Hosts: Stefanie Navarro & Meredith Hill
Run Time: 50 Mins
Theme: Domestic Chaos, Sean Diddy Combs Court Case Updates, Trump VS Must, Crazy animal antics, AITA, Book Club Review!
Welcome back to This Is My Circus — the podcast where parenting is chaotic, pets are weird, and the true crime tea is scalding hot.
This week, we’re raising butterflies (sort of), rescuing frogs who refuse to stay rescued, fixing toilets like certified DIY queens, and confessing to powdering our boobs in a heatwave. Nothing is off-limits in this household.
We’re also diving into the messiest headlines:
- Simone Biles vs. Riley Gaines: The Olympic icon claps back, but fans aren’t having it — and her old tweets aren’t helping either.
- Diddy’s Trial Gets Weirder: Is he mouthing threats in court? Stephanie Soo says yes, and now she’s had to change hotels eight times.
- Trump vs. Musk: The Twitter breakup you didn’t know you needed.
- Lizard corpses, snake sightings, and... zebra airlifts? Yup. It’s that kind of episode.
🐾 Also this week:
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- RIP to a pet and the awkward cremation aftermath
- Should you give a dog back to the family that dumped it?
- ADHD hacks for free national park access (no gatekeeping here!)
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⭐️ Themes: Identity, survival, trauma, redemption
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- Butterfly updates (spoiler: one of them didn’t make it, and the other won’t leave)
- Why powder on the bathroom floor is totally justified
- That time we realized we should’ve been lion cuddlers
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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 mycircus.
Hello, Steph.
Ola.
Ola.
What's up?
Oh, living the dream.
Living the dream.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm the nightmare.
Nightmare.
Uh, nothing's really going on.
(00:42):
It's hot and I'm pissed offabout it.
Are you?
I mean, I enjoy this change ofseasons, but I just don't wanna
be hot all the time.
I have a suicidal frog thatkeeps trying to get in the pool,
and I have saved its life fourtimes, but I'm sick of saving
its life at this point, and Ithink you're just gonna let
(01:03):
nature take its course.
Yeah.
I mean, if it's that dumb, thenit's that dumb.
Speaking of dumb animals, okay,I did this thing, I always
wanted to do this, where you getthe live caterpillars and you
grow them into butterflies.
They turn into butterflies.
Okay.
So I got, I got fivecaterpillars.
You order'em in the mail andthey come and I got the
butterfly kit.
(01:24):
Okay.
They come in a jar, you don'teven open it.
Okay.
And you don't do anything.
You don't like food and stuff inthere?
Yes, everything is in there.
You don't even have to open ituntil they form the crystal
list, whatever it's called.
That had a fancy word.
So I was trying to act like ascientist and then that didn't
go well.
Anyway, I did the things, itcame with five, they grew,
whatever.
I put'em in this big mesh netthingy that you put'em in so
(01:47):
they can hang and grow.
So they start emerging.
So out of the five, I had fourand a half butterflies and one,
okay.
So three were great, three aregone.
One.
I had the lid off of this and hecouldn't figure out how to get
out.
And so I like put a plant downin it.
(02:08):
So maybe he, he would be like,oh look, no, he was still there
when I left today.
And so it's been almost 24 hoursthat he's not figured it out
yet.
And then one was born, I guessit got, they get caught up in
their cocoon type thing.
Mm-hmm.
So it doesn't have wings on oneside of its body.
I'm like, what am I gonna dowith this guy?
I can't let him lose.
(02:29):
Do I feed him to the birds thatare up here?
Like, what, what happens?
So Jackson came out last nightand he was like, oh mama, your
butterflies.
You know, he entertains, he, helets me say all the things.
And, I was like, yeah, and I'mgonna let him out right here,
but what if those birds swoopdown and get'em?
And he was like, well that onelooks like he needed to be guy
talking about the one arm, onearmed butterfly, poor thing.
(02:50):
I don't know what happened tohim.
So four and a half out of fiveis not bad and one is,
Challenged, directionallychallenged, not ready to fly the
co yet, not ready to fly thecoop yet.
So that was fun though.
So even just thinking about whatdid it take, so, May 28th is
when I got the things, so what'sthat?
Two weeks?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(03:11):
And most of the time was thecaterpillars growing?
Like, they were so small andthen they got so large.
What gave you this idea?
Like, did you see something onTikTok or Facebook?
You just searched butterflies?
I, yeah.
Got no words, you know, I likethe garden stuff and I like the
outside stuff and I like allthat and got it.
(03:36):
I'm not judging.
I get sucked into things.
Like the wipe out and all thisstuff that we talked about
before.
No, I just always like, I, youknow, I like working in the yard
and working in the garden andall those things, and this is
where we differ.
This is, this is where we dotake different roads in our
(03:56):
lives, but I, yeah.
So, huh?
I'll do it again.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
It was really neat.
Yeah.
Really, when Dylan was little,we would do a lot of sciencey
stuff.
Yeah.
Like at home, like, we'd do liketornadoes in the jocks.
Yes.
Like all the, the volcanothings.
Yeah.
So like I totally would've donethat.
Yes.
With him when he was little.
I, yeah.
My brain is like, so not, Iwanna do a science project.
(04:20):
I get that.
I'm like, oh, what can I buy onTikTok?
I get that too.
I get that too.
A hundred percent.
I guess'cause of the gardenstuff I've been doing a lot
outside, so Yeah.
So it didn't take long.
I successfully raised somebutterflies.
You know those videos though,where you see somebody save
something and then the nextsecond like a hawk swoops down.
I kept waiting for that moment.
(04:41):
That would be me, my, with yourfrog, your suicidal frog.
Okay.
So speaking of suicidal things,so I opened the door yesterday
mm-hmm.
To go out the front door and Ilooked down and there is a dead
lizard.
Did you see it?
I told Dylan to move it.
I'm like, I, nope, I don't, Ididn't see it.
(05:01):
There is a dead little greenlizard on the doormat.
What if I stepped on him?
Did I step on him?
I don't.
No, no.
I'll move it when I leave.
So every time I walk in I'mlike, Dylan, you haven't moved
it yet.
And he's like, yeah, no, I'll doit when I leave.
Oh, I'll have a burial for him.
(05:21):
So bury him and sea kind.
Just, it was just like belly upon the doormat.
He just was done.
I thought I was walking Rex twodays ago.
Yeah.
In this big giant, like, thosebig like vulture birds.
Mm-hmm.
Buzzards.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Someone like whatever they are,was in the grass.
And I'm like, okay, somethingmust have died.
Right.
And it's, we were walking, so itflew on top of a house, and as I
(05:43):
was walking by, it was a hugestead snake.
Oh.
I was like, no.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
So I keep, I always look forsnakes.
Me too.
And Oh, okay.
Have I told you that Jackson'scutting grass?
Yeah.
We had this conversation.
Okay.
So I do the weeding and, and Ilove it.
(06:06):
It, again, this is where we'redifferent.
I don't like the manual part ofit.
It won't kill me, but it's sosatisfying.
It's like pressure washingsomething like you, the
gratification of seeing it.
So the other day I was weedeating for Jackson and I That
was a little snake.
Was it just like a gardenersnake?
I don't know.
It was little and brown.
(06:28):
Mm-hmm.
But some, this is stupid, butsome black snakes are brown.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't know.
Like the king snakes?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
And I thought I killed it and I.
Told the person that livedthere, I was like, uh, just
letting you know this is here.
Whatever.
So I walked back by to dosomething, I don't know, came
back and it was gone and it, wasstill alive or still like having
its reaction things and it wasclose to the grass.
(06:50):
So I like scooted it back out.
Give me fallen winter.
That's another reason I don't,oh, I, I don't mind the snakes.
I don't wanna kill the, thequote Good ones.
Like, I don't, yeah.
But they're not around when it'scold.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And you know what else isn'taround my humid titties?
(07:11):
It is way too hot to have a bigchest rain now.
It's just, Brian was like, whyis there powder all over the
floor in the bathroom?
My business, I was like, I wasreally hot and I was trying to
keep from sweating all over theplace.
He was like, I get it.
(07:32):
You can take that out or leaveit in.
I really don't care.
That's relatable.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Oh gosh.
Yeah, so it's been great.
Fabulous, fabulous.
That's, we're only nine minutesin and I've already embarrassed
myself a couple of times.
Well, it's all good.
It is.
We're it's family.
Yeah.
It's just family.
We all, uh, we all know what'sgoing on.
(07:52):
Yeah.
Well, did you see this mess?
And I'm so disappointed.
Okay.
Simone Biles Olympic champion.
Yeah.
Did you see this mess with her?
And, Riley Gaines?
I saw like a clip, but didn't goback and watch it.
I saw there was something.
What's the beef?
So Ri Gaines she advocates forno men and women's sports.
(08:13):
Mm-hmm.
And she's done this for yearsand years and years.
Mm-hmm.
And whether you believe it ornot, that's right.
Whatever.
Right.
Your prerogative to believe.
But she retweeted or re orwhatever it all down, I hate it.
The photo of the Minnesota HighSchool softball team champions
and, all comments were off onthis post or whatever Okay.
(08:35):
For the school.
And she said, of course they wontheir star player as a boy.
Mm-hmm.
And it's a female softball team.
Okay.
Riley did not say, call outwhich person on the team it is
didn't say a specific, position.
Mm-hmm.
Just said the star player isboy.
Okay.
And that was it.
Okay.
There was the only thing she didwas call out the governor and
(08:56):
said that he is allowing this orhe's mm-hmm.
You know, weak or whatever.
It's the only thing neverattacked the child.
Just stated the fact.
Mm-hmm.
So, Simone retweets, Riley'stweet saying Ri truly sick, and
she's a sore loser because shelost to a, trans woman, she says
(09:17):
that Ri should be using herpower to uplift the trans
community and make sportsinclusive or make a separate
category like RI can make aseparate category.
Mm-hmm.
It's Riley's choice.
then she says that Riley isbullying this child on this
team, and she's a bully and nowomen are safe in sports with ri
around.
(09:37):
Oh my gosh.
I mean, she went like batty.
Yeah.
Then out of nowhere, randomlyretweets that ri should bully
somebody her own size, whichwould be a man RI is five five
and a hundred and thirty five, ahundred forty pounds.
I'm sorry that Simone is likefour none and little tiny.
She's a legit pocket person.
Yeah, she's, she's a mini pocketperson.
(10:00):
So whether you believe thesituation or like believe that
it's right or wrong, I need tohear, nor there Now you're
attacking.
Yeah.
Some of these looks and not evenlike accurately.
I'm very disappointed in Simon.
So am I.
Yeah.
Everything, um, I've seen isvery much in support of Riley.
Mm-hmm.
If for no other reason thanSimone attacking her look.
(10:24):
Yeah.
So, super disappointed.
Everybody is calling out thesponsors for Simone saying like,
this is what you're sponsoring.
It's like women's athletic wear,you know, all the things because
in turn she's bullying andshaming.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And then so Leigh's whole pointis not even like, I mean, yes
(10:45):
men.
Physiologically are differentmm-hmm.
Than women, their masks.
Sure.
A hundred percent everything.
Yeah.
So they do have an advantage.
Yes.
I think everybody can, for themost part agree mm-hmm.
On that.
But then to have your lockerrooms having to undress mm-hmm.
And have that added layer ofuncomfortable.
(11:06):
Mm-hmm.
That's really a, that's a mainpoint of hers is like, girls
should not have to change in alocker room mm-hmm.
In front of a boy.
Yeah.
That's still intact.
Right, right, right.
So, so for Simone to be so,like, this is how it should be
when she was so vocal mm-hmm.
(11:26):
About the safety of girls ingymnastics after the things that
happened to her mm-hmm.
Blows my mind.
Yeah.
And Ri did bring that up in adifferent tweet, like, hey, like
this is what you put out there.
Right.
And you're truly not advocatingfor girls.
Did she say anything to respondto that?
That, you know.
Publicity people told her toshut up.
Yeah.
(11:47):
Yeah.
Which is what should happen whenthey start saying things that
just don't make any sense.
And I think, I didn't know this,I just saw it today, that I
guess she has a documentarycoming out, uh, Simone.
