Transcript

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I'm Stephanie.
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I'm Meredith.
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And welcome to This is My Circus.
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I love your glasses.
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Thank you.
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You look so adorable.
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Thanks.
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I love it.
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Thanks.
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Um, I'm to the age where I need them a lot to see things that are really close.
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I love your whole vibe today.
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Oh, thank you very much.
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I've got on just little earthy tones.
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I love it.
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You look fabulous.
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Thank you for, for Monday when, you know, it's just been such a Like, okay, so we're recording on Monday.
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This will drop tomorrow.
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So it's yesterday, but you know, that, that whole clump of time from when the kids were out of school to when they, even though we're working, it's just like.
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Things just don't matter.
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The days of the week are just all screwed up and morning and night is flipped around.
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It's like, plus if you're sick.
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Yes, as I was for like ever.
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I swear.
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I actually, I bought a bunch of zinc I did not leave the house.
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When I tell you, it was like, six days.
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Like I was, Oh my gosh.
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Oh my gosh.
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Well, have you started taking the zinc then?
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Have you been taking it?
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It upsets our stomach.
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I can't, I mean, our plural cause I'm talking about myself like I'm whatever.
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Um, but yeah, like everybody in my house, we can't take it.
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It upsets our stomach.
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So I can tolerate that.
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and then I was also taking lysine and yeah, that's supposed to be really good.
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Something else.
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Vitamin C.
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Yeah.
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so.
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Well, you can get the new China thing or are we glad that you might have already had it?
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Now you'll be immune from it.
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We'll see.
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There's something always new coming out.
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There is.
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Yeah.
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we were talking about this too.
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Just like, you know, the symptoms are the cough, the runny nose, the sneezing, the headache, the fever.
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Oh, it's like COVID with a new name.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know, we'll see.
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But there's no flu anymore.
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Yeah, like They got rid of the flu and now we've got 46 billion different strains of COVID.
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But they test you for the flu every time you go to the doctor, but I don't know if anybody ever has it.
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I haven't heard anybody have the flu since COVID came.
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You know, you're, I think you're right.
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Oh my goodness.
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If you've had the flu since 2020, let us know.
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Dying to know.
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I, I try to avoid the doctor.
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So even if I had the flu, I wouldn't have known it.
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Like when I'm sick, like you were, I keep thinking, well, it's either just a cold and it'll or I keep thinking, well, tomorrow will be better tomorrow, be better.
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And then I'm six days in, I'm like, it's got to get better.
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Yeah.
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So, I mean, it's like, and then also there's nothing they can do for that kind of stuff.
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Well, they give you whatever that flu thing is, which I think is such a flu.
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Freaking scam.
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Well, that makes people nauseous okay.
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So Dylan in elementary school before he got his tonsils out we get sick so much like he was, you know, constantly sick and the one here He had like Flu A, whatever, like, the different letters of the alphabet they were giving him here.
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And so they gave him the medicine for that.
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And it wasn't for whatever reason covered under my insurance.
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It was like a hundred dollars.
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Are you kidding me?
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But this kid was so sick.
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And I'm like, I will pay whatever to, to make him better.
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He took that thing within two minutes.
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He threw it all up.
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And I'm like, well, literally a hundred dollars.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Same with Jackson.
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And then like a month later, he got like.
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Flu C or whatever the next strain was and the nurse had asked like, well, did you, we don't ever get the flu shot and she said, did you get in the flu shot?
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I said, no.
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And she said, well, this wasn't either of the strains.
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Anyway.
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Thanks for checking nurse.
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Right.
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Like, so what's the point of the flu shot if it doesn't.
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So my understanding is, and I am not a doctor.
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I just play one on TV.
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Um, is that the flu shot sick medical advice from you over that I have seen in a doctor's office.
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So, my understanding is that the flu shot, like, basically treats last year string, which I guess, I don't know.
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I don't want to get into all that they say it's supposed to, I guess, lessen your symptoms and whatever, but the only year, well, I got the flu twice.
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So the first time was the year I got the flu shot and I got the flu horribly that year.
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Yeah.
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And that was the last time I ever got the flu shot.
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Yeah.
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Same.
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and then I got the flu because I was with Dylan.
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Yeah.
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Taking care of him.
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And we were both on the couch, dying for three days.
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Yeah.
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When I used to work, in the doctor's office, we had to.
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Take the flu shot.
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Yeah.
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And, gosh, that was like 25 years ago.
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Oh, my God.
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Anyway, I got really super sick and I was like, I guess I've got the flu for the time.
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I've declined it if I could.
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After that.
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Yeah.
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No, thank you.
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Yeah.
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I'm good.
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Thanks.
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I'm good.
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Thanks.
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you see, I got Rex's.
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Is this a play pen?
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Well, so when I have to travel.
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A lot of the places they have to be crate trained and he's never been in a crate ever in his life.
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Yeah.
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Well, I mean, I don't know prior to us, but since I've had him and so I wanted to start get him getting used to it.
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So I put his bed in that he lays on all the time.
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Yes.
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No, he doesn't go in there now.
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Be like, if I go in there with him, because the thing is so big, it is huge that him and I can both get in there and lay in there comfortably.
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If I go in there with him, he'll lay in there.
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Until I get out.
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It's got a sunroof and everything.
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Yeah, so Dylan goes, Mom, it's bigger than some apartments in New York.
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It is.
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Have you, have you ever seen some of those house tours they do for apartment tours in New York?
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It's crazy.
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And they tell you what their rent is.
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Oh! Um, so you've got somewhere for him to go?
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I actually, I just interviewed this girl yesterday, and I like Good vibes?
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Oh my gosh.
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Good.
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Awesome.
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Good.
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So, we, I think we found our person.
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Good.
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And then she only keeps, one family dog at a time.
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Okay.
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He immediately, I mean, he's like most people.
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Yeah, I'm not really seen a bad reaction or anybody, but he would know.
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No, I'm special.
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Mine and his relationship is unlike any other, but he liked her.
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Yeah.
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And she's like, he is so good.
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He is the best boy.
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He is so chill.
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He is sounds a good boy.
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I think we found our person I'm so good.
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She has like a whole separate room just for like dogs staying over works at a vet.
