🎪 Episode 79 Parenting, True Crime and Chaos: Birds in the Dryer, Diddy on Trial, and Pool Mop Fails: Just Another Tuesday

Hosts: Stefanie Navarro & Meredith Hill
Run Time: 46 Mins

Theme: Domestic Chaos, Sean Diddy Combs Court Case Updates,  Puppy Yoga, AITA, Book Club Review! 

🎧 In This Episode:

Welcome back to This Is My Circus — the podcast that celebrates parenting misadventures, pop culture meltdowns, questionable home repairs, and our undying obsession with true crime and spicy books.

In this episode, Stephanie and Meredith dive headfirst into the weekly chaos, starting with bird skeletons in the dryer vent (yes, you read that right), mechanic mishaps, and pool-cleaning shenanigans that involved zip-tying a Magic Eraser to a mop. Just normal stuff over here. 😂

But we don't stop there...

We dish the latest on the Diddy courtroom drama, from Secret Service Sam’s live updates to 50 Cent's savage AI memes and why “Itty Bitty Diddy” might be the new nickname you never knew you needed. Plus: who got kicked out of the courtroom, why Kid Cudi's car exploded, and what Cassie’s terrifying connection reveals about the bigger case.

Also this week:

• A heartfelt shoutout to listener Sarah (we see you, girl!)
• Parenting sideline chaos at a basketball tournament
• A possible ancestral connection to a death row inmate (?!)
• Dinosaurs, dragons, and underground reptilians (blame TikTok)
• Puppy yoga and Golden Girl realities
• The book review that fell flat — and what we’re reading next

📚 Book Chat:
We review She Was the Quiet One by Michele Campbell, which had all the right ingredients — twin sisters, elite boarding school, mysterious death — but somehow still underdelivered. It was giving “Lifetime movie with no budget.” 😬

👀 Next Week’s Read:
That’s Not My Name by Megan Lally – a TikTok fave that promises suspense, memory loss, and maybe a murder. Let’s hope it redeems this week’s flop!

🎙️ Segment Highlights:

• “Am I the A-hole?” this week: A guy names his dog after his ex-best friend. Petty? Or perfect revenge?
• The moment we realized… we are actually the same age as the Golden Girls. 😳
• Why a Rottweiler cuddle session ended with a fall (and a Ring cam video request).

