Transcript

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I'm Stephanie.
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I'm Meredith and welcome to This is My Circus.
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Girl, girl, girl.
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What's that?
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I want to start talking about this book, like first off.
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Let's get it out of the way.
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Okay.
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Can we do that?
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We can.
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Okay.
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So our book this week, our listeners are, both of our listeners are probably like, what is going on?
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Um, I'm in a little bit of a reading funk.
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Yeah.
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So I don't know if I'm just picking the worst books that were on my list Reese's and Oprah's book list But I'm sending some recommendations because we need some more.
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So this week we did mother daughter murder night by Nina Simon mm hmm, and Let's let's do our blurb.
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Okay, um, you want me to read our blog or you got it?
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Uh, do you want to take a turn?
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I can take a turn.
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Alright.
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This is going to be great.
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All right.
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High powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of.
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Her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the LA real estate empire she's built.
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But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck.
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counting otters instead of square footage and hoping that boredom won't kill her before the cancer does.
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Then Jack, tiny in stature but fiercely independent, happened upon a dead body while kayaking.
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She quickly becomes a suspect in the homicide investigation and the Rubicon women are thrown into chaos.
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Beth thinks Lana should focus on recovery, but Lana has a better idea.
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She'll pull on her wig, find the true murderer, protect her family, and prove she still has power.
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With Jack and Beth's help, Lana uncovers a web of lies, family vendettas, and land disputes lurking beneath the surface of a community populated by folksy conservationists and wealthy ranchers.
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But as their amateur snooping advances into ever more dangerous territory, the headstrong Rubicon women must learn to do the one thing they've always resisted, depend on each other.
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Dun, dun, dun.
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Okay, so your expression was not impressed.
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I didn't love it.
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I didn't hate it.
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I got through it.
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and you know, like I, I was, Interested.
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Yeah.
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I just wasn't like fully invested.
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Yes.
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So for me this book started out Like I was like, oh, this is great.
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I am all in and then it went it tanked Well, the first like whatever like the pre chapter or whatever you want to call it.
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Was them describing a dead seal and yeah, very gory details.
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They're not like, mm hmm, right?
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I don't know about that.
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Right, right, right.
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and the purpose of that was to make you think it was a body like a human body, right?
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And but I was like, oh, that was a lot of detail.
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Mm hmm could have done without that.
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Oh the thing Yeah, I don't you know and it's like horrible to say but when A person dies.
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I'm okay.
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But don't tell me about the animal.
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I don't want an animal to die.
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I don't want to hear about it.
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I don't want to see it.
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Don't want to think about it.
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No, they all live.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So, I was right from the start, I was like, Oh, with that.
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Yeah.
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but I did think that the family dynamics, were interesting.
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I wasn't totally, I feel like Lana, Lana, I don't know how they pronounced it in the, on the audio book.
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I feel like she was probably a little bit neglectful.
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Um, of her daughter growing up since she was a single parent and she was building her empire.
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And very, very young.
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Yeah.
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And so I kind of feel like.
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Yeah, she was young too.
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Yeah.
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She was probably a little bit like neglectful or just not there, is the kind of vibe I got.
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Right.
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and the daughter, Beth, and then Jack is the granddaughter Beth has is also a single parent.
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Yes.
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she had a super young child.
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Yeah.
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So, but did not follow the same.
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She almost overcompensated for that by being, 200 percent invested in everything that her little family had going on, which was just she and Jack.
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Right.
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So, the dynamics of Mm-Hmm.
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All three of them.
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And then it kind of feel like one Atlanta was like trying to make up for her.
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Mm-Hmm.
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but mistakes with Beth.
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Yeah.
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with the granddaughter.
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Yes.
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and Beth was a little bit resentful of that, I feel like.
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Yes, she was.
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And poor Jack just wanted everybody to love her.
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That had to get along almost was the vibe that I got.
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Mm-Hmm.
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Yeah, it was an interesting dynamic and the way that that played out in the story with each of them taking different roles and different things and the arguments and tension and, and all those, it was, I could see myself in some of these characters.
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Who did you feel like you related with the most?
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probably, and not necessarily, my mom was a fan.
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Right, right, right.
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but, probably Beth.
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I feel like I overcompensated, parent wise, for Other dynamics.
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You know, so I feel like, like probably that I, I got that, guess, yeah.
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Wanting to be everything.
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Right.
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You know, I felt the same way too.
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I would identify with Beth more than Lana or even Little Feisty Jack.
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Yeah.
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Just because it's.
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You're, you're just trying to take care of everything and you're focused on everything else and not really like, I felt like Lana was more focused on herself and selfish and career.
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And I mean, that works for some people and that's fine.
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That's just not kind of where I am.
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So yeah, I'm the same.
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I identified more as Beth.
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And Beth didn't have any family like around to help.
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And since Dylan was born, we've never, never, my mom now lives here, but we never had family around us.
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And so like, you're just always like, You know, trying to make things work that would be tough for you.
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Um, I mean, it's just, it is what it's, I mean, it's what, it's, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Luckily I have an amazing, I, I always had a great amazing friend network.
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Yeah.
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and like the, the phrase it takes a village Oh, totally.
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definitely came to play.
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Yeah.
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So I've always had a great friend network.
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Yeah.
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that was extended family.
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Yeah.
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so.
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I guess, you know, that made it a lot easier.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that's not like I really call a lot of friends to ask them to do something for Jackson.
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I feel like I'm always the one that needs to be there for everybody else.
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Um, but just to know that I have people that I could put.
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that are local.
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never, I'm sorry.
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I never thought about that for you.
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Well, I'm, I'm your friend group.
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I am, I am, I am everything you need me to be.
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I'm the wind beneath your wings.
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Do you want me to sing?
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I mean, it's song time.
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Go ahead.
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I can fly high.
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No.
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Okay.
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What's up?
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Why did you just catch your breath?
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Because it was song time?
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I was like, oh, You were ready.
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I was, I was anticipating.
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Oh, I'm better at the raps than the slow.
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Yeah.
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Oh, I don't have like that high, like, oh lord.
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No.
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Oh, no, no.
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Um, I did like the, oh, what'd you think about the ending of this?
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Sorry.
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Oh, okay.
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I did.
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I wasn't, you know, I'm always, I think because we've read so many of these like Back and forth kind of I mean you should stuff.
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Um, I always have a Apprehension about the nice guy.
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Yes so i'm always kind of like Yes, you do it.
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I actually have a note here I went back and forth with ricardo and martin and or were they a couple Like I went through all the different scenarios and situations that who could have been the dude Yeah, I think the sister was too obvious.
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Yeah, and You I thought that the tycoon guy was too obvious.
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Peter, Paul, Mary.
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I think he was Paul.
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but I'm always like very aggressive over the nice guy.
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So it's right.
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You know, right, right.
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They, they try to throw you off and they don't know.
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So this one only had like one foot, like the ones where there's like triple, like, Turns are the ones that I'm starting to kind of need.
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I need to amp up our reading game to those because when they're not twisted enough, I did like the very end when little Jack picked up that boat.
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Yes.
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That was tough to me.
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Yes.
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To you.
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F F as Jackson.
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Yes.
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I thought that was really cool.
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Yeah.
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I was proud of her for that.
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so because you know, like, There's so much stuff in the news and social media about police.
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Like I was very like, yes.
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Thinking about how the cops handle this.
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And so there was a male and a female cop partners.
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Um, and the male cop, I feel like is like, average, like, stupid cop that, not stupid, I don't want to say cops are stupid, they're not, but this guy was, he thought he knew who it was and he was going to make evidence fit that person.