And so maybe she's just tryingto get her name relevant again.
Oh.
Before the documentary.
But this isn't a good look.
No, this is not point to it.
(12:07):
No, not at all.
Mm-hmm.
I'm just very, I'm disgusted.
Yeah.
With, with that.
Like, that's not, like you said,men and women are totally
different.
Mm-hmm.
And don't even wanna open thiscan of worms on here.
Okay.
So the worst part is somebodydug through all of Simone's
tweets and in 2017 she tweeted,thank goodness men aren't in
(12:29):
women's gymnastics because theywould've taken all the gold.
So make it make sense.
I, I don't know.
It just maybe she got hacked.
I don't think so.
She doubled down on it.
Maybe she got hacked twice.
I don't know.
I mean, yeah, either way it's,it's, that's bad.
Yeah, that's bad.
Since you brought up some beefgoing on, so I saw something the
(12:53):
other day that was hilariousabout some beef with our
president.
Oh, I did too.
Woke up.
It's Friday.
Trump and Musk are in a messybreakup dance party with Taylor
Swift.
Tell me how women are tooemotional to lead.
Um, well, somebody else hadposted, do y'all not see the
underlying chess moves that thisis making?
(13:15):
Because the Democrats, again, wedon't normally get into
politics, but Right.
They were so against releasingthe Epstein files.
Mm-hmm.
So they're saying like, this wasall set up and that because
Trump is supposedly in there,that they're gonna now demand
that files be released.
So it was really like a, atactical move to leak it, saying
(13:35):
that he's in these files and tofinally get them like fully
released.
It's all so messy.
It's all so blah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah.
It is what it is, right?
It is, it is.
And right now it's just stupidand all the tweets back and
forth and the, the, you're herefor it, aren't you?
(13:59):
I think it's hysterical.
It is funny.
It's but terrifying.
Like, hey, it could be worse, Iguess so.
I guess so.
It could.
Okay.
That's not gonna, speaking ofworse.
Yeah.
Did you see our girl, StephanieSue is uh, what's going on with
her in the Diddy case?
No.
So I watched her updateyesterday and she was there,
(14:19):
right?
Yeah.
And Diddy has like mouthed, likestared her in the eyes and
mouthed to her.
I know you.
Yes.
Several times now.
It's just once.
Well, so she must have doneanother video.
'cause the one I did, she said,I don't know if he's talking to
me or somebody else.
So it was, she felt it was her.
Well, yeah, and then she said, Iguess in one of her updates she
said that.
(14:39):
The, the artist that's do andthe artist is horrible like
that.
Yeah.
Court artist.
Yeah.
Does, oh no, they should nothire her again or him, whoever
it is.
Right.
But, um, she said that thedrawings make him look like a
koala bear.
You can't unsee that once youprocess that in your head.
Yeah.
So he was overheard telling theartist to soften him up because
(15:01):
he looks like a koala.
So, and then like then he'smouthing, I know you.
Mm-hmm.
And she said that people havebeen approaching her outside of
the courthouse asking her whereshe's staying.
And her and her team have had tomove eight times different.
Wow.
Tells in fear of, of for safety.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, but random people never haveseen in her life, nothing.
(15:23):
Just where are you staying?
So.
Poor Stephanie Sue is justtrying to do the Lord's work She
is by giving us all the tea onwhat's going on.
And she takes meticulous notes.
She is so good.
She is amazing.
I thought though, that theycouldn't go in for like, the
whole time that they just gotlike a one day thing.
(15:45):
I, I don't, I think you have tobe like in line, like, and she's
gotten in this many times.
Mm-hmm.
I appreciate her dedication.
I do too.
And I mean, I don't know whereshe lives, but she's been in New
York this whole time.
Yeah, she's, she's doing thething, she's doing the dang
thing.
So, um, our poor Stephanie Sue,I pray she stays safe.
I know.
That's crazy.
And then today, um, jury personnumber six Okay.
(16:09):
Is potentially getting kickedoff the jury.
Why?
What happened?
Um, I guess overly enthusiasticin favor of Diddy.
Like, oh, overly like agreeableto Okay.
Inside and showing that.
Very expressively.
Yeah.
In the jury box.
Well, apparently there's notsupposed to be, and I didn't
(16:29):
know this, there's not supposedto be really any expression in
the courtroom.
Mm-hmm.
And that's what our friendStephanie was saying is that
Diddy has been threatened by thejudge to be kicked out because
he's too expressive.
Mm-hmm.
Like he was vigorously noddingor something like that.
Well, the thing I saw was thathe was vigorously nodding to the
(16:51):
jury.
Mm-hmm.
Like staring the jury down.
Mm-hmm.
And I would be like, Nope, I'mdone taking it out.
Yeah.
I can't do this soulless.
No.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So, jury number six today, theywere deciding if that person
could stay or if they're gonnareplace that party.
Should I stay or should, man.
Can you imagine though, being analternate and.
(17:12):
Like just on standby, just incase.
Like, and you have to sit inthe, in the room the whole time.
Yeah.
Like there, it's terrible enoughto be sequestered on the jury
where you're, you know,isolated.
Mm-hmm.
But to not even be on the jury.
And so you're not making thechoices yet, but Yeah.
Stinks.
So I'm thinking like you're freeand clear.
(17:33):
Like you don't really have tovote.
Right.
You get to be there for all thetea Uhhuh, but you don't really
have to vote for my choices.
Your life isn't in danger.
Right.
But then now it is.
And now it is.
All of a sudden, and I've beenover here playing Candy Crush
and I won't paying attention toeverything.
I'm sure all of their thingsare.
We talk about that too.
(17:54):
I really do pay attention whenwe record.
I do most of the time sometimes.
Okay.
What was your favorite, one ofyour favorite things from the
past week?
That you saw on socials, or I'lltell you mine.
Okay.
Oh no, I posted it.
The The Zebra?
No, well that too.
Oh, okay.
But the Lion Hugger job, thattoo.
(18:16):
Why were we not a mayor?
Like, listen, I would be sogood.
I would too.
As a lion cuddler there.
There at every career fair Iwent to, there was never any
kind of mammal hugger.
No.
I should have worked at a zoo.
Like I really, I really feellike my life calling was missed
a hundred percent.
I would've been so good at thatjob until they got like, throw
(18:38):
yuppy.
Throw uppy sick.
Oh my gosh.
So I guess I don't know whatstarted it, but all of a sudden,
all of my, okay.
I do know what started it, nowthat I think about it.
So, you know, I've talked aboutbaby noodle, that baby alpaca
that I'm in love with.
(18:59):
Yes.
I guess.
The algorithm picked up that I'mnow an alpaca fan.
Okay, fine.
They're cute.
I'll watch'em And the goats andall the things.
Well, the other day I watched analpaca be born Uhuh.
No, I don't wanna watch birthingvideos, but now that's like I
saw, Nope.
An elephant be born.
(19:21):
I saw the akka, I saw a coupleof pandas get spit out.
I want to see the babies oncethey're clean, fuzzy and, and
pretty totally.
The baby pandas are like as bigas the phone out of a big 600
pound panda.
Like, oh, listen, I, I can't do,and then the, the mama picked
him up.
Like that's all that was.
(19:44):
So my algorithm is totallyjacked up right now.
It's toast.
It's toast.
But yes.
Um, the zebra that was in likethe little lefty thing.
Oh, but airlifted my listen God,the look on that face was like,
and I do it again.
A hundred percent.
It was all worth it.
So if you don't know what we'retalking about.
First of all, shame on you.
(20:04):
Yes.
Second of all, there was a zebrain Tennessee that got loose from
Chattanooga Zoo.
I think so, right?
Something like that.
And um, or got loose from a zooand he was on the lamb.
We've had a lot of weird animalslike loose in the last year,
those Jumanji dice again, I'mtelling you.
(20:27):
But he was like, people wereposting sightings of him and
they finally captured him andthey had him in the net, like
was like a helicopter, I guess.
And he was just like, oh, thestories I got to tell it looked
like a baby in like one of likethe ba like the baby carriers,
like the hangover baby.
(20:49):
It was great.
Yeah.
But the look, the look on hisface was priceless.
He regretted nothing.
I'm assuming it's a he.
Yeah, same.
But yeah.
I love animal videos.
I can Oh, a hundred percentproblem.
And I love that my algorithmknows that.
Yes.
Keep it coming.
Yeah.
You're doing a good job.
I don't need to see sad things.
No, not at all.
(21:10):
But I, okay, so I did see onesad video.
Oh, no.
Heartwarming.
Sad.
Okay, so wedding again knows myalgorithm, knows my interests.
And the sun had passed of thebride and groom, but wasn't
organ donor.
Donor.
And the groom was like, we havea special guest here and we
wanna ask whatever his name wasto be, our sixth groomsman
(21:33):
today.
And the bride just bawled.
I just got chills.
It was amazing.
Okay.
But then the, the part of methat's like now her makeup for
all these pictures Yes.
Is ruined.
Yes.
Oh God.
It's like.
I know.
Well, crying, speaking ofcrying, I read that book, that
you sent me to read that.
I was like, don't read it.
Read it.
Don't read it.
Read it.
Yeah.
Go.
(21:53):
Yeah.
Crying.
Yes, yes, yes.
And I like was listening to the,the author Speak after.
Yeah.
And it, there's two books beforethat one.
I know.
I had no idea.
Yeah, neither.
So, but it was cute, right?
It was good.
It was so good.
But, bawling, I really, I can'tremember the name off the top of
my head.
Everything though.
So like that doesn't mean muchfor anybody listening like I
cry.
It was very though.
(22:15):
Quirky.
Yeah.
No, I loved it.
And I think it would make such agreat rom-com movie.
Yes.
But no bawling, I mean, likeYeah.
Yeah.
All the things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely.
Yeah, definitely.
It was a good one.
It was definitely a good one.
I think it was that Abby Jimenezor whatever we said.
Yeah.
Sorry about the tears.
It's all good.
No, I, I was prepared for it.
It was gonna pull the strings,but as I was sitting there
(22:36):
listening and like, I don't evenknow.
Vacuuming or doing little thing.
Yeah.
It was just like tears startedcoming and I was like, I know,
but I cry like once a day, soit's nothing new.
Are you dehydrated from all thetears?
Oh.
It is what it is.
Yes.
When you vacuum or whatever,does Rex attack it?
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No.
He just, like, of course hedoesn't, he sits there and once
I get to the spot where he'slaying at, he'll look at me,
like, do I really need to move?
Okay.
And he'll get up and like movetwo feet.
Just enough to let you get thatspot.
Uhhuh.
You've seen the videos of the,the dogs like boxer dogs that.
Bounce and do that is Louie, ahundred percent when I'm
(23:19):
vacuuming and he is just like,stop.
So I've gotten to where I'lllisten to my whatever, I'll put
a headset on and just let himattack me while I'm going.
Do you just remember we, oh God.
It was like super early in thepodcast when Louie was barking
and I was like, you are like anostrich or something.
I was, what is that?
An ostrich, he still sounds likea Velociraptor sometimes.
(23:41):
He is special.
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
So we also talked about losingDudley Uhhuh and, but did I tell
you all of the things goingthrough my mind now that it's a
little bit further in the past,I can laugh about it more.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So he passed away at the house.
We were taking him to the vet sothey could cremate him and do
the things.
Mm-hmm.
So Brian and Jackson.
(24:03):
Put him in the back of my car.
I had a box.
And so he was in blankets andthey put him in the back of my
car.
And I had asked him, I was like,okay, do y'all wanna dig this
hole for this dog or what?
So, they're like, well,whatever.
Well, Stephanie was like, youcan bring him up here.
So took him up there.
She works in Fort Mill, and Iwas doing a wedding right there,
like, it was perfectly aligned,but the whole freaking way.
(24:24):
I am like, what if he's notreally dead?
And this dog sits up, I, I'mgoing to lose it.
Like, so thrilled and ecstatic,but at the same time I'm gonna
be like, oh my god.
You know, you, okay.
So then Stephanie brings the,stretcher out and we put the box
on there and we're rolling it inwhen we get him in there.
And like his little Paul is overthe side of the box and I'm here
(24:47):
trying to like, fold him backinto the box and like, Steph's
like, it's okay.
