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July 22, 2025 21 mins

Through the portal of hell that is Midwestern summer heat, I share my journey of discovering life-changing home improvements and navigating modern convenience technologies.

• Installing a dog door ranks in my top 10 life decisions—my German short-haired pointer now happily spends 90% of his day outside
• Traveling with pets becomes manageable with the right medication combination—200mg of trazodone provided 8 hours of peaceful car ride
• Surviving a road trip with broken air conditioning during extreme heat feels like psychological warfare and SEAL training
• Grocery delivery services prevent impulse purchases but can lead to accidental bulk orders (like receiving 30 bananas)
• Text-to-order pizza technology provides a faster, easier alternative to food delivery apps with a 15% discount


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Speaker 1 (00:09):
What's up everyone.
Welcome to episode 25 of herpodcast.
So I'm just out here kickingA-list celebrities' ass in this

(00:33):
platform, not financially, butamong podcast content.
I am recording this Monday,july 21st.
Sorry for the delay.
I went from being like not busy, aka I started a podcast.
I had the time to start apodcast and now I'm like real

(00:57):
busy and I don't want to put outa shitty episode just to get
one out.
That's what she said.
This does take prep.
I do take pride in it and I goto North Carolina this week for
a girls trip.
Good news, that will give me alot of silly content.

(01:19):
I have four flights to take.
One of those drunk, crazypeople better not get on my
flight.
I fly out at 5 30 am.
That is a little too early forme to have a cocktail.
Airport content could be majorand I get to use my real ID like

(01:41):
the good little citizen I am.
Leaving the house at 4 am.
Wednesday will suck, but youknow I take ye old neck pillow
with me.
I will be asleep immediately.
Positive vibes up for someseamless flights.

(02:01):
We went to St Louis for the long4th of July weekend to visit
friends and fun facts we finallyfigured out the concoction to

(02:26):
nausea medicine paired with 200.
That's 200 milligrams oftrazodone.
We had tested 100 milligramsgoing to the vet and it did
nothing.
Baby boy was out.
I gave it to him two hoursbefore the car ride and 90

(02:49):
minutes in his legs startedgoing baby giraffe and his
pupils were pinholes and he wasscared to step outside.
I was like, oh shit, we got toget in the car Now.
As a human who has takentrazodone, I know it is just a
mild drug that makes you very,very sleepy, unless you get

(03:11):
addicted to it.
And all of a sudden you'retaking 100 milligrams and still
can't sleep.
But that's for another story.
He slept the entire car ride.
The drug did last eight hours,so when we got to our
destination he was still alittle.
What in the hell just happened?
So anyway, I'm not aveterinarian but roofie your dog

(03:35):
for a long car ride.
On the way back from St Louisthe air conditioning went out in
our Jeep Cherokee.
That was delightful because ifyou live in the middle of the
United States right now, aportal to hell has been opened
and all the heat and humiditythat has ever existed has been

(03:58):
pouring onto us non-stop.
Is hell.
Humid or more of a dry heat,like Scottsdale the thing was.
With the front windows down, itwasn't too bad.
There was enough wind, you know.
Air was circulating, but thedecibels of the wind, jesus
Christ.

(04:19):
I had a pillow up against myright ear and my husband had an
earbud in his left ear justtrying not to end up at the ENT
Monday morning.
80 mile per hour winds are loudas fuck.
After about an hour of it itstarted to feel like a

(04:39):
psychological test.
Is this what SEAL trainingfeels like?
Is this what it's like to behanging out the side of a
helicopter?
Now I remember my high school.
Boyfriend's Ford Ranger did nothave air conditioning, but I
was 16 and in love and I didn'tcare that the vinyl melted my

(04:59):
skin off every time I got in it.
If my home thermostat creeps upto 71 degrees, I start panicking
.
We're in the middle ages andthat early sweat thing is
starting to happen.
I don't even, I'm not evengoing to talk about that.
Alexa, elsa, get it down to 69degrees, maybe 68.

