March 23, 2025 • 23 mins
End-of-life planning isn't just for the elderly—it's an essential task for anyone who wants to make things easier for their loved ones when they're gone. I share my personal system of keeping a USB stick and white binder with all important information, and explain why creating a plan now can save your family significant stress later.
• Replace smoke detector batteries during daylight savings time, even in hardwired units
• Ensure your will is valid in your current state—requirements vary between states
• Create a system to organize passwords, account numbers, and important documents
• Consider what will happen to your pets, digital photos, and financial accounts
• Practice minimalism now to avoid burdening family with belongings later
• Designate backup beneficiaries for all accounts and insurance policies
• Label items you specifically want family members to keep
Get your estate planning figured out in 2025—it's inevitable that we all pass away someday, and preparing properly is one of the kindest things you can do for those you leave behind.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's up everyone.
Welcome to episode 12 ofJennaPod.
I am recording this on Friday,march 21st 2025.
I had to record early because Iam working at a fitness event
all day Saturday and I just wantto.
(00:29):
Well, a, I'll be exhaustedSaturday night and I could lose
my voice from having to yell allday, and I like to have this
thing out on Sundays anyway.
So we'll be good to go on that.
So we'll be good to go on that.
From last week's SouthwestAirlines discussion, my best
friend Reby said the DeltaReserve credit card is the way
(00:52):
to go.
That's all the feedback I got,guys.
So I guess everyone's keepingthat Southwest card.
This episode does come out.
I'm probably finally sitting inmy fireplace room watching the
76 minute finale of season twoof Severance.
(01:12):
Do not tell me what hashappened.
When season two is over, I'mgonna go back and re-watch it
from the start.
Who am I kidding?
Who has time for that?
I still haven't finished season8 of Love is Blind.
When it comes to Love is Blind,I know it is a heavily produced
(01:34):
show, but imagine gettinghammered at a bar and being
filmed.
Has anyone been completelysober on that show ever?
Or do they purposely cast theparty, party, party people.
Do I want the gold wine glassto drink out of?
Yes, when I drink I get sleepy.
(01:56):
So my montage the producerswould put together would be and
Jennifer is asleep on the couchagain, I would be rocking
electrolytes and some Celsius.
Not Alani, that shit is gross.
A white monster.
Perhaps I'm talking aboutenergy drinks, if I lost any of
(02:17):
my boomers in this convo.
However, no Celsius ever after2 pm.
However, no Celsius ever after2 pm.
Nothing good happens after 2 pm.
With 200 milligrams of caffeine.
I have twice drank twoCelsiuses in one day and I will
say you will not sleep Again.
(02:45):
You will not sleep if you drinktwo celsius's in one day.
I say all the time thank Godenergy drinks weren't the craze
back in college, because I'd belike let's mix caffeine with
everything.
God knew I didn't need thatmuch power.
I heard on the Buzzcast podcastthis week that podcasts are
entertainment for your earswhile your eyes are busy.
(03:07):
I like that Because literallythat's what this is for Mindless
driving, folding laundry, hotgirl walks, love making, hey-o.
What if someone made a babylistening to my voice?
Name it JenaPod.
If the back of your housecaught on fire this week, this
(03:34):
episode is dedicated to you.
Shout out to my girlfriend,tara, who was out of town when
her bonus room caught fire.
Her husband, stepson and puppyare all okay, thank goodness.
Now, one thing Tara mentionedthat I've heard often but
haven't done is to take picturesof your entire home for
(03:57):
insurance and like yourbelongings, just in case you
have house fire, tornado, whathave you be?
I've mentioned.
I'm a minimalist, but I couldn'timagine the small number of
things I have being taken awayfrom me without my feedback,
like poof, it's gone.
(04:17):
Jesus, don't take myhouseplants.
Now.
Here is a good timed subject.
We just had daylight savings.
It's the first day of spring.
Have you all replaced thebatteries in your smoke
detectors?
Even the hardwired ones havebatteries.
So if you have your hardwiredsmoke detector hanging from the
(04:42):
wall right now, kim, then goahead and get that shit sorted.
I don't even have gas in myhome.
It's all electric, but I amstill paranoid.
