🎪 Episode 83 Parenting, True Crime and Chaos: Goat Cuddles, Gossip Nurses, Diddy Drama & Dexter IRL

Hosts: Stefanie Navarro & Meredith Hill
Run Time: 49 Mins

Theme: Baby goats, Hero dads, Bronzer Dupe Win, New Obsessions, Diddy Case, Real life Dexter, AITA, Book Club Review

Welcome back to This Is My Circus — the podcast where parenting meets pop culture chaos, and goat cuddling is cheaper than therapy. This week, we’re bringing stories that range from adorable to unhinged, including TikTok trolls, cruise ship heroes, and a real-life Dexter you won’t believe.

In this episode, we cover:

• 🐐 Our literal goat cuddling experience (yes, we paid extra and yes, it was worth every penny)
• ⚠️ A Disney Cruise dad jumps overboard to save his daughter — and treads water for 20 minutes like a legend
• 🩺 A new nurse spreads affair rumors… about a daughter and her dad? Yikes.
• 🧴 Drugstore beauty wins: The $1.25 bronzing drops you need now
• ✈️ Meredith’s obsession with Emirates airline and why we were meant to fly first-class forever

🧼 Real Talk + Life Lately:

• Our chaotic Dollar Tree finds (thank you Nina Pool!)
• Tried the new local spot, The Cattle Car — rustic glam + great food? Yes please.
• Gas station pranks, and the weirdest storms of summer

🎙️ “Am I the A-Hole?”

A hospital social worker gets a nurse fired for spreading gossip that she’s having an affair with...her dad.
 Verdict: Not the A-hole. But also...what’s going on in that hallway?

🧠 Deep Dives + Weird News:

• A real-life Dexter in Brazil: Pedro Rodriguez, aka “The Brazilian Vigilante,” claimed over 100 victims — but only the “bad guys”
• Four 5th-grade girls plot a classmate’s murder over cheating rumors. WHAT.
• A wind turbine blade falls into traffic — Final Destination flashbacks incoming
• Conspiracy TikTok alert: CIA files, Mandela effects, and the rabbit hole you’ll never crawl out of

📚 Book Chat: What She Left by H.K. Christie

We wanted to love this one — the mystery, the flawed PI mom, the buried secrets — but the robotic narration and stiff dialogue took us out of it.

⭐️ Rating: 2.5/10
 💬 Strong premise, poor execution. The addiction arc was solid, but the pacing dragged and the delivery was dry.

📖 Next Read: You by Charles Benoit

A dark YA thriller told in second person. It’s short, intense, and under 4 hours — let’s see if it redeems our reading week.

