June 22, 2025 • 27 mins
Jennifer shares the chaos of podcast recording software crashes, coaching at the gym, and being 18 years older than a handsome soccer coach she spotted during a Belmont campus tour.
• Installing a doggy door brings concerns about wildlife entering the house
• Defending Red Lobster as high-class cuisine despite friends' NASCAR jokes
• Sharing news about Tesla's Auto Robo Taxi debut and Starbucks' search for coffee-obsessed storytellers to travel the world
• Explaining how AI companies like XAI burn through $1 billion monthly for processors and infrastructure
• Discussing "cloud seeding" weather manipulation and the story of Charles Hatfield, whose rainmaking efforts caused deadly floods in 1916
• Lamenting expensive comedy show tickets ($207 for general admission) and confessing to stealing abandoned sunglasses at a party
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's up everyone?
Welcome to episode 23 ofJennaPod.
I'm Jennifer Y'all.
I went to Open Audacity that isthe platform I use for
recording and it was like oh, doyou want to do an update,
software update, which I've donemany times, and I did it and I
(00:31):
and it crashed and then Icouldn't even open the program,
couldn't even open, it Couldn'topen up an old episode, nothing.
Anyway, redownloaded it butsomehow had to pay $6.99 a month
for a cloud.
I don't know.
I'm going to figure that outafter this episode, because you
(00:51):
know what If I've got to pay$6.99 for episode 23,.
Well, that's where we are.
Today is Friday, june 20th.
Yes, I am all over the placeright now with this podcast.
I mean, I'm not that that farbehind, but solely working on
(01:12):
this on the weekends is takingup a lot of my weekend, and
weekends are for fun stuff.
So I'm trying to find pocketsduring the week when I can to do
this and if you have any topicsyou would like me to attempt to
cover, shoot me a message onthe Instagram or my email, as
(01:34):
the information is somewhere onone of these apps, and shout out
to one of my youngest listeners, toddler Miss Lily Gagne, aunt
Jen Jen loves and Earmuffs whenI Say Bad Words.
This podcast will continue tobe an explicit three to four
cuss word podcast until thenetworks give me a contract and
(01:59):
a raise saying that I cannotcuss any further.
I currently make zero dollars,so if my mother, sharon, wants
me to stop saying the F word,she knows a certain amount of TJ
Maxx gift cards could do thetrick, and that number is
unlimited.
I heard this week on a podcastthat Lindsay Lohan had a podcast
(02:24):
of her own that only lasted 12episodes in 2022.
So I may not have her new face,but I do have a greater podcast
legacy.
I also heard she was paid $20million to do said podcast.
Now that is where we are vastlydifferent on our podcast
(02:48):
journeys.
I am also coaching a little bitmore at my gym right now.
Shout out Redline QualityFitness in Brentwood, tennessee.
I have been coaching fitnessclasses part-time for 11 and a
half years now.
It's a good side gig.
If you ever need secret wifemoney or a free gym membership,
(03:10):
I totally recommend it.
I forgot, last week I had a babybabe story.
If you are new here, you can goback to episode 5 and listen to
the titled episode.
It's Not Creepy, he's a Baby.
When I toured Belmont with mymother-in-law and my nephew, we
(03:33):
were waiting for the tour tostart and a coach from the
Belmont soccer team walked by toget into one of the buildings.
I thought to myself well, thatis a very handsome dude long
black hair, beard, athletic.
I guessed he was 32 to 35.
(03:54):
I saw him for 20 seconds andthat's it.
When we got back to the house,I looked at my mother-in-law and
said I looked at mymother-in-law and said did you
clock that Belmont soccer coach?
And she said oh, my gosh, yes,and I'm like cool, I've got
(04:16):
mother-in-law on my side.
I said I'm going to Google me,this fella, all right, so I see
he played soccer at Belmont.
Cool, um, he graduated fromBelmont in 2022.
Oh, no, so this man is 25 yearsold.
No, I screamed at Carol, he's ababy babe.
(04:41):
I'm 18 years older than thislittle baby.
I was graduating high schoolwhen he was born and I wasn't
being creepy, I was justappreciating that he won the
genetic lottery.
Hell, I'd go to Belmont soccergames just to watch him walk
(05:02):
around.
Okay, now that's a littledelusional.
I promise I won't go on YouTubeand look up his soccer
highlight reels.
I went to Home Depot this weekfinally to start the process for
the doggy door.
I probably could have justcalled, but I physically went to
(05:23):
Home Depot and brought my mombecause she gets that 10% spouse
military discount.
So the Home Depot is going tocharge you $40 to have someone
come out and measure your door.
Very nice dude came to thehouse, maybe took five minutes
to measure.