And have a carbon monoxidedetector in my home.
They are digital now, which isnice.
Go get one from Bezos now,which is nice.
(05:04):
Go get one from Bezos.
I really don't understand thehardwired ones.
I had them in our old house.
When the power goes out, theygo crazy.
They upset your dogs.
I ripped one out of the wallonce because my dog, brisbane,
was freaking out.
I'm sure in a couple years AIwill be able to tell us our home
(05:26):
is on fire, but until then, goburn something in your kitchen
and see if your smoke detectorgoes off.
Now, one fun topic I knew Iwould talk about on this podcast
and my friends said I needed totalk about was end-of-life
planning.
Wow, what a fucking gripping,exciting subject matter,
(05:49):
jennifer.
So if you died today, is yourestate planned out?
This is even for the singlepeoples out there.
Do you have a cat, a puppy, akid, a house?
Lots of money, money, lots ofstuff, like lots of stuff.
(06:10):
Do you have a will?
Have I lost anyone?
Yet If I disappear, my husbandknows there is a USB stick with
all of our information on it.
I mean, the man won't have tothink Every account number,
login info, emails associatedwith accounts when stuff gets
(06:33):
pulled from checking or thecredit card.
It has our lawyer's information, our life insurance information
, retirement information, etc.
I also have a giant whitebinder with all of our important
documents, all the passportsand birth certificates and
(06:53):
basically anything important.
Now, this took a while to puttogether.
This isn't a one-day project,but I swear it's worth it.
I have a friend who used to tellme I was crazy for all of my
planning and then lost a parentand said you know what?
You were right.
In the past 10 years I've hadtwo friends lose husbands at
(07:17):
very young ages and I was likeman, I need to get our shit
together.
Then we unfortunately had ourown family experiences and just
like anything you don'tunderstand until it happens to
you.
Five years ago, mysister-in-law passed away and
then seven weeks later myfather-in-law passed away.
(07:40):
My father-in-law was thebeneficiary of everything for my
sister-in-law and so both ofthem were all of a sudden gone.
Enter probate my husband becamethe executor on his sister's
account and I would say it tookabout 1.5 years to get her
(08:01):
estate settled.
Luckily, she did have a smalllittle notebook with accounts
and passwords, because if shehadn't, I do not know what we
would have done.
So also, ensure your will or anyof your account with
beneficiaries has backupbeneficiaries.
(08:22):
Are you out of family members?
Add a friend to receive thegoodies we have.
Matt's best friend is like athird person.
Shout out, ben, what's up Ifyou have to move states with a
will, ensure that will is valid.
When my parents made their willin Ohio, it only needed one
(08:44):
witness to sign.
Guess what?
In Tennessee you need twowitnesses to sign your will.
One signature in Tennesseeequals invalid.
Imagine someone passes andfinding out their will is
invalid Yuck.
Some of you may say who cares,I'm dead.
(09:07):
Nah, dog, you gotta set upstuff easy peasy for your family
and if you've gone through thisyou know While you're grieving
you don't want to be trying tofigure out someone's Venmo
sign-in because they have $2,000sitting in their account.
Get that iCloud password so youcan access their photos,
(09:31):
especially if they are leavingbehind young children.
I had to do that for my nephew.
It's inevitable.
We are all going to die.
We are born to die.
This was never more apparent tome than my first job out of
college, working at an assistedliving At 22,.
It was so sad to see familymembers come in to collect their
(09:55):
loved one's belongings.
Now let's discuss stuff andbelongings.
I know recently a lot of peoplewatched that documentary on
consumerism I can't remember ifit was on Netflix or Prime and
just how we are buying shit outof control.
(10:17):
One click and it's at yourhouse.
At one point we moved seventimes in seven years and we have
also moved across the countrytwice.
The longest I have beensomewhere as an adult is nine
years.
Back, four and a half years ago,I downsized 800 square feet.
(10:39):
Moving sucks, moving sucks.
Well, unless you are superwealthy and someone comes in and
packs everything up for you.
That is not my tax bracket.
I've always had to wrap upevery single item in my home.
I've said before on here if Iever move again, I'm selling
(11:02):
every single item.