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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 Stephen Meredith and welcome to This is my circus. You know, we are proof that podcasting equipment is way too cheap apparently. Bonehead, our TikTok comment, as Jackson said, when you get haters, that means you made it. So I got, a TikTok violation for my response. And my response wasn't even bad. No, it wasn't. It said Every circus needs clowns. Thanks for, uh, a auditioning. Auditioning, and that got flagged for, are you a bully? Apparently? So much bad stuff on TikTok. I know that that's, that's what they flagged. That's what they got. So of course I went in and trolled his page and made a comment back about something about him loving. And so, I don't know, being a good person or whatever. Apparently not, dude. Es suck. Totally suck. I am a bully. Um, how you been? Good. How are you? I'm okay. It is storming like a mofo it. Yeah. Well they it's better now. Yeah. I, we've having these like flash storms though. Yeah. This summer. Yeah. I was like two inches from texting you and being like, um, I almost texted you and said, did you wanna hold off? Just, just wait a minute. So I went ahead and got in the car and came this way. And of course, my gas light was on because that's how I roll. Do you, do you like, like use every I do single gram. Or fluid ounce, whatever it's, I, I sometimes get the little dashes where there's like nothing Uhhuh, Uhhuh. Yeah. I just like to see, I like to give Brian, uh, like I make it go down to like one mile to empty just to see his reaction. So I pulled into the gas station right there across from McDonald's on the way here, and I pulled up beside a vehicle that looked familiar and I. I was like, oh, that looks like Olivia's car. And she had left the door open. It was her. And I saw her walking in, but her kids were in the car. Mm-hmm. One of them, her youngest one, Jace. And he was sitting in the front seat and he had his headphones on her. And I could tell he was not paying attention to anything. So of course I get in her car in the driver's seat and I shut the door and I look at him and I say, are you ready? And he was like, yeah. Like still not looking. He just, but just responded. And I said, well, where do you wanna go? And I wish I would've recorded it.'cause he looked over at me and he went like literally like fear. And by this time I had waved to Olivia, like when I pulled up. So she had her umbrella walking to me. Mm-hmm. And I guess she saw the whole interaction from outside. She was like, why didn't we record that? I said. I thought he would see me. Mm-hmm. And like have some kind of reaction. He did have reaction, but it was after the whole situation, so it was great. It was great. You know, don't leave your kids unattended. I'm just kidding. He was like 15. He's fine. I'm just kidding. I remember when he, everybody was like, you are such a sucker. He was selling rocks that he found in the, prize. I. How many rocks did you buy? Stuff? I, I don't know. I bought at least one for a dollar. That's adorable though. That's so cute. Everybody's like, you are such a sucker. I'm like, he's so cute. He is so cute. So he's going into the sixth grade now. Isn't crazy. I know. Um, freaking flies. Yeah. Yeah. So that was fun. That just happened. That just happened. So that's my day. Hmm. That's my day. Got my hair cut. It looks amazing. Thanks. Covered up the grays. Yeah. Yeah. you know, I, I love my, Nina pool. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So this has been out for a while and I just never am able to find him at the Dollar Tree, but it's the drunken elephant's bronzer Duke. Oh, yeah. Did you find him? I did. They had him at our Dollar Tree. And they are amazing. Really. I just put'em in, you know, all those little vial thingies that we got? Yeah. The serum. Yeah. So I like the more thicker serum in the gold tube. Yeah. use just so a little bit of that and the, like two drops of the bronzer. And that's all I use. That's, that's it. Real. That's this, that's this. That's this. Yeah. That's it, Uhhuh and that did that with the, with the, but yeah. No, no foundation, no nothing. This is just, I am super du impressed. I need to take a picture of that, which is why I had my camera on and then Rex was there and I was like, oh, picture of Rex. Yeah. So this is a Nina pool wreck. Mm-hmm. See, I gotta stop by there on the way home. Anyway, the one right here in Clifford. Love it. I know. And I can never, ever find'em. They're always sold out. And so when I saw'em, I was like, oh, I'm gonna have to go. But then I didn't know if I was gonna like them. Now you need like four, so this will last forever. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's literally like a one and a half, maybe two drops. I, I'm shook. Yes. You look great. Thank you. You are welcome. I went and met with another, dog sitter today for Rex, just as the backup. Yeah. She was great. And then she's like, I said, oh, well I've got like a 17-year-old. She's like, you do not look old enough. I'm like, thank you. You do not. She's like, how old are you? I'm like, I'll be 43 in like a week and a half, two weeks. And she's like, oh my God. If I could look like the pet when I get to your age. And I was like, thank you. I could look like that when I was 20. I'd be happy. You're a normal my little pocket person. Right, right. You're gorge. You're gorge. You don't need all the drops. All the things I do like the drops just'cause you look good glow. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I have on lipstick again today. Because after I watched it, I was like, I look a little bit better with some color on, so I don't, it made me, well, it just made me feel a little bit, you know, sometimes you just need to feel something. Mm-hmm. Um, one of our fines for the week was we went to the new restaurant opened at Clover. How was it? It was really good. Yeah. It was called the Cattle car. And, we went Sunday evening, so they opened last week. We gave it a few days and we went. I loved it, loved the vibe. The inside is amazing. You let me know when you wanna go check it out. Um, but it's like. Rustic meets glam with like chandeliers and exposed brick. I just loved it. Yeah. Food was really good. Brian did not like the wings, but he said, he said the salad was really good and all the other things, and I loved what I had and Jackson was happy, so loved it. Service was great. Definitely be back. Awesome. Yeah. And they had a great drink menu. Did not get anything from that. They were still really busy. Yeah. So it was just like, let me just check it out a little bit. Gotta say die down a little bit. Oh yeah. So, okay. I have a new addiction. Okay, well, what did you have to talk about? Because I'm No, let's, I'm a, I'm a Jabber. Listen, I love your addiction, so give it to