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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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Perfect.
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Take, that was take two.
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Yeah, that's okay.
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I forgot what I was supposed to say.
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You pulled a me.
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You pulled a me when you just like, the deer in headlight.
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Dude, it was like blank.
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Totally blank.
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I thought I did a pretty good job of covering all three of those lines by myself.
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Well, it's been a day.
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Yeah.
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Oh, it's been like a, it's been a week.
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That's been a month.
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A year.
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I still can't get over this talk.
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Like I'm still, it's gotta be allergies.
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I took a COVID test and all that and everything is negative.
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So it's just gotta be allergies.
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It's just, Still has me like sneezing all the time and well, I have thought about doing tonight.
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a nebulizer treatment Yeah, it's just like the saline because that just like will clear out everything.
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Yeah So I might do that later neti pot or like something like that.
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I've got like that nebulizer thing Yeah, the actual machine the neti pot works real good, too.
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Well, I don't I that whole thing freaks me out Yeah, I don't know.
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Yeah, like right when it started it's like people were like Have an aneurysm.
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Oh, yeah, that's true.
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Like, I don't need to forget about that.
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So I did have sinus surgery, right?
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Like, uh, gosh, a long, long time ago.
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Dylan was a baby baby.
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We were in Tennessee still.
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And, well, first of all, you know, anytime you have an injury or a surgery.
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No matter where it is on your body, somebody's going to bump it.
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So without fail, somehow Brandon would like bump my nose, not on purpose.
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It was he, like just somehow it would happen.
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but when I went to get like all this stuff out and like, I just not believe how much will fit into your, I had to have surgery on the endoceptal.
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And yeah, same.
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I was like, how is that all?
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And it felt so good when they, Yeah.
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Undid it.
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It was disgusting.
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But then, did you have to use, the, the squirty thing up your nose to clear it, for, a couple of days?
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I don't think so.
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So they had, gave me, this, like, big Like what you do on a baby?
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Yeah, well, no, it's like, like, you have to, it's like a water thingy.
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Oh, okay.
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You squeeze it up your nose, and then, like, it comes out the other side.
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No, I don't, I think I'd remember if they gave me that.
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They didn't.
2:00
Yeah, I remember so okay, they pack everything and your nose is covered up so you have to mouth breathe for like that whole first week post op or however long it is and to sleep like it was miserable like your mouth is so dry, like things I didn't think about and then to eat but you can't breathe through your nose.
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It was like, how am I supposed to?
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Little tiny baby bites.
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Yes, very, very tiny baby bites.
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And yeah, when they took that packing out like it was, it felt great.
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Kind of like after birth.
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Well, Brandon was like, that was gross.
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Well, Brandon went there with me to like get everything and he was like, that's just disgusting.
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I was like, it wasn't any worse than watching my c sections.
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Well, it was just like a week's worth of mucus that just, yeah, okay, this is all gross.
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This is all so gross.
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So anyway, I think I'm going to do a nebulizer treatment.
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Okay, well good, good.
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I hope it goes well.
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But just like the saline.
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Yeah, sounds good.
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Yeah, break it up a it up a little bit.
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Yeah, I'm just still real tired.
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Yeah.
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Like, I have zero energy.
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feel exhausted.
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I don't know what's going on.
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I'm just old probably, but.
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No, I think I did have some kind of little bug.
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And it's just taking a while for it to go away.
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Yeah.
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Well, even when you don't quite feel good and you're not sleeping steadily and I mean, it just like wears out.
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I think that's it.
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And it's just kind of like snowballed.
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but you've been busy too with, you know, Jackson has game.
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Congratulations on winning.
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Thank you.
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Oh my gosh.
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That's one of those teams.
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I'm so glad we beat because they were nasty.
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Oh, really?
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They were.
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What team?
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What was school?
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So this was Joyous Chambers.
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Okay.
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They used to be Vance High School in Charlotte.
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Okay.
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But they renamed it to Joyous Chambers and I don't know what part of Charlotte they're from, but.
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Somewhere in Chautauqua.
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No, that's not right.
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Queen City.
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Yes, the QC.
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There was some bad calls and, or questionable calls and like the rest would go talk in the middle of the field trying to figure everything out.
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And, you know, the people on our side were like, touchdown, touchdown, you know, yelling it.
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Well, the kids from the other team are looking at our crowd and it was packed.
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And you know, it's, it's a big stadium.
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Yeah.
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They were like doing their hands, like saying, no, no, no.
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Like, yeah, go talk to your people.
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Yeah.
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And, I don't know, they just did all that Jackson said they were talking so much trash.
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I would not be able to play sports nowadays.
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Yeah.
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I think it's so much worse now.
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Honestly, seriously don't remember.
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So I played softball.
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I don't remember any trash talking to myself.
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Yeah.
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Basketball a little bit.
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When I played, but not like he's bad.
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Yeah.
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So I have too much of a temper.
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Like I, somebody would say something to me and I was like, well, I can't imagine being a kid and almost mocking.
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The adults and that's not the first time a school has done that.
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Basketball is really bad.
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So, do you remember when we went to Myrtle Beach?
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Yeah.
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When they were like little.
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Little tiny football players.
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It was like, what, they were like second, third grade maybe?
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And, I told some kid to go get his mom, and I would handle it with his mom.
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Like, I had had it, and they were from Charlotte.
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Yeah.
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It was a Charlotte team, and I was like, go get your mom.
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Yeah, go get her.
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I can't hit you, but if you can't be controlled, then I'll control your mama.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I know.
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It's just crazy.
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I can't just imagine being a kid and doing that to the adults that are like these kids are.
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And it's just, I don't like the teams that play dirty.
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I don't like the teams that are playing dirty.
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undisciplined with the foolishness.
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I'm not a fan of that.
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So I told Jackson, I was like, I don't like that kind of team.
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I don't like this kind of team.
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I was like, basically, I don't like anybody but us.
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Well, yeah, but it was still, it was still a really good game.
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We won.
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It isn't a way game.
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It's a Hillcrest.
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so that's about an hour and a half drive.
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Yeah, but thank God it's a Friday night game because last year we played at Hillcrest on a Thursday after ninth grade played that their game went late and then we didn't start too late and then it went like it was a nightmare.
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We didn't get home till.
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By the time I got Jackson from the school and stuff, probably after midnight, I would say, and then they have school the next day.
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So I always say JV is not for the weak.
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Yeah.
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Like there, there don't have as many people in the stands.
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There's no cheerleaders, there's no band, there's no dance, there's nothing.
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Yeah.
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And, you have Thursday night games that a lot of people don't come to, and then you have to go to school the next day and, you know, so it's, I'm glad he put his time in, Jay put his time in there so he can appreciate more of the Friday night adventure.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I told him, I was like, so, you know, he is, he is one of the younger ones.
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I was like, but if you want to go with your friends somewhere after and I'll come pick you up.
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He was like, mom.
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I was like, well, I'll just like walk down the street and I'll get you.
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Cause you know, a lot of them go like waffle house.
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And Stuff like that.
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He was like, we'll figure it out.
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It'll be okay.
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He's like, I'm just tired right now.
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So that's fair to me.
6:59
Yeah Hi, I'm here to pick up Jackson.
7:03
Well, I had to pick up Dylan from the from the lacrosse party Why'd you pick that up Because was he was he driving?
7:13
Well, he couldn't drive after midnight.
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Oh, okay.
