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🔥 Wedding Chaos & Time Change Struggles – Destination weddings sound magical… until you’re coordinating five people, missing hair appointments, and losing an hour of sleep. 🚗💨
🌊 Spring Break Gone Wrong – The mysterious disappearance of 20-year-old student, Sudiksha Konanki, in Punta Cana raises true crime alarms. What REALLY happened? 🚨🔎
🧜♀️ Mermaid-Eating Parties?! – TikTok conspiracy or real-life horror? The elite are allegedly dining on mermaids hibachi-style for immortality. Is this the wildest theory yet? 🐠🔪
📚 Book Club: The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager – A thrilling mix of mystery, supernatural twists, and a shocking serial killer revelation. Did we see it coming? Nope. 📖😱
🚔 9-1-1 Drama – A four-year-old calls the cops… on his mom… for eating his ice cream. Officers responded in the BEST way. 🍦😂
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(00:00):
Welcome to, this is my circus,the podcast where we embrace the
chaos and keep it real aboutparenting, pop culture, true
crime, and the books we can'tput down because let's be
honest, life is one big circusand we're just trying to survive
with caffeine, sarcasm, and alittle true crime obsession.
So if you love unfilteredconversation, questionable
parenting hacks, and deep divesinto the things that keep us up
(00:21):
at night, you're in the rightplace.
Buckle up, grab your popcorn,and let's get into the chaos.
Hi Stephanie.
I'm Meredith, and welcome to,this is my circus.
What's up?
Oh, Lord have mercy.
I'm just like, I cannot get withit.
When I said last week, I'm a hotmess.
It is a thousand percentaccurate.
You know, the time change.
(00:42):
Mm-hmm.
Always gets me.
Yeah.
It always kicks my butt.
I saw, um, and I believe he felthim too.
It's a talker.
Um, and he is like a pre-Kteacher.
Mm-hmm.
And he said that.
This week it was the timechange.
Mm-hmm.
Which like is horrible for allstudents.
Mm-hmm.
But then I think he said it wasalso like a full moon this week
(01:04):
or something.
Oh my gosh.
And he said that it was going tobe a miserable week at school.
I'm sure.
Just thinking about us losing anhour sleep makes me feel
exhausted.
I don't sleep as it is.
Right.
I'll hear Rex sleeping andsnoring during the day and it
just makes me so sleepy just toknow he's so just like, just the
(01:27):
sound of it.
Like lulls me.
Do you nap?
No.
Have you ever napped?
I have never been a napper.
Yeah.
only when I'm like really sick.
Yeah.
Or if.
I it was completely, completelydrained.
Drained, yeah.
Well, the wedding was thisweekend for my nephew, which was
amazing.
It was so much fun.
But then, so that went late intoSaturday night, and then to lose
(01:47):
an hour of sleep that night, thenext morning we woke up, we set
our alarms for nine.
Mm-hmm.
So we could leave and be out,you know, by the 10 and do all
the things.
I could have slept like threemore hours at least.
You looked stunning.
Thank you.
In that dress.
Thank you.
You looked so good.
I had a little bit of abreakdown.
Oh, so it was a destinationwedding.
(02:09):
Uhhuh and, great location.
The venue was beautiful.
It was in Hilton Head inBluffton, South Carolina.
It was great.
but you know, when you have adestination wedding like that.
And you've got people that haveflown in or people that have
ridden together, and then theactivities they're in are
separate.
Trying to coordinate all theplaces to be everywhere.
That was such a nightmare.
(02:30):
Yeah we tried to make it not bea nightmare'cause we didn't
wanna stress the bride and groomout.
But, some of that's our ownfault.
We should have really focused inon who needed to be where,
because, the wedding wasSaturday.
On Friday.
They had like the practicerehearsal in the morning and
then in the afternoon there thegirls were gonna do brunch and
stuff or whatever meal it is.
And then the boys were going todo some boy things.
(02:50):
And just the vehicle thing,figuring out who was where was a
bit of a mess.
But my breakdown came on Sundaybecause.
Brian and I had Jackson.
And Anthony.
Anthony went, was Jackson's plusone.
Anthony.
Anthony, sorry.
And then my niece's boyfriendhad flown in and he was with us
too.
So we had five in our vehicle.
(03:12):
Well, I.
My sister and my niece, she wasthe mother of the groom, and
then my niece was a bridesmaid.
She was in the wedding, so shehad to be there at like eight.
My sister had to be there atlike 10.
Well, that left the five of usgetting there.
Like right at the time, Jacksonwasn't ushered that he needed to
be there, which was fine, but Ialso supposed to go and get my
hair done by them.
(03:32):
Mm-hmm.
I had no way to get there.
And I looked up the Ubers.
It just, it was a mess.
It was a bit of a mess.
But our own fault, just a longway to say just if you're doing
a destination wedding or going,just plan everything out to the
tea.
If you can.
Yeah.
I'm like such like a notplanner.
I know.
And I am the biggest like wingit.
(03:52):
Yeah.
Well, Poseys that way.
Mm-hmm.
And she'll tell you she's thatway.
But it got to that point thatlike the day before.
I don't remember before one ofthe days'cause she and I were
also decorating and setting upfor the rehearsal dinner the
night before.
So it was like, okay, get apiece of paper and we need to
write who needs to be where,when and what time we're leaving
because the other piece was wewere staying on Hilton Head and
(04:15):
some of it book was like 30minutes away in Bluffton, so you
had to account for that stufftoo.
Mm-hmm.
And then in the wedding,actually, like the wedding was
over.
We were sitting at dinner and itwas like the cocktail hour kind
of waiting for things to the,the dance floor to get Liddy and
all those things.
And I was like, you need tocheck and see what time we need
to check out tomorrow whilewe're sitting here doing nothing
(04:36):
because you're gonna forget.
And that's okay Uhhuh, but let'sgo ahead and get some ideas.
So just.
Yeah, it would've been better ifwe'd have had a little more
organization, but it's my ownfault.
But it was so much fun.
Yeah.
You looked amazing.
Thank you.
You're, thank you.
Everybody did.
But yeah, thank you so much.
In that dress, did you likemachine dress?
(04:57):
Mm-hmm.
It was such a, it was socomfortable.
You looked so good.
Thank you.
I should have worn it today.
You should have, we we're gonnahave a fancy day.
Okay.
That sounds good.
When you wear your crown, whenyou get the job.
Yes.
When I get that job.
Yeah, I'm glad it's over becausestuff like that is a lot when
you are one of the main onesthat are doing all the things.
(05:19):
It's not like one little piece.
It's, you know, yeah.
Um, I started the Soul Train atmy sister's wedding.
Did you, what was your, what'syour go-to move?
Um, just a little booty shake.
Yeah.
I just kind of wheeled.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But yeah, I mean, it was epic.
My new niece.
My niece, Brooke.
She graduated from USC.
(05:39):
Mm-hmm.
so she's a gamecock.
So, and a lot of her bridesmaidsand other people that were there
did also, of course, that'swhere a lot of her friends are.
And, they had two walls set up.
The reception was outside, so itwas like little, I don't know,
whatever, but there were pompomshanging on each one.
And they had your name on'em.
Mm-hmm.
And on the back of them, it toldyou what table you were sitting
(06:01):
at.
But then when Brooke and Jordanwalked in, like they did the
Gamecock is Sandstorm the song.
Mm-hmm.
And everybody was doing likethey do for football games and
had the pompoms, and then whenthey left, everybody was doing
the pom-poms too.
And doing like, there were twolines and they started just
yelling, like go.
Um.
Cox, I could tell you.
(06:21):
Did not wanna say, I did notwanna say it.
And I don't know how people sayit with a straight face.
Maybe I'm just a dirty, dirtygirl.
But, um, it was just, it wasreally fun.
Your face was like, I can't doit.
I, I can't, I didn't wanna sayit.
I was like, how can I say it?
But here we go.
So, but it was a good time.
Mm-hmm.
It was a, a very good time.
Glad, glad.
It's in the past.
They're in St.
Lucia now enjoying themselvesand they went on a helicopter
(06:44):
ride this morning.
I saw on Snap.
what have you been up to?
Nothing.
We didn't need any backup.
That was good.
You know, sometimes when youhave a lot of family members,
things can get outta hand.
but we all behave nicely.
Did I, tell you, so at my mysister Jackie's wedding mm-hmm.
All of the friends were there,whatever.
And I didn't know a lot of mybrother's friends that are also
(07:06):
friends with my sister, theywere all there.
I don't know what happened, butsomehow my brother, they, they
were all drinking.
And my brother got, I don't knowif he got smacked in the face or
what by this dude.
Me not knowing this guy.
Right.
And I'm what, five, two and ahalf.
Right.
30 declared that.
Right.
And this dude's like six footsomething.
Mm-hmm.
And I went up to him and I'mlike, you lay a mother fing hand
(07:27):
on my brother.
And he's like, you must be thelittle sister.
What made you say that?
I'm like.
Yeah.
So we get crazier as they godown the line.
Mm-hmm.
So with the oldest and youngestand the size.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The same.
I am the shortest.
Are you, do y'all also kind ofgo like that?
No, actually Carrie is theoldest and, and then my
(07:48):
brother's like six.
Okay.
But, or six one.
Okay.
and then Jackie's just a littlebit taller than I am.
Yeah.
And then there's, then there's,there's my pocket person.
my sister's older and she's.
Shorter than me.
Mm-hmm.
She's like five four, I think.
I don't know.
Who knows?
Speaking of hitting in the head,did you see the track?
Did you see the track of meetwhere they had the baton and the
(08:11):
one girl hit the other girl inthe back of the head and cracked
her skull?
Yeah.
And then did you see her news?
She said it was an accident?
Yes.
And that she hit her in the headbefore?
I didn't see that part, but itdefinitely was not an A cadet.
It was, she's got a, a crackskull and a concussion.
Oh my goodness gracious.
(08:31):
I don't care what you're doing.
Like this is the movement thatyou do.
Right.
It's not like, even if you'refalling, okay, I have a lot of
experience with this.
Even if you're flailing around,you're gonna slow down and not
go so fast and fall to the floorand not hit them in that.
Mm-hmm.
Because yeah, she was a hot messliar.
She was a big old, big old,allegedly.
(08:52):
Alleged liar.
Yes.
Oh, speaking of vacations, didyou hear about that?
girl that's missing in Punana?
No.
So she is a 20-year-oldUniversity of Pittsburgh
student.
Okay.
Her name I, I'm gonna not saythis right.
Okay.
So do not come for me, ska.
(09:15):
Kki.
I don't see how that could bewrong, but she's 20 years old.
she went on spring break to Anaauthorities believe she
disappeared after going for aswim early Thursday morning.
Her clothes were found on aportable beach bed near where
she was last seen.
