Hosts: Stefanie Navarro & Meredith Hill
Run Time: 49 Mins
Theme: Baby goats, Hero dads, Bronzer Dupe Win, New Obsessions, Diddy Case, Real life Dexter, AITA, Book Club Review
Welcome back to This Is My Circus — the podcast where parenting meets pop culture chaos, and goat cuddling is cheaper than therapy. This week, we’re bringing stories that range from adorable to unhinged, including TikTok trolls, cruise ship heroes, and a real-life Dexter you won’t believe.
In this episode, we cover:
- 🐐 Our literal goat cuddling experience (yes, we paid extra and yes, it was worth every penny)
- ⚠️ A Disney Cruise dad jumps overboard to save his daughter — and treads water for 20 minutes like a legend
- 🩺 A new nurse spreads affair rumors… about a daughter and her dad? Yikes.
- 🧴 Drugstore beauty wins: The $1.25 bronzing drops you need now
- ✈️ Meredith’s obsession with Emirates airline and why we were meant to fly first-class forever
🧼 Real Talk + Life Lately:
- Our chaotic Dollar Tree finds (thank you Nina Pool!)
- Tried the new local spot, The Cattle Car — rustic glam + great food? Yes please.
- Gas station pranks, and the weirdest storms of summer
🎙️ “Am I the A-Hole?”
A hospital social worker gets a nurse fired for spreading gossip that she’s having an affair with...her dad.
Verdict: Not the A-hole. But also...what’s going on in that hallway?
🧠 Deep Dives + Weird News:
- A real-life Dexter in Brazil: Pedro Rodriguez, aka “The Brazilian Vigilante,” claimed over 100 victims — but only the “bad guys”
- Four 5th-grade girls plot a classmate’s murder over cheating rumors. WHAT.
- A wind turbine blade falls into traffic — Final Destination flashbacks incoming
- Conspiracy TikTok alert: CIA files, Mandela effects, and the rabbit hole you’ll never crawl out of
📚 Book Chat: What She Left by H.K. Christie
We wanted to love this one — the mystery, the flawed PI mom, the buried secrets — but the robotic narration and stiff dialogue took us out of it.
⭐️ Rating: 2.5/10
💬 Strong premise, poor execution. The addiction arc was solid, but the pacing dragged and the delivery was dry.
📖 Next Read: You by Charles Benoit
A dark YA thriller told in second person. It’s short, intense, and under 4 hours — let’s see if it redeems our reading week.
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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 Stephen Meredith and welcometo This is my circus.
You know, we are proof thatpodcasting equipment is way too
cheap apparently.
Bonehead, our TikTok comment, asJackson said, when you get
haters, that means you made it.
So I got, a TikTok violation formy response.
(00:44):
And my response wasn't even bad.
No, it wasn't.
It said Every circus needsclowns.
Thanks for, uh, a auditioning.
Auditioning, and that gotflagged for, are you a bully?
Apparently?
So much bad stuff on TikTok.
I know that that's, that's whatthey flagged.
That's what they got.
So of course I went in andtrolled his page and made a
(01:06):
comment back about somethingabout him loving.
And so, I don't know, being agood person or whatever.
Apparently not, dude.
Es suck.
Totally suck.
I am a bully.
Um, how you been?
Good.
How are you?
I'm okay.
It is storming like a mofo it.
Yeah.
Well they it's better now.
Yeah.
I, we've having these like flashstorms though.
Yeah.
This summer.
(01:26):
Yeah.
I was like two inches fromtexting you and being like, um,
I almost texted you and said,did you wanna hold off?
Just, just wait a minute.
So I went ahead and got in thecar and came this way.
And of course, my gas light wason because that's how I roll.
Do you, do you like, like useevery I do single gram.
Or fluid ounce, whatever it's,I, I sometimes get the little
dashes where there's likenothing Uhhuh, Uhhuh.
(01:46):
Yeah.
I just like to see, I like togive Brian, uh, like I make it
go down to like one mile toempty just to see his reaction.
So I pulled into the gas stationright there across from
McDonald's on the way here, andI pulled up beside a vehicle
that looked familiar and I.
I was like, oh, that looks likeOlivia's car.
And she had left the door open.
It was her.
And I saw her walking in, buther kids were in the car.
(02:09):
Mm-hmm.
One of them, her youngest one,Jace.
And he was sitting in the frontseat and he had his headphones
on her.
And I could tell he was notpaying attention to anything.
So of course I get in her car inthe driver's seat and I shut the
door and I look at him and Isay, are you ready?
And he was like, yeah.
Like still not looking.
He just, but just responded.
And I said, well, where do youwanna go?
And I wish I would've recordedit.
(02:29):
'cause he looked over at me andhe went like literally like
fear.
And by this time I had waved toOlivia, like when I pulled up.
So she had her umbrella walkingto me.
Mm-hmm.
And I guess she saw the wholeinteraction from outside.
She was like, why didn't werecord that?
I said.
I thought he would see me.
Mm-hmm.
And like have some kind ofreaction.
He did have reaction, but it wasafter the whole situation, so it
(02:52):
was great.
It was great.
You know, don't leave your kidsunattended.
I'm just kidding.
He was like 15.
He's fine.
I'm just kidding.
I remember when he, everybodywas like, you are such a sucker.
He was selling rocks that hefound in the, prize.
I.
How many rocks did you buy?
Stuff?
I, I don't know.
I bought at least one for adollar.
(03:15):
That's adorable though.
That's so cute.
Everybody's like, you are such asucker.
I'm like, he's so cute.
He is so cute.
So he's going into the sixthgrade now.
Isn't crazy.
I know.
Um, freaking flies.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that was fun.
That just happened.
That just happened.
So that's my day.
Hmm.
That's my day.
Got my hair cut.
It looks amazing.
(03:35):
Thanks.
Covered up the grays.
Yeah.
Yeah.
you know, I, I love my, Ninapool.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
So this has been out for a whileand I just never am able to find
him at the Dollar Tree, but it'sthe drunken elephant's bronzer
Duke.
Oh, yeah.
Did you find him?
I did.
They had him at our Dollar Tree.
And they are amazing.
Really.
I just put'em in, you know, allthose little vial thingies that
(03:57):
we got?
Yeah.
The serum.
Yeah.
So I like the more thicker serumin the gold tube.
Yeah.
use just so a little bit of thatand the, like two drops of the
bronzer.
And that's all I use.
That's, that's it.
Real.
That's this, that's this.
That's this.
Yeah.
That's it, Uhhuh and that didthat with the, with the, but
yeah.
No, no foundation, no nothing.
(04:17):
This is just, I am super duimpressed.
I need to take a picture ofthat, which is why I had my
camera on and then Rex was thereand I was like, oh, picture of
Rex.
Yeah.
So this is a Nina pool wreck.
Mm-hmm.
See, I gotta stop by there onthe way home.
Anyway, the one right here inClifford.
Love it.
I know.
And I can never, ever find'em.
They're always sold out.
And so when I saw'em, I waslike, oh, I'm gonna have to go.
(04:39):
But then I didn't know if I wasgonna like them.
Now you need like four, so thiswill last forever.
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's literally like a one and ahalf, maybe two drops.
I, I'm shook.
Yes.
You look great.
Thank you.
You are welcome.
I went and met with another, dogsitter today for Rex, just as
the backup.
Yeah.
She was great.
And then she's like, I said, oh,well I've got like a
(05:00):
17-year-old.
She's like, you do not look oldenough.
I'm like, thank you.
You do not.
She's like, how old are you?
I'm like, I'll be 43 in like aweek and a half, two weeks.
And she's like, oh my God.
If I could look like the petwhen I get to your age.
And I was like, thank you.
I could look like that when Iwas 20.
I'd be happy.
You're a normal my little pocketperson.
(05:21):
Right, right.
You're gorge.
You're gorge.
You don't need all the drops.
All the things I do like thedrops just'cause you look good
glow.
Oh yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I have on lipstick againtoday.
Because after I watched it, Iwas like, I look a little bit
better with some color on, so Idon't, it made me, well, it just
made me feel a little bit, youknow, sometimes you just need to
feel something.
Mm-hmm.
(05:41):
Um, one of our fines for theweek was we went to the new
restaurant opened at Clover.
How was it?
It was really good.
Yeah.
It was called the Cattle car.
And, we went Sunday evening, sothey opened last week.
We gave it a few days and wewent.
I loved it, loved the vibe.
The inside is amazing.
You let me know when you wannago check it out.
Um, but it's like.
Rustic meets glam with likechandeliers and exposed brick.
(06:06):
I just loved it.
Yeah.
Food was really good.
Brian did not like the wings,but he said, he said the salad
was really good and all theother things, and I loved what I
had and Jackson was happy, soloved it.
Service was great.
Definitely be back.
Awesome.
Yeah.
And they had a great drink menu.
Did not get anything from that.
They were still really busy.
Yeah.
So it was just like, let me justcheck it out a little bit.
(06:27):
Gotta say die down a little bit.
Oh yeah.
So, okay.
I have a new addiction.
Okay, well, what did you have totalk about?
Because I'm No, let's, I'm a,I'm a Jabber.
Listen, I love your addiction,so give it to me.
Okay.
Hold on.
I gotta look up the name of itand I'll say it wrong.
Well, in the meantime, yes, I ammissing that baby goat.
So bad we went, my gosh.
(06:47):
So if y'all did not see ourposts, we went and cuddled baby
goats because there was afundraiser at the Tractor Supply
and we.
It was everything.
It was amazing.
It was everything.
So I wanna say it supportedClover Middle School's, FFA, or
Clover.
It was something with CloverMiddle, and um, I.
(07:08):
They had like six or eightlittle goats over there.
Mm-hmm.
So they were from a farm thatactually lives behind my house.
Happy Hooves and Feathers Farm.
The, the Home of Noodle, theHome of Noodle, my sweet Bebb
noodle, um, the Home of Noodle.
Her name is Megan.
And we're gonna have her on thepod one day just to chat.
(07:28):
And she invited us to the farm.
She did invite us to the farm.
I know I need to message her sowe can get that hooked up.
But let me tell you how.
Much.
I love that baby goat.
I know.
So your baby goat was like twoweeks old, Uhhuh.
It was like the size of a likesmall cocker spaniel.
I loved it and it kept fallingasleep at me.
(07:49):
I loved you.
And it pooped my nose and itjust was like the most pill.
I'm so surprised you did notsmuggle that baby.
I didn't want it to So bad.
Yeah, that baby was everything.
Oh, fucking goodness.
Well, so the one that I heldfirst, loved that, loved that
little thing, but then the otherstarted staring at me and I was
like.
(08:10):
And I have this thing where Ihave to include, oh, no, I was
keeping that baking.
You were totally fine.
So I, I switched like three orfour times, like all gave, gave
them all a little cuddle.
Mm-hmm.
One of them was not into mycuddles.
Mm-hmm.
Didn't, didn't keep that one toolong.
But wasn't vibing.
Was not vibing.
Wanted to co run around withthis friends, get it.
So they were from like two weeksold to I think like two months.
(08:31):
Mm-hmm.
Adores.
Oh my gosh.
I just like that little baby waseverything.
I had his head on your shoulder.
Yeah.
And just was closing his eyes.
Those pictures were so sweet.
I was obsessed.
Yeah.
If, if you've never cuddled ababy goat, I highly recommend.
Mm-hmm.
10 outta 10.
Skip your therapy for that week.
(08:51):
Paid the$5.
We paid the$10.
If we didn't want them to, wewanted extra time.
If I had known how amazing thatthat cuddle was, I would've
given the full 20.
We were gonna take 200 bucks,but other people were starting
to, we were there like rightwhen it opened and it was
perfect and everybody was likestarting to come and gather and
(09:11):
ask questions so we can give thelittle five yearold a chance.
Gotta give up our scene.
Yeah.
But that was.
That was so much fun.
Yes, it was perfect section.
Okay, so my new addiction that Iam just a hundred percent into
and I cannot stop watchingtiktoks about it and just
(09:32):
pictures of it is an airline.
I must fly on this airline,Emirates, have you ever heard of
this airline?
Mm-hmm.
They are.
Uber fancy and like they havethese uniforms that they all
have to wear and they all haveto look a certain way with the
bright red lipstick and theflights.