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So yeah But he has a full license now like where he can drive at any time good, but he doesn't know that So if you're listening to it, that's not true That's just for that's just for the podcast.
7:31
We just say things sometimes like they have to have their license for a full year yeah Like the midnight license before.
7:37
Okay.
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Without any tickets or, at fault accidents and then they can have an unrestricted license.
7:41
Well, I didn't know that's how that works.
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It's so different.
7:44
Well, well, they can get their license at 15.
7:46
Right, but they, what kills me and I keep telling Brian this, I do not understand how they're supposed to go take their license.
7:53
And they don't take driver's ed first.
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So we couldn't get into the driver's ed at the school.
8:00
Yeah.
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Because it's always so full.
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so we just did the regular driving school.
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But almost after he had his permit, right?
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Yeah.
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Right.
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So we're sending these kids.
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You have to have your permit for school.
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And they can do the, the driver's ed during that time.
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So, but they're going to get their permit and take the test to get their permit.
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And it's asking them, I'll be sure to read the book.
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There's not a book anymore.
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It's all online.
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Yeah.
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We just downloaded an app.
8:25
Well, It's apparently not working for Jackson.
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We've tried a few times already.
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I think they just want my 2.
8:31
It's 2 every time so When Dylan took it at his permit, you know, they have they go into that little like yes last room or whatever Yeah, and they have to stand at the computer So my mom and I were like waiting in the little waiting area at like right in front of it And I turned around and he was like, yeah, he gave me this like deer in the headlights like well, and I was like Yeah, well, I mean, I didn't take your time, but like, but you're doing, um, so he came out and he had passed, but he was like, it was the last question and it was pass or fail question because I had already gotten however many right, right, right.
9:07
And he's like, it was just a wild guess.
9:09
Well, that's funny because that's what he went back today for Jackson to retake the test for number.
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And, um, he was, I mean, I could tell he was confident cause he was moving pretty quickly and he started slowing down.
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He said, he missed a couple there, but then all of a sudden he walked out last one.
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He's like, I said, I'm trying to remember what was the question.
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He was like, how many, tons can go over a bridge?
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Like it's those kind of questions that he's like, he's like, I got no signs.
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I know how to like drive.
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He's like, but I don't know.
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One of the questions that really got him too was what was the difference between, a bicycle and a car.
9:48
You don't have to have insurance for a bike.
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Like, how does a kid know that?
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So, I just think it's really messed up that they do that.
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I don't know.
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It was a different one.
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Back in my day! But, like, if we took the test now, I probably would pass it.
10:01
You don't think so?
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No! I don't know what all, like, the hand signals and the Oh! I'm gonna pull one up and we're gonna take it.
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Oh God.
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I think you would pass it.
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I don't think so.
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I think you would.
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I probably would.
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And you know, like, the drive like, the actual driving test, I probably wouldn't pass either because I still can't parallel park.
10:16
Oh no, I'd fail that.
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But But the written thing, I think we could pass.
10:21
When I took the test, I don't even know if they were like computerized.
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Mine wasn't.
10:26
No, I had a number two pencil.
10:28
I passed it my first time, but I failed my first like actual driving.
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Same exact sense.
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Yeah.
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I did too.
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I did too.
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And I can't remember what part I failed.
10:35
I failed parallel parking.
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It was the first thing like, cause everybody that's, if you don't pass that, then you don't have to keep going.
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So they did it first.
10:43
Yeah.
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And it was like right out the gate and it was like, Do they still do parallel parking?
10:47
Yes, Dylan had to do it.
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And Dylan can freaking parallel park like nobody's business.
10:53
Well, then he's going to need to drive us when we go to Uptown Charlotte or whatever.
10:56
Listen, we got a designated driver.
10:58
Yeah.
10:59
Yeah, I passed my written, no problem, but it was the driving one that and I probably still shouldn't have passed it, but here we are.
11:06
Yeah.
11:07
Well, so Jackson's done it thrice, So next Tuesday they're supposed to be out, but they're having a weather makeup day, so it's gonna be virtual, whatever.
11:15
Yeah.
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So I told'em, we'll go again next Tuesday.
11:21
Well, fourth time's the charm.
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Third time I thought, second time it'll be okay.
11:28
I know.
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So he, he is really, really, really lucky with the way that.
11:33
Like things just he's just good at things like he doesn't have to work too hard at a lot of things Yeah, I mean he works hard.
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But even if he didn't work hard, he'd still be like he'd still have relatively good grade.
11:44
Yeah so this Is just like killing him.
11:48
Uh huh.
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Yeah And I think he feels bad.
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Cause you know, I gotta take him up there cause he can't drive.
11:52
Yeah, well.
11:53
Oh, but I did tell him he could take the golf cart to meet the friends at the Waffle House.
11:58
That would be a far drive.
11:59
It would be a far drive.
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He'd have to stop halfway and plug it up.
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but they like to go and celebrate.
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I think it's cool.
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And they're, I've told you this before, they include him.
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They're really nice about it.
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I love those We got all of our eagles adopted.
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Oh, good.
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Thank God.
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Thank God.
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And now the cheer team is doing it.
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So if anybody is listening and wants to adopt cheerleader, go for it.
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I know I'm not good with girls.
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Me either.
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I am a total boy.
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Very much so.
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I was so happy.
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When Dylan was a boy.
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Oh my God.
12:30
So you wanted a boy before you had Dylan 100.
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I, I didn't want anything to do with having a girl.
12:36
I wanted a girl.
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I did not and I, I cried when I found out because I was a girl.
12:40
I was So, you were thrilled and happy.
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Yeah.
12:43
I don't know why I wanted a girl so much because I had I grew up, you know, my sister had three boys, so I was with them and I loved them still my no, I'm just kidding.
12:53
No, they're fantastic.
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I love them all.
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But, I don't know why I wanted a girl so bad.
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So, well, and I don't, I mean, girls are lovely.
13:00
Yeah.
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Yeah.
13:01
Sure.
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They're special relationships with their parents and stuff.
13:04
I don't know.
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I just thought, like, monster trucks and, like, dinosaurs are gonna be in, like, yeah.
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Then, like, Barbies.
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Yeah, that's very true.
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So, yeah, I was totally down for, the superhero, yeah.
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And I would not, even though I was, you know, sad at that time, because I didn't know, I mean, obviously.
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Yeah.
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This worked out okay.
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He is flippin awesome.
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Oh, it was so much fun.
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He had a good game Friday night.
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That was good.
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I was proud of him for that.
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Yeah.
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And boy sports, I think.
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Like, I was, I was ready for boy sports.
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Yeah.
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I couldn't see me being like a cheer mom and nothing against cheer moms.
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I just, I just, y'all have more for you than I do.
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Cause I couldn't do it.
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So you are better than me.
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Yes.
13:48
Dylan always was a full contact sport kid though.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
13:53
I thought Jackson would be like Brian.
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Like, what does Dylan act like Brandon did when he was little?
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Like, have you ever had that conversation?
14:00
Um, because so Jackson, really?
14:02
Okay.
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Brian was country boy.
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Hunting.
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Yeah.
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And all that kind of stuff.
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And not that Jackson doesn't, he will go fishing and stuff, but he has sports.
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Sports, sports, sports, sports, sports.
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And Brian played sports too, but Jackson's a little better than Brian one.
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Sorry, Brian.
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He doesn't even listen, it's okay.
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And y'all don't tell him either.
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you tell him that I said that he was the man.
