Transcript

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All right.
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I'm Stephanie.
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I'm Stephanie.
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I'm Meredith.
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And welcome to this is my circus that I throw you for a loop.
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Yeah, I was like getting my bearings and I'm like, well, it's Rex too loud.
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I just jumped right into.
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I flip the script.
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so I didn't even look last night.
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Did they win the football game?
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Oh, no, they lost.
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So Jackson play.
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Well, he did good.
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I don't think he got yelled at if he did.
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He hadn't told me about it yet, but he did.
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Well, he, he made some great tackles.
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He played good.
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He, he did great on defense, but we did lose by, I think.
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1 touchdown, we were trailing, but we were, we were winning.
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They came back and took the lead.
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They scored again, we were down by, like, 2 or 3 touchdowns and then we started coming back and we ended up losing by, like, 6 points at the end.
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Heartbreaker sucks.
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That was region play.
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So that, you know, starts to determine playoff situation and that kind of thing, which it's crazy that we're already thinking about that, but that starts soon.
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You have a few weeks of that stuff.
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but, you know, it's part of the game.
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Yeah, he was pretty upset.
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He doesn't handle well when, there's a situation like that, and he's in a game, and he's given 100 percent every play and when there's kids on the sidelines who are laughing and cutting up and stuff, he, he gets pretty upset about that.
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He wants everybody to take it as serious as he does.
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So, he was kind of in his feelings last night, but he's okay today.
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He's been up for a couple of hours.
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Then he got up at about 11 and, just took some ibuprofen and was icing his teeth.
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I don't know, I had to ice my ankles today.
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Okay.
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So my mother and father in law bought a new house.
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So they're moving out and, they were repainting.
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They're going to put the house on the market.
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So they're repainting and touching up.
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So I was painting the ceilings.
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Brian and I are painting the ceilings.
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He's rolling and I'm trimming.
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I hate trimming.
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I'm so good at it.
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Like I don't use painters tape.
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You're you're hidden talent.
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It is.
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That's it.
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That's all I can do.
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But, like, I don't have to use painter's tape.
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I can just do it, and it's a line, and I'm pretty quick.
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well, I'm on a ladder, and they're, they're regular ceilings.
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They're, like, super high at this point.
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Like, they're just, like, some of them do have angles, but I'm just regular height on the ladder, bucket of paint in my hand.
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And a brush.
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I don't know what happened.
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I just lost my bearings, my balance just a little bit.
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I mean, I, and I felt myself getting ready to fall.
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Bathroom, you know, tiny, not a lot of space to figure all that out.
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I reached deep down in my soul and found every bit of athleticism and agility that I had left in my body.
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And I fell like off the top step down on both feet.
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Still holding the bucket and the paintbrush, you know, sometimes you see superheroes like fall from the sky.
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That was me I fell I didn't spill a drop.
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I was like if I spill this whole bucket of paint I was so excited.
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I was so excited Steph.
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So I went and Brian was doing the other bathroom So I was like, I gotta go to him.
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So I went over there.
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He was like, are you okay?
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And I was like, bae, I just like Stuck this landing.
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Like you would not believe how amazing I like the Olympics.
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It was I wish that was a mirror, uh, Recorder.
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I wish that camera, camera.
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I was so excited.
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So I'm like, okay.
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He's like good good I'm glad we're not cleaning up paint.
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Go back to work.
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Um, so I went and I was, you know, doing it again About five minutes later 10 minutes later, I was like, my ankles are hurting really bad.
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I was like, Oh, I'll be okay.
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You know, up and down the ladder, up and down the ladder.
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God, now my hip's starting.
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So we finished up the painting, the everything.
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It looks fantastic.
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Went home and I was like, I need some ibuprofen, and I literally iced my ankles.
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I was like, I hurt my ankles.
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I wish you could have seen these, Beth.
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You would have been so proud.
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I look amazing.
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I look like a cat.
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I'm already sometimes, when I'm like painting a bathroom like that, I'm already like straddling the bathtub.
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Like, who needs a ladder?
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Like, I can prop sideways, whatever.
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So it was already kind of sketchy.
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Yeah.
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So we get home.
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I got a bag of frozen peas for one ankle.
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The other ankle, I didn't have another bag of peas, so I made an ice pack.
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Jackson was like, what is wrong with you?
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I was like, babe.
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And I had to tell him the whole story.
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He was like, you just landed on both feet and didn't spill anything.
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And I was like, so, so now we have to think of like your superhero name.
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I'll put that on the list.
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My to do list is, but it was freaking awesome.
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Yeah.
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I was so proud of myself.
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Yeah.
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But when I get up from here and walk away, don't watch how long it takes me to get going.
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I won't, I won't say a word.
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Like I can feel it moving up my body.
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Well, speaking of, pain.
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so I've always wanted to paddle board.
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Every summer I'm like, I'm going to do it.
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I'm going to do it.
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I did it last week.
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So we had like the blow up paddle board.
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Yes.
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And you have to pump the freaking things up.
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Like it didn't come with a motorized thing.
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But it was a big pump.
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Like, so it wasn't like a little tiny pump.
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It was like an indoor basketball pump.
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It was a big one.
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Like, yeah.
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Okay.
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But you have to, that's a lot of effort with your arms.
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So.
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By the time the thing is pumped up, which it didn't take like a super long time, but like, I don't have a lot of upper body strength.
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Wait, were y'all going in the ocean?
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Yeah.
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That's scary.
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It was awesome.
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I'm sure it was, but just thinking about it.
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It's scary.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So usually all of my upper body strength to pump up this thing.
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Yeah.
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I haven't done it in a while, but I do do yoga and like, I do like, you know, kind of balancing stuff.
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So I'm like, I'm going to do this.
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I'm going to stand up.
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I'm going to not just kneel.
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Right.
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I'm going to, you're going to do it.
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You're going to do the dang thing.
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Yes.
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So I get out there and we're pretty far out.
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and the water was super calm.
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Okay.
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It was like, It was beautiful out.
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And so like I'm paddling on my knees to get out there and I I'm like, I'm going to do this.
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So I tried it once and then I kind of wobbled.
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I'm like, I'm going to do it though.
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And so I gave myself a few more minutes to re uh, yeah, whatever recalibrate.
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Yeah.
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And so I get up and I stand, but then I'm like standing A skateboard and I'm like, this isn't how you're supposed to do.
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Mm-Hmm.
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No.
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So then I'm literally like yeah, like a pancakes, 10 teeny naps, a micro millimeter.
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Trying to like readjust myself.
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I did it though, and I was able to do it for like 10 minutes.
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I stayed up.
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You're amazing.
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I was so stoked.
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But.
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Then I'm like, my arms are so tired.
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I finally lost my balance.
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I did fall in the water, I fell back onto the board.
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Okay.
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But my arms were so, oh, yeah.
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Well, they'd already been through the workout and then went this.
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We going back to the, beach, and halfway there, I'm like, I need a break.
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My arms really hurt.
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Time out.
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Time out.
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I was like, I am so out of shape.
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I didn't realize how much I don't use my arms.
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Well, when you're doing, I mean And that's why I said, I was like, they, like, that doesn't make any sense to use all of your muscle to blow this thing up and then have to paddle.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Next time blow it up the night before.
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Yeah.
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So, how long do you think y'all were out there paddle boarding?
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Probably like 30 40 minutes.
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That's fun.
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That's great.
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Yeah, I love to kayak.
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Mm hmm.
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I'd like to do that in the ocean But have you seen, I know you have the video from above when you're like seeing all the great whites, were you thinking about that?
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So, I was like, how cool would it be if a whale, like a, nice whale, not like a killer whale, like an orca.
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No, no, no orcas.
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Like a sperm whale.
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Yeah.
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Come, little blowhole.
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Yeah.
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When we were in, I think it was Costa Rica.
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We went on whatever excursion thing in the ocean.
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we were on a boat and a whale breached and like did a little backflipping thing.
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And it was a whale.
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Yeah.
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It was so cool.
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Not like a dolphin.
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Oh, it was a whale.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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Yeah.
