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Episode 3: The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo, Missing Planes, SC Dumb Crime & More! · This Is My Circus

• 0:00
  Meredith: I just pulled in your neighborhood and there's like somebody on a riding lawnmower, just like riding around, not on grass, doesn't know moan lawn, just like.
• 0:09
  Meredith: Chilling, Riding.
• 0:10
  Stefanie: Welcome to South Carolina.
• 0:12
  Meredith: Are you recording?
• 0:15
  Meredith: That's funny.
• 0:17
  Meredith: I'm Meredith.
• 0:17
  Stefanie: Hey Stefanie.
• 0:19
  Stefanie: Uh, welcome to, this is my circus, uh, where we own our crazy.
• 0:24
  Meredith: We do put it on the front porch and, uh, wave it.
• 0:27
  Meredith: Everybody as you go by
• 0:28
  Stefanie: be sipping on some sweet tea.
• 0:30
  Meredith: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 0:31
  Meredith: Speaking of sweet tea, I have a funny story.
• 0:33
  Meredith: Okay.
• 0:33
  Meredith: So, Kids spent the night at our house last night.
• 0:37
  Meredith: Love this child.
• 0:38
  Meredith: He will listen to this.
• 0:39
  Meredith: Cause I'm gonna make him, he's gonna know who he is.
• 0:42
  Meredith: I have a mini hoop, like kind of right off my kitchen, um, where the kids play, whatever while I'm cooking.
• 0:49
  Meredith: And it's great cause it keeps them like, like a basketball talking to me.
• 0:52
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 0:52
  Meredith: Mini hoop basketball.
• 0:53
  Meredith: Sorry.
• 0:53
  Meredith: So, and they're always like right there and that's fine.
• 0:55
  Meredith: I don't care though.
• 0:55
  Meredith: Like I said, they're talking to me while they're, while I'm cooking or whatever.
• 0:58
  Meredith: Well, this morning we had already eaten.
• 0:59
  Meredith: The two boys are playing my Jackson and let's call him.
• 1:04
  Meredith: Banthony.
• 1:07
  Meredith: We're playing basketball.
• 1:09
  Meredith: I'm sitting at the kitchen table with like my back to them and I still had my, my tea right there.
• 1:13
  Meredith: Sweet tea.
• 1:14
  Meredith: All of a sudden the ball just hits my tea and goes all over the place.
• 1:19
  Meredith: And they didn't even like blink.
• 1:21
  Meredith: They're like, whoops.
• 1:22
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 1:24
  Stefanie: Yep.
• 1:25
  Stefanie: Back to the game.
• 1:26
  Meredith: Pretty much.
• 1:27
  Meredith: It was pretty much, and you know, they're usually very respectful, like it's usually, but they.
• 1:32
  Meredith: Oh, I blocked your stuff or whatever.
• 1:33
  Meredith: So anyway, sweet tea.
• 1:35
  Meredith: That's, that's my life.
• 1:36
  Stefanie: Mom life.
• 1:37
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 1:39
  Stefanie: So
• 1:39
  Meredith: what have you been doing?
• 1:39
  Meredith: You had lacrosse.
• 1:40
  Meredith: Oh, you had a story you were gonna tell me about last weekend, right?
• 1:43
  Stefanie: Oh Lord have mercy.
• 1:43
  Stefanie: And any sports parents out there, you've got to know what I'm talking about.
• 1:48
  Stefanie: Um, so we were at, uh, an away game.
• 1:51
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 1:51
  Stefanie: And the other team was doing some, like Dylan plays lacrosse.
• 1:57
  Stefanie: Right.
• 1:57
  Stefanie: And so we're in lacrosse season.
• 1:59
  Stefanie: So the other team was doing some illegal hits and, you know, all that stuff.
• 2:03
  Stefanie: The sturdy, nasty stuff.
• 2:04
  Stefanie: I hate that.
• 2:05
  Stefanie: Yeah, me too.
• 2:05
  Stefanie: So the refs called any little thing that our team did, I.
• 2:12
  Stefanie: Questionable calls, but they were letting the other team do blame stuff.
• 2:15
  Stefanie: Oh my God.
• 2:15
  Stefanie: Everything.
• 2:16
  Stefanie: Yeah, everything.
• 2:17
  Stefanie: So one kid got pushed over, he's an in bit little guy.
• 2:20
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 2:20
  Stefanie: Um, and the defender had to have been like three times as big.
• 2:24
  Stefanie: And so he kept knocking this kid over, knocking this kid over.
• 2:27
  Stefanie: But like where it really got me was the kids on the ground.
• 2:32
  Stefanie: So the kid's on the ground and the ball is like across, on the other end of the field at this point.
• 2:38
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 2:38
  Stefanie: Cause it got like flung across right to the other end, and this kid's still hitting him with the stick on the ground and the wreck, like saw it and walked away.
• 2:46
  Stefanie: Oh, that's just.
• 2:48
  Stefanie: That's terrible.
• 2:49
  Stefanie: I was livid and all the parents are like this case, I'm still on the ground like, you know, two minutes later, right.
• 2:54
  Stefanie: So,
• 2:55
  Meredith: oh God, is he okay?
• 2:56
  Stefanie: Yeah, he was fine.
• 2:57
  Stefanie: Like, but like it was just,
• 2:58
  Meredith: that's terrible.
• 2:59
  Stefanie: Like how do you not make a call?
• 3:02
  Meredith: What makes me so mad about that kind of stuff is like, these kids just don't do that.
• 3:05
  Meredith: Right.
• 3:06
  Meredith: They're learning it from somewhere.
• 3:07
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 3:07
  Meredith: So what are the coaches encouraging them to do or not do?
• 3:12
  Meredith: We've had that issue, especially in football.
• 3:14
  Meredith: Yes.
• 3:14
  Meredith: With.
• 3:15
  Meredith: Son being a lineman, a lot of times they'll tell'em to go for their knees and I know it's legal, but come on.
• 3:21
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 3:21
  Meredith: Like I hate it.
• 3:21
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 3:22
  Meredith: I hate it.
• 3:22
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 3:23
  Meredith: Nothing will get me riled up faster.
• 3:28
  Meredith: Well, on that note, It.
• 3:29
  Meredith: Um, did y'all win that game?
• 3:30
  Stefanie: We did.
• 3:31
  Meredith: Good.
• 3:31
  Stefanie: Oh, no, no.
• 3:32
  Stefanie: It was tied.
• 3:32
  Meredith: Oh, tied.
• 3:33
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 3:33
  Stefanie: And we went into overtime and it was still tied.
• 3:35
  Meredith: Oh.
• 3:35
  Meredith: So that it just stops after.
• 3:37
  Stefanie: But, so we were in overtime and Dylan like slipped on the grass.
• 3:43
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 3:43
  Stefanie: Cause it was like just,
• 3:45
  Meredith: yeah.
• 3:45
  Meredith: Just dew.
• 3:45
  Meredith: We kind of, yeah.
• 3:46
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 3:46
  Stefanie: And he slipped and his foot went over the 50 yard line and they, as he was falling mm-hmm.
• 3:52
  Stefanie: Like sliding.
• 3:52
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 3:53
  Stefanie: They said that he was, um, off sides and took him out.
• 3:57
  Stefanie: Took him and one other kid that also was sliding like falling and took him.
• 4:01
  Meredith: What school was this?
• 4:02
  Meredith: Let me go get Or what location?
• 4:04
  Meredith: No, just kidding.
• 4:04
  Meredith: Oh, BEEEEEP.
• 4:06
  Stefanie: I would put them on blast.
• 4:08
  Stefanie: I would love to know those rest names for sure, cuz I would tell it.
• 4:13
  Stefanie: Anyway.
• 4:13
  Meredith: Well, on that note, um, I have a new little gig that I'm very excited about,
• 4:19
  Stefanie: uhoh.
• 4:21
  Meredith: So I grew up playing softball.
• 4:23
  Meredith: Like I played from like the time I was six or seven, like all the way through.
• 4:26
  Meredith: After high school.
• 4:27
  Meredith: I played like church leagues and co-ed and stuff, and I loved it.
• 4:30
  Meredith: It was great.
• 4:31
  Meredith: So now that Jackson is older, And I'm not as involved with, you know, helping with different organizations and that kind of thing.
• 4:38
  Meredith: I was like, I need something to do with some of my free time other than just following him around everywhere.
• 4:44
  Meredith: So I'm umping for a softball.
• 4:48
  Meredith: I know.
• 4:49
  Meredith: So, okay.
• 4:51
  Meredith: I'm just starting with like, I know, I know
• 4:54
  Stefanie: y'all, if you can see my face right now.
• 4:57
  Meredith: So I'm starting with like some of the younger ones, Uhhuh, so it's not gonna be as intense.
• 5:02
  Meredith: Like I really haven't even been trained on it yet.
• 5:04
  Meredith: I start this week, it was supposed to be yesterday,
• 5:06
  Stefanie: so whats the training?
• 5:07
  Meredith: Right.
• 5:08
  Meredith: I, I go to a game with another guy and he shows me what to do.
• 5:10
  Meredith: Oh.
• 5:11
  Meredith: It's like, just like it's on the job Training.
• 5:12
  Stefanie: So like, you don't have to like take a class or anything like that?
• 5:14
  Meredith: No, no, no.
• 5:14
  Meredith: Not for this level.
• 5:15
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 5:15
  Meredith: Not for, I think it's eight and under.
• 5:17
  Meredith: Um, and I think that sound like I know exactly what I'm talking about.
• 5:22
  Meredith: Right.
• 5:23
  Meredith: So I think it's just like where they get.
• 5:25
  Meredith: Pitches and I just count the pitches and they get seven.
• 5:27
  Meredith: If they hit it, they're good.
• 5:28
  Meredith: If they don't, then they're out.
• 5:30
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 5:30
  Meredith: So I think I just have to count, which I think I can do that.
• 5:36
  Meredith: Um, so we'll see.
• 5:37
  Meredith: I don't know.
• 5:38
  Meredith: So that starts this week, so I'll have to give you an update next week.
• 5:41
  Stefanie: I will pray for you.
• 5:44
  Meredith: My son is like, mama, it's, I'm like, it's gonna be great.
• 5:47
  Meredith: And um, he was like, no, you're just doing, I was like, yeah, but you know, I'm gonna be extra.
• 5:52
  Meredith: Like I'm not just gonna stand right there.
• 5:53
  Meredith: I was like, you know, I'm gonna like, he was like,
• 5:58
  Stefanie: oh YOUR out.
• 6:00
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 6:00
  Meredith: Pretty much like what we're not even doing else, so I'm, oh, I'd love to let you know how that goes,
• 6:06
  Stefanie: girl.
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  Stefanie: You are brave.
• 6:08
  Stefanie: There are some mean,
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  Meredith: I know
• 6:11
  Stefanie: parents.
• 6:11
  Meredith: I hope I don't cry.
• 6:13
  Meredith: I hope it's just,
• 6:13
  Stefanie: oh my gosh.
