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I'm Stephanie.
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I'm Meredith.
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And welcome to This is My Circus.
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I was distracted.
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I'm sorry.
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No, no, no.
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It's okay.
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It's okay.
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So it was Monday.
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Oh, yeah, so this is gonna be like a low energy.
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Okay, so last week we had the um, we had the little Drinky drink.
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Mm hmm.
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And we had some great energy and this week.
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It's just a little bit different.
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It's 9 a.
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m You guys are getting all sides of us So you want them or not?
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And I wasn't feeling good this weekend.
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Yeah.
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I think it's just allergies.
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I was helping Jackson cut his grandmother's grass and stirred up all that stuff and then he's cut another yard and stirred all that up.
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So I'm just congested and blah.
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Yeah, so but we did go to Jackson's scrimmage.
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Thank y'all for coming I'm sorry.
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It was what it was It was just a scrimmage.
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They were getting all their you know nerves out.
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I guess so Jackson Played good.
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He missed one tackle, but I mean he he played all of the snaps on defense and he did his Special teams, whatever he does on that.
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I can't keep it straight did fine But we just still have some kinks that we've got to figure out You know, early season pre season and you lost so many players and you got new players and figuring out what works.
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Um, we're going to call this the rebuilding year.
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Yeah, well, Jackson keeps telling me, you know, we weren't doing this.
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We weren't even doing this.
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Like we were intentionally not doing specific things.
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I guess that would give them more of an edge because of course, there are other teams that are watching and scouting and stuff.
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So I get it.
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But at the same time, I want to see them do really well 100 percent of the time.
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But that's not what scrimmages are for, but sometimes I have a hard time reminding myself.
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Yeah.
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But thank y'all for coming.
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Of course.
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and then we left because we had to meet the bus back at the school to pick up Jackson.
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did y'all stay for a long time?
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well, we stayed and probably like a half hour after you left, it started raining and yeah, like super windy.
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And I was like, I was, I beelined it out of there.
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Right.
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I would have to like, this is not my kid.
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I am not, it's not even my kid's school.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I would have totally.
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Um, but we did stay and watch, York, for a little bit.
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Yeah.
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He, he has such a great arm.
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I love that boy.
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Yeah.
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He's such a sweet his family.
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They're amazing.
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Whenever I still see him frequently, like our paths crossed because of the football stuff, they were at some camps together and stuff.
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And whenever I see him, just the biggest, most beautiful smile and gives me a hug.
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I love that boy.
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Yeah his arm is like, yeah, he he can release that ball quick.
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They can slang it.
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Yeah So they did really good.
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I mean from what I saw I was only there for a little bit of their game When it started raining and I was like, nope, right I'm out.
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Yeah, it clearly would have been the same Well, thank y'all for coming.
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I do appreciate it.
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Of course.
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you know, I love my babies.
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I know you love your babies and it was so fun sitting there and, and the babies coming up and talking and giving us hugs and, checking in.
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That's always, that's always good.
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I've been out of the football circuit for a very long time because Dylan stopped playing in fifth grade, his fifth grade year.
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so a lot of the kids I haven't seen since then.
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Yeah, like, right, right, right.
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But yeah, it was, it was good.
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It was, it was fun.
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It's still fun to see all the kids.
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Yeah.
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I loved going to the games and so funny, we first got there and I was talking to one of our neighbors.
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Children, she's like 17.
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She's a senior and her friend and a dude and I was talking to them And Brian just like went and sat down like he was like, nope So then I'm standing there and then our team walked through because I was right near where the gate was our team walked through so I was just like kind of fist bumping whatever them and then the other team came through Burns and I know one of their coaches So he came up and gave me a hug and I you know me we've talked about say hey to me And Brian's just sitting there and I'm like, Meredith is doing her, her pageant wave pretty much.
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So, um, Brian and I were talking last night and I was like, you know, babe, I finally accepted that.
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You don't care that I do all this talking.
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Like I talked to everybody.
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You just don't want anything to do with it and you're just going to be patient and wait.
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He was like, exactly.
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I was like, well, then don't complain when you don't have people to talk to.
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Cause he's always like, how do you know them?
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How do you know that?
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And I was like, well, you know, I'll make my rounds.
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But anyway, I also had to talk to some people because the adopt an eagle program that the football team does, I have inherited that.
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Oh gosh.
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Coordinating that so I've been stressing out on that because that's a lot of players to try to find like a I'm calling them mentors for lack of a better word, but like an adult to you know Come and hang out with them for a little bit.
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So did you fill all the spots?
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We have five spots left and it's only for the varsity players.
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So basically every tuesday at like 6 30 they end practice and the mentors come and bring snacks and a drink or a meal or whatever, just hang out with their people and, they might text them on game day, just good luck today, you know, that kind of thing.
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Just another adult to be, in their lives, which I think it's a fantastic program.
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Um, so we have five more left.
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If you want to adopt an eagle, let me know.
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I may actually do that.
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Over the year, I've been like so, yeah, occupied.
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And I get it.
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So this year is a little bit, well, it might be a good thing to kind of help you have something else to focus on.
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so I did it one year and my player ended up quitting.
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Like At the beginning of the season and nobody told me so I kept taking my stuff and being like, where is he?
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Right, so I've never really even participated in this before.
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What did you do with your stuff?