Mm-hmm.
But.
Her and a group of her friendshad gone to a nightclub before
heading to the beach around 4:00AM while her friends returned to
(09:36):
their hotel around 6:00 AM shestayed behind with a man.
According to the police report,the man claimed that they went
for a swim and got caught by astrong wave.
Security showed him returning tohis hotel at 10:00 AM so.
If they got caught by a strongwave, why didn't he report it?
Right?
This is a whole nother Arubasituation.
(09:57):
Yeah.
Is that how I feel like that'sthe vibe I'm getting.
There's too much that's notadding up and shady dirty.
Yeah.
So, and like when did they findthe clothes?
Because the first day of thegirl missing.
Yep.
They didn't find those clothes.
Right.
When was this?
This happened last Thursday.
Okay.
So hopefully, They can find her.
Right now, they can't find anysigns of foul play and they're
(10:20):
like searching the ocean andsearching areas, but her dad is
like, why aren't they searchingthis guy, or you know, like
mm-hmm.
Is this like human trafficking?
Is it, mm-hmm.
Right.
Whatever.
Right.
the dad is quite upset.
He's in Punana now with theauthorities.
Yeah.
So Is that Mexico?
No, Dominican Republic.
Okay.
That's right.
Thank you.
(10:40):
So, prayers to her.
Prayers to, yeah.
All involved and I as a parent,ugh.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So on a lighter note, yeah.
Have you heard about the mermaideating parties?
What?
The mermaid eating parties?
No.
Okay.
So apparently the elite.
(11:02):
Eating mermaids.
Is this cannibalism or is thisseafood?
I, I'm a little confused.
Me too.
Okay.
So are we saying mermaids arereal?
this is what TikTok is saying.
Okay.
so TikTok is saying that thelatest viral conspiracy theory
involves mermaid eating parties,where ultra wealthy elites
allegedly dine on mermaids insecret gatherings.
(11:25):
This rumor started because aperson on TikTok, at j Lee 2.07
shared a story about an exconfisherman, excon, right?
Landon, who unknowingly joined afishing crew that was supposedly
hunting mermaids for high payingclients.
Okay, so the story describesmermaids as having human-like
(11:47):
torsos with shimmering scalesand marble like flesh.
Allegedly, these creatures weretaken to high ends secret
restaurants where that elite dedon them.
In a hibachi style experience,the theory escalated with claims
of Second Mermaid who foughtback, scratched a crew member,
and even displayed regenerativeabilities.
So who knows?
There was another person thatsaid that they got invited to
(12:08):
the whatever party at a eliteparty.
Mm-hmm.
And when they brought out themain dish, it was, they took off
this whole, like thing off ofthe main dish.
Mm-hmm.
It was like a, A blanket or likea Okay.
Yeah.
With a tablecloth or something.
Yeah.
They tied out it.
Yeah.
And it was a.
(12:28):
Mermaid who was unlived andprepared and they were
sectioning off pieces of saidmermaid.
Yes.
so the dude like freaked out andwas like, according to this
TikTok story mm-hmm.
Was like, Nope.
Uhuh like, get me outta here.
So he was gets up and they'reall like, what the heck?
This is like the best thingyou'll ever eat.
And I guess also old timeystories say that if you eat
(12:52):
mermaids, it gives you longevityand oh, okay.
Reduces aging and mm-hmm.
All the things immortal.
It's like killing a unicorn.
Yeah.
So this dude tries to leave andhe find ends up in the kitchen,
trying to get out and there is atank with the mermaids in it.
And some of'em looked like theywere drugged.
(13:12):
Some of them looked a littlelike not as drugged.
Yeah.
Some were a little morecoherent, active, but he took
off.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, then the owner of the housecame and was like, what the
heck?
And he's like, remember yousigned an NDA and even if you
did tell who's gonna believeyou.
I kind of do.
Yeah.
So one, you have to believe thatmermaids are real and I kind of
(13:34):
do like, there's like some weirdthings in the ocean.
Yeah.
The ocean is way too big.
Yeah.
And way too deep.
And we've talked about before,like things that we believe in
that a lot of people Yeah.
I believe in all the things.
Yeah.
So I mean the ocean, some of thecreatures in the ocean, like the
thing with the light on it andfrom.
Well, there's real ones too, youknow?
(13:55):
Yeah.
But all those things that arejust very strange.
I.
I definitely believe that thatcould be, be a real thing.
I don't think they're beautifullike Ariel.
I think they're more like haveyou ever seen those videos from,
Haiti and Jamaica where theywash up on the beach?
No.
people are telling, and theycould totally be lying.
I don't know.
But I'm so global with thisstuff.
(14:16):
I wanna believe it.
Like, I wanna believe thatthey're real.
I wanna believe that all thekids are like magical.
Mm-hmm.
And happy.
But those.
Whatever these people aresaying, real life encounters,
oh, now real life encounters.
Not like my grandfather's bestfriend's.
Right.
Brother on a boat.
People are actually encounteringthese things, but it's at like
two o'clock in the morning.
It's like super late at nightthat they, I guess, appear close
(14:39):
enough where mm-hmm.
Somebody would encounter it.
I'm fascinated.
I am too.
I'm fascinated, yeah.
Who knows?
Who knows?
Who knows.
But when there's that manypeople from specific places that
remember things, it's like,yeah.
It's kinda like the MandelaEffect.
Mm-hmm.
You've heard of that?
Mm-hmm.
(15:00):
So for those that don't know,because I'm newly fascinated
with this, it is a phenomenonwhere a group of people.
Believe they remember somethingthe same, but in reality it did
not happen.
Yeah.
For instance, was it the Sinbadmovie or the Shazam movie?
(15:20):
One of those two movies neverhappened, right?
Like I can vividly remember, letme see which one it was and the
Fruit of the Loom.
did it have the cornucopia ordid it not?
Right.
Now the latest one,'cause I justsaw it on Candace, Pikachu
Chill.
They're now saying he doesn'thave the black suit on the, on
it, the black on it.
Mm-hmm.
So there was a movie, Back inthe day that a lot of people
(15:41):
believe where Sinbad was agenie.
Mm-hmm.
Called Shazam.
Yeah.
I don't remember seeing it, butI, I can almost picture either
like the poster or like the VHScover.
Yeah.
That never existed.
I know.
I bet you there's somebody outthere that has it.
I know.
There's got to be.
Yeah.
And like you said, the fruit ofthe loom one is really weird.
(16:02):
And then like the spellings onthings that have changed.
Somebody just said that theychanged one of the cars movie
songs now.
It used to say like one thing,but now it says Bud Light like a
beer name.
Yeah.
Instead of whatever, whatever itwas.
I don't remember that one.
If it's new, um, it's like themirror.
Mirror on the wall.
(16:22):
That's what I remember.
But it's supposed to be magicmirror on the wall.
Yeah, no, I know.
It was mirror.
Mirror, yes.
So I am fascinated with this andhave just been going through
reading and listening topodcasts about it.
And there's some theories onwhat it is.
One of them is time travel.
There's some time travel goingon where people are messing with
(16:43):
it the past.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Um, so what happens, okay.
In, in that instance, right?
Okay.
So, so somebody does time traveland say, I have the, the Simba v
Hs.
Mm-hmm.
Does that just disappear?
I think so.
Kind of like back to the future,you know, where he just, how do
you remember it?
Maybe some people like the powersuggestion.
(17:06):
Mental, like you can make thestuff disappear, but they're so
sharp minded.
They still remember it.
I think it's like a governmentsomething or other, like they
try to Yeah, it's like a test tosee how we are.
I'm also, I, I'm not, you know,that feeling too when you walk
into a room and you can'tremember what you're doing
there.
So you turn around and leave andyou walk back and you remember.
(17:26):
Mm-hmm.
That's part of the conspiracytoo, of like time travel.
Your body hasn't caught up.
Kind of what, what your mind wasthinking.
Mm-hmm.
I'm just utterly fascinated withit though.
A lot of it's the powersuggestion to just people saying
that we're gonna have to do a,after hours.
We'll, definitely whole episode.
Throw it in there somewhere.
It is just.
Utterly fascinating to me thatthat many people can believe
(17:49):
things.
And most of them that I've read,I'm like, yes, I remember it.
The old, you know, the wrongway.
So yeah, we'll definitely haveto throw some of that in in an
after, in a circus after dark EPor something.
Did you hear about this murderin Florida with this 16-year-old
girl?
Miranda Corset.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, this is like heartbreaking.
(18:10):
Okay.
And this is again, if we haveany young listeners, be careful
who you're talking to on theinternet.
Mm-hmm.
Like, this is terrible stuff.
Yeah.
Florida authorities havearrested a couple in connection
with the brutal murder of a16-year-old Miranda corset, A
case that started with socialmedia interaction and ended in
tragedy.
Miranda met 30 5-year-old StevenGress online and visited him on
(18:31):
February 14th, Valentine's Day,so right there, super creepy,
right?
Mm-hmm.
Like something not good.
She went home that night, butreturned the next day.
Staying with him and hispartner, 37-year-old Michelle
Brands.
Sometime between February 20thand the 24th a dispute turned
deadly.
Authorities believe Miranda wasmurdered, dismembered, and her
remains discarded in a dumpsterin Hillsborough County.
(18:54):
Police are still searching forher body.
Gress was already in jail.
On unrelated charges.
Get this including threateninghis partner with a harpoon.
Yeah.
Bran has since turned herselfin, and both are now facing
first degree murder charges.
This case is terrifying.
Reminder of the dangers lurkingon social media, so, wow.
(19:17):
Yeah.
16 years old?
Another news article I saw saidthat, they thought she stole a
piece of jewelry mm-hmm.
And then started torturing herto get the jewelry back.
Mm-hmm.
But that's not confirmed.
Yeah.
But, just make sure that you arevigilant and know.
Who you're talking to.
If you're talking to somebody,don't go meet somebody.
(19:38):
Mm-hmm.
They're 37 and they're talkingto a 16-year-old, nothing good's
gonna come from that.
Right.
So, right.
Let's not do that.
No, that's terrible.
It's disgusting.
Oh, that, I mean, yeah.
It's, it's all of those bad, badthings.
I just.
Hate that.
Do we need a pallet cleanser?
Yeah, I think so.
There was a 4-year-old thatcalled 9 1 1 to have his mom
(20:00):
arrested.
Okay.
Sounds like this legit couldhave happened in my house.
Yeah.
So this is to be one of thefunniest 9 1 1 calls.
Okay.
Ever.
A 4-year-old in Wisconsin tookjustice into his own hands after
his mom dared to eat his icecream and he called the cops on
her.
Last Tuesday in Mount Pleasant,Wisconsin, police received a
(20:21):
nine one one call from a youngboy reporting that his mom was
being bad and needed to go tojail.