14:27
Um, no, I mean, Brian was good, but it, there's some moments that, you know, Jackson's just, where did he get that from?
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Yeah.
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So I thought that Jackson would be 200 percent for sure.
14:41
But no, but I thought he would act just like Brian.
14:43
Yeah.
14:43
I thought it'd be a little mini Brian.
14:44
So we grew up up North and Dylan born raised and has lived his entire life in the South.
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And so it's just such a different way of life.
14:53
Yeah.
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so he does, he loves like the fishing.
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He loves, he loves that.
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I mean like the whole like outdoors, Pick up truck works on his truck.
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Like he's a little southern boy at me He is so like growing up up north.
15:05
It's not like that at all.
15:06
Yeah.
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I mean, yes, there's fishing whatever but It's not as it's one way of life for a group of people down here.
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Yeah So not that Dylan doesn't hunt but like he loves to go fishing.
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He loves to you know, do the he's always doing stuff with his truck And he's always been more outdoorsy than like a video gamer or yeah, I mean he plays video games, but right, right, right He's always but he would rather yeah, I get it.
15:30
Yeah, so these boys They're good boys growing up fast.
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They are High school been going okay with him a couple weeks.
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So far so good.
15:37
I told you he's playing lacrosse now.
15:39
Okay.
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So I think he would have kind of gotten bored if he wasn't.
15:43
Well, and it's a long season because they practice all year long.
15:45
Yeah.
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Um, at the school, it's like a full year.
15:49
And I know he likes like his lacrosse teammates.
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Yes.
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So I know he likes that extra time hanging out with them.
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Yeah.
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and they got a new field this year.
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So they're not like a little like short field.
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So it's totally a different experience.
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That's a different vibe.
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So good for him.
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Good times.
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Good times.
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But as far as I know, everything's going good.
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Good.
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speaking of his school and his teammates, Jonas was at the game Friday night and he had on this hat and it had like Black curly ponytail in the back.
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Like, it looked like he had a mullet with a hat on.
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It was so great.
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The man's girlfriend, she's Rip Payton.
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She's super sweet.
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And all those kids, they crack me up.
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Oh gosh.
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I still picture them all so little.
16:30
I know.
16:31
Um, so what else, what else we got going on?
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You want to talk about our books?
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Okay.
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Okay.
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You want the first or you want me to?
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Yeah, so I read What Have You Done by Shari Lapina.
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Okay.
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so I have read books by her before and every book that I've read that she's written.
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I've enjoyed so.
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Sounds familiar.
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When I.
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Saw that if this was out, on audio book.
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I was like, let's do it.
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So I actually was on the waiting list for like five weeks.
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Oh, okay.
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What's it about?
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All right.
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So it's like a, who done it with a twist.
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Okay.
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just right up our alley.
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Yes.
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And I did get the little blurb.
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So I'm just going to go ahead and read that.
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Nothing ever happens in sleepy little fair Hill, Vermont, but this morning that will change.
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And one innocent question could be deadly.
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What have you done?
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The teenagers get.
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Their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard.
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The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school.
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Everyone knows everyone.
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Curtains rarely twitch.
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Front doors are left unlocked, but Diana Brewer isn't lying safely in her bed where she belongs.
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Instead, she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer.
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How quickly a girl becomes a ghost.
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How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces become a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia.
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Someone in Fairhill did this.
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Everyone wants answers.
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So at first I thought I had read it, but after you read the blur, no.
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So what the, the cool part about this is that after, she's found by the farmer Mm-Hmm.
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um, of the field that she's in, she's becomes like a ghost.
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Like she's part of this world as a ghost, almost.
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Okay.
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And so she's wakes up and she is looking down on her body.
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Okay.
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That's a, that's a different twist.
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Yeah.
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So it was a little bit different than than the normal type of thing, and she's trying to remember how she died.
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Okay.
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She can only remember up to a certain point.
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Yeah.
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And then it's going through,, all the different people that could it could be and she's telling, what happened with these people.
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And then it's also telling it from those people's perspectives.
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Okay.
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So it was really cool.
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I liked the whole, like, I liked how it was written.
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It was done really, really well.
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Good.
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I had a big twist at the end.
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Right.
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Just like we like, we like it.
18:38
so I would say like a seven and a half, eight out of 10.
18:41
Okay.
18:42
it was pretty high for me.
18:43
I'll probably read that one because that sounds you get, you got me.
18:46
Yeah.
18:46
And, as the book progresses, it reminded me of Clover almost, like we lock our doors, but but, um, it, it just reminded me of like that super small town vibe.
18:59
And then you're like, this person did what?
19:03
you know, like, oh no, like all the dirty little secrets come out.
19:07
All the skeletons.
19:09
Neat.
19:09
Yeah, it was good.
19:10
Okay.
19:10
That sounds good.
19:11
I'll probably put that one on my list.
19:12
Yeah.
19:12
I read The Wrong Daughter by Dan D.
19:14
Smith.
19:15
You've heard of it?
19:16
Uh uh.
19:16
Um, so here's my blurb.
19:19
The phone starts vibrating in my hand.
19:21
It's my father.
19:22
He never calls.
19:23
Pulse racing.
19:23
I sit up in bed and answer.
19:25
Caitlyn, he said, you have to come to the house.
19:27
Right now, it's Olivia.
19:28
She's back.
19:29
On the night when Caitlyn and Olivia's parents leave them to go to a dinner party, both girls are full of excitement about finally being old enough to stay at home alone.
19:37
What they don't see is the figure watching them through the open window.
19:40
Who, after the girls have fallen asleep, will turn the handle of the unlocked door?
19:44
We just said.
19:45
Unlocked back door.
19:46
When their parents return, they find Olivia's bed empty, their eldest daughter gone, never to return until now.
19:51
But is the woman who claims to be Olivia all she seems?
19:54
The family have dreamed of this moment, but both sisters are keeping more than one secret.
19:57
What price will they pay, if they end up believing the wrong daughter?
20:02
This sounds super familiar.
20:03
It was it was really good.
20:05
Okay, so I thought this was going to be Daughter comes back and it's not that daughter and ta da the end And that's a little bit of the aspect like they go back and forth with with that piece of it But there's so many other Things with it like, her abductor she ends up having some what's it called where you'd like get the pinda on your cat?
20:24
Oh, yeah.
20:25
Um, Stockholm syndrome.
20:26
Yes.
20:27
Yes.
20:27
So she's, she's all into her captor.
20:30
And then, the other sister is engaged and her fiancee plays a part in some of it.
20:35
So, lots of back and forth, lots of characters, but not one of those.
20:40
It's so many characters you get lost.
20:41
Yeah.
20:42
it was really good.
20:42
I'd give it about a seven or eight.
20:45
Unpredictable did not see some of the things come in, some of the twists in it, like I said, I thought it was just going to be like, Oh, that's really not her.
20:51
Let's do a DNA test.
20:52
Ta da, you know?
20:53
and, and they go back and forth with that.
20:56
And you don't really know until the very end of the book, if it's her or not.
21:00
And, um, like I said, other people that are, Brought in that they have kind of wiggled their way in that all of a sudden are in their lives But they played a part from the beginning.
21:11
So lots of twists and turns.
21:13
It was a good one.
21:14
Good We did have two good books.
21:16
Why can't I pick a good one just like on the regular?
21:18
I mean a lot of things are wrong with me.