• 6:14
  Meredith: I hope it's just an easy, not easy, like I don't mind doing the things, but I hope it's like just.
• 6:21
  Meredith: You know what I'm saying?
• 6:22
  Stefanie: Not ugly, right?
• 6:24
  Stefanie: Yeah
• 6:24
  Meredith: right.
• 6:24
  Meredith: No nasty people.
• 6:25
  Meredith: Nobody's cussing at me or throwing things at me.
• 6:27
  Meredith: I'm hoping that it's just like
• 6:29
  Stefanie: my God could, will they throw things?
• 6:31
  Meredith: I dunno.
• 6:32
  Meredith: But now I'm starting to get nervous.
• 6:35
  Meredith: Cause I was like, I got this.
• 6:36
  Meredith: I'm just gonna wear a little blue shirt and stand right there and count.
• 6:38
  Meredith: And now I'm like, oh my God.
• 6:40
  Stefanie: Now you talk to me and i'm like, uh,
• 6:41
  Meredith: yeah.
• 6:42
  Meredith: I'm regretting like all my decisions now.
• 6:45
  Stefanie: I did not.
• 6:46
  Stefanie: I just, I, I, I wanna keep me updated.
• 6:49
  Stefanie: Let's just leave it at that,
• 6:50
  Meredith: okay.
• 6:51
  Stefanie: Um, because we have witnessed some,
• 6:54
  Meredith: I know parent reactions Well, and I honestly, I've been a little feisty with some refs and umps before myself.
• 7:01
  Meredith: Never liked to.
• 7:02
  Meredith: Never cussing or, but I've been a little loud.
• 7:06
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 7:06
  Stefanie: So I've told a ref that, um, he needed to retire the one, the one of the refs in our area that, that really should retire.
• 7:14
  Meredith: Well, you know, we can host the retirement party here on the podcast.
• 7:19
  Meredith: Just kidding.
• 7:19
  Meredith: Yes, no Refs aloud other then me.
• 7:23
  Meredith: What am I thinking?
• 7:24
  Meredith: I feel like I need to start running all my decisions by you now.
• 7:27
  Stefanie: Um.
• 7:29
  Stefanie: No, I think this, you know what, I, I may come in and watch and podcast from the games.
• 7:34
  Meredith: Oh, a live ep.
• 7:36
  Meredith: Oh.
• 7:36
  Meredith: Ooh, mic me up.
• 7:38
  Stefanie: Yeah, that'd be So have you ever watched, um, the Savannah Banana?
• 7:42
  Meredith: Oh my God, I love them.
• 7:44
  Meredith: I'm gonna be like that aunt who's out there dancing and stuff.
• 7:46
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 7:46
  Meredith: That's gonna be me.
• 7:47
  Meredith: That's what I'm interested.
• 7:48
  Meredith: Or, or I'm gonna be crying because everybody's just so hateful.
• 7:51
  Stefanie: So I put like, um, earbuds in my ears and just like, oh yeah.
• 7:55
  Meredith: And just count and.
• 7:56
  Meredith: 2 34, 5.
• 7:57
  Meredith: Okay.
• 7:58
  Stefanie: I would have to put like something to block out everything.
• 8:00
  Meredith: I'll listen to us.
• 8:02
  Stefanie: My ADHD would be like, uh, girl.
• 8:05
  Meredith: Yeah, we'll see how it goes.
• 8:07
  Meredith: We'll see how it goes.
• 8:08
  Stefanie: Well, I'm excited to keep us updated on that.
• 8:10
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 8:10
  Stefanie: Cause I would love to hear the okay.
• 8:13
  Stefanie: Outcome.
• 8:13
  Meredith: I will.
• 8:14
  Meredith: So, um, what else are we gonna talk about?
• 8:16
  Meredith: Oh, what are you reading?
• 8:17
  Stefanie: Oh, so I,
• 8:18
  Meredith: or did you read?
• 8:19
  Stefanie: I did, I finished, um, the seven husbands of
• 8:23
  Meredith: Evelyn,
• 8:23
  Stefanie: Evelyn, Hugo.
• 8:25
  Stefanie: Which was phenomenal.
• 8:27
  Stefanie: Um, Taylor Jenkins Reid is the author.
• 8:30
  Meredith: Yes.
• 8:31
  Stefanie: And I have read other books that she has written, so when we had quickly mentioned it between us last week, I was like, I, I've gotta read this book.
• 8:38
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 8:39
  Stefanie: What did you think about it?
• 8:40
  Meredith: I loved every minute about book because I felt like it was unpredictable.
• 8:46
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 8:46
  Meredith: Um, it kept me guessing, like, what is gonna happen next?
• 8:50
  Meredith: And then it got me thinking about like old hollywood.
• 8:54
  Meredith: And all of the, the pieces that, you know, how much of this could have really happened and how much was true?
• 8:59
  Meredith: Because it's loosely based on Elizabeth Taylor.
• 9:01
  Meredith: Yes.
• 9:02
  Meredith: Um, and who, I mean, who knows?
• 9:04
  Meredith: Um, gosh, she was gorgeous.
• 9:05
  Stefanie: She was beautiful.
• 9:06
  Meredith: Those purple eyes violet eyes.
• 9:07
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 9:08
  Meredith: Um, so it, I, I love, I thought it was a good read.
• 9:11
  Meredith: I could have read like another thousand pages of her story.
• 9:17
  Stefanie: So did you hear they're making us into a Netflix movie?
• 9:19
  Meredith: No.
• 9:20
  Stefanie: Yes, but I want them to make it into a mini-series.
• 9:23
  Stefanie: Where Right.
• 9:24
  Stefanie: Each.
• 9:24
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 9:25
  Stefanie: So the book is based off of this la, this old movie star.
• 9:28
  Stefanie: Like
• 9:28
  Meredith: a starlet.
• 9:29
  Stefanie: Starlet.
• 9:29
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 9:30
  Stefanie: Um, she was married seven times.
• 9:32
  Meredith: Yes.
• 9:32
  Stefanie: And so each of these sections of this book is based off of one of her marriages.
• 9:35
  Meredith: Yes.
• 9:36
  Stefanie: And I think, you know, like how they did, um, uh, 13 Reasons why.
• 9:40
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 9:41
  Stefanie: I want them to do that.
• 9:42
  Stefanie: For this book is seven.
• 9:43
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 9:43
  Meredith: Now, one thing that I really liked about that book itself was that the lady.
• 9:48
  Meredith: Monique.
• 9:49
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 9:49
  Meredith: Interviewing Ms.
• 9:50
  Meredith: Hugo had her own sub-story going on.
• 9:53
  Meredith: Yes.
• 9:53
  Meredith: And how the interviews with Ms.
• 9:55
  Meredith: Hugo and everything that she had gone through, or let's call her Evelyn.
• 9:58
  Meredith: Yes.
• 9:58
  Meredith: Cause we're friends like that.
• 9:59
  Stefanie: Yes, we are we got on that level Yes.
• 10:01
  Stefanie: Second chapter.
• 10:03
  Meredith: But it gave her all the, the, you know, some power and some confidence.
• 10:07
  Meredith: Yes.
• 10:07
  Meredith: And, and all that kind of stuff to um, you know, get through some things she was going through and then, I loved at the end of the book, no spoilers.
• 10:15
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 10:16
  Meredith: But how.
• 10:17
  Meredith: Things just kind of connected.
• 10:19
  Meredith: Connected, because I felt like everything was like two paths and then all of a sudden it was just boop and everything was together.
• 10:26
  Stefanie: Well, I also thought it was really cool that they touched on, um, like cultural issues right.
• 10:30
  Stefanie: Back then, where, you know, oh yeah.
• 10:32
  Stefanie: She had to pretend she was, you know, a white woman, right?
• 10:35
  Stefanie: Had to bleacher hair, had a, you know, bleach her teeth.
• 10:37
  Stefanie: She had to, you know, put on this whole facade.
• 10:40
  Stefanie: Just to get, um, bigger movie roles.
• 10:42
  Meredith: And even later in the book there was another issue where it was, you know, a racial thing.
• 10:47
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 10:47
  Meredith: And, um, where things.
• 10:49
  Meredith: Had to happen Yeah.
• 10:51
  Meredith: To help protect this, that, and the other.
• 10:53
  Meredith: And I was like, dang.
• 10:54
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 10:55
  Stefanie: So it's still like, it's a, it's a, it was relevant till to this day.
• 10:58
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 10:58
  Stefanie: So I thought it was really, um, you know, I, that was insightful for me.
• 11:01
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 11:02
  Stefanie: To, to see that part of it too.
• 11:04
  Meredith: Yes, absolutely.
• 11:04
  Meredith: Um, absolutely.
• 11:05
  Stefanie: The struggles that she went through,
• 11:06
  Meredith: what did you picture she looked like?
• 11:07
  Meredith: Were you I was picturing like Marilyn Monroe.
• 11:09
  Stefanie: No, I don't know what I was picturing.
• 11:11
  Stefanie: Um, like a JLo, like a Jennifer Lopez.
• 11:13
  Meredith: Oh, yeah.
• 11:13
  Meredith: You know, you know, like that.
• 11:15
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 11:15
  Meredith: Cause she was Latin, Hispanic.
• 11:16
  Meredith: She was Hispanic.
• 11:17
  Meredith: Right.
• 11:17
  Stefanie: Cuban I think.
• 11:18
  Stefanie: Cuban.
• 11:18
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 11:18
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 11:19
  Stefanie: Um, and so like, I just had like a JLo vibe going on.
• 11:23
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 11:23
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 11:23
  Stefanie: I don't know why, but that's what I envisioned.
• 11:25
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 11:25
  Meredith: I just pictured her like the statuesque, if that's how you say that word, but just this beautiful Carries herself well.
• 11:33
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 11:33
  Meredith: And even though it was a part in the book where, um, it was near the beginning when they're meeting each other and the interview's happening and, um, Evelyn carries Monique, her interviewers like her tea for her Yes.
• 11:45
  Meredith: And I was just like, So she's got, you know, she's got the physical stuff going on, but that's just grace.
• 11:51
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 11:51
  Meredith: You know, just that moment of, here, let me help you out kind.
• 11:54
  Meredith: I thought I'd like to emulate that.
• 11:56
  Meredith: You know what I mean?
• 11:57
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 11:58
  Meredith: To help people feel comfortable kind of thing.
• 11:59
  Stefanie: And, and those, those traits aren't, like, you don't see that much No.
• 12:03
  Stefanie: Nowadays,
• 12:04
  Meredith: no you don't.
• 12:05
  Meredith: People are Can I
• 12:05
  Stefanie: get you have water.
• 12:05
  Stefanie: No.
• 12:07
  Meredith: Can you please hand me my water?
• 12:09
  Meredith: Um, no, but you know, You know, have you ever seen that saying like, straighten somebody's crown without telling the whole world that it was crooked?
• 12:15
  Meredith: I love that.
• 12:16
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 12:16
  Meredith: I love it.
