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Episode 19: Carnegie's Maid By Marie Benedict Review | Michigan Dumb Crimes & Laws | Rabbit Holes We Went Down · This Is My Circus

• 0:00
  Hey, this is Stefanie.
• 0:01
  And I am Meredith.
• 0:02
  And welcome to, this is my Circus.
• 0:07
  That was funny.
• 0:09
  Well, we're just gonna roll with that one because you know, I'm, it works, it's fine.
• 0:13
  I like rolling.
• 0:14
  Yeah.
• 0:15
  Yep.
• 0:15
  Um, so I had a hard time connecting to our meeting.
• 0:18
  Do you wanna know why?
• 0:19
  Why?
• 0:19
  I had the wifi on my, on my iPad off.
• 0:22
  Oh, genius Gene.
• 0:27
  Yes, it happens.
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  It happens.
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  Uh, Rex is, Rex is joining us this morning.
• 0:32
  hi Rex.
• 0:34
  He's like, what?
• 0:36
  Hi Rex.
• 0:38
  I miss my friend.
• 0:41
  Um, um, so I know Crazy Town for you right now.
• 0:44
  Oh my gosh.
• 0:44
  Yeah.
• 0:44
  So that's why we're doing Zooms right now is I have such like a limited timeframe, that I can do anything right now, because we are so crazy getting ready for, the World Championship of cornhole and, So, you know, I, when I can fit it in.
• 0:59
  Yeah.
• 0:59
  It, the heavy breathing isn't me.
• 1:01
  It's Rex.
• 1:03
  Well, and if we need to record next week, live on site at the, um, yeah, I think we should, we can do interviews then too.
• 1:12
  That'd perfect.
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  That'd be perfect.
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  Speaking of interviews, I did reach out to, Coley Eaton Uhhuh, and wait to hear back from her on when we can have a convo with her.
• 1:22
  Awesome.
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  I know she's, Super busy.
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  but just trying to, you know, continue that ball rolling.
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  Yeah.
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  And, uh, have a chat with her.
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  Yeah.
• 1:31
  Awesome.
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  That's, I'm super excited to, to get, to meet her and Yeah.
• 1:35
  And just, you know, hear some more of her thoughts and, and get some positive vibes from her.
• 1:40
  Totally.
• 1:41
  How is being home and just chilling right now?
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  Well, it's, you know, it's stressful.
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  I need a job.
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  I want a job.
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  All, all of that.
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  But, I'm trying to have a really good attitude about it because I know that there's a lot of things out there.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  It's just finding the one that works for me.
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  And the hiring process takes so long.
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  Um, you know, when I was young and got a job, you got hired and then you started like the, whenever the next pay week started.
• 2:09
  Pretty much.
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  Now, you know, you have to do several layers of interviews and you had to do the background checks and the drug screenings and all of those things.
• 2:16
  So, I've got a lot of irons in the fire, got a lot of things going there.
• 2:21
  I just had a good call this morning with someone so, Um, I do have a job though that I've applied for and I'm really got my fingers crossed for this one.
• 2:32
  I've not heard yay or nay from them at this point.
• 2:35
  Mm-hmm.
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  Um, but it is for a helicopter pilot.
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  What?
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  I have zero qualifications for this job, but I'm, I'm, wait.
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  I need to know what you're gonna be doing for this.
• 2:50
  Flying the helicopter.
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  Shut up.
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  Really.
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  Yeah, but I'm not gonna get this job.
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  You're not gonna me.
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  Oh my God.
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  Could you imagine?
• 3:00
  Oh.
• 3:01
  I would love it.
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  I would have so much fun.
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  Do you have to have a, like a pilot license for that?
• 3:06
  Oh yes.
• 3:07
  Yes.
• 3:07
  Do you have a pilot license?
• 3:09
  No.
• 3:11
  I just thought it sounded like a really fun job and Brian keeps saying like, the next job you take, like.
• 3:17
  Make sure it's something that you really, really like, that you're passionate about.
• 3:20
  You know, and I liked what I did, but I just didn't have this I passion.
• 3:24
  Yeah.
• 3:25
  I was right.
• 3:26
  Yeah.
• 3:26
  I mean, I, it was a good product, I believe in the future of that product.
• 3:31
  Um, but I just was like, uh, so I feel like being a helicopter pilot would really put me over the edge of having that, feeling of being fulfilled.
• 3:42
  I'm telling you.
• 3:43
  PI should not be out of the picture.
• 3:46
  Right.
• 3:47
  Private detective.
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  I mean, uh, I will, I will look into that as well.
• 3:52
  Just saying, making a note.
• 3:53
  Making a note.
• 3:55
  So, um, you know, I mean, it's like the days run into each other.
• 4:00
  Um, when you're home and it's summer the kids are here, well, singular, but, um, anyway, it's just, it's just a weird time.
• 4:07
  There's always bonus ones around somewhere.
• 4:10
  Always, always.
• 4:12
  But I do have some very, very exciting news.
• 4:15
  I haven't even told you this yet.
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  Oh, we are officially brand.
