Hosts: Stefanie Navarro & Meredith Hill
Run Time: 46 Mins
Theme: Domestic Chaos, Sean Diddy Combs Court Case Updates, Puppy Yoga, AITA, Book Club Review!
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In this episode, Stephanie and Meredith dive headfirst into the weekly chaos, starting with bird skeletons in the dryer vent (yes, you read that right), mechanic mishaps, and pool-cleaning shenanigans that involved zip-tying a Magic Eraser to a mop. Just normal stuff over here. 😂
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We dish the latest on the Diddy courtroom drama, from Secret Service Sam’s live updates to 50 Cent's savage AI memes and why “Itty Bitty Diddy” might be the new nickname you never knew you needed. Plus: who got kicked out of the courtroom, why Kid Cudi's car exploded, and what Cassie’s terrifying connection reveals about the bigger case.
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- A heartfelt shoutout to listener Sarah (we see you, girl!)
- Parenting sideline chaos at a basketball tournament
- A possible ancestral connection to a death row inmate (?!)
- Dinosaurs, dragons, and underground reptilians (blame TikTok)
- Puppy yoga and Golden Girl realities
- The book review that fell flat — and what we’re reading next
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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.
I'm Stephanie.
I'm Meredith, and welcome to,this is my circus.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Alexis just texted me a seriesto read, like literally just now
and she was like, I'm on bookfive and these are really good.
It is not kid friendly.
(00:43):
I have actually already readthese and they are not kid
friendly at all.
What is it?
So for anybody who wants tolisten, it's called, black
Dagger Brotherhood Series.
It's thereby JR Ward, the BARD.
It sounds like a motorcycleseries.
No, no, not necessarilymotorcycle, but definitely tough
dude.
Bad guy.
Bad guy, good guy.
(01:03):
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We don't have any problems withthose.
And I can't remember how manybooks are in there, but very
explicit, yes.
But good books.
Spicy.
Oh, very spicy.
Raunchy, chili peppers, spicy.
All the chili peppers, you canimagine all the, and some of
them aren't chili peppers that Ilike.
(01:23):
Mm.
But somebody's gonna like thatkind of pepper.
So let's just stop the pepperanalogy is the, I find myself in
these conversations and I don'tknow when to just stop, so I'm
going to make myself stop there.
What you been doing?
(01:44):
Nothing really.
I dunno.
I'm what I didn't do.
I told you look super tan, butyou're like, no.
I think it's because it's alight colored shirt.
Maybe they do.
They do.
Give a little bit of extracolor.
You look cute.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I'm feeling sun today.
You do?
Look sun today.
Well, you know what it is, is itrained for so many days in a
row.
(02:04):
Yeah.
And it's finally sunny out.
Yeah.
And it was like, yeah.
Yeah.
Agreed.
Agreed.
And it's not humid.
Sunny.
Mm-hmm.
It is nice.
Sunny.
Yeah.
rec this morning, I had on, mypajama pants and a hoodie.
Did you?
So now that Jay's drivinghimself in the morning, thank
God I, was literally still in myPJ's when Brian got, like, I'm
(02:25):
talking no bra, like justchilling.
I was like, yeah, I just, thisis what it was today.
But what's so funny is one of,Emmy, our dog that runs away,
she'll come back, but she justlikes to go see everybody in the
neighborhood.
She left, went to my neighbor'sand my neighbor brought her
over, and I just stood there andtalked to her for like 30
(02:45):
minutes in my bra.
And usually,, that is not me.
But yeah, I was just like, youknow what?
I've lived behind her, besideher this long.
She knows I'm crazy.
This is the one who's, you know,moving.
Mm-hmm.
And told her I needed to putsome Christmas decorations up
and stuff.
Christmas in July.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Did you see I put it on ourFacebook page and I think I
(03:07):
texted you Sarah's.
That was so awesome.
Mm-hmm.
That was so awesome.
So she, is one who, when we'vemissed a week, she's just
commented that she's missed us,you know, recording.
Well, when she sent us apicture.
Of our faces in her car.
That was so surreal.
But it was just really, reallycool.
So thank you Sarah for that.
Yeah.
Thank you for listening.
(03:28):
Yes, Sarah.
And I'm not even gonna try herlast name.
It's a long one.
So I got f finally got new tireson my car.
Okay, good.
I've needed a new tire for thelast year, but I don't ever
drive anywhere.
And I'm like, oh, I, yeah.
Deal with it next week and likenext week became next month, and
then mm-hmm.
All the things happened.
Mm-hmm.
So I had my tire when, I gotback from my trip was completely
(03:50):
flat, like on the ground flat.
Oh no.
I was like, oh my gosh.
So I was trying to fill it up,it wouldn't fill up because it
was so flat.
Oh.
So the dude across the street.
Thank God.
Yeah.
Did like the little jack thingyand then mm-hmm.
He put the air in that way andlittle jack thingy.
Where's such car mechanics overhere?
Are we, I'm so technical.
so as I'm like trying to figureout why the air wouldn't blow up
(04:10):
the tire, I look under, thetires were so bad.
There was like wires stickingout of the tires, like.
I've been there before.
I was like O mg.
Yeah.
So I finally got the new tiresput on, thank goodness.
Good.
But that got me thinking, Idon't think I ever told you this
story yet.
Did I tell you the story aboutthe dryer when it was like not
really drying and uhuh.
(04:32):
Okay.
So.
I come downstairs and there'slike water leaking from the
light, and I'm like, what in theworld?
Mm-hmm.
Like, oh my God, something isleaking.
Mm-hmm.
There's a pipe or something.
So yeah, I'm looking on YouTuberight.
To figure out Right.
What to do.
And so it says if the, there's adryer upstairs, it might be.
Something clogging up like thevent or whatever.
(04:54):
Okay.
Because you know, like all, likethe fluffy stuff, it's Yeah.
Dryer would have that muchmoisture I guess.
I mean Okay.
If, yeah.
I mean, yeah.
So.
Right, right.
Check here.
Okay.
Check your, so I go upstairs, Iunhook like the little duct
thingy.
Yeah.
The silver type thing.
Pipe.
Big old thing.
Yep.
And so I'm looking in there butI can't see anything.
So me.
Being me sticks my hand in thereand I'm pulling out like all the
(05:18):
fluffy stuff, right?
All the lint.
Yep.
Then my hand touches, no, whatwas it?
A dead bird.
I was pulling out all the fluffand I'm like, well, this.
This is different.
And I fluff.
Yeah.
And it pulled it out and, andall the feathers.
Oh, when I tell you I likescreamed, I did like a little
(05:40):
like hippity hop, like you didthe hip.
Oh my gosh, Steph.
That is crazy.
So I'm like totally freaking outat this.
Bird.
Okay.
It was a bigger bird.
Okay.
So then I get like a, like along thingy to stick in there.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
So I'm not touching it.
(06:00):
Right.
Which I probably should havedone in the first place.
And you don't think about ananimal just being out there?
No.
Okay.
And then another one is inthere, and I'm like totally
freaking out, right?
Mm-hmm.
Dylan was at Tyler's house.
I called Dylan crying.
Mm-hmm.
I'm like, and he like, what'swrong?
And I was like, there's deadbirds.
(06:21):
So I look in the back in thedryer, it wasn't in like the
spinning part where you put yourclothes.
Yeah, yeah.
But it was like underneath,there was one stuck in there,
like a dead bird stuck in there.
So there was like a whole familyof birds that got cooked in the
vent.
So I called Dylan, I'm like, Ican't even get in there.
I don't, I like, I was justlike, so, oh yeah, yeah.
(06:42):
I was just totally freaking,well, that's kind of a two
person job anyway, to try tofigure that out.
So I give Dylan the big, rubbergloves, like I don't touch
anything and I give him tongue.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That I threw away after.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we're.
Trying to like get it so that helike in there, he gets the, the
last bird out.
So then we had somebody come toclean the vents because I'm
like, well, this is not okay.
(07:03):
Yeah.
And they found another, nest andthen like another bird that was
in there as well.
Another cooked one.
Uhhuh.
There was a whole city of birds,if the bird population is down,
but the dryer is working muchbetter now.
I'm sure it is like 20 minutesand things are dry just like
that.
(07:23):
Just, okay.
Why would a bird do that?
I don't know.
When my brother had put the ventthingy back on Yeah.
You know, if it goes one way orthe other, like Right.
One direction.
I guess it's supposed to keepthe birds out, right?
Whatever it is.
Well, apparently he didn't putit on the right way.
Well, it was more like anentrance door.
Yeah.
So it was like, welcome.
Or they were in there before andthey've been in there that long.
(07:43):
Yeah.
I don't really know, but Oh, itwas so gross.
It was so disgusting.
Would you have rather it havebeen birds or like squirrels or
something?
I, no, I don't want none of anyof it.
But I was finding feathers forlike, Hmm.
Weeks.
It was so gross.
Mm-hmm.
It was so gross.
I don't, I don't do No, I know,but I feel like that's better
(08:05):
than like finding a mouse orsomething.
Uh, yeah.
I mean, I don't, I'm a few, Idon't want any of it, but, well,
could you imagine if they werealive still, like flew out, like
No.
No, I have a friend who isdeathly afraid of birds.
Mm-hmm.
Like afraid.
That would just be the end all.
She would be laying on theground dead right now, there's
(08:26):
no doubt in my mind.
Well, I had the garbage bag withlike all the stuff in it, and
when Dylan got the last one outof the dryer and he rested me, I
was like.
Just take it right outside.
Just get it outta the house,please.
No, it was so bad.
This was like months ago though.
Like I, I think I said remind meto tell you about the Yeah,
(08:46):
probably.
And with all of the other thingswe have going on, it was so
gross.
I just.
Well, it doesn't matter.
Like, okay, so one goes in thereand he is like, Hey guys, don't
come in here.
I can't come out.
And they're like, no, I'll comehelp you.
Then they all go in there, orthey all brought their little
twigs and stuff to build likethe, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Who knows how long.
We knows.
Nobody left to ask, huh?
Yeah.
So I take our, washer and dryerson the bottom floor.
(09:08):
Mm-hmm.
And I take our leaf blower andblow it out.
Well, this is upstairs.
Yeah.
But I take the lint thing outand put it there and I, clean it
out.
Yeah.
I'm, I've not built for homeprojects like this is, I thought
you did good though, with theYouTube in it and trying to
figure it out.
I can't figure it out theproblem, but I shouldn't be
doing the things.
(09:29):
You shouldn't, you're way toopretty to be doing those things.
Built for the things we had, asituation, this has been years
ago where we were sitting, uh,my family had been over all day
and.
We were sitting in the livingroom, they had gone and you're
kind of like decompressing fromeverybody being over and
everything, and all of a suddenwater starts dripping from our
(09:52):
like a can light.
Mm-hmm.
And Brian and I look at eachother and Brian doesn't handle
stuff like that.
Like his initial responses, whatis going on?
Yeah.
Like he's just, and that's justhow he is wired.
We we're work both working onthings that we have to work on,
but his initial response is tojust kind of freak out about all
kinds of things.
So.
Come to find out, the bathtubupstairs had been used by, I
(10:18):
don't know if Jackson took abath.
I don't know what happened, butit overflowed and when it did,
it came down.
So it was an easy fix, but atthe moment that it happened, it
was like.
And our house wasn't that old.
Yeah.
I was like, oh my God.
What in the world?
We had to get a new roof put on,in our bedroom.
Mm-hmm.
It started raining the one nightand it was one of the bad night
(10:39):
storms.