• 12:16
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 12:16
  Meredith: Is my crown okay?
• 12:17
  Meredith: It's beautiful.
• 12:18
  Meredith: Ooh, look at those roots.
• 12:19
  Meredith: Well, you know, it is what it is.
• 12:21
  Meredith: Um, so what was your favorite part of the book?
• 12:24
  Stefanie: Oh gosh.
• 12:25
  Meredith: Or like what stands out, or maybe not even favorite, but what hits you really hard?
• 12:30
  Meredith: Um, the,
• 12:32
  Stefanie: that she had to hide so much of her, um,
• 12:36
  Meredith: personality.
• 12:37
  Stefanie: Well, just her personal life.
• 12:38
  Stefanie: I mean, she was, um, you know, abused by a husband.
• 12:40
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 12:41
  Stefanie: And, um, just the, the amount that she went through.
• 12:45
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 12:46
  Stefanie: Hid from the world.
• 12:47
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 12:47
  Stefanie: Um, and that's, that's a, like, you don't know what's going on in somebody's life.
• 12:50
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 12:51
  Stefanie: You know, you know, she, you know, portrayed herself as like, this flawless, my life is perfect.
• 12:56
  Meredith: Right.
• 12:56
  Stefanie: Um, and what you don't see behind closed doors makes the person.
• 13:00
  Meredith: Very much presented.
• 13:01
  Meredith: Everything was together.
• 13:02
  Meredith: Yes.
• 13:02
  Meredith: No hint of whatever abuse or other things that were going on in the background.
• 13:07
  Stefanie: So I appreciated her struggle.
• 13:08
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 13:08
  Stefanie: Um, that she shared.
• 13:09
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 13:10
  Stefanie: I think the most, yeah,
• 13:11
  Meredith: I get that.
• 13:12
  Stefanie: What did you think?
• 13:13
  Meredith: Um, I thought, I don't know.
• 13:18
  Meredith: Let me come back to it.
• 13:19
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 13:19
  Stefanie: did you listen to this or did you read it?
• 13:21
  Meredith: Both.
• 13:21
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 13:22
  Meredith: So I read it first and then I listened to it on the podcast you recommended?
• 13:26
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 13:27
  Meredith: And with just a quick recap.
• 13:29
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 13:29
  Meredith: Um, Yeah, I liked that too.
• 13:32
  Stefanie: So I listened to, um,
• 13:34
  Meredith: did you listen to it first?
• 13:35
  Stefanie: I, well, I listened to baking a Murder first.
• 13:37
  Meredith: Oh, yeah, that's it.
• 13:37
  Meredith: Sorry.
• 13:38
  Meredith: So just a quick,
• 13:38
  Stefanie: so that's another podcast that I, I listen to and, and they do like a recap of all these books.
• 13:43
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 13:43
  Stefanie: And I could, as a book lover mm-hmm.
• 13:46
  Stefanie: Um, I absolutely, yeah.
• 13:47
  Stefanie: Adore listening to this podcast.
• 13:50
  Stefanie: So after we had discussed it and I said, Hey, I just listened to this podcast.
• 13:53
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 13:53
  Stefanie: I were talking about this book.
• 13:54
  Stefanie: I went, Uh, got the audiobook on Libby.
• 13:57
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 13:58
  Stefanie: and I listen to a ton.
• 13:59
  Stefanie: If, if y'all aren't part of Libby yet, check it out, its an app.
• 14:02
  Meredith: It's so simple.
• 14:03
  Meredith: Yeah, it's so easy.
• 14:04
  Meredith: So yeah, it's a little app and then you just hook your library card to it and you get audiobook for free.
• 14:09
  Meredith: Can you get regular books on there too?
• 14:10
  Stefanie: You can, yeah.
• 14:11
  Stefanie: Oh.
• 14:11
  Stefanie: Um, yeah.
• 14:11
  Stefanie: Any eBooks and I mean, there's a ton, ton to choose from.
• 14:14
  Stefanie: Not everything's on there, but Right.
• 14:15
  Stefanie: But there's enough to get you through a long time.
• 14:17
  Stefanie: Absolutely.
• 14:18
  Stefanie: And they add new stuff every week.
• 14:20
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 14:20
  Stefanie: Um, there's new options on there, so.
• 14:22
  Stefanie: Cool.
• 14:22
  Stefanie: Awesome resource.
• 14:23
  Stefanie: If you'd like to listen to audiobooks.
• 14:25
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 14:26
  Stefanie: So much cheaper.
• 14:27
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 14:27
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 14:29
  Meredith: So you listened to it?
• 14:30
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 14:31
  Meredith: What'd you think?
• 14:32
  Stefanie: I loved it.
• 14:32
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 14:32
  Stefanie: Um, but, you know, sometimes, and I, the, the girl that did the audiobook mm-hmm.
• 14:36
  Stefanie: Was wonderful.
• 14:37
  Stefanie: Like, I, you know, I, I thought it would, was done great.
• 14:40
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 14:40
  Stefanie: Sometimes the audiobook can ruin the book for me.
• 14:42
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 14:43
  Meredith: The voice are just the way they come across yet.
• 14:45
  Stefanie: Uh, it's not, I, I can get like a chapter in it.
• 14:47
  Stefanie: I'm like, I can't do this.
• 14:48
  Stefanie: Right.
• 14:48
  Stefanie: And the book might be wonderful.
• 14:49
  Stefanie: And so that's the only drawback I guess.
• 14:52
  Meredith: On audio.
• 14:52
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 14:53
  Stefanie: Um, but, uh, it was, you know, I thought it was done wonderfully.
• 14:58
  Meredith: I love the way that every chapter was named, like you said, after the husband, but it wasn't just like, this one's about Frank.
• 15:04
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 15:04
  Meredith: Or whatever it was like.
• 15:06
  Meredith: Uh, you know, preface to whatever Frank was.
• 15:09
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 15:09
  Meredith: So, like, I don't know, stupid Frank, or, I don't even remember what they were, but it was catchy.
• 15:13
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 15:14
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 15:15
  Stefanie: So I, I'm so looking forward to this movie of who do you think that they should cast?
• 15:19
  Meredith: Oh, well, now that you said J Lo, but she, so the book is her being retrospective.
• 15:26
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 15:26
  Meredith: She, so she's looking back over her entire life and she's what, like 70 or 80?
• 15:30
  Meredith: Actual like present time.
• 15:32
  Meredith: Um, so I don't know.
• 15:34
  Meredith: Uh, JLo would be a good one, but like I said, I was picturing like a blonde bombshell type, but I guess they can make JLo blonde.
• 15:41
  Meredith: I don't know.
• 15:42
  Meredith: I have to think about it.
• 15:43
  Meredith: What are who you got?
• 15:44
  Meredith: Anybody in particular?
• 15:44
  Stefanie: I don't really know.
• 15:46
  Stefanie: So for Monique,
• 15:47
  Meredith: I was thinking about who you got.
• 15:49
  Stefanie: Oh, go first.
• 15:50
  Meredith: So do you watch Grey's Anatomy?
• 15:51
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 15:51
  Meredith: Do you know, um, Maggie Uhhuh.
• 15:54
  Meredith: I think she'd be a good,
• 15:55
  Stefanie: she would be a good one.
• 15:56
  Stefanie: So Monique, who is the interviewer?
• 16:00
  Stefanie: She's biracial.
• 16:01
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 16:01
  Stefanie: Um, so I think that a good one would, From Grey's Anatomy.
• 16:07
  Stefanie: Maggie.
• 16:07
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 16:07
  Stefanie: I think that would be great too.
• 16:09
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 16:09
  Stefanie: what's that girl?
• 16:10
  Stefanie: Um, Zendaya.
• 16:11
  Meredith: Who's that?
• 16:12
  Stefanie: I think that's her name.
• 16:13
  Stefanie: Um, she, she was in Spider-Man.
• 16:15
  Meredith: Oh yeah.
• 16:16
  Stefanie: I think she would be good too.
• 16:17
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 16:18
  Stefanie: As Monique
• 16:19
  Meredith: there.
• 16:20
  Meredith: Are there enough?
• 16:21
  Meredith: Men in Hollywood to play all of her husbands.
• 16:26
  Meredith: I'm sure there are
• 16:26
  Stefanie: Not for a Netflix movie.
• 16:28
  Stefanie: I mean, there's plenty of guys that are trying to be actors for Netflix movie.
• 16:34
  Meredith: They could find somebody.
• 16:35
  Meredith: I, I don't know if they're gonna get like a, um, like a George Clooney or anything.
• 16:41
  Meredith: Right.
• 16:43
  Meredith: We'll see.
• 16:44
  Meredith: We'll see.
• 16:44
  Stefanie: Oh, it's up like Channing Tatum or,
• 16:47
  Meredith: oh, I was picturing the dude from, um, this is.
• 16:51
  Stefanie: Oh yeah, that would be good
• 16:52
  Meredith: for harry Uhhuh, but in my mind, Harry was fat.
• 16:56
  Meredith: But I know he wasn't.
• 16:57
  Meredith: I don't even know.
• 16:58
  Meredith: But you know, sometimes do you do that?
• 17:00
  Meredith: Like you picture him?
• 17:00
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 17:01
  Stefanie: And then it's like when you actually see him like the movie, when now it's like, what?
• 17:04
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 17:04
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 17:05
  Stefanie: But I have to read a book before I watch the movie.
• 17:07
  Meredith: Definitely.
• 17:08
  Stefanie: Because the book is always 10 better, 10 times better.
• 17:10
  Stefanie: So I'm super excited about this night.
• 17:12
  Stefanie: Netflix.
• 17:12
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 17:13
  Meredith: Did they say when it's coming out?
• 17:14
  Stefanie: They didn't even like, I think it's, they're starting to cast it now from what I read.
• 17:18
  Meredith: Have they?
• 17:18
  Meredith: Are they gonna ask us for our recommendations?
• 17:20
  Stefanie: Probably not.
• 17:20
  Meredith: Well, if you're watching this, our recommendations are
• 17:23
  Stefanie: Netflix.
• 17:26
  Stefanie: All right.
• 17:26
  Stefanie: Um, so yeah, that's my take on, on the book.
• 17:29
  Stefanie: I didn't ever, I loved it 100%.
• 17:31
  Stefanie: I would read it again?
• 17:32
  Meredith: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:32
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 17:33
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 17:34
  Meredith: I liked it too.
• 17:34
  Meredith: I liked it a lot.
• 17:35
  Meredith: I felt like there was a lot of stuff in there that was still, like we said, still relevant.
• 17:39
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 17:40
  Meredith: Um, it was enlightening and it was a good read.
• 17:43
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 17:43
  Meredith: It was an easy read.
• 17:44
  Meredith: It was a fun read.
• 17:45
  Meredith: It was an emotional read though.
• 17:46
  Meredith: Very.
• 17:47
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 17:47
  Meredith: Um, yeah.
• 17:49
  Meredith: 10.
• 17:49
  Meredith: I give it a 10.
