Latest / This Is My Circus / 🎪 Episode 81 Parenting, True Crime and Chaos: BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS! Plus Burrito Gate, Diddy Drama & That Time a Kangaroo Was Framed for Murder
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- 0:00Welcome to, this is my circus, the podcast where we embrace the chaos and keep it real about parenting, pop culture, true crime, and the books we can't put down because let's be honest, life is one big circus and we're just trying to survive with caffeine, sarcasm, and a little true crime obsession.
- 0:15So if you love unfiltered conversation, questionable parenting hacks, and deep dives into the things that keep us up at night, you're in the right place.
- 0:23Buckle up, grab your popcorn, and let's get into the chaos.
- 0:27I'm Stephanie.
- 0:27I'm Meredith.
- 0:28And welcome to you.
- 0:29This is my circus.
- 0:29I did the karate chop.
- 0:30Totally karate chop.
- 0:33You're ready to take out that.
- 0:34Mic's been a day.
- 0:37Been a day.
- 0:38I feel like we say that all the time.
- 0:39We do.
- 0:40We do.
- 0:40But you know, it's life.
- 0:42So it's been a life.
- 0:44It's been a life, you know, we all have, we all have things.
- 0:47We all have issues.
- 0:48We all have good and bad and whatever.
- 0:50So here we are.
- 0:51Yes.
- 0:51You know, who's having bad Diddy, you know, who's having bad is, that jury because they're like all in trouble.
- 1:01Yes.
- 1:02Yes.
- 1:02They're all in trouble.
- 1:03So, okay, so last week we talked about juror.
- 1:06Juror six.
- 1:07Mm-hmm.
- 1:07Did that one get He got booted.
- 1:10Okay.
- 1:10But now confidential info, like when they locked down the courtroom mm-hmm.
- 1:15And kicked everybody out for however long.
- 1:16Mm-hmm.
- 1:17Well, whatever was said in that.
- 1:19Timeframe.
- 1:20Mm-hmm.
- 1:20While the jury was still there, but nobody else was got late.
- 1:23Oh.
- 1:23And so one of the jurors, they're trying to figure out which one.
- 1:26Oh, late it.
- 1:27So the judge said he was gonna take everybody's cell phones and like, go through their cell phones.
- 1:32Oh, somebody's gonna turn phone.
- 1:35So I don't know.
- 1:36But yeah, again, glad I'm not on that jury.
- 1:39Same, also glad I'm not Jay-Z.
- 1:42What?
- 1:42I didn't see nothing happen.
- 1:43Ooh, I, you know, I hate to say anything about him because I'm always scared that a's coming after you.
- 1:48Yes.
- 1:49So he and Diddy are facing allegations together?
- 1:53Yes.
- 1:53Okay.
- 1:54I mean, I've seen that along the way, but I've never seen that he's ever been like, brought up on charges or anything.
- 1:58So no charges, but just more, investigation, investigation discussion.
- 2:03And he is wanting the minor to, tell them who he is like or who she, who, the minor they want to identify themselves.
- 2:13I also saw that there is a person now, no longer a, a child, but supposedly he is the father of the child.
- 2:22And if they do A-D-D-N-A test, it would prove that the mother was a minor at the time when she got pregnant.
- 2:28And so he keeps, refusing to do the DNA testing.
- 2:32Mm-hmm.
- 2:32Oh my goodness.
- 2:34And the guy looks just like him.
- 2:35I mean, yeah.
- 2:36A carbon copy.
- 2:37Yeah.
- 2:38Well, and actually this child, at that point, this happened in, I wanna say in 2000.
- 2:43Mm-hmm.
- 2:44With Diddy and Jay-Z, and it said at the time, 30-year-old Jay-Z.
- 2:50He is 55 years old right now.
- 2:54Oh my God.
- 2:55I did not realize.
- 2:57Yeah.
- 2:58That is crazy.
- 3:00Mm-hmm.
- 3:01Crazy.
- 3:01Jay-Z.
- 3:04Um, so yeah, they're not a minor anymore either, obviously.
- 3:07But yeah, that's bananas, Uhhuh, all of it, all the things.
- 3:12Saw some more videos on Stephanie Sue, where she was given some reports.
- 3:15Yes.
- 3:16Well, I saw, secret Service, Sam.
- 3:18Mm-hmm.
- 3:19Said and I don't know if he got paid off by Diddy's team or what.
- 3:23I don't really know.
- 3:24But he was like, oh, well I was in the elevator with Diddy's best friend, and they say that puffy doesn't know her and he never mouthed.
- 3:32I know you.
- 3:32And I was like, but if he did know, he's never gonna admit that he's timing this.
- 3:37Perfect.
- 3:38Right, right.
- 3:39Yeah.
- 3:39He's definitely got paid off for something.
- 3:42Something happened there.
- 3:43Secret Service, Sam.
- 3:44Secret Service.
- 3:44Sam, letting us down.
- 3:45You were doing all the good things.
- 3:47Yes.
- 3:47And here we are.
- 3:49And here we are.
- 3:49So it's just been a lot going on the, we talked about the Zebra.
- 3:53They caught the zebra.
- 3:54Have you seen though, that now they're releasing children's books about the Zebra?
- 3:59No, but I love that.
- 4:00I have to show you this picture, like the zebras day out.
- 4:03It's like the zebra on the run.
- 4:05Ed the Zebra is wild vacation.
- 4:08I love it.
- 4:08I do too.
- 4:09And I love that they named him Ed.
- 4:10Mm-hmm.
- 4:11Did you like that, that new video that I sent you with the police chasing the emu?
- 4:15The emu isn't, that was not, he wasn't, they ran fast.
- 4:19I, I thought, I don't know.
- 4:21He was in no rush.
- 4:22And I think that the police were just trying to keep track of it.
- 4:24Like, I don't think that they wanted to get out of there.
- 4:27It was just like we, you've said multiple times stop with the Jumanji.Dice.
- 4:31Yes.
- 4:31Like it's just too much.
- 4:33There was another, um, like there's another animal on the run, on the lamb.
- 4:39I dunno why I love saying on the lamb.
- 4:42Well, I just feel like anybody that's got odd animals.
- 4:46Yeah.
- 4:47Let's keep tabs on that.
- 4:48I think the animals are just getting smarter and learning how to escape.
- 4:51Is that what you think it is?
- 4:52I do, I think are ling But, yeah, if you've put an air tag on him mm-hmm.
- 4:58On your animal.
- 5:00Oh, and I found the, the other animal that was loose, sorry, Tennessee.
- 5:05This in the other, uh, wallaby?
- 5:07I feel like we had a wallaby out not too long ago.
- 5:11Was that in South Carolina or was that Tennessee?
- 5:14Okay.
- 5:14Um, I feel like there was one loose not too long ago.
- 5:17Oh, I was so proud that I found Did you talk about the guy that was found dead in the, the kangaroo cage?
- 5:22In, in Myrtle Beach?
- 5:24No, that was like last month I think.
- 5:27But um, the family owns like, I guess like a little petting zoo, or not petting zoo, but like a, one of those I guess you can go visit the animals.
- 5:35I don't really know.
- 5:36Yeah, yeah.
- 5:36But they had a big kangaroo, like it wasn't like the cute little wall be right.
- 5:40It was like a kangaroo kroo.
- 5:41It was the big jack ones.
- 5:43I was like, there's something to miss here though, because dude like left to go to the store and he came back and the brother was in the kangaroo cage.