Yeah.
Middle of the night.
Yeah.
And we just hear like drip.
Strip, and I'm like, what isthat?
Like what is going on?
And it was just a big bubbleformed on the ceiling and it
just started dripping out.
So I'm like, oh my gosh.
So I go into the bathroom and Iput the lights on and in the
shower light.
Like in the standup shower?
(11:00):
Mm-hmm.
Water was dripping out of thelight.
And I'm like, this is not safe.
This isn't good.
This isn't how it all electricand water.
It does not.
Right.
They usually don't mix well.
No.
Yeah.
So I obviously called the nextday Yeah.
And had a somebody come out tolook at it, but, or you know,
roof or whatever.
Yeah.
But we had to get the whole newroof.
'cause all the, I guess we getsuch weird wind, like the
(11:21):
sideways Yeah.
Yeah.
Like when the rain comes.
Sideways rain.
Mm-hmm.
As forest would say.
Um, yeah.
All that stuff.
And this is that time of yearwhere there's, well we're
getting out of it now.
Like the bad rains.
Yeah.
And just the tornado warningsand all that kind of stuff.
We have.
Thank goodness.
Now we'll just get into the 200degrees.
Yeah.
Weather.
I know.
It's, take your poison.
(11:41):
It is.
It is.
Is your poll ready?
Speaking off, can I go to acannonball?
Sure.
Is it cleaned out though?
It's all good.
There's just, I guess fromhowever over the winter, like
the bottom that stained a littlebit.
Yeah.
And so I've been like trying toscrub it and I can't scrub it
and I can't scrub it.
It cleaned, but like there's,I'm just trying to get off the
(12:02):
stains.
Off the Yeah.
The wall.
Yeah.
Are using like a magic eraser.
Yeah.
But it's like underwater.
Mm.
And so it wants to fly.
Are you tall enough to.
No.
Is that the problem I put on myscuba mask?
Can you stand on it?
Do it with your foot?
Well, it's, there's like a deepend too though.
I used Oh, okay.
So I probably, if there was a,somebody taking a video, it
(12:24):
would've been something to see.
I'm sure.
Okay.
I zip tied the Magic Eraser to amop.
I think that's a great idea.
And then I was scrubbing, I gotlike all the walls scrubbed.
Yeah.
But then once it gets to theground or like the bottom?
Yeah, yeah.
Is where I was having trouble.
Yeah.
And so then I was like, well,I'm gonna have to get in the
pool.
Yeah.
And like mop it.
Yeah.
Well I broke them mop that way.
(12:44):
Mm.
That sounds like a, shark tankthingy that could be made
though.
And I was like, there's gotta bea magic eraser mop.
Right?
Well, there is, but it's only alittle magic eraser.
Like the same size as a like,but it's like just attached.
So like you flip it over Oh,stain and then you flip it over
and there's a regular mug.
There's not like a real, I likethe zip.
(13:06):
Um.
Mine always fall apart.
Oh yeah.
I went through like two boxes.
Okay.
Yeah.
So well at least you know it,it'll come off and it works.
Yeah.
Speaking of ring cameras, youknow, I, walk the dogs and do
the things well, I.
One of my favorite dogs that Itake care of is a Rottweiler
named Bella.
Her family was gone and I waswalking her and she's, you know,
(13:26):
obviously big, strong whatever,and she's excited and she jumps,
but she and I are usually justfine.
Well, right when I was walkingher one night, a little yappy
dog went by and I know how youfeel about them because you've
had the same experience.
She pulled me down and I crashedright in their front yard and
then.
(13:47):
The little dog continued to go,eventually.
Mm-hmm.
But I couldn't get up becauseBella was so excited.
I was down on the ground withher.
She thought that it was loveytime, so we were cuddling for a
minute and I just sat there inthe yard and cuddled her.
Well, then I went to get upagain and the dog had turned
around and she went again, and Iwas like.
(14:07):
Mm.
So Bella and I just sat on thefloor, so I messaged her people
and I was like, not sure how faryour cameras go, but if they go
to like the sidewalk at theroad, send me that clip.
Send it to America's funnysounds.
Yeah.
As long as you can't see myface.
So we've both been taken out bylittle dogs.
(14:29):
Little dogs.
Little dogs are the worst.
Still have a scar.
Oh hey.
You should put that scar tape onit.
Oh yeah, probably.
I've been putting some on thisinjury, which is from, when I
fell breaking up the fight inbasketball.
Mm-hmm.
Because it was lumpy and I wascutting my knee when I shaved.
'Cause it wasn't smooth.
So.
Mm.
Jackson had a basketballtournament last weekend.
(14:50):
They did really good.
They played four games, won thechampionship, and all four
games.
They ended early, the firstthree because we were winning by
so much.
Oh, the last one because fightsare breaking out.
I can't stand parents.
I cannot, was it parents orkids?
It was the parent.
The kids were entitled jerks.
(15:13):
But I see where they got itfrom.
Mm-hmm.
Jackson came off and he, we'vetalked about this before, our
boys are relatively chill.
Mm-hmm.
Like, they'll let a lot build.
They're not hotheads whoimmediately flip.
He walked off the court to whereI was and that is something he
doesn't do in a game.
He does not come to me.
He goes to the bench and dealswith his team.
(15:34):
He.
Came to me and he was like,mama, I don't know what those
parents down there are saying,but they're just a yap, yap
yapping.
He said, I was like, well, whatare, you know, I'm shocked
because he came up all thethings and he said, they're just
yapping because they're kid.
Can't guard me.
And he started rolling hisshoulders.
He said, I told him to hit theweight room.
(15:55):
And I was like, oh gosh.
So then I was like, well, let mejust mosey down there and make
sure, let me just see whatthey're saying.
So I traveled to the other endwhere their parents were sitting
and two of our parents were overthere too.
So I was kind of staying withthem, but listening.
And the other parents warned me,our parents, um, her name is
Kia.
She was like, there's a lotgoing on over here.
I said, that's what the kidswere telling me.
(16:16):
So I just wanted to see what wasgoing on.
Well, that was this one girl.
I kept calling her big girl, andI had no right to call her that,
but I felt like because I am acan and she was just too prissy,
like.
Just doing too much and videoand everything.
And you know that saying, actlike you've been here before.
Mm-hmm.
Act like you've been in achampionship game.
(16:37):
Have a little, just everythingwas whatever.
Well, in basketball.
If they have the ball and theyhave their elbows up, they can
move like this.
They can't swing their elbow,but they can kind of make space.
Mm-hmm.
Well, Jackson did that andapparently he hit her kid, well,
she jumped up and she was like,Hey, hey, swinging his and all
this stuff.
And I was like, yeah, he didlike this.
She said, yeah, he did likethat.
(16:58):
And I said, he can do like that.
And I was like, let me checkmyself out and go on back down
there and just stay away.
So they ended up calling thatgame a couple minutes before.
It was over, we were up by like15, I think.
I think there was a minute and ahalf left.
Should have done it before, butmm-hmm.
They ended up telling us, youguys go ahead and leave the gym
and go outside.
And I was like, wait a minute,I'm not just gonna go outside.
(17:19):
They're gonna come outside.
Mm-hmm.
But we did,'cause we did what wewere told.
And some of the other parentscame up and they're like, don't
judge us by, you know, the few,you know, there's always a few.
Yeah.
Like, anyway, so our boys won.
That should be the lastbasketball tournament.
Don't you feel like the parentsthat do the most, it's because
(17:39):
it's when they're losing.
Mm-hmm.
And they can't accept that.
Mm-hmm.
They're losing mm-hmm.
Because of skill.
Yes.
Well, so a couple of other gameswe ended, we were up by like 40.
Mm-hmm.
And there's five or six minutesleft, like we're up by 40.
We've only got seven playersWe're playing in the 10th grade
thing.
(17:59):
Some of ours are ninth gradeplayers.
Like they're just a really wellcoached good group of athletic
boys.
Mm-hmm.
And, Other parents were yellingat the refs about things, first
of all, that they didn't knowwhat they were talking about.
The parents, they were justtalking and then, yeah, and then
the coach was too, like, you'renot losing by 40 because of a
bad call.
I'm only laughing because thatwas me the first year of
(18:21):
lacrosse when I didn't know therules and I was just, you're
just yelling.
By the end.
I, I knew the rules.
You knew the rules and I wasstill yelling because I knew the
rules.
Right.
But No, but, but you're exactlyright.
I was just like,, you're notlosing this game by that many
points because of, you know, badcalls.
Mm-hmm.
It just doesn't happen.
So I'm glad that basketball isover for now.
So that was the a a u stuff.
(18:42):
We are in full football, well, Isay that, but he's got bas
school basketball, Juneworkouts.
Those are Not mandatory, butmandatory, if that makes sense.
Mm-hmm.
But we're in full football rightnow, so he is got some college
camps coming up.
He's got one this week atAnderson.
Ooh.
Actually, when everybody'slistening to this, that's where
Jackson will be.
Awesome.
And then, um, yeah, just doingthat circuit.
(19:06):
Nice.
Yeah.
Sorry, I went on a little rant.
All good.
I love it.
I love hearing parents actingbad, parents behaving poorly.
Yes.
It ruins things.
Yes.
well, I've been doing somedigging.
I told you that I had a relativein my history that we'll get
into.
One day, one day when I put allthe pieces together that, she's
(19:28):
still on death row, by the way.
She's still alive and she'sstill in prison on death.
Well I did listen to like 20podcasts, 20 of the podcast.
As I was looking through, tryingto connect all the pieces like
on ancestry.com and figure outwhere the connection is.
I have a relative that her namewas Temperance Delight.
(19:49):
Born in like 1920 or somethinglike that.
Temperance Delight.
Huh?
That's, that's quite a, quite aname.
It's, it's a stripper name.
It is Delight.
Maybe, I don't know.
But she was a Lady of the night.
Really?
She's like the preacher's wife,but all of the other, that's
(20:09):
funny you say that.
'cause the dad was a preacher.
Yep.
Uhhuh.
The other kids were like Blancheand Vernon and all these other
things and she was TemperanceDelights.
So, I saw something on Facebookspeaking of Blanche.
Mm-hmm.
And she was 42 in Golden Girls.
We are golden.
We are golden girls.
Oh, no.
I know, but why did Golden Girlsback then?
I thought they were like intheir sixties.
(20:30):
Me too.
And Sophia was 80 and she wasthe youngest out of all of'em.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, well why are wenot living in a house together
in Florida then goals, wherewould, where do they live?
Miami, Lauderdale, somethinglike that.
I don't remember.
Oh, neither.
But yeah, I was like, oh,reality check.
(20:50):
But I feel like we're like muchyounger than the golden girls.
Yeah.
I feel like that too.
I don't feel like I'm a goldengirl.
You are my golden girl.
In my head, I'm not.
No, I know.
I'm just blown away by it.
I think so.
I am, I'm closer to 50 than, I'm40 and 50 is the new 30.
(21:11):
I like it.
I'm with it.
I'm trying to tell my neck andback.
That means I'm 20.
Yes, exactly.
Penny, by buy booze or do I needto buy it for you?
I'm I'm legal.
Just in case there are policeofficers.
Listen, Stephanie is really not20, no, 42.
Yeah.
(21:31):
Yeah.
Harsh reality.
Less not.
How are you?
42?
Mm-hmm.
I'll be 43 in July, I think.
Yeah.
I didn't realize that I was thatmuch older than you.
How old are you?
I'll be 48.
That's not that much.