The crime she ate his ice cream,I mean., Four year olds.
I mean, that is a pretty bigcrime.
That's a pretty, that's aterrible offense to a little
kid.
You know what?
It's a little bit of a terribleoffense for me too.
Same, same.
Do you know I go crazy.
Brian will eat my leftovers.
(20:42):
Uhhuh all the freaking time.
And I'll tell him you can haveit.
Can have, you can have that.
But if I don't tell him, andhe's gotten a lot better.
Oh, I would flip my lid on him.
So I can only imagine.
I got chicken wings yesterday.
Mm-hmm.
And I had the leftovers in thefridge.
And at like 1230 last night,Dylan text me, he's like, mom,
can I have, have a chicken wing?
(21:02):
Mm-hmm.
And I'm thinking like one, I'mlike, yeah, go ahead.
So I wake up and I'm like, Ooh,some spicy chicken wing.
Mm-hmm.
And he ate all of them.
Oh.
Nothing but bones.
And I was like, I.
How did one chicken wing go toOlive?
Mm-hmm.
And he's like, oh my bad.
I was hungry.
Oh, well.
So, oh well.
Cops 9 1 1.
(21:23):
Yeah.
Um, all right, when officersarrived, the little guy stuck to
his story at first, but thenquickly changed his mind saying
he no longer wanted herarrested.
He just wanted more ice cream.
Same, same Z.
The officers being good sports,made sure all always well and
left, but the best part, theycame back the next day to
surprise him with ice cream ofhis own.
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Isn't that so sweet?
Mm-hmm.
It was two female officers.
I feel like that, could solve alot of problems.
Like, I don't want themarrested.
I just want my ice cream.
Mm-hmm.
Can you bring me ice cream?
Yeah.
Bring me ice cream and we'lljust call it even.
It says the internet had a fieldday with this one.
One person commented, I'm notsaying he is right, but I
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understand.
Yeah.
Another pointed out.
At least he knows how to callfor help.
Could save a life one day.
But like good job for thepolice.
Oh yeah.
They get a bad rep, so I'm gladthat they wait.
Is it bad rep or bad rap?
Rap, but I thought it was rep,like a reputation.
I don't know.
I was hear, I always think rap.
I hear I do too.
(22:25):
But Mandela effect, policeofficers get a lot of bad
whatever mm-hmm.
Press.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So that always makes me happywhen there's something good to
share.
Something.
Wanna go into, am I the No, Ican go to the am I the, am I the
thing.
Okay, so this was a very longupdate one.
(22:46):
Okay.
There's eight parts.
So I think we can probably do acouple today and then we'll do
the rest of the updates nextweek.
I like it.
Okay.
but I personally wanna know theupdates today.
'cause I'm nosy.
Well, I'll give you the blank.
I'll be surprised with all therest of our fans.
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, this is a Would I be, yes.
Is what I'm assuming it is.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Would I be the AOL for ruiningsomeone's reputation after she
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tried to steal my best friend'sinheritance?
I gay.
57 male.
Have known my best friend, HarryGay, 64 male for 40 years.
He is disabled and his health isdeteriorating, but still manages
to work from home at a minimumwage job.
His partner Nathan Male 58,works 30 hours per week so he
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can spend a little extra timetaking care of household chores
and caring for my friend.
We all live in an outrageouslyexpensive city, so the best
apartment they can afford torent a small and a bit of a
dump.
Our friends parents both diedwithin the last two years, and
he's been desperately lookingforward to the inheritance he's
about to get.
All the ice cream.
(23:52):
Sorry, that wasn insensitive.
I was just thinking like, dang.
He's like wishing them.
Yeah.
Well, I mean he, they're 60.
They were in their eighties.
I understand.
I'm just saying like, I don'tknow why I'm defending him for
trying to get his money, buthere we are.
That combined with hisretirement savings next year
will be enough for him topurchase a moderately decent
apartment out in the suburbs.
(24:13):
He can spend his retirementyears, probably not many left.
Last week, his two oldersisters, Mary 69, and Rachel 67,
came to visit him.
Rachel is fairly known as aprominent figure in the
environmental movement, a greatreputation as a tree hugging
hippie who's been arrestednumerous times for her activism,
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a very peace, love, hugs, andrainbows kind of woman.
Anyway, when they turned up, hethought it would be with notice
of his.
NT inheritance money?
Well, it was, but not in the wayhe expected.
They jointly told him that.
They decided that all the familymoney would go to Rachel and her
three children.
He wasn't sure if they werejoking, but still gave them, uh,
(24:54):
what the actual f.
Face apparently because it wasfamily money and is neither nor
he nor Mary had children.
Then to ensure the money stayedin the family, it should just be
passed onto the next generation.
He was absolutely shocked andsaid it wasn't family money, it
was his money, and that he didhave family.
His partner of 20 years, Nathanstuff got even worse when they
(25:18):
said.
Yeah, but he's Asian, and whenyou die, he'll just go back to
Asia and spend the money on hisfamily.
Remember, this is our familymoney.
I'm getting mad for this dude.
Uhhuh my best friend then.
Rather sharply pointed out theconcepts of racism, homophobia,
and the law.
They got crappy because hewasn't being reasonable and
(25:41):
respectful, but he bluntly saidhe would sue their butts off if
they failed to give him even 1cent short of his third of the
money.
At that point, they parted onrather bad terms.
So this is where I come into it.
I may hurt me and you're lookingfor trouble.
Hurt my best friend and I'llburn your whole world to the
ground kind of guy.
It's been almost two weeks, andwhile he's simply refusing to
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speak to her.
I'm still absolutely raging thatRachel is now going back to her
life and to the politicalcommunity without anyone knowing
what a total beast she tried tobe on my friend.
I believe her outrageous behindthe scenes politics should be
publicly known, easily done bymessaging her 356.
It's really not that many.
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No Facebook friends.
To me, that would be truejustice for her entitlement,
racism and homophobia.
Would it be overkill though?
But if you made a post, youdon't think that as quickly as
drama spreads on Facebook AndFacebook?
Yeah, all it would be all over.
It would and screenshot it.
Okay.
Edit.
There's an law firm that I'vealready approached about doing
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pro bono work for him.
Cool.
He's not the a-hole and no, Goodlevel of petty.
Mm-hmm.
I take it, go for it.
Do it.
Yeah, do it.
Do it.
But they didn't get the moneyright.
They just w were racist.
They just a-holes about it.
They went to him and said thatWe're keeping your money.
Yeah.
But they didn't.
Well, we don't know yet.
(27:05):
Okay.
He's saying, you're right.
You're right, you're right.
Okay.
So.
Yep.
This was November 5th, lastNovember.
Okay.
Number one, Mary, that was oneof his sisters, right?
Uhhuh has switched sides and nowsupports Harry because she heard
that the law isn't Uhhuh.
As Mary doesn't have children.
She has always doted onRachel's, her nephews and
(27:26):
nieces.
She's supported themfinancially, giving them great
gifts and even taken them toEurope on vacations.
She says that while she did goto his house and persuade him to
pass the money on to thechildren, given that Harry
doesn't have.
Kids, he would see reason thatit was the right thing to do.
She had zero idea that Rachelwould go down the give the money
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to me because you don't havefamily and Nathan doesn't count
because he's Asian Road.
I don't think any of us saw thatroad coming.
Buddy Mary was horrified, but asshe hate, hold on.
If she was so horrified, whydidn't she step in in that
moment?
Like she was not horrified.
She's horrified that thatstuff's gonna come out.
Yeah, that probably that'sself-preservation probably.
(28:09):
That's probably, unless she wasjust so flabbergasted in the
moment or not, I don't believethat, no.
Mm-hmm.
Um, Mary was horrified, but asshe hates confrontation and
groups of people, she didn't sayanything at the time.
After they left, Mary toldRachel she was completely outta
line and now believed Harryshould get his full share.
Rachel didn't budge, so Maryphoned Harry to apologize for
what happened.
(28:30):
Said he now has her fullsupport.
But who is Rachel?
To determine this?
If it's in the will, it's in thewill.
Like they can't change the will.
Right.
I don't know why Rachel's gotthis.
Rachel must be really needingthe money.
Why is she being the one whomakes all the decisions?
Yeah.
Wonder if she's the oldest.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah.
She must be having seriousissues.
She's greedy.
(28:50):
She needs to be outed.
All right, let's move on.
Okay, number two.
Number two, as Rachel realizesshe can't just demand the money,
she's now going to take thelegal road instead.
Good.
Well, good.
She'll lose.
She's going to put a claimagainst his share of the will
because he didn't give her anysupport during the final four
years while she was the primarycarer.
(29:11):
Her life.
Her government careers allowanceboth her parents' retirement
pensions, full access to theirbank account, which she has
drained of tens of thousands ofdollars.
Financial support from theirsister and wealthy son, physical
support from the rest of thefamily when she needed it, and
taking well-earned shortvacations whenever she needed a
(29:32):
break.
Him hooked up to dialysis, eighthours per day.
Organ transplant with threemonths recovery, working at his
laptop, sitting in his hospitalbed because he couldn't afford
to take time off.
Told by specialist never to bemore than a 30 minute ambulance
ride from a specific hospital,meaning he can never leave the
city even for a day for the restof his life.
(29:52):
Not a lot of wiggle room forproviding financial or physical
support in a small town, 500miles away in a different state.
She is terrible.
She needs to be outed.
Number three, when Rachelinformed Mary, she would go the
legal route.
Mary was furious and immediatelyphone Mary to warn him.
You're right.
I went.
To my law firm on Harry'srequest, 9:00 AM Monday morning.
(30:14):
I gave them full details ofeveryone involved the
properties, all Rachel'sfinancial resources is above,
and details of the conversationwhere she expressed racist and
homophobic comments, how this isnot a change of attitude, but a
change of strategy.
The lawyers are all set.
Their specialty is fighting offracist and homophobic families
trying to steal the inheritanceoff of L-G-B-T-Q people.
(30:37):
He just smiled and said, we'regonna get him every sin he's
owed and bleed her dry andfinancial costs in the process.
There we go.
Yep.
So the upshot of it all, Mary isno longer speaking to Rachel.
Has told the nieces and nephewswhat their mother is trying to
do.
Harry says he'll never haveanything to do with her again,
and she can fry in hell forthis.
(30:58):
I'll take that as permission togo scorched earth nuclear on her
after the court case has beensettled.
I guess in the meantime I'llmove in the shadows.
I did send her a message.
Rachel, you seem to haveforgotten.
Harry has another family member,his best friend of 40 years.
While you're trying to takeeverything from him, I will give
everything I have to protecthim.
(31:19):
I stole my disabled brother'sinheritance because he's gay and
has an Asian boyfriend.
