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June 11, 2025 22 mins


• NBA referees earn up to $550,000 annually, with NHL refs ($430,000 max), MLB umpires ($450,000 max), and NFL referees ($205,000 average) also making substantial salaries
• Speculation about AI potentially replacing quality assurance jobs and how robots might handle tasks requiring HIPAA compliance
• Amazon testing humanoid robots for package delivery in their electric Rivian vans raises questions about robot driver's licenses and insurance
• A new dialect called "Miami English" is emerging in southern Florida, blending English and Spanish into phrases like "get down from the car"
• College tuition has increased dramatically, with Miami University's in-state costs rising from $13,000 in 2004 to approximately $36,000 today
• Trade schools offer more affordable education options (average $15,000/year) with faster entry into specific careers and practical skills


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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up everyone.
Welcome to episode 22 ofJennaPod.
I'm Jennifer, I'm your host.
This is my shindig.
Today is Tuesday, june 10th.
Sorry, this episode is late.
Thank you to my two fans whowere like where is it?
I've had family in town andmaybe I'm kind of lazy, I don't

(00:27):
know, but I'm doing it now.
How is June treating us?
It's humid as hell in Nashville.
I will never live further souththan I do now unless I can walk
out to a lake, an ocean, out toa lake, an ocean or a pool.
Hope my husband is listening tothis.
The humidity is like 94%, aka.

(00:50):
Why even attempt to fix yourhair?
I finished season one ofParadise on Hulu.
Eight episodes only took meabout two months.
It's one of those shows thatstarted off really strong, lost
me in the middle and then endedreally good.
Do we think there are currentbillionaires building

(01:13):
underground bunker cities forall of the important people?
I don't think I'd make the listof important people to save,
but that's okay.
As I have mentioned, I am notrebuilding society and I also
don't want to live in a weirdfake post-apocalyptic
Pleasantville situation either.

(01:33):
Unless I am designated withrunning the pet store, I'll do
that, but it's only puppies andkittens.
I am not taking care ofamphibians because there was
another snake on my property,this time in the backyard, and
my German short-haired pointeralerted us to it.

(01:56):
He was kind of nipping at itand jumping around.
Thank God my husband was home,because he went and got a shovel
and put the snake over thefence.
No, we didn't smush or kill it.
I know snakes be eating somecritters, yeah, yeah, circle of
life, etc.
Being in my middle ages, though, I would cry if we murdered a

(02:20):
snake.
I saw a post about Steve Irwinrecently recently, and damn how
great was that dude.
My dad and I loved watching theCrocodile Hunter.
So if my husband is out of townand there is a third snake,
maybe I just need to startacting like I'm filming a

(02:41):
documentary talk in anAustralian accent and just keep
screaming crikey until I get thesnake out of my yard.
But if I do get into thebillionaire bunker, you bet your
ass I am sneaking dino DNA.
And someone bring that Asianscientist from Jurassic Park who

(03:02):
brought back all the dinosaurs.
Sure, he's an actor, but maybea method actor and actually
knows how to make dinosaurs.
After 32 years since the firstfilm was released, my college
roommate, lauren aka Lahoran, inreference to my talk about refs

(03:23):
in the last episode, said at avolleyball tournament two years
ago, the girls at the scoretable kept not paying attention
and the score was wrong.
Parents were getting heated andthe ref yelled over to them the
score doesn't matter.
I don't know about you, gary,but I didn't drive two hours

(03:45):
away from home for nothing, girl, if a ref said the score didn't
matter, I would explode withsass.
When I sucked at roughing beervolleyball, I knew the score was
hella important.
That's literally sports.
Someone wins and someone loses.

(04:09):
According to casinoorg andfollowfollowcom, nba referees
are among the highest paidofficials in sports, with top
referees earning salaries up to$550,000 and an average salary
around $375,000.
Well hell, get me out ofreferee retirement and put me in

(04:33):
coach.
You think it's because theyhave to run up and down the
court 100 times a game.
Hashtag fitness Casinoorg alsohad some other info.
Base salaries for NationalHockey League refs range from
$200,000 up to $430,000.