Well, I found out this is brandnew information.
(21:52):
Found out that I was gonna be 48this year.
I thought I was turning 40.
I missed a year.
I thought I was turning 47.
Mm-hmm.
But I'll turn 48.
And the only reason I know thatis because Poseys turning 50.
And she apparently doesn'tlisten'cause she's made zero
comments on bigger challenge.
So I'm putting it out there inthe universe that Posey iss
gonna be 50.
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There you go.
How about some Diddy updates?
So I haven't heard anythingother than what Brian decided to
tell me.
Mm-hmm.
And, When he is giving me Diddyupdates, there's, there's some
serious stuff going on.
So he was telling me about, andI don't know if this is on your
list though, but he was tellingme about this woman.
He was like, there was thiswoman and baby oil, and like
(22:34):
several dudes were involved.
And I'm like, that's pretty muchthe whole situation, Brian.
And he was like, oh, oh, thatwas Cassie.
That's what I said.
I said, was it Cassie?
He's like.
No.
And I'm like, what?
Well, there's plenty.
So what, what's really jumpedout at you this week?
Well, I sent you the, secretService, Sam.
Mm-hmm.
Because his updates are.
Amazing.
(22:55):
Yes.
And, Jean The Bodyguard?
Yes.
Is there, like, just observing.
Okay.
And so, secret Service, Sam didget like a little interview with
him.
Okay.
Um, while they were outside thecourthouse.
He didn't like drop any bombs oranything, but he was, I was just
like, oh yeah, that's, that'sthe dude.
But there was a woman today,which is today is, what today is
(23:15):
Tuesday.
A woman today got forciblyremoved from the courtroom.
Wow.
So it said, and there was a girlthat was sitting next to her and
she gave like the, the wholerecap, the lowdown.
Okay.
So she was walking in and Iguess you can't wear any like
hats or scarves'cause they'reafraid that you're gonna have
some kind of like, device torecord or whatever.
Oh.
So she was like, um, I wannawear my hat, uh, it's religious
(23:39):
reasons, or something like that.
And the bailiff was like, no,take it off.
Like, we're not playing gamestoday.
Take it off or get out.
So she's sitting there all madand whatnot, and says she got up
and yelled to Diddy.
They're trying to get you,they're laughing at you, get the
guns and I mean, then she said,they're trying to take a black
(24:07):
man down this white supremacistsystem.
The bailiff told her to calmdown and she told them, what are
you gonna do?
Pull out your guns and shoot me.
Then three bailiffs dragged herout of the.
The courtroom while beingdragged.
She was yelling, Diddy, thesemother ERs are laughing at you,
get the guns.
She needs some evaluations done.
(24:28):
Crazy.
And then a YouTuber has beenbarred from coming in.
Okay.
On anything, because one of thewitnesses, they're going by like
pseudonyms or whatever.
Mm-hmm.
Because they don't want theiridentities mm-hmm.
Out.
And he.
Was, I guess either in thecourtroom or whatever he was
reporting on it and released theperson's like actual identity.
(24:50):
So the judge found out and hasbarred this person from any of
the trial stuff.
Hmm.
Yeah.
But did you see Kid Cudi, tookthe stand?
No.
So Kid Cudi and Cassie datedOkay.
And.
I was like, gimme all thedetails because Right.
(25:10):
Kid Cuddy's car got blown upduring all of, yes.
I forgot about that.
Yeah.
So Kid Cuddy said that him andCassie were dating Diddy found
out Cassie called Kid Cudi andwas like, Diddy knows and
mm-hmm.
He was like, so what?
You guys broke up what's, whocares?
Whatever.
And she's like, no.
You don't understand.
Yeah.
And then.
Capricorn, what was her name?
(25:32):
It was his assistant, um,whatever.
Okay.
His assistant had called him andsaid, Hey, look out because he's
at your house right now.
What?
Or she was in the car outside ofhis house.
Did he?
And, Other people broke into hishouse.
Mm-hmm.
She calls him from the car andshe's like, yo, we're here.
Like, this is not good.
Oh my gosh.
And dude's like, what the heck?
So he jumps in his car, to goand he's like, what am I doing?
(25:52):
There's probably a bunch of'em.
So he calls the cops, cops comethere.
By the time the cops get there,they're already gone.
And did, he opened up like theChristmas presents under the
tree.
That's just, but the worst partabout it was that kid Cuddy's
dog got drugged and put in acloset and locked in a closet.
Don't interfere with thedoggies.
(26:13):
Let's, or not interfere, butyeah.
So, leave Dude's car got blownup and so kid Cutty goes to see
Diddy like, what's up?
Yeah.
Like, what the heck?
Yeah.
And Cassie comes out.
And stands behind Diddy and waslike, I choose him or something
to that effect.
Mm mm-hmm.
And I'm sure because she waslike terrified, threatened her
(26:34):
life.
Yeah.
Whatever.
But Cookie Cutty's, like, youcan have her, I'm out like, this
is ridiculous.
Yeah.
I don't want any part of this.
So fast forward however manymonths and they see each other
and Diddy's like, yo, what's up?
Like, nothing happened.
And he's like, dude, like youblew up my car.
And he's like, yeah, sorry aboutthat.
Cray, Z So dude's on standright, and he's in the courtroom
(26:58):
and I'm sure like you're dead.
Yeah.
I wonder what they were askinghim about.
Like about that situation orjust all of it altogether?
Well, they had brought that upbecause, that's part of like the
racketeering where he had peopledo stuff for him.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Or like, it was like a gang,like whatever criminal
organization Yep.
Is what they're trying to prove.
(27:18):
Yeah.
For the racketeering and yeah,that's what they're trying to,
but.
You know I love me some 50 cent.
What Fitty do?
Oh, fifty's doing the most.
He is my king Petty Betty.
Wait, is he the one who's beenall over X saying things?
He's on Instagram.
Tell me I two, but Okay.
Tell me what you got and I'lltell you the same time.
(27:39):
Okay.
Well he learned how to use aiOh, geez.
Like AI images.
So he is got like all sorts ofpictures, but, so did he, he was
trying to get Trump apart inhim.
Mm.
Yeah.
So 50 posts a clip of Diddy.
I think during like the firstelection that he was running
(28:01):
saying all sorts of bad stuffabout Trump, like he needs to be
mm-hmm.
Whatever.
Mm-hmm.
Banned or whatever it is.
Yeah.
And, so he's like, Hey, just asa reminder and tag Trump, right?
So the caption read, Welp can'task him for help, then buddy,
LOL.
And you sent me these and it'slike a 32nd clip of him just
(28:23):
like tearing apart Trump.
Just going off off.
Yeah.
And I was like, oof.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
So then, he made a meme of, youknow, because he, he learned how
to use ai.
And it says jury of peers, andit was a whole jury full of 50
cents.
Oh, full of fifties.
I saw that.
I saw that one.
Like all the same, 50, justdifferent colors, clothes, yeah.
(28:46):
Okay.
Capricorn Clark, that was theassistant's name.
Okay.
Had on stand, brought 50 intoit, during the court case.
Mm-hmm.
And said that, back in the day,puff had beef with 50 and so.
50 runs to Instagram and hesays, cut, cut.
Wait a minute, Puffy's got agun.
I can't believe this.
I don't feel safe.
LOL.
(29:07):
Oh my goodness.
I don't love that.
He still calls'em puffy.
It's just like a littledisrespect on top of everything
else.
Well, one of the women thattestified described.
Diddy's package as a TSI roll, Iguess as I've heard that.
Yep.
As small as a TSI roll, so 50being 50, and one of the
(29:27):
captions calls him itty bittyDiddy.
Oh my gosh.
Never be able to not call himitty bitty Diddy.
Anybody, Diddy.
Oh, but I love Mason.
50 Troll.
I know he is.
So he's just basically sittingat his house, working the AI
modules, doing his thing.
I can't get enough.
(29:48):
I know.
He keep it coming.
He is great.
Keep it coming.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
Amazing yeah.
When Brian came home telling meabout all this today, I was
like.
I'm glad you're interested, butI think this is probably like
old news, kind of all of ittogether.
Yeah.
I thought he had some like majorbecause he was like, did you
hear about the, the drama Diddy.
(30:08):
And I was like, no.
Like I thought he had some brandnew piping hot tea.
No, no, no.
Should have known better.
His algorithm is, yeah, I needto get a hold of his phone.
Well, I know We always talkabout these weird conspiracy
theories.
Oh yeah.
So I found a new guy on TikTokthat does so many, like on your
weird talk.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And that's like on my personalTikTok, not on like the podcast
(30:31):
TikTok.
I get the weirdest things I'mtelling you, like my 3:00 AM
scroll.
It's, it's all weird, but you'rein a crazy place.
Yeah.
Okay.
Watch.
Okay, so this guy, his TikTokname is Mave approach.
Okay.
So his theory is that.
Dinosaurs when the asteroid hitearth, not all of them died.
(30:53):
They, went underground, to savethemselves.
Okay.
And have evolved into thereptilians that people say when
they're not human and they'rereptilians and they show like
the, the funky eyes.
So they've evolved into thisreptilian whatever.
Okay.
And they're not really lizardpeople.
(31:13):
It's like evolved dinosaurs.
There's a theory for you I don'tbuy that one.
I buy a lot of the conspiracies,but I don't buy that one.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't buy that one.
Are dinosaurs and dragonsrelated?
I Okay.
So Well then I went down thatrabbit hole of like dinosaurs.
Yeah.
Because I clicked on the videoand then I was getting all these
dinosaur things and they saythat dragons are dinosaurs.
(31:38):
That just.
Didn't die off when all thedinosaurs died off, like they
lasted longer.
Mm-hmm.
And they're saying that T-Rex islike little tiny arms.
Mm-hmm.
Somebody had taken like theskeleton mm-hmm.
A picture of the skeleton andthey put it next to an ostrich
and its little wings are likethe same bone structure as the
(32:01):
T-Rex.
I a hundred percent believe thatis so like his little arms might
have been like little wings'cause chickens are from
dinosaurs.
Right.
You're laughing at me like I'mnot, you're laughing at Doss.
I'm laughing at all.
All of it.
Like people have this much timeon their hands.
So I know.
Think about T-Rex arms andthey're not like dinosaur people
(32:26):
for a career.
It's people sitting at home.
Mm-hmm.
Why did the rexes have littletiny arms?
Let me pull it up their skeletonstructure and evaluate it
against all of the currentanimals.
Wait.
No, I don't.
I don't believe that one.
And here's why ostriches layeggs.
T-Rex is were mammals.
Do we know?
I mean, like we don't reallyknow.
(32:48):
No, we don't really know.
We just assume.
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
And they just fascinating, foundsoft tissue, whatever from some
kind of like dig that they foundsomewhere that they dug.
On a dinosaur for a dinosaur,some kind of soft tissue DNA or
whatever.
That is now in some kind of lab,they're bringing back dinosaurs.
(33:09):
I would so go on the tour rudelya hundred percent.
They had a great podcast.
We really loved them.
But you know, they opened up thedinosaur park 100%.
I would go, mm-hmm.
No doubt about it in my mind.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
All of it.
Okay.
I'll go on one.
But can we not be in like anopen Jeep?
(33:33):
Like what?
Do you wanna go on?
Like a tank?
Yeah.
No.
I need more experience or anopen tank that we can close.
I'm, what are you doing?
I'm picturing all those videoswhere the ostriches like, oh
yeah, pecking like for the foodand there people are freaking
out.
Or the zebras.