The guy said hey, make sure youorder an opening large enough
(05:46):
for your dog.
He said I was once at a houseand they had a great day and
during the 4th of July fireworksthe dog tore up the door.
I'm sorry, a dog door for whom?
Per the American Kennel Club, amale Great Dane will be 30 to 32
(06:08):
inches tall and up to 140 to175 pounds.
For this instance, I feel likeyou need a Dutch door, the kind
they have at a daycare, wherethey are divided horizontally,
allowing the top half to openindependently from the bottom
half.
(06:28):
My black lab mix is 23 inchestall and like 69 pounds and the
GSP not much smaller.
So we will be good with a largedoor, possibly an extra large
door, because what if I do endup with a giant puppers again in
my life.
Our Newfoundland goldenretriever mix was 105 pounds.
(06:51):
By the way, the rescue we gotour Black Lab mix from said he
was part Great Pyrenees and wewere like sweet, a large fluffy
dog.
Nope lies.
We got a Black Lab pity mix,but he's the love of my life.
So it all worked out in the end.
So anyway, I will let you knowthe updates on the dog door for
(07:14):
those interested in a possibledog door.
This podcast is not sponsored byHome Depot and I know this dog
door will help with bringing inhumidity and bugs into the house
.
But here's the thing my Germanshort haired pointer now has
access to bring whatever hewants into the house whenever he
(07:36):
wants.
For example, tuesday morning Ihad him locked outside and when
I went to let him in he had adead bird in his mouth.
So in the future that dead birdwill also be in my house.
He has also brought a liveturtle into the house before and
(07:56):
lots of random sticks andbranches and then chew them up
and scatter them like confettiall over my floors.
We also have foxes, groundhogsand armadillos in our backyard,
so I hope word doesn't get outthat our house is all-inclusive
for water, food and shelter.
I haven't seen another snakeyet, but Saturday evening one
(08:21):
was in my neighbor's yard and myhusband watched it climb a tree
.
So that is nightmare fuel.
We have a new country listenernot the genre of music Puerto
Rico.
I assume someone was on a fancyvacation.
I hope it was wonderful and I'mjealous.
(08:41):
Was it all inclusive?
Was the food good?
I tell you where the food isgood Fucking red lobster.
And some of you be hatin' onred lobster.
For the seafood lover in you,growing up in the suburbs of
Ohio in the 80s and 90s, redLobster was a fancy restaurant
(09:05):
that you went to maybe once ayear for like your grandma's
birthday.
When we moved to Tulsa we oncetold a group of friends, hey,
let's go to Red Lobster.
And they were like what in theNASCAR are you talking about?
I was offended, like um, redLobster is high class cuisine.
(09:27):
The night before mymother-in-law went back to Ohio
we decided to go for herbirthday.
Now I knew they were somewherein the middle of filing
bankruptcy, so I went to theGoogle Maps to see if they were
even open in Cool Springs.
And yay they were.
They have a 4.3 out of fivestar out of over 1600 reviews on
(09:52):
Google.
That ain't bad.
I got some calamari as anappetizer, got some
bacon-wrapped scallops and somecrunchy brussels Y'all it was
delicious.
No hate from here.
There weren't that many peoplethere.
Everyone was about the age of75, but I loved it.
(10:13):
Would go back.
Please go support your localRed Lobster Robot.
News of the week the Tesla AutoRobo Taxi is set to debut in
Austin, texas, around June 22nd.
Also, some of y'all mentioned,when I was talking about sports
(10:33):
and winning and losing, that insoccer you can tie.
Maybe Gary, the robot ref,could determine who played
better when there is a tie andthen Gary decides who is the
winner, and parents aren't goingto argue again because,
reminder, he's dressed as theTerminator.
In soccer, the rules andsystems for a tie protect the
(10:58):
players from injury by limitingthe amount of extra time play,
as soccer has fewer breakscompared to other sports.
I think I'm done talking aboutsoccer for now.
Maybe I can be a boots groundcorrespondent for the.
Is it FIFA, fifa, fifa WorldCup that will take place in the
(11:20):
US, canada and Mexico next July.
Psych.
A couple weeks ago, starbucksannounced they were looking for
two coffee-obsessed storytellersto travel the world to capture
the craft that goes into everycup of Starbucks coffee.
(11:40):
I know content creator jobshave been evolving, but this is
pretty cool and will belife-changing for someone.
One hire has to be a currentStarbucks employee and the other
one is to be an external hire.
These are paid full-time,12-month roles with travel costs
(12:02):
covered and travel supportprovided by Delta Airlines and
Marriott Bonvoy.
I saw where the range of pay is$80,000 to $136,000.