May get you a cheer at aconvention, but you can imagine
how that sentence would sound inour world.
Imagine how 200 people wouldhave reacted if you got up with
a microphone and announced thatat your 60th birthday party that
(31:39):
I attended.
Go down this road and you'lllose your brother forever and
discuss everyone in your entireextended family, especially your
own children.
To get to him, you'll have to gothrough me and my law firm
regards, Harry's Pet Rott,Waller, and Cherry.
Why has he got'em all?
Have matching names?
I don't know, but I am with thisdude.
(32:00):
10000%.
He is so ready to burn the earthdown.
Good.
Yeah.
See, I'm your, that, I'm thatfriend for you.
Yeah.
I'm glad I need friends likethat because sometimes I don't
realize it's okay if I burn theearth down and I need people to
tell me, He needs to go nuclear.
I'm with him.
Yeah.
Burn it down.
Yeah, send it out on phone.
I want her exposed, he needs togo to like every Tree Hugger
(32:24):
podcast and every tree huggerblog and be, and put this out.
Yeah.
Expose her.
'cause that is not peace, love,and happiness.
No, it's not.
It's not at all.
And I don't believe at megaevents that would go over well
either, Mr.
I hope not.
Update number two.
This was posted on November 6th,so this was just two days after
the last update.
(32:44):
Yeah.
Ha.
I sent that message to Rachelprivately with just availed
threat to go public if you kept,if she kept pursuing this course
of action.
The thing with entitled peoplethough, is that sometimes
they're so delusional, theybelieve.
They are the victims.
She has now forwarded themessage.
I sent her some to some of ourmutual acquaintances, including
(33:06):
her own children, to show what aBI am.
Wait, I point out what ahomophobic, racist sister you
are, but you're telling peoplethat I'm the nasty one.
So now those people aremessaging me to confirm that the
letter I sent was real, and thatthe situation is exactly as I
made it out to be.
I'm simply responding.
Yes, it's all true.
(33:26):
Desperately restraining myselffrom elaborating further as I
don't want to complicate thesituation or encourage more
people to get involved so muchfor me ruining her life.
She seems fairly intent on doingit to herself.
Yeah.
Okay.
Those are the updates that wehave we'll share from for this
week.
For next week.
Mm-hmm.
I don't think he's the, a-holeshe is.
(33:48):
Yeah.
I don't think he's even gonnaneed to put anything post
anything though.
I think just taking all of herresources and she's adding
herself.
Yeah.
I'm proud of him for standing upfor his.
Why does money, likeinheritance, make people inherit
and, and people, yeah.
I don't know.
People go batty.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And why is she would like havethe audacity, both of the
(34:09):
sisters at first mm-hmm.
Have the audacity to think thatthat's okay for them to
determine, do you know?
I hate it.
I don't have kids or I do havekids, so I should get, you know,
like when there's a vacation atwork, if you tell me only one of
us can take it off, and, and ifyou say, I don't have kids and I
(34:30):
know you wanna be with yourkids, you go ahead, then that's
one thing.
But to say I deserve it becauseI have kids rubs me so the wrong
way.
Mm-hmm.
We both do the same job with thesame thing.
I mean.
If you offer it up for thatreason, then that's, you know, I
appreciate that, but I'm notentitled to it because I do have
(34:51):
kids.
But the audacity I know to go tohis home, I know and gang up on
him, try to bully him and quituhhuh.
Rachel, you suck.
Yeah, for sure.
I don't like Rachel.
I don't like Rachel at all.
I really wanna know who Rachelis.
Not that I know a lot of peoplein those sectors.
circles?
No.
Of the, uh, vector a word.
It's a word, right?
Vector?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I'm not down with that.
(35:11):
No.
Me neither.
Can't wait to see what elsecomes out.
Yeah, don't send me the rest of'em.
I wanna be surprised with allthe other people.
Okay, good.
we'll all be surprised.
Okay.
Yay.
Um, you wanna talk about ourbook?
Okay.
All right.
So bookies, if you are stayingwith us, awesome.
If you are not one of our bookreaders, we love you.
We love you book.
Read a book, have a good, have agood rest of your day, and come
(35:35):
back next week and tell yourfriends.
And we love you.
We love you.
Bye.
Okay.
all right.
so the house across the lake byRiley Sager and I have read
other books by this author.
Mm-hmm.
Wonderful rider.
Yes.
Recently widowed actress CaseyFletcher, who retreats to her
family's remote Vermont Lakehouse to escape scandal and
drink away her grief.
While there, she becomesobsessed with watching her
(35:57):
glamorous new neighbors techmogul Tom Royce and his wife
Katherine through binocularswhen Katherine suddenly
disappears, Casey is convincedfo play is involved, but as she
investigates, shocking secretsemerge and nothing is as it
seems.
Good blurb about the blurb.
Yeah.
So this book was psychological,supernatural drama with lots of
(36:19):
twists.
Yes.
It had kind of like a little bitof everything, word in there.
It did.
so I never was able to get thisbook through Libby or Hoopla,
like it's apparently just onweight, but I had read it
before.
Mm-hmm.
recently, so I remembered itquite well.
But I don't recall knowing thatthere was a lot of spiritual,
supernatural stuff.
(36:40):
Toiled the end.
Yeah.
And that's what it was.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was like the twist, like thelast, because I kept thinking,
how are, could they gonna makethis work?
How are they?
And then all of a sudden, bam.
Yeah.
Oh, and of course spoilers.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
Were you expecting that finaltwist with the husband being the
serial killer?
No.
No.
Were you ghost?
Yeah.
Is that inha bodies?
(37:02):
No, that threw me for a loop.
Right.
I thought it was going to be theex cop.
Yes, I do too.
It was, definitely one of thosethat like I said, how is this
gonna work out?
Where, how are they gonna tieeverything up relatively neatly?
Mm-hmm.
but no, I did not see that with,I, you know, something happened
with I forgot his name with thehusband Uhhuh, but I, I couldn't
(37:23):
quite put my finger up.
On it.
So I was like super judgy atfirst and mm-hmm.
I'm not proud of that, but.
I'm being honest.
Mm-hmm.
And I thought like, girl, yougotta get your stuff together.
Yeah.
You're talking about Casey,right?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
So she's like spying oneverybody and she's getting
drunk, drunk all the time.
Like white girl wasted drunk.
Yes.
(37:44):
Not even like casual, drunk.
It was.
Right.
Pass out drunk.
Yes.
She was like self-medicatingbasically.
Yeah.
And but you don't know that tobegin with, right?
you just think like, okay, herhusband died.
Horrible.
Awful.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
You get a pass for a little bit.
Right.
But like, get your stufftogether.
Right.
And then you find out later atthe very end of the book that
no, she found out her husband'sa serial killer.
(38:06):
Yeah.
And I'll let him die.
Yep.
So.
Then I felt super judgy and bad.
Okay.
It's a fictional ca character,Stephanie.
But no, I felt like, okay, ms.
Mc Judgy Rson, was not a proudmoment for myself.
No, it's okay.
I get it though., What did youthink of Tom?
Catherine's husband?
I don't remember much about him.
(38:26):
Catherine made it out.
Like he was just living off ofher.
Oh yeah.
Even though he was a tech guyand like Yeah.
Because all his money is wrappedup in all of these projects.
Yeah.
And he was just spending hermoney left and right.
Mm-hmm.
Freely.
And I was like, well, he's justdraining her.
And then once his thing blowsup, he's gonna leave her with
nothing.
Mm-hmm.
Is I thought that too, how I wasreading it.
(38:47):
I thought that too.
He went over there with like$500bottles of wine and I was like,
I wouldn't even want, and thendidn't they drop one?
Casey did and I was like, ohyeah.
Yeah.
I wouldn't wanna be anywherenear, I wouldn't even wanna
drink$500 wine.
I don't think I could tell thedifference in 500 wine.
I wouldn't, you can't tell thedifference between a$2 bottle of
wine, right?
I'm not a wine connoisseur.
(39:08):
No.
Me neither.
Me neither.
I don't, I.
Swirl.
And smell.
And smell.
Yeah.
Whatever.
I gle.
Yeah.
I turn up, I take that box and Iopen it.
Girl, same.
we're so classy.
Yeah.
We absolutely are.
Lynn was the husband.
(39:28):
Mm-hmm.
That drowned.
Right.
Okay.
Sorry, his name just popped inmy head.
Yeah.
So he was a creep.
Oh, a hundred percent.
And he invaded bodies.
Because the lake wassupernatural, right?
Well, yeah.
Tom gave me the ick.
Mm-hmm.
Was a complete ich.
I, it almost feels like she waswriting this, I think, I think
Rally is a female, but she,whoever the author was writing,
(39:50):
it was like, well, how am Igonna.
Tie this together and wrap itup.
Oh, I got it.
Uhhuh.
Let's just throw a lot up.
But it works.
Yeah, it works.
What would you rate it?
Oh, I would give it, I reallyenjoyed it.
I had nine.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
I was gonna go seven and a half.
Okay.
Yeah.
It seemed like she kind of threwthat in just to wrap it up.
but I still liked it.
I still liked it.
(40:10):
I still, I still enjoyed it.
I would read more by RileySager.
That did seem kind of just like,not even not thrown together,
but just like outta left field,which is good.
I was gonna say made up, but thewhole thing is made up so.
But yes.
Out of left field.
That's a great way to say it.
But I still liked the twists andturns.
(40:31):
Yeah.
And I thought the characterswere interesting and, I never
would have guessed no how it wasgoing.
No.
So that was cool.
Something was a little bit offfor me.
Yeah.
I like it when I don't guess theending, but I want it to be one
of those things where I'm like,oh, I should have seen that.
Yeah, this one, you don't reallydo that because all of a sudden
you die in the lake and youinhibit other spirits and stuff,
(40:53):
but it'll still need enough forme to mm-hmm.
Enjoy it.
So, yeah.
I.
So guys, we had a different bookin the podcast when we recorded,
but as we were reading it, wedid not like it.
And as you know, we always saylife is too short for bad books.
So we have decided to switch itup to if something happens to me
by Alex Finley.
The blurb for this book is forthe past five years, Ryan
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Richardson has relived thatterrible night.
The car door ripping open thecrushing blow to his head.
The hands yanking him from thevehicle.
His girlfriend Ali's piercingscream as she was taken and no
trace of Ali or the car.
A cloud of suspicion hangs overRyan but with no proof and a
good lawyer.
He was never charged, thoughthat doesn't matter to the
podcasters and the internettrolls.
(41:37):
Now Ryan has changed his lastname and entered law school.
He's put his past behind himuntil on a summer trip abroad to
Italy with his law schoolclassmates.
Ryan gets a call from hisfather.
Ally's car has finally beenfound submerged in a lake in his
hometown.
