Episode 69: Wedding Chaos, True Crime, Mermaid Conspiracies? Book Review: The House Across The Lake🎙️

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Buckle up, because this episode is a wild ride! Stefanie and Meredith dive into:

🔥 Wedding Chaos & Time Change Struggles – Destination weddings sound magical… until you’re coordinating five people, missing hair appointments, and losing an hour of sleep. 🚗💨

🌊 Spring Break Gone Wrong – The mysterious disappearance of  20-year-old student, Sudiksha Konanki, in Punta Cana raises true crime alarms. What REALLY happened? 🚨🔎

🧜‍♀️ Mermaid-Eating Parties?! – TikTok conspiracy or real-life horror? The elite are allegedly dining on mermaids hibachi-style for immortality. Is this the wildest theory yet? 🐠🔪

📚 Book Club: The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager – A thrilling mix of mystery, supernatural twists, and a shocking serial killer revelation. Did we see it coming? Nope. 📖😱

🚔 9-1-1 Drama – A four-year-old calls the cops… on his mom… for eating his ice cream. Officers responded in the BEST way. 🍦😂

And, of course, the 8 part jaw-dropping Am I the A-Hole? featuring an epic legal battle, family betrayal, and one best friend who is ready to expose the truth. Parts 1-3. Next week we will continue with the remaining updates! 

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Welcome to, this is my circus, the podcast where we embrace the chaos and keep it real about parenting, pop culture, true crime, and the books we can't put down because let's be honest, life is one big circus and we're just trying to survive with caffeine, sarcasm, and a little true crime obsession. So if you love unfiltered conversation, questionable parenting hacks, and deep dives into the things that keep us up at night, you're in the right place. Buckle up, grab your popcorn, and let's get into the chaos. Hi Stephanie. I'm Meredith, and welcome to, this is my circus. What's up? Oh, Lord have mercy. I'm just like, I cannot get with it. When I said last week, I'm a hot mess. It is a thousand percent accurate. You know, the time change. Mm-hmm. Always gets me. Yeah. It always kicks my butt. I saw, um, and I believe he felt him too. It's a talker. Um, and he is like a pre-K teacher. Mm-hmm. And he said that. This week it was the time change. Mm-hmm. Which like is horrible for all students. Mm-hmm. But then I think he said it was also like a full moon this week or something. Oh my gosh. And he said that it was going to be a miserable week at school. I'm sure. Just thinking about us losing an hour sleep makes me feel exhausted. I don't sleep as it is. Right. I'll hear Rex sleeping and snoring during the day and it just makes me so sleepy just to know he's so just like, just the sound of it. Like lulls me. Do you nap? No. Have you ever napped? I have never been a napper. Yeah. only when I'm like really sick. Yeah. Or if. I it was completely, completely drained. Drained, yeah. Well, the wedding was this weekend for my nephew, which was amazing. It was so much fun. But then, so that went late into Saturday night, and then to lose an hour of sleep that night, the next morning we woke up, we set our alarms for nine. Mm-hmm. So we could leave and be out, you know, by the 10 and do all the things. I could have slept like three more hours at least. You looked stunning. Thank you. In that dress. Thank you. You looked so good. I had a little bit of a breakdown. Oh, so it was a destination wedding. Uhhuh and, great location. The venue was beautiful. It was in Hilton Head in Bluffton, South Carolina. It was great. but you know, when you have a destination wedding like that. And you've got people that have flown in or people that have ridden together, and then the activities they're in are separate. Trying to coordinate all the places to be everywhere. That was such a nightmare. Yeah we tried to make it not be a nightmare'cause we didn't wanna stress the bride and groom out. But, some of that's our own fault. We should have really focused in on who needed to be where, because, the wedding was Saturday. On Friday. They had like the practice rehearsal in the morning and then in the afternoon there the girls were gonna do brunch and stuff or whatever meal it is. And then the boys were going to do some boy things. And just the vehicle thing, figuring out who was where was a bit of a mess. But my breakdown came on Sunday because. Brian and I had Jackson. And Anthony. Anthony went, was Jackson's plus one. Anthony. Anthony, sorry. And then my niece's boyfriend had flown in and he was with us too. So we had five in our vehicle. Well, I. My sister and my niece, she was the mother of the groom, and then my niece was a bridesmaid. She was in the wedding, so she had to be there at like eight. My sister had to be there at like 10. Well, that left the five of us getting there. Like right at the time, Jackson wasn't ushered that he needed to be there, which was fine, but I also supposed to go and get my hair done by them. Mm-hmm. I had no way to get there. And I looked up the Ubers. It just, it was a mess. It was a bit of a mess. But our own fault, just a long way to say just if you're doing a destination wedding or going, just plan everything out to the tea. If you can. Yeah. I'm like such like a not planner. I know. And I am the biggest like wing it. Yeah. Well, Poseys that way. Mm-hmm. And she'll tell you she's that way. But it got to that point that like the day before. I don't remember before one of the days'cause she and I were also decorating and setting up for the rehearsal dinner the