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Oh.
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part-time.
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So she knows how to, so she, I told, went over separation anxiety.
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She's like, I, I've done it before.
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You're good.
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Yeah.
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I promise I'll send you videos or pictures, whatever you want.
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So I think, is she close by?
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Um, in York.
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Okay.
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So like 20 minutes.
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Yeah.
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That's not bad.
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I am going to need her to give them back though.
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I, I don't trust a lot of people with him.
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It's not my dog.
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But yeah, good.
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You got any trip coming up then?
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At the end of the month.
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Nice.
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Jackson plays Australia in basketball this week.
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They come to, The U.
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S.
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I guess like every couple of years or something.
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Oh my god You're gonna like be dying listening to that.
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I'm gonna sit with them Can I just sit on your bench with you guys I I know I would be like have you ever seen a real kangaroo?
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Oh my gosh.
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Yeah.
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Oh my god I would be asking all the like weird animal I think I want to and I want to ask him.
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What's a wallaby?
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You can do like a Tell me when we'll interview people Okay, it's third the real accents Are you saying mine is not?
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I've done nothing but get offended today.
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I'm pretty sure it's Thursday.
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I'll let you know.
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Yeah, I can't wait though.
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Gosh.
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I'm totally just to hear the coaches yell get back on defense.
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I don't even know how to help.
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No, no, all of my accents on the same.
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But anyway, well, speaking of, foreign, yeah, I was scrolling, you know, all time doing your thing.
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Yeah.
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Well, I was dying in bed sick and in Peru.
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Mm-hmm Did you hear about this, the jug bust?
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No.
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Okay.
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So.
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Okay picture yourself as a as a drug dealer in your drug house or wherever you stash your stuff and The door busts open okay, and The head of the raid is dressed like the Grinch.
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Oh my god The police officer dressed like the Grinch in the full Grinch costume You hear?
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Full Grinch uniform busted in the door.
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Totally Grinched out or Grinch with a police uniform on top of it.
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So in the Santa Grinch suit.
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And all he had was like his little like police badge on the front.
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Oh my gosh.
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And so the article that I read said, undercover police officer wearing a Grinch costume has carried out a drug raid in Lima, Peru.
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Video distributed by the National Police Agency shows officers smashing a door in before entering a house.
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Three people were arrested.
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Several small packets of cocaine were found during the raid.
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But this is the best part.
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This isn't the first time they dressed up for a drug raid because for Valentine's Day last year, he dressed up like a big teddy bear when they raided the house.
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This officer has the best sense of humor.
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Imagine.
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No.
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Just seeing this big green Grinch.
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No.
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Busting your door.
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Busting through your door.
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I love it.
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No.
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I think that is amazing.
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Me too.
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Like, that's okay, I guess.
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It doesn't matter.
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I don't care.
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I don't care.
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Undercover?
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Yeah.
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Nobody could identify him.
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Oh my gosh, that is pretty amazing.
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That was awesome.
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And he's done it before.
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Oh my gosh.
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That's hilarious.
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Yeah.
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I don't know what I would do.
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You know, I find it hard to take people serious when they're dressed up.
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Like when we did our Halloween thing and I kept looking like I would see you, you know what I'm saying?
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when I worked in the doctor's office, everybody would dress up and I just found it like so difficult to be professional and charge people for an eye exam when I'm dressed like a lady bug.
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Like it just is so hard for me.
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But I love, I love seeing it.
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Yeah.
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I just, I wanted to see the dude's face.
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Yes.
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I want to see it.
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Like, I wish that the dude, yeah, exactly.
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Exactly.
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But I want both perspectives.
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I want the Grinch's perspective and I want the perspective of him when he walks in or whatever the Grinch says.
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What's he say?
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My french accent is not good either.
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Well, you know, we'll work on that.
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Yeah We've got some time.
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that is great though.
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That is great.
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So i'm speaking of grinchy Yes This time of year stores do a lot have a lot of returns and oh, yeah service is they they get put through the ringer Oh, yeah, and people are just not kind anymore Oh, and I found this article and it had When businesses clap back at bad reviews.
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Okay, so would you like to read a couple of these?
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Oh my god I was dying.
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This would probably be great.
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Yeah.
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and having worked in customer service, especially around the holidays.
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And owning a business, like I totally get it.
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Well, so my sister and I were looking for a house to rent for my nephew's upcoming wedding and looking on like VRBO and Airbnb and reading the reviews.
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And once, you know, people leave less than the five stars and they comment that something was broken.
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And then the home owner says, Yeah, that would be me too.
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I couldn't just let it go.
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I could not let it go.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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All right.
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So.
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This is on ranker.
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com and they have got all sorts.
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I've never seen this website before, but like I was on this website for hours.
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It's just got so much.
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There's just so much.
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It's like there was one article and it was like, past presidents you would want to go on a bender with, and it was like ranked and why they would want to go on benders with them.
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That's hilarious.
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Amazing.
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That's hilarious.
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Who do you want to go on a bender with?
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I mean, I don't know that much about them, but like Kennedy would have probably been fun.
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Yeah.
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And I think that, Bill Clinton would have been fun.
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You'd end up at a strip club.
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Probably, probably, probably, but I mean, again, fun.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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How about you?
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I think Kennedy for sure.
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I think it would be like I think once he got drunk and he'd like loosen up.
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and then Nixon, I think.
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Oh yeah.
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He would be.
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Yeah.
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I bet some of those, because like.
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He is kind of like criminally.
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Uh huh.
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Uh huh.
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I bet some of those like before Kennedy's time, like before then.
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I don't, yeah, I just don't know any.
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I don't know a lot of them either.
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I think Abe Lincoln would not be fun.
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He would not be fun.
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Nobody invited him to parties.
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He was not fun.
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He was not fun.
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Yeah, I'd go on Kennedy, Nixon.
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Yeah, those are good ones.
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And Bill.
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Hi, Bill.
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But, but his wife would not be invited to the party.
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No, definitely not.
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Okay, so the first bad review.
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And I think this is for some kind of like animal place.
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Okay.
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They took out the names of the businesses and the names of the reviewers.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So this is a one star.
