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Speaker 1 (00:10):
What's up everyone?
Welcome to episode 26 ofJennaPod.
Welcome back, Thanks forsticking with me.
Even though I write out all ofthese podcasts, I'm realizing
I'm having problems rememberingwhat stories I have told and
those I have not.
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But let's say I've recordedclose to nine hours of talking,
so I think it's okay if Iaccidentally repeat a couple
things.
My producer, aka me, doesn'thave the time to review and keep
track, so just deal with it.
I am recording this Monday,August 11th, Back to school,
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back to school.
That was my Adam Sandlerimpression.
This episode would have been outearlier, but last Sunday I went
to work on my notes and mycomputer had restarted and
apparently I hadn't saved mywork and it was gone, which it's
more confusing because I savedmy podcast notes on a USB-C
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drive.
So then, somehow on Tuesdayafternoon I was on my work
computer Shh, don't tell anyone.
And at one point it said do youwant to recover?
Like what?
Have you documents?
It's that do you want torecover them?
Most of the time I ignore it,but I clicked, sure, but had no
idea what it was referring to,because I am constantly in Word
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and Excel for work.
I am a savvy Microsoft gal.
Then, like 15 minutes later, Iwent to a link from an email to
my server and all of a sudden,my goddamn podcast notes
appeared.
And I think it was an instanceof good karma.
And it's good, because when Ilost my work, I didn't get mad,
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I didn't cry.
I went upstairs and cleaned outmy makeup bag, all my makeup,
and I cleaned out all mybathroom storage things to give
myself a busy task, to not focuson the fire dumpster, and now
everything is clean, clean,clean and I'm happy.
So, podcast still delayed, butyou know, it's like.
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You know, anytime you work onsomething and it doesn't save or
disappears.
I mean, how does that happen in2025?
But then it was like trying toremember the work I did and
getting creative again.
That that was challenging.
So praise.
However, the heck, I got mynotes back.
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I bet it was that littlepaperclip fellow that still
lives somewhere in Microsoft.
Shout out to my friends who I amthe only podcast they listen to
that's commitment.
They listen to that'scommitment.
You could be listening toA-list celebrities, influencers,
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political figures, comedians,millionaires, business moguls,
etc.
And you choose.
Good old Jennifer fromFairfield and everyone at the
network loves that.
Thank you If you work in aprofessional work setting.
Can we please, please, quitusing smiley faces in emails?
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I'm fine with it in teams usingemojis, gifs, gifs, whatever
those are called.
But I've already said if youtype friendly reminder in an
email, you are dead to me.
But pair that with a smileyface, I will throw my laptop
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across the room and shatter it.
Just get to the point of theemail.
I've quit using email sign-offs, my signature and info
auto-populate, like they all do.
I'm only using Sincerely if I'mapplying to a job.
Maybe not even then.
Maybe I just type make theright decision and hire me.
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Best regards, Cheers.
Get the hell out of here.
I ain't typing that.
I don't care about what's goingon at the other end of this
Ethernet cord, Just send thedocument I requested or answer
the question I asked.
And scene Last episode Imentioned I hoped a college
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student ended up with my drunkramen.
Amazon soup spoon purchase Funnystory.
My mother is that collegestudent, Sharon has the spoons
and a public belated happybirthday to my mother.
So anytime I clean out my house, I put everything on my dining
room table and my mother comesover like it's goodwill.
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My husband gets mad because heis like we are just going to end
up with all of this stuff againand my mom laughs and says, yep
, see you at the estate sale.
There are items I'm sure wehave passed back and forth
multiple times because we forgotwe bought them.
She has stuff from my weddingregistry in her kitchen, has
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stuff from my wedding registryin her kitchen.
I think I have four everydaycoffee cups from my wedding
registry left from the original12, and after 17 years that's a
pretty good stat.
Is it pretty normal now forpeople to make gift registries
or Amazon wish lists for justabout every party?
I've seen that done for kidsparties.
Honestly, as someone who is ahorrible gift giver and I stress
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out about it I do love sometype of registry.
Maybe I just need everyone tomake a Pinterest board so I can
go to it if you have a specialevent coming up.
I miss the 90s where for threeto four consecutive years for
birthdays and Christmases,everyone and I mean everyone got
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a Bath and Body Works giftbasket.
Chemicals be damned, give me abasket filled with vanilla bean
lotion, vanilla bean body spray,vanilla bean body wash, and
even after that I'm still goingto be spraying some Calvin Klein
, some Tommy Hilfiger or someAbercrombie perfume on top of it
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.
Gap had the best perfumes everin the 1900s.
I got on Amazon and it lookslike you can still get some of
their scents.
Yas queen, I need to go to themall ASAP and see if they have
any of the perfumes in storesand maybe go get me some of
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those American Eagle SydneySweeney.
Jeans Hashtag controversy.
Jeans Hashtag controversy.
My mom and I have beenspreading misinformation on this
podcast.
I didn't get my double piercingfor my ears on my 30th birthday
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.
I did not get them pierced onmy 21st birthday.
It was my 25th birthday and why.
We didn't know when thishappened?
