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My Sister Made Me Read It
THE MOST Review, New Yoga Stories, Our Recent Reads, and Scott Peterson
It’s Amy’s Week!
On this episode of the My Sister Made Me Read It podcast, it’s Amy’s week to choose what book we read, and she’s decided on the Psychological Fiction and the Barnes & Nobles Book for August– THE MOST by Jessica Anthony
Today, the girls get off to a sleepy start. Amy rants about her new espresso machine deciding to go on strike after she tries a different espresso. They catch up on recent yoga stories including a very attractive man. After they deep dive into THE MOST review, Amy and Abby catch up on their recent reads as well as their next books. And also talk about the new documentary about Scott Peterson out on Netflix.
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Good morning.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Good morning. Welcome.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:It's so funny because every single time like we kind of like chat before we hit record and then like every time we hit record, I'm like, what do we say? We've
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:other. Hi, people who are listening. yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:What? Oh, you said hi people that are listening.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:said I have people that are listening and I was like, are you not going to finish that sentence?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Just period. That's just
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Just period. I have fans.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Is this lighting weird or is it my computer? I've literally been blending in with the wall behind me.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I think it's your computer. I think I remember having an issue with that.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:What the fuck? You look so full of life and I literally look like a corpse.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Well, we have a Mac and you have a PC, so that's probably why.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay, thank you.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:You're welcome.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:brackets.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It's okay. Um, What's been going on? I don't really have much.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:We never record this early. It's like we're still waking up. Um, I'm pissed because my espresso, you know I have an espresso machine. My espresso machine's not working.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Why isn't it working?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I don't know. If I knew, then it would be
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That's true. Maybe it needs to be cleaned?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I did clean it. I use the same espresso. I forget the brand. It starts with an L. And, um, that's just the one I've always used. What is on my floor? That's so strange.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:What is that?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm burning an incense over here on my, like, floor. TV console thing.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah. Mm
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:there's like no draft in here. My, that's so fucking weird. Part of like the burnt part fell off
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:and it usually falls off, like right on the count, the console and I'll just have to wipe it up because the incense tray isn't that large and it's literally like on the floor, like a, foot away.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:That's so weird.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Interesting.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:No, I usually use the same espresso and I ran out of it and I get it from Target It's the only place I can find it and when I went to buy more they were out So I was
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:so annoying then I went to another Target like a date like the next day and they were out And I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Damn.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:find this espresso. I don't know if there's like a worldwide shortage.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Do you have the target app?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:You should look on the app. Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:way more expensive I'm like, okay, it's, I don't want to buy like the wrong kind. So I bought like a nicer one instead of buying like a cheaper one. And I don't know if like the espressos, this is probably not a thing, but this is just how my brain is working. I'm like, is this one like too fine? It's not pulling like the water's not
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:had to pull out my like giant, like, 1972 coffee pot this morning and I just plugged it in and I brewed a pot of coffee, but I'm annoyed about it
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah. That's funny. You said like your old coffee pot. Cause I went and saw, um, my best friend, Sam, we went and visited like her new place with her husband now. And then we went and had dinner and so she was like taking us around and she was, she's the one that just got married. And when she, Was getting married because she didn't live with her husband before they got married. They moved in after. So all the registry stuff they had sent to her parents house. And so when I would go help with wedding stuff, like I, her mom would be like, look what she got this week. And we would be like, You know, looking through her stuff, like joke, like just like looking at it and she got a towel warmer
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:like this bougie bitch. I was like, she's not even going to use that. Like she's going to forget she has it. Right. And so, um, so we went to their house and. And literally like in the bathroom in the corner is this towel warmer and I looked at it and I was like, Sam, do you actually use that? And she was like, Abby, let me tell you. I was like, that's my favorite thing. And Josh was like, her husband, Josh, she was like, he was like, I get up before her. And he was like, she'll be like, can you put my towel in the warmer?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Oh
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:like, it's like the can you put the coffee on the stove or whatever? It's like the the modern thing
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:like a warm fresh towel. I don't think you'd ever go back
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Well, I was like I get too hot like after the shower because I like like mine like boiling And I was like and she was like, yeah, sometimes i'm like too hot, but she was like, I really like it