night before. So it was like, okay, get a piece of paper and we need to write who needs to be where, when and what time we're leaving because the other piece was we were staying on Hilton Head and some of it book was like 30 minutes away in Bluffton, so you had to account for that stuff too. Mm-hmm. And then in the wedding, actually, like the wedding was over. We were sitting at dinner and it was like the cocktail hour kind of waiting for things to the, the dance floor to get Liddy and all those things. And I was like, you need to check and see what time we need to check out tomorrow while we're sitting here doing nothing because you're gonna forget. And that's okay Uhhuh, but let's go ahead and get some ideas. So just. Yeah, it would've been better if we'd have had a little more organization, but it's my own fault. But it was so much fun. Yeah. You looked amazing. Thank you. You're, thank you. Everybody did. But yeah, thank you so much. In that dress, did you like machine dress? Mm-hmm. It was such a, it was so comfortable. You looked so good. Thank you. I should have worn it today. You should have, we we're gonna have a fancy day. Okay. That sounds good. When you wear your crown, when you get the job. Yes. When I get that job. Yeah, I'm glad it's over because stuff like that is a lot when you are one of the main ones that are doing all the things. It's not like one little piece. It's, you know, yeah. Um, I started the Soul Train at my sister's wedding. Did you, what was your, what's your go-to move? Um, just a little booty shake. Yeah. I just kind of wheeled. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, I mean, it was epic. My new niece. My niece, Brooke. She graduated from USC. Mm-hmm. so she's a gamecock. So, and a lot of her bridesmaids and other people that were there did also, of course, that's where a lot of her friends are. And, they had two walls set up. The reception was outside, so it was like little, I don't know, whatever, but there were pompoms hanging on each one. And they had your name on'em. Mm-hmm. And on the back of them, it told you what table you were sitting at. But then when Brooke and Jordan walked in, like they did the Gamecock is Sandstorm the song. Mm-hmm. And everybody was doing like they do for football games and had the pompoms, and then when they left, everybody was doing the pom-poms too. And doing like, there were two lines and they started just yelling, like go. Um. Cox, I could tell you. Did not wanna say, I did not wanna say it. And I don't know how people say it with a straight face. Maybe I'm just a dirty, dirty girl. But, um, it was just, it was really fun. Your face was like, I can't do it. I, I can't, I didn't wanna say it. I was like, how can I say it? But here we go. So, but it was a good time. Mm-hmm. It was a, a very good time. Glad, glad. It's in the past. They're in St. Lucia now enjoying themselves and they went on a helicopter ride this morning. I saw on Snap. what have you been up to? Nothing. We didn't need any backup. That was good. You know, sometimes when you have a lot of family members, things can get outta hand. but we all behave nicely. Did I, tell you, so at my my sister Jackie's wedding mm-hmm. All of the friends were there, whatever. And I didn't know a lot of my brother's friends that are also friends with my sister, they were all there. I don't know what happened, but somehow my brother, they, they were all drinking. And my brother got, I don't know if he got smacked in the face or what by this dude. Me not knowing this guy. Right. And I'm what, five, two and a half. Right. 30 declared that. Right. And this dude's like six foot something. Mm-hmm. And I went up to him and I'm like, you lay a mother fing hand on my brother. And he's like, you must be the little sister. What made you say that? I'm like. Yeah. So we get crazier as they go down the line. Mm-hmm. So with the oldest and youngest and the size. Yeah. Yeah. The same. I am the shortest. Are you, do y'all also kind of go like that? No, actually Carrie is the oldest and, and then my brother's like six. Okay. But, or six one. Okay. and then Jackie's just a little bit taller than I am. Yeah. And then there's, then there's, there's my pocket person. my sister's older and she's. Shorter than me. Mm-hmm. She's like five four, I think. I don't know. Who knows? Speaking of hitting in the head, did you see the track? Did you see the track of meet where they had the baton and the one girl hit the other girl in the back of the head and cracked her skull? Yeah. And then did you see her news? She said it was an accident? Yes. And that she hit her in the head before? I didn't see that part, but it definitely was not an A cadet. It was, she's got a, a crack skull and a concussion. Oh my goodness gracious. I don't care what you're doing. Like this is the movement that you do. Right. It's not like, even if you're falling, okay, I have a lot of experience with this. Even if you're flailing around, you're gonna slow down and not go so fast and fall to the floor and not hit them in that. Mm-hmm. Because yeah, she was a hot mess liar. She was a big old, big old, allegedly. Alleged liar. Yes. Oh, speaking of vacations, did you hear about that? girl that's missing in Punana? No. So she is a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student. Okay. Her name I, I'm gonna not say this right. Okay. So do not come for me, ska. Kki. I don't see how that could be wrong, but she's 20 years old. she went on spring break to Ana authorities believe she disappeared after going for a swim early Thursday