Latest / This Is My Circus / 🎪 Episode 82 Parenting, True Crime and Chaos: VIP World Cup Playoff Soccer Suites, Goats & Petty Bluetooth Warfare
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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 Meredith and welcome to This is my circus.
- 0:30Hey Steph.
- 0:31Hi.
- 0:31I told you just now like it feels like I hadn't seen you in forever.
- 0:34I know.
- 0:34I used to go to like dinner.
- 0:37You know, imagine hanging out outside of just, that would be great.
- 0:42Well, we are on Saturday.
- 0:44Oh.
- 0:44Gonna go to the goat.
- 0:45Are we gonna do the goat cup?
- 0:46I will a hundred percent go.
- 0:47Uh, let's go.
- 0:48Okay.
- 0:49So it's at tractor supply Yes.
- 0:50On Saturday.
- 0:51We'll figure out what time we want to go.
- 0:52Yeah.
- 0:52And it's like$5 for five minutes to cuddle goats.
- 0:55I'm taking like$200.
- 0:58It's four good calls.
- 0:59Brian, it's four good calls.
- 1:01One of our listeners has requested that we video Heck yeah.
- 1:05Um, unless I get like run over by a goat.
- 1:08So that happened to Dylan when we lived in what?
- 1:11Okay.
- 1:11So we lived Nashville, still like right outside Nashville.
- 1:13And we were at the Nashville Zoo and they have a petting zoo mm-hmm.
- 1:16In there.
- 1:17And he was like two.
- 1:18Mm-hmm.
- 1:18And the goats would like run and charge you.
- 1:26I know exactly what you're talking about.
- 1:28Two, 2-year-old little tiny Dylan would just get like boop, he'd like fall over, but they do they, was it a baby goat?
- 1:36They were like all ages.
- 1:38Okay.
- 1:38So, okay.
- 1:39But the, the little ones when they're just learning to do that is so adorable.
- 1:44'cause they're, they're like, you know, so small and they're trying to look so mean and aggressive and they're just like running wobbling sideways at you.
- 1:50Mm-hmm.
- 1:51He was okay though.
- 1:53Oh, he left?
- 1:53Yeah.
- 1:54Okay, good.
- 1:54Perfect.
- 1:55Best response.
- 1:56Well, hopefully none of that happens.
- 1:57Yeah.
- 1:58But we're gonna go, we'll figure out, yeah.
- 2:00Okay.
- 2:01I'm in.
- 2:02Okay.
- 2:02Yeah.
- 2:03Clean out your coin jar so we can take all the monies.
- 2:07Oh, I've got a whole big bucket somewhere.
- 2:08Do you Yeah.
- 2:10Know that when you're purse and you just like throw it?
- 2:13Yeah.
- 2:13Or the, when you get paid to do laundry because you find money in the laundry.
- 2:16Yeah.
- 2:16That's, mm-hmm.
- 2:17Yeah, that's what I like to call it.
- 2:18Or have to clean Dylan's room and I'm like, finders keepers.
- 2:23Yeah.
- 2:24A hundred percent.
- 2:25Or I give him cash.
- 2:27Most things are okay to just like tap and stuff, but if I.
- 2:30Give him cash and he forgets to give it back or give him a change.
- 2:35Give it back now.
- 2:37Yeah.
- 2:38Just think they're slick, don't they?
- 2:40They do.
- 2:42Oh my goodness.
- 2:43Well, thanks for moving the recording day from yesterday to today.
- 2:46You had a big day.
- 2:47I had a big day.
- 2:49I had so much fun.
- 2:50So, one of the perks of working for Brown works for Lowe's home improvement and one of the perks is the headquarters is here in Charlotte.
- 2:59And so they have, lots of opportunities for.
- 3:03To give away, uh, tickets to different events, concerts, sporting events, any kind of thing.
- 3:08And we've been lucky and got tickets before.
- 3:12And they're great.
- 3:13We've been to see the Hornets and like sat in the suites where the food is all inclusive and that was so much fun.
- 3:17Mm-hmm.
- 3:18So yesterday, my big, big day, it feels like a book.
- 3:21Meredith's big, big Day.
- 3:24It's like what was it, the Zebra?
- 3:25Yes.
- 3:26Um, but I'm in the, I'm in the case ra okay, so my, our big, big day yesterday was Brian received from work as part of a recognition of him doing such a good job.
- 3:37Tickets to one of the qualifiers for the World Cup.
- 3:40That was yesterday in Charlotte.
- 3:42So we watched Portugal beat Germany, which was unexpected.
- 3:46So that was fun, but.
- 3:48OMG.
- 3:49That is how I was meant to live.
- 3:51Let me tell you.
- 3:52These were VIP hospitality tickets.
- 3:56The only things that were not included was parking, and I think they probably just forgot to send us a parking pass.
- 4:02There was a special interest at B of A that we went in interest.
- 4:06I'm so excited.
- 4:06I came and talk a special entrance.
- 4:08Mm-hmm.
- 4:10There was somebody standing there with the VIP sign that took our group like 20 feet to the next person with the VIP sign.
- 4:19Like, we're follow.
- 4:20Oh my God.
- 4:21Like, everybody was like, who are they?
- 4:22And I was like, I'm half of a podcast team.
- 4:27So it was like we got, kept getting handed off from person to person and they were walking us through, It was just unbelievably amazing.
- 4:34They were like, okay, this is your elevator.
- 4:35And I was like, well, what floor?
- 4:37Where are we going?
- 4:37And I was like, country comes to town.
- 4:41You know, I was not, I was trying to be all smooth and played off, but I was like, where are we going?
- 4:46They were like, well, your elevator attendant, well take you where you need to go.
- 4:51I haven't attendant, there was somebody in there pushing the buttons and telling us all the things.
- 4:57So we get in there and she was like, well, who are you rooting for?
- 5:02You know, what are you?
- 5:02And I was like, the food, because food wasn't food and drink, everything was included.
- 5:08So we we make it to our suite and.
- 5:13There's, if you've never been before.
- 5:16No, I'm just kidding.
- 5:16So there's like two attendants in there the whole time.
- 5:19There was like 12 people, I think, in the suite.