Oh yeah.
Dra and over and get'em to likea raptor jumps in.
Oh.
(33:53):
Oh yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Speaking of like safari type ofthings with like open, so I just
saw, and this back happened inlike 2003 or 2005.
And I never heard this before,so like, it just blew my mind
that in Africa or somewheremm-hmm.
A little girl got kidnapped.
She was like 12 by this, thesemen and a pack of lions chased
(34:17):
off the men or like all the menor whatever.
Oh.
And stayed with a little girland protected her until the
police found her.
How awesome is that?
And then I was like, I shouldhave worked at a zoo.
I missed.
I would, yeah.
And then I, you know, got alllike the animal videos of like
the trainers and the, the Ohyeah.
Like, have you seen the oneswhere they haven't seen their
lion that they raised and thelion comes up and like, like
(34:39):
hugs them.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Yeah.
And like knocks'em down andthey're, or there's one with an
orangutan too.
And he runs and he jumps up inthe woman and he's so excited
and then all of a sudden he seesthe man and he's even more
excited.
I miss my calling.
Like, that is what I should havedone.
Like my soul purpose was tocuddle animals.
Well, a hundred percent.
And, Jackson and I have a newplan.
(34:59):
Whenever we get a Saturday free,we are gonna go do puppy yoga.
Oh, you wanna go with I do.
I've never done yoga officiallyin my life, but I've only done
it at home.
Like I've never done a class.
Right?
No.
Yeah.
I've been like YouTube.
Okay.
Downward dog.
But Rex thinks I need help, butI'm to a yoga.
But they post what kind of dogsthey have.
(35:20):
Mm-hmm.
And they've had, Bernesemountain dogs.
There's videos of, St.
Bernard puppies goldenretrievers.
So it's not little dogs, it'sEnglish bulldogs, but they're
puppies.
Mm-hmm.
So they're little, I mean, youknow, they're still big.
They're still big.
They're, they're, they're thick.
They're, they're jump on yourback.
They're not, they're notchihuahuas.
Yeah.
Or wear a shitzu or anythingsmall.
(35:41):
Yeah.
But, oh my gosh, that is, yeah.
Yeah, I'm in.
Let me know.
Okay.
Can't wait.
Can't wait to do that one.
Don't make fun of me.
I'm not flexible.
Oh God.
Not at all.
Especially with all this I havegoing on today.
Well, do you want to do the, amI the A-hole?
Yeah.
Okay, so let's talk about this.
Am I the A-hole?
(36:01):
You want me to talk about it?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So I found the am I the A-holethis week?
Yes.
And I found it because I waslistening to a book that this
was in.
I love that they haveincorporated Am I the A-Hole
into Book?
I know, and it was, it's so,it's the very beginning of the
book and it is a little summerread.
It's called Just for the Summer.
(36:23):
It's the name of the book andit's by Abby Jimenez or
something.
I don't know how to say her lastname, but, it's a series.
Very cute summer romantic comedykind of beat tree.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Definitely beat tree.
Thank you.
I was trying to get there and Icouldn't, so I'm gonna read the,
am I the a, a-hole from thebook?
Okay.
Okay.
Am I the A-hole for naming myUgly Dog After my ex Best
(36:46):
Friend?
29 male have been friends withChad 32 male since we were born.
Our moms are best friends and wegrew up together and we were
roommates for the last 10 yearsup until the incident that set
our current situation intomotion.
I have this little streak, ifyou will, basically every woman
I date more than a few times.
Ends up finding her soulmateright after we break up.
(37:08):
So that's the premise of thebook.
'cause this woman also has thisthing where she dates people,
they break up and they findtheir soulmate.
So that's how they connected.
But here's the, the rest of thedog story.
It started three years ago andnow it's happened five times.
We break up.
And the very next person theydate is the one.
My friends think this ishilarious.
I always part ways with thewomen on good terms, and I'm
(37:30):
happy they're happy, but mybuddies tease me.
Mercifully, mercilessly aboutit.
They called me the good luckcharm.
Anyway, forward to five monthsago.
I dated Hope for a few weeks.
Not a big deal.
We decided we weren't fillingit.
No chemistry.
So we called it quits, and thenlo and behold, she hits it off
with Chad, his roommate.
(37:50):
Of course, in true luck, charmand fashion.
This means Chad is her soulmate.
Chad's all googly ad over her.
They've met the parents, they'rering shopping.
They wanna move in togetherimmediately.
Only problem is Chad has sixmore months on our lease, but
they found the perfect home forhim and hope he can afford to
have the rent in both places.
So he has to make the decisionto leave.
So I've spent weeks stressing.
(38:12):
I didn't wanna find a newroommate.
The landlord wouldn't let meoutta the lease.
Only unit available in thecomplex is a studio.
It's small, but it's temporaryand it's cheap.
I jumped on the chance, but thisis why it's terrible.
It directly faces one of thebillboards for the toilet kings.
(38:32):
So anyway, because, and, andthis keeps.
Keeps going over.
So now after all this, theyhave, he named the dog Chad
after his roommate that he'sstill like best friends with.
But anyway, it's just a cute,cute, cute book now.
So do you think he's the a-holefor name of the dog after his
ugly dog after his ex-roommate?
(38:56):
No, I don't think so either.
No.
I don't think so either.
And everybody wants him tochange the dog's name.
After, you know, they, they findout the story behind it.
They're like, just change thedog's name.
He's like, Nope.
No, I don't, I don't think he'sthe, a-hole.
I don't think so either.
I don't think so either.
But it was so funny.
So he talks about the, dude isdressed like Henry Tudor and
(39:16):
holding a plunger over a giantpoop filled toilet bowl.
It should be illegal.
Right.
I'm annoyed, but I decided totry for, I find a reason to
spend more time outside so Idon't have to stare out of my
window.
So I got the dog.
Chad would never agree to itbefore, but now I have named him
Chad.
I just, I think it's hilarious.
Roommate.
(39:37):
Yeah.
I, I think it's hilarious.
So the whole book is, and I knowsome of our people that aren't
book users are still here, butthe whole book is just filled
with that.
Just funny.
Yeah.
Witty.
Kind of stuff, so read it.
If you want to feel free to nameyour next pet after Stephanie or
Meredith, you should get two.
Two.
Stephanie and Meredith.
(39:57):
Chunky one is me.
The lazy one is me.
The short one is me.
The one with all the energy is Iwould die if somebody named
their pets after us.
You.
What if they're like journals?
(40:18):
I would lose it.
I don't if somebody named ananimal after me and you.
Well, I mean two animals.
Their name's not like StephanieMeredith.
They're married with Stephanie,but two separate animals.
Even if it's fish, like the fishthat just die after a week.
Well, you know, something'sjust, I would lose it.
That's when I'll know we havemade it.
(40:39):
Yes.
Well.
I'm just saying good namescalled great names.
Think of all the nicknames.
Oh my God.
A person, A person, mayor Bear.
I don't know why that popped inmy head.
So that was just a little quick,short in of the A-hole.
Well, I think we're gonna moveon to our book.
So if you're not a bookie Yep.
Piece out.
We love you.
We love you.
(40:59):
Leave a review, tell yourfriends, learn to read.
Adios.
So for our bookies this week, wehave read, she was the Quiet one
by Michelle Campbell.
And.
This kinda, I thought was gonnahave all the things like there
was the Boarding school and likethe rich, snotty kids and
mm-hmm.
(41:19):
All the things.
So, chat, GPT gave me thislittle wine.
Okay.
In Michelle Campbell's, she wasthe quiet one.
Twin sisters Rosen Bell Enrightenroll at an elite New England
boarding school where siblingrivalry, rival rivalry, yes,
that word, toxic friendships andpredatory teacher coate in a
(41:42):
tragic murder that leaves onesister dead in the other under
suspicion.
I was not impressed with thisbook.
I wanted to be.
I did too.
I, again, doc, like we hadtaught, it has a lot of the
pieces that we like.
It has a lot of the, you know,the twin thing, the trifecta,
the twin thing, the boardingschool.
And that was one more thing thatwe were interested in.
Money.
(42:03):
Money.
Just, just money.
Yeah.
And it was, it was like.
Average.
Mm-hmm.
And I figured it all out mm-hmm.
As it was going.
And yeah, I was just notimpressed.
I didn't think that thecharacters were developed well,
no, I didn't think so.
I'm glad you said that.
I didn't think so either.
And it was the only, the onlytwist for me at all was at the
(42:23):
very, very, very, very, very endof the book when the little
spoilers, right?
Mm-hmm.
Obviously the, when was it Darcythat did the epilogue, like a
little piece of the epilogue atthe end?
At the very end It was somebodyelse who said that they had
already won the game.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was the only twist.
Yeah.
That came outta nowhere for me.
But I did not like this.
(42:44):
I even though I don't like Sure.
Warning pedophilia, obviously.
With the relationship betweenthe students and the teachers,
it was still lacking.
I.
I, again, it was flat.
Yeah.
I, I was not impressed.
Uhhuh, it was unremarkable.
Mm-hmm.
The characters, like nothingreally stood out.
Mm-hmm.
That I thought even like theteachers weren't really teaching
(43:06):
anything.
Mm-hmm.
The cops, the only thing I didlike.
Kind of was a lot of the storywas told in a police setting
where they were beinginterrogated.
Yeah.
I thought that was a little bitdifferent, but yeah, there was
some bounce back and forthbetween the interrogation and
the actual timeline, right?
Mm-hmm.
So I think that part wasinteresting or different.
(43:28):
But the rest of it.
Mm-hmm.
I just didn't think there wasanything special about it.
Yeah.
I thought it was very onedimensional.
Mm-hmm.
Just didn't have a lot of, depthto it, and there's a lot of
potential there.
and I felt like too, theystarted to explore some of the,
the stuff like.
They get into the relationshipbetween the sisters, but they
could have done a lot more withthat.
(43:48):
Mm-hmm.
I mean, other than just, Iforgive you.
Yeah.
Or I'm mad at you.
You know, there wasn't a lotthere.
Yeah.
To me felt like, like a badlifetime movie.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Is Yeah.
What I thought, yeah.
When I was listening like, thisis.
Yeah.
Not good.
I was not a fan of the, was hisname Zach?
Yeah.
Even the way he was presented, Ididn't like anything that he
(44:11):
brought to the table.
None of it was impressive.
Mm-hmm.
Don't recommend if you haven'tread it yet, I don't recommend.
No, it was like I three, I wasgonna say four.
I made it through.
Yeah.
But, well, it was one of thosetoo that like.
You keep thinking something'sgonna, it is gonna shift or it's
gonna pick up but it was justalways very blah.
(44:32):
Mm-hmm.
Dry.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
That was a very descriptive wordI used.
Um, well, next week hopefullythe book will be better.
Okay.
Next week is, that's not my nameby Megan Lolly.
And this was all over TikTok, soI have.
Better hope for this book.
All right.
She thought she had her lifeback.
She was wrong.
It was a mistake to trust himshivering and bruised.
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A teen wakes up on the side ofthe dirt road with no memory of
how she got there or who she is.
A passing officer takes her tothe police station and not long
after a frantic man arrives.
He's been searching for her forhours.
He has her school id, her birthcertificate, and even family
photos.
He is her father.
Her name is Mary, or so he says,when Lola slammed the car door
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and stormed off into the night,drew thought they just needed
some time to cool off, exceptLola disappeared and the
sheriff, his friends in thewhole town are convinced Drew
murdered his girlfriend.
Forget proving his innocence.