I mean, for one year I couldabandon my family.
Well, not Blue, because again,he's the love of my life.
(12:23):
I had one cocktail this weekand looked at Blue and started
telling him how much I loved himand started crying.
And that is womanhood in anutshell.
So back to Starbucks.
Here's the thing you have tobecome a full-time content
(12:44):
creator for 365 days, and thatshit ain't easy.
If you told me all I had to dowas record my voice, take
pictures and film videos, I'd bein.
But if you said I had to editevery single day of my life, no
sir.
Now some little baby babes aregoing to jump on this because,
(13:06):
hell yeah, I would have in my20s, not in these middle ages.
We ain't doing it.
Well, shit.
I just saw the cutoff for theapplications was June 13th, so
sorry for my listeners out therewho were jumping on the
Starbucks website.
I wonder if you would becontractually obligated to only
(13:29):
do Starbucks content or if youcould have any other sponsors,
because if so, you couldprobably make a shit ton of
money.
So it'd be interesting, goingforward, if other brands take
this approach to hire contentcreators for a year at a time.
Well, this is kind of more robottalk, but it's about AI and
(13:52):
basically I don't know how AIworks.
Basically, I don't know how AIworks.
Also, as a woman who is notgreat at science in high school
or college, it's interestingthat I share a lot of science on
here.
I saw a tweet this week fromRaw Alerts that Bloomberg
reports that Elon Musk's XAI isburning through an astonishing
(14:18):
$1 billion per month as costspile up, and I was like I don't
comprehend.
Just like delete the searchhistory for everyone.
But then someone tweeted atGrok which is the XAI why it
itself is so expensive, why ititself is so expensive, and the
(14:44):
AI tweeted, quote the high costof running me is from XAI's mass
investment in AI tech.
Think powerful GPUs those aregraphic processing units, data
centers and top-notch researchto keep up with the AI race.
Posts on X and reports suggestXAI's burning of $1 billion
monthly, mostly for hardware andinfrastructure, like the
(15:08):
Memphis supercomputer, but withonly $500 million in projected
2025 revenue.
Some question if this spendingis sustainable.
It's a gamble to staycompetitive, but long-term
profitability is isn'tguaranteed.
End of tweet.
I tried finding out how much itcosts monthly to run chat GPT,
(15:32):
but the only answers I foundwere that humans can pay $20 a
month for chat GPT plus or $200a month for chat GPT pro, like
why do you even need that?
I don't know.
Grok is a chat box developed byXAI, while ChatGPT is a
conversational AI model createdby OpenAI.
(15:57):
Both serve similar purposes ingenerating text-based responses,
but they are products ofdifferent companies and have
distinct features andcapabilities.
Companies and have distinctfeatures and capabilities, so AI
is expensive because of energy.
This sounds like a combinationof the movie Ferngully and
Avatar.
(16:17):
A lot of you had told me thatyou are kind of using AI at work
, but you are saying people arereally bad at using it for
emails and it doesn't sound likea human.
Anyway, get off your phones andgo take a hot girl walk.
So Nashville just had itsseventh rainiest wettest May on
(16:38):
record, with 8.49 inches of rain.
It's been a muggy assrainforest here for two weeks,
like walking into a wet blanket.
But the last rain was June 19thand then the heat index will
reach 100 to 105 this weekend.
Fantastic Driving home fromcoaching Tuesday night I had
(17:03):
never drove through so muchponding and rushing water.
It was nuts.
At the gym this week I wastalking to my gym dudes, tj and
Navy Seal.
Matt and TJ was like okay, Ihave a topic for you.
I said shoot.
He said look up the Rainmaker.
No, not the 1997 movie starringMatt Damon.
(17:27):
Rainmaking, the Science ofPluviculture, also known these
days as cloud seeding.
Now, this has been used forsince the 1800s, so over 100
years for farmers.
But if you recall, in April2024, dubai had had record
(17:48):
flooding for 24 hours, wherenormally they receive 3.9 inches
of rain a year.
You know because it's a desert.
Well, this is the first time Ihad heard about cloud seeding
and weather manipulation.
If you saw the videos fromDubai, they were crazy.
(18:08):
According to Wikipedia,rainmaking, also known as
artificial precipitation,artificial rainfall and
pluviculture, it is the act ofattempting to artificially
induce or increase precipitation, usually to stave off drought
According to the cloud'sdifferent physical properties.
(18:30):
This can be done usingairplanes or rockets to sow to
the clouds with catalysts suchas dry ice, silver iodide and
salt powder to make clouds rainor increase precipitation, to
remove or mitigate farmlanddrought, to increase reservoir
(18:51):
irrigation water and watersupply capacity, or to increase
water levels for hydropowergeneration.
