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March 2, 2025 20 mins


• Reflection on the name Jennifer and its historical context 
• Examination of sideline reporter interviews in sports 
• Nostalgia surrounding crockpot cooking and recipes 
• The necessity and controversy of video in podcasts 
• Personal experiences navigating the DMV and REAL ID process 


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Speaker 1 (00:10):
What's up everyone.
Welcome to Episode 9 ofJennaPod.
I am your host.
It's Jennifer.
Do you think the name Jenniferwill ever become popular again?
I once saw it was the mostpopular girl's name back in 1982

(00:31):
, along with the Tiffany's,jessica's, stacy's, stephanie's.
So go ahead and ask a teenagertoday is Jennifer giving old
lady name vibes?
When does my name resurgencecome?
As far as I know, jenniferisn't a biblical name.

(00:53):
Anywho, no pressure, but nameyour child after me Jenipod Jr,
jenipod II, genapod the second Iam recording this Saturday,
march 1st.
Goodbye February.

(01:13):
Hello March.
We are approaching patiooutside drinking season, which
is the best time of the year.
Fuck fall.
It turns into winter.
Yeah, yeah, football, but ittakes the sun away and that is
malo.
That is muy malo, malo, malofor all my Spanish-speaking
listeners.

(01:34):
Hola, speaking of football, Iadopted a new quirk this past
football season and now I do itevery single game I watch, and
that is when the sidelinereporter it's generally a woman
goes and interviews the coachbefore they run back into the

(01:55):
lockers for halftime.
Why have we not scrapped thissegment?
It's useless and it makes meuncomfortable.
I'm not saying the actualsideline reporting isn't
important, I'm just focused onthe coach's interview and the
poor coaches are probably likeJesus.

(02:16):
Here we go again.
Imagine your team is down 24-3at halftime and a microphone is
shoved in your face.
This is when I start acting outscenes in my fireplace room.
I will now be playing the roleof a sideline reporter and coach

(02:36):
for a team that is gettingdestroyed at halftime.
Sideline Reporter Coach.
What do you need to do thesecond half of this game to get
the groove back, coach?
Well, wendy, we need to advancethe ball 10 yards to complete

(02:58):
first downs and then get theball in the end zone for
touchdowns.
Our defense has to stop theball and scene.
New scene your team is winningbefore halftime.
Sideline reporter Coach.
What did you say to your teambefore coming out here today?

(03:21):
Because, wow, this performance,coach.
They knew what they needed todo today.
They followed our plan and theoffense is making touchdowns.
And scene.
Anyway, either get rid of thissegment or let Snoop Dogg do it.

(03:41):
Also.
With winter ending and springupon us, the close of crockpot
season is here.
I'm kind of sad.
I mean it doesn't have to be,but when the heat index is 105
in Nashville, I don't needpiping hot chili.
I hate cooking, but I will fuckup a crockpot recipe with some

(04:04):
delicious dinners.
If you call a crockpot a slowcooker, just quit listening to
this podcast.
Now Wikipedia recognizes it asa slow cooker.
Ugh, and I will be writing mysenator about this.
Slow cookers achieved popularityin the 1940s when many women

(04:24):
began to work outside of thehome.
They could start cooking dinnerin the morning before going to
work and finish preparing themeal in the evening when they
came home.
I tell my husband all the time,if he lets me stay home, I'll
have a TV dinner and scotchready at 5 pm every single damn

(04:44):
day.
The branding Crock-Pot wasintroduced in 1971.
Wikipedia has a banner underthe article called Disadvantages
Like um, okay, what is negativeabout this Crock-Pot situation?
Quote from Wikipedia Somevitamins and other trace

(05:05):
nutrients are lost, particularlythat's a hard word particularly
particularly, oh God,particularly particularly.
I can't say it.
You know what I'm saying.
Let's try that again.
Some vitamins and other tracenutrients are lost, particularly
.
There we go from vegetables,partially by enzyme action

(05:26):
during cooking and partially dueto heat degradation.
I like that word.
Now listen, I'm not using mycrock pot for its nutritional
value.
I'm throwing in blocks of creamcheese for yum-yums.
I will also toss in some wholebaby carrots into a crock pot,
because I am scared of knivesand I will never cut up a carrot

(05:50):
if it is not necessary.
And maybe a baby carrot grossesyou out.
But you can go talk to yourtherapist about that.
We here support farmers andtheir baby carrots.
And now I'm going to let you inon the crockpot appetizer I
have been taking to parties forprobably 20 years.

(06:12):
I call it chicken dip.
I've had friends call itchicken crack.
My godmother was part of acooking club in Cleveland Ohio
and passed this on ClevelandOhio and pass this on Cream
cheese, chicken, cream ofchicken soup, jalapenos.
And then you need your tortillachips.
Buy them Cheap, easy Crowdfavorite.