- 5:21So it was Brian and me, and then somebody else that he works with and his wife, and then, you know, 10 other people, whatever.
- 5:28And there are two attendants that work there and they just keep refilled on food and they'd take your trash and they, like, they would almost possessively take the trash from me.
- 5:38I'm just trying to throw my plant away.
- 5:39Like, they just took care of everything that you could think of.
- 5:42Like, and they, of course I'm talking to'em.
- 5:44I'm so nice.
- 5:45I'm not, I'm not nice.
- 5:47I'm so just peopley.
- 5:48I'm tell, I'm, I'm like, hive.
- 5:49I thought it was such an experience.
- 5:51So we're there and we're, we're so close.
- 5:54We're who can see the expressions?
- 5:58Don't take any of that out.
- 5:59It's something we can see their expressions and, oh, I forgot to tell you this, so we're going in the elevator.
- 6:05You know, they, the all the things and they're like, your hospitality gifts are over here.
- 6:10What'd you get?
- 6:11So there was, it was like, about the size of that can, and it was bought, it looked like an iPhone box.
- 6:18I was like, I know there's not an iPhone in here.
- 6:22If there is, I'm going to, I'm gonna need new pants because I'm gonna mess my pants.
- 6:27But it was not, it was like a commemorative.
- 6:30Little, like a crystal trophy thing that said FIFA World Cup thing on it, which Jackson loves stuff like that.
- 6:37Mm-hmm.
- 6:37So he was thrilled to have that.
- 6:39And then they had another little bag and I was like, what's in, what's in that?
- 6:42And they were like, oh, that's journals.
- 6:43And I was like, I really don't need a journal.
- 6:45They weren't like engraved or anything, but, it was so much fun.
- 6:48We got there at like 2 30, 2 15, something like that.
- 6:52The game started at three.
- 6:53We start snacking, like there was charcuterie board, like all the things we start going and they were like, oh, we'll, we'll let you know when we are bringing the next, course, course.
- 7:05That was the pre-game that wasn't even the appetizers.
- 7:09So we had pre-game appetizers, entree, cheeses, fruits, desserts.
- 7:17It was so amazing.
- 7:18So we're sitting there.
- 7:20Watching the game and there was like a walkway between our suite and the one beside us.
- 7:27And everybody kept looking at this dude.
- 7:29It was a former soccer player that played for Germany that was in this booth.
- 7:35And I will not pronounce his name'cause I will ruin it, but he played for Germany and his, A lot of people know him because he is a Muslim and he did not want beer thrown on him in like a celebration.
- 7:48And they did anyway.
- 7:49Oh.
- 7:49So he's retired, but there were cops posted outside of his thing,'cause when we like got up and walked around and stuff, oh, it had his own bathroom in there.
- 8:00Oh my God.
- 8:01So when we were walking around, there were like three cops posted outside of his thing.
- 8:05And then when we went to leave, I guess everybody saw him when they were coming up.
- 8:09'cause you know, they're glass.
- 8:10And we were just kind of hanging out, letting the traffic get by.
- 8:13And when we went to leave, like there was so many people in the hall trying to get to him because at that point, like, you didn't have to show your bands or anything.
- 8:20Everything's over that.
- 8:22They had to like make an announcement to clear everybody out.
- 8:25Like, we need everybody in this hall to go.
- 8:27Mm-hmm.
- 8:28Yeah.
- 8:28I mean, I don't blame them.
- 8:31It was so amazing you threw through.
- 8:34I have always wanted to go.
- 8:35Okay.
- 8:36So one of my dreams is to go like to, the Olympics or the World Cup and see like a big famous team play in like their country.
- 8:47You know, like, and I don't care who, I don't, I mean, of course I like USA, but I just love the environment.
- 8:52They're so exciting to me.
- 8:54Yeah.
- 8:55So Brian was like, is this good enough?
- 8:57I was like, yes.
- 8:58We had ac.
- 9:00It was AC in there and it was flipping hot.
- 9:03It was so hot.
- 9:03We kept checking to see if they were going to delay the game because it's on turf and it was so hot.
- 9:09They were hosing down the turf.
- 9:11Yeah.
- 9:11And they had a few like specific hydration breaks, which soccer normally doesn't have any breaks other than the half.
- 9:19But anyway, I'm sorry, I'm just rambling, but I'm fancy and that's how I was meant to live.
- 9:24Yeah, same.
- 9:27I am not meant to live in this little life I currently have.
- 9:32I tagged you in another, camp.
- 9:34Yeah, I saw it video and it, it said it's like legit glamping uhhuh with the activities to the side.
- 9:41Uh, focus on glamping and hanging out and she was like artsy fartsy stuff.
- 9:46Yeah.
- 9:47Arts and craps.
- 9:50Some of'em.
- 9:51Gimme the glitter.
- 9:52Yeah.
- 9:53I love glitter.
- 9:54Mm-hmm.
- 9:54Although you can't get it out of anything, but I still wanna do it.
- 9:57I wanna know where it was.
- 9:59I didn't look really like I've been, there's one in, is it North Carolina and somewhere else?
- 10:02Oh yeah, there was two locations.
- 10:03It was like Vermont and North Carolina.
- 10:07Or something.
- 10:07Did you happen to look at prices or, I did not.
- 10:09Packages or anything.
- 10:10Well, I just saw that, yeah, she had put that in the comments.
- 10:12I'm like, North Carolina, Meredith, I'll have to look.
- 10:16I have just been so crazy busy.
- 10:18I hadn't had a time to, but it is like I told Jackson'cause he sat down the other day.
- 10:21I.
- 10:23And he was like, how are you doing mama?
- 10:25And I was like, do you really wanna know?
- 10:27He was like, yeah.
- 10:27'cause I, you know, we always ask them, how's your day?
- 10:29Whatever.
- 10:30I was like, well, I'm overwhelmed.
- 10:33I'm drowning at work.
- 10:34I'm trying to start this new business.
- 10:36Your lawn business is pretty busy and I do a lot of the communication and stuff with that.
- 10:40Try.
- 10:40I said, and then I just decided to paint the living room because, well, why not?
- 10:45Well, that's apparently how I handle stress.
- 10:48Well, you know, add more.