He needs to find her before it'stoo late.
The longer Lola is missing, thefewer leads there are to follow
and the more danger they bothare in.
So I have read this, okay.
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When I was going through ourlist, trying to get a little bit
ahead and loved it.
Okay.
I actually am downloading itagain to read it again.
Okay.
Because I enjoyed this one.
That is for next week.
Hi, hopes and I think that's it.
Okay.
Yeah.
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Welcome to, this is my circus,the podcast where we embrace the
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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.
I'm Stephanie.
I'm Meredith, and welcome to,this is my circus.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Alexis just texted me a seriesto read, like literally just now
and she was like, I'm on bookfive and these are really good.
It is not kid friendly.
(00:43):
I have actually already readthese and they are not kid
friendly at all.
What is it?
So for anybody who wants tolisten, it's called, black
Dagger Brotherhood Series.
It's thereby JR Ward, the BARD.
It sounds like a motorcycleseries.
No, no, not necessarilymotorcycle, but definitely tough
dude.
Bad guy.
Bad guy, good guy.
(01:03):
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We don't have any problems withthose.
And I can't remember how manybooks are in there, but very
explicit, yes.
But good books.
Spicy.
Oh, very spicy.
Raunchy, chili peppers, spicy.
All the chili peppers, you canimagine all the, and some of
them aren't chili peppers that Ilike.
(01:23):
Mm.
But somebody's gonna like thatkind of pepper.
So let's just stop the pepperanalogy is the, I find myself in
these conversations and I don'tknow when to just stop, so I'm
going to make myself stop there.
What you been doing?
(01:44):
Nothing really.
I dunno.
I'm what I didn't do.
I told you look super tan, butyou're like, no.
I think it's because it's alight colored shirt.
Maybe they do.
They do.
Give a little bit of extracolor.
You look cute.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I'm feeling sun today.
You do?
Look sun today.
Well, you know what it is, is itrained for so many days in a
row.
(02:04):
Yeah.
And it's finally sunny out.
Yeah.
And it was like, yeah.
Yeah.
Agreed.
Agreed.
And it's not humid.
Sunny.
Mm-hmm.
It is nice.
Sunny.
Yeah.
rec this morning, I had on, mypajama pants and a hoodie.
Did you?
So now that Jay's drivinghimself in the morning, thank
God I, was literally still in myPJ's when Brian got, like, I'm
(02:25):
talking no bra, like justchilling.
I was like, yeah, I just, thisis what it was today.
But what's so funny is one of,Emmy, our dog that runs away,
she'll come back, but she justlikes to go see everybody in the
neighborhood.
She left, went to my neighbor'sand my neighbor brought her
over, and I just stood there andtalked to her for like 30
(02:45):
minutes in my bra.
And usually,, that is not me.
But yeah, I was just like, youknow what?
I've lived behind her, besideher this long.
She knows I'm crazy.
This is the one who's, you know,moving.
Mm-hmm.
And told her I needed to putsome Christmas decorations up
and stuff.
Christmas in July.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Did you see I put it on ourFacebook page and I think I
(03:07):
texted you Sarah's.
That was so awesome.
Mm-hmm.
That was so awesome.
So she, is one who, when we'vemissed a week, she's just
commented that she's missed us,you know, recording.
Well, when she sent us apicture.
Of our faces in her car.
That was so surreal.
But it was just really, reallycool.
So thank you Sarah for that.
Yeah.
Thank you for listening.
(03:28):
Yes, Sarah.
And I'm not even gonna try herlast name.
It's a long one.
So I got f finally got new tireson my car.
Okay, good.
I've needed a new tire for thelast year, but I don't ever
drive anywhere.
And I'm like, oh, I, yeah.
Deal with it next week and likenext week became next month, and
then mm-hmm.
All the things happened.
Mm-hmm.
So I had my tire when, I gotback from my trip was completely
(03:50):
flat, like on the ground flat.
Oh no.
I was like, oh my gosh.
So I was trying to fill it up,it wouldn't fill up because it
was so flat.
Oh.
So the dude across the street.
Thank God.
Yeah.
Did like the little jack thingyand then mm-hmm.
He put the air in that way andlittle jack thingy.
Where's such car mechanics overhere?
Are we, I'm so technical.
so as I'm like trying to figureout why the air wouldn't blow up
(04:10):
the tire, I look under, thetires were so bad.
There was like wires stickingout of the tires, like.
I've been there before.
I was like O mg.
Yeah.
So I finally got the new tiresput on, thank goodness.
Good.
But that got me thinking, Idon't think I ever told you this
story yet.
Did I tell you the story aboutthe dryer when it was like not
really drying and uhuh.
(04:32):
Okay.
So.
I come downstairs and there'slike water leaking from the
light, and I'm like, what in theworld?
Mm-hmm.
Like, oh my God, something isleaking.
Mm-hmm.
There's a pipe or something.
So yeah, I'm looking on YouTuberight.
To figure out Right.
What to do.
And so it says if the, there's adryer upstairs, it might be.
Something clogging up like thevent or whatever.
(04:54):
Okay.
Because you know, like all, likethe fluffy stuff, it's Yeah.
Dryer would have that muchmoisture I guess.
I mean Okay.
If, yeah.
I mean, yeah.
So.
Right, right.
Check here.
Okay.
Check your, so I go upstairs, Iunhook like the little duct
thingy.
Yeah.
The silver type thing.
Pipe.
Big old thing.
Yep.
And so I'm looking in there butI can't see anything.
So me.
Being me sticks my hand in thereand I'm pulling out like all the
(05:18):
fluffy stuff, right?
All the lint.
Yep.
Then my hand touches, no, whatwas it?
A dead bird.
I was pulling out all the fluffand I'm like, well, this.
This is different.
And I fluff.
Yeah.
And it pulled it out and, andall the feathers.
Oh, when I tell you I likescreamed, I did like a little
(05:40):
like hippity hop, like you didthe hip.
Oh my gosh, Steph.
That is crazy.
So I'm like totally freaking outat this.
Bird.
Okay.
It was a bigger bird.
Okay.
So then I get like a, like along thingy to stick in there.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
So I'm not touching it.
(06:00):
Right.
Which I probably should havedone in the first place.
And you don't think about ananimal just being out there?
No.
Okay.
And then another one is inthere, and I'm like totally
freaking out, right?
Mm-hmm.
Dylan was at Tyler's house.
I called Dylan crying.
Mm-hmm.
I'm like, and he like, what'swrong?
And I was like, there's deadbirds.
(06:21):
So I look in the back in thedryer, it wasn't in like the
spinning part where you put yourclothes.
Yeah, yeah.
But it was like underneath,there was one stuck in there,
like a dead bird stuck in there.
So there was like a whole familyof birds that got cooked in the
vent.
So I called Dylan, I'm like, Ican't even get in there.
I don't, I like, I was justlike, so, oh yeah, yeah.
(06:42):
I was just totally freaking,well, that's kind of a two
person job anyway, to try tofigure that out.
So I give Dylan the big, rubbergloves, like I don't touch
anything and I give him tongue.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That I threw away after.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we're.
Trying to like get it so that helike in there, he gets the, the
last bird out.
So then we had somebody come toclean the vents because I'm
like, well, this is not okay.
(07:03):
Yeah.
And they found another, nest andthen like another bird that was
in there as well.
Another cooked one.
Uhhuh.
There was a whole city of birds,if the bird population is down,
but the dryer is working muchbetter now.
I'm sure it is like 20 minutesand things are dry just like
that.
(07:23):
Just, okay.
Why would a bird do that?
I don't know.
When my brother had put the ventthingy back on Yeah.
You know, if it goes one way orthe other, like Right.
One direction.
I guess it's supposed to keepthe birds out, right?
Whatever it is.
Well, apparently he didn't putit on the right way.
Well, it was more like anentrance door.
Yeah.
So it was like, welcome.
Or they were in there before andthey've been in there that long.
(07:43):
Yeah.
I don't really know, but Oh, itwas so gross.
It was so disgusting.
Would you have rather it havebeen birds or like squirrels or
something?
I, no, I don't want none of anyof it.
But I was finding feathers forlike, Hmm.
Weeks.
It was so gross.
Mm-hmm.
It was so gross.
I don't, I don't do No, I know,but I feel like that's better
(08:05):
than like finding a mouse orsomething.
Uh, yeah.
I mean, I don't, I'm a few, Idon't want any of it, but, well,
could you imagine if they werealive still, like flew out, like
No.
No, I have a friend who isdeathly afraid of birds.
Mm-hmm.
Like afraid.
That would just be the end all.
She would be laying on theground dead right now, there's
(08:26):
no doubt in my mind.
Well, I had the garbage bag withlike all the stuff in it, and
when Dylan got the last one outof the dryer and he rested me, I
was like.
Just take it right outside.
Just get it outta the house,please.
No, it was so bad.
This was like months ago though.
Like I, I think I said remind meto tell you about the Yeah,
(08:46):
probably.
And with all of the other thingswe have going on, it was so
gross.
I just.
Well, it doesn't matter.
Like, okay, so one goes in thereand he is like, Hey guys, don't
come in here.
I can't come out.
And they're like, no, I'll comehelp you.
Then they all go in there, orthey all brought their little
twigs and stuff to build likethe, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Who knows how long.
We knows.
Nobody left to ask, huh?
Yeah.
So I take our, washer and dryerson the bottom floor.
(09:08):
Mm-hmm.
And I take our leaf blower andblow it out.
Well, this is upstairs.
Yeah.
But I take the lint thing outand put it there and I, clean it
out.
Yeah.
I'm, I've not built for homeprojects like this is, I thought
you did good though, with theYouTube in it and trying to
figure it out.
I can't figure it out theproblem, but I shouldn't be
doing the things.
(09:29):
You shouldn't, you're way toopretty to be doing those things.
Built for the things we had, asituation, this has been years
ago where we were sitting, uh,my family had been over all day
and.
We were sitting in the livingroom, they had gone and you're
kind of like decompressing fromeverybody being over and
everything, and all of a suddenwater starts dripping from our
(09:52):
like a can light.
Mm-hmm.
And Brian and I look at eachother and Brian doesn't handle
stuff like that.
Like his initial responses, whatis going on?
Yeah.
Like he's just, and that's justhow he is wired.
We we're work both working onthings that we have to work on,
but his initial response is tojust kind of freak out about all
kinds of things.
So.
Come to find out, the bathtubupstairs had been used by, I
(10:18):
don't know if Jackson took abath.
I don't know what happened, butit overflowed and when it did,
it came down.
So it was an easy fix, but atthe moment that it happened, it
was like.
And our house wasn't that old.
Yeah.
I was like, oh my God.
What in the world?
We had to get a new roof put on,in our bedroom.
Mm-hmm.
It started raining the one nightand it was one of the bad night
(10:39):
storms.
Yeah.
Middle of the night.
Yeah.
And we just hear like drip.
Strip, and I'm like, what isthat?
Like what is going on?
And it was just a big bubbleformed on the ceiling and it
just started dripping out.
So I'm like, oh my gosh.
So I go into the bathroom and Iput the lights on and in the
shower light.
Like in the standup shower?
(11:00):
Mm-hmm.
Water was dripping out of thelight.
And I'm like, this is not safe.
This isn't good.
This isn't how it all electricand water.
It does not.
Right.
They usually don't mix well.
No.
Yeah.
So I obviously called the nextday Yeah.
And had a somebody come out tolook at it, but, or you know,
roof or whatever.
Yeah.
But we had to get the whole newroof.