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Transcript

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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. I'm Stephanie. I'm Meredith, and welcome to, this is my circus. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. What's going on? Alexis just texted me a series to read, like literally just now and she was like, I'm on book five and these are really good. It is not kid friendly. I have actually already read these and they are not kid friendly at all. What is it? So for anybody who wants to listen, it's called, black Dagger Brotherhood Series. It's thereby JR Ward, the BARD. It sounds like a motorcycle series. No, no, not necessarily motorcycle, but definitely tough dude. Bad guy. Bad guy, good guy. Yes. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. We don't have any problems with those. And I can't remember how many books are in there, but very explicit, yes. But good books. Spicy. Oh, very spicy. Raunchy, chili peppers, spicy. All the chili peppers, you can imagine all the, and some of them aren't chili peppers that I like. Mm. But somebody's gonna like that kind of pepper. So let's just stop the pepper analogy is the, I find myself in these conversations and I don't know when to just stop, so I'm going to make myself stop there. What you been doing? Nothing really. I dunno. I'm what I didn't do. I told you look super tan, but you're like, no. I think it's because it's a light colored shirt. Maybe they do. They do. Give a little bit of extra color. You look cute. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm feeling sun today. You do? Look sun today. Well, you know what it is, is it rained for so many days in a row. Yeah. And it's finally sunny out. Yeah. And it was like, yeah. Yeah. Agreed. Agreed. And it's not humid. Sunny. Mm-hmm. It is nice. Sunny. Yeah. rec this morning, I had on, my pajama pants and a hoodie. Did you? So now that Jay's driving himself in the morning, thank God I, was literally still in my PJ's when Brian got, like, I'm talking no bra, like just chilling. I was like, yeah, I just, this is what it was today. But what's so funny is one of, Emmy, our dog that runs away, she'll come back, but she just likes to go see everybody in the neighborhood. She left, went to my neighbor's and my neighbor brought her over, and I just stood there and talked to her for like 30 minutes in my bra. And usually,, that is not me. But yeah, I was just like, you know what? I've lived behind her, beside her this long. She knows I'm crazy. This is the one who's, you know, moving. Mm-hmm. And told her I needed to put some Christmas decorations up and stuff. Christmas in July. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Did you see I put it on our Facebook page and I think I texted you Sarah's. That was so awesome. Mm-hmm. That was so awesome. So she, is one who, when we've missed a week, she's just commented that she's missed us, you know, recording. Well, when she sent us a picture. Of our faces in her car. That was so surreal. But it was just really, really cool. So thank you Sarah for that. Yeah. Thank you for listening. Yes, Sarah. And I'm not even gonna try her last name. It's a long one. So I got f finally got new tires on my car. Okay, good. I've needed a new tire for the last year, but I don't ever drive anywhere. And I'm like, oh, I, yeah. Deal with it next week and like next week became next month, and then mm-hmm. All the things happened. Mm-hmm. So I had my tire when, I got back from my trip was completely flat, like on the ground flat. Oh no. I was like, oh my gosh. So I was trying to fill it up, it wouldn't fill up because it was so flat. Oh. So the dude across the street. Thank God. Yeah. Did like the little jack thingy and then mm-hmm. He put the air in that way and little jack thingy. Where's such car mechanics over here? Are we, I'm so technical. so as I'm like trying to figure out why the air wouldn't blow up the tire, I look under, the tires were so bad. There was like wires sticking out of the tires, like. I've been there before. I was like O mg. Yeah. So I finally got the new tires put on, thank goodness. Good. But that got me thinking, I don't think I ever told you this story yet. Did I tell you the story about the dryer when it was like not really drying and uhuh. Okay. So. I come downstairs and there's like water leaking from the light, and I'm like, what in the world? Mm-hmm. Like, oh my God, something is leaking. Mm-hmm. There's a pipe or something. So yeah, I'm looking on YouTube right. To figure out Right. What to do. And so it says if the, there's a dryer upstairs, it might be. Something clogging up like the vent or whatever. Okay. Because you know, like all, like the fluffy stuff, it's Yeah. Dryer would have that much moisture I guess. I mean Okay. If, yeah. I mean, yeah. So. Right, right. Check here. Okay. Check your, so I go upstairs, I unhook like the little duct thingy. Yeah. The silver type thing. Pipe. Big old thing. Yep. And so I'm looking in there but I can't see anything. So me. Being me sticks my hand in there and I'm pulling out like all the fluffy stuff, right? All the lint. Yep. Then my hand touches, no, what was it? A dead bird. I was pulling out all the fluff and I'm like, well, this. This is different. And I fluff. Yeah. And it pulled it out and, and all the feathers. Oh, when I tell you I like screamed, I did like a little like hippity hop, like you did the hip. Oh my gosh, Steph. That is crazy. So I'm like totally freaking out at this. Bird. Okay. It was a bigger bird. Okay. So then I get like a, like a long thingy to stick in there. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So I'm not touching it. Right. Which I probably should have done in the first place. And you don't think about an animal just being out there? No. Okay. And then another one is in there, and I'm like totally freaking out, right? Mm-hmm. Dylan was at Tyler's house. I called Dylan crying. Mm-hmm. I'm like, and he like, what's wrong? And I was like, there's dead birds. So I look in the back in the dryer, it wasn't in like the spinning part where you put your clothes. Yeah, yeah. But it was like underneath, there was one stuck in there, like a dead bird stuck in there. So there was like a whole family of birds that got cooked in the vent. So I called Dylan, I'm like, I can't even get in there. I don't, I like, I was just like, so, oh yeah, yeah. I was just totally freaking, well, that's kind of a two person job anyway, to try to figure that out. So I give Dylan the big, rubber gloves, like I don't touch anything and I give him tongue. Yeah. Yeah. That I threw away after. Yeah. Yeah. So we're. Trying to like get it so that he like in there, he gets the, the last bird out. So then we had somebody come to clean the vents because I'm like, well, this is not okay. Yeah. And they found another, nest and then like another bird that was in there as well. Another cooked one. Uhhuh. There was a whole city of birds, if the bird population is down, but the dryer is working much better now. I'm sure it is like 20 minutes and things are dry just like that. Just, okay. Why would a bird do that? I don't know. When my brother had put the vent thingy back on Yeah. You know, if it goes one way or the other, like Right. One direction. I guess it's supposed to keep the birds out, right? Whatever it is. Well, apparently he didn't put it on the right way. Well, it was more like an entrance door. Yeah. So it was like, welcome. Or they were in there before and they've been in there that long. Yeah. I don't really know, but Oh, it was so gross. It was so disgusting. Would you have rather it have been birds or like squirrels or something? I, no, I don't want none of any of it. But I was finding feathers for like, Hmm. Weeks. It was so gross. Mm-hmm. It was so gross. I don't, I don't do No, I know, but I feel like that's better than like finding a mouse or something. Uh, yeah. I mean, I don't, I'm a few, I don't want any of it, but, well, could you imagine if they were alive still, like flew out, like No. No, I have a friend who is deathly afraid of birds. Mm-hmm. Like afraid. That would just be the end all. She would be laying on the ground dead right now, there's no doubt in my mind. Well, I had the garbage bag with like all the stuff in it, and when Dylan got the last one out of the dryer and he rested me, I was like. Just take it right outside. Just get it outta the house, please. No, it was so bad. This was like months ago though. Like I, I think I said remind me to tell you about the Yeah, probably. And with all of the other things we have going on, it was so gross. I just. Well, it doesn't matter. Like, okay, so one goes in there and he is like, Hey guys, don't come in here. I can't come out. And they're like, no, I'll come help you. Then they all go in there, or they all brought their little twigs and stuff to build like the, yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Who knows how long. We knows. Nobody left to ask, huh? Yeah. So I take our, washer and dryers on the bottom floor. Mm-hmm. And I take our leaf blower and blow it out. Well, this is upstairs. Yeah. But I take the lint thing out and put it there and I, clean it out. Yeah. I'm, I've not built for home projects like this is, I thought you did good though, with the YouTube in it and trying to figure it out. I can't figure it out the problem, but I shouldn't be doing the things. You shouldn't, you're way too pretty to be doing those things. Built for the things we had, a situation, this has been years ago where we were sitting, uh, my family had been over all day and. We were sitting in the living room, they had gone and you're kind of like decompressing from everybody being over and everything, and all of a sudden water starts dripping from our like a can light. Mm-hmm. And Brian and I look at each other and Brian doesn't handle stuff like that. Like his initial responses, what is going on? Yeah. Like he's just, and that's just how he is wired. We we're work both working on things that we have to work on, but his initial response is to just kind of freak out about all kinds of things. So. Come to find out, the bathtub upstairs had been used by, I don't know if Jackson took a bath. I don't know what happened, but it overflowed and when it did, it came down. So it was an easy fix, but at the moment that it happened, it was like. And our house wasn't that old. Yeah. I was like, oh my God. What in the world? We had to get a new roof put on, in our bedroom. Mm-hmm. It started raining the one night and it was one of the bad night storms. Yeah. Middle of the night. Yeah. And we just hear like drip. Strip, and I'm like, what is that? Like what is going on? And it was just a big bubble formed on the ceiling and it just started dripping out. So I'm like, oh my gosh. So I go into the bathroom and I put the lights on and in the shower light. Like in the standup shower? Mm-hmm. Water was dripping out of the light. And I'm like, this is not safe. This isn't good. This isn't how it all electric and water. It does not. Right. They usually don't mix well. No. Yeah. So I obviously called the next day Yeah. And had a somebody come out to look at it, but, or you know, roof or whatever. Yeah. But we had to get the whole new roof.'cause all the, I guess we get such weird wind, like the sideways Yeah. Yeah. Like when the rain comes. Sideways rain. Mm-hmm. As forest would say. Um, yeah. All that stuff. And this is that time of year where there's, well we're getting out of it now. Like the bad rains. Yeah. And just the tornado warnings and all that kind of stuff. We have. Thank goodness. Now we'll just get into the 200 degrees. Yeah. Weather. I know. It's, take your poison. It is. It is. Is your poll ready? Speaking off, can I go to a cannonball? Sure. Is it cleaned out though? It's all good. There's just, I guess from however over the winter, like the bottom that stained a little bit. Yeah. And so I've been like trying to scrub it and I can't scrub it and I can't scrub it. It cleaned, but like there's, I'm just trying to get off the stains. Off the Yeah. The wall. Yeah. Are using like a magic eraser. Yeah. But it's like underwater. Mm. And so it wants to fly. Are you tall enough to. No. Is that the problem I put on my scuba mask? Can you stand on it? Do it with your foot? Well, it's, there's like a deep end too though. I used Oh, okay. So I probably, if there was a, somebody taking a video, it would've been something to see. I'm sure. Okay. I zip tied the Magic Eraser to a mop. I think that's a great idea. And then I was scrubbing, I got like all the walls scrubbed. Yeah. But then once it gets to the ground or like the bottom? Yeah, yeah. Is where I was having trouble. Yeah. And so then I was like, well, I'm gonna have to get in the pool. Yeah. And like mop it. Yeah. Well I broke them mop that way. Mm. That sounds like a, shark tank thingy that could be made though. And