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I just like
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I was like, that's so funny
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:the air conditioning event.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, that's exactly what she said. She was like, there's this vent right here and I just stand here But no, this made me think that
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:my house really cold and then I like warm things.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:So that would be nice. I guess it's so nice out today. Wow. We've had great weather. Have you had nice weather?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, it's been pretty good.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:It's kind of cooled off a
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:yesterday it got hot in the middle of the day, but
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:It's so nice out.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, it was What what is today tuesday?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Today's Tuesday. I'm all fucked up,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I guess it was sunday I don't remember we went somewhere. I think we went and got like coffee at a coffee shop and it was really nice out
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:It's been so nice. For like a week straight, which is great for Charlotte because we have like, Charlotte's like the new fucking Seattle, dude. Like, it rains non stop here. We've had the worst weather, but it's been so, so nice the past week.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, it's supposed to get hot again here Towards the end of the week and then it's gonna get cold. It's gonna start being fall again
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I've been, my, like, schedule's been all messed up because we are usually closed on Sundays, but we've had, um, like, private parties the past, like, couple Sundays, so I've been, like, working on Sunday and then having, like, two days off in the middle of the week, so I'm just, like, all weird.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah All my days are just like blending together because we just we're in our personal life. We're just so busy like it's just One thing after another it's been for the past like two weeks and so I'm, like what like that's where I'm like, what is today? I don't I couldn't even tell you
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Today's Tuesday,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Today is Tuesday.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:28th?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:7th.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:7th.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah. But, it's okay. Like, we just have a lot this, like we had a lot of fun stuff in June, in May, June and July. Um, and then now it's like a lot of like logistical adult shit that we're doing like August, September and so we just have to get through till the end of September.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:You guys do a lot of adult stuff.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, that kind of is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:know where that office is? Should I like, like what I, just like, I'm living my life, like doing my puzzles and reading my books in my little house every day. And I don't think about like things sometimes. And I'm just like, should I know about that? Should like, this girl was talking about, like, I don't want to completely out myself. My biggest fear in life is going to jail for tax fraud on accident. And. There was this girl that I overheard talking and where she's younger than me actually so fuck and she was like talking to somebody about like About like she was like, yeah, I just moved here. She just moved here from Charleston actually and she was like, yeah, so it was about time for me to like renew all of my taxes and all of this and all of that and I was like Like I'm so confused like what do you mean? And I just like walked away. Cause I'm like, you know what? Ignorance is bliss, baby. I'm just going to go away like, and I'll just ask Jose if I should know about certain things. And I was like, and Melanie was like, no, I know. And I'm like, I know, like I live my life a little bit differently. I mean, it's not a hot take to be like single at 29 years old. Like it's like a normal thing now, but like a lot of people that I know are like married and have like a full, like, you know, they have to worry about other things that I don't have to worry about. I still get to. Like a single life is great cause I don't have to worry about like shit
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:You know what I mean? And, um, but like all over here, like married people like talking about things or like I was like talking to Mel and I'm like, I feel like every time I'm on the phone with Abby, she's like, yeah, I'm leaving this office or I just went and did this or I just, and I'm like, what, where are these offices? Like, is there
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I've been doing I've been doing that a lot lately because I changed
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I know.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:got to my name change
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:like the name change and all that shit.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Which I literally just got my passport in this morning my new passport but Yeah for taxes like that's one thing that I will never understand and I come to the terms. I will never understand Jose knows Like the basics about it
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:CPA, I think.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I would, yeah, I would definitely say marry somebody who like knows finances because Jose is pretty finance savvy in his mind where I'm just not. But like we hire somebody to do our taxes because I'm like, I'm not going to fuck that up.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I need to hire somebody to do my taxes. I think my taxes are good, though.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I think it's worth it. I think it's an expense that's worth it.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, that's pretty much it. I haven't been up to anything but work and reading. Bitch, I also, I just looked at myself in the mirror and you sent me a of yourself yesterday doing yoga and I noticed, you remember that picture that I sent you and I was like, why are my eyes in different directions?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Was my eyes in different directions? No.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:bit. It looked very, very much like the picture I sent you.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:They are!