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  Ambassadors for, she's Birdie for the product I sent you.
• 4:23
  Yeah.
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  So we are official.
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  This is our very first.
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  Um, that is so cool.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Can you tell everybody what they, what it is?
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  'cause I like totally 100% think this product is amazing and I 100% Yeah.
• 4:38
  Stand behind it.
• 4:40
  Yep, of course.
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  And we're gonna link all our, um, our codes to use this.
• 4:44
  The, the code is circus.
• 4:46
  I'm so excited that we have official code, but we'll put the link on there where you can get a little discount.
• 4:51
  so what this product is, it's, a device that goes on your key chain and there's several different layers of, you know, from premium to just a basic.
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  and even with the very basic one, what it does is you very easily.
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  Pull this device apart and it makes a shrill loud sound, and it's a, a safety feature.
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  It goes on your key ring and, it, you know, attracts attention if you should need that.
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  Now there are, like I said, different levels for these products where you can get like a premium, et cetera.
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  It does everything from like, you click it has one button on it, and like one click.
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  We'll make an emergency call to your.
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  And I might have the numbers of clicks wrong, so don't quote me on that.
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  But one click will like contact your people that you have hooked into your device and send them your location.
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  Like a double click, we'll do an emergency call to nine one one.
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  Um, another series of clicks.
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  I like this feature.
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  We'll do like a fake call to you to get out of a situation that you don't need to be in, and you need to have like an excuse to leave.
• 5:53
  I'm very excited about this product.
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  It's a cute little, like three four inch long fits on your key chain.
• 5:59
  Smaller than a thing, a mace, I would think.
• 6:01
  Mm-hmm.
• 6:02
  Um, I'm getting one.
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  It should be here soon.
• 6:04
  Awesome.
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  And just, yeah, I really believe in this product as well.
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  I think it's fantastic.
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  So when I, when you sent me the, the product info, I was on the website and I saw, and I like, wish I had this in college because I lived off campus in college and I think this is like something every college student should have, where they will.
• 6:22
  Like one of their operators, through their product system, will stay on the phone while you walk home.
• 6:28
  So I didn't live too far off campus.
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  It was like maybe like three block, two, three blocks.
• 6:32
  Mm-hmm.
• 6:33
  I went there'cause that's where Brandon went and you know, he's like, come to my college.
• 6:37
  And I'm like, okay, okay boy, with the muscles I'm coming.
• 6:44
  So, um, but we lived off campus and, you know, having to pass all these frat houses and stuff and, you know, I was.
• 6:50
  Again, so much smaller and so much younger in those days.
• 6:56
  But, um, you know, I was definitely feisty and I could throw down if I needed to, but when you're in those situations, it's very uncomfortable.
• 7:05
  Right.
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  And you know, I would like call either my mom or my sisters or, you know, some, I hope somebody answers the phone if I was walking home from a class at night.
• 7:13
  So that is such an mm-hmm.
• 7:15
  Awesome feature.
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  So if anybody has girls going or even guys going to college, you know, it's something that everybody could benefit from.
• 7:24
  So, definitely.
• 7:25
  Right.
• 7:25
  We'll get those links posted.
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  Um, and the discount code.
• 7:29
  And I just think it, if, if you know anybody in college going off to college, um, you know, even just working, walking back to your car from work mm-hmm.
• 7:37
  Yeah, I thought the same thing.
• 7:39
  'cause I've got a few friends whose girls are getting ready to go away to school, um, or are in school and could benefit, or we have a lot of friends that work, um, a crazy shift and they're going to a parking deck, you know, at yeah, midnight 3:00 AM whatever, um, guys, girls, and I know that there's.
• 7:58
  There's features and precautions, like, you know, they have like the little emergency pull this thing that's not always right there.
• 8:04
  Yeah.
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  If you, when you need it in a situation and if you've got something that you can just one handedly maneuver and make it work.
• 8:11
  I'm, I'm very excited and I'm, I'm so thankful that they did choose us to be an ambassador for them because, um, like you said, we believe in this.
• 8:21
  Yeah.
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  In those parking garages, those emergency like pull thing, like, you know, if, if it's a criminal, they know what they're doing, they know where those things are, and they're going to do something, not when you're not able to get to those safety features.
• 8:32
  I think.
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  Car alarms, like, you know, somebody will like, oh, just hit your car alarm.
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  But the car alarms go off all the time and nobody even pays attention to car alarms anymore because they go off so often.
• 8:41
  Right.
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  So having some kind of different, alarm or different kind of sound, I think is mm-hmm.
• 8:47
  It's such a great product and, and whoever invented this, like, kudos to you'cause.
• 8:51
  I know it's awesome.
• 8:52
  Totally, totally.
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  And not that we don't always have our phones, but in that situation, when you're grappling, trying to, you know, find a phone and call and whatever, and I know that there's easy ways that you can make an emergency call.
• 9:04
  Yeah.
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  But if you've just got one button that's right there and you just know you hold that down or whatever, that just, and the, honestly, the product is very reasonable.
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  It's under 30 bucks.