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He's like the kind of cop that you would see that's, that's a big guy that wears the shirt too tight, that has a big walrus mustache and tie too short and he knows who done it and he's, that's it.
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But he was trying to make all of the evidence fit who he thought was it and did not want to have any other evidence.
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Options he wanted to close that case and be done with it.
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Yep Whereas the female cop was very much more open to all of Lana alone as whatever her name is antics, right?
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Investigators, right?
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I kind of had a moment where I thought she was involved you did especially when she was wanting jack to go with her I was like She's gonna take Jack and do something with Jack, but I'd see I think I kind of like I was saying I kind of start looking for too many things because I'm I kind of need that now.
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Yeah So yeah, I thought she might have been involved, but I thought that her and The grandma were gonna get together at the end.
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Like Yeah, play like the way they were talking to each other.
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Yeah.
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I was like, are they like Right gonna like start dating?
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Right.
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Where are we going with this?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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They were, they were, my friends called me Lana.
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Is that what she said?
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Something like that.
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Yeah.
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I just finished the book like a week ago, so I was like, yeah.
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And I was same, super fresh, but same.
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Um, yeah, I thought that they were gonna, at the end, like.
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I don't know, like the way that they were talking to each other at the end, I was like, oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think that there's so many books we've read recently, uh, that in those kind of hookups that I'm like, now I'm looking at everything.
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Right.
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Are they hooking up?
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Right.
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Well, and that's what I was looking at the, the two dudes like, are they hooking up?
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Because I was like, okay.
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Or is that the spin?
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We're kind of put on it, but, I wonder if the, the lady cop saw a little bit of herself too in the antics that Mm-Hmm.
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The, that Lana, the grandmother was.
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Doing like I could see that I could I thought she could relate a little bit with I thought it was super funny though Like she was like, all right, so dude's not in trouble, right?
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Like he's cleared he's totally and then like she pops up in the trunk and then just pops out of the trunk I was like Yeah, she was like he's 100 not in trouble.
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Like he's a brother.
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Can you help me get him out of my truck?
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So I can't get in trouble for harboring a feature Right.
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Yeah, there was some humor in there.
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That was that was funny.
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Um I mean, what would you give it on a one to ten?
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Five and a half clicks, maybe?
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Yeah.
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If you're being nice.
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I'd say four or five, yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, it was okay.
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Like I said, got through it.
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Didn't not want to finish it.
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Yeah.
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Like, I wanted to finish it.
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It got better for me as we, as I finished it up.
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Like, it was, Strong, middle waned, and the end got stronger again, just when it does a little more action, I guess.
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And they weren't going back and forth and doing all the snooping, and I need the momentum to keep, to keep up.
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So that was, it was pretty good.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it was okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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wouldn't read it again.
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No.
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Read it if you want to yep, you've been warned So the next one that I had pulled for us to read was called the light pirate by lily brooks dalton Don't waste your time.
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Okay, we're not going to do that one.
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I've started i'm like 25 percent in and I think It might be a good one to read, but hearing it, it's just not clicking for me, and life's too short to read bad books.
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Yes, that's why we go with Libby and, and, and Flo.
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Yes, so we're gonna do one that you just started.
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Um, it's called The Girl Who Was Taken.
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Yes.
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And it's by Charlie Donella.
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D o n l e a.
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Dunlea?
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Yeah.
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Maybe?
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Charlie Dunlea.
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Yep.
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So we'll do that one next time and we'll just scratch the light power off.
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Unless you want to try it and see what you think, but I want the fan.
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No, uh, no, I'm good.
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Okay.
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You're fine with it?
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I trust your judgment.
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Trust my judgment on that?
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Okay.
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Why is too short for bad books?
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Yes.
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When we do merch.
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Yes, we need a shirt that says that for sure.
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have you.
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Yes.
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Oh, I was just going to do some Olympics talk.
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Oh, let's talk about it.
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Cause I I've heard some stuff.
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Oh, you heard some stuff.
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Okay.
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So we, you know, we talked about Snoop last week, Flava Flav.
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I forgot to mention him.
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Oh, he's also been all over it.
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And I am loving every second of it.
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Simone Biles has done really well.
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She got gold and we've had some things today, like shot put men shot put and they took gold and silver for us.
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And, Yeah, everything's good.
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Breakdancing is a sport and that starts soon.
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I can't wait to watch that.
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I think that's the end of this coming week that that starts.
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What were you going to talk about that you've seen?
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Well, several things.
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So with Simone Biles.
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Yes.
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Her teammate from the last Olympics.
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Yes.
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Where they won the gold and like her tweets.
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Yes.
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Did you see all the drama going on with that?
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And she blocked Simone Biles.
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Who blocks Simone?
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I'll be your friend Simone.
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Me too, girl.
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Oh, she is gorgeous.
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So talented.
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Oh my gosh.
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Her husband's a NFL player.
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Yes.
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And did you see like people were kind of like, well, she's the, talented one.
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No, I didn't.
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But I love that I did see him in the stands with like a notebook and a piece of paper, like taking notes and on scores.
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And, I think.
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From what I read he was trying to determine what she needed to win or something, which wasn't a problem.
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Yeah, but I went back and stalked her Instagram her wedding pictures.
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She wore like three different dresses like just a beautiful princess And her grandparents raised her.
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Oh, really?
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Yup.
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Her mom had some substance addiction problems and her grandparents raised her and still support her to this day.
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So she's just, Simone, if you want to come on the show, just let us know.
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We are available.
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Anytime.
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Well, I don't know.
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Just call us.
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Well, I saw that, uh, girl from France, trains with them and won gold.
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And when she won all, cause she trains in Texas, with the USA team.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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but she competes for France and, they were calling her, they're like, come here, come here.
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Like after she did her, her routine routine, given her hugs, the coach hugged her.
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Like it was said, that's awesome.
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A heartwarming, like, yeah, like they didn't care that she was on another team and that moment, you know, it was still like the girl that they chose her for.
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Yeah.
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So I thought that was awesome.
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That is awesome.
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That was something like that that happened today.
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I was watching the, high jumps, the women high jump.
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And two women from Australia and two women from, I think it was Great Britain were on the thing and they were all just like smiling and loving on each other and just all so excited.
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Speaking of high jumps, did you see the dude pole vaulter?
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Mm-Hmm.
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Okay.
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I'm pretty sure it was pole vaulting.
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The one where you run and take the pole and you like fling yourself over the thing.
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Well, like a slingy shot.
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you have pretty much, you have to, not one part of your body can touch the, no, I think your body can touch, but if the poll falls, then you're disqualified.
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His member got stuck on the date, and it made it fall.
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Oh, there's slow mo videos everywhere.
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It's probably on our Facebook pages.
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We like, y'all, oh, is that a flex?
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I think so.
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I think he gets gold.
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Jackson was like, yeah, that's a flex.
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Um, I thought that was so funny.
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Oh, my gosh, got stuck on it.
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Well, something that I don't like about the Olympics this year a Dutch volleyball player is a convicted child molester.
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Get him out of here.
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And is allowed to compete.
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he was given like special quote unquote treatment that he doesn't have to do interviews, or he's not allowed to do interviews.
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And he has a special entrance, he has a special sleeping, like he's not sleeping in like the Olympic Village.
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You know where he should sleep?
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In a cell.
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Yes, yes, exactly.
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I mean, this is, yeah.
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so he was convicted of three counts of rape of a child, 12 years old, she was 12 years old.
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He flew to Great Britain to do this.
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And he's allowed to compete there.
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There's children like 11 years old competing in the Olympics this year.
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I don't know what the like why he is allowed to and somebody that smoked a little Hot right wasn't allowed to compete right and that is not a drug enhancing If anything, it's a hindering i've been reading about that too.
