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Episode 53 Its Giving Month - Family Thanksgiving | The Guilty One By Kiersten Modglin | Weird Thanksgiving Laws | Crazy Thanksgiving Stories | Emus On The Lose Please subscribe and leave us a review! · This Is My Circus

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I'm Stephanie.
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I'm Meredith.
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And welcome to this is my it's giving family circus.
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Yes.
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We are continuing with our Thanksgiving month.
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So this week was a family topic.
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Family.
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Families are so complicated.
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They are so complicated, especially now, there's so many blended families.
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Uh huh.
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I am sure that some Thanksgiving dinners get cray cray.
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I am sure they do.
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And not a quote, normal family anymore.
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Everything is just whatever works for everybody, which is fine with me.
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Whatever.
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Yeah.
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Everybody's consenting.
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Right, right.
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So I have, you know, I've been helping Ashley with the weddings and one wedding we did, the bride and the groom had siblings that were also married, if that makes sense.
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So when we would call for pictures, okay, let's do pictures of the bride side.
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They were in there and then, okay, groom side.
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And they were there.
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I was like, what in the Alabama is going on there?
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But I just think about like the convenience of their Holidays.
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Yeah.
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I mean, they had other siblings and, you know, extended family too, but no, no confusion there.
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Once you figured out who was, but yeah, totally.
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My parents divorced when I was like a teenager, maybe like 12 or whatever.
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But we always had separate family, holidays.
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So like Christmas Eve would be with my mom's side and Christmas day would be with my dad's side.
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so it was very separated, and then Thanksgiving, I don't even remember what we did for Thanksgiving.
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I can't even think about it.
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I have no clue.
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My sister's husband he's worked at a Christmas tree lot where they sell the life trees and the wreaths and all that kind of stuff.
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And they usually open on Thanksgiving day.
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And then once kids got old enough, They worked there, too.
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So Thanksgiving Day was out for us.
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So we always celebrated like the Sunday before, which actually translated really good because when Brian and I got married, we were able to do his family on Thanksgiving Day on the weekend before, and it spread it out a little bit.
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It didn't feel like we had to run all over the place and it's more enjoyable.
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And you don't have to eat two Thanksgiving dinners in one day.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, I will say like the menus for both families are really different.
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Okay.
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My family's like traditional turkey dressing, gravy mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce.
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His is more, I mean, they do a turkey, but it's like turkey, mac and cheese, ham, like that.
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I love them both.
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I am not complaining.
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Do you like to sit down and have like a full meal or do you like to graze all day?
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Thanksgiving, I really like to sit down for the meal.
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Okay.
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since I'm older and now officially an adult, I don't know when and how this happened, but right 0 stars, but I'm 1 of the cooks.
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So I do a lot of things, you know, a lot of times when you do all the cooking, it's not as much fun to sit down and eat it.
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But I do for Thanksgiving, I do like to do that now, like other holidays, whatever.
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I don't care.
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It's just because Christmas we're not traditional.
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We're we've had everything from like lasagna or chili or whatever.
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So, just or heavy apps or, you know, that kind of thing.
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Yeah.
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But you, what do you like to do?
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well, we have lived away from our family for so long.
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Yeah, most of our family is up north.
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we, of course.
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since I think I graduated college and we moved to Florida.
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So like 2004, we've been away from family and a couple of years we did go up north, but it's always just been either me and Brandon or me, Brandon and Dylan, right after Dylan was born.
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And family occasionally had come down, but I mean, it's just the three of us.
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A couple of years I did the whole shebang, but like, For three people, it is not worth it.
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Well, especially when kids don't really appreciate.
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No, anyone is not like a traditional, some kids want that whole traditional feel.
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Yeah.
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Like, he is not.
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Jay's fine not getting any there.
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He'd rather have a ten piece.
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We've had, like, steak on the grill.
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Yeah.
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We've had, you know, like, grilled vegetables.
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We've done, pasta.
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Yeah.
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We're very not traditional, but I do, I used to, I can't eat it anymore, but I love stuffing, um, or dressing.
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but I did find a good gluten free recipe for that.
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So I can like get that back now.
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Yeah.
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So if we do it, it would probably be just be like a very small, a little thing.
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It's always been tricky for us because one of my nephews has a, Very terrible milk allergy like touches his tongue swells up thinking about going to the ER EpiPen my mom was super fantastic good about figuring out other things to use instead of milk Whether it was broth or just water or you know different so everything's always been a little tweaked because of that So we've, we've played with our recipes too, to make sure that everybody could, could have, I mean, there's some things you can only do so much with, you know, like, sorry, buddy, here's, here is some Mac and cheese.
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This is not okay for you to have, but.
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While I was researching this week, I saw some statistic and it said like on Thanksgiving, the typical American person eats like, it was like 6, 500 calories.
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Oh my gosh, I believe it.
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And I was like, Oh, it gave me a headache just thinking about it.
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And most of that is probably in one slice of pecan pie.
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One, one little scoop of gravy, but I love it all.
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I love pecan pie.
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What's your favorite kind of pie?
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I am not a big pie person.
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I'm not either.
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Um, probably like.
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I don't like fruit, like a fruit, like in a dessert.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I don't do fruit.
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I don't do apple pie.
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I don't do any kind of that.
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See, I would eat any of them.
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But if they're all like spread out and I get to choose, I'm going to pick the pecan pie.
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Well, I did have.
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When we were in Tennessee, it was like a caramel pecan pie.
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That sounds amazing.
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And it was divine.
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It was, that sounds like the angel scene.
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Your heaven, and Yes, it was like, yeah, the skies opened up.
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Mm-Hmm.
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Yeah.
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I used to work for State Farm at the Operation Center in Tennessee and there.
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cafeteria that they had like on site was the best food ever.
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Really?
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It had, oh my gosh.
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Wait, a cafeteria on site sounds amazing.
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It was freaking awesome.
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And the women, the cooks that were there were like the sweetest.
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Oh, this woman, Betty, she was amazing.
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She was.
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so when I was pregnant, she knew everything that I wanted.
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All my cravings.
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She fed, Dylan very well.
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but they had the best.
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Food and the best pies and they would always do like a big Thanksgiving lunch for the whole operation center and it was just amazing.
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Nice.
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So yeah, that was the best pie I've ever eaten in my life.
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What kind was it?
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It was like pecan caramel.
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It was the, that was the pecan caramel.
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Okay, got it.
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Miss Betty, we need that recipe.
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I don't even know if she made it or if they ordered it in, but wherever they got it from, it was, uh, I worked.
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Okay.