(09:54):
Oh my God.
Hold on.
I gotta show you.
Are these like private?
I don't know.
No, no, no, they're outta Dubai.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
But they, they fly to like overa hundred destinations, but they
do have separate classes.
But their first class hasprivate suites with closing
doors, meals, and showers.
(10:15):
Oh, so they got like apartmentsin there pretty much.
But check out the way thatthey're are they air stewardess?
Is that what they're stillcalling?
Yeah, whatever Flightattendants.
I don't know.
Air Secretary, I don't know, butwoman man.
But look, oh, that's, but theyall have to wear a red lipstick.
(10:36):
They, and they can wear anyshade of red.
Um, but they're all beautiful.
They all have to have likecertain dental, um, like their,
their smile has to look acertain way.
They can't have any obviousmissing teeth or anything like
that, but mm-hmm.
I am fascinated with, likethey'll do the get readys with
me and all that kind of stuffand they'll do like, I'm so
weird.
But they'll do like the beforeand then they'll put their
(10:57):
makeup on and they're sostunning.
Mm-hmm.
And they tell you how did theytake care of the hat that has
the veil attached to it?
Oh my gosh.
You know how I went to thesoccer game and I was like, I
was meant to live like that.
Uhhuh.
That's how I was meant to fly.
That airline.
That base needs to be based outof Clover, South Carolina.
Not gonna happen, but okay.
Never, ever, ever gonna happen.
(11:18):
But it is just how the otherhalf lives like it is just.
I had no idea that that was athing.
I mean, outside of like private.
Mm-hmm.
I had no idea.
Yeah.
That that was something.
And now we don't live that life.
We do not.
We should though.
But I could Totally.
We should.
I, it wouldn't take me long toadjust.
No.
(11:39):
I could fall into that real,real quick, real fast, real
quick.
I mean, I'm actually there.
I, I have to work to not be inthat.
Yeah.
Okay.
I, I get that.
Yeah.
So, any new addictions for youlately?
Uh, no.
I just started watching a newshow on Netflix called, I think
it's The Survivors or somethinglike that.
Mm-hmm.
And it's out of Australia, sothey got the accents.
(12:00):
Okay.
The survivors.
Yeah.
Okay.
it's about Years and years ago,two kids died trying to save a
brother Okay.
From like the caves that wereflooding.
Mm-hmm.
And then he left.
I'm just, I'm holding my breathbecause you know how that does
me.
He left, for a long time and,you know, came back to town for
something with his dad.
His dad's got dementia now, andnow there's another murder.
(12:20):
So, okay.
It's seeing all the, howeverything has unfolded and.
Some on, I like episode three,but it's really good so far.
That sounds good.
Do you remember what service,what stream?
Netflix is a Netflix one.
Mm-hmm.
So I talked to Jackson intostarting Squid game with me.
Oh, Dylan watches that.
I do not, I know.
So he watched the one lastnight, the first episode, or the
(12:40):
first season last night, and hewas making fun of it pretty much
the whole way.
And towards the end, he waslike.
So he texted me right before Icame over here and he said, you
wanna watch episode two soon?
And I was like, I'm going torecord and then we can in a
little bit.
Aw.
He was like, okay.
Um, Dylan went over Tyler's andI was like, well, what are you
guys gonna do?
He's like, oh, the new season ofschool games is out, so we're
gonna binge it tonight.
(13:01):
I was like, okay.
There you go.
It's so good.
It is totally not my thing, butI love it.
Yeah, I love it.
So Brian was watching TV when Ileft and something was across
the screen about partial verdictfor Diddy.
Did you see that?
I did.
I think one of the counts, theyhave given a guilty.
Verdict.
But there was one juror they hadproblems within hours, of going
(13:24):
into deliberation, Uhhuh,because this juror was like,
guilty.
I don't care what anybody elsesays.
He's guilty in all charges andI'm not discussing it.
Okay.
And I'm done.
I mean, yeah, but still, she'slike, I'm done.
And like I don't wanna discussanything.
I don't want to, like, I'm donelike guilty on all charges.
And so it might be one of ourlisteners, so I don't know if
(13:47):
it's a guy, girl, whatever.
Right, right.
I think there was eight men andfour women on the jury.
Okay.
Okay.
So I know that that went to thejudge yesterday.
Mm-hmm.
That there was an issue already.
And then today they came backwith one of the counts was a
guilty, and I apparently Diddywas like f furious in the
courtroom.
But there was five.
(14:08):
Charges to deliberate on total.
Okay.
I don't, and I don't follow,like every trial.
Mm-hmm.
I really don't know how itworks, but I'm surprised that
they delivered one of theverdicts and I think it was a
precursor for the, RICO charge.
Oh, okay.
So that's guilty.
I'm as like, it's tends to bethat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Most of the rest of themprobably will.
(14:30):
Yeah.
But then they also said thatthere was a, um, uh, what are
those, those guys?
Uh.
Something, Marshall, um, courtMarshall, maybe, I don't know.
US Marshall, US Marshall, thatcame and was in there with
Diddy, his attorneys and thejudge and somebody in the
comment section.
So this is just take it with agrain of salt.
Right.
Said that he probably flipped onsomebody.
(14:52):
Oh.
To try to, yeah.
Wiggle outta something,something.
So I don't know if that's trueor not.
Somebody in the comment sectionsaid that that's normally what
this would be.
I mean, that makes sense.
But yeah, so who knows?
But, okay, well moving rightalong with the, the thing.
I'm glad you had the tea onthat.
(15:12):
'cause I like literally had toleave when I saw that and
Brian's like, what are, what arethey saying?
And I was like, no idea.
It just me, it just sayspartial.
Well we're recording on Tuesday,so hopefully by Thursday.
Yeah.
You know, nobody's gonna wannago into the holiday weekend.
Right.
With this Right.
Lingering.
So I tend to think that they'reeither gonna Yeah.
Hung jury or push it one way orthe other.
(15:34):
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's true.
That's true.
And I forget sometimes thatthere's the delay.
Mm-hmm.
Like the people aren't listeninglive.
Yeah.
So hopefully by Thursday we havesomething.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
So Stephanie Sue.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Our rotten mango girl.
Mm-hmm.
I was watching one of her.
(15:54):
Recent tiktoks or listening toone of her recent podcasts.
I don't know, something that shesaid and they're thinking, Kanye
is next.
Didn't she go missing for forlike a week?
Stephanie Sue?
I don't know because everybodyon TikTok was like, where is
she?
'cause she like, oh, I don'tknow.
Yeah.
She was silent.
Really?
Yeah.
I'm thinking this was her mostrecent, Podcast that dropped,
(16:17):
but apparently Kanye was incourt.
Yeah.
He, well, he only stopped inthere, I guess, to show his
support.
Right.
but that's the word on thestreet is that Kanye is next.
Mm.
I would think like Jay-Z wouldbe next.
Kanye's already like Yeah.
Falling off.
Yeah.
Gone.
The flat earth that he's on isgone right off the edge.
(16:38):
Is that what that means?
All over the edge.
Oh my gosh.
I'm learning new things.
Is that what that means?
Okay, great.
Okay.
So.
Did you see, how about that kidthat fell off of the Disney
cruise?
(16:58):
Yes.
Did you see the heroic save?
Okay, so I have mixed feelingsand two things can be true at
the same time.
Mm-hmm.
But.
As of right now, they're sayingthat the dad had put the child
on the, on the ledge Yes.
To take a photo.
Mm-hmm.
And the kid went overboard, buthis immediate, I mean, no
hesitation, went right in afterthe child.
(17:19):
Mm-hmm.
Jumped off of the boat into thewater.
Mm-hmm.
Was able to locate the child andwas able to tread water for 20
minutes.
Holding that child up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is incredible.
It is.
It's, have you ever tried totread water?
So, yes, and I don't.
Okay.
I'm sure it's because I haveextra, um, flotation devices,
(17:40):
but I don't sink.
Oh, when you're in the water, doyou go like down to the bottom?
I don't know because I don't.
Well, and so I never knew that Iwas, I never knew that I was
different.
Until Brian and I would like tryto race across the pool and he'd
be like, just go on the bottom.
(18:01):
Well, I go on the bottom and Ifloat up.
Mm-hmm.
Brian like stays on the bottom.
So treading water or floatingfrom me is not a huge feat.
I think if you flipped over onyour back and like Yeah.
Just floated that way.
Yeah.
Because it's way easier.
Yeah.
I just dunno.
With a child, with them.
Panicking or just, you know, theweight of it or just them
(18:22):
flailing I mean, so yeah.
That's a, that's a, that's afault.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
Oh gosh.
Yeah.
So like, thank God there was noinjuries.
Yes.
But when we, got certified forscuba diving mm-hmm.
In college.
Because that was our college peso useful, so glad you did that,
dude.
It was like the best like PEclass judgment.
(18:42):
No, zero, zero judgment.
We went, we did it in the YMCApool, like the classes.
Gosh, that's so funny.
And then we had to do our openwater dive, and we did that in
Mexico.
But when you're doing your,classes, you have to tread water
and you can't hold onto anythingand you have to tread water for
like five minutes.
Okay.
Without touching anything.
Anything.
And you have to just like sitthere and tread.
(19:05):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it was not easy.
You were tired to continue itfor that long, the movement.
Yeah.
And to stay in one spot andYeah.
Just tread.
Yeah.
Not swimming, not like Right.
Move it.
I mean, you just had to sit inthe same spot and tread water
and that, that sucked.
Yeah.
So I'm thinking like that.
And then like 20 minutes of thatwith the child, with the child.
That's crazy.
(19:25):
So good job dad for Right,right, right.
Nobody knows a real story.
This is just what was put outthere by people.
Right.
Assuming.
But again, two things can betrue at once.
Yes.
It's not like he pushed thechild off, but putting a child
railing.
Yeah.
Not the smartest Yeah.
Move.
Right, right, right.
But awesome job saving your kid,Uhhuh.
Absolutely.
And awesome for Disney.
Like getting those boats outthere, uhhuh as they did.
(19:47):
Yeah.
A hundred percent response timewas hundred percent.
When we had gone on a cruise,Jackson went like five, six,
somewhere like six, seven.
if we were inside and he wassitting on a ledge that the
glass behind it was so clear itdidn't look like there was
glass.
So he's just sitting there and Itook a picture and when we got
back, you know, upload mypictures and posted that one,
(20:07):
and everybody's like, I can'tbelieve you put'em on that
ledge.
I'm like, those are the class.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Glass behind it.
Mm-hmm.
But.
I don't think I would putJackson on a ledge with no
class.
I wouldn't put me on a ledgewith no class, even in my most
athletic days.
So I value my life.
Mm-hmm.
A hundred percent.
So, gosh, I'm glad the kiddidn't Dr.
(20:29):
All the things.
All the things.
Insane.
Crazy.
How old was the child?
Do you remember?
I wanna say like five.
Yeah.
Around there.
Oh, glad everybody's okay.
Same.
Yeah.
Glad everybody's okay.
Well, who is not?
Okay?
Are these four girls that are,from Arizona?
Did you hear about the fourgirls that plotted the murder of
a boy in their class?
(20:51):
No.
Yeah.
Okay.
This is in Arizona.
Okay.
Four fifth grade girls plottedto Lura, boy to the bathroom at
recess.
Stab him to death and then havea suicide note ready to make it
look like.
He took his own life because he.
Was dating one of these girlsand cheated on her in fifth
(21:12):
grade.
Yeah, but still, each of themhad an assigned part.
I mean, this was like allplotted out, like written out,
plotted of who was doing what.
So one girl was to bring theknife, the other girl would do
the act itself.
Another would be the lookout,and the last was in charge of
writing the note.
Some students at the schoolfound out and told a teacher,
thank God.
(21:32):
Yeah.
Administration searched thebackpacks of the girls and found
all the things to commit thisaction.
So obviously they called thepolice.
Police came, arrested, the fourgirls.
Here's the like the worst part.
Okay.
I mean that's all horrible.
Yeah.
Three outta the four girlsshowed remorse was upset.
Like, oh, they just got caughtup in it and yeah.
(21:53):
You know, whatever.
The fourth girl laughed and saidhe deserved it.
That chick is going like psycho.
I bet she was the one who wasdesignated to do the actual
fifth grade.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
That's terrible.