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And that was a little like yeah wtf for right?
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Well, I And then I flipped back to Jorn van der Sloot that allegedly, or he was convicted now, right?
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Yeah, that's the Aruba dude.
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Uh huh.
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Yeah, he admitted it.
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Okay, because he was Dutch too.
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Last year.
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Was it last year?
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He got caught with another, in another case.
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Well, he served time somewhere else too.
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Yeah, with that, they said they gave him, I think, a plea, whatever, that if he said where, what happened.
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I was like, these Dutch dudes are getting a bad rep.
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Yeah.
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I mean, there's bad people and good people everywhere.
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Yeah.
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But it was just, yeah.
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I'm, I kick him out.
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I hope they lose.
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I hope he has.
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I, I hope he has endless sand in his crutch because they are volleyball, beach volleyball player.
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I hope he does too.
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I hope he has a terrible infection and, Things fall off and he never gets it hung when he pole vaults.
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No, that's, I mean, we're laughing, but that's terrible.
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I mean, he should not be, no, he should not be allowed to walk freely amongst the people.
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No, no, let alone be there.
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so very disappointed in the Olympic committee for that.
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Yeah.
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For letting that happen.
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Totally agree my opinion But whatever I don't even know his name.
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do you know his name?
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No, he wasn't even worth me putting it down Oh, there you go, because I was gonna say, you know throws throw some shade to the Olympic people.
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But yeah, that's terrible Speaking of Gymnastics.
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Yes.
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The Green Power Ranger?
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Mm hmm.
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Like from the TV show?
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Mm hmm.
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he, his name is Hector David Rivera.
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Mm hmm.
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Has a warrant out for his arrest in Idaho.
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How does this Green Power Ranger have this?
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Do you want to take a guess?
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Wait.
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No.
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What happened?
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he was in Idaho for a like comic con convention, like he was like the face of the poster.
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this just keeps getting better and better.
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So he was there for comic con was the face.
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Green Power Ranger was like the man of the convention.
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That's the way we might have the money have fallen.
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And he was in the parking lot of like some place and got into an altercation with an elderly man.
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And then he pushed the man to the ground and stood over him and yelled at him and it's all on video then he jumped in his truck and took off i'm picturing all this with him wearing the green power ranger Regular like jeans and a white tee or whatever but yeah, oh my gosh Oh my gosh has a warrant out for his arrest.
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I'm sure he's not going to show up at the comic con No, all you people that were going to to see him to see You Comic Patrick, David Riviera.
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They asked the Comic Con for, a quote or their reaction, and they're like, well, obviously we don't condone this behavior.
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And he is, they took his face off with a poster like the online poster.
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Good, good.
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That's what you get from trying to be a, but like, I don't know, in his sixties, he was with Walking With a Walker or a can or something.
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He wasn't even walking steadily.
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Uh, I'm done with him too off with his head.
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Oh my gosh.
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That is, that is funny.
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Yeah.
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I had a funny story too that I wanted to tell you.
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Oh, let's hear it.
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Okay.
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So Brian goes to bed like super early.
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He gets up really early.
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He goes up like five o'clock in the morning.
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Mm-Hmm.
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So he, you know, Jackson and I give him a hard time about going to bed at nine o'clock, but it's so he can, you know, function throughout the day.
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Well, it was like we had stayed up one night, me, Brandon Jackson, and I think we were watching, Outer Banks for like the second time, but it's something that we all liked and could watch together.
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So Brian had already stayed up past his bedtime.
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And Jackson was upstairs taking a shower and going to bed.
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I was just still downstairs and I opened the door I think I was letting the dogs in or out.
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And it was 1030 at night and a bird flew at our house.
19:52
Like, first of all, I thought birds should be asleep by then.
19:54
Don't they have a bedtime?
19:55
So, the bird flies in, and Brian's in bed.
19:59
I mean, sure it was a bird.
20:00
It wasn't a bat.
20:00
At that point, I wasn't sure, but it, it was a bird.
20:03
So Brian's asleep and I'm trying to be kind of quiet.
20:07
So I holler at the Jackson.
20:09
Because our house is like really open and downstairs So it's not like I could close the doors to keep it from flying somewhere And I didn't want it to go upstairs because I was like just let's do what we can to keep it down here Well, I wanted Jackson to like hold up a blanket at the top of the stairs to keep it from going up there I'm like yelling at the top of my lungs at this point Brian comes in there He's like what is going on?
20:31
I'm like There is a bird in here and I like pointed up to where it was perched on the curtain rod or something we've talked about how brian's responses are not great.
20:38
What's a bird doing in here?
20:39
Well, thanks Again, can we talk about it later?
20:43
So I didn't invite him in.
20:45
No, this was not a planned event So I mean a raccoon Yes, like that is something that that I would like do and I wouldn't be yelling about it I'd be like oh snuggles with mama So I have a towel.
20:58
I didn't even know what to do.
21:00
I had the towel and I was trying to like, throw it on top of the bird to like, cover it up so I could then scoop it up and take him outside.
21:06
Well, he, I think those things are fast.
21:11
And he was going from like, The top of the kitchen, cabinets, like the very top where you would perch to like a curtain rod to like the, the ceiling fan, like I had to turn the ceiling fan off cause he was trying to get like in the light of the, I was like, Oh my God, don't, don't die.
21:26
Don't find the seal fan.
21:28
I can't deal with this.
21:29
And then he started hitting the ceiling.
21:30
Like, then.
21:32
Anyway, so Brian ended up coming out, you know, was helping me and he had the front door open and he was just like doing this like, shoo, shoo.
21:41
But I mean like he was just directing traffic or something.
21:45
I was like, that bird doesn't know what that means.
21:48
So I was like, turn the porch light on.
21:50
Maybe we can turn the lights in the house off.
21:53
What I was thinking was turn the lights in the house off porch light on they'll think it's like light outside So we'll go out there.
21:57
Well the stupid bird hit the window.
22:00
I was like, oh my gosh.
22:01
Now we have a concussed bird Eventually he did go out and Brian just like shut the door and walked away to his bedroom, to the bedroom, not his bedroom, but we share one, we, we, we co-sleep, um, but I was like, seriously?
22:17
Oh my gosh.
22:18
A bird.
22:19
A bird, and Brian just doing this.
22:22
But after all this brian slams the door goes to his room I'm, like trying to get myself together like what the freak just happened.
22:29
Jackson comes downstairs at this point banging downstairs You know bullying a china shop And he was like, what you need?
22:37
And I was like, little late, buddy, little late.
22:40
No, he never helped me hold the blanket up to keep the bird from going upstairs.
22:45
He was just doing that.
22:47
I saw a video, a raccoon got in the house.
22:51
So the girl was like totally freaking out.
22:53
The guy I was like, what?
22:54
And like comes in with the, they turn on the light and the raccoon is on top of the fridge.
22:58
Hands up.
22:59
I love it.
23:00
I love it.
23:01
It's like, Oh my God, I would be so stoked.
23:03
I would too.
23:04
Did you, follow that guy on Facebook and, his thing is like, white woman ain't scared of.
23:08
Yes.
23:10
He's hilarious.
23:11
Yes, me.
23:11
Yes, white woman be like, go ahead and get you some snacks.
23:14
I almost sent the video of when Rex finally, trusted me enough to come up because I was doing the whole baby talk.
23:20
Yeah.
23:20
Like that.
23:21
Come here.
23:22
All you want is some lovin Oh.
23:24
I got the treats.
23:25
And like this big old like black dog head.
23:27
Yeah.
23:28
Yeah.
23:28
Oh my, you're a little bit big.