Inside are two dead men.
In a cryptic note with fivewords written on an envelope in
(41:58):
Ally's handwriting.
If something happens to me, thenhalfway around the world, the
unthinkable happens.
Ryan sees a man who has hauntedhis dreams since that night as
Ryan races from the rollinghills of Tuscany to a rural
village in the UK to theglittering streets of Paris.
In search of the truth, he hasno idea that his salvation may
lie with a young sheriff deputyin Kansas working her first
(42:20):
case, and a mobster inPhiladelphia who's experienced
tragedy of his own.
All right.
Well I think that wraps up forthe day.
It does.
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So if you love unfilteredconversation, questionable
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(00:21):
at night, you're in the rightplace.
Buckle up, grab your popcorn,and let's get into the chaos.
Hi Stephanie.
I'm Meredith, and welcome to,this is my circus.
What's up?
Oh, Lord have mercy.
I'm just like, I cannot get withit.
When I said last week, I'm a hotmess.
It is a thousand percentaccurate.
You know, the time change.
(00:42):
Mm-hmm.
Always gets me.
Yeah.
It always kicks my butt.
I saw, um, and I believe he felthim too.
It's a talker.
Um, and he is like a pre-Kteacher.
Mm-hmm.
And he said that.
This week it was the timechange.
Mm-hmm.
Which like is horrible for allstudents.
Mm-hmm.
But then I think he said it wasalso like a full moon this week
(01:04):
or something.
Oh my gosh.
And he said that it was going tobe a miserable week at school.
I'm sure.
Just thinking about us losing anhour sleep makes me feel
exhausted.
I don't sleep as it is.
Right.
I'll hear Rex sleeping andsnoring during the day and it
just makes me so sleepy just toknow he's so just like, just the
(01:27):
sound of it.
Like lulls me.
Do you nap?
No.
Have you ever napped?
I have never been a napper.
Yeah.
only when I'm like really sick.
Yeah.
Or if.
I it was completely, completelydrained.
Drained, yeah.
Well, the wedding was thisweekend for my nephew, which was
amazing.
It was so much fun.
But then, so that went late intoSaturday night, and then to lose
(01:47):
an hour of sleep that night, thenext morning we woke up, we set
our alarms for nine.
Mm-hmm.
So we could leave and be out,you know, by the 10 and do all
the things.
I could have slept like threemore hours at least.
You looked stunning.
Thank you.
In that dress.
Thank you.
You looked so good.
I had a little bit of abreakdown.
Oh, so it was a destinationwedding.
(02:09):
Uhhuh and, great location.
The venue was beautiful.
It was in Hilton Head inBluffton, South Carolina.
It was great.
but you know, when you have adestination wedding like that.
And you've got people that haveflown in or people that have
ridden together, and then theactivities they're in are
separate.
Trying to coordinate all theplaces to be everywhere.
That was such a nightmare.
(02:30):
Yeah we tried to make it not bea nightmare'cause we didn't
wanna stress the bride and groomout.
But, some of that's our ownfault.
We should have really focused inon who needed to be where,
because, the wedding wasSaturday.
On Friday.
They had like the practicerehearsal in the morning and
then in the afternoon there thegirls were gonna do brunch and
stuff or whatever meal it is.
And then the boys were going todo some boy things.
(02:50):
And just the vehicle thing,figuring out who was where was a
bit of a mess.
But my breakdown came on Sundaybecause.
Brian and I had Jackson.
And Anthony.
Anthony went, was Jackson's plusone.
Anthony.
Anthony, sorry.
And then my niece's boyfriendhad flown in and he was with us
too.
So we had five in our vehicle.
(03:12):
Well, I.
My sister and my niece, she wasthe mother of the groom, and
then my niece was a bridesmaid.
She was in the wedding, so shehad to be there at like eight.
My sister had to be there atlike 10.
Well, that left the five of usgetting there.
Like right at the time, Jacksonwasn't ushered that he needed to
be there, which was fine, but Ialso supposed to go and get my
hair done by them.
(03:32):
Mm-hmm.
I had no way to get there.
And I looked up the Ubers.
It just, it was a mess.
It was a bit of a mess.
But our own fault, just a longway to say just if you're doing
a destination wedding or going,just plan everything out to the
tea.
If you can.
Yeah.
I'm like such like a notplanner.
I know.
And I am the biggest like wingit.
(03:52):
Yeah.
Well, Poseys that way.
Mm-hmm.
And she'll tell you she's thatway.
But it got to that point thatlike the day before.
I don't remember before one ofthe days'cause she and I were
also decorating and setting upfor the rehearsal dinner the
night before.
So it was like, okay, get apiece of paper and we need to
write who needs to be where,when and what time we're leaving
because the other piece was wewere staying on Hilton Head and
(04:15):
some of it book was like 30minutes away in Bluffton, so you
had to account for that stufftoo.
Mm-hmm.
And then in the wedding,actually, like the wedding was
over.
We were sitting at dinner and itwas like the cocktail hour kind
of waiting for things to the,the dance floor to get Liddy and
all those things.
And I was like, you need tocheck and see what time we need
to check out tomorrow whilewe're sitting here doing nothing
(04:36):
because you're gonna forget.
And that's okay Uhhuh, but let'sgo ahead and get some ideas.
So just.
Yeah, it would've been better ifwe'd have had a little more
organization, but it's my ownfault.
But it was so much fun.
Yeah.
You looked amazing.
Thank you.
You're, thank you.
Everybody did.
But yeah, thank you so much.
In that dress, did you likemachine dress?
(04:57):
Mm-hmm.
It was such a, it was socomfortable.
You looked so good.
Thank you.
I should have worn it today.
You should have, we we're gonnahave a fancy day.
Okay.
That sounds good.
When you wear your crown, whenyou get the job.
Yes.
When I get that job.
Yeah, I'm glad it's over becausestuff like that is a lot when
you are one of the main onesthat are doing all the things.
(05:19):
It's not like one little piece.
It's, you know, yeah.
Um, I started the Soul Train atmy sister's wedding.
Did you, what was your, what'syour go-to move?
Um, just a little booty shake.
Yeah.
I just kind of wheeled.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But yeah, I mean, it was epic.
My new niece.
My niece, Brooke.
She graduated from USC.
(05:39):
Mm-hmm.
so she's a gamecock.
So, and a lot of her bridesmaidsand other people that were there
did also, of course, that'swhere a lot of her friends are.
And, they had two walls set up.
The reception was outside, so itwas like little, I don't know,
whatever, but there were pompomshanging on each one.
And they had your name on'em.
Mm-hmm.
And on the back of them, it toldyou what table you were sitting
(06:01):
at.
But then when Brooke and Jordanwalked in, like they did the
Gamecock is Sandstorm the song.
Mm-hmm.
And everybody was doing likethey do for football games and
had the pompoms, and then whenthey left, everybody was doing
the pom-poms too.
And doing like, there were twolines and they started just
yelling, like go.
Um.
Cox, I could tell you.
(06:21):
Did not wanna say, I did notwanna say it.
And I don't know how people sayit with a straight face.
Maybe I'm just a dirty, dirtygirl.
But, um, it was just, it wasreally fun.
Your face was like, I can't doit.
I, I can't, I didn't wanna sayit.
I was like, how can I say it?
But here we go.
So, but it was a good time.
Mm-hmm.
It was a, a very good time.
Glad, glad.
It's in the past.
They're in St.
Lucia now enjoying themselvesand they went on a helicopter
(06:44):
ride this morning.
I saw on Snap.
what have you been up to?
Nothing.
We didn't need any backup.
That was good.
You know, sometimes when youhave a lot of family members,
things can get outta hand.
but we all behave nicely.
Did I, tell you, so at my mysister Jackie's wedding mm-hmm.
All of the friends were there,whatever.
And I didn't know a lot of mybrother's friends that are also
(07:06):
friends with my sister, theywere all there.
I don't know what happened, butsomehow my brother, they, they
were all drinking.
And my brother got, I don't knowif he got smacked in the face or
what by this dude.
Me not knowing this guy.
Right.
And I'm what, five, two and ahalf.
Right.
30 declared that.
Right.
And this dude's like six footsomething.
Mm-hmm.
And I went up to him and I'mlike, you lay a mother fing hand
(07:27):
on my brother.
And he's like, you must be thelittle sister.
What made you say that?
I'm like.
Yeah.
So we get crazier as they godown the line.
Mm-hmm.
So with the oldest and youngestand the size.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The same.
I am the shortest.
Are you, do y'all also kind ofgo like that?
No, actually Carrie is theoldest and, and then my
(07:48):
brother's like six.
Okay.
But, or six one.
Okay.
and then Jackie's just a littlebit taller than I am.
Yeah.
And then there's, then there's,there's my pocket person.
my sister's older and she's.
Shorter than me.
Mm-hmm.
She's like five four, I think.
I don't know.
Who knows?
Speaking of hitting in the head,did you see the track?
Did you see the track of meetwhere they had the baton and the
(08:11):
one girl hit the other girl inthe back of the head and cracked
her skull?
Yeah.
And then did you see her news?
She said it was an accident?
Yes.
And that she hit her in the headbefore?
I didn't see that part, but itdefinitely was not an A cadet.
It was, she's got a, a crackskull and a concussion.
Oh my goodness gracious.
(08:31):
I don't care what you're doing.
Like this is the movement thatyou do.
Right.
It's not like, even if you'refalling, okay, I have a lot of
experience with this.
Even if you're flailing around,you're gonna slow down and not
go so fast and fall to the floorand not hit them in that.
Mm-hmm.
Because yeah, she was a hot messliar.
She was a big old, big old,allegedly.
(08:52):
Alleged liar.
Yes.
Oh, speaking of vacations, didyou hear about that?
girl that's missing in Punana?
No.
So she is a 20-year-oldUniversity of Pittsburgh
student.
Okay.
Her name I, I'm gonna not saythis right.
Okay.
So do not come for me, ska.
(09:15):
Kki.
I don't see how that could bewrong, but she's 20 years old.
she went on spring break to Anaauthorities believe she
disappeared after going for aswim early Thursday morning.
Her clothes were found on aportable beach bed near where
she was last seen.
Mm-hmm.
But.
Her and a group of her friendshad gone to a nightclub before
heading to the beach around 4:00AM while her friends returned to
(09:36):
their hotel around 6:00 AM shestayed behind with a man.
According to the police report,the man claimed that they went
for a swim and got caught by astrong wave.
Security showed him returning tohis hotel at 10:00 AM so.
If they got caught by a strongwave, why didn't he report it?
Right?
This is a whole nother Arubasituation.
(09:57):
Yeah.
Is that how I feel like that'sthe vibe I'm getting.
There's too much that's notadding up and shady dirty.
Yeah.
So, and like when did they findthe clothes?