21:22
But so we had you had actually posted on our socials Uh huh a while back like asking for some book recs.
21:30
Uh huh.
21:30
Like what have you guys read lately and what do you think we should read and where are we at?
21:35
And I have a couple of those and want to see if you've read any of these or if anything sounds really exciting.
21:40
Okay.
21:41
Okay, so we had the Lost Apothecary.
21:45
I read that like a long time ago.
21:47
Do you remember it being good or bad?
21:49
I think it was pretty good.
21:50
Okay.
21:50
so we have that.
21:51
We have the Glass Castle.
21:52
I've never read that one.
21:53
Fourth Wing Iron Flame.
21:56
There's a Ravenhood series, The Inmate.
21:59
I've read that.
22:00
Okay.
22:00
The Housemaid.
22:02
We've heard that.
22:03
Mm hmm.
22:03
Local Woman Missing.
22:05
We read that.
22:06
The Wife Upstairs and Verity.
22:07
We read those.
22:08
So I'm thinking between The Lost Apothecary and The Glass Castle.
22:13
Are any of them readable?
22:14
Listenable.
22:16
Listenable.
22:17
Yes.
22:18
Oh my gosh.
22:19
Is available on Hoopla.
22:21
Hoopla.
22:22
The glass castle is also available.
22:25
Let's get both of them.
22:26
Yeah.
22:26
I was just doing it.
22:28
So next week we'll do the lost apothecary.
22:32
Yes.
22:32
And then the following week after that we'll do the glass Castle.
22:36
Castle.
22:37
Thanks.
22:39
Cool, cool, cool.
22:40
So you said you started watching that TV show that we just talked about.
22:43
What was it called?
22:44
Fire Country.
22:44
How are you liking it?
22:45
I like the storyline.
22:47
Okay.
22:48
So storyline is these dudes are in prison and they're on good behavior so they get to go to basically do like a fire academy thing.
22:55
Of course they're good looking, right?
22:58
Maybe.
22:59
Those bad boys.
23:01
but then of course some of them are, put in prison for they didn't commit things.
23:06
so the one fired dude that you can obviously tell from the very beginning that it's about him.
23:10
He's like, I thought we were going to this town, not here.
23:13
And it ends up being where he's from, of course.
23:15
And his parents are very involved in the community and all these things, you know, all the, the relationships and then his sister that died and then his.
23:24
best friend that's now engaged to somebody like it's pretty so okay.
23:29
The storyline sounds cool, right?
23:30
Like relatively cool It's pretty cheesy.
23:32
Okay Predictable a lot of it.
23:35
but it's something to watch and you can multitask and that's kind of what I like to watch like at night when i'm trying to like I don't want to watch something That doesn't keep my interest, but I don't want to watch something that my brain has to work too hard So it's pretty good.
23:49
I'm like three, four, five episodes in.
23:51
Okay.
23:51
I'd recommend it.
23:52
I have no idea how many episodes or seasons there are, but it's, pretty good.
23:55
Different.
23:56
I like prison stuff.
23:57
We've talked about that.
23:58
Don't want to go there.
23:59
Don't want to be in prison.
24:01
Like to read prison stuff, but talking about, I don't want to work too hard.
24:07
All these TikToks and mama dramas.
24:10
Uh huh.
24:11
I need.
24:12
These people to condense what they're trying to tell me or sum it all up.
24:16
And don't say, see my other comment.
24:17
No, just put it all together for me.
24:19
I'm too lazy, but I want all the tea.
24:22
Yeah.
24:22
Yeah.
24:23
Same.
24:23
and the 7, 000 comments that you have to go share this because it keeps going.
24:29
Oh, and then they make the post off of the comments.
24:32
And then, yeah, then somebody will share it.
24:35
In the same page.
24:36
Yeah, and it's too much.
24:38
I need you guys.
24:39
I don't want it.
24:40
I want all of it.
24:41
But I need y'all to organize it better.
24:44
I know you're going through a lot because you just found your baby daddy in there with his brother, but I need y'all to be a little bit more organized when you're explaining the story.
24:55
Okay.
24:56
Is that too much to ask?
24:58
No, no.
24:58
No, it isn't.
24:59
I want instant gratification.
25:01
Yeah.
25:01
And then some of the details are in like 27 comments down.
25:05
Yeah.
25:05
And then some are in the story and some of the relevant comments.
25:09
Oh, it really wasn't his brother.
25:10
It's his best friend's brother.
25:12
Well on that note, okay.
25:15
Well, I just got done watching.
25:16
Um, apple never falls Oh, and that's on peacock.
25:19
It was a book.
25:21
Yeah, it's only seven episodes Okay, and it's the full thing apple never falls.
25:25
Um, it was good.
25:26
Was it good?
25:26
Yeah, it was good.
25:27
I liked it.
25:28
What's it about?
25:28
It's about, a family that is like the dad and the mom were pro tennis players.
25:33
Okay.
25:33
And then they live in Miami, and have a tennis academy or whatever.
25:38
the parents retired and then the mom goes missing.
25:41
It's like, did the dad do something to the mom?
25:43
Who, you know, like all the, and then they give you all the backstory and everything.
25:46
Oh, I love, I love a backstory.
25:49
And so it gives well, the backstory of like the family dynamics.
25:52
That's what I want.
25:53
And I want everybody's like, don't just tell me all they got married when they were young.
25:57
No, I want to know that they used to date each other's best friends and then they broke up and now they're back together.
26:02
But again, Summarize it all.
26:03
Yeah.
26:04
Yeah.
26:04
Well, I think each episode had a family member.
26:06
Yeah.
26:06
Yeah.
26:07
So, or that backstory and that.
26:10
Yeah.
26:10
it was good.
26:10
I tried to read the book and I think, but probably just cause I wasn't paying attention.
26:14
I was like, ah, and I kind of just yeah, dropped it.
26:16
But yeah, I saw the series and I'm like, I'm going to give it a try.
26:19
And it was good.
26:20
Cause when I read the like synopsis of the book or whatever, I was like, This sounds really interesting.
26:25
Mm hmm.
26:26
I don't know Maybe it was the voice of the writer or whatever.
26:28
I just couldn't do it.
26:29
Yeah, so I was actually excited when they good So I just haven't made time to do it and I've just been up all night.
26:35
So yes But that was really good, so I would definitely recommend that it's and again only seven episodes You don't have to get invested for 15 seasons Right.
26:46
We just watched, Brian and I watched this weekend, the Union movie, Netflix, I think Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry, who is 58 years old and looks like she's 25.
26:57
Gorgeous.
26:58
I swear.
26:59
But, It's funny.
27:00
It's actiony, but it's funny.
27:02
You know how he's, he's always in fighting movies and stuff but they've got great sense of humor in there.
27:08
So I would recommend that one.
27:09
So, Brian, last night, I swear, I wish I could have recorded it, because we were watching, I don't know, It must have been something stupid on TLC.
27:19
Oh! It was a reunion of I don't watch this one.
27:22
Not because I'm too good, but just because I've not had time.
27:26
The the 90 day fiancé stuff.
27:27
Okay.
27:28
And there's the dude that doesn't have the neck.
27:29
Have you seen him?
27:32
Well, we're watching this and there's a commercial for Sister Wives and Brian, have I told you this, that he has like the Sister Wives, like that is his favorite.
27:42
I swear, I swear.
27:43
And he was like, Oh my God, it's coming back September 13th.
27:46
Like he was so freaking excited.