23:29
Please don't eat me.
23:30
Yeah.
23:32
He thought he was like the little size of Moe and all that.
23:35
I knew he was big, but like when he, from afar.
23:38
Yeah.
23:38
And you don't realize how big he is until like.
23:40
Oh yeah.
23:41
But I don't even notice how big he is.
23:42
Now he just, is just him.
23:44
Yeah.
23:45
But when other people see him, they're like, Oh, my gosh, he's a huge.
23:47
And I'm like, is he?
23:49
It's perfect.
23:50
you should send that video because that is funny.
23:53
That that guy makes me laugh him and the guy that does the voiceover for animals.
23:58
Oh, my God.
23:58
They both correct the seal 1.
24:00
Oh, yeah.
24:01
I ain't going back in that water.
24:04
Yeah, they're pretty great.
24:05
Did you ever see?
24:06
it's like National Geographics or whatever when Snoop Dogg does the voiceover.
24:10
Yes.
24:10
Best.
24:11
And there have been so many videos lately of him and Kevin Hart.
24:15
Um, the one where I've been studying the Olympic playbook, homie.
24:19
And he's like, what?
24:20
Playbook?
24:20
What?
24:21
My best, and I send this to you on Facebook, my favorite thing about the Snoop in the Olympics is somebody made like a meme and it said, I don't know who made Snoop, the USA's mascot, but I'm here for it.
24:32
Yep.
24:33
I'm a hundred percent here for it.
24:34
And.
24:35
The music that they're doing for the U.
24:37
S.
24:38
is, like we were watching the beach volleyball today and it was, and I was like, is this, this what we're doing now?
24:46
I read it.
24:47
Oh, I love it.
24:48
I heard or read something the other day that said you know how we think of Florida?
24:53
That everybody else in the world thinks that the U.
24:55
S.
24:55
is like Florida.
24:56
I don't care.
24:58
I know, hey, we parade our crazy around, apparently so, and put it on TikTok.
25:05
yeah.
25:06
So I am all about some snoop.
25:09
Yes.
25:09
Vicks.
25:10
Yes.
25:10
I think he's doing a fabulous job.
25:11
He needs to go every year.
25:13
Yeah.
25:13
You know, last week you were talking about that your movie theater experience with the, the phone ringing and stuff, and they were talking about etiquette.
25:19
Well, there was actually a video of him speaking about etiquette.
25:21
Working with like a French lady, like she was asking him, what would, how would you pour this wine?
25:26
And how would you do this?
25:27
And I was like, he saw that.
25:29
I thought it'd be a two drunk too.
25:31
Yeah.
25:32
He's just so freaking cool.
25:34
I love him.
25:35
Yeah.
25:36
We need to rename this to like, if you want to come on, we're available as well.
25:39
Yes.
25:40
But we'll have to check our schedule.
25:41
Someone might be here then.
25:44
so you and I are both in that mom and drama group.
25:47
Yes.
25:47
And, you know, I don't sleep well ever.
25:50
And so at like 2 a.
25:51
m.
25:52
I'm scrolling.
25:54
And that group always has the best stuff at like 2 o'clock in the morning.
25:57
Always.
25:58
Okay.
25:58
So, it probably wasn't 2, it was probably like 11 o'clock.
26:01
And this woman, this mom says, Y'all, I am over it.
26:06
It's time to go in hard.
26:08
Can y'all text my baby daddy?
26:10
Cause he blocked me.
26:11
And he won't buy our kid pampers or like diapers, right?
26:14
And so, you know, she's put a little bit more, that was like the gist of it.
26:18
Like she was asking him to buy some diapers.
26:20
He was like, no, and then blocked her.
26:23
Girl, when I tell you the moms all came in, oh, I am sure they came in, this dude had to have had like 200 text messages.
26:32
Like, man up, buy the Pampers Like, what kind of man are Did you text him?
26:37
No.
26:37
No.
26:38
I feel like I was in bed.
26:38
Like, yeah.
26:40
Yeah.
26:40
So, like half of the girls that were doing it from Fake Google numbers, but then they're like what the heck y'all are going from fake numbers I'm here like putting my real life glass For me so but this dude like and then people everybody is posting screenshots of their text messages and if he responds Yeah, I was like invested.
27:02
I was did he respond to some?
27:03
Yeah And he's like, you know, tell, I forgot what the girl's name is.
27:06
Tell whatever baby mama's name is.
27:08
To stop, or whatever, or, he was like, I know this is you.
27:11
And she's like, no, but her gang's here and we're not gonna stop the papers arrive.
27:16
That's great.
27:18
I was invested.
27:19
It was like refresh.
27:20
Yeah.
27:21
But the powers, he eventually did.
27:23
I've been at Good.
27:24
Sent the diapers.
27:25
I good one lady was like, you know, this isn't like the right way to go.
27:29
You know, there's always one that's like.
27:32
This isn't the right way to do it.
27:33
so the baby mama wrote something like, no, this is, he's a narcissist.
27:37
He's going to love the attention and this will like, you know, move this along, which it did, but I responded to that and I just said, um, I just want you to know that you are my people.
27:50
Yeah.
27:50
This is totally my, my level of pettiness and I love it and I'm here for it.
27:54
And I am so sorry guys are jerks.
27:56
Yeah.
27:57
I just want you to know that you are my people.
27:58
Well, you should have blocked her and we wouldn't have had to escalate it.
28:01
But here we are and we got it done.
28:03
By the day diapers.
28:05
Right.
28:06
You didn't want to suit up.
28:09
For the action.
28:10
You didn't wear the proper attire.
28:11
Now you have to suit up the kid.
28:13
Yes, absolutely.
28:15
you know how a few weeks ago we were talking about like alibis and stuff?
28:19
Well, I got you girl.
28:20
Yes, no doubt.
28:22
Well, my friend Alexis, our mutual friend Alexis, had texted me like a few days after that episode dropped and she was like, if anybody asks, you're with me Sunday night.
28:32
And my response was, okay, cool, call me later.
28:34
Like, I didn't think any, you know, well, I was going back through my texts cause a lot of times I'll read them and forget to respond.
28:41
So I was just going back, making sure that I responded to everybody I was supposed to.
28:44
And I messaged like, by the way, what was this about?
28:47
cause it was days later.
28:48
She was like, your podcast.
28:49
So I was like, Oh, so we have a whole group of people too, that would have our back if we needed to have.
28:56
Yeah, yeah.
28:58
Yeah.
28:58
Alexis, we know we know what to do.
29:00
Yeah, she's, we do we know the people.
29:02
I wanted to tell you too, you know how we, we talk about drama talk?
29:07
Yes.
29:07
I have a confession about something I like on TikTok.
29:10
Oh, I like confessions.
29:13
What is it?
29:14
It's not as juicy as, as you probably think it's gonna be.
29:16
Oh, okay.
29:17
Clean talk.
29:18
They're so satisfying.
29:20
I know and I have gotten a lot of good tips.
29:24
When the the ones that really are so satisfying to me are obviously the ones where there's like a dramatic change But especially when they're pressure washing like the rugs So my sister, has a house cleaning business.
29:38
She does Airbnbs and they do like, she said that she gets a lot of her hacks from social media.
29:45
The clean dock and where where, Um, but yeah, she gets tons of things from there.
29:50
So yes, she got me started watching that.
29:54
Yeah.
29:54
They're so satisfying to me.
29:56
And so when I can't figure out how to get a stain off of something, I go straight to TikToking.
30:00
Yeah.
30:01
Well, what's got me to is the things where you think you're really cleaning something and doing a really good job, but you're not until you tried another way and you're like, Oh, my floor is worth doing.