Because the first day of thegirl missing.
Yep.
They didn't find those clothes.
Right.
When was this?
This happened last Thursday.
Okay.
So hopefully, They can find her.
Right now, they can't find anysigns of foul play and they're
(10:20):
like searching the ocean andsearching areas, but her dad is
like, why aren't they searchingthis guy, or you know, like
mm-hmm.
Is this like human trafficking?
Is it, mm-hmm.
Right.
Whatever.
Right.
the dad is quite upset.
He's in Punana now with theauthorities.
Yeah.
So Is that Mexico?
No, Dominican Republic.
Okay.
That's right.
Thank you.
(10:40):
So, prayers to her.
Prayers to, yeah.
All involved and I as a parent,ugh.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So on a lighter note, yeah.
Have you heard about the mermaideating parties?
What?
The mermaid eating parties?
No.
Okay.
So apparently the elite.
(11:02):
Eating mermaids.
Is this cannibalism or is thisseafood?
I, I'm a little confused.
Me too.
Okay.
So are we saying mermaids arereal?
this is what TikTok is saying.
Okay.
so TikTok is saying that thelatest viral conspiracy theory
involves mermaid eating parties,where ultra wealthy elites
allegedly dine on mermaids insecret gatherings.
(11:25):
This rumor started because aperson on TikTok, at j Lee 2.07
shared a story about an exconfisherman, excon, right?
Landon, who unknowingly joined afishing crew that was supposedly
hunting mermaids for high payingclients.
Okay, so the story describesmermaids as having human-like
(11:47):
torsos with shimmering scalesand marble like flesh.
Allegedly, these creatures weretaken to high ends secret
restaurants where that elite dedon them.
In a hibachi style experience,the theory escalated with claims
of Second Mermaid who foughtback, scratched a crew member,
and even displayed regenerativeabilities.
So who knows?
There was another person thatsaid that they got invited to
(12:08):
the whatever party at a eliteparty.
Mm-hmm.
And when they brought out themain dish, it was, they took off
this whole, like thing off ofthe main dish.
Mm-hmm.
It was like a, A blanket or likea Okay.
Yeah.
With a tablecloth or something.
Yeah.
They tied out it.
Yeah.
And it was a.
(12:28):
Mermaid who was unlived andprepared and they were
sectioning off pieces of saidmermaid.
Yes.
so the dude like freaked out andwas like, according to this
TikTok story mm-hmm.
Was like, Nope.
Uhuh like, get me outta here.
So he was gets up and they'reall like, what the heck?
This is like the best thingyou'll ever eat.
And I guess also old timeystories say that if you eat
(12:52):
mermaids, it gives you longevityand oh, okay.
Reduces aging and mm-hmm.
All the things immortal.
It's like killing a unicorn.
Yeah.
So this dude tries to leave andhe find ends up in the kitchen,
trying to get out and there is atank with the mermaids in it.
And some of'em looked like theywere drugged.
(13:12):
Some of them looked a littlelike not as drugged.
Yeah.
Some were a little morecoherent, active, but he took
off.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, then the owner of the housecame and was like, what the
heck?
And he's like, remember yousigned an NDA and even if you
did tell who's gonna believeyou.
I kind of do.
Yeah.
So one, you have to believe thatmermaids are real and I kind of
(13:34):
do like, there's like some weirdthings in the ocean.
Yeah.
The ocean is way too big.
Yeah.
And way too deep.
And we've talked about before,like things that we believe in
that a lot of people Yeah.
I believe in all the things.
Yeah.
So I mean the ocean, some of thecreatures in the ocean, like the
thing with the light on it andfrom.
Well, there's real ones too, youknow?
(13:55):
Yeah.
But all those things that arejust very strange.
I.
I definitely believe that thatcould be, be a real thing.
I don't think they're beautifullike Ariel.
I think they're more like haveyou ever seen those videos from,
Haiti and Jamaica where theywash up on the beach?
No.
people are telling, and theycould totally be lying.
I don't know.
But I'm so global with thisstuff.
(14:16):
I wanna believe it.
Like, I wanna believe thatthey're real.
I wanna believe that all thekids are like magical.
Mm-hmm.
And happy.
But those.
Whatever these people aresaying, real life encounters,
oh, now real life encounters.
Not like my grandfather's bestfriend's.
Right.
Brother on a boat.
People are actually encounteringthese things, but it's at like
two o'clock in the morning.
It's like super late at nightthat they, I guess, appear close
(14:39):
enough where mm-hmm.
Somebody would encounter it.
I'm fascinated.
I am too.
I'm fascinated, yeah.
Who knows?
Who knows?
Who knows.
But when there's that manypeople from specific places that
remember things, it's like,yeah.
It's kinda like the MandelaEffect.
Mm-hmm.
You've heard of that?
Mm-hmm.
(15:00):
So for those that don't know,because I'm newly fascinated
with this, it is a phenomenonwhere a group of people.
Believe they remember somethingthe same, but in reality it did
not happen.
Yeah.
For instance, was it the Sinbadmovie or the Shazam movie?
(15:20):
One of those two movies neverhappened, right?
Like I can vividly remember, letme see which one it was and the
Fruit of the Loom.
did it have the cornucopia ordid it not?
Right.
Now the latest one,'cause I justsaw it on Candace, Pikachu
Chill.
They're now saying he doesn'thave the black suit on the, on
it, the black on it.
Mm-hmm.
So there was a movie, Back inthe day that a lot of people
(15:41):
believe where Sinbad was agenie.
Mm-hmm.
Called Shazam.
Yeah.
I don't remember seeing it, butI, I can almost picture either
like the poster or like the VHScover.
Yeah.
That never existed.
I know.
I bet you there's somebody outthere that has it.
I know.
There's got to be.
Yeah.
And like you said, the fruit ofthe loom one is really weird.
(16:02):
And then like the spellings onthings that have changed.
Somebody just said that theychanged one of the cars movie
songs now.
It used to say like one thing,but now it says Bud Light like a
beer name.
Yeah.
Instead of whatever, whatever itwas.
I don't remember that one.
If it's new, um, it's like themirror.
Mirror on the wall.
(16:22):
That's what I remember.
But it's supposed to be magicmirror on the wall.
Yeah, no, I know.
It was mirror.
Mirror, yes.
So I am fascinated with this andhave just been going through
reading and listening topodcasts about it.
And there's some theories onwhat it is.
One of them is time travel.
There's some time travel goingon where people are messing with
(16:43):
it the past.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Um, so what happens, okay.
In, in that instance, right?
Okay.
So, so somebody does time traveland say, I have the, the Simba v
Hs.
Mm-hmm.
Does that just disappear?
I think so.
Kind of like back to the future,you know, where he just, how do
you remember it?
Maybe some people like the powersuggestion.
(17:06):
Mental, like you can make thestuff disappear, but they're so
sharp minded.
They still remember it.
I think it's like a governmentsomething or other, like they
try to Yeah, it's like a test tosee how we are.
I'm also, I, I'm not, you know,that feeling too when you walk
into a room and you can'tremember what you're doing
there.
So you turn around and leave andyou walk back and you remember.
(17:26):
Mm-hmm.
That's part of the conspiracytoo, of like time travel.
Your body hasn't caught up.
Kind of what, what your mind wasthinking.
Mm-hmm.
I'm just utterly fascinated withit though.
A lot of it's the powersuggestion to just people saying
that we're gonna have to do a,after hours.
We'll, definitely whole episode.
Throw it in there somewhere.
It is just.
Utterly fascinating to me thatthat many people can believe
(17:49):
things.
And most of them that I've read,I'm like, yes, I remember it.
The old, you know, the wrongway.
So yeah, we'll definitely haveto throw some of that in in an
after, in a circus after dark EPor something.
Did you hear about this murderin Florida with this 16-year-old
girl?
Miranda Corset.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, this is like heartbreaking.
(18:10):
Okay.
And this is again, if we haveany young listeners, be careful
who you're talking to on theinternet.
Mm-hmm.
Like, this is terrible stuff.
Yeah.
Florida authorities havearrested a couple in connection
with the brutal murder of a16-year-old Miranda corset, A
case that started with socialmedia interaction and ended in
tragedy.
Miranda met 30 5-year-old StevenGress online and visited him on
(18:31):
February 14th, Valentine's Day,so right there, super creepy,
right?
Mm-hmm.
Like something not good.
She went home that night, butreturned the next day.
Staying with him and hispartner, 37-year-old Michelle
Brands.
Sometime between February 20thand the 24th a dispute turned
deadly.
Authorities believe Miranda wasmurdered, dismembered, and her
remains discarded in a dumpsterin Hillsborough County.
(18:54):
Police are still searching forher body.
Gress was already in jail.
On unrelated charges.
Get this including threateninghis partner with a harpoon.
Yeah.
Bran has since turned herselfin, and both are now facing
first degree murder charges.
This case is terrifying.
Reminder of the dangers lurkingon social media, so, wow.
(19:17):
Yeah.
16 years old?
Another news article I saw saidthat, they thought she stole a
piece of jewelry mm-hmm.
And then started torturing herto get the jewelry back.
Mm-hmm.
But that's not confirmed.
Yeah.
But, just make sure that you arevigilant and know.
Who you're talking to.
If you're talking to somebody,don't go meet somebody.
(19:38):
Mm-hmm.
They're 37 and they're talkingto a 16-year-old, nothing good's
gonna come from that.
Right.
So, right.
Let's not do that.
No, that's terrible.
It's disgusting.
Oh, that, I mean, yeah.
It's, it's all of those bad, badthings.
I just.
Hate that.
Do we need a pallet cleanser?
Yeah, I think so.
There was a 4-year-old thatcalled 9 1 1 to have his mom
(20:00):
arrested.
Okay.
Sounds like this legit couldhave happened in my house.
Yeah.
So this is to be one of thefunniest 9 1 1 calls.
Okay.
Ever.
A 4-year-old in Wisconsin tookjustice into his own hands after
his mom dared to eat his icecream and he called the cops on
her.
Last Tuesday in Mount Pleasant,Wisconsin, police received a
(20:21):
nine one one call from a youngboy reporting that his mom was
being bad and needed to go tojail.
The crime she ate his ice cream,I mean., Four year olds.
I mean, that is a pretty bigcrime.
That's a pretty, that's aterrible offense to a little
kid.
You know what?
It's a little bit of a terribleoffense for me too.
Same, same.
Do you know I go crazy.
Brian will eat my leftovers.
(20:42):
Uhhuh all the freaking time.
And I'll tell him you can haveit.
Can have, you can have that.
But if I don't tell him, andhe's gotten a lot better.
Oh, I would flip my lid on him.
So I can only imagine.
I got chicken wings yesterday.
Mm-hmm.
And I had the leftovers in thefridge.