• 9:15
  Yeah, I need to get one for my niece.
• 9:16
  Um, she's 19 and, you know, she works at'em all and you know, whatever.
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  Yeah.
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  You never know how you're gonna react.
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  You think that you can handle situations.
• 9:25
  Right.
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  but until you're in that situation, you don't know what you're gonna do.
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  So yeah.
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  Awesome products.
• 9:30
  Thank you so much for finding that.
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  'cause again, I've never heard of it before.
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  You send it to me, I just think it is.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Such a cool product.
• 9:37
  So awesome.
• 9:39
  I'm excited about that.
• 9:39
  Me too.
• 9:40
  Me too, I told you I got that.
• 9:42
  solo wave.
• 9:43
  Yes.
• 9:43
  So its been a week, full week of using it.
• 9:45
  And not that I see any like notice in like wrinkles, but.
• 9:50
  My skin is so much more moisturized.
• 9:52
  cause I guess it's supposed to let like your products seep in better.
• 9:57
  Ooh.
• 9:58
  And you know, I have crazy dry skin anyway.
• 10:00
  Like, I mean like my skin's just naturally dry.
• 10:02
  okay.
• 10:02
  But there is a big difference in, I think, like the absorption.
• 10:06
  So, okay.
• 10:08
  We're on week one.
• 10:09
  We'll see what week two brings.
• 10:12
  I need that link for real.
• 10:13
  Yeah.
• 10:14
  So we'll get that posted.
• 10:15
  They do have an ambassador program, but we can see if we can get approved for it.
• 10:19
  But I, I wanted to make sure that it worked first.
• 10:21
  'cause I, I, I don't wanna, yeah.
• 10:22
  You know, share products that we don't like.
• 10:25
  Oh, yeah.
• 10:26
  Yeah.
• 10:28
  That we're not sure how it's gonna go.
• 10:29
  Yeah, totally.
• 10:30
  So we're week one.
• 10:31
  I do, again, see a big change as far as my skin being hydrated.
• 10:37
  Good.
• 10:39
  I don't like though, like their, well, it's not that I don't like it, their serum that they send with it.
• 10:44
  like you have to put it on and then like, you know, use the Wand with it.
• 10:47
  Mm-hmm.
• 10:47
  And you don't have to use their serum.
• 10:48
  You can use anything without oil.
• 10:49
  Mm-hmm.
• 10:50
  Um, and.
• 10:52
  It dries so quickly when you're using it.
• 10:54
  Like you have to reapply so much to it.
• 10:56
  Like to Yeah, get it to glide.
• 10:59
  but I read that you can use any like, water-based, serum.
• 11:03
  Okay.
• 11:03
  So you don't have to use theirs.
• 11:05
  so I'm gonna look into different stuff.
• 11:07
  'cause I, I think you would go through their stuff so quickly.
• 11:10
  Yeah.
• 11:11
  It has to be a, a better one.
• 11:12
  Somebody else said you can just like, spray water.
• 11:15
  once the serum dries out, uhhuh spray water on your face and then like use it and like activate.
• 11:19
  Yeah.
• 11:20
  You know, I would think like aloe vera gel would, might be something good.
• 11:25
  Yeah.
• 11:25
  Too.
• 11:25
  And, and, and an inexpensive product compared to some of the face products.
• 11:29
  Yeah.
• 11:30
  Just for that purpose.
• 11:31
  Yeah.
• 11:32
  Um, and, and their thing does have aloe in it, like their serum.
• 11:35
  so that actually that's a good idea.
• 11:36
  I didn't think about that.
• 11:38
  So, yeah.
• 11:38
  So.
• 11:39
  I think it's going good so far.
• 11:42
  We'll see how it works on the wrinkles in the, in the bags.
• 11:47
  The ever present in my life.
• 11:49
  Yes.
• 11:50
  so, what did you think of this week's book?
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  So this book, so it was Carnegie's Maid.
• 11:56
  Yeah.
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  And it was by, Marie Benedict.
• 11:59
  Mm-hmm.
• 12:00
  Do you have the blurb?
• 12:01
  I do.
• 12:02
  Clara Kelly is not who they think she is.
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  She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest household.
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  She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets.
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  But the woman who shares her name has vanished, and assuming her identity, she just might get Clara some money in to send back home.
• 12:23
  Clara must rely on resolve as strong as the steel Pittsburgh is becoming famous for and an uncanny understanding of business attributes that quickly glean her Carnegie's trust, but she still can't let her guard down.
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  Not even when Andrew becomes something more than an employer revealing her past might ruin her future, and her families with captivating insight and heart.
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  Carnegie's Made is a book of fascinating.
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  19th century historical fiction.
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  Discover the story of one brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie's transformation from ruthless industrialist to the world's first true philanthropist.
• 12:59
  I am not a historical fiction reader, so it was hard for me to get through it just'cause it's not my typical type of book that Yeah, I would, you know, whatever.
• 13:09
  so I thought it was interesting, like the struggle of the immigrants arriving and like how people tried to take, advantage of them if they didn't know any better or like the stories that she had been been told to watch out for.