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:but, and I just looked at myself and I was like, Oh no.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It's funny because on my phone I had that selfie that I sent you.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I'm like, you know, look horrible. And then like, if I scroll, we went to dinner the other night and so I have like beautiful selfies and I'm like, I could do both. I'm okay. The range.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I say that all the time. I'm like the range is unbelievable with me. It's unbelievable. It really is. It's like needs to be studied.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:walk around here looking like Adam Sandler literally 90 percent of the time, but then I can turn it on and like literally look like
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah. Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:The range is impeccable. You have
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I'll like,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:genetic.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I'll like walk around and be like, I'm sorry. I look like this today to Jose,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:but you know, he also gets the good, the date nights. So. I was gonna say something.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Were
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Talking about yoga, I like I'm a nice person. I know I'm a nice person,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:You
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:but I also know I can get, I know I can get annoyed. Jose's making me feel like I'm a bitch in yoga
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:In
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:because yeah, because I, it is a big irk of mine in yoga. If there is room in the class, I completely understand if the class is completely packed, but if there is room in the class, please do not put your mat directly next to mine. Where if I put my arms out like straight next to me, I can be touching you.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Or like, we're in early.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:in class.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Well, there's this, there's been this one girl that like, has done that to me. Like, every single class we're in together, she comes and sits next to me. And Jose's like, you're just being mean. Like, she's new and like, she's just trying to like, learn off of you. So I was like, okay. And I was like, yeah, you're probably right. Like, I'm just being mean. So then I was like, okay. And then yesterday, This, this couple came in and they were like, like late. So like I went and put my mat down and I was like, kind of like catty corner to this other girl in front of me because obviously I'm not going to go behind somebody if I don't have to. And, um, these, this couple came in and they went directly in front of me next to this girl. Okay, whatever. So then we start our yoga and I look up her water bottle was literally like almost on my mat.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:What?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:And like there was room in front of her and I'm like put your fucking water bottle in the front of your mat if someone's behind you. Like it's just common sense to me. Okay, whatever. Jose's like, why don't you just like accidentally knock it down? And I was like, I'm not gonna do that. No. And so then I'm like, okay, whatever. So then
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:it. Just be
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:we're doing We're doing a flow and the instructors like if you want to keep your leg like raised while you do your you know Shavasana, not Shavasana, if you want to do your like, um, I forget what it's called and then like up dog or whatever yeah, chaturanga and So I am going through my flow and I like go to do up dog and literally her foot Foot was like two inches from my face and I like this and I was like, Oh shit. And then like, I was giggling because I was like, what the fuck is going on? And like, I can't go back. Cause there's a wall behind me. Like I can't scoot back. And I was like, okay, I guess I'll just be like mindful of the whole class of like where this girl's feet are literally the whole class. And like, even the instructor was kept being like, be mindful of your neighbors, be mindful of your neighbors.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:god, that's so
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:And um, and then I was like, okay, whatever. So then halfway through class, we're doing cactus. You know what cactus is?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:No.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Okay. Cactus, you usually have your arms straight up. And then when you cactus, you bring your arms down to be like perpendicular to you. Yes. Okay. Yes. But you don't like, you just do like a little backbend, not nothing, nothing too extreme. So this goes directly in front of me. This is what she does. I'm gonna stand up and do it. Cause I have to.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm scared.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:This is what she does.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:go into full wheel?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:goes like this. To where I see her eyeballs in front of me and I was like, oh, like,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:have done it. I would have laughed so fucking
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:oh my God, I was giggling so bad.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Dude,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:giggling so bad.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:day because I am like, um, you know, when we first started going to yoga, did I tell you about when Bailey went into crow pose?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, and she fell on her face.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Oh my God. And like, we literally had to walk out of the studio. Cause we, you know, when you get like a giggle, me and you are horrible about this.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:like a giggle, we can't stop. And that's how it was. And like, we were laughing
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:it was so funny.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:hard. We had to leave the studio.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It was so funny.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:about it the other day and I was like, gosh, I haven't had a giggle fit like that in forever. Thank God. Because like, it's so disruptive
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:like that in