And I was like, why isn't, whyisn't he going?
And she was like, it's, it'sreally.
Okay.
So all that was traumaticenough.
Okay.
We go into the wedding, we'reboth basket cases'cause she
doesn't feel well and you know,this is going on with me.
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Well we, we get him back in alovely box and it has his name
like on a metal plate engravedon the front and a beautiful paw
print.
Like it was amazing.
So Stephanie brought him back soI didn't have to go all the way
back to Fort Mill to pick himup, which isn't super far, but
you know what I mean?
Yeah.
So she had him at her house.
(25:28):
Well I was like, Jackson, willyou go and get him?
I traumatized this child bygoing to get.
So he brings him back and by thetime he brings him back, Brian's
home from work and we're thereat the house and we're just all
kind of hanging out and like,oh, did you open it?
Did you look and see?
And he is like, no, no, no,mama.
(25:52):
I didn't.
It's like, and so I open it, ofcourse, and they sent that
lovely card.
Like, again, we had never had adog cremated, so it was, it was
beautiful.
Mm-hmm.
But my mom was cremated and I'vegot her in a little box.
Well, sorry, I'm not No, it's,it's great.
It's, it's, this is my life.
So, I unpack it and I, I'mgetting emotional of course, and
(26:14):
I'm like, oh, this is, and Isaid, so we called my mom Nani.
I was like, should we put himover there with Nani?
Brian goes.
Like she's back there on thattable, like the table behind the
soap, the soaping table.
He was like, how long has shebeen over there?
It's like she's, since we'vegotten her back, she is been
(26:37):
floating around in the livingroom with us.
And so I was like, do we wannaput Dudley over there too?
I said I could put him in myoffice.
They were like, put him in youroffice.
Both of them to the corner.
I left Naughty in the livingroom.
They could deal with her.
He didn't even know she was outthere.
(27:00):
Oh, well, knows right there inthat little canister.
Is he?
That's sweet.
That's a cute one.
Yeah.
I could not believe.
And I'm sure it's just like theysay like funeral directors or
whatever.
Oh yeah.
Crazy.
The expense business.
But when we got Mo, and he was atiny little, itty bitty thing.
Fluffy thing.
Yeah.
they had different prices fordifferent sized dogs.
(27:21):
'Cause when I called, as abasket case, yeah.
That day they said, well, youknow, how, how much did he
weigh?
And I was like, 10 pounds.
And they're like, okay.
Well the price, I think it waslike$150 or whatever.
Mm-hmm.
Well, well first they said, doyou want him cremated by himself
or do you want it in a groupcremation?
And I'm like, by himself.
I was like, a group cremation.
(27:45):
When we picked him up, the.
Amount of boxes on the, in thepickup area, Uhhuh that were
ready to be picked up had tohave been 30 to 40 just sitting
there really waiting to bepicked up.
Yeah, it was crazy.
So I was talking to another ladylast week and I was telling her
(28:05):
all of this, and they had to puttheir dog down and get'em
cremated.
It was like$700 locally.
And I'm like, that is insane.
Oh, and the other thing is, is,and I understand these services
cost money.
Like they're not, but she's likein there and they're starting
the IV and stuff and they'relike, we just need to get
payment first.
And I'm like, I would not begoing back.
That is not the most sensitiveway to handle that.
(28:28):
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
They don't even, oh.
They don't do that in thehospital.
No.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I couldn't believe how manycanisters were Yeah.
Like piled up.
But yeah, it was just, yeah, itwas awful.
Worst thing ever.
Okay.
Do you have a, okay, I keep onTikTok, keep getting laundry
(28:50):
detergent, like for like this,like different scented laundry
detergents.
Mm-hmm.
But.
I'm so apprehensive to buyanything'cause the scents don't
last.
Mm-hmm.
Like when you take them outtathe dryer, like they smell great
going that Yeah.
Like yeah.
When you're pouring in thedetergent.
Yeah.
So have you gotten any thatactually last?
So I have tried to, okay.
It's one of my favorite smellsin the world is like clean
(29:11):
clothes.
Okay.
And I'm not talking like beingon the line outside.
I'm talking, I want all thechemicals in like Yeah.
The smell.
Yeah.
And that's what I want, but Ican't find anything at that.
So Jackson had spent the nightat a basketball tournament with
Peyton and he played basketballin this shirt, two or three
games.
He came home and it stillsmelled like fabric stuff, but
(29:33):
Good.
Okay.
And I was like, Mia, what didyou use?
And she, she sent me thepicture.
I was like, that's what I use.
But I have been diluting mine.
Okay.
But it's the arm and hammer withoxyclean, all that kind of
stuff.
Okay.
but I also like gain.
Mm-hmm.
But I don't use any softener.
I use some sheets.
Yeah.
And then I'll sometimes use theLysol stuff in with the wash.
(29:56):
Yeah.
Have you ever tried that?
That's really good with stinkystuff.
But I think I need somethingelse.
'cause I want that clean clothessmell.
Yeah.
I want it.
Do you softener?
Just the sheets and make Yeah.
I think we need to do thesoftener.
Yeah.
Well, and again, on TikTok it'slike, oh, this like cotton candy
scent and this scent and thosespeeches and cream and the
strawberry.
Okay.
Whatever.
See Yeah.
But I don't want all of those.
(30:17):
Right.
And give me all of this.
All the you.
You'll take'em.
I'll take all of'em.
I like the, just the freshclean.
Mm-hmm.
I want like the, the fruity,like you're okay with that?
I love it.
Okay.
I wanna smell like fruitypebbles.
That would actually smell good.
I know.
That would smell good.
so half of the comments arelike, oh my god, best detergent
ever.
And then like, the other halfare like, it.
You can't even smell it when itgets outta the dryer.
(30:39):
So then you don't know which isreal.
Right.
I wonder if it, do you have thefront load washer or a top top?
I wonder if that stuff makes adifference.
Yeah.
I dunno.
But I want all the smelly, likeall the smelly things.
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, I think I need to get someof the, I'm gonna stop diluting
so much.
And, I'm gonna start using somefabric softener, not just the
(30:59):
sheets.
Mm-hmm.
I use those sheets though, thatare like, they're supposed to
help with pet.
Mm-hmm.
Fur, pet fur.
Is that the right word?
Dander?
I don't know.
Yeah, I dunno.
Because that mine shed so bad.
Yeah.
Not me.
I don't shed, I do this shit.
These don't, she the speed shedsterribly.
Yeah.
(31:19):
So those dryer sheets aresupposed to, I don't know if
they help accumulate or repel ormy sister, he must said repent,
repel.
Not, my sister gave me thislike, rubbery thing to, it's
supposed to.
Does it work?
I've only used it once and Idon't know, I forget to put it
in.
Yeah.
I'm terrible.
Do you separate your laundry?
(31:39):
No, it all goes, the only thingI separate is like underwear.
Well, I separate like the towelsand sheets, like those are
towels and sheets are one thing.
Yeah.
Um, clothes are something else.
Yeah.
And well, and Dylan and I doseparate laundry because Yeah.
His stuff is.
Like it's boy stuff.
It's boy stuff.
It's gross.
Yeah.
I do all of our laundry togetherand I'm like, no, no.
(32:02):
I can now be separate.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, we talked about homeprojects and how I should not be
doing these things, but thetoilet was leaking, like the,
like, just like dripping water.
Okay.
Like inside the bowl.
Yeah.
And so I go onto YouTube andlike mm-hmm.
I have to change the littleflappy thing.
'cause the flappy thing was youfixed the flappy.
I did all by myself.
I'm so proud of you for fixingthe flat fee.
I was in the store and I boughtone and I fixed it all by
(32:25):
myself.
I'm proud of you.
I know.
I'm very proud.
Look at you all grown up.
I was like, I'm so proud ofmyself.
Oh no.
That's awesome.
Oh,, oh.
So I was scrolling Obviously,and I saw that.
For all of us.
A DHD peeps.
Mm-hmm.
Technically a disability if wedidn't know that already.
Right.
(32:45):
And, you can get a lifetime allaccess pass to all the national
parks for free, and it includesup to three guests with you.
I didn't know this.
I, and I'm so excited about it.
You have to have your doctorwrite a note on letterhead,
saying that you have a DH adhd.
Okay.
With their signature at thebottom.
Mm-hmm.
And when you apply for it, thepass mm-hmm.
That's all you need isdocumentation from your provider
(33:06):
that you Yeah.
Look at that.
And it's a lifetime all accesspass.
Plus you get like discounts tothe stores or whatever.
Mm-hmm.
Very cool.
So you get to bring three peoplefor free.
Yeah.
That's so awesome.
And it's for everywhere.
Yeah.
Countrywide.
Mm-hmm.
State and national parks.
That's good to know.
I know when Jackson was infourth grade, somehow there was
(33:28):
this thing for fourth gradersfor that year that they could
get into any national park forfree and bring X amount of
people.
And we already had a tripplanned to go to Virginia.
Mm-hmm.
And we went to a lot of nationalparks that year and we did like
Williamsburg and you know Yeah.
Different things.
But it was really cool to havethat.
(33:49):
So I'm glad you said that.
Yeah.
I need to get that.
So for all my people, even ifyou, it's not a DH adhd, if you
have any kind of disabilitythat's document behavioral, the
behavioral health kind of thing.
It just said disability, so.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I'm sure you can probablysway it that way.
Yeah.
But yeah, you can apply for a.
Lifetime.
I'll access that.
That's really cool.
That's really cool.
(34:10):
So there you go.
There.
Good to know.
My know my a DH ADHD tip for theday.
Own it.
Own it and use it.
Why not?
so we are ready for, am I theA-hole?
Okie, do, am I the a-hole forrefusing to return a dog that I
adopted to his original owner.
Hmm.
I'm already gonna have complexfeelings, I think.
(34:30):
Okay.
Did you read it?
Uhuh?
Okay.
I just saw the.
Title, title, about a littleover a year ago, I went through
probably the worst time in myadult life.
I was engaged and found out myfiance was cheating on me.
I was living in a condo heowned, and even though he wanted
to try to make things work, Icouldn't do it, so I left and
moved home temporarily.
Moving home at 32 wasn't in myplans, and it all took a toll on
(34:53):
me mentally and emotionally.
I was sad, embarrassed, and mymental health wasn't good.
Fortunately, I have supportiveparents, an awesome job that let
me take Aleve and got my mentalhealth back to at least stable
for quite a while.
Eating and sleeping were a majorstruggle, and finding motivation
wasn't great.
After a lot of therapy and toughwork, I started to feel somewhat
(35:14):
human again, but still very muchsad.
I found an apartment and I hadbeen considering adopting a pet.
I talked it over with mytherapist and she told me she
thought it would be very goodand I should look into it.
I went to a local rescuethinking I would find a puppy I
could raise and care for what Ididn't expect.
They always find us on.
What I didn't expect was findingan older dog who was seven who'd
(35:37):
been given up when his ownerswere expecting a child.
That pisses me off.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
He was so sad and honestly abigger breed than I was thinking
of, but I grew up with dogs.
The woman at the rescue told mea, his backstory and his owner
had him prior to gettingmarried, and the wife wanted the
dog gone because she felt hewouldn't be safe around her
(35:57):
baby.
He had no history of aggressionand just seemed timid and
depressed.
I instantly connected with thisdog.
We went for a walk and I knew Iwould be taking him home with
me.
That was almost 10 months ago,honestly.
I have to say we've made eachother's lives dramatically
better.
I cook for him.
We watch movies.
(36:18):
He's amazing.
He's a great motivation for meto get out and walk every day.
I have human friends, of course,but this dog is my bestie and I
can't imagine not having him.
I get it.
Same.
I get it.
This brings us to the issue athand.
Apparently the people whosurrendered him realized the
wife forcing the dog out is nowa mistake.
They've contacted the rescue whoin turn have contacted me.
(36:41):
I was absolutely floored thatthey would even ask me if I was
willing to speak.
I.
With his ex family.
Apparently there's somethingwhere I guess pregnant women
become fearful or whatever withanimals.
The husband never wanted to givethe dog up, but it was an
ultimatum the wife gave.