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Horrible, unprofessional staff, no uniforms, not family friendly, poor care for the animals, and lack of passion for the animals.
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Go anywhere else.
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And the response from the owner.
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Hello, name retracted.
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I'm sorry you felt that way.
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We take great pride in our facility and love our dogs.
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We do good things in our community.
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Every staff member at our facility had a dog warden shirt on.
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If they did not, they were volunteers trying to help out.
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If you'd like to talk more about what really happened, like you accidentally letting your foster dog loose in our parking lot, Not helping get him back to safety, us running around in the pouring rain to make sure he was safe, then saying the dog was untrainable and leaving him at our facility.
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I'd be happy to talk about it.
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I can also send you the video and audio if you'd like, in case you forgot what really happened.
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Thank you.
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Have a great day.
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Burn.
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Burn.
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I love when there's video.
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I don't know, like there's no room for debate.
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No, that's that's period.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Can I redo this one?
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Okay.
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So this one has two stars.
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It's called shame on you.
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I love the food here, but not tonight.
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I've had awesome asparagus until tonight.
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It was out of date asparagus told manager and he argued with me.
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Who does that?
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I'm a manager at a hair salon.
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Customer's always right.
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No matter what response from the owner, our asparagus has brought in fresh daily.
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You know, the food was excellent.
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You wrote this because you were caught walking your tab, literally.
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Snuck out the back door without paying your bill or your server.
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Shame on you.
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How dare you try to do that and then leave a bad review?
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Yeah.
15:00
Oh my gosh.
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People suck.
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Yeah.
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But I love it.
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I love the clapbacks.
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I love it.
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I mean, how, like you've already tried to get away with free food and now you're just, oh, okay.
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Okay, next.
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Okay.
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this one is a one star and it says, we've been getting the runaround for over two weeks, again and again, rudely giving us no information as to why they weren't able to give us the gun that we already paid for.
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Ben today called my mother and very rudely told her that she absolutely was not getting to get the gun and it couldn't possibly be for her.
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Why?
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Because she's older than a woman.
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Response from the owner.
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Your mom isn't giving you the whole story It appears she's buying guns for her sons who according to online court records has a felony conviction Oh, that's super legal For both of them.
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We weren't going to post anything publicly about this.
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But well, here we are.
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Oh, yes Here we are.
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Welcome to the party.
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Oh my god Oh, okay.
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Something isn't adding up.
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This is a one star.
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Burritos reminded me of Taco Bell in USA.
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Completely.
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Whoa, they're smashing Taco Bell.
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I can't do this.
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Okay.
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Completely plastered in sauce.
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Self service or no service.
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Ridiculous high price for cafeteria food.
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Beer was the best.
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Their own milk alert.
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Can beer therefore one star otherwise no stars to them no stars Okay response from the owner.
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We cannot take this review seriously since we do not serve burritos That is awesome Okay, one star the staff is super rude never again and the response from the owner.
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Hi, we have not been open to the public since before the pandemic.
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So I am not sure how anyone could have been rude to you.
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They're rude.
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Cause they weren't there.
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That is crazy.
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Oh my gosh.
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This one looks like a lengthy one.
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Yeah.
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We ready?
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Yeah, we're ready.
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All right.
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Melissa deserves better neighbors.
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One star.
17:12
Your associate, Melissa, is absolutely rude and would never step foot in this place with how she represents herself both in and outside of work.
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Sounds like they know Melissa outside of work.
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I think so.
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Okay.
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response from the owner.
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This person is not in our computer system and has never been a member of our gym and therefore cannot speak for how our employees represent themselves inside of work.
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This person is a neighbor of our associate Melissa and has a personal vendetta against her.
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She's attempting to negatively impact her employment status by harassing her online while harming a company's reputation that she has never been to.
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Melissa continues to be an excellent employee and has done great things for our company.
17:53
Oh my goodness.
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You've seen those things.
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It's kind of the opposite of that where like somebody says something on social media about Jeff and they're like, Jeff's trying to find this girl or dah, dah, dah.
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And then people start responding.
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I know Jeff, he saved me from drowning one time.
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Or I know Jeff, he loaned me 18 million when I needed it most.
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Or, you know, those are hilarious to me.
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I love when, um, the police department posts the wanted pictures and then all the comments especially when the person that's wanted comments in the comments section.
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Oh, yes.
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Pure gold.
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That, I just.
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Don't understand why they I mean, I guess they want to defend themselves.
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But yeah, it just cracks me up Yes, 100 percent I'm with you and the one dude was like, yeah, he's a real bad guy and it's him Like his mugshot is basically the exact same as this profile picture.
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Yeah we got another one.
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This one is a one star.
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Yep.
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The lady was rude when I called back.
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And the response from the owner, when you apply for a position and you don't show up to the interview the first time because you are busy, then give another chance and not show up for two more times.
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You should at least not complain when we tell you good luck.
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Leaving a review as a customer, but it's really because you didn't get the job.
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I am speechless.
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If they would have put as much energy into going to the interview as they did for leaving the review.
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That's the kind of stuff that blows my mind.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Exposed.
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One star.
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My wife and I have gotten chicken cheesesteaks from here three times.
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Every time my wife and I both had upset stomachs after eating the food, would not recommend buying food.
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Tried Maryland crab soup, it was all broth, no crab meat.
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None of that sounds good.
19:43
No, if you do a cheesesteak, it's gotta be a cheesesteak.
19:46
Okay, so the response from the owner, this first sentence got me.
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We are sorry we had to call the police because you had hit one of our employees cars parked outside while driving under the influence and not telling us and running away.
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Also, if the chicken cheesesteak gave you an upset stomach, why would you order it again two more times?
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This is not the place to take out your frustration on something non related to the business.
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Your name is the same as it is on the police report.
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Oh, gosh, they're idiots.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Like, why wouldn't you change your name for your review?
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People are stupid.
20:27
Yeah.
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When you're the problem is the name of this one.
20:31
It's a one star review.
20:33
I received an uneven and problematic haircut here.
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I'd say go to a place that will be sure to do an even job and seem to care more about their work.
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I'm disappointed and unhappy with this haircut.
20:44
Business response.
20:46
Hi, Megan.
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Like we talked about before, we are so sorry that you're unhappy with your experience.