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:speaking of yoga. I'm absolutely obsessed with my yoga studio. I wish
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:to a class maybe for Thanksgiving if you're
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Our yoga instructor is, not real. There's no way he's real. And I was like telling like Megan the other day, like, honestly, this is the best marketing strategy that anybody could ever come up with because I will never miss a yoga class.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:He's so attractive.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:He's the hottest man I've ever seen in my life. He is so kind. He's
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:He's got the most genuine smile on face. He's always smiling
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:and he's great at his job. Like he's so fucking hot. He literally looks like he just came out of prison. I'm not kidding. He looks like a
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:leg jacked. Leg jacked.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:He's jacked. He's dark skin. He's tatted from the neck down. I'm not kidding.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh, wow
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:love a neck tattoo,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:literally jawline depth to his feet tattooed covered in
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Interesting.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:He
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:yoga all he does? He could use a ring to it.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:he could use a retwist, but he like wears his hair like in like little, like he puts his hair up I just can't even explain to you like this man's lore, his aura is 10
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:he is Okay. So let me explain to you the dynamic. So him and hit, they call each other partner. Okay. So who knows what they are? It's a woman, his partner.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Okay.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:they own the studio.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Gotcha.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay. They have a child, a young little girl. She's probably like two. So it's them too. And then they have other instructors and shit. And then the little baby's always running around in her diaper. It's just the most magical thing you'll ever see in your life. But, um, they refer to each other as partner. My delusional mind thinks they're in an open relationship
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:probably live on a commune.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh my god
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:And I want to join
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:No That sounds like too much drama for me in my life.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:No, it's amazing. They're so great. I'm obsessed. And like, it's just like a great studio.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I Do love when yoga has men involved because like we don't have any men male instructors at the place I go to but a lot of like men come to the classes but I don't know cuz I Will probably cuz one of the like he's so the owner so involved
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:it's so there's Like the two the three main instructors are men I would say but I only go like once a week and I only like go to his classes because I'm like I'm here for for you, baby
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Here my motivation Um Yeah. Cause like, I mean, I love my husband, but he's literally like can barely touch his toes and I'm like, this is important. Like we need flexibility in our muscles. This is important for women and men. And so like, yeah,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:It is important. No, I would love to take you to a collage. You would really like it. And
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:yeah, we should go.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm talking about.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah. That's the one thing I'm going to be like sad about is when I move hopefully in the future. Um, I'm going to have to leave this, this, um, um,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:another
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:One. Yeah. I just really liked him.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, I really love my place too. Anyways, I um, did you read this book in one day?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I did it all on Sunday.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:You
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:sitting. It's very easy to read.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I know, I just kept getting so bored.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:See, I didn't get bored. I thought it was interesting.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I love that. Okay,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:But I'm also, but like, I'm also like a literary fiction reader.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Well, I also have, I also was reading it like at nighttime, like right before bed and I would kind of get like super sleepy.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh, that's, that's fair.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah. I didn't have like one allotted like timeframe that I could just knock it out, but it's really easy. It was what, like 160 pages.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:130.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Oh, okay. Okay. So we're talking about the most by Jessica Anthony. It like just came out. Um, semi recently this, it was this year for sure. I think it was like June or July.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It was, um, the book of the month for Barnes and Noble for August.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That's how I saw it and then you told me about it that you had just bought it because like we went to Barnes Noble to go buy some books and it was like on one of their main tables when she walked in
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I mean it
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:and I was like, okay,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:like a really nice I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:it's a beautiful book.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah Yeah, it's