(06:35):
Back in my party girl era days,nothing was better than waking
up at 7 am, the crock pot stillon warm and with a pounding
headache, the joy of havinginstant hangover snacks.
Drop your favorite recipes inthe comment section below.
Buzzsprout emailed an articlethis week about the pressure for

(06:57):
podcasters to embrace video.
But is it really the next stepfor every podcast?
As you know, I could videorecord myself podcasting.
I don't even know how to dothat, syncing video and audio,
and then y'all could watch me onthe YouTube.
They go on to say, of the top50 podcasts in the world the

(07:21):
ones with the biggest budgets,teams and resources only 37
publish video on YouTube andjust 8 use video on Spotify.
That means a significantportion of the most successful
podcasts aren't bothering withvideo at all.
As I am typing this, I realizeBuzzsprout has their own podcast

(07:44):
called Buzzcast, so I need tolisten and learn more about what
I can do with this platform.
But I like all that infobecause after I started this I
was like shit, do I need to beon video?
As a huge consumer of podcastsmyself, I'm happy with audio
only because I'm listening inthe car or while I'm doing

(08:04):
chores around the house or whileI'm on a hot girl walk.
So sorry, for now you only getmy voice Because, also, this
podcast doesn't make any money.
My girlfriend Reby told me shelistens to political podcasts
and corporate recruitingpodcasts and that sounds
horrible and we could not be anymore different.

(08:27):
My top five favorite podcastsright now are Camp Counselor's
podcast with Zachariah Porterand Jonathan Carson.
Number two probably a podcastwith Shannon Ford If anyone
knows her in Nashville, tell her, I love her.
The Dating Detectives the MostInsane Stories.

(08:48):
Number four, correct Opinionswith Trey Kennedy.
And number five, as I've saidbefore, my newest obsession the
Severance Podcast with BenStiller and Adam Scott.
I don't know what the hellhappened after last week's
podcast and me promoting theKroger Boost membership, but I

(09:09):
shit you not.
Monday morning I received anemail from Kroger stating that
the membership was going up by$10 and they're rebranding it
Boost Essential.
When I hear boost, I think ofthe nutritional supplement
drinks that older adultsgenerally have.
At one point my grandmother hadweight gain ones and I kept

(09:30):
drinking them in her apartmentand it turned into that scene in
Mean Girls when Regina Georgefinds out the protein bars she's
eating is making her fat Kroger.
I'm not sure why the rebrand,because I don't think we are
needing to make grocery deliverysexier or really even worry
what it's called.
It could simply be Krogerdelivery.

(09:51):
That is what I call it.
Anyway.
I'll also be writing my senatorabout this.
I'll also be writing my senatorabout this.
I had to go get my real IDFriday morning.
Well, let me rephrase mylicense was expiring on Sunday,
so I had to go.
Some of you are risky and willlet that expire.

(10:13):
I'm not that girl.
This also coincided with megetting my real ID.
The only people I had knownthat had gotten the real ID were
my parents, so I put a poll upon my personal Instagram asking
people if they had updated theirlicense to the real ID.
After 15 hours we had 58% yesand 42% no.

(10:37):
58% yes and 42% no.
And for those of you who didn'tanswer my poll, shame on you.
I know I failed statistics incollege, but I think the goal is
to have as many participants aspossible.
If you don't know what the realidea is, I will tell you, and I
will also tell you my helljourney to get one.

(10:58):
And by hell I was at the DMVFriday morning for three hours
and 20 minutes.
I had no food, no water, but Imade some friends along the way.
We were basically hugging andcheering each other when our
numbers were finally called,kind of like when you win a
raffle prize.
Passed by Congress in 2005, theREAL ID Act enacted the 9-11

(11:24):
Commission's recommendation thatthe federal government quote
set standards for the issuanceof sources of identification
such as the driver's license.
Essentially, the REAL ID is anew license you will get and, if
I understand correctly,everyone's will have a star in
the top right corner.
I just have a paper copy rightnow.

(11:46):
I got the letter about it,dated December 2nd, but I didn't
go until the last day possible.
Actually, not on par with mypersonality, I think I
procrastinated because Januarywas 10 years long but February
was only two weeks long.

(12:06):
Allegedly on Wednesday, may 7,2025, you will need this ID to
access certain federalfacilities, enter nuclear power
plants and here's the big oneboard a federally regulated
commercial aircraft.
Yes, in layman's terms, thatmeans to go fly-fly in the air

(12:30):
with Southwest.
You gotta have one.
Or you can utilize yourpassport, but your passport
better not be expired.
Can utilize your passport, butyour passport better not be
expired.
If you recall, they have beentalking about this Real ID for
over five years and had to keeppushing back the deadline
because of COVID.
Well, the time has come and Iwant to go to the airport on May

(12:53):
7th and see what happens,because it would be very
entertaining.
I want to know how many peoplecan't go through.
Tsa Is Real Ideas scam, whoknows?
But the scam cost me $28.
I arrived at the Franklin DriverServices Center at 8 15 am, 15

(13:14):
minutes before they opened, at 830, and I was literally the
100th person in line.
Thank God I took off work.
It was a very nice building.
I didn't take any water orsnacks in because I didn't think
I'd be MIA.
13.8% of my day, pro tip pack acooler.
At one point I saw a boomer geta pack of Altoids out of her

(13:38):
purse and I almost begged forone as a snack.
If you own a coffee breakfastfood truck, get your ass out to
the local DMV.
You would make a killing.
I overheard a man whose fifthteenager was there doing the
driver's test.
He said he had dropped them offat 6.30 am to stand in line.