• 17:50
  Stefanie: I give it a 10 too.
• 17:51
  Meredith: Okay, cool.
• 17:52
  Stefanie: What are you reading next?
• 17:53
  Meredith: Um, well, so I always on the side got something I'm reading that's like fluff that I can read to fall asleep.
• 17:58
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 17:58
  Meredith: So I'm still reading this.
• 17:59
  Meredith: I love a series.
• 18:01
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 18:01
  Meredith: And right now I'm reading like this series that was like, um, I don't, I'll have to look up the name for you, but it's like a castoff of another series.
• 18:08
  Meredith: That was another series kind of like, so it's like 27 books, which I love.
• 18:12
  Meredith: No, it's probably not that many, but I think it, this one is called, now, don't Judge Me by This, but I think it's called Like The Elemental Witch is the name.
• 18:20
  Meredith: Um, and I'll look up who it's by, but it's, um, like I said, just it's fluff, it's easy reads.
• 18:26
  Meredith: It's, I don't have to think about what I'm getting next.
• 18:28
  Meredith: I can just kind of download the next one.
• 18:30
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 18:30
  Meredith: And keep moving forward.
• 18:31
  Meredith: If it's in the middle of the night and I can't sleep, then I don't have to really think about what to read next.
• 18:35
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 18:35
  Meredith: But um, we do need to think about something to read for this though.
• 18:38
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 18:38
  Meredith: You got any recommendations right now?
• 18:41
  Stefanie: Should we do like a fun book or should we do like a a, a helping book?
• 18:47
  Meredith: I don't need any help right now.
• 18:49
  Meredith: I'm perfect just the way I am.
• 18:50
  Stefanie: Well, you know, me too, but
• 18:53
  Meredith: Well, yeah, we can think about it and come back to that.
• 18:55
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 18:55
  Stefanie: Let me see what I have on my shelf.
• 18:57
  Stefanie: Um,
• 18:58
  Meredith: I do have a couple that I'm supposed to be reading for, um, a book club I'm in.
• 19:02
  Stefanie: Well, let's come back to this, I think.
• 19:04
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 19:04
  Stefanie: Okay, we'll, we'll announce our next book next week.
• 19:07
  Stefanie: Perfect.
• 19:07
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 19:08
  Stefanie: But that is, if y'all haven't read it, go try it out.
• 19:11
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 19:12
  Meredith: That's really good.
• 19:13
  Meredith: Really, really good.
• 19:13
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Meredith: And do Libby
• 19:15
  Stefanie: Yeah, for sure.
• 19:16
  Stefanie: Save yourself lots of money.
• 19:17
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 19:18
  Stefanie: Cool.
• 19:18
  Stefanie: Because I have, um, subscriptions to Audible and I have Kindle Unlimited,
• 19:22
  Meredith: well, they can't, the auto, the whatever is like X amount of, and you only get like one book or two books.
• 19:27
  Meredith: I know.
• 19:28
  Meredith: I mean, I do that in a day and a half.
• 19:29
  Stefanie: Me too.
• 19:29
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 19:30
  Meredith: So anyway.
• 19:31
  Stefanie: I know it sucks.
• 19:32
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 19:32
  Stefanie: But.
• 19:33
  Stefanie: It's what it is.
• 19:33
  Meredith: It is what it is.
• 19:34
  Meredith: What's next?
• 19:35
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 19:36
  Meredith: You wanna talk about our dumb crook story?
• 19:38
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 19:38
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 19:39
  Stefanie: All right.
• 19:39
  Meredith: Um, what did, do you wanna read it?
• 19:41
  Stefanie: Oh, so we decided, yeah, that we're gonna do a dumb crook from every state.
• 19:46
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 19:46
  Stefanie: So we're starting with South Carolina because that's where we live, but we will be hitting all of your state.
• 19:51
  Meredith: Yes.
• 19:52
  Stefanie: And if you know of them done crime, let us know.
• 19:54
  Meredith: Please let us know.
• 19:56
  Meredith: Please let us know.
• 19:57
  Meredith: And I think what we said too is we're going to each bring a story.
• 19:59
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 20:00
  Meredith: And present it and get each other's reaction off of it.
• 20:03
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 20:03
  Stefanie: Well, we're just going one story for today.
• 20:04
  Meredith: One story for today to get started.
• 20:06
  Meredith: Yes.
• 20:06
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 20:06
  Meredith: So we did some research on good old south Carolina.
• 20:09
  Stefanie: Well, you know, Yep.
• 20:11
  Stefanie: We got some special ones.
• 20:12
  Meredith: We didn't have to dig far.
• 20:13
  Stefanie: No.
• 20:14
  Meredith: It was like boom.
• 20:15
  Meredith: Pop up.
• 20:16
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 20:17
  Stefanie: dumb criminal.
• 20:17
  Meredith: Yes.
• 20:18
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 20:19
  Meredith: Um, what, do you wanna read it or
• 20:21
  Stefanie: you go ahead?
• 20:22
  Meredith: Oh Lord, I didn't bring my reading glasses.
• 20:24
  Meredith: I'm just kidding.
• 20:24
  Meredith: I got it.
• 20:24
  Meredith: Okay, so the article says this is, was in Hartsville, South Carolina, and this was a few years ago.
• 20:31
  Meredith: From W B T V is our source of 59 year old man who tried to rob a bank while he was a passenger in a taxi.
• 20:38
  Meredith: He's gonna spend six years in prison.
• 20:39
  Meredith: All right, here's what he did.
• 20:41
  Meredith: He was charged with taking a taxi in 2021 to a Hartsville bank and telling the driver to go through drive-through lane.
• 20:49
  Meredith: Then he placed the envelope containing a handwritten.
• 20:52
  Meredith: Demanding money into the tube.
• 20:54
  Meredith: The note said he would kill people or blow up the bank if his demands were not met.
• 20:59
  Meredith: And the teller just like activated the alarm and the police found the taxi and he was arrested.
• 21:04
  Meredith: the driver was not involved.
• 21:08
  Stefanie: So I got a lot of thoughts.
• 21:10
  Meredith: What's your first thought?
• 21:11
  Meredith: And then I'll tell you mine.
• 21:12
  Stefanie: Can you imagine being the taxi driver?
• 21:14
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 21:15
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 21:15
  Stefanie: I mean like, and then your, your car is like surrounded by police.
• 21:18
  Stefanie: Like, I'm just envisioning like this.
• 21:20
  Stefanie: It's like, dude, just trying to,
• 21:22
  Meredith: he's trying to work his job right.
• 21:25
  Meredith: Woo.
• 21:25
  Meredith: Woo woo.
• 21:26
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 21:26
  Stefanie: Oh my god.
• 21:27
  Stefanie: I, I would die.
• 21:29
  Stefanie: I would, I don't know what I would do.
• 21:30
  Meredith: My first thought is this teller, like, what did her face look like?
• 21:35
  Meredith: She's standing there and this note comes through.
• 21:37
  Meredith: Like I just picture like she's having kind of a crappy day and she's not taking anybody's junk, and all of a sudden this comes through and she gives him this look like, Mm.
• 21:45
  Meredith: And she just like, hits the button and calls the cop, like,
• 21:48
  Stefanie: and then ducks.
• 21:49
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 21:50
  Meredith: She probably is gonna do that.
• 21:51
  Meredith: But you know, when all that's going on, the, what's the, the taxi driver's just sitting there like, but this is taxi banging on the steering wheel.
• 21:57
  Stefanie: And then, and then he's like, dude, like, what's, you know, why is this taking so long?
• 22:00
  Stefanie: Like, but Right.
• 22:01
  Stefanie: Many, the dude's like, Drive, drive, drive.
• 22:03
  Stefanie: Right, right.
• 22:04
  Stefanie: Like I want, I want, I need more information.
• 22:05
  Stefanie: I want a camera inside the taxi.
• 22:06
  Meredith: Right?
• 22:07
  Meredith: You're right, you're right.
• 22:07
  Meredith: Okay.
• 22:08
  Meredith: So he passes the note.
• 22:09
  Meredith: She hits the thing, and then what's happened?
• 22:10
  Meredith: Like, he's like, you didn't get your money, dude.
• 22:12
  Meredith: What are we doing here?
• 22:13
  Meredith: And he's like, go, go.
• 22:14
  Meredith: Like, you're right.
• 22:15
  Meredith: We might need to dig into that a little bit further.
• 22:17
  Stefanie: I'm just like this.
• 22:18
  Meredith: A lot of information.
• 22:18
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 22:19
  Stefanie: I Dude is an idiot.
• 22:22
  Meredith: That's why they're called dumb crooks.
• 22:23
  Stefanie: And he was old too.
• 22:24
  Stefanie: He was 59.
• 22:25
  Stefanie: He knows better.
• 22:26
  Meredith: He should.
• 22:27
  Stefanie: No, but you know what?
• 22:27
  Meredith: Well, he knew, he knew enough to, uh, plead guilty.
• 22:31
  Meredith: Um, so he's sentenced to 72 years in federal.
• 22:34
  Meredith: Prison.
• 22:34
  Meredith: And then he'll have some court ordered supervision.
• 22:37
  Meredith: After that, probably no more taxis decent.
• 22:41
  Stefanie: And then like my other question is, there's still taxis.
• 22:43
  Stefanie: It's not like just an Uber or
• 22:45
  Meredith: Wait, wait, wait.
• 22:45
  Meredith: You're right.
• 22:46
  Meredith: In Hartsville South, have you been, you've been through Hartsville?
• 22:49
  Stefanie: I don't know.
• 22:50
  Meredith: You've been to Myrtle Beach?
• 22:51
  Meredith: Yeah, like on the way to the beach.
• 22:52
  Meredith: Like you go through Hartsville.
• 22:53
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 22:53
  Meredith: Like it's not this big metropolis.
• 22:55
  Meredith: No, it's probably like Clover.
• 22:57
  Meredith: It'd be like seeing a like legit taxi in Clover.
• 23:00
  Meredith: No.
• 23:01
  Meredith: Oh my God.
• 23:01
  Meredith: Where did he get the taxi?
• 23:03
  Meredith: That's
• 23:03
  Stefanie: what I'm saying, like is it an Uber?
• 23:04
  Stefanie: Is it a, like what kind like is it?
• 23:07
  Stefanie: What is it?
• 23:09
  Meredith: I have more questions now.
• 23:12
  Stefanie: Does he have a taxi?
• 23:13
  Stefanie: Like the taxi sign on top of his side?
• 23:14
  Meredith: I'm picturing a big yellow car with the taxi sign on top.
• 23:17
  Meredith: Yeah, with the number like 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3.
• 23:20
  Meredith: On all the sudden, oh my gosh.
• 23:24
  Meredith: Oh my gosh.
• 23:25
  Stefanie: I've got so many questions.
• 23:26
  Meredith: Me too.
• 23:26
  Meredith: We'll probably never know the answers,
• 23:28
  Stefanie: but No, but I would love the interview.
• 23:30
  Stefanie: I would with that taxi driver be like, you like what happened?