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:You know, I love it.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:and it caught my attention because I not only is it like a beautiful like cover and stuff But like when I read it, I was like, oh that sounds fun I didn't know what it was going to be about, but basically the synopsis says, like, when you like pick it up in the store and you read it, it's like, basically like this, like girl in the, uh, this like lady, I don't know how to,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Basically like this girl, basically like this lady. I was about to say, do you want me to just read the synopsis over here? Oh. Okay.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:gets in the pool of her apartment complex and doesn't get out. That's like literally what they say.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That's been, yeah, so like, after I read it, every time after I read a book I go on Goodreads to see what people are thinking and I went on it and that's like, people who didn't get this book, that's like their main gripe was like, she's in the pool the whole fucking time. And it's like, you just didn't get this book then.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Dude, this book was so good. It's like honorable. Like I told Mel, I was like, honestly, like I might reread it because it's, like I said, like I was kind of bored, like the first half. And then I kind of was like, Ooh, maybe this is good. Like, I remember like sending you a text, like, I'm so fucking bored.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:why, like, it just was, it's not about her being in the pool.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Not at all.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:It's about their relationship.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It's about their marriage.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:how complex it was, and like,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Let me read this synopsis so people listening know what it's about.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:The synopsis doesn't tell you what it's about. Okay, go
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:of.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:it.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November of 1957. Kathleen, a college tennis champion termed Delaware Housewife, decides not to join her handsome husband Virgil and their two young boys at church. Instead, she takes a dip in the swimming pool of her family's apartment complex, and then she won't come out. Set over the course of eight hours, the most breaks, sorry, breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly ideal, idyllic marriage, immersing us in the unspoken truth beneath.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:This book was crazy.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Um, What did I just say that I totally was going to say something and then I forgot
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm glad you liked
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh No, I really liked it. Um I only highlighted like three passages And one was when he admits to having an affair. So like it's about This marriage married couple and they move from pantucket to delaware Right. What's the city they moved to? I forget
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:But they move and they move into this apartment complex and the husband is he makes the money She raises a family and he's telling her like hey, we'll just be living in this kind of like not the nicest apartment complex For just a few months until we can like find a house and buy a house and then it becomes not a few months become Six months and then it's not six months and now she's like I think it's he's saying like we need a few more months now That's six months and she's like, I think it's gonna be more than a year at this point like so she's having a lot of like resentment towards that
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Mm hmm.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:and she wakes up this morning this Sunday morning and She's like, I'm not feeling well. Like I don't want to go to church. Cause when they moved to, let's say it is Delaware. I'm pretty sure it's Delaware.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I think it is.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Um, they start, they kind of change their lifestyle and they start going to church every Sunday and start,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:husband wanted to start going to church out
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:start going to church. And then he like, starts like doing the whole like golf thing. So I think he really leans into the whole,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay. Let me just say, and I know this from personal experience, not just from this book, but it's funny. It just came to my mind. If your husband all of a sudden becomes obsessed with golf, he's cheating on you. Like that's just a
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I'm not sure about that.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:No, I'm
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I would say,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:No, I'm sure about that.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I would say the,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:uncharacteristically just becomes obsessed with golf and is golfing at least twice a week, he's cheating on you. That's a fact. If you ever tell me Jose's golfing, I'm literally calling him on the side and being like, what the fuck is up, Kyle?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:yeah, but like. I think if it's out of the blue, but if they, if they have like friends that are like, Hey, come golf with us. Like Jose has friends that are like, Hey, why don't you come golf with us? I wouldn't bat an eye
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Right,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:he has a connection to go golfing.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:own like, like once a day.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:He's meeting his bosses, his boss or like his coworkers. But yes, I, I, I see what you're saying,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:but, uh, yeah, she wakes up that morning and. It, the book is in third person, but each chapter flips back and forth from her point of view. And then to his point of view of her point of view, his point of view, like it is very much like back and forth.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:this because like, I know, I'm sorry, I'm just like going on a spiral now because I didn't put those two and two together. This guy becomes obsessed with the golf. The person that I'm thinking about in my personal life is obsessed with the golf and he's cheating. And then I know a third person who also cheats and is obsessed with golf.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I'm not sure