I told them there was no way I'dbe willing to traumatize my dog
(37:02):
or giving back to people whojust tossed them away.
I feel the fact that they wereeven asking this upset me
because animals aren't justsomething you toss away or
whatever and then get to changeyour mind.
I asked them not to contact meagain and block the rescue on
social media because I wasafraid his old owner would find
me there.
I I can't imagine beingpressured to give up someone
like a dog you've had for years,but feel like that isn't my
(37:25):
problem.
Losing him would be horrible forboth of us.
I feel like we found each otherfor a reason.
Am I being selfish?
Am in the right here.
Okay.
There's an update.
Let's pause.
No, no.
No, they were just gonna l theyjust let that dog lit however
long he was in the shelter.
Sad, depressed.
No, you keep that baby.
Yes.
(37:45):
Update.
I just wanna thank most of thepeople who've commented.
It made me feel a lot morejustified in my feelings and how
I reacted.
I appreciate your feedback.
So this was such a big fear ofmine with Rex.
Okay.
That somehow the owner, like hisprevious owner, yeah.
Dumped him, would try to get himback.
And when I initially done likethe seven day whatever mm-hmm.
(38:08):
Hold that they do.
When I had called animalcontrol, they had said, you just
have to keep them blah, blah,blah for seven days.
And if somebody tries to contactus, you know, they would.
Reunite him with the owner.
Mm-hmm.
So that passed, I call back andthey're like, well, we never
sent anybody down there so thatseven day hold hasn't started
yet.
And I'm like, no, no, no.
(38:29):
That's not my fault.
You didn't come down.
And like, they're like you, whatyou did was, I mean, like, they
were awful.
Oh, like what you did wasillegal holding him like that.
And I was like, no, I called andnobody came down.
There was no room in theshelters and mm-hmm.
This is what you told me to do.
Mm-hmm.
Like, that's not right.
And so I was so scared thatsomebody was gonna try to claim
him then.
'cause I had become so attachedto him at that point.
(38:50):
Mm-hmm.
He's already had his surgery.
Like, I mean, we're like all in.
Right, right.
And I was like, oh my gosh.
I was petrified of thissituation happening.
Mm-hmm.
Did you think about like dyinghis hair and stuff?
I, I was like, maybe weshouldn't post anything on
social media.
I had posted in the groups like,you know, this is not belong to
(39:10):
anybody.
Like trying to find his owner atfirst.
Mm-hmm.
Um, even when he was loose, justtrying to take pictures from
afar.
'cause he wouldn't Right.
Let anybody get near him.
Yeah.
I remember seeing the picturesyou had posted and stuff, and he
was just.
But I didn't realize how big hewas.
Okay, so the first time I had, Ikept printed treats with me.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
And so he finally came up to meand I'm like, oh God, you are.
(39:31):
And I'm sitting on the floor.
I was sitting on the ground andhe comes up and I'm like, oh,
you're big.
was used to Mo who was head.
Yeah.
So this was like, holy smokes,you are huge.
You're a big guy.
And you know that social mediaguy like that says white woman
ain't scared of shit.
Yeah.
That was me.
Like, I was just like, oh, youjust, you just want some love.
(39:53):
You're just so baby.
I got a video of it because Iwas like taking a video.
I was like, you just want somelove.
Oh, I'll see the video.
I'll show it to you.
Okay.
But no, she is not the A-hole.
No, definitely not.
This was my biggest fear.
Yeah.
With adopting a dog.
Yeah.
They need to go kick rocks.
Keep that baby.
Yeah.
The baby was sent to you fromsomebody up above.
Yep.
Okay.
(40:13):
Time for our non bookies to headout.
Yep.
We love you.
Love you.
Thank you.
Back.
Bye.
Okay.
Bookies.
Bookies.
We read a good book.
Yes.
That's not my name by MeganLolly.
A bruised a Amnesia teen isclaimed by a man who says he's
her father while elsewhere.
a boyfriend becomes a primesuspect in his girlfriend's
(40:33):
disappearance to lives spiralinginto mystery, danger and
deception.
So I loved this book, loved thisbook.
I loved it.
I had read it before when I wastrying to catch up on our list.
I told you.
Mm-hmm.
Even it just as good the secondtime.
Yeah.
I, I loved this.
I listened to it all in one day.
Mm-hmm.
It's not super long.
It's like nine hours Yeah.
To listen to it.
(40:53):
It's not like one of our big oldmarathons, but I couldn't stop
listening to it.
Uhhuh.
It's told from two differentpoints of views.
Mm-hmm.
You got Mary, who is the quoteunquote daughter.
Mm-hmm.
And then you have Drew, who isthe boyfriend of the Missing
girl.
Mm-hmm.
So.
Again, I'm a crier.
Mm-hmm.
And this book at the end, ohyeah.
(41:14):
The last 30 minutes had mebawling, like ugly cry.
Of course boilers obviously.
Lots happened at the end of thisbook.
Yes, yes.
And lots of emotions at the endof this book and also throughout
with the freaking sheriff thisbook, like the End, crushed my
(41:35):
Soul.
I was so mad.
I, it was not what I expected.
No.
And I wasn't even mad.
Like it was just likeheartbreaking for me.
And again, I cry so easily, takethat with a grain of salt, but
all of the feels, all of theemotions.
So which part really got youwhen he, I.
Rescued her.
Well, so when he found out thatit wasn't his girlfriend mm-hmm.
(41:58):
That is missing.
Right.
But he still fought to save thisgirl.
Yeah.
And then when he's on the dockor wherever he was mm-hmm.
With a cupcake for her, did yousay cupcake?
Cupcake, yeah.
Bawling.
I mean, and when, and then thegirl that he rescued came.
Yeah.
And Oh God, I, I know it was, itwas all of the tears.
(42:19):
This author, I can't rememberwho it was.
Megan Lolly.
Megan Lolly.
She does a really good job at egetting emotion from you through
the whole book.
Mm-hmm.
Just the, like, the point whenthey climbed up the, and through
the window of his room, you'reangry, you're happy, you're
excited, you're sad.
She does really good at pullingall those emotions out of you.
(42:40):
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And makes you feel that you'rethere in that moment with them.
Yeah.
I really enjoyed her per thisperspective.
I also.
Loved the comedic relief.
Yeah.
From the cousin Max.
Max.
Yeah.
It was great.
Was a little bit of like, itjust like lifted it up a little
bit.
Yeah.
Like a little, so it wasn't allcompletely just dark and scary.
(43:01):
Yeah.
It was just a, you know, agoofball eating fries.
Yes.
Yeah.
So that, that was a good, uh,yes.
Saving grace on that.
But the buildup of this storyand like the, the suspense of
under the disappointment, oh, Iknow all the feels.
I was so devastated at the endwhen Yeah.
(43:22):
With it not being Lola.
Um, I mean, I'm glad that therewas another girl rescued, but
just the fact that, that itwasn't her.
Mm-hmm.
And then at the end, this isprobably the talker, the part
you were talking about with thecupcake and the celebration.
The, what's her birthday?
It was her birthday.
(43:43):
Lower birthday.
Um, yeah.
And he, they got a cupcake everyyear together.
Mm-hmm.
And so he still went and got thecupcake and brought it to their
spot.
Oh.
that part when he, when, when,uh, I forgot what her name is.
Is it Sophie?
No, I don't remember.
But the girl that he did rescuemm-hmm.
Said, um, you know, she was deadwithin X amount.
(44:03):
You couldn't have done anything.
And just the relief that hefelt,'cause he thought, you know
what, if she'd been alive allthis time and I would've found
her sooner and all the things.
Yeah.
Ugh.
But this book was phenomenal.
I absolutely loved it.
Yeah.
Um, again, ugly crying at theend for me.
Mm-hmm.
It was good.
Did you see the twist coming atthe end where it was not, Lola,
(44:27):
I had like a suspicion, in thebeginning, maybe like how are
they gonna, screw with yourhead?
Yeah.
I go into a book with that.
Yeah.
Might find where the, where thetwists are.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Agreed.
And you could tell thatsomething was off, but you think
it's because she's had thisamnesia thing, like, she's
wanting to wear all black, butthat's her coat.
(44:48):
Like, I don't get all, you know,I don't get all the things.
So yeah.
How are they gonna make meregret reading this book?
I mean, not that, I figured itout, but I was looking for all,
all the little pieces.
Yeah.
And I'm picking up on thingsthat weren't Right, right.
Or looked off.
But like you said, then you'relike, well, is it just the
amnesia?
Right.
Even if they find her, is shegonna be be different.
(45:08):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, that aspect, I didn'tnecessarily find the twist, but
I was, yeah.
Digging.
Yeah.
For it.
Yeah.
But I think I was just sodevastated.
A nine.
It was good though.
What would you give it?
Nine.
Nine.
Absolutely.
Nine and a half.
Yeah.
I really, really liked it.
Agreed.
Although, like the ugly crying,I was not needed.
(45:28):
But, uh, again, we liked theunpredictable I do.
And the fact that it wasn'tLola, it was.
As somebody else, and that shewas dead.
Yeah.
And it was just different, Ithink a different storyline Yes.
Than, than your typical Yeah.
Who done it Yeah.
Type of thing.
And it had a, like you said, alittle bit of comedy, a little
bit of, it was even a littlecute little, some flirting in
(45:48):
there, whatever.
Not too much, but enough to kindof give it some levity.
So I felt so bad for Drewthough.
Yeah.
The whole town turned on himthinking everybody, the
girlfriend, um, Lola.
And then I just felt so bad.
I mean, I know.
And then the guilt that he had.
Yeah.
Because he had the fight and,and she got outta the car and
that's when she disappeared.
Right.
(46:08):
So between the guilt and thenall the accusations, that's
enough to, that's a lot.
That's a lot for anybody.
And then for a kid, yeah.
So I, as a mom, yeah, it's likeputting, like mm-hmm.
You try to like, imagine it inreal life and I'm like, oh my
god.
Right.
I couldn't even imagine.
I know, it's cra it was crazy.
It was a crazy book.
So, totally recommend it.
(46:29):
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I was kind of like hmm.
At the end with the, but I'mglad that those kiddos were like
Scooby-Doo and they saw themystery True.
Jumping out of the the sheriff'swindow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was great though.
I definitely liked it.
Would read more by her.
(46:50):
Definitely.
And that was her debut book, wasit really?
Yeah.
I didn't know that, but she did,she did such a great job.
Yeah.
Great job.
Oh my gosh.
Great job.
I think the un Honeymooners isnext.
Yes.
I am on a wait list.
I'm next on the wait list.
Okay.
Then I'm after you because Ijust saved it.
Um, and that's so The UnHoneymooners by Christina
Lauren.
Olive is, I like that name.
(47:11):
Olive.
It's like a, oh, I told my niecethe other day, when you have a
daughter, can you name herOlive?
I love that.
And she is not even engaged.
Okay.
She's not pregnant, she's not e.
Even in that mental that I waslike, I love that name.
Okay, back to you.
Olive is always unlucky in hercareer, in love and well
everything.
Her identical twin sister, AMI,on the other hand, is probably
(47:32):
the luckiest person in theworld.
Her meet cute with her fiance issomething out of a romantic
comedy gag, and she is managedto finance her entire wedding by
winning a series of internetcontest.
Double gag.
Worst of all, she's forcingOlive to spend the day with her
sworn enemy, Ethan, who justhappens to be the best man.
Olive braces herself to getthrough 24 hours of wedding hell
(47:55):
before she can return to hercomfortable unlucky life.
But when the entire weddingparty gets food poisoning from
eating bad shellfish, oh, theonly people who aren't affected
are Olive and Ethan.
And now there's an all expensepaid honeymoon to Hawaii up for
grabs.
Putting their mutual hatredaside for the sake of a pre
vacation.
Olive and Ethan Head forParadise determined to avoid
each other at all costs.
(48:15):
But when Olive runs into herfuture boss, the little white
lie she tells him is suddenly atrisk to become a whole lot
bigger.
She and Ethan now have topretend to be loving newlyweds,
and her luck seems worse thanever.
But the weird thing is that shedoesn't mind playing, pretend.
In fact, she feels kind oflucky.
(48:35):
So that is very different fromwhat we just read and I It's
seems like a palate cleanser it.