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I just like well Because it was Tuesday nights like I had to go do Jackson stuff So I would I was just actually dropping the food and so like I would go buy stuff and drop it off at the like the point of contact house so I guess they were just giving it to somebody else.
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I don't even know, which is fine, but The mom was like, oh, I'm hungry pretty much And I had his email address so i'm sending him these emails and whatever never responded never never even said I don't play football anymore or nothing.
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So Anyway, no hard feelings.
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I'm not gonna blast his name He totally looked like you were going to blast us.
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I thought about it, but he wasn't a child at the time.
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So, you know, well, when COVID hit and we did, uh, they did the adoptive scene.
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Yeah.
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Um, so I did adopt a couple of seniors that year.
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And, um, of course, Dylan was like, Get the football players because then you can choose, you know, who you wanted to have.
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Yeah, all the profiles were in the group.
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So, we did adopt a couple of seniors and we gave them huge baskets of stuff for college and a bunch of stuff like workout gear.
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so they were super stoked and I got like the nicest.
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Like thank you card from the one of the kids did you mom and he was yeah He was on the varsity football team and his mom actually had also reached out after that and was it I don't remember his name he had blonde hair like longish blonde hair.
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Okay That's sweet.
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But his mom reached out and she's like, I cannot tell you like how appreciative he was when he saw everything that you had in there.
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Oh, that's a lot.
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That's, that's huge.
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Yeah.
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So he was like super stoked.
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Well, it is.
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I mean, of course they appreciate like all the little, all the things, right.
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But when the mom probably realized she had to go here to get this and here to get this, you know, all the things.
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So, that was, I was glad we did that.
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I thought that was a cool program.
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Yeah.
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Let me know, you know, the person in charge Like oh my gosh, how Well, and I'll tell you how I got roped into it.
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Was that you were such a sweet person was was I asked Has anybody heard anything about it and they were like, oh, we don't think we're gonna be able to do it And I was like you can't not You Do it.
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Yeah.
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You know what I mean?
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So anyway, somebody listening better be ready to take it over to like in the next couple of years because Jackson's leaving and I will just stop.
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You've always taken, taken on like all of those important roles, when nobody steps up, like you are that person.
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Well, yeah, I'm a doer.
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I feel better when I'm like doing things, like give me tasks and I used to be that way.
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And then like my life just, imploded.
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Well, I mean, you're allowed to, to have a change of heart in some things.
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I did.
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I did reach out to the mom in charge of all the lacrosse stuff for school.
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There you go.
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More time this year if they need help.
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Yeah.
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There you go.
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So.
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Well, sometimes your energy just needs to be directed somewhere else.
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It needs something.
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And that's okay.
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Like a, like a, like a booster shot.
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Yeah.
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Let's go.
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Oh, have you seen those things where you just go get an IV, a hydration?
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So I went to Nicole's event.
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Yes.
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And there was somebody there that was doing the, IVs and the B12 shots.
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Yes.
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I didn't do it, but they did have somebody there.
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I've always wanted to do the hydration thing.
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I mean, I, I don't know why I felt like I would just feel like I was 20 years old again after I did that.
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Well, and they said that it's like gives you so much energy and gives you so much whatever.
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And she like had all these little things that you could add to the life.
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Different vitamins, minerals, whatever.
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Um, how was Nicole's event?
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It was really good.
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She did.
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She did great.
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they had a panel of women talking about, trying to find your passion in your work and that type of thing, like kind of getting through like the slump.
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Yeah.
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It was a lot of entrepreneurs there.
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So it was it was good.
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they had different vendors set up There was like a jewelry girl, like a little boutique.
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Yeah, the ivy person was it in charlotte?
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yeah, but it was good.
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I mean it was good.
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Yeah, she's she did wonderful yeah, these are my spouse.
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Yeah Good.
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Well, before that, did you have a chance to read our book?
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I hated it.
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I hated it too.
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I don't even remember what the name of it was.
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So I had told you I had borrowed it before.
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Yeah.
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And I got through about 20 percent and I returned it yeah.
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I didn't say anything this time.
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I didn't finish reading it.
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I hated everything about it.
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Okay.
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I was like, nope, that's fine.
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So what, do you remember what the name of it was on top of your head?
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Everyone in my family has killed Someone.
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Oh yeah.
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By Benjamin Stevenson.
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Do we even want to read the, uh, blurb?
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Well we can in case somebody else decides that they want to.
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it just was not my cup of tea.
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Yeah.
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Same.
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everyone in my family has killed someone.
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Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once.
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I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth.
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Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.
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I'm Ernest Cunningham, call me Ern or Ernie.
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I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort but it's a little more that.
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Have I killed someone?
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Yes, I have.
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Who was it?
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Let's get started.
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Everyone in my family has killed someone.
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My brother, my stepsister, my wife, my father, my mother, my sister in law, my uncle, my stepfather, my aunt, me.
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That is the blurb.
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I hated everything about this book.
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So the only thing that I liked about, you sound like you don't feel good either.
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I think it's just allergies.
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Well, and I cried a lot last night.
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Because of the scrimmage.
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Yeah.
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Because of Jackson's scrimmage.
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No, no, I cried a lot last night because of my husband.
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Yeah.
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Ex husband.
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Soon to be ex husband.
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Yes.
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so the only thing I liked about this book was the format.
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I like the way sometimes that the narrator would talk to the reader.
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I thought that was kind of quirky.