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:crazy.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:me to say.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Happy's like, I don't know what to say. That's crazy.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I'm not in the golf community.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Dude, I'm sweating. I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I can't speak on their, I was sweating too.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Holy
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:can't speak on their behalf.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay, continue on with the, with the, I don't want to go on a cheating tangent. Sorry.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:So like those that morning she wakes up, she's like, I'm not feeling well, I'm not going to go to church. And then we find out like halfway through the book that what she does, like she gets up, she cleans the house, she gets a phone call from her father in law, and then she decides to get in the pool. We find out why she decides to get in the pool, but she gets in the pool. So the whole freaking book, she is in the pool, like physically she's in the pool. But the way that the author Anthony writes, Is how I was describing it because I was talking to Jose about it How I was describing it to him was like it's very much like a stream of consciousness type of book where like a chapter will start with them like physically where they're at and then it will Are you gonna put a shirt on?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Sorry.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:God, good thing we don't do video.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I, well, I know we don't do video. That's why I got naked. I'm sweating. I can't breathe. I'm like thinking about cheating husbands.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, you're triggered.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I got triggered.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Um, but it is like a stream of consciousness to where it starts in a place and then like it becomes like the character thinks about this and then it leads into this and then it leads into this and then it leads into this and then at the end of the chapter the reader has all of this like background information about this person and about this relationship.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:like past events and stuff.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, but I think it what I was picking up and I even have like some passages It's just such like a self Fish marriage like they're all they think about is themselves like, um
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:the end.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, until the end when they are like, I guess I should tell her.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:But it was like, it was so interesting because like, I really liked her. Do we like her? I can't actually, I really liked her because I liked how she handled things. I don't know. I, she married him out of a safe choice. She was in love with somebody else. She was like, okay, this guy's going to give me like a safe life. married him. He was like, you know,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:He like can't really deliver.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:yeah. And then they have kids. I started a family, whatever. They both ended up cheating on each other throughout their marriage. It's eating him alive. She, or, um, she suspects that he's cheating on her. Her, one of their kids is not his, we find out.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:The oldest.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:And then the end really shocked me with the third one.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, then she has sex with the, the landlord.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:and gets pregnant with his baby. So she's like, okay, was kind of like all these things happening in their, in their marriage have come to a head. And it's like, okay, we're about to like, Jump in or we're going to have to divorced. Like, are we going to stay with each other or not? It's kind of how I was looking at it. And I really liked the pool aspect of it because it was like, stayed in the pool and kept like telling him like, no, I'm not ready to get out. I'm not ready to get out until he like kind of joined her. Do you see where I'm going with this?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, no, I do. I mean, I'll say about the characters, they're definitely like morally gray characters. And that's why you like feel more connection to them. Because if they were perfect, then we wouldn't. As for the ending, like, if you just want to skip ahead
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I love the ending.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:at the ending, like the last part in his point of view is he's. Having this stream of consciousness literally going through everything that he's ever done in his marriage, basically. And then he's like, I jump in or something like that. And um, the way I interpreted the pool was very much like, she doesn't, I interpret it as how she was in her marriage of a place of complacency without wanting to actually address that. anything. So, like, the pool just seemed like, like, she was, like, suspended in her marriage. Like, she is, like, in the water. But at the end, I mean, I get what you're saying when it's like, she's not going to get out until they figure it out.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah. Until they work through it.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:But I guess that even goes with what I'm saying of, she can't get out of this pool, she can't get out of this complacency in this marriage until they actually address it and until they actually, like, work through it and then she can get out.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:there's a part, too, where, like, At the end he comes up and he's like, Oh my God, like your fingers they're pruning and she like just laughs off about it. And I feel like that could even be interpreted of like, you know, she's taking on like physical or like emotional scars from this marriage from staying in it for so long.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I literally just saw that. Yeah, you're right. You're so smart. Kathleen Virgil said, my god, look at your finger. Look at your fingers.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Your fingers. Gab
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Kathleen, your fingers are so soft.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:your fingers. So
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:fingers. Your little fingers are so poony, Kathleen! So poony!