I'm only moving clothes, acouple sentimental items and my
dogs.
I even have a workshop under myhouse where I could store 50
bins no, not happening.
Like I said, from the age of 22on, I constantly was having to
(11:23):
see people downsize.
22 on, I constantly was havingto see people downsize as they
moved into assisted livings.
I worked at a really largeretirement community out in
Tulsa.
At that giant retirementcommunity we had a thrift store
just for people to have a placeto get rid of their stuff.
(11:43):
I still have some awesome itemsfrom it, some nice, fine china.
Now I am lucky my parents moveddown to Nashville over 10 years
ago and kind of did that firstround of cleaning out.
I remember my mom would send mepicture after picture of stuff
from my childhood.
I'm like, nope, nope, nope.
Now, once in a while, yes, butmy point is do not burden your
(12:07):
family with shit after you die.
I am not renting a storage unitfor you Now, obviously,
sometimes we don't know whensomeone is going to pass away.
It's sudden and unexpected.
Let's all pull out vibes thateveryone passes away at 102 in
their bed For clean out.
(12:29):
We're going to have three pilespeople.
We're going to keep stuff,we're going to donate stuff,
we're going to trash stuff.
If you need help with this,I'll do it.
My father-in-law had a greatsaying before he passed you
can't take it with you, and Iswear I say this about once a
week, as in, they ain't takingyo junk in heaven.
(12:53):
My mother-in-law will belistening to this, hey, girl,
and she knows I challenge her toget rid of or donate one thing
a day, even if it's a pencil ora paper clip.
She has a beautiful, largehouse with a lot of items in it.
She was a teacher.
Lots of teachery things Withminimalism.
(13:16):
They teach you yes, get rid ofstuff, but also don't get rid of
things that bring you joy.
Don't get rid of things thatbring you joy.
If you collect something sweet,keep it.
One to two times a year, I gothrough my entire home and say,
okay, what is just sittingaround not paying rent and
taking up space?
(13:36):
My mom has told me there arecertain things she wants me to
keep if she passes away, like inher home.
Like okay, lady, I'm like, well, you better go ahead and put
some post-its on what you wantme to keep and I'll wink, make
sure I keep those.
I plan on getting cremated andI am to be cremated in the gold
(14:01):
Ralph Lauren dress hanging in myspare closet.
I told my husband where I wantmy ashes scattered and he said
I'm not running errands for youafter you die.
Whatever, dude, take me to Maui.
Anyway, listeners, get yourestate shit figured out in 2025.
(14:22):
We are an Uber Eats family Notexcessive but I feel panicky
when I think about deleting it.
It's an awful way to spendmoney, but it's super convenient
at inconvenient times in yourlife.
Wow, hire me for marketing UberEats.
(14:50):
If you saw where my house issituated, near grocery stores
and eateries, you would kick myass for ever using Uber Eats.
A couple months ago my husbandwas in Knoxville for work and I
went to check the credit cardand there was a pending payment
that said Uber won ten dollars.
And I was like what is that?
I was like that's either somereally cheap food or a really
(15:16):
cheap ride.
The next day I said hey guy, didyou click and buy an Uber One
membership?
He said no, I'm like uh okay.
And then I did the oh shit,have we been hacked?
So I keep an eye on the creditcard and I log into both my Uber
accounts just the Ride Uber andUber Eats and I don't see a
(15:39):
thing.
It even says at the top hey,sign up for Uber One.
I'm still not even sure whatthis membership is.
I even reached out to Ubercustomer service via the app,
showed them a screenshot of thepending $10, and they said we
don't have anything on our end.
I'm like damn.
(15:59):
So I asked my husband to checkagain.
I even check his apps on hisphone and I can't find anything.
And at the top of his app italso says click here to sign up
for Uber One.
And I didn't want to call thecredit card company and report
fraud because it seemed isolated.
Well, another month goes by andhere comes ye old $10.
(16:24):
Damn it, I knew there was noway my husband would even
attempt to fix this.
I'm not going to lie.
I got lazy trying to figure itout, but finally, finally, last
weekend I detected that shit out.
So we go to order burgers from alocal restaurant.