20:50
I think you should mention that you cut your own hair before you came in and we did the best that we could with what we had to work with to help you grow it out although we weren't able to make you love your hair.
21:01
We always take pride in our work and we felt we did the best we could.
21:05
given the situation.
21:06
That's tough.
21:07
That's really tough.
21:08
When you go to a hair salon and your hair has been butchered, they're just doing the best they can.
21:13
Yeah.
21:14
Yeah.
21:14
Yeah.
21:15
Um, let's do one more.
21:18
Okay.
21:18
Yep.
21:19
One more.
21:19
Okay.
21:19
Hmm.
21:21
One star, very bad quality, non expensive with garbage taste.
21:25
They don't even know how to make pink tea.
21:27
I'm very disappointed.
21:29
I'm very disappointed with their lack of punctuation.
21:33
Okay.
21:33
Thanks.
21:34
We appreciate your feedback and I'm Upset with their use of your with an apostrophe.
21:39
Okay.
21:39
Sorry focus.
21:40
Thanks.
21:40
We appreciate your feedback Gandu we've been closed for over a month.
21:44
So we don't know where you got your not These people I swear have you ever left a bad review like a public review?
21:54
Yes.
21:55
So am I But I was like really really mad and it wasn't a legit bad book and it was yeah It wasn't like a heat of the moment.
22:03
Let me let me it was like i've cooled down But I still need to have the last word probably the kind of thing.
22:09
Yeah.
22:10
Um, i've left a bad.
22:12
Oh, this is terrible I can't believe I'm gonna do this You know, have you ever been on glassdoor?
22:17
So, you know, it's a where employers are ranked.
22:20
I've left a bad review for an employer Mm hmm Was it like a skating review?
22:25
It wasn't.
22:26
It was just like, I gave them my heart and soul for eight years and then they just let me go with barely any severance.
22:34
I mean, it was totally first world problems, right?
22:35
But it was just, it needed to be said.
22:38
Yeah.
22:39
Well, mine was very recent.
22:41
Oh, what was the experience?
22:42
I ordered, you know, like hydrogen water is like the new big thing right now for like health or whatever.
22:48
And over a black Friday weekend had ordered.
22:52
it was a pitcher and had two water bottles and like some extra stuff.
22:55
And it was their Black Friday deal.
22:57
TikTok shop?
22:58
No, it was like on a regular website.
23:00
A real place.
23:00
Yeah.
23:02
So I got the deal and it said express shipping, you know, two, three day shipping or whatever.
23:07
Cool.
23:08
Order it, a week goes by, nothing.
23:09
They don't get the notification, nothing.
23:12
And it's a Shopify app and so, we have a Shopify store as well, so I know how Shopify works.
23:18
So I email customer service and I'm like, hey, um, do you know when this is going to ship?
23:21
It's a Christmas present, you know, ordered it, Black Friday, has not come.
23:26
Get the, Stupid response of, Oh, we're working so hard to get all of the orders out.
23:31
Da, da, da, da, da.
23:31
And I'm like, well, can you please give me a date?
23:33
Like this is for Christmas.
23:35
you know, the exact same response, like it was like an automated, whatever.
23:39
Right.
23:40
So then I'm, then I'm mad.
23:42
Right, right.
23:42
Then they have opened up.
23:44
So then I keep emailing until I get an actual person to respond.
23:49
And this person is like, well, didn't realize how quickly all of our bundles were.
23:53
And we've, they wouldn't say they oversold, but they oversold.
23:56
They didn't have any products to ship.
23:58
And we assure you that your, your order is being worked on in the warehouse.
24:03
And so.
24:04
I was like, listen, I have a Shopify store too.
24:07
So you had the sell went out of stock button checked off.
24:10
Yeah they're like, oh, well, we'll give you a free whatever right for your water.
24:15
I'm like, I don't want a free sleep I just want the things I ordered right and So email them a couple days later You said this is in the warehouse being worked on.
24:24
There's no shipment.
24:25
No tracking number.
24:26
No, nothing, right?
24:26
They wouldn't cancel the order, they wouldn't refund me my money, and so I put in a thing with my credit card, so then I go on I chair.
24:33
Right?
24:33
Right.
24:33
Like you can't leave anything on their website.
24:36
They have however many five star reviews on their website.
24:39
Right.
24:39
You can't leave a Uhhuh a review on it.
24:42
I went to the Better Business Bureau website.
24:45
I went to trust whatever trust score or whatever.
24:47
Yeah.
24:48
Cause they have on their website that they have like a 4.
24:51
5 star review with Trust Pilot.
24:53
Trust Pilot.
24:54
Yeah.
24:54
well on Trust Pilot, it's now like a 3.
24:57
2 because so many people ordered during Black Friday and have not gotten their stuff.
25:04
So I went to every review website you could go to and left a review.
25:07
And then I keep getting their Facebook ads.
25:09
Yeah.
25:10
Yeah.
25:10
Yeah.
25:10
And so on every Facebook ad, I was like, right, right.
25:13
They blocked me on Facebook.
25:18
I've seen those a lot.
25:19
So, yeah, all the, all the ads on Facebook and it just shows up in your feed and then you start clicking on the reviews and they're like, you have your handful of people that are like, I just got mine.
25:28
It's great.
25:28
And everybody else is like, hadn't received mine.
25:31
This company is trashed.
25:32
I always trust their abuse.
25:34
So did you ever get your product?
25:36
No, Did you get your money back on your card?
25:38
They do the initial refund, and then the company can try to fight it, but I haven't gotten the product, and And they blocked you on Facebook.
25:46
And they stopped responding to any of my emails, but then I was sending like a daily email just because I had, I was sick and I had nothing else to do.
25:52
And I'm like, your company's trash.
25:53
Hey, here's your daily reminder that your company is trash.
25:56
Oh my gosh.
26:01
That is funny.
26:01
Yeah.
26:02
That is funny.
26:03
But, and then I also did report them to Shopify as well.
26:07
Oh, you, you just went everywhere.
26:10
Like you had a month to ship that thing out.
26:14
A whole month.
26:15
Even if you were getting it from China, it could have gotten here faster.