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It was huge.
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But, um, it was like super, super cool.
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And then we met a bunch of Canadians on that trip.
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Like we hung out with them the whole time.
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They were awesome.
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It was a huge group.
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Yeah.
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And they went.
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I feel like snorkeling or scuba diving or something a couple of days later and they saw big ocean animals.
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And that was the same trip that, a sea turtle had come up onto the beach to legs.
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But then there's so many humans that it was like, Nope.
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So it was really cool though.
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checked out of my bucket list.
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Yeah.
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To do it again.
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Right.
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Without blowing up the thing first.
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Right.
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But I stood up.
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I am so proud of you for that.
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Me too.
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That's tough.
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It was not an easy thing.
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It looks so easy.
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It looks like so relaxing.
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What about the, right, it's not, it's not, what about the people you see like doing a headstand on those things?
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When they do the yoga?
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Yeah.
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Uh uh, I, I took like millimeters.
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Yeah.
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I like wiggled my way.
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But that's awesome though.
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Yeah.
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So good.
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But then like, so I was in like a So then I'm like, Oh my God, if I Fall.
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Mm hmm.
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My butt's gonna be.
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Oh, yeah.
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There.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah, totally.
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Did you have a life vest?
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I wouldn't have either, but you should wear one kids.
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Oh speaking of kids.
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Okay.
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I know we're laughing and having a good time No, no, no, no.
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This is totally changing direction.
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Okay But I know we have a lot of our kids friends that listen and Hey guys.
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Um, boys and girls.
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Okay.
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But I want to just remind them because we had a situation with somebody we know this week., this kid who was snapping somebody he was snapping a girl, this girl.
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Sent pictures of herself to him.
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So he was like, okay, girl, I got you.
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And he sent some to her, was not a her, was an adult trying to get money out of this kid.
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Luckily, this kid did the right thing at this point, which was talk to his parents.
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It was the middle of the night and, let them know what was going on so they could then be involved and handle it.
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There are situations that I know of, and we had somebody in our community that something very similar to this happened to, and he, because of shame and embarrassment, ended up taking his life and didn't get his parents help or anybody else.
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He just thought that was the end of the world, that these photos were going to be leaked, which I understand.
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Yeah.
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Like, I, I understand, but just want to let our listeners know.
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Kids, talk to your parents.
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Yeah.
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Or an adult that you're safe with that your parents gave you the okay to talk to.
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Like, I know there's a lot of adults in Jackson's life that he feels more comfortable with about some things than me.
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That's not going to be the end of the world.
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If that happens to you, please don't think there's no other options.
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Yeah.
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we normally don't talk serious like this on here, but I just felt really like social media is not going away.
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It's going to get worse and people are going to try to do bad things.
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So, that was a big thing a couple of years ago, countrywide, this was going on that, adults were trying to get, photos of kids and then having them like, Come up with a thousand dollars or whatever dollar amount it was.
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Yeah.
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Well, and so the person that it happened to locally, um, his name was Gavin Guffey, his dad's Brandon Guffey, and they've actually passed a law since that happened a couple years ago called Gavin's law, which makes this a felony and all that.
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this person was not U.
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S.
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that happened to, which is mostly the case.
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Yeah.
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And to be quite honest, mostly what these people are looking for is fast money.
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So if you hesitate, if you say, you know, let me talk to my parents or let me get the money, they're going to move on to the next person because they just want that money now without any problems.
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In my professional experience.
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No, I'm just kidding in in what I've read and what I've seen.
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Yeah.
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But my only to add on to that concern.
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Yes.
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Is the black web and pictures out there for awful people out there that enjoy those pictures.
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Yes.
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Absolutely.
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Like you said, extreme careful, like, yes, I would love for none of you listeners to send those types of picture right period, whether you get pictures like that or not.
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And just for all of our underage listeners.
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If you send out those photos, it is against the law.
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It is because you're still children.
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Yes.
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You're still under the age of 18.
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So don't send them at all.
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Right.
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Is my, my begging of you as a, as a mom.
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Absolutely.
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Cause things on the internet do not go away.
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Yes.
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I can't tell you how many things I've seen on Snapchat that I've screen recorded or screenshot or whatever, or, you know, it took talk, whatever.
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It doesn't go away.
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so guys, just be smart.
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Don't do it.
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Don't do it.
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if you find yourself in a situation there, there are adults that can help you with that.
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So please just know that there's things we can do, but just make it easy for yourself and don't do it.
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Yeah.
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And things happen and you know, their kids are going to make.
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Poor decisions, but always find it.
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I don't let you trust.
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Yes, if it does happen, please don't do it.
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But if it does happen, right?
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We're all human.
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We all make mistakes.
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Sometimes, you know, your hormones are raging or whatever.
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No, no, but it's, you know, but it's the truth.
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You know, sometimes you're not thinking with all of your brain cells.
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I get it, but don't do it.
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Don't do it.
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And then, find an adult that you trust that you can talk to as soon as possible if something like that should ever happen.
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But sorry, I didn't mean to bring us down.
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We're having such a good time, but, but it just was really important.
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Cause this kid that this happened to, I know he's had this talk with his parents.
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Like I know that his I've told him don't do it.
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Don't do it.
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Don't do it.
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Don't do it.
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And He saw boobies and he did it.
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So.
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They're mesmerizing.
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Yeah, apparently so.
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Look at him straight in the eye.
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Anyway, just a reminder for our younger peeps out there.
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Older peeps.
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Don't be stupid.
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Older peeps too.
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Yes.
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Don't send naked pictures.
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Nobody wants naked pictures.
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And if you're a dude listening to this, Yeah.
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Do not send naked pictures.
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The D picks.
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No! No, especially unsolicited.
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Oh gosh, no.
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Don't do it.
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All right, there's our PSA for today.
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Right.
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I could, we can continue on this conversation, but I think we should stop.
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Yeah.
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That's going to be for after hours so I have some things to talk about this week.
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Oh, okay.
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Number one, you want to start with our bookie?
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Me, sure.
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Okay.
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We read Anywhere You Run by Wanda M.
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Morris.
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Yes.
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And the little blurb that goes with it says, After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow, Mississippi, two black sisters run away to different parts of the country, but can they escape the secrets they left behind?
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It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help black Mississippians secure the right to vote.
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Against this backdrop, 21 year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she's ever been in her life.
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Suffering a brutal attack of her own, She kills the man responsible, but with the color of violet skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Before anyone can find the body or accuse her of being a killer, she decides to run with the help of her white boyfriend, violent escapes, but desperation and fear leads her to hide out in a small rural town of.
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Chillicothe, Georgia.
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Unaware that danger may be closer than she thinks.
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Back in Jackson, Marigold, Violet's older sister, has dreams of attending law school, working for the Mississippi Summer Project.
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She has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the black folk.
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But Marigold is in a different kind of trouble.
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She's pregnant and unmarried.
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After news of the murder of Violet, brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to flee Jackson, too.
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She heads north, seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation.
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But has she made a terrible choice that threatens her life and that of her unborn child?
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Two sisters on the run, one from the law, the other from social shame.
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What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trail.
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This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a motive to Motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him Okay, I'm gonna start off by saying our country has a horrible dark awful history, yeah, and While we have come very far things are not perfect and We are definitely aware of that.
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Yep, the only way that it can change is with all of us.
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So It's Good to know our past so that we don't repeat the past.
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It makes me sick reading the language and how people were treated.
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Yes.
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I absolutely hate it.
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Yes.
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But I really loved the book.
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That was tough for me, me also that language, and they even preface it in the beginning of the audio book.
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Like, these are not words that I would normally say.
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this is not the language that I use, but for the purposes of.
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Presenting, yeah.
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This is what we're doing and it's tough to hear.
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It's really tough to hear.
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Makes me very sad.
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Yeah.
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I thought it was written so well.
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I did too.
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And I thought the characters were developed so well.
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I did too.
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All of the characters.
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Yeah.
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This is the third book that we've read where it's been and that's unintentional.