morning. Her clothes were found on a portable beach bed near where she was last seen. Mm-hmm. But. Her and a group of her friends had gone to a nightclub before heading to the beach around 4:00 AM while her friends returned to their hotel around 6:00 AM she stayed behind with a man. According to the police report, the man claimed that they went for a swim and got caught by a strong wave. Security showed him returning to his hotel at 10:00 AM so. If they got caught by a strong wave, why didn't he report it? Right? This is a whole nother Aruba situation. Yeah. Is that how I feel like that's the vibe I'm getting. There's too much that's not adding up and shady dirty. Yeah. So, and like when did they find the clothes? Because the first day of the girl missing. Yep. They didn't find those clothes. Right. When was this? This happened last Thursday. Okay. So hopefully, They can find her. Right now, they can't find any signs of foul play and they're like searching the ocean and searching areas, but her dad is like, why aren't they searching this guy, or you know, like mm-hmm. Is this like human trafficking? Is it, mm-hmm. Right. Whatever. Right. the dad is quite upset. He's in Punana now with the authorities. Yeah. So Is that Mexico? No, Dominican Republic. Okay. That's right. Thank you. So, prayers to her. Prayers to, yeah. All involved and I as a parent, ugh. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So on a lighter note, yeah. Have you heard about the mermaid eating parties? What? The mermaid eating parties? No. Okay. So apparently the elite. Eating mermaids. Is this cannibalism or is this seafood? I, I'm a little confused. Me too. Okay. So are we saying mermaids are real? this is what TikTok is saying. Okay. so TikTok is saying that the latest viral conspiracy theory involves mermaid eating parties, where ultra wealthy elites allegedly dine on mermaids in secret gatherings. This rumor started because a person on TikTok, at j Lee 2.07 shared a story about an excon fisherman, excon, right? Landon, who unknowingly joined a fishing crew that was supposedly hunting mermaids for high paying clients. Okay, so the story describes mermaids as having human-like torsos with shimmering scales and marble like flesh. Allegedly, these creatures were taken to high ends secret restaurants where that elite ded on them. In a hibachi style experience, the theory escalated with claims of Second Mermaid who fought back, scratched a crew member, and even displayed regenerative abilities. So who knows? There was another person that said that they got invited to the whatever party at a elite party. Mm-hmm. And when they brought out the main dish, it was, they took off this whole, like thing off of the main dish. Mm-hmm. It was like a, A blanket or like a Okay. Yeah. With a tablecloth or something. Yeah. They tied out it. Yeah. And it was a. Mermaid who was unlived and prepared and they were sectioning off pieces of said mermaid. Yes. so the dude like freaked out and was like, according to this TikTok story mm-hmm. Was like, Nope. Uhuh like, get me outta here. So he was gets up and they're all like, what the heck? This is like the best thing you'll ever eat. And I guess also old timey stories say that if you eat mermaids, it gives you longevity and oh, okay. Reduces aging and mm-hmm. All the things immortal. It's like killing a unicorn. Yeah. So this dude tries to leave and he find ends up in the kitchen, trying to get out and there is a tank with the mermaids in it. And some of'em looked like they were drugged. Some of them looked a little like not as drugged. Yeah. Some were a little more coherent, active, but he took off. Oh my goodness. Oh, then the owner of the house came and was like, what the heck? And he's like, remember you signed an NDA and even if you did tell who's gonna believe you. I kind of do. Yeah. So one, you have to believe that mermaids are real and I kind of do like, there's like some weird things in the ocean. Yeah. The ocean is way too big. Yeah. And way too deep. And we've talked about before, like things that we believe in that a lot of people Yeah. I believe in all the things. Yeah. So I mean the ocean, some of the creatures in the ocean, like the thing with the light on it and from. Well, there's real ones too, you know? Yeah. But all those things that are just very strange. I. I definitely believe that that could be, be a real thing. I don't think they're beautiful like Ariel. I think they're more like have you ever seen those videos from, Haiti and Jamaica where they wash up on the beach? No. people are telling, and they could totally be lying. I don't know. But I'm so global with this stuff. I wanna believe it. Like, I wanna believe that they're real. I wanna believe that all the kids are like magical. Mm-hmm. And happy. But those. Whatever these people are saying, real life encounters, oh, now real life encounters. Not like my grandfather's best friend's. Right. Brother on a boat. People are actually encountering these things, but it's at like two o'clock in the morning. It's like super late at night that they, I guess, appear close enough where mm-hmm. Somebody would encounter it. I'm fascinated. I am too. I'm fascinated, yeah. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows. But when there's that many people from specific places that remember things, it's like, yeah. It's kinda like the Mandela Effect. Mm-hmm. You've heard of that? Mm-hmm. So for those that don't know, because I'm newly fascinated with this, it is a phenomenon where a group of people. Believe they remember something the same, but in reality it did not happen. Yeah. For instance, was it the Sinbad movie or the Shazam movie? One of those two movies never happened, right? Like I can vividly remember, let me see which one it was and the Fruit of the Loom. did it have the cornucopia or did it not? Right. Now the latest one,'cause I just saw it on Candace, Pikachu Chill. They're now saying he doesn't have the black suit on the, on it, the black on it. Mm-hmm. So there was a movie, Back in the day that a lot of people believe where Sinbad was a genie. Mm-hmm. Called Shazam. Yeah. I don't remember seeing it, but I, I can almost picture either like the poster or like the VHS cover. Yeah. That never existed. I know. I bet you there's somebody out there that has it. I know. There's got to be. Yeah. And like you said, the fruit of the loom one is really weird. And then like the spellings on things that have changed. Somebody just said that they changed one of the cars movie songs now. It used to say like one thing, but now it says Bud Light like a beer name. Yeah. Instead of whatever, whatever it was. I don't remember that one. If it's new, um, it's like the mirror. Mirror on the wall. That's what I remember. But it's supposed to be magic mirror on the wall. Yeah, no, I know. It was mirror. Mirror, yes. So I am fascinated with this and have just been going through reading and listening to podcasts about it. And there's some theories on what it is. One of them is time travel. There's some time travel going on where people are messing with it the past. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep. Um, so what happens, okay. In, in that instance, right? Okay. So, so somebody does time travel and say, I have the, the Simba v Hs. Mm-hmm. Does that just disappear? I think so. Kind of like back to the future, you know, where he just, how do you remember it? Maybe some people like the power suggestion. Mental, like you can make the stuff disappear, but they're so sharp minded. They still remember it. I think it's like a government something or other, like they try to Yeah, it's like a test to see how we are. I'm also, I, I'm not, you know, that feeling too when you walk into a room and you can't remember what you're doing there. So you turn around and leave and you walk back and you remember. Mm-hmm. That's part of the conspiracy too, of like time travel. Your body hasn't caught up. Kind of what, what your mind was thinking. Mm-hmm. I'm just utterly fascinated with it though. A lot of it's the power suggestion to just people saying that we're gonna have to do a, after hours. We'll, definitely whole episode. Throw it in there somewhere. It is just. Utterly fascinating to me that that many people can believe things. And most of them that I've read, I'm like, yes, I remember it. The old, you know, the wrong way. So yeah, we'll definitely have to throw some of that in in an after, in a circus after dark EP or something. Did you hear about this murder in Florida with this 16-year-old girl? Miranda Corset. Mm-hmm. Oh, this is like heartbreaking. Okay. And this is again, if we have any young listeners, be careful who you're talking to on the internet. Mm-hmm. Like, this is terrible stuff. Yeah. Florida authorities have arrested a couple in connection with the brutal murder of a 16-year-old Miranda corset, A case that started with social media interaction and ended in tragedy. Miranda met 30 5-year-old Steven Gress online and visited him on February 14th, Valentine's Day, so right there, super creepy, right? Mm-hmm. Like something not good. She went home that night, but returned the next day. Staying with him and his partner, 37-year-old Michelle Brands. Sometime between February 20th and the 24th a dispute turned deadly. Authorities believe Miranda was murdered, dismembered, and her remains discarded in a dumpster in Hillsborough County. Police are still searching for her body. Gress was already in jail. On unrelated charges. Get this including threatening his partner with a harpoon. Yeah. Bran has since turned herself in, and both are now facing first degree murder charges. This case is terrifying. Reminder of the dangers lurking on social media, so, wow. Yeah. 16 years old? Another news article I saw said that, they thought she stole a piece of jewelry mm-hmm. And then started torturing her to get the jewelry back. Mm-hmm. But that's not confirmed. Yeah. But, just make sure that you are vigilant and know. Who you're talking to. If you're talking to somebody, don't go meet somebody. Mm-hmm. They're 37 and they're talking to a 16-year-old, nothing good's gonna come from that. Right. So, right. Let's not do that. No, that's terrible. It's disgusting. Oh, that, I mean, yeah. It's, it's all of those bad, bad things. I just. Hate that. Do we need a pallet cleanser? Yeah, I think so. There was a 4-year-old that called 9 1 1 to have his mom arrested. Okay. Sounds like this legit could have happened in my house. Yeah. So this is to be one of the funniest 9 1 1 calls. Okay. Ever. A 4-year-old in Wisconsin took justice into his own hands after his mom dared to eat his ice cream and he called the cops on her. Last Tuesday in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, police received a nine one one call from a young boy reporting that his mom was being bad and needed to go to jail. The crime she ate his ice cream, I mean., Four year olds. I mean, that is a pretty big crime. That's a pretty, that's a terrible offense to a little kid. You know what? It's a little bit of a terrible offense for me too. Same, same. Do you know I go crazy. Brian