30:09
Bad dirty.
30:10
Yeah.
30:10
the new spinning mop.
30:11
I got one of those.
30:12
How does it work?
30:13
I love it, but I should have got the one with a separate bucket.
30:17
Cause dirty water and all that.
30:18
So I use two buckets.
30:20
I use one with the clean and then spin it with the dirty.
30:23
But, um, if you, did you get one?
30:24
Not yet.
30:25
If you do decide to get one, I got mine off the TikTok shop and it shipped to me from Target.
30:30
Yeah.
30:31
I bought stuff off of TikTok and it shipped from Amazon.
30:33
Yeah.
30:34
Yeah.
30:34
Crazy.
30:34
But get the one with the two buckets.
30:37
Yeah, I'm waiting for coupons.
30:38
I got a lot of things.
30:38
Yeah cart.
30:39
Yeah.
30:40
Yeah Totally understand coupons are magic Well our drama talk so yes, we had talked last time about that Amber girl and the text messages Yes, and she's just a trifling Slut was our word, I think.
30:54
Well, she was calling other people that, but yes.
30:57
So I, of course, keep on, like, searching, you know, like, Is there any update?
31:02
Oh my gosh, no, like, I was all over Facebook.
31:04
I was all over TikTok.
31:05
I mean, I, like, dug deep just a refresher.
31:08
This is with the little girl that had gone to talk to you.
31:10
The four year old that went to talk to the dude.
31:12
In the restaurant.
31:13
Yes, and then the new girlfriend sent the old girlfriend.
31:16
Horrible messages.
31:17
Yes.
31:18
So there was one post and it had to have like 250 comments, right?
31:24
And everybody that has ever known that known this, this woman, Amber commented, how about the horrible things that she has done?
31:32
And I was there for it.
31:33
I mean, I was like notes, notes.
31:37
So, um, they went all out.
31:39
They, said that, let's see, She's got history, huh?
31:42
Yeah, well, people were sending her cash app requests saying, um, money requests for bastard child.
31:50
Oh, God.
31:53
I thought that was so funny.
31:54
That is funny.
31:54
That is, again, our level of pity.
31:56
She says that she wasn't fired.
31:58
However, someone had posted a screenshot of the employer saying that she was going to be following day.
32:04
Oh.
32:05
Because she works with children.
32:06
She works with special needs children.
32:07
Oh.
32:07
Oh.
32:08
And yeah, get her out of here too.
32:10
so I don't know if she actually was or wasn't, she says, no, this person posted screenshots that she was, many people had, out of pocket interactions.
32:22
so this isn't an isolated incident, saying that she sent them nasty messages.
32:25
Wow.
32:26
So she's just always, she's just allegedly right.
32:31
She is An ugly person inside She thinks she's some hot stuff outside.
32:38
That is crazy.
32:40
They were talking about getting a billboard, like people were gonna chip in and get a billboard with her picture on it and oh my gosh.
32:49
They had called to get quotes Oh my gosh.
32:54
That is, that is great.
32:56
That is great.
32:57
So, oh, this was one of the best things that I found out there was a party.
33:01
This is a couple years back.
33:03
she had come into the backyard.
33:04
A woman was sitting in the chair holding a baby and there's like people out there with, you know, a little fire pit or whatever drinking and she comes back there screaming at this chick with holding a baby, like all of it.
33:15
So somebody takes the baby.
33:17
They stand out there like, you know, yelling at each other or whatever.
33:20
She takes off her boot.
33:21
This Amberjack takes off her boots and throws it at the girl and then walks away.
33:26
What the fruit?
33:27
And then I'm picturing her like walking.
33:30
That's a random thing to throw at someone.
33:39
And there was two or three people that were like telling the story in the comments.
33:42
there was like multiple people that knew about this, This girl, she could not have been so nasty for real.
33:49
And then the best one, the best was a girl was like, well, does she know that I was with her man a couple of days ago?
33:57
Posts screenshots of their date and his messages.
34:01
Oh, she's out here like becoming the America's most hated woman.
34:07
Yeah.
34:07
And dudes out there.
34:09
The girl said, and all this drama should not be going over somebody that can't last two minutes.
34:15
So she got him, too.
34:17
Oh my gosh.
34:19
No, she posted receipts.
34:21
She had pictures of her and him like on the date.
34:23
Oh.
34:25
So this is a cute dude.
34:27
No, I mean, average.
34:28
Yeah.
34:29
Yeah.
34:29
Nothing special.
34:30
No.
34:31
Oh my gosh.
34:32
That's funny.
34:33
People were coming out of the woodwork to go in on this.
34:38
Yeah.
34:38
People have been holding on to those stories.
34:40
You know that they were waiting.
34:42
They're like, something's going to happen one day and I'm going to need to tell everybody the story of her.
34:47
The lesson is here to be nice people.
34:50
The lesson is if you got the man, like.
34:52
Just move on.
34:53
Right.
34:54
That too.
34:54
But she doesn't.
34:55
So.
34:56
True.
34:57
True.
34:58
But don't be mean, especially to kids.
35:00
Whatever.
35:01
Yes, the tea was piping hot.
35:05
That's funny.
35:06
Nobody likes it.
35:06
That's funny.
35:09
So, did you watch any of this, um, Senate interviewing, No.
35:14
Secret Service and FBI?
35:17
I don't even know anything about her.
35:18
So, after the Trump shooting, Yeah.
35:20
they, put everybody on this, whatever questioning thing and the Senate.
35:26
I'm not like a politics, but I kept seeing clips and like the clips were so funny, they're not trying to be funny, but like, I thought they were hysterical because they were just like, they had no Fs to give.
35:38
Like they were not easing up on these guys.
35:39
It was just hardcore questions.
35:41
Okay.
35:42
So I got invested in on, so then I went to YouTube and I started watching the YouTube videos.
35:46
So there was something I got put out by.
35:49
I don't know if I think it was the FBI, like, FBI representative that Trump didn't actually get shot by bullet that it was something else that hit his ear.
35:57
Like, they were trying to make it like, okay, he didn't get shot at first.
36:01
Hey, so Senator, Kennedy from Utah.
36:06
Have you ever watched him?
36:07
No.
36:07
He is so funny.
36:08
You have got to look him up.
36:09
Okay.
36:10
They have just like three minute clips of him, all his crazy stuff.
36:16
So when, he Question the FBI guy and he's like, you know, was he hit by a bullet?
36:22
Is there any question?
36:23
And he's like, no, he's like, okay So, you know, it wasn't a space laser He's like no, it wasn't murder bees No, he's like it wasn't sasquatch Leave her out of this He's like no, but just the stuff that he says is so This is like a serious official meeting and he's like, so what's in space lasers?
36:47
He's got the like almost like a country accent.
36:50
Yeah, you'd almost think he's from texas.
36:51
Okay.
36:52
but He's not this put together official No, okay I'll have to pull him up senator kennedy.
37:01
Uh huh.
37:01
Okay.
37:02
I'll look at him.
37:04
but the new Secret service guy lost his cool several times.
37:08
Like, you know, he lost it.
37:10
Like did he own him or just everybody in general?
37:13
Oh, there was like two on, Senator Ted Cruz and there was one other guy that he lost it on.
37:20
Okay.
37:21
But, they're supposed to stay cool.
37:22
They're supposed to stay calm and collected.
37:23
especially during like these hearings and because.
37:28
Nobody has been fired yet from the Secret Service and they won't fully answer any questions.
37:34
There's no reasoning.
37:36
Everything is still just very loose.
37:38
Yeah.
37:39
And yeah.
37:39
you have to try to avoid questions and they were not letting him off the hook.