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It's just what's come up in our, in our stuff where there's, uh, you know, racial issues in the past that trail over to the present but where there's, a chain of events.
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Through through there, and I have found all of these really good, but this 1 was my favorite.
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Yeah, thought that the author did such a phenomenal job.
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just making you feel the emotions.
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Yeah.
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So spoilers.
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Yes.
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I'm sure we'll get into, but we're going to go ahead and tell you now.
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So this is done in three different perspectives.
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Yes.
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It was done in marigold.
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It was done in violet slash Vera.
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Because she switches her name halfway through the book while she's hiding.
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Yeah.
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And then, the man that's hunting them is Mercer.
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Yes.
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So you get all three of those perspectives.
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And it's easy to follow those trails.
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Yes.
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I felt like she did a great job of, presenting them also different.
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And you could tell, I mean, of course, in the audio, but the voice has changed, but you could just tell by the time.
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Yes.
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Even between the sisters who was who.
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Right.
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And that was pretty cool.
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Yeah, I think that.
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Sometimes, and we've, we've said this before, when you have the different perspectives, it gets really muddy.
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Yep.
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This did not know.
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I thought that Mercer story was.
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Super interesting.
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I didn't want to feel bad for him, but I did.
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But, but you didn't, but I didn't.
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Yeah.
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Um, I, okay.
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So obviously they were doing spoilers.
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his child is sick.
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Yeah.
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And so of course your heart goes out.
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Yeah.
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It sounds like the child's been sick for a long time, but then he made the comment, which really pissed me off is, Would he be better off like dying said that they had to do the surgery?
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And he made this comment and I was like, yeah, dude, like he's like, our life would be easier.
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And, and I was like, that is such a selfish, and I'm not a man.
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So I obviously, I don't understand anything that men think, but, but, threw me for a loop as a parent.
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Yeah.
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to hear that out of any parent.
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Right.
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And it made me think also, though, that we're thinking about, you know, 70 years ago and medicine was different.
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Right.
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And health care was different.
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Yeah.
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And then you put the man thing in it, like.
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Yeah, I lost a little compassion for him at that moment.
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Yeah.
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so as the book went on, like, I didn't feel right.
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Bad.
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Right.
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And he got what was coming to him at the end.
20:31
Yeah.
20:32
And I get it.
20:32
I get, I understand the reason why he needed the money for, to help his child.
20:37
I get that.
20:37
Yeah.
20:38
I, I would do anything that I needed to do to get Dylan right.
20:41
What he needed if he was in that in the situation.
20:44
Right.
20:45
I would, I would go to the ends of the earth.
20:47
Yes.
20:48
So, was so torn on his character.
20:50
Right.
20:50
Well, and just a little connection to that, like I fell for his wife because he's gone for, I don't even remember the time period, like months, at least tracking these people down.
21:02
That was his thing and just gone.
21:05
And she's dealing with this child that's sick and worried about him.
21:07
That's gone.
21:08
Right.
21:08
And technology was obviously different.
21:10
So it's not like you could, shoot a text.
21:12
So yeah, I felt for her.
21:14
So where I started to feel compassion for him, in the beginning, besides knowing that he had a sick kid was when he heard, Marigold's husband beating her.
21:22
Yeah.
21:23
And he was disgusted.
21:25
and he doesn't think any woman should be hit.
21:28
Meanwhile, he's trying to kill her.
21:32
But that's different.
21:34
I know it's like, how's where's the logic there?
21:36
Yeah.
21:36
I thought that his character was so complex in that.
21:40
Yeah, he had big thoughts kind of like big he had he had a lot going on in his head like his rules were Random.
21:49
Yeah, kind of like some serial killers that I've read about That have the thing like I'm not gonna kill a woman or a child But if I kill a man because it's my job, I'm just killing them.
22:00
Yeah, I'm a thing.
22:01
So, yeah He also had a horrible upbringing.
22:04
Yes, his dad was awful to him, right?
22:06
And took him away from his grandfather, took him away from everything he knew.
22:09
Right.
22:10
And was just a bad guy.
22:11
Yeah.
22:12
And he found the girl of his dreams, turned his life kind of around.
22:16
Sort of.
22:17
Kind of sort of.
22:18
Proud to, be a better dude.
22:20
And then he got in this situation.
22:21
So, yeah.
22:23
Again, wonderful character development.
22:26
But his views were so, yeah, all over the place.
22:29
Made no sense to anybody but him.
22:31
Yeah, I lost compassion.
22:32
What'd you think about Marigold?
22:34
I think she was my favorite.
22:35
Do you?
22:36
Yeah.
22:37
I don't know why.
22:38
I think it was because she was just like, well, I gotta do what I gotta do.
22:41
Yeah.
22:41
Kind of in that, well, I'll just marry him and I'll just do, yeah.
22:44
Violet is my favorite.
22:45
Yeah.
22:45
Cause she wasn't.
22:47
When nothing slides.
22:48
Yeah, she wasn't she wasn't they they were both pretty ballsy in their own right?
22:54
Yeah they both kind of took control of what?
22:56
Their situation their situations were whatever they were put in whether it be just you know Deemed to get out of town or pregnant and what am I going to do?
23:03
So, I liked them both But something about marigold.
23:06
I just liked her.
23:07
Yeah what did you think about?
23:10
The ending I hated it.
23:11
Oh, so did I?
23:13
I I uh, hey, I could have stopped that book Up until the part with hank Where he where he died?
23:20
Yeah I would have been fine with that.
23:22
I did not want him to die You I just don't want any of that.
23:25
No.
23:26
As I was reading, I forgot she was just 21 years old.
23:28
Oh, I totally forgot about that.
23:30
Right.
23:31
because she seemed so much older and she had such a not necessarily full life, but just so much happened to her in that short time.
23:38
Yeah.
23:39
When they had repeated her age.
23:41
Yeah.
23:41
Towards the end.
23:41
I'm like, Oh my goodness.
23:42
I forgot.
23:43
She's 21.
23:44
Right.
23:45
I think back on when I was 21, right.
23:47
There's no way I would have handled any of that.
23:48
No, and I think that's why I really like her.
23:50
She's just like, She just handled her stuff.
23:53
She did out of the gate.
23:55
Like she was one of those just like, you know, she's at the bus station and she steals Dewey's wallet.
24:00
She's always looking and using whatever's at her disposal to get to the next point.
24:06
Right.
24:06
Um, I liked her a lot too.
24:08
I just, the end of the book, I did not like, I understand why the author, Did what she did and made it be what it was.
24:16
What do you think about the whole sheriff situation and the what?
24:20
Sheriff's wife?
24:20
Her working for the sheriff.
24:21
Oh my gosh.
24:23
That was, yeah.
24:25
That made me so mad.
24:26
I know when the wife got her fired.
24:27
Got her fired and she was banging the, the owner of the restaurant?
24:31
Yep.
24:31
That that she worked at.
24:33
Mm-Hmm.
24:34
What?
24:34
She couldn't cook.
24:37
Yeah.
24:37
All because she gave her.
24:39
The bag of clothes and she Disgusting clothes, disgusting clothes, dirty, holy, nasty.
24:45
Grimy panties.
24:48
Oh, that's so gross.
24:49
It is gross.
24:50
I'm mo I'm trying to move on in my head and not think about it.
24:52
My God.
24:53
But so she, she gave her out of the kind of sup heart, all this stuff.
24:56
So I was like, well, I guess I gotta take it.
24:58
And she took it and then she said she was still it, so she got a fired.
25:00
Oh.
25:02
I don't even understand, why the conversation will come up with the husband, unless they found the clothes in the dumpster where she threw it.
25:09
Oh, that might have been it.
25:10
They didn't tell us why, though.
25:12
Right.
25:12
They just skimmed over why.
25:14
Which is okay, I did not like that.
25:15
And then she saw her.
25:17
Bangin on the bedroom floor.
25:19
Wasn't me.
25:20
It was the office.
25:23
I was trying to remember that song.
25:24
I was trying to get our Shaggy song in.
25:26
Um.
25:27
All I remember is it wasn't me.
25:29
Bangin on the floor.
