Episode 76 🎪 Parenting, True Crime and Choas: Pool Plunges, Vampire Lore & AITA Couchgate – Mother’s Day Cake & Book Club Confessions - This Is My Circus

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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

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at night, you're in the rightplace.
Buckle up, grab your popcorn,and let's get into the chaos.
I'm Stephanie.
I'm Meredith.
And welcome to, this is mycircus.
So we're zooming today.
Meredith was not feeling wellyesterday, so we postpone
recording.
So we are dropping this late onThursday, but we got it done.
Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry toeverybody.
Life happens.

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promise you would not havewanted me, um, to have been
recording yesterday.
It was no bueno.
So sorry.
Life happens.
It's a circus and here we are.
Well, you know, it's, I thinkthat people don't expect
anything but craziness when arenot recording.
True.
Yeah.
They don't like expectperfection, that's for sure.

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Right?
That's not what they're herefor.
No, they're here for all themishaps.
Yeah.
Our podcast is a outtake, youknow.
Oh, speaking of outtakes.
Is your phone good now?
Yeah.
I dropped it in the pool while Iwas cleaning it, and I had to do
the polar plunge to it.

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Oh, no.
I would've donated stuff.
I would've donated some fundsfor that, for the plunge.
It was so cold, and I had onsweatpants and a hoodie So it
went in and I went like right inafter it.
Yeah.
So I went into the pool insweatpants and a hoodie and it
was not good.
Oh, so there was no standingthere?
Like, do I fish it out with anet?

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It was just immediate.
No, there was a, there was aswear word and then there was a
splash.
Well, did you get the poolfinished cleaning out?
Not yet.
I asked Dylan to, work onscrubbing it the walls and, um,
and typical teenage fashion.
What I asked him to do is onthe, the, the bottom of his

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list.
I think they're all just inmoods right now.
I don't know if it's there.
So it's like the almost summervibe.
They're over school.
They're kind of like, Jackson'ssuper busy right now, busier
than normal and just has noenergy to gimme any kind of
conversation or barelycommunicating.
And I was talking to a friendand her daughter's the same way

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right now, which girls I knoware a whole other thing.
I texted him today.
I'm like, if you don't starthandling your stuff, like you
are gonna be grounded.
And every time I have to tellyou to do something again, it
will be another week because Iam so sick of repeating myself.
I don't think that child hasbeen grounded more than a half
of a day his entire life.
Like.
Ever.
Gretchen's the same.

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He's not really been grounded.
I mean yeah.
More than I know.
Or it's the whole thing of, Iknow you've seen the memes or
the little videos on socialswhere it's like, why do I have
to lose my shit in order to getany kind response?
And, and then like, why are youyelling hundred percent?
Like why, why are you goingcrazy?

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You know, Brian's go-to when,when that start happening,
starts happening and I is tofold towels.
Like, because there's like anever ending laundry basket of
clean towels around here that isjust like on the.
Bottom of to-do.
Mm-hmm.
Like they're clean.
They're just not folded and putaway, which that's, that's okay.
But I'm gonna put all the otherclothes away first that might

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get, you know, that need to beput away.
Mm-hmm.
So his go-to when I start losingmy shit is like, where's the
towels?
The towels?
We fold them.
Well he is very self-sufficient.
He does his own laundry.
Yeah.
But like, he asked to use theair fryer the other day, so he
pulls out the air fryer'cause hewas making chicken fingers or
whatever.
I'm like, yeah, just make sureyou wash it and put it away,

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like wash it, dry it mm-hmm.
Away on the counter for twodays.
And every day I am like Dylan.
Go wash the air fire before youleave.
Oh, I'll, oh, I, I gotta go pickup with you.
I'll, I I'll do it when I getback.
Mm-hmm.
Still sitting there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I get it.
And Jackson does that similarly,and I can't remember what it
was, but same thing.
I had been asking him to dosomething over and over again

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from days in a row.
That was not a huge thing, butit was just something he had
done that I needed him.
And I was like, for every dayyou don't put it back.
You've gotta give me like 50bucks.
'cause you know, they, theyhoard their money in their cash
app or whatever because theywanna spend our money.
So he was like, seriously?
And I was like, yeah.
So the next day I was like, didyou do whatever?
And he was like, no.
I was like, send me my money.

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And he was like, are you'reserious?
And I was like, yeah.
I said, if you do it today, I'llpay you back 25.
Like I'll give you some back,but you owe mean 50 for
yesterday and 50 for today.
And I, you know, so that helped.
Yeah.
But it's just, I know.
It's like such small little easythings.
I'm like, just do it.
Right, right.

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Yeah.
But you know, like he calls meand mom, can I borrow or can you
spot me a and he expects me todrop everything I'm doing and
I'm like, that's not gonnahappen anymore.
Like, you don't get my Dropeverything.
Yeah.
For, for little things that youwant and not be able to do a
simple chore.
Right.
Well, especially when we aregoing in a thousand different
directions with all things,multiple jobs, multiple roles,

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multiple things we're juggling.
It's just they, and especiallywith them being older, it's not
like they're six and they can'tdo it.
Yeah, maybe that's the problem.
Maybe I should have startedJackson doing some of his stuff
when he was six.
Same, same.
Like I'm realizing the era of myways.
Right.
So all you new moms out there,don't be like us.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, he started doinghis own laundry at like nine or

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10.
He, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, he, he was doing things.
It's just like he wants to dowhat he wants to do when he
wants to do it, and Yeah.
Which is typical, but I'm like,dude, just do it.
Yeah.
He gonna be, like as soon as heis old enough to move out, do
you think he'll wanna move outand get his own place?
I, I don't know.

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He doesn't wanna go to like afour year school.
He is just gonna go, um, formm-hmm.
A trade.
he doesn't have to, but youknow, I'm sure, yeah.
He'd rather.
Yeah, well, you know, Jackson'splan is to go to college on a
sports scholarship.
He has no desire to do college,but he wants to continue playing
sports.
And I'm like, how is this dudegonna live?