- 10:50Make more.
- 10:51Yeah.
- 10:51But at least it's something I can control.
- 10:52Yeah.
- 10:53And I can see results.
- 10:54Maybe that was what it was.
- 10:55Yeah.
- 10:56But I'm totally down.
- 10:57To team building.
- 11:00That would be a team pounding event.
- 11:01Yes.
- 11:02That would be, if we had a real business, we could.
- 11:07Okay.
- 11:07Speaking of the businesses, yeah.
- 11:08How's Honey Drop going?
- 11:10Good.
- 11:10Good.
- 11:10I guess got, some new software.
- 11:14Cool.
- 11:14So I'm, I'm been playing around with that a lot.
- 11:16Okay.
- 11:17So I'm just getting my bearings and Yeah.
- 11:19Getting everything kind of systemized.
- 11:21Yeah.
- 11:22And then I'll be ready to really jump into it.
- 11:25Mm-hmm.
- 11:26Getting it going.
- 11:26Mm-hmm.
- 11:27That's awesome.
- 11:28I'm so happy for you.
- 11:29You good for you.
- 11:30Thanks.
- 11:31Good for you.
- 11:32Before we go much further, yes.
- 11:34I wanna talk about something that's kind of sad and I know we're not a fan of sad, but I just want to put it out there'cause I know a lot of our listeners are friends of, like, local in the area.
- 11:47Mm-hmm.
- 11:48There is a girl who goes to school with Jackson in the same class.
- 11:52She's a triplet.
- 11:53Okay.
- 11:54And she's fighting leukemia.
- 11:55Oh.
- 11:56She's been fighting it for I think two years now, but she is, struggling right now.
- 12:01So everybody can just say a little prayer for her name is Lee, say a prayer for Lee.
- 12:07Send good vibes and stuff that way.
- 12:09Yeah, there's a Facebook page if you wanna find it, you can DM me and I'll link you to it.
- 12:15Private, but it's still open for everybody.
- 12:18So you'll have to like be led into it.
- 12:21But yeah.
- 12:22Just'cause I know there's a lot of Jackson's classmates and classmates' parents and people might not know what's going on.
- 12:26So She is in the hospital.
- 12:28She was in the hospital on her 16th birthday.
- 12:30Mm.
- 12:30I know.
- 12:30But, she's a strong little cookie, so I think she'll be good.
- 12:34She's just in a little rough patch right now.
- 12:36Yeah.
- 12:36But I just wanted to, to bring that out.
- 12:39Also, something crazy that's been going on.
- 12:42Okay.
- 12:43You're like, what?
- 12:46Jackson pulled me into watching a documentary, which I was like, oh.
- 12:53You're my child.
- 12:53Mm-hmm.
- 12:54You wanna watch a documentary?
- 12:55He wanted to watch the Travis Scott, Dylan and Ruthie watch that the other day.
- 13:01Astroworld.
- 13:01Yeah.
- 13:02So it was, yeah, crazy.
- 13:04Fascinating and terrifying and all the things.
- 13:07Mm-hmm.
- 13:07Did you watch any of it?
- 13:08Mm-hmm.
- 13:08I was actually, I was working in here and they were watching it in the living room.
- 13:11Mm-hmm.
- 13:12And, I just heard there were like reactions.
- 13:14Yeah.
- 13:14It was, it was interesting though.
- 13:16I don't remem, I mean, I, once he started telling me about it mm-hmm.
- 13:20The, the tragedy that was there where several people died Yeah.
- 13:23Because of just the layout and the crowd crushing.
- 13:27but it was, it was crazy.
- 13:29Yeah.
- 13:30It was crazy to watch.
- 13:31So that was something else to take a look at that.
- 13:33Yeah.
- 13:35Well, good news we had talked about, Our need for smelly laundry.
- 13:40Yes.
- 13:41Good smelling laundry, good smelling laundry.
- 13:42And so I Good scented.
- 13:44Yes.
- 13:44A girl on TikTok does reviews and it's like legit reviews, like she does good and bad.
- 13:49And so she said that this laundry detergent mosey.
- 13:53Wash, stays on your clothes.
- 13:56And so I was like, sold.
- 13:58Yeah.
- 13:58I brought a shirt down for Meredith to smell.
- 14:00I snipped it and it's, I love it.
- 14:02Like, I think it smells,, the scent actually is, it's not overpowering.
- 14:06Not at all.
- 14:07But it's definitely there.
- 14:09It is very, a very subtle, gentle smell, but, and I really, and I love the, the cans.
- 14:16Yeah, it comes in like these cool metal cans.
- 14:18the box like that it came in was really cool too.
- 14:20Yeah.
- 14:20They branded it really, really well.
- 14:22I am a sucker for details like that, for.
- 14:26Pretty packaging.
- 14:27When Jackson does his loan stuff, I like to make sure everything is blown off.
- 14:31Mm-hmm.
- 14:31And crisp, like the porches all like, I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff.
- 14:34Yeah.
- 14:34So I'm sold on this.
- 14:36Yeah.
- 14:36I'm gonna have to try one of those.
- 14:37They both smell really good.
- 14:38So Yeah, I got the vanilla moon and the Sugar Dew, which is more of like a citrusy smell.
- 14:45Mm-hmm.
- 14:46But, there are I think like six or seven different scents and then there's an unscented one as well.
- 14:50Yeah.
- 14:51But it's super concentrated.
- 14:52You only use like a tablespoon and a half.
- 14:54That's awesome.
- 14:55Tablespoons mm-hmm.
- 14:56Per load.
- 14:56And I am in love.
- 14:58Yeah.
- 14:59Not as much waste.
- 15:00You can recycle easily.
- 15:02They smell good.
- 15:02Mm-hmm.
- 15:03And I think you said they're plant-based.
- 15:05Yes.
- 15:05So they're not like a lot of chemically things going in your skin.
- 15:09Right.
- 15:09Oh.
- 15:09They smell really good though.
- 15:10Yes, I am obsessed.
- 15:12So, I've only used the vanilla one so far.
- 15:14I have not tried, like, the citrus one on the clothes.
- 15:16That's supposed to be a little bit more of a, stronger scent.
- 15:19Mm-hmm.