- 5:51Pummeled.
- 5:52I feel like this is another Tiger King.
- 5:54And I was like, somebody beat the bejesus out of him and put it in there.
- 5:59Somebody setting up the kangaroos like, yeah.
- 6:03And the brothers said it was never an aggressive kangaroo.
- 6:07I feel like all kangaroos are aggressive, but Why do they eat dogs so much?
- 6:10I don't know.
- 6:11But they're always trying to get'em.
- 6:13I'm like, leave the dogs on.
- 6:15I know.
- 6:15I would fight a kangaroo for Rex.
- 6:17Oh, absolutely.
- 6:18I would.
- 6:19I would fight a kangaroo for Rex.
- 6:21He was so excited when I came today and I had my little treat.
- 6:24I wanna tell you something about kangaroo babies.
- 6:27Oh no, I won't.
- 6:30I won't.
- 6:32Well, now I have to know.
- 6:33But is it about the birthing of it?
- 6:35Because I don't wanna know anything about it.
- 6:36No.
- 6:37Any, I don't wanna know any more birthing, you know they have the pouch.
- 6:39Yeah.
- 6:40They're in there like when they're like this big.
- 6:43Yeah.
- 6:43I didn't know that.
- 6:44I thought that was literally like on Winnie the Poo when the little rabbit or neither chamber, they're like, grow there.
- 6:50Yeah.
- 6:51I didn't know this.
- 6:52Yeah, it's like the, almost like an embryo that's just ready for everybody to see it.
- 6:59Like no.
- 6:59Yeah, I thought like they, yeah, that I learn things all the time.
- 7:04Yeah.
- 7:04That's part of growth.
- 7:06Well, there was a rescue center in Australia or somewhere and the mom kangaroo died.
- 7:12So there was the baby and they dressed up like a kangaroo and the, they would open up the pouch and the baby would jump in.
- 7:20I think that's adorable.
- 7:21That's what I wanna see.
- 7:22See, this is where I'm like you, I don't wanna see it like growing and stuff though.
- 7:25Like it was like a little hairless thing in the, this is, no, we don't, we don't do that.
- 7:32Gimme the panda being spit out.
- 7:36Not Stephanie Siri.
- 7:37No, mine.
- 7:39Give me those.
- 7:40I, I like my, my fuzzy animals.
- 7:44You want fur?
- 7:45You want fur and feathers.
- 7:48Okay.
- 7:48Well, speaking of animals,'cause Dylan went to the beach last week.
- 7:51Yes.
- 7:52While he was there, I was scrolling and I sent this picture to him.
- 7:55It was close to Myrtle.
- 7:56Mm-hmm.
- 7:57Um, but people were disc golfing.
- 7:59Okay.
- 7:59Um, we like that whole sport, whatever you wanna call it.
- 8:04Yeah.
- 8:04I don't get it.
- 8:05Like, yeah.
- 8:06Anyway, throwing a Frisbee in the woods to go into a little, I don't like, I, I have no coordination anyway.
- 8:13I can't aim a Frisbee.
- 8:15No, we just go, it just goes, it's just a bowling ball.
- 8:17I can't bowl either.
- 8:19I can't either.
- 8:20I hate bowling because I suck at it.
- 8:23But there were disc golfing and.
- 8:26A baby hammerhead fell outta the sky.
- 8:29I saw that.
- 8:30So I asked Brian about it.
- 8:33This is the Brian moment of the, of the show that I always have a Brian thing.
- 8:36And he's like, that's not real.
- 8:37That's ai.
- 8:39I don't think so.
- 8:39I think it was real.
- 8:40It was a real news thing.
- 8:41That's what I said.
- 8:42It was.
- 8:42Well my, the first source I looked at was like W 4 72 Chicago.
- 8:48And he was like, why would Chicago have that so odd?
- 8:52He thinks a bird had it.
- 8:53Well, and that's what somebody in the comment said, yeah.
- 8:55Like a bird dropped it.
- 8:56Yeah.
- 8:57But I'm like, that is crazy.
- 9:00Could you imagine a no?
- 9:02And I was like, I sent it to Dylan and I said, Sharknado.
- 9:04Sharknado.
- 9:05Yes, exactly.
- 9:07And of all the things a hammerhead shark I know.
- 9:09Well, they just caught a hammerhead, right off one of the North Carolina beaches, a 14 foot hammerhead.
- 9:15That's huge.
- 9:17Yeah.
- 9:17There's a huge great white out there too.
- 9:20Have you ever seen those apps where they have like tagged them?
- 9:24Yes.
- 9:24There was one named Mary for a long time that would stay on on our coast, but yeah, there's another huge one out there right now.
- 9:30Be careful guides.
- 9:31Yeah.
- 9:32And a, a girl just got her hand nibbled shopped off.
- 9:35Oh, by a shark nibble.
- 9:38Chopped off potato.
- 9:39Potato in Florida.
- 9:42Yeah.
- 9:42It's crazy.
- 9:43I was like, hmm.
- 9:44Hard pass.
- 9:45Yeah, yeah.
- 9:46No, thank you.
- 9:47They're scary.
- 9:48So our week is going better than Diddy's, but how has your week been?
- 9:53Oh my goodness.
- 9:54It has just been a crazy busy, um, started on Friday.
- 9:59Jackson had a football camp that he went to for Western Carolina.
- 10:03And it was here in Charlotte?
- 10:04It was at Palisades High School.
- 10:05Okay.
- 10:06So that was on Friday.
- 10:07And then after that he had a basketball tournament for school.
- 10:11Well, you know, we were having those summer storms or whatever, pretty much every day.
- 10:16And it's, it's what, what happens, right?
- 10:18Like it's not a surprise.
- 10:19Well, check-in was like at one 30, the camp started at two.
- 10:23They got out there and the line was getting really long and all of a sudden the bottom just dropped out of everything.
- 10:28So we had another friend named a Kyle with us, and they came running back in the car and they are sweaty, gross, soaking wet, like cleats soaking wet, you know, all disgusting.
- 10:40So it just smelled like mold.
- 10:41Oh my god.
- 10:42It was terrible.
- 10:42So they just, I mean like the floorboard was like soaking wet.
- 10:45Yeah.
- 10:45From them just so they're sitting in the car and we're waiting on it to pass and they send like a email blast out that the lightning has moved, you know, all the things.
- 10:55So it's okay.
- 10:56So they went, did the camp.
- 10:58They had a good experience, you know, they showed out, they did their things.
- 11:01Mm-hmm.
- 11:02And we were, Mackay was going with us to the basketball tournament that was in Rock Hill.
- 11:06I was like, okay, cool.
- 11:07Great.
- 11:07Come on, Mackay.
- 11:08They were so, so we went to Walmart and I was like, I'm running in what do you need?
- 11:13Dry?
- 11:13They both needed socks.
- 11:14They both needed underwear.
- 11:15Their shorts were fine.
- 11:16And then Mackay needed a shirt.
- 11:18I was like, okay, clearance rack.
- 11:19Here I come.
- 11:21So I got them socks.
- 11:23They just a pack of socks.
- 11:24A pack of socks.
- 11:25They were on sale for whatever reason.
- 11:27I don't know.
- 11:27But I was owning it.
- 11:29And underwear is expensive.
- 11:31It's, it's like a five pack for, it wasn't even five pack, it was like a three pack for 20 something,$30.