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I mean, and again, he knows howto do, he knows how to do his
laundry.
He knows how to do the things.
It's just he doesn't actuallydoing it.
Yeah.
And I can only let it go so far.
I know.
Before I have to jump in.
Well, and the other thing is Ifeel guilty'cause he is so busy
right now that I'm like, yeah,I'm with you.

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So I'm with you.
I hear you.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's talk about something fun.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Enough complaining.
Enough complaining.
Yep.
So I still take him to school'cause he has done driver's ed,
but he is not done his drivingtime yet, so he can't get his
license yet.

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So.
I was taking him to school andthe whole way to school, I had
this whole conversation with himabout something I needed to get
from the Dollar Tree.
And I was like, I need to justrun and get, get that there.
I need to go get that.
We're gonna do this, this da dada.
Like the whole right there.
By the time I dropped him offand turned around and two
minutes later passed the DollarTree.

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Mm-hmm.
I had totally forgotten what Iwas supposed to get I ended up
emailing him because you know,they can't have their phones at
school.
Yeah.
But, you know, sometimes I sendhim a little email and I was
like, do you remember what I wassupposed to get from the Dollar
Store?
He was like, I have zero ideawhat you were supposed to get.
And I was like, okay, thanks forthe help.
So I know, I know.

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So I'm looking into somesupplements right now for
memory.
I'll let you know how that goes.
I, I've given up on that whole.
Have you?
Yeah.
Not given up on my face serum.
I need to order some more.
I just got that.
And did you see that they, thatsame company came out with a

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super like absorbing thing thatyou put on before you put that
on?
No.
So I This stuff up though.
Mine, mine does too.
But that stuff is amazing.
I'll put it on right now.
Yeah.
Am I beautiful yet?
You are always beautiful.
Oh, do I look 16?
In the Zoom.
You do.

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It feels so good.
Like my skin is just like,Ah-huh.
No, I did not see that they hadit.
Did you get the new one?
I did product.
Did it come in?
I did.
I just got it like a day or twoago, but it was bundle.
Mm-hmm.
I love a good bundle.
I know Well, is this itty bittylittle spatula.

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Oh.
It's got like these like bubblythings in it.
Oh, are they like things thatyou pop and get the serum or
something out of'em?
I don't really know.
I didn't read the directionsyet.
Good to know.
Good to know.
We're always searching for thefountain of youth, aren't we?
We are.
Rather than actually eatinghealthy or like doing

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nutritious.
You eat healthy.
Well, I don't eat so well.
There you go.
I told Dylan I crave sugar somuch.
And so because I'm not likeeating, but like I'm grazing all
day and then a lot of it islike.
Sour patch kids or chocolate.
I crave sugar so much.

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Yeah.
And I probably just need to goon a sugar detox.
And so that, that soundsterrible, but it sounds like it
would be so good for our bodies.
Sure.
It would.
I would be miserable.
And I told Dylan, I'm like, youknow, I don't, I don't really
drink.
I don't like smoke marijuana.
I don't like, I don't doanything.

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I I can't eat pizza.
I can't eat like dough.
I can't eat bread.
Yeah.
I'm like, I'm not giving upsugar.
Yeah.
So you cur you're craving likethe sweet sugar, not like, like
breads and stuff.
'cause you know, you can't haveit.
I don't want like, gimme alllike the gummy stuff.
Yeah.
Like gummy bears, Swedish fish,sour patch kids.

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So on that note, and on our noteof ranting about our, fantastic
children, um, mother's Day'sthis weekend.
Mm-hmm.
I told Brian and Jackson, wedon't, I mean, Brian usually
brings me flowers or they'll getme a card like I don't expect
and nor do I want any, you know,like major.
But I was like, this year I knowwhat I want.

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And they were like, okay.
And I was like, I want achocolate cake with white icing.
They were like, okay.
And I was like, I seriously,that's, that's what I want.
I want my own chocolate cakewith white icing.
No need for a plate.
Just give me a fork.
So Brian was, uh, I saw him on,I was like, what are you doing?

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He was like, I'm ordering yourcake.
This was yesterday.
I was like, what's size cake?
Because you know, he's not everrun to have ordered a cake
before.
I don't think like.
Not really sure how this isgonna go.
Mm-hmm.
I was like, what size cake didyou get?
Like, I could see him gettinglike a whole sheet cake.
I'm not talking about that.
I just want even like an eighthof a, you know, just like, so I

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can have like a piece a day overthe weekend.
I'm fine.
I was able to eat cake.
My favorite cake was the Publix,triple chocolate, whatever, like
the little like uhhuh, tiny cakeuhhuh.
But it is so freaking good.
I love chocolate cake witheither a chocolate icing or like
a buttercream.
I'm not a fan of the whippedicing.

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Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And the past, like two times,well this has been several,
several months ago, but I hadbought cupcakes and they were
marked as not whipped, icing,whatever the other kind was.
And I was like, they look likethey're whipped, but I'm gonna
go with it here.
Got it.
Home.
They're whipped.
None of us ate'em.
I don't want anything to do withthat stuff.
Yeah.

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But yeah.
A oh, chocolate cake with whiteicing.
When we were in Tennessee, wewould go watch because it was
like before satellite TV orstreaming or anything.
We would go to Buffalo WildWings to watch football on
Sundays and uh,'cause wecouldn't get the Eagles game on
like the regular tv.
So we would go there on Sundaysand we would usually have the

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same waitress.
And she was awesome, fantasticwaitress.
Every week I would get a pieceof chocolate cake and ice cream.
I love it.
Vanilla ice cream.
And she would give me thebiggest pieces of cake, but it
was like chocolate cake withchocolate icing, and then
chocolate chips.
And it would come out warm andthen like the.