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You know, Carolina's medical center is what it used to be called uptown.
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Now it's like Carolina's health care system.
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The big, huge hospital.
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Well, there was adjacent to that, like, attached by a crosswalk was a, doctor's office with like 40 doctors.
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And I worked in there when I was in high school, medical records, figuring all that stuff out.
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Well, in that building.
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At the bottom level, they had like a mezzanine cafeteria, deli or whatever.
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And it was really good too.
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It wasn't fancy, but the best thing with it is you could pay with your key card and it would just come out of your check.
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No way.
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Yes.
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That's awesome.
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It was awesome.
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It was so convenient because you know, that was too many years ago for me to admit.
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30 years ago probably.
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So that was like huge because you know, you just didn't always have, you didn't have your Apple pays and stuff all the time.
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But anyway, that, yeah, that was so convenient to have that.
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Talking about food already and Thanksgiving's not even until next week.
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I know.
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I know.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Did you read our book this week?
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Did read our book this week.
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I was so happy it was six hours.
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After last week, so it was so So long for literally no reason.
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It was so bad.
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You've got our blurb?
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I do.
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So we read The Guilty One by Kristen.
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Kirsten.
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Kirsten.
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You say it.
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Kirsten Mugley.
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There you go.
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The guilty one.
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Yes.
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That's it.
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Your husband was involved in a fatal accident.
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One horrific sentence delivered in an impersonal phone call changes Celine Thompson's life in a second.
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But when she asked to identify his body, what she discovers sends everything she thought she knew about her life crashing down.
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This man is not my husband.
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But who was the man who died driving Tate's car?
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How did he have Tate's possessions and more importantly, why do they sport identical tattoos?
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We're going to find him.
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When Tate doesn't answer his phone or arrive home after the accident, Celine fears the worst.
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Still holding on to hope her husband may be alive, Selene is desperate to track Tate down and figure out what's going on before it's too late.
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The only problem, there are dark truths waiting to come out that are so atrocious she won't ever be able to look away from them.
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As she begins to put together the plot, pieces of the mysterious date her husband went missing.
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It paints a picture of a man she never really knew.
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Is it possible Tate is still alive, or is she wasting her time searching for someone who will never be found?
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And if he is alive, how will they ever survive all that she's unearthed?
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With time running out, Selene must push the limits of the law and her safety to shed light on On the secrets that have been hiding in the dark corners of their life together.
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And doing so, she may just uncover the final missing pieces to the puzzle surrounding her husband's fate.
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Someone is lying.
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Someone is missing.
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Someone is guilty.
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Okay.
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So first off, I thought this book when I first started reading it and they started untangling some of it, I was like, Darn it.
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This should have been for friends week, not family week.
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Cause I was like, all the friend drama that happened with it.
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Oh, and let's just go ahead and say spoilers all over the place because there's no way it's so twisted.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So it had me from the start though.
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Like I was in Sentence 1, it had me, I listened to the entire thing in a day.
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Oh, okay.
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Like, I just kept going.
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Good thing it was 6 hours, not 16.
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it had so much suspense, twist, turns, I agree.
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so in the book they had a dual timeline, present and past, and I think that was done very well.
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Very well, with the way, so much so that I, when I was making my notes on the book, when they first call out Tatum's name in the past, Even though we'd already talked about him.
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I was like, Oh, he's an asshole.
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Yeah.
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But I made a note on that.
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Like that's so relevant throughout the whole entire book, but it was such a huge impact on the way that they immediately start describing him at the party when he's opening all the doors that I was like, Oh, this Tatum dude.
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Yeah.
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Like him.
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Yeah.
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And Did not catch on to the twist right away.
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And I'm like, well, maybe something really shook him up and like got him to clean up his act.
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Right.
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A hundred percent.
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I love that the author kept you in a sense building up this story, building up this character of this villain in the past.
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Yes.
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and throughout the entire book.
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Well, and what I like too is that our villains were all in the book.
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It wasn't like the books we've had from recent where it's like the last chapter, it's like, oh, his brother did it or whatever.
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It's like, like, you know, it's right.
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You know, it's one of these people and they are portrayed so well and their personalities are so Different yet.
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They all have these volatile pieces almost and the history their history with being in foster care and their views Their upgrade bringing that any of them could have snapped.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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With the building of that villain character and making you hate this character.
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I felt so bad for the other friends.
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Oh, yeah, this group.
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because Yeah.
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Had Tatum, that's Tatum, right?
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Tatum.
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Tatum was the asshole.
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Yeah.
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As Tatum developed, those other guys would have ever been out from under his thumb.
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He was going to threaten and, hold stuff over them for the rest of their lives.
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So he was, he was just, he was a jerk.
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He was twisted.
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He was an alpha.
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Like he was all sadistic.
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That was alpha.
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That was sadistic.
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But I mean, alpha is in like, they all deferred to him because they were scared of him on one hand.
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Yeah.
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And, and he did, they threw out there that he took a lot of the beatings.
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He took a lot of the abuse.
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so he manipulated with the, Them with holding that over their head like don't you remember when I took all this for you guys But that's where it started of them following him because he was seen as a strong one that could handle The abuse he could handle all of it.
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they did reference and trigger warning.
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Yes child, sexual abuse In the foster care system.
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So he said that you know, he had taken like a lot of that for them So I feel like they felt like they owed him.
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Absolutely.
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And that would never stop.
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Right.
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Because he was going to continue to hold these things over their head and hold them hostage with it.
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Yes.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I wonder because Tatum's adoptive mother had no reaction other than protecting these other boys when Tatum died.
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Right.
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I wonder what sadistic stuff he did to the parents that they didn't write into.
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Well, and it might not even have been as sadistic as he had done.
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But just you have, yeah, you have to have recognized something, especially when, you take in children that, you know, come from a rough history, you know, that there's going to be trauma and scars and they're gonna, portray that.
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In some way.
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So it's like she had to know that there was something not right.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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It just hit me weird.
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Like, I was like, oh my gosh, and, the husband Tate had said that, I believe it was him in the book said that he thinks that Tatum was a reason that they didn't adopt all all of them I was thinking the exact same thing.
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That was so sad to me So these boys grew up in foster care together and then they went off that went to college together Well, only one of this group of boys Was actually adopted and just give a little back story.
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Yeah But on holidays, etc.
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They all went to the boy's house.
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Well, the mom loved them all like her own and Really showed that you know, what was crazy to me though, too is when when we're in history and the bad stuff happens And like the bad bad thing happens like the murder I'm, sorry.