(16:45):
I pull the menu open and I saidno, we're not getting food from
there.
It's a $7.99 delivery fee.
Well, guy across the coffeetable from me pulls it up on his
phone and it says zero deliveryfee.
I said hand me your phone andsure as shit, I put both up side
(17:07):
by side and damn it to hell ifthe zero dollar delivery fee
means he has an Uber One account.
I was like, bro, you did that.
He said no, I didn't, but look,I saved us $7 on this meal.
Okay, moneybags, mcgee.
Well, anyway, prosecuted,jailed, lawyered.
(17:27):
So do I still need to fix this?
Yes, but I'm just a girl, butI'm just a girl.
Watching history shows andhistory documentaries has never
been my strong suit.
I've tried, but I'm bored.
In January, Netflix came outwith a show called American
(17:49):
Primeval.
It was six episodes.
I was obsessed 1000%.
The most violent show I've everseen.
The series is set in 1857,during the Utah War, so roughly
168 years ago.
Now I'm like hell, give me allthe Utah history I'm in.
(18:13):
Where the casting director wentright for pulling this
43-year-old woman to watch theshow was choosing the lead male
actor.
My husband pulled up thetrailer and within 10 seconds I
yelled I'm in.
That male actor was TaylorKitsch, and I hope I'm saying
that right, he's a babe.
(18:34):
Mr Kitsch is my age.
Hey, so not a baby babe, just ababe.
I was like they got Tim Rigginson this show from Friday Night
Lights.
Hell yeah, brother, I'm in.
So Hollywood, I just need babybabes, babes and daddies cast in
(18:55):
all history shows.
Going forward, thank you.
Now this Utah war was about ahundred years before my parents
were born and that seems insane.
It focuses a lot on BrighamYoung and the only thing I knew
about him before this show wasReal Housewives of Salt Lake
(19:17):
City Jokes Just how freakingdifferent things are now.
So, yeah, I now feel like adipshit when I order Uber Eats
after watching the show on myleather couch in my jommies with
a goblin cat and two dogslaying on my chest Like it's
kind of cringe.
(19:37):
So maybe, going forward, I'llswitch to reading nonfiction,
hmm, eh.
Anyway, totally recommendwatching this show.
Not for the kiddos, though.
How many of my Boomer listenersare taking phone calls on their
iPad?
My mother loves to do this.
(19:59):
She picks up my call and thenit's 10 seconds of chaos of her
trying to figure out how to holdit and listen.
I'm still not clear on whathappens.
And then she tells me she's onher iPad and then at some parts,
randomly, I can't hear herbecause the speaker has gone
under a blanket.
Her hand is over it.
(20:20):
It's in the crevice of thecouch.
Now the iPad is very, is a veryimportant element for those who
play Candy Crush.
I have never played Candy Crush.
My mom is on level 8608.
Gotta be healthier thanscrolling the ticky-tock.
Love you, mama.
(20:43):
As the elder millennialaccording to the generation
charts, I was born in 1982, Ikeep my Apple AirPods in most of
the day, probably giving mebrain cancer, but I refuse to
take a phone call without themin.
I kind of feel like thegenerational charts are bullshit
.
At this point.
(21:03):
I feel they should berestructured to the three grades
that were above you in highschool and the three grades that
were under you in high schoollike little micro generations,
and then, if you went to collegeagain, this theory would also
work.
So in my today age, I have themost in common with everyone 40
(21:26):
to 46.
So, going back to thatmillennial chart, the youngest
millennial right now is 31.
And I don't have anything incommon with a 31-year-old.
I have more in common with aGen X, who goes all the way up
to 62 years old right now.
So anyway, I'm over howgenerations are created.
(21:49):
Who is even in charge of it?
Fix it Now.
My dad doesn't get out of aconversation this time.
He doesn't believe GPS doesquickest routes.
I've said before I keep GPS on24-7.
I picked him up for lunch andstarted out of the neighborhood
(22:11):
and he said it's taking you thisway.
I said yes, it's the quickestroute right now.
He said it's not the quickestroute.
Ugh, come on, jerry, there arebillions of satellites in the
air right now giving livefeedback on everyone utilizing
Google Maps.