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Big scoop of ice cream on it.
Oh, so good.
Oh my gosh.
That sounds delicious.
Does Dylan like sweet stuff likeyou do?
He does, yeah.
So does Jackson.
So when we had gone to get icecream at the beach when we were
there last year, we walkedacross the street, little ice
cream place.
I figured he would getchocolate.
He's a chocolate kid.
Mm-hmm.
Doesn't fall from the tree.

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He got, I'm trying to rememberwhat exactly it was.
I wanna say it was a chocolatecone.
Chocolate ice cream.
Chocolate sprinkles.
And I wanna say it might havebeen like dipped in chocolate.
Like it was everything chocolatethat they had.
Yeah.
Sign me up.
Right.
Do you like sprinkles?
They're okay do you call'emSprinkles?
They were, Jimmy's isn'tJimmy's.

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Oh, I'm sure they are.
But I, we, I've always called'emSprinkles.
Well, I remember, somebody thatI used to know from
Pennsylvania.
called'em Jimmy's, I wanna sayit's Pennsylvania maybe or
somewhere else.
But I was like, what's a Jimmy?
Why's Jimmy can class Jimmy onyour ice cream?
But yeah, that some places call'em Jimmy's.
They're sprinkles to me.
I'm glad to hear that you callthem the same.

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I was like, am I calling it thewrong thing?
You know how you startquestioning yourself?
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
A hundred percent ice creamglitter.
I like that.
Ice cream accessories.
Yes.
So we had talked a little bitabout, I.
Orleans last week.
Yes.
And we had gone in hard duringHalloween, like the month of

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Halloween about vampires.
Yep.
And I was scrolling of course,and saw that there are like
lores in the Appalachian, MountAppalachia, how do you say it,
Appalachian?
Yeah, sure.
I think in those mountainsbecause I guess people from

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Romania, settled there like inthe mountains and stuff.
And so they say that vampiresstarted in the mountains and not
in New Orleans.
Really?
I have never heard this I havegrown up going to the
Appalachian Mountains, um, whichis for people not familiar, like

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Boone blowing rock.
Um.
That stretch.
I can't, I'm drawing a blank onthe other things, but it's like
North Carolina, TennesseeMountains or the Appalachian
Mountains.
Mm-hmm.
Now I know there's a lot of,what do you need to do an after
dark on this?
Yes.
Um, because there's all kinds ofcraziness with a lot of the

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mountain people.
And I feel like I can say thatbecause I'm kind of a mountain
people.
Well, I was just fascinated.
I was, I had never heard of itbefore.
The guy had like three differentstories of Wow.
Like real people, accounts ofwhat had happened there.
Did they, do you remember what,like towns or, it probably

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wasn't even near town.
It was just down the hills.
It didn't say a town.
It was just, saying everybodythinks that this started in New
Orleans.
That really, it started herewhen the Romanians settled here.
That is crazy pants and I'm herefor it.
Me too.
That sounds fascinating.
I'll send you the link to thatguy'cause he's got all sorts of
really cool stories like yeah,please do.

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Because that sounds utterlyfascinating.
Yeah.
I'm trying to think what I'vebeen seeing a lot lately.
Oh, well, here's what I've beenseeing a lot lately, because I
guess my algorithms know that Ilike alligators.
I'm seeing all kinds ofalligator stuff all over.
Good stuff or bad stuff.
Just entertaining stuff.
So one it was actually more thanalligators.

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It was like all Florida stuff,but it was like this, somebody
being at I assume was like arental home in Florida and you
know how the pools there haveall the gate or fence meshed?
I don't know what it is, butthey're all protected.
Yeah.
And the person is like filmingthe pool area and they're like,
why do you guys have this aroundyour pool area in Florida?

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Every single house.
And then it does clips to likealligators being in the pool or
bears drinking out of it, orsnakes swimming in it.
Like all the things that youcould possibly imagine going on
in the pool.
Yeah.
So I saw that.
I see a lot of, like themfeeding gators like in, the
wild, like throwing a chicken to'em and stuff.

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I don't know.
My algorithms all jacked up.
It's between that and likeskincare and a couple of
recipes.
But I went down this rabbit holethis morning I think it was this
morning on Mama drama, one ofour favorites.
This dude was 18 years old, andhe was in from Sumter, South
Carolina.
And he was missing, well,they're like, you know, check
the comments.
So I go find the original post.

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Look at the comments.
They were looking for him for, Iwanna say, domestic violence
against his girlfriend who waspregnant.
He was having mental issues, butthe, the thing that made it so
entertaining was his mom andsister were on the thread.
Mm-hmm.
Like, yeah.
And, their spelling was notgreat.
I know we're all surprised atthat, but their, comments, their

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use of there and there, like letme criticize them for things
that, you know, for that kind ofthing.
But it was the mom and thesister going in hard on, on
this, you know, and then theother family started going in
and then somebody else saidsomething about what he was like
in school.
So it was just like small townstuff that I was wasting my time
on.

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Best kind of drama.
I know anything that doesn'tinvolve me, but I want all the
deeds.
Well, you know Nick Cannon,right?
The Yeah.
Yeah.
On a be drum actor.
I like to think of'em asdrumline.
Yeah.
That drumline.
Yeah.
Or wild and out on MTV.
Yeah.
So his baby mama just said thathe got, you know, he's got like

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a billion kids, like the man hasin children, like scattered
everywhere.
So one of his baby mamas justleaked that he got his testicles
insured for$10 million.
Like he doesn't need to getthose insured, he needs to get
those snipped.
The world does not need anymoreCannon babies.
No.
Is he the father of MariahCarey's kids?