- 11:38And I was like, for some underwear that they're just gonna wear.
- 11:41Mm-hmm.
- 11:41No.
- 11:42So Clarence, right?
- 11:43Mm-hmm.
- 11:45Had a two pack, which was perfect.
- 11:46Yeah.
- 11:47Of boxer briefs, which is what I told'em first.
- 11:50I was told'em I was getting'em tidy whites, but I was like, you should do it.
- 11:54They're expensive too, and I'll spend that much money on it.
- 11:56I got Garfield underwear and they were like kind of arguing over who wanted which pattern of Garfield, like, oh, that's awesome.
- 12:06One had like little garfields all over it and the other one had like Garfield Strip, I don't know.
- 12:12Anyway, afterwards I was like, how was the underwear?
- 12:14And they were like, it was really tight.
- 12:17It held everything in.
- 12:18Yeah, I pretty much so Garfield underwear for the win.
- 12:23Went to the basketball tournament all, all Friday, Saturday.
- 12:27Father's Day was Sunday.
- 12:28Mm-hmm.
- 12:29So of course that was a busy day trying to do all the things.
- 12:32Yeah.
- 12:33Mm-hmm.
- 12:33Cooked for Brian, cooked for my father-in-law.
- 12:36And, yeah, I, I just feel like it has just been a very busy, busy time.
- 12:40Yeah.
- 12:41I need a vacation.
- 12:43Same, I need, I need to go somewhere where I'm not plugged in unless I wanna be plugged in mm-hmm.
- 12:51And not have anybody else I need to take care of.
- 12:55Mm-hmm.
- 12:55And or nobody else.
- 12:56I need to be like, oh, okay.
- 12:57Well I'll go get you something to eat.
- 12:59I, I don't wanna do anything.
- 13:00Yeah.
- 13:01Maybe we can go to that camp you, tagged me in.
- 13:04Okay.
- 13:04So I tagged you on TikTok or something, and it's a summer camp for women.
- 13:10And there, but it's like camp, like, when you were little mm-hmm.
- 13:14Camp with all the camp activities mm-hmm.
- 13:16But like grownups.
- 13:17Yeah.
- 13:18And I think that sounds like a lot of fun.
- 13:20Mm-hmm.
- 13:20Like, I really want to kayak.
- 13:21Mm-hmm.
- 13:22Really?
- 13:22Yes.
- 13:23I have always wanted one.
- 13:25And it's always been like, we don't have time because of, you know, we've had the little pond on our property.
- 13:29Like, I could go in a circle a couple times.
- 13:31Yeah.
- 13:32But we've been so busy, we haven't had time.
- 13:34So I would love to go and do all the activities, but I also want, like, I want upgraded sheets.
- 13:39Yeah.
- 13:40Like glamping.
- 13:41Yes.
- 13:42Yeah.
- 13:42I'll need the ac.
- 13:43Yeah.
- 13:44And a fan.
- 13:44Oh, 100%.
- 13:45But I wanna do the fun things.
- 13:47Yes, too.
- 13:48Um, kayaking is not for me.
- 13:51Okay.
- 13:52Paddle boarding's not for me.
- 13:53Okay.
- 13:53I feel like.
- 13:54If I flipped a kayak.
- 13:56Yeah.
- 13:56Or if I, I would be so scared I wouldn't be able to Yeah.
- 13:59Because your legs get up underneath.
- 14:01Yeah.
- 14:01Well, they have a couple, I'm not panicked.
- 14:02Panic.
- 14:03What?
- 14:04Like, I would panic.
- 14:05I really would.
- 14:06I would, I am not good in those situations.
- 14:08They have the ones that your legs go in, which is what I want.
- 14:11I wanna sit down in, but they have'em that you sit on top too.
- 14:14Mm-hmm.
- 14:14And where you can almost kind of fall off and be separate.
- 14:17Yeah.
- 14:17So like, the paddleboarding, I'm okay with'cause you have control of your own body.
- 14:22Body.
- 14:22Yeah.
- 14:23Which is my problem.
- 14:24I don't want control of my own body.
- 14:28I, I just, I, I don't know what, it just freaks me out.
- 14:31I don't know.
- 14:31Yeah.
- 14:32But again, this might go to the thing that I think I'm better at things than I actually am.
- 14:38It's working for you though, so just, I mean, stick with that.
- 14:40Stick with that.
- 14:41Let's go.
- 14:41Yeah, let's go.
- 14:43Um, did you hear about this funny article popped up for me this week and I've got to tell you a little bit about this.
- 14:50Okay.
- 14:50Are you ready?
- 14:51I am ready.
- 14:51It's a little bit older.
- 14:52Okay.
- 14:53But it's worth the read.
- 14:55Okay.
- 14:55So this is from December, 2020.
- 14:58Okay.
- 14:58Okay.
- 14:5912-year-old student.
- 15:01Name Cow Bell.
- 15:03First of all, parents are awful.
- 15:06He caught public attention for organizing a surprise lunchtime dance party in the boys' restroom at St.
- 15:12Anthony's Catholic College in Manchester, England.
- 15:16Is that code word for something else?
- 15:18No.
- 15:18Showing a talent for creativity and a flare for event planning.
- 15:22He promoted the event on Snapchat, inviting fellow year eight boys, so that his grade to join the celebration, he went all out.
- 15:31He brought in a full DJ setup, complete with mixing decks, sound speakers, and colorful disco lights, turning the bathroom into a mini night club.
- 15:40How big are their bathrooms?
- 15:41I have no idea because, and I'm picturing like Jake from two and a half men in the bathroom, like mixing it up a little bit.
- 15:51But, it says that he also handed out Cadbury Twirl bars and bottles of.
- 15:57Lucas aid, I don't know if that's like an English something or something.
- 16:01Mm-hmm.
- 16:01To his desk.
- 16:02It lasted around 30 minutes before school staff discovered the party and stepped in to stop it.
- 16:07Teachers confiscated all the equipment and brought the celebration to an end while the event raised a few eyebrows that also earned some smiles.
- 16:16Kid is amazing.
- 16:19Boots and pants and boots and pants.
- 16:21I'm just trying to figure out how big this bathroom is because our school bathrooms were not big.
- 16:28No, it's very minimal space to like, maybe a couple of sinks and then maybe like in the locker room kind area.
- 16:36But I'm also picturing, okay, so our imaginations go everywhere.
- 16:40Yes.
- 16:41So.
- 16:43Of course I'm picturing like they're in blazers, like in uniforms and he is got like the tie loosened and while he's like mixing it up a little bit like Ris Bueller.
- 16:52Yeah.
- 16:54So, anyway, I think it's great.
- 16:56Awesome.
- 16:56I thought that was great.
- 16:57Yeah.
- 16:57It was a little bit older, but that caught my attention.
- 16:59I was like, I love this child.
- 17:01Yeah.
- 17:02Hmm.
- 17:02Behave at school though kids, but also have a good time.
- 17:04You're only young once, what's the worst they can do?
- 17:11As long as there wasn't any like party favors.
- 17:13Yeah.
- 17:13I didn't see any, anything like that.
- 17:16Yeah.
- 17:16But think about two.
- 17:18He carried all this stuff in.
- 17:21I'm wondering like though, because, well, this is 2022 and that was COVID time.
- 17:25Mm-hmm.
- 17:26December of 2020.
- 17:27Yeah.