So it may be only 30 secondsfaster, but at this point in
(22:37):
history, this is the quickestroute.
He said no, it isn't.
And then I dropped him off onthe side of the road to walk to
the Mexican restaurant.
I didn't, but dads are alwaysgoing to know the correct route.
Love you, jerry.
It's been 22 days and I stilldon't have my real ID.
(22:58):
That's it.
That's the story.
All right, everyone have agreat week.
Jennapod is directed, producedand edited by me, your girl,
jennifer.
Please rate, review andsubscribe to this on Apple
Podcasts, spotify or whereveryou are listening to my lovely
(23:19):
voice Laters.
What's up everyone.
Welcome to episode 12 ofJennaPod.
I am recording this on Friday,march 21st 2025.
I had to record early because Iam working at a fitness event
all day Saturday and I just wantto.
(00:29):
Well, a, I'll be exhaustedSaturday night and I could lose
my voice from having to yell allday, and I like to have this
thing out on Sundays anyway.
So we'll be good to go on that.
So we'll be good to go on that.
From last week's SouthwestAirlines discussion, my best
friend Reby said the DeltaReserve credit card is the way
(00:52):
to go.
That's all the feedback I got,guys.
So I guess everyone's keepingthat Southwest card.
This episode does come out.
I'm probably finally sitting inmy fireplace room watching the
76 minute finale of season twoof Severance.
(01:12):
Do not tell me what hashappened.
When season two is over, I'mgonna go back and re-watch it
from the start.
Who am I kidding?
Who has time for that?
I still haven't finished season8 of Love is Blind.
When it comes to Love is Blind,I know it is a heavily produced
(01:34):
show, but imagine gettinghammered at a bar and being
filmed.
Has anyone been completelysober on that show ever?
Or do they purposely cast theparty, party, party people.
Do I want the gold wine glassto drink out of?
Yes, when I drink I get sleepy.
(01:56):
So my montage the producerswould put together would be and
Jennifer is asleep on the couchagain, I would be rocking
electrolytes and some Celsius.
Not Alani, that shit is gross.
A white monster.
Perhaps I'm talking aboutenergy drinks, if I lost any of
(02:17):
my boomers in this convo.
However, no Celsius ever after2 pm.
However, no Celsius ever after2 pm.
Nothing good happens after 2 pm.
With 200 milligrams of caffeine.
I have twice drank twoCelsiuses in one day and I will
say you will not sleep Again.
(02:45):
You will not sleep if you drinktwo celsius's in one day.
I say all the time thank Godenergy drinks weren't the craze
back in college, because I'd belike let's mix caffeine with
everything.
God knew I didn't need thatmuch power.
I heard on the Buzzcast podcastthis week that podcasts are
entertainment for your earswhile your eyes are busy.
(03:07):
I like that Because literallythat's what this is for Mindless
driving, folding laundry, hotgirl walks, love making, hey-o.
What if someone made a babylistening to my voice?
Name it JenaPod.
If the back of your housecaught on fire this week, this
(03:34):
episode is dedicated to you.
Shout out to my girlfriend,tara, who was out of town when
her bonus room caught fire.
Her husband, stepson and puppyare all okay, thank goodness.
Now, one thing Tara mentionedthat I've heard often but
haven't done is to take picturesof your entire home for
(03:57):
insurance and like yourbelongings, just in case you
have house fire, tornado, whathave you be?
I've mentioned.
I'm a minimalist, but I couldn'timagine the small number of
things I have being taken awayfrom me without my feedback,
like poof, it's gone.
(04:17):
Jesus, don't take myhouseplants.
Now.
Here is a good timed subject.
We just had daylight savings.
It's the first day of spring.
Have you all replaced thebatteries in your smoke
detectors?
Even the hardwired ones havebatteries.
So if you have your hardwiredsmoke detector hanging from the
(04:42):
wall right now, kim, then goahead and get that shit sorted.
I don't even have gas in myhome.
It's all electric, but I amstill paranoid.
And have a carbon monoxidedetector in my home.
They are digital now, which isnice.
Go get one from Bezos now,which is nice.
(05:04):
Go get one from Bezos.