No, she needs all kinds of help.
No remorse.
Nothing.
Yeah.
She's gonna be Yeah, that's,that's bad.
(22:17):
That's terrifying.
That's bad.
They need to go ahead and lookand see if she's harming animals
and wedding the bed and like,uh, some kind of treatment
center or like something to gethelp.
Yeah, because could you imaginebeing in the room with your
child and that's their reaction?
No.
Can you imagine that not beingyour child and you're the
(22:38):
interviewer or whatever?
And I'd be terrified that I'd belike, yeah, that's like, ugh,
demons.
So this fucking, now could youimagine being the poor boy?
I bet you he's never gonna, shegot nobody.
No, no.
Poor dude.
He's probably never gonna haveanother girlfriend or boyfriend
or whatever.
Again, he's done.
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Oh.
Learning a lesson.
Right.
Um, did you see the articleabout the ginormous, Windmill
blade that fell into traffic.
No, I showed Brian that and hewas like, is that ai?
And I was like, no, that's real.
So in Maryland, a huge giantwindmill blade and I showed you
(23:22):
the picture.
It went across the wholeinterstate.
Mm-hmm.
Like all the lanes on both sidesof traffic.
It came loose on Monday and ithit interstate 70 in Maryland
and caused traffic to be backedup for miles.
Can.
This is the can you imagineepisode right here?
Can you imagine though, justdriving down the road, talk
(23:43):
about, what was that movie Finaldestination?
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
To this day, this morning, I gotbehind a logging truck, Uhuh.
Yeah.
Skirted right around him.
Nope.
That is craziness now.
Okay.
Let's make it worse.
Okay.
You're like, oh, okay.
Oh, and nobody was hurt as faras we know, which is crazy.
(24:04):
Yeah.
They skirted it.
It's coming up.
Yeah.
Like you're riding with Dylan.
You're teaching him to drive andthis happens.
I think when we're doing that,it would be instinct to figure
out the best thing to do in themoment and, and make it happen.
I can't even think about how toverbalize somebody, how to
navigate around or through orwhatever that I.
(24:25):
No, Lord, that mercy is crazy.
Just a couple weeks ago, therewas a tractor trailer right in
Charlotte.
That was carrying glass, likeglass doors or glass windows and
crashed or flipped or something.
And there was glass everywhere.
I mean, for, for days.
Oh my goodness.
The, the highway was covered inglass.
I didn't hear about that fromthis truck.
Could you?
(24:45):
How many tires?
Oh my gosh.
It was probably a conspiracy.
They were in cahoots, maybe thetractor trailer truck in cahoots
with the tire companies.
Well, thank God nobody was hurt.
But I can't imagine a crazyhuge, huge, huge thing.
I found a new TikTok for that.
I think you'll love.
Okay.
Because it's all conspiracytheories and like declassified,
(25:06):
CIA Docs.
Huh.
Give me the, the deep.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's curiosities, unknown is thename.
Watch out already.
Follow them.
I don't know.
I was, he's like our CIAdeclassified conspiracy of the
day is, and I was like, oh, whatare we talking about?
We were like, lemme get, lemmeget my popcorn.
I am in.
(25:26):
But he has got some really, Imean, you, you are gonna go down
some rabbit holes.
Okay.
Because things I've never heardof.
Is this a warning?
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's your warning.
I did not already follow him, sowe'll add him to my list.
Awesome stuff.
He goes through the, empty ultraMandela effects.
(25:46):
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Oh, you know, I'm fascinatedwith that one.
Tarter.
That's like where they're sayingit's the advanced civilization.
Okay.
That was supposedly wiped outfrom our memories.
Okay.
But are still okay.
Okay.
The CIA testing for telepathyand like all the mind control
stuff through the CIA.
Okay.
(26:07):
The Dolce base alien war thatwas in New Mexico.
Oh yeah.
Okay., I mean, everythingRabbit, rabbit whole galore.
Okay.
So, okay.
If you get bored, like I was, ifyou have hours of your life to
lose that.
You want to go down his bananasthough?
Yeah.
Like, oh, a hundred percent.
Yeah.
Stuff.
Yeah.
(26:27):
Yeah.
Craziness.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
So, have you ever met anybodywho believe?
No.
Okay.
Let me preface this by saying Ibelieve that the world is round,
the earth is round.
I think the majority of peopleprobably do don't know.
Have you ever met anybody whothinks it's flat?
Yes.
So I always thought when I heardflat.
That they were thinking like acube.
(26:49):
Like a square.
They mean flat.
Like, like a desk.
Yeah.
Like there's one end and oneend.
Yeah.
And I don't know why that justhit me.
And I was like, huh.
Yeah.
I don't, I mean, there, there'sreally no more revelation for me
than that.
Other than that, what theymeant.
But, I watched a TikTok on that,right.
And.
So yeah, they're like, well, whyin the Disney movies does the
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rocket not go straight up in theair?
It it dos.
I was like, is that a rocket?
I thought it was a shootingstar.
I thought it was a shootingstar.
I was like, wish upon star.
Oh my gosh.
Everything we ever knew ha hasjust been wiped out of our Yeah.
I'm not the person to ask aboutspecific No, no, no, no, no
facts.
(27:31):
No, no.
None of the things that arereal, that are accurate, that
matter.
No, not at all.
Not at all.
But you asked me what happenedin the Harry Potter movie.
Music lyrics from the nineties.
Yeah.
There's no question music lyricstoday, I can't remember.
(27:52):
It's like my memory, stoppedworking.
Mm-hmm.
At a very specific time.
I feel like it's full.
Yeah.
And that's why I keep saying Ican't learn anything else
because I'm going to loseinformation.
Yeah.
If new information comes in ahundred percent, and it's
really, really important that Iremember the Green day lyrics.
It's like when my computer tellsme it's full and it can't save
my files and I have to deletestuff, and I'm like, I really
(28:12):
can't delete anything.
Right.
I don't know what's on there.
Must save that on.
But if I saved it, I probablyneed it.
And that's how I feel about mybrain.
I know.
Do you find though, that it'sharder for you to learn now than
it used to be?
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Yeah.
I used to be such a goodmultitasker and quick, I mean,
(28:33):
I'm still at my job, like I'mstill, I'm not like
lollygagging, but just to beable to, I love that word,
lollygagging.
But yeah, it's so much hardernow to learn new things.
They have never been a goodlike.
Take time to do a task.
Like I have to work underpressure.
Mm-hmm.
even in school, if we had areport mm-hmm.
(28:54):
And we had a month to do it, I'dbe doing it the day before.
Yeah.
Like from start to finish theday before.
Yeah.
There was no pre-writing.
Right.
And there was no process.
It was, it was final draft asthe first draft.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And get it turned in.
Yeah.
That's the only way I can start.
I do too.
And I do better hands on.
I want to do it myself.
Mm-hmm.
I'll never forget the first timeI assisted in surgery.
Like I'd been observing anddoing the things and all of a
(29:16):
sudden the lady that I've beenwatching just like stepped back
and wait.
What surgery?
Eye surgery.
You did eye surgery?
Mm-hmm.
I thought you just worked at theeye doctor, like I Until you did
the surgery?
Yeah, I was in the surgery roomtoo and I assisted in, yeah, in
eye surgery.
Mm-hmm.
Cut the eyeballs.
But, oh, you do?
You need a minute.
(29:37):
Oh, amazing.
I, I'm jack of all trades,master of none her really?
No.
I just thought you worked like,you like did this, I did the
things, I did the better onebetter too and did the, glaucoma
test and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
But I would, I did assisted eyesurgery, but, so I had been
observing and like learning notall the things and every surgeon
(29:58):
had a different Is your mindjust blown right now?
I thought you were just beingsarcastic, like, well, you know,
when I was surgery, like no, Ikept going and I was like, wait,
when do you think there'snothing else she can learn about
me?
You learn more.
I love it.
I know, right?
But you know, every, just like,we all have different things
(30:18):
that, different preferences.
Every surgeon is different.
Like some are methodical theexact same thing every time and
some are just.
As fast as they can get stuffdone in whatever order they
wanna do it, you know?
Mm-hmm.
Whatever, that he was a greatsurgeon, but still he wanted it
done quickly.
Well, but, but I'll never forgetthe first time, you know, you're
nervous and you're anxious andyou're watching and you're
learning and you're taking notesand you've done the
(30:39):
certifications and everything.
And she just like backed up andleft and she was like, glove up.
And I was like, okay.
And that was my first assist.
Like really?
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, it was, it was terrifying,but it went well, and I loved
that.
I loved that job.
That was, that was fun.
No, I don't like that.
Well, you know, I refused to doany of the dissecting stuff in
(31:03):
like, I was like, gimme the zerowas not touching any kind of
deaded things.
Yeah.
Like I wasn't dissecting things,was not doing the science
things.
Yeah.
Science.
Not for me.
Yeah.
Gimme like, like the potionstuff.
Like, like gimme like thechemicals to like mix.
Mm-hmm.
I will blow something up.
The problem like the biologypart of you, but I'm not putting
(31:23):
nothing open.
I, here's why I really liked it.
I was kind of removed from itbecause I wasn't doing it.
I was just handing theinstruments and doing the lasers
and stuff, the lasers, starWars, my eyes just started
twitching.
But here's what I really likedit about.
That was one piece of what I didin ophthalmology.
But all of those patients, 99%of them were healthy.
(31:47):
Nobody was like in pain orhurting and you know, it was
just making everybody get rid oftheir glasses or their contact
lenses.
Like it was all just, you know,none of it was, you know,,
didn't really require a lot ofcompassion.
Thanks.
Hard pass.
Hard pass.
Well, there, there's yourMeredith for the day.
There you go.
I'm good.
(32:08):
No, thanks.
Never.
I get it.
I get it.
No.
Let's talk about some slicingand Dyson.
Yeah.
Did you watch Dexter?
Yeah.
Okay.
Did you know that there was areal life Dexter?
No.
And, Brazil.
I actually do feel like I heardthis.
His name is Pedro Rodriguez.
Okay.
I'm probably butchering thatname, but in the nineties or
(32:30):
something.
He died in 2023.
Okay.
But he was caught in.
You're really struggling.
Is it in Spanish, in your arena?
In Spanish?
No, I had chat, um, summarizelike this whole big thing that I
found.
The way you looked, looked likeyou were just trying to
(32:50):
translate it at you.
Lemme just read this.
Okay.
Okay.
So Pedro, also known as PedroMatador or the Brazilian Dexter,
was a real life vigilante serialkiller.
Born October 29th, 1954.
Between ages 14 and 19, hemurdered suspected criminals,
including 14.
Well, yeah.
He, his dad was a real bum.
Oh, okay.
(33:11):
And, you know, abusive Yeah.
And all the things.
Yeah.
And so he got, I think, likethis very, righteous version of
what's right and wrong.
Okay.
So he never hurt anybody thatwas innocent.
Okay.
It was always bad guys.
Okay.
So his suspected criminals thathe.
T was drug dealers, rapists andgang members.
(33:33):
Mm-hmm.
He claimed over a hundredvictims, though officially
convicted of only 71, but manyof the people that he took out,
was in prison while he was inprison.
Oh.
Mm-hmm.
So he served 34 years behindbars before being released in
2007.
Now.
His girlfriend, I believe, waspregnant and a gang member
(33:54):
killed her and then that's whenhe really like went off the
edge.
Yeah.
So he was released in 2007, wasre imprisoned in 2011 to 2018
for riots and afterwards becamea YouTuber warning against crime
before being shot dead on March5th, 2023.
Yeah.
(34:15):
Terrifying.
He killed o only those, hedeemed guilty and, but I'm not
any of those bad things, so Iguess I shouldn't be afraid of.
So his father murdered hismother?
Mm-hmm.
And I don't know how to say hisdad stabbed her 31 times.
Well, when he got out prison, hefound his dad and stabbed him
like 32 times.
It was like one more than he didto his mom.
(34:37):
but it is almost like he wantedto go to prison so he could
finish his Venice, take outeverybody.
Right?
Well, I'm here.
Lemme take out the church.
Right?
Yeah.
I don't really have to go findanybody.
Here they are, 14 to 19 yearsold.
Mm-hmm.
Wowza and then a bunch more inprison.