37:42
Yeah.
37:43
And so he started yelling and I was like, Oh my God, like you never see any, like any person in question because the last lady that was in charge that she resigned.
37:54
Yeah.
37:54
you could tell she wanted to lose it, but like she stayed calm, cool, and collected the whole time.
37:57
Good for her.
37:58
And she, you know.
37:59
Yeah.
37:59
She held it together and then she went home and screamed and cried and did things.
38:02
Yeah.
38:02
Yeah.
38:03
but this dude was like, And I was like, Ooh, He should probably be relieved of his duties for being a little unstable.
38:10
That and I mean, I can't answer any questions.
38:13
Yeah.
38:14
Why even have this?
38:16
If you can't answer questions.
38:17
To make them continue to.
38:19
I guess.
38:20
Yeah.
38:20
I guess whatever, but yeah, look up, Senator Kennedy from Utah.
38:25
There's like Tik Toks, after he's, he's chef's kiss.
38:28
Okay.
38:29
He makes watching these things worth it.
38:33
Well, we're, we're both kind of the same.
38:35
No, no politics.
38:36
So for, for you to recommend him.
38:38
Yeah.
38:39
Yeah.
38:39
He just like the stuff, like you just don't expect a Senator to say in these hearings.
38:43
Yeah.
38:43
It's, it's amazing.
38:44
That's great.
38:45
I have to definitely come up.
38:47
Yeah.
38:48
No, I don't you get the best things on your feed dude.
38:50
I'm like on like some kind of Crazy, like I just get all the drama stuff.
38:55
I need to search some more stuff.
38:57
That's like gonna give me the algorithm because Right now it's not not that not that well the um Another part of like the drama stuff going on.
39:08
we talked about the Aubrey, case and the mom, Heather.
39:13
So this creator, Melissa, was like so hardcore for this mom.
39:17
Like she was like, Oh my gosh, these girls, you know, don't deserve any kind of whatever, you know, she was just going hard, hard, hard for, Aubrey's mom.
39:26
And she flipped switch.
39:28
I mean, flipped all.
39:30
Oh, really?
39:31
She has a bill that she's trying to get passed, or whatever.
39:33
And, Heather is still in all sorts of like legal stuff.
39:37
she has to be very careful about what she does, what she says.
39:38
Yeah, that litigation.
39:40
Yeah.
39:40
and so this girl, Melissa wanted Heather to kind of like, Forefront this bill, you know, like, Oh, she has so much traction, visibility, whatever.
39:51
And I guess Heather didn't respond either quick enough or whatever, which I'm sure she has 4 billion messages a day.
39:59
Yeah.
40:00
she's got other stuff she's going on.
40:02
The 20 year anniversary is coming up quick.
40:04
She's got two other kids.
40:05
Whatever.
40:06
So, this chick now, has totally flipped the switch.
40:10
Is going, trying to dig stuff up.
40:12
She's like, I've got proof that she is lying about XYZ.
40:14
Yeah, she's got all these, like, she's posting these, like, screenshots of messages, which could be sent from anybody.
40:19
They're not valid.
40:20
They wouldn't stand up in court.
40:21
Yeah, um, she's doesn't post who sent them and even if that she posted who sent them who says is that person right?
40:28
Like you can make up anything put anything in there.
40:30
Yeah, right.
40:30
So whatever She's like going hard trying to take down this poor woman now Let this woman live her life I am saying now she's like all like up on the bully's parents dms and you know, oh, well, he didn't hear their side And meanwhile, you go back like four videos and she's like we don't care about their side You know, they should be in jail.
40:52
They should be behind bars trying to find somebody that can try to Is what she's trying to do.
40:57
She's trying to make money off of this poor woman and It's just disgusting.
41:02
People are gross.
41:03
Aren't they?
41:03
Yeah, like people are just You now she's getting all of the, the hate that from everybody else.
41:11
And she's like, we shouldn't be, why are you guys bullying me?
41:14
Nobody should be bullying.
41:15
I'm just putting out facts and like, you're not putting out facts.
41:18
You're not like right.
41:20
Right.
41:20
That's to help your causes.
41:23
Right.
41:23
Yeah.
41:24
Oh, she's crazy.
41:25
Nasty.
41:26
So TikTok is just full of drama.
41:28
It is.
41:28
I just, I'm at a moment today where I can't deal with any more drama.
41:32
I don't want any of my own drama, but, uh, right.
41:35
It's like two o'clock in the morning when I'm scrolling.
41:38
Oh, absolutely.
41:39
It's fascinating.
41:39
Brian's like, what are you looking at?
41:40
I'm like, I've just, I'm just looking on, on, on these reels here.
41:44
I don't know.
41:44
I'm just looking at some videos.
41:48
I've been so many, like, not your grandma's tea groups.
41:56
Not your grandma's.
41:57
That's what it's called.
41:58
Is it really?
42:01
That is hilarious.
42:03
That's funny.
42:04
Not your grandma's tea group.
42:06
Is there good stuff in that one?
42:08
Yeah, as good as Mama Drama?
42:10
No, not, it's a different kind of like, drama.
42:13
Okay.
42:13
Like Mama Drama, that gets a unique group.
42:16
Yes.
42:17
There's all sorts of, it goes hard.
42:19
Yeah, and then you've also got like the drama that kind of spun off from original drama in that group.
42:25
Yeah, I just try not to say anything in there.
42:30
I don't like anything, like I don't want my name to be flagged anywhere in that group.
42:35
But I want to read it all.
42:36
I know.
42:38
Yeah, I'm all for reading it.
42:40
Uh huh.
42:41
Especially when I can't sleep.
42:43
Well, you know, reading is supposed to help you get some, get some rest, so.
42:49
Well, I don't think it actually like helps.
42:52
Cause like, I'm like, then I'm like invested.
42:54
Then you gotta, you gotta go back and then you gotta, I know you do this, too.
42:58
You go down the rabbit holes of who, especially when they're not anonymous.
43:01
You're like, oh, they posted that.
43:04
Yeah.
43:04
Yeah, and I can't believe, What some people post Me neither.
43:09
Me neither.
43:11
Very private personal things.
43:13
Oh my god.
43:15
I mean, I'm there for it.
43:17
Oh absolutely.
43:19
And then I want to go look at their pictures and see what all the things.
43:22
Where do they work?
43:22
What do they do?
43:23
Oh yeah.
43:24
Yeah.
43:25
I'm glad that Facebook's real.
43:26
I mean, I know you can kind of see some activity, but it's not like TikTok where you can be like, so and so brewed your profile.
43:32
You know, it's a little more on the DL.
43:34
Who are you hiding from?
43:39
Everybody.
43:40
Everybody.
43:41
Yeah.
43:45
It just blows my mind.
43:46
Oh yeah.
43:47
What people put out there.
43:49
There's a lot of crazy stuff.
43:51
Well, I know some of them are writing stuff, obviously, for attention.
43:55
You can kind of tell when it's like, I'm with my brother every other weekend.
44:00
With my brother.
44:02
And yeah.
44:02
And yeah.
44:03
I know.
44:05
I am.
44:06
Those have got to be not true.
44:08
They're not true.
44:09
Don't even go there.
44:10
They're not true.
44:11
Somebody just got arrested in another state for, it was a mother who had the child at 14.
44:17
Okay.
44:18
She had to give the baby up for adoption.
44:20
so now she is like 30, in her 30s, and the kid is like 14 years, whatever.
44:25
The kid's an adult, so she's gotta be like late 30s, early 20s.
44:30
Are hooking, like they, they are like No.
44:33
Hooking up.
44:34
And they know the situation.