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We already said we were doing spoilers so when When tatum dies the mom didn't seem too surprised at all Like you said she just was like well, let's protect this is what we're gonna do and i'll talk dad into it So yeah, it was weird and almost made me think she might have been relieved I uh, yeah, and that's and that's why I mean like I feel like there was like A lot of things probably done in that household, or like him with animals or him or something where she's been covering up for him even, but even like when they said that they came home for Christmas when they were in college, she was already seeing him.
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Being horrible to his friends.
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Mm hmm.
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I'm sure that wasn't the first time that I was seen So, yeah, I'm sure she has a very good idea of who Tatum was.
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Yeah.
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But still I was like Oh my gosh, I can't believe it's she's not even batting an eye.
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Yeah child dying, right?
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So when we were we were in that part of the book like they had come on for Christmas They brought the gift to her.
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Um You And you know, we were still kind of figuring out who was who, were you just like, this isn't the Tate that I know?
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Like, we're, I was so like, like you said, something happened that flipped his personality.
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when are we getting to that part?
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Right.
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Because you know something is going on somewhere.
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But where is the twist?
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Right.
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Oh, it came.
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It came, it sure did.
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It sure, sure arrived.
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When there's the car accident and they find the body and the tattoo is on the, on the dude and it matches.
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So I thought the tattoo was like a secret society.
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I thought like, that's where we're going with it.
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Yeah.
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Um, that it was like some college secret society type of thing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I did not see.
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it being this adoptive brother all having the same tattoo.
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Yeah.
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So I thought that I didn't know where the tie was, but I'd obviously thought that, you know, several people had the same tattoo or at least two.
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And then I thought that Tatum was the one that was on the run, which is what they want you to think.
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And, um, that he was coming back to kill her with that.
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Did you think it was him calling?
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No, what'd you think there?
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Just, was it irrelevant?
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No, so we've, we found out that the real estate guy Mm-Hmm.
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was one of these brothers.
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Mm-Hmm.
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Mm-Hmm.
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I thought it was like a secret society thing where like they were coming to get all of the, the people Mm-Hmm.
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that were involved in this secret society.
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Yeah.
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Like where I, I thought it was going right.
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Totally wrong, so I just assumed that it was either somebody that had.
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Tate.
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Oh, I didn't think it was him at first.
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Yeah.
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I didn't see that.
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That's him.
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I don't know what I thought, but I did not think I thought the realtor guy was, or the insurance, even the insurance was an insurance insurance guy.
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Um, was, yeah, I don't know.
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It just, it took me all over the place and I did not guess the ending.
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I didn't guess the, the second.
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To ending.
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Right.
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And because you, okay, so they, tell you who the person is that actually died in the car.
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Right.
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And you find out who was on the run and you find out why he was on the run and then you think you're kind of winding down with things and then you find out more.
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Yeah.
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That more stuff.
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Threw me for a loop, but then in retrospect I'm like, oh.
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Oh yeah.
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Freak out.
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Yeah.
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After you, after you hear it, it all makes sense.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But did you guess that the mom was behind it?
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No.
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So the first guy that died, wanted to tell his fiance their big dark secret.
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Yes.
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That he was not okay.
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Going to a marriage.
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And her not knowing what she was getting into.
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And when he contacted the brothers to say, Hey, I'm going to tell my fiance, they went and told the mom, Tate's mom and mom.
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Apparently behind the scenes was like, Oh heck no, I'm going to fix this.
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Yes.
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Her fixing it was her offing murder, her, her taking care of her kids basically.
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Yeah.
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She took one of them out which makes you think though, too, you know, we were talking about her and seeing things that were wrong with Tatum or maybe she was like recognized.
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Like, was she just crazy too?
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Yeah, I don't know but then at the end she was just like, I'm going to Amazon return this book.
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Yeah.
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That she like was sending signals.
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Right, using to set them up and freak them out, like.
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Yeah.
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To scare them.
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Yeah.
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So, the adoptive mom.
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Decide she was going to fix the problem by killing one of the brothers and then I think the second one was like an accidental killing is what they said, but I don't know, it could have been actual killing.
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So two of the brothers were killed.
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Across the vehicle and then the road.
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And I'm picturing this frail lady, I mean, she's not like 90 because the people in the book aren't that old, but still, I, you know, she's probably a couple of years older than us.
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Shut up.
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You're right.
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You're right.
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But, but in my mind, like 55, I'm picturing this like little white headed lady, like having to reach up to whack somebody with the.
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That would be me having to reach out.
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It would be.
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It would be.
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I did not realize how short you are until I was watching our TikTok.
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Oh my gosh.
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You're like a little mini pocket version of a person.
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You're like a little mini pocket person.
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Brandon is six foot, I think six foot tall, I'm five.
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I'm five.
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You just stopped.
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I think five, two, but I wore five and a half inch heels on our wedding.
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They were huge.
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Yeah.
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Like back then, like I could run in high heels.
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Oh, right, right, right, right.
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I didn't have like all my issues.
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I'm not broke.
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I wasn't broken.
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Yeah.
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But the heels like were huge on my wedding and I was still like.
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Six inches.
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I cannot imagine.
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I used to wear heels like to church or to work.
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I could not imagine just thinking about putting them on now and walking down the road.
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Yeah.
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Down the driveway.
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I tried on, my boots.
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Couple weeks ago, for Halloween.
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And I was like, this is like not it.
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Can I put chokes on it?
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Give me some flats, maybe about ballet flats.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, a hundred percent.
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And boots are better than like stilettos or something though.
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Yeah, I know.
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I used to love stilettos.
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I know, I used to love wearing them too.
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I wore them every day to work.
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They make your legs look so good.
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And you weren't five?
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Anyway, sorry.
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Well, chasing the squirrels.
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Yeah.
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That's what we do.
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How did you feel about the, one of the mom's voices?
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Oh, it was so crazy in the book.
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Like I was like, I need her to stop talking.
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I felt so bad for Celine.
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Selene, the wife, you could feel you put on this like emotional rollercoaster with her finding out all of these things and as women, we do this, questioning like, where did I miss it?
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Where did I go wrong?
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Right.
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Why didn't he feel okay enough to tell me these things?
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And so I feel like her character throughout the book was so realistic and you would relate to her so much as a woman.
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Always.
21:43
Blame it yourself.
21:44
Right.
21:44
No matter what it is.
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It's your fault.
21:46
Yeah again, I think all the characters were developed so good throughout the entire book.
21:50
Mm hmm the dual timeline perfection I would like to know like an extension of the book like how did they You know what I'm saying?