• 13:21
  Yeah.
• 13:21
  Um, so that side of it was like, I mean like we learned that in school or whatever, that, you know, coming over wasn't the American dream that everybody thought it was gonna be.
• 13:35
  So this book for me was a little bit of a good palette cleanser.
• 13:38
  I do like historical.
• 13:40
  I, I do like Ireland.
• 13:42
  So hearing that Irish and the Scottish broke, like that was fun.
• 13:46
  but I felt the book was a little boring.
• 13:50
  We do, um, especially after all of the trauma we've been through recently.
• 13:55
  Yeah.
• 13:57
  Um, it was good to have a little bit of a reset.
• 13:59
  I I, you know, we had talked about throwing some more palate cleansers in, so I think this was that, but it was a little bit too much.
• 14:05
  It was like having a salting cracker.
• 14:07
  Yeah.
• 14:07
  After you've been having all these fancy foods.
• 14:09
  Yeah.
• 14:10
  so we need the, we need like a salt cracker with peanut butter.
• 14:13
  So just a little bit more I did not like the ending.
• 14:17
  Like, I don't, me neither.
• 14:18
  Okay.
• 14:19
  Okay.
• 14:19
  No, we're not gonna do a spoiler, but like, the ending made me mad.
• 14:21
  No, me too.
• 14:23
  Me too.
• 14:23
  And it was, the ending was, and for me, was unexpected.
• 14:28
  I did not, I expected it to go a more traditional route, um, with, you know, with how it was gonna tie everything up.
• 14:35
  So it was not what I expected and I think it was just outta character for her.
• 14:40
  Um.
• 14:40
  Mm-hmm.
• 14:41
  And so that was what I was like, I don't know.
• 14:43
  I didn't like it.
• 14:44
  Yeah.
• 14:45
  I didn't like the ending.
• 14:46
  Um, I mean, I, again, not my style book.
• 14:49
  I think it was written good.
• 14:50
  I think it was very detailed.
• 14:51
  I think, um, mm-hmm.
• 14:53
  She developed the characters good.
• 14:54
  It was very dry for me, I guess.
• 14:57
  Mm-hmm.
• 14:57
  I, I did like getting that, those historical pieces, of hearing about different things just the, the way things were quote back then, you know?
• 15:05
  Yeah.
• 15:06
  Several hundred years ago and how things went.
• 15:07
  Would you recommend this book?
• 15:09
  If you like historical fiction, I guess.
• 15:10
  I mean, like, again, it's not an exciting book, I don't think.
• 15:13
  yeah.
• 15:13
  But if you're into that, oh, it is kind of based loosely on a true story.
• 15:18
  Right.
• 15:18
  But I just don't think it's like my cup of tea.
• 15:21
  Right.
• 15:22
  Okay.
• 15:23
  Yeah.
• 15:23
  Oh my shot of whiskey.
• 15:24
  I just, or whatever you wanna call it, I just wanted to make sure that both of our listeners out there know that there is some, um, this was based loosely on, on a historical event.
• 15:37
  Right.
• 15:37
  What would you rate the book outta 10?
• 15:39
  I would give it like a six.
• 15:41
  Okay.
• 15:41
  Yeah, I was like a four five maybe.
• 15:45
  Yeah.
• 15:45
  I, I, I didn't hate it.
• 15:47
  I don't know, but it, it wasn't my all time favorite.
• 15:50
  I wouldn't read it again.
• 15:51
  But I actually finished this one, so I feel like that gives me a little bit of a boost.
• 15:57
  It have been last week.
• 16:00
  well next week I'm excited about this one'cause I do love this author.
• 16:03
  I've read other books, by her.
• 16:04
  Um, it's called The lying Game, by Ruth Ware.
• 16:07
  I just started listening to it and so, um, This is good.
• 16:12
  My speed.
• 16:14
  Good, good.
• 16:15
  Well, and I did finish the one that I had mentioned last week on our podcast since I did bail on that one.
• 16:21
  And I wanted to read something else.
• 16:22
  I did finish the vanishing hour mm-hmm.
• 16:24
  That we had talked about.
• 16:25
  And, um, I can't remember the author off top of my head, but that was a good one and I would recommend that that's more of the, the genre we've been been doing.
• 16:34
  So, um, that was not a bad one.
• 16:36
  Good.
• 16:36
  Good.
• 16:37
  Do you wanna get into our dumb crimes?
• 16:40
  'cause there were some doozies in Michigan.
• 16:42
  Michigan is the place to be.
• 16:44
  Um, can we start with laws though?
• 16:45
  Yeah.
• 16:47
  Okay, so I thought it was funny that, um, you cannot be drunk on a train.
• 16:54
  I saw that and I was like that.
• 16:56
  I don't know.
• 16:57
  I don't know how I feel about that.
• 16:58
  I feel like I.
• 17:01
  Don't tell what Oh, what to do.
• 17:02
  Right.
• 17:03
  It's one of those that you're like, okay, I'm sure somebody, you know, got in trouble being drunk on a train, whatever.