(04:54):
Mlb umpires averaged $235,000,with the highest paid ump making
$450,000.
Next is European soccer.
Who cares?
Ha ha?
The NFL has never officiallyreleased referee salary
information, but it was reportedin 2019 that referees made an

(05:18):
average of $205,000 per season,but what they have like 16 weeks
a year.
I assume a ref just does onegame a weekend.
Does anyone know the answer tothat?
But this is when I wish I hadan assistant here in the studio
and I could be like hey, bob,can you go ahead and break down

(05:38):
the number of games a seasonversus salary and see who ends
up at the top?
I love spreadsheets, but notenough to do that work for you
all.
And yes, all those refs aremaking additional money during
playoffs and if you get to refthe Super Bowl you must be
rolling in the cheddar but alsoyou're probably getting death

(06:03):
threats because people areinsane.
Also, from the last podcast Ihad a couple friends say they
have never been to Buc-ee's andwould never go.
I mean, wow, not even once.
Give Buc-ee's a chance.
At this point I don't thinkI'll be passing a Buc-ee's until

(06:23):
like September, I'm not sure.
Tbd, listen, I like a goodLove's truck stop.
They've got good snacks.
I get the little grilledchicken and some hard-boiled
eggs.
Did anyone else discover theyhave binocular vision
dysfunction?
I also forgot to mention if Igo see a high-action movie in

(06:46):
the movie theater, I also haveto take Dramamine for that.
How much can I milk my BVD?
Is this something I have todisclose when interviewing for a
job?
Is this something I can claimdisability on?
No Fine, I'll just sit arounduntil AI takes over my job.

(07:07):
I'm in quality assurance and myhusband heard on a podcast that
AI will eventually take overquality assurance.
But then I thought how does theold AI and HIPAA work?
For those of you that don'tknow, hipaa stands for the
Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act.
According to the CDC, it is aUS law that was enacted in 1996

(07:34):
that establishes standards forprotecting sensitive health
information and ensures theconfidentiality of patients'
medical records.
Assures the confidentiality ofpatients' medical records.
So this is like when you go toyour primary doctor like hey,
something weird is growing on mybutt, and then the doctor can't
go to the bar afterward anddiscuss you by name.

(07:56):
Like hey, everyone, jenniferhas something weird growing on
her butt and scene.
Accountablehqcom and Foleycomsaid the integration of AI in
healthcare raises importantcompliance concerns, as AI tools

(08:16):
must handle protected healthinformation PHI in accordance
with HIPAA regulationsregulations to ensure data and
privacy, as many do.
I work in a database and I'm theone who is designated to go in
and find the things that are outof compliance.
Because of my role in mysubcontractors, I end up sitting

(08:39):
through three HIPAA trainings ayear.
Fantastic, imagine if aninternet robot was allowed to go
into my database and tell meeverything that was missing or
wrong, and then I tell it toemail everyone that has shit
that is wrong in the database.
Sounds like a dream.

(09:00):
Are you all out there currentlyusing AI at work?
We aren't at all.
Boo, I did end up looking it up, and the Tesla robot known as
Optimus is expected to costbetween $ Next year.
What?
Now back to refs.
Robots could totally take overthat, with extra cameras set up

(09:38):
analyzing plays, and then youdress the robot as Arnold
Schwarzenegger from theTerminator.
Ain't nobody yelling at thegoddamn Terminator?
This week on Twitter, raw Alertstweeted that Amazon is
preparing to test their humanoidrobots for package delivery.