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:are so pooty. Oh my god, that's funny. That's funny. I
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:god! Okay! Oh my god, that's so funny! Oh my god, at your fingers! She looked at her hands, I know. Isn't that funny? That's what she said. Caffeine, you'll fingas.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:forgot what we were talking about.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:It's such a valiant effort trying to speak correctly after years and years of speech therapy. You get it. You've
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah. Yes, sometimes you just have to actually think about what you're talking.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:really do. My tongue's just like,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh my god.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Caffeine. Sorry. She's dying. Sorry! I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Damn, but also like this, Tells you about their marriage. It's laughing coughing laughing laughing laughing No,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:can't stop oh my god. I can't be serious. Uh, no fingers!
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I'm sweating. sigh Okay.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:my god, that was so funny.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:sigh Where was I? Okay. But on page 19 Thanks for watching! Um, this is in Virgil's point of view. It says Virgil left the balcony and went inside. He picked up the receiver. If Kathy would just leave the pool, he thought, then he could relax and have a proper day off. He was already starting to feel the afternoon slipping away from him. There was no question that this would be the last day of the season. And although he typically disliked people who exaggerated, he knew that to miss out on the game today would really. Color the whole week and it's like Bitch, it seems like your wife is kind of having a mental breakdown and you're like if she would just get out of there So I could go have fun
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:come on
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I mean, he is a man.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, I think that's kind of like what I mean. It was like classic
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Classic.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:for our family and but the one time she doesn't cook us dinner. It's an inconvenience to him
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Oh yeah, obviously, duh. He's like, I'll just go golf and think about cheating on my wife.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah There's another passage
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I don't know, I really did like this book. I'm,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:was interesting too. I don't know how I felt about this. This was, this is a longer passage, but this was on page 97. It says, it wasn't a matter of right or wrong. A man as pretty as Virgil was bound to have no feminine equal. It was different for his mother. Bitsy must have known from a young age that her beauty would be her sole asset in life. And for reasons mysterious to Virgil, Colson Beckett, who is his dad, Who would love his ditzy stunning wife right up to the moment She walks smack in front of that bus Have been deemed worthy of receiving it a man did not need to be pretty for a pretty woman to be worthy of him A man did not need to be pretty for a pretty woman to be worthy of him. I feel like that just
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Hold on, let's break that down. Say it one more time slower.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Let me find it a man Did not need to be pretty for a pretty woman to be worthy of him. So basically he's saying like, I don't have to like tried for my wife. My wife has to try for me. And that, that is,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I think it also means to have like the traditional roles of like, as long as I provide, she has to be the pretty one I'll provide. And that's how a relationship should be.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I don't have to, yeah. And they, they kind of like say that a lot, like, throughout the book about how, like, ugly Kathleen is.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:He does a lot. Like he says, like her body's not the same after two children. And
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:even says, like, she, well, so she's not, and I, this is, this does take place, like, in a different time.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:here, here, let me say this. Cause this is what this is continuing the passage, but exactly what you're saying. So Amanda not need to be pretty for a pretty woman to be worthy of him. But the rules changed for Virgil. You really could be too pretty as a man. Okay. Whatever poor woman agreed to marry him would suffer a lifetime feeling less than. Virgil was seeing it more and more in Kathleen. It had not escaped him the way she protected her body from view when they changed in the bedroom. The net of age they both knew had caught her. Her hips, waist, and face were all spreading, but the widening of Kathleen was something Virgil truly could not have cared less about. It was the way she looked at his body with scorn, with jealousy, that made him resent her. Come on, like, it's just He, he thinks that she's less than him already in their relationship, which is horrible. And then it's like, you're less pretty than me, but then you had children. And now what it was, what did he say? She protected her body from view when they changed. Um,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:like how, like,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:him off. It pisses him off and makes him upset that she's looking at him.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:yeah,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:With resentment.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:looking at you with resentment because she knows you're cheating on her, you