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I believe so.
I'm looking it up.
he just needs to get that takencare of and be done.
Like Yeah.
He has 12 children.
Yes.
12.
And you, after you have acertain amount of children, you
don't have to pay child support.
Yeah.
It like caps out at like eightor something.
Yeah.
Uhhuh.
So, yeah, I, well, I don't evenknow what he's doing these days

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while and out.
Okay, so I'm gonna read you hisstats on his babies.
So he's got twins with his exMariah Carey.
He has three children withanother lady named Brittany
Bell.
And with Abby Delarosa.
He has another set of twins anda daughter named Beautiful.
And then he has children with alady named Brie, lady named Isha

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Alyssa.
And then one that had passedaway from the brain tumor.
I remember that.
Mm-hmm.
He's got so many baby mamas.
Yeah.
Nope.
Mm-hmm..
Speaking of wanting all the tea,the Diddy trials started, or the
jury selection started.
So there's people, going everyday to sit in court and watch
it.
And you're not allowed to havecameras in there, you're not

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allowed to have any phones inthere or anything.
They're confiscating everythingbefore you go in.
Okay.
So they're just, and thenreporting on it.
Okay.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
But I am hoping that they streamthe hearing like they did the
Johnny Depp hearing.
'cause I was, I think we wouldhave to, unless they don't, to
try to protect any minors,innocent, whatever, but, well, I

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think it's gonna be so graphicthat I don't know if it's Yeah.
Gonna be okay to stream.
Yeah.
But they have started, um,naming names, not necessarily
that they were doing anythingwrong, but that they'll be
involved in the trial.
Uh, and one of them was the dudethat played Austin Powers,

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michael Myers, Mike, and thenMichael B.
Jordan.
But he was, because he datedCassie after Diddy.
Okay.
And I think Diddy may have,threatened him.
Mm-hmm.
I feel like I've heard thatbefore, where this has happened
in Manhattan, right?
I think so.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think so too, I sawthough with that, I mean, jury

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selection has got to be crazy,right?
Like, oh, I mean, how do youpick people that haven't been
tainted?
Yeah, one of the people on thatwas reporting on this said that
the, and I don't see how thiscan even be legal, that the, the
pro or not the prosecution, thedefense team had sent a like 70
some odd question questionnaireto the jury.

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Pool.
Pool.
I wouldn't fill it out.
It had such like invasivequestions Oh, really?
Of like, have you ever, have youever been a swinger?
Have you, I mean like, justlike, like very, very, like,
have you ever had a, same sexinteraction of in, in the
interview?

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Oh, really?
Yeah.
Like such invasive questions.
Oh, there is no way I would fillthat out for the, for them to
have on record.
Right.
No, I wonder, I mean, I guess.
I don't know, but it don't to belegal.
Like you have your questionsthat they do when you're in the,

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in the courtroom of like, do youhave any family that are police
officers and Right.
Would that, you know, hinderyour being able to be,
impartial?
Right.
Like those questions Yes, I getit.
Don't they also do the, or is itjust like a rumor that they do
the, how do you feel about thedeath penalty or whatever?
I don't know.
They should ask that one.
I was on the jury.

(22:31):
Yeah.
They just ask like, do you haveany, but I, I'm sure it goes
like case by case too.
Depends on what might be on thetable.
Yeah.
Because they had asked, had any,Essay done to them.
And would that hinder you beingable to be impartial?
Yeah.
For the Diddy trial, that waslike in the courtroom.
But this wasn't in thecourtroom.
Like this was like sent to thejury pool to be filled out.

(22:51):
No, I'm not.
No.
There's, I'm not on trial.
No, you don't need to know allof this about me.
Mm-hmm.
But then I'm going back to you.
So what do you, what do you wantto be on this jury?
The Diddy jury?
Mm-hmm.
I don't need to, I can tell youwhat I'm gonna say anyway.
No, I'm just kidding.
I don't, I don't know.
I don't know.
I, I think it's just gonna beso, disturbing.

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I don't know.
So I don't, I they're trying toget it so that the jury
sequestered.
So that means you don't see yourfamily until this jury No, this
case is done.
That could be a year.
Yeah.
I mean, like, the amount ofpeople that they're gonna be
bringing in this thing can go onforever.
Well, and I hate when they dothat because who el They did
this with somebody else.
It might have been oj.
And they sequestered the jury,and then it was so long and they

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were locked with whatever, theycouldn't, their locked jury that
they were just like, whatever.
Let's just say whatever.
So we can get outta here kind ofthing.
Yeah.
And no, no.
Good.
No good.
So I, the nosy part of me islike, it'd be kind of you get
all the details, firsthand,right?
Yeah, yeah.
But then the same part of me islike, he's gonna see

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everybody's, he's alreadythreatening people, like from
jail, is he?
And.
I value my life.
I value my family's life there'sno way that I would want to be
any, I wouldn't wanna, Iwouldn't even wanna be in the
jury selection pool.
Yeah.
He's got too many people.
He's got too much money, and heis got too many people in high
places that are willing to dowhatever.

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I agree with you.
I don't think, no.
Mm-hmm.
No, there's no way I would, Iwould.
Mm-hmm.
Now, I think it would've beenfun to been on, on the, um,
Johnny Depp one.
Amber heard That would've beendifferent.
That was a little more, notlighthearted, but not involving.

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It was so funny.
Yeah.
I don't feel like that's, that'sgonna be the vibe of this.
Oh, it's not.
They are saying that the judgeslike cracking jokes and
lighthearted during the juryselection.
Oh, really?
Really?
Why don't they block out thejury?
Well, I think it should be likethe one way mirror.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm sure attorneys couldstill get access to the list of

(25:05):
names and there's ways aroundit.
If you have enough money,they'll find out.
Yeah.
But for the average trial, likeI still think that that's what
it should be.
Right.
Agreed.
They should do something toprotect, I don't know.
What do we know, right?
Nothing.
And then I just saw DannyMasterson, who's from the

(25:26):
seventies show, who's Yeah.
Serving like 30 years in prisonright now for, saying, is he,
yeah.
Oh.
Mm-hmm.
For, I did not know that.
This is what it was being said.
I don't know if it's legit ornot, but it said that, um, he's
serving right now, 30 years inprison, but wanted to see if he

(25:49):
can get a deal because he hasvideo evidence of Ashton
Kutcher, NP Diddy, that he iswilling to supply to the
prosecution if he gets a lessersentence.
What, and Danny Masterson is whoAshton Kutcher called that night
when that chick got Uhhuh.