I was like, there's gotta be a magic eraser mop. Right? Well, there is, but it's only a little magic eraser. Like the same size as a like, but it's like just attached. So like you flip it over Oh, stain and then you flip it over and there's a regular mug. There's not like a real, I like the zip. Um. Mine always fall apart. Oh yeah. I went through like two boxes. Okay. Yeah. So well at least you know it, it'll come off and it works. Yeah. Speaking of ring cameras, you know, I, walk the dogs and do the things well, I. One of my favorite dogs that I take care of is a Rottweiler named Bella. Her family was gone and I was walking her and she's, you know, obviously big, strong whatever, and she's excited and she jumps, but she and I are usually just fine. Well, right when I was walking her one night, a little yappy dog went by and I know how you feel about them because you've had the same experience. She pulled me down and I crashed right in their front yard and then. The little dog continued to go, eventually. Mm-hmm. But I couldn't get up because Bella was so excited. I was down on the ground with her. She thought that it was lovey time, so we were cuddling for a minute and I just sat there in the yard and cuddled her. Well, then I went to get up again and the dog had turned around and she went again, and I was like. Mm. So Bella and I just sat on the floor, so I messaged her people and I was like, not sure how far your cameras go, but if they go to like the sidewalk at the road, send me that clip. Send it to America's funny sounds. Yeah. As long as you can't see my face. So we've both been taken out by little dogs. Little dogs. Little dogs are the worst. Still have a scar. Oh hey. You should put that scar tape on it. Oh yeah, probably. I've been putting some on this injury, which is from, when I fell breaking up the fight in basketball. Mm-hmm. Because it was lumpy and I was cutting my knee when I shaved.'Cause it wasn't smooth. So. Mm. Jackson had a basketball tournament last weekend. They did really good. They played four games, won the championship, and all four games. They ended early, the first three because we were winning by so much. Oh, the last one because fights are breaking out. I can't stand parents. I cannot, was it parents or kids? It was the parent. The kids were entitled jerks. But I see where they got it from. Mm-hmm. Jackson came off and he, we've talked about this before, our boys are relatively chill. Mm-hmm. Like, they'll let a lot build. They're not hotheads who immediately flip. He walked off the court to where I was and that is something he doesn't do in a game. He does not come to me. He goes to the bench and deals with his team. He. Came to me and he was like, mama, I don't know what those parents down there are saying, but they're just a yap, yap yapping. He said, I was like, well, what are, you know, I'm shocked because he came up all the things and he said, they're just yapping because they're kid. Can't guard me. And he started rolling his shoulders. He said, I told him to hit the weight room. And I was like, oh gosh. So then I was like, well, let me just mosey down there and make sure, let me just see what they're saying. So I traveled to the other end where their parents were sitting and two of our parents were over there too. So I was kind of staying with them, but listening. And the other parents warned me, our parents, um, her name is Kia. She was like, there's a lot going on over here. I said, that's what the kids were telling me. So I just wanted to see what was going on. Well, that was this one girl. I kept calling her big girl, and I had no right to call her that, but I felt like because I am a can and she was just too prissy, like. Just doing too much and video and everything. And you know that saying, act like you've been here before. Mm-hmm. Act like you've been in a championship game. Have a little, just everything was whatever. Well, in basketball. If they have the ball and they have their elbows up, they can move like this. They can't swing their elbow, but they can kind of make space. Mm-hmm. Well, Jackson did that and apparently he hit her kid, well, she jumped up and she was like, Hey, hey, swinging his and all this stuff. And I was like, yeah, he did like this. She said, yeah, he did like that. And I said, he can do like that. And I was like, let me check myself out and go on back down there and just stay away. So they ended up calling that game a couple minutes before. It was over, we were up by like 15, I think. I think there was a minute and a half left. Should have done it before, but mm-hmm. They ended up telling us, you guys go ahead and leave the gym and go outside. And I was like, wait a minute, I'm not just gonna go outside. They're gonna come outside. Mm-hmm. But we did,'cause we did what we were told. And some of the other parents came up and they're like, don't judge us by, you know, the few, you know, there's always a few. Yeah. Like, anyway, so our boys won. That should be the last basketball tournament. Don't you feel like the parents that do the most, it's because it's when they're losing. Mm-hmm. And they can't accept that. Mm-hmm. They're losing mm-hmm. Because of skill. Yes. Well, so a couple of other games we ended, we were up by like 40. Mm-hmm. And there's five or six minutes left, like we're up by 40. We've only got seven players We're playing in the 10th grade thing. Some of ours are ninth grade players. Like they're just a really well coached good group of athletic boys. Mm-hmm. And, Other parents were yelling at the refs about things, first of all, that they didn't know what they were talking about. The parents, they were just talking and then, yeah, and then the coach was too, like, you're not losing by 40 because of a bad call. I'm only laughing because that was me the first year of lacrosse when I didn't know the rules and I was just, you're just yelling. By the end. I, I knew the rules. You knew the rules and I was still yelling because I knew the rules. Right. But No, but, but you're exactly right. I was just like,, you're not losing this game by that many points because of, you know, bad calls. Mm-hmm. It just doesn't happen. So I'm glad that basketball is over for now. So that was the a a u stuff. We are in full football, well, I say that, but he's got bas school basketball, June workouts. Those are Not mandatory, but mandatory, if that makes sense. Mm-hmm. But we're in full football right now, so he is got some college camps