And at like 1230 last night,Dylan text me, he's like, mom,
can I have, have a chicken wing?
(21:02):
Mm-hmm.
And I'm thinking like one, I'mlike, yeah, go ahead.
So I wake up and I'm like, Ooh,some spicy chicken wing.
Mm-hmm.
And he ate all of them.
Oh.
Nothing but bones.
And I was like, I.
How did one chicken wing go toOlive?
Mm-hmm.
And he's like, oh my bad.
I was hungry.
Oh, well.
So, oh well.
Cops 9 1 1.
(21:23):
Yeah.
Um, all right, when officersarrived, the little guy stuck to
his story at first, but thenquickly changed his mind saying
he no longer wanted herarrested.
He just wanted more ice cream.
Same, same Z.
The officers being good sports,made sure all always well and
left, but the best part, theycame back the next day to
surprise him with ice cream ofhis own.
(21:44):
Isn't that so sweet?
Mm-hmm.
It was two female officers.
I feel like that, could solve alot of problems.
Like, I don't want themarrested.
I just want my ice cream.
Mm-hmm.
Can you bring me ice cream?
Yeah.
Bring me ice cream and we'lljust call it even.
It says the internet had a fieldday with this one.
One person commented, I'm notsaying he is right, but I
(22:05):
understand.
Yeah.
Another pointed out.
At least he knows how to callfor help.
Could save a life one day.
But like good job for thepolice.
Oh yeah.
They get a bad rep, so I'm gladthat they wait.
Is it bad rep or bad rap?
Rap, but I thought it was rep,like a reputation.
I don't know.
I was hear, I always think rap.
I hear I do too.
(22:25):
But Mandela effect, policeofficers get a lot of bad
whatever mm-hmm.
Press.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So that always makes me happywhen there's something good to
share.
Something.
Wanna go into, am I the No, Ican go to the am I the, am I the
thing.
Okay, so this was a very longupdate one.
(22:46):
Okay.
There's eight parts.
So I think we can probably do acouple today and then we'll do
the rest of the updates nextweek.
I like it.
Okay.
but I personally wanna know theupdates today.
'cause I'm nosy.
Well, I'll give you the blank.
I'll be surprised with all therest of our fans.
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, this is a Would I be, yes.
Is what I'm assuming it is.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Would I be the AOL for ruiningsomeone's reputation after she
(23:09):
tried to steal my best friend'sinheritance?
I gay.
57 male.
Have known my best friend, HarryGay, 64 male for 40 years.
He is disabled and his health isdeteriorating, but still manages
to work from home at a minimumwage job.
His partner Nathan Male 58,works 30 hours per week so he
(23:32):
can spend a little extra timetaking care of household chores
and caring for my friend.
We all live in an outrageouslyexpensive city, so the best
apartment they can afford torent a small and a bit of a
dump.
Our friends parents both diedwithin the last two years, and
he's been desperately lookingforward to the inheritance he's
about to get.
All the ice cream.
(23:52):
Sorry, that wasn insensitive.
I was just thinking like, dang.
He's like wishing them.
Yeah.
Well, I mean he, they're 60.
They were in their eighties.
I understand.
I'm just saying like, I don'tknow why I'm defending him for
trying to get his money, buthere we are.
That combined with hisretirement savings next year
will be enough for him topurchase a moderately decent
apartment out in the suburbs.
(24:13):
He can spend his retirementyears, probably not many left.
Last week, his two oldersisters, Mary 69, and Rachel 67,
came to visit him.
Rachel is fairly known as aprominent figure in the
environmental movement, a greatreputation as a tree hugging
hippie who's been arrestednumerous times for her activism,
(24:33):
a very peace, love, hugs, andrainbows kind of woman.
Anyway, when they turned up, hethought it would be with notice
of his.
NT inheritance money?
Well, it was, but not in the wayhe expected.
They jointly told him that.
They decided that all the familymoney would go to Rachel and her
three children.
He wasn't sure if they werejoking, but still gave them, uh,
(24:54):
what the actual f.
Face apparently because it wasfamily money and is neither nor
he nor Mary had children.
Then to ensure the money stayedin the family, it should just be
passed onto the next generation.
He was absolutely shocked andsaid it wasn't family money, it
was his money, and that he didhave family.
His partner of 20 years, Nathanstuff got even worse when they
(25:18):
said.
Yeah, but he's Asian, and whenyou die, he'll just go back to
Asia and spend the money on hisfamily.
Remember, this is our familymoney.
I'm getting mad for this dude.
Uhhuh my best friend then.
Rather sharply pointed out theconcepts of racism, homophobia,
and the law.
They got crappy because hewasn't being reasonable and
(25:41):
respectful, but he bluntly saidhe would sue their butts off if
they failed to give him even 1cent short of his third of the
money.
At that point, they parted onrather bad terms.
So this is where I come into it.
I may hurt me and you're lookingfor trouble.
Hurt my best friend and I'llburn your whole world to the
ground kind of guy.
It's been almost two weeks, andwhile he's simply refusing to
(26:03):
speak to her.
I'm still absolutely raging thatRachel is now going back to her
life and to the politicalcommunity without anyone knowing
what a total beast she tried tobe on my friend.
I believe her outrageous behindthe scenes politics should be
publicly known, easily done bymessaging her 356.
It's really not that many.
(26:24):
No Facebook friends.
To me, that would be truejustice for her entitlement,
racism and homophobia.
Would it be overkill though?
But if you made a post, youdon't think that as quickly as
drama spreads on Facebook AndFacebook?
Yeah, all it would be all over.
It would and screenshot it.
Okay.
Edit.
There's an law firm that I'vealready approached about doing
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pro bono work for him.
Cool.
He's not the a-hole and no, Goodlevel of petty.
Mm-hmm.
I take it, go for it.
Do it.
Yeah, do it.
Do it.
But they didn't get the moneyright.
They just w were racist.
They just a-holes about it.
They went to him and said thatWe're keeping your money.
Yeah.
But they didn't.
Well, we don't know yet.
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Okay.
He's saying, you're right.
You're right, you're right.
Okay.
So.
Yep.
This was November 5th, lastNovember.
Okay.
Number one, Mary, that was oneof his sisters, right?
Uhhuh has switched sides and nowsupports Harry because she heard
that the law isn't Uhhuh.
As Mary doesn't have children.
She has always doted onRachel's, her nephews and
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nieces.
She's supported themfinancially, giving them great
gifts and even taken them toEurope on vacations.
She says that while she did goto his house and persuade him to
pass the money on to thechildren, given that Harry
doesn't have.
Kids, he would see reason thatit was the right thing to do.
She had zero idea that Rachelwould go down the give the money
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to me because you don't havefamily and Nathan doesn't count
because he's Asian Road.
I don't think any of us saw thatroad coming.
Buddy Mary was horrified, but asshe hate, hold on.
If she was so horrified, whydidn't she step in in that
moment?
Like she was not horrified.
She's horrified that thatstuff's gonna come out.
Yeah, that probably that'sself-preservation probably.
(28:09):
That's probably, unless she wasjust so flabbergasted in the
moment or not, I don't believethat, no.
Mm-hmm.
Um, Mary was horrified, but asshe hates confrontation and
groups of people, she didn't sayanything at the time.
After they left, Mary toldRachel she was completely outta
line and now believed Harryshould get his full share.
Rachel didn't budge, so Maryphoned Harry to apologize for
what happened.
(28:30):
Said he now has her fullsupport.
But who is Rachel?
To determine this?
If it's in the will, it's in thewill.
Like they can't change the will.
Right.
I don't know why Rachel's gotthis.
Rachel must be really needingthe money.
Why is she being the one whomakes all the decisions?
Yeah.
Wonder if she's the oldest.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah.
She must be having seriousissues.
She's greedy.
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She needs to be outed.
All right, let's move on.
Okay, number two.
Number two, as Rachel realizesshe can't just demand the money,
she's now going to take thelegal road instead.
Good.
Well, good.
She'll lose.
She's going to put a claimagainst his share of the will
because he didn't give her anysupport during the final four
years while she was the primarycarer.
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Her life.
Her government careers allowanceboth her parents' retirement
pensions, full access to theirbank account, which she has
drained of tens of thousands ofdollars.
Financial support from theirsister and wealthy son, physical
support from the rest of thefamily when she needed it, and
taking well-earned shortvacations whenever she needed a
(29:32):
break.
Him hooked up to dialysis, eighthours per day.
Organ transplant with threemonths recovery, working at his
laptop, sitting in his hospitalbed because he couldn't afford
to take time off.
Told by specialist never to bemore than a 30 minute ambulance
ride from a specific hospital,meaning he can never leave the
city even for a day for the restof his life.
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Not a lot of wiggle room forproviding financial or physical
support in a small town, 500miles away in a different state.
She is terrible.
She needs to be outed.
Number three, when Rachelinformed Mary, she would go the
legal route.
Mary was furious and immediatelyphone Mary to warn him.
You're right.
I went.
To my law firm on Harry'srequest, 9:00 AM Monday morning.
(30:14):
I gave them full details ofeveryone involved the
properties, all Rachel'sfinancial resources is above,
and details of the conversationwhere she expressed racist and
homophobic comments, how this isnot a change of attitude, but a
change of strategy.
The lawyers are all set.
Their specialty is fighting offracist and homophobic families
trying to steal the inheritanceoff of L-G-B-T-Q people.
(30:37):
He just smiled and said, we'regonna get him every sin he's
owed and bleed her dry andfinancial costs in the process.
There we go.
Yep.
So the upshot of it all, Mary isno longer speaking to Rachel.
Has told the nieces and nephewswhat their mother is trying to
do.
Harry says he'll never haveanything to do with her again,
and she can fry in hell forthis.
(30:58):
I'll take that as permission togo scorched earth nuclear on her
after the court case has beensettled.
I guess in the meantime I'llmove in the shadows.
I did send her a message.
Rachel, you seem to haveforgotten.
Harry has another family member,his best friend of 40 years.
While you're trying to takeeverything from him, I will give
everything I have to protecthim.
(31:19):
I stole my disabled brother'sinheritance because he's gay and
has an Asian boyfriend.
May get you a cheer at aconvention, but you can imagine
how that sentence would sound inour world.
Imagine how 200 people wouldhave reacted if you got up with
a microphone and announced thatat your 60th birthday party that
(31:39):
I attended.
Go down this road and you'lllose your brother forever and
discuss everyone in your entireextended family, especially your
own children.
To get to him, you'll have to gothrough me and my law firm
regards, Harry's Pet Rott,Waller, and Cherry.
Why has he got'em all?
Have matching names?
I don't know, but I am with thisdude.
(32:00):
10000%.
He is so ready to burn the earthdown.
Good.
Yeah.
