The aJENda Podcast

The RITES OF PASSAGE episode

Kate Spade

The American fashion designer was found dead in her Manhattan apartment on June 5, 2018. Ms. Spade was known for her bold, colorful and classy aesthetic. She was 55.

Jen G NYT Wardrobe Article https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/11/fashion/12TED.html

Why was their passing different for so many of us?

https://www.northjersey.com/story/entertainment/2018/06/09/mourning-anthony-bourdain-kate-spade-like-family-but-they-werent/685562002/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/06/11/after-anthony-bourdain-and-kate-spade-suicides-social-media-lights-up-with-survivors-stories-of-how-they-made-it-through/

Sidenote: Crazy expensive purse story

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/the-crazy-legal-battle-over-a-dollar30000-wine-stained-handbag

Consumable: Sumo Citrus

Hooo boy consumables really did it to us this week!

Beekeeping (telling the bees)

Nuts

Macadamia nuts

Rancid nuts

Just desserts https://www.chicoer.com/2008/10/15/gridley-residents-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-steal-walnuts/

Recipe: Cranberry orange walnut bread

Side note: nut jobs podcast

Frozen custard - https://andersonscustard.com/

Food holidays (JenG’s bot @natlfooddays and JenC’s pod)

Rabbit Rabbit

Old episode call back: ROTTEN POTATOES STRIKE AGAIN

Jen G also found a rotten potato (but this is a small undramatic side note)

This week, we give you a peek behind the scenes of how we make the pod!

Pina Colada aJENda

Tasting

Caramels from JenC (via Holly Figueroa O'Reilly from Twitter/Dem strategist who quit politics to start a small scale candy/jammery/bakery https://shop.castiron.me/marcenetmercantile

Pineapple coconut ice cream bars from Jonny Pops https://www.jonnypops.com/pineapple-coconut

Stories

Ashley Madison Dataset - JenG

Finding out things you didn’t want to know

OMG I finally got the whole reference to Pina Coladas and finding out stuff you don’t want to know–The Pina Colada Song! Also how fucked up is that that you both are so unhappy in the relationship that you step out only to find each other and that’s a LOVE STORY!?

JenG now has a garden equipped to produce pina coladas, which is pretty cool

Coconut and Pineapple Facts from Jen C

150 people per year die from being hit by falling coconuts

The US board of pineapple deaths have been notified that from recorded medical history 997 people have been killed in someway by pineapples

What unusual and creepy looking southern plant is related to Pineapples?

https://www.thefactsite.com/coconut-facts/

https://www.thatsitfruit.com/blogs/default-blog/9-interesting-facts-about-pineapples

Debate: pineapple on pizza?

Just Deserts

Sex offender found naked in historic Texas home drinking piña colada mix, authorities say

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2016/08/03/sex-offender-found-naked-in-historic-texas-home-drinking-pina-colada-mix-authorities-say/

Jen G’s great pina colada recipe - so so so good

Call Backs: Did Jen G ever get the ritter sport with the corn flakes?

FROM: @merrillpond

@AJENDA_Podcast I stopped by The Social in Brooklyn to try the hot dog ice cream mentioned on the http://podcast.It tasted like butter pecan (guessing this was the buttered roll component) so good. Then I hit a caramelized hot dog part. At first ok, but weird aftertaste.

Listener Mailbag

We finally have a sign off:

Be JENtle with one another

But HARD on the systems of oppression

Boston Stories

Jen C: Flines Basement wedding dress/Working+Commuting in boston story

Red Sox Message Board story (sons of sam horn)

Jen G: bad boyfriend story + lobster dinner (same trip)

Huge shark https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2018/02/21/you-can-buy-a-huge-shark-statue-from-a-former-rhode-island-nightclub/

Great Molasses flood of 1919

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

Gingerbread recipe

Boston Cream pie

-Ok but it’s a cake?

Mona lisa attack was maybe cream pie actually?

https://unitedbitco.com/suspect-arrested-after-mona-lisa-spread-with-cream-pie-art-and-culture-news/

Just Desserts

https://www.ktts.com/2021/10/18/man-with-chocolate-pie-arrested-after-chase/

Chocolate cream pie

Listener Mailbag

Call backs:

How’s the apron experiment going?

Little Joys/Annoys

Hot Dog Ajenda

Waffles Hot dog story

Jen & ingo’s wedding trip hot dog eating contest story

(RELATED!) Hot dog eating contest 2022

https://gothamist.com/news/i-dont-know-how-they-do-it-reigning-hot-dog-champs-chomp-to-victory-in-coney-island-competition

Sandwich?

Ketchup or no ketchup?

Just Desserts

https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/florida-man-charged-for-throwing-hot-dog-at-st-pete-officer/

Jen G: Mac & Cheese carrot dog recipe

Hot Dog Ice cream

https://bronx.news12.com/hot-dog-ice-cream-it-s-a-thing-at-social-ice-cream-shop-in-prospect-park

Free shakes for men who get vasectomy

https://www.ksby.com/news/national/hot-dog-business-offers-free-milkshakes-to-men-who-get-a-vasectomy

Hot Dog water seltzer

https://www.foodprocessing.com/industrynews/2022/sewer-beer-hotdog-seltzer/

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/hot-dog-hard-seltzer

Jonny Sun - how to eat 10 hotdogs with 8 buns and no leftovers

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/ways-to-eat-a-pack-of-ten-hot-dogs-and-a-pack-of-eight-hot-dog-buns-without-having-any-extra-hot-dogs-left-over

aJENda Episode 2

Did you discover any unusual food/drinks this week? Did you try them? - https://www.tastings.com/Spirits-Review/Gator-Bite-Satsuma-and-Rum-Liqueur-USA-10-01-2020.aspx

Jen G's failed PB cookies - https://www.tiktok.com/@bdylanhollis/video/7099971562748726574?_t=8T8mZRGW4Ja&_r=1

Rage item: Worst smelling things

Just Desserts- https://www.npr.org/2022/05/30/1102044111/man-throws-cake-at-mona-lisa-the-louvre

Just Desserts Recipe: White Sour Cream Almond Cake (wedding cake from italian bakeries) Perfect for throwing–it has the right amount of heft so that it doesn’t fall apart in the air, plus the frosting is soft enough to really make the kind of mess you want when throwing it at art to protest climate change. Check Twitter for the recipe card

aJENda Reader Mailbag!

Welcome to our first little step into the pod!

Just Desserts story: https://apnews.com/article/oddities-florida-fort-myers-19d902a0d04bef6bb9ec6bd49b97cf81?utm_medium=AP_Oddities&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

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Episode 1 coming soon!