(26:10):
And his girlfriend at the time,Danny Masterson's girlfriend at
the time, said to Ashton Kutcheron the stand.
Something to the effect of, andI know who you called and what
was said that night.
So I don't know.
Well, you know, Mila Kuni liedabout her age to be on that 70

(26:31):
show.
Mm-hmm.
She was only like 14.
Yep.
And I can't remember how oldAshton Kucher was at that time,
but he was older.
Like 19, 20, 21 something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
that was always gross to me.
Especially had him together andthat was like her first kiss
ever.

(26:51):
Um, yeah.
Super gross.
Mm-hmm.
Super gross.
Are they, are they still marriednow?
Do you know?
I think she filed for divorceonce all this p Diddy stuff
started.
Oh, did she?
Or she filed for separation orsomething?
She was trying to distanceherself from it.
One thing I did like, well Idon't really know much about her
other, she is from Ukraine.
Mm-hmm.

(27:11):
And, did you ever see thatinterview where, I think it was
her and just in Timberlake werein the interview and one of the
reporters or whatever was likemocking him and, saying stuff
about, like, why don't you stickto music?
Why are you trying to act?
And she went off on them inRussian.
Did you ever see that video?
It was pretty cool.
Like, she had his back.

(27:32):
She was like, why don't youstick to whatever you do?
So that was pretty cool.
I always liked her.
I think she's like a greatactress.
I think she's beautiful.
I do think she is pretty, butyeah.
Huh.
Kind of switching a little bitof gears I'd right before I got
on, I saw this article and it,did you hear, it was like two
weeks ago, I guess now.

(27:53):
In Alabama there was a4-year-old that was at school,
like pre-K or whatever.
You know how at our schools theygo for pre-K at the regular
elementary.
Yeah.
Um, so it was similar to that, Iguess.
And the mom goes and picks upthe kid and the kids in the
nurse's office.
They had called her like twominutes before dismissal and the

(28:13):
kid was unresponsive or wouldn'twake up from the nap.
Instead of calling 9 1 1 or youknow, calling some kind of
doctor emergency services.
Right.
Whatever.
They took him to the nurse'soffice and kid was like passed
out so mom and dad are like,what the heck?
Rushed the kid to the hospital.

(28:34):
He's in again, four years old inICU for two days for his blood
alcohol level being a 0.29 atfour years old.
What did he get?
They don't know.
Like the, the school doesn'tknow what he got into or like
how it was there if it wasalcohol or if it was like, hand

(28:56):
sanitizer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They don't know.
But you know how much you wouldhave to ingest?
I have no idea.
But at four, I mean, what's heweigh 40 pounds, but hand
sanitizer, like, oh, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah,, the kid's gonna
taste it and be like, well, youknow, like it doesn't taste like
candy.
Yeah.
Something doesn't sound rightthere, does it?

(29:17):
Mm-hmm.
School had no answers.
And he was in icu.
Where, do you remember wherethat was?
In Alabama.
In Alabama, okay.
Yeah.
That is crazy.
Yeah.
Could you imagine?
No, not at all.
So you, they ran all the testsat the hospital trying to figure

(29:38):
out why he was unresponsive andblood alcohol.
That's terrible.
That's like twice the amount foran adult.
Three times almost.
That's terrible.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Hmm.
I saw something.
Speaking of weird, illnesses andailments, have you ever heard of
swimming with the pigs in TheBahamas?

(29:59):
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I would never wanna do it, but,yeah.
Well, I didn't wanna do it.
And then I saw they were littlecute pigs and I was like, okay,
I can do it one day.
So that was kind of like on mineand Jackson's list to do.
Apparently you can get reallysick from doing that.
This, girl did that and the momactually has pictures of her
doing that and holding the pigs.
I mean, they're, they're little,you know, cuddly size.

(30:21):
I know, I know.
But they're small.
They're not like big hogs.
So she's like sitting, sittingon the beach, holding them,
playing with them and all of asudden, a little bit, uh, after
they went, like days she startedhaving symptoms and they could
not get to the bottom of it atthe hospital on what was going
on with like spinal taps, allkinds of things.

(30:43):
Come to find out these pigs hadgiven her something.
I don't know what it is, butthey had made her really, really
sick.
So don't think we'll be doingthat anymore.
Yeah.
Or take out the list.
I just thought like.
I don't know.
I saw videos and stuff of it,and there was just all sorts of,
feces Yeah, exactly.

(31:04):
And stuff in the water.
And I was like, that justdoesn't look like a good time to
me.
I'm, yeah.
Yeah.
And that might have been morewhat?
Like, I don't know if you reallydo swim with them, like, I don't
know if you get in the ocean.
Yeah, you do?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
I mean, I, I know swimming, butlike I'm with you.
Like, I would see that and belike, no, thanks, I'm good.
I'll sit on the beach and pet'em.

(31:25):
But yeah, that's gotta be reallydisgusting.
No, thank you.
I'm good.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So, uh, there's a lot of dumbthings I'll do, but especially
if an animals involved, that isnot one of them.
Yeah.
We won't be doing that one.
Did I talk about that show?

(31:46):
The, good American family lastweek.
I feel like you did, somebodydid gimme a synopsis, and I'll
tell you, it's about a girl thatgets adopted from, Romania, I
think.
And the family thinks that she'slying and, and she's actually an
adult because she has dwarfism.
Oh yeah.
I, yeah, you did.
And I'm looking it up right now.

(32:06):
I you, I think you mentioned it.
Did you watch it all?
I did.
It's two seasons.
I watched the whole thing and,but I didn't realize it was
based off of a true story.
Shut up.
Yeah, I know.
I've seen that online order.
I'm like, oh my gosh.
Because all the stuff thathappened in the second season,
and I was like, and it was allbased off of a true story.
Crazy.