26:18
Well, and even if they would have said, look, we have our salt.
26:21
Yeah, no.
26:22
Sorry, it's going to be six weeks.
26:23
Do you still want us to refund you?
26:24
Nope.
26:26
We can't refund your order.
26:28
But we assure you, it'll be worth the wait.
26:30
It is not worth the wait.
26:31
It is not.
26:32
I could have ordered from three other companies.
26:34
Right?
26:35
From China.
26:35
I could have gone to China and bought it from China and brought it back.
26:39
And beat.
26:39
And beat.
26:40
Yours here.
26:42
Oh my gosh.
26:43
That was my reason.
26:44
Oh my gosh.
26:46
some celebrity stuff.
26:48
Yeah.
26:48
Did you see that Brad and Angelina's divorce is finally final eight years later?
26:53
I did see it, but I didn't like read it.
26:55
I didn't dig into it just because I don't really like a lot of legal stuff, but I was just like, Finally, I didn't realize it was not final yet.
27:04
I assumed it was, I feel like, right.
27:06
I feel like their kids are all almost grown now except for like the one who's like 16 or whatever.
27:13
Like, that's just crazy to me that it took that long.
27:16
I guess they were arguing over money and stuff is what I'm figuring and all that, but rich people problems, rich people problems.
27:25
I got no idea what that's like.
27:29
I've got no idea what that's like.
27:31
yeah, I thought that was crazy that it took that like you said, I thought that was already done.
27:37
Yeah.
27:38
Did you see that?
27:39
big gene, which was puppies old bodyguard just did an interview.
27:43
Oh, no, it's another it's a podcast.
27:47
I'd be recommend.
27:48
It's like an hour and 45 minutes.
27:49
So I listened to the whole thing and I just took the cliff notes for pod.
27:54
and it was on, let's see, anything goes with James English.
27:58
He is from Scotland and he's got the Scottish accent.
28:02
Right up your alley.
28:02
Okay.
28:03
The whole time.
28:04
How was he involved with interviewing Big Gene?
28:07
He interviews a lot of people.
28:08
It's like a kind of like a Joe Rogan style podcast.
28:11
But he was in New York.
28:13
I guess he traveled to New York.
28:14
I mean, I guess people outside the U.
28:15
S.
28:16
can care about all that stuff.
28:17
That's fine.
28:18
Well, they were in like, just like a random hotel room.
28:20
Yeah.
28:21
Like doing the interview, you know, like it was like, they say those are so awkward.
28:24
Like the, you know, the table and just like a random hotel.
28:27
Right.
28:27
Exactly.
28:28
Or just like sit on the bed and chat like, and he's a big dude.
28:32
Like, well, his name is Big G so what are the highlights?
28:35
Okay, so what actually got me looking I didn't realize that this podcast was even out there and it just aired like three days ago.
28:42
Okay.
28:42
But, I saw something about people are now looking at Ashton Kutcher Mm-hmm And then.
28:49
He was also involved in that murder.
28:50
back in like 2001 where he was supposed to go on a date, saw the girl was dead through the window and just dipped, never called the cops, nothing.
28:58
He saw her like stabbed on the ground.
29:01
I forgot about that.
29:03
Like I had totally forgotten about that.
29:04
and then he started the trafficking foundation foundation for the, yeah.
29:10
And now they're speculating that.
29:12
Some of those kids from that foundation possibly were people that he was trafficking.
29:17
So, basically, he might have had a foundation to support the thing that the foundation was supposed to be.
29:24
Yes.
29:24
So Big G just put a new book out.
29:26
Okay.
29:27
So I think that was part of promoting his book or whatever.
29:30
and.
29:31
It is my world of bodyguarding a hip hop star the last big night.
29:37
That's the name of the book so He says in his book, he does go big into the night Vicky died.
29:43
Okay.
29:43
And he said he carried around a lot of guilt, with that night.
29:47
another person that was involved in that evening, um, also just made a statement saying that he tried to get Biggie not to go to this after party.
29:56
and Biggie, like there was no stopping him.
29:58
And so he said that that lifted a lot of his guilt that he was feeling.
30:03
But All right, some bombs are dropping.
30:05
Okay, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
30:07
So, Puffy's mom was supposedly, there was like rumors that she was like a hooker or prostitute back in the day, but Gene says that she was not because he has like some contacts from like back in the day, like the old school, and she was actually a madam.
30:25
She was not doing the things.
30:27
She was sending the girls out to do the things.
30:29
Oh.
30:31
Yeah, so she was a madam.
30:32
Okay.
30:33
He says that the, the government has known all about everything going on since before 2011 with Puffy.
30:40
Oh, that they had arrested somebody that was in the industry, and said that, was trying to get him to flip on puffy.
30:48
I mean, they've known all of this.
30:48
They, they laid it out for the dude said that if you give us what we need, we'll let you go.
30:54
I guess you didn't do it because he valued his life.
30:58
but they've known all about everything this entire time.
31:01
And all of these people that have gotten, you know, Traumatized and killed since.
31:07
Oh, my gosh.
31:08
But yeah, yeah.
31:09
He says the government's known this entire time.
31:11
FBI has files and files and files on him for years.
31:15
I mean, like starting back in like 13, 14 years ago.
31:18
More than that.
31:19
He says.
31:20
Yeah.
31:21
That was just when the one dude got interviewed, but like they, Oh, this has been known for a long time.
31:27
Okay.
31:27
Let's see, he said someone got sick of puppies antics and that's why this is all going down.
31:34
That was going to be my question.
31:35
Like, if they've had this information.
31:37
Wow.
31:38
All of a sudden.
31:38
So somebody got sick of it.
31:40
Somebody, one of his higher up puppies higher ups.
31:42
Okay.
31:43
is like, just sick of dealing with him because.
31:46
I mean, that's a lot.
31:47
Yeah.
31:48
and that's why this is all gone down.
31:50
supposedly a lot of the tapes, evidence, whatever, that was confiscated is not there anymore.
31:59
So, I'm assuming one of the higher ups of Puffy paid off the FBI, whomever, to get the, the stuff that they needed back.
32:09
Oh, my gosh.
32:11
but you know, it would implicate them.
32:13
Right, right.