21:58
Yeah, because I mean, they obviously know that that wasn't him in the car.
22:01
And we never find out what the, what they tell the police, why he disappeared, why he took out all of their money.
22:06
Right?
22:07
Yeah.
22:07
Another sequel would be good.
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Yeah.
22:10
Yeah.
22:10
just to like tap some of those loosies, just because I want to know, like they tied it up fine, but I'm just now I'm, I was really so invested with what happened.
22:18
They explain all of that in the book, but I wanna know.
22:22
Yeah, like you said, what do they tell the cops?
22:23
Yeah.
22:24
what would you rate it?
22:25
Oh, I would give it like a nine.
22:26
So, yeah, I was thinking that you, I would, eight and a half, nine, I would read another by this author.
22:31
Same.
22:32
And towards the end when there was the, the mom drama, I was like, okay, well there's a little family piece in there that all that'll count.
22:37
Well, I took it as they all saw each other as, as brothers.
22:40
Brothers, yes.
22:40
So I was, but it was friends.
22:43
It was friends.
22:43
Yes.
22:44
But they weren't really related.
22:46
You, learn going through the book how close they really were.
22:49
Right.
22:49
When they're first introduced as like college friends.
22:51
Right.
22:52
Then you learn, like you were saying, these other pieces of how they've done stuff for each other.
22:58
Yeah, I liked it.
22:59
Even at the end when there was some stuff being Explained even though I understood mentally what had happened when they were saying some of the names.
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I was like, but still inside.
23:10
No, like, good for the teacher for chomping down when yes, again, yes, there was some forced, stuff, sexual stuff, um, going on and, she was a teacher at the college.
23:23
She was dating Tate, the husband when he was in college.
23:26
The bad Tatum forced her in front of all of the other guys, to perform an act on him.
23:34
And she was like, no, and she bit down at To the point where he thought, he might not have any, parts left.
23:41
Manhood.
23:42
Well, and that, the whole time that that was going in my mind, I'm thinking, Selene would have noticed scars.
23:48
Yeah.
23:48
At that point, I still hadn't, because you don't know exactly what's going, all the details at that point.
23:53
Right.
23:53
So I'm like, she would have noticed, like, they have children.
23:56
Right.
23:56
How did this happen?
23:58
So, yeah.
23:59
So good for her.
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Yes.
24:00
100 percent good for her..
24:02
All right, so next week we're doing Black Friday Craziness.
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Yes.
24:07
And our book is going to be Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella.
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And then the week after that we'll start our Christmas month, December month.
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I'm so excited.
24:18
I know.
24:19
So you guys will be hearing soon what those themed weeks will be.
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Yes.
24:24
Moving on.
24:24
Yes.
24:25
When we first started our podcast, we did like weird loss.
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Yeah.
24:28
And so for this week, I found seven weird laws that we didn't know about Thanksgiving.
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I love this flashback.
24:37
I know.
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What do, what did you find?
24:41
All right, so we can each read because there's only seven.
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okay.
24:44
Okay.
24:45
So this one, I think we all kind of know, but it was just number one on this list.
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So the turkey pardon.
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Yes.
24:52
Every year, the president of the United States presented with the left turkey as a gift, which then he promptly pardons.
24:58
While this may seem like a time honored tradition, dating back decades, if not centuries, it isn't that old in its current form.
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The first Thanksgiving was officially spared by President Kennedy, although Abraham Lincoln saved the life of Christmas Turkey, which his son had taken a liking to in 1865.
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The act of a formal pardoning, however, has only been done since 89, when George H.
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W.
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Bush had a ceremony in the Rose Garden.
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I feel like this is like a super old thing.
25:28
I feel like that is too, like I did not, you'd think, okay 89 I was 12, you'd think that I would remember.
25:35
That happening.
25:36
No, I was too busy dancing the new kids on the block.
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The right stuff.
25:45
We gotta have a song.
25:46
I had to.
25:48
All right.
25:48
So the date of Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday of November and has been so since the days of the pilgrims, right?
25:56
Wrong.
25:57
The first Thanksgiving as a national celebration was November 26, 1789, a Tuesday.
26:03
What?
26:04
My whole life is a lie.
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George Washington proclaimed it is a day of Thanksgiving for the newly signed United States Constitution.
26:12
It wasn't until years later in 1863 when Thanksgiving became a national holiday when Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November to be a day of Thanksgiving and praise.
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The last Thursday, however, caused some issues.
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In 1939 and 1940, President Roosevelt changed the holiday to the third Thursday to allow for more shopping to take place to boost the economy, the depressed economy.
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It was only in 1941 that Congress put an end to the shifting dates, enshrining the holiday on the fourth Thursday as we know it I mean, I guess that kind of makes sense because Shopping back then was much different than it is now, obviously.
26:50
I'm put by Captain Obvious the Capable Way.
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Thou shall not shop.
26:55
Black Friday has become almost as big of a tradition as Thanksgiving itself.
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So much so that now stores have started opening their doors for eager shoppers on the holiday itself.
27:06
Unfortunately for those looking for deals, however, several states don't allow the businesses to be open on Thanksgiving.
27:12
In Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island, for example, colonial error, blue laws prohibit many stores from being open on Thanksgiving.
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These laws were enacted Centuries ago to encourage church attendance on Sundays and public holidays, and many remain in effect to the present day.
27:30
Okay.
27:30
Well, I think that's a good rule.
27:31
I hate that they do all the shopping on Thanksgiving day.
27:34
Now it ruins the day.
27:36
I know everybody deserves a day.
27:38
Yeah, even retail even all the crazy places that people work unless you're in health care emergency services.
27:45
You get Thanksgiving and Christmas.
27:47
Let those people have those two freaking days.
27:49
Yeah, for sure.
27:50
Plus, with all the online shopping now, the store should just be closed.
27:53
It doesn't even make sense.
27:55
Power on Thanksgiving.
27:56
Thanksgiving is a powerful and meaningful time where Americans come together and give thanks for all the blessings we have.
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In North Carolina and Minnesota, however, the power of Thanksgiving has a whole different meaning.
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Both states have enacted legislation mandating that utility plants use some of the turkey waste created on farms to generate some of the power in their plants.
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Talk about Thanksgiving getting you all fired up.
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Wait a minute.
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Utility plants use some of the turkey, like turkey poo?
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Waste created on farms.
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So poo.
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Gets in.
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It's like gas and it's like gas, but just in solid form.
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Okay.
28:36
I really don't know.
28:37
That's weird.
28:37
Yeah, that is weird.
28:38
I don't know why I'm digging into that one.