(32:26):
And so a girl on TikTok, Who isaround the same age said that
they're, she was from the sameorphanage as, the girl in the,
in the show.
Mm-hmm.
Natalia, I think, or NataliaGrace, I think is her name.
Okay.
And they were told that they,they thought she was like sold
off her body parts like organs.

(32:48):
Was she, disabled in any way?
She had a walker, but it, it wasbecause of her dwarfism and,
Okay.
The family didn't get her thesurgeries and stuff that she was
supposed to have.
In the show it, it says that theadoption agency told them she
had these surgeries prior to herbeing adopted.
Mm-hmm.

(33:09):
And then as the show develops,like there's no records of any
of these surgeries and Yeah.
Whatever.
So she had a lot of issues, um,as far as like her feet and her
legs mm-hmm.
As she got older.
But, like mentally she was allthere and Wow.
I'll just added that one to mylist and I told you about the
other one.
My sister was telling me aboutRansom Canyon.

(33:32):
Mm-hmm.
I need that one's on my listtoo, but I'm still digging
Gossip Girl right now.
Mm-hmm.
Or do you really identify withBlair more than Serena?
Yeah.
I like, I like Blair better thanSerena.
I get, I get it.
Okay.
So it's not that identify, takethat, take that out.
I was more of a Blair fan than aSerena fan fan.

(33:53):
It's pretty good though inseason, towards the end of
season two.
So it's, it's twisted enoughthat I mm-hmm.
cool.
Oh, you are like a history buffword.
Yeah.
Me, not so much, but this, I getthese weird emails every day and
it has like these weird factsand I don't know how I got
signed up to it, but I'm like,oh, well this here's my weird

(34:15):
fact for the day.
Did you know?
And I was like, oh my gosh,Meredith is gonna love this, so
give it to me.
The Eiffel Tower mm-hmm.
Was sold twice, like in a fakesale, twice by the same guy.
How and what I, Victor Lustig, Idon't know if that's how you say
his last name, but sold theEiffel Tower.

(34:37):
Not once, but twice.
In 1925, the well-establishedconman moved to Paris in the
summer and set his sights onfooling top French scrap metal
companies out of their money inan elaborate ruse, first he had
stationary made up for himself,adorned with the official seal
of the French government, makinghim appear as though he had held

(34:58):
an official government job.
On the stationary, he craftedletters to several large names
in the French scrap metalindustry, inviting them to a
meeting with him at the hotelday.
To discuss, I can't speakFrench, to, to discuss the
future Me, we, we, To discussthe future of the iconic French

(35:24):
landmark.
At the meeting, he reportedlytold them, because of the
engineering faults, costlyrepairs and political problems
that he couldn't discuss, theywere tearing down the Eiffel
Tower.
Because it was now a liability.
The Eiffel Tower, of course, wasnot actually going anywhere.
The meeting attendees were nonethe wiser though, and
competitively bid in an effortto be the one to buy the tower.

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Lustig received his payment andthey in return, received
nothing.
This happened twice.
Oh my gosh.
Lustig continued to con his waythrough the world for 10 more
years, and ultimately was caughtin 1935, sentenced to 20 years
at Alcatraz.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah Lessig Con worked so well,obviously because there was no
like tracking back then either.

(36:08):
But yeah, as he was so hard tocatch, he reportedly had 50
aliases pens of fake passportsand concocted allure so complex
and confusing that the name hewas officially logged under at
Alcatraz, Robert V.
Miller wasn't even his realname.
That is crazy, right?
I I have questions like, why didhe think he was gonna get away

(36:30):
with it?
Did he have any connections to,I mean, I know you don't know
the answers, but he did get awaywith it for 10 years.
Right?
But I mean, but why did he thinkthat?
That nobody was gonna, I mean,it's not like a little thing you
can hide.
Could you imagine though, likethe, so the crew comes to start
like taking down the iPhonetower.
There still people at the top.

(36:51):
Somebody's getting engaged upthere.
He's down on one knee and all ofa sudden some beams are falling.
then I'm like, how much did heget away with it?
Didn't have the amount that hegot away with Yeah.
In the article, but, and thenI'm like, is that what he got
arrested on or was it like hisother cons that he was Yeah.
Trouble around the world doingprobably something stupid and

(37:11):
probably something like taxevasion.
Like, Al Capone, they getarrested for something, but he,
he was like shoplifting Yeah.
Parking tickets that had backedup.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
So that was a good one that Isaw.
I was like, oh, this is fun.
That is fun.
Fun might be the wrong word.
No, I'm just kidding.
That was fun.

(37:31):
Well, do you wanna do I, am Ithe A-hole?
Yeah.
Okay.
Am I the a-hole for leaving theweekend friend trip after being
made to sleep on the couch?
Uh, female 29 and Josie Female30 have been friends since high
school.
We live apart but still keep invery regular contact.
I was invited to stay with herand her husband, Leo Male, 30
for a few days because theirtown was having a huge annual

(37:53):
festival that we were allinterested in attending.
They had asked me to come earlythis year, maybe a month or so
before they'd informed me.
They invited some collegefriends to stay for the weekend
as well.
I was excited for this because Ihave only met their college
friends a handful of times, andI know they're really close.
The plan was for me to stayThursday through Monday.
I should also preface that whenJosie and Leo bought their home,

(38:16):
I stayed with them for a monthwhile I was between jobs.
This was many years ago now, butsince it's been dubbed my room,
it's obviously not actuallymine, but I've stayed in it
every time I visited them sinceI drove four hours to their
place on Thursday when Iarrived.
Their college friends were therealready and I was just shocked
to see it wasn't just them.

(38:36):
Josie and Leo had invited theirfriend, Shane and his fiance,
and their friend Sarah and herhusband.
I've met Shane and Sarah before,but not their partners.
I was immediately irritatedbecause it felt like a couple's
get together already.
I have a partner of nearly threeyears who I live with Oliver,
who Josie and Leo have metseveral times, and he was not
invited on this trip.