32:14
so Ashton Kutcher.
32:16
Yes.
32:17
He was asking like, what was, there's something off about him because of, you know, all these things.
32:22
Well, connecting him with Danny Masterson, who is in jail.
32:26
I was a co star on that 70s show.
32:28
The redheaded dude.
32:29
Yeah.
32:29
The curly hair.
32:30
Yeah.
32:31
So he actually, when that murder happened in 2001, he called Danny Masterson freaking out.
32:38
I guess.
32:39
during Masterson's trial for sexual assault.
32:43
One of the victims, that was testifying said that she was there when Ashton called Danny when they found her and they had like, they made this plan cause they didn't want to tarnish his whatever.
32:56
Yeah.
32:56
Almost a career good boy kind of.
32:59
Yeah.
32:59
and he left the scene of the crime and called Danny So Danny handled it.
33:06
I don't call him, you know, just leave.
33:09
Do not mention this to anybody.
33:11
oh, my gosh.
33:12
Yeah.
33:13
So, wow.
33:15
Yeah, Oh, Brittany Murphy.
33:17
So, oh, yeah, I love Brittany.
33:19
Oh my god Yeah, absolutely adored her as an actress.
33:23
Yeah, the homie.
33:24
Yeah I loved all of her movies.
33:26
Yes So he Ashton was cheating on Demi Moore with Brittany Murphy.
33:31
Okay, and Kept getting caught by paparazzi Okay, so Jean said that he was at a basketball game or somewhere, um mm-hmm And Ashton was saying this to Puffy and Puffy's like, well, it's either her, the doorman or your security that's tipping off paparazzi.
33:49
Mm-hmm And shortly after that, she died of the same exact thing as Kim Porter.
33:55
Oh my gosh.
33:56
So, that's when Ashton and, and Puffy were super tight.
34:00
Oh my gosh.
34:01
Yeah.
34:02
That is crazy.
34:04
Yeah.
34:05
Ashton was also somehow intertwined with Abercrombie and Fitch.
34:09
He modeled for them.
34:10
but that dude just got arrested not too long ago.
34:13
Yes.
34:13
For the human trafficking.
34:14
Yep.
34:16
So, speculating.
34:18
So we know that Brittany's husband died too, not long after, maybe a year after Brittany of the same thing, supposedly.
34:28
So, maybe he knew we don't know.
34:32
Okay.
34:33
Just another weird.
34:34
Yeah.
34:35
Yeah.
34:36
So.
34:37
Now he was doing that child protection agency, whatever, which.
34:42
Is now being looked at to see if it's starting or if, you know, they were handing off kids or oh, my gosh.
34:51
Yes, there was also, a leaked interview, or a lost interview, however you want to say it, of Aaron Carter.
35:00
Okay.
35:01
Saying that he went to a Diddy party when he was 15 and he had had to stay there and he was, had to stay in Puffy's room and was basically told this is how things go, this is how you do your career.
35:13
And said bad things happen to him.
35:15
He didn't go into detail.
35:16
Mm-hmm We can assume.
35:17
Right.
35:18
and that was a big turning point for him in his downfall.
35:24
Mm-hmm Oh, yeah.
35:28
Gene said that this, this whole system of control and how they're controlling people with these videos and, and making them do things that normally wouldn't do.
35:37
is all learned.
35:39
He believes that this all happened to Puff and that's why he is just continuing the cycle.
35:44
Yeah.
35:45
No excuse.
35:46
No, no, no, no, no.
35:48
oh this one, what the F.
35:52
Gene said that Puff used to talk about bringing down Jay Z and using Ja Rule to do it.
35:57
Now Ja Rule, like, Like why Ja Rule would be your choice to try to bring down Jay Z?
36:03
Blows my mind because 50 Cent destroyed him.
36:07
Right, like what's Ja gonna do?
36:11
But Puff was then playing to Jay, he was playing both sides.
36:13
But he wanted to take down Jay Z.
36:15
Of course he was more powerful than him.
36:18
he was talking about the tunnels and these tunnels have been there forever.
36:21
This isn't just something new that's going on.
36:23
this has been going on for a very long time.
36:27
Yeah.
36:27
And he doesn't understand why people are so surprised by the tunnels.
36:32
Because we don't have tunnels in regular people houses.
36:35
Puff.
36:37
Um, let's see.
36:39
So Jonathan Odie.
36:42
Told the feds five to seven years ago that he was doing the freak off parties and he contracted STDs Was paid millions of dollars to stay quiet He said that the liquid like the baby oil was liquid cocoa and that's cocaine I'm assuming it's what they were referring to.
37:01
Okay, and that that's how it was being brought in that was how it was being shipped to Rick Ross.
37:09
He said his breaking point, being Diddy's bodyguard was when Diddy started saying that if Dan and D'Kane didn't quit giving him problems, he was going to drug them up and then pimp the girls out to his Ninjas, but the other word.
37:25
Oh my gosh.
37:27
Yes.
37:28
And the last bite that I got from it was that Jennifer Lopez's mother hated Puffy.
37:34
He kept trying to like buy her gifts and buy her stuff and she kept returning everything.
37:37
She wanted nothing to do with this man.
37:40
Good for her.
37:41
She knew.
37:42
Yeah.
37:42
Oh my gosh That Brittany Murphy thing is in just another Like you said, dying like Kim Porter and Kim Porter had said, everybody's dying.
37:51
Pneumonia.
37:52
Yeah.
37:53
crazy.
37:54
Super crazy.
37:58
Yeah.
38:00
I'm glad you stumbled on that.
38:02
I'm definitely going to have to look at that.
38:03
You want to do, am I the a hole?
38:04
Oh yeah.
38:05
Okay.
38:05
Okay am I the a hole for offering a job application to angry customers who are complaining about wait times and service in my restaurant?
38:13
No We can just stop there Okay, like most other restaurants in the area.
38:19
We are short on staff.
38:20
I like to think we run a good operation So it's not because people are unhappy because of management.
38:25
It's just that unemployment is low, so it's hard to hold on to people.
38:29
Even if understaffed, as a manager, I try my best to make up for everyone working twice as hard.
38:34
The business hasn't slowed down though.
38:36
We're busier than ever, which is tough on everyone.