25:30
It wasn't me.
25:32
Um, I think those were all my notes on this.
25:33
That was it?
25:34
Yeah.
25:34
What would you give this one?
25:36
I liked it I'll give it an eight and a half.
25:38
Yeah, I do probably I'm gonna give it a nine.
25:40
I'll go up one Okay.
25:42
Yeah, I like this one a lot.
25:43
I would read more by her.
25:44
Mm hmm.
25:45
She was she was good.
25:46
I said this when we read the Holocaust book, um, like this stuff, because it, it's real life.
25:51
I mean, like, it was right in that time.
25:52
And so that just weighs so heavy in my heart when I read it.
25:56
I have not obviously experienced it.
25:59
It just breaks my heart.
26:00
Yes.
26:01
And it breaks my heart to know that there is still some of this going on today.
26:04
We have nothing but love for everybody.
26:06
Yeah.
26:07
so this, these types of books, just weighs so it weighs so heavy on me.
26:10
'cause I just, I hate that.
26:11
That's our history.
26:12
Like you said, it's there.
26:13
Let's acknowledge it and let's work together to be better.
26:17
Learn from our past.
26:17
Right.
26:18
Yeah.
26:19
A hundred percent.
26:19
So hopefully our next book is, I don't know.
26:22
Lighter is not really our genre, you know, not like people, but hopefully not so heavy.
26:27
Yes.
26:28
So I've got the lies that bond.
26:30
Okay.
26:31
And it's by Emily Giffen.
26:33
G I F F I N.
26:34
Okay.
26:34
And, um, that, that should be good.
26:37
And then our next book will lead into our October.
26:41
I'm so excited.
26:42
I am too.
26:43
It's going to be so much fun.
26:44
Yes.
26:45
Okay.
26:45
Awesome.
26:46
Yeah.
26:47
So I know you're normally the one who's got like the TikTok things that you like to tell me about, but let's touch on Diddy.
26:56
That's my first guess.
26:56
Was it?
26:57
Oh my God.
26:58
They got him again.
27:00
Okay.
27:01
So yes, Rex is here for the tea.
27:02
Yes.
27:03
He is.
27:04
Yeah.
27:04
First, let's back up real quick because the dude is on trial for Tupac's murder.
27:10
Yes.
27:11
Just said that Diddy paid him a million dollars.
27:13
Yep.
27:14
And this is on an official news source.
27:16
Yeah.
27:16
This is legit.
27:17
This is not on like, yeah, no, this was for real news.
27:20
Yeah.
27:21
It wasn't to tick tock news, tick knock twos.
27:25
Um, but yeah, paid him a million dollars.
27:27
To have him.
27:28
Okay.
27:29
So now all of this stuff is coming out.
27:30
Yes.
27:31
All these relationships.
27:32
Okay.
27:32
Yeah.
27:33
Well now the new theory is mm-Hmm and again, alleged because we are not an official news source, do not come to get investigated.
27:41
No.
27:41
If you're here for that, we've told you before you are in the wrong place.
27:44
Um, they are now, he backs out Rex is like peace out.
27:49
He is like, I am not here for that.
27:52
So they're like going back and finding photos of.
27:54
P Diddy and Tupac and they were like hanging on each other.
27:57
Oh, yeah.
27:58
And now they're saying that right before the East Coast, West Coast broke out.
28:02
Yeah.
28:02
There was some big whatever between, Diddy and Pac.
28:06
And they're insinuating something could have been going on.
28:10
Wow.
28:11
And that, it was like, that's what really caused the whole East Coast, West Coast.
28:15
Well, it's funny that you say that because, I read that book by Jada Pickett Smith.
28:19
Uh huh.
28:19
And she and Tupac were close.
28:22
Listen, I take anything she says with a No! We're believing her.
28:27
Mm.
28:28
Well, she, she doesn't say that, but she just alludes to the fact that he would like be like, just, just marry me so we can just move on and all this kind of stuff.
28:40
And she obviously never did, but I don't know.
28:43
Okay, so he was in New York this week.
28:47
Yes.
28:48
Did he?
28:48
Yes.
28:49
And he got arrested.
28:50
Yes.
28:50
And he's been denied bail.
28:52
Yes.
28:52
And he's on suicide watch.
28:53
He is on suicide watch.
28:55
Now.
28:56
I have been told by non reputable sources, i.
28:59
e.
28:59
Brian, that he is not really in jail.
29:03
That he is in a penthouse somewhere just under federal protection or whatever.
29:07
I want to believe he's in an 8x8 cell.
29:11
I do too.
29:11
And he's in jumpsuits and he's got on the slipper slides.
29:16
They didn't have to release a mugshot.
29:17
No, I have not seen a mugshot.
29:20
I've not seen mugshot.
29:21
Okay.
29:22
Can we talk about what was in the, in the paperwork, please?
29:26
Okay.
29:27
So of course.
29:29
This is actually this is official because they released the whole indictment.
29:33
Yes.
29:33
And I did like, I just scrolled through like, I'm not an attorney.
29:36
I just pulled what I wanted to pull.
29:37
Do you just play one on TV?
29:38
Um, no, I play one on our podcast podcast.
29:43
Okay.
29:44
54 year old has been placed on suicide watch at the Metropolitan detention center in New York City.
29:49
That is what the feds said.
29:51
I'll tell Brian.
29:53
Where he is currently being held without bond after being arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy.
29:59
Sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
30:04
The raid produced digital footage, illegal firearms, drugs, and more than 1, 000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant.
30:13
And 786 used, and I'm just going to say bedroom toys, that are generally for women.
30:20
But men do use them apparently.
30:22
Apparently.
30:23
So my thing is, one, could you imagine having to bag 786 used bedroom toys and label them as evidence?
30:34
Individually, like, I would need, you know, like the little dinosaur claw.
30:40
Oh, yeah.
30:40
Oh, yeah.
30:41
The, the, the 3 foot long thing that you're just.
30:43
Yeah.
30:43
No, they're even gloves.
30:45
I don't care.
30:45
I have that suit.
30:46
Oh, all of us.
30:47
I need to touch a nothing.
30:48
No, nothing.
30:49
So, not even with just gloves.
30:50
So, you don't have, like, the poor, like, new guy.
30:53
Yeah, they're like, Steve.
30:55
Is it your, it's your first week right Steve?
30:58
I'm not Steve.
30:59
I'm Jerry.
30:59
Oh, better.
31:00
Come on Jerry.
31:02
Steve, you're off the hook.
31:03
Steve, you're off the hook.
31:03
Jerry's newer.
31:05
But could you imagine having to bag seven?
31:08
Used.
31:09
Used.
31:10
Right.
31:11
Choice.
31:12
Okay.
31:12
But then, the poor person that had to go over the hundreds of hours of footage.
31:19
Yeah.
31:20
Make the notes.
31:22
Save the, the, whatever.
31:24
Whatever they, yeah.
31:25
All of that.
31:26
All of the administrative part.
31:28
Yeah.
31:28
Your face.
31:30
It felt like you were frozen.
31:31
Steve got that job.
31:33
Steve got to do that one.
31:34
Well, Jerry.
31:36
I don't know which is worse.
31:37
Jerry's bagging it all, and Steve is, Tagging it off.
31:41
Steve is watching like this, like, uh, writing it down.
31:45
I know.
31:46
Just all of that is terrible.
31:47
All of that is terrible.
31:48
How many bottles of baby?
31:49
One thousand.
31:51
Okay.
31:51
There's some things that I'll buy.
31:53
For instance, there was some sunscreen on sale at Walmart.
31:58
It was two, like, you bought two things together and it was marked down to seven dollars.
32:02
It's a great deal.
32:03
We use a lot of sunscreen.
32:05
I'm not buying a thousand things of, of, of anything.
32:11
But do you think I just lasted one party?
32:13
One freak off as they're calling it.
32:17
And you've seen the picture.
32:19
Yeah.
32:19
Well, I mean, no, this is like in the document.
32:21
Okay.
32:21
But have you seen the picture of the baby oil room?