One famous rainmaker wasCharles Hatfield, who was born
in 1875.
I found an article calledCharles Hatfield, the Rainmaker
who Brought on a Deadly Flood in1916, san Diego, by Gina DiMuro
(19:17):
D-I-M-U-R-O.
Desperate to end a dry spell,the San Diego Council hired
self-proclaimed moistureaccelerator Charles Hatfield to
fill the Morena Reservoir.
He did much, much more thanthat.
In his spare time, hatfieldstudied pluviculture and mixed
(19:40):
his own methods for rainproduction.
By 1902, he had created amixture of 23 chemicals in
evaporating tanks which heclaimed, attracted rain.
Charles Hatfield thus dubbedhimself a moisture accelerator.
In 1904, the Quaker from KansasCity began by charging clients,
(20:06):
mostly small farmers, $50 forhis services, but word of his
skills soon spread.
After a series of successfulrainfalls.
A year later he upped his priceto $1,000 per inch of rain.
In 2025, that would be over$36,000.
(20:29):
The 40-year-old rainmaker madea deal with the San Diego City
Council, in which he wouldeither fill the Moreno Reservoir
or induce between 30 to 50centimeters of rain at the cost
of $10,000, to be paid after theshower started.
(20:50):
Of course, the councilamazingly agreed to the proposal
, but verbally only, andHatfield, together with his
younger brother, constructed atower where he could conduct his
secret work.
In early January 1916, it beganto rain over San Diego after
(21:13):
weeks of drought.
Joy turned into apprehensionand then dismay, as the rain
turned to storms and wateroverflowed the reservoirs.
By January 27th, the floods haddestroyed everything in their
path.
When the Hatfield flood ended,an estimated 30 inches of rain
(21:36):
had fallen and around 20 peoplewere killed.
Hatfield said my bad, and heskipped town.
He tried to return and collecthis $10,000 and the city council
basically said are you fuckingserious, bro?
They said sure, but you have togo live on TikTok and say you
(21:56):
ruined everything and you killedall those people and you're
going to pay the city back forthe damage it caused.
Hatfield said nah, I'm good,and cut his losses In his career
.
Hatfield said he made it rainmore than 500 times, so I'm not
a conspiracy theorist, but doyou all think people out there
(22:19):
are manipulating the weather forfunsies.
Can humans create hurricanes ortornadoes?
The internet says no.
We can only create rain.
You need specific atmosphericconditions for those.
But it would be cool like okay,from now on it's only going to
rain on Wednesdays.
(22:40):
Don't worry, karen, your son'sbaseball game won't get rained
out and you can yell at the umpwhen he makes a slight mistake.
I've got a couple last thoughtsfor the podcast.
This morning I went online tobuy tickets to a comedy show and
this is a content creator who Ilove.
(23:02):
He's so funny on Instagram, theReels.
I listened to his podcast.
The tickets were $207 a piecefor general admission with
possible standing room.
So it was going to be atMarathon Music Works in
Nashville.
$207?
We just bought two tickets to aNotre Dame game and it was $238
(23:28):
.
I saw Kesha at the Ryman forlike $60.
And I understand, people needto make money.
It's a business.
But is this what everyone elseis experiencing?
I said we ain't going.
I texted my friend.
I said no, ma'am, that's asmuch as going to see.
That's more expensive thangoing to TPAC.
(23:49):
Anyway, I digress, I was sad,but oh well, just watch them on
the internet for free.
I went to an engagement partySaturday night.
I had a total of threecocktails and I stole someone's
sunglasses that were left on atable.
Now, granted, I clocked themthere and three hours later I
(24:11):
was like everyone's gone.
They're men's sunglasses.
They look horrible on me, butthis is kind of.
If you remember when Idiscussed weddings, when I get
tipsy, I will steal centerpieces.
At weddings I will stealflowers.
So again, if I go to a party,watch your stuff.
(24:34):
I would like to talk about afirst world problem.
Since my hair is now brunette,I had someone suggest to use
brown mascara.
I think it looks nice, until Isee a picture of myself and my
eyes looked closed and I looksleepy.
So then I went back to black,black black mascara, but then
(24:57):
it's like so coated on and Ilook like a raccoon and it takes
like three days to get it off.
So I don't know what to do withthis scenario.
Another issue I'm having in mylife, another first world
problem, is when I go to arestaurant, why does there have
(25:17):
to be a menu, a drink menu and adessert menu?
I don't want.
It's like.
I don't want to hold this manythings, like if it's out, like
if the drink's not there, justlet me know.
But I'm over it.
I want one menu.
I don't want multiple menus.