Several articles said that theybelieve it's like way over a
(34:58):
hundred.
Yeah, but they can't, I guessthose are confirmed, but, but he
could, whatever got convicted on71 believed to be over a
hundred, but they believe it'sway over that number.
Oh my gosh.
Bananas.
Go, go.
Yeah.
Wow.
I feel like I had heard thatbefore, but you know, I watched
(35:18):
so many of the stupid crimeshows that it might have just
been something I wa That soundslike a criminal minds to be
honest.
It does.
So who knows?
My sources might be criminalminds.
Who knows?
Welcome to, this is my circus,the podcast where we embrace the
chaos and keep it real aboutparenting, pop culture, true
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(35:40):
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So if you love unfilteredconversation, questionable
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Buckle up, grab your popcorn,and let's get into the chaos.
Are you ready for, um, am I thea Never been ready am I the A
(36:04):
for getting a new nurse firedfor accusing me of having an
affair with my father.
Hey, Reddit.
I'm a hospital social worker ata small hospital.
My dad is one of the ER dayshift charge nurses.
A few weeks ago I was in the ERtrying to figure out placement
for an elderly patient.
When I was leaving, I had a chatwith my dad in the hallway.
(36:25):
Before I left, he gave me a hug,told me not to be late for
dinner.
I joked about how I'm going toorder the most expensive steak
on the menu since it's his turnto pay.
I'm a 27 female.
My dad is the 51 male.
There was a new nurse at thenurse's station nearby.
Pretty much everyone knows thathe's my dad.
I hadn't spoken with this newnurse though much, and she
didn't know.
(36:46):
Apparently she thought my dadand I were having an affair
based off of what she heard andsaw.
She knew my dad's married to mymom, who brings him lunch
sometimes.
She immediately began gossipingto some of the other staff that
my dad is having an affair with.
The hospital social worker, AKAME one older nurse that I've
known for a long timeimmediately came to tell me, I
don't think she liked this newnurse very much.
(37:08):
I guess no one decided to tellher that he's my dad.
I don't think nobody reallylikes her.
No, I hate gossips.
I don't know what it is aboutnurses, but I swear some of them
really love to spread rumors.
I decided not to take it up withher and just went straight to
hr.
We were both asked to come to HRafter our shift was over, along
with my dad.
(37:28):
Now, the HR lady knew that he'smy father.
When new nurse came in, she wasasked to explain and she said
she thinks it's terrible that wewould so blatantly have an
affair, and she was shockedbecause she thought my dad
seemed like a nice guy.
My dad then decided to speak upand explained that I'm his
child.
The new nurse was mortified andapologized.
Profusely.
(37:48):
The HR lady asked me and my dadto leave.
They had a meeting with the unitmanager and it was decided that
the new nurse would be firedimmediately because she was
still in her 90 day probationaryperiod.
My mom thinks I'm a jerk and Ishould have just brought it up
to the nurse instead of bringingit to HR when I knew she'd
probably get fired.
I think my mom is alsosympathetic because she stopped
the woman's Facebook and she'sall.
(38:09):
Single mom or whatever.
I think I was right to get herfired because the hospital
doesn't need a bunch of nursessitting on their butts gossiping
instead of doing their jobs.
My dad's embarrassed and feelsawkward about the whole thing.
It's not the first time someonehas thought I was dating my dad.
And that's, we aren't weird oranything, but it happens.
Any who am by the A-hole.
(38:29):
Okay.
There's a lot to unpack there.
There is.
There really is.
Okay.
So if I saw that happen in thehallway, I'd probably be like,
what's going on?
But I would hope somebody wouldtell me, I would've probably
said, who's that?
And they would say, oh, that'shis daughter.
Right.
I couldn't immediately be like,oh, he's having an affair.
(38:50):
Or did she do that?
And because they didn't likeher, they were like, that's one
of the social workers.
And didn't bother to say that'shis daughter.
I mean, who knows?
Yeah.
Who knows what happened.
Yeah.
But she didn't need to gotelling everybody that.
And I'm sorry, but everybodygossips at work.
Everybody gossips everywhere.
That's just how it, how it is.
I mean, you need a littlereprieve.
(39:11):
Right, right.
But I mean, I don't know, maybeshe's just sensitive that maybe
she got cheated on.
So everybody she sees, shethinks it's, I don't know.
You know what though?
As soon as I got in there shetried to throw the, uh, say it
again under the bus and waslike, oh, I cannot believe you
two.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
That's true.
And she probably has that sameattitude.
Yeah.
I don't think you're the,a-hole.
(39:32):
I just don't know if I wouldhave gone about it that way.
Well, I don't know.
She says she thought sheprobably would've gotten fired,
but it still wasn't her decisionto fire the nurse.
Yeah.
So, I mean, she wasn't in chargeof, I mean, I don't think she
holds that much sway and herdad, I don't know.
But that wasn't her decision tofire them.
I mean, how she, she was tryingto get them fired in the hr.
(39:53):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, I mean, that's just reallytouchy work stuff is sometimes
weird.
I think it's weird that a lot ofpeople think that they're
dating, that too, like that'sweird.
How do they act that it's.
I don't know.
That's weird.
Mm-hmm.
So, I don't know.
I mean, just the, the physicaldynamics of it shouldn't, I
(40:14):
don't know, whatever.
I'm not even gonna go down that.
Yeah.
Rabbit hole.
I don't think you're the,a-hole.
I don't either.
And if she doesn't know her, Idon't know.
It almost to me, I get the vibethat it was kind of like a
setup, like you said.
Mm-hmm.
The nurses don't like her.
They wanted the new girl out.
Mm-hmm.
And this was their way of doingit.
But now I feel like these samenurses are gonna complain that
(40:36):
they need help.
And there's nobody else.
They more people hired.
Yeah.
She's probably, well, I listento me.
I'm making up all these like myhead.
She's probably like the cute,young new nurse.
Yeah.
Just fresh outta school.
Yeah.
And these old bitties are thatstill wear the nurse mask?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't think you're the ail.
(40:57):
I don't think you were either.
But that's just, I think youwere played though.
Yeah.
You were a pawn.
Yes.
In the scheme of the head nurseHelga.
But figure out what's going onwith you and your dad because
that's not normal.
No, that's weird.
Yeah.
Whether you think it is or not.
I think it is.
Yeah.
That weird.
So I'm judging, sorry.
(41:18):
Yeah, we're gossiping a up.
Congrat.
Alright, well, that is it forour non bookies.
Yep.
If you are non bookie, it isyour time to leave.
We love you.
Tell your friends to listen.
Bye bookies.
Bye.
Alright, so this week we read.
What she left by HK Christie,private investigator Martina
Monroe.
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Struggling with her past andteetering on the edge, takes a
risky case to identify amysterious infant in a photo
only to uncover a deadly truthto her hometown and her own
buried secrets.
I thought the storyline itselfwas good.
Mm-hmm.
I like the storyline.
But like you said, I think itwas, the narrators, I wanted to
(41:59):
love this book so much.
Mm-hmm.
Because I thought it sounded sofascinating.
Mm-hmm.
Definitely the narrators, andnot just the narrators, but the
dialogue was boring.
Okay.
Well, and I put like, it was soproper, like the, the, yeah.
The writing was so proper of howthey would speak, which is not
natural.
Right.
So I think that was part of itas just very robotic.
(42:20):
I even wrote down one personwill say, do you wanna attend?
And the response would be, yes,I'd like to attend.
Yeah.
Like, it was just not, like yousaid, a not a natural eye.
Had such, I reread and rereadand reread this.
Mm-hmm.
And because I would lose myselfin it.
And I still never gathered muchof this book to be honest with
you.
So I couldn't really tell youmuch about what happened in the
(42:42):
book.
I, I made it through it.
It is just, As I was listeningto it, I was like, this isn't
like natural.
Right.
This isn't like a naturaldialogue.
Yeah.
I liked that the characters wereall flawed.
Like you didn't have like ahoity-toity, very true.
I'm better than you.
Type of Very true.
Whatever.
Yep,.
As a mom, you felt the strugglefor Martina, like Yeah.
(43:04):
With a work life struggle.
Yes.
And dealing with her personalthings.
Yes.
And still being a mom andshowing up and the guilt that
she has for being away so much.
There was one part at the verybeginning of the book the
statement was coming up short inthe mother department, and that
was because of being a singlemother.
Do you remember that comment?
(43:25):
That pissed me off.
I think all mothers feel likewe're coming up short.
Single mother, mother with onechild, 15 children.
Mm-hmm.
Stay at home, work, whatever.
I feel like we, none of us thinkwe're doing it right.
Yeah.
Agree.
So I was like, that's a, that'skind of a, I don't like that
statement.
Right.
But I mean, I think that that'sa natural statement for a single
(43:46):
mom to a Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, I get that.
It's, they, that they may, thechildren may feel like they have
less Yeah.
Of a parental.
Involvement because it's asingle mom and the dad was dead.
Yeah.
So there was no even like parentweekends or anything.
Yeah.
I don't think she was makinglike a blanket statement about
that.
I think it was the character I.
(44:08):
As a newly single mom.
Yeah, you're right.
I should not get so heated, butno, I mean, I agree.
I think every mother has gonethrough those feelings and that
guilt and feeling like they havenot done enough or they were
doing it wrong.
Right.
Um, right.
I agree 100%.
Yeah.
Gosh, I really, you've had somegood insights and I, like I
said, I wanted to love this,especially because you had to
(44:28):
get the three books at one timeand I was like, perfect.
That's like 25 hours of readingright there, like, excellent.
And I just, I returned it.
I didn't even try the other twobooks.
Yeah.
And, the.
Narrators.
It was the same.
Same.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Ugh.
I hate it.
I feel like that really killedthe book for me.
I know.
It did.
It did.
Yeah., Again, I love the premiseof the book.
Yes.
It just wasn't executed, I don'tthink.
(44:49):
Mm-hmm.
Very well.
And I think that the, the,actors that were doing the
audiobook mm-hmm.
Killed it.
Like, not in a good way.
Right.
They did not slay.
No.
I think though that even readingit just.
The way that the dialogue wasjust uncomfortable and
repetitive.
I don't even think reading it, Iwould've enjoyed it because it
(45:09):
was just, yeah.
Dry.
Mm-hmm.
Anyway, did you have any otherinsights?
I'm sorry.
The struggle that she washaving, with addiction mm-hmm.
Was also done very well.
Yeah.
Throughout the book.
Knowing the struggle that shewas in, with the added guilt of
being a mom with the added guiltof like, she had messed up her
career.
Right.
And she was trying to build thatcareer back.
Yeah.
(45:29):
And staying sober.
Mm-hmm.
I think that was done reallywell.
Yeah.
And portrayed really well.
It wasn't like, oh, I'm sobernow.
I'm, everything's great.
Right.
It was right.
She was struggling.
Right.
So I appreciated thatperspective from agreed.
Agreed.
And that's very real.
That's not a curable Right.
Thing.
It's a, you know, it's a, it isa constant battle.
Mm-hmm.
So I agreed that was, that wasdone really well.
(45:51):
Yeah.
So those were, those were mythoughts.
Again, I wasn't crazy over itand I, there's lots of it that
didn't hit for me.
Mm-hmm.
there were some aspects of itthat I was like, okay, well
that's relatable or that's Yeah.
Like real life or, yeah.
Yeah.
Lot of potential with this book.
Mm-hmm.
Especially like the picture withthe baby.
Like, I was digging it, but it,I just couldn't get into it.
(46:12):
So I would give it like a.
One or two.
Like, I was not into this bookat all.
I was going four.
You're so generous.
Well, I just really liked likethe, the realness of certain
situations within the book.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, that's fair.
But that's fair.
So our next book, okay, so wewere gonna do X for this week.
Yeah.
Um, but X, when I looked it up.
(46:34):
To go download.
It was the third book in aseries, and we didn't read the
first two, so we're skippingover that one.
Okay.
So our next book is you byCharles Bonnet.
Bonnet.
Bonnet.
Benet Benet.
That's what I'm going with.
Perfect.
Alright.
Now I'm a little bit nervousbecause it only has 2.9 stars,
(46:55):
but oh, I should be.
Well, we, we'll try it.
If it's not good, we can stop.
Okay.
All right.
this is the blurb.