(05:22):
Another reason post-apocalypse.
I am not hanging around torebuild society, that's right.
No air conditioning and no heat.
See you later.
See you in my next life.
When I come back as a puppy onMars, our most important people
left will be our trade people.

(05:43):
Your 2026 degree in socialmedia entrepreneurship ain't
gonna build me an HVAC system,little Reagan.
Go learn plumbing andelectrical.
Before leaving for St Louis, wewent and saw the new Jurassic

(06:03):
Park movie with my parents.
You know what?
Because that's what my familydoes.
I am pretty confident.
I have seen every Jurassic Parkmovie in the theater with my
parents because, as we know, I'man only child and they live two
miles from me and they boughtthe movie tickets.

(06:23):
Now, to be clear, I bought mymother a medium diet Coke and
her own medium popcorn uponarriving at the theater.
Currently, on Rotten Tomatoes,critics are giving it a 51% and
audiences are giving it a 71%.
I liked it, my dad liked it.

(06:45):
This was the seventh movie inthe franchise.
I think it was the fourth bestone ever, number one being the
original Jurassic Park from 1993, and the second best was
Jurassic World that came out in2015 with Chris Pratt.
But, like who is hating onhypothetical CGI dinosaur movies

(07:10):
, it was intense and scary.
I had a good time During moviepreviews.
I got to see two upcoming movieswith my boyfriends in them.
Glenn Powell is starring in aremake of the Running man, a
book written by Stephen King in1982, and the movie in 1987 came

(07:33):
out starring ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
I vaguely remember it.
I know I've seen it.
Was it good?
I don't know.
I didn't look up the reviews onthat.
And then, and then, my man,ryan Gosling, is going to be
starring in Project Hail Mary,based on the novel written by

(07:55):
Andy Weir.
I have it downloaded and readyto read.
If you recall, andy Weir alsowrote the Martian, which had
huge success and was turned intoa movie starring Matt Damon in
2015.
Very good flick.
If you are interested in whatwould happen if you got stranded

(08:16):
on Mars, I personally would dieand, and, and, and.
They played the trailer for thesecond part, two Wicked movie,
and I was not emotionally readyfor it.
I started full on crying thesecond it started.

(08:36):
It looks incredible.
If you are my close friend andyou still haven't seen the first
movie, what are you doing?
Get your TiVo out and watch thedamn thing.
We have the dog door.
Not to be dramatic, but I'mgoing to be.

(09:01):
Installing a dog door in my homeis one of the top 10 best
things that has ever happened tome.
Now we did have to add moremoney to the price because the
lovely workers showed up andsaid oh, do you want to reuse
the same handle and deadbolt?
Uh no, the deadbolt was broken,low-key, anyone could have

(09:24):
walked into our house.
So a little lack ofcommunication from the Home
Depot.
But luckily my husband ran downto Ace and got us a new, fancy
one that has a digital lock.
They said it would take fourhours to install and indeed it
took all four hours and it gotreal, real humid in the house.

(09:47):
But it was worth it.
It was great.
He did an amazing job.
It looks beautiful.
It took the dogs 48 hours tofigure out the dog door, adding
another $200 to the project withthe new Swankified hardware.
I said if these pups don't usethis fucking dog door At first,

(10:09):
we just had to gently yeet themthrough it.
We locked up the kitchen doorand pulled down the blind so
they could not go to it andwould get used to it Like don't
even, don't even look at this.
At first they were on the otherside of the door refusing to
come in.
But it's weird, you show them atreat and all of a sudden they

(10:30):
are an Olympic dog door athlete,like they're number one in the
country.
So for 19 and a half yearshaving dogs and never having a
dog door, I now will never gothrough life without one.
I didn't realize how happy itwould make me.
The German short-haired pointernow spends 90% of his day
outside and he is so happy andhe loves this hell heat

(10:54):
situation.
Anyway, 12 out of 10 recommendspending money on the dog door.
Don't the Birkin, don't get theLabubu, get the damn dog door.
I've mentioned how I use Krogerdelivery four days a week.
You know I love that $35minimum.
It's not lazy, it's efficientand also curbing impulse buys.