28:40
I guess North Carolina, most of them.
28:42
I've never heard of that at all, but like, this is our weird laws, right?
28:45
Right.
28:46
Right.
28:46
We're getting educated.
28:47
Yeah.
28:48
Alcohol on Thanksgiving.
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If you're hosting or attending a Thanksgiving dinner, keep in mind that many states have laws against selling liquor on Thanksgiving as well as on Sundays and other major holidays.
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Some states have more lenient liquor laws, such as Alabama, where you can purchase beer and wine but not spirits on Thanksgiving.
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States such as Kansas and Oklahoma are more strict.
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In fact, they still have not ratified the 21st Amendment, which repealed the nationwide prohibition in 1933.
29:15
What?
29:16
What?
29:18
So Kansas and Oklahoma are not going to be one of our tours.
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No, we will not be doing a little quick girl's trip to them.
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Cleaning before guests arrive.
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In Pennsylvania, it's against the law to sweep dirt and dust under a rug, while in New York City, you cannot shake a dust mop out.
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Of a window.
29:37
I have broken the law.
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Broke the law this morning.
29:42
Do you, okay, so say you were hosting and you were having, you know, 20 people over.
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Do you like clean, clean before people come?
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Like, I, this is crazy.
29:50
Here's what I do.
29:51
I like clean, clean, except for the floors.
29:53
Yeah.
29:54
Because they're just going to get it messy.
29:55
Right.
29:56
And I'll sweep and stuff, but not like.
29:57
Same.
29:57
Yeah.
29:58
Okay.
29:58
To mop or anything, it's just pointless to do.
30:00
No.
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Or, yeah, same, same.
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It's pointless any time.
30:04
It's just gonna have to do it again.
30:06
That one was short.
30:06
You read the next one.
30:07
Okay.
30:08
do you top your pie with a scoop of ice cream?
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If you like your pie served with a scoop of ice cream, be sure to eat it with a spoon in Rosemead, California, because ice cream cannot be eaten with a fork.
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Also in Rosemead, California.
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Your family may be unable to polish off the entire Thanksgiving meal.
30:26
If you have leftovers, remember that in Redwood City, California, gravy cannot be fried.
30:32
How do you fry gravy?
30:33
That sounds disgusting.
30:36
Fried gravy.
30:37
And I am a big fan of both of those things.
30:41
But frying the gravy?
30:43
How do you fry it?
30:44
I don't know.
30:45
I'm thinking like you splat it in some vat of Speaking of fried food, though, I sent you a picture of the deep fried double baked potato.
30:59
Oh my gosh, yes.
31:02
And when I tell you, it was just amazingness.
31:07
Was so like labor intensive to make it.
31:09
Yeah.
31:09
But.
31:10
Oh my god.
31:11
It looks so good though.
31:12
So good.
31:13
And I made extras and so I just put it in the toaster oven the next day.
31:17
Yeah.
31:17
I'm sure it would have been good in the air fryer too.
31:19
I just didn't want to pull out the air fryer.
31:21
Yeah.
31:21
But it was just as good the next day.
31:24
It was stuffed with broccoli and cheese and garlic.
31:27
It was so good.
31:30
Looked so good.
31:31
So good.
31:32
Not gravy.
31:33
It's not this is gravy fried But I've ever had fried ice cream.
31:38
I have not But to say it it just feels weird I think they took the deep fried to like a weird level Oh, yeah, like some of this like the Twinkies.
31:49
Yeah, they're already I feel like it's already like a It's already a heart attack in a wrapper.
31:58
Let's not add more blockage to your arteries with that one.
32:02
I don't know, I guess because I can't eat anything.
32:04
Not that I can say anything, but because I'm gluten free and I haven't had any of this stuff in so long, I'm just like, oh, yeah, So what I know you were digging this oh the monkeys, oh out of the 43 32 haven't caught okay, but Not too far from the from the monkeys on the loose.
32:22
There's emus on the loose.
32:23
Yes! Thelma and Louise My gosh that mama drama group we're in people are like have you seen and I'm like I Commented on one and I used your it's Jumanji down here.
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We are not okay.
32:35
Yeah like that Yeah, crazy last week.
32:38
We told you guys about the monkeys.
32:40
Yeah, and I begged for people to stop rolling the Jumanji dice Yes, because this is not it people.
32:45
Yes but It's This week, it was reported that two emus, Thelma and Louise, are on the run.
32:54
And the police department put out a Facebook post about this.
32:57
I haven't seen that.
32:58
Yeah.
32:59
So, Thelma and Louise escaped from their home in Loras, a city about 100 miles northeast of Charleston, about three months ago.
33:07
Thelma and Louise escaped from their home in Laura Cities, which is about 100 miles northeast of Charleston, about three months ago.
33:14
Okay, first of all, why are we just hearing about That's what I was thinking.
33:17
Three months ago.
33:18
Okay, anyway.
33:19
So, Thelma and Louise, according to the owner, are still at large.
33:23
The Horry County Police Department is aware of recent sightings circulating on social media, writing in a Facebook post last week, we are not amused, amused, amused.
33:36
The missing birds have been spotted in Green Sea, an unincorporated area of Laura State.
33:42
The police said.
33:43
A couple hours before the police officials wrote about Thelma and Louise, the owner drafted a message on a local Facebook group confirming that the loose emus people have been seeing around town belonged to her.
33:56
Could you imagine, eating, on At a restaurant outside, the deck.
33:59
And just, don't they kind of do that when they walk?
34:02
I don't know either.
34:04
They are feral, not trained, like the ones that we have at, I guess, her other emus.
34:10
These are feral emus that are not trained.
34:13
The local law enforcement has already been at my house, and we are trying to get tranquilizers approved so we can bring them home.
34:19
This is on the Facebook post that the owner wrote.
34:21
So, Horry County is Myrtle Beach.
34:24
Yes.
34:25
Is it?
34:25
I don't really know.
34:26
Actually, I'm saying yes like I know and I don't know.
34:28
Yes, it is.
34:29
That's that's the county that Myrtle Beach is in.
34:32
What if this was not Thelma and Louise?
34:36
What if it was like Thelma and Louis and there were baby feral emus getting created and then we're going to take over the whole place like the Raccoon Island?
34:44
Oh my gosh.
34:45
But emus?
34:46
But listen, I don't know.
34:47
I am like totally, I would try to jump on the back of an emu.
34:52
We've already said that you are five feet.
34:56
So, yeah.
34:57
Period.
34:58
I was like, how big is an emu, right?
35:00
Emus can grow five and a half feet tall.