- 17:27I don't know because they've got the mini ones or even like the laptop mixers or whatever.
- 17:32Yeah.
- 17:32So he, that could have all fit in a backpack.
- 17:34Yeah.
- 17:35Oh, you know, I was picturing the big setup.
- 17:36Yeah, yeah.
- 17:37Like the big, the clubs back in the day where it was like the thing.
- 17:41Yeah.
- 17:41Mm-hmm.
- 17:42Isn't that funny?
- 17:43Yeah.
- 17:44Mm, I know.
- 17:45Good old days.
- 17:46I know, I know.
- 17:47I thought that was really cute.
- 17:48And I was like, I gotta tell Steph.
- 17:50Um, well thanks to you I started watching Secret Lives of Mormon Lives and I binged like the whole season one.
- 17:59Okay.
- 17:59Did you watch?
- 18:00I haven't finished.
- 18:01Okay.
- 18:01No, I needed a break.
- 18:02Okay.
- 18:03What did you think?
- 18:04I can't stand Whitney.
- 18:06No, no.
- 18:07The jump like annoying'cause a pick me.
- 18:10Yes.
- 18:10Like wants to be in charge.
- 18:12Yeah.
- 18:12I don't like her.
- 18:13And there's somebody else that I've seen on TikTok who they're like, I'm trying to get back in the club.
- 18:18Do you know who that is?
- 18:19Is it the blonde chick?
- 18:20Yeah.
- 18:21I watch half of like season two episode one and then I like start doing stuff productive.
- 18:27But.
- 18:29If it's the same chick, like the blonde chick, she was in the original, TikTok mom or mom talk or whatever.
- 18:34Yeah.
- 18:35That was in the scandal.
- 18:36Okay.
- 18:37But she just, I guess, divorced her husband and now wants to get back into mom talk.
- 18:42Oh, okay.
- 18:43But she like dipped.
- 18:45Okay.
- 18:45When that whole thing, when all the, the stuff came out.
- 18:48Yeah.
- 18:49And then, yeah.
- 18:50So Okay.
- 18:51If that's the same one Yeah, it probably is.
- 18:53But it sucks you in.
- 18:55Yeah, but I'm like, this is why I don't have female friends.
- 18:59I.
- 19:00I mean, I do.
- 19:02Oh yeah.
- 19:02What?
- 19:02Because, okay, so what, is there like six or eight of'em?
- 19:05I can't remember exactly.
- 19:06Yeah.
- 19:06But there's little of course little groups within the group.
- 19:09And they are like in their twenties.
- 19:11Yeah.
- 19:11Like their twenties or whatever.
- 19:12Yeah.
- 19:13Yeah.
- 19:14But they all in these little groups, they all talk bad about each other, and then the groups kind of shift and then they're all talking bad about each other.
- 19:22But Whitney is the catalyst for all of it.
- 19:23She is.
- 19:24Then she wants to play like victim Uhhuh, you know, don't be mad at me.
- 19:29I didn't say it.
- 19:30And like she totally did.
- 19:31Yeah.
- 19:31And she totally stirred the whole pot to get all of that going.
- 19:35Yeah.
- 19:35And then she gets called out for it and she starts to freaking cry.
- 19:38Yeah.
- 19:38Like.
- 19:39Give me a break.
- 19:40I'm not a fan of her at all.
- 19:41I can't stand her.
- 19:43Mm-hmm.
- 19:43No.
- 19:45When you said, thanks to you, I thought you were gonna talk about your, baby birth and videos.
- 19:51That too.
- 19:52Let's not ever say that again, because my algorithm, I don't wanna see dolphins being born.
- 19:57I really, really, really want you to see the panda though.
- 20:00I don't wanna see that either.
- 20:01It's stick a watermelon seed getting spit out.
- 20:03Don't listen.
- 20:06Oh my goodness.
- 20:07Speaking of Siri, so I saw today that Donald Trump has come out with his own cell phone service and his own cell phone.
- 20:13Right?
- 20:13Okay.
- 20:14So I was watching the video on this and Somebody in the comments was like, I will 100% switch over if instead of Siri's voice.
- 20:22It's Donald Trump's voice.
- 20:23Oh my gosh.
- 20:25Oh my God.
- 20:26That's true.
- 20:27That is true.
- 20:29I just laughed like that is great.
- 20:31I was like, oh gosh.
- 20:32Do you change your, like voices on, on the, so let me be clear'cause I'm having a hard time with words again on ways I again, change your, right now mine is the how to train your dragon guy.
- 20:46Yeah.
- 20:46So I love, I'm, I'm down for all that.
- 20:49Like, give me fun.
- 20:50Give me snoop giving me directions.
- 20:51Yeah.
- 20:52Yeah.
- 20:53Oh, slow up.
- 20:54We about to roll up to the hazy.
- 20:58Hold up.
- 20:59Wait in a minute.
- 21:00Yeah.
- 21:01Yeah.
- 21:02Give me all the funny voices.
- 21:04I am a hundred percent down.
- 21:05Yeah.
- 21:06There is a, text reader mm-hmm.
- 21:08That you can have Snoop's voice or that's cool.
- 21:10And it's like ai, so it'll read kind of like Alexa, but you have better voices because Alexa not it sometimes she struggles.
- 21:20Yeah.
- 21:21I cannot stand Yeah.
- 21:23Whitney though, on that show and that right?
- 21:25There is the reason why you don't have a big group of girlfriends either.
- 21:30I.
- 21:31Mm, I know.
- 21:32No, thank you.
- 21:33I've got a few and, we're all so busy.
- 21:35'cause a lot of us are, we're all just at different phases.
- 21:39Like, some of them have kids that are already gone, and some of us are, kids are still there, and we're trying to hang on for every last second.
- 21:46Oh, I wanted to say this, when you said, when we were talking about ring tones, have you seen the meme that it's like.
- 21:52In 2005, I paid a dollar 49 for ringtone.
- 21:55Yeah.
- 21:55And now my phone's always on silent, you know, that's me.
- 21:58Same.
- 21:58Mm-hmm.
- 21:59But Dylan did show me how to make any song into a ringtone.
- 22:02Oh, did he?
- 22:02Mm-hmm.
- 22:03To use the GR garage app.
- 22:04Yeah.
- 22:05It was like that.
- 22:05And then there's like two apps that you have to convert.
- 22:07Yeah.
- 22:08Yeah.
- 22:08But he did show me how to do that.
- 22:10So smart.
- 22:12So smart.
- 22:12What were we just talking about?
- 22:14Don't know.
- 22:14TV shows.
- 22:15Yeah.
- 22:16Yeah.
- 22:16Oh, well, are you watching anything else?
- 22:18So I finished, Handmade Tale.
- 22:22Handmaid's Tale.
- 22:23Did you watch it?
- 22:23I just like a couple episodes.
- 22:24I just couldn't get into it, so it took me several times.
- 22:28Like I would start watching it and then I was like, I can't.
- 22:32Mm-hmm.
- 22:32And then like, you know, months or a year, whatever later.
- 22:35So finally I got into it and then the last season just dropped.
- 22:39Didn't like it.
- 22:40Mm-hmm.
- 22:41Very disappointed.
- 22:42Yeah.
- 22:43I don't know what I would've done different, but I hate it when it's like Yeah.
- 22:47Still into, into Gossip.
- 22:48Girl.
- 22:51Are you still on season one?
- 22:52No.