(11:17):
So let's talk about bananas.
For the past couple years onKroger, when you ordered bananas
, you ordered the amount ofbananas you wanted.
It would show a picture of onebanana and I would click the
plus one button, usually five tosix times, to get my five to
six bananas.

(11:38):
I never understood why they didthis, because sometimes it would
be a group of four bananas froma bunch and then one banana
from another bunch.
They don't even know each other.
Well, they sent an email outstating this would no longer be
the case and that they would nowbe purchased by bunches.

(11:58):
Well, I forgot about this orwasn't paying attention of the
start date to that, and when wegot back from St Louis, I had
five bunches of bananas on myfront porch Like 25 to 30
bananas.
I thought I was being punked.
I swear they hadn't changed theicon from single banana to

(12:23):
multiple bananas on the app.
You know, chiquita was likemake it rain, baby.
I know I'm not the only personwho did this.
Also, what was my personalshopper thinking?
This girl bakes a lot.
This girl got monkeys.
This girl bakes a lot.
This girl got monkeys.
This girl stupid.
My mom came over and took threebunches because she freezes

(12:46):
them and then eats them.
Does anyone have a good storyout there on over ordering an
item on accident or your kidswho have access to your Amazon
account?
I once was drunk and orderedramen soup spoons from Amazon.
They have since been shunnedoff to goodwill.
I maybe used them twice.

(13:08):
I hope a young college studentended up with them and has them
for their cup of soup.
Speaking of technology and food,I've spoken about Uber Eats,
but I came across an even fasterway to order certain types of
food.
I am not a big pizza girl.
I maybe eat it three to fourtimes a year.

(13:30):
It's not that I hate pizza, Ijust don't crave it.
A couple of Fridays ago it wasgetting late in the evening and
we didn't have a plan for dinnerand no one felt like cooking
and I didn't want to spend aridiculous amount on Uber Eats.
Jet's Pizza is a half mile fromour house.

(13:52):
We could walk there.
My husband said he would go getit.
So I go on their website and itsays text us to order and save
15%.
Love a deal.
I do have the Jets number savedin my phone and I was like kind
of nervous and I sent a littleflirty text like hey, jets, can

(14:15):
I get a?
Uh, an eight corner pizza, deepdish, normal bake with some
pepperoni.
Got an AI text immediately backlike hey, sweetie, yes, come
get it in 18 minutes, easiestorder ever.
But then the next Friday I gota text from Jet saying hey,

(14:38):
girly, what you doing?
You want to reorder what youordered last week.
You want to do it again.
Jets, I'm married, settle down.
But can you imagine thistechnology being available in

(14:59):
the height of your partying?
I mean texting kind of didn'teven exist when I started
partying.
Uber Eats isn't always theeasiest app to navigate, but
imagine it's 2 am, you're drunk,you're starving and all I have
to do is send a kind of coherenttext and pizza could be
delivered to my door.
You could probably just textpizza, they don't care, they'll

(15:20):
just charge your credit card.
You forget about it on yourfront porch, no worries, you
have breakfast in the morning.
There is a Jimmy John's beingbuilt 2.7 miles from my house
and if they have text ordering,it's over.
If I'm PMSing, bam, send meover a turkey tom, send me over

(15:43):
that tuna sub.
I will get chonky off thatFrench bread, but I'll be happy,
happy.
My college roommates know whatthe aftermath of college.
Jennifer eating Jimmy John's at2 am looks like it's lettuce
all over my keyboard while drunkAOL messaging people, probably
putting dramatic song lyrics upas my away message.