32:23
No.
32:24
Where they're like, Oh no, no, I didn't see that.
32:27
All at like different levels of fullness.
32:29
Yeah.
32:29
Oh no.
32:31
But like, Used.
32:33
Yeah.
32:34
Oh, so gross.
32:36
786! Do you know how much room that would take up?
32:39
What?
32:40
Okay, I'm gonna say something really gross.
32:42
And then what sizes were they?
32:46
You know that house smelled really bad.
32:50
At least in that section.
32:50
At least in that area, yeah.
32:53
Ugh.
32:54
Yeah, what, 786! Um, let's not go down this rabbit hole.
33:01
Do they make that many different kinds?
33:04
I don't know why I'm asking you like you would have all of the catalogs, But there was, okay.
33:09
So his old bodyguard, um, I can't think of his name right off the top of my head.
33:13
He was being interviewed about this stuff when all this initially broke and said that he went into a shop that has these toys.
33:24
He went and like shopped around or whatever?
33:26
And just paid the, like a thousand dollars or whatever.
33:29
Yeah.
33:30
And he walked out with the bag.
33:32
He asked for a bag when he walked in and he just was putting stuff in there.
33:35
But like dude saw what he was putting in there.
33:37
Yeah.
33:37
And it was A lot of, a lot of things, things for right, for places.
33:44
Right.
33:45
Well, and, and okay.
33:46
Consenting adults do what they want to do.
33:49
Yeah.
33:49
Yeah.
33:49
But he was not having a lot of consent in a lot of these relations, not even relationships.
33:55
But y'all rule is.
33:56
Involved in this story okay.
33:58
Gerald was, uh.
34:01
With Diddy in a hotel.
34:03
And dude was security in the front, in the room.
34:07
They had a big penthouse or whatever.
34:08
And Ja Rule's cousin came and was trying to get in and he was like, no, you're not getting in.
34:13
You're not going any further.
34:14
Um, so they were like, started like tussling or whatever.
34:17
Both of them come out of the bathroom with towels around their waist.
34:21
Both of them who?
34:22
Diddy and Ja Rule.
34:23
And the bag was.
34:26
There.
34:26
There.
34:27
I had something else I wanted to tell you about.
34:29
Okay.
34:29
So, we made a little reference earlier to bacon pancakes when you're doing the tippy taps.
34:34
There is a wildlife park in the UK Okay, that took in five parrots that have developed an appropriate vocabulary and have, so they swear.
34:47
These parents swear.
34:48
And they have taught the other parrots in the zoo to swear.
34:53
The zookeepers became concerned that up to a hundred parrots could learn to swear, which led to them taking all the foul mouthed parrots off the display.
35:02
That made me laugh.
35:04
Like, all these slimy birds with Tourette's.
35:06
So where did they go?
35:07
I guess they just locked them up.
35:10
They're in lockup.
35:11
They're just probably somewhere where there's not like people.
35:14
They're in bad bird jail.
35:16
They're in bad bird jail.
35:17
And a good bad bird jail.
35:19
Or parrots.
35:20
Yeah.
35:21
But at least they're not on, you know, like on display being.
35:24
I'm getting bird videos because we talk about birds, which I'm okay with because I'd rather that than any kind of hard, like political, whatever.
35:30
Absolutely.
35:31
So we will stick with birds.
35:33
Yeah.
35:33
And raccoons and writers, those are good.
35:36
Well, I'm going to introduce a panda to in a minute.
35:38
So, okay.
35:39
Awesome.
35:39
Okay.
35:39
There was a talking bird.
35:42
Yep.
35:42
There was a dog and a cat and the bird and.
35:45
The cat kept like trying to swat at the bird and it was like, stop it.
35:48
Stop it.
35:48
Stop it.
35:50
Then the dog would bark and she'd be like, shut up.
35:56
And then the mom would come and she's like, I love you.
35:58
But it was like something different for each yeah.
36:01
No, they are smart.
36:02
I saw a video and saying I'm probably getting a lot of burr videos now because of all that But the owner would hold up like what is this bowl made of?
36:10
Yeah, and he would tap it with his beak.
36:12
Yeah.
36:13
Yeah.
36:13
I saw that same video.
36:14
Class.
36:15
Yeah Yeah, very cool.
36:18
Yeah, very good.
36:19
Like put the bowl over the head bowl.
36:20
Yeah He wanted to keep tapping on the glass one.
36:23
yeah, I thought that was really cool.
36:25
So Panda.
36:26
Okay.
36:27
That's another one of the animals that I really like.
36:29
Have you seen the videos of, like, why are pandas not extinct?
36:32
Yes.
36:32
Because they're so clumsy and ditzy and all the things.
36:36
They look drunk all the time.
36:37
They do.
36:38
And then they, they just, like, the babies cling to the legs of the, which I want that job.
36:43
I want to be the, the baby Panda cuddler, that's what I want to be.
36:48
but there is a panda that grimaces when it breaks bamboo.
36:52
So, you know, they break the bamboo and they eat it.
36:55
So this panda was raised by a human, no mother, no whatever.
36:59
And this human had to teach this panda.
37:01
everything.
37:03
So the human taught him how to break the bamboo.
37:05
Well, obviously it's a little bit harder for us.
37:08
So the human would, you know, grimace.
37:10
So the panda picked that up and every time the panda cracks bamboo, he does it.
37:17
Like it snaps so easy, but he's got this fierce looking face.
37:20
Like it's such a difficult thing.
37:22
And there was one where he snapped it and didn't make the face.
37:25
He snapped it.
37:26
He looked at it like he forgot to do it.
37:28
So it did it again.
37:30
So cute.
37:31
So cute.
37:31
I love pandas.
37:32
Yeah, I always see that why do pandas always look drunk?
37:35
And like they're like falling off their little, their little huts.
37:39
Yes, rolling down the hills.
37:42
They're great.
37:43
They're great, great, great.
37:44
Yeah, that would be a great job.
37:46
Yeah, I would just, I think working with not like reptile animals, but like fuzzy animals.
37:53
Oh, yeah, would be amazing.
37:54
Yeah.
37:55
I would be so good at that.
37:56
I think they're picking up the poop.
37:57
Like, that's not.
37:58
No, I don't want to do that.
37:59
But to be like the um, the baby manatee feeder at the rescue.
38:04
Have you seen the baby pygmy hippo?
38:06
Yes.
38:07
Yes.
38:08
It is so ugly.
38:09
It's cute.
38:09
Yeah.
38:09
That was hard for me to say.
38:11
Baby pygmy hippo.
38:12
Try it.
38:13
Baby pygmy hippo.
38:16
So jealous of your awesomeness right now.
38:18
Okay.
38:19
I would love to work with animals.
38:22
Oh, yeah, but I don't why wouldn't work I would just play.
38:25
That's all I want to do.
38:26
I was just going to cuddle.
38:27
Yeah, I would play with them.
38:29
I told Dylan, I mean a long, long time ago.
38:31
I said, Lola, if we ever get like super rich, I said, we're going to move to Costa Rica and I'm going to open up a sloth sanctuary and just cuddle sloths all day long.
38:39
And I'll be honest, if, if that was my job to do the thing that I really would love to do with animals, I would compromise and pick up some poop.
38:48
I would too.
38:50
I would do it.
38:51
Yeah, it would be worth it for me to have the joy of all the animals.
38:55
Yeah.
38:56
Like the person across the street from my neighborhood that has all the, the.
38:59
The llamas.
39:00
Alpacas.
39:01
Whatever.
39:02
And the giant bird things.
39:04
I can't think of what.
39:05
Emus.
39:05
Yeah, emus.
39:06
Giant bird things.
39:08
So we've always driven up and down this main road.
39:11
I mean, forever.
39:12
Yeah.
39:12
Like it's the main road from Clover to Lake Wiley.
39:15
Right.
39:16
And.
39:16
Jackson the other day was like, hey, look at those big birds.
39:19
Like, dude, we have been driving down this road since you were born and you have never noticed the big birds.