• 17:10
  did you have some that you like to, okay, this was like the weirdest one that I think I came up with.
• 17:16
  It's against the law to paint a sparrow with red paint with the intentions of selling them as parakeets.
• 17:23
  Speechless.
• 17:24
  Did you ever do when you were little?
• 17:26
  The game?
• 17:27
  Mad Libs?
• 17:27
  Yes.
• 17:28
  Where it's like, okay, gimme a verb.
• 17:29
  I feel like that sentence is mad Libs.
• 17:31
  Like, gimme a color red.
• 17:32
  Okay.
• 17:33
  Mm-hmm.
• 17:33
  Gimme a verb.
• 17:34
  Yeah.
• 17:34
  What are you gonna do?
• 17:35
  Sell it.
• 17:36
  Okay.
• 17:37
  That's what that sounds like.
• 17:39
  That makes no sense.
• 17:40
  No.
• 17:40
  Um, You, uh, you cannot sell cars on Sundays.
• 17:47
  I did see that, and I mean, I guess I can kind of understand it, like Chick-fil-a's not open on Sunday.
• 17:52
  So yeah, that's either no car.
• 17:56
  Here's another, this is the second state that we have had this same law.
• 18:00
  It's illegal to tie an alligator to a fire hydrant in Detroit.
• 18:05
  Why are there alligators in Detroit anyway?
• 18:07
  Why are people putting up to the fire extinguishers all the questions?
• 18:13
  When was the last time this occurred?
• 18:17
  That's what I wanna know.
• 18:18
  Like who had a pet alligator that they took for a walk and they thought, I'm just gonna leave you here buddy.
• 18:23
  Yeah.
• 18:24
  You're gonna be okay.
• 18:25
  Um, it's against the law to willfully destroy an old radio.
• 18:30
  Okay.
• 18:30
  Well, in Detroit it's against the law to scowl at a woman.
• 18:37
  Oh my gosh.
• 18:38
  After Brian and I had some words last night, we might need to implement this law in Clover.
• 18:43
  Um, it's illegal to throw an abandoned hoop skirt onto the street or sidewalk.
• 18:49
  If you do violate this law, it's a$5 fine.
• 18:52
  Oh, okay.
• 18:53
  Well, in Rochester, all bathing suits are supposed to be inspected by the head of police.
• 19:00
  No, no.
• 19:03
  No.
• 19:05
  Oh my goodness.
• 19:07
  Oh my goodness.
• 19:07
  Um, pigs cannot run free in Detroit unless they have a ring in their nose.
• 19:11
  I did see that one.
• 19:12
  That was actually my last one, so, um, I did see that and I was like a ring in the nose.
• 19:18
  Okay.
• 19:19
  Um, okay.
• 19:21
  Dumb criminal.
• 19:22
  You wanna kick us off for with that?
• 19:23
  Sure.
• 19:24
  Okay, A man in Pontiac Courtroom suspected of drug possession tries to argue that his case should be thrown out because the cop who searched his pocket did not have a warrant.
• 19:35
  Prosecutor says that the officer didn't need one because there was a suspicious bulge in the pocket of the man's jacket.
• 19:41
  The defendant wearing the same jacket shows the judge his coat, which happens to have a packet of cocaine in the pocket.
• 19:48
  Laughter ensues and the judge calls for recess to regain his composure.
• 19:54
  Oh my gosh.
• 19:55
  Oh my gosh.
• 19:57
  Don't keep cocaine in your pocket.
• 20:00
  Not step one.
• 20:01
  Don't do cocaine.
• 20:03
  Step two if you don't to.
• 20:08
  Oh my gosh, that's pretty funny.
• 20:10
  Dumb, dumb, dumb.
• 20:11
  Okay, so I, I've got one as well.
• 20:14
  I'll share let me give you the headline here.
• 20:16
  So, drunk Driver runs outta gas calls police to have been shot to get a faster response.
• 20:22
  Um, 30 year old Detroit man effectively called the police on himself.
• 20:26
  According to the Michigan State Police, he was traveling with the female passenger when they ran out of gas instead of, instead of calling AAA or a friend, the passenger called, Michigan State Police, Detroit Regional Communication Center asking for courtesy patrol to help them out.
• 20:43
  She called again wanting a quick response, but no one came.
• 20:46
  The driver allegedly hatched a plan to ensure a fast response.
• 20:50
  According to authorities.
• 20:51
  They called, I'm not gonna say it again, but the big long communication center and claimed that a white man in a pur.
• 20:58
  Purple.
• 20:59
  S r t fired 150 shots into his vehicle with an AK 47.
• 21:04
  Police were dispatched and perplexed when no one was injured and there were no bullet holes.
• 21:08
  Police determined the man made a false report of shooting in an effort to get a quick response after running out of gas.
• 21:14
  If this wasn't bad enough, troopers noticed the man was drunk and driving on a suspended license.
• 21:19
  He also had fugitive warrants to boots.
• 21:22
  The man was arrested for operating while intoxicated.
• 21:25
  He had a blood alcohol content of 0.16, which is twice the legal limit.