me. Okay. Hold on. I gotta look up the name of it and I'll say it wrong. Well, in the meantime, yes, I am missing that baby goat. So bad we went, my gosh. So if y'all did not see our posts, we went and cuddled baby goats because there was a fundraiser at the Tractor Supply and we. It was everything. It was amazing. It was everything. So I wanna say it supported Clover Middle School's, FFA, or Clover. It was something with Clover Middle, and um, I. They had like six or eight little goats over there. Mm-hmm. So they were from a farm that actually lives behind my house. Happy Hooves and Feathers Farm. The, the Home of Noodle, the Home of Noodle, my sweet Bebb noodle, um, the Home of Noodle. Her name is Megan. And we're gonna have her on the pod one day just to chat. And she invited us to the farm. She did invite us to the farm. I know I need to message her so we can get that hooked up. But let me tell you how. Much. I love that baby goat. I know. So your baby goat was like two weeks old, Uhhuh. It was like the size of a like small cocker spaniel. I loved it and it kept falling asleep at me. I loved you. And it pooped my nose and it just was like the most pill. I'm so surprised you did not smuggle that baby. I didn't want it to So bad. Yeah, that baby was everything. Oh, fucking goodness. Well, so the one that I held first, loved that, loved that little thing, but then the other started staring at me and I was like. And I have this thing where I have to include, oh, no, I was keeping that baking. You were totally fine. So I, I switched like three or four times, like all gave, gave them all a little cuddle. Mm-hmm. One of them was not into my cuddles. Mm-hmm. Didn't, didn't keep that one too long. But wasn't vibing. Was not vibing. Wanted to co run around with this friends, get it. So they were from like two weeks old to I think like two months. Mm-hmm. Adores. Oh my gosh. I just like that little baby was everything. I had his head on your shoulder. Yeah. And just was closing his eyes. Those pictures were so sweet. I was obsessed. Yeah. If, if you've never cuddled a baby goat, I highly recommend. Mm-hmm. 10 outta 10. Skip your therapy for that week. Paid the$5. We paid the$10. If we didn't want them to, we wanted extra time. If I had known how amazing that that cuddle was, I would've given the full 20. We were gonna take 200 bucks, but other people were starting to, we were there like right when it opened and it was perfect and everybody was like starting to come and gather and ask questions so we can give the little five yearold a chance. Gotta give up our scene. Yeah. But that was. That was so much fun. Yes, it was perfect section. Okay, so my new addiction that I am just a hundred percent into and I cannot stop watching tiktoks about it and just pictures of it is an airline. I must fly on this airline, Emirates, have you ever heard of this airline? Mm-hmm. They are. Uber fancy and like they have these uniforms that they all have to wear and they all have to look a certain way with the bright red lipstick and the flights. Oh my God. Hold on. I gotta show you. Are these like private? I don't know. No, no, no, they're outta Dubai. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But they, they fly to like over a hundred destinations, but they do have separate classes. But their first class has private suites with closing doors, meals, and showers. Oh, so they got like apartments in there pretty much. But check out the way that they're are they air stewardess? Is that what they're still calling? Yeah, whatever Flight attendants. I don't know. Air Secretary, I don't know, but woman man. But look, oh, that's, but they all have to wear a red lipstick. They, and they can wear any shade of red. Um, but they're all beautiful. They all have to have like certain dental, um, like their, their smile has to look a certain way. They can't have any obvious missing teeth or anything like that, but mm-hmm. I am fascinated with, like they'll do the get readys with me and all that kind of stuff and they'll do like, I'm so weird. But they'll do like the before and then they'll put their makeup on and they're so stunning. Mm-hmm. And they tell you how did they take care of the hat that has the veil attached to it? Oh my gosh. You know how I went to the soccer game and I was like, I was meant to live like that. Uhhuh. That's how I was meant to fly. That airline. That base needs to be based out of Clover, South Carolina. Not gonna happen, but okay. Never, ever, ever gonna happen. But it is just how the other half lives like it is just. I had no idea that that was a thing. I mean, outside of like private. Mm-hmm. I had no idea. Yeah. That that was something. And now we don't live that life. We do not. We should though. But I could Totally. We should. I, it wouldn't take me long to adjust. No. I could fall into that real, real quick, real fast, real quick. I mean, I'm actually there. I, I have to work to not be in that. Yeah. Okay. I, I get that. Yeah. So, any new addictions for you lately? Uh, no. I just started watching a new show on Netflix called, I think it's The Survivors or something like that. Mm-hmm. And it's out of Australia, so they got the accents. Okay. The survivors. Yeah. Okay. it's about Years and years ago, two kids died trying to save a brother Okay. From like the caves that were flooding. Mm-hmm. And then he left. I'm just, I'm holding my breath because you know how that does me. He left, for a long time and, you know, came back to town for something with his dad. His dad's got dementia now, and now there's another murder. So, okay. It's seeing all the, how everything has unfolded and. Some on, I like episode three, but it's really good so far. That sounds good. Do you remember what service, what stream? Netflix is a Netflix one. Mm-hmm. So I talked to Jackson into starting Squid game with me. Oh, Dylan watches that. I do not, I know. So he watched the one last night, the first episode, or the first season last night, and he was making fun of it pretty much the whole way. And towards the end, he was like. So he texted me right before I came over here and he said, you wanna watch episode two soon? And I was like, I'm going to record and then we can in a little bit. Aw. He was like, okay. Um, Dylan went over Tyler's and I was like, well, what are you guys gonna do? He's like, oh, the new season of school games is out, so we're gonna binge it tonight. I was like, okay. There you go. It's so good. It is totally not my thing, but I love it. Yeah, I love it. So Brian was watching TV when I left and something was across the screen about partial verdict for Diddy. Did you see that? I did. I think one of the counts, they have given a guilty. Verdict. But there was one juror they had problems within hours, of going into deliberation, Uhhuh, because this juror was like, guilty. I don't care what anybody else