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I don't want every book I read to be like that, but it was just different, but I wasn't a fan of this book either.
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I couldn't follow it really.
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Like, I don't know all those people killed somebody.
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I don't know half of them what they did.
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I wasn't a fan.
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I did finish it, but I didn't like it much.
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Look at my notes.
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I hated this book.
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I hated everything about it.
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The characters, the layout, all of it.
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Not a fan.
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I got 325 percent and nope, don't want to read anymore.
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Life's too short for bad books.
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I'll say it again.
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Did you read the whole thing?
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I did read the whole thing, but it was more of a listening to it, picking up every like third.
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Paragraph maybe like not even really focused on it.
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Yeah, and multitasking obviously while I was doing it So it wasn't even like something that I was really wasting time on but I kept thinking I'd get into it And I didn't like there was parts of it that I was like, oh, this is interesting and then it lost me I give it like a two.
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I give it a zero.
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Okay, that's enough about that.
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So next week our book is called, The Woman in Cabin 10.
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Yes.
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And I can't remember who that's by.
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Is it Ruth Ware maybe?
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Yep.
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It is Ruth Ware.
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So you did not like one of the books that we have read by her.
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Yeah, but the cover of this book looks like so good.
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So I've read it before.
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Okay.
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I liked it, but I also liked the last book that you didn't like.
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So I've actually finished it.
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You want to talk about it today too?
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We can.
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So we'll have two books today.
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Okay.
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Why not?
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I wasn't a fan.
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We are harsh today.
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Yes.
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We on course Monday morning, 9:00 AM is not the best time for us to, to do this.
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So it was, uh, the woman in Kevin, 10 by Ruth Weir.
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Let me read the little blur, so that the people know.
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I love, I mean, I've read almost all of the books and I really like her as an author.
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I don't think that you do'cause two of the books that we've read.
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Yeah, I did not.
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Like I'm gonna, I'm gonna cross her name mentally off my list.
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But, like I said, the cover, I'm a, I get sucked in by the cover of a book, and it looked really interesting, and the premise sounded really cool.
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Yeah.
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In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works, Lowe Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given an assignment of a lifetime, a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins.
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The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea.
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At first Lowe's stay is nothing but pleasant.
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The cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant.
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But as the weeks wear on, winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lowe witnesses What she can describe only as a dark and terrifying nightmare, a woman being thrown overboard.
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The problem, all passengers remain accounted for.
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And so the ship sails on as if nothing has happened.
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Despite Lowe's desperate attempts convey that something or someone has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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With the surprise twist, spine tingling turns and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful.
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Ruth Ware offers Up another tout and intense listen and the woman in cabin 10.
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So you hated this.
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Well, let me take back I really enjoyed like the last third of the book.
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Okay, like when they started unraveling some of the stuff and i'll what didn't you like?
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the middle The first two thirds Well, actually the first third was okay, like trying to figure out just, just getting going.
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Like it was okay.
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It pulled me in.
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It sucked me in.
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It wasn't like the first page I was out.
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Like, I felt like, Oh, let's, let's get into this.
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I'm going to like it.
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And then I kind of, Not got lost, but I felt like we were just kind of spinning in circles a little bit in the, in the middle.
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With her going on the tour of the boat with the dude and trying to figure out who did what and who was who and where's this girl and all the things.
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I just felt like it was a little bit of, I don't know.
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Just dead air almost okay, but I did not see the ending coming Uh huh did not see the ending coming which again.
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That's probably what what sucked me into the ending It really it was interesting.
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Yeah, it was it was cool.
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Yeah, once she got kidnapped, basically.
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Like, that was like, oh, what's going on here?
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So that, from that, about that point on, I was really into, invested.
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Okay.
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Again, I've read, almost all of Ruth Ware's books and when I started reading as an adult.
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Yeah.
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I found her as an author.
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Yeah.
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so it was like my first beach reads.
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Yeah.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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but I all of her books are very, like have a very similar like format.
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Yes.
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And so that's probably why.
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Do you remember which one we read by her that I didn't like?
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Do you know what it was called?
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The it girl.
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Yeah, that's what it was.
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What were, and I know you didn't read it, so I'm kind of putting you on the spot.
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Like you didn't read it recently.
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you remember a lot about it?
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Kind of.
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The way that she puts the story out is it almost makes The other characters in the story think that this person is like crazy, right?
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Yes, like yes, they don't know what's going on Right, but there's something off with the main character Yeah, and it's almost kind of like a Lifetime movie like a little bit, you know, right, you know that she's not crazy You know something's going right but gaslighting.
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Yeah, and yeah And I, most of the books are like that.
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I think, so, you know, that's my life.
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So, I relate.
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Do you remember the ending when she gets kidnapped and she figures out what actually happened with the body of her board and all of that?
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Vaguely remind me.
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Okay.
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So, the girl that kidnapped her was wearing a lot of makeup and it ended up being the wife that was sick.
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Yes.
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And then they threw the woman overboard.
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The husband had killed her and told her she was dead.
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But when she went to throw her overboard, like she woke up.
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And the suitcase and all that.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But just very, different, yeah.
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And in what we had read before and a lot of, a lot of twists at the end with, wait, who are you?
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Yeah.
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Kinda with, the makeup covering up everybody.
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And so all the workers on the boat.
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Yes.
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Remind me, were they in on it?
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No, they were not.
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They were not.