27:49
That just makes me like, he surprises me sometimes.
27:52
Uh huh.
27:52
The things.
27:53
Yeah, I know.
27:54
I know.
27:54
Um, so he was just like, He's so excited that it's coming back soon.
27:59
Yeah.
28:00
well, we were just talking about the prison and the mama drama stuff.
28:04
So did you see where somebody had posted and so Jude was in prison in like Oklahoma, I think, and married the person in the next cell who Is trans.
28:17
Okay.
28:18
And well, they didn't get married married, but common law in Oklahoma.
28:23
There's not like a 7 year like common law thing.
28:25
It's you both proclaim each other like spouses and are living cohabitating as such.
28:31
there's like, no time limit.
28:33
Yeah.
28:33
So he proposed to whatever they like spouses in jail.
28:38
There's the spouses in jail and doing the things in jail and The things?
28:43
The things.
28:44
Okay.
28:45
All the things.
28:48
The one the one person gets moved to a different jail.
28:51
Well the spouse It's like a white dude, and then the trans person was a black dude woman How are they identified?
29:03
so white dude gets out and goes back to his regular life of women.
29:12
Um, and now is engaged to a woman.
29:15
Well, the other.
29:17
Prison person gets out and the whole time has been trying to contact her husband and he's not responding because he's like, that's that's that's a different life.
29:31
Right?
29:31
Right.
29:32
I'm moving on.
29:35
So, the wife in the prison marriage, reaches out and was like, I understand we're done.
29:41
I need you to sign divorce papers because they were technically common law married in prison.
29:48
It was like official, like they, they did the rings, I guess.
29:53
I mean, she's got pictures.
29:54
She's, she has got receipts like rusty.
29:58
So.
29:59
So I'm like, now I'm invested, right?
30:01
Like, yeah, because somebody posted the the Facebook messages, of the new fiance and the old wife and, the details.
30:11
Yeah.
30:11
Lots of, lots of details.
30:13
Like I got the comments, right.
30:14
Cause this is in the mama drama group.
30:15
Oh, it's the best place to be.
30:17
And they link to the original posts and stuff.
30:21
The original post.
30:22
So I go to that page, but then she, the.
30:25
Jail wife had a Facebook life and it was like 30 minutes long.
30:31
And when I, I did, I was invested.
30:35
Was it worth it?
30:36
Oh my God.
30:40
So she pulls out this book and she's like when I die, this is the golden book.
30:44
It had every person that she had canoodled with.
30:48
Yeah.
30:48
Many people that are.
30:52
information people don't want out.
30:54
Yeah.
30:54
Yeah.
30:54
Yeah.
30:54
Yeah.
30:55
I've details of what was done.
30:57
I mean, like she kept records.
31:00
Oh my God.
31:01
And she said, this is like, there's somebody who's gonna like jump you and take that.
31:05
And you think this, this is just the original copy.
31:07
I have got copies on top of the box.
31:11
I've got one that'll be mailed to you.
31:13
I'm like, My goodness.
31:15
That's funny.
31:16
Oh my gosh.
31:17
So she goes in like what the things that were done.
31:23
That's a lot of work for her to write everything down for some, to benefit somebody else.
31:28
since she was like, when I'm dead, this is what's well, no, I think that she was doing that in case.
31:33
She needed, protection or whatever.
31:35
Yeah.
31:36
Who knows?
31:37
She probably need a lot of things.
31:38
Yes.
31:39
Oh my gosh.
31:40
so she's, you know, and heels on, I mean, she looked fabulous.
31:43
Of course.
31:44
And she had like best bubble, but I like, She had a bubble butt.
31:49
Like, really?
31:50
And she did the whole like, oh really?
31:53
Oh, that's, that's funny.
31:54
Yeah.
31:54
So, um, apparently in Oklahoma there is no time limit for a, common law marriage.
31:59
Common law, marriage.
32:00
they both have to acknowledge it and live as spouses.
32:03
Like I think in.
32:04
Pennsylvania you have to live together for like six years.
32:07
It's like that here's like seven years something like that.
32:09
but I was just, I, I was so invested and then I go, what, what?
32:13
Cause I'm like, is that serious?
32:14
Cause I've never heard of that.
32:16
But they technically did live in the same facility.
32:19
Yeah.
32:19
I mean, so they cohabitated.
32:21
Yeah.
32:22
That's crazy.
32:23
That was my husband.
32:25
I was turning down men left and right.
32:28
You, the men I turned down for this white boy.
32:31
Did they show, did they show the Yes, yeah, well, she should the picture from Facebook or whatever, and she didn't have a lot of nice things to say about her.
32:40
And I felt so bad.
32:42
I feel bad for everybody in the situation because dude was just like, okay, well, I've been here for however many years, right?
32:48
I just got to pass the time and he just, and I feel so bad for the new girlfriend because, you know, and she said like, well, he's laughing at you saying that nothing ever happened.
33:01
Well, he doesn't want like he got all his business blasted, but so he went back thinking nobody's going to find out about what happens in prison stays in prison.
33:09
And that is not the way it works.
33:11
And so I feel so bad for her.
33:15
And then I feel bad for the prison wife because he ghosted her.
33:19
She was like, we're married.
33:20
Like, when we get out, we're married.
33:21
And but she was not having that.
33:24
So, that was some good drama.
33:26
Well, that sounds like a good evening to watch the 30 minute live.
33:31
I was like, oh my god.
33:33
Somebody, that I know posted a live, it's been about a month ago, and was like, y'all been wanting the tea?
33:39
Well, here's the tea.
33:40
And they were like, I don't care who you are.
33:43
You just effed up and I'm going to eff you.
33:46
Like, and this was a lady like our age.
33:49
And like, just, but just talking in circles and never said what they did or why or who.
33:53
And I was like, that was a waste of time.
33:57
Like, I'm sorry you're mad at somebody friend, but I need more details.
34:00
So I can really be.
34:01
On your side.
34:02
Yes.
34:03
We were not writing at dawn for that one.
34:04
No, no, it was, it was, remember I was like, I can't believe you're listening to that.
34:08
I was like, I need to know.
34:09
No, this one, I will send you the link.
34:11
It was not a letdown.
34:11
It was not a letdown at all.
34:12
No, it was so good.
34:14
There's, Mommatron has been hot lately.
34:16
There's been a lot on there lately.
34:17
Greasy stuff in there.
34:18
And the pictures that some of these people have, it's your face.
34:23
That mama drama is the wild, wild west.
34:26
I don't comment like, Oh, no, lurker.
34:28
No, same, same, don't come for me.
34:31
I know sensitive.
34:33
These days, I'm sensitive all the time.
34:36
I don't, I'm not making fun of anybody to your face.
34:40
I'm not, I'm not gonna, you know, turn anybody in for anything, but don't just don't come for me.
34:45
I I'm afraid to comment.
34:46
I know I'm just man.
34:48
They are, they are.
34:49
And I don't know how they have the time.
34:51
Like these people that do post these, that have, you know, a thousand responses that they keep responding to.
34:56
I'm like, how do you have time?
34:59
I'd be there all day and night.
35:00
Like, No, I, yeah, I, I love that group that like, I'm like, Oh, no, isn't it a fun one?
35:07
Yeah.
35:08
I go back and forth between that one.
35:10
And then there's one that really makes zero sense for me to be in.
35:14
It's about, dorm rooms and how they're decorated, but I'm very fascinated.