- 15:19On the clothes.
- 15:19Mm-hmm.
- 15:20But, excited to try both of them.
- 15:22Did Dylan smell'em?
- 15:23Yes.
- 15:23What did he say?
- 15:24I was like, I smell my shirt.
- 15:26He's like, Hmm, I like that one.
- 15:28Which is a vanilla one.
- 15:29Yeah.
- 15:30But really, I would've think that he would've liked that.
- 15:32Well, I didn't try that on clothes yet.
- 15:33Oh, you didn't let him smell the Yeah.
- 15:35The can.
- 15:36Well, he smelled the can, but I don't, I was like, I don't how it's gonna smell on clothes.
- 15:39Yeah.
- 15:39'cause it's a much stronger scent in the can.
- 15:42It is very strong.
- 15:43And a lot of those things, like, they'll tell you when you go like Bath and Body Works and smell it, that it's different when it's activated and does whatever.
- 15:49Mm-hmm.
- 15:51Have, have you seen this, um, in Florida?
- 15:55Florida is doing Florida.
- 15:56Florida be in Florida.
- 15:59They are building an off the grid detention center, like a prison in the Everglades, like in the middle of the Everglades.
- 16:06A what detention center?
- 16:07Like a, like a, like juvie or like adult?
- 16:10We don't know it.
- 16:11It just said like a prison style detention center.
- 16:14Oh gosh.
- 16:14They're already broken ground or?
- 16:16Swamp.
- 16:17Yeah.
- 16:19And so this is like alligator alley, right?
- 16:22Yeah, hundred percent.
- 16:23It's like alligator and pythons that's what lives there.
- 16:26So there'll literally be like a moat around this thing.
- 16:30Nobody's gonna be able to escape, like, no.
- 16:32And if you escape, it's gonna be like hunger games.
- 16:35Like you're fighting for your life, between the alligators and the pythons.
- 16:41Oh my gosh.
- 16:43Right.
- 16:44Like, but genius.
- 16:46Why didn't they do that before?
- 16:47That's gonna be tough for them to build on just because of the terrain.
- 16:51But I'm so here for it.
- 16:53I wanna know everything about it.
- 16:54Yeah.
- 16:54I, I was, I was like, okay, Florida is doing Florida.
- 16:58Yeah.
- 16:59That's genius though.
- 17:00'cause you're right, they can't, I mean, okay, you escape.
- 17:03You're either going get hugged by a python swallowed hole.
- 17:10Yeah.
- 17:10Chunks, bag, getta, um, or die mosquito bites.
- 17:16They have the wild hogs out there too, I think.
- 17:19Mm-hmm.
- 17:19Which are terrifying.
- 17:20I listen, I, I have no desire, no to, well, I do experience any of that.
- 17:25Okay.
- 17:26You know, I'm the weird one.
- 17:27Put me on an airboat No.
- 17:29And let me ride in the Everglades.
- 17:32I not, oh no.
- 17:35I just see myself like hitting, you know, um, rollercoasters, like when it Yes.
- 17:43Like you like lift off the, and I'm like, I'm gonna die.
- 17:45Yes.
- 17:46Yeah.
- 17:47No, hang on to me.
- 17:48We'll be fine.
- 17:50Okay.
- 17:50So you mentioned the Hunger Games.
- 17:51Yes.
- 17:52And I know we've talked about'em a little bit before.
- 17:54Did you read the books or see the movies?
- 17:55Did you read any of the two, like prequels?
- 17:58Mm-hmm., So I had read the one prequel, it was called Sunrise.
- 18:03No, it was called Ballad of Songbird and Snakes, and that was about snow.
- 18:08Okay.
- 18:08I just finished sunrise on the reaping, which is Hamish's story.
- 18:13Okay.
- 18:15Uh, our bookies.
- 18:15You might wanna jump into it if you have already.
- 18:17It was so twisted and good.
- 18:19Really?
- 18:20Yes.
- 18:21Yeah.
- 18:22Okay.
- 18:22So good.
- 18:23Well, you know, they're all about kids killing each other.
- 18:24Yeah.
- 18:25But so good.
- 18:26You understand a little bit more of his whatever.
- 18:29I'm sure they'll do movies outta this.
- 18:30Yeah.
- 18:31It was really good though.
- 18:33I know we were talking about sports earlier.
- 18:34Yes.
- 18:35Have you seen all this WNBA stuff?
- 18:37With, Sophie Cunningham.
- 18:39Mm-hmm.
- 18:39Oh my gosh.
- 18:40Listen, she is a legend.
- 18:41She is like my, my hero now.
- 18:43What?
- 18:43She must be being petty.
- 18:44Oh my God.
- 18:45What is she doing?
- 18:46Okay.
- 18:46So, and I don't follow mm-hmm.
- 18:48Any of this stuff.
- 18:49I just kind of knew Caitlyn Clark Right.
- 18:51Because of all the drama that was going on.
- 18:53Right.
- 18:53Last year with her and.
- 18:55She, by the way, is the only one that Michael Jordan is a fan of.
- 18:59Really?
- 18:59Yeah.
- 18:59He gave her like a$50 million deal.
- 19:02Really?
- 19:03Yeah.
- 19:03And she does a lot off the court, for the community Yeah.
- 19:06And for kids.
- 19:07And she donates a lot of time, money, everything.
- 19:10Yeah.
- 19:10She's very, very, very involved off the court.
- 19:13And I think that he said, you know, besides being a phenomenal player, right.
- 19:17That was a big draw for her.
- 19:19Yeah.
- 19:19But she gets.
- 19:21Just cheap shot after cheap shot on the court.
- 19:23Oh yeah, absolutely.
- 19:24And all the other women are so jealous and so petty of her.
- 19:27Mm-hmm.
- 19:28Because of her skills.
- 19:29Mm-hmm.
- 19:29And, well, she's not flashy.
- 19:32No.
- 19:32Don't get me wrong, if I could do what I would, but some of these girls are playing ball with their lashes on and all the things and she just wears a high pony, no makeup.
- 19:42Yeah.
- 19:43And hoops.
- 19:44Yeah.
- 19:44And she is, like you said, she's just does a lot of good things or whatever and they don't like her for they all the reasons.