Just print it out and put it inthe little pocket thingy.
(25:41):
My husband asked me when I talkabout my assisted living, why am
I alone and with friends and heis not there and I'm like, oh
sweet man, I'm sorry, women livelonger than men, so you
probably aren't alive and I'msorry, but that's how the
(26:03):
statistics work.
So it's not like you weren'tinvited.
You're dead.
You have been cremated and youare in a beautiful little urn
and you're there and I'moccasionally like you know,
we're cheersing, you know for adrink.
Anyway, you're dead.
I'm sorry.
The funeral was fun, but not asfun as my funeral.
(26:25):
All right y'all.
Thank you for listening toepisode 23 and have a great 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
(26:47):
voice Laters.
What's up everyone?
Welcome to episode 23 ofJennaPod.
I'm Jennifer Y'all.
I went to Open Audacity that isthe platform I use for
recording and it was like oh, doyou want to do an update,
software update, which I've donemany times, and I did it and I
(00:31):
and it crashed and then Icouldn't even open the program,
couldn't even open, it Couldn'topen up an old episode, nothing.
Anyway, redownloaded it butsomehow had to pay $6.99 a month
for a cloud.
I don't know.
I'm going to figure that outafter this episode, because you
(00:51):
know what If I've got to pay$6.99 for episode 23,.
Well, that's where we are.
Today is Friday, june 20th.
Yes, I am all over the placeright now with this podcast.
I mean, I'm not that that farbehind, but solely working on
(01:12):
this on the weekends is takingup a lot of my weekend, and
weekends are for fun stuff.
So I'm trying to find pocketsduring the week when I can to do
this and if you have any topicsyou would like me to attempt to
cover, shoot me a message onthe Instagram or my email, as
(01:34):
the information is somewhere onone of these apps, and shout out
to one of my youngest listeners, toddler Miss Lily Gagne, aunt
Jen Jen loves and Earmuffs whenI Say Bad Words.
This podcast will continue tobe an explicit three to four
cuss word podcast until thenetworks give me a contract and
(01:59):
a raise saying that I cannotcuss any further.
I currently make zero dollars,so if my mother, sharon, wants
me to stop saying the F word,she knows a certain amount of TJ
Maxx gift cards could do thetrick, and that number is
unlimited.
I heard this week on a podcastthat Lindsay Lohan had a podcast
(02:24):
of her own that only lasted 12episodes in 2022.
So I may not have her new face,but I do have a greater podcast
legacy.
I also heard she was paid $20million to do said podcast.
Now that is where we are vastlydifferent on our podcast
(02:48):
journeys.
I am also coaching a little bitmore at my gym right now.
Shout out Redline QualityFitness in Brentwood, tennessee.
I have been coaching fitnessclasses part-time for 11 and a
half years now.
It's a good side gig.
If you ever need secret wifemoney or a free gym membership,
(03:10):
I totally recommend it.
I forgot, last week I had a babybabe story.
If you are new here, you can goback to episode 5 and listen to
the titled episode.
It's Not Creepy, he's a Baby.
When I toured Belmont with mymother-in-law and my nephew, we
(03:33):
were waiting for the tour tostart and a coach from the
Belmont soccer team walked by toget into one of the buildings.
I thought to myself well, thatis a very handsome dude long
black hair, beard, athletic.
I guessed he was 32 to 35.
(03:54):
I saw him for 20 seconds andthat's it.
When we got back to the house,I looked at my mother-in-law and
said I looked at mymother-in-law and said did you
clock that Belmont soccer coach?
And she said oh, my gosh, yes,and I'm like cool, I've got
(04:16):
mother-in-law on my side.
I said I'm going to Google me,this fella, all right, so I see
he played soccer at Belmont.
Cool, um, he graduated fromBelmont in 2022.
Oh, no, so this man is 25 yearsold.
No, I screamed at Carol, he's ababy babe.
(04:41):
I'm 18 years older than thislittle baby.
I was graduating high schoolwhen he was born and I wasn't
being creepy, I was justappreciating that he won the
genetic lottery.
Hell, I'd go to Belmont soccergames just to watch him walk
(05:02):
around.
Okay, now that's a littledelusional.
I promise I won't go on YouTubeand look up his soccer
highlight reels.
I went to Home Depot this weekfinally to start the process for
the doggy door.
I probably could have justcalled, but I physically went to
(05:23):
Home Depot and brought my mombecause she gets that 10% spouse
military discount.
So the Home Depot is going tocharge you $40 to have someone
come out and measure your door.
Very nice dude came to thehouse, maybe took five minutes
to measure.
The guy said hey, make sure youorder an opening large enough
(05:46):
for your dog.