Yeah, it really does.
So I'm actually number three inline on Hoopla and on Libby,
that's about a seven week wait.
Oh geez.
So I might get the, I mightborrow the real book.
Oh, okay.
And, read, read, oh, this one'savailable.
What's available in Espanol?
(48:57):
Should I try that?
Should I give that a go?
No.
No.
So that's our next book.
So I am looking forward to apalate clean after all of my
tears.
Awesome.
Absolutely.
It'll be good.
Yeah, it'll be good.
All right.
Well thank you guys so much forlistening.
Um, come back next week for allsorts of chaos.
(49:18):
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We love you.
Love you.
Bye bye.
All sorts of chaos.
Yeah, I'm just throwing it outthere now.
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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 mycircus.
Hello, Steph.
Ola.
Ola.
What's up?
Oh, living the dream.
Living the dream.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm the nightmare.
Nightmare.
Uh, nothing's really going on.
(00:42):
It's hot and I'm pissed offabout it.
Are you?
I mean, I enjoy this change ofseasons, but I just don't wanna
be hot all the time.
I have a suicidal frog thatkeeps trying to get in the pool,
and I have saved its life fourtimes, but I'm sick of saving
its life at this point, and Ithink you're just gonna let
(01:03):
nature take its course.
Yeah.
I mean, if it's that dumb, thenit's that dumb.
Speaking of dumb animals, okay,I did this thing, I always
wanted to do this, where you getthe live caterpillars and you
grow them into butterflies.
They turn into butterflies.
Okay.
So I got, I got fivecaterpillars.
You order'em in the mail andthey come and I got the
butterfly kit.
(01:24):
Okay.
They come in a jar, you don'teven open it.
Okay.
And you don't do anything.
You don't like food and stuff inthere?
Yes, everything is in there.
You don't even have to open ituntil they form the crystal
list, whatever it's called.
That had a fancy word.
So I was trying to act like ascientist and then that didn't
go well.
Anyway, I did the things, itcame with five, they grew,
whatever.
I put'em in this big mesh netthingy that you put'em in so
(01:47):
they can hang and grow.
So they start emerging.
So out of the five, I had fourand a half butterflies and one,
okay.
So three were great, three aregone.
One.
I had the lid off of this and hecouldn't figure out how to get
out.
And so I like put a plant downin it.
(02:08):
So maybe he, he would be like,oh look, no, he was still there
when I left today.
And so it's been almost 24 hoursthat he's not figured it out
yet.
And then one was born, I guessit got, they get caught up in
their cocoon type thing.
Mm-hmm.
So it doesn't have wings on oneside of its body.
I'm like, what am I gonna dowith this guy?
I can't let him lose.
(02:29):
Do I feed him to the birds thatare up here?
Like, what, what happens?
So Jackson came out last nightand he was like, oh mama, your
butterflies.
You know, he entertains, he, helets me say all the things.
And, I was like, yeah, and I'mgonna let him out right here,
but what if those birds swoopdown and get'em?
And he was like, well that onelooks like he needed to be guy
talking about the one arm, onearmed butterfly, poor thing.
(02:50):
I don't know what happened tohim.
So four and a half out of fiveis not bad and one is,
Challenged, directionallychallenged, not ready to fly the
co yet, not ready to fly thecoop yet.
So that was fun though.
So even just thinking about whatdid it take, so, May 28th is
when I got the things, so what'sthat?
Two weeks?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(03:11):
And most of the time was thecaterpillars growing?
Like, they were so small andthen they got so large.
What gave you this idea?
Like, did you see something onTikTok or Facebook?
You just searched butterflies?
I, yeah.
Got no words, you know, I likethe garden stuff and I like the
outside stuff and I like allthat and got it.
(03:36):
I'm not judging.
I get sucked into things.
Like the wipe out and all thisstuff that we talked about
before.
No, I just always like, I, youknow, I like working in the yard
and working in the garden andall those things, and this is
where we differ.
This is, this is where we dotake different roads in our
(03:56):
lives, but I, yeah.
So, huh?
I'll do it again.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
It was really neat.
Yeah.
Really, when Dylan was little,we would do a lot of sciencey
stuff.
Yeah.
Like at home, like, we'd do liketornadoes in the jocks.
Yes.
Like all the, the volcanothings.
Yeah.
So like I totally would've donethat.
Yes.
With him when he was little.
I, yeah.
My brain is like, so not, Iwanna do a science project.
(04:20):
I get that.
I'm like, oh, what can I buy onTikTok?
I get that too.
I get that too.
A hundred percent.
I guess'cause of the gardenstuff I've been doing a lot
outside, so Yeah.
So it didn't take long.
I successfully raised somebutterflies.
You know those videos though,where you see somebody save
something and then the nextsecond like a hawk swoops down.
I kept waiting for that moment.
(04:41):
That would be me, my, with yourfrog, your suicidal frog.
Okay.
So speaking of suicidal things,so I opened the door yesterday
mm-hmm.
To go out the front door and Ilooked down and there is a dead
lizard.
Did you see it?
I told Dylan to move it.
I'm like, I, nope, I don't, Ididn't see it.
(05:01):
There is a dead little greenlizard on the doormat.
What if I stepped on him?
Did I step on him?
I don't.
No, no.
I'll move it when I leave.
So every time I walk in I'mlike, Dylan, you haven't moved
it yet.
And he's like, yeah, no, I'll doit when I leave.
Oh, I'll have a burial for him.
(05:21):
So bury him and sea kind.
Just, it was just like belly upon the doormat.
He just was done.
I thought I was walking Rex twodays ago.
Yeah.
In this big giant, like, thosebig like vulture birds.
Mm-hmm.
Buzzards.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Someone like whatever they are,was in the grass.
And I'm like, okay, somethingmust have died.
Right.
And it's, we were walking, so itflew on top of a house, and as I
(05:43):
was walking by, it was a hugestead snake.
Oh.
I was like, no.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
So I keep, I always look forsnakes.
Me too.
And Oh, okay.
Have I told you that Jackson'scutting grass?
Yeah.
We had this conversation.
Okay.
So I do the weeding and, and Ilove it.
(06:06):
It, again, this is where we'redifferent.
I don't like the manual part ofit.
It won't kill me, but it's sosatisfying.
It's like pressure washingsomething like you, the
gratification of seeing it.
So the other day I was weedeating for Jackson and I That
was a little snake.
Was it just like a gardenersnake?
I don't know.
It was little and brown.
(06:28):
Mm-hmm.
But some, this is stupid, butsome black snakes are brown.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't know.
Like the king snakes?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
And I thought I killed it and I.
Told the person that livedthere, I was like, uh, just
letting you know this is here.
Whatever.
So I walked back by to dosomething, I don't know, came
back and it was gone and it, wasstill alive or still like having
its reaction things and it wasclose to the grass.
(06:50):
So I like scooted it back out.
Give me fallen winter.
That's another reason I don't,oh, I, I don't mind the snakes.
I don't wanna kill the, thequote Good ones.
Like, I don't, yeah.
But they're not around when it'scold.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And you know what else isn'taround my humid titties?
(07:11):
It is way too hot to have a bigchest rain now.
It's just, Brian was like, whyis there powder all over the
floor in the bathroom?
My business, I was like, I wasreally hot and I was trying to
keep from sweating all over theplace.
He was like, I get it.
(07:32):
You can take that out or leaveit in.
I really don't care.
That's relatable.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Oh gosh.
Yeah, so it's been great.
Fabulous, fabulous.
That's, we're only nine minutesin and I've already embarrassed
myself a couple of times.
Well, it's all good.
It is.
We're it's family.
Yeah.
It's just family.
We all, uh, we all know what'sgoing on.
(07:52):
Yeah.
Well, did you see this mess?
And I'm so disappointed.
Okay.
Simone Biles Olympic champion.
Yeah.
Did you see this mess with her?
And, Riley Gaines?
I saw like a clip, but didn't goback and watch it.
I saw there was something.
What's the beef?
So Ri Gaines she advocates forno men and women's sports.
(08:13):
Mm-hmm.
And she's done this for yearsand years and years.
Mm-hmm.
And whether you believe it ornot, that's right.
Whatever.
Right.
Your prerogative to believe.
But she retweeted or re orwhatever it all down, I hate it.
The photo of the Minnesota HighSchool softball team champions
and, all comments were off onthis post or whatever Okay.
(08:35):
For the school.
And she said, of course they wontheir star player as a boy.
Mm-hmm.
And it's a female softball team.
Okay.
Riley did not say, call outwhich person on the team it is
didn't say a specific, position.
Mm-hmm.
Just said the star player isboy.
Okay.
And that was it.
Okay.
There was the only thing she didwas call out the governor and
(08:56):
said that he is allowing this orhe's mm-hmm.
You know, weak or whatever.
It's the only thing neverattacked the child.
Just stated the fact.
Mm-hmm.
So, Simone retweets, Riley'stweet saying Ri truly sick, and
she's a sore loser because shelost to a, trans woman, she says
(09:17):
that Ri should be using herpower to uplift the trans
community and make sportsinclusive or make a separate
category like RI can make aseparate category.
Mm-hmm.
It's Riley's choice.
then she says that Riley isbullying this child on this
team, and she's a bully and nowomen are safe in sports with ri
around.
(09:37):
Oh my gosh.
I mean, she went like batty.
Yeah.
Then out of nowhere, randomlyretweets that ri should bully
somebody her own size, whichwould be a man RI is five five
and a hundred and thirty five, ahundred forty pounds.
I'm sorry that Simone is likefour none and little tiny.
She's a legit pocket person.
Yeah, she's, she's a mini pocketperson.
(10:00):
So whether you believe thesituation or like believe that
it's right or wrong, I need tohear, nor there Now you're
attacking.
Yeah.
Some of these looks and not evenlike accurately.
I'm very disappointed in Simon.
So am I.
Yeah.
Everything, um, I've seen isvery much in support of Riley.
Mm-hmm.
If for no other reason thanSimone attacking her look.
(10:24):
Yeah.
So, super disappointed.
Everybody is calling out thesponsors for Simone saying like,
this is what you're sponsoring.
It's like women's athletic wear,you know, all the things because
in turn she's bullying andshaming.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And then so Leigh's whole pointis not even like, I mean, yes
(10:45):
men.
Physiologically are differentmm-hmm.
Than women, their masks.
Sure.
A hundred percent everything.
Yeah.
So they do have an advantage.
Yes.
I think everybody can, for themost part agree mm-hmm.
On that.
But then to have your lockerrooms having to undress mm-hmm.
And have that added layer ofuncomfortable.
(11:06):
Mm-hmm.
That's really a, that's a mainpoint of hers is like, girls
should not have to change in alocker room mm-hmm.
In front of a boy.
Yeah.
That's still intact.
Right, right, right.
So, so for Simone to be so,like, this is how it should be
when she was so vocal mm-hmm.
(11:26):
About the safety of girls ingymnastics after the things that
happened to her mm-hmm.
Blows my mind.
Yeah.
And Ri did bring that up in adifferent tweet, like, hey, like
this is what you put out there.
Right.
And you're truly not advocatingfor girls.
Did she say anything to respondto that?
That, you know.
Publicity people told her toshut up.
Yeah.
(11:47):
Yeah.
Which is what should happen whenthey start saying things that
just don't make any sense.
And I think, I didn't know this,I just saw it today, that I
guess she has a documentarycoming out, uh, Simone.
And so maybe she's just tryingto get her name relevant again.
Oh.
Before the documentary.
But this isn't a good look.
No, this is not point to it.
(12:07):
No, not at all.
Mm-hmm.
I'm just very, I'm disgusted.
Yeah.
With, with that.
Like, that's not, like you said,men and women are totally
different.
Mm-hmm.
And don't even wanna open thiscan of worms on here.
Okay.
So the worst part is somebodydug through all of Simone's
tweets and in 2017 she tweeted,thank goodness men aren't in
(12:29):
women's gymnastics because theywould've taken all the gold.
So make it make sense.
I, I don't know.
It just maybe she got hacked.
I don't think so.
She doubled down on it.
Maybe she got hacked twice.
I don't know.
I mean, yeah, either way it's,it's, that's bad.
Yeah, that's bad.