• 23:33
  Meredith: Mr.
• 23:33
  Meredith: Taxi?
• 23:33
  Meredith: Driver, if you happen to be listening to, this is My circus podcast, please reach out and let us know.
• 23:38
  Stefanie: So we wanna know your monkeys.
• 23:40
  Meredith: Yeah, they But they are not your monkeys.
• 23:43
  Meredith: You're not responsible.
• 23:44
  Stefanie: No, but I mean, I wanna know about your circus.
• 23:47
  Stefanie: Do you have a video?
• 23:49
  Stefanie: Of this.
• 23:49
  Meredith: Was there a dash cam?
• 23:50
  Stefanie: Please tell us
• 23:51
  Meredith: or something?
• 23:52
  Meredith: Have you been interviewed?
• 23:54
  Meredith: And we need to, we need all of this.
• 23:56
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 23:56
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 23:57
  Stefanie: Well, until we find out more on that one.
• 24:00
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 24:01
  Stefanie: So we're moving on.
• 24:02
  Meredith: We're moving on.
• 24:02
  Meredith: And we're gonna bring more stories like that we said throughout, um, the country.
• 24:07
  Meredith: So stay tuned for who's coming next.
• 24:08
  Meredith: Well,
• 24:09
  Stefanie: maybe it's one of your relatives.
• 24:10
  Meredith: Maybe.
• 24:12
  Meredith: Maybe.
• 24:13
  Stefanie: And if you have a dumb relative, let us know.
• 24:15
  Meredith: Maybe that should be a different segment.
• 24:17
  Meredith: Dumb.
• 24:19
  Meredith: That's funny.
• 24:20
  Meredith: Well, when, um, okay, switching gears, when I was looking this, you know, trying to dig into some dumb criminal stuff I saw about this airplane missing.
• 24:28
  Stefanie: Oh yeah.
• 24:29
  Meredith: I don't know much about it.
• 24:30
  Meredith: I just read the headline and it's like, How does an airplane go missing?
• 24:34
  Meredith: Do you have more info than just that?
• 24:35
  Stefanie: I only, and it's, it might not even be the same one.
• 24:38
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 24:38
  Stefanie: So like, we might have,
• 24:39
  Meredith: how can there be more than one missing?
• 24:41
  Stefanie: Oh, there's lots of missing ones.
• 24:42
  Stefanie: Like, they disappear,
• 24:43
  Meredith: they're big.
• 24:44
  Meredith: Okay.
• 24:45
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 24:46
  Meredith: So, so tell me what you know.
• 24:47
  Stefanie: I don't really know a whole lot, which we, maybe, we'll, we'll hit on this, the next episode, we'll, we'll do a little research, but I saw a video on Facebook.
• 24:56
  Stefanie: Super, super reliable.
• 24:57
  Meredith: Then this is real.
• 24:59
  Meredith: This is.
• 25:00
  Stefanie: But you know, like how you just get sucked into those stupid reels?
• 25:02
  Stefanie: Oh, yeah.
• 25:02
  Stefanie: Like, and keep scrolling through the videos.
• 25:04
  Stefanie: And so this dude said that there was a airplane that left the United States mm-hmm.
• 25:09
  Stefanie: And like disappeared in, into like the air and.
• 25:13
  Stefanie: Uh, like, I don't know, five, 10 years later, um, there's a call over the radio of a airport that they were checking for clearance to land, and then they were like, wait, what year is it?
• 25:26
  Stefanie: And they said It's whatever, 2000, yeah, whatever.
• 25:29
  Stefanie: 20, whatever year it was.
• 25:31
  Stefanie: Uh, and they.
• 25:33
  Stefanie: They just like took back off.
• 25:34
  Stefanie: Like they, they never landed.
• 25:35
  Stefanie: They just went like back into like the atmosphere, la, la land, wherever they, but yeah, it's like they, they disappeared.
• 25:44
  Meredith: Is this true?
• 25:45
  Stefanie: I don't know.
• 25:45
  Stefanie: It was, I don't know.
• 25:46
  Meredith: So, you know, there was a show a couple years ago called Manifest Yes.
• 25:49
  Meredith: No.
• 25:50
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 25:50
  Stefanie: But like, this was like somebody doing like a, like a legit, like,
• 25:53
  Meredith: okay.
• 25:54
  Meredith: Cause that's exactly what this,
• 25:55
  Stefanie: well no, it was like a true crime, Channel on Facebook.
• 25:58
  Meredith: Wow.
• 26:00
  Meredith: Wow.
• 26:01
  Stefanie: Well, like all these shows, right?
• 26:02
  Stefanie: Like they've gotta come from somewhere.
• 26:03
  Meredith: Have you heard about um, Tyler Doyle?
• 26:06
  Meredith: Have you followed that?
• 26:07
  Meredith: Any Uhuh?
• 26:07
  Meredith: We, um, I've been following that a little bit.
• 26:09
  Meredith: So that's this guy in, um, gosh, I think he's from South Carolina, but South Carolina episode.
• 26:16
  Meredith: Y'all, I'm just kidding.
• 26:17
  Meredith: I'm making us so proud.
• 26:18
  Meredith: I know.
• 26:18
  Meredith: Well, but he went missing off the coast of South Carolina while he was duck hunting.
• 26:24
  Meredith: I think this was maybe like a month ago or even more.
• 26:26
  Meredith: Cause I,
• 26:27
  Stefanie: leave those poor ducks alone.
• 26:30
  Meredith: Well, there was so much conspiracy about it, you know, why was he by himself and why didn't he call or whatever.
• 26:38
  Meredith: But anyway, he went missing and they couldn't find anything.
• 26:40
  Meredith: And then like two days later, and my timeline is wrong, so please don't whatever, don't come at me for that.
• 26:45
  Meredith: But like they found his waiters and then the duck decoys and all.
• 26:49
  Meredith: As far as I know, they never found him.
• 26:51
  Meredith: And it's people are like, it's his baby mama or wife or whatever.
• 26:55
  Meredith: I don't know.
• 26:55
  Meredith: Again, don't come, don't at me.
• 26:57
  Meredith: But, um, but I was all sucked into that for a little bit.
• 27:01
  Meredith: Like, where is he?
• 27:02
  Meredith: And then of course all the social media pages that are like, where is Tyler Doyle and whatever.
• 27:07
  Meredith: So I just hope that Is this like super recent?
• 27:09
  Meredith: This was like, yeah, like within the past couple of months, huh?
• 27:12
  Meredith: So, I don't know.
• 27:14
  Meredith: I don't know about that.
• 27:14
  Meredith: But I hope he's safe.
• 27:18
  Meredith: And if he's.
• 27:19
  Meredith: Gone from this earth.
• 27:22
  Meredith: Oh, hope it was peaceful
• 27:24
  Stefanie: and let's save the ducks instead.
• 27:26
  Meredith: Let's save the ducks.
• 27:28
  Stefanie: Oh my gosh.
• 27:28
  Stefanie: So when I was in high school, right in our science class, speaking of ducks, we had to hatch chickens and ducks.
• 27:35
  Stefanie: And so my, the other class got chickens and my class got ducks.
• 27:38
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 27:38
  Stefanie: If our parents signed off on it, we were allowed to keep whatever hatched.
• 27:42
  Stefanie: So I talked my dad into letting.
• 27:44
  Stefanie: Keep this duck.
• 27:45
  Meredith: Okay.
• 27:45
  Stefanie: Because I was, I like ducks were like my favorite animal ever.
• 27:48
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 27:48
  Stefanie: And my best friend was in the chicken class, so we get to school after like a couple weeks.
• 27:55
  Stefanie: Like of the incubator?
• 27:57
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 27:57
  Stefanie: Lessons.
• 27:58
  Stefanie: Our teacher forgot to put water in the incubator over the weekend and killed all of our ducks.
• 28:04
  Stefanie: Like, not one duck hatch
• 28:05
  Meredith: that is traumatizing.
• 28:06
  Stefanie: Right?
• 28:07
  Stefanie: And like, so like, I'm like, what the heck?
• 28:09
  Stefanie: You know, like, super.
• 28:10
  Meredith: So did it like just, was it just straight heat then?
• 28:13
  Meredith: Is that why?
• 28:13
  Stefanie: And it like, cooked the ducks and the eggs.
• 28:15
  Stefanie: Like it was awful.
• 28:17
  Stefanie: Chickens.
• 28:18
  Stefanie: Chickens lived.
• 28:19
  Stefanie: And so my best friend Alicia, Hey girl, hope you're listening.
• 28:23
  Stefanie: Um,
• 28:24
  Meredith: hey Alicia,
• 28:25
  Stefanie: they got chickens and she had to, and so then she made, she felt bad, My duck died, and so she made me the chicken's godmother.
• 28:34
  Meredith: Oh, that's adorable.
• 28:37
  Stefanie: And then the chicken grew and got mean, and so she brought it to a farm to live where he live happily ever after to live out his, his his days roostery mean life.
• 28:47
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 28:47
  Meredith: Roosters can be mean.
• 28:49
  Meredith: She.
• 28:49
  Meredith: is awesome.
• 28:50
  Meredith: So she also had a snapping turtle and that snapping turtle, he used to watch us sleep.
• 28:53
  Meredith: It was like a, it was our, Mr.
• 28:55
  Meredith: Snappy was our stalker, Mr.
• 28:57
  Meredith: Snappy, that was real creative with the names.
• 28:59
  Stefanie: That was his name.
• 29:00
  Meredith: What was the chicken's name?
• 29:01
  Stefanie: Um, oh God, I can't even remember.
• 29:02
  Meredith: She should've named the chicken duck.
• 29:04
  Stefanie: Oh, that would've been good.
• 29:06
  Stefanie: It would've been sad though.
• 29:07
  Stefanie: Every time
• 29:07
  Meredith: I, oh yeah, you're right, you're right.
• 29:09
  Stefanie: So I would've been a little sad,
• 29:10
  Meredith: but that's traumatizing though.
• 29:11
  Meredith: How were you like high school?
• 29:13
  Stefanie: Yeah, it was like junior year.
• 29:15
  Meredith: Yeah, no, we, when I was in, I don't remember what grade, but before high school, went to a field trip to a chicken farm, and now in retrospect, these chickens are miserable.
• 29:30
  Meredith: They're all just like crowded in, is that the right word?
• 29:33
  Meredith: Chicken farm.
• 29:34
  Meredith: I don't know where they've got them all in like a greenhouse looking.
• 29:38
  Meredith: I guess it's a chicken coop.
• 29:39
  Meredith: I'm not, I don't know.
• 29:41
  Meredith: But, but they were all just like right on top of each other and it was Aw.
• 29:45
  Meredith: I mean, it is what it is.
• 29:46
  Meredith: Whatever.
• 29:47
  Meredith: I mean,
• 29:47
  Stefanie: did you see like the place across the street from my neighborhood, um, that has like the alpacas and goats and it's like this whole little tiny farm?
• 29:56
  Meredith: No.