- 22:52Okay.
- 22:53I'm like four.
- 22:54Well, there you go.
- 22:55Progress.
- 22:55Yeah.
- 22:55I've finally made some progress.
- 22:57You really are Blair more than Serena.
- 23:00Mm-hmm.
- 23:00Okay.
- 23:01It's fun.
- 23:02Yeah.
- 23:02So there was a new, I don't know how new it is, but it was new for me watching it, on Amazon Prime.
- 23:08It's, I think the Good Sister and it's based off of a book.
- 23:12I feel like I've seen that.
- 23:13But it's a series.
- 23:15okay.
- 23:16And so that has, jessica Beal in it.
- 23:19Oh, okay.
- 23:20It was pretty good.
- 23:21It's only like eight episodes or something like that.
- 23:22It's not very long.
- 23:24Okay.
- 23:25But it was okay.
- 23:26Did you see the one that she did candy?
- 23:30Mm-hmm.
- 23:30Yeah.
- 23:31She's got a very wide variety of, uh, skills.
- 23:35Mm-hmm.
- 23:36Yeah.
- 23:36She's good characters.
- 23:37She is, she is.
- 23:38Um, do you like Converse sneakers like Chuck?
- 23:41Mm-hmm.
- 23:42So I do too.
- 23:43I've probably got 10 pairs, but I will never buy another pair again.
- 23:45And this is why, why?
- 23:47Because I'm so mad at Converse, so Converse did a, collab mm-hmm.
- 23:52With a small designer.
- 23:54Mm-hmm.
- 23:55And his name is Kelly.
- 23:58Don't make me, I'm gonna laugh, but his last name is, but.
- 24:03But his line is called, and it's been this way for years, love Comma Kelly, like, like a love letter.
- 24:10Mm-hmm.
- 24:10Mm-hmm.
- 24:11Yeah.
- 24:11So he collabed with Converse on, I guess for a very short time on, you know, limited edition shoes or whatever.
- 24:17Mm-hmm.
- 24:18Well, then Converse stole the whole concept and started doing love comma Chuck for their campaign, like their own campaign.
- 24:28And so I was like, oh, this is like, that's Vy.
- 24:31Yeah, that is, he's stealing this, this small designer.
- 24:35Yeah.
- 24:35Who came up with this little, I mean like his, his little marketing gig.
- 24:39And so then I went to the comment section because, because that's So did you run, did you trip when you were trying to get there?
- 24:45And this has happened several times before with Converse.
- 24:48Really?
- 24:49Yeah.
- 24:50I was like, oh, I can't buy Chucks anymore.
- 24:52I know, I like'em too.
- 24:53I had some that I loved.
- 24:56They were low top.
- 24:57Mm-hmm.
- 24:57And they were gray and they were.
- 25:01Perfect shoe.
- 25:02Yeah.
- 25:02But eventually I had to, Chuck had to chuck the Chucks.
- 25:06Well, I'll never buy em.
- 25:07No, though.
- 25:08Shame on you.
- 25:09Do better converse.
- 25:10I know.
- 25:11I really like, area, like little slip-on shoes.
- 25:13I liked hey dudes for a while, but there's just nothing to those.
- 25:16Those are not comfortable to me at all.
- 25:18Dylan loves them.
- 25:19They, uh, there's no, my age is showing, there's not like no support, no structure.
- 25:25They're just floppy little pieces of canvas.
- 25:27Yeah.
- 25:29My age is showing, Have you been watching anything else though, or did the Mormon wives take up all your TV time?
- 25:36I mean that's really all that I've been.
- 25:38Digging into.
- 25:39Yeah.
- 25:39And like that's just my, when I get sick of scrolling, middle of night.
- 25:43Like an old pond.
- 25:43Yeah.
- 25:44Like mindless.
- 25:45Mm-hmm.
- 25:46Yeah.
- 25:46Yeah.
- 25:47I get it.
- 25:47Oh no, no.
- 25:48I'm lying on, Netflix.
- 25:50The new season of Jenny and Georgia came out.
- 25:52I need to watch that show.
- 25:53I like it.
- 25:54I heard it was good.
- 25:55It is.
- 25:56I have, I have that on my list.
- 25:58Yeah.
- 25:58On my list.
- 25:59So I did watch the newest season of that.
- 26:01Yeah.
- 26:02Jackson's been watching the basketball playoffs.
- 26:03I'm like, can we just stop hop?
- 26:05And if the game is not even a good game, he's like, eh.
- 26:08So yeah, lots of exciting stuff going on.
- 26:10Really Lovely.
- 26:12But, but just, I feel like it's crazy right now.
- 26:16Like things are, I just have been so busy.
- 26:18Well, that's because we have some new ventures.
- 26:21Yeah.
- 26:21Well that's true that we are doing it, which is.
- 26:24Starting some, starting a new business.
- 26:26Yes.
- 26:26It, so do you want to tell everybody?
- 26:28Yeah, I'd love to.
- 26:30So I have started a small business for, day of coordination for weddings.
- 26:37So it is called refined occasions.
- 26:40Please follow me on the socials.
- 26:41But what it is, is I will be the bossy person on a wedding day that tells everybody where to go, when to go there, where to go.
- 26:51I need to find a better way to say that, but tell everybody, everybody in their place at the right time, at the right time, and, communicate with the vendors.
- 26:58Let them know where to go, where to park.
- 27:00You know, it's the little things like that that like the, your DJ might need to know something and they don't know who to talk to.
- 27:06So I would be like the point of contact for them that day.
- 27:09Coordinating the first dance times all, uh, the pictures, you know, all of everything that you need somebody to do, but you don't want somebody in your family to have to do it because then they miss out on the event.
- 27:20Yeah.
- 27:21That would be me.
- 27:22I've already got a couple booked.
- 27:23I'm really excited.
- 27:25Mm-hmm.
- 27:25And, I'm looking forward to just pursuing this and seeing what happens with it.
- 27:31I'm pretty good at being a chaos coordinator, so I think it'll be fun.
- 27:36Yeah.
- 27:36Um, now you have some exciting news too.
- 27:39Well, I am starting social media management for organic social media, not like paid ads yet.
- 27:48Um, so I love this for you.
- 27:49I know.
- 27:50I love the creative part of it.
- 27:52Mm-hmm.
- 27:52And that's kind of where I shine.
- 27:54Yeah.
- 27:54So I am super excited about that.
- 27:56What's the name of your business?
- 27:57Honey Drop.
- 27:58I think Media.
- 27:59That is adorable.
- 28:01Yes.
- 28:01And your logos and stuff like we've been chatting back and forth with it.
- 28:04So.
- 28:05So you, so perfect.
- 28:08I love it.
- 28:08Yeah.
- 28:09Have, you've got a couple of customers lined up already too, right?
- 28:12Yes.
- 28:12So, then that's kind of why, this whole thing sparked was, people had ask.
- 28:17Yeah.
- 28:17So I, I'm excited.
- 28:19It's something new and mm-hmm.
- 28:21Just kind of where I feel like I shine.
- 28:24Yeah, absolutely.
- 28:25My area of expertise.
- 28:27Let me know when you would like to manage refined occasions.
- 28:31Got you.
- 28:31Girl.
- 28:32I'm excited for you though.
- 28:33It's fun to have things, as an outlet.
- 28:36Like this podcast is an outlet for both of us.
- 28:39Yeah.