will eat my leftovers. Uhhuh all the freaking time. And I'll tell him you can have it. Can have, you can have that. But if I don't tell him, and he's gotten a lot better. Oh, I would flip my lid on him. So I can only imagine. I got chicken wings yesterday. Mm-hmm. And I had the leftovers in the fridge. And at like 1230 last night, Dylan text me, he's like, mom, can I have, have a chicken wing? Mm-hmm. And I'm thinking like one, I'm like, yeah, go ahead. So I wake up and I'm like, Ooh, some spicy chicken wing. Mm-hmm. And he ate all of them. Oh. Nothing but bones. And I was like, I. How did one chicken wing go to Olive? Mm-hmm. And he's like, oh my bad. I was hungry. Oh, well. So, oh well. Cops 9 1 1. Yeah. Um, all right, when officers arrived, the little guy stuck to his story at first, but then quickly changed his mind saying he no longer wanted her arrested. He just wanted more ice cream. Same, same Z. The officers being good sports, made sure all always well and left, but the best part, they came back the next day to surprise him with ice cream of his own. Isn't that so sweet? Mm-hmm. It was two female officers. I feel like that, could solve a lot of problems. Like, I don't want them arrested. I just want my ice cream. Mm-hmm. Can you bring me ice cream? Yeah. Bring me ice cream and we'll just call it even. It says the internet had a field day with this one. One person commented, I'm not saying he is right, but I understand. Yeah. Another pointed out. At least he knows how to call for help. Could save a life one day. But like good job for the police. Oh yeah. They get a bad rep, so I'm glad that they wait. Is it bad rep or bad rap? Rap, but I thought it was rep, like a reputation. I don't know. I was hear, I always think rap. I hear I do too. But Mandela effect, police officers get a lot of bad whatever mm-hmm. Press. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So that always makes me happy when there's something good to share. Something. Wanna go into, am I the No, I can go to the am I the, am I the thing. Okay, so this was a very long update one. Okay. There's eight parts. So I think we can probably do a couple today and then we'll do the rest of the updates next week. I like it. Okay. but I personally wanna know the updates today.'cause I'm nosy. Well, I'll give you the blank. I'll be surprised with all the rest of our fans. Yes. Okay. Oh, this is a Would I be, yes. Is what I'm assuming it is. Mm-hmm. Okay. Would I be the AOL for ruining someone's reputation after she tried to steal my best friend's inheritance? I gay. 57 male. Have known my best friend, Harry Gay, 64 male for 40 years. He is disabled and his health is deteriorating, but still manages to work from home at a minimum wage job. His partner Nathan Male 58, works 30 hours per week so he can spend a little extra time taking care of household chores and caring for my friend. We all live in an outrageously expensive city, so the best apartment they can afford to rent a small and a bit of a dump. Our friends parents both died within the last two years, and he's been desperately looking forward to the inheritance he's about to get. All the ice cream. Sorry, that wasn insensitive. I was just thinking like, dang. He's like wishing them. Yeah. Well, I mean he, they're 60. They were in their eighties. I understand. I'm just saying like, I don't know why I'm defending him for trying to get his money, but here we are. That combined with his retirement savings next year will be enough for him to purchase a moderately decent apartment out in the suburbs. He can spend his retirement years, probably not many left. Last week, his two older sisters, Mary 69, and Rachel 67, came to visit him. Rachel is fairly known as a prominent figure in the environmental movement, a great reputation as a tree hugging hippie who's been arrested numerous times for her activism, a very peace, love, hugs, and rainbows kind of woman. Anyway, when they turned up, he thought it would be with notice of his. NT inheritance money? Well, it was, but not in the way he expected. They jointly told him that. They decided that all the family money would go to Rachel and her three children. He wasn't sure if they were joking, but still gave them, uh, what the actual f. Face apparently because it was family money and is neither nor he nor Mary had children. Then to ensure the money stayed in the family, it should just be passed onto the next generation. He was absolutely shocked and said it wasn't family money, it was his money, and that he did have family. His partner of 20 years, Nathan stuff got even worse when they said. Yeah, but he's Asian, and when you die, he'll just go back to Asia and spend the money on his family. Remember, this is our family money. I'm getting mad for this dude. Uhhuh my best friend then. Rather sharply pointed out the concepts of racism, homophobia, and the law. They got crappy because he wasn't being reasonable and respectful, but he bluntly said he would sue their butts off if they failed to give him even 1 cent short of his third of the money. At that point, they parted on rather bad terms. So this is where I come into it. I may hurt me and you're looking for trouble. Hurt my best friend and I'll burn your whole world to the ground kind of guy. It's been almost two weeks, and while he's simply refusing to speak to her. I'm still absolutely raging that Rachel is now going back to her life and to the political community without anyone knowing what a total beast she tried to be on my friend. I believe her outrageous behind the scenes politics should be