coming up. He's got one this week at Anderson. Ooh. Actually, when everybody's listening to this, that's where Jackson will be. Awesome. And then, um, yeah, just doing that circuit. Nice. Yeah. Sorry, I went on a little rant. All good. I love it. I love hearing parents acting bad, parents behaving poorly. Yes. It ruins things. Yes. well, I've been doing some digging. I told you that I had a relative in my history that we'll get into. One day, one day when I put all the pieces together that, she's still on death row, by the way. She's still alive and she's still in prison on death. Well I did listen to like 20 podcasts, 20 of the podcast. As I was looking through, trying to connect all the pieces like on ancestry.com and figure out where the connection is. I have a relative that her name was Temperance Delight. Born in like 1920 or something like that. Temperance Delight. Huh? That's, that's quite a, quite a name. It's, it's a stripper name. It is Delight. Maybe, I don't know. But she was a Lady of the night. Really? She's like the preacher's wife, but all of the other, that's funny you say that.'cause the dad was a preacher. Yep. Uhhuh. The other kids were like Blanche and Vernon and all these other things and she was Temperance Delights. So, I saw something on Facebook speaking of Blanche. Mm-hmm. And she was 42 in Golden Girls. We are golden. We are golden girls. Oh, no. I know, but why did Golden Girls back then? I thought they were like in their sixties. Me too. And Sophia was 80 and she was the youngest out of all of'em. Yeah. I was like, oh, well why are we not living in a house together in Florida then goals, where would, where do they live? Miami, Lauderdale, something like that. I don't remember. Oh, neither. But yeah, I was like, oh, reality check. But I feel like we're like much younger than the golden girls. Yeah. I feel like that too. I don't feel like I'm a golden girl. You are my golden girl. In my head, I'm not. No, I know. I'm just blown away by it. I think so. I am, I'm closer to 50 than, I'm 40 and 50 is the new 30. I like it. I'm with it. I'm trying to tell my neck and back. That means I'm 20. Yes, exactly. Penny, by buy booze or do I need to buy it for you? I'm I'm legal. Just in case there are police officers. Listen, Stephanie is really not 20, no, 42. Yeah. Yeah. Harsh reality. Less not. How are you? 42? Mm-hmm. I'll be 43 in July, I think. Yeah. I didn't realize that I was that much older than you. How old are you? I'll be 48. That's not that much. Well, I found out this is brand new information. Found out that I was gonna be 48 this year. I thought I was turning 40. I missed a year. I thought I was turning 47. Mm-hmm. But I'll turn 48. And the only reason I know that is because Poseys turning 50. And she apparently doesn't listen'cause she's made zero comments on bigger challenge. So I'm putting it out there in the universe that Posey iss gonna be 50. There you go. How about some Diddy updates? So I haven't heard anything other than what Brian decided to tell me. Mm-hmm. And, When he is giving me Diddy updates, there's, there's some serious stuff going on. So he was telling me about, and I don't know if this is on your list though, but he was telling me about this woman. He was like, there was this woman and baby oil, and like several dudes were involved. And I'm like, that's pretty much the whole situation, Brian. And he was like, oh, oh, that was Cassie. That's what I said. I said, was it Cassie? He's like. No. And I'm like, what? Well, there's plenty. So what, what's really jumped out at you this week? Well, I sent you the, secret Service, Sam. Mm-hmm. Because his updates are. Amazing. Yes. And, Jean The Bodyguard? Yes. Is there, like, just observing. Okay. And so, secret Service, Sam did get like a little interview with him. Okay. Um, while they were outside the courthouse. He didn't like drop any bombs or anything, but he was, I was just like, oh yeah, that's, that's the dude. But there was a woman today, which is today is, what today is Tuesday. A woman today got forcibly removed from the courtroom. Wow. So it said, and there was a girl that was sitting next to her and she gave like the, the whole recap, the lowdown. Okay. So she was walking in and I guess you can't wear any like hats or scarves'cause they're afraid that you're gonna have some kind of like, device to record or whatever. Oh. So she was like, um, I wanna wear my hat, uh, it's religious reasons, or something like that. And the bailiff was like, no, take it off. Like, we're not playing games today. Take it off or get out. So she's sitting there all mad and whatnot, and says she got up and yelled to Diddy. They're trying to get you, they're laughing at you, get the guns and I mean, then she said, they're trying to take a black man down this white supremacist system. The bailiff told her to calm down and she told them, what are you gonna do? Pull out your guns and shoot me. Then three bailiffs dragged her out of the. The courtroom while being dragged. She was yelling, Diddy, these mother ERs are laughing at you, get the guns. She needs some evaluations done. Crazy. And then a YouTuber has been barred from coming in. Okay. On anything, because one of the witnesses, they're going by like pseudonyms or whatever. Mm-hmm. Because they don't want their identities mm-hmm. Out. And he. Was, I guess either in the courtroom or whatever he was reporting on it and released the person's like actual identity. So the judge found out and has barred this person from any of the trial stuff. Hmm. Yeah. But did you see Kid Cudi, took the stand? No. So Kid Cudi and Cassie dated Okay. And. I was like, gimme all the details because Right. Kid Cuddy's car got blown up during all of, yes. I forgot about that. Yeah. So Kid Cuddy said that him and Cassie were dating Diddy found out Cassie called Kid Cudi and was like, Diddy knows and mm-hmm. He was like, so what? You guys broke up what's, who cares? Whatever. And she's like, no. You don't understand. Yeah. And then. Capricorn, what was her name? It was his assistant, um, whatever. Okay. His assistant had called him and said, Hey, look out because he's at your house right now. What? Or she was in the car outside of his house. Did he? And, Other people broke into his house. Mm-hmm. She calls him from the car and she's like, yo, we're here. Like, this is not good. Oh my gosh. And dude's like, what the heck? So he jumps in his car, to go and he's like, what am I doing? There's probably a bunch of'em. So