(38:57):
I tried to get over theawkwardness and exchange
pleasantries until I went to goupstairs and put my bag away,
and Josie and Leo stopped me andtold me Shane and his fiance
were staying in that room.
I was like, whoops, my bad.
I should not have assumed andasked if I was in the other
smaller guest room.
They said, no.
Sarah and her husband were inthere.
They told me then that theyhoped I was okay with sleeping

(39:17):
on the couch.
I was really trying not to beannoyed or cranky about this,
but I had just driven fivehours.
And was under the impression Iwas getting a bedroom for the
weekend, mostly because we hadthis weekend planned for months
and they had never mentionedotherwise.
I would not have been opposed toa couch sleep for maybe one
night, but there was no way Iwas gonna sleep on the couch for
the entire weekend, especiallysince we'd been drinking and

(39:39):
partying pretty heavily.
I asked them why they didn'ttell me plans had changed so I
could get a hotel sooner, andthey insisted they didn't think
I'd have a problem sleeping onthe couch.
Apparently Sarah and her husbandwere planning on getting a hotel
but waited too long and couldn'tfind an affordable one last
minute.
At this point, I was reallyirritated by both the partner
situation and the sleepingarrangements.

(40:00):
I called Oliver and he was upsetfor me.
We both looked for hotels in thearea, but couldn't find anything
affordable for the entireweekend.
I told Oliver about the couplesand he was annoyed to not be
invited since he likes Josie andLeo a lot.
Finally, after like an hour backand forth, Oliver asked if I
wanted to come home and honestlyI did.
I privately told Josie and Leo.
I was uncomfortable by thesituation.

(40:21):
Almost every wished everyone agood time and drove back home.
I got a call Saturday morningfrom Josie and she was really
disappointed.
I'd acted so rashly and shewished I had stayed.
I told her that I didn'tunderstand why she didn't update
me on the sleeping situation assoon as she knew about it, and
she told me the only reason Iwas booted to the couch was
because Sarah and her husbandboth couldn't fit.
So then I asked why she didn'tinvite Oliver if she invited all

(40:43):
the other people's partners, andshe said Sorry.
They just hadn't thought aboutit.
I told her I was upset and hurtabout the situation.
I didn't regret leaving.
I received another message fromher last night saying everyone
had left and she was reallydisappointed in me that I ruined
her weekend because she wasupset the entire time.
I'm starting to feel bad andalso FOMO from not being there.

(41:04):
Fear missing out, right?
Mm-hmm.
I had really been lookingforward to the festival and
hanging out with everyone.
Anyway, am I the a-hole forleaving there's two edits.
Do you wanna talk about itbefore we get to the edits?
Yeah, I, well, first of all, ifI was drinking, I wouldn't have
cared where I was sleeping.
Like me personally, I'dwhatever, if you are partying

(41:25):
and, and drinking like a couchis totally fine for me, but
whatever.
Yeah.
But I would be mad that mysignificant other wasn't invited
when the other ones were.
And like for it to be sodismissed of like, well, I just
didn't think about it.
Yeah.
I just think about it.
They had her on the couch.
Right.
It's not like it's a new, a newpartner, it's somebody she's
been with for years.
Yeah.

(41:45):
That really likes these people.
But my thing is I can afford myown hotel.
So if I'm gonna go somewhere,I'm not gonna sleep on a floor.
Like, or you know what I, andthat's me.
That's how I, how I feel.
Some people are totally finewith it.
I feel like they've been friendslong enough that they should
each kind of know how they arewith what they'd probably be

(42:05):
okay with and whatnot.
I don't think she's an a-holeeither.
it'd even be different.
I'm not saying it'd be better orworse, but different if she were
single Yeah.
And all the other were couples.
Right.
I don't think she's an a-hole atall.
I don't, yeah, I don't think soeither.
I love that her significantother was very supportive.
And Me too.
Yeah.
Just drop, like, just deal withit for the weekend.

(42:29):
No.
Like, do you wanna come home?
Are you uncomfortable?
Come home.
Yeah.
I like that too.
A lot.
Let's get into the edits.
Edit one.
As I'm reading through thecomments, I'm untangling some of
the feelings I was having.
I'm upset by being assigned tothe couch, especially because it
was last minute and I was nottold beforehand.
An entire weekend of partyingwith an uncomfortable sleeping

(42:51):
arrangement and no privacyreally sounded miserable.
And I agree that's part of ittoo.
You're asleep on the couch.
You never know when people aregonna come in and walk through.
And it's not necessarily theuncomfortable physical part.
It is the lack of privacy andlack of space.
Mm-hmm., An entire weekend ofpartying, no privacy sounded
miserable.
I'm not 22 anymore, she says.

(43:12):
But I do think I'm more upsetabout Oliver's exclusion and
just didn't piece it together.
Really held onto the couch as anexcuse.
It really did feel like it wasmade into a couple's weekend.
And somehow Oliver and I wereexcluded from that.
I hated immediately feeling likethe seventh will.
I get that.
And then this is just a reallyquick edit.
Number two, I did not know Shaneand Sarah's partners were gonna

(43:33):
be there literally until Iwalked in and saw'em.
I a hundred percent feel likeshe was completely in the right
and I met her friend,gaslighting her with all the
text messages saying, you'veruined my weekend is complete.
BS like, yeah, the selfishnessof that.
Forget it.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Forget it.
That was, not okay.

(43:53):
I, so many of these people thatare still friends with their
high school friends that I justfeel bad for because of the
stuff that they have to, they,they, the dynamics are different
now, like, right.
Okay girl, you are not thea-hole though.
Mm-hmm.
No.
Um, Alright, so we are going todo our book review.
Yep.
So if you're not a bookie pieceout, if you have not read, no

(44:16):
one Can Know by Kate AliceMarshall and you want to read it
and you don't want to havespoilers, now is your time to
leave.
Please exit the building and,but we love you and please leave
us a route and tell a millionfriends that you love us and to
listen to us.
Yep.
Okay.
Thank you.
Love you.
Bye.
Love you.
Bye.
Okay.
Alright, so we read No one CanKnow by Kate Alice Marshall.