44:37
You know, that's, I can't, I feel like that's a, yeah, well, they should, but that's a real thing and I can't remember what it is.
44:46
It's something where like you recognize.
44:49
Or I know, oh yeah, no, totally no, but, but it's like a, a, a real phenomenon, I guess, where, especially like if you were separated from your family and then you find your family, but you don't know they're your family, you're attracted to them.
45:04
No.
45:04
I think it has to be such like a, like a mind F.
45:09
Oh yeah.
45:10
If you're adopted.
45:11
Oh yeah.
45:12
Like, yeah.
45:13
I always wonder like if I'm related to.
45:15
Oh yeah, absolutely.
45:17
That would, Be like really hard for me just in general.
45:20
I think that's a lot to process and, you know, like, and I'm, I'm sure everybody, you know, has wonderful families and whatever, but there's always probably that like weird, feeling once, you know, then dating people.
45:33
Yeah.
45:34
Can I see your Ancestry DNA?
45:38
Can we compare 23 and me or 23 and us?
45:45
Yeah, that's that would be something that you'd really have to Yeah.
45:49
Be careful of.
45:50
Mm hmm.
45:50
I hadn't thought about that before.
45:51
Mm hmm.
45:52
Yeah.
45:53
Oh, mm hmm.
45:55
Okay, drama.
45:57
Do we have an, am I the a hole?
45:58
We do.
45:59
Oh, yes.
46:00
I, these are just like short ones since I read the book, do read this?
46:03
Sure.
46:05
And his name is Additional Wasabi.
46:09
And every time I hear Wasabi, I think of Mater.
46:12
Oh, yeah.
46:13
From Cars like From the movie Cars.
46:15
Yeah, yeah.
46:16
This is not the sassiest ice cream.
46:21
Alright.
46:21
Am I the a hole for not ordering any food so I wouldn't have to split the bill?
46:26
I, 27 male, have been a part of a small friend group around 8 people total, basically since college.
46:32
For some background, two people from the group, Susan and Greg, are just absolute leeches.
46:38
Going out for lunch?
46:39
Expect them to order the most expensive on the menu, then feed you some sob story about their finances, and then dump the Half the bill on you.
46:48
Last weekend, Dan, one of the people from the group, told me about a casual dinner.
46:52
I told him how if Susan and Greg were there, I wouldn't be able to come.
46:56
He tells me that they would be there, but I should just put my opinion aside and just come.
47:01
This is kind of where I might be the a hole.
47:05
I agreed with him and told him I would be there.
47:07
I show up and we all get to talking.
47:10
Everyone began putting in their orders.
47:13
Most of them spent about 40.
47:15
There were only about 60.
47:18
When it gets to Susan and Greg, they both order expensive dishes around 200.
47:23
Where are they going?
47:24
That there's a 200.
47:25
They must live in a fancy place, but don't live in Clover.
47:29
Like 200.
47:30
That's crazy.
47:32
When it was my, or a casual lunch.
47:34
Yeah.
47:35
Yeah, that's insane.
47:38
When it was my turn to order, everyone looked at me, but I just picked up the menu and point to a 4 Miller Lite and sent the waiter away.
47:46
Dan asked why I hadn't ordered anything and all I said was that I lost my appetite.
47:51
The other two friends got up as well to cancel their orders and just have drinks.
47:56
After the main courses came out, I saw Susan and Greg picking at their food.
48:00
The waiter then brings over the check.
48:02
Greg then grabs the waiter and asks him to split the check six ways.
48:06
I stand up and correct him saying that the check was to be split three ways.
48:11
Greg looks at me confused and asks, Why since we always split the bill?
48:15
I reminded him that Three of us had not eaten any food, so we would not be paying.
48:20
We would just be paying for our drinks.
48:22
So basically at the end of the night, Dan, who probably only ate around 50 worth of food was stuck with a 146 and 98 cent check at the end.
48:32
Yes.
48:32
I remember the exact number.
48:34
I swear.
48:35
I saw his jaw drop when he picked up the receipt.
48:38
Well, sure.
48:41
10 towards the check, said goodbye to everyone and walked out.
48:45
Okay.
48:46
The next morning I found my phone full of texts from Greg and Susan telling me I was an a hole for not ordering any food and forcing them to pay more than they had accounted for.
48:56
I honestly laughed because the steaks alone were more than what they had paid but to each their own, right?
49:03
I also got a lot of messages from Dan saying that I could have just not come instead of pulling that stunt and getting him stuck with an outrageous bill, but he tried to not come.
49:12
Right.
49:13
Okay, edit.
49:14
At this restaurant, The bar is separate, so drinks are on a separate bill, if that makes sense.
49:19
And if anyone is concerned about leaving a tip, I live in Australia.
49:23
Okay.
49:24
Oh, maybe that's why it's 200.
49:26
Maybe.
49:26
Do they not tip there?
49:28
I think, like, the U.
49:29
S.
49:29
is, like The only place that does tip?
49:32
Okay.
49:33
They actually pay their, like, waiters.
49:36
A reasonable wage?
49:37
Yeah.
49:38
Edit 2.
49:38
Hey guys, just wanted to clarify some things.
49:40
90 percent of restaurants where I live, they don't do separate checks and might separate the bill.
49:45
For you, if you're lucky, by the way, this post is in AUD.
49:50
So Australian.
49:51
So if you want the Amazon USD, you'll have to convert it.
49:54
Okay.
49:55
Dan could have easily asked Greg and Susan to transfer him the money.
49:58
And if he wanted to, but he's always been about helping them through their financial hardships, even though they're just using him and keeps dragging me into it.
50:07
I admit what I did was immature, but I'm tired of being forced to play along.
50:11
It's his money.
50:12
If he wants to spend it on them, that's fine, but I'm not paying for them.
50:15
Also, Dan's a really good friend of mine.
50:18
I'll be it blind as F.
50:22
I was just trying to get him to see what kind of people he was helping.
50:27
I will admit it was a tad bit petty.
50:29
I'm here for the petty.
50:30
Yeah.
50:31
Okay.
50:31
I don't think he's the a hole.
50:33
I don't either.
50:33
This is like an episode of Friends.
50:35
I, yeah.
50:36
You remember that one?
50:36
Uh huh.
50:37
Um, yeah.
50:38
What, if they're in a financial hardship, why are they spending that much money on a casual dinner?
50:44
Okay, well actually, let's convert this.
50:46
Okay.
50:46
What is 200 AD?
50:48
I got you.
50:50
I bet I'm quicker than you.
50:51
Not really.
50:52
It's a hundred and thirty dollars and sixteen cents.
50:55
You were way faster than me.
50:57
But okay, for again, for a casual, yes! I don't think he's an a hole, and I am there for the petty.
51:04
Like he went in there knowing he was gonna do this.
51:06
Yeah, he did lose his appetite.
51:07
He knew what he was doing.
51:08
Yeah, and I am here for it.
51:10
I'm too, and I'm proud of the other friends for kind of canceling their orders and doing the same.
51:14
They all gotta be sick of it.
51:16
That's just not How can you do that?
51:18
Uh, whatever.
51:20
I'm mad at these, I'm mad at this, this friend for forcing him to do this.
51:25
Yes.
51:25
When he would try to get out of it.
51:27
Yeah.
51:27
And he said he didn't want to go if they were going to be there.
51:29
So for him to say you should just not have come.
51:31
Like he tried not to come.
51:34
Have you ever been in that situation where somebody's like, first of all, like when you're going out with people, it's usually weird, like, well, how's the bill?
51:40
Whatever.
51:41
But yeah.
51:42
I've never, been in that situation where, mm mm, I haven't either.
51:46
I don't know.
51:47
I haven't either.