publicly known, easily done by messaging her 356. It's really not that many. No Facebook friends. To me, that would be true justice for her entitlement, racism and homophobia. Would it be overkill though? But if you made a post, you don't think that as quickly as drama spreads on Facebook And Facebook? Yeah, all it would be all over. It would and screenshot it. Okay. Edit. There's an law firm that I've already approached about doing pro bono work for him. Cool. He's not the a-hole and no, Good level of petty. Mm-hmm. I take it, go for it. Do it. Yeah, do it. Do it. But they didn't get the money right. They just w were racist. They just a-holes about it. They went to him and said that We're keeping your money. Yeah. But they didn't. Well, we don't know yet. Okay. He's saying, you're right. You're right, you're right. Okay. So. Yep. This was November 5th, last November. Okay. Number one, Mary, that was one of his sisters, right? Uhhuh has switched sides and now supports Harry because she heard that the law isn't Uhhuh. As Mary doesn't have children. She has always doted on Rachel's, her nephews and nieces. She's supported them financially, giving them great gifts and even taken them to Europe on vacations. She says that while she did go to his house and persuade him to pass the money on to the children, given that Harry doesn't have. Kids, he would see reason that it was the right thing to do. She had zero idea that Rachel would go down the give the money to me because you don't have family and Nathan doesn't count because he's Asian Road. I don't think any of us saw that road coming. Buddy Mary was horrified, but as she hate, hold on. If she was so horrified, why didn't she step in in that moment? Like she was not horrified. She's horrified that that stuff's gonna come out. Yeah, that probably that's self-preservation probably. That's probably, unless she was just so flabbergasted in the moment or not, I don't believe that, no. Mm-hmm. Um, Mary was horrified, but as she hates confrontation and groups of people, she didn't say anything at the time. After they left, Mary told Rachel she was completely outta line and now believed Harry should get his full share. Rachel didn't budge, so Mary phoned Harry to apologize for what happened. Said he now has her full support. But who is Rachel? To determine this? If it's in the will, it's in the will. Like they can't change the will. Right. I don't know why Rachel's got this. Rachel must be really needing the money. Why is she being the one who makes all the decisions? Yeah. Wonder if she's the oldest. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Yeah. She must be having serious issues. She's greedy. She needs to be outed. All right, let's move on. Okay, number two. Number two, as Rachel realizes she can't just demand the money, she's now going to take the legal road instead. Good. Well, good. She'll lose. She's going to put a claim against his share of the will because he didn't give her any support during the final four years while she was the primary carer. Her life. Her government careers allowance both her parents' retirement pensions, full access to their bank account, which she has drained of tens of thousands of dollars. Financial support from their sister and wealthy son, physical support from the rest of the family when she needed it, and taking well-earned short vacations whenever she needed a break. Him hooked up to dialysis, eight hours per day. Organ transplant with three months recovery, working at his laptop, sitting in his hospital bed because he couldn't afford to take time off. Told by specialist never to be more than a 30 minute ambulance ride from a specific hospital, meaning he can never leave the city even for a day for the rest of his life. Not a lot of wiggle room for providing financial or physical support in a small town, 500 miles away in a different state. She is terrible. She needs to be outed. Number three, when Rachel informed Mary, she would go the legal route. Mary was furious and immediately phone Mary to warn him. You're right. I went. To my law firm on Harry's request, 9:00 AM Monday morning. I gave them full details of everyone involved the properties, all Rachel's financial resources is above, and details of the conversation where she expressed racist and homophobic comments, how this is not a change of attitude, but a change of strategy. The lawyers are all set. Their specialty is fighting off racist and homophobic families trying to steal the inheritance off of L-G-B-T-Q people. He just smiled and said, we're gonna get him every sin he's owed and bleed her dry and financial costs in the process. There we go. Yep. So the upshot of it all, Mary is no longer speaking to Rachel. Has told the nieces and nephews what their mother is trying to do. Harry says he'll never have anything to do with her again, and she can fry in hell for this. I'll take that as permission to go scorched earth nuclear on her after the court case has been settled. I guess in the meantime I'll move in the shadows. I did send her a message. Rachel, you seem to have forgotten. Harry has another family member, his best friend of 40 years. While you're trying to take everything from him, I will give everything I have to protect him. I stole my disabled brother's inheritance because he's gay and has an Asian boyfriend. May get you a cheer at a convention, but you can imagine how that sentence would sound in our world. Imagine how 200 people would have reacted if you got up with a microphone and announced that at your 60th birthday party that I attended. Go