(44:39):
Mm-hmm.
And my chat GBT says, 14 yearsafter their parents' murder,
Emma Palmer returns to herchildhood home, still co-owned
with her.
Estr sisters desperate andpregnant, forced to confront the
trauma.
She's kept secret as the sistersreunite, long buried tensions

(45:00):
and mysteries resurfaced.
Pushing Emma to question whatreally happened that night.
The deeper she digs, the moredangerous the truth becomes and
the more she wonders what hersisters might do to keep it
hidden.
So I have, I read this likeprobably like two months ago.
And I really liked it.
It kept me interested the wholetime.
Absolutely.
There was like twists keptcoming, one after the other.

(45:21):
I really, really, really likethe book and I've read other
stuff by this author and I likeher other books as well.
I've tried to read other stuffby her since I read this and I
can't get into them.
Oh, really?
Mm-hmm.
But I, wait, what was her name?
Do you have the name?
Kate Alice Marshall.
Yeah.
I tried to read something theother day by her and it just
didn't hit me the same, so I'llneed to try another one.

(45:42):
But I did like this book too.
It was different.
I had a lot of thoughts on howshe make all this work out or
where is this going to, tietogether.
I had no idea who done it.
I remember thinking, what if,what if it was, well we already

(46:03):
said spoilers, so what if it waslike, you know, murder, suicide
or whatever, but how would thathave worked?
Like, I remember thinking that,but then, the way they talked
about it, it just didn't seempossible.
But then like all of the little,like sprinkles of the past,
coming to light.
From everybody and there were somany different possibilities.

(46:25):
Mm-hmm.
That made sense.
Yeah.
That, I mean, from the, from thecop that the mom was having the
affair to, I mean, I just allover the place.
I Right.
I I had no clue.
I was clueless.
Yeah.
And then I thought that Emma'shusband had something to do with
it somehow.
Like I thought, like he wassomehow I did.

(46:45):
I did too.
I, okay.
So I did not like him at all,obviously.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did not like him at all.
Yeah.
And I was like, is he the son ofwhoever killed him?
Like, I was trying to find aconnection in there with how
Yeah.
With you.
Like how is he involved in this?

(47:06):
'cause there's no way she reallylikes this guy.
'cause he's just a jerk.
Yeah.
I was trying to figure out if hewas like friends with this group
that hung out in the littleabandoned clubhouse or whatever
it was.
Yeah.
There.
And she didn't really know, youknow, I, my, my brain went in
like every direction possiblewhen I listen to this book

(47:27):
Uhhuh.
And that doesn't happen veryoften.
Like, I don't get super hookedwhere is this going very often.
Yeah.
But it was just such a differenttake on like a murder mystery.
It was, it was, and I think thiswas probably one of the darkest
books we've read.
I felt like that because therewas so much, trauma and just

(47:50):
like the abuse from the parentsto the girls and they would just
brush it off.
Mm-hmm.
Like, well it's, you know, hedoesn't leave Mark, so it's not
a big deal.
Um.
Um, between that abuse and thenjust other situations I don't
know, I just felt like this wasa very dark book.
Yeah.
But a book I liked now, I reallyliked it though, but I feel like

(48:14):
there's a lot of innuendo withthings.
Like there was a lot she didn'tsay as an author, like, I need
you to come out and tell mewhat's going on.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I appreciate the suspense ofthings.
Mm-hmm.
But then when it's time for meto know, I need you to put it in
black and white.
Yeah.
Or loud audio, like there,because there's some stuff that

(48:36):
I, and I don't even rememberwhat they are at this point, but
I remember thinking, well, isshe like, is she gay?
Mm-hmm.
And yeah, she was, but likethey, it's never like flat out
said.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there was a lot of thingslike that that.
Didn't really affect the storytoo much, but I still wanted to
know.
Mm-hmm.

(48:56):
I loved it.
I love this book.
Yeah, I did too.
It again, because I'm sure Imissed stuff.
Right?
That's what I'm sitting herethinking.
Maybe I, maybe I should do itagain, but I a hundred percent
love this book.
I'd give it a nine-ish, maybeeven a 9.5.
Same.
It was, it was so good.
Easy to follow.
Like I said, there were justsome pieces that I'm like, come

(49:17):
out and tell me what exactlyyou're trying to say.
You wanna little bit more.
Yeah.
I think that's just her style.
It's just to keep you hookedtoo.
Very good, very good book.
Yeah, I, I was all in on it.
Um, yeah, I'm glad we changedbooks.
We moved to that one.
Speaking of changing books, Istarted reading our next week's

(49:38):
book, and I don't, I was, I waslooking at the list and I saw
there were some things blackedout on it, so I didn't like it.
And so I think we can just moveon to, p we'll skip over o okay,
so pretty little wife.
Pretty little wife by Darby Kaedo you have a blurb for it?
I do.
Okay, so Pretty Little Wife byDarby Kae will be for next week.

(49:59):
Leila Ridgefield lives in theidyllic college town, but not
everything is what it seems.
Leila isn't what she seems astudent managed months ago.
Now, Lela's husband Erin, isalso missing.
At first, these cases weretreated as horrible coincidences
until it's discovered that thestudent is really the third of
three unexplained disappearancesover the last few years.

(50:19):
The police are desperate to findthe connection if there even is
one little, do they know that?
They might be stumbling overonly part of the truth.
While the small town is in anupper, everyone is worried about
the whereabouts of their belovedhigh school teacher.
Everyone except for Lela, hiswife, she's definitely confused
about her missing husband, butonly because she was the last

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person to see his body and nowit's gone.
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.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}Episode 76 🎪 Parenting, True Crime and Choas: Pool Plunges, Vampire Lore & AITA Couchgate – Mother’s Day Cake & Book Club Confessions