(16:05):
I think once a Jimmy John's subwas thrown at someone in our
apartment Unclear, I'll figurethat out on the girls' trip.
Anyway, be safe texting the AIJets Pizza database, because
what you text Jets stays withJets.
My parents made it to RedLobster and here is Sharon's

(16:29):
feedback Quote tasty andaffordable.
I got the coconut shrimp, nosides, $11.99.
When we got there, host said15-minute wait because
short-staffed Place was almostempty.
Because short-staffed Place wasalmost empty, so we sat at the

(16:54):
bar and after one beer werealized we could order from
there.
So we did.
Jerry got a large fried platterso good and those cheese
biscuits exclamation point, endquote.
Now my parents are picky ashell eaters, boomers.
So that is a really good reviewof Red Lobster, short-staffed.

(17:17):
What if I quit my job and justgo work at Red Lobster and
become the official podcast forRed Lobster when I get back from
North Carolina?
I have to prioritize goingagain Through my job.
I was at a rural nutrition sitewhere seniors come to eat and
the site manager, who was also acook, told me she didn't have

(17:40):
barely any fingertips leftbecause she was the cook at Red
Lobster for 10 years.
As in dealing with all the hotpans, I don't want to lose
finger bits, but I sure as hellcan flirt with some boomers for
a 25% tip.
Did anyone listening ever workat Red Lobster?
Has anyone made the trip?

(18:03):
For the seafood lover in you,let me know.
Speaking of restaurants I wantrevitalized.
Did you all ever eat at DonPablo's At its peak?
There were 120 Don Pablo'sacross 14 states and it was so
good.
Shout out to the Tri-CountyMall location in Cincinnati.

(18:28):
Shout out to the Tri-CountyMall location in Cincinnati.
It was an American chain ofTex-Mex restaurants founded in
Lubbock, texas, in 1985.
The menu featured Tex-Mex itemsmade from scratch salsa,
tortillas and sauces and a rangeof other Mexican specialties.
Hands down best quesadilla I'veever had.

(18:50):
Then, when I hit 21,.
Best margaritas ever.
I think that's what I'll dowith my Powerball money.
Pay someone to run a Don Pablo'sout of my house, like I'm so
rich.
Everyone is just hanging out.
Everyone's salaried, there'sbenefits.

(19:11):
Maybe they stay there andthey're just waiting for me to
randomly show up at therestaurant in my house.
I don't need a mega yacht, Ineed fucking Don Pablo's.
Someone make this happen.
I'll start a crowdfund GoFundMefor it.
Stamps went up to 78 cents.

(19:32):
Nope, you are getting a thankyou phone call from me, not a
thank you card, and if you missthe call, well, that's your own
fault.
I should be one of yourfavorites anyway in your iPhone.
I don't know how an Android isset up, but add me to your
favorites in that weird device.
I discussed the upper rightpiercing with my mother and I

(19:57):
lied.
It wasn't my 30th birthday.
It was my 21st birthday Cheerswhen we went to Claire's and got
our double piercings.
To Claire's and got our doublepiercings and get this my mom's
upper right piercing is alsojacked up.
So, baby girl that was workingthat day was either having an
off day or that little staplerthing that staples your ear was

(20:19):
messed up.
So after 22 years, I focusedand figured out that I have to
put it in at a diagonal position.
That's what she said.
So now I have it figured outand I haven't had a bloody
earlobe since.
So thank you everyone.
14 years ago on my Facebook, Isaid I'm starting a Joe D

(20:44):
Messina cover band and that wasthe least embarrassing thing I
could find that I typed thesummer of 2011.
I know my girl, rachel has beenhitting the gym listening to
Miss Messina Yeehaw.
This is all I have time forthis week to get this episode
out before I go to the beach.

(21:04):
I promise, I promise I will tryreally hard not to go 2.5 weeks
again without an episode.
But life be lifin' and we dowhat we can do.
I do, I do, do.
I do love doing this and Iappreciate all the support.
Thank you for listening toepisode 25 and have a great week

(21:26):
.
To episode 25 and have a greatweek, thank you.
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