This isn't the way it's supposedto go.
You're just a typical15-year-old sophomore, an
average guy named Kyle Chase.
This can't be happening to you,but then how do you explain all
the blood?
How do you explain how you gothere in the first place?
There Had, there have been someclues it was coming.
(47:15):
Did you miss them or ignorethem?
Maybe if you can figure outwhere it all went wrong, you can
still make it right Or is italready too late?
Think fast, Kyle Time's runningout.
How did this happen?
You is the riveting story of15-year-old Kyle and small
choices he does and doesn't makethat lead to his own
destruction.
And the stunning young adultdebut, Charles Bonnet mixes
riveting tension with aninsightful and unsettling
(47:37):
portrait of an ordinary teen ina tale that is taught powerful
and shattering.
Awesome.
We'll see.
It's short.
It's under four hours.
Uhhuh and I think his name isCharles Benoit.
Well sure.
Nancy Pants.
Just Jackson played basketballwith the kid.
Last name Ben Benoit.
Sure.
Okay, so you by Charles Beis.
(47:58):
It's fun to say though, isn'tit?
Take on your fancy plane.
Do if I can need a cross on.
Awesome.
Okay.
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We really appreciate it.
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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 Stephen Meredith and welcometo This is my circus.
You know, we are proof thatpodcasting equipment is way too
cheap apparently.
Bonehead, our TikTok comment, asJackson said, when you get
haters, that means you made it.
So I got, a TikTok violation formy response.
(00:44):
And my response wasn't even bad.
No, it wasn't.
It said Every circus needsclowns.
Thanks for, uh, a auditioning.
Auditioning, and that gotflagged for, are you a bully?
Apparently?
So much bad stuff on TikTok.
I know that that's, that's whatthey flagged.
That's what they got.
So of course I went in andtrolled his page and made a
(01:06):
comment back about somethingabout him loving.
And so, I don't know, being agood person or whatever.
Apparently not, dude.
Es suck.
Totally suck.
I am a bully.
Um, how you been?
Good.
How are you?
I'm okay.
It is storming like a mofo it.
Yeah.
Well they it's better now.
Yeah.
I, we've having these like flashstorms though.
Yeah.
This summer.
(01:26):
Yeah.
I was like two inches fromtexting you and being like, um,
I almost texted you and said,did you wanna hold off?
Just, just wait a minute.
So I went ahead and got in thecar and came this way.
And of course, my gas light wason because that's how I roll.
Do you, do you like, like useevery I do single gram.
Or fluid ounce, whatever it's,I, I sometimes get the little
dashes where there's likenothing Uhhuh, Uhhuh.
(01:46):
Yeah.
I just like to see, I like togive Brian, uh, like I make it
go down to like one mile toempty just to see his reaction.
So I pulled into the gas stationright there across from
McDonald's on the way here, andI pulled up beside a vehicle
that looked familiar and I.
I was like, oh, that looks likeOlivia's car.
And she had left the door open.
It was her.
And I saw her walking in, buther kids were in the car.
(02:09):
Mm-hmm.
One of them, her youngest one,Jace.
And he was sitting in the frontseat and he had his headphones
on her.
And I could tell he was notpaying attention to anything.
So of course I get in her car inthe driver's seat and I shut the
door and I look at him and Isay, are you ready?
And he was like, yeah.
Like still not looking.
He just, but just responded.
And I said, well, where do youwanna go?
And I wish I would've recordedit.
(02:29):
'cause he looked over at me andhe went like literally like
fear.
And by this time I had waved toOlivia, like when I pulled up.
So she had her umbrella walkingto me.
Mm-hmm.
And I guess she saw the wholeinteraction from outside.
She was like, why didn't werecord that?
I said.
I thought he would see me.
Mm-hmm.
And like have some kind ofreaction.
He did have reaction, but it wasafter the whole situation, so it
(02:52):
was great.
It was great.
You know, don't leave your kidsunattended.
I'm just kidding.
He was like 15.
He's fine.
I'm just kidding.
I remember when he, everybodywas like, you are such a sucker.
He was selling rocks that hefound in the, prize.
I.
How many rocks did you buy?
Stuff?
I, I don't know.
I bought at least one for adollar.
(03:15):
That's adorable though.
That's so cute.
Everybody's like, you are such asucker.
I'm like, he's so cute.
He is so cute.
So he's going into the sixthgrade now.
Isn't crazy.
I know.
Um, freaking flies.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that was fun.
That just happened.
That just happened.
So that's my day.
Hmm.
That's my day.
Got my hair cut.
It looks amazing.
(03:35):
Thanks.
Covered up the grays.
Yeah.
Yeah.
you know, I, I love my, Ninapool.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
So this has been out for a whileand I just never am able to find
him at the Dollar Tree, but it'sthe drunken elephant's bronzer
Duke.
Oh, yeah.
Did you find him?
I did.
They had him at our Dollar Tree.
And they are amazing.
Really.
I just put'em in, you know, allthose little vial thingies that
(03:57):
we got?
Yeah.
The serum.
Yeah.
So I like the more thicker serumin the gold tube.
Yeah.
use just so a little bit of thatand the, like two drops of the
bronzer.
And that's all I use.
That's, that's it.
Real.
That's this, that's this.
That's this.
Yeah.
That's it, Uhhuh and that didthat with the, with the, but
yeah.
No, no foundation, no nothing.
(04:17):
This is just, I am super duimpressed.
I need to take a picture ofthat, which is why I had my
camera on and then Rex was thereand I was like, oh, picture of
Rex.
Yeah.
So this is a Nina pool wreck.
Mm-hmm.
See, I gotta stop by there onthe way home.
Anyway, the one right here inClifford.
Love it.
I know.
And I can never, ever find'em.
They're always sold out.
And so when I saw'em, I waslike, oh, I'm gonna have to go.
(04:39):
But then I didn't know if I wasgonna like them.
Now you need like four, so thiswill last forever.
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's literally like a one and ahalf, maybe two drops.
I, I'm shook.
Yes.
You look great.
Thank you.
You are welcome.
I went and met with another, dogsitter today for Rex, just as
the backup.
Yeah.
She was great.
And then she's like, I said, oh,well I've got like a
(05:00):
17-year-old.
She's like, you do not look oldenough.
I'm like, thank you.
You do not.
She's like, how old are you?
I'm like, I'll be 43 in like aweek and a half, two weeks.
And she's like, oh my God.
If I could look like the petwhen I get to your age.
And I was like, thank you.
I could look like that when Iwas 20.
I'd be happy.
You're a normal my little pocketperson.
(05:21):
Right, right.
You're gorge.
You're gorge.
You don't need all the drops.
All the things I do like thedrops just'cause you look good
glow.
Oh yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I have on lipstick againtoday.
Because after I watched it, Iwas like, I look a little bit
better with some color on, so Idon't, it made me, well, it just
made me feel a little bit, youknow, sometimes you just need to
feel something.
Mm-hmm.
(05:41):
Um, one of our fines for theweek was we went to the new
restaurant opened at Clover.
How was it?
It was really good.
Yeah.
It was called the Cattle car.
And, we went Sunday evening, sothey opened last week.
We gave it a few days and wewent.
I loved it, loved the vibe.
The inside is amazing.
You let me know when you wannago check it out.
Um, but it's like.
Rustic meets glam with likechandeliers and exposed brick.
(06:06):
I just loved it.
Yeah.
Food was really good.
Brian did not like the wings,but he said, he said the salad
was really good and all theother things, and I loved what I
had and Jackson was happy, soloved it.
Service was great.
Definitely be back.
Awesome.
Yeah.
And they had a great drink menu.
Did not get anything from that.
They were still really busy.
Yeah.
So it was just like, let me justcheck it out a little bit.
(06:27):
Gotta say die down a little bit.
Oh yeah.
So, okay.
I have a new addiction.
Okay, well, what did you have totalk about?
Because I'm No, let's, I'm a,I'm a Jabber.
Listen, I love your addiction,so give it to me.
Okay.
Hold on.
I gotta look up the name of itand I'll say it wrong.
Well, in the meantime, yes, I ammissing that baby goat.
So bad we went, my gosh.
(06:47):
So if y'all did not see ourposts, we went and cuddled baby
goats because there was afundraiser at the Tractor Supply
and we.
It was everything.
It was amazing.
It was everything.
So I wanna say it supportedClover Middle School's, FFA, or
Clover.
It was something with CloverMiddle, and um, I.
(07:08):
They had like six or eightlittle goats over there.
Mm-hmm.
So they were from a farm thatactually lives behind my house.
Happy Hooves and Feathers Farm.
The, the Home of Noodle, theHome of Noodle, my sweet Bebb
noodle, um, the Home of Noodle.
Her name is Megan.
And we're gonna have her on thepod one day just to chat.
(07:28):
And she invited us to the farm.
She did invite us to the farm.
I know I need to message her sowe can get that hooked up.
But let me tell you how.
Much.
I love that baby goat.
I know.
So your baby goat was like twoweeks old, Uhhuh.
It was like the size of a likesmall cocker spaniel.
I loved it and it kept fallingasleep at me.
(07:49):
I loved you.
And it pooped my nose and itjust was like the most pill.
I'm so surprised you did notsmuggle that baby.
I didn't want it to So bad.
Yeah, that baby was everything.
Oh, fucking goodness.
Well, so the one that I heldfirst, loved that, loved that
little thing, but then the otherstarted staring at me and I was
like.
(08:10):
And I have this thing where Ihave to include, oh, no, I was
keeping that baking.
You were totally fine.
So I, I switched like three orfour times, like all gave, gave
them all a little cuddle.
Mm-hmm.
One of them was not into mycuddles.
Mm-hmm.
Didn't, didn't keep that one toolong.
But wasn't vibing.
Was not vibing.
Wanted to co run around withthis friends, get it.
So they were from like two weeksold to I think like two months.
(08:31):
Mm-hmm.
Adores.
Oh my gosh.
I just like that little baby waseverything.
I had his head on your shoulder.
Yeah.
And just was closing his eyes.
Those pictures were so sweet.
I was obsessed.
Yeah.
If, if you've never cuddled ababy goat, I highly recommend.
Mm-hmm.
10 outta 10.
Skip your therapy for that week.
(08:51):
Paid the$5.
We paid the$10.
If we didn't want them to, wewanted extra time.
If I had known how amazing thatthat cuddle was, I would've
given the full 20.
We were gonna take 200 bucks,but other people were starting
to, we were there like rightwhen it opened and it was
perfect and everybody was likestarting to come and gather and
(09:11):
ask questions so we can give thelittle five yearold a chance.
Gotta give up our scene.
Yeah.
But that was.
That was so much fun.
Yes, it was perfect section.
Okay, so my new addiction that Iam just a hundred percent into
and I cannot stop watchingtiktoks about it and just
(09:32):
pictures of it is an airline.
I must fly on this airline,Emirates, have you ever heard of
this airline?
Mm-hmm.
They are.
Uber fancy and like they havethese uniforms that they all
have to wear and they all haveto look a certain way with the
bright red lipstick and theflights.
(09:54):
Oh my God.
Hold on.
I gotta show you.
Are these like private?
I don't know.
No, no, no, they're outta Dubai.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
But they, they fly to like overa hundred destinations, but they
do have separate classes.
But their first class hasprivate suites with closing
doors, meals, and showers.
(10:15):
Oh, so they got like apartmentsin there pretty much.
But check out the way thatthey're are they air stewardess?
Is that what they're stillcalling?
Yeah, whatever Flightattendants.
I don't know.
Air Secretary, I don't know, butwoman man.
But look, oh, that's, but theyall have to wear a red lipstick.
(10:36):
They, and they can wear anyshade of red.
Um, but they're all beautiful.
They all have to have likecertain dental, um, like their,
their smile has to look acertain way.
They can't have any obviousmissing teeth or anything like
that, but mm-hmm.
I am fascinated with, likethey'll do the get readys with
me and all that kind of stuffand they'll do like, I'm so
weird.
But they'll do like the beforeand then they'll put their
(10:57):
makeup on and they're sostunning.
Mm-hmm.
And they tell you how did theytake care of the hat that has
the veil attached to it?
Oh my gosh.
You know how I went to thesoccer game and I was like, I
was meant to live like that.
Uhhuh.