38:39
We might have a line out the door with one person taking orders, and the kitchen still gets behind.
38:45
As you can imagine, this leads to some unhappy customers.
38:47
Usually when someone comes to me complaining about the wait, I'll try my best to apologize.
38:52
I try to stay happy and energetic for the employees, but it does take a toll on me.
38:57
Plus all the complaints from customers about how slow we are with one person in the kitchen.
39:02
I thought of a new comeback when customers complain about wait times or service to me.
39:07
I'll offer them an application.
39:08
I tell them if they would like to see a decrease in wait times, they should join the team.
39:13
When they refuse, I thank them for being patient.
39:15
My friend thinks I'm being an a hole.
39:17
I think I'm trying to kill them with kindness, which is the verdict.
39:20
I love it.
39:21
I love it.
39:22
As long as you don't get in trouble for it, I guess it depends on the restaurant.
39:26
I love it.
39:27
Like are we talking about a super$200 a meal thing?
39:30
Right, right, right.
39:32
I don't think the manager of that kind of restaurant's gonna be posted on Reddit.
39:38
a manager of that kind of restaurant always wears a tux and has a towel over his arm all the time, even at home.
39:44
I don't think it's like the most professional thing in the world, but I love I love it again.
39:49
probably Applebee's.
39:50
Yeah, I don't know why Applebee's popped up in both of our minds.
39:56
I don't think he's an a hole.
39:57
Maybe a touch unprofessional, but I don't care in this situation because people should be patient.
40:03
Yeah.
40:04
this is five years ago too.
40:05
So this was like pandemic time, I think.
40:07
Close.
40:07
Yeah.
40:08
That was 2020, right?
40:09
Mm hmm.
40:10
God, that was already five years ago?
40:12
Mm hmm.
40:14
I'm struggling today, too, and I have no excuse.
40:16
Yeah, that seems like yesterday, doesn't it?
40:19
I know.
40:20
We've been through a whole nother, uh, presidential election.
40:21
Half a decade.
40:23
Right.
40:24
We've been through that.
40:26
We've been through multiple schools between our kids.
40:29
Yes.
40:29
Multiple sports, multiple girls.
40:32
I'm just okay.
40:33
Stop.
40:34
I don't think it's like the most professional thing I've ever heard, but I think it's great.
40:38
It's totally something I would do.
40:39
I can see it, especially the 1 person that kept emailing your business and you responded back.
40:45
Yeah, with cookie monster account.
40:47
Yes.
40:49
Yes, which the count counts.
40:51
It counts.
40:52
Yeah, no, go for it, dude.
40:54
I love it.
40:55
There is a t shirt website and I can't remember what it is.
40:58
I gotta find it for next week.
40:59
But they have a wall of shame for, like, customer complaints.
41:04
Do they really?
41:05
Yeah, but it's like such a like, it's a sarcastic t shirt website, and it's inappropriate shirts.
41:09
Yeah.
41:10
And it's like a grandma, I bought this beaver shirt for my grandson, and he wore it to school and got in trouble, and you're, you should.
41:18
Oh my gosh, that is funny, that is funny, but yeah.
41:23
It's like mean emails that this company gets, and they have, they post it on the wall of shame for everybody to read.
41:30
I mean.
41:31
It's gonna attract business now because we know about it.
41:33
I died laughing.
41:35
I'm like, I so wanted to do this.
41:37
Uh huh.
41:37
But yeah No, I could know God spoil sport.
41:45
I do think that this is great though.
41:46
I don't think like if I saw this happen, I would be like I would start laughing.
41:52
I would make it 10 times worse.
41:55
You'd be like, do you want a pen?
41:59
No, that's great.
41:59
I can fill it out for you.
42:00
Right, right.
42:02
While you've got time to wait on your food, why don't you go ahead and do it now?
42:04
You want to tell them what our plans are for this year for our books?
42:09
Yes, we have some exciting news.
42:12
Yes.
42:12
Lovers of our pod.
42:13
Yes.
42:14
We are going to do, book reviews still every week.
42:18
I like having them at the end of the pod.
42:19
Uh huh.
42:19
Um, but our plan is we're going to go in alphabetical order.
42:23
So we're going A through Z, as you guys know that's alphabetical order.
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And, we've actually got the whole year's book list compiled already.
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So we're going to start with A this week.
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We already read it.
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We'll talk about it.
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We won't give spoilers.
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Because we didn't announce it last week.
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Yeah.
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Well, we didn't do anything last week.
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Yeah, we gave up.
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so we'll, we'll tell you what we read for A, and then we'll tell you what we're going to read next for B.
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And then we'll, so we'll cycle through the alphabet twice is our plan.
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Right.
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Did I cover everything?
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I think so.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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So this week we read At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Weber so I'm going to read the blurb.
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When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex boyfriend, she thinks she's being haunted.
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The listing, a job as a live in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama, is the perfect chance to start a new life.
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A normal life.
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Ava's always been too fearful to even travel, so no one's more surprised than she is when she throws caution to the wind and drives to the distance.
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Beachside town.
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I love this book.
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Okay.
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I think what I had said it to you.
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I was sick and dead, like dying.
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And I just needed something like uplifting.
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I did not need a murdery, yes.
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Spouse being evil, like not too much.
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Yeah.
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I was looking for an a book This just sounded like it was going to be like a horror movie, which it was, it really was.
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It was what I needed to listen to this week.
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Yeah.
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Well, good.
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but I, I loved it.
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For what it was.
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Okay.
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Yes.
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it was what you were looking for, for that moment.
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And you, yeah.
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did you like it?
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You didn't like it.
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Okay.
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And, okay.
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My first problem came was I couldn't get it on an audio book.
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Oh, okay.
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And so I, I bought the real book and I was reading it.
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You looked at me like, what?
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You gotta do what you gotta do.
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and I was maybe a quarter of a way through and then the hoopla became available.
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So then I picked it up.
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So I was already feeling kind of frantic about it and I wanted to love it, especially because I'd seen it on TikTok on booktalk.
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and everybody said a Hallmark movie.
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They loved it.
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They loved the vibe of it.
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Like it was just such a good, I did not, I was bored.
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I was very bored.