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And so there were 10 cabins on this boat.
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So it's a very, very small ship.
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Right.
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And then the workers and okay, sidebar.
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That sounds like an amazing trip.
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I know we've talked about cruises and all the bad stuff, but private boat, 10 rooms, all the staff was so polite and attentive.
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And what can I do for you, Marsha?
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Or whatever, however they talk.
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And I mean, just going around the world, that sounds like with your, Friends because I like that would be like a bougie like you're all of the people on there I don't want to be bougie But I want the people that take care of me to be bougie and to make sure everything is like top notch Did you ever watch below deck on Bravo?
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It's about The super yachts.
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Oh, I remember seeing it and hearing about it.
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Did you watch it?
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I watched the first like season or whatever.
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It was interesting.
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Um, well, it's just so interesting to see how people treat Oh workers on the yacht.
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Yeah.
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I mean some people are amazing But like, some people are like super awful or, but you know what?
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You're paying that much money.
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Like you should get what you want.
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Like I got it.
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Right.
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But at the same time as it's life.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We accept like the, like the ups and downs, but like, I guess if you have that much money, you don't have to know, but it's to me, it's just as easy to be nice or just nothing at all instead of just being nasty.
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Yeah.
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The amount of money people spend on Ozzy's like three day private yacht.
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Did you ever watch my Super Sweet 16?
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Yes.
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And all the money they spent there?
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What?
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Yeah, I heard that something like that might be coming back on TV or something.
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I hope not.
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No, I hope not, too.
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I like to watch it because it was so far removed from what my life was, but, I don't want to give anybody any ideas.
18:41
No, Um moving on uh huh definitely did you hear about the french pickpocketers No, I guess they have public healthcare.
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And so they were being flooded with people with like their heartbeats off.
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Okay.
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And an American was in France and had rigged 30 wallets because pickpocketing is big there.
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Okay.
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Uh, that for like they pickpocket tourists.
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And so knowing this, he went there, he had 30 wallets, I believe they said, that were booby-trapped with like to zap at people and they were electrocuting the pink pockets.
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Oh my gosh.
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I'm picturing those things that you used to put the ring on your finger and shake somebody's hand.
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You know exactly what I think it was like Lauren.
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Oh, I'm sure.
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I'm sure.
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Because all these pickpockets ended up in the er and so it's crazy.
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The police, Asked him why he was doing this and he said that the police obviously don't regulate the thieves So he thought that he should get a few off the streets.
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Gosh.
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Oh my gosh I'd have been crazy with the Olympics just being in Paris like that might have been a bunch of well You know like on tik tok it says like search this Yeah the bottom after you watch a video and so I did that and it was showed all of these videos of people in France videoing the pickpocketer, putting them on blast, their faces, like, here's a pickpocketer, after I guess they see something from them, um, so yeah, I guess it's like rampant there.
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Remind me when I go to keep my You know, France has never been, on my bucket list.
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It never lives?
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Uh uh.
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I want to go.
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I want to go.
20:25
I mean, it's not my number one, but while I'm over there, I might as well see it.
20:28
And I don't, I, I mean, I don't even care so much about like Paris or the Louvre or anything like that.
20:33
I want to see like the countryside and all that.
20:35
I think that'd be nice.
20:36
I did hear that.
20:37
Cause I have gluten intolerance.
20:38
Yeah.
20:39
Um, but I did hear in Europe because everything is so much more pure and fresh, that, You have like gluten intolerance here.
20:47
It's not a thing.
20:49
A thing over there.
20:50
That'd be nice.
20:51
And I was like, Ooh, the croissants cro saw croissants.
20:55
Oh wow.
20:57
I don't want like the frogs from bread, whatever.
21:00
And I don't want like the snails.
21:01
No, but like gimme all the bread, cheese, and bread.
21:05
Yeah.
21:05
And the good one.
21:06
That'd be good.
21:07
Fun.
21:07
I've seen a big old plate of bread.
21:09
Uh huh.
21:11
Uh, but yeah, I thought that was like super fun.
21:14
That is like taking people out.
21:16
Yeah.
21:17
I mean, it's like the pickpockets.
21:18
Villa Janney, Villa Jelani.
21:22
Vigilant.
21:24
I just missed all the consonants.
21:27
Just got switched It's not a challenge.
21:31
Listen, I am with you right now.
21:33
Um, I don't know, I always think it's Probably always been bad, but we have so much access to news in all other places now that we think it's Awful.
21:42
Yeah, but all these teachers getting arrested for inappropriate behavior.
21:46
Are you talking about like sexual?
21:48
Yes, or like hitting.
21:50
I don't know like like just like inappropriate like Touching and loving.
21:55
Yeah, you know, everybody records themselves or or record other people.
21:58
Yeah, so it gets Shown a lot more and I think that that's it probably as horrible as it sounds it probably was a thing Yeah forever and we just didn't know about it.
22:07
Yeah, there does seem to be a lot of that kind of thing going on Yeah, But there was a music teacher in Texas, okay, that was Recording not with children in the room, but in her classroom during school hours recording footage Okay.
22:25
And as well as in the bathroom, not okay.
22:27
No, not a good thing.
22:29
And then her boyfriend leaked it.
22:30
I guess they got into a fight early.
22:31
They broke up or whatever.
22:33
So she got fired, which she should.
22:35
Uh, but it just seems like it's been happening so much.