I really don't understand thehardwired ones.
I had them in our old house.
When the power goes out, theygo crazy.
They upset your dogs.
I ripped one out of the wallonce because my dog, brisbane,
was freaking out.
I'm sure in a couple years AIwill be able to tell us our home
(05:26):
is on fire, but until then, goburn something in your kitchen
and see if your smoke detectorgoes off.
Now, one fun topic I knew Iwould talk about on this podcast
and my friends said I needed totalk about was end-of-life
planning.
Wow, what a fucking gripping,exciting subject matter,
(05:49):
jennifer.
So if you died today, is yourestate planned out?
This is even for the singlepeoples out there.
Do you have a cat, a puppy, akid, a house?
Lots of money, money, lots ofstuff, like lots of stuff.
(06:10):
Do you have a will?
Have I lost anyone?
Yet If I disappear, my husbandknows there is a USB stick with
all of our information on it.
I mean, the man won't have tothink Every account number,
login info, emails associatedwith accounts when stuff gets
(06:33):
pulled from checking or thecredit card.
It has our lawyer's information, our life insurance information
, retirement information, etc.
I also have a giant whitebinder with all of our important
documents, all the passportsand birth certificates and
(06:53):
basically anything important.
Now, this took a while to puttogether.
This isn't a one-day project,but I swear it's worth it.
I have a friend who used to tellme I was crazy for all of my
planning and then lost a parentand said you know what?
You were right.
In the past 10 years I've hadtwo friends lose husbands at
(07:17):
very young ages and I was likeman, I need to get our shit
together.
Then we unfortunately had ourown family experiences and just
like anything you don'tunderstand until it happens to
you.
Five years ago, mysister-in-law passed away and
then seven weeks later myfather-in-law passed away.
(07:40):
My father-in-law was thebeneficiary of everything for my
sister-in-law and so both ofthem were all of a sudden gone.
Enter probate my husband becamethe executor on his sister's
account and I would say it tookabout 1.5 years to get her
(08:01):
estate settled.
Luckily, she did have a smalllittle notebook with accounts
and passwords, because if shehadn't, I do not know what we
would have done.
So also, ensure your will or anyof your account with
beneficiaries has backupbeneficiaries.
(08:22):
Are you out of family members?
Add a friend to receive thegoodies we have.
Matt's best friend is like athird person.
Shout out, ben, what's up Ifyou have to move states with a
will, ensure that will is valid.
When my parents made their willin Ohio, it only needed one
(08:44):
witness to sign.
Guess what?
In Tennessee you need twowitnesses to sign your will.
One signature in Tennesseeequals invalid.
Imagine someone passes andfinding out their will is
invalid Yuck.
Some of you may say who cares,I'm dead.
(09:07):
Nah, dog, you gotta set upstuff easy peasy for your family
and if you've gone through thisyou know While you're grieving
you don't want to be trying tofigure out someone's Venmo
sign-in because they have $2,000sitting in their account.
Get that iCloud password so youcan access their photos,
(09:31):
especially if they are leavingbehind young children.
I had to do that for my nephew.
It's inevitable.
We are all going to die.
We are born to die.
This was never more apparent tome than my first job out of
college, working at an assistedliving At 22,.
It was so sad to see familymembers come in to collect their
(09:55):
loved one's belongings.
Now let's discuss stuff andbelongings.
I know recently a lot of peoplewatched that documentary on
consumerism I can't remember ifit was on Netflix or Prime and
just how we are buying shit outof control.
(10:17):
One click and it's at yourhouse.
At one point we moved seventimes in seven years and we have
also moved across the countrytwice.
The longest I have beensomewhere as an adult is nine
years.
Back, four and a half years ago,I downsized 800 square feet.
(10:39):
Moving sucks, moving sucks.
Well, unless you are superwealthy and someone comes in and
packs everything up for you.
That is not my tax bracket.
I've always had to wrap upevery single item in my home.
I've said before on here if Iever move again, I'm selling
(11:02):
every single item.
I'm only moving clothes, acouple sentimental items and my
dogs.
I even have a workshop under myhouse where I could store 50
bins no, not happening.