says. He's guilty in all charges and I'm not discussing it. Okay. And I'm done. I mean, yeah, but still, she's like, I'm done. And like I don't wanna discuss anything. I don't want to, like, I'm done like guilty on all charges. And so it might be one of our listeners, so I don't know if it's a guy, girl, whatever. Right, right. I think there was eight men and four women on the jury. Okay. Okay. So I know that that went to the judge yesterday. Mm-hmm. That there was an issue already. And then today they came back with one of the counts was a guilty, and I apparently Diddy was like f furious in the courtroom. But there was five. Charges to deliberate on total. Okay. I don't, and I don't follow, like every trial. Mm-hmm. I really don't know how it works, but I'm surprised that they delivered one of the verdicts and I think it was a precursor for the, RICO charge. Oh, okay. So that's guilty. I'm as like, it's tends to be that. Yeah. Yeah. Most of the rest of them probably will. Yeah. But then they also said that there was a, um, uh, what are those, those guys? Uh. Something, Marshall, um, court Marshall, maybe, I don't know. US Marshall, US Marshall, that came and was in there with Diddy, his attorneys and the judge and somebody in the comment section. So this is just take it with a grain of salt. Right. Said that he probably flipped on somebody. Oh. To try to, yeah. Wiggle outta something, something. So I don't know if that's true or not. Somebody in the comment section said that that's normally what this would be. I mean, that makes sense. But yeah, so who knows? But, okay, well moving right along with the, the thing. I'm glad you had the tea on that.'cause I like literally had to leave when I saw that and Brian's like, what are, what are they saying? And I was like, no idea. It just me, it just says partial. Well we're recording on Tuesday, so hopefully by Thursday. Yeah. You know, nobody's gonna wanna go into the holiday weekend. Right. With this Right. Lingering. So I tend to think that they're either gonna Yeah. Hung jury or push it one way or the other. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. That's true. And I forget sometimes that there's the delay. Mm-hmm. Like the people aren't listening live. Yeah. So hopefully by Thursday we have something. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So Stephanie Sue. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Our rotten mango girl. Mm-hmm. I was watching one of her. Recent tiktoks or listening to one of her recent podcasts. I don't know, something that she said and they're thinking, Kanye is next. Didn't she go missing for for like a week? Stephanie Sue? I don't know because everybody on TikTok was like, where is she?'cause she like, oh, I don't know. Yeah. She was silent. Really? Yeah. I'm thinking this was her most recent, Podcast that dropped, but apparently Kanye was in court. Yeah. He, well, he only stopped in there, I guess, to show his support. Right. but that's the word on the street is that Kanye is next. Mm. I would think like Jay-Z would be next. Kanye's already like Yeah. Falling off. Yeah. Gone. The flat earth that he's on is gone right off the edge. Is that what that means? All over the edge. Oh my gosh. I'm learning new things. Is that what that means? Okay, great. Okay. So. Did you see, how about that kid that fell off of the Disney cruise? Yes. Did you see the heroic save? Okay, so I have mixed feelings and two things can be true at the same time. Mm-hmm. But. As of right now, they're saying that the dad had put the child on the, on the ledge Yes. To take a photo. Mm-hmm. And the kid went overboard, but his immediate, I mean, no hesitation, went right in after the child. Mm-hmm. Jumped off of the boat into the water. Mm-hmm. Was able to locate the child and was able to tread water for 20 minutes. Holding that child up. Yeah. Yeah. Which is incredible. It is. It's, have you ever tried to tread water? So, yes, and I don't. Okay. I'm sure it's because I have extra, um, flotation devices, but I don't sink. Oh, when you're in the water, do you go like down to the bottom? I don't know because I don't. Well, and so I never knew that I was, I never knew that I was different. Until Brian and I would like try to race across the pool and he'd be like, just go on the bottom. Well, I go on the bottom and I float up. Mm-hmm. Brian like stays on the bottom. So treading water or floating from me is not a huge feat. I think if you flipped over on your back and like Yeah. Just floated that way. Yeah. Because it's way easier. Yeah. I just dunno. With a child, with them. Panicking or just, you know, the weight of it or just them flailing I mean, so yeah. That's a, that's a, that's a fault. That's a lot. Yeah. Oh gosh. Yeah. So like, thank God there was no injuries. Yes. But when we, got certified for scuba diving mm-hmm. In college. Because that was our college pe so useful, so glad you did that, dude. It was like the best like PE class judgment. No, zero, zero judgment. We went, we did it in the YMCA pool, like the classes. Gosh, that's so funny. And then we had to do our open water dive, and we did that in Mexico. But when you're doing your, classes, you have to tread water and you can't hold onto anything and you have to tread water for like five minutes. Okay. Without touching anything. Anything. And you have to just like sit there and tread. Yeah. Yeah. And it was not easy. You were tired to continue it for that long, the movement. Yeah. And to stay in one spot and Yeah. Just tread. Yeah. Not swimming, not like Right. Move it. I mean, you just had to sit in the same spot and tread water and that, that sucked. Yeah. So I'm thinking like that. And then like 20 minutes of that with the child, with the child. That's crazy. So good job dad for Right, right, right. Nobody knows a real story. This is just what was put out there by people. Right. Assuming. But again, two things can be true at once. Yes. It's not like he pushed the child off, but putting a child railing. Yeah. Not the smartest Yeah. Move. Right, right, right. But awesome job saving your kid, Uhhuh. Absolutely. And awesome for Disney. Like getting those boats out there, uhhuh as they did. Yeah. A hundred percent response time was hundred percent. When we had gone on a cruise, Jackson went like five, six, somewhere like six, seven. if we were inside and he was sitting on a ledge that the glass behind it was so clear it didn't look like there was glass. So he's just sitting there and I took a picture and when we got back, you know, upload my pictures and posted that one, and everybody's like, I can't believe you put'em on that ledge. I'm like, those are the class. Yeah. Yeah. Glass behind it. Mm-hmm. But. I don't think I would put Jackson on a ledge with no class. I wouldn't put me on a ledge with no class, even in my most athletic days. So I value my