22:39
It does.
22:40
I don't know why I would I'm with you.
22:42
I feel like I've seen it so many cases of teachers and students.
22:48
And the ones that I'm seeing are lady teachers.
22:50
Yes.
22:51
And, dudes in high school.
22:53
Yes.
22:54
the, the female teachers like throws me off so much and there's so many like super young teachers that are like just out of college or whatever.
23:01
Right.
23:01
Well, and think about it too.
23:02
A lot of the students are reclassing and doing that.
23:05
So they're older.
23:06
Yeah, it does not make it okay, but that just makes that gap smaller the whole thing just like it freaks me out to even think about but yeah, I just don't know what's going on Yeah I was a principal or something dude on the school board, but hearing him talk It was so funny.
23:21
It wasn't supposed to be funny, but he's like I saw the video and all you saw was cellulite and oh! And I was like, Ugh! Right, could have gone without hearing that.
23:34
Yeah, so he was very like, with his like super southern accent, you know, I saw that video! And all he saw was Oh, my gosh.
23:44
I was like, you searched for that video too, didn't you, buddy?
23:47
Yes, he did.
23:47
You got what you deserved.
23:48
Yes, you, you did.
23:51
You sure did.
23:52
I don't know, crazy, crazy talk.
23:54
What in the world you got going on with Graceland over there?
23:57
Oh, you didn't hear about this?
23:58
No.
23:58
This just happened.
23:59
So a lady named Lisa Finley, Use multiple aliases trying to foreclose Graceland and sell it as an option, um, she claimed that Lisa Marie put up the estate as collateral on a loan she didn't repay before her death.
24:14
Okay.
24:15
And, that was in 2023.
24:17
Law enforcement said that the loan never existed and Lisa Finley took advantage making false documents and false court creditor claims.
24:25
Oh my gosh.
24:26
Just hours before the estate was to go on to auction, they, found that the notary stamp signature was forged.
24:35
That's how they caught her.
24:36
That's crazy.
24:37
Why would she do that?
24:38
She just, she was trying to try to sell Graceland.
24:41
Was she a realtor though?
24:42
No, she was just a fraud lady.
24:46
But like, that's such a big thing to, yeah, to like fraud.
24:50
Right.
24:51
Why wouldn't you start with like some little, she did.
24:54
Like her big, like this was, she'd been working up to this one.
24:58
Oh, Lisa Finley.
25:01
Yes.
25:02
So he had multiple names, like multiple IDs or whatever.
25:05
And, oh, still Elvis Presley.
25:10
And he was like kind of creep too.
25:12
Oh yeah.
25:14
Like we're going to make people mad with that statement.
25:16
Well, you know, Elvis and his, like, she was like, what, 15 when they started.
25:20
They shows 14 when they started dating.
25:22
Yeah.
25:22
And he was like, well, he was older.
25:25
Yeah.
25:26
So creeper, very much a creeper.
25:29
I saw a picture and it could have just been a very, very, very, lookalike person, but it would have been the same age, around the same age as Elvis.
25:37
And he lives out in the woods and like Montana or somewhere.
25:42
but, people in that area, like, swear that it is him.
25:46
That'd be crazy.
25:47
Yeah, but he's like the same age that Elvis would have been.
25:50
Does he eat peanut butter and banana and fluffernutter sandwiches and whatever?
25:53
I don't know, but, they didn't tell me the contents of his refrigerator.
25:59
What good are you?
26:00
But the locals, when he goes to the grocery store and stuff, they'll, say something like Elvis and, like, he'll just kind of, like, smirk and, like, What if he says, yeah, mama.
26:14
I hadn't heard of that.
26:14
That's, that's really neat.
26:16
Very cool though.
26:18
Yeah.
26:19
Um, so we have like a bunch of weird, solar stuff going on like this.
26:23
And like, we have like a blue this week and some weird celestial stuff, there is a farmer who has like a sunflower, field.
26:33
Yeah.
26:34
And you know, the the sunflowers face the sun.
26:36
Yes.
26:37
All of his flowers face the opposite direction.
26:41
They're angry sunflowers.
26:43
Well, people keep saying there's weird stuff this year with all the Well, I knew when it was cloudy They sunflowers get confused and like all in different ways or whatever, but these guys just turned their back on us.
26:56
Yeah That's creepy.
26:58
That's creepier to me than Elvis being in the woods.
27:02
Because that's nature.
27:03
Like, you can't, you can't fake that.
27:05
Yeah.
27:06
And like, he had the video of it and everything.
27:08
He was like, I'm just a farmer.
27:09
Like, I don't know, like, what's going on.
27:12
He's like, but I have had sunflowers for however many years and this has never happened.
27:20
So, doesn't seem like we have a lot more, Weather stuff going on.
27:24
Well, like the northern lights thing was huge.
27:26
Yeah, that had never Happened.
27:28
Yeah, and that's just like the biggest one that comes to mind how are the northern lights right here in the south?
27:33
Yeah, and then yeah the storms and but I just feel like we've never had this many hurricanes a season And we've never had as many tornadoes that are Like, I just feel like it's happening so much more.
27:44
Maybe.
27:45
And I had said something, to Brandon, probably a couple weeks ago when the hurricane was supposed to hit and he said something like, they're weaponizing the weather.
27:56
like they can shoot stuff up into wherever the atmosphere that causes shifts.