- 19:53Yeah.
- 19:54So.
- 19:55JC Sheldon mm-hmm.
- 19:57Was on the other opposite team and was just, just given a, to her scratch.
- 20:02Tried to scratch her eyes.
- 20:03Mm-hmm.
- 20:04And then the rest weren't calling nothing.
- 20:05Yeah.
- 20:06So after she got her eye scratched, she was walking away and one of the other team pushed her to the ground from behind.
- 20:12Oh my gosh.
- 20:13And I was like, blatant.
- 20:14And the refs did nothing about it.
- 20:15Yeah.
- 20:16So my girl comes out.
- 20:20Yes.
- 20:21And her background.
- 20:22She's a black belt in TaeKwonDo.
- 20:24Okay.
- 20:24She filled in for her high school, football team's kicker when the kicker got injured.
- 20:29I love that.
- 20:30I mean, she is just a badass.
- 20:31Like I love that.
- 20:33She's amazing.
- 20:34So she, JC goes to get a shot up and.
- 20:41My girl.
- 20:41Mm-hmm.
- 20:42Takes her and does a taek shut up.
- 20:45She sweep the leg.
- 20:47No.
- 20:47She like took her from like, I took her just down like.
- 20:50I just went down, took her by like, by like a head, neck, shoulder down and she gets up and I mean, they were just going at it and I, but it was like at the end of the game there was like three minutes left and all game long.
- 21:03The rest did nothing.
- 21:04Yeah.
- 21:04She also took JC out another time, just kind of like.
- 21:08Got her really little shoulder and she just went bloop, like fell over, like dealing with the goat..
- 21:14I can't believe I didn't see it.
- 21:15We've been watching, the men's basketball NBA playoffs has been going on and, so I guess that's just been taking on my, my mind power.
- 21:28Yeah.
- 21:28I love her Now.
- 21:29I don't watch basketball.
- 21:31I would watch basketball because of her.
- 21:33I mean, she's just got all her teammates backs.
- 21:37I love that.
- 21:38Yeah.
- 21:38You need somebody like that.
- 21:39Yeah.
- 21:39Like you need somebody on your team.
- 21:41That's kind of the, the mouthy one.
- 21:43'cause you don't wanna look too soft.
- 21:44Mm-hmm.
- 21:45You need somebody that's gonna talk trash.
- 21:46Jackson's not really a trash talker, I don't think.
- 21:48Dylan, I mean, he'll, they will, but they're not the ones who go out there looking for it, but, mm-hmm.
- 21:53Some of Jay's friends will be like, I'm this, some of the ones that aren't quite so big.
- 21:57They're like, I'll talk trash if you're going up my back.
- 22:01Like shoulder.
- 22:01It's me.
- 22:03Yes.
- 22:04Is that us?
- 22:06I feel like, like I just had a vision of me trying to carry you off somewhere and like holding you around your belly while you're still like kicking and screaming and like what happened before Maybe, maybe I was having deja vu.
- 22:19That's so funny.
- 22:21Yeah.
- 22:21So, um, yeah.
- 22:22That's so funny.
- 22:23They're calling her the enforcer.
- 22:25I love it.
- 22:25I do too.
- 22:26And she's just gorgeous.
- 22:27And she, she is, so she got now, after that whole mm-hmm.
- 22:30Debacle, she got 500,000 new followers on.
- 22:35Social media and I was like, you go girl.
- 22:37Like she deserves it.
- 22:39And I'm not big on using the term bully.
- 22:41I think that's overused.
- 22:43I think a lot of times things aren't really bullying situations, but we're, you know, whatever.
- 22:48So, but when people are being a bully like that to somebody else and nothing is being done about it mm-hmm.
- 22:53Then when Ben Enforcers gotta step in.
- 22:56Yeah.
- 22:57I don't have a problem with that.
- 22:58Neither do I.
- 22:59And I am like a hundred percent Sophie fan Uhhuh.
- 23:03I'm gonna have to follow her now.
- 23:05She'll have 500,001.
- 23:09That's great though.
- 23:10I love it.
- 23:10Yeah.
- 23:11So you go girl.
- 23:12Mm-hmm.
- 23:13I gotta find her.
- 23:14Yeah.
- 23:15Let's see.
- 23:17Have you, I know that you love some accents, so you might have seen this going on.
- 23:22Have you seen the, 100 British men versus 100 American men who would win?
- 23:27No.
- 23:28Okay.
- 23:28So this British dude was like, I've got a question.
- 23:32I have a question.
- 23:33If it was a hundred British men and a hundred American men who would win, and he's like, oh, the British would win, blah, blah, blah.
- 23:38I'm like, going on like his reason.
- 23:40And so the comment section of course was lit.
- 23:43Like lit and just a couple of my, my faves fas given to me.
- 23:49Yeah.
- 23:49Okay.
- 23:49Our, somebody said our president, Isabel, and you think we're scared of y'all.
- 23:54That's great.
- 23:55All we need to do is send in the Waffle House employees.
- 24:01We have security to get into some of our McDonald's and you think we're scared of some Brits, we will knock the beans right off your toast.
- 24:11I don't understand that.
- 24:12I don't either.
- 24:14I don't even wanna try.
- 24:15Like I'm not giving it a chance.
- 24:17No, me either.
- 24:17No thank you.
- 24:18But the dude did a follow up video and he was like, I am sorry I take it back.
- 24:23I did not know about these, this Waffle house.
- 24:25What is.
- 24:31I feel like most people should know about the Waffle House.
- 24:34I feel like that's an American joke.
- 24:36Like people laugh.
- 24:36There's like a compile of like Waffle House videos in the background Yes.
- 24:40Of like, of all the drama that can happen It, the lady that caught the metal chair Uhhuh in one hand.
- 24:45One hand, yeah.
- 24:46And he's like.
- 24:47What kind of sorcery is this?
- 24:50You're aary.
- 24:53I have not seen the 100 British.
- 24:55Oh, look it up.
- 24:55Okay, so then there's a guy that spent a lot of time here.
- 24:57He was a British guy.
- 24:58He Tried to, he went through a lot of the states and Yeah.
- 25:01Was doing like, British man taste.