'cause all the, I guess we getsuch weird wind, like the
(11:21):
sideways Yeah.
Yeah.
Like when the rain comes.
Sideways rain.
Mm-hmm.
As forest would say.
Um, yeah.
All that stuff.
And this is that time of yearwhere there's, well we're
getting out of it now.
Like the bad rains.
Yeah.
And just the tornado warningsand all that kind of stuff.
We have.
Thank goodness.
Now we'll just get into the 200degrees.
Yeah.
Weather.
I know.
It's, take your poison.
(11:41):
It is.
It is.
Is your poll ready?
Speaking off, can I go to acannonball?
Sure.
Is it cleaned out though?
It's all good.
There's just, I guess fromhowever over the winter, like
the bottom that stained a littlebit.
Yeah.
And so I've been like trying toscrub it and I can't scrub it
and I can't scrub it.
It cleaned, but like there's,I'm just trying to get off the
(12:02):
stains.
Off the Yeah.
The wall.
Yeah.
Are using like a magic eraser.
Yeah.
But it's like underwater.
Mm.
And so it wants to fly.
Are you tall enough to.
No.
Is that the problem I put on myscuba mask?
Can you stand on it?
Do it with your foot?
Well, it's, there's like a deepend too though.
I used Oh, okay.
So I probably, if there was a,somebody taking a video, it
(12:24):
would've been something to see.
I'm sure.
Okay.
I zip tied the Magic Eraser to amop.
I think that's a great idea.
And then I was scrubbing, I gotlike all the walls scrubbed.
Yeah.
But then once it gets to theground or like the bottom?
Yeah, yeah.
Is where I was having trouble.
Yeah.
And so then I was like, well,I'm gonna have to get in the
pool.
Yeah.
And like mop it.
Yeah.
Well I broke them mop that way.
(12:44):
Mm.
That sounds like a, shark tankthingy that could be made
though.
And I was like, there's gotta bea magic eraser mop.
Right?
Well, there is, but it's only alittle magic eraser.
Like the same size as a like,but it's like just attached.
So like you flip it over Oh,stain and then you flip it over
and there's a regular mug.
There's not like a real, I likethe zip.
(13:06):
Um.
Mine always fall apart.
Oh yeah.
I went through like two boxes.
Okay.
Yeah.
So well at least you know it,it'll come off and it works.
Yeah.
Speaking of ring cameras, youknow, I, walk the dogs and do
the things well, I.
One of my favorite dogs that Itake care of is a Rottweiler
named Bella.
Her family was gone and I waswalking her and she's, you know,
(13:26):
obviously big, strong whatever,and she's excited and she jumps,
but she and I are usually justfine.
Well, right when I was walkingher one night, a little yappy
dog went by and I know how youfeel about them because you've
had the same experience.
She pulled me down and I crashedright in their front yard and
then.
(13:47):
The little dog continued to go,eventually.
Mm-hmm.
But I couldn't get up becauseBella was so excited.
I was down on the ground withher.
She thought that it was loveytime, so we were cuddling for a
minute and I just sat there inthe yard and cuddled her.
Well, then I went to get upagain and the dog had turned
around and she went again, and Iwas like.
(14:07):
Mm.
So Bella and I just sat on thefloor, so I messaged her people
and I was like, not sure how faryour cameras go, but if they go
to like the sidewalk at theroad, send me that clip.
Send it to America's funnysounds.
Yeah.
As long as you can't see myface.
So we've both been taken out bylittle dogs.
(14:29):
Little dogs.
Little dogs are the worst.
Still have a scar.
Oh hey.
You should put that scar tape onit.
Oh yeah, probably.
I've been putting some on thisinjury, which is from, when I
fell breaking up the fight inbasketball.
Mm-hmm.
Because it was lumpy and I wascutting my knee when I shaved.
'Cause it wasn't smooth.
So.
Mm.
Jackson had a basketballtournament last weekend.
(14:50):
They did really good.
They played four games, won thechampionship, and all four
games.
They ended early, the firstthree because we were winning by
so much.
Oh, the last one because fightsare breaking out.
I can't stand parents.
I cannot, was it parents orkids?
It was the parent.
The kids were entitled jerks.
(15:13):
But I see where they got itfrom.
Mm-hmm.
Jackson came off and he, we'vetalked about this before, our
boys are relatively chill.
Mm-hmm.
Like, they'll let a lot build.
They're not hotheads whoimmediately flip.
He walked off the court to whereI was and that is something he
doesn't do in a game.
He does not come to me.
He goes to the bench and dealswith his team.
(15:34):
He.
Came to me and he was like,mama, I don't know what those
parents down there are saying,but they're just a yap, yap
yapping.
He said, I was like, well, whatare, you know, I'm shocked
because he came up all thethings and he said, they're just
yapping because they're kid.
Can't guard me.
And he started rolling hisshoulders.
He said, I told him to hit theweight room.
(15:55):
And I was like, oh gosh.
So then I was like, well, let mejust mosey down there and make
sure, let me just see whatthey're saying.
So I traveled to the other endwhere their parents were sitting
and two of our parents were overthere too.
So I was kind of staying withthem, but listening.
And the other parents warned me,our parents, um, her name is
Kia.
She was like, there's a lotgoing on over here.
I said, that's what the kidswere telling me.
(16:16):
So I just wanted to see what wasgoing on.
Well, that was this one girl.
I kept calling her big girl, andI had no right to call her that,
but I felt like because I am acan and she was just too prissy,
like.
Just doing too much and videoand everything.
And you know that saying, actlike you've been here before.
Mm-hmm.
Act like you've been in achampionship game.
(16:37):
Have a little, just everythingwas whatever.
Well, in basketball.
If they have the ball and theyhave their elbows up, they can
move like this.
They can't swing their elbow,but they can kind of make space.
Mm-hmm.
Well, Jackson did that andapparently he hit her kid, well,
she jumped up and she was like,Hey, hey, swinging his and all
this stuff.
And I was like, yeah, he didlike this.
She said, yeah, he did likethat.
(16:58):
And I said, he can do like that.
And I was like, let me checkmyself out and go on back down
there and just stay away.
So they ended up calling thatgame a couple minutes before.
It was over, we were up by like15, I think.
I think there was a minute and ahalf left.
Should have done it before, butmm-hmm.
They ended up telling us, youguys go ahead and leave the gym
and go outside.
And I was like, wait a minute,I'm not just gonna go outside.
(17:19):
They're gonna come outside.
Mm-hmm.
But we did,'cause we did what wewere told.
And some of the other parentscame up and they're like, don't
judge us by, you know, the few,you know, there's always a few.
Yeah.
Like, anyway, so our boys won.
That should be the lastbasketball tournament.
Don't you feel like the parentsthat do the most, it's because
(17:39):
it's when they're losing.
Mm-hmm.
And they can't accept that.
Mm-hmm.
They're losing mm-hmm.
Because of skill.
Yes.
Well, so a couple of other gameswe ended, we were up by like 40.
Mm-hmm.
And there's five or six minutesleft, like we're up by 40.
We've only got seven playersWe're playing in the 10th grade
thing.
(17:59):
Some of ours are ninth gradeplayers.
Like they're just a really wellcoached good group of athletic
boys.
Mm-hmm.
And, Other parents were yellingat the refs about things, first
of all, that they didn't knowwhat they were talking about.
The parents, they were justtalking and then, yeah, and then
the coach was too, like, you'renot losing by 40 because of a
bad call.
I'm only laughing because thatwas me the first year of
(18:21):
lacrosse when I didn't know therules and I was just, you're
just yelling.
By the end.
I, I knew the rules.
You knew the rules and I wasstill yelling because I knew the
rules.
Right.
But No, but, but you're exactlyright.
I was just like,, you're notlosing this game by that many
points because of, you know, badcalls.
Mm-hmm.
It just doesn't happen.
So I'm glad that basketball isover for now.
So that was the a a u stuff.
(18:42):
We are in full football, well, Isay that, but he's got bas
school basketball, Juneworkouts.
Those are Not mandatory, butmandatory, if that makes sense.
Mm-hmm.
But we're in full football rightnow, so he is got some college
camps coming up.
He's got one this week atAnderson.
Ooh.
Actually, when everybody'slistening to this, that's where
Jackson will be.
Awesome.
And then, um, yeah, just doingthat circuit.
(19:06):
Nice.
Yeah.
Sorry, I went on a little rant.
All good.
I love it.
I love hearing parents actingbad, parents behaving poorly.
Yes.
It ruins things.
Yes.
well, I've been doing somedigging.
I told you that I had a relativein my history that we'll get
into.
One day, one day when I put allthe pieces together that, she's
(19:28):
still on death row, by the way.
She's still alive and she'sstill in prison on death.
Well I did listen to like 20podcasts, 20 of the podcast.
As I was looking through, tryingto connect all the pieces like
on ancestry.com and figure outwhere the connection is.
I have a relative that her namewas Temperance Delight.
(19:49):
Born in like 1920 or somethinglike that.
Temperance Delight.
Huh?
That's, that's quite a, quite aname.
It's, it's a stripper name.
It is Delight.
Maybe, I don't know.
But she was a Lady of the night.
Really?
She's like the preacher's wife,but all of the other, that's
(20:09):
funny you say that.
'cause the dad was a preacher.
Yep.
Uhhuh.
The other kids were like Blancheand Vernon and all these other
things and she was TemperanceDelights.
So, I saw something on Facebookspeaking of Blanche.
Mm-hmm.
And she was 42 in Golden Girls.
We are golden.
We are golden girls.
Oh, no.
I know, but why did Golden Girlsback then?
I thought they were like intheir sixties.
(20:30):
Me too.
And Sophia was 80 and she wasthe youngest out of all of'em.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, well why are wenot living in a house together
in Florida then goals, wherewould, where do they live?
Miami, Lauderdale, somethinglike that.
I don't remember.
Oh, neither.
But yeah, I was like, oh,reality check.
(20:50):
But I feel like we're like muchyounger than the golden girls.
Yeah.
I feel like that too.
I don't feel like I'm a goldengirl.
You are my golden girl.
In my head, I'm not.
No, I know.
I'm just blown away by it.
I think so.
I am, I'm closer to 50 than, I'm40 and 50 is the new 30.
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I like it.
I'm with it.
I'm trying to tell my neck andback.
That means I'm 20.
Yes, exactly.
Penny, by buy booze or do I needto buy it for you?
I'm I'm legal.
Just in case there are policeofficers.
Listen, Stephanie is really not20, no, 42.
Yeah.
(21:31):
Yeah.
Harsh reality.
Less not.
How are you?
42?
Mm-hmm.
I'll be 43 in July, I think.
Yeah.
I didn't realize that I was thatmuch older than you.
How old are you?
I'll be 48.
That's not that much.
Well, I found out this is brandnew information.
(21:52):
Found out that I was gonna be 48this year.
I thought I was turning 40.
I missed a year.
I thought I was turning 47.
Mm-hmm.
But I'll turn 48.
And the only reason I know thatis because Poseys turning 50.
And she apparently doesn'tlisten'cause she's made zero
comments on bigger challenge.
So I'm putting it out there inthe universe that Posey iss
gonna be 50.
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There you go.
How about some Diddy updates?
So I haven't heard anythingother than what Brian decided to
tell me.
Mm-hmm.
And, When he is giving me Diddyupdates, there's, there's some
serious stuff going on.
So he was telling me about, andI don't know if this is on your
list though, but he was tellingme about this woman.