life. Mm-hmm. A hundred percent. So, gosh, I'm glad the kid didn't Dr. All the things. All the things. Insane. Crazy. How old was the child? Do you remember? I wanna say like five. Yeah. Around there. Oh, glad everybody's okay. Same. Yeah. Glad everybody's okay. Well, who is not? Okay? Are these four girls that are, from Arizona? Did you hear about the four girls that plotted the murder of a boy in their class? No. Yeah. Okay. This is in Arizona. Okay. Four fifth grade girls plotted to Lura, boy to the bathroom at recess. Stab him to death and then have a suicide note ready to make it look like. He took his own life because he. Was dating one of these girls and cheated on her in fifth grade. Yeah, but still, each of them had an assigned part. I mean, this was like all plotted out, like written out, plotted of who was doing what. So one girl was to bring the knife, the other girl would do the act itself. Another would be the lookout, and the last was in charge of writing the note. Some students at the school found out and told a teacher, thank God. Yeah. Administration searched the backpacks of the girls and found all the things to commit this action. So obviously they called the police. Police came, arrested, the four girls. Here's the like the worst part. Okay. I mean that's all horrible. Yeah. Three outta the four girls showed remorse was upset. Like, oh, they just got caught up in it and yeah. You know, whatever. The fourth girl laughed and said he deserved it. That chick is going like psycho. I bet she was the one who was designated to do the actual fifth grade. Yeah. That's crazy. That's terrible. No, she needs all kinds of help. No remorse. Nothing. Yeah. She's gonna be Yeah, that's, that's bad. That's terrifying. That's bad. They need to go ahead and look and see if she's harming animals and wedding the bed and like, uh, some kind of treatment center or like something to get help. Yeah, because could you imagine being in the room with your child and that's their reaction? No. Can you imagine that not being your child and you're the interviewer or whatever? And I'd be terrified that I'd be like, yeah, that's like, ugh, demons. So this fucking, now could you imagine being the poor boy? I bet you he's never gonna, she got nobody. No, no. Poor dude. He's probably never gonna have another girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever. Again, he's done. Oh. Learning a lesson. Right. Um, did you see the article about the ginormous, Windmill blade that fell into traffic. No, I showed Brian that and he was like, is that ai? And I was like, no, that's real. So in Maryland, a huge giant windmill blade and I showed you the picture. It went across the whole interstate. Mm-hmm. Like all the lanes on both sides of traffic. It came loose on Monday and it hit interstate 70 in Maryland and caused traffic to be backed up for miles. Can. This is the can you imagine episode right here? Can you imagine though, just driving down the road, talk about, what was that movie Final destination? Yeah. Oh my goodness. To this day, this morning, I got behind a logging truck, Uhuh. Yeah. Skirted right around him. Nope. That is craziness now. Okay. Let's make it worse. Okay. You're like, oh, okay. Oh, and nobody was hurt as far as we know, which is crazy. Yeah. They skirted it. It's coming up. Yeah. Like you're riding with Dylan. You're teaching him to drive and this happens. I think when we're doing that, it would be instinct to figure out the best thing to do in the moment and, and make it happen. I can't even think about how to verbalize somebody, how to navigate around or through or whatever that I. No, Lord, that mercy is crazy. Just a couple weeks ago, there was a tractor trailer right in Charlotte. That was carrying glass, like glass doors or glass windows and crashed or flipped or something. And there was glass everywhere. I mean, for, for days. Oh my goodness. The, the highway was covered in glass. I didn't hear about that from this truck. Could you? How many tires? Oh my gosh. It was probably a conspiracy. They were in cahoots, maybe the tractor trailer truck in cahoots with the tire companies. Well, thank God nobody was hurt. But I can't imagine a crazy huge, huge, huge thing. I found a new TikTok for that. I think you'll love. Okay. Because it's all conspiracy theories and like declassified, CIA Docs. Huh. Give me the, the deep. Yeah. Okay. It's curiosities, unknown is the name. Watch out already. Follow them. I don't know. I was, he's like our CIA declassified conspiracy of the day is, and I was like, oh, what are we talking about? We were like, lemme get, lemme get my popcorn. I am in. But he has got some really, I mean, you, you are gonna go down some rabbit holes. Okay. Because things I've never heard of. Is this a warning? Yeah. Yeah. There's your warning. I did not already follow him, so we'll add him to my list. Awesome stuff. He goes through the, empty ultra Mandela effects. Oh yeah. Okay. Oh, you know, I'm fascinated with that one. Tarter. That's like where they're saying it's the advanced civilization. Okay. That was supposedly wiped out from our memories. Okay. But are still okay. Okay. The CIA testing for telepathy and like all the mind control stuff through the CIA. Okay. The Dolce base alien war that was in New Mexico. Oh yeah. Okay., I mean, everything Rabbit, rabbit whole galore. Okay. So, okay. If you get bored, like I was, if you have hours of your life to lose that. You want to go down his bananas though? Yeah. Like, oh, a hundred percent. Yeah. Stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Craziness. Yeah, a hundred percent. So, have you ever met anybody who believe? No. Okay. Let me preface this by saying I believe that the world is round, the earth is round. I think the majority of people probably do don't know. Have you ever met anybody who thinks it's flat? Yes. So I always thought when I heard flat. That they were thinking like a cube. Like a square. They mean flat. Like, like a desk. Yeah. Like there's one end and one end. Yeah. And I don't know why that just hit me. And I was like, huh. Yeah. I don't, I mean, there, there's really no more revelation for me than that. Other than that, what they meant. But, I watched a TikTok on that, right. And. So yeah, they're like, well, why in the Disney movies does the rocket not go straight up in the air? It it dos. I was like, is that a rocket? I thought it was a shooting star. I thought it was a shooting star. I was like, wish upon star. Oh my gosh. Everything we ever knew ha has just been wiped out of our Yeah. I'm not the person to ask about specific No, no, no, no, no facts. No, no. None of the things that are real, that are accurate, that matter. No, not at all. Not at all. But you asked me what happened in the Harry Potter movie. Music lyrics from the nineties. Yeah. There's no question music lyrics today, I can't