• 29:57
  Stefanie: And I told Dylan, I'm like, I wanna pet an alpaca so bad.
• 29:59
  Stefanie: Oh yeah.
• 30:00
  Stefanie: And I was like, I'm like, that's the thing I'm gonna get arrested for, like is like pulling over to the side and
• 30:04
  Meredith: to pet an alpaca,
• 30:05
  Stefanie: like jumping over the fence.
• 30:07
  Meredith: Are they mean?
• 30:08
  Meredith: I don't mean,
• 30:09
  Stefanie: I don't know, but I've, I I, it reminds me of Llama's and Dylan's favorite book when he was a baby was Lama Lama Red Pajama and yeah.
• 30:17
  Stefanie: I'm like, I need to pet this.
• 30:19
  Meredith: For some reason, I'm thinking like they're related to camels.
• 30:21
  Meredith: And camels can be mean.
• 30:23
  Stefanie: Camels are very like, they spit it
• 30:24
  Meredith: and they spit at you.
• 30:25
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 30:25
  Stefanie: What else you wanna talk about?
• 30:26
  Stefanie: Did you go to the St.
• 30:27
  Stefanie: Patrick's Day thing yesterday?
• 30:28
  Stefanie: I did not.
• 30:29
  Stefanie: I was pat, so.
• 30:31
  Stefanie: Brandon said that if I can get the, the shed cleaned out mm-hmm.
• 30:36
  Stefanie: That we can convert it into a office slash studio for us.
• 30:40
  Stefanie: And so I spent my day,
• 30:42
  Meredith: do I need to come over and help sometime?
• 30:43
  Stefanie: Oh, we can decorate.
• 30:44
  Meredith: Okay.
• 30:45
  Meredith: We can great.
• 30:45
  Stefanie: Take a target run.
• 30:48
  Stefanie: But, um, so we spent all day trying to get everything out of there.
• 30:52
  Stefanie: box it up to ship.
• 30:53
  Meredith: Wow.
• 30:54
  Stefanie: So that was my whole day yesterday.
• 30:56
  Meredith: Oh, are you sore?
• 30:57
  Stefanie: No.
• 30:57
  Stefanie: Um, I'm just glad it's over.
• 31:00
  Stefanie: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
• 31:01
  Stefanie: And it's one step closer to having our like.
• 31:03
  Stefanie: Studio, super fun, girly space.
• 31:07
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 31:07
  Stefanie: Not that I'm like super girly, right?
• 31:09
  Stefanie: But I don't want like, Nerf guns on the wall, which is Dylan's whole nerf collection is out there.
• 31:15
  Meredith: Is it on the wall?
• 31:16
  Meredith: We can just hang like a, a sheet up and cover it all up.
• 31:19
  Stefanie: Um, and I have like a, a mini fridge out there with beverages.
• 31:25
  Meredith: Mini fridges are nice though.
• 31:27
  Meredith: Mini fridges are great.
• 31:28
  Meredith: I always tell Brian I want one in my nightstand.
• 31:30
  Meredith: Oh my.
• 31:31
  Meredith: And he.
• 31:32
  Meredith: I, so I master bedroom is downstairs and he's like, it's 30 feet to the kitchen.
• 31:37
  Meredith: You can get up and go get something to drink.
• 31:39
  Meredith: I'm like, you don't understand.
• 31:40
  Meredith: It's just the point right there covered in like wood, like you know the fridges that are kind of in set.
• 31:45
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 31:46
  Meredith: Whatever.
• 31:46
  Meredith: It's a great idea, TM.
• 31:48
  Meredith: Don't take it unless it already exists and then I'm not meaning to copyright you.
• 31:52
  Meredith: So we went to the St.
• 31:53
  Meredith: Patrick's Day thing yesterday since my umpiring gig got canceled cause it rained, whatever.
• 31:59
  Meredith: Um, it was pretty fun.
• 32:00
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 32:01
  Meredith: It was fun.
• 32:01
  Meredith: I mean, it was windy and cold and then sunny, you know, this time of year it's like whatever you get.
• 32:07
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 32:07
  Meredith: But it was fun.
• 32:08
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 32:08
  Stefanie: Mother nature.
• 32:09
  Stefanie: Uh, yeah.
• 32:10
  Stefanie: She needs to pick a lane.
• 32:11
  Meredith: Figure it out.
• 32:13
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 32:13
  Meredith: But then like Friday it's supposed to be 81 here, I think.
• 32:16
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 32:16
  Meredith: I'm not ready for it to get too hot, but I'm ready.
• 32:19
  Stefanie: Like 70.
• 32:19
  Stefanie: I want 70.
• 32:20
  Meredith: Consistent.
• 32:20
  Meredith: 70, yeah.
• 32:21
  Meredith: I'm down.
• 32:22
  Meredith: I'm down
• 32:22
  Stefanie: with, with a little breeze, not wind.
• 32:24
  Meredith: Yeah, absolutely.
• 32:25
  Meredith: So, well, so we were there for, gosh, like four or five hours yesterday.
• 32:30
  Meredith: I'm so outta shape like I was, so I got out.
• 32:33
  Meredith: So we, we went, we walked around, we did all things, had a good time.
• 32:35
  Meredith: Saw a ton of people I knew, which was.
• 32:37
  Meredith: So much fun.
• 32:37
  Meredith: I like to do that.
• 32:38
  Meredith: Brian's always like, are you politicing?
• 32:40
  Meredith: And I'm like, no.
• 32:41
  Meredith: I'm just talking to people, which I like to do.
• 32:43
  Stefanie: So you don't get to see everybody very often.
• 32:45
  Meredith: Hey, I be, you usually don't let me out the house.
• 32:47
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 32:47
  Meredith: So I was, um, I got outta the truck when we got home and I could like barely walk.
• 32:53
  Meredith: No, I did wear these shoes cause it was kind of yucky in the morning.
• 32:56
  Meredith: So I wore some shoes that were kind of rain boot-ish.
• 32:58
  Meredith: They weren't like great.
• 32:59
  Meredith: And I was like, bro was like, are you okay?
• 33:01
  Meredith: And I was like, I don't think so.
• 33:03
  Meredith: I'm sore from walking around in these rain boots.
• 33:06
  Meredith: my galishes.
• 33:07
  Meredith: But anyway.
• 33:08
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 33:08
  Meredith: I think I need to start walking some more.
• 33:10
  Stefanie: Oh well I.
• 33:12
  Stefanie: Take Rex, like I think it totals out to be almost four miles a day.
• 33:16
  Meredith: Good for you.
• 33:17
  Stefanie: So it's like one walk in the morning and one walk in the afternoon.
• 33:19
  Meredith: You have a great area to walk though.
• 33:22
  Stefanie: People in this neighborhood drive like.
• 33:24
  Stefanie: Cr crazy.
• 33:25
  Meredith: Like, no.
• 33:25
  Meredith: And the lawnmowers,
• 33:27
  Stefanie: you gotta dodge lawnmowers.
• 33:28
  Meredith: I mean, there's a lot going on.
• 33:29
  Stefanie: So we've got the lawnmower riders.
• 33:31
  Stefanie: Yeah, we've got the kids on like their motor, whatevers their four wheelers, dirt bikes, mini bikes, whatever.
• 33:37
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 33:37
  Stefanie: That like, don't, i own a motorized scooter, do you?
• 33:39
  Meredith: I do.
• 33:39
  Meredith: Ooh.
• 33:40
  Meredith: Like when you stand up on and ride,
• 33:41
  Stefanie: have you ever tried to ride a hoverboard?
• 33:43
  Meredith: No.
• 33:43
  Meredith: Have you?
• 33:44
  Stefanie: I have.
• 33:45
  Stefanie: It didn't go.
• 33:48
  Stefanie: Have you ever seen those, um, video?
• 33:50
  Stefanie: On Facebook where people are like flailing their phone.
• 33:52
  Meredith: Was that you?
• 33:53
  Stefanie: That was totally me.
• 33:54
  Stefanie: Oh my gosh.
• 33:54
  Stefanie: I'm not good at that at all.
• 33:55
  Meredith: So there's a lot going on in the neighborhood when you walk.
• 33:58
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 33:58
  Stefanie: And like, so you got like, you know, all these kids and you know, other people walking dog, you know,
• 34:02
  Meredith: and like how dare they?
• 34:03
  Meredith: No, but I'm just kidding.
• 34:04
  Stefanie: There's a dude, and I hope he hears this cuz he's a butthead, but he's got like two, like bigger mean looking dogs.
• 34:11
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 34:12
  Stefanie: Like that are very aggressive towards anyone and everything.
• 34:15
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 34:15
  Stefanie: And like dude isn't a big guy.
• 34:17
  Stefanie: Like he's not, uh, like.
• 34:19
  Stefanie: Big.
• 34:20
  Meredith: Right?
• 34:21
  Meredith: Like burly, whatever.
• 34:22
  Stefanie: So these dogs, anytime they see a child, they see another person, they see they another dog.
• 34:28
  Stefanie: They go bananas and us and like lunging and barking and like,
• 34:31
  Meredith: that's scary.
• 34:32
  Stefanie: And then so this one is super protective of me.
• 34:34
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 34:35
  Stefanie: And he's doesn't, he was like, then he starts going and I, you know, he's 105, 10 pounds.
• 34:42
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 34:43
  Stefanie: And so I'm, you know, trying to get, pulling him back.
• 34:45
  Stefanie: But this is a guy and he just like, Like he thinks it's funny and I'm like, dude, like
• 34:49
  Meredith: somebody's gonna get hurt someday.
• 34:50
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 34:50
  Meredith: That's what he scared me.
• 34:51
  Stefanie: Just like the dog's lunge at like kids on bicycles.
• 34:54
  Meredith: Right.
• 34:54
  Meredith: That's not cool.
• 34:55
  Meredith: It's, dude, that's not cool.
• 34:56
  Meredith: No, don't do that with your dogs anymore.
• 34:58
  Stefanie: You should not.
• 34:59
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 35:00
  Stefanie: Walk your dogs right in the public place.
• 35:03
  Stefanie: My 2 cents.
• 35:04
  Meredith: Get him some home training.
• 35:05
  Meredith: Like my, like I said, my, my, my puppy, well he's not puppies.
• 35:09
  Meredith: Almost two.
• 35:10
  Meredith: I know.
• 35:10
  Meredith: He's terrible.
• 35:11
  Meredith: So I just don't let him do too much.
• 35:14
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 35:15
  Meredith: But since you gotta know your limits.
• 35:16
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 35:17
  Meredith: Um, so the St.
• 35:18
  Meredith: Patrick say thing was fun.
• 35:19
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 35:20
  Meredith: Uh, am not sore anymore.
• 35:21
  Meredith: I've recovered.
• 35:22
  Meredith: Um, but we hung out with some new.
• 35:25
  Meredith: That we're kind of making.
• 35:26
  Meredith: So that's, you know, your friend circle.
• 35:29
  Meredith: Is it like this for you?