He was like, there was thiswoman and baby oil, and like
(22:34):
several dudes were involved.
And I'm like, that's pretty muchthe whole situation, Brian.
And he was like, oh, oh, thatwas Cassie.
That's what I said.
I said, was it Cassie?
He's like.
No.
And I'm like, what?
Well, there's plenty.
So what, what's really jumpedout at you this week?
Well, I sent you the, secretService, Sam.
Mm-hmm.
Because his updates are.
Amazing.
(22:55):
Yes.
And, Jean The Bodyguard?
Yes.
Is there, like, just observing.
Okay.
And so, secret Service, Sam didget like a little interview with
him.
Okay.
Um, while they were outside thecourthouse.
He didn't like drop any bombs oranything, but he was, I was just
like, oh yeah, that's, that'sthe dude.
But there was a woman today,which is today is, what today is
(23:15):
Tuesday.
A woman today got forciblyremoved from the courtroom.
Wow.
So it said, and there was a girlthat was sitting next to her and
she gave like the, the wholerecap, the lowdown.
Okay.
So she was walking in and Iguess you can't wear any like
hats or scarves'cause they'reafraid that you're gonna have
some kind of like, device torecord or whatever.
Oh.
So she was like, um, I wannawear my hat, uh, it's religious
(23:39):
reasons, or something like that.
And the bailiff was like, no,take it off.
Like, we're not playing gamestoday.
Take it off or get out.
So she's sitting there all madand whatnot, and says she got up
and yelled to Diddy.
They're trying to get you,they're laughing at you, get the
guns and I mean, then she said,they're trying to take a black
(24:07):
man down this white supremacistsystem.
The bailiff told her to calmdown and she told them, what are
you gonna do?
Pull out your guns and shoot me.
Then three bailiffs dragged herout of the.
The courtroom while beingdragged.
She was yelling, Diddy, thesemother ERs are laughing at you,
get the guns.
She needs some evaluations done.
(24:28):
Crazy.
And then a YouTuber has beenbarred from coming in.
Okay.
On anything, because one of thewitnesses, they're going by like
pseudonyms or whatever.
Mm-hmm.
Because they don't want theiridentities mm-hmm.
Out.
And he.
Was, I guess either in thecourtroom or whatever he was
reporting on it and released theperson's like actual identity.
(24:50):
So the judge found out and hasbarred this person from any of
the trial stuff.
Hmm.
Yeah.
But did you see Kid Cudi, tookthe stand?
No.
So Kid Cudi and Cassie datedOkay.
And.
I was like, gimme all thedetails because Right.
(25:10):
Kid Cuddy's car got blown upduring all of, yes.
I forgot about that.
Yeah.
So Kid Cuddy said that him andCassie were dating Diddy found
out Cassie called Kid Cudi andwas like, Diddy knows and
mm-hmm.
He was like, so what?
You guys broke up what's, whocares?
Whatever.
And she's like, no.
You don't understand.
Yeah.
And then.
Capricorn, what was her name?
(25:32):
It was his assistant, um,whatever.
Okay.
His assistant had called him andsaid, Hey, look out because he's
at your house right now.
What?
Or she was in the car outside ofhis house.
Did he?
And, Other people broke into hishouse.
Mm-hmm.
She calls him from the car andshe's like, yo, we're here.
Like, this is not good.
Oh my gosh.
And dude's like, what the heck?
So he jumps in his car, to goand he's like, what am I doing?
(25:52):
There's probably a bunch of'em.
So he calls the cops, cops comethere.
By the time the cops get there,they're already gone.
And did, he opened up like theChristmas presents under the
tree.
That's just, but the worst partabout it was that kid Cuddy's
dog got drugged and put in acloset and locked in a closet.
Don't interfere with thedoggies.
(26:13):
Let's, or not interfere, butyeah.
So, leave Dude's car got blownup and so kid Cutty goes to see
Diddy like, what's up?
Yeah.
Like, what the heck?
Yeah.
And Cassie comes out.
And stands behind Diddy and waslike, I choose him or something
to that effect.
Mm mm-hmm.
And I'm sure because she waslike terrified, threatened her
(26:34):
life.
Yeah.
Whatever.
But Cookie Cutty's, like, youcan have her, I'm out like, this
is ridiculous.
Yeah.
I don't want any part of this.
So fast forward however manymonths and they see each other
and Diddy's like, yo, what's up?
Like, nothing happened.
And he's like, dude, like youblew up my car.
And he's like, yeah, sorry aboutthat.
Cray, Z So dude's on standright, and he's in the courtroom
(26:58):
and I'm sure like you're dead.
Yeah.
I wonder what they were askinghim about.
Like about that situation orjust all of it altogether?
Well, they had brought that upbecause, that's part of like the
racketeering where he had peopledo stuff for him.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Or like, it was like a gang,like whatever criminal
organization Yep.
Is what they're trying to prove.
(27:18):
Yeah.
For the racketeering and yeah,that's what they're trying to,
but.
You know I love me some 50 cent.
What Fitty do?
Oh, fifty's doing the most.
He is my king Petty Betty.
Wait, is he the one who's beenall over X saying things?
He's on Instagram.
Tell me I two, but Okay.
Tell me what you got and I'lltell you the same time.
(27:39):
Okay.
Well he learned how to use aiOh, geez.
Like AI images.
So he is got like all sorts ofpictures, but, so did he, he was
trying to get Trump apart inhim.
Mm.
Yeah.
So 50 posts a clip of Diddy.
I think during like the firstelection that he was running
(28:01):
saying all sorts of bad stuffabout Trump, like he needs to be
mm-hmm.
Whatever.
Mm-hmm.
Banned or whatever it is.
Yeah.
And, so he's like, Hey, just asa reminder and tag Trump, right?
So the caption read, Welp can'task him for help, then buddy,
LOL.
And you sent me these and it'slike a 32nd clip of him just
(28:23):
like tearing apart Trump.
Just going off off.
Yeah.
And I was like, oof.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
So then, he made a meme of, youknow, because he, he learned how
to use ai.
And it says jury of peers, andit was a whole jury full of 50
cents.
Oh, full of fifties.
I saw that.
I saw that one.
Like all the same, 50, justdifferent colors, clothes, yeah.
(28:46):
Okay.
Capricorn Clark, that was theassistant's name.
Okay.
Had on stand, brought 50 intoit, during the court case.
Mm-hmm.
And said that, back in the day,puff had beef with 50 and so.
50 runs to Instagram and hesays, cut, cut.
Wait a minute, Puffy's got agun.
I can't believe this.
I don't feel safe.
LOL.
(29:07):
Oh my goodness.
I don't love that.
He still calls'em puffy.
It's just like a littledisrespect on top of everything
else.
Well, one of the women thattestified described.
Diddy's package as a TSI roll, Iguess as I've heard that.
Yep.
As small as a TSI roll, so 50being 50, and one of the
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captions calls him itty bittyDiddy.
Oh my gosh.
Never be able to not call himitty bitty Diddy.
Anybody, Diddy.
Oh, but I love Mason.
50 Troll.
I know he is.
So he's just basically sittingat his house, working the AI
modules, doing his thing.
I can't get enough.
(29:48):
I know.
He keep it coming.
He is great.
Keep it coming.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
Amazing yeah.
When Brian came home telling meabout all this today, I was
like.
I'm glad you're interested, butI think this is probably like
old news, kind of all of ittogether.
Yeah.
I thought he had some like majorbecause he was like, did you
hear about the, the drama Diddy.
(30:08):
And I was like, no.
Like I thought he had some brandnew piping hot tea.
No, no, no.
Should have known better.
His algorithm is, yeah, I needto get a hold of his phone.
Well, I know We always talkabout these weird conspiracy
theories.
Oh yeah.
So I found a new guy on TikTokthat does so many, like on your
weird talk.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And that's like on my personalTikTok, not on like the podcast
(30:31):
TikTok.
I get the weirdest things I'mtelling you, like my 3:00 AM
scroll.
It's, it's all weird, but you'rein a crazy place.
Yeah.
Okay.
Watch.
Okay, so this guy, his TikTokname is Mave approach.
Okay.
So his theory is that.
Dinosaurs when the asteroid hitearth, not all of them died.
(30:53):
They, went underground, to savethemselves.
Okay.
And have evolved into thereptilians that people say when
they're not human and they'rereptilians and they show like
the, the funky eyes.
So they've evolved into thisreptilian whatever.
Okay.
And they're not really lizardpeople.
(31:13):
It's like evolved dinosaurs.
There's a theory for you I don'tbuy that one.
I buy a lot of the conspiracies,but I don't buy that one.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't buy that one.
Are dinosaurs and dragonsrelated?
I Okay.
So Well then I went down thatrabbit hole of like dinosaurs.
Yeah.
Because I clicked on the videoand then I was getting all these
dinosaur things and they saythat dragons are dinosaurs.
(31:38):
That just.
Didn't die off when all thedinosaurs died off, like they
lasted longer.
Mm-hmm.
And they're saying that T-Rex islike little tiny arms.
Mm-hmm.
Somebody had taken like theskeleton mm-hmm.
A picture of the skeleton andthey put it next to an ostrich
and its little wings are likethe same bone structure as the
(32:01):
T-Rex.
I a hundred percent believe thatis so like his little arms might
have been like little wings'cause chickens are from
dinosaurs.
Right.
You're laughing at me like I'mnot, you're laughing at Doss.
I'm laughing at all.
All of it.
Like people have this much timeon their hands.
So I know.
Think about T-Rex arms andthey're not like dinosaur people
(32:26):
for a career.
It's people sitting at home.
Mm-hmm.
Why did the rexes have littletiny arms?
Let me pull it up their skeletonstructure and evaluate it
against all of the currentanimals.
Wait.
No, I don't.
I don't believe that one.
And here's why ostriches layeggs.
T-Rex is were mammals.
Do we know?
I mean, like we don't reallyknow.
(32:48):
No, we don't really know.
We just assume.
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
And they just fascinating, foundsoft tissue, whatever from some
kind of like dig that they foundsomewhere that they dug.
On a dinosaur for a dinosaur,some kind of soft tissue DNA or
whatever.
That is now in some kind of lab,they're bringing back dinosaurs.
(33:09):
I would so go on the tour rudelya hundred percent.
They had a great podcast.
We really loved them.
But you know, they opened up thedinosaur park 100%.
I would go, mm-hmm.
No doubt about it in my mind.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
All of it.
Okay.
I'll go on one.
But can we not be in like anopen Jeep?
(33:33):
Like what?
Do you wanna go on?
Like a tank?
Yeah.
No.
I need more experience or anopen tank that we can close.
I'm, what are you doing?
I'm picturing all those videoswhere the ostriches like, oh
yeah, pecking like for the foodand there people are freaking
out.
Or the zebras.
Oh yeah.
Dra and over and get'em to likea raptor jumps in.
Oh.
(33:53):
Oh yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Speaking of like safari type ofthings with like open, so I just
saw, and this back happened inlike 2003 or 2005.
And I never heard this before,so like, it just blew my mind
that in Africa or somewheremm-hmm.
A little girl got kidnapped.
She was like 12 by this, thesemen and a pack of lions chased
(34:17):
off the men or like all the menor whatever.
Oh.
And stayed with a little girland protected her until the
police found her.
How awesome is that?
And then I was like, I shouldhave worked at a zoo.
I missed.
I would, yeah.
And then I, you know, got alllike the animal videos of like
the trainers and the, the Ohyeah.