he calls the cops, cops come there. By the time the cops get there, they're already gone. And did, he opened up like the Christmas presents under the tree. That's just, but the worst part about it was that kid Cuddy's dog got drugged and put in a closet and locked in a closet. Don't interfere with the doggies. Let's, or not interfere, but yeah. So, leave Dude's car got blown up and so kid Cutty goes to see Diddy like, what's up? Yeah. Like, what the heck? Yeah. And Cassie comes out. And stands behind Diddy and was like, I choose him or something to that effect. Mm mm-hmm. And I'm sure because she was like terrified, threatened her life. Yeah. Whatever. But Cookie Cutty's, like, you can have her, I'm out like, this is ridiculous. Yeah. I don't want any part of this. So fast forward however many months and they see each other and Diddy's like, yo, what's up? Like, nothing happened. And he's like, dude, like you blew up my car. And he's like, yeah, sorry about that. Cray, Z So dude's on stand right, and he's in the courtroom and I'm sure like you're dead. Yeah. I wonder what they were asking him about. Like about that situation or just all of it altogether? Well, they had brought that up because, that's part of like the racketeering where he had people do stuff for him. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Or like, it was like a gang, like whatever criminal organization Yep. Is what they're trying to prove. Yeah. For the racketeering and yeah, that's what they're trying to, but. You know I love me some 50 cent. What Fitty do? Oh, fifty's doing the most. He is my king Petty Betty. Wait, is he the one who's been all over X saying things? He's on Instagram. Tell me I two, but Okay. Tell me what you got and I'll tell you the same time. Okay. Well he learned how to use ai Oh, geez. Like AI images. So he is got like all sorts of pictures, but, so did he, he was trying to get Trump apart in him. Mm. Yeah. So 50 posts a clip of Diddy. I think during like the first election that he was running saying all sorts of bad stuff about Trump, like he needs to be mm-hmm. Whatever. Mm-hmm. Banned or whatever it is. Yeah. And, so he's like, Hey, just as a reminder and tag Trump, right? So the caption read, Welp can't ask him for help, then buddy, LOL. And you sent me these and it's like a 32nd clip of him just like tearing apart Trump. Just going off off. Yeah. And I was like, oof. Yeah. That's hilarious. So then, he made a meme of, you know, because he, he learned how to use ai. And it says jury of peers, and it was a whole jury full of 50 cents. Oh, full of fifties. I saw that. I saw that one. Like all the same, 50, just different colors, clothes, yeah. Okay. Capricorn Clark, that was the assistant's name. Okay. Had on stand, brought 50 into it, during the court case. Mm-hmm. And said that, back in the day, puff had beef with 50 and so. 50 runs to Instagram and he says, cut, cut. Wait a minute, Puffy's got a gun. I can't believe this. I don't feel safe. LOL. Oh my goodness. I don't love that. He still calls'em puffy. It's just like a little disrespect on top of everything else. Well, one of the women that testified described. Diddy's package as a TSI roll, I guess as I've heard that. Yep. As small as a TSI roll, so 50 being 50, and one of the captions calls him itty bitty Diddy. Oh my gosh. Never be able to not call him itty bitty Diddy. Anybody, Diddy. Oh, but I love Mason. 50 Troll. I know he is. So he's just basically sitting at his house, working the AI modules, doing his thing. I can't get enough. I know. He keep it coming. He is great. Keep it coming. Yeah. That's hilarious. Amazing yeah. When Brian came home telling me about all this today, I was like. I'm glad you're interested, but I think this is probably like old news, kind of all of it together. Yeah. I thought he had some like major because he was like, did you hear about the, the drama Diddy. And I was like, no. Like I thought he had some brand new piping hot tea. No, no, no. Should have known better. His algorithm is, yeah, I need to get a hold of his phone. Well, I know We always talk about these weird conspiracy theories. Oh yeah. So I found a new guy on TikTok that does so many, like on your weird talk. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And that's like on my personal TikTok, not on like the podcast TikTok. I get the weirdest things I'm telling you, like my 3:00 AM scroll. It's, it's all weird, but you're in a crazy place. Yeah. Okay. Watch. Okay, so this guy, his TikTok name is Mave approach. Okay. So his theory is that. Dinosaurs when the asteroid hit earth, not all of them died. They, went underground, to save themselves. Okay. And have evolved into the reptilians that people say when they're not human and they're reptilians and they show like the, the funky eyes. So they've evolved into this reptilian whatever. Okay. And they're not really lizard people. It's like evolved dinosaurs. There's a theory for you I don't buy that one. I buy a lot of the conspiracies, but I don't buy that one. Yeah, I don't know. I don't buy that one. Are dinosaurs and dragons related? I Okay. So Well then I went down that rabbit hole of like dinosaurs. Yeah. Because I clicked on the video and then I was getting all these dinosaur things and they say that dragons are dinosaurs. That just. Didn't die off when all the dinosaurs died off, like they lasted longer. Mm-hmm. And they're saying that T-Rex is like little tiny arms. Mm-hmm. Somebody had taken like the skeleton mm-hmm. A picture of the skeleton and they put it next to an ostrich and its little wings are like the same bone structure as the T-Rex. I a hundred percent believe that is so like his little arms might have been like little wings'cause chickens are from dinosaurs. Right. You're laughing at me like I'm not, you're laughing at Doss. I'm laughing at all. All of it. Like people have this much time on their hands. So I know. Think about T-Rex arms and they're not like dinosaur people for a career. It's people sitting at home. Mm-hmm. Why did the rexes have little tiny arms? Let me pull it up their skeleton structure and evaluate it against all of the current animals. Wait. No, I don't. I don't believe that one. And here's why ostriches lay eggs. T-Rex is were mammals. Do we know? I mean, like we don't really know. No, we don't really know. We just assume. Mm-hmm. Yep. And they just fascinating, found soft tissue, whatever from some kind of like dig that they found somewhere that they dug. On a dinosaur for a dinosaur, some kind of soft tissue DNA or whatever. That is now in some kind of lab, they're bringing back dinosaurs. I would so go on the tour rudely a hundred percent. They had a great podcast. We really loved them. But you know, they opened up the dinosaur park 100%. I would go, mm-hmm. No doubt about it in my mind. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, no. All of it. Okay. I'll go on one. But can we not be in like an open Jeep? Like what? Do you wanna go on? Like a tank? Yeah. No. I need more experience or an open tank that we can close. I'm, what are you doing? I'm picturing all those videos where the ostriches like, oh yeah, pecking like for the food and there people are freaking out. Or the zebras. Oh yeah. Dra and over and get'em to like a raptor jumps in. Oh. Oh yeah. Oh my gosh. Speaking of like safari type of things with like open, so I just saw, and this back happened in like 2003 or 2005. And I never heard this before, so like, it just blew my mind that in Africa or somewhere mm-hmm. A little girl got kidnapped. She was like 12 by this, these men and a pack of lions chased off the men or like all the men or whatever. Oh. And stayed with a little girl and protected her until the police found her. How awesome is that? And then I was like, I should have worked at a zoo. I missed. I would, yeah. And then I, you know, got all like the animal videos of like the trainers and the, the Oh yeah. Like, have you seen the ones where they haven't seen their lion that they raised and the lion comes up and like, like hugs them. Mm-hmm. Yes. Yeah. And like knocks'em down and they're, or there's one with an orangutan too. And he runs and he jumps up in the woman and he's so excited and then all of a sudden he sees the man and he's even more excited. I miss my calling. Like, that is what I should have done. Like my soul purpose was to cuddle animals. Well, a hundred percent. And, Jackson and I have a new plan. Whenever we get a Saturday free, we are gonna go do puppy yoga. Oh, you wanna go with I do. I've never done yoga officially in my life, but I've only done it at home. Like I've never done a class. Right? No. Yeah. I've been like YouTube. Okay. Downward dog. But Rex thinks I need help, but I'm to a yoga. But they post what kind of dogs they have. Mm-hmm. And they've had, Bernese mountain dogs. There's videos of, St. Bernard puppies golden retrievers. So it's not little dogs, it's English bulldogs, but they're puppies. Mm-hmm. So they're little, I mean, you know, they're still big. They're still big. They're, they're, they're thick. They're, they're jump on your back. They're not, they're not chihuahuas. Yeah. Or wear a shitzu or anything small. Yeah. But, oh my gosh, that is, yeah. Yeah, I'm in. Let me know. Okay. Can't wait. Can't wait to do that one. Don't make fun of me. I'm not flexible. Oh God. Not at all. Especially with all this I have going on today. Well, do you want to do the, am I the A-hole? Yeah. Okay, so let's talk about this. Am I the A-hole? You want me to talk about it? Mm-hmm. Okay. So I found the am I the A-hole this week? Yes. And I found it because I was listening to a book that this was in. I love that they have incorporated Am I the A-Hole into Book? I know, and it was, it's so, it's the very beginning of the book and it is a little summer read. It's called Just for the Summer. It's the name of the book and it's by Abby Jimenez or something. I don't know how to say her last name, but, it's a series. Very cute summer romantic comedy kind of beat tree. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Definitely beat tree. Thank you. I was trying to get there and I couldn't, so I'm gonna read the, am I the a, a-hole from the book? Okay. Okay. Am I the A-hole for naming my Ugly Dog After my ex Best Friend? 29 male have been friends with Chad 32 male since we were born. Our moms are best friends and we grew up together and we were roommates for the last 10 years up until the incident that set our current situation into motion. I have this little streak, if you will, basically every woman I date more than a few times. Ends up finding her soulmate right after we break up. So that's the premise of the book.'cause this woman also has this thing where she dates people, they break up and they find their soulmate. So that's how they connected. But here's the, the rest of the dog story. It started three years ago and now it's happened five times. We break up. And the very next person they date is the one. My friends think this is hilarious. I always part ways with the women on good terms, and I'm happy they're happy, but my buddies tease me. Mercifully, mercilessly about it. They called me the good luck charm. Anyway, forward to five months ago. I dated Hope for a few weeks. Not a big deal. We decided we weren't filling it. No chemistry. So we called it quits, and then lo and behold, she hits it off with Chad, his roommate. Of course, in true luck, charm and fashion. This means Chad is her soulmate. Chad's all googly ad over her. They've met the parents, they're ring shopping. They wanna move in together immediately. Only problem is Chad has six more months on our lease, but they found the perfect home for him and hope he can afford to have the rent in both places. So he has to make the decision to leave. So I've spent weeks stressing. I didn't wanna find a new roommate. The landlord wouldn't let me outta the lease. Only unit available in the complex is a studio. It's small, but it's temporary and it's cheap. I jumped on the chance, but this is why it's terrible. It directly faces one of the billboards for the toilet kings. So anyway, because, and, and this keeps. Keeps going over. So now after all this, they have, he named the dog Chad after his roommate that he's still like best friends with. But anyway, it's just a cute, cute, cute book now. So do you think he's the a-hole for name of the dog after his ugly dog after his ex-roommate? No, I don't think so either. No. I don't think so either. And everybody wants him to change the dog's name. After, you know, they, they find out the story behind it. They're like, just change the dog's name. He's like, Nope. No, I don't, I don't think he's the, a-hole. I don't think so either. I don't think so either. But it was so funny. So he talks about the, dude is dressed like Henry Tudor and holding a plunger over a giant poop filled toilet bowl. It should be illegal. Right. I'm annoyed, but I decided to try for, I find