(10:03):
The robots may ride in Amazon'smore than 20,000 electric
Rivian vans and deliver packages.
Now wait a damn second.
Do these robots have to havevalid driver's license?
Do they have to get the real ID?
Does the robot have to go tothe DMV every 8 to 10 years to

(10:27):
get an updated license?
Just imagine standing in linefor 4 hours with a robot and the
small talk like this weatherright.
40,000 Americans die in wrecks ayear Awful.
Some people think futuregenerations will find this wild

(10:47):
because we will all be inautonomous cars and no one will
ever drive again.
I'm in At my assisted living.
I plan to have a cute youngpersonal driver who takes me to
appointments and the club.
If a robot or robot car gets ina wreck, how are the police

(11:08):
handling this?
How is an insurance companyhandling this?
Don't you dare road trade withGary, the Terminator-esque
volunteer robot ref.
He's sick of traffic too.
Robot Gary would rather betraveling in a Waymo on the way
to the fields.
I love it when you all areposting that you are in a Waymo

(11:31):
on Instagram.
I feel like I'm watching a TomCruise movie If you live on Mars
, haha and didn't know.
Waymo, formerly known as theGoogle Self-Driving Care Project
, formerly known as the GoogleSelf-Driving Care Project, is an
American autonomous drivingtechnology company headquartered
in Mountain View, california.

(11:52):
Currently in the US, they areoperating in Phoenix, san Fran,
silicon Valley, los Angeles,austin and Miami.
If I was downtown Nashville andhad a couple cocktails, I'd be
fine with a driverless cartaking me home.
I've never had a bad Uberexperience.

(12:13):
Well, with my BVD I can't be inthe back seat and sometimes the
drivers won't let you in thefront seat and that is why I
take Dramamine.
But as a girly it is an oddfeeling to get into a car with a
stranger man.
I don't think I've been drunkin an Uber by myself in five
years.
Give me a damn crown.

(12:35):
My cousin is a drunk drivingdefense lawyer in Michigan and
he was telling me that drunkdriving stats were at an
all-time high post-COVID becauseeveryone that was driving lost
their jobs and had to go dosomething else.
I also live in Nashville, wherethere is an abundance of Ubers.

(12:57):
Not all towns are like this.
This is an anti-drinking anddriving podcast.
Just take the damn Uber or callme.
I am in bed by 8 30 pm onaSaturday night because I am lame
.
If you recall, a coupleepisodes ago I discussed the

(13:18):
English language, fromhieroglyphics to all the slang
we have.
Now this week on Instagram I'mgoing to I came across a post
from Hashem Al-Ghali, I don'tknow, and it showed a picture of
the earth and said Linguistssay a new language dialect is
emerging in the United States.

(13:40):
The information about the topiccame from an article in
ScientificAmericacom by Philip MCarter and the Conversation by
Philip M Carter and theConversation.
The article states a newdialect, known as Miami English,
is emerging in southern Florida, blending English and Spanish
into a unique form ofcommunication.

(14:01):
This evolving dialect is theresult of decades of immigration
, particularly from Cuba, andthe region's strong Hispanic and
Latino cultural presence.
Linguists at FloridaInternational University have
studied this phenomenon, notinghow Spanish phrases are directly

(14:23):
translated into English, suchas saying get down from the car
instead of get out of the car.
Professor Philip M Carterargues no dialect should be seen
as inferior, especially when itemerges from the natural and
beautiful evolution of humancommunication.

(14:43):
Now, I have never used GoogleTranslate.
Does it kind of populate wordfor word or does it actually
grammatically like do thesentence right?
Does that make sense?
Other phrases that may soundoff are we got down from the car
and went inside.
I made the line to pay forgroceries.

(15:05):
He made a party to celebratehis son's birthday, so nothing
major.
The article goes on to saywhether you're an English
speaker living in Miami orelsewhere, chances are you don't
know where the words you knowand use come from.
You're probably aware that alimited number of words usually

(15:27):
foods such as sriracha orcroissant are borrowed from
other languages.
But borrowed words are far morepervasive than you might think.
They're all over Englishvocabulary Pajamas from Hindi,
gazelle from Arabic via Frenchand tsunami from Japan via

(15:53):
French and tsunami from Japan.
Borrowed words usually comefrom the minds and mouths of
bilingual speakers, who end upmoving between different
cultures and places.
When the contact takes placeover an extended period of time
decades, generations or longerthe structure of the languages
in question may begin toinfluence one another and the
speakers can begin to share eachother's vocabulary.