remember. It's like my memory, stopped working. Mm-hmm. At a very specific time. I feel like it's full. Yeah. And that's why I keep saying I can't learn anything else because I'm going to lose information. Yeah. If new information comes in a hundred percent, and it's really, really important that I remember the Green day lyrics. It's like when my computer tells me it's full and it can't save my files and I have to delete stuff, and I'm like, I really can't delete anything. Right. I don't know what's on there. Must save that on. But if I saved it, I probably need it. And that's how I feel about my brain. I know. Do you find though, that it's harder for you to learn now than it used to be? Yeah, a hundred percent. Yeah. I used to be such a good multitasker and quick, I mean, I'm still at my job, like I'm still, I'm not like lollygagging, but just to be able to, I love that word, lollygagging. But yeah, it's so much harder now to learn new things. They have never been a good like. Take time to do a task. Like I have to work under pressure. Mm-hmm. even in school, if we had a report mm-hmm. And we had a month to do it, I'd be doing it the day before. Yeah. Like from start to finish the day before. Yeah. There was no pre-writing. Right. And there was no process. It was, it was final draft as the first draft. Yeah. Yeah. And get it turned in. Yeah. That's the only way I can start. I do too. And I do better hands on. I want to do it myself. Mm-hmm. I'll never forget the first time I assisted in surgery. Like I'd been observing and doing the things and all of a sudden the lady that I've been watching just like stepped back and wait. What surgery? Eye surgery. You did eye surgery? Mm-hmm. I thought you just worked at the eye doctor, like I Until you did the surgery? Yeah, I was in the surgery room too and I assisted in, yeah, in eye surgery. Mm-hmm. Cut the eyeballs. But, oh, you do? You need a minute. Oh, amazing. I, I'm jack of all trades, master of none her really? No. I just thought you worked like, you like did this, I did the things, I did the better one better too and did the, glaucoma test and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. But I would, I did assisted eye surgery, but, so I had been observing and like learning not all the things and every surgeon had a different Is your mind just blown right now? I thought you were just being sarcastic, like, well, you know, when I was surgery, like no, I kept going and I was like, wait, when do you think there's nothing else she can learn about me? You learn more. I love it. I know, right? But you know, every, just like, we all have different things that, different preferences. Every surgeon is different. Like some are methodical the exact same thing every time and some are just. As fast as they can get stuff done in whatever order they wanna do it, you know? Mm-hmm. Whatever, that he was a great surgeon, but still he wanted it done quickly. Well, but, but I'll never forget the first time, you know, you're nervous and you're anxious and you're watching and you're learning and you're taking notes and you've done the certifications and everything. And she just like backed up and left and she was like, glove up. And I was like, okay. And that was my first assist. Like really? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah, it was, it was terrifying, but it went well, and I loved that. I loved that job. That was, that was fun. No, I don't like that. Well, you know, I refused to do any of the dissecting stuff in like, I was like, gimme the zero was not touching any kind of deaded things. Yeah. Like I wasn't dissecting things, was not doing the science things. Yeah. Science. Not for me. Yeah. Gimme like, like the potion stuff. Like, like gimme like the chemicals to like mix. Mm-hmm. I will blow something up. The problem like the biology part of you, but I'm not putting nothing open. I, here's why I really liked it. I was kind of removed from it because I wasn't doing it. I was just handing the instruments and doing the lasers and stuff, the lasers, star Wars, my eyes just started twitching. But here's what I really liked it about. That was one piece of what I did in ophthalmology. But all of those patients, 99% of them were healthy. Nobody was like in pain or hurting and you know, it was just making everybody get rid of their glasses or their contact lenses. Like it was all just, you know, none of it was, you know,, didn't really require a lot of compassion. Thanks. Hard pass. Hard pass. Well, there, there's your Meredith for the day. There you go. I'm good. No, thanks. Never. I get it. I get it. No. Let's talk about some slicing and Dyson. Yeah. Did you watch Dexter? Yeah. Okay. Did you know that there was a real life Dexter? No. And, Brazil. I actually do feel like I heard this. His name is Pedro Rodriguez. Okay. I'm probably butchering that name, but in the nineties or something. He died in 2023. Okay. But he was caught in. You're really struggling. Is it in Spanish, in your arena? In Spanish? No, I had chat, um, summarize like this whole big thing that I found. The way you looked, looked like you were just trying to translate it at you. Lemme just read this. Okay. Okay. So Pedro, also known as Pedro Matador or the Brazilian Dexter, was a real life vigilante serial killer. Born October 29th, 1954. Between ages 14 and 19, he murdered suspected criminals, including 14. Well, yeah. He, his dad was a real bum. Oh, okay. And, you know, abusive Yeah. And all the things. Yeah. And so he got, I think, like this very, righteous version of what's right and wrong. Okay. So he never hurt anybody that was innocent. Okay. It was always bad guys. Okay. So his suspected criminals that he. T was drug dealers, rapists and gang members. Mm-hmm. He claimed over a hundred victims, though officially convicted of only 71, but many of the people that he took out, was in prison while he was in prison. Oh. Mm-hmm. So he served 34 years behind bars before being released in 2007. Now. His girlfriend, I believe, was pregnant and a gang member killed her and then that's when he really like went off the edge. Yeah. So he was released in 2007, was re imprisoned in 2011 to 2018 for riots and afterwards became a YouTuber warning against crime before being shot dead on March 5th, 2023. Yeah. Terrifying. He killed o only those, he deemed guilty and, but I'm not any of those bad things, so I guess I shouldn't be afraid of. So his father murdered his mother? Mm-hmm. And I don't know how to say his dad stabbed her 31 times. Well, when he got out prison, he found his dad and stabbed him like 32 times. It was like one more than he did to his mom. but it is almost like he wanted to go to prison so he could finish his Venice, take out everybody. Right? Well, I'm here. Lemme take out the church. Right? Yeah. I don't really have to go find anybody. Here they are, 14 to 19 years old. Mm-hmm. Wowza and then a bunch more in prison. Several articles said that they believe it's like way over a hundred. Yeah, but they can't, I guess those are confirmed, but, but he could, whatever got convicted on 71 believed to be over a hundred, but they believe it's way over that number. Oh my gosh. Bananas. Go, go. Yeah. Wow. I feel like I had heard that before, but you know, I watched so many of the stupid crime shows that it might have just been something I wa That sounds like a criminal minds to be honest. It does. So who knows? My sources might be criminal minds. Who knows? 