51:47
That's weird.
51:48
That's weird just to expect people to do that.
51:50
Maybe it's the culture thing.
51:51
I don't know.
51:52
Maybe, but it doesn't sound like it if it's bothering him and the other two people.
51:56
Yeah.
51:56
I think they just I don't know.
51:58
Yeah.
51:59
No that i've never been in a situation like that where i'm just expected to cover more than my part.
52:04
Yeah i'm there for the petty, you know, I love somebody right?
52:07
Well, i'm proud of him for standing up for himself.
52:09
There's a reddit group.
52:09
That's like All about petty stuff.
52:11
All petty.
52:12
It is.
52:13
Oh yeah.
52:13
I'm just proud of him for standing up for himself and for, for, you know, protecting himself.
52:18
Ooh, this is what we were just talking about.
52:23
All right.
52:23
So the, title for this, Am I the a hole for telling my sister she was dating my bio father?
52:30
Let's unpack that one.
52:31
Yeah, here we go.
52:34
So my life's turned into a bloody soap opera recently and I could use some outside opinions here.
52:40
So she's using bloody.
52:41
I'm wondering if this is a British.
52:42
Are you going to do the accent?
52:43
No.
52:45
My accents are not like your accent.
52:47
No, mine was great.
52:49
I, 24, female.
52:51
And the product of my mom having an affair.
52:53
Fortunately, my dad decided to forgive my mom and keep me.
52:56
And I had a pretty good upbringing, but I don't really look a lot like the rest of my family.
53:01
I'm the only redhead among other things.
53:03
And I did ask questions of a, why am I the only one with insert trait here?
53:08
And Nature growing up.
53:09
When I was 17, my mom took me out for ice cream and introduced me to my bio father.
53:14
She said that she felt I was old enough to know the truth and explained about the affair while also A, making me promise I wouldn't tell my older sister, 27, female, in the present, and B, hammering home along with my bio father that he never wants to be part of my life and he didn't want me.
53:30
Oh, okay.
53:32
That's rude.
53:33
Yeah.
53:34
Why?
53:34
Like even, Yeah.
53:36
Yeah.
53:38
There's a lot to unpack in that first paragraph.
53:41
It was a lot, I won't lie, but I learned to suck it up and move on with my life.
53:45
Fast forward to present.
53:46
My big sis has always gravitated towards older men.
53:49
We like to joke that it's the result of too many George Clooney movies growing up.
53:54
And two months ago shared a picture of herself and her new boyfriend who to my shock turns out to be my bio father Oh my I debated what to do for a couple of days and ultimately decided she needed to the truth Told her.
54:08
My sister did not take it well and dumped him, but she was angry with me.
54:12
Honestly, by now, she's kind of amused, says that since she banged my dad she's my mom and has extra power to boss me around Okay.
54:31
Okay.
54:31
Well, okay.
54:33
My mom on the other hand is furious.
54:35
She says I divulged something that wasn't my secret to share, but it kind of was.
54:39
I don't know.
54:39
I kind of don't agree with that.
54:40
Yeah.
54:41
And that I had no business telling anyone, but since my bio father isn't related to my sister, it didn't matter if he dated my sister, and it wasn't like they were talking marriage anyway.
54:51
Ew.
54:52
Okay.
54:52
Yeah.
54:55
It's been two months, and she's still angry, still snide, calls me a traitor, and finds excuses to make loud comments about how I can't be trusted with anything private or important, so beware.
55:06
At the time, I thought I was doing the right thing, but I'd never seen my mom this angry before.
55:12
and she sustained that anger for two solid months, so I'm starting to worry.
55:16
Did I actually do something?
55:17
Crappy?
55:18
Am I the a hole?
55:20
Um, no.
55:22
First of all, it is her secret to divulge it has everything to do with her and The fact that the mom is like okay with her daughter sleeping with her ex whatever partner lover Is like creepy like the mom should have had a problem just like a redneck story in england Yeah, that is that is I mean, you know, okay, so people cheat yeah things happen like this this is not but Yeah, she was dating your bio dad Yeah, you should have you did the right thing.
56:00
Yes.
56:01
And but again, like how did the mom not have a problem with dude sleeping with her daughter?
56:05
After she slept with him.
56:07
Right! She was mad at the, the daughter for telling.
56:11
Yes.
56:12
Mom's twisted.
56:12
Mom's jealous.
56:14
Ugh.
56:14
So when she meets Biodad, and they both hammer in the fact that he wants nothing to do with her.
56:18
Yeah.
56:18
And why introduce her?
56:19
Just tell her what happened.
56:21
Like, why introduce, like, it's, he's not gonna be part of her life.
56:24
Right.
56:24
Well, he might've wanted, like, or she might've wanted just to See, you know, like those traits she mentioned, just kind of see, or a picture.
56:33
Why, like, get her The part that got me about that was that she bought her ice cream.
56:39
Like, I think she's old enough to notice, we bought ice cream.
56:42
I mean, ice cream does fix everything, but yeah, man, I think mom's got serious issues.
56:49
She's still hung up on dude.
56:50
I kind of love that the sister is now over it and she's like, I'm your mom.
56:54
Right.
56:55
Call me mommy.
56:58
Oh, my gosh.
57:00
Yeah, I like the sister handle.
57:02
I mean, that's the best.
57:03
What can you do?
57:03
Yeah, that's that's probably the best way to handle it.
57:07
It could have been very mad that like this.
57:09
They have known or the sister knew about the affair.
57:12
I mean, I can see that part, like, being the only 1 of the family.
57:14
They didn't know about like, deep, dark secret.
57:17
Um, but and that was like a crappy position to put.
57:21
the daughter in, um, like you can't tell your sister this.
57:25
Right.
57:26
I don't know.
57:27
Mom was embarrassed that she like did this.
57:29
Right.
57:30
And didn't want anybody to know and it came out.
57:35
It came out.
57:39
It sure did.
57:39
I'm coming out.
57:41
I want the world to know.
57:45
She did not want the world to know.
57:47
Yeah, no, you're not a hole.
57:49
No.
57:49
Not at all.
57:50
You did the right thing.
57:51
No, but your mom is.
57:52
Your mom is totally an a hole.
57:54
Tell her I said so.
57:56
She's the only a hole in this situation.
57:58
And your bio dad cuz.
57:59
Like the whole like, yeah, not wanting to be part of your life kind of is just crappy.
58:03
Yeah, he is too.
58:04
Even like after so many years.
58:06
Right.
58:06
It's not like he had to send money for diapers.
58:09
Yeah.
58:09
Like your other person.
58:12
Like mama drama dude.
58:13
Like mama drama dude.
58:14
He was not gonna get random texts.
58:15
Yeah, he's in a hell too.
58:17
Tell him I said so too.
58:18
Yep.
58:18
Sorry girl.
58:20
Your parents suck.
58:21
They do.
58:21
But it sounds like your and your sister are making good choices.
58:24
Yes.
58:24
And I'm gonna have a great time.
58:25
So, and your new mom.
58:26
And your new mom Here.
58:28
Sister slash new mom.
58:31
There you go.
58:32
Oh wow.
58:32
That was, that was a good one.
58:34
That was a good one.
58:34
That was a good, I didn't even read the whole thing.
58:36
I just saw this title.
58:36
You found good ones though.
58:38
Well, I just read the titles.
58:38
I'm like, oh, that's gonna be a good one.
58:40
I'm gonna find one for next week.
58:41
Okay.
58:41
Okay.
58:42
I'm up to the challenge.
58:44
Oh, I think we covered everything.
58:46
I think we did.
58:47
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58:48
It was a very much needed reprieve for my life.
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