• 21:30
  He was taken to detention center and facing a long list of charges, so he didn't just say, yo, somebody shot at me and drove by.
• 21:39
  He said, uh, AK forty seven, a hundred fifty rounds in my car, and they show up in there.
• 21:44
  Something I, I, uh, I don't know what you could say about that.
• 21:49
  So, you know, they say that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, right?
• 21:52
  Like the more you come.
• 21:53
  But that is taking it to the next level.
• 21:56
  It's, Hey Meredith, if you ever get stuck on the side of the road, you can call me.
• 21:59
  Don't call the police.
• 22:01
  Right.
• 22:01
  I will come and get you girl.
• 22:03
  Phone a friend.
• 22:04
  Phone a friend.
• 22:05
  Don't, don't do that.
• 22:07
  Stupidness.
• 22:07
  Oh my gosh.
• 22:09
  I know.
• 22:09
  For real.
• 22:09
  So could you see that these whales are like still.
• 22:14
  Capsizing boats and, um, no, they're like, they're growing their pod, like they're teaching more.
• 22:20
  No, like, I'm so fascinated by this.
• 22:23
  Like, I don't, I'm, I don't know.
• 22:25
  I'm like fascinated.
• 22:27
  So last, well, the first time we talked about it, they were in Spain, Uhhuh.
• 22:30
  Are they still kind of over there?
• 22:32
  Do we know where they are?
• 22:33
  I think so.
• 22:33
  But I guess like they're tracking like the pod or whatever and um, there's like, yeah, it's like, I, I, there's a TikTok, or it's like this, like younger dude that like tells about all like the, the, the, um, characteristics of animals and stuff like that.
• 22:49
  He's like funny.
• 22:49
  Mm-hmm.
• 22:50
  He makes it like really, really funny.
• 22:51
  Um, and he calls, uh, orcas, I forget what he calls them.
• 22:56
  He is like, uh, like ba, like basically like the gangsters of the sea.
• 22:59
  Like they'll just like knock anybody off, you know?
• 23:02
  Yeah.
• 23:04
  That is insane.
• 23:05
  Yes.
• 23:06
  I didn't know that was, it's not like free Willy, like, you know, whatever.
• 23:09
  Like these, they, he's like, they will murder something just for fun.
• 23:15
  My gosh.
• 23:16
  Um, speaking of craziness though, have you heard the story of the woman who went missing?
• 23:22
  Yes.
• 23:22
  Um, about the toddler and then all of a sudden she's, yes.
• 23:26
  I've been going down that rabbit hole as well.
• 23:28
  Oh.
• 23:29
  So my goodness.
• 23:30
  To fill people in who might not know.
• 23:32
  Just very high level.
• 23:33
  There was a woman, uh, like 30 years old.
• 23:36
  No, early twenties.
• 23:37
  Yeah.
• 23:37
  And she was going down the road.
• 23:40
  She calls in 9 1 1, says there's a toddler walking down the road.
• 23:43
  She's gonna stop and help them and police come to assist her.
• 23:49
  She is gone.
• 23:50
  There is no toddler.
• 23:51
  Her car is there, like the door is open, her wig is there on the side of the road, like.
• 23:58
  Her phone.
• 23:58
  Phone.
• 23:59
  Mm-hmm.
• 23:59
  Um, and then 49 hours later, I think she just reappeared.
• 24:05
  Um, so that's a lot of, and I'm, why am I thinking that's in Alabama?
• 24:09
  It was actually, I just pulled up the article.
• 24:11
  Okay.
• 24:11
  It was in Alabama.
• 24:12
  Okay.
• 24:12
  Um, and they raised$63,000 for her, like reward money and.
• 24:21
  Now they're, it, it's very speculated.
• 24:23
  They haven't come out and said it.
• 24:25
  But the f b I said that like everything that she says, like it's contradictory to what the evidence says.
• 24:30
  So, on Facebook and like, you know, it's people like commenting from her area basically said like, She didn't wanna work that weekend, like she, like from her job?
• 24:40
  I don't know.
• 24:41
  I don't know.
• 24:41
  That was just like some of, like the comments that were there.
• 24:43
  Yeah.
• 24:44
  Um, that of people that were in the area that know her or whatever.
• 24:47
  so it was a really stupid, reason to do.
• 24:51
  Mm-hmm.
• 24:51
  I mean, there's no good reason to do this, police were searching for F b I was called.
• 24:55
  Right.
• 24:55
  There was all these, right.
• 24:57
  You know, People searching for her, volunteering their time.
• 25:01
  Yeah.
• 25:01
  m money raised, supposedly, I don't know if it's true or not, the, all the donations were supposed to be going back to whoever donated.
• 25:07
  so like there was no, you know, profit from this, but, right, right.
• 25:12
  Crazy.
• 25:13
  And she apparently did one interview with police and then she's refused any other interviews, which I don't understand how you can just.
• 25:21
  Refuse interviews like that, I guess, unless they have something to charge her with.
• 25:26
  I don't know.
