring Be my Lover.
We love some Eurodance music.
Can Gen Alpha and Gen Z imaginerolling 20 people deep to the
movie theater, not knowing ifyou will get to sit next to your
(13:20):
friends?
And like you, dressed up cuteback in the day, late 90s, I'm
going to the theater on a Fridaynight.
I'm in a cute top, I'm in jeans, hair makeup, probably some
brown lipstick.
These days it's like theairport at the movie theater.
We've got PJs, we've gotblankets, we've got PJs, we've
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got blankets.
When the movie was over I sawsomeone behind me with a Stanley
cup Like how did we get thatinside?
Are you filling that up withsome cherry Coke?
I don't think the workers care.
My dad had dropped us off atthe theater since it was raining
.
No ticket, he just walked onback without us.
Before I came down to Nashville,I lived in my in-law's basement
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for three months while myhusband finished work up in
Tulsa, oklahoma.
It was at that time that Ifinally went to a movie by
myself, and if you have neverbeen to a movie by yourself, try
it out.
It's amazing.
It's very freeing.
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One of the movies I saw bymyself was 2010's Black Swan
starring Natalie Portman, and ifyou ended up at the theater
with family members seeing it,you know, shit got real, real
uncomfortable, real real fast.
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I had never been happier.
I was alone at a theater.
These days and age, there couldprobably be a reality show of
having teenagers attempt to goto a movie, but it's 1998.
Logistics Basically the HungerGames.
Will we have dine-in reservedtheaters on Mars?
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Tbd.
I'll tweet Elon about that.
I went to the musical theaterdance class on Tuesday.
It was awesome and it filled mycup.
It filled my cup.
I mentioned Jersey Boys.
The Musical is playing rightnow in Franklin, tennessee, and
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the choreographer of the showcame and taught the class.
She was asked to choreographthe show three days before their
rehearsal started.
That is mad talent.
Back in high school, I coached afive and six-year-old all-star
cheer team and I tried to teachthem a dance to a Britney Spears
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song.
It didn't go well.
To a Britney Spears song.
It didn't go well.
Anyway, back to Tuesday, therewere about 15 of us, I'd say two
teenagers, one girl, giverador,retriever, energy, and I liked
it, and none of these peoplewere dancers.
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So it was awesome to see peoplehaving the courage to attend
something out of theirwheelhouse.
Was I the best dancer in theroom?
Maybe I was and maybe I was.
I have attended many danceclasses over the past 13 years
in Nashville and I tell you what?
It was nice to go somewherewhere the choreography was
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simple, clean and enjoyable.
You could actually perform itinstead of being stressed the
fuck out at an advanced hip-hopclass.
And no one wanted to filmthemselves for social media.
It was just people who lovedmusical theater coming together
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for two hours of fun.
I would go weekly if theyoffered it.
I was in my happy place.
Hashtag jazz hands.
Hashtag grapevine.
Allegedly I graduated highschool 25 years ago, which feels
insane, but it appearsclassmates are organizing a
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reunion for the fall.
I was planning on going to my20th, but I can't recall why I
didn't drive up to Ohio Now.
I was a class officer who wassupposed to help plan parts of
the reunion way back, but Ihaven't lived in Cincinnati
since 2007, but luckily now I'ma four and a half, five and a
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half hour drive away.
I joked with my friend Jillian,who is also from Fairfield and
lives in Nashville, and myhusband and I said and I said
someone has to drive me becauseI am not a road driving warrior.
That's right.
I'd rather fly than drivemyself 300 miles.
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Sue me, I was an only child andI had the luxury of sleeping
every road trip I ever took, Iwould say through college.
When I met my husband, I said Igo sleepy in the car rides.
I didn't even plan my ownwedding.
I literally went and picked outa dress and organized my
wedding playlist for the DJ,which I discussed on another
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episode.
We lived in Oklahoma in 2008 andtraveled back to Westchester,
ohio, to get married.
So a destination wedding for us, if you will.
My parents and in-laws dideverything.
I mean everything.
They tasted the food, pickedflowers, centerpieces, etc.
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I showed up like nice.
The florist was shocked.
I didn't want to see my bouquetthe day before the wedding Like
boo-boo, I trust you.
So catch me maybe at my firstclass reunion ever in August or
September.
My college roommate Laurenalready knows I need her to scan
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me our senior yearbook so Iknow what and who is going on.
Go Indians.
I have told y'all how thrifty mymom is and how she accesses my
Kroger account and downloads mycoupons.
Well, I needed some new patiochairs because, as some of you
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know, if you leave them outsidefor 10 years, they start to
deteriorate.
When your friend's butts startfalling through that textile,
mesh fabric, it's time.
So my mom finds four nicechairs on Facebook in Brentwood
for $40.
My mom and I just had to gopick them up.
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We drove separately in our RAV4s, looking like a scene out of
the Italian Job.
We roll up to a gated $4million 8,500 square foot, 5
bedroom, 10 bath house.
And how do we know thisinformation?
Everyone, fucking Zillow.
God bless that website.
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The home, the outside, wasgorgeous.
I enjoyed perusing the 95pictures on Zillow Chef's kiss.
A British man and his goldenretriever greeted us.
I said how much for the dogJokes.
The man said, yeah, we hadthese chairs in storage forever.
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And I'm thinking, uh, hell.
What else do you have?
I'm here, let's go.
If you need a mechanism to getrid of nice stuff, I'm your girl
.
The next morning I got ascreenshot from my mom of a
family picture and it says sheis a gynecologist.
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No info on him.
Sorry, I'm bored and stalking.
I audibly cackled.
Does everyone Google themselvesat least once a year to see
what's out there?
I am pretty much nowhere exceptmy work staff directory
information comes up, but it'sno personal information.
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My LinkedIn is deactivatedright now.
I keep hearing an ad on podcastsabout Delete Me.
It's a company that basicallyscrubs you from the interwebs.
I have always wondered howcontent creators and influencers
keep their personal informationsafe, especially if you have
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the kiddos.
But also, everyone putseverything out there these days,
so maybe it isn't an issue.
I have no idea.
I did create a podcast, but Ifeel it's different than posting
videos and pictures every day.
Maybe it isn't.
This feels very vanilla.
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I like when podcasts post theirepisode on Instagram and then
add pictures called withoutcontext, so maybe I start doing
that, like this week.
It would have been a picture ofthe four chairs.
We got like generic pictures.
Oh man, speaking of being onthe internet.
Is there anyone from the FHSClass of 2000 on OnlyFans?
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That will be a greatconversation starter at the
reunion.
All right, y'all.
Thank you for listening.
Prayers up for my GSP gettinghis ball snipped next Thursday
and me no longer gettingteabagged.
Everyone have a great week.
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