39:26
I told Dylan, I said, I will probably end up getting arrested one day because I'm going to finally get up the nerve to stop and like, take a selfie with the emu.
39:33
We had so the road behind us, we have, llamas.
39:37
No way.
39:38
Oh, yeah, like we'll ride the golf cart right there and go see him.
39:41
Do you pet him?
39:42
They won't come to me.
39:43
Trust me.
39:44
I have tried.
39:45
They usually look at me and give me they seem pretty judgmental.
39:47
Judgmental, lots.
39:50
And donkeys.
39:51
They leave.
39:52
They don't take carrots.
39:54
I'm gonna try to entice them.
39:55
When Dylan was little we would always, you know, walk our neighborhood and the farm behind our neighborhood had horses at the time.
40:02
Now it's all cows.
40:03
But the horses would come up right up to the fence and we would feed it carrots.
40:06
Yeah.
40:07
The ones beside my in laws used to do that too.
40:09
Now it's just all cows.
40:11
And so when the cows have little babies and the babies come up to the fence and they're about the same size, a little bit bigger than Rex.
40:17
But they are so curious and then the grown up cows are like, like, get away.
40:22
Yeah, that's a great cow impression.
40:25
We've got all the impressions.
40:27
I mean, we're amazing.
40:29
Amazing I have no idea why we're not famous.
40:32
Y'all can make us famous.
40:34
Would you please did you hear about this district judge in Kentucky?
40:41
Killed by the sheriff?
40:42
No.
40:42
The sheriff went into his chambers and Why?
40:46
Popped a cap in his behind.
40:50
I'm just picturing.
40:51
Okay.
40:52
Let me tell you what's in my mind.
40:53
Okay.
40:54
Okay.
40:54
You said Kentucky, right?
40:55
Cause so I'm picturing like small town, Kentucky, right?
40:59
I'm picturing this, this big old judge, but he's got on the black robe, but he's a big old guy and he's like sitting in his chambers and like boss hog, I guess comes in, but he holds the boss, boss hog.
41:13
Does not hold the gun regular.
41:15
He holds it sideways.
41:21
I don't know why that mental picture was so important for me to share with you, but that's what my mind does.
41:26
That's where we go.
41:27
Okay.
41:28
I'm so sorry.
41:30
Back to the.
41:31
Back to the regularly scheduled programming.
41:33
So district judge Kevin Mullins was shot and killed by Letcher County, Kentucky, and I hope I'm saying that right.
41:40
Sheriff.
41:40
I'm sure you are.
41:41
Sheriff Sean M.
41:41
Steins.
41:44
Okay.
41:44
So right now there was video in the chambers, but there was not audio.
41:49
So they don't know what was going on.
41:50
said between the two before, the sheriff did what he did, but there is speculation right now, and this is totally alleged, that the judge was talking, texting inappropriately with the sheriff's daughter, who's a minor.
42:09
Holy crap.
42:10
I don't know how true it is.
42:11
Right.
42:12
Don't know if there's any merit.
42:14
Yeah.
42:14
Oh, he kills me.
42:15
Yeah.
42:15
but so the juice keeps going.
42:19
Yeah.
42:19
and it says that the sheriff, Is also a defendant in a case or trial coming up, against a deputy that is accused of saying inmate that could not afford to get an ankle monitor for her parole.
42:35
And I didn't know that you had to pay either.
42:37
I was going to come back around to that.
42:38
Yeah, I didn't know that that was a thing, but this is what this report said.
42:42
the sheriff was named because he did not properly train the deputy and he was indifferent when I guess things had come up.
42:48
So he was also named in this lawsuit or whatever trial.
42:53
The deputy, this is where it gets like a little even weirder.
42:56
The deputy took the inmate into the judge who got murdered's chambers for these acts to have performed on him.
43:04
So that's like all like one big ugly, yeah, pot of grossness.
43:10
So apparently when all of this was taking place a couple of years ago with this inmate or I think it was like 2023, maybe 22, there was not cameras in the judges chambers.
43:21
So I think that they put the cameras is what I'm assuming.
43:25
once these allegations came up, yeah, cameras went into the judge chambers.
43:28
Yeah.
43:29
So think the trial, or he was the, the sheriff is supposed to whatever, make a statement in court or whatever, and so, I don't know, like, this is crazy pants.
43:40
Yeah.
43:41
No clue what actually occurred.
43:42
Right.
43:43
It's just speculation right now.
43:44
I'm sure it'll keep coming out though and we'll, yeah, hopefully get to the bottom of that.
43:48
So I hope that's not true.
43:49
I hope Judge wasn't like a really gross dude.
43:52
Let's go back to the ankle monitor.
43:54
Yeah.
43:55
That's crazy.
43:56
I did not know that that was a thing.
43:57
I wonder how much they cost.
43:58
We can goog it.
44:00
Give it a goog.
44:00
You always are faster than me.
44:02
Setting it up.
44:04
50 and then it's 14 for daily maintenance.
44:07
In a month a person with an ankle monitor could easily pay over 400 or even about 1, 000 in a place like San Francisco.
44:14
Depending on the suspected crime and where the person lives going to trial and jury can take months or years.
44:21
Wow.
44:23
Sheesh.
44:24
I did not know that that was a thing.
44:26
I didn't.
44:26
I'm kind of glad though that you have to pay for that when you're the bad person.
44:30
Yeah.
44:30
So, in the AI overview, it says that the setup fee typically cost between 175 and 200, which is a different from what the daily dot says.
44:40
Yeah, I saw a tick tock this week and it was like a newborn in the hospital and the.
44:47
They're showing the baby and then they, you know, they put the little monitors on the ankles for the baby so they don't, you know, kidnapped and all that kind of stuff.
44:55
Whoever's taking the video, I'm assuming the dad shows his ankle monitor.
45:00
Not the flip you think it is, dude.
45:02
Um, people are, people are crazy.
45:07
So, yeah, apparently that's a thing.
45:09
Oh, okay.
45:10
So this chick couldn't afford to pay for it, and so she worked off the services in a different way, which is not good for anybody.
45:21
None of that is, is not okay.
45:23
No.
45:23
Not okay.
45:24
And then how many people did he do this to?
45:26
Right.
45:26
Before?
45:27
Right.
45:27
That didn't tell.
45:28
Right..
45:29
So my last funny not feel good, but it was just like, oh my God, I can't believe that this is like real life.
45:35
Is do you hear about the eight year old that stole her parents car?
45:39
Wait, I feel like I did.
45:39
She go to Target.
45:40
Yes.
45:41
Yeah, eight years old.
45:44
Oh my gosh.
45:44
So her name is Zora Mae.
45:47
Yep.
45:47
And she lives in Ohio.
45:49
And at 7am she decided that she was going to go do some mom chores.
45:55
You know, those kids do be waking up early though.
45:57
Right.
45:58
Well, parents didn't get up until like nine.
46:01
Um, so she got up at 7am, got dressed.
46:06
Took the keys out of, one of the parent's purse or whatever, and hopped in the car and drove the SUV and then goes to Target and spends 400 in cash.
46:18
Why does an eight year old get 400 in cash?
46:21
I wonder what she bought.
46:22
I don't know.
46:23
But then went to, I'm assuming, the Starbucks in Target and got herself a frappuccino and she was sipping on her frappuccino when the police found her.
46:32
So the police let her finish her frappuccino before they took her home.
46:38
And thank goodness, so the only reason that they knew What had happened was because of a neighbor's ring doorbell camera caught her getting into the car the driver's seat and pulling out How does the eight year old know how to drive like a real vehicle?
46:52
Yeah, that's true That's very true.
46:56
She's sitting over the steering wheel and had her little feet reach.
46:58
So there was footage, from another person's dash cam of her and he had called it in, like he thought it was an intoxicated driver or, and he's, so he, he's like, It looks like a little kid.
47:10
Like, you hear him on the call, and you see her swerving.
47:13
She did hit one mailbox, but 25 minutes only hitting one mailbox?
47:17
That's not bad.
47:18
That's not bad.
47:18
That is not bad.
47:20
She'll be a good driver when she gets there.