• 35:30
  Meredith: Probably.
• 35:30
  Meredith: Cause that's how we met.
• 35:31
  Meredith: It's like through your kids.
• 35:32
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 35:33
  Meredith: Right.
• 35:33
  Meredith: It's other, whatever your kids are into, it's their parents haven't outside par friends.
• 35:38
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 35:39
  Meredith: That are not like parents related to sports in some way.
• 35:42
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 35:43
  Meredith: Um, so this is, um, Some friends we've been hanging out with and they're a lot of fun.
• 35:48
  Meredith: Um, but you know, it's just hard to make friends as an adult.
• 35:50
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 35:51
  Meredith: It's so hard.
• 35:52
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 35:53
  Stefanie: And like, I hate to say this, but like, don't you feel like ever since like Covid, like people have, I don't know, people have gotten like mean and I don't know.
• 36:03
  Stefanie: I just, I I'm not, I'm not a peoply person.
• 36:06
  Meredith: Um, yeah.
• 36:07
  Meredith: Well I feel like, and you're right, that might be the timeline since that point.
• 36:11
  Meredith: Like everything.
• 36:12
  Meredith: And maybe it's just me getting older.
• 36:14
  Meredith: I feel like everything is political and, or everything is about, you know, nothing is just, I don't even know how to say it anymore.
• 36:21
  Stefanie: It's not fun.
• 36:22
  Meredith: Right.
• 36:23
  Meredith: And maybe that's it.
• 36:23
  Meredith: Like when you're a kid you make friends, you're like, Hey, you wanna play tag?
• 36:26
  Meredith: And they say yes, and you run like that's it.
• 36:28
  Meredith: And now it's like, well, you know, I don't like them because of this, or I can't vibe with them cause they believe this.
• 36:35
  Meredith: Ah, let's just have friends.
• 36:37
  Stefanie: So this is, so, and I don't know, like, I've never, like when we were in, in, in middle school mm-hmm.
• 36:45
  Stefanie: We didn't talk about politics.
• 36:46
  Stefanie: Like we didn't know, like we had like a goofy like, you know, in school election, right.
• 36:49
  Stefanie: Like whatever, like, but nobody knew anything about politics.
• 36:53
  Stefanie: No.
• 36:53
  Stefanie: And Dylan came home, um, during like the last election and he like said that like his friends are arguing, friends are arguing, and I'm like, dude, like why do you come?
• 37:01
  Stefanie: Like, why are you even right.
• 37:03
  Stefanie: Like, talk about like.
• 37:04
  Stefanie: Do you not have other things to talk about?
• 37:06
  Stefanie: Right.
• 37:07
  Stefanie: And so my advice to Dylan was we, you don't talk religion.
• 37:11
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 37:12
  Stefanie: You don't talk politics and you don't talk about Santa Claus.
• 37:14
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 37:14
  Stefanie: Those all, okay, three, those are three topics that you don't, you don't have.
• 37:18
  Meredith: I would add to that also don't talk about money.
• 37:21
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 37:21
  Meredith: Either way it goes, whether if you have it or you don't, just Yeah.
• 37:25
  Meredith: But I agree.
• 37:26
  Meredith: Like I remember being in high school and you, you know, you learn about the whatever and we did the mock.
• 37:31
  Meredith: Okay.
• 37:31
  Meredith: All.
• 37:32
  Meredith: This and all you guys are this and let's, you know, vote, debate and whatever.
• 37:35
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 37:35
  Meredith: And debate and all that fun stuff.
• 37:37
  Meredith: But you're right now it so weird.
• 37:40
  Meredith: So yeah.
• 37:41
  Stefanie: But like for kids to be arguing, like literally arguing and getting into fight about it and like, you know,
• 37:45
  Meredith: now that you say that, like my, my niece who's a senior in high school, she, um, has actually lost some friends because of different beliefs and whatever, and I'm like,
• 37:54
  Stefanie: Dude, I didn't like when I was in high school, all I, I shouldn't say this cuz Dylan might hear this one day, but like, all we were worried about was where, who's having the next party?
• 38:03
  Stefanie: Right?
• 38:04
  Stefanie: I mean,
• 38:05
  Meredith: or, or hanging out or where are we going?
• 38:07
  Meredith: Or where's the football game or where's, I know
• 38:09
  Stefanie: there was, was no like discussion.
• 38:11
  Meredith: Well, and it's a right and it's a, like, you want them to be educated and to be involved and to make decision, you know, use their brain, but at the same time, it's just part of the whole.
• 38:21
  Meredith: Thing where every, every, everybody thinks they're right and you can't even have a conversation
• 38:26
  Stefanie: and you can't be friends with somebody that doesn't believe the same exact thing that either, like, that's crazy.
• 38:30
  Stefanie: And that's what I told Dylan.
• 38:31
  Stefanie: I'm like, you know, like, like everybody ha is entitled to their opinion.
• 38:35
  Stefanie: Yes, everybody is entitled.
• 38:36
  Stefanie: And you don't have to school people on their, on what your opinion is.
• 38:39
  Stefanie: Like you can just say, okay, cool, let's your opinion, then walk away.
• 38:42
  Stefanie: Right?
• 38:42
  Stefanie: There doesn't need to be.
• 38:44
  Stefanie: I'm right.
• 38:44
  Stefanie: You're wrong all the time.
• 38:45
  Meredith: Like a whole conversa, right?
• 38:46
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 38:46
  Meredith: Nobody has to win every conversation.
• 38:48
  Stefanie: You believe what you believe, right.
• 38:49
  Meredith: You can have a conversation.
• 38:51
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 38:51
  Meredith: And then just walk away and still be friends.
• 38:54
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 38:54
  Meredith: And, and have fun.
• 38:55
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 38:55
  Meredith: But yeah, I don't know.
• 38:56
  Meredith: So, um, it's hard, hard making new friends.
• 39:00
  Meredith: But it was fun yesterday with these,
• 39:01
  Stefanie: where'd you even go meet new people?
• 39:03
  Meredith: Well, I don't even know.
• 39:05
  Stefanie: I don't leave my house
• 39:06
  Meredith: actually so
• 39:07
  Stefanie: that could be part of my problem.
• 39:09
  Meredith: So this, these new people we're hanging out, they're already kind like a friend group.
• 39:13
  Meredith: And we were kind of invited into the friend group with, um, is Jackson's girlfriend's parents.
• 39:20
  Meredith: Oh.
• 39:20
  Meredith: And um, so we're hanging out with them a little bit.
• 39:24
  Meredith: And then one of the other people in the group knows Brian.
• 39:27
  Meredith: They used to work together, so he's.
• 39:29
  Meredith: A kind of a connection.
• 39:30
  Meredith: Cause that's other thing too, right?
• 39:31
  Meredith: Finding somebody, you and your husband.
• 39:33
  Meredith: Oh yes.
• 39:33
  Meredith: And then your kid like, oh my God, forget it.
• 39:36
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 39:36
  Meredith: So, um, you know, he gets along with the dudes and I like the moms and, you know, the dudes are nice and, you know, it's just a good mix.
• 39:43
  Meredith: But I mean, they're 13 and they're not gonna be friends for, you know, DA or they're not gonna be dating forever.
• 39:50
  Meredith: So that'll be a little awkward.
• 39:52
  Meredith: It will be a little awkward, but we'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
• 39:56
  Stefanie: So how do you feel about him having a girlfriend?
• 39:58
  Meredith: I'm okay with it.
• 39:59
  Meredith: Uh, she's really adorable.
• 40:01
  Meredith: He's had a couple little girlfriends before, but nobody that, I think he's really, you know, like that, you know, as he's getting older.
• 40:06
  Meredith: Right.
• 40:07
  Meredith: Um, but she's very busy too.
• 40:09
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 40:09
  Meredith: She plays school soccer and competitive soccer.
• 40:12
  Meredith: Um, so, um, she's, you know, really tied up with, with that, cause Jackson's really busy too, and her parents are, um, they're good people.
• 40:20
  Meredith: They, you know, have requirements for her grades and behavior and all that kind of stuff.
• 40:25
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 40:25
  Meredith: So because she's so busy and we're so busy, it works out.
• 40:29
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 40:29
  Meredith: Um, but I could see where like, it's gonna be hard.
• 40:33
  Meredith: Like I'm, he's my heart, you know?
• 40:35
  Meredith: It's gonna be really hard.
• 40:36
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 40:37
  Meredith: How about, does Dylan have a lady in his life right now?
• 40:39
  Stefanie: He does.
• 40:40
  Meredith: Okay.
• 40:41
  Stefanie: She lives in our neighborhood.
• 40:42
  Stefanie: Oh.
• 40:43
  Stefanie: Like one street over.
• 40:44
  Meredith: Oh, that's a little too convenient.
• 40:46
  Stefanie: Oh Lord.
• 40:47
  Stefanie: But she is like such a sweet girl.
• 40:49
  Stefanie: Like I, I really do think that's good.
• 40:51
  Stefanie: She's like a nice, genuinely sweet girl.
• 40:53
  Meredith: Those are the, those are the craziest, you know, that,
• 40:55
  Stefanie: stop that.
• 40:58
  Stefanie: But, um, you know, they, they, you know, go over, you know, each others houses.
• 41:01
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 41:01
  Stefanie: Hang out and, you know, Um, there's not a lot you can do when you don't have a license and yeah, you have to depend on your parents.
• 41:06
  Stefanie: Right.
• 41:07
  Stefanie: But she goes to his lacrosse game.
• 41:09
  Stefanie: She came to the, the game in Fort Mill.
• 41:11
  Stefanie: Oh.
• 41:11
  Stefanie: Um, she had her mom driver the 40 whatever minutes to go.
• 41:16
  Meredith: That's commitment.
• 41:16
  Stefanie: Watch his game.
• 41:17
  Stefanie: I know.
• 41:17
  Stefanie: We were.
• 41:18
  Stefanie: Brandon was like, dang, she must really like you to drive.
• 41:23
  Stefanie: But I mean, I met her mom, her mom's really nice.
• 41:25
  Stefanie: Good.
• 41:25
  Meredith: Was Dylan like?
• 41:26
  Meredith: Yeah, I got that rez.
• 41:27
  Meredith: And then what'd they say now?
• 41:28
  Stefanie: I, no, he was just like, whatever.
• 41:31
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 41:31
  Stefanie: They have to do their, you know, picture for whichever social media platform they're posting on, but she is so cute and
• 41:39
  Meredith: good.
• 41:40
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 41:40
  Stefanie: Just really, yeah.
• 41:40
  Stefanie: She's a really, she's a sweet girl.
• 41:41
  Stefanie: Really nice, sweet girl.
• 41:42
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 41:42
  Stefanie: That's good.
• 41:43
  Stefanie: So every they, you know, FaceTime each other every night.
• 41:45
  Meredith: I could.
• 41:46
  Meredith: Could you imagine like always having to have like be ready to FaceTime somebody?
• 41:51
  Stefanie: No, but you know what, like when I was like that age, I didn't really care.