Since you brought up some beefgoing on, so I saw something the
(12:53):
other day that was hilariousabout some beef with our
president.
Oh, I did too.
Woke up.
It's Friday.
Trump and Musk are in a messybreakup dance party with Taylor
Swift.
Tell me how women are tooemotional to lead.
Um, well, somebody else hadposted, do y'all not see the
underlying chess moves that thisis making?
(13:15):
Because the Democrats, again, wedon't normally get into
politics, but Right.
They were so against releasingthe Epstein files.
Mm-hmm.
So they're saying like, this wasall set up and that because
Trump is supposedly in there,that they're gonna now demand
that files be released.
So it was really like a, atactical move to leak it, saying
(13:35):
that he's in these files and tofinally get them like fully
released.
It's all so messy.
It's all so blah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah.
It is what it is, right?
It is, it is.
And right now it's just stupidand all the tweets back and
forth and the, the, you're herefor it, aren't you?
(13:59):
I think it's hysterical.
It is funny.
It's but terrifying.
Like, hey, it could be worse, Iguess so.
I guess so.
It could.
Okay.
That's not gonna, speaking ofworse.
Yeah.
Did you see our girl, StephanieSue is uh, what's going on with
her in the Diddy case?
No.
So I watched her updateyesterday and she was there,
(14:19):
right?
Yeah.
And Diddy has like mouthed, likestared her in the eyes and
mouthed to her.
I know you.
Yes.
Several times now.
It's just once.
Well, so she must have doneanother video.
'cause the one I did, she said,I don't know if he's talking to
me or somebody else.
So it was, she felt it was her.
Well, yeah, and then she said, Iguess in one of her updates she
said that.
(14:39):
The, the artist that's do andthe artist is horrible like
that.
Yeah.
Court artist.
Yeah.
Does, oh no, they should nothire her again or him, whoever
it is.
Right.
But, um, she said that thedrawings make him look like a
koala bear.
You can't unsee that once youprocess that in your head.
Yeah.
So he was overheard telling theartist to soften him up because
(15:01):
he looks like a koala.
So, and then like then he'smouthing, I know you.
Mm-hmm.
And she said that people havebeen approaching her outside of
the courthouse asking her whereshe's staying.
And her and her team have had tomove eight times different.
Wow.
Tells in fear of, of for safety.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, but random people never haveseen in her life, nothing.
(15:23):
Just where are you staying?
So.
Poor Stephanie Sue is justtrying to do the Lord's work She
is by giving us all the tea onwhat's going on.
And she takes meticulous notes.
She is so good.
She is amazing.
I thought though, that theycouldn't go in for like, the
whole time that they just gotlike a one day thing.
(15:45):
I, I don't, I think you have tobe like in line, like, and she's
gotten in this many times.
Mm-hmm.
I appreciate her dedication.
I do too.
And I mean, I don't know whereshe lives, but she's been in New
York this whole time.
Yeah, she's, she's doing thething, she's doing the dang
thing.
So, um, our poor Stephanie Sue,I pray she stays safe.
I know.
That's crazy.
And then today, um, jury personnumber six Okay.
(16:09):
Is potentially getting kickedoff the jury.
Why?
What happened?
Um, I guess overly enthusiasticin favor of Diddy.
Like, oh, overly like agreeableto Okay.
Inside and showing that.
Very expressively.
Yeah.
In the jury box.
Well, apparently there's notsupposed to be, and I didn't
(16:29):
know this, there's not supposedto be really any expression in
the courtroom.
Mm-hmm.
And that's what our friendStephanie was saying is that
Diddy has been threatened by thejudge to be kicked out because
he's too expressive.
Mm-hmm.
Like he was vigorously noddingor something like that.
Well, the thing I saw was thathe was vigorously nodding to the
(16:51):
jury.
Mm-hmm.
Like staring the jury down.
Mm-hmm.
And I would be like, Nope, I'mdone taking it out.
Yeah.
I can't do this soulless.
No.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So, jury number six today, theywere deciding if that person
could stay or if they're gonnareplace that party.
Should I stay or should, man.
Can you imagine though, being analternate and.
(17:12):
Like just on standby, just incase.
Like, and you have to sit inthe, in the room the whole time.
Yeah.
Like there, it's terrible enoughto be sequestered on the jury
where you're, you know,isolated.
Mm-hmm.
But to not even be on the jury.
And so you're not making thechoices yet, but Yeah.
Stinks.
So I'm thinking like you're freeand clear.
(17:33):
Like you don't really have tovote.
Right.
You get to be there for all thetea Uhhuh, but you don't really
have to vote for my choices.
Your life isn't in danger.
Right.
But then now it is.
And now it is.
All of a sudden, and I've beenover here playing Candy Crush
and I won't paying attention toeverything.
I'm sure all of their thingsare.
We talk about that too.
(17:54):
I really do pay attention whenwe record.
I do most of the time sometimes.
Okay.
What was your favorite, one ofyour favorite things from the
past week?
That you saw on socials, or I'lltell you mine.
Okay.
Oh no, I posted it.
The The Zebra?
No, well that too.
Oh, okay.
But the Lion Hugger job, thattoo.
(18:16):
Why were we not a mayor?
Like, listen, I would be sogood.
I would too.
As a lion cuddler there.
There at every career fair Iwent to, there was never any
kind of mammal hugger.
No.
I should have worked at a zoo.
Like I really, I really feellike my life calling was missed
a hundred percent.
I would've been so good at thatjob until they got like, throw
(18:38):
yuppy.
Throw uppy sick.
Oh my gosh.
So I guess I don't know whatstarted it, but all of a sudden,
all of my, okay.
I do know what started it, nowthat I think about it.
So, you know, I've talked aboutbaby noodle, that baby alpaca
that I'm in love with.
(18:59):
Yes.
I guess.
The algorithm picked up that I'mnow an alpaca fan.
Okay, fine.
They're cute.
I'll watch'em And the goats andall the things.
Well, the other day I watched analpaca be born Uhuh.
No, I don't wanna watch birthingvideos, but now that's like I
saw, Nope.
An elephant be born.
(19:21):
I saw the akka, I saw a coupleof pandas get spit out.
I want to see the babies oncethey're clean, fuzzy and, and
pretty totally.
The baby pandas are like as bigas the phone out of a big 600
pound panda.
Like, oh, listen, I, I can't do,and then the, the mama picked
him up.
Like that's all that was.
(19:44):
So my algorithm is totallyjacked up right now.
It's toast.
It's toast.
But yes.
Um, the zebra that was in likethe little lefty thing.
Oh, but airlifted my listen God,the look on that face was like,
and I do it again.
A hundred percent.
It was all worth it.
So if you don't know what we'retalking about.
First of all, shame on you.
(20:04):
Yes.
Second of all, there was a zebrain Tennessee that got loose from
Chattanooga Zoo.
I think so, right?
Something like that.
And um, or got loose from a zooand he was on the lamb.
We've had a lot of weird animalslike loose in the last year,
those Jumanji dice again, I'mtelling you.
(20:27):
But he was like, people wereposting sightings of him and
they finally captured him andthey had him in the net, like
was like a helicopter, I guess.
And he was just like, oh, thestories I got to tell it looked
like a baby in like one of likethe ba like the baby carriers,
like the hangover baby.
(20:49):
It was great.
Yeah.
But the look, the look on hisface was priceless.
He regretted nothing.
I'm assuming it's a he.
Yeah, same.
But yeah.
I love animal videos.
I can Oh, a hundred percentproblem.
And I love that my algorithmknows that.
Yes.
Keep it coming.
Yeah.
You're doing a good job.
I don't need to see sad things.
No, not at all.
(21:10):
But I, okay, so I did see onesad video.
Oh, no.
Heartwarming.
Sad.
Okay, so wedding again knows myalgorithm, knows my interests.
And the sun had passed of thebride and groom, but wasn't
organ donor.
Donor.
And the groom was like, we havea special guest here and we
wanna ask whatever his name wasto be, our sixth groomsman
(21:33):
today.
And the bride just bawled.
I just got chills.
It was amazing.
Okay.
But then the, the part of methat's like now her makeup for
all these pictures Yes.
Is ruined.
Yes.
Oh God.
It's like.
I know.
Well, crying, speaking ofcrying, I read that book, that
you sent me to read that.
I was like, don't read it.
Read it.
Don't read it.
Read it.
Yeah.
Go.
(21:53):
Yeah.
Crying.
Yes, yes, yes.
And I like was listening to the,the author Speak after.
Yeah.
And it, there's two books beforethat one.
I know.
I had no idea.
Yeah, neither.
So, but it was cute, right?
It was good.
It was so good.
But, bawling, I really, I can'tremember the name off the top of
my head.
Everything though.
So like that doesn't mean muchfor anybody listening like I
cry.
It was very though.
(22:15):
Quirky.
Yeah.
No, I loved it.
And I think it would make such agreat rom-com movie.
Yes.
But no bawling, I mean, likeYeah.
Yeah.
All the things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely.
Yeah, definitely.
It was a good one.
It was definitely a good one.
I think it was that Abby Jimenezor whatever we said.
Yeah.
Sorry about the tears.
It's all good.
No, I, I was prepared for it.
It was gonna pull the strings,but as I was sitting there
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listening and like, I don't evenknow.
Vacuuming or doing little thing.
Yeah.
It was just like tears startedcoming and I was like, I know,
but I cry like once a day, soit's nothing new.
Are you dehydrated from all thetears?
Oh.
It is what it is.
Yes.
When you vacuum or whatever,does Rex attack it?
(22:58):
No.
He just, like, of course hedoesn't, he sits there and once
I get to the spot where he'slaying at, he'll look at me,
like, do I really need to move?
Okay.
And he'll get up and like movetwo feet.
Just enough to let you get thatspot.
Uhhuh.
You've seen the videos of the,the dogs like boxer dogs that.
Bounce and do that is Louie, ahundred percent when I'm
(23:19):
vacuuming and he is just like,stop.
So I've gotten to where I'lllisten to my whatever, I'll put
a headset on and just let himattack me while I'm going.
Do you just remember we, oh God.
It was like super early in thepodcast when Louie was barking
and I was like, you are like anostrich or something.
I was, what is that?
An ostrich, he still sounds likea Velociraptor sometimes.
(23:41):
He is special.
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
So we also talked about losingDudley Uhhuh and, but did I tell
you all of the things goingthrough my mind now that it's a
little bit further in the past,I can laugh about it more.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So he passed away at the house.
We were taking him to the vet sothey could cremate him and do
the things.
Mm-hmm.
So Brian and Jackson.
(24:03):
Put him in the back of my car.
I had a box.
And so he was in blankets andthey put him in the back of my
car.
And I had asked him, I was like,okay, do y'all wanna dig this
hole for this dog or what?
So, they're like, well,whatever.
Well, Stephanie was like, youcan bring him up here.
So took him up there.
She works in Fort Mill, and Iwas doing a wedding right there,
like, it was perfectly aligned,but the whole freaking way.
(24:24):
I am like, what if he's notreally dead?
And this dog sits up, I, I'mgoing to lose it.
Like, so thrilled and ecstatic,but at the same time I'm gonna
be like, oh my god.
You know, you, okay.
So then Stephanie brings the,stretcher out and we put the box
on there and we're rolling it inwhen we get him in there.
And like his little Paul is overthe side of the box and I'm here
(24:47):
trying to like, fold him backinto the box and like, Steph's
like, it's okay.
And I was like, why isn't, whyisn't he going?
And she was like, it's, it'sreally.
Okay.
So all that was traumaticenough.
Okay.
We go into the wedding, we'reboth basket cases'cause she
doesn't feel well and you know,this is going on with me.
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Well we, we get him back in alovely box and it has his name
like on a metal plate engravedon the front and a beautiful paw
print.
Like it was amazing.
So Stephanie brought him back soI didn't have to go all the way
back to Fort Mill to pick himup, which isn't super far, but
you know what I mean?
Yeah.
So she had him at her house.
(25:28):
Well I was like, Jackson, willyou go and get him?
I traumatized this child bygoing to get.
So he brings him back and by thetime he brings him back, Brian's
home from work and we're thereat the house and we're just all
kind of hanging out and like,oh, did you open it?