That's how I was meant to fly.
That airline.
That base needs to be based outof Clover, South Carolina.
Not gonna happen, but okay.
Never, ever, ever gonna happen.
(11:18):
But it is just how the otherhalf lives like it is just.
I had no idea that that was athing.
I mean, outside of like private.
Mm-hmm.
I had no idea.
Yeah.
That that was something.
And now we don't live that life.
We do not.
We should though.
But I could Totally.
We should.
I, it wouldn't take me long toadjust.
No.
(11:39):
I could fall into that real,real quick, real fast, real
quick.
I mean, I'm actually there.
I, I have to work to not be inthat.
Yeah.
Okay.
I, I get that.
Yeah.
So, any new addictions for youlately?
Uh, no.
I just started watching a newshow on Netflix called, I think
it's The Survivors or somethinglike that.
Mm-hmm.
And it's out of Australia, sothey got the accents.
(12:00):
Okay.
The survivors.
Yeah.
Okay.
it's about Years and years ago,two kids died trying to save a
brother Okay.
From like the caves that wereflooding.
Mm-hmm.
And then he left.
I'm just, I'm holding my breathbecause you know how that does
me.
He left, for a long time and,you know, came back to town for
something with his dad.
His dad's got dementia now, andnow there's another murder.
(12:20):
So, okay.
It's seeing all the, howeverything has unfolded and.
Some on, I like episode three,but it's really good so far.
That sounds good.
Do you remember what service,what stream?
Netflix is a Netflix one.
Mm-hmm.
So I talked to Jackson intostarting Squid game with me.
Oh, Dylan watches that.
I do not, I know.
So he watched the one lastnight, the first episode, or the
(12:40):
first season last night, and hewas making fun of it pretty much
the whole way.
And towards the end, he waslike.
So he texted me right before Icame over here and he said, you
wanna watch episode two soon?
And I was like, I'm going torecord and then we can in a
little bit.
Aw.
He was like, okay.
Um, Dylan went over Tyler's andI was like, well, what are you
guys gonna do?
He's like, oh, the new season ofschool games is out, so we're
gonna binge it tonight.
(13:01):
I was like, okay.
There you go.
It's so good.
It is totally not my thing, butI love it.
Yeah, I love it.
So Brian was watching TV when Ileft and something was across
the screen about partial verdictfor Diddy.
Did you see that?
I did.
I think one of the counts, theyhave given a guilty.
Verdict.
But there was one juror they hadproblems within hours, of going
(13:24):
into deliberation, Uhhuh,because this juror was like,
guilty.
I don't care what anybody elsesays.
He's guilty in all charges andI'm not discussing it.
Okay.
And I'm done.
I mean, yeah, but still, she'slike, I'm done.
And like I don't wanna discussanything.
I don't want to, like, I'm donelike guilty on all charges.
And so it might be one of ourlisteners, so I don't know if
(13:47):
it's a guy, girl, whatever.
Right, right.
I think there was eight men andfour women on the jury.
Okay.
Okay.
So I know that that went to thejudge yesterday.
Mm-hmm.
That there was an issue already.
And then today they came backwith one of the counts was a
guilty, and I apparently Diddywas like f furious in the
courtroom.
But there was five.
(14:08):
Charges to deliberate on total.
Okay.
I don't, and I don't follow,like every trial.
Mm-hmm.
I really don't know how itworks, but I'm surprised that
they delivered one of theverdicts and I think it was a
precursor for the, RICO charge.
Oh, okay.
So that's guilty.
I'm as like, it's tends to bethat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Most of the rest of themprobably will.
(14:30):
Yeah.
But then they also said thatthere was a, um, uh, what are
those, those guys?
Uh.
Something, Marshall, um, courtMarshall, maybe, I don't know.
US Marshall, US Marshall, thatcame and was in there with
Diddy, his attorneys and thejudge and somebody in the
comment section.
So this is just take it with agrain of salt.
Right.
Said that he probably flipped onsomebody.
(14:52):
Oh.
To try to, yeah.
Wiggle outta something,something.
So I don't know if that's trueor not.
Somebody in the comment sectionsaid that that's normally what
this would be.
I mean, that makes sense.
But yeah, so who knows?
But, okay, well moving rightalong with the, the thing.
I'm glad you had the tea onthat.
(15:12):
'cause I like literally had toleave when I saw that and
Brian's like, what are, what arethey saying?
And I was like, no idea.
It just me, it just sayspartial.
Well we're recording on Tuesday,so hopefully by Thursday.
Yeah.
You know, nobody's gonna wannago into the holiday weekend.
Right.
With this Right.
Lingering.
So I tend to think that they'reeither gonna Yeah.
Hung jury or push it one way orthe other.
(15:34):
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's true.
That's true.
And I forget sometimes thatthere's the delay.
Mm-hmm.
Like the people aren't listeninglive.
Yeah.
So hopefully by Thursday we havesomething.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
So Stephanie Sue.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Our rotten mango girl.
Mm-hmm.
I was watching one of her.
(15:54):
Recent tiktoks or listening toone of her recent podcasts.
I don't know, something that shesaid and they're thinking, Kanye
is next.
Didn't she go missing for forlike a week?
Stephanie Sue?
I don't know because everybodyon TikTok was like, where is
she?
'cause she like, oh, I don'tknow.
Yeah.
She was silent.
Really?
Yeah.
I'm thinking this was her mostrecent, Podcast that dropped,
(16:17):
but apparently Kanye was incourt.
Yeah.
He, well, he only stopped inthere, I guess, to show his
support.
Right.
but that's the word on thestreet is that Kanye is next.
Mm.
I would think like Jay-Z wouldbe next.
Kanye's already like Yeah.
Falling off.
Yeah.
Gone.
The flat earth that he's on isgone right off the edge.
(16:38):
Is that what that means?
All over the edge.
Oh my gosh.
I'm learning new things.
Is that what that means?
Okay, great.
Okay.
So.
Did you see, how about that kidthat fell off of the Disney
cruise?
(16:58):
Yes.
Did you see the heroic save?
Okay, so I have mixed feelingsand two things can be true at
the same time.
Mm-hmm.
But.
As of right now, they're sayingthat the dad had put the child
on the, on the ledge Yes.
To take a photo.
Mm-hmm.
And the kid went overboard, buthis immediate, I mean, no
hesitation, went right in afterthe child.
(17:19):
Mm-hmm.
Jumped off of the boat into thewater.
Mm-hmm.
Was able to locate the child andwas able to tread water for 20
minutes.
Holding that child up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is incredible.
It is.
It's, have you ever tried totread water?
So, yes, and I don't.
Okay.
I'm sure it's because I haveextra, um, flotation devices,
(17:40):
but I don't sink.
Oh, when you're in the water, doyou go like down to the bottom?
I don't know because I don't.
Well, and so I never knew that Iwas, I never knew that I was
different.
Until Brian and I would like tryto race across the pool and he'd
be like, just go on the bottom.
(18:01):
Well, I go on the bottom and Ifloat up.
Mm-hmm.
Brian like stays on the bottom.
So treading water or floatingfrom me is not a huge feat.
I think if you flipped over onyour back and like Yeah.
Just floated that way.
Yeah.
Because it's way easier.
Yeah.
I just dunno.
With a child, with them.
Panicking or just, you know, theweight of it or just them
(18:22):
flailing I mean, so yeah.
That's a, that's a, that's afault.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
Oh gosh.
Yeah.
So like, thank God there was noinjuries.
Yes.
But when we, got certified forscuba diving mm-hmm.
In college.
Because that was our college peso useful, so glad you did that,
dude.
It was like the best like PEclass judgment.
(18:42):
No, zero, zero judgment.
We went, we did it in the YMCApool, like the classes.
Gosh, that's so funny.
And then we had to do our openwater dive, and we did that in
Mexico.
But when you're doing your,classes, you have to tread water
and you can't hold onto anythingand you have to tread water for
like five minutes.
Okay.
Without touching anything.
Anything.
And you have to just like sitthere and tread.
(19:05):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it was not easy.
You were tired to continue itfor that long, the movement.
Yeah.
And to stay in one spot andYeah.
Just tread.
Yeah.
Not swimming, not like Right.
Move it.
I mean, you just had to sit inthe same spot and tread water
and that, that sucked.
Yeah.
So I'm thinking like that.
And then like 20 minutes of thatwith the child, with the child.
That's crazy.
(19:25):
So good job dad for Right,right, right.
Nobody knows a real story.
This is just what was put outthere by people.
Right.
Assuming.
But again, two things can betrue at once.
Yes.
It's not like he pushed thechild off, but putting a child
railing.
Yeah.
Not the smartest Yeah.
Move.
Right, right, right.
But awesome job saving your kid,Uhhuh.
Absolutely.
And awesome for Disney.
Like getting those boats outthere, uhhuh as they did.
(19:47):
Yeah.
A hundred percent response timewas hundred percent.
When we had gone on a cruise,Jackson went like five, six,
somewhere like six, seven.
if we were inside and he wassitting on a ledge that the
glass behind it was so clear itdidn't look like there was
glass.
So he's just sitting there and Itook a picture and when we got
back, you know, upload mypictures and posted that one,
(20:07):
and everybody's like, I can'tbelieve you put'em on that
ledge.
I'm like, those are the class.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Glass behind it.
Mm-hmm.
But.
I don't think I would putJackson on a ledge with no
class.
I wouldn't put me on a ledgewith no class, even in my most
athletic days.
So I value my life.
Mm-hmm.
A hundred percent.
So, gosh, I'm glad the kiddidn't Dr.
(20:29):
All the things.
All the things.
Insane.
Crazy.
How old was the child?
Do you remember?
I wanna say like five.
Yeah.
Around there.
Oh, glad everybody's okay.
Same.
Yeah.
Glad everybody's okay.
Well, who is not?
Okay?
Are these four girls that are,from Arizona?
Did you hear about the fourgirls that plotted the murder of
a boy in their class?
(20:51):
No.
Yeah.
Okay.
This is in Arizona.
Okay.
Four fifth grade girls plottedto Lura, boy to the bathroom at
recess.
Stab him to death and then havea suicide note ready to make it
look like.
He took his own life because he.
Was dating one of these girlsand cheated on her in fifth
(21:12):
grade.
Yeah, but still, each of themhad an assigned part.
I mean, this was like allplotted out, like written out,
plotted of who was doing what.
So one girl was to bring theknife, the other girl would do
the act itself.
Another would be the lookout,and the last was in charge of
writing the note.
Some students at the schoolfound out and told a teacher,
thank God.
(21:32):
Yeah.
Administration searched thebackpacks of the girls and found
all the things to commit thisaction.
So obviously they called thepolice.
Police came, arrested, the fourgirls.
Here's the like the worst part.
Okay.
I mean that's all horrible.
Yeah.
Three outta the four girlsshowed remorse was upset.
Like, oh, they just got caughtup in it and yeah.
(21:53):
You know, whatever.
The fourth girl laughed and saidhe deserved it.
That chick is going like psycho.
I bet she was the one who wasdesignated to do the actual
fifth grade.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
That's terrible.
No, she needs all kinds of help.
No remorse.
Nothing.
Yeah.
She's gonna be Yeah, that's,that's bad.
(22:17):
That's terrifying.
That's bad.
They need to go ahead and lookand see if she's harming animals
and wedding the bed and like,uh, some kind of treatment
center or like something to gethelp.
Yeah, because could you imaginebeing in the room with your
child and that's their reaction?
No.
Can you imagine that not beingyour child and you're the
(22:38):
interviewer or whatever?
And I'd be terrified that I'd belike, yeah, that's like, ugh,
demons.
So this fucking, now could youimagine being the poor boy?
I bet you he's never gonna, shegot nobody.
No, no.
Poor dude.
He's probably never gonna haveanother girlfriend or boyfriend
or whatever.
Again, he's done.
(23:00):
Oh.
Learning a lesson.
Right.
Um, did you see the articleabout the ginormous, Windmill
blade that fell into traffic.
No, I showed Brian that and hewas like, is that ai?
And I was like, no, that's real.
So in Maryland, a huge giantwindmill blade and I showed you
(23:22):
the picture.
It went across the wholeinterstate.
Mm-hmm.
Like all the lanes on both sidesof traffic.