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. Are you ready for, um, am I the a Never been ready am I the A for getting a new nurse fired for accusing me of having an affair with my father. Hey, Reddit. I'm a hospital social worker at a small hospital. My dad is one of the ER day shift charge nurses. A few weeks ago I was in the ER trying to figure out placement for an elderly patient. When I was leaving, I had a chat with my dad in the hallway. Before I left, he gave me a hug, told me not to be late for dinner. I joked about how I'm going to order the most expensive steak on the menu since it's his turn to pay. I'm a 27 female. My dad is the 51 male. There was a new nurse at the nurse's station nearby. Pretty much everyone knows that he's my dad. I hadn't spoken with this new nurse though much, and she didn't know. Apparently she thought my dad and I were having an affair based off of what she heard and saw. She knew my dad's married to my mom, who brings him lunch sometimes. She immediately began gossiping to some of the other staff that my dad is having an affair with. The hospital social worker, AKA ME one older nurse that I've known for a long time immediately came to tell me, I don't think she liked this new nurse very much. I guess no one decided to tell her that he's my dad. I don't think nobody really likes her. No, I hate gossips. I don't know what it is about nurses, but I swear some of them really love to spread rumors. I decided not to take it up with her and just went straight to hr. We were both asked to come to HR after our shift was over, along with my dad. Now, the HR lady knew that he's my father. When new nurse came in, she was asked to explain and she said she thinks it's terrible that we would so blatantly have an affair, and she was shocked because she thought my dad seemed like a nice guy. My dad then decided to speak up and explained that I'm his child. The new nurse was mortified and apologized. Profusely. The HR lady asked me and my dad to leave. They had a meeting with the unit manager and it was decided that the new nurse would be fired immediately because she was still in her 90 day probationary period. My mom thinks I'm a jerk and I should have just brought it up to the nurse instead of bringing it to HR when I knew she'd probably get fired. I think my mom is also sympathetic because she stopped the woman's Facebook and she's all. Single mom or whatever. I think I was right to get her fired because the hospital doesn't need a bunch of nurses sitting on their butts gossiping instead of doing their jobs. My dad's embarrassed and feels awkward about the whole thing. It's not the first time someone has thought I was dating my dad. And that's, we aren't weird or anything, but it happens. Any who am by the A-hole. Okay. There's a lot to unpack there. There is. There really is. Okay. So if I saw that happen in the hallway, I'd probably be like, what's going on? But I would hope somebody would tell me, I would've probably said, who's that? And they would say, oh, that's his daughter. Right. I couldn't immediately be like, oh, he's having an affair. Or did she do that? And because they didn't like her, they were like, that's one of the social workers. And didn't bother to say that's his daughter. I mean, who knows? Yeah. Who knows what happened. Yeah. But she didn't need to go telling everybody that. And I'm sorry, but everybody gossips at work. Everybody gossips everywhere. That's just how it, how it is. I mean, you need a little reprieve. Right, right. But I mean, I don't know, maybe she's just sensitive that maybe she got cheated on. So everybody she sees, she thinks it's, I don't know. You know what though? As soon as I got in there she tried to throw the, uh, say it again under the bus and was like, oh, I cannot believe you two. Yeah, that's true. That's true. That's true. And she probably has that same attitude. Yeah. I don't think you're the, a-hole. I just don't know if I would have gone about it that way. Well, I don't know. She says she thought she probably would've gotten fired, but it still wasn't her decision to fire the nurse. Yeah. So, I mean, she wasn't in charge of, I mean, I don't think she holds that much sway and her dad, I don't know. But that wasn't her decision to fire them. I mean, how she, she was trying to get them fired in the hr. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, that's just really touchy work stuff is sometimes weird. I think it's weird that a lot of people think that they're dating, that too, like that's weird. How do they act that it's. I don't know. That's weird. Mm-hmm. So, I don't know. I mean, just the, the physical dynamics of it shouldn't, I don't know, whatever. I'm not even gonna go down that. Yeah. Rabbit hole. I don't think you're the, a-hole. I don't either. And if she doesn't know her, I don't know. It almost to me, I get the vibe that it was kind of like a setup, like you said. Mm-hmm. The nurses don't like her. They wanted the new girl out. Mm-hmm. And this was their way of doing it. But now I feel like these same nurses are gonna complain that they need help. And there's nobody else. They more people hired. Yeah. She's probably, well, I listen to me. I'm making up all these like my head. She's probably like the cute, young new nurse. Yeah. Just fresh outta school. Yeah. And these old bitties are that still wear the nurse mask? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think you're the ail. I don't think you were either. But that's just, I think you were played though. Yeah. You were a pawn. Yes. In the scheme of the head nurse Helga. But figure out what's going on with you and your dad because that's not normal. No, that's weird. Yeah. Whether you think it is or not. I think it is. Yeah. That weird. So I'm judging, sorry. Yeah, we're gossiping a up. Congrat. Alright, well, that is it for our non bookies. Yep. If you are non bookie, it is your time to leave. We love you. Tell your friends to listen. Bye bookies. Bye. Alright, so this week we read. What she left by HK Christie, private investigator Martina Monroe. Struggling with her past and teetering on the edge, takes a risky case to identify a mysterious infant in a photo only to uncover a deadly truth to her hometown and her own buried secrets. I thought the storyline itself was good. Mm-hmm. I like the storyline. But like you said, I think it was, the narrators, I wanted to love this book so much. Mm-hmm. Because I thought it sounded so fascinating. Mm-hmm. Definitely the narrators, and not just the narrators, but the dialogue was boring. Okay. Well, and I put like, it was so proper, like the, the, yeah. The writing was so proper of how they would speak, which is not natural. Right. So I think that was part of it as just very robotic. I even wrote down one person will say, do you wanna attend? And the response would be, yes, I'd like to attend. Yeah. Like, it was just not, like you said, a not a natural eye. Had such, I reread and reread and reread this. Mm-hmm. And because I would lose myself in it. And I still never gathered much of this book to be honest with you. So I couldn't really tell you much about what happened in the book. I, I made it through it. It is just, As I was listening to it, I was like, this isn't like natural. Right. This isn't like a natural dialogue. Yeah. I liked that the characters were all flawed. Like you didn't have like a hoity-toity, very true. I'm better than you. Type of Very true. Whatever. Yep,. As a mom, you felt the struggle for Martina, like Yeah. With a work life struggle. Yes. And dealing with her personal things. Yes. And still being a mom and showing up and the guilt that she has for being away so much. There was one part at the very beginning of the book the statement was coming up short in the mother department, and that was because of being a single mother. Do you remember that comment? That pissed me off. I think all mothers feel like we're coming up short. Single mother, mother with one child, 15 children. Mm-hmm. Stay at home, work, whatever. I feel like we, none of us think we're doing it right. Yeah. Agree. So I was like, that's a, that's kind of a, I don't like that statement. Right. But I mean, I think that that's a natural statement for a single mom to a Yeah. Yeah. Um, I get that. It's, they, that they may, the children may feel like they have less Yeah. Of a parental. Involvement because it's a single mom and the dad was dead. Yeah. So there was no even like parent weekends or anything. Yeah. I don't think she was making like a blanket statement about that. I think it was the character I. As a newly single mom. Yeah, you're right. I should not get so heated, but no, I mean, I agree. I think every mother has gone through those feelings and that guilt and feeling like they have not done enough or they were doing it wrong. Right. Um, right. I agree 100%. Yeah. Gosh, I really, you've had some good insights and I, like I said, I wanted to love this, especially because you had to get the three books at one time and I was like, perfect. That's like 25 hours of reading right there, like, excellent. And I just, I returned it. I didn't even try the other two books. Yeah. And, the. Narrators. It was the same. Same. Sorry. Yeah. Ugh. I hate it. I feel like that really killed the book for me. I know. It did. It did. Yeah., Again, I love the premise of the book. Yes. It just wasn't executed, I don't think. Mm-hmm. Very well. And I think that the, the, actors that were doing the audiobook mm-hmm. Killed it. Like, not in a good way. Right. They did not slay. No. I think though that even reading it just. The way that the dialogue was just uncomfortable and repetitive. I don't even think reading it, I would've enjoyed it because it was just, yeah. Dry. Mm-hmm. Anyway, did you have any other insights? I'm sorry. The struggle that she was having, with addiction mm-hmm. Was also done very well. Yeah. Throughout the book. Knowing the struggle that she was in, with the added guilt of being a mom with the added guilt of like, she had messed up her career. Right. And she was trying to build that career back. Yeah. And staying sober. Mm-hmm. I think that was done really well. Yeah. And portrayed really well. It wasn't like, oh, I'm sober now. I'm, everything's great. Right. It was right. She was struggling. Right. So I appreciated that perspective from agreed. Agreed. And that's very real. That's not a curable Right. Thing. It's a, you know, it's a, it is a constant battle. Mm-hmm. So I agreed that was, that was done really well. Yeah. So those were, those were my thoughts. Again, I wasn't crazy over it and I, there's lots of it that didn't hit for me. Mm-hmm. there were some aspects of it that I was like, okay, well that's relatable or that's Yeah. Like real life or, yeah. Yeah. Lot of potential with this book. Mm-hmm. Especially like the picture with the baby. Like, I was digging it, but it, I just couldn't get into it. So I would give it like a. One or two. Like, I was not into this book at all. I was going four. You're so generous. Well, I just really liked like the, the realness of certain situations within the book. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's fair. But that's fair. So our next book, okay, so we were gonna do X for this week. Yeah. Um, but X, when I looked it up. To go download. It was the third book in a series, and we didn't read the first two, so we're skipping over that one. Okay. So our next book is you by Charles Bonnet. Bonnet. Bonnet. Benet Benet. That's what I'm going with. Perfect. Alright. Now I'm a little bit nervous because it only has 2.9 stars, but oh, I should be. Well, we, we'll try it. If it's not good, we can stop. Okay. All right. this is the blurb. This isn't the way it's supposed to go. You're just a typical 15-year-old sophomore, an average guy named Kyle Chase. This can't be happening to you, but then how do you explain all the blood? How do you explain how you got here in the first place? There Had, there have been some clues it was coming. Did you miss them or ignore them? Maybe if you can figure out where it all went wrong, you can still make it right Or is it already too late? Think fast, Kyle Time's running out. How did this happen? You is the riveting story of 15-year-old Kyle and small choices he does and doesn't make that lead to his own destruction. And the stunning young adult debut, Charles Bonnet mixes riveting tension with an insightful and unsettling portrait of an ordinary teen in a tale that is taught powerful and shattering. Awesome. We'll see. It's short. It's under four hours. Uhhuh and I think his name is Charles Benoit. Well sure. Nancy Pants. Just Jackson played basketball with the kid. Last name Ben Benoit. Sure. Okay, so you by Charles Beis. It's fun to say though, isn't it? Take on your fancy plane. Do if I can need a cross on. Awesome. Okay. Uh, thank you guys for listening. We really appreciate it. Please tell your friends to listen and leave. Thank y'all. Follow us on all the things. We love you. Alright, that wraps up another episode of, this is My Circus. 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