35:02
So that is four inches taller than me.
35:05
On a good day.
35:06
Maybe.
35:08
And they can weigh up to 130 pounds.
35:10
Steph, don't take on an emu.
35:12
Don't try.
35:13
I don't think it would go the way you want it to go.
35:16
They're really fast though.
35:16
Like ostriches are fast.
35:18
Yeah.
35:18
So the little farm across the street from my neighborhood has emus.
35:22
Yes.
35:22
I think we should go like wrangle one.
35:25
We should go take a selfie.
35:27
Oh, I'd say we are emused.
35:30
We found the emus.
35:31
No, we get troubled in for like, what is it?
35:35
Like hindering a police investigation or something.
35:38
We have your emus.
35:39
Oh my gosh.
35:40
Yeah.
35:41
That is crazy.
35:43
Yeah, First of all, okay, let's back up.
35:46
You're right, three months.
35:47
Yeah, how is animal control not called?
35:49
And how are they hiding?
35:51
They're not like the little monkeys that can, like, they're, right, they're big.
35:58
I have so many questions.
36:00
I just don't understand how you don't report your emus missing for three months.
36:04
Unless, like, is she allowed to have them?
36:07
I would assume she's allowed to have them because she has other ones that are trained.
36:11
Just not these ones.
36:12
The feral ones got loose.
36:15
Feral emu.
36:16
And, like, I wonder how high they can jump.
36:18
Like, I need information.
36:19
You need information.
36:20
I well, I do know they're so fast.
36:21
They can grow taller than me.
36:23
Yes.
36:24
And they weigh more than you.
36:25
I'm like, I could ride one.
36:29
Guys, send help.
36:31
Picture in like the roadrunner.
36:33
Yeah.
36:35
Oh my gosh.
36:36
Holly, our friend Holly, her mom passed away.
36:38
Yeah.
36:39
I spent some time with them over the past week and her dad.
36:42
was telling a great story.
36:43
He's a great storyteller and he was in the Navy and he's 75.
36:49
So when he was in the Navy, you know, 50 years ago, things were a lot different then.
36:54
Well, he was telling a story about how they got off the boat in Africa and they found a tattoo place and this dude wanted the Roadrunner on his butt.
37:04
Oh, wait, wait, wait, back up.
37:05
Yeah.
37:06
All of that was all that.
37:07
So he got The roadrunner tattooed on one cheek, not, not Holly's dad, not Pat, but this other dude he was in the military with, time goes by, I don't know if it was months, years, what he wants, he decides he wants the roadrunner on the other cheek.
37:24
So he has, I'm sorry, the roadrunner and the coyote, one on each cheek.
37:29
Well, are they chasing each other or are they facing each other?
37:31
They were supposed to be.
37:33
Like one, like one was chasing the other.
37:36
They were both going opposite direction.
37:39
And in Africa, 50 something years ago, trying to explain an American cartoon, and I'm sure they were not sober and getting this tech, it did not go well.
37:52
And then he perhaps proceeded to tell us that he has a tattoo on his butt and he showed us it was He did he did two horseshoes and underneath it said stud So the story with that is that he and a buddy They were in, I think it was Jersey and it was Betty's tattoo parlor.
38:17
We looked it up.
38:18
It's still there.
38:18
And they had like things on the walls.
38:20
And you know, you pick out what you want.
38:22
That's how it used to be.
38:24
So the dude he was with picked us out and they were like, what do you want?
38:26
And he's like, well, I wouldn't want anything in here.
38:28
And they were like, what would you want?
38:29
And he said, the two horseshoes with it to say stud.
38:32
And they did it.
38:33
And now it's on the wall at Betty's tattoo parlor.
38:36
It's amazing.
38:36
So I'm a 75 year old, but.
38:38
Didn't know that was gonna come up on the podcast today, but here we're Hey Holly.
38:43
That was not on our 2024 Bingo card.
38:45
No, no, not at all.
38:47
So I was like scrolling on TikTok and saw a lady and she was saying like, her family, doesn't like Turkey or whatever, like she would do like a traditional and she does what she calls a dips giving and it's her third year doing it, it's like a spin on Thanksgiving.
39:02
Yeah, and everybody brings a dip.
39:05
It could be sweet savory.
39:05
Whatever.
39:06
Yeah And they just graze all day they have a contest of who has the best dip like everybody votes and the person that I love a dip I Depends like I can make dips and it's always requested that I bring a dip.
39:21
I don't eat like buffalo dip.
39:22
I don't eat.
39:23
Yeah.
39:24
I'm not a big, good cream cheese fan.
39:26
Okay.
39:27
Okay.
39:27
But yeah don't like buffalo.
39:29
I don't like spicy and I'm not, don't like, don't bring me like a salmon dip.
39:34
But like a good bacon ranch, something like, yeah, give it to me.
39:40
I just, I'm not a fan.
39:41
I get it.
39:42
Yeah.
39:42
And I can't eat crackers.
39:43
I still love you.
39:44
I can't eat crackers.
39:45
Oh, like Brian likes to do them with celery.
39:47
Yeah.
39:47
I feel you.
39:48
Sorry.
39:48
That's healthy.
39:50
Brian, I'm disappointed.
39:52
It's the one good choice.
39:54
But she had like, she had, um, all the mixers for the drinks.
39:58
And like little ornament balls on a tree.
40:01
So you got your liquor and then you poured the mixer from the ornament.
40:04
That's a cute idea.
40:06
Super cute.
40:06
So I don't know.
40:08
Oh, but the dips.
40:10
So I went back, Aldi's yesterday and they have.
40:15
Chef's kiss.
40:16
they had their flavored cannoli dips.
40:18
And it's like the cannoli cream.
40:20
They have chocolate chip, salted caramel.
40:23
And there was one other one, but I got like the two.
40:26
So good.
40:27
What are you dipping in them?
40:28
I did pretzels.
40:29
Like gluten free pretzels.
40:31
So you got the salty and you got this.
40:32
Oh, it was so did you go to the one in Newport?
40:35
Yeah, I guess Estonia.
40:36
We're heading back that way.
40:37
So yeah.
40:38
Yeah.
40:39
Oh my god.
40:39
That sounds really good How do you like the fact that I called you the other day?
40:43
It was like I saw Dylan Yes, I'm very supposed to have seen Dylan Or was I supposed to you're like, yeah, he's good He's picking up a friend.
40:50
Yeah.
40:50
Well, I mean, you know, we got asked everywhere.
40:52
I know.
40:53
Yes.