Like I said, from the age of 22on, I constantly was having to
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see people downsize.
22 on, I constantly was havingto see people downsize as they
moved into assisted livings.
I worked at a really largeretirement community out in
Tulsa.
At that giant retirementcommunity we had a thrift store
just for people to have a placeto get rid of their stuff.
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I still have some awesome itemsfrom it, some nice, fine china.
Now I am lucky my parents moveddown to Nashville over 10 years
ago and kind of did that firstround of cleaning out.
I remember my mom would send mepicture after picture of stuff
from my childhood.
I'm like, nope, nope, nope.
Now, once in a while, yes, butmy point is do not burden your
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family with shit after you die.
I am not renting a storage unitfor you Now, obviously,
sometimes we don't know whensomeone is going to pass away.
It's sudden and unexpected.
Let's all pull out vibes thateveryone passes away at 102 in
their bed For clean out.
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We're going to have three pilespeople.
We're going to keep stuff,we're going to donate stuff,
we're going to trash stuff.
If you need help with this,I'll do it.
My father-in-law had a greatsaying before he passed you
can't take it with you, and Iswear I say this about once a
week, as in, they ain't takingyo junk in heaven.
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My mother-in-law will belistening to this, hey, girl,
and she knows I challenge her toget rid of or donate one thing
a day, even if it's a pencil ora paper clip.
She has a beautiful, largehouse with a lot of items in it.
She was a teacher.
Lots of teachery things Withminimalism.
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They teach you yes, get rid ofstuff, but also don't get rid of
things that bring you joy.
Don't get rid of things thatbring you joy.
If you collect something sweet,keep it.
One to two times a year, I gothrough my entire home and say,
okay, what is just sittingaround not paying rent and
taking up space?
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My mom has told me there arecertain things she wants me to
keep if she passes away, like inher home.
Like okay, lady, I'm like, well, you better go ahead and put
some post-its on what you wantme to keep and I'll wink, make
sure I keep those.
I plan on getting cremated andI am to be cremated in the gold
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Ralph Lauren dress hanging in myspare closet.
I told my husband where I wantmy ashes scattered and he said
I'm not running errands for youafter you die.
Whatever, dude, take me to Maui.
Anyway, listeners, get yourestate shit figured out in 2025.
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We are an Uber Eats family Notexcessive but I feel panicky
when I think about deleting it.
It's an awful way to spendmoney, but it's super convenient
at inconvenient times in yourlife.
Wow, hire me for marketing UberEats.
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If you saw where my house issituated, near grocery stores
and eateries, you would kick myass for ever using Uber Eats.
A couple months ago my husbandwas in Knoxville for work and I
went to check the credit cardand there was a pending payment
that said Uber won ten dollars.
And I was like what is that?
I was like that's either somereally cheap food or a really
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cheap ride.
The next day I said hey guy, didyou click and buy an Uber One
membership?
He said no, I'm like uh okay.
And then I did the oh shit,have we been hacked?
So I keep an eye on the creditcard and I log into both my Uber
accounts just the Ride Uber andUber Eats and I don't see a
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thing.
It even says at the top hey,sign up for Uber One.
I'm still not even sure whatthis membership is.
I even reached out to Ubercustomer service via the app,
showed them a screenshot of thepending $10, and they said we
don't have anything on our end.
I'm like damn.
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So I asked my husband to checkagain.
I even check his apps on hisphone and I can't find anything.
And at the top of his app italso says click here to sign up
for Uber One.
And I didn't want to call thecredit card company and report
fraud because it seemed isolated.
Well, another month goes by andhere comes ye old $10.
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Damn it, I knew there was noway my husband would even
attempt to fix this.
I'm not going to lie.
I got lazy trying to figure itout, but finally, finally, last
weekend I detected that shit out.
So we go to order burgers from alocal restaurant.
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I pull the menu open and I saidno, we're not getting food from
there.
It's a $7.99 delivery fee.
Well, guy across the coffeetable from me pulls it up on his
phone and it says zero deliveryfee.
I said hand me your phone andsure as shit, I put both up side
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by side and damn it to hell ifthe zero dollar delivery fee
means he has an Uber One account.
