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I'm Stephanie.
I'm Meredith.
And welcome to, this is mycircus mini episode.
We are gonna be a little bitbusy next week, so we are just
doing a mini episode.
Well, I guess it's this week.
Time is irrelevant.
Okay.
But we wanted to drop somethingfor you guys so you're not just,
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you know, missing us.
Yes.
'cause we know you miss us.
Yeah.
So we're just giving you alittle something, something just
to tide you over.
So we'll back next week.
There won't be a book today.
No.
So bookies, you can relax, readsomething good.
Tell us about it.
But we don't know how we'regonna do our book list next
week.
Well, we have your A to Z booklist still.
Yeah.
Okay, so we'll, we'll startover.
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We'll start over with a, I can'twait.
So we've just got some, somelittle pieces we're gonna chat
about today.
Yeah.
What you got?
So let's talk about thetoothbrush murder.
What the heck is that?
So, um.
This is a case outta California.
Okay.
That it's bizarre and bougie.
I like it.
And it's pretty recent.
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Tell me more, tell me more.
So in 2023, a wealthy cosmeticdentist named Rachel Wynn was
arrested for the murder of herhusband Grant after he
mysteriously collapsed in theirhome spa.
Hmm.
Let's pause at home spa.
Right.
Okay.
So we're at bougie.
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This is bougie.
Oh, there's more bougie coming.
Don in California.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When people mysteriouslycollapse.
So that's when we havequestions, right?
So at first it just looked likea heart attack.
That's normally, you know,right.
But when the investigators pullthe security footage from their
smart home system, that's whereyou get in trouble.
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And this is real.
How does she not know that theyhave this?
I, I, for.
A cosmetic dentist.
She doesn't seem too bright.
But anyway, so on the video, andthis is real, this is like legit
real.
They saw her cleaning theirtoothbrushes with a syringe full
of potassium chloride, which aswe know causes heart attacks.
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It does just stop your heart,right?
So turns out she'd been slowlydosing him for weeks and we've
heard stories like this Yeah.
Before with Visine or whatever.
But this is another bougiepiece.
She used a custom$25,000 goldplated toothbrush.
I have so many questions, somany questions.
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Like what was the whole, likethe bristles couldn't be gold
plated because that would hurt.
I'm picturing just like an OralB electric toothbrush, like gold
dipped in gold.
No, but I mean.
I don't know.
Yeah.
So many questions.
Why?
What did he do?
Because like, I, I can't seejust a cosmetic dentist being
evil.
Mm-hmm.
Like mean maybe.
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I don't know.
Well, yeah.
I'm not sure.
I, we never get all the answerswe want, do they?
So many questions.
I know.
I know.
But anyway, so she put it in histoothbrush.
Mm-hmm.
And she did this because shedidn't wanna leave fingerprints.
Again, Rachel Lynn is not thesmartest, but anyway, she was
having an affair with herpersonal trainer.
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Of course we was.
So the moral of the story isyou, if your toothbrush is too
fancy to make sense, just run iI a$25,000 toothbrush like
brush.
And did she have two of those?
Right?
Did they each have one?
Well, and was it just a two orwas it electric and you changed
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like the head out?
Mm-hmm.
And were those gold plated?
I don't know.
Just, okay.
I didn't have enough answers forus, but there's, there's you a,
a fun story.
Okay.
Well, I've got a creepy story.
Of course you do.
What's up?
So.
There's a real life purge.
Okay.
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I can't even hear that noisewithout freaking out.
Oh my gosh.
Well, they made like a song withthat intro of that.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Too long ago.
And Dylan played it like all thetime.
It, it, I can't.
That was such a creepy movie.
A hundred percent.
Oh God.
Iban as creepy as a squid gamesong.
Ugh.
They're both terrible.
Okay, go ahead.
All right.
So this was earlier this year.
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Okay.
In Ecuador.
They declared a state ofemergency because jug cartels
basically turned parts of thecountry into the purge.
What.
Yeah.
It started in a small town.
Uhhuh cartels were storming TVstations live on air, and they
executed.
Police officers took hostagesand left public warnings to the
government.
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The president responded byunleashing the military full on
shoot to kill orders, curfewsand armored checkpoints.
Oh my gosh.
I feel so bad for these people.
What were they trying to prove?
Just that they run the placeover, I guess.
Ugh.
Okay.
I mean, like you just hear aboutall these like gangs and stuff
everywhere.
Yeah.
I guess it was just to takeover, I guess.
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Social media showed citizenslocking themselves in their
homes while cartel membersroamed the streets with assault
rifles, grenade launchers, andmotorcycle mounted executions.
Oh my gosh.
I, I did not hear anything aboutit.
I didn't either.
That's terrifying.
Yeah.
It's still ongoing in pockets.
The country's being torn betweendemocracy and narco chaos.
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Hmm.
And it's barely making usheadlines.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So if you haven't heard aboutthis, you're not alone.
Wow.
Now you have, so yeah, it'slike.
Real life Hunger Games slash thepurge.
Oh my gosh.