35:18
And I, it's another reason I'm.
35:20
So thankful to have a boy because they pay like professional interior designers to decorate their their yeah Yeah, so I never lived in a dorm Um, Brandon and I have an apartment off campus and so I just get infested in, in seeing like, they're like, yeah.
35:44
Oh.
35:44
And then there's another page I found recently.
35:46
I can't remember what it's called, but it is, where like they price outfits and it's like this one girl basically.
35:52
For a lot of sorority girls, like she'll find their tick tocks and the girl's like, okay, my outfit of the day is I have on this and the girl's like, okay, that's 5, 000.
36:00
That's 6, 000.
36:01
And this outfit is for 72, 000.
36:04
Crazy sorority stuff.
36:07
Oh yeah.
36:07
Like I would, I I'm not a.
36:11
Super girly girl.
36:13
I don't feel like, I can be certain.
36:16
I appreciate some girly, girly stuff, but, uh, yeah, but I'm like a jeans and t shirt flip flop wearing in my younger days.
36:27
I was like the heels in like cute clothes, but yeah, like not anymore.
36:30
But I was never I want to be in a sorority.
36:32
That just was never my vibe.
36:33
I was not the cheerleader.
36:34
I was not, well, I mean, I wanted to go to the parties.
36:38
Yeah.
36:38
But I didn't wanna be in the sororities.
36:40
Right.
36:41
You wanna go to the frat parties?
36:42
Yeah.
36:42
Yeah.
36:43
Some of these though, they're crazy.
36:44
Oh, and a, a thing that's going on a lot right now is that, found this out on that page too.
36:49
I guess the dorm rooms are full at colleges.
36:51
So their kids are having to go to hotels and like live there for the year, but they're not covered.
36:57
So like if their housing was covered.
36:59
Oh their parents trying to pay out of pocket for Oh, I know Hopefully they'll get all that situated in that.
37:06
Maybe that's just a new problem, but that seems to be a trend now, too again, we live like two blocks off of campus and the big Victorian houses and they like make into like different apartments.
37:16
Yeah.
37:17
So we lived there.
37:18
Yeah.
37:19
Oh, gosh, this is awful.
37:21
So I, I don't do little.
37:23
Critters, right?
37:24
Yeah.
37:24
Yeah.
37:24
The whole like, yeah.
37:26
Oh, mice and everything freaks me out.
37:27
Our neighbor kept getting mice, but we hadn't seen any in our place.
37:30
Mm-Hmm.
37:31
So we kept hearing like this and I, oh no, I don't even wanna know.
37:36
I don't wanna know.
37:37
Yeah I was in the shower and Brandon's knocked on the door.
37:39
And I was like, what?
37:40
And he's like, open the door.
37:41
So like, I get out, I wrap a towel around me, I open the door.
37:44
Mm-Hmm.
37:45
A mouse ate its way through all of, like, the saltine crackers, like, a box.
37:51
Went through a tunnel, you know, it ate its way.
37:54
It couldn't get out because it was a little tiny thing and it was so dehydrated.
37:57
So his little body was so tiny because he was so dehydrated.
38:00
And he had this big, big old head with big ears.
38:03
Did it look like Mickey?
38:05
It looked like, um, I don't even know, pinky in the brain, like, but he wasn't white, but like, it was, it was, Just this big old, like head So we lived on the second story, but we had fire steps or whatever.
38:16
Yeah.
38:16
Fire escape kind of thing.
38:17
Yeah.
38:17
Um, so we had steps right outside to, to leave.
38:21
So Brandon just opened the door and like put the box down.
38:23
Well, this mouse takes a running leap off of.
38:27
Look at landing and lands and then goes into a hole in the ground.
38:31
I'm sure it came right back into the house.
38:35
Thought you were gonna say he didn't move.
38:37
No, he took a flying leap when it was fun and went right into a hole and I'm sure right back in the house.
38:42
Wow, I saw the funniest thing today on social media and I think I've seen it before but for some reason today it just really got my Kegelbox.
38:52
I felt myself saying that and then I was like, well, I gotta commit.
38:55
It was, uh, like if animals really looked like what people drew the animals as, and it was like, you know, the, the cows with the straight legs and their heads all crazy.
39:05
It was really funny, but the, the animals looked, I guess they had made them with AI, like they looked real.
39:12
Gigglebox.
39:13
Gigglebox.
39:15
Oh, goodness.
39:16
Do you remember like years ago, um, somebody accidentally texted another person about Thanksgiving?
39:22
Yes! And every year they find out about Thanksgiving.
39:25
I love that story.
39:26
I do too.
39:26
I absolutely love it.
39:27
I want somebody to accidentally text me.
39:30
Anybody?
39:33
So this family was at a carnival or something and was taking a family picture and this kid like photo bomb, perfect photo bomb, like right there, right there.
39:44
And so the dad had posted on social media, anybody that knows this kid, that photo bomb perfectly or family photo, please get us in touch because he is now our family member.
39:54
We want him at every holiday.
39:55
We want him at the birthdays.
39:58
And they got, they got it.
39:59
They found him.
40:00
Yeah.
40:00
It was so sweet.
40:02
I love it.
40:02
I love that story.
40:03
Yeah.
40:04
I would love to have a random, have you ever heard the thing too, about like texting somebody one number off of yours and just seeing if you're no, I would be afraid.
40:12
Like I'd get a serial killer.
40:18
I think I would get somebody that just wasn't fun.
40:22
We went furniture shopping, shortly after we moved here and the, Furniture guy kept texting Brandon like to try to make the sale and so Brandon just started messing with the guy And was like, do you have a futon?
40:33
I like a futon with like, oh, geez I mean, well, how far does it fold out?
40:38
How many people can you fit on?
40:39
Yeah, how many people can lay straight?
40:41
I mean just like the right all like just these questions and I mean it went on for Probably two days.
40:48
This guy was like, I've got to find the dream futon for this dude.
40:52
He did.
40:52
He kept sending pictures.
40:54
Oh my gosh Hopefully Brandon let him down easy.
40:57
I Don't remember how it ended Brandon.
41:00
He probably still has like the whole message somewhere.
41:04
Oh god It was so when Jackson first got his phone He was like in fifth grade and maybe sixth grade.
41:11
Somebody else had the same number before him and they continued to text him.
41:15
And it was like a middle aged man who was, I'm guessing from the text single, because it was a bunch of dudes like, Hey, I'm having a cookout.
41:23
You want to come over?
41:25
And Jackson would respond.
41:27
I had told him, I was like, I don't care if you respond, just don't tell him your name or where you live, you know, anything like that.
41:31
So he'd be like, I, Can't I got a football game and then they'd be like, well, just what are you talking about, man?
41:38
Shut up.
41:39
Come on over.
41:39
And he was like, well, okay.
41:40
Can I bring my dog?
41:41
And like, they're like, what kind of dog do you have now?
41:43
You know, Jackson would just keep on going.
41:45
I'm like, Oh my gosh.
41:46
It made me laugh.
41:48
He was pretty witty with some of it.
41:49
At least it wasn't like, oh, they were doing some scandalous.
41:53
They were not.
41:54
They were not.
41:55
He gets a lot of that on his Twitter.
41:58
Oh, I don't have a Twitter.
42:00
You don't tweet?
42:01
Tweet?
42:02
Tweet.
42:04
I don't know how to speak about it.
42:05
he just does that for, sports profiles and stuff.
