Where Was I?
Claim This Podcastby Jennefer Wilson
Podcast Overview
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">You were told to be quieter. Smaller. More manageable. This is the place where we don't do that anymore.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Where Was I? is a podcast for the person with too many thoughts and nowhere to put them. Every episode, we dive into one topic, go deep, and somewhere in there, because ADHD, a tangent or two is born! The next episode is born from the tangents of the episode before which means no topic is off limits. Politics, ghosts, the 90's, neuroscience, religion, the patriarchy, puppies...you name it, we'll probably end up there eventually. Hosted by Jennefer Wilson, entrepreneur, mom, Texas transplant who somehow ended up in Maine, former megachurch worship leader, current person with a lot of feelings about that, and someone who recorded eight episodes of this podcast before deciding on a name. </p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Podcast Playlist - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YhLXMVhdV7YGTJ4p9kM6t?si=3afba2c3ab3c42cf" target="_blank" class="underline" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YhLXMVhdV7YGTJ4p9kM6t?si=3afba2c3ab3c42cf</a></p>
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4/10/2026
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June 3, 2026
09. Haunted Hotels, Irish Castles, and the Ghost Who Pranked My Husband
Ghosts don't need you to believe in them. That's kind of the whole problem. This week we're talking about the places that hold on to things. The rooms that feel wrong. The moments that sit in your chest in a way that logic never fully reaches. And a few specific instances where something happened that I genuinely cannot explain and have been thinking about ever since. We're going to Ireland. We're going to a haunted castle. We're going to a wedding where something covered my lens mid-shot and nobody was there. We're talking about the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, a service elevator that dropped a full floor, and the ghost of White Rock Lake and everyone she might actually be. And then we're going to talk about my husband's sunglasses. Which moved. Across the floor. After I specifically asked whatever was in our house to leave my kid alone and prank him instead. I stand by that decision. In this episode: The Lady of White Rock Lake Ashford Castle, Ireland — and what entered my frame on the dance floor The Adolphus Hotel, a haunted ballroom, and a service elevator I will never fully forgive Saging my house and accidentally redirecting a haunting toward my husband This week's song: Cosmic Love by Florence and the Machine Maybe there's a perfectly logical explanation for all of it. Or maybe some things really do linger. I'm not sure which answer scares me more.
May 27, 2026
08. They Called It Urban Renewal. The People It Happened To Called It Something Else.
Before White Rock Lake was a lake, it was a valley. Before the park and the running trail existed, that valley held a community. And before it was a community, it was freedom — for people who had just been told they were free for the first time. This episode was recorded six weeks ago. A lot has happened since. Including the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 ruling that didn't take anyone's ballot ...it just made sure it doesn't count. We need to talk about that too. This is the episode about what gets passed down when nothing gets passed down. About drowned cities and bulldozed neighborhoods and the compound interest on stolen futures. About Seneca Village and Lake Lanier and Overtown and Rondo and Cape May. About what Negro removal looked like, how many times they did it, and why the racial wealth gap is not a mystery, it has an address. Hundreds of them. No commercials today. SHOW NOTES: A note on timing: This episode was recorded approximately six weeks before its release date. In that time, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais effectively gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act , the provision protecting minority voters from discriminatory redistricting. An updated opener and closer reflect the current moment. Topics covered: White Rock Lake, Dallas TX and the freedman's settlement of Egypt The history of urban renewal as federal policy (1949–1974) Seneca Village, New York City (1857) Forsyth County, Georgia / Lake Lanier (1912, 1950) Overtown, Miami, Florida Rondo, St. Paul, Minnesota Cape May, New Jersey and Harriet Tubman Louisiana v. Callais and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act (April 29, 2026) James Baldwin and Negro removal The racial wealth gap as manufactured, documented policy This week's song: Fast Car — Tracy Chapman Add to the WHERE WAS I playlist on Spotify Further reading: Amber Ruffin's segment on Black towns hidden underwater James Baldwin's interview during the filming of Take This Hammer (San Francisco, 1963) The history of Seneca Village and Central Park Campaign Legal Center: votingright.org Black Voters Matter: blackvotersmatterfund.org Thoughts? Corrections? Things I missed? Leave a comment on Spotify or email: wherewasipodcast.jenn@gmail.com WHERE WAS I with Jennefer Wilson drops every Wednesday.
May 18, 2026
07. What Is Nostalgia Trying To Tell Us?
You remember the Pizza Hut shaped like a Pizza Hut. You remember the smell of Blockbuster... plastic and popcorn in a way that cannot be fully explained but you know. You remember standing on your tippy toes reaching for a movie case that was already empty and grieving it in real time under fluorescent lights. That wasn't nostalgia. That was your nervous system working exactly the way it was supposed to. In this episode we go to Milwaukee, we bet on a building, and we ask the question nobody wants to answer. Who decided that beautiful things were too expensive to keep? We talk about what greed actually took from us. Not just Blockbuster. Not just the mall. Not just the Pizza Hut roof. It took the places where we became ourselves. It took the third places. It optimized the humanity out of everything and called it progress. This episode also contains a 24-hour cupcake ATM, a phantom step, and a measurable drop in cortisol. Slow down....we kind of have to. Show Notes: Barry Schwartz / The Paradox of Choice — Psychologist at Swarthmore College. Documented that unlimited choices don't make us freer — they make us more paralyzed, more anxious, and more dissatisfied. Too much choice can lead to clinical depression. Cortisol + Nature — Meta-analysis of 31 studies across 12 countries found that 20–30 minutes in a natural setting produces the biggest measurable drop in cortisol of any duration studied. Benefits are enhanced when green space includes a water feature. Sprinkles Cupcakes — Founded by Candace Nelson in 2005. Sold to private equity in 2012. Closed all locations December 31, 2025. Nelson found out two days before. Maine — One of two states that prohibits highway billboards. Most forested state in the country. This week's song: I'd Miss the Birds — Joy Oladokun
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- What is Where Was I??
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">You were told to be quieter. Smaller. More manageable. This is the place where we don't do that anymore.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Where Was I? is a podcast for the person with too many thoughts and nowhere to put them. Every episode, we dive into one topic, go deep, and somewhere in there, because ADHD, a tangent or two is born! The next episode is born from the tangents of the episode before which means no topic is off limits. Politics, ghosts, the 90's, neuroscience, religion, the patriarchy, puppies...you name it, we'll probably end up there eventually. Hosted by Jennefer Wilson, entrepreneur, mom, Texas transplant who somehow ended up in Maine, former megachurch worship leader, current person with a lot of feelings about that, and someone who recorded eight episodes of this podcast before deciding on a name. </p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Podcast Playlist - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YhLXMVhdV7YGTJ4p9kM6t?si=3afba2c3ab3c42cf" target="_blank" class="underline" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YhLXMVhdV7YGTJ4p9kM6t?si=3afba2c3ab3c42cf</a></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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