Because it was 2007 and wedidn't have smartphone pictures
to refer to.
2007 was still a year oftransitioning from print to
digital photos.
Back on episode 20 of JennaPod,I discussed how we all have too
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many pictures on our smartdevices.
Anyway, I will try and refrainfrom spreading misinformation on
this podcast.
I don't need the supes at thecorporate office sending me a
cease and desist letter.
Anywho, I do plan on adding onemore ear piercing in 2025.
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Will I pass out, Perhaps, butdo I go to Claire's at the mall
or the new fancy piercing placeat 5th and Broadway called Studs
downtown Nashville, I thinkClaire's, because then you can
go to the food court and getsome free bourbon chicken.
Also, did you see this weekwhere Claire's is declaring
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bankruptcy?
I don't like that.
Let's save Claire's, along withRed Lobster.
I am not the only person whoended up with a many bunch of
bananas from Kroger online orderand delivery.
Same exact thing happened to mygirlfriend, Ann, in Cincinnati.
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She also claims they didn'tupdate the icon picture from one
banana to the bunch of bananas.
I feel better because Ann is amath wizard and smarter than me,
so banana shenanigans canhappen to anyone.
Best friend Reby also hadhashtag banana problems.
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Her family has used just aboutevery form of grocery delivery
app and utilized Amazon one daybecause it was the fastest same
day delivery.
Amazon at the time was doingbunches of bananas, while Kroger
was still doing single bananas,and Rebby's husband ordered
five bunches of bananas.
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So, friends, this is a safeplace to tell over-ordering
banana stories.
We stand in solidarity.
I went on my annual girls triptwo weekends ago to Wilmington,
North Carolina.
If you end up with a friend wholives remotely near a beach,
just plan to keep them around.
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My girlfriend, Tara has livedin Wilmington for 18 years.
Fun fact my husband and I couldhave moved there in 2007, but
for his sales territory we choseTulsa, Oklahoma.
Just kidding friends from Tulsawho listen to this, Miss you
For this girl's trip.
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I have known most of thesegirls since middle school and
all but one of us went to theMiami University.
Go Redhawks or, if you are old,go Redskins.
This was my 12th beach trip in15 years.
Technically, I was there a 13thtime for Tara's wedding, but I
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was only in Wilmington for 17hours, so I don't count that.
Most expensive part is gettingthere by plane, but a free place
to stay.
Holla, I see most of thesegirls once a year at the trip
because we be scattered acrossthe United States of America.
There is no direct flight toWilmington from Nashville, so
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from here generally you gothrough Charlotte or Atlanta.
Also, Southwest doesn't flythere, Boo, Okay, now I have a
question for everyone out there,because I got made fun of at my
gym for this.
For 15 years I have booked thistrip through Orbitz and it has
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never done me wrong.
Per Wikipedia, Orbitzcom is aninternational travel fare
aggregator website and travelmeta-search engine.
The website is owned by OrbitzWorldwide Inc.
A subsidiary of Expedia Group.
It is headquartered in the CityGroup Center in Chicago,
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Illinois.
It has been around since 2001.
It was acquired by Expedia in2015.
Acquired by Expedia in 2015.
Expedia also purchasedTravelocity Go off Expedia.
So I'm about to talk verytech-like.
Embrace yourselves.
Orbitz ran on a mixed Red Hat,Linux and Solaris-based platform
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and was an early adopter of SunMicrosoft Systems' Genie
platform in a clustered Javaenvironment.
Jboss is used as an applicationserver within their environment
, along with various otherproprietary and open source
software.
Orbitz licensed ITA Software'sLIPS-powered QPX software to
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power their site.
Orbitz worldwide brands havebeen migrated to a common
technology platform, whichenables the same platform to
serve multiple travel brands inmultiple languages, in different
markets and currencies as well.
Orbitz has released parts ofits complex event processing
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infrastructure as open source.
If you didn't understand a wordof that, I didn't.
It's one of those websites thatgives you flight options across
many airlines and does costcomparison.
So most people would do asearch on Orbitz and be like oh
hey, Delta has the flight I wantto go on, so I'll go to the
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Delta website, Not me.
That's an extra step I don'tfeel like making.
So is this a me thing.
Does anyone else use orbits orsomething like it?
Is this a Middle Ages thing?
I tried the Hopper app, whichgives you 1,000 flight choices,
and I got overwhelmed anddeleted the app.
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Your girl doesn't travel thatmuch.
It's not my comfort area.
If I had Powerball money, I'dhave a personal travel agent,
someone who packs all my shit,travels with it and then unpacks
all of it at set location.
I've never had an issue withflights in 15 years from orbits.
So 10 out of 10 from me.
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Have you had a travel nightmareusing a travel meta-search
engine?
I had to get up at 3 25 am formy flight.
That wasn't pleasant.
My husband was like who'staking you to the airport at 4
am?
I said you are buddy.
He said I wouldn't make youdrive me and I said well, I'm
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just a girl.
In no way I'm driving andparking on my own.
Now I have done that oncebefore.
In no way I'm Ubering for 25minutes with a stranger.
Where is my Waymo?