40:53
I didn't I didn't tell him though Cuz like I was like, you know what one of these days.
40:56
Yep.
40:56
Absolutely That's what you get for having the truck that everybody recognizes.
41:00
Well, he actually went to Myrtle Beach yesterday for the day to a truck show he's in a truck group.
41:06
Yeah.
41:06
And so, they were having some kind of meetup thing in Myrtle Beach.
41:09
So that's cool.
41:10
Him and Ruthie drove down for the day.
41:12
Yeah.
41:13
So he got back like, I don't know, whatever time last night, but he was exhausted.
41:17
Oh, yeah.
41:17
Driving like that.
41:18
Yeah.
41:19
He said he had a blast.
41:20
Good.
41:21
He has like a new sticker on his car.
41:22
Can't wait to see it.
41:23
For the meet.
41:25
But yeah.
41:25
Cool.
41:26
I like dipskipping though.
41:27
Yeah, I thought it was different.
41:29
Have you seen the put your hand up on my hip?
41:32
What?
41:32
Yes.
41:33
The nude dance is stupid.
41:34
They don't do.
41:36
That is not how we did it back in the day.
41:37
They changed the Tootsie Roll too.
41:39
They have changed.
41:41
The dip.
41:41
The dip.
41:43
We terrible.
41:44
We need to show them how to do the real.
41:45
I don't know if my knees can handle it.
41:47
Oh.
41:48
Could your knees handle it?
41:49
Maybe.
41:50
I love how to be used.
41:52
I need to stretch out first.
41:54
Make sure that they're not like, get all the cracks out, you know, because when the first time you do like a dip, Yeah, it takes about all the I'd have to like really like right.
42:03
Did you hear my ankle like literally just now sitting down?
42:06
It's gonna be like the tin man.
42:07
Yeah Oil up on my body It looked like we were like popping and break dancing more than just like doing a smooth little tootsie roll Well, that could be the next the next thing we could be the next ray gun All we need is cream jumpsuits.
42:23
We need to jump in.
42:24
Oh God.
42:25
No.
42:25
That was horrible.
42:26
Mm-Hmm.
42:26
She, she retired.
42:29
I don't even think I would've made that announcement.
42:31
I would just have let it, like, go into the night.
42:34
So we had talked about the Olympics during the Olympics.
42:36
Mm-Hmm.
42:37
And that's the Australian lady that, did retire now but, there was a big controversy with the boxing, with the.
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Person that everybody said was a male.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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She was a female.
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She just had some kind of like chromosome something or other Well, it has been found that it really was a male.
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It has been Yes, the person and this is legit like it was like for real said that it does have some kind of like defect or whatever, but has a micro penis And Man, that would suck.
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That would suck.
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Yeah, but it's a male.
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Yeah, but because, had female on her, on the passport.
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The Olympics said.
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Yep, that's a female.
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I am like, that would suck enough to be like, yeah, I tried to get in and I couldn't.
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They found out that I'm really a dude cause I got a micropene.
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To not even be like, I took it all up in there.
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But like, you know, that's like men's thing is their size of their junk.
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People attack the girl that, That forfeited.
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Yeah.
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And she was right the whole time.
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So that makes, I feel like it might still come out that it was the other way.
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I don't know.
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Maybe the MicroPen was just like a jelly bean or something.
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How big is the microbe?
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I don't know.
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And I don't know why I said jelly bean.
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Actually, I don't even wanna Google search that because there's no tell on what you might set up in your algorithm.
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No.
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Yeah.
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No.
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We're happy.
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How big is a MicroPen?
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Yeah.
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It's YouTube.
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Yeah.
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Oh, my God.
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Oh, yeah.
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Wow.
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Good to know.
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There you go.
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Folks.
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You heard it here.
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2nd.
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Oh, my gosh.
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So, I thought instead of doing.
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Am I the a hole this week?
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There was on Buzzfeed, this list of crazy things that have happened at Thanksgiving's.
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They had people write in, actually, I think it might've come from Reddit, something like that.
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Okay.
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So what are those legit sources?
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Well, you know, my TikTok news.
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Breaking news.
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Oh, actually, before we get into this, okay.
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So, You know, we love Matt's, Rife.
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Yes.
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And I found another comedian he did a recap Young thug trial.
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Okay.
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So this comedian, his name is Josh Johnson's comedy and that's on TikTok.
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Okay.
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And he did a recap and it's like an eight part series of the young thug trial in Georgia.
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Cause it was such a freaking hot mess.
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Like the witnesses that got deals.
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Okay.
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What was his name his name is Josh Johnson.
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Josh Johnson's comedy.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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best recap ever Now if you I'll have to watch it.
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But I followed him.
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But the whole series, yes.
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But all of his stuff is really funny.
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Okay.
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It remind me very much of like Matt Rife when he started.
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Mm-Hmm.
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But, this dude recaps the young, the Well good.
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I have to, you know, I love a recap.
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Oh.
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And it's so funny because I wanna know the things, but I don't wanna take the time to read the whole book.
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Well, so there was so much in the news about this one.
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It was streamed everywhere.
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It was, you know, like a circus.
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It was a circus..
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I wasn't that never was like misconduct with the judge and then the judge the defense called out the judge on it The judge was like who told you that I had this secret meeting not like I did this or like, right.
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But who told you?
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And he was like, who, who, who ratted on me?
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And then tried to send the defense attorney into contempt into jail because the defense attorney wouldn't say who told him about the secret meeting that the judge had.
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It was a circus.
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That sounds like a mess, but this dude recaps it beautifully.
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Awesome.
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Yes.
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So, if anybody is looking to waste time, that is a dude to follow because he is really funny.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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I followed him and he does like different stuff that I don't see other comedians doing.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Good.
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Good.
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Good.
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Good.
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I love, I love, I love a good comedian.
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Yes.
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So, okay.
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So instead of, am I the a hole this week, we are going to do family Thanksgiving horror stories that I found on the internet.
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Great.
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Great.
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All right.
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So let's kick it off with number one.
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So kicking it off.
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Okay.
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My aunt invited all of us to her house for Thanksgiving, which was out of state.
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All food and drinks were going to be provided by them, so our family offered to bring something, anything, just as a thank you.
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My aunt insisted that we shouldn't.
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The dinner was good.
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It was an overall great Thanksgiving.
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Well, about a month later, we got a request from that aunt proclaiming that we now owed her 75 To cover the cost of the meal.
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My parents were furious as we had just spent a lot of money to go down and see her and had even offered to lighten her load by bringing some of our own dishes.