- 25:03I've seen some of those.
- 25:04Yeah, for the first time or whatever.
- 25:05Yeah, like whatever.
- 25:07And so he was tagged in it a lot.
- 25:09So he did a video and he's like, I was tagged in this and as a British man, I spent a lot of time in America.
- 25:15We are going to lose.
- 25:17We could not enter the fight.
- 25:19We already do this.
- 25:19Once they're built different don't.
- 25:23Do it.
- 25:24Don't do it.
- 25:26Don't do it.
- 25:26So then a girl was like, well, there's this debate about the men.
- 25:29How about the women?
- 25:30And the, she's like, I'm just kidding.
- 25:32We should not, it was a British girl.
- 25:34We're not even gonna go there.
- 25:36She's like, we would show up, but we would lose.
- 25:41That is so funny.
- 25:43And they're like, that's so funny.
- 25:44Our unhinged, and then, so then the comment section is hysterical because it's like, Americans, we hate each other, but don't let anybody like mm-hmm.
- 25:51Bring us into a fight because we will become the most patriotic country you've ever seen.
- 25:56And somebody's like, it's like when somebody messes with my brother or sister, uh uh.
- 25:59Exactly.
- 25:59I can talk as much trash as I want about them, but don't talk.
- 26:03That is great.
- 26:04And that is so true.
- 26:05We are kind of all unhinged, like British people are so proper, they have, so for the most part they have like all the manners and the rituals and the ceremonies and we're just like, Hey, y'all.
- 26:19What y'all doing proud of our crazy.
- 26:21We are, we are proud of our crazy.
- 26:25I'm okay with it though.
- 26:25Yeah.
- 26:27I am pretty patriotic though.
- 26:28Are you?
- 26:29To a point like, yeah, I am not wearing red, white, and blue all the time.
- 26:33But do you have a a, a American flag?
- 26:36Bikini?
- 26:36No.
- 26:41No, but I always get tear eye, like when you're watching a parade and like the, ROTC or whatever come through, especially like a long time ago, it used to be discharged veterans and stuff that would come through that always gets me.
- 26:54I know my heart.
- 26:55My grandpa was in the Army and he fought in World War II and he went everywhere.
- 27:00Mm-hmm.
- 27:00So I think that's just a little nostalgia for that.
- 27:03Yeah.
- 27:04Have I ever told you about Jackson's, Fran, Logan, and him being really patriotic?
- 27:09Mm-hmm.
- 27:10Okay.
- 27:11I'll make it short.
- 27:12First time this kid was spend the night we were, he was going, okay, this whole situation, I might not be able to make it short.
- 27:18He was going with us to the beach for a week, the next week and we'd met this kid and hung out.
- 27:24But he never like spend the night.
- 27:25So he spends the night before.
- 27:26We're leaving the next day so we can just all get up and go.
- 27:29Well, you know how it is the day you're leaving, you're like in and outta the house 15 times and loading up the cooler and doing all the things.
- 27:36Well, the boys are up and they're downstairs.
- 27:39Jackson was, I don't know, getting ready, whatever.
- 27:41So Logan's just in there watching videos and Jackson's made jokes about how patriotic he is in America.
- 27:48You know, he just, all this kind of stuff.
- 27:50And I hear the span banner playing.
- 27:54I knew that Logan was the only one down here and the TV wasn't on, and I was like, is this just what we do in the mornings?
- 28:01Like do I stop?
- 28:02Is it okay if I just keep going right in the hallway with one hand in a laundry basket?
- 28:08Like I'm not really a hundred percent sure he was just watching some kind of a reel or something.
- 28:13But the way Jackson had built it up, I thought that might be what we do.
- 28:17We just stop every morning and you know.
- 28:22I love that kid though.
- 28:23He's a mess.
- 28:25You never know what you're gonna get with these boys.
- 28:26You know?, oh, there was another British guy.
- 28:28So he was talking about how like crappy his neighbor is.
- 28:31Mm-hmm.
- 28:32And he said, how problematic the neighbor is.
- 28:35Mm-hmm.
- 28:35Everybody in the building or whatever.
- 28:37Mm.
- 28:37Just one of those really grumpy mm-hmm.
- 28:39Jerky guys.
- 28:39And so the next video, it was like y'all every didn't say y'all, it is like whatever their vision version of y'all is, but.
- 28:47He said he was able to connect to the dude's Bluetooth speaker.
- 28:50Oh.
- 28:51And the guy's name is Joe.
- 28:53So he, what did he do?
- 28:55He plays Cotton eye, Joe, and he blasted it like he was able to control how loud this, so you can hear it in his apartment from the next apartment over and it is kind of like that.
- 29:05Yeah.
- 29:05Yeah.
- 29:06And so he's like, can you turn it down?
- 29:08And like you can hear the guy like, what?
- 29:13Turn off?
- 29:14Like that is great.
- 29:17So then he's like, give me guy's name's, Joe.
- 29:19Gimme all the, the, oh yeah.
- 29:21So they play Jolene.
- 29:22Oh yeah.
- 29:22And I mean, just like all these different, I mean, fat Joe had a lot.
- 29:25Yeah.
- 29:26Yeah.
- 29:26So hysterical.
- 29:28So then he takes a video he could just kind of seem he's holding it like this.
- 29:31Yeah.
- 29:32And he knocks on the guy's door and he is like, you, I'm really sorry to bother you, but you know, the music's really loud sometimes and the guy's like, I can't, I dunno what's going on.
- 29:42And I, I'm, I'm sorry.
- 29:44That is so funny.
- 29:46I'm like, the pettiness is, that is so funny.
- 29:49We, when we were at a basketball game, we tried to connect to the Bluetooth at the high school to just.
- 29:55Be stupid because we're grown up adults and we can do it.
- 29:57Yeah.
- 29:58I was at a wrestling match for Dylan, a couple years ago, and I guess it was a kid that was trying to send like an airdrop to everybody around.
- 30:06Oh yeah.
- 30:06And it was like a bathroom toilet picture or something too, but I was like, this is so dumb.
- 30:10Mm-hmm.
- 30:11I always forget about airdropping to mass people like in public though.
- 30:15I've never been a victim.