It came loose on Monday and ithit interstate 70 in Maryland
and caused traffic to be backedup for miles.
Can.
This is the can you imagineepisode right here?
Can you imagine though, justdriving down the road, talk
(23:43):
about, what was that movie Finaldestination?
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
To this day, this morning, I gotbehind a logging truck, Uhuh.
Yeah.
Skirted right around him.
Nope.
That is craziness now.
Okay.
Let's make it worse.
Okay.
You're like, oh, okay.
Oh, and nobody was hurt as faras we know, which is crazy.
(24:04):
Yeah.
They skirted it.
It's coming up.
Yeah.
Like you're riding with Dylan.
You're teaching him to drive andthis happens.
I think when we're doing that,it would be instinct to figure
out the best thing to do in themoment and, and make it happen.
I can't even think about how toverbalize somebody, how to
navigate around or through orwhatever that I.
(24:25):
No, Lord, that mercy is crazy.
Just a couple weeks ago, therewas a tractor trailer right in
Charlotte.
That was carrying glass, likeglass doors or glass windows and
crashed or flipped or something.
And there was glass everywhere.
I mean, for, for days.
Oh my goodness.
The, the highway was covered inglass.
I didn't hear about that fromthis truck.
Could you?
(24:45):
How many tires?
Oh my gosh.
It was probably a conspiracy.
They were in cahoots, maybe thetractor trailer truck in cahoots
with the tire companies.
Well, thank God nobody was hurt.
But I can't imagine a crazyhuge, huge, huge thing.
I found a new TikTok for that.
I think you'll love.
Okay.
Because it's all conspiracytheories and like declassified,
(25:06):
CIA Docs.
Huh.
Give me the, the deep.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's curiosities, unknown is thename.
Watch out already.
Follow them.
I don't know.
I was, he's like our CIAdeclassified conspiracy of the
day is, and I was like, oh, whatare we talking about?
We were like, lemme get, lemmeget my popcorn.
I am in.
(25:26):
But he has got some really, Imean, you, you are gonna go down
some rabbit holes.
Okay.
Because things I've never heardof.
Is this a warning?
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's your warning.
I did not already follow him, sowe'll add him to my list.
Awesome stuff.
He goes through the, empty ultraMandela effects.
(25:46):
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Oh, you know, I'm fascinatedwith that one.
Tarter.
That's like where they're sayingit's the advanced civilization.
Okay.
That was supposedly wiped outfrom our memories.
Okay.
But are still okay.
Okay.
The CIA testing for telepathyand like all the mind control
stuff through the CIA.
Okay.
(26:07):
The Dolce base alien war thatwas in New Mexico.
Oh yeah.
Okay., I mean, everythingRabbit, rabbit whole galore.
Okay.
So, okay.
If you get bored, like I was, ifyou have hours of your life to
lose that.
You want to go down his bananasthough?
Yeah.
Like, oh, a hundred percent.
Yeah.
Stuff.
Yeah.
(26:27):
Yeah.
Craziness.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
So, have you ever met anybodywho believe?
No.
Okay.
Let me preface this by saying Ibelieve that the world is round,
the earth is round.
I think the majority of peopleprobably do don't know.
Have you ever met anybody whothinks it's flat?
Yes.
So I always thought when I heardflat.
That they were thinking like acube.
(26:49):
Like a square.
They mean flat.
Like, like a desk.
Yeah.
Like there's one end and oneend.
Yeah.
And I don't know why that justhit me.
And I was like, huh.
Yeah.
I don't, I mean, there, there'sreally no more revelation for me
than that.
Other than that, what theymeant.
But, I watched a TikTok on that,right.
And.
So yeah, they're like, well, whyin the Disney movies does the
(27:11):
rocket not go straight up in theair?
It it dos.
I was like, is that a rocket?
I thought it was a shootingstar.
I thought it was a shootingstar.
I was like, wish upon star.
Oh my gosh.
Everything we ever knew ha hasjust been wiped out of our Yeah.
I'm not the person to ask aboutspecific No, no, no, no, no
facts.
(27:31):
No, no.
None of the things that arereal, that are accurate, that
matter.
No, not at all.
Not at all.
But you asked me what happenedin the Harry Potter movie.
Music lyrics from the nineties.
Yeah.
There's no question music lyricstoday, I can't remember.
(27:52):
It's like my memory, stoppedworking.
Mm-hmm.
At a very specific time.
I feel like it's full.
Yeah.
And that's why I keep saying Ican't learn anything else
because I'm going to loseinformation.
Yeah.
If new information comes in ahundred percent, and it's
really, really important that Iremember the Green day lyrics.
It's like when my computer tellsme it's full and it can't save
my files and I have to deletestuff, and I'm like, I really
(28:12):
can't delete anything.
Right.
I don't know what's on there.
Must save that on.
But if I saved it, I probablyneed it.
And that's how I feel about mybrain.
I know.
Do you find though, that it'sharder for you to learn now than
it used to be?
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Yeah.
I used to be such a goodmultitasker and quick, I mean,
(28:33):
I'm still at my job, like I'mstill, I'm not like
lollygagging, but just to beable to, I love that word,
lollygagging.
But yeah, it's so much hardernow to learn new things.
They have never been a goodlike.
Take time to do a task.
Like I have to work underpressure.
Mm-hmm.
even in school, if we had areport mm-hmm.
(28:54):
And we had a month to do it, I'dbe doing it the day before.
Yeah.
Like from start to finish theday before.
Yeah.
There was no pre-writing.
Right.
And there was no process.
It was, it was final draft asthe first draft.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And get it turned in.
Yeah.
That's the only way I can start.
I do too.
And I do better hands on.
I want to do it myself.
Mm-hmm.
I'll never forget the first timeI assisted in surgery.
Like I'd been observing anddoing the things and all of a
(29:16):
sudden the lady that I've beenwatching just like stepped back
and wait.
What surgery?
Eye surgery.
You did eye surgery?
Mm-hmm.
I thought you just worked at theeye doctor, like I Until you did
the surgery?
Yeah, I was in the surgery roomtoo and I assisted in, yeah, in
eye surgery.
Mm-hmm.
Cut the eyeballs.
But, oh, you do?
You need a minute.
(29:37):
Oh, amazing.
I, I'm jack of all trades,master of none her really?
No.
I just thought you worked like,you like did this, I did the
things, I did the better onebetter too and did the, glaucoma
test and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
But I would, I did assisted eyesurgery, but, so I had been
observing and like learning notall the things and every surgeon
(29:58):
had a different Is your mindjust blown right now?
I thought you were just beingsarcastic, like, well, you know,
when I was surgery, like no, Ikept going and I was like, wait,
when do you think there'snothing else she can learn about
me?
You learn more.
I love it.
I know, right?
But you know, every, just like,we all have different things
(30:18):
that, different preferences.
Every surgeon is different.
Like some are methodical theexact same thing every time and
some are just.
As fast as they can get stuffdone in whatever order they
wanna do it, you know?
Mm-hmm.
Whatever, that he was a greatsurgeon, but still he wanted it
done quickly.
Well, but, but I'll never forgetthe first time, you know, you're
nervous and you're anxious andyou're watching and you're
learning and you're taking notesand you've done the
(30:39):
certifications and everything.
And she just like backed up andleft and she was like, glove up.
And I was like, okay.
And that was my first assist.
Like really?
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, it was, it was terrifying,but it went well, and I loved
that.
I loved that job.
That was, that was fun.
No, I don't like that.
Well, you know, I refused to doany of the dissecting stuff in
(31:03):
like, I was like, gimme the zerowas not touching any kind of
deaded things.
Yeah.
Like I wasn't dissecting things,was not doing the science
things.
Yeah.
Science.
Not for me.
Yeah.
Gimme like, like the potionstuff.
Like, like gimme like thechemicals to like mix.
Mm-hmm.
I will blow something up.
The problem like the biologypart of you, but I'm not putting
(31:23):
nothing open.
I, here's why I really liked it.
I was kind of removed from itbecause I wasn't doing it.
I was just handing theinstruments and doing the lasers
and stuff, the lasers, starWars, my eyes just started
twitching.
But here's what I really likedit about.
That was one piece of what I didin ophthalmology.
But all of those patients, 99%of them were healthy.
(31:47):
Nobody was like in pain orhurting and you know, it was
just making everybody get rid oftheir glasses or their contact
lenses.
Like it was all just, you know,none of it was, you know,,
didn't really require a lot ofcompassion.
Thanks.
Hard pass.
Hard pass.
Well, there, there's yourMeredith for the day.
There you go.
I'm good.
(32:08):
No, thanks.
Never.
I get it.
I get it.
No.
Let's talk about some slicingand Dyson.
Yeah.
Did you watch Dexter?
Yeah.
Okay.
Did you know that there was areal life Dexter?
No.
And, Brazil.
I actually do feel like I heardthis.
His name is Pedro Rodriguez.
Okay.
I'm probably butchering thatname, but in the nineties or
(32:30):
something.
He died in 2023.
Okay.
But he was caught in.
You're really struggling.
Is it in Spanish, in your arena?
In Spanish?
No, I had chat, um, summarizelike this whole big thing that I
found.
The way you looked, looked likeyou were just trying to
(32:50):
translate it at you.
Lemme just read this.
Okay.
Okay.
So Pedro, also known as PedroMatador or the Brazilian Dexter,
was a real life vigilante serialkiller.
Born October 29th, 1954.
Between ages 14 and 19, hemurdered suspected criminals,
including 14.
Well, yeah.
He, his dad was a real bum.
Oh, okay.
(33:11):
And, you know, abusive Yeah.
And all the things.
Yeah.
And so he got, I think, likethis very, righteous version of
what's right and wrong.
Okay.
So he never hurt anybody thatwas innocent.
Okay.
It was always bad guys.
Okay.
So his suspected criminals thathe.
T was drug dealers, rapists andgang members.
(33:33):
Mm-hmm.
He claimed over a hundredvictims, though officially
convicted of only 71, but manyof the people that he took out,
was in prison while he was inprison.
Oh.
Mm-hmm.
So he served 34 years behindbars before being released in
2007.
Now.
His girlfriend, I believe, waspregnant and a gang member
(33:54):
killed her and then that's whenhe really like went off the
edge.
Yeah.
So he was released in 2007, wasre imprisoned in 2011 to 2018
for riots and afterwards becamea YouTuber warning against crime
before being shot dead on March5th, 2023.
Yeah.
(34:15):
Terrifying.
He killed o only those, hedeemed guilty and, but I'm not
any of those bad things, so Iguess I shouldn't be afraid of.
So his father murdered hismother?
Mm-hmm.
And I don't know how to say hisdad stabbed her 31 times.
Well, when he got out prison, hefound his dad and stabbed him
like 32 times.
It was like one more than he didto his mom.
(34:37):
but it is almost like he wantedto go to prison so he could
finish his Venice, take outeverybody.
Right?
Well, I'm here.
Lemme take out the church.
Right?
Yeah.
I don't really have to go findanybody.
Here they are, 14 to 19 yearsold.
Mm-hmm.
Wowza and then a bunch more inprison.
Several articles said that theybelieve it's like way over a
(34:58):
hundred.
Yeah, but they can't, I guessthose are confirmed, but, but he
could, whatever got convicted on71 believed to be over a
hundred, but they believe it'sway over that number.
Oh my gosh.
Bananas.
Go, go.
Yeah.
Wow.
I feel like I had heard thatbefore, but you know, I watched
(35:18):
so many of the stupid crimeshows that it might have just
been something I wa That soundslike a criminal minds to be
honest.
It does.
So who knows?
My sources might be criminalminds.
Who knows?
Welcome to, this is my circus,the podcast where we embrace the
chaos and keep it real aboutparenting, pop culture, true
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(35:40):
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So if you love unfilteredconversation, questionable
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Buckle up, grab your popcorn,and let's get into the chaos.
Are you ready for, um, am I thea Never been ready am I the A
(36:04):
for getting a new nurse firedfor accusing me of having an
affair with my father.
Hey, Reddit.
I'm a hospital social worker ata small hospital.
My dad is one of the ER dayshift charge nurses.
A few weeks ago I was in the ERtrying to figure out placement
for an elderly patient.
When I was leaving, I had a chatwith my dad in the hallway.