He said I was once at a houseand they had a great day and
during the 4th of July fireworksthe dog tore up the door.
I'm sorry, a dog door for whom?
Per the American Kennel Club, amale Great Dane will be 30 to 32
(06:08):
inches tall and up to 140 to175 pounds.
For this instance, I feel likeyou need a Dutch door, the kind
they have at a daycare, wherethey are divided horizontally,
allowing the top half to openindependently from the bottom
half.
(06:28):
My black lab mix is 23 inchestall and like 69 pounds and the
GSP not much smaller.
So we will be good with a largedoor, possibly an extra large
door, because what if I do endup with a giant puppers again in
my life.
Our Newfoundland goldenretriever mix was 105 pounds.
(06:51):
By the way, the rescue we gotour Black Lab mix from said he
was part Great Pyrenees and wewere like sweet, a large fluffy
dog.
Nope lies.
We got a Black Lab pity mix,but he's the love of my life.
So it all worked out in the end.
So anyway, I will let you knowthe updates on the dog door for
(07:14):
those interested in a possibledog door.
This podcast is not sponsored byHome Depot and I know this dog
door will help with bringing inhumidity and bugs into the house
.
But here's the thing my Germanshort haired pointer now has
access to bring whatever hewants into the house whenever he
(07:36):
wants.
For example, tuesday morning Ihad him locked outside and when
I went to let him in he had adead bird in his mouth.
So in the future that dead birdwill also be in my house.
He has also brought a liveturtle into the house before and
(07:56):
lots of random sticks andbranches and then chew them up
and scatter them like confettiall over my floors.
We also have foxes, groundhogsand armadillos in our backyard,
so I hope word doesn't get outthat our house is all-inclusive
for water, food and shelter.
I haven't seen another snakeyet, but Saturday evening one
(08:21):
was in my neighbor's yard and myhusband watched it climb a tree
.
So that is nightmare fuel.
We have a new country listenernot the genre of music Puerto
Rico.
I assume someone was on a fancyvacation.
I hope it was wonderful and I'mjealous.
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Was it all inclusive?
Was the food good?
I tell you where the food isgood Fucking red lobster.
And some of you be hatin' onred lobster.
For the seafood lover in you,growing up in the suburbs of
Ohio in the 80s and 90s, redLobster was a fancy restaurant
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that you went to maybe once ayear for like your grandma's
birthday.
When we moved to Tulsa we oncetold a group of friends, hey,
let's go to Red Lobster.
And they were like what in theNASCAR are you talking about?
I was offended, like um, redLobster is high class cuisine.
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The night before mymother-in-law went back to Ohio
we decided to go for herbirthday.
Now I knew they were somewherein the middle of filing
bankruptcy, so I went to theGoogle Maps to see if they were
even open in Cool Springs.
And yay they were.
They have a 4.3 out of fivestar out of over 1600 reviews on
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Google.
That ain't bad.
I got some calamari as anappetizer, got some
bacon-wrapped scallops and somecrunchy brussels Y'all it was
delicious.
No hate from here.
There weren't that many peoplethere.
Everyone was about the age of75, but I loved it.
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Would go back.
Please go support your localRed Lobster Robot.
News of the week the Tesla AutoRobo Taxi is set to debut in
Austin, texas, around June 22nd.
Also, some of y'all mentioned,when I was talking about sports
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and winning and losing, that insoccer you can tie.
Maybe Gary, the robot ref,could determine who played
better when there is a tie andthen Gary decides who is the
winner, and parents aren't goingto argue again because,
reminder, he's dressed as theTerminator.
In soccer, the rules andsystems for a tie protect the
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players from injury by limitingthe amount of extra time play,
as soccer has fewer breakscompared to other sports.
I think I'm done talking aboutsoccer for now.
Maybe I can be a boots groundcorrespondent for the.
Is it FIFA, fifa, fifa WorldCup that will take place in the
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US, canada and Mexico next July.
Psych.
A couple weeks ago, starbucksannounced they were looking for
two coffee-obsessed storytellersto travel the world to capture
the craft that goes into everycup of Starbucks coffee.
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I know content creator jobshave been evolving, but this is
pretty cool and will belife-changing for someone.
One hire has to be a currentStarbucks employee and the other
one is to be an external hire.
These are paid full-time,12-month roles with travel costs
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covered and travel supportprovided by Delta Airlines and
Marriott Bonvoy.
I saw where the range of pay is$80,000 to $136,000.
I mean, for one year I couldabandon my family.
Well, not Blue, because again,he's the love of my life.
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I had one cocktail this weekand looked at Blue and started
telling him how much I loved himand started crying.
And that is womanhood in anutshell.
So back to Starbucks.