• 25:26
  But that is an interesting situation that I've been kind of digging along in that.
• 25:33
  Okay.
• 25:33
  So going down that, like another rabbit hole, I saw something.
• 25:37
  Okay.
• 25:37
  Did you see like how Jamie Fox's was like in the hospital or whatever?
• 25:41
  Yeah.
• 25:42
  And so the speculation is that P Diddy poisoned him.
• 25:46
  Oh, I didn't hear that.
• 25:48
  Because he was like, Talking about all of the like, weird stuff that goes down at like, okay, P Diddy's parties so then I went down this rabbit hole, right?
• 25:59
  Of p Diddy.
• 26:00
  'cause from our generation.
• 26:01
  Like he, you know Right.
• 26:02
  Biggie and p Diddy, like, right, right.
• 26:05
  So, there's like speculation that he abused several underage children.
• 26:09
  Oh, that.
• 26:11
  So, I mean, over the years, he has like all these like wild parties where, You know, there's no inhibitions.
• 26:19
  Yeah.
• 26:20
  And as long as you know what, as long as everybody is over is is like a consent, me consent handle.
• 26:25
  Yeah.
• 26:25
  I you do you like, I, you know, as long as everybody's good with it and you're not holding it over people's head, you're not using this as leverage to blackmail or whatever.
• 26:35
  Yeah.
• 26:35
  Yeah.
• 26:36
  So, but that's not the case apparently.
• 26:38
  I mean from all these like reports of what is going on.
• 26:41
  I just.
• 26:43
  Watched a video and it said that there was five people that started, bad Boy Records or whatever it was called.
• 26:49
  Three of them, are now dead.
• 26:51
  And Kim, who was, I think Pete Diddy's wife at some point Yeah.
• 26:56
  Is also dead now.
• 26:58
  Wait, um, little Kim?
• 27:00
  No, no, no, no.
• 27:01
  It's like Kim Porter, I think is what her name was.
• 27:03
  Oh yeah.
• 27:03
  I think that's right.
• 27:04
  so all of them though were writing a tell all book when they died.
• 27:10
  They said that the men supposedly had heart attacks and then Kim Porter, the first coroner's report, said that it was probably murder'cause there was like toxins and stuff in her body.
• 27:21
  and then the second coroner's report said it was pneumonia and said it was just like a natural causes.
• 27:26
  Oh my goodness.
• 27:28
  I did read some of the Jamie Fox stuff and he's very vague on what happened.
• 27:33
  Like they, some people are, some of his friends, et cetera, are saying, you know, they think he had a stroke, but nobody is confirming anything.
• 27:43
  And he, gave a special shout out to his daughter and his.
• 27:49
  Sister, I wanna say something like that.
• 27:52
  Definitely his daughter, um, on their privacy in this and how they protected him in this situation.
• 27:59
  So crazy.
• 28:01
  Yeah.
• 28:02
  Pete did, he is not a good man.
• 28:05
  Hot garbage.
• 28:06
  Yeah.
• 28:06
  Oh man.
• 28:07
  I'm so like, I hate knowing, like, you know, ignorance is bliss, right?
• 28:11
  And then you go down these rabbit holes and find out how horrible and like, like the holly weird, like hashtag holly weird that is going on right now.
• 28:18
  Yeah.
• 28:19
  Um, but you know, usher lived with him for a year when he was 14, p Diddy, and went to all of these like adult.
• 28:29
  Wild parties and was involved in all of this stuff.
• 28:33
  there's like, has he come out and said anything at this point?
• 28:36
  He just commented about living with him.
• 28:39
  and it was like, I forgot what they called it.
• 28:41
  Like p Diddy's, like fantasy school or something like that.
• 28:45
  I don't know.
• 28:45
  It was like some weird name.
• 28:47
  it reminds me of Michael Jackson's Neverland and I was a huge Michael Jackson fan, there there was speculation that, you know, like he was inappropriate.
• 28:55
  Yeah.
• 28:55
  Yeah.
• 28:56
  Um, and then also there's, um, speculation that Justin Bieber was also, I've heard that before by someone else, allegedly, don't remember who the offender was, but I've heard that about him as well.
• 29:10
  So like, it's just so sad.
• 29:12
  Like, It is.
• 29:14
  It is.
• 29:15
  And that in the podcast and books and the shows and all that that we watch, in the news we read, it's almost the norm.
• 29:24
  Yeah.
• 29:24
  Um, and that is sickening.
• 29:26
  That that is just what's expected.
• 29:29
  And people don't even blink an eye because it's just the way it is.
• 29:34
  And that's so, On the Michael Jackson thing, I just, because they were talking about all this crazy stuff going on in, in Hollywood and whatever somebody mentioned Michael Jackson and they said that the kids that were abused in Hollywood said that Michael Jackson actually protected them from the abusers.
• 29:55
  McLay Culkin and, mm-hmm.
• 29:57
  Cory, Cory Feldman, or the other Cory from like the eighties Hay.
• 30:01
  Yeah.
• 30:01
  One of, I think it was Cory Feldman.
• 30:03
  Or Feldman.