Did you look and see?
And he is like, no, no, no,mama.
(25:52):
I didn't.
It's like, and so I open it, ofcourse, and they sent that
lovely card.
Like, again, we had never had adog cremated, so it was, it was
beautiful.
Mm-hmm.
But my mom was cremated and I'vegot her in a little box.
Well, sorry, I'm not No, it's,it's great.
It's, it's, this is my life.
So, I unpack it and I, I'mgetting emotional of course, and
(26:14):
I'm like, oh, this is, and Isaid, so we called my mom Nani.
I was like, should we put himover there with Nani?
Brian goes.
Like she's back there on thattable, like the table behind the
soap, the soaping table.
He was like, how long has shebeen over there?
It's like she's, since we'vegotten her back, she is been
(26:37):
floating around in the livingroom with us.
And so I was like, do we wannaput Dudley over there too?
I said I could put him in myoffice.
They were like, put him in youroffice.
Both of them to the corner.
I left Naughty in the livingroom.
They could deal with her.
He didn't even know she was outthere.
(27:00):
Oh, well, knows right there inthat little canister.
Is he?
That's sweet.
That's a cute one.
Yeah.
I could not believe.
And I'm sure it's just like theysay like funeral directors or
whatever.
Oh yeah.
Crazy.
The expense business.
But when we got Mo, and he was atiny little, itty bitty thing.
Fluffy thing.
Yeah.
they had different prices fordifferent sized dogs.
(27:21):
'Cause when I called, as abasket case, yeah.
That day they said, well, youknow, how, how much did he
weigh?
And I was like, 10 pounds.
And they're like, okay.
Well the price, I think it waslike$150 or whatever.
Mm-hmm.
Well, well first they said, doyou want him cremated by himself
or do you want it in a groupcremation?
And I'm like, by himself.
I was like, a group cremation.
(27:45):
When we picked him up, the.
Amount of boxes on the, in thepickup area, Uhhuh that were
ready to be picked up had tohave been 30 to 40 just sitting
there really waiting to bepicked up.
Yeah, it was crazy.
So I was talking to another ladylast week and I was telling her
(28:05):
all of this, and they had to puttheir dog down and get'em
cremated.
It was like$700 locally.
And I'm like, that is insane.
Oh, and the other thing is, is,and I understand these services
cost money.
Like they're not, but she's likein there and they're starting
the IV and stuff and they'relike, we just need to get
payment first.
And I'm like, I would not begoing back.
That is not the most sensitiveway to handle that.
(28:28):
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
They don't even, oh.
They don't do that in thehospital.
No.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I couldn't believe how manycanisters were Yeah.
Like piled up.
But yeah, it was just, yeah, itwas awful.
Worst thing ever.
Okay.
Do you have a, okay, I keep onTikTok, keep getting laundry
(28:50):
detergent, like for like this,like different scented laundry
detergents.
Mm-hmm.
But.
I'm so apprehensive to buyanything'cause the scents don't
last.
Mm-hmm.
Like when you take them outtathe dryer, like they smell great
going that Yeah.
Like yeah.
When you're pouring in thedetergent.
Yeah.
So have you gotten any thatactually last?
So I have tried to, okay.
It's one of my favorite smellsin the world is like clean
(29:11):
clothes.
Okay.
And I'm not talking like beingon the line outside.
I'm talking, I want all thechemicals in like Yeah.
The smell.
Yeah.
And that's what I want, but Ican't find anything at that.
So Jackson had spent the nightat a basketball tournament with
Peyton and he played basketballin this shirt, two or three
games.
He came home and it stillsmelled like fabric stuff, but
(29:33):
Good.
Okay.
And I was like, Mia, what didyou use?
And she, she sent me thepicture.
I was like, that's what I use.
But I have been diluting mine.
Okay.
But it's the arm and hammer withoxyclean, all that kind of
stuff.
Okay.
but I also like gain.
Mm-hmm.
But I don't use any softener.
I use some sheets.
Yeah.
And then I'll sometimes use theLysol stuff in with the wash.
(29:56):
Yeah.
Have you ever tried that?
That's really good with stinkystuff.
But I think I need somethingelse.
'cause I want that clean clothessmell.
Yeah.
I want it.
Do you softener?
Just the sheets and make Yeah.
I think we need to do thesoftener.
Yeah.
Well, and again, on TikTok it'slike, oh, this like cotton candy
scent and this scent and thosespeeches and cream and the
strawberry.
Okay.
Whatever.
See Yeah.
But I don't want all of those.
(30:17):
Right.
And give me all of this.
All the you.
You'll take'em.
I'll take all of'em.
I like the, just the freshclean.
Mm-hmm.
I want like the, the fruity,like you're okay with that?
I love it.
Okay.
I wanna smell like fruitypebbles.
That would actually smell good.
I know.
That would smell good.
so half of the comments arelike, oh my god, best detergent
ever.
And then like, the other halfare like, it.
You can't even smell it when itgets outta the dryer.
(30:39):
So then you don't know which isreal.
Right.
I wonder if it, do you have thefront load washer or a top top?
I wonder if that stuff makes adifference.
Yeah.
I dunno.
But I want all the smelly, likeall the smelly things.
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, I think I need to get someof the, I'm gonna stop diluting
so much.
And, I'm gonna start using somefabric softener, not just the
(30:59):
sheets.
Mm-hmm.
I use those sheets though, thatare like, they're supposed to
help with pet.
Mm-hmm.
Fur, pet fur.
Is that the right word?
Dander?
I don't know.
Yeah, I dunno.
Because that mine shed so bad.
Yeah.
Not me.
I don't shed, I do this shit.
These don't, she the speed shedsterribly.
Yeah.
(31:19):
So those dryer sheets aresupposed to, I don't know if
they help accumulate or repel ormy sister, he must said repent,
repel.
Not, my sister gave me thislike, rubbery thing to, it's
supposed to.
Does it work?
I've only used it once and Idon't know, I forget to put it
in.
Yeah.
I'm terrible.
Do you separate your laundry?
(31:39):
No, it all goes, the only thingI separate is like underwear.
Well, I separate like the towelsand sheets, like those are
towels and sheets are one thing.
Yeah.
Um, clothes are something else.
Yeah.
And well, and Dylan and I doseparate laundry because Yeah.
His stuff is.
Like it's boy stuff.
It's boy stuff.
It's gross.
Yeah.
I do all of our laundry togetherand I'm like, no, no.
(32:02):
I can now be separate.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, we talked about homeprojects and how I should not be
doing these things, but thetoilet was leaking, like the,
like, just like dripping water.
Okay.
Like inside the bowl.
Yeah.
And so I go onto YouTube andlike mm-hmm.
I have to change the littleflappy thing.
'cause the flappy thing was youfixed the flappy.
I did all by myself.
I'm so proud of you for fixingthe flat fee.
I was in the store and I boughtone and I fixed it all by
(32:25):
myself.
I'm proud of you.
I know.
I'm very proud.
Look at you all grown up.
I was like, I'm so proud ofmyself.
Oh no.
That's awesome.
Oh,, oh.
So I was scrolling Obviously,and I saw that.
For all of us.
A DHD peeps.
Mm-hmm.
Technically a disability if wedidn't know that already.
Right.
(32:45):
And, you can get a lifetime allaccess pass to all the national
parks for free, and it includesup to three guests with you.
I didn't know this.
I, and I'm so excited about it.
You have to have your doctorwrite a note on letterhead,
saying that you have a DH adhd.
Okay.
With their signature at thebottom.
Mm-hmm.
And when you apply for it, thepass mm-hmm.
That's all you need isdocumentation from your provider
(33:06):
that you Yeah.
Look at that.
And it's a lifetime all accesspass.
Plus you get like discounts tothe stores or whatever.
Mm-hmm.
Very cool.
So you get to bring three peoplefor free.
Yeah.
That's so awesome.
And it's for everywhere.
Yeah.
Countrywide.
Mm-hmm.
State and national parks.
That's good to know.
I know when Jackson was infourth grade, somehow there was
(33:28):
this thing for fourth gradersfor that year that they could
get into any national park forfree and bring X amount of
people.
And we already had a tripplanned to go to Virginia.
Mm-hmm.
And we went to a lot of nationalparks that year and we did like
Williamsburg and you know Yeah.
Different things.
But it was really cool to havethat.
(33:49):
So I'm glad you said that.
Yeah.
I need to get that.
So for all my people, even ifyou, it's not a DH adhd, if you
have any kind of disabilitythat's document behavioral, the
behavioral health kind of thing.
It just said disability, so.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I'm sure you can probablysway it that way.
Yeah.
But yeah, you can apply for a.
Lifetime.
I'll access that.
That's really cool.
That's really cool.
(34:10):
So there you go.
There.
Good to know.
My know my a DH ADHD tip for theday.
Own it.
Own it and use it.
Why not?
so we are ready for, am I theA-hole?
Okie, do, am I the a-hole forrefusing to return a dog that I
adopted to his original owner.
Hmm.
I'm already gonna have complexfeelings, I think.
(34:30):
Okay.
Did you read it?
Uhuh?
Okay.
I just saw the.
Title, title, about a littleover a year ago, I went through
probably the worst time in myadult life.
I was engaged and found out myfiance was cheating on me.
I was living in a condo heowned, and even though he wanted
to try to make things work, Icouldn't do it, so I left and
moved home temporarily.
Moving home at 32 wasn't in myplans, and it all took a toll on
(34:53):
me mentally and emotionally.
I was sad, embarrassed, and mymental health wasn't good.
Fortunately, I have supportiveparents, an awesome job that let
me take Aleve and got my mentalhealth back to at least stable
for quite a while.
Eating and sleeping were a majorstruggle, and finding motivation
wasn't great.
After a lot of therapy and toughwork, I started to feel somewhat
(35:14):
human again, but still very muchsad.
I found an apartment and I hadbeen considering adopting a pet.
I talked it over with mytherapist and she told me she
thought it would be very goodand I should look into it.
I went to a local rescuethinking I would find a puppy I
could raise and care for what Ididn't expect.
They always find us on.
What I didn't expect was findingan older dog who was seven who'd
(35:37):
been given up when his ownerswere expecting a child.
That pisses me off.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
He was so sad and honestly abigger breed than I was thinking
of, but I grew up with dogs.
The woman at the rescue told mea, his backstory and his owner
had him prior to gettingmarried, and the wife wanted the
dog gone because she felt hewouldn't be safe around her
(35:57):
baby.
He had no history of aggressionand just seemed timid and
depressed.
I instantly connected with thisdog.
We went for a walk and I knew Iwould be taking him home with
me.
That was almost 10 months ago,honestly.
I have to say we've made eachother's lives dramatically
better.
I cook for him.
We watch movies.
(36:18):
He's amazing.
He's a great motivation for meto get out and walk every day.
I have human friends, of course,but this dog is my bestie and I
can't imagine not having him.
I get it.
Same.
I get it.
This brings us to the issue athand.
Apparently the people whosurrendered him realized the
wife forcing the dog out is nowa mistake.
They've contacted the rescue whoin turn have contacted me.
(36:41):
I was absolutely floored thatthey would even ask me if I was
willing to speak.
I.
With his ex family.
Apparently there's somethingwhere I guess pregnant women
become fearful or whatever withanimals.
The husband never wanted to givethe dog up, but it was an
ultimatum the wife gave.
I told them there was no way I'dbe willing to traumatize my dog
(37:02):
or giving back to people whojust tossed them away.
I feel the fact that they wereeven asking this upset me
because animals aren't justsomething you toss away or
whatever and then get to changeyour mind.
I asked them not to contact meagain and block the rescue on
social media because I wasafraid his old owner would find
me there.
I I can't imagine beingpressured to give up someone
like a dog you've had for years,but feel like that isn't my
(37:25):
problem.
Losing him would be horrible forboth of us.
I feel like we found each otherfor a reason.
Am I being selfish?
Am in the right here.
Okay.
There's an update.
Let's pause.
No, no.
No, they were just gonna l theyjust let that dog lit however
long he was in the shelter.
Sad, depressed.
No, you keep that baby.
Yes.
(37:45):
Update.
I just wanna thank most of thepeople who've commented.