I was like, bro, you did that.
He said no, I didn't, but look,I saved us $7 on this meal.
Okay, moneybags, mcgee.
Well, anyway, prosecuted,jailed, lawyered.
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So do I still need to fix this?
Yes, but I'm just a girl, butI'm just a girl.
Watching history shows andhistory documentaries has never
been my strong suit.
I've tried, but I'm bored.
In January, Netflix came outwith a show called American
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Primeval.
It was six episodes.
I was obsessed 1000%.
The most violent show I've everseen.
The series is set in 1857,during the Utah War, so roughly
168 years ago.
Now I'm like hell, give me allthe Utah history I'm in.
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Where the casting director wentright for pulling this
43-year-old woman to watch theshow was choosing the lead male
actor.
My husband pulled up thetrailer and within 10 seconds I
yelled I'm in.
That male actor was TaylorKitsch, and I hope I'm saying
that right, he's a babe.
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Mr Kitsch is my age.
Hey, so not a baby babe, just ababe.
I was like they got Tim Rigginson this show from Friday Night
Lights.
Hell yeah, brother, I'm in.
So Hollywood, I just need babybabes, babes and daddies cast in
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all history shows.
Going forward, thank you.
Now this Utah war was about ahundred years before my parents
were born and that seems insane.
It focuses a lot on BrighamYoung and the only thing I knew
about him before this show wasReal Housewives of Salt Lake
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City Jokes Just how freakingdifferent things are now.
So, yeah, I now feel like adipshit when I order Uber Eats
after watching the show on myleather couch in my jommies with
a goblin cat and two dogslaying on my chest Like it's
kind of cringe.
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So maybe, going forward, I'llswitch to reading nonfiction,
hmm, eh.
Anyway, totally recommendwatching this show.
Not for the kiddos, though.
How many of my Boomer listenersare taking phone calls on their
iPad?
My mother loves to do this.
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She picks up my call and thenit's 10 seconds of chaos of her
trying to figure out how to holdit and listen.
I'm still not clear on whathappens.
And then she tells me she's onher iPad and then at some parts,
randomly, I can't hear herbecause the speaker has gone
under a blanket.
Her hand is over it.
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It's in the crevice of thecouch.
Now the iPad is very, is a veryimportant element for those who
play Candy Crush.
I have never played Candy Crush.
My mom is on level 8608.
Gotta be healthier thanscrolling the ticky-tock.
Love you, mama.
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As the elder millennialaccording to the generation
charts, I was born in 1982, Ikeep my Apple AirPods in most of
the day, probably giving mebrain cancer, but I refuse to
take a phone call without themin.
I kind of feel like thegenerational charts are bullshit
.
At this point.
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I feel they should berestructured to the three grades
that were above you in highschool and the three grades that
were under you in high schoollike little micro generations,
and then, if you went to collegeagain, this theory would also
work.
So in my today age, I have themost in common with everyone 40
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to 46.
So, going back to thatmillennial chart, the youngest
millennial right now is 31.
And I don't have anything incommon with a 31-year-old.
I have more in common with aGen X, who goes all the way up
to 62 years old right now.
So anyway, I'm over howgenerations are created.
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Who is even in charge of it?
Fix it Now.
My dad doesn't get out of aconversation this time.
He doesn't believe GPS doesquickest routes.
I've said before I keep GPS on24-7.
I picked him up for lunch andstarted out of the neighborhood
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and he said it's taking you thisway.
I said yes, it's the quickestroute right now.
He said it's not the quickestroute.
Ugh, come on, jerry, there arebillions of satellites in the
air right now giving livefeedback on everyone utilizing
Google Maps.
So it may be only 30 secondsfaster, but at this point in
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history, this is the quickestroute.
He said no, it isn't.
And then I dropped him off onthe side of the road to walk to
the Mexican restaurant.
I didn't, but dads are alwaysgoing to know the correct route.
Love you, jerry.
It's been 22 days and I stilldon't have my real ID.
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That's it.
That's the story.
All right, everyone have agreat week.
Jennapod is directed, producedand edited by me, your girl,
jennifer.
Please rate, review andsubscribe to this on Apple
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