• 30:03
  Yeah.
• 30:03
  Yeah.
• 30:04
  I think, um, They both said that he was the only adult at that time that actually protected them and kept them away from the people.
• 30:15
  And they both admit, you know, had, I know Corey said that he was abused.
• 30:19
  I don't know about McLay.
• 30:20
  Colgate.
• 30:20
  Yeah.
• 30:21
  Um, I mean, openly admit, openly said it.
• 30:23
  Oh, very open.
• 30:24
  Yeah.
• 30:25
  And, and um, they both said Michael Jackson was the only person in the industry that protected him.
• 30:34
  Well, what about all these other claims from everybody else?
• 30:36
  Then that's what's, so they said that, I guess like the people that are doing the abusing is the high in power suits, ties, you know, like mm-hmm.
• 30:45
  You can't touch me kind of people.
• 30:46
  And this is just the speculation.
• 30:48
  I don't know, like, I don't know what, you know, truly happened, but um, you know, what's better to throw the shade onto somebody that's different or that doesn't, I mean that, you know.
• 30:58
  Yeah.
• 30:59
  Is wearing black shoes, shoes, white socks, and you know, a, a marching band jacket and names, blanket.
• 31:05
  Yeah.
• 31:05
  Right.
• 31:06
  Um, so they said that it was all done because stuff was coming out about these executives and these like suits and stuff.
• 31:15
  And it was all, I mean, he went to court for a long time about this stuff.
• 31:20
  Yeah.
• 31:20
  I mean, I, it could be true.
• 31:21
  I don't know, but they said, you know, that's just the, yeah.
• 31:25
  And you know, they paid these people off to, to say it and.
• 31:29
  You know, all these conspiracy theories, who knows what really happened.
• 31:31
  I feel horrible.
• 31:32
  Right.
• 31:32
  For anybody that's in these situations.
• 31:34
  Totally.
• 31:35
  Yeah.
• 31:35
  But if you lie about it and to, because you got paid off to lie, you know, I hope karma gets you.
• 31:42
  Right.
• 31:43
  Right.
• 31:43
  Agreed, agreed.
• 31:45
  Oh my goodness.
• 31:46
  So crazy.
• 31:47
  I know.
• 31:47
  So, um, thank God my child has like, no, like, wants to be anything in Hollywood.
• 31:54
  We'll stick to sports.
• 31:55
  Yeah.
• 31:56
  What college was it that just came out?
• 31:58
  Northwestern?
• 31:59
  Maybe, I don't know.
• 32:00
  the coach just got, fired because of all the allegations of hazing, like, like horrible hazing over the last couple years that he was telling the players to do the hazing.
• 32:11
  Oh my gosh.
• 32:12
  Yeah.
• 32:12
  And like, not just like a little hazing, Jackson said it was Northwestern.
• 32:17
  Yeah.
• 32:18
  Not just like a little hazing.
• 32:19
  It was like awful like, Hazing.
• 32:22
  Hazing, like, oh man, so that makes me sad.
• 32:27
  And like, yeah, really not look forward to college for Dylan.
• 32:32
  No.
• 32:34
  All we can do is just continue to give them.
• 32:37
  The tools they need to, you know, be independent and strong and know what's right and what's wrong.
• 32:42
  Mm-hmm.
• 32:43
  And to make good choices and all those things.
• 32:47
  It's so, so much pressure.
• 32:49
  Yeah.
• 32:50
  It's so hard.
• 32:52
  So on that happy note mm-hmm.
• 32:55
  I thought we could do Illinois next week.
• 32:57
  Okay.
• 32:57
  Is that okay?
• 32:58
  That's.
• 32:59
  Okay, cool.
• 33:00
  And then our, our book is The Lying Game by Ruth Ware.
• 33:05
  Yes.
• 33:05
  Yep.
• 33:05
  And that is on audiobook, on Libby for sure.
• 33:08
  Cool.
• 33:09
  Okay.
• 33:10
  And I should be done with it in like the end of the day, so, so I can go ahead and add myself to that list so I can grab it.
• 33:17
  Um, and I know you have a lot going on with the, championship being next week, so, Maybe we can have a fun recording for next time to try to make it so it's, maybe you can kill two birds with one stone.
• 33:29
  Let's put it that way.
• 33:30
  Yeah, I've got like the little, like on the road mics too that we can use.
• 33:36
  Oh my God.
• 33:36
  I just came up with brilliant ideas.
• 33:38
  We'll talk about it and we'll see how it goes, but I think next week will fun.
• 33:41
  Awesome.
• 33:41
  Okay, cool.
• 33:42
  I'm excited.
• 33:44
  Me too.
• 33:45
  Thank you everybody for listening.
• 33:46
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• 33:54
  Um, lots of exciting stuff coming down the road.
• 33:57
  Yay.
• 33:57
  Thank you guys so much for listening and um, stay tuned for next week, which might be a very fun episode.
• 34:05
  Thank you guys.
• 34:06
  Alright, thanks.
• 34:07
  Bye.
• 34:07
  Bye.