28:01
In the weather.
28:02
That's what the movie twisters was about.
28:04
Yeah, some of it.
28:06
So maybe they're actually couldn't do that Yeah, so they it was like there's they're shooting stuff up into wherever to cause these like super Storms or push them in a direction or cause extra one.
28:18
Oh That's terrifying.
28:20
Yeah, so the weather alone Unless you're going to like figure out how to stop like some catastrophes or it's like clouding with a chance of meatballs.
28:28
Yeah You That'd be great.
28:31
That'd be great.
28:32
Just stand outside, like, with your mouth open.
28:33
Yeah.
28:35
We've already, we've already determined, though, I can't catch them.
28:37
This is true.
28:38
I would just out like a big plot.
28:39
I would need, like, sunglasses.
28:41
Oh, absolutely.
28:42
Like, uh, hazmat gear.
28:43
Yeah.
28:46
Have you seen any movies lately?
28:47
So just twisters we went and saw that there's a new show that I want to watch it's called like fire country or something It's in the previews for that.
28:54
I did.
28:54
It's been out for a little while, right?
28:55
I think so okay.
28:56
Yeah.
28:56
Yeah, I hadn't started watching that How about you?
28:58
I didn't I think my mom watched it.
29:00
Okay, but I didn't watch it any movies.
29:02
I saw it ends with us Mmm I read the book, uh, when the book came out.
29:10
but obviously book was better, but it was a good movie.
29:13
how gorgeous is Blake?
29:15
So pretty.
29:16
Yeah.
29:16
But, I was super emotional that day.
29:18
I guess I'm just always emotional lately.
29:20
so I was like boohooing.
29:22
Yeah, I get it.
29:23
Sometimes it was his, it hit different.
29:26
but there's all so much like drama with the cast.
29:30
Yeah.
29:30
That is going on.
29:31
Yeah.
29:32
I've been seeing some of it.
29:33
so I thought it was interesting.
29:36
Like if you watch, what's his name?
29:38
Justin Bologna or something like that.
29:40
Yeah.
29:41
if you watch like his promos for the movie versus Blake's promos for the movie, it's like two different movies.
29:47
Oh, they don't do any promos together because of all the conflict that was on set.
29:51
Oh, okay.
29:52
He is very much like advocating for domestic violence.
29:55
He wants the conversation started, which this movie would have been amazing.
29:58
A great gateway, right?
30:01
That conversation.
30:02
and that's, he was very passionate about it.
30:04
wanting to start that conversation.
30:06
Now, if you watch Blake's promos, you would think it's a romantic comedy.
30:11
And like it's all about like fashion.
30:13
So it's like so different.
30:15
You would think it was two different movies.
30:18
I wonder what's like that.
30:20
But she was the executive producer and he was a director of the movie.
30:25
Okay.
30:26
and they had very, I think, different directions.
30:30
So Blake wants to become a director.
30:32
Okay.
30:33
and she was, I think, wanting to use this as, like, her step in, step into intro.
30:39
But it's not a rom com.
30:40
Like, there is nothing about that that is that.
30:43
And everybody who's read the book knows that.
30:46
And But how many people don't read, like, the books?
30:49
Idiots.
30:52
Imbeciles.
30:54
Wow.
30:55
Yeah.
30:56
So.
30:57
Just it was it's weird.
30:59
Did the movie come across though like the book?
31:01
Yes I mean, there's definitely like it was that vibe.
31:04
It wasn't a romantic comedy.
31:06
No, I mean there's parts of it That was you know, like whatever but it was very much, you know, like that was probably that was a sort Yeah, so it was just such a weird like that is conference of of how They promoted the movie.
31:21
Yeah, I would think that the, producer and director would need to be on the same page with the direction you're going.
31:27
Now, I don't know how true it is.
31:29
Right.
31:29
But Ryan Reynolds, who's Blake's husband.
31:31
Yep.
31:32
also, rewrote a scene in the movie.
31:34
Okay.
31:35
and they were very, very buddy buddy with Colleen Hoover.
31:39
Okay.
31:39
The author of the book.
31:40
Mm hmm.
31:41
which people call her Coho.
31:42
Yeah.
31:44
So there's two different endings to the movie.
31:46
Okay, don't know how true it is.
31:48
It's just like the gossip on TikTok But because Colleen and Ryan and Blake were like so buddy buddy.
31:54
Mm hmm They went with Blake's even though all the testing showed that Justin's Viewed better with audiences.
32:05
Oh, so then, they haven't done any press together.
32:09
Both the leads in this movie, normally they would be like, oh, yeah, well, just like with the Bridgerton with Colin and Penelope all over the place.
32:17
They usually kind of promo together.
32:20
So it was just a weird vibe, yeah.
32:23
Yeah.
32:23
So, oh, we'll see how that turns out.
32:26
It seems like the general audience is on just inside.
32:29
Like, they're not like loving Blake for.
32:31
Yeah, well, I mean, because, like you said, that's a great gateway to start the conversations or, um, just for awareness.
32:40
On abuse.
32:42
Yeah.
32:42
Um huh.
32:43
Interesting.
32:44
So take that as you will.
32:46
Yeah.
32:47
However you wanna view that.
32:48
Yeah.
32:49
But it was a good movie.
32:50
I mean, I liked it.
32:50
Yeah.
32:51
we got there, we went on Tuesday.