- 28:39But it gives us time to, that we set aside to be an adult.
- 28:44Yeah.
- 28:45And to just, you know, I'm, I'm a yapper, as Brian and Jackson would say, but a lot of times I feel like I'm rushed with them or I can't.
- 28:53Have conversations'cause we're always trying to do, so this is like a good time for me to reconnect with you.
- 28:58So having these little side hustles are ways for us to have an outlet.
- 29:04Yeah.
- 29:04Get some creative energy out and just, you know, make a mark.
- 29:09Yeah.
- 29:09Make money and, and make some money.
- 29:13You make money doing what you really like to do.
- 29:16Yeah.
- 29:16Like why not?
- 29:17I know, I know.
- 29:17So, and since I've been helping Ashley with all of the weddings, I really saw that this was a huge need.
- 29:25So, I really think that it's gonna, it's gonna be really good.
- 29:29You went to a event last weekend?
- 29:31Yes.
- 29:31I went to an event, in King's Mountain.
- 29:34Mm-hmm.
- 29:34At a venue where they just had different, Vendors there that were representing their business or just making connections.
- 29:42So that was fun.
- 29:43Yeah, it's a little awkward.
- 29:44Like I don't have, you know, I'm not a photographer, so I don't have like a display book.
- 29:48Right.
- 29:48I don't, I don't have merch, I don't have whatever.
- 29:51So it's just like me trying to market myself walking around and being, you know, adorable.
- 29:55So, Oh my gosh.
- 29:58But the coolest lady was there.
- 30:00I've got to show you this picture.
- 30:02Have you ever heard of somebody who's at a party event wedding and they are like painting scenes?
- 30:09Yes.
- 30:10There was a lady there that does that, and she painted me in like a minute.
- 30:15I know.
- 30:16It is so cool.
- 30:17It's of course just like watercolor wet or whatever, but it was the neatest thing.
- 30:21She just like, but she was just kind of doing that as like a little gate to get people to come over, of course.
- 30:27But.
- 30:28She had like first dance examples where the bride and the groom were dancing and she had paint.
- 30:33I was like, oh my gosh.
- 30:34So I saw on TikTok, I might have sent it to you.
- 30:36I might not have, I don't know, because I was like, oh, she probably is like sick of wedding stuff, but no, um, it looked like it was a blank canvas.
- 30:42Mm-hmm.
- 30:43And the bride in the groom, and there was like a canvas underneath, like to catch it all, but mm-hmm.
- 30:47They poured glitter over it and it made a portrait of the bride in the groom.
- 30:50That's really cute.
- 30:52And it had like their wedding gate on it, whatever.
- 30:54But they did it right at the wedding.
- 30:55Mm-hmm.
- 30:55It was so cool.
- 30:57There are so many really cool things that are available now.
- 31:00So if you know of anybody getting married ll give you a good damn.
- 31:04Seriously though, I do have some mic.
- 31:06Just as I build my portfolio, I am given some, some very heavy discounts.
- 31:11Just trying to get that built.
- 31:12So I'd love to help anybody.
- 31:15Are you open to helping anybody else right now with your social media or are you still trying to, um, yeah, I mean, if, if somebody is in need, definitely reach out.
- 31:22Yeah, we'll figure it out.
- 31:23We'll figure it out.
- 31:24Very good.
- 31:25Did you wanna do, am I the A-hole?
- 31:26I'd love to.
- 31:27Okay.
- 31:28Do we have one?
- 31:29We do.
- 31:29Okay.
- 31:43Am I the a-hole for locking myself in the bathroom with a burrito and pretending I had food poisoning just to get a break from my family for 47 minutes?
- 31:53Absolutely not.
- 31:55Next.
- 31:58Okay.
- 31:58So, hi.
- 32:00Hi, 33, female mom of three tiny lunatics.
- 32:05Seven male, four female, two female have reached the fake her own digestive demise for peace era of parenting.
- 32:13My husband, Chaz, yes, fake name, but fits the man who once told me it can't be that hard to multitask a diaper change and a phone call is a decent guy with the situational awareness of a traffic gun.
- 32:27She's great.
- 32:28I like her so far, and I didn't read any of this.
- 32:30I just saw the, the title Uhhuh and I was like, this one's sick.
- 32:33This is it.
- 32:33Yeah, this is it.
- 32:34It started when I told him I might need some alone time because I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and he replied, didn't you just have alone time two days ago when you went to Target?
- 32:44I was buying diapers and hemorrhoid cream Chas.
- 32:47Anyway, fast forward to Saturday, the house looked like a cross between a tornado and a Chuck e.
- 32:52Cheese, the toddler's naked again, and someone spilled an entire family sized box of Cheerios into the air vent.
- 32:59I'm nursing a caffeine withdrawal headache because someone Chas used the last of the espresso pods and replaced it with decaf.
- 33:07I hit my limit when the 4-year-old screamed, you're a bad mommy because I cut her banana wrong.
- 33:12I have so much sympathy for her.
- 33:14Do I?
- 33:15I'm not proud, but I grabbed a pillow, a blanket, and a beefy, cheesy, completely undeserved burrito, Uhuh that was deserved.
- 33:22Mm-hmm.
- 33:23Every bit of that, she should have taken two, walked into the bathroom and declared, I think I have food poisoning.
- 33:28And then I locked the door.
- 33:30Let me just applaud her.
- 33:31Yes.
- 33:32For the next 47 glorious minutes, I sat on the floor, ate my burrito in peace, watched tiktoks on silent, and made myself a cozy little bathroom cave.
- 33:42I even lit a candle for ambiance.
- 33:45I faked a few groans and flushed a toilet once for realizing realism.
- 33:50I felt like an Oscar worthy actress.
- 33:53Look at me being smart here, but then Chaz bangs on the door yelling that he doesn't know how to handle all three kids at once.
- 34:00That I'm being dramatic.
- 34:02I say nothing.
- 34:03Silence is power.
- 34:05Eventually I emerge holding my stomach like I've just fought God in diarrhea.
- 34:11Later that night, I come clean.
- 34:13Cha says I'm manipulative, and that I quote, abandon him with the kids.
- 34:19My mother-in-law, who somehow got involved via FaceTime because of course she did, called me lazy and disrespectful for faking an illness.
- 34:28I'm getting, I'm so pissed off for her, but like I cook clean, work part-time from home, keep everyone alive, and I haven't PE alone since 2018.
- 34:38So, Reddit.
- 34:38Am I the a-hole for faking food poisoning and hiding in the bathroom to eat a burrito alone because I needed one singular moment of peace in this hellscape of a weekend.
- 34:47Girl.
- 34:47No.
- 34:48And next time you just take your headphones in and you don't have to listen to TikTok in silence.
- 34:52Very good.
- 34:53I'm just worried about her setting the candle and like the blanket on fire.
- 34:57So just be careful.
- 34:58I'm assuming like it was like Probably, yeah, probably.
- 35:00But again, I'm picturing like legit blanket fork.
- 35:03Yeah.
- 35:03So, but no.
- 35:06Mm-hmm.
- 35:06I hate that for you, that you had to, you know what, like Chaz bring his mother into this.
- 35:11Yeah.
- 35:12Like be a man Yeah.
- 35:14And handle the freaking kids.
- 35:16Right.
- 35:17And you just called her, like, told her that she had a long time grocery shopping.
- 35:23You can handle the kids for 47 minutes.
- 35:25Chaz.