- 30:16Have you?
- 30:17Well, just that one that.
- 30:20If that's my new goal, I'm gonna airdrop to everyone.
- 30:23do you want to do, am I the A-hole?
- 30:25I would love to.
- 30:26Okay.
- 30:27Okay.
- 30:27I don't think Joe's the a-hole.
- 30:29I mean Joe's neighbor.
- 30:30Oh, okay.
- 30:33Am I the a-hole for buying my new neighbor donuts?
- 30:36I will hold my judgment.
- 30:38I live in a small apartment complex with about 13 other units.
- 30:41We got a new neighbor a couple weeks ago, saw him taken in boxes, but I haven't seen them at all since last night at about two 30, music starts blasting from his place and you can hear a bunch of people inside being super loud.
- 30:53This went on until about 4:00 AM when a cop knocked on his door.
- 30:57I did not call them.
- 30:58I like how they called themselves.
- 30:59I'm not a snitch.
- 31:01Um, I'm guessing he brought his Crays home from the bar to keep the party going.
- 31:04It's a Tuesday night.
- 31:06I have work at 7:00 AM I found this very annoying, even with all my windows closed and a fan running, I could still hear the noise.
- 31:14So this morning I left a note on his porch that said, Hey, thanks so much for that 3:00 AM wake up call on a Tuesday from my name, my apartment number, who has to be at work at 7:00 AM.
- 31:25I left a pack of hostess pink snowballs and powdered donuts placed in an intentional fashion with the note, came home and he had thrown the donuts back on my porch.
- 31:35I thought it was funny way of handling the situation, but I guess he didn't.
- 31:38Am I the A-hole?
- 31:40I don't think so.
- 31:41Hold on.
- 31:42So how did he, did he have him as like.
- 31:44I was genital.
- 31:45I, I, that's what I was assuming.
- 31:47But how would you have two donuts and two snowballs?
- 31:51I don't think that, did it say two donuts?
- 31:53I thought so.
- 31:54I thought it just said donuts and snowballs.
- 31:56Oh, maybe the donuts were in a box.
- 31:58You know, I'm visual.
- 31:59I have to see it in my head.
- 32:01And the pink snowball thing I did.
- 32:02Yeah.
- 32:02I just, I I left a pack of hostess pink snowballs and powdered donuts.
- 32:06Okay.
- 32:07Oh my God, I, you're not an a-hole.
- 32:09No, I think it's hysterical.
- 32:10I, that could have been Ha and I, listen, if I was a neighbor, I would've kept the food.
- 32:21Fried dough.
- 32:24I love those.
- 32:25Those like chocolate cakes with the coconut on the outside and the pink, like snowball things.
- 32:29Mm-hmm.
- 32:30I love them.
- 32:30Yeah.
- 32:31I never get them anymore, but I love them.
- 32:33I can't eat any of that stuff anymore.
- 32:34I know I hate it when I'm bringing up food and then I bring up food.
- 32:38It's okay.
- 32:39It'll be fine.
- 32:40Okay.
- 32:40Okay.
- 32:41Well, I don't think he's the a-hole.
- 32:42I thought that was handled pretty cute.
- 32:44I did too.
- 32:45And like if the dude was mad about that, he, you know what it was, he probably thought that that was who called the cops.
- 32:51Oh yeah.
- 32:51That's what I would think.
- 32:53Now that I think about it, yeah.
- 32:54He probably thought he was a snitch.
- 32:56Uhhuh.
- 32:57Yeah.
- 32:57You are playing your music cloud dude, on a Tuesday.
- 33:00Mm-hmm.
- 33:00In the middle of the night.
- 33:01Yeah.
- 33:01But I don't think the way he handled it was bad.
- 33:03Me either.
- 33:03Bring me donuts, boy.
- 33:06Especially after drinking, you know, it's even better.
- 33:10It's like a bagel after drinking a bagel after drinking.
- 33:13Mm-hmm.
- 33:14I, I'm not thought I hate those either.
- 33:15No.
- 33:16So what do you have after you have a drink or two?
- 33:18I don't really drink anymore.
- 33:19Yeah.
- 33:20Well, so.
- 33:21I don't have that problem.
- 33:22I don't get hung over.
- 33:24That solves so many fucking beliefs between being no gluten.
- 33:29Yeah.
- 33:32But I don't go anywhere, so.
- 33:33Right.
- 33:35And then even if you go somewhere like I'm.
- 33:37So anti like drinking and driving.
- 33:40Oh yeah.
- 33:40And so it's just not worth it.
- 33:42Yeah.
- 33:42For any of the things.
- 33:45No, not at all.
- 33:46I'm so thankful that there's like Uber and stuff now.
- 33:49Yeah.
- 33:49Because there obviously wasn't when, you know, when the dinosaurs were pulling her vehicles and Lauren knows how like, oh God, I'm so lucky to get alive.
- 33:57Yeah, but it, I mean, not in jail.
- 34:00There's no excuse.
- 34:02No.
- 34:03Zero.
- 34:03Yeah.
- 34:04When you have that many, those things at your fingertips.
- 34:06Yep.
- 34:07Okay.
- 34:08So books, uh, if you're not a bookie, yes.
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- 34:11Please tell your friends to listen.
- 34:12We love you.
- 34:13We do love you.
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- 34:15Bye bye.
- 34:17All right.
- 34:18So this week, we read the vacancy in room 10.
- 34:21After her husband's sudden and death, Anna Hartley checks into his cd former studio to uncover the truth, only to discover a web of secrets.
- 34:28A husband she never really knew and a danger that may be closer than she thinks.
- 34:32who was the author?
- 34:33Do you have that written down?
- 34:34I have it pulled up.
- 34:35I can.
- 34:36It's okay.
- 34:36It was, Serafin Nova Glass.
- 34:39This was a lot.
- 34:39This book was all over the place to me.
- 34:41I wasn't a fan.
- 34:42Mm-hmm.
- 34:43Okay.
- 34:44Mm-hmm.
- 34:45All right.
- 34:45So we got dual views.
- 34:46Yeah.
- 34:46We've got, Anna's mm-hmm.
- 34:48View, and then the, maintenance ca lady ca mm-hmm.