(16:17):
I recall in college, one of mygerontology professors had a
term and I can't, for the lifeof me, remember what it was
called for when in history, forexample, someone made a chair
and they called it a chair, andthen everyone was like cool,
that's a chair and we willalways call it a chair.

(16:38):
And I found that reallyinteresting, like how all these
kids are saying Riz.
Now, riz came around in 2021 bya gentleman named Kai Sanat who
was streaming on Twitch.
Riz comes from the wordcharisma.
The word Riz was named theOxford English Dictionary Word

(17:02):
of the Year for 2023.
So in 1.5 years it became Wordof the Year the power of social
media the worst and best thingto ever happen.
I made up the word genipod.
I hope it doesn't turn into badslang like oh my god, jessica,

(17:22):
you are so genipod.
My nephew is in town andattended Belmont University's
college prep boys soccer camp.
He loves soccer and would loveto play past high school.
Now, as I have mentioned, Idon't know soccer and I don't
know if he is good and he's adefensive player, and that's

(17:44):
even harder to decipher.
I mean, in my opinion, assomeone who knows nothing about
soccer, I think he looks great.
We took a tour of campus and Iwas like well, I want to go back
to college.
We know the first round didn'tgo that great academically, but
second round, I can useartificial intelligence.

(18:05):
No, not to cheat, but like,here are my notes in the book.
Make me some flashcards, MrRobot.
Then, as I was walking around, Iwas like how much does it cost
to go to college in 2025?
Well, I tell ya it's expensiveas shit.

(18:26):
I mean, it's always beenexpensive, but now it's mega
expensive.
If you happen to go to college,go ahead and look up your
graduating years money totalscompared to 2025 money totals.
So I looked it up in 2000.
Wait yeah, I graduated collegein 2024.

(18:50):
In 2004, the annual tuition forMiami University in-state was
$13,000.
These days it's about $36,000.
That's ridiculous.
The total for private collegesaround here for a year is more

(19:15):
than I make in a year at mygovernment job.
Kids don't go into socialservices.
If you want to make a lot ofmoney, go into sales.
I know AI isn't always accurate, but the average cost of trade
school is $15,000 a year, with arange of $4,200 to $25,000.
According to bestcollegescom,trade school programs are

(19:38):
designed to be completed quickly, typically in a few months to
two years, and you can enrollimmediately following high
school or after gaining somework experience.
Immediately following highschool or after gaining some
work experience.
Unlike traditional colleges,trade schools offer hands-on

(19:59):
training to prepare students forimmediate entry into the
workforce.
They bypass the broadtheory-based education provided
by colleges and instead focus onimparting practical the word
practical knowledge related tothe specific trade or profession
.
Trade schools include programslike carpentry, cdl, computer
information systems, it,cosmetology, criminal justice,

(20:25):
culinary arts, electrical, hvac,mechanic-auto mechanic, medical
assisting, welding and wellnessmassage.
Until the Terminator robot cando my makeup, your trade is safe
.
So what are y'all going to dowith your kiddos?
College, trade, schoolStripping?

(20:47):
Either way, Godspeed to yourcredit card and life savings.
Y'all see that zebra that wasrunning around loose here in
Tennessee and then was airliftedlike a little baby in the air
from a helicopter.
The couple who owned it hadonly had the zebra for one day.

(21:08):
Like got it on a Thursday andthis thing was like bah.
On Friday I would be soembarrassed.
The news would come to my houseand be like is that your zebra?
Eh, I don't think so.
Not mine.
Why the hell do we have a zebrazebra in Rutherford County?
Zebras cost between $3,000 and$10,000.

(21:33):
But also, if I show up to yourhouse and you have a zebra, that
will impress me more than yourBirkin handbag.
All right, y'all.
Thanks for listening and have agreat week.
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