• 41:55
  Stefanie: Like yeah,
• 41:55
  Meredith: I guess you're right.
• 41:56
  Stefanie: You're young.
• 41:56
  Meredith: I didn't need all the things that, that I need now to, it was make me presentable.
• 42:01
  Meredith: It was, I was cute without anything.
• 42:03
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 42:04
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 42:04
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 42:05
  Stefanie: But not anymore.
• 42:06
  Stefanie: And I would not want to like no.
• 42:08
  Stefanie: Beyond all the time.
• 42:09
  Meredith: In other words, don't FaceTime us we'll FaceTime you.
• 42:12
  Stefanie: Maybe, maybe.
• 42:13
  Stefanie: Maybe I'll just do the audio.
• 42:15
  Stefanie: Yeah, there you go.
• 42:17
  Stefanie: Video.
• 42:18
  Meredith: There you go.
• 42:19
  Meredith: Oh, I feel like I was gonna tell you something else, but I can't think of what it's, I don't know.
• 42:24
  Meredith: Oh, well, that's okay.
• 42:25
  Stefanie: Anything else coming up?
• 42:26
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 42:27
  Stefanie: No?
• 42:28
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 42:29
  Stefanie: Me and Dylan are supposed to do a movie night tonight.
• 42:30
  Meredith: Are you?
• 42:31
  Meredith: What?
• 42:31
  Meredith: Gonna watch?
• 42:31
  Stefanie: I don't really know.
• 42:32
  Stefanie: I think maybe.
• 42:33
  Stefanie: The newest Jurassic Park that came out.
• 42:35
  Meredith: Okay.
• 42:35
  Stefanie: Cause I haven't seen it yet.
• 42:36
  Stefanie: He did, but yeah.
• 42:37
  Stefanie: Um, you know, we've got, um, the projector upstairs.
• 42:40
  Stefanie: Nice.
• 42:41
  Stefanie: Uh, it's nothing fancy, right.
• 42:43
  Stefanie: It was like Amazon, you plug in your, you know, whatever.
• 42:46
  Stefanie: And it,
• 42:47
  Meredith: do you have good sound up there too?
• 42:48
  Meredith: Cause the sound makes it too?
• 42:49
  Stefanie: Uh, yeah.
• 42:50
  Stefanie: It's, I mean, it's not the best, but it's like, okay.
• 42:52
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 42:53
  Stefanie: You know.
• 42:53
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 42:53
  Stefanie: But, Better than just watching it on like a regular tv.
• 42:56
  Stefanie: Right.
• 42:56
  Stefanie: It's, you know, the whole entire wall.
• 42:58
  Meredith: There's always something when he turns around sound on, when it goes from like the regular tv, like if you're watching a game or like, my husband likes racing.
• 43:03
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 43:04
  Meredith: Ugh.
• 43:04
  Meredith: Ugh.
• 43:04
  Meredith: But the first time it clicks on and it's just like, and it's like, oh my God.
• 43:08
  Meredith: So freaking loud.
• 43:09
  Meredith: Yeah, I know.
• 43:10
  Meredith: I know.
• 43:10
  Meredith: I can't say,
• 43:12
  Stefanie: So, uh, we might, we, if, if he doesn't ditch me to go to the field to play lacrosse, we might do that later.
• 43:18
  Meredith: And you can't really complain with him when they get outside.
• 43:20
  Stefanie: And I know I, he's, he does.
• 43:23
  Stefanie: He's, thank God such a good kid.
• 43:25
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 43:26
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 43:27
  Meredith: I feel you there.
• 43:27
  Stefanie: He's got his moments.
• 43:28
  Stefanie: Don't get me wrong.
• 43:29
  Meredith: We all do.
• 43:30
  Stefanie: But yeah, compared to what I was doing, we won't talk about those things cuz my mom might listen and
• 43:40
  Meredith: you better listen.
• 43:41
  Stefanie: Um, so my brother and sisters, you know, I was the baby.
• 43:44
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 43:44
  Stefanie: And so they're like, you know, she never got in trouble.
• 43:46
  Stefanie: And I'm like, listen, I just.
• 43:47
  Stefanie: Learned from all of y'all's mistakes.
• 43:49
  Stefanie: Absolutely.
• 43:49
  Stefanie: And didn't get caught.
• 43:50
  Stefanie: Right.
• 43:51
  Stefanie: So, right.
• 43:52
  Meredith: And mom was probably exhausted by that point and was just like, oh, she's fine.
• 43:55
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 43:57
  Meredith: How many siblings do you have?
• 43:58
  Stefanie: I have two sisters and a brother.
• 43:59
  Meredith: Oh, wow, okay.
• 44:00
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 44:01
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 44:02
  Meredith: And you're the baby?
• 44:02
  Meredith: I'm the baby.
• 44:03
  Stefanie: Are you?
• 44:03
  Meredith: But I have one sister.
• 44:04
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 44:05
  Stefanie: So, like Brandon and I talked about this like, About traits of like, he's an only child.
• 44:10
  Stefanie: Oh, birth order.
• 44:11
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 44:11
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 44:11
  Stefanie: He's an only child and I am the youngest.
• 44:13
  Stefanie: Oh yeah.
• 44:13
  Stefanie: And so I had to like fight for, you know, everything.
• 44:15
  Stefanie: Right.
• 44:16
  Stefanie: And he's like, this is what is wrong with you because
• 44:21
  Meredith: Oh, that's the one thing.
• 44:22
  Meredith: I'm just kidding.
• 44:23
  Stefanie: I'm like, well you never had to argue with anybody cuz you were the only child.
• 44:26
  Stefanie: You know, like, you didn't have that like sibling like, like to prove.
• 44:29
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 44:29
  Stefanie: Or yeah.
• 44:30
  Stefanie: And I had to compete against three other, yeah.
• 44:35
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 44:36
  Stefanie: You know right when Nintendo came out, I'm like, so we had like, you know the Nin, like the original Nintendo?
• 44:41
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 44:41
  Stefanie: It was like duck hunt, you know?
• 44:42
  Stefanie: Oh yeah.
• 44:44
  Stefanie: Save the ducks.
• 44:45
  Meredith: Save the ducks, put water in the incubators.
• 44:52
  Stefanie: This has been a duck show
• 44:54
  Meredith: It has been, but what the duck,
• 44:56
  Stefanie: so like I was never, like, I never got a turn because like by the time it was my turn, then there's, was it bedtime or No, like, they just were like, oh, I'm gonna play again.
• 45:03
  Stefanie: Like, you know, like when you're the youngest and like you're like seven, eight years old, like you don't.
• 45:08
  Stefanie: Say So that Christmas, well, well, the Christmas, that Game Boy came out.
• 45:11
  Stefanie: Okay, I got a Game boy and my mom was like, she doesn't have to share with any of you.
• 45:15
  Meredith: Oh, that was sweet.
• 45:17
  Meredith: That was a good idea.
• 45:19
  Meredith: That was a sweet idea.
• 45:20
  Stefanie: So, you know, like if you had to take a road trip, I'm just back there.
• 45:22
  Stefanie: You're back there.
• 45:23
  Stefanie: playing, usually black and white screen.
• 45:26
  Meredith: Oh God.
• 45:26
  Meredith: And now it's like, pick up your phone and do whatever.
• 45:29
  Meredith: It's crazy.
• 45:30
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 45:30
  Meredith: You showed them though.
• 45:31
  Stefanie: I did that.
• 45:32
  Meredith: That Game boy.
• 45:32
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 45:33
  Stefanie: Yep.
• 45:34
  Stefanie: Dang siblings.
• 45:36
  Stefanie: I love all of you.
• 45:36
  Meredith: We love you though now.
• 45:38
  Meredith: We love you now.
• 45:39
  Meredith: Now?
• 45:40
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 45:40
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 45:41
  Meredith: More now than then.
• 45:41
  Meredith: Yes.
• 45:42
  Stefanie: I mean, I love them too then, but they were just, they weren't very nice.
• 45:45
  Meredith: I loved them, but didn't like Yeah.
• 45:46
  Meredith: Sometimes.
• 45:47
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 45:47
  Meredith: I'd steal her clothes.
• 45:49
  Meredith: Mm.
• 45:49
  Meredith: Well, I have trauma from that.
• 45:52
  Stefanie: Well, Brandon gets so mad if like, anybody wear it, socks, you know, like, like he never had to share anything and I'm like, Dude, like clothes would be missing for like months.
• 46:00
  Stefanie: Like my sister would lend them out to her.
• 46:01
  Stefanie: Like we were all the same size.
• 46:03
  Stefanie: Like, yeah, pretty much.
• 46:04
  Stefanie: And so like we would be missing clothes for months and then they all of a sudden would just like reappeared.
• 46:08
  Stefanie: So like, I have no like issues, like if I can't find something, I'm like, yeah, whatever.
• 46:13
  Stefanie: And he's like, oh my god.
• 46:14
  Stefanie: Oh my.
• 46:15
  Meredith: That's funny.
• 46:15
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 46:16
  Meredith: That's funny.
• 46:16
  Meredith: The dynamics of an only child versus I can see that siblings, I could see that.
• 46:21
  Meredith: Well, I am the baby.
• 46:23
  Meredith: Brian is the oldest of his siblings and then Jackson is an only, so I don't even know what to go with that.
• 46:30
  Meredith: I don't even know where to go with that.
• 46:31
  Meredith: So best of luck to us.
• 46:33
  Meredith: Um, yeah.
• 46:34
  Meredith: Well, anything else?
• 46:36
  Stefanie: I, I think I, that's all that's going on with me.
• 46:38
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 46:38
  Stefanie: Um, next week we will have a new book to talk about.
• 46:41
  Stefanie: We will have a new book to talk about.
• 46:42
  Stefanie: We will have a great news story
• 46:45
  Meredith: Yes.
• 46:45
  Stefanie: For dumb crimes.
• 46:46
  Meredith: We will.
• 46:46
  Meredith: And then I'll give you my umpire.
• 46:48
  Stefanie: Oh my gosh.
• 46:49
  Stefanie: I cannot wait.
• 46:49
  Meredith: Um, hopefully it won't make me cry.
• 46:52
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 46:53
  Stefanie: And maybe, you know, we'll touch on maybe some work life balance of what we can do for work life balance.
• 46:59
  Meredith: I need some help with that.
• 47:01
  Stefanie: Me too.
• 47:04
  Stefanie: All right, everybody.
• 47:05
  Stefanie: Thank you for joining us.
• 47:06
  Stefanie: Thank you.
• 47:06
  Stefanie: Um, sorry for this lighting.
• 47:09
  Meredith: That is, it's our radiance
• 47:10
  Stefanie: if you're watching the video version of this.
• 47:12
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 47:12
  Stefanie: So, all right guys, well, we will see you next week.
• 47:15
  Meredith: Sounds good.
• 47:16
  Meredith: Thank you.
• 47:16
  Meredith: Thank you.
• 47:17
  Meredith: Bye bye.