32:53
and we got there like 45 minutes early.
32:56
And I didn't book it online, like our seats.
32:58
We were in the front row.
32:59
Like it was like booked like every single On a Tuesday?
33:02
On a Tuesday at like six o'clock.
33:05
And then the girl was like, the next movies aren't any better.
33:07
There's no seats.
33:09
Wow.
33:10
It's crazy.
33:11
Tuesday at six o'clock.
33:13
It's not even like a date night.
33:14
Right and like six o'clock for two so like that's people are barely home from work.
33:18
Uh huh So it was like packed.
33:20
We were so we were in the front row.
33:21
I was like, yeah Yeah, yeah, kind of stinks no, I mean it's still good yeah, I know but my prime position same I didn't think about it though.
33:33
Right.
33:33
I get it.
33:34
And then Dylan and his girlfriend were supposed to go see it yesterday, but I don't, I think they just went to the mall instead.
33:39
The mall?
33:40
Yeah.
33:41
Remember, like, when, when it was fun to just get dropped off at the mall?
33:44
Too.
33:45
And now I'm like, ugh.
33:46
Just give me Amazon.
33:49
I have to see people.
33:50
Right, right.
33:50
You see those things where it's like, I used to go party in the woods with a bunch of criminals.
33:55
Yes.
33:56
And now I'm afraid to go to the grocery store.
33:58
Yes.
33:58
Like, that is me.
33:59
Like, I am that.
34:01
Those, and the ones that are like, we, we drink in fields with boons farm, da da da, and you guys are drinking your whatever.
34:08
We are not the same.
34:09
Yeah.
34:09
Your twisted teas.
34:10
Yeah.
34:11
Or the, what are the other things that everybody likes?
34:13
The little skinny things.
34:14
Oh, the claw.
34:16
Yeah, the white cloth.
34:17
Yeah.
34:17
Do you like those?
34:18
I can drink them.
34:19
I'm not a big drinker.
34:20
Yeah, me neither.
34:21
But if I drink, I want like Yeah.
34:24
Yeah, no, uh, I've seen those where it's like, oh, I have, there's another one that's out that's really funny.
34:29
That's like, you ask why we're so upset.
34:31
It's because we've had to switch from albums to tapes to CDs to MP three player.
34:37
Now we have to have a subscription for music.
34:39
Yeah.
34:40
Well, did you see, the 20 year old 21 year olds trying shots of Everclear.
34:44
No.
34:45
Oh my god like you guys are stupid Yeah, and it's like I I know what I did wrong the first time somebody said I had to chase it with water I'm like, no, no, just don't what are you doing?
34:56
Dylan it together and I was like I, it burns me just watching it burns.
35:03
I had some friends that went to the Everclear concert, which I really liked.
35:07
And they celebrated by drinking a lot of Everclear.
35:10
I know.
35:12
Only thing Everclear is good for is going into like the frat house, big jungle juice and the big giant trash can.
35:20
Oh, horrible.
35:22
Horrible.
35:23
Oh, geez.
35:24
Those days are long gone.
35:26
Way, way, way gone.
35:27
But, just the thought of it, I'm like, oh, and Goldschlager.
35:32
Oh, yeah.
35:33
Yeah.
35:33
Then I saw a thing that said, like, there's enough gold in gold in every bottle.
35:37
Like, if you, like, were to turn in the flex.
35:39
Yeah.
35:40
That you could buy another bottle of Goldschlager.
35:44
Like, the weight of the gold.
35:46
Yeah.
35:47
Yeah.
35:47
Think about, think about that.
35:49
We drank gold.
35:50
Yeah.
35:51
Yeah.
35:51
So we knew the bartenders very well, at the bars that we used to go to, in college.
35:57
And I am not a, like, straight drinker.
36:02
I want it fruity.
36:03
I want it tasting good.
36:04
And I, I am a wimp.
36:07
Like, I don't want anything straight.
36:10
So we had asked, for a shot.
36:11
And normally they gave us like a girly shot, like a lemon juice or like, right.
36:15
No dude gave us.
36:18
straight Goldflager.
36:20
And when I tell you, and I just like pounded it back thinking it was right.
36:24
So then, right, right.
36:26
Oh my gosh.
36:28
It was so bad.
36:30
So bad.
36:32
Oh.
36:33
Makes me want to throw up just thinking about it.
36:34
Oh, it's not worth it anymore.
36:36
No.
36:37
But I'm like, what else can we do?
36:43
Anxiety medication.
36:44
Isn't it?
36:44
That's funny.
36:46
okay.
36:46
Am I the a hole?
36:47
No, no, no, you are not.
36:49
Oh, yes, we are going to do it, but you are not the a hole.
36:52
Okay, good to know., so here we go.
36:54
This is from, not a fun name, Lucy Rose.
36:58
Am I the a hole for not letting my psychopath little sister see my dog?
37:02
For context, I had 25 female recently moved out of my parents house.
37:06
My sister, 13 female, has always stole my parents attention and in numerous occasions has proven to have psychopathic behaviors.
37:14
For example, Okay, they're British because they spell behaviors with like a u in there.
37:19
I'm, I'm guessing.
37:20
She has killed numerous family pets.
37:25
My dad always has wanted to punish her, but my mom defended her saying that she didn't know any better.
37:31
Now a year ago, I got my first pet.
37:32
His name was Oliver.
37:33
Arlo.