Here's the thing you have tobecome a full-time content
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creator for 365 days, and thatshit ain't easy.
If you told me all I had to dowas record my voice, take
pictures and film videos, I'd bein.
But if you said I had to editevery single day of my life, no
sir.
Now some little baby babes aregoing to jump on this because,
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hell yeah, I would have in my20s, not in these middle ages.
We ain't doing it.
Well, shit.
I just saw the cutoff for theapplications was June 13th, so
sorry for my listeners out therewho were jumping on the
Starbucks website.
I wonder if you would becontractually obligated to only
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do Starbucks content or if youcould have any other sponsors,
because if so, you couldprobably make a shit ton of
money.
So it'd be interesting, goingforward, if other brands take
this approach to hire contentcreators for a year at a time.
Well, this is kind of more robottalk, but it's about AI and
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basically I don't know how AIworks.
Basically, I don't know how AIworks.
Also, as a woman who is notgreat at science in high school
or college, it's interestingthat I share a lot of science on
here.
I saw a tweet this week fromRaw Alerts that Bloomberg
reports that Elon Musk's XAI isburning through an astonishing
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$1 billion per month as costspile up, and I was like I don't
comprehend.
Just like delete the searchhistory for everyone.
But then someone tweeted atGrok which is the XAI why it
itself is so expensive, why ititself is so expensive, and the
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AI tweeted, quote the high costof running me is from XAI's mass
investment in AI tech.
Think powerful GPUs those aregraphic processing units, data
centers and top-notch researchto keep up with the AI race.
Posts on X and reports suggestXAI's burning of $1 billion
monthly, mostly for hardware andinfrastructure, like the
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Memphis supercomputer, but withonly $500 million in projected
2025 revenue.
Some question if this spendingis sustainable.
It's a gamble to staycompetitive, but long-term
profitability is isn'tguaranteed.
End of tweet.
I tried finding out how much itcosts monthly to run chat GPT,
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but the only answers I foundwere that humans can pay $20 a
month for chat GPT plus or $200a month for chat GPT pro, like
why do you even need that?
I don't know.
Grok is a chat box developed byXAI, while ChatGPT is a
conversational AI model createdby OpenAI.
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Both serve similar purposes ingenerating text-based responses,
but they are products ofdifferent companies and have
distinct features andcapabilities.
Companies and have distinctfeatures and capabilities, so AI
is expensive because of energy.
This sounds like a combinationof the movie Ferngully and
Avatar.
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A lot of you had told me thatyou are kind of using AI at work
, but you are saying people arereally bad at using it for
emails and it doesn't sound likea human.
Anyway, get off your phones andgo take a hot girl walk.
So Nashville just had itsseventh rainiest wettest May on
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record, with 8.49 inches of rain.
It's been a muggy assrainforest here for two weeks,
like walking into a wet blanket.
But the last rain was June 19thand then the heat index will
reach 100 to 105 this weekend.
Fantastic Driving home fromcoaching Tuesday night I had
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never drove through so muchponding and rushing water.
It was nuts.
At the gym this week I wastalking to my gym dudes, tj and
Navy Seal.
Matt and TJ was like okay, Ihave a topic for you.
I said shoot.
He said look up the Rainmaker.
No, not the 1997 movie starringMatt Damon.
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Rainmaking, the Science ofPluviculture, also known these
days as cloud seeding.
Now, this has been used forsince the 1800s, so over 100
years for farmers.
But if you recall, in April2024, dubai had had record
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flooding for 24 hours, wherenormally they receive 3.9 inches
of rain a year.
You know because it's a desert.
Well, this is the first time Ihad heard about cloud seeding
and weather manipulation.
If you saw the videos fromDubai, they were crazy.
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According to Wikipedia,rainmaking, also known as
artificial precipitation,artificial rainfall and
pluviculture, it is the act ofattempting to artificially
induce or increase precipitation, usually to stave off drought
According to the cloud'sdifferent physical properties.
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This can be done usingairplanes or rockets to sow to
the clouds with catalysts suchas dry ice, silver iodide and
salt powder to make clouds rainor increase precipitation, to
remove or mitigate farmlanddrought, to increase reservoir
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irrigation water and watersupply capacity, or to increase
water levels for hydropowergeneration.
One famous rainmaker wasCharles Hatfield, who was born
in 1875.
I found an article calledCharles Hatfield, the Rainmaker
who Brought on a Deadly Flood in1916, san Diego, by Gina DiMuro
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D-I-M-U-R-O.
Desperate to end a dry spell,the San Diego Council hired
self-proclaimed moistureaccelerator Charles Hatfield to
fill the Morena Reservoir.
He did much, much more thanthat.