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Okay.
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I don't know.
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Did you finish it?
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I did finish it on 1.
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75.
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No, I'm just kidding.
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I did finish it because I, you know, I'd made it to that far and I wanted to, um, to be able, it, it's not that it was a bad book.
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I was just very bored.
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Okay.
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I was bored.
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And nothing was happening, but then too much was going on.
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If that makes any sense at all.
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Well, so we got two different perspectives.
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Yes.
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and Ava travels to this town and ends up staying and working there.
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and then you learn that all of these lives intertwine.
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Yes.
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And so again, I was Feeling horrible and just wanting to right stay under the blankets and Wanted something to cheer me up.
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So to me if this is like a beach read, easy summer type of reading whatever set in the beach town.
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Yep, oh and you know What I love is in the audiobook they didn't overdo the southern thing like they did not and I appreciated Yeah, I think there was one character that had a she had a really heavy southern accent.
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Um But other than that, yeah, it wasn't wasn't terrible.
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I thought personally that the characters were developed really well.
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Like, you got a lot of background that you felt could connect with the characters.
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Yeah.
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And I love to sell.
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Yeah.
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The baddie old lady.
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She was my favorite.
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Yeah.
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She was my favorite.
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she, Yeah.
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I mean, I loved, I love the book.
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Yeah.
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And that's, that's okay.
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I mean, we usually are kind of on par and agree with things, but sometimes we won't.
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And when we do, we just need to realize that you're wrong.
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And no, it just, so, the main story is about the two ladies and the one that moves to this town and the one who is already there and they have this friendship and, um, Then like you said the sub characters that come in and just the the there's some love interest in there And there's some you know, the history and family drama and there there's a lot of aspects that I like I just don't know why I don't know if it was like the little mystical vibe I don't know if I was putting too much into the curiosities, um, but something about it just did not really make me Love it.
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And I've read other books by her.
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I'm blanking on what the name of it was.
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Um, Or what they were, but I, and I liked them.
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Yeah.
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So, just one of those that wouldn't get it for me.
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Yeah.
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That's okay.
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Yeah.
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but I loved it and I would have given it like a nine.
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Okay.
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Like you said, easy, be treed, Paul Mark type right.
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Feel good Bob now.
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and no spoilers, but the ending was a little unpredictable to me.
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Yeah.
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I, I enjoyed that.
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It's not that it was just bland and, Everybody lived happily ever after.
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Right.
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It was, there was some twists.
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It was interesting.
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I would probably give it like a four.
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Yeah.
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I'm sorry.
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It's okay.
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Yeah, we can agree to disagree.
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We can.
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And what do we say when that happens?
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You're wrong.
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No, I'm just kidding.
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You know that.
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but I like that.
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I like that sometimes we don't 100 percent agree because there was one book that I read that we did here and you read it and I listened to it and I loved it.
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And you were like, Alexa read it to me and I hated it.
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Yeah.
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so sometimes just a different point of view.
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If you are wanting like a Hallmark feel good book.
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And it definitely was that.
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Yeah.
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I won't disappoint.
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If that's what you're looking for.
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That was, yeah, that was it.
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That's not our normal style book.
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We do throw them in here and there, but yeah, need some palate cleansers every once in a while.
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so our next book is going to be The Boyfriend by Freda McFadden.
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Yes, and we have read Freda McFadden before.
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Yep so I think we're going to switch things up and we'll read next week's book blurb this week.
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Very good.
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so that way people can decide if they want to read it or not.
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Okay.
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I'm excited because I don't know what this one's about other than a boyfriend.
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And I just started listening to it today.
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All right.
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Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York has terrible luck with dating.
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She's seen it in men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill and worst of all men who can't shut up about their mothers.
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But finally she hit the jackpot.
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Our new boyfriend is utterly perfect.
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He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital.
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Sydney is swept off her feet.
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Then the brutal murder of a young woman, the latest in a string of deaths across the coast, confounds police.
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The primary suspect, a mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.
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Sydney should feel safe.
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After all, she's dating a guy of her dreams, but she can't shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems because someone is watching her every move.
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And if she doesn't get to the truth, she'll be the killer's next victim.
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Hmm.
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So that's kind of more of our alley.
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Again, I like the, the Hallmark feel every once in a while, but this is more, I'm twisted.
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Yeah.
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Well, same.
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Yeah.
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I'm very dark and I have mental problems.
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So, this, I'm looking forward to Frito.
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She's not disappointed us yet.
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Very good.
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Oh, I've started watching on Netflix.
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Squid games?
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Uh huh.
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Have you ever watched it?
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I did not.
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Dylan did.
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What did he think?
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He likes it.
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It is the worst thing, but I cannot stop watching it.
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Like, I must know how all of it plays out.
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I would be so horrible at that game.
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It's where you have to freeze, right?
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That, so it's basically a series of kids games is what it ends up being.
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So basically every episode or every couple episodes, this big group of people has to play a kids game.
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And if you lose, you are eliminated.
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Like for real life.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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So the first game is red light, green light, and they think they're getting eliminated, not eliminating.
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So all of a sudden somebody, you know, they, you know, you know how hard it is to stop, especially when you're moving fast.
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and all of a sudden they do that first red light and everybody, you know, still kind of shaken or whatever.
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And I mean, just plows people down and it is.
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The craziest show and it is super intense and it's terrible because It's Korean and it you've got to read the subtitles and the lips don't match when you're reading it in or when they're doing English But I must watch it.
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And I know I'm not the only one.
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No, Dylan watched it.
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I Listened to our um, I'm gonna say I listen to our percent We dropped last week, which is our first episode and we had done the seven husbands on that one You go, that's the only book I think we've ever given a 10 to No, how about that one with that by that dude?
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Paul something.
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I think we might have given him, what did we give it a 10?
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I might've been at 9.
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5.
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Okay.
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Well, listening to it, we were both like, I give it a 10.
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I was like, we were very generous for our first episode.
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Well, I, yeah, we didn't know what we were doing.
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We didn't, we didn't still don't know what we're doing.
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all right.
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Well, please, like subscribe, tell your friends we love you and we will talk to y'all next week.
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Yep.
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Love you.
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Bye.