37:33
He was a golden retriever rescue dog, and he lived with me while I searched for apartments.
37:38
He was about five years old, but he was my best friend.
37:40
I've never been the one to have the biggest friend group, so taking Arlo out every day was what got me out of bed every morning.
37:47
Okay.
37:48
One day I arrived at my parents house after work, but I didn't hear Arlo's distinctive bark.
37:52
If something happens to this dog, Steph, I'm gonna be pissed.
37:54
I didn't even read the whole thing.
37:56
Arlo was shaking and whining in agony.
38:00
My sister arrived after school and wanted to use Arlo as a pony, ending in a broken spine.
38:07
In summary, he ended up being buried in our backyard a few hours later.
38:13
Yeah, my mom didn't do anything.
38:15
She said she's a kid, let her do what she wants.
38:17
A few days ago, my maternal aunt gifted me a lab puppy, which I named Buzz.
38:21
I posted a story on Instagram, but my family saw it and now my mom can't stop texting me saying my sister wants to meet him.
38:27
Oh! Told her she won't see him any time soon.
38:29
My mom.
38:30
Didn't stop insisting, so I blocked her.
38:32
Yesterday I woke up with my dog barking at my face.
38:35
Turns out mom had taken my sister out of school so that she can meet my puppy.
38:39
I didn't open the door, but a few minutes later my sister grabbed her school lunch, banging my window, almost breaking it.
38:45
I told my mom to control her daughter.
38:47
But she didn't respond at all.
38:48
I'm in shock.
38:49
Yeah.
38:50
My dog was terrified.
38:51
I was too.
38:52
Am I the a hole?
38:53
No, your sister needs lots of help.
38:56
Yeah.
38:57
Counseling, therapy, locked up.
39:00
So she did say I had to call the cops to get them to go away.
39:04
Sorry, I got so distraught by this freaking story.
39:08
Updates, she clarified some things in the comments.
39:10
Okay.
39:11
we live in the south hemisphere.
39:12
My little sister just got out from winter break.
39:14
So she's not on summer vacation until early December.
39:17
Oh, Australia.
39:18
Probably.
39:18
Yeah.
39:19
The pets that my sister had killed until now are numerous.
39:21
Hamsters, fish, and a baby chip my brother got for his birthday.
39:24
I left Arlo at home, locked in a space only I could access in the backyard.
39:29
My mom's sister somehow got the keys to the gate, and she rode him.
39:32
My dad's a pilot.
39:34
That's why we don't see him around often.
39:35
From what I know, my dad's trying to get a divorce from her in full custody of my sister.
39:39
Before burying him, my dad's a Did take Arlie to the vet with me where they discovered the spine injury then I confronted my mom where she admitted my sister Been sitting on his back.
39:48
Hope to update soon.
39:50
I bought a ring camera and I'm searching for a new apartment.
39:53
Oh here's the update Hey guys, so it's been exactly 27 days since I uploaded the story and it blew up I can't thank you all for the support and even though the comments got a lot some of you cared enough to DM me privately So Words can't express how grateful I am.
40:08
Now before I actually tell you what's been going on in regards to this, I wanted to address the comments that said the story is fake or used for creative writing, which were a handful.
40:17
I'm glad your family life isn't as crazy as mine and that you didn't have to deal with this constantly.
40:24
So the past few weeks have been hectic.
40:26
I reported my mom to the CPS version there is in my country and she is under investigation.
40:33
Meanwhile, my sister is now under custody of my dad.
40:36
I've been looking for apartments out of my city and not planning to give any of my family the address, much less a pair of keys.
40:43
My maternal aunt, the one who gifted me Buzz, has been taking care of him this past few weeks because I was terrified of what happened and because right now I'm living in a hotel.
40:52
There's not much to say, but I'll keep you updated soon.
40:55
Thanks again for the support.
40:56
Any suggestions are appreciated.
40:57
Uh huh.
40:59
Like she needs to be like locked up.
41:01
Uh huh.
41:01
The little girl.
41:02
Yeah, that's like a law and order, whatever episode where they have the trifecta of the animals and the, yeah, no, I mean, obviously killer vibes, right?
41:13
I mean, we're huge.
41:15
Dog, animal lovers.
41:16
So of course, but still injuring a living being like that and keep banging on the windows, like trying to get in.
41:23
Yeah.
41:24
Uh, girl, you keep yourself hidden.
41:27
And the puppy and keep us safe.
41:29
Right.
41:31
Yeah.
41:31
I didn't like that one.
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I didn't read it all.
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I just felt like it's like a cat sister.
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And I was like, Oh, what would be funny?
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We thought it'd be like our sisters.
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No, that was a little heavy.
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But anyway, Take care of the doggos and the puppies and the animals and the birds that sing bacon pancakes.
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You saw somebody commented that they like that bird too?
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I feel so validated.
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Um, okay.
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So our book next week, while we wrap it up, I have decided that it's a free week.
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Okay.
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Read whatever you want.
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Okay.
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Report back next week.
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Okay.
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We'll do like a book report.
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Not really a book report, but just exchange info on what we read, what we thought.
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You read one or two, whatever.
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What's that combo?
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I like it.
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Free week.
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Free for all.
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But not free don't read.
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Reading is good for your brain.
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So you gotta read.
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Listen.
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You gotta listen.
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Um, okay, that's it.
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Yep.
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