In his spare time, hatfieldstudied pluviculture and mixed
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his own methods for rainproduction.
By 1902, he had created amixture of 23 chemicals in
evaporating tanks which heclaimed, attracted rain.
Charles Hatfield thus dubbedhimself a moisture accelerator.
In 1904, the Quaker from KansasCity began by charging clients,
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mostly small farmers, $50 forhis services, but word of his
skills soon spread.
After a series of successfulrainfalls.
A year later he upped his priceto $1,000 per inch of rain.
In 2025, that would be over$36,000.
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The 40-year-old rainmaker madea deal with the San Diego City
Council, in which he wouldeither fill the Moreno Reservoir
or induce between 30 to 50centimeters of rain at the cost
of $10,000, to be paid after theshower started.
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Of course, the councilamazingly agreed to the proposal
, but verbally only, andHatfield, together with his
younger brother, constructed atower where he could conduct his
secret work.
In early January 1916, it beganto rain over San Diego after
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weeks of drought.
Joy turned into apprehensionand then dismay, as the rain
turned to storms and wateroverflowed the reservoirs.
By January 27th, the floods haddestroyed everything in their
path.
When the Hatfield flood ended,an estimated 30 inches of rain
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had fallen and around 20 peoplewere killed.
Hatfield said my bad, and heskipped town.
He tried to return and collecthis $10,000 and the city council
basically said are you fuckingserious, bro?
They said sure, but you have togo live on TikTok and say you
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ruined everything and you killedall those people and you're
going to pay the city back forthe damage it caused.
Hatfield said nah, I'm good,and cut his losses In his career
.
Hatfield said he made it rainmore than 500 times, so I'm not
a conspiracy theorist, but doyou all think people out there
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are manipulating the weather forfunsies.
Can humans create hurricanes ortornadoes?
The internet says no.
We can only create rain.
You need specific atmosphericconditions for those.
But it would be cool like okay,from now on it's only going to
rain on Wednesdays.
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Don't worry, karen, your son'sbaseball game won't get rained
out and you can yell at the umpwhen he makes a slight mistake.
I've got a couple last thoughtsfor the podcast.
This morning I went online tobuy tickets to a comedy show and
this is a content creator who Ilove.
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He's so funny on Instagram, theReels.
I listened to his podcast.
The tickets were $207 a piecefor general admission with
possible standing room.
So it was going to be atMarathon Music Works in
Nashville.
$207?
We just bought two tickets to aNotre Dame game and it was $238
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.
I saw Kesha at the Ryman forlike $60.
And I understand, people needto make money.
It's a business.
But is this what everyone elseis experiencing?
I said we ain't going.
I texted my friend.
I said no, ma'am, that's asmuch as going to see.
That's more expensive thangoing to TPAC.
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Anyway, I digress, I was sad,but oh well, just watch them on
the internet for free.
I went to an engagement partySaturday night.
I had a total of threecocktails and I stole someone's
sunglasses that were left on atable.
Now, granted, I clocked themthere and three hours later I
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was like everyone's gone.
They're men's sunglasses.
They look horrible on me, butthis is kind of.
If you remember when Idiscussed weddings, when I get
tipsy, I will steal centerpieces.
At weddings I will stealflowers.
So again, if I go to a party,watch your stuff.
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I would like to talk about afirst world problem.
Since my hair is now brunette,I had someone suggest to use
brown mascara.
I think it looks nice, until Isee a picture of myself and my
eyes looked closed and I looksleepy.
So then I went back to black,black black mascara, but then
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it's like so coated on and Ilook like a raccoon and it takes
like three days to get it off.
So I don't know what to do withthis scenario.
Another issue I'm having in mylife, another first world
problem, is when I go to arestaurant, why does there have
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to be a menu, a drink menu and adessert menu?
I don't want.
It's like.
I don't want to hold this manythings, like if it's out, like
if the drink's not there, justlet me know.
But I'm over it.
I want one menu.
I don't want multiple menus.
Just print it out and put it inthe little pocket thingy.
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My husband asked me when I talkabout my assisted living, why am
I alone and with friends and heis not there and I'm like, oh
sweet man, I'm sorry, women livelonger than men, so you
probably aren't alive and I'msorry, but that's how the
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statistics work.
So it's not like you weren'tinvited.
You're dead.
You have been cremated and youare in a beautiful little urn
and you're there and I'moccasionally like you know,
we're cheersing, you know for adrink.
Anyway, you're dead.
I'm sorry.
The funeral was fun, but not asfun as my funeral.
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All right y'all.
Thank you for listening toepisode 23 and have a great week
.
Jennapod is directed, producedand edited by me, your girl
Jennifer.
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