down this road and you'll lose your brother forever and discuss everyone in your entire extended family, especially your own children. To get to him, you'll have to go through me and my law firm regards, Harry's Pet Rott, Waller, and Cherry. Why has he got'em all? Have matching names? I don't know, but I am with this dude. 10000%. He is so ready to burn the earth down. Good. Yeah. See, I'm your, that, I'm that friend for you. Yeah. I'm glad I need friends like that because sometimes I don't realize it's okay if I burn the earth down and I need people to tell me, He needs to go nuclear. I'm with him. Yeah. Burn it down. Yeah, send it out on phone. I want her exposed, he needs to go to like every Tree Hugger podcast and every tree hugger blog and be, and put this out. Yeah. Expose her.'cause that is not peace, love, and happiness. No, it's not. It's not at all. And I don't believe at mega events that would go over well either, Mr. I hope not. Update number two. This was posted on November 6th, so this was just two days after the last update. Yeah. Ha. I sent that message to Rachel privately with just availed threat to go public if you kept, if she kept pursuing this course of action. The thing with entitled people though, is that sometimes they're so delusional, they believe. They are the victims. She has now forwarded the message. I sent her some to some of our mutual acquaintances, including her own children, to show what a BI am. Wait, I point out what a homophobic, racist sister you are, but you're telling people that I'm the nasty one. So now those people are messaging me to confirm that the letter I sent was real, and that the situation is exactly as I made it out to be. I'm simply responding. Yes, it's all true. Desperately restraining myself from elaborating further as I don't want to complicate the situation or encourage more people to get involved so much for me ruining her life. She seems fairly intent on doing it to herself. Yeah. Okay. Those are the updates that we have we'll share from for this week. For next week. Mm-hmm. I don't think he's the, a-hole she is. Yeah. I don't think he's even gonna need to put anything post anything though. I think just taking all of her resources and she's adding herself. Yeah. I'm proud of him for standing up for his. Why does money, like inheritance, make people inherit and, and people, yeah. I don't know. People go batty. Yeah. Absolutely. And why is she would like have the audacity, both of the sisters at first mm-hmm. Have the audacity to think that that's okay for them to determine, do you know? I hate it. I don't have kids or I do have kids, so I should get, you know, like when there's a vacation at work, if you tell me only one of us can take it off, and, and if you say, I don't have kids and I know you wanna be with your kids, you go ahead, then that's one thing. But to say I deserve it because I have kids rubs me so the wrong way. Mm-hmm. We both do the same job with the same thing. I mean. If you offer it up for that reason, then that's, you know, I appreciate that, but I'm not entitled to it because I do have kids. But the audacity I know to go to his home, I know and gang up on him, try to bully him and quit uhhuh. Rachel, you suck. Yeah, for sure. I don't like Rachel. I don't like Rachel at all. I really wanna know who Rachel is. Not that I know a lot of people in those sectors. circles? No. Of the, uh, vector a word. It's a word, right? Vector? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'm not down with that. No. Me neither. Can't wait to see what else comes out. Yeah, don't send me the rest of'em. I wanna be surprised with all the other people. Okay, good. we'll all be surprised. Okay. Yay. Um, you wanna talk about our book? Okay. All right. So bookies, if you are staying with us, awesome. If you are not one of our book readers, we love you. We love you book. Read a book, have a good, have a good rest of your day, and come back next week and tell your friends. And we love you. We love you. Bye. Okay. all right. so the house across the lake by Riley Sager and I have read other books by this author. Mm-hmm. Wonderful rider. Yes. Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher, who retreats to her family's remote Vermont Lake house to escape scandal and drink away her grief. While there, she becomes obsessed with watching her glamorous new neighbors tech mogul Tom Royce and his wife Katherine through binoculars when Katherine suddenly disappears, Casey is convinced fo play is involved, but as she investigates, shocking secrets emerge and nothing is as it seems. Good blurb about the blurb. Yeah. So this book was psychological, supernatural drama with lots of twists. Yes. It had kind of like a little bit of everything, word in there. It did. so I never was able to get this book through Libby or Hoopla, like it's apparently just on weight, but I had read it before. Mm-hmm. recently, so I remembered it quite well. But I don't recall knowing that there was a lot of spiritual, supernatural stuff. Toiled the end. Yeah. And that's what it was. Yeah. Yeah. It was like the twist, like the last, because I kept thinking, how are, could they gonna make this work? How are they? And then all of a sudden, bam. Yeah. Oh, and of course spoilers. Well, yeah. Yeah. Were you expecting that final twist with the husband being the serial killer? No. No. Were you ghost? Yeah. Is that inha bodies? No, that threw me for a loop. Right. I thought it was going to be the ex cop. Yes, I do too. It was, definitely one of those that like I said, how is this gonna work