- 34:52Her view.
- 34:53And so there's two totally different plots that like, like eventually meet up at the end.
- 34:57Mm-hmm.
- 34:58That kind of cross over together.
- 35:00I did like the supporting characters like all the crazy ladies.
- 35:05Their perspective.
- 35:06Yeah, they were a lot of fun.
- 35:09Uhhuh.
- 35:09They were, um, they had her back.
- 35:13Yeah.
- 35:13They were just vibing.
- 35:15They were great.
- 35:16They seemed like a fun bunch.
- 35:18Yeah.
- 35:18And, so I enjoyed their little part Yeah.
- 35:21The supporting roles.
- 35:22Yeah.
- 35:23I could picture them too.
- 35:24So could I, I could picture the, apartment complex.
- 35:28Like all of it was just so clear in my head and I love it when books are so descriptive.
- 35:34Yeah.
- 35:34Like that.
- 35:35Mm-hmm.
- 35:36So I did enjoy that part.
- 35:37And there's everything that I normally, like all the ingredients were there mm-hmm.
- 35:41For a book that I would love.
- 35:42Mm-hmm.
- 35:43Um, you've got like, like the secret life of the husband.
- 35:45Right.
- 35:46And you've got like the, you know, all the, all the mystery stuff, the murder.
- 35:49Mm-hmm.
- 35:49Like all the things.
- 35:50And I, it just wasn't there for me.
- 35:51It didn't hit, yeah.
- 35:52It wasn't for me either.
- 35:53And even with the, added piece of like Cass being a fix-it girl, which I thought that was so cute.
- 35:59And her business name of handyman was adorable.
- 36:03I like it when women are in different roles than they normally are, you know, like old school roles.
- 36:08Right.
- 36:08So I enjoyed all of, like, her life with that of the Little Boy Frank.
- 36:13Mm-hmm.
- 36:13I loved all the characters, but the story was, I.
- 36:17Lacking.
- 36:18Yeah.
- 36:18It just didn't hit for me.
- 36:19Mm-hmm.
- 36:19I didn't get, get invested mm-hmm.
- 36:22In any one thing, you know?
- 36:24Mm-hmm.
- 36:24And I also figured it out.
- 36:26Did you The guy always do, like, I was just like, yeah.
- 36:30You know, it was him.
- 36:31Mm-hmm.
- 36:31Yeah.
- 36:32I mean, I obviously knew it wasn't whoever they were trying to make us believe it was.
- 36:35Mm-hmm.
- 36:36But I couldn't figure out Yeah.
- 36:38Who it was.
- 36:38I felt like there was just so many things.
- 36:41Going on in it.
- 36:43Yeah.
- 36:43There's, between the, I forgot his name.
- 36:46The one she, the scissors?
- 36:49Yeah.
- 36:49Yeah.
- 36:50Eddie.
- 36:50Mm-hmm.
- 36:51Whatever.
- 36:51Eddie.
- 36:52Yeah.
- 36:52There was just so many pieces.
- 36:54Yeah.
- 36:54I, it was all over the place.
- 36:57Mm-hmm.
- 36:57And there was too many stories mm-hmm.
- 36:59Going on.
- 37:00And, and some were so irrelevant.
- 37:02Mm-hmm.
- 37:03Like the whole thing with.
- 37:04Ex passed his ex.
- 37:06Yeah.
- 37:06Was just kind of like, yeah.
- 37:08Alright.
- 37:08Did he do it?
- 37:09Like what are we talking?
- 37:10Yeah.
- 37:10Yeah.
- 37:10Why is he even in here?
- 37:11Yeah.
- 37:12Yeah.
- 37:12so this, this book just does not hit for me.
- 37:14No.
- 37:15Me either.
- 37:16Yeah.
- 37:16I give it like a four.
- 37:17Yeah.
- 37:18And that's only because I like the, the ladies at the pool, they were really great.
- 37:22They, when she was going to the fancy party and they showed up in like, oh, like bar hopping clothes almost from 2004.
- 37:30It was, it was everything.
- 37:32And she's in like, Gucci.
- 37:34Yeah.
- 37:35Yeah.
- 37:35Absolutely.
- 37:36Yeah.
- 37:36I really, I really liked them and like I said, I liked the, The little boy and her relationship with him and a lot of the different characters like that.
- 37:45I'd probably read something else by this author just because I think maybe it was just every,'cause like you said, everything else was there.
- 37:51Mm-hmm.
- 37:51Maybe it was just trying to.
- 37:52Pull this one together.
- 37:54So I'm, I might give it another go and I'll let you know.
- 37:56Okay.
- 37:57You're like, okay.
- 37:58I'm not wasting my time.
- 37:59No, thanks.
- 37:59Um, what's next?
- 38:00The next one is what?
- 38:02She left by HK Christie.
- 38:04Now on Hoopla, you have to get the three, it's a series and there's three books together.
- 38:10I think I already started reading this and I didn't like it.
- 38:12Okay.
- 38:13Did you start reading it?
- 38:14I read it, or listened to it like a couple weeks ago.
- 38:17Okay.
- 38:17I got, I mean, it wasn't my favorite, but I got through it.
- 38:20All right.
- 38:21Um, Martina Monroe is a single bad day away from losing it all.
- 38:25Stuck, catching insurance fraudsters and cheating spouses due to DUI, the.
- 38:29Despondent PI yearns to return to more fulfilling gigs.
- 38:33So when a prospective client asks for her by name to identify an unknown infant in a family photo, she leaps at the opportunity and travels to one place she swore never to go back home.
- 38:44As the pressure mounts and the temptation of boo calls like a siren, martina digs into the mystery and discovers many of the threads have razor sharp ends.
- 38:52Forced to partner with a resentful detective investigating a linked suspicious death.
- 38:56The haunted private eye unravels clues that delve deep into her past and put her in a dark and dangerous corner.
- 39:03Okay, cool.
- 39:04Um it did take me a little bit to get into it.
- 39:06Okay.
- 39:06I'll give it another go, but I'll give it another go.
- 39:10I think that's it, though.
- 39:11It is.
- 39:12Okay.
- 39:12Well, thank you all for listening.
- 39:13Thank you for listening.
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