- 35:26Yeah.
- 35:27I'm so frustrated for them right now.
- 35:28Like, and for the mother-in-law to, to, yeah.
- 35:34No, right.
- 35:36Lazy and disrespectful girl, I would have lost, I don't even know if I would have lied.
- 35:43I would've just been like, I'm going to, I'm just need a minute, just disappear.
- 35:47Mm-hmm.
- 35:48I do know right after I had Jackson, I was so freaking overwhelmed and I didn't know what I was doing.
- 35:52Um, I went into my closet and just cried for a little bit and then I came out and it was okay.
- 35:58I do that all the time.
- 36:01I mean, yeah.
- 36:01But that was just the first instance.
- 36:03In the last probably like five years, I had spent a lot of time in my closet.
- 36:09I had a designated, like I had left a pillow and a blanket, like in my old house.
- 36:14Mm-hmm.
- 36:15Had a pillow and a blanket in my closet, and I would just go in there and cry and I would lay on the floor and cry in the closet.
- 36:25It was like, I even just left it in there.
- 36:28I mean, not a bad idea to have a place, but I hate that for you, that you had to do that.
- 36:34Yeah.
- 36:35And I, I hate that for our, our new bestie here for having to do that.
- 36:38I'm, I, I like the burrito idea though.
- 36:40I know snacks but hilarious.
- 36:43It like my stomach CURTs, but let me get the cheesy burrito.
- 36:46Well, I'm sure she hid it.
- 36:48I hope so.
- 36:49As she was getting stuff it under her.
- 36:56Oh my gosh, though.
- 36:57No, I feel terrible for her.
- 36:58But those moments, I hope she had a glass of wine too, like, or was like, you know, like, or a bottle of tequila.
- 37:03Yeah.
- 37:05But the, the cut my banana wrong.
- 37:08Oh my gosh.
- 37:09Dylan was never, ever picky.
- 37:11Jay, we never had those problems.
- 37:13We never really had like, the breakdowns for, you know, me rearranging his sheets on his BA or whatever.
- 37:20I don't even know.
- 37:21I can't even think of anything.
- 37:21But yeah, like wore the wrong shoes today or Jackson was really easy.
- 37:26Yeah.
- 37:26So was Dylan.
- 37:27So I feel for you.
- 37:28Yeah.
- 37:28But thank God I never had to Oh, no deal with that.
- 37:33Yeah.
- 37:34I feel really, really bad for her.
- 37:36If you are listening, my friend, and you are near us, you come hang out.
- 37:42Yeah.
- 37:44We'll put you a pillow in the office in here.
- 37:48You can hang out with Rex.
- 37:49He is like a, the perfect emotional support animal.
- 37:53I told somebody today I was Brian's emotional support animal.
- 37:57Anyway.
- 37:58No, you're not the A-hole.
- 37:59No.
- 37:59Your husband and your mother-in-law actually are but what ifs She is a queen.
- 38:03The, a-hole.
- 38:04Yeah.
- 38:04Sorry.
- 38:05No, I hope that this will teach them that you need more time too.
- 38:10Yourself other than just, you know, your target hemorrhoid creamer.
- 38:12So your, your response next time will be, I saw, your work in parenting.
- 38:17I will not be taking your Yeah.
- 38:19Advice.
- 38:20Right?
- 38:20This is the outcome of what you've done, so we're not listening to you.
- 38:24Yeah.
- 38:25So no, not the whole.
- 38:26Yes.
- 38:27All right.
- 38:28Well I think it is time for our book.
- 38:29So if you're not our bookies, we love you.
- 38:31Have an awesome week.
- 38:33Come back next week and listen to us and tell your friends too, too.
- 38:36Love you.
- 38:36Love you.
- 38:37Bye Bye.
- 38:38Alright.
- 38:38This week we read the Un Honeymooners by Christina Lauren, and I loved this book.
- 38:45I did too.
- 38:46Okay, so let's blurb blurb.
- 38:48The blurb of the blurb.
- 38:49Perpetually unlucky Olive is forced to fake a honeymoon with her nemesis.
- 38:53Ethan, after a twist of fate leaves them, the only ones healthy enough to claim her sister's all expense paid trip only to discover that pretending to be in love might not be so bad.
- 39:03After all, this was such a great.
- 39:07Summer read.
- 39:08Mm-hmm.
- 39:08Palette, cleanser, whatever you wanna call it.
- 39:10Yep.
- 39:10Loved it from start to finish.
- 39:11I did too.
- 39:12It was so, so, so cute.
- 39:13And it reminded me a lot of that one that we had read before a few weeks ago Abby Geminis that we've talked about a couple of times where it was the third book in the series, but we didn't read it for the podcast.
- 39:23We just read it on our own.
- 39:24Did we just read it on our own?
- 39:25We did.
- 39:25Oh, okay.
- 39:26So y'all need to read that, I think, but read'em in order.
- 39:28Yeah, you're right.
- 39:28That's the one that I texted you about.
- 39:30Just a very cute mm-hmm.
- 39:32Still emotional.
- 39:33Yeah.
- 39:34I mean, still, you know, it wasn't just bland, right.
- 39:37It wasn't all, you know, rainbows and puppies and predictable.
- 39:40Mm-hmm.
- 39:40Well, as you're now in the wedding business Yeah.
- 39:44The start of the book, the sister's getting married and they have a seafood buffet and everybody in the wedding, except for Olive and Ethan.
- 39:53'cause Ethan doesn't do buffets and Olive is allergic to seafood.
- 39:56Mm-hmm.
- 39:57So they are the only two in this entire event that doesn't get this food poisoning, that are spared from this horrible, horrible, it sounds atrocious.
- 40:06So what, as a day of coordinator would you have done?
- 40:11Oh my God.
- 40:14I would, I would get the caterer.
- 40:17I was thinking of you while as I was listening, as you were listening, you were thinking of me.
- 40:20I was Because you were like, oh my God.
- 40:21Um, uh, so my, my priority in that moment would be to take care of the bride and groom.
- 40:27Who was profusely throwing up.
- 40:29Mm-hmm.
- 40:29I wanna make sure they were comfortable and Okay.
- 40:31And whatever.
- 40:32And I'd honestly probably call 9 1 1.
- 40:35Yeah.
- 40:36Because that's too many people for one person to try to handle.
- 40:38Yeah.
- 40:39But it was talking and when it was talking, like I was getting disgusted hearing about it.
- 40:44Me too.
- 40:44They went into, into detail and I'll fast forward, fast forward.
- 40:47Yeah.
- 40:47Put it in without the details.
- 40:49Yeah.
- 40:49How do I Okay.
- 40:50Spoilers.
- 40:51Yeah.
- 40:52Like, I liked that.
- 40:52I know.
- 40:53We always say it, so, but I liked that the, the groom.
- 40:57I forgot the brother's name.
- 40:59I do too.
- 40:59I forgot it too.
- 41:00But I liked how the groom though, ended up being a jerk.
- 41:04Yeah.
- 41:04And she ended up leaving him Uhhuh.
- 41:06Yeah.
- 41:06But I loved that like.
- 41:08That typically is not the way a lot of these books work out.
- 41:11Yeah.
- 41:12It's usually, oh, I forgave him and So I really enjoyed just the breath of fresh air with some of the different things.
- 41:19I loved the slow burn mm-hmm.
- 41:24Of Ethan and Olive.
- 41:26Mm-hmm.