out? Where, how are they gonna tie everything up relatively neatly? Mm-hmm. but no, I did not see that with, I, you know, something happened with I forgot his name with the husband Uhhuh, but I, I couldn't quite put my finger up. On it. So I was like super judgy at first and mm-hmm. I'm not proud of that, but. I'm being honest. Mm-hmm. And I thought like, girl, you gotta get your stuff together. Yeah. You're talking about Casey, right? Yeah. Mm-hmm. So she's like spying on everybody and she's getting drunk, drunk all the time. Like white girl wasted drunk. Yes. Not even like casual, drunk. It was. Right. Pass out drunk. Yes. She was like self-medicating basically. Yeah. And but you don't know that to begin with, right? you just think like, okay, her husband died. Horrible. Awful. Mm-hmm. Okay. You get a pass for a little bit. Right. But like, get your stuff together. Right. And then you find out later at the very end of the book that no, she found out her husband's a serial killer. Yeah. And I'll let him die. Yep. So. Then I felt super judgy and bad. Okay. It's a fictional ca character, Stephanie. But no, I felt like, okay, ms. Mc Judgy Rson, was not a proud moment for myself. No, it's okay. I get it though., What did you think of Tom? Catherine's husband? I don't remember much about him. Catherine made it out. Like he was just living off of her. Oh yeah. Even though he was a tech guy and like Yeah. Because all his money is wrapped up in all of these projects. Yeah. And he was just spending her money left and right. Mm-hmm. Freely. And I was like, well, he's just draining her. And then once his thing blows up, he's gonna leave her with nothing. Mm-hmm. Is I thought that too, how I was reading it. I thought that too. He went over there with like$500 bottles of wine and I was like, I wouldn't even want, and then didn't they drop one? Casey did and I was like, oh yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't wanna be anywhere near, I wouldn't even wanna drink$500 wine. I don't think I could tell the difference in 500 wine. I wouldn't, you can't tell the difference between a$2 bottle of wine, right? I'm not a wine connoisseur. No. Me neither. Me neither. I don't, I. Swirl. And smell. And smell. Yeah. Whatever. I gle. Yeah. I turn up, I take that box and I open it. Girl, same. we're so classy. Yeah. We absolutely are. Lynn was the husband. Mm-hmm. That drowned. Right. Okay. Sorry, his name just popped in my head. Yeah. So he was a creep. Oh, a hundred percent. And he invaded bodies. Because the lake was supernatural, right? Well, yeah. Tom gave me the ick. Mm-hmm. Was a complete ich. I, it almost feels like she was writing this, I think, I think Rally is a female, but she, whoever the author was writing, it was like, well, how am I gonna. Tie this together and wrap it up. Oh, I got it. Uhhuh. Let's just throw a lot up. But it works. Yeah, it works. What would you rate it? Oh, I would give it, I really enjoyed it. I had nine. Really? Mm-hmm. I was gonna go seven and a half. Okay. Yeah. It seemed like she kind of threw that in just to wrap it up. but I still liked it. I still liked it. I still, I still enjoyed it. I would read more by Riley Sager. That did seem kind of just like, not even not thrown together, but just like outta left field, which is good. I was gonna say made up, but the whole thing is made up so. But yes. Out of left field. That's a great way to say it. But I still liked the twists and turns. Yeah. And I thought the characters were interesting and, I never would have guessed no how it was going. No. So that was cool. Something was a little bit off for me. Yeah. I like it when I don't guess the ending, but I want it to be one of those things where I'm like, oh, I should have seen that. Yeah, this one, you don't really do that because all of a sudden you die in the lake and you inhibit other spirits and stuff, but it'll still need enough for me to mm-hmm. Enjoy it. So, yeah. I. So guys, we had a different book in the podcast when we recorded, but as we were reading it, we did not like it. And as you know, we always say life is too short for bad books. So we have decided to switch it up to if something happens to me by Alex Finley. The blurb for this book is for the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open the crushing blow to his head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali's piercing scream as she was taken and no trace of Ali or the car. A cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan but with no proof and a good lawyer. He was never charged, though that doesn't matter to the podcasters and the internet trolls. Now Ryan has changed his last name and entered law school. He's put his past behind him until on a summer trip abroad to Italy with his law school classmates. Ryan gets a call from his father. Ally's car has finally been found submerged in a lake in his hometown. Inside are two dead men. In a cryptic note with five words written on an envelope in Ally's handwriting. If something happens to me, then halfway around the world, the unthinkable happens. Ryan sees a man who has haunted his dreams since that night as Ryan races from the rolling hills of Tuscany to a rural village in the UK to the glittering streets of Paris. In search of the truth, he has no idea that his salvation may lie with a young sheriff deputy in Kansas working her first case, and a mobster in Philadelphia who's experienced tragedy of his own. All right. Well I think that wraps up for the day. It does. we love you. 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