Like, have you seen the oneswhere they haven't seen their
lion that they raised and thelion comes up and like, like
(34:39):
hugs them.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Yeah.
And like knocks'em down andthey're, or there's one with an
orangutan too.
And he runs and he jumps up inthe woman and he's so excited
and then all of a sudden he seesthe man and he's even more
excited.
I miss my calling.
Like, that is what I should havedone.
Like my soul purpose was tocuddle animals.
Well, a hundred percent.
And, Jackson and I have a newplan.
(34:59):
Whenever we get a Saturday free,we are gonna go do puppy yoga.
Oh, you wanna go with I do.
I've never done yoga officiallyin my life, but I've only done
it at home.
Like I've never done a class.
Right?
No.
Yeah.
I've been like YouTube.
Okay.
Downward dog.
But Rex thinks I need help, butI'm to a yoga.
But they post what kind of dogsthey have.
(35:20):
Mm-hmm.
And they've had, Bernesemountain dogs.
There's videos of, St.
Bernard puppies goldenretrievers.
So it's not little dogs, it'sEnglish bulldogs, but they're
puppies.
Mm-hmm.
So they're little, I mean, youknow, they're still big.
They're still big.
They're, they're, they're thick.
They're, they're jump on yourback.
They're not, they're notchihuahuas.
Yeah.
Or wear a shitzu or anythingsmall.
(35:41):
Yeah.
But, oh my gosh, that is, yeah.
Yeah, I'm in.
Let me know.
Okay.
Can't wait.
Can't wait to do that one.
Don't make fun of me.
I'm not flexible.
Oh God.
Not at all.
Especially with all this I havegoing on today.
Well, do you want to do the, amI the A-hole?
Yeah.
Okay, so let's talk about this.
Am I the A-hole?
(36:01):
You want me to talk about it?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So I found the am I the A-holethis week?
Yes.
And I found it because I waslistening to a book that this
was in.
I love that they haveincorporated Am I the A-Hole
into Book?
I know, and it was, it's so,it's the very beginning of the
book and it is a little summerread.
It's called Just for the Summer.
(36:23):
It's the name of the book andit's by Abby Jimenez or
something.
I don't know how to say her lastname, but, it's a series.
Very cute summer romantic comedykind of beat tree.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Definitely beat tree.
Thank you.
I was trying to get there and Icouldn't, so I'm gonna read the,
am I the a, a-hole from thebook?
Okay.
Okay.
Am I the A-hole for naming myUgly Dog After my ex Best
(36:46):
Friend?
29 male have been friends withChad 32 male since we were born.
Our moms are best friends and wegrew up together and we were
roommates for the last 10 yearsup until the incident that set
our current situation intomotion.
I have this little streak, ifyou will, basically every woman
I date more than a few times.
Ends up finding her soulmateright after we break up.
(37:08):
So that's the premise of thebook.
'cause this woman also has thisthing where she dates people,
they break up and they findtheir soulmate.
So that's how they connected.
But here's the, the rest of thedog story.
It started three years ago andnow it's happened five times.
We break up.
And the very next person theydate is the one.
My friends think this ishilarious.
I always part ways with thewomen on good terms, and I'm
(37:30):
happy they're happy, but mybuddies tease me.
Mercifully, mercilessly aboutit.
They called me the good luckcharm.
Anyway, forward to five monthsago.
I dated Hope for a few weeks.
Not a big deal.
We decided we weren't fillingit.
No chemistry.
So we called it quits, and thenlo and behold, she hits it off
with Chad, his roommate.
(37:50):
Of course, in true luck, charmand fashion.
This means Chad is her soulmate.
Chad's all googly ad over her.
They've met the parents, they'rering shopping.
They wanna move in togetherimmediately.
Only problem is Chad has sixmore months on our lease, but
they found the perfect home forhim and hope he can afford to
have the rent in both places.
So he has to make the decisionto leave.
So I've spent weeks stressing.
(38:12):
I didn't wanna find a newroommate.
The landlord wouldn't let meoutta the lease.
Only unit available in thecomplex is a studio.
It's small, but it's temporaryand it's cheap.
I jumped on the chance, but thisis why it's terrible.
It directly faces one of thebillboards for the toilet kings.
(38:32):
So anyway, because, and, andthis keeps.
Keeps going over.
So now after all this, theyhave, he named the dog Chad
after his roommate that he'sstill like best friends with.
But anyway, it's just a cute,cute, cute book now.
So do you think he's the a-holefor name of the dog after his
ugly dog after his ex-roommate?
(38:56):
No, I don't think so either.
No.
I don't think so either.
And everybody wants him tochange the dog's name.
After, you know, they, they findout the story behind it.
They're like, just change thedog's name.
He's like, Nope.
No, I don't, I don't think he'sthe, a-hole.
I don't think so either.
I don't think so either.
But it was so funny.
So he talks about the, dude isdressed like Henry Tudor and
(39:16):
holding a plunger over a giantpoop filled toilet bowl.
It should be illegal.
Right.
I'm annoyed, but I decided totry for, I find a reason to
spend more time outside so Idon't have to stare out of my
window.
So I got the dog.
Chad would never agree to itbefore, but now I have named him
Chad.
I just, I think it's hilarious.
Roommate.
(39:37):
Yeah.
I, I think it's hilarious.
So the whole book is, and I knowsome of our people that aren't
book users are still here, butthe whole book is just filled
with that.
Just funny.
Yeah.
Witty.
Kind of stuff, so read it.
If you want to feel free to nameyour next pet after Stephanie or
Meredith, you should get two.
Two.
Stephanie and Meredith.
(39:57):
Chunky one is me.
The lazy one is me.
The short one is me.
The one with all the energy is Iwould die if somebody named
their pets after us.
You.
What if they're like journals?
(40:18):
I would lose it.
I don't if somebody named ananimal after me and you.
Well, I mean two animals.
Their name's not like StephanieMeredith.
They're married with Stephanie,but two separate animals.
Even if it's fish, like the fishthat just die after a week.
Well, you know, something'sjust, I would lose it.
That's when I'll know we havemade it.
(40:39):
Yes.
Well.
I'm just saying good namescalled great names.
Think of all the nicknames.
Oh my God.
A person, A person, mayor Bear.
I don't know why that popped inmy head.
So that was just a little quick,short in of the A-hole.
Well, I think we're gonna moveon to our book.
So if you're not a bookie Yep.
Piece out.
We love you.
We love you.
(40:59):
Leave a review, tell yourfriends, learn to read.
Adios.
So for our bookies this week, wehave read, she was the Quiet one
by Michelle Campbell.
And.
This kinda, I thought was gonnahave all the things like there
was the Boarding school and likethe rich, snotty kids and
mm-hmm.
(41:19):
All the things.
So, chat, GPT gave me thislittle wine.
Okay.
In Michelle Campbell's, she wasthe quiet one.
Twin sisters Rosen Bell Enrightenroll at an elite New England
boarding school where siblingrivalry, rival rivalry, yes,
that word, toxic friendships andpredatory teacher coate in a
(41:42):
tragic murder that leaves onesister dead in the other under
suspicion.
I was not impressed with thisbook.
I wanted to be.
I did too.
I, again, doc, like we hadtaught, it has a lot of the
pieces that we like.
It has a lot of the, you know,the twin thing, the trifecta,
the twin thing, the boardingschool.
And that was one more thing thatwe were interested in.
Money.
(42:03):
Money.
Just, just money.
Yeah.
And it was, it was like.
Average.
Mm-hmm.
And I figured it all out mm-hmm.
As it was going.
And yeah, I was just notimpressed.
I didn't think that thecharacters were developed well,
no, I didn't think so.
I'm glad you said that.
I didn't think so either.
And it was the only, the onlytwist for me at all was at the
(42:23):
very, very, very, very, very endof the book when the little
spoilers, right?
Mm-hmm.
Obviously the, when was it Darcythat did the epilogue, like a
little piece of the epilogue atthe end?
At the very end It was somebodyelse who said that they had
already won the game.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was the only twist.
Yeah.
That came outta nowhere for me.
But I did not like this.
(42:44):
I even though I don't like Sure.
Warning pedophilia, obviously.
With the relationship betweenthe students and the teachers,
it was still lacking.
I.
I, again, it was flat.
Yeah.
I, I was not impressed.
Uhhuh, it was unremarkable.
Mm-hmm.
The characters, like nothingreally stood out.
Mm-hmm.
That I thought even like theteachers weren't really teaching
(43:06):
anything.
Mm-hmm.
The cops, the only thing I didlike.
Kind of was a lot of the storywas told in a police setting
where they were beinginterrogated.
Yeah.
I thought that was a little bitdifferent, but yeah, there was
some bounce back and forthbetween the interrogation and
the actual timeline, right?
Mm-hmm.
So I think that part wasinteresting or different.
(43:28):
But the rest of it.
Mm-hmm.
I just didn't think there wasanything special about it.
Yeah.
I thought it was very onedimensional.
Mm-hmm.
Just didn't have a lot of, depthto it, and there's a lot of
potential there.
and I felt like too, theystarted to explore some of the,
the stuff like.
They get into the relationshipbetween the sisters, but they
could have done a lot more withthat.
(43:48):
Mm-hmm.
I mean, other than just, Iforgive you.
Yeah.
Or I'm mad at you.
You know, there wasn't a lotthere.
Yeah.
To me felt like, like a badlifetime movie.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Is Yeah.
What I thought, yeah.
When I was listening like, thisis.
Yeah.
Not good.
I was not a fan of the, was hisname Zach?
Yeah.
Even the way he was presented, Ididn't like anything that he
(44:11):
brought to the table.
None of it was impressive.
Mm-hmm.
Don't recommend if you haven'tread it yet, I don't recommend.
No, it was like I three, I wasgonna say four.
I made it through.
Yeah.
But, well, it was one of thosetoo that like.
You keep thinking something'sgonna, it is gonna shift or it's
gonna pick up but it was justalways very blah.
(44:32):
Mm-hmm.
Dry.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
That was a very descriptive wordI used.
Um, well, next week hopefullythe book will be better.
Okay.
Next week is, that's not my nameby Megan Lolly.
And this was all over TikTok, soI have.
Better hope for this book.
All right.
She thought she had her lifeback.
She was wrong.
It was a mistake to trust himshivering and bruised.
(44:55):
A teen wakes up on the side ofthe dirt road with no memory of
how she got there or who she is.
A passing officer takes her tothe police station and not long
after a frantic man arrives.
He's been searching for her forhours.
He has her school id, her birthcertificate, and even family
photos.
He is her father.
Her name is Mary, or so he says,when Lola slammed the car door
(45:16):
and stormed off into the night,drew thought they just needed
some time to cool off, exceptLola disappeared and the
sheriff, his friends in thewhole town are convinced Drew
murdered his girlfriend.
Forget proving his innocence.
He needs to find her before it'stoo late.
The longer Lola is missing, thefewer leads there are to follow
and the more danger they bothare in.
So I have read this, okay.
(45:39):
When I was going through ourlist, trying to get a little bit
ahead and loved it.
Okay.
I actually am downloading itagain to read it again.
Okay.
Because I enjoyed this one.
That is for next week.
Hi, hopes and I think that's it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Thank you guys for listening.
We love you.
Please, like we thank you.
We thank we.
Thank you for your listening.
(45:59):
What was that?
I don't know.
I'm so weird.
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Oh wow.
I just sounded like lucky charmsfell outta my.
Alright, that wraps up anotherepisode of, this is My Circus.
If you survive this episode andsomehow still like us, make sure
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