47:21
But, but you're right.
47:23
Like, okay, so even Jackson's new to driving the vehicle, legally, and But I mean, just teaching him how to start it now, you know, it's not a key that you crank all the vehicles anymore.
47:32
And then to change gears, you have to push the thing in and then you, and you have to have your foot on the brake or it won't go.
47:37
Like all those little nuances that vehicles have now.
47:42
I mean, I'm assuming if it's at least 10 years old, it's going to have something like that.
47:46
So yeah.
47:47
How does an eight year old pull that off?
47:50
Hit one mailbox.
47:51
I'm glad nobody was hurt.
47:52
Same.
47:52
Let's just say that.
47:53
And thank goodness that this dude called it in.
47:55
Right.
47:56
Because I think he followed her.
47:58
Okay.
47:58
So they knew where her location was or whatever.
48:01
But, I mean, to only do that, she's stopping at stoplights, red lights.
48:05
no, she went through the lights, I believe.
48:07
Okay.
48:07
Yeah, she didn't, like, follow the She was not following any of the laws.
48:11
It was, from the very beginning, being old enough to drive.
48:14
Right, and she was swerving, like, some, but, like, better than, some adults still drive.
48:18
I mean, just hit one mailbox.
48:19
Yeah.
48:20
I'm really proud of her for that.
48:22
Well, I'm not proud of her for stealing her mom's car.
48:23
No, but I'm proud of her for just hitting one mailbox.
48:27
Maybe the proud of her is the wrong thing.
48:28
Impressed?
48:29
Yeah, better.
48:30
Thank you.
48:31
With the driving skills?
48:33
Yeah, if you want to call it I could be impressed.
48:35
Yeah, so but don't do it again little girl.
48:37
Yeah, but Sipping on her frappuccino Like i'm picturing little purse right here.
48:43
Like she's going to do her chore.
48:45
She has her sunglasses on Her mom her mom chores and she's like, I just need a starbies and she goes and gets a frap She's sitting there on her phone.
48:53
Could you imagine when she's a teenager?
48:55
Oh my gosh No, ma'am.
48:58
Mm hmm I was laughing.
49:00
I told Dylan, I said, when you went on your trip, flight 360 notified me when the plane landed and I was like, that's so cool.
49:06
I didn't know that it did that.
49:07
It's never been in a situation where that was always either with Dylan traveling or whatever.
49:12
So he's like, flight 360 is the biggest op.
49:18
He's like, you can't get away with nothing.
49:19
And I was like, yeah, that's the point, right?
49:22
I was like, but you always like creep on my location.
49:24
They do it worse.
49:27
And so I have turned my location off before, Christmas shopping, going to pick something up, saving battery, all the excuses that I give, right?
49:36
Never for really, no, no, I'm not cheating on Brian, you know.
49:40
But Brian, but.
49:43
The boys noticed that they're like, why is your location off?
49:46
And I'm like, cause I have several of the boys on mine.
49:48
I'm like, if you're going to be at my house, you're on my list.
49:51
Or if you're going on like an extended vacation with us or whatever.
49:54
Yeah, they do that.
49:56
They like, yeah.
49:57
And actually that's funny that you say that because Jackson texted me the other day and I want you to see it because it was, it was about the same.
50:03
I was out to dinner with a friend and, He was not with me it was just me with my friend and he texted me this Can I get McDonald's?
50:13
I'll cash up you better turn that ringer on mother.
50:16
I'm about to ping your phone Yeah, they're as bad as them.
50:20
I'm with Dylan I'm just so thankful that we didn't have this one.
50:24
We were oh my god.
50:25
Yeah, cuz lord knows Oh, guess what we saw the other day when we went to the JV game at Rock Hill?
50:32
Mm-Hmm.
50:33
A payphone?
50:34
No.
50:34
And it had like the phone book thing.
50:36
Like the black binder thing.
50:38
Yeah.
50:38
Phone book was like just hanging there.
50:40
I was like, let me take this moment to teach you boys about history.
50:44
That is a phone booth.
50:45
We, went hiking at Kings Mountain.
50:48
Mm-Hmm.
50:48
a couple years.
50:48
Oh, during Covid?
50:49
Yeah.
50:49
And there was a payphone there.
50:51
It's a random place.
50:52
In the, in the parking lot.
50:54
Oh, okay.
50:54
Not like on the trail.
50:55
No, it was like in the parking lot, but it was like so random to see because you just don't see it.
50:59
Oh, right.
51:00
No, that's why it jumped out to me.
51:01
Like, what is this contraption?
51:03
Yeah.
51:03
Where does Superman change now?
51:05
That there's no phone booths.
51:07
Okay.
51:08
He has blackout windows in his vehicle.
51:10
I guess.
51:10
I guess.
51:11
Do you have an M out of the A hole?
51:12
I do.
51:13
Am I the a hole for calling the cops on a teenager who tracked down my house and was demanding I let him in?
51:19
And this was just in July.
51:21
Oh, another fresh one.
51:22
Okay.
51:23
You know, I like the recent.
51:25
A few months ago, me and my family went out to watch a movie and then have dinner together.
51:28
That includes my sister and nephew.
51:31
Two of my nephew's friends tagged along.
51:32
They were friendly and nothing out of the ordinary.
51:35
Two weeks later, one of my nephew's friends, John, showed up.
51:38
On my doorstep and asked if he could come in.
51:41
I was weirded out and got a bad vibe and asked him politely to leave.
51:44
For context, I live alone with my daughter, who's 11 years old, and a virtual stranger dropped by in our home unannounced.
51:51
I looked at the camera, And he was holding flowers and other stuff.
51:54
So I figured this was just a dumb kid with a crush who thought he could woo an adult, but I asked him twice to please leave and he wouldn't.
52:01
Saying he just had to see me and he'd tell me how much he loves me and this included a gross comment about me being a single mom.
52:08
Ugh.
52:08
I told him I was calling the cops and that's when he bolted.
52:10
Cops later came, took my statement and just circled around to make sure he wasn't still nearby.
52:15
I specified that yes, he was a kid, but I barely knew him and he had tracked down my house and wouldn't leave until I threatened he didn't commit a crime.
52:23
But the cops still.
52:24
By his parents house to give him a warning about not leaving private property when told to.
52:28
I didn't ask the cops to do that.
52:30
They took the info I gave.
52:32
I called my sister to find out his last name and who his parents were and just related that to the cops since they were asking.
52:37
I wanted to make sure he was gone.
52:39
That visit they did was on them.
52:42
His mom called me and she first apologized on behalf of her son if he made me feel unsafe, but then told me I went over the line by involving the cops and how teenage boys having crushes is nothing out of the ordinary and how this could ruin his life, and I should have remembered he's just a kid.
52:57
To top it off, my sister also told me I went over the top and how he's one of her son's good friends and that I should have called the police.
53:04
Her when he wouldn't leave and she would have got it sorted out.
53:07
I went with my gut feeling and I don't regret it.
53:09
Edit.
53:10
I'm 31.
53:10
John is 16.
53:12
And since I keep being asked about ages, I forgot to include it.
53:15
So I'm adding it now.
53:16
No, I don't blame you girl.
53:19
No.
53:19
16 years.
53:20
They're bigger than me.
53:21
Right.
53:23
No, I mean, Jackson's 15.
53:24
Yeah.
53:24
He's huge.
53:25
Yeah.
53:25
These kids that are, yeah, it's like a 12, 13 year old that hasn't like hit their right.
53:31
Whatever yet.
53:32
But I'm almost still picturing that.
53:34
Yeah.
53:35
They're still taller.
53:36
Middle school.
53:36
Yeah.
53:36
Everybody's bigger than me.
53:38
Um, high school for sure.
53:40
I mean, like, yeah, it makes me feel like 10 years old.
53:44
Um, no, that's gross.
53:46
And Mom, what are you defending this for?
53:48
Right.
53:48
Absolutely not.
53:50
That's not okay.
53:50
Like, that's why these kids are such, you know, what's yeah.
53:54
because the parents, there's no consequences.
53:56
And so it's okay.