42:08
I go in there and I've got access to his and I'll check it.
42:10
And there's always like, Ivana wants to know if you want to meet her.
42:15
And I'm just like, block, block.
42:17
And yeah, right.
42:17
I'm fine.
42:18
She's stupid.
42:20
So.
42:21
I guess, oblivious to things.
42:23
Mm-Hmm.
42:23
that are out there and,'cause I didn't know, I thought like Reddit was just for like, am I the, a-hole?
42:28
like Reddit's everything.
42:30
I know now.
42:31
I now should have warned you.
42:33
Sorry.
42:34
Did you go down a, a No.
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I found out that there's all sorts of things that I don't want to know about.
42:40
No.
42:41
Ever.
42:42
Ever.
42:44
Ever.
42:45
I like my happy bubble.
42:46
I know.
42:47
I know.
42:48
I like Rex's happy bubble.
42:49
So his homie is over here sleeping.
42:51
Yeah.
42:51
Snoring.
42:52
But he was wagging his tail in his sleep.
42:53
I know.
42:54
Does he do that?
42:55
Yes.
42:55
That's just a happy boy.
42:56
Yes.
42:57
And sometimes he, he makes bubble noises.
43:00
The, uh, Louie does.
43:01
Yeah.
43:02
Louie does that too.
43:04
But he sleeps so funny because he sleeps on his paw, like a hand.
43:07
They're so precious.
43:08
Yes, I was like I hear him snoring but I also hear his tail thumping so Yeah, and sometimes like his little paws go.
43:15
Yeah, chasing bunnies.
43:16
That's what I say But yeah his tail wags a lot when he sleeps.
43:19
Oh, that's a good boy.
43:20
Yes.
43:20
He's a good boy.
43:21
so I Did find one.
43:25
Okay that I think is okay.
43:26
I only had one only one update So we're not reading for like six hours.
43:29
Okay, and we're not killing animals I'm gonna be honest when I was listening to the pod I didn't listen to that part.
43:38
So if y'all listen to it, more power to you.
43:40
We were, thank you for, to live it.
43:43
Yeah, we did.
43:44
We did.
43:45
That was devastating.
43:47
So this, yeah, just one, one update.
43:49
Okay.
43:50
We should be good.
43:50
Okay.
43:51
So, am I the a hole for refusing to give my brother 200, 000 from our parents inheritance after he got scammed.
43:58
Okay, so this is From August so just a couple weeks ago.
44:02
Okay, so I, a 34 male, recently inherited 400, 000 from our parents estate after they passed away.
44:09
There was a slight delay in my part in receiving the amount because of some legal complications.
44:13
My younger brother, a 31 male, received the same amount, but just months after their death, he was swindled out of nearly all his life savings by a shady investment scheme.
44:22
Now he's asking me to share 200, 000 of my inheritance for him to help him get back on his feet.
44:27
He argues that our parents would have wanted us to have equal financial standing and that losing his money wasn't his fault.
44:33
Yeah, right.
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And that he'd pay me all back later.
44:36
I feel terrible for him, but I don't think it's fair to give up half my inheritance for a mistake he made, no matter how unfortunate.
44:43
I've been working hard budgeting and Planning to use this money for my family's future.
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If I give him half, it puts my own financial security at risk.
44:51
My wife supports my decision, but some relatives think i'm being greedy and heartless, saying family comes first.
44:57
Am I the a hole?
44:58
Edit.
44:58
Wow, this blew up.
44:59
I didn't think I'd need online strangers to Knox and Simpson to me.
45:02
Also, it's funny how quickly someone can go from calling every hour.
45:06
To a direct block.
45:07
I called my brother, asked him what exactly happened, and told him I'd only give him the money if he told me the truth, and only the truth, and nothing but the truth.
45:15
So help you God.
45:17
He told me he invested in a company called aramaco.
45:19
Obviously not the real one.
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To You put your words in here That I don't know.
45:24
Again, I didn't put the words I didn't get$100,000.
45:30
He invested a CO in a company called Aramco to a Chic and paid him a deposit of.
45:38
10, 000 the first time when he got back 20, 000.
45:43
Then he began scaling up, always got doubled until 100, 000.
45:46
He got back 110, 000 but then was emboldened and invested 300, 000 and was guaranteed 600, 000 and the rest is history.
45:55
He made a police report but had no evidence to share as he withdrew in cash and dealt in cash itself taking only token receipts which were fake.
46:03
He kept the previously gotten amount in cash in his house.
46:07
I only came to know how stupid someone can get.
46:11
Told him his lack of basic common sense and greed does not constitute grounds for charity on my part and told him to take better care of his remaining 100k.
46:19
He cussed me out and told me I disappointed my parents.
46:24
As for my relatives, I told them all in the group chat that I'd only match whatever they would pay to my brother and even offered to double it since I was so greedy and wanted to prove them wrong thanks to a legendary commenter who suggested that.
46:36
I love you.
46:37
I was cussed out there too, lol.
46:39
They're all blocked now.
46:40
They told me the money got into my head.
46:42
Sorry for not replying to the comments.
46:44
I was really weakening my resolve to not pay him and you guys just snapped me back.
46:49
Thank you.
46:50
You all saved me.
46:51
Not the a hole.
46:52
No.
46:53
Brother's dummy., So you, you have a sibling.
46:55
I do.
46:56
And I've got siblings.
46:58
So what would you do in this situation?
47:00
Well, I think it's kind of crazy to plan your future on a potential inheritance.
47:07
First of all, I don't understand this whole, bamboozled thing with this.
47:11
Yeah.
47:12
Because.
47:14
He's taking everything out in cash.
47:15
is it just a, where did the dude go?
47:17
If it was a local dude, like, I don't understand the.
47:19
Right.
47:20
yeah, I don't understand that either.
47:21
So when my mom passed, she was not a wealthy lady and, there was very minimal amount of money left that we, my sister and I have split down the middle, I mean, very little, not over a thousand dollars total.
47:34
In my mind, I'm like, well, I broke even her everything.
47:37
Her service was paid for.
47:38
Everything was her house was paid for, you know, I'm talking about like cash, but I'm not like, you know, um, assets, yeah, we just put it right in the middle.
47:46
So I guess I can't, and maybe it's because I don't think, but they can split split it right down the middle.
47:51
They did split down the middle.
47:52
So this was just an idiot.
47:53
I don't, yeah, but here's the other thing, right?
47:54
He should still have a hundred K because Yeah, the, well, he started with a hundred K, so he should still at least have what you started with.
48:03
Well, so he started with a hundred k mm-Hmm.
48:05
but then the last investment was 300 K.
48:08
So he already got back 110 from the a hundred K, right?
48:11
Yeah.
48:12
If he started with 400, so he's at like 410 in my head.
48:17
Yeah.
48:18
I'm not good at math, so I could be messing this all up, but where's the last hundred thousand dollars?
48:23
Right.
48:24
Did he just blow through that?
48:25
Like the dude doesn't sound like he's very good at money.
48:27
Well, and he only invested a hundred K.
48:30
So technically he still should have 300.
48:32
Well, no, because then he was emboldened and invested 300, 000 because he was guaranteed 600.
48:38
So he, he gave you 300, 000.
48:40
But he always scaled up.
48:42
So he started with 20.
48:43
Yeah.
48:43
Then like 20, then 40, 60, 80, and then he got to 100.
48:46
Right.