a reason to spend more time outside so I don't have to stare out of my window. So I got the dog. Chad would never agree to it before, but now I have named him Chad. I just, I think it's hilarious. Roommate. Yeah. I, I think it's hilarious. So the whole book is, and I know some of our people that aren't book users are still here, but the whole book is just filled with that. Just funny. Yeah. Witty. Kind of stuff, so read it. If you want to feel free to name your next pet after Stephanie or Meredith, you should get two. Two. Stephanie and Meredith. Chunky one is me. The lazy one is me. The short one is me. The one with all the energy is I would die if somebody named their pets after us. You. What if they're like journals? I would lose it. I don't if somebody named an animal after me and you. Well, I mean two animals. Their name's not like Stephanie Meredith. They're married with Stephanie, but two separate animals. Even if it's fish, like the fish that just die after a week. Well, you know, something's just, I would lose it. That's when I'll know we have made it. Yes. Well. I'm just saying good names called great names. Think of all the nicknames. Oh my God. A person, A person, mayor Bear. I don't know why that popped in my head. So that was just a little quick, short in of the A-hole. Well, I think we're gonna move on to our book. So if you're not a bookie Yep. Piece out. We love you. We love you. Leave a review, tell your friends, learn to read. Adios. So for our bookies this week, we have read, she was the Quiet one by Michelle Campbell. And. This kinda, I thought was gonna have all the things like there was the Boarding school and like the rich, snotty kids and mm-hmm. All the things. So, chat, GPT gave me this little wine. Okay. In Michelle Campbell's, she was the quiet one. Twin sisters Rosen Bell Enright enroll at an elite New England boarding school where sibling rivalry, rival rivalry, yes, that word, toxic friendships and predatory teacher coate in a tragic murder that leaves one sister dead in the other under suspicion. I was not impressed with this book. I wanted to be. I did too. I, again, doc, like we had taught, it has a lot of the pieces that we like. It has a lot of the, you know, the twin thing, the trifecta, the twin thing, the boarding school. And that was one more thing that we were interested in. Money. Money. Just, just money. Yeah. And it was, it was like. Average. Mm-hmm. And I figured it all out mm-hmm. As it was going. And yeah, I was just not impressed. I didn't think that the characters were developed well, no, I didn't think so. I'm glad you said that. I didn't think so either. And it was the only, the only twist for me at all was at the very, very, very, very, very end of the book when the little spoilers, right? Mm-hmm. Obviously the, when was it Darcy that did the epilogue, like a little piece of the epilogue at the end? At the very end It was somebody else who said that they had already won the game. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the only twist. Yeah. That came outta nowhere for me. But I did not like this. I even though I don't like Sure. Warning pedophilia, obviously. With the relationship between the students and the teachers, it was still lacking. I. I, again, it was flat. Yeah. I, I was not impressed. Uhhuh, it was unremarkable. Mm-hmm. The characters, like nothing really stood out. Mm-hmm. That I thought even like the teachers weren't really teaching anything. Mm-hmm. The cops, the only thing I did like. Kind of was a lot of the story was told in a police setting where they were being interrogated. Yeah. I thought that was a little bit different, but yeah, there was some bounce back and forth between the interrogation and the actual timeline, right? Mm-hmm. So I think that part was interesting or different. But the rest of it. Mm-hmm. I just didn't think there was anything special about it. Yeah. I thought it was very one dimensional. Mm-hmm. Just didn't have a lot of, depth to it, and there's a lot of potential there. and I felt like too, they started to explore some of the, the stuff like. They get into the relationship between the sisters, but they could have done a lot more with that. Mm-hmm. I mean, other than just, I forgive you. Yeah. Or I'm mad at you. You know, there wasn't a lot there. Yeah. To me felt like, like a bad lifetime movie. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Is Yeah. What I thought, yeah. When I was listening like, this is. Yeah. Not good. I was not a fan of the, was his name Zach? Yeah. Even the way he was presented, I didn't like anything that he brought to the table. None of it was impressive. Mm-hmm. Don't recommend if you haven't read it yet, I don't recommend. No, it was like I three, I was gonna say four. I made it through. Yeah. But, well, it was one of those too that like. You keep thinking something's gonna, it is gonna shift or it's gonna pick up but it was just always very blah. Mm-hmm. Dry. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That was a very descriptive word I used. Um, well, next week hopefully the book will be better. Okay. Next week is, that's not my name by Megan Lolly. And this was all over TikTok, so I have. Better hope for this book. All right. She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. It was a mistake to trust him shivering and bruised. A teen wakes up on the side of the dirt road with no memory of how she got there or who she is. A passing officer takes her to the police station and not long after a frantic man arrives. He's been searching for her for hours. He has her school id, her birth certificate, and even family photos. He is her father. Her name is Mary, or so he says, when Lola slammed the car door and stormed off into the night, drew thought they just needed some time to cool off, except Lola disappeared and the sheriff, his friends in the whole town are convinced Drew murdered his girlfriend. Forget proving his innocence. He needs to find her before it's too late. The longer Lola is missing, the fewer leads there are to follow and the more danger they both are in. So I have read this, okay. When I was going through our list, trying to get a little bit ahead and loved it. Okay. I actually am downloading it again to read it again. Okay. Because I enjoyed this one. That is for next week. Hi, hopes and I think that's it. Okay. Yeah. Thank you guys for listening. We love you. Please, like we thank you. 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