(14:00):
This guy was a professional.
Once we got inside the buildingthere was a woman who forgot
COVID happened and basicallywanted you along a wall hugging
the person in front of you toget more people in the building.
I was supposed to meet friendsat 11 am for lunch.
Did that happen?

(14:20):
You bet your ass it didn't.
I can't enforce this enough.
You cannot have plans after theDMV during this real ID
nonsense.
At one point there was a manacross from me who was having
his car worked on later in theday at his home and he called
the dealership, panicking likeI'm stuck at the DMV man Like

(14:41):
you got to come closer to five.
He looked so distraught.
Also, do not take your childrento the DMV, as there are zero
children activities.
When my parents went last yearit took like 20 minutes.
So, yeah, maybe shouldn't havewaited until the last minute for
an ID hundreds of millions ofAmericans need.

(15:04):
At 9.30 am I finally made it tothe main information desk to
show my documents to then beassigned a number.
I then sat for two hourswaiting for R13120 to be called.
The girl working this desk hadto interact with every single

(15:25):
human and she was the real MVP.
A couple times she got up andhad to go into a back room and I
elbowed the young man next tome we had been together since
8.15 am and said Do you thinkshe goes back there and screams
in a padded room?
I do, I would.
My biggest fear was getting totalk to the MVP lady and not

(15:47):
having one of my documents.
I saw it happen.
It wasn't pretty.
I saw a guy get risky and leftto go get an early lunch.
You've made it 90 minutes, guy,why leave now?
I'd be terrified to leave.
I've worked too hard to getwhere I am.
We got to see the DonateTennessee workers come in and

(16:08):
change out the organ donationbanner.
That was exciting.
Also, the DMV is like 50 levelsmore casual than the airport.
I'm always fascinated on howpeople will dress among the
public.
I would just recommend taking afriend, a book or drinking
heavily while waiting to spicethings up.

(16:30):
Now I kind of made myself lookpresentable for my picture.
I didn't go over the top butdidn't want to look like a
gremlin.
Now, when I was 16 getting myfirst license, I remember being
more stressed out for thepicture than the driving test.
I was tan, blonde, skinny, fullof hope, had a tight purple

(16:50):
v-neck shirt on from Express.
I looked hot.
All my licensed pictures sincethen have been atrocious.
So again wasn't really worriedabout how almost 43 Jennifer is
looking.
However, the best part of theday for me was watching a grown
woman I'll say late 20s, early30s have a complete meltdown

(17:13):
about her picture and I mean Iwas giggling out loud because I
was delusional from lack ofwater.
She was able to use the kioskon her own because she was just
doing like a simple change ofaddress, like baby girl, unless
you go missing or commit a crime, this license picture is going
nowhere.

(17:33):
I don't think the likelihood ofthis work of art ending up on
the 5 pm news is that strong.
I don't think Officer Joneswill be worried about your hair
when he's pulling you over for aDUI Mackenzie at Applebee's
checking your ID for your32-ounce McUltra doesn't care

(17:53):
about your makeup.
This girl was distraught intelling the DMV worker like can
we do another one?
This is the worst picture Ihave ever taken and I love that
meme that's like oh, you don'tlike how you look in this
picture.
Well, that's what you look like.
My family knows that if I gomissing, they are to use my 2014

(18:16):
headshot I used for Titanstryouts.
I don't look a damn thing likethat anymore, but I think that
picture will help ratings andappeal more to viewers.
Now.
I did have a horrible, terrible, fugly passport picture before
In 2009, when I lived in Tulsa.
I had box-dyed hair, bangs andthe flu and I was on a time

(18:40):
crunch to get my passportcompleted to go to Mexico.
We went to Jamaica in 2013, andwhen I arrived, the women
reviewing my passport andcustoms were audibly pointing
and laughing and I was like Iknow I was fighting for my life
in that passport picture.

(19:00):
Back to the DMV, once I finallygot to the real, real desk to
talk to someone, it was a verypleasant experience.
He asked me it wasn't too badout.
There was it, sir.
I see three of you right nowand I can't feel my legs.
He also said he's not sure howhardline the May 7th date will

(19:20):
be at the airport.
He said he's already heardthere are certain areas pushing
it back.
My guy also asked me my heightand said are you still the same
weight?
And I said, guy, we shouldprobably add a little more on,
because I haven't seen thatnumber since 2017.
And he said you know, we allchange.

(19:41):
Maybe I should start a fakereal ID company.
I figured a podcast out.
Still can't do a Google Doc,but just give me a 3D printer, a
ring light and Venmo me $250.
And don't worry, my Venmo feedis private.
All right, y'all, happy Marchand have a great week.

(20:03):
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jennifer.
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