Where is my Tesla robot taxi?
I have read recently where Uberis rolling out a system where
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females can request femaledrivers.
That's cool.
Normally I do the ridiculousearly flight on the way home
from Wilmington, but wanted totry something different.
I arrived at the NashvilleInternational Airport at 425 am
and it was wild.
No, I still don't have TSApre-check, because I'm a
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commoner.
Only half the security laneswere open.
I got to use the new fancyscanner for keeping shoes on 18
minutes through security.
Yes, I always keep trackbecause I'm a nerd.
So I arrived at 425 am and Iwas in my airplane seat by 512
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am.
Nothing better than justshowing up and going straight to
security, than just showing upand going straight to security.
So all my synapses were notfiring.
When my alarm went off at 325 am, I forgot my Kindle.
I've done this half a dozentimes when I'm done reading in
bed, I slide my Kindle under mypillow.
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My Kindle has had to be mailedto me by family and friends from
several states across theUnited States of America.
It was the worst case scenarioever, because all I do is read
at the beach.
I had to buy a paperback bookGross.
My 43-year-old eyes can't readthat small print.
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Made it to Wilmington Easypeasy.
Um, the Wilmington airport nowhas a Jimmy John's.
Let's fucking go.
Got me a turkey tom immediatelyat 10 30 am.
Super successful, Long weekend,Love, a girl's trip.
Love you, girls who arelistening, girls who are
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listening.
Nashville had 30 days in a rowfor 90 degree temps, 90 degree
plus temps.
I found a tweet from WKRNNashville where someone
calculated cities and the amountof 100 degree days they have
had since the year 1900, becauseTampa, Florida, had its first
100 degree day just recently.
So here are 15 cities and theirnumber of 100 degree days since
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1900.
Portland, Maine 7.
New York City 58.
Chicago 64.
Minneapolis 64.
We got a tie.
Atlanta 83.
Denver and Mobile, Alabama 102,.
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Another tie Washington DC 113.
Bismarck 274.
Houston 508.
Kansas 2,103.
And y'all, Phoenix, 11,992.
Phoenix, that's an average of95 days a year with 100 degree
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temps.
Yowza, we all agree.
75 and sunny with no humidityis the best.
Give me that R-day Update fromEpisode 6 of Genopod straight
from NASA.
When asteroid 2024 YR4 wasdiscovered, it was estimated to
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have a very small chance ofimpacting Earth on December 2,
2032.
After more observations, NASAconcluded it poses no
significant impact risk to Earthin 2032 and beyond.
Yay, so let's have a tickertape parade.
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An asteroid is not going to hitus in 2032.
But, but that is the year,allegedly, social security runs
out.
So here's the age old question.
Would you rather get hit by anasteroid or get zero social
security benefits that you havebeen paying into your entire
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career security benefits thatyou have been paying into your
entire career?
Now I think I've said on thepodcast that I am getting
cremated, but somewhere I readthat people are putting QR codes
on gravestones and I thinkthat's genius.
You could link it.
You could put on the gravestone, link it to your obituary.
A slideshow of pictures, videosof your life, random YouTube
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videos, a link to my podcast,what have you?
I will pay money towards anyone.
I will put it towards yourestate, your trust, if you link
my podcast on your gravestone.
If you link my podcast on yourgravestone.
Happy Gilmore 2.
Have you watched it?
I think they did a great job.
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I saw the original HappyGilmore in 1996 with my
boyfriend at the movie theater.
We held hands.
I have seen the original HappyGilmore probably 50 times.
I quote it often On RottenTomatoes.
The second movie got a 63%critic rating and a 66% audience
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rating.
Like what were y'all expecting?
An Academy Award winning film,Get out of here.
It made this middle ages womanlaugh and smile.
It was very nostalgic.
Oh, we started watching ModernFamily.
We had never watched oneepisode of it.
It is so good, so funny, socute, very family friendly
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comedy.
The Father Phil Dunphy I meantop tier, one of my favorite
characters ever.
It aired for 11 seasons from2009 to 2020.
It had 22 Emmy Awards.
It also won a Golden GlobeAward in 2011 for best
television series in a musicalor comedy.
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Other TV updates I finallyfinished season five of you.
That kind of got insane at theend.
I guess I'm glad it's over.
I started season four of theBear.
I need to suck it up and finishseason 21 of Grey's Anatomy.
And where the hell is Emily inParis?
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Where is that shit show?
Bring back that chaoticness.
And you know, I'm going to haveto check out the Hunting Wives
on Netflix because I heard it'ssexy, sexy.
It has an 81% critic rating onRotten Tomatoes and a 70%
audience rating because becausey'all like girls making out on
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television, it rates TV matureon Rotten Tomatoes.
But if you go on to IMDb itsays sex and nudity severe in
red colors, lol.
The subgenre on imdb sayserotic thriller, y'all nasty.
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So, uh, warn your mamas beforethey start watching that new
trending hunting show on thenetflix.
But if I do watch it.
I'll let you guys know what Ithink.
All right, you guys.
Thank you for listening toepisode 26.
And I hope you have a greatweek.
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