That is terrifying.
Right?
Can you imagine?
Just, you know, living your lifeand that literally going on like
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that, oh my God, that'sterrifying.
You can't leave your home.
Not just at night, like, I mean,I'm, it's happening 24 7, right?
And it for, for still to begoing on.
And then how like secure is yourhome really?
I mean, like if somebody wantsto get in, they're getting in.
Oh my gosh.
That's terrifying, right?
I mean, Yeah.
They go right through thewindows.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, poor people.
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Yeah.
Oof.
Yeah.
Chills.
And again, it wasn't nowhere.
I've not seen it at all.
No.
Nope.
That's scary.
Nope.
Narrative is being controlled bycertain people.
Mm.
Whatever.
We don't get into that.
Well, we had talked about theCIA Yes.
Last week, which is superfascinating.
All these projects mind.
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Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But you found one this week Igot one to talk about.
Ready?
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So.
If you thought the CIA juststuck to spying and like
stealing secrets and stuff, letme tell you some more about
their dark history with BioWeapons Project.
MK Naomi.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So think MK Ultra, but insteadof LSD and hypnosis, it's
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toxins.
Killer mosquitoes and explodingcigars.
Listen, I get bit by somemosquitoes and I do the look at
this place on my leg where I'vebeen scratching it so much.
Like I'm like a first graderwith all bug bites okay, so let
me tell you about the CIA piece.
Okay.
Okay.
So MK Naomi was a top secret CIAproject that ran from the
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fifties into the seventies, andits entire goal was to develop
biological weapons for sabotageand assassination.
Stuff that couldn't be tracedback to the US but could stop a
heart, could melt a liver, orjust, you know, bring a whole
town to its knees.
Why not?
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Oh my God.
So let's talk about the gadgets.
Okay.
Shall we?
Well, so we're getting intolike, okay, here's where I start
thinking like Inspector Gadget,right?
Well kind of So go, go gadget,aren't we?
What was the dog's name?
I can't even remember.
Oh, penny was the niece.
Yeah.
I don't remember the, I don'teither, but, okay.
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So poison dark guns, right?
They lift pen sized holes in thescan and cause death within
minutes.
That could be useful.
Yes.
Cigars that exploded.
Okay.
That were intended for FidelCastro.
Oh, oh, okay.
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Yeah.
Not good.
Okay.
Not good.
Also, toxins hidden in pens,like writing pens.
My southern draw messes thatword up.
Pens, cigarettes, and evenwatches.
They even tried to grow bacteriaon coins.
Oh God.
And infect rats and fleas astiny biological delivery
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systems.
Right.
I mean that's, some of these arereally kind of smart, but
terrifying.
That's the plague.
Yeah.
Like putting that stuff in ratsand it and fleaing it.
Like that's what the plague, howit spread.
Yeah.
Anyway, so this wasn't justtheatrical.
They had actual kits packed withanthrax, botulism, toxin.
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Oh my God.
He was someone that Bullox andshellfish poison.
So you could walk into a meetingwith a briefcase and leave
knowing that the other guywouldn't even wake up tomorrow
and nobody would even know why.
Do you know, I saw one that, oneof the CIA things, well I was
like doom scrolling.
And it was that they wereputting devices in cats, to be
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able to eavesdrop.
So they were implanting thesedevices into cats and their
first cat that they actually gotto live.
Mm-hmm.
Through these procedures.
And was able to, I guess,function they like set it out
and it got hit by a car in like20 seconds.
It's not funny, but like it wasthe first cat that they got to
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survive and that was a$20million project that they ended
after that cat got hit by a car.
Oh my gosh.
$20 million.
And that was like back then,like back in like the fifties
and sixties.
Oh my gosh.
So that's a lot more nowadays.
That's a lot on zero successfulattempts.
Yeah.
And we wonder why.
Nevermind.
Okay, so, so after Watergate hadblown the lid off of everything,
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shady Congress, you know,started sniffing around and the
1975 Church Committee found outthat the CIA had zero oversight
and had stockpiled these lethalagents.
They had stockpiled the lethalagents that they weren't even
legally allowed to have.
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So the result was that MK Naomiwas shut down.
The files were of course lost.
Mm-hmm.
And equipment was destroyed.
I'm doing air quotes toeverybody, and we got one big
collective shrug from theagency.
I think that that's what theirreaction is to every
declassified thing now.
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Yeah.
A lot of these though, from whatI read, is, so many of these
files were destroyed, but therewere so many whistleblowers that
still documented Yeah.
The things.
Yeah.
And that's the only reason thatwe know of these Yep.
Awful projects that occurred.
Yep.
Yeah, but the amount of peoplethat were like laced with LSD UN
unwillingly crazy not knowing,right.
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That's ter That's just, can youimagine going to get a donut
laced with LSD and then you getkidnapped by, oh my gosh.
And then you get put in a likeband, Uhhuh could you imagine
like thinking it was just a badtrip.
But then you wake up in abrothel expected to perform.
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My goodness.
Oh, well, yeah.
Good times.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
All right.
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