See, I'm your, that, I'm thatfriend for you.
Yeah.
I'm glad I need friends likethat because sometimes I don't
realize it's okay if I burn theearth down and I need people to
tell me, He needs to go nuclear.
I'm with him.
Yeah.
Burn it down.
Yeah, send it out on phone.
I want her exposed, he needs togo to like every Tree Hugger
(32:24):
podcast and every tree huggerblog and be, and put this out.
Yeah.
Expose her.
'cause that is not peace, love,and happiness.
No, it's not.
It's not at all.
And I don't believe at megaevents that would go over well
either, Mr.
I hope not.
Update number two.
This was posted on November 6th,so this was just two days after
the last update.
(32:44):
Yeah.
Ha.
I sent that message to Rachelprivately with just availed
threat to go public if you kept,if she kept pursuing this course
of action.
The thing with entitled peoplethough, is that sometimes
they're so delusional, theybelieve.
They are the victims.
She has now forwarded themessage.
I sent her some to some of ourmutual acquaintances, including
(33:06):
her own children, to show what aBI am.
Wait, I point out what ahomophobic, racist sister you
are, but you're telling peoplethat I'm the nasty one.
So now those people aremessaging me to confirm that the
letter I sent was real, and thatthe situation is exactly as I
made it out to be.
I'm simply responding.
Yes, it's all true.
(33:26):
Desperately restraining myselffrom elaborating further as I
don't want to complicate thesituation or encourage more
people to get involved so muchfor me ruining her life.
She seems fairly intent on doingit to herself.
Yeah.
Okay.
Those are the updates that wehave we'll share from for this
week.
For next week.
Mm-hmm.
I don't think he's the, a-holeshe is.
(33:48):
Yeah.
I don't think he's even gonnaneed to put anything post
anything though.
I think just taking all of herresources and she's adding
herself.
Yeah.
I'm proud of him for standing upfor his.
Why does money, likeinheritance, make people inherit
and, and people, yeah.
I don't know.
People go batty.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And why is she would like havethe audacity, both of the
(34:09):
sisters at first mm-hmm.
Have the audacity to think thatthat's okay for them to
determine, do you know?
I hate it.
I don't have kids or I do havekids, so I should get, you know,
like when there's a vacation atwork, if you tell me only one of
us can take it off, and, and ifyou say, I don't have kids and I
(34:30):
know you wanna be with yourkids, you go ahead, then that's
one thing.
But to say I deserve it becauseI have kids rubs me so the wrong
way.
Mm-hmm.
We both do the same job with thesame thing.
I mean.
If you offer it up for thatreason, then that's, you know, I
appreciate that, but I'm notentitled to it because I do have
(34:51):
kids.
But the audacity I know to go tohis home, I know and gang up on
him, try to bully him and quituhhuh.
Rachel, you suck.
Yeah, for sure.
I don't like Rachel.
I don't like Rachel at all.
I really wanna know who Rachelis.
Not that I know a lot of peoplein those sectors.
circles?
No.
Of the, uh, vector a word.
It's a word, right?
Vector?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I'm not down with that.
(35:11):
No.
Me neither.
Can't wait to see what elsecomes out.
Yeah, don't send me the rest of'em.
I wanna be surprised with allthe other people.
Okay, good.
we'll all be surprised.
Okay.
Yay.
Um, you wanna talk about ourbook?
Okay.
All right.
So bookies, if you are stayingwith us, awesome.
If you are not one of our bookreaders, we love you.
We love you book.
Read a book, have a good, have agood rest of your day, and come
(35:35):
back next week and tell yourfriends.
And we love you.
We love you.
Bye.
Okay.
all right.
so the house across the lake byRiley Sager and I have read
other books by this author.
Mm-hmm.
Wonderful rider.
Yes.
Recently widowed actress CaseyFletcher, who retreats to her
family's remote Vermont Lakehouse to escape scandal and
drink away her grief.
While there, she becomesobsessed with watching her
(35:57):
glamorous new neighbors techmogul Tom Royce and his wife
Katherine through binocularswhen Katherine suddenly
disappears, Casey is convincedfo play is involved, but as she
investigates, shocking secretsemerge and nothing is as it
seems.
Good blurb about the blurb.
Yeah.
So this book was psychological,supernatural drama with lots of
(36:19):
twists.
Yes.
It had kind of like a little bitof everything, word in there.
It did.
so I never was able to get thisbook through Libby or Hoopla,
like it's apparently just onweight, but I had read it
before.
Mm-hmm.
recently, so I remembered itquite well.
But I don't recall knowing thatthere was a lot of spiritual,
supernatural stuff.
(36:40):
Toiled the end.
Yeah.
And that's what it was.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was like the twist, like thelast, because I kept thinking,
how are, could they gonna makethis work?
How are they?
And then all of a sudden, bam.
Yeah.
Oh, and of course spoilers.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
Were you expecting that finaltwist with the husband being the
serial killer?
No.
No.
Were you ghost?
Yeah.
Is that inha bodies?
(37:02):
No, that threw me for a loop.
Right.
I thought it was going to be theex cop.
Yes, I do too.
It was, definitely one of thosethat like I said, how is this
gonna work out?
Where, how are they gonna tieeverything up relatively neatly?
Mm-hmm.
but no, I did not see that with,I, you know, something happened
with I forgot his name with thehusband Uhhuh, but I, I couldn't
(37:23):
quite put my finger up.
On it.
So I was like super judgy atfirst and mm-hmm.
I'm not proud of that, but.
I'm being honest.
Mm-hmm.
And I thought like, girl, yougotta get your stuff together.
Yeah.
You're talking about Casey,right?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
So she's like spying oneverybody and she's getting
drunk, drunk all the time.
Like white girl wasted drunk.
Yes.
(37:44):
Not even like casual, drunk.
It was.
Right.
Pass out drunk.
Yes.
She was like self-medicatingbasically.
Yeah.
And but you don't know that tobegin with, right?
you just think like, okay, herhusband died.
Horrible.
Awful.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
You get a pass for a little bit.
Right.
But like, get your stufftogether.
Right.
And then you find out later atthe very end of the book that
no, she found out her husband'sa serial killer.
(38:06):
Yeah.
And I'll let him die.
Yep.
So.
Then I felt super judgy and bad.
Okay.
It's a fictional ca character,Stephanie.
But no, I felt like, okay, ms.
Mc Judgy Rson, was not a proudmoment for myself.
No, it's okay.
I get it though., What did youthink of Tom?
Catherine's husband?
I don't remember much about him.
(38:26):
Catherine made it out.
Like he was just living off ofher.
Oh yeah.
Even though he was a tech guyand like Yeah.
Because all his money is wrappedup in all of these projects.
Yeah.
And he was just spending hermoney left and right.
Mm-hmm.
Freely.
And I was like, well, he's justdraining her.
And then once his thing blowsup, he's gonna leave her with
nothing.
Mm-hmm.
Is I thought that too, how I wasreading it.
(38:47):
I thought that too.
He went over there with like$500bottles of wine and I was like,
I wouldn't even want, and thendidn't they drop one?
Casey did and I was like, ohyeah.
Yeah.
I wouldn't wanna be anywherenear, I wouldn't even wanna
drink$500 wine.
I don't think I could tell thedifference in 500 wine.
I wouldn't, you can't tell thedifference between a$2 bottle of
wine, right?
I'm not a wine connoisseur.
(39:08):
No.
Me neither.
Me neither.
I don't, I.
Swirl.
And smell.
And smell.
Yeah.
Whatever.
I gle.
Yeah.
I turn up, I take that box and Iopen it.
Girl, same.
we're so classy.
Yeah.
We absolutely are.
Lynn was the husband.
(39:28):
Mm-hmm.
That drowned.
Right.
Okay.
Sorry, his name just popped inmy head.
Yeah.
So he was a creep.
Oh, a hundred percent.
And he invaded bodies.
Because the lake wassupernatural, right?
Well, yeah.
Tom gave me the ick.
Mm-hmm.
Was a complete ich.
I, it almost feels like she waswriting this, I think, I think
Rally is a female, but she,whoever the author was writing,
(39:50):
it was like, well, how am Igonna.
Tie this together and wrap itup.
Oh, I got it.
Uhhuh.
Let's just throw a lot up.
But it works.
Yeah, it works.
What would you rate it?
Oh, I would give it, I reallyenjoyed it.
I had nine.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
I was gonna go seven and a half.
Okay.
Yeah.
It seemed like she kind of threwthat in just to wrap it up.
but I still liked it.
I still liked it.
(40:10):
I still, I still enjoyed it.
I would read more by RileySager.
That did seem kind of just like,not even not thrown together,
but just like outta left field,which is good.
I was gonna say made up, but thewhole thing is made up so.
But yes.
Out of left field.
That's a great way to say it.
But I still liked the twists andturns.
(40:31):
Yeah.
And I thought the characterswere interesting and, I never
would have guessed no how it wasgoing.
No.
So that was cool.
Something was a little bit offfor me.
Yeah.
I like it when I don't guess theending, but I want it to be one
of those things where I'm like,oh, I should have seen that.
Yeah, this one, you don't reallydo that because all of a sudden
you die in the lake and youinhibit other spirits and stuff,
(40:53):
but it'll still need enough forme to mm-hmm.
Enjoy it.
So, yeah.
I.
So guys, we had a different bookin the podcast when we recorded,
but as we were reading it, wedid not like it.
And as you know, we always saylife is too short for bad books.
So we have decided to switch itup to if something happens to me
by Alex Finley.
The blurb for this book is forthe past five years, Ryan
(41:17):
Richardson has relived thatterrible night.
The car door ripping open thecrushing blow to his head.
The hands yanking him from thevehicle.
His girlfriend Ali's piercingscream as she was taken and no
trace of Ali or the car.
A cloud of suspicion hangs overRyan but with no proof and a
good lawyer.
He was never charged, thoughthat doesn't matter to the
podcasters and the internettrolls.
(41:37):
Now Ryan has changed his lastname and entered law school.
He's put his past behind himuntil on a summer trip abroad to
Italy with his law schoolclassmates.
Ryan gets a call from hisfather.
Ally's car has finally beenfound submerged in a lake in his
hometown.
Inside are two dead men.
In a cryptic note with fivewords written on an envelope in
(41:58):
Ally's handwriting.
If something happens to me, thenhalfway around the world, the
unthinkable happens.
Ryan sees a man who has hauntedhis dreams since that night as
Ryan races from the rollinghills of Tuscany to a rural
village in the UK to theglittering streets of Paris.
In search of the truth, he hasno idea that his salvation may
lie with a young sheriff deputyin Kansas working her first
(42:20):
case, and a mobster inPhiladelphia who's experienced
tragedy of his own.
All right.
Well I think that wraps up forthe day.
It does.
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