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They honestly wouldn't have been mad if it weren't for the fact that she didn't even tell anyone about this when she was sending out invitations.
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OMG.
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Could you imagine getting like a Venmo request?
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Have you seen those for weddings though where people are saying like on top of your gift, we're asking you to cover the cost of your plate, which is.
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Whatever.
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That's crazy.
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That is super crazy.
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How would you say No, I thank you.
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And then now you don't even get a gift.
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Yeah.
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But like, why wait a month?
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Right?
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Like something broke.
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Like they're right.
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They're missing a dishwasher.
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They're like, let me just send out this.
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I wonder if that was that 75 for like a family of four.
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Is that 75 a person?
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Like what are we doing with that?
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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But yeah, that's, that's crazy though.
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Alright, so this is story number two.
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My uncle made a scene about having dropped something on the floor.
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When he was sure enough of us were now paying attention, he bent over to it up and his shirt rode up.
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We saw a tramp stamped tiger.
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Ha ha ha ha ha.
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Oh.
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This goes along with your 75 years.
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Yes.
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Okay, um, when he bent over to pick it up, his shirt rode up and we saw a tramp stamped tiger crawling out of his butt crack.
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It was a temporary tattoo that he had my aunt help him put on specifically for this occasion.
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That's amazing.
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That's awesome.
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With it, it was just a joke.
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Like that's fine.
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If it wasn't, I have a lot of questions about his history, but with it being a joke, that is hilarious.
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Yeah.
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It was.
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A tiger crawling on the That's great.
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I like that one.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so our next one says, The woman my cousin had just married stole a Costco sized box of individually wrapped Cheez Its packages from our garage.
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I happened to notice they were gone when putting food in the fridge.
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I asked about it publicly, and she looked up, started stuttering, and went to get them out of her car.
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She returned with the excuse, I thought these were mine.
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I have a box just like these at home.
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I'm like, how did she sneak it out?
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Those are big boxes.
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They are big boxes.
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They are big boxes.
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I don't know.
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And what is she doing in their garage anyway?
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Right?
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So many questions.
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She's nosy.
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Listen, I'm nosy, but I'm not I'm nosy too, but I'm not gonna like go in uninvited spaces.
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Well, I might.
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Well, maybe they have like an extra fridge out in the It's probably good stuff.
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I'm just trying.
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It is what it is.
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My mother in law is trashy every Thanksgiving.
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My wife and I host and about 15 people come and everyone brings side dishes.
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Not her mother though.
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She only brings stuff for herself.
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She proudly announces that whatever she brings is just for her.
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It's not for diet purposes because she eats all the other food too.
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All she Also, she treats our guest room and bathroom like a hotel.
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When she leaves, she takes the toilet paper rolls, the tissue box, paper towels, and soap.
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Oh my god.
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I don't do that at a hotel.
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No, I'm not gonna go to.
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Somebody's house and see what they should do is they should like make her a gift bag before she gets there, we got you something from like toilet paper and soap it I don't know whatever else she takes That's crazy.
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Yeah the tissue box steal the towels they probably have learned to not put them in there.
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They put like the disposable ones in there They put like the old yeah, not for company house the ones right the ones with like paint or um stain.
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Yeah Uh huh.
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Absolutely.
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Oh goodness.
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Okay My grandmother faked a heart attack.
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It was very surreal, and her husband was so embarrassed.
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She didn't like my dad very much, and she picked a fight with him on Thanksgiving, so he decided he was going home.
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When she realized my stepmom, her daughter, was going home with him, she yelled a lot, and then as a last ditch effort, dramatically clutched her chest and collapsed very carefully.
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It was outside.
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I guess she didn't want to bump her head.
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Dad offered to call 911, but my grandfather said it wasn't necessary.
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And when my grandmother realized no one was taking her seriously, she opened her eyes, allowed my grandfather to help her up and went inside with him while fake sobbing.
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Normally she was quite nice, but she had her moments and she really wasn't happy that her daughter had grown up and had a life.
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Holidays usually brought the worst out of her.
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Like I could just picture like, yeah, you gotta like, yeah, gently.
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And then like one eye open, like, is anybody paying any attention?
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Oh, my gosh.
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so the last horror story.
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Is my uncle and grandfather don't have a good relationship, but we're tolerating each other because Thanksgiving My uncle was cooking lasagna and my grandfather decided to help so he grated the cheese flash forward to dinner time The food is coming out and as tradition dictates we always start with lasagna My grandfather made some joke like, I know you hate me, but at least I'm great.
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And poop hit the fan.
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My uncle literally went into a rage and was yelling at everyone.
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He proceeded to flip the table that all the food was on.
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My grandfather called him out, out, My grandfather called him outside to settle this war, which resulted in two grown men fist fighting in the backyard, culminating with my granddad getting thrown into the pond, slicing his leg on a jagged rock, and the rest of us ordered Chinese food and kicked my uncle out.
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So the grandfather called out the younger dude.
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Yeah.
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I mean go, go Pawpaw.
52:49
Yeah, but why get so mad over a dad joke?
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I like a dad joke.
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Dad jokes are great.
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It wasn't that serious.
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I've told really corny jokes.
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I love a corny joke.
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Yeah.
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I have a game, like a board game, and it's like try not to laugh or something like that, but it's like all dad jokes.
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Oh.
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I thought it was cute.
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I like it.
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He's an old guy.
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He helped.
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He made a bad joke.
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Like smooth over things.
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It's not awkward.
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Right.
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And then he just hulk out and flip the table.
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All that food.
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Oh, I would have been so mad.
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I would have been all the work.
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Yes.
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And the mess that you got to clean up and the expense that you've just wasted.
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Yes, but then I might be happy because then we get Chinese food.
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What's your favorite Chinese food?
53:37
Sesame chicken, honey chicken, something like that.
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What about you?
53:39
I can't eat a lot of it because a lot of it's breaded.
53:43
I eat the peppers out of, um, But a lot of the sauce has like flour used to thicken it.
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Yeah, I know.
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But I do like hibachi.
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Yeah, yeah, I like that too.
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So I can eat that.
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I'm really not picky.
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Japanese.
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Do you, I don't like, shrimp and stuff though with my Chinese or Asian.
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Like shrimp scampi, uh, that's a totally different food, but like don't like shrimp scampi.
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I like, I like the scampi and I like the shrimp, but I don't want them together.
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I don't eat seafood, so no.
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At all?
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No.
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Are you allergic?
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No.
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We've had this conversation before.
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Yep.
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Unless the cow falls into the ocean.
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It ain't gonna.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Nope.
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Yeah.
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All right guys.
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