It made me feel a lot morejustified in my feelings and how
I reacted.
I appreciate your feedback.
So this was such a big fear ofmine with Rex.
Okay.
That somehow the owner, like hisprevious owner, yeah.
Dumped him, would try to get himback.
And when I initially done likethe seven day whatever mm-hmm.
(38:08):
Hold that they do.
When I had called animalcontrol, they had said, you just
have to keep them blah, blah,blah for seven days.
And if somebody tries to contactus, you know, they would.
Reunite him with the owner.
Mm-hmm.
So that passed, I call back andthey're like, well, we never
sent anybody down there so thatseven day hold hasn't started
yet.
And I'm like, no, no, no.
(38:29):
That's not my fault.
You didn't come down.
And like, they're like you, whatyou did was, I mean, like, they
were awful.
Oh, like what you did wasillegal holding him like that.
And I was like, no, I called andnobody came down.
There was no room in theshelters and mm-hmm.
This is what you told me to do.
Mm-hmm.
Like, that's not right.
And so I was so scared thatsomebody was gonna try to claim
him then.
'cause I had become so attachedto him at that point.
(38:50):
Mm-hmm.
He's already had his surgery.
Like, I mean, we're like all in.
Right, right.
And I was like, oh my gosh.
I was petrified of thissituation happening.
Mm-hmm.
Did you think about like dyinghis hair and stuff?
I, I was like, maybe weshouldn't post anything on
social media.
I had posted in the groups like,you know, this is not belong to
(39:10):
anybody.
Like trying to find his owner atfirst.
Mm-hmm.
Um, even when he was loose, justtrying to take pictures from
afar.
'cause he wouldn't Right.
Let anybody get near him.
Yeah.
I remember seeing the picturesyou had posted and stuff, and he
was just.
But I didn't realize how big hewas.
Okay, so the first time I had, Ikept printed treats with me.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
And so he finally came up to meand I'm like, oh God, you are.
(39:31):
And I'm sitting on the floor.
I was sitting on the ground andhe comes up and I'm like, oh,
you're big.
was used to Mo who was head.
Yeah.
So this was like, holy smokes,you are huge.
You're a big guy.
And you know that social mediaguy like that says white woman
ain't scared of shit.
Yeah.
That was me.
Like, I was just like, oh, youjust, you just want some love.
(39:53):
You're just so baby.
I got a video of it because Iwas like taking a video.
I was like, you just want somelove.
Oh, I'll see the video.
I'll show it to you.
Okay.
But no, she is not the A-hole.
No, definitely not.
This was my biggest fear.
Yeah.
With adopting a dog.
Yeah.
They need to go kick rocks.
Keep that baby.
Yeah.
The baby was sent to you fromsomebody up above.
Yep.
Okay.
(40:13):
Time for our non bookies to headout.
Yep.
We love you.
Love you.
Thank you.
Back.
Bye.
Okay.
Bookies.
Bookies.
We read a good book.
Yes.
That's not my name by MeganLolly.
A bruised a Amnesia teen isclaimed by a man who says he's
her father while elsewhere.
a boyfriend becomes a primesuspect in his girlfriend's
(40:33):
disappearance to lives spiralinginto mystery, danger and
deception.
So I loved this book, loved thisbook.
I loved it.
I had read it before when I wastrying to catch up on our list.
I told you.
Mm-hmm.
Even it just as good the secondtime.
Yeah.
I, I loved this.
I listened to it all in one day.
Mm-hmm.
It's not super long.
It's like nine hours Yeah.
To listen to it.
(40:53):
It's not like one of our big oldmarathons, but I couldn't stop
listening to it.
Uhhuh.
It's told from two differentpoints of views.
Mm-hmm.
You got Mary, who is the quoteunquote daughter.
Mm-hmm.
And then you have Drew, who isthe boyfriend of the Missing
girl.
Mm-hmm.
So.
Again, I'm a crier.
Mm-hmm.
And this book at the end, ohyeah.
(41:14):
The last 30 minutes had mebawling, like ugly cry.
Of course boilers obviously.
Lots happened at the end of thisbook.
Yes, yes.
And lots of emotions at the endof this book and also throughout
with the freaking sheriff thisbook, like the End, crushed my
(41:35):
Soul.
I was so mad.
I, it was not what I expected.
No.
And I wasn't even mad.
Like it was just likeheartbreaking for me.
And again, I cry so easily, takethat with a grain of salt, but
all of the feels, all of theemotions.
So which part really got youwhen he, I.
Rescued her.
Well, so when he found out thatit wasn't his girlfriend mm-hmm.
(41:58):
That is missing.
Right.
But he still fought to save thisgirl.
Yeah.
And then when he's on the dockor wherever he was mm-hmm.
With a cupcake for her, did yousay cupcake?
Cupcake, yeah.
Bawling.
I mean, and when, and then thegirl that he rescued came.
Yeah.
And Oh God, I, I know it was, itwas all of the tears.
(42:19):
This author, I can't rememberwho it was.
Megan Lolly.
Megan Lolly.
She does a really good job at egetting emotion from you through
the whole book.
Mm-hmm.
Just the, like, the point whenthey climbed up the, and through
the window of his room, you'reangry, you're happy, you're
excited, you're sad.
She does really good at pullingall those emotions out of you.
(42:40):
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And makes you feel that you'rethere in that moment with them.
Yeah.
I really enjoyed her per thisperspective.
I also.
Loved the comedic relief.
Yeah.
From the cousin Max.
Max.
Yeah.
It was great.
Was a little bit of like, itjust like lifted it up a little
bit.
Yeah.
Like a little, so it wasn't allcompletely just dark and scary.
(43:01):
Yeah.
It was just a, you know, agoofball eating fries.
Yes.
Yeah.
So that, that was a good, uh,yes.
Saving grace on that.
But the buildup of this storyand like the, the suspense of
under the disappointment, oh, Iknow all the feels.
I was so devastated at the endwhen Yeah.
(43:22):
With it not being Lola.
Um, I mean, I'm glad that therewas another girl rescued, but
just the fact that, that itwasn't her.
Mm-hmm.
And then at the end, this isprobably the talker, the part
you were talking about with thecupcake and the celebration.
The, what's her birthday?
It was her birthday.
(43:43):
Lower birthday.
Um, yeah.
And he, they got a cupcake everyyear together.
Mm-hmm.
And so he still went and got thecupcake and brought it to their
spot.
Oh.
that part when he, when, when,uh, I forgot what her name is.
Is it Sophie?
No, I don't remember.
But the girl that he did rescuemm-hmm.
Said, um, you know, she was deadwithin X amount.
(44:03):
You couldn't have done anything.
And just the relief that hefelt,'cause he thought, you know
what, if she'd been alive allthis time and I would've found
her sooner and all the things.
Yeah.
Ugh.
But this book was phenomenal.
I absolutely loved it.
Yeah.
Um, again, ugly crying at theend for me.
Mm-hmm.
It was good.
Did you see the twist coming atthe end where it was not, Lola,
(44:27):
I had like a suspicion, in thebeginning, maybe like how are
they gonna, screw with yourhead?
Yeah.
I go into a book with that.
Yeah.
Might find where the, where thetwists are.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Agreed.
And you could tell thatsomething was off, but you think
it's because she's had thisamnesia thing, like, she's
wanting to wear all black, butthat's her coat.
(44:48):
Like, I don't get all, you know,I don't get all the things.
So yeah.
How are they gonna make meregret reading this book?
I mean, not that, I figured itout, but I was looking for all,
all the little pieces.
Yeah.
And I'm picking up on thingsthat weren't Right, right.
Or looked off.
But like you said, then you'relike, well, is it just the
amnesia?
Right.
Even if they find her, is shegonna be be different.
(45:08):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, that aspect, I didn'tnecessarily find the twist, but
I was, yeah.
Digging.
Yeah.
For it.
Yeah.
But I think I was just sodevastated.
A nine.
It was good though.
What would you give it?
Nine.
Nine.
Absolutely.
Nine and a half.
Yeah.
I really, really liked it.
Agreed.
Although, like the ugly crying,I was not needed.
(45:28):
But, uh, again, we liked theunpredictable I do.
And the fact that it wasn'tLola, it was.
As somebody else, and that shewas dead.
Yeah.
And it was just different, Ithink a different storyline Yes.
Than, than your typical Yeah.
Who done it Yeah.
Type of thing.
And it had a, like you said, alittle bit of comedy, a little
bit of, it was even a littlecute little, some flirting in
(45:48):
there, whatever.
Not too much, but enough to kindof give it some levity.
So I felt so bad for Drewthough.
Yeah.
The whole town turned on himthinking everybody, the
girlfriend, um, Lola.
And then I just felt so bad.
I mean, I know.
And then the guilt that he had.
Yeah.
Because he had the fight and,and she got outta the car and
that's when she disappeared.
Right.
(46:08):
So between the guilt and thenall the accusations, that's
enough to, that's a lot.
That's a lot for anybody.
And then for a kid, yeah.
So I, as a mom, yeah, it's likeputting, like mm-hmm.
You try to like, imagine it inreal life and I'm like, oh my
god.
Right.
I couldn't even imagine.
I know, it's cra it was crazy.
It was a crazy book.
So, totally recommend it.
(46:29):
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I was kind of like hmm.
At the end with the, but I'mglad that those kiddos were like
Scooby-Doo and they saw themystery True.
Jumping out of the the sheriff'swindow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was great though.
I definitely liked it.
Would read more by her.
(46:50):
Definitely.
And that was her debut book, wasit really?
Yeah.
I didn't know that, but she did,she did such a great job.
Yeah.
Great job.
Oh my gosh.
Great job.
I think the un Honeymooners isnext.
Yes.
I am on a wait list.
I'm next on the wait list.
Okay.
Then I'm after you because Ijust saved it.
Um, and that's so The UnHoneymooners by Christina
Lauren.
Olive is, I like that name.
(47:11):
Olive.
It's like a, oh, I told my niecethe other day, when you have a
daughter, can you name herOlive?
I love that.
And she is not even engaged.
Okay.
She's not pregnant, she's not e.
Even in that mental that I waslike, I love that name.
Okay, back to you.
Olive is always unlucky in hercareer, in love and well
everything.
Her identical twin sister, AMI,on the other hand, is probably
(47:32):
the luckiest person in theworld.
Her meet cute with her fiance issomething out of a romantic
comedy gag, and she is managedto finance her entire wedding by
winning a series of internetcontest.
Double gag.
Worst of all, she's forcingOlive to spend the day with her
sworn enemy, Ethan, who justhappens to be the best man.
Olive braces herself to getthrough 24 hours of wedding hell
(47:55):
before she can return to hercomfortable unlucky life.
But when the entire weddingparty gets food poisoning from
eating bad shellfish, oh, theonly people who aren't affected
are Olive and Ethan.
And now there's an all expensepaid honeymoon to Hawaii up for
grabs.
Putting their mutual hatredaside for the sake of a pre
vacation.
Olive and Ethan Head forParadise determined to avoid
each other at all costs.
(48:15):
But when Olive runs into herfuture boss, the little white
lie she tells him is suddenly atrisk to become a whole lot
bigger.
She and Ethan now have topretend to be loving newlyweds,
and her luck seems worse thanever.
But the weird thing is that shedoesn't mind playing, pretend.
In fact, she feels kind oflucky.
(48:35):
So that is very different fromwhat we just read and I It's
seems like a palate cleanser it.
Yeah, it really does.
So I'm actually number three inline on Hoopla and on Libby,
that's about a seven week wait.
Oh geez.
So I might get the, I mightborrow the real book.
Oh, okay.
And, read, read, oh, this one'savailable.
What's available in Espanol?
(48:57):
Should I try that?
Should I give that a go?
No.
No.
So that's our next book.
So I am looking forward to apalate clean after all of my
tears.
Awesome.
Absolutely.
It'll be good.
Yeah, it'll be good.
All right.
Well thank you guys so much forlistening.
Um, come back next week for allsorts of chaos.
(49:18):
Thank y'all.
We love you.
Love you.
Bye bye.
All sorts of chaos.
Yeah, I'm just throwing it outthere now.
Alright, that wraps up anotherepisode of, this is My Circus.
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