48:47
And he got back 110 and then was emboldened to invest 300, 000.
48:51
I feel like I need to write it on paper.
48:54
I'm not good at nothing.
48:54
But that is, to me, he should still have 100, 000.
48:58
I don't know where that last 100, 000 went.
48:59
Right.
48:59
He should have more money than this.
49:01
So where's the extra money?
49:04
Maybe in the update it'll tell us.
49:05
Hold on.
49:05
Oh, yeah.
49:07
We're over here mathing and okay, so update He called again.
49:10
So after blocking my brother and pesky relatives thinking the drama was over.
49:15
That's right Okay, he found another way to get me He called through my wife turns out things are even worse than he originally told me that 100k he had left Oh, that's all going towards paying off loans and a car.
49:27
He financed.
49:28
I'm proud of you So he's basically left with nothing.
49:31
He finally admitted How desperate he is.
49:33
Apologize for not being fully honest and being a douche and cussing me off.
49:37
He said he realizes he messed up big time.
49:39
Greed got the better of him.
49:41
And now he's asking for 50k instead of 200.
49:43
Promising to pay me back eventually.
49:45
He even said he'd appreciate whatever help I could offer if I couldn't give the full amount.
49:49
Yes, I asked him about the previous increments he received.
49:53
Turns out he actually invested 350k.
49:56
The desperation in his voice was paid off.
49:58
palpable.
49:59
But honestly, I'm done with him.
50:01
He wasn't always this reckless or stupid.
50:03
Maybe I was wrong.
50:04
But the guy I'm dealing with now is a complete mess.
50:07
Thanks to you all who made me see that.
50:10
His greed and lack of financial knowledge are his own doing and I'm not about to bail him out.
50:14
Lastly, thank you to all of you who took time to help me realize the massive blunder I was about to commit.
50:19
You guys saved my finances, quite possibly my life.
50:21
I'm grateful to all of you.
50:22
That's a lot of money.
50:24
I knew there was money missing.
50:25
Yes.
50:26
You knew it.
50:27
You knew it.
50:28
I don't think he's a, though.
50:30
I don't think so either.
50:31
I would, I don't know what I would do.
50:34
Because you have to also consider your spouse and your family and all that stuff.
50:39
Mm-Hmm.
50:40
and it's not like this guy is good with money.
50:41
Yep.
50:42
I would probably lend my sibling, if I had that much money.
50:45
'cause I don't.
50:45
Right.
50:46
I would probably like lend them enough to get out of like maybe pay off their car.
50:50
Yeah.
50:50
Or like pay off something.
50:51
Mm-Hmm.
50:52
Yeah, but I don't I would definitely not do like the 200, 000 right or even like the 50, 000 I think Like I mean, I would you know, yeah get him out of like immediate trouble, right?
51:01
But I don't think I would like But that's almost like enabling too though Yeah, well, it sounds like there's more going on because he says that he's a mess and it makes me think okay What's he and what's he doing that?
51:16
He's such a mess.
51:17
Is there?
51:18
substance abuse involved or, you know, whatever else.
51:20
So it sounds like he's just in a bad spot.
51:24
Yeah.
51:24
For a lot of reasons.
51:25
Well, thanks for listening.
51:27
We're still here.
51:28
Oh, so, I think that we are going to, become like legit official.
51:34
Okay, I'll tell me all about it.
51:36
Well in order to make any money we have to have an LLC Oh, we do.
51:40
We have to have a business.
51:42
So, okay, I think we're gonna become legit in the next couple weeks.
51:46
Okay, and then we can sell merch and stuff.
51:48
Okay.
51:48
So, but yeah, we can be legit and then we can do like, fun stuff.
51:52
Life's too short for a bad book.
51:53
Yeah.
51:54
And like, You know, really sarcastic.
51:57
What are you going to name it?
51:59
this is my circus.
52:00
That's a great idea.
52:01
That's a great idea.
52:04
Okay.
52:05
So.
52:06
Let's do it.
52:08
Let's do it.
52:09
Yeah.
52:10
So that's coming up.
52:11
We're going to be official.
52:12
we have, I have gotten several people say that they don't necessarily listen to the podcast, but they love our videos.
52:18
Yeah, so I think that we might also start that soon, offering, for a small, like monthly fee just for hosting the video platform.
52:26
They can watch our full videos Yeah, our video like took all this stuff Like you would you don't know what you're missing by not seeing us do thumbs up for 45 seconds.
52:37
Well, I mean So we can do two different options We can do like the edited one that we actually put on the air like yeah for the podcast and then they can have like the full blown like all of our Bloopers.
52:46
Bloopers.
52:47
Which, there's so many.
52:48
Like, seriously, we've been recording for an hour and 10 minutes and this is probably gonna be, what, 30 minutes?
52:54
Like, maybe 42, I don't know, but we have recorded for like 2 plus hours before and I had to cut it down to an hour and 10 minutes.
53:02
We just get going.
53:03
We do.
53:04
We just get going.
53:05
That's exciting.
53:06
It's very exciting.
53:07
I'm excited now.
53:08
I was feeling all bled now.
53:09
I'm like, yeah.
53:11
Thank you for being the brains.
53:13
And the beauty and the everything else, and I'm here to do the other stuff.
53:23
I love doing this though.
53:24
I really do.
53:25
I do too.
53:25
Oh, again, I get it's like, it's hard.
53:29
Yeah, totally.
53:30
It's like the, the light heartedness that I need out of my week.
53:34
Yes.
53:35
And it's.
53:36
A good way for us to specifically carve out time to have an adult conversation.
53:40
I forget we're recording most of the time.
53:42
So do I.
53:43
Yeah, which is, which is why we say stupid stuff so much.
53:47
And then I'm like, we didn't mean to cut that out.
53:48
Yeah.
53:50
Oh, and then you guys would also be able to see our pre recording.
53:53
Like when we hit record and then we just get off on a tangent.
53:56
Oof.
53:57
Some of that stuff is.
53:58
Oh, you don't need to put all that out there.
54:00
But I mean, like, some of it is just, it's like, it's real life.
54:02
It's us.
54:03
Yeah.
54:04
Oh, which we really put on air.
54:06
So.
54:06
We're really fancy.
54:07
Cool.
54:08
Yeah, we appreciate y'all.
54:09
thank you guys for listening.
54:10
please like, subscribe, leave us a review and like us on all the socials.
54:15
Tell a friend or two or six.
54:18
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54:20
If you leave us a review, hopefully gas goes down soon.
54:22
Cause you do this.
54:24
I've been on empty for like three days, like I just, I hate going to the, I hate paying for gas.
54:28
Oh, we're not doing any politics stuff though with the election coming up, like we might be like somebody won or somebody lost, but that's it, right?
54:35
We don't do politics.
54:36
No.
54:37
Okay, so if that's what you're here for, you're in the wrong place.
54:41
You can come here for the mama drama.
54:42
Yes, you can come here for the mama drama, you can come here for, um.
54:45
A book review.
54:46
I am out of the a hole in the book reviews, which are.
54:50
fire.
54:50
You can come here to hear Rex snore.
54:52
Yes.
54:53
but we don't do anything like super serious.
54:55
like I said to Dylan, we don't talk to people about politics, religion, or Santa Claus.
55:02
Yeah.
55:03
That's my life lesson.
55:04
That's, that's a good life lesson.
55:06
Those are the things we, we keep to ourselves.
55:08
Yes.
55:09
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55:10
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