- 41:26Because they, they did not like each other.
- 41:28Right.
- 41:29And so it was like the bickering and like the mm-hmm.
- 41:31And then they, the tension.
- 41:33Yeah.
- 41:33Mm-hmm.
- 41:34I thought it was awesome.
- 41:35Mm-hmm.
- 41:36You know what I really liked too was the night that he got drunk.
- 41:39Mm-hmm.
- 41:40And it's like he had been this.
- 41:43Almost stuffy guy in my mind.
- 41:45And then he was just like adorable little goofball.
- 41:48Mm-hmm.
- 41:48I really liked that transition to, I thought that was done really well.
- 41:51I think all the characters were so relatable.
- 41:54Mm-hmm.
- 41:54And like so holistic.
- 41:55Like you could really like picture this in real life.
- 41:58Yeah.
- 41:59A hundred percent.
- 41:59And I think that the characters developed really, really, really well.
- 42:02Right, right.
- 42:02For the whole book.
- 42:03Even the, like the little sub characters, like the gay cousin.
- 42:05Yeah.
- 42:06I loved him.
- 42:10Olive was relatable because like she was like, I'm curvy.
- 42:14Yeah.
- 42:14Like, I'm bit, I don't wanna sit on his lap.
- 42:15Yeah.
- 42:15You know, that kind of thing.
- 42:16And a, a lot of that was in her head, but still it, it was how she felt.
- 42:21She was like, I like my curves, I like my body.
- 42:22Right, right.
- 42:23And if you don't like it, right.
- 42:24And she was like, I'm gonna sit on his lap, but I'm not gonna, I'm gonna like hover and my legs are shaking'cause I don't wanna put all the weight on.
- 42:29Yeah.
- 42:30I laughed out loud when, well, first of all, like I've never been so intrigued to have a massage class together.
- 42:38Not separate.
- 42:42So in the book, they have a couple's massage and they thought they were getting a couple's massage where they're both on the tables getting massaged.
- 42:47Yeah.
- 42:48And it's a massage class.
- 42:49Right.
- 42:49And so Ethan is massaging olive.
- 42:52Yes.
- 42:53And you could like feel the tension mm-hmm.
- 42:56Between the two of them.
- 42:57Yeah.
- 42:58And I was like, well, that's intriguing.
- 43:00Right.
- 43:01Right.
- 43:01But then Olive says, and I, I took this as a quote because I, it made me, I literally laughed at question.
- 43:06Okay.
- 43:07she says in her head, she wanted to tell the masseuse to scram and lead them to their brothel room in peace.
- 43:12Yes.
- 43:14It was.
- 43:15So, I keep saying quirky about a lot of these books, but they are, they're, they're just, so, this is a great palette cleanser.
- 43:22I and the lines that she would say like that, like she, she was wearing the bridesmaids dress and they were calling it a skittle, and then it busted on her like just cute.
- 43:31Yeah.
- 43:31Oh, there was some, there was some not for kids parts in there too.
- 43:35Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 43:35But it was just so, it was good.
- 43:38Yeah.
- 43:38But it was only like a one one chili pepper.
- 43:41Oh, one chili pepper.
- 43:41Yeah.
- 43:41It wasn't, it wasn't the spiciest sweet pepper red.
- 43:43Yeah.
- 43:44And then at the end, he had the bridesmaid dress made into a tank top.
- 43:48And when he was trying to win her bag, it was a big, you know, production thing.
- 43:52Romantic gesture.
- 43:53Mm-hmm.
- 43:54I liked the part too when you said romantic gesture, when he was talking about his ex and she was like, you, romantic gestured her and she whiteboarded you or something like that.
- 44:02Yeah, it was just in permanent marker.
- 44:05In permanent marker.
- 44:06It was.
- 44:06Great, great.
- 44:07Great book.
- 44:07Great Beach.
- 44:09Read for sure.
- 44:10Easy read, fast read, palate, cleanser, all the things.
- 44:13Yeah.
- 44:14I would add 10.
- 44:15Same.
- 44:15Yeah.
- 44:1610 outta 10, yeah.
- 44:18But yeah, such a great great rom-com book.
- 44:21Yeah.
- 44:21Yeah.
- 44:21Agreed.
- 44:22Love it.
- 44:22Well, there is another book after this about them Uhhuh, so I bet it's about the sister.
- 44:27It's, no, it's um, like the, the wedding something build up to the wedding or whatever.
- 44:31Yeah.
- 44:32Okay.
- 44:33I'll have to read that.
- 44:33Did you listen to the audio book or No Audio.
- 44:35Okay.
- 44:36'cause there was, the first chapter of the next book at the end.
- 44:39Oh, I probably just, yeah.
- 44:41Okay., I didn't even grab it yet, so I went onto our next book, but yeah.
- 44:46Yeah.
- 44:46Okay.
- 44:47Cool.
- 44:47I am, I am feeling this.
- 44:50I know a lot.
- 44:51We really like dark and twisted too, but for some reason right now, this is really working for me.
- 44:55I think because everything's so hectic right now.
- 44:57Maybe, it's just lightens everything up.
- 45:00I think so, and not that I still don't like the dark and twisted, but it's just been a breath of fresh air to read some fluffy stuff.
- 45:07Mm-hmm.
- 45:08That's not predictable and boring.
- 45:10Right.
- 45:10Because that's always been my thing.
- 45:11Like, I don't necessarily need it to be twisted.
- 45:13I just don't want predictable and boring.
- 45:14Right.
- 45:15And these fit the bill.
- 45:16Yeah.
- 45:16And I do like to break it up Yeah.
- 45:18To give us a little bit of a reprieve.
- 45:20Yeah, for sure.
- 45:21For sure.
- 45:21I, and Twist Yeah.
- 45:23Does get to be a lot.
- 45:24So 10 Outta 10.
- 45:25If you hadn't read it, read it.
- 45:26You'll love it.
- 45:28Loved it.
- 45:28Mm-hmm.
- 45:29Our next book is the vacancy in room 10.
- 45:31Okay.
- 45:31Lemme pull up the, okay.
- 45:32The blurb.
- 45:33When Anne Harley's husband Henry calls her with a terrible guilty confession, she can't believe what she hears.
- 45:39It has to be a bad joke.
- 45:40The mild, predictable artist she married would never hurt a fly, let alone commit murder, but her confusion turns to her when police find his body washed up on the banks of the Rio Grande, desperate for answers to the millions of questions his untimely death has raised.
- 45:53Anna checks into the second.
- 45:56Sycamores.
- 45:57Mm-hmm.
- 45:57The rundown motel turned apartment Henry rented as an art studio.
- 46:01As she absorbs every bit of gossip, the electric mix of residents are willing to share about her husband and each other.
- 46:08She begins to piece together a picture of a very different man than the one she married and the life he led behind her back.
- 46:15The more she learns, the less sense things seem to make.
- 46:19She finds herself wondering, did she ever really know Henry at all?
- 46:23But Henry's secrets aren't the only ones.
- 46:25As Anna's search for clues expand, cast, the mysterious, jaded motel manager seems more and more determined to keep Anna in the dark.
- 46:33And when threatening letters start appearing at her door, Anna has to decide what's more important, the truth or her own safety.
- 46:40It.
- 46:40That was a long blurb.
- 46:41That was a very long blurb.
- 46:42So that is the vacancy in Room 10 by SNA Nova Glass.
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