(36:25):
Before I left, he gave me a hug,told me not to be late for
dinner.
I joked about how I'm going toorder the most expensive steak
on the menu since it's his turnto pay.
I'm a 27 female.
My dad is the 51 male.
There was a new nurse at thenurse's station nearby.
Pretty much everyone knows thathe's my dad.
I hadn't spoken with this newnurse though much, and she
didn't know.
(36:46):
Apparently she thought my dadand I were having an affair
based off of what she heard andsaw.
She knew my dad's married to mymom, who brings him lunch
sometimes.
She immediately began gossipingto some of the other staff that
my dad is having an affair with.
The hospital social worker, AKAME one older nurse that I've
known for a long timeimmediately came to tell me, I
don't think she liked this newnurse very much.
(37:08):
I guess no one decided to tellher that he's my dad.
I don't think nobody reallylikes her.
No, I hate gossips.
I don't know what it is aboutnurses, but I swear some of them
really love to spread rumors.
I decided not to take it up withher and just went straight to
hr.
We were both asked to come to HRafter our shift was over, along
with my dad.
(37:28):
Now, the HR lady knew that he'smy father.
When new nurse came in, she wasasked to explain and she said
she thinks it's terrible that wewould so blatantly have an
affair, and she was shockedbecause she thought my dad
seemed like a nice guy.
My dad then decided to speak upand explained that I'm his
child.
The new nurse was mortified andapologized.
Profusely.
(37:48):
The HR lady asked me and my dadto leave.
They had a meeting with the unitmanager and it was decided that
the new nurse would be firedimmediately because she was
still in her 90 day probationaryperiod.
My mom thinks I'm a jerk and Ishould have just brought it up
to the nurse instead of bringingit to HR when I knew she'd
probably get fired.
I think my mom is alsosympathetic because she stopped
the woman's Facebook and she'sall.
(38:09):
Single mom or whatever.
I think I was right to get herfired because the hospital
doesn't need a bunch of nursessitting on their butts gossiping
instead of doing their jobs.
My dad's embarrassed and feelsawkward about the whole thing.
It's not the first time someonehas thought I was dating my dad.
And that's, we aren't weird oranything, but it happens.
Any who am by the A-hole.
(38:29):
Okay.
There's a lot to unpack there.
There is.
There really is.
Okay.
So if I saw that happen in thehallway, I'd probably be like,
what's going on?
But I would hope somebody wouldtell me, I would've probably
said, who's that?
And they would say, oh, that'shis daughter.
Right.
I couldn't immediately be like,oh, he's having an affair.
(38:50):
Or did she do that?
And because they didn't likeher, they were like, that's one
of the social workers.
And didn't bother to say that'shis daughter.
I mean, who knows?
Yeah.
Who knows what happened.
Yeah.
But she didn't need to gotelling everybody that.
And I'm sorry, but everybodygossips at work.
Everybody gossips everywhere.
That's just how it, how it is.
I mean, you need a littlereprieve.
(39:11):
Right, right.
But I mean, I don't know, maybeshe's just sensitive that maybe
she got cheated on.
So everybody she sees, shethinks it's, I don't know.
You know what though?
As soon as I got in there shetried to throw the, uh, say it
again under the bus and waslike, oh, I cannot believe you
two.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
That's true.
And she probably has that sameattitude.
Yeah.
I don't think you're the,a-hole.
(39:32):
I just don't know if I wouldhave gone about it that way.
Well, I don't know.
She says she thought sheprobably would've gotten fired,
but it still wasn't her decisionto fire the nurse.
Yeah.
So, I mean, she wasn't in chargeof, I mean, I don't think she
holds that much sway and herdad, I don't know.
But that wasn't her decision tofire them.
I mean, how she, she was tryingto get them fired in the hr.
(39:53):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, I mean, that's just reallytouchy work stuff is sometimes
weird.
I think it's weird that a lot ofpeople think that they're
dating, that too, like that'sweird.
How do they act that it's.
I don't know.
That's weird.
Mm-hmm.
So, I don't know.
I mean, just the, the physicaldynamics of it shouldn't, I
(40:14):
don't know, whatever.
I'm not even gonna go down that.
Yeah.
Rabbit hole.
I don't think you're the,a-hole.
I don't either.
And if she doesn't know her, Idon't know.
It almost to me, I get the vibethat it was kind of like a
setup, like you said.
Mm-hmm.
The nurses don't like her.
They wanted the new girl out.
Mm-hmm.
And this was their way of doingit.
But now I feel like these samenurses are gonna complain that
(40:36):
they need help.
And there's nobody else.
They more people hired.
Yeah.
She's probably, well, I listento me.
I'm making up all these like myhead.
She's probably like the cute,young new nurse.
Yeah.
Just fresh outta school.
Yeah.
And these old bitties are thatstill wear the nurse mask?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't think you're the ail.
(40:57):
I don't think you were either.
But that's just, I think youwere played though.
Yeah.
You were a pawn.
Yes.
In the scheme of the head nurseHelga.
But figure out what's going onwith you and your dad because
that's not normal.
No, that's weird.
Yeah.
Whether you think it is or not.
I think it is.
Yeah.
That weird.
So I'm judging, sorry.
(41:18):
Yeah, we're gossiping a up.
Congrat.
Alright, well, that is it forour non bookies.
Yep.
If you are non bookie, it isyour time to leave.
We love you.
Tell your friends to listen.
Bye bookies.
Bye.
Alright, so this week we read.
What she left by HK Christie,private investigator Martina
Monroe.
(41:38):
Struggling with her past andteetering on the edge, takes a
risky case to identify amysterious infant in a photo
only to uncover a deadly truthto her hometown and her own
buried secrets.
I thought the storyline itselfwas good.
Mm-hmm.
I like the storyline.
But like you said, I think itwas, the narrators, I wanted to
(41:59):
love this book so much.
Mm-hmm.
Because I thought it sounded sofascinating.
Mm-hmm.
Definitely the narrators, andnot just the narrators, but the
dialogue was boring.
Okay.
Well, and I put like, it was soproper, like the, the, yeah.
The writing was so proper of howthey would speak, which is not
natural.
Right.
So I think that was part of itas just very robotic.
(42:20):
I even wrote down one personwill say, do you wanna attend?
And the response would be, yes,I'd like to attend.
Yeah.
Like, it was just not, like yousaid, a not a natural eye.
Had such, I reread and rereadand reread this.
Mm-hmm.
And because I would lose myselfin it.
And I still never gathered muchof this book to be honest with
you.
So I couldn't really tell youmuch about what happened in the
(42:42):
book.
I, I made it through it.
It is just, As I was listeningto it, I was like, this isn't
like natural.
Right.
This isn't like a naturaldialogue.
Yeah.
I liked that the characters wereall flawed.
Like you didn't have like ahoity-toity, very true.
I'm better than you.
Type of Very true.
Whatever.
Yep,.
As a mom, you felt the strugglefor Martina, like Yeah.
(43:04):
With a work life struggle.
Yes.
And dealing with her personalthings.
Yes.
And still being a mom andshowing up and the guilt that
she has for being away so much.
There was one part at the verybeginning of the book the
statement was coming up short inthe mother department, and that
was because of being a singlemother.
Do you remember that comment?
(43:25):
That pissed me off.
I think all mothers feel likewe're coming up short.
Single mother, mother with onechild, 15 children.
Mm-hmm.
Stay at home, work, whatever.
I feel like we, none of us thinkwe're doing it right.
Yeah.
Agree.
So I was like, that's a, that'skind of a, I don't like that
statement.
Right.
But I mean, I think that that'sa natural statement for a single
(43:46):
mom to a Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, I get that.
It's, they, that they may, thechildren may feel like they have
less Yeah.
Of a parental.
Involvement because it's asingle mom and the dad was dead.
Yeah.
So there was no even like parentweekends or anything.
Yeah.
I don't think she was makinglike a blanket statement about
that.
I think it was the character I.
(44:08):
As a newly single mom.
Yeah, you're right.
I should not get so heated, butno, I mean, I agree.
I think every mother has gonethrough those feelings and that
guilt and feeling like they havenot done enough or they were
doing it wrong.
Right.
Um, right.
I agree 100%.
Yeah.
Gosh, I really, you've had somegood insights and I, like I
said, I wanted to love this,especially because you had to
(44:28):
get the three books at one timeand I was like, perfect.
That's like 25 hours of readingright there, like, excellent.
And I just, I returned it.
I didn't even try the other twobooks.
Yeah.
And, the.
Narrators.
It was the same.
Same.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Ugh.
I hate it.
I feel like that really killedthe book for me.
I know.
It did.
It did.
Yeah., Again, I love the premiseof the book.
Yes.
It just wasn't executed, I don'tthink.
(44:49):
Mm-hmm.
Very well.
And I think that the, the,actors that were doing the
audiobook mm-hmm.
Killed it.
Like, not in a good way.
Right.
They did not slay.
No.
I think though that even readingit just.
The way that the dialogue wasjust uncomfortable and
repetitive.
I don't even think reading it, Iwould've enjoyed it because it
(45:09):
was just, yeah.
Dry.
Mm-hmm.
Anyway, did you have any otherinsights?
I'm sorry.
The struggle that she washaving, with addiction mm-hmm.
Was also done very well.
Yeah.
Throughout the book.
Knowing the struggle that shewas in, with the added guilt of
being a mom with the added guiltof like, she had messed up her
career.
Right.
And she was trying to build thatcareer back.
Yeah.
(45:29):
And staying sober.
Mm-hmm.
I think that was done reallywell.
Yeah.
And portrayed really well.
It wasn't like, oh, I'm sobernow.
I'm, everything's great.
Right.
It was right.
She was struggling.
Right.
So I appreciated thatperspective from agreed.
Agreed.
And that's very real.
That's not a curable Right.
Thing.
It's a, you know, it's a, it isa constant battle.
Mm-hmm.
So I agreed that was, that wasdone really well.
(45:51):
Yeah.
So those were, those were mythoughts.
Again, I wasn't crazy over itand I, there's lots of it that
didn't hit for me.
Mm-hmm.
there were some aspects of itthat I was like, okay, well
that's relatable or that's Yeah.
Like real life or, yeah.
Yeah.
Lot of potential with this book.
Mm-hmm.
Especially like the picture withthe baby.
Like, I was digging it, but it,I just couldn't get into it.
(46:12):
So I would give it like a.
One or two.
Like, I was not into this bookat all.
I was going four.
You're so generous.
Well, I just really liked likethe, the realness of certain
situations within the book.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, that's fair.
But that's fair.
So our next book, okay, so wewere gonna do X for this week.
Yeah.
Um, but X, when I looked it up.
(46:34):
To go download.
It was the third book in aseries, and we didn't read the
first two, so we're skippingover that one.
Okay.
So our next book is you byCharles Bonnet.
Bonnet.
Bonnet.
Benet Benet.
That's what I'm going with.
Perfect.
Alright.
Now I'm a little bit nervousbecause it only has 2.9 stars,
(46:55):
but oh, I should be.
Well, we, we'll try it.
If it's not good, we can stop.
Okay.
All right.
this is the blurb.
This isn't the way it's supposedto go.
You're just a typical15-year-old sophomore, an
average guy named Kyle Chase.
This can't be happening to you,but then how do you explain all
the blood?
How do you explain how you gothere in the first place?
There Had, there have been someclues it was coming.
(47:15):
Did you miss them or ignorethem?
Maybe if you can figure outwhere it all went wrong, you can
still make it right Or is italready too late?
Think fast, Kyle Time's runningout.
How did this happen?
You is the riveting story of15-year-old Kyle and small
choices he does and doesn't makethat lead to his own
destruction.
And the stunning young adultdebut, Charles Bonnet mixes
riveting tension with aninsightful and unsettling
(47:37):
portrait of an ordinary teen ina tale that is taught powerful
and shattering.
Awesome.
We'll see.
It's short.
It's under four hours.
Uhhuh and I think his name isCharles Benoit.
Well sure.
Nancy Pants.
Just Jackson played basketballwith the kid.
Last name Ben Benoit.
Sure.
Okay, so you by Charles Beis.
(47:58):
It's fun to say though, isn'tit?
Take on your fancy plane.
Do if I can need a cross on.
Awesome.
Okay.
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We really appreciate it.
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