53:58
They're just, they're just kids.
54:00
Do you think that this has happened before?
54:02
And that's, I think so.
54:03
I mean, that's for that to be first step to go ahead and show up at somebody's house.
54:08
That's very bold.
54:09
I think that's creepy.
54:10
I think it's escalated.
54:12
Like, I think there's probably been other things.
54:14
Oh, and it's escalated to this.
54:16
There is an update.
54:16
Okay, September 14th.
54:18
Oh last week What?
54:20
Two months later.
54:21
So it turns out nephew did give John my home address.
54:24
Let me tell you, I would kick my nephew's butt.
54:28
My sister and my nephew stopped by my house.
54:30
My sister basically brought him along so he could explain and apologize in person.
54:34
John's mom complained to another one of the mommies in their group about how John's friends are the reason he did something inappropriate.
54:41
My sister found out and got my nephew to confess.
54:44
John apparently kept asking my nephew about me after the night I met him and told my nephew and their friends about his crush on me.
54:52
My nephew and his friends egged him on to ask me out.
54:55
One of their friends asked My nephew, when was the last time I had a boyfriend, my nephew answered without thinking and said two years.
55:03
Then their little group told John and he had nothing to lose and how I'm probably wanting anybody to ask me out.
55:09
My nephew emphasized how he didn't think John would actually do it, it was just a stupid dare and how they kept pressuring him to give up my address so John could drop some flowers and how John stopping by my house was never talked about.
55:19
My nephew kept saying he was sorry and how he didn't think This would turn into such a big deal.
55:24
I was having none of that and let him have it.
55:26
Telling him how handing out my address without asking to people I don't know was putting me and my daughter in danger.
55:32
He's old enough to know better how stupid and thoughtless he acted.
55:36
I told him he would never house sit for me again because God forbid another one of his friends put a stupid idea on his head.
55:43
And that I really can't accept his apology because I don't even know if it's the truth.
55:47
First I was told he was shocked and angry at what John did, and now I'm being told this was all a stupid prank between the boys, so I can't be sure what to believe.
55:56
When I was done with him, I asked my sister if she thought this time my nephew was telling the truth and she said this time he was.
56:01
I then pointed out that this still doesn't excuse John for trespassing and refusing to leave my house.
56:07
When I told him to do, and I'm angry at my nephew for handing out my address, I still think there's something wrong with John.
56:14
This time my sister didn't give me the boys will be boys crap and agreed that she is bothered.
56:19
by how John's mom is still making excuses for him.
56:22
I asked if at least now that John has moved on and will leave me alone, my nephew said from what he heard, John's dad put the fear of God into him so he will likely never bother me again.
56:32
He still asked about me but my nephew has told him to drop it.
56:35
So if nothing else, I can believe my nephew's angry at John for dragging him into this and getting him in trouble as well.
56:41
So I don't think he's protecting his friend and trying to soften what happened.
56:45
It's been over a month since I called the cops on John.
56:47
So I find the timing of this weird and I feel both my sister and nephew know more, but at least I found out how that boy knew where to find him and that he likely won't try the same stunt twice.
56:57
That's enough for me.
56:58
Okay.
56:59
Okay.
56:59
So at least dad did something.
57:01
Right.
57:01
So it sounds like mom just, Laughed it off boys will be boys.
57:05
So, well, the John's mom is still blaming everybody else.
57:07
Oh, yes.
57:08
Yes.
57:08
I'm assuming it's 1 of the moms that my son does no wrong.
57:12
you know, it's not his fault that old.
57:14
And there's plenty of people out there, uh, yes, I'm judging you.
57:18
That is you I am judging you don't do that.
57:22
No, all kids can be but heads.
57:24
Yes.
57:25
Well, and the friend I'm assuming is about the same age.
57:28
Yeah.
57:28
16.
57:29
You should know by now not to give out somebody's address.
57:33
Yeah, your aunt, single aunt living at home with the daughter, like all of those, it's not okay for anybody.
57:40
It did sound like he thought, well first, about dropping off flowers, so like, did he think it was just gonna put flowers on the doorstep and leave?
57:46
Right.
57:46
I need more information.
57:49
Yeah.
57:49
Yeah.
57:50
She's not the a hole for calling the cops, but I need more information to determine if the nephew's the a hole.
57:55
He is, but I wanna know how, what level of a wholeness right is he at?
57:59
Are we a level one, a-hole or are we a higher in the, a-hole department?
58:04
Mm.
58:04
John's mom.
58:06
A-hole.
58:06
She is, I'm judging you.
58:08
I just, I I will say though, that I can hear boys doing this and egging each other on like, just she's a hot mom.
58:14
Go, you know that stuff.
58:16
But I don't, I I don't see any of'em that I know acting on it.
58:18
No.
58:19
Not okay.
58:21
No, not okay.
58:22
Right.
58:23
Well, I think that, she is not the a hole.
58:25
No, no.
58:26
I think the kid's just probably a stupid kid that has never been told no.
58:30
But I hope that, like, that's not an indication of, like Escalation for Like, weasel?
58:36
Right.
58:37
Yeah.
58:37
Yeah.
58:38
Mom, do better.
58:39
Do better, Mom.
58:40
For sure.
58:41
Talk to your kid.
58:42
What a butt head.
58:43
Yeah.
58:43
That gave me, like, the creeps.
58:44
Totally.
58:45
16's old enough to know that.
58:46
16 is They're man sized.
58:48
Yeah.
58:49
Yeah.
58:50
They're not fun sized anymore.
58:53
They are not okay with just some gummies and a juice box at this point, so that is the that's the age that they can't do that stuff anymore.
59:00
Unless it's like a If you're four and you're bringing me some hand picked dandelions from the yard Oh my gosh.
59:07
Please do it.
59:07
Well, kids, the theme of today's episode is, don't do stupid Stuff.
59:15
We can say it now because you can beep it out.
59:20
I can.
59:20
I love it little.
59:22
I know.
59:23
I know.
59:23
I like it too.
59:24
Um, yeah, that's the thing.
59:25
Don't do stupid stuff.
59:26
And, um, when you do stupid stuff, own up to it.
59:29
Yeah.
59:30
And moms do better.
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Your kids can suck.
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Your kids can suck.
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Their kids, they're going to suck sometimes.
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Yeah.
59:36
Well, that was an interesting episode.
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I'm still like the 786, Are you still like on that?
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It's going to, forever.
59:44
Like, see, I had already moved on from that.
59:45
Now you just brought it all back.
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So I'm just picturing poor, what do we call him?
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What was his name?
59:50
That was Jerry.
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Jerry.
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With his little, with his, his dad's server.
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His preacher thing with his goggles and hazmat suit.
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Poor Jerry.
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Jerry's quit the beard.
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I'm picturing, like, this room of just Ick.
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And then, like, if they blacklight it Oh my god.
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Yeah, gross.
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I just would love to be a fly on the, on the wall when they don't land.
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'cause you don't know what's on that wall.
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not in the interview room.
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When they're interviewing him and he's dropping names, you know he's gonna talk.
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You know, he's gonna talk.
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It's gonna be one of those reports that they like show clips of on and everything's gonna be blacked out.
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Yeah, for sure.
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But I wanna be a fly on the walls.
1:00:30
So bad and, Jaguar, right?
1:00:34
Is she talking again?
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Oh, I haven't been on tick tick lately.
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I knew what you were talking about though.
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But yeah, she's, she's talking.
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I hadn't been on.
1:00:43
I mean, I have, but I haven't.
1:00:44
You know what I mean?
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I'll have to go back on her because I followed her when you told me about her.
1:00:48
Yeah.
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Oh my gosh, that sounds so fun.
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So, that is coming soon.
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I said it sounds like I want to subscribe.
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We'll be the only two subscribers.
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I want to make a fake account for it.
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We'll make those announcements.
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I'm so glad you're got it all under control.
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I don't really know.
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I wouldn't say under control, but I just show up and have a good time.
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Well, you know, you just have to sit there and look pretty.
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Well, I'm falling short there, but anyway, all right, peeps.
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