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It's like, yeah, she had two kids. Of course her body's going to change. She's looking at you with scorn because you're a fucking asshole to her. Like you're not, you're not reassuring her of like, babe, you brought in two, two wonderful children. Of course, your body's going to change. You're still beautiful to me. Of course, she's looking at you like you're not a good husband. You're not supporting me at all. I gave up my tennis career to be with you and you can't even freaking make money for us to go buy a house.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:You're so right.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That's how she feels
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:That's how she feels. She gave up her tennis career. She was going to be such a good tennis player. She gave up her tennis career. She gave up her
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Like this last sentence. I just said it was the way she looked at his body with scorn with jealousy that made him resent her It's not like that's not her at all. That's all his insecurity
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Like he's like I liked the fact that this book gave us his point of view because throughout the book I realized more and more how insecure he is at the fact that he is not like
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:providing.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Like a providing man in his family. I forget. Did he have her, did he like make her quit tennis or was that, that was her decision?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I think it was her decision.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:think it was her decision too.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Like had it laid out in front of her. Am I going to be with this guy who she really loved? The tennis coach guy. Sorry, you just made a face. Bro, I can't today. I just can't, I'm just
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Because I just,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:at you.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I just remember, I just remembered the saxophone of everything.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:The saxophone of it all.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:So like, I've been shitting on this guy, but it's also like you, I feel for him in the same way of like. He's also doing the exact same thing that she's doing. Like she went into this marriage, she quit tennis because that was the safe option. And that was what she's supposed to do in the eyes of society. And he's doing the exact same thing of like, he's getting this financed or this insurance job to then be able to provide for his family and like, and like love his wife and have kids and do all these things in the eye society. But then we learn that like he has this passion for like jazz music and he's always wanted to play a saxophone which it sounds goofy but it's also like her it's her tennis for like she's they're sitting in their marriage having regrets of like I could have had completely different lives if I had just given into like a creative side of myself.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:giving dark matter.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, like multi verses.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay. It's not giving multiverse, but the premise of like, the
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Well
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:like,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:like
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:always like, and people do that all the time. I mean, that's, that's normal. Like to think about like, well, what if I made this decision instead of this decision?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:there's that movie on Netflix with um Lily Reinhart where it's like if she it's like if she changed a decision like one decision in the beginning of the movie I don't I never watched it but I know what it's about and it then it shows you like two different outcomes based on that decision
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:hmm.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:and so it's I mean it's I think that's a relatable thing of like if I chose this job or if I chose to be go the creative route or the safe route I think that's like very relatable for people but it's interesting that both of them Both of the characters in this book feel that way.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, they should have never got married.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Like they act like they don't even like their kids.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Well, they should have never got married, but I like how, like at the end of the book, they both kind of were like, we're going to stay together. Let's figure this out. But like, instead of wearing a mask, like they've both been wearing for their entire marriage, the mask just comes off.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:want to stay, they want to stay together. That's kind of what, cause, cause we get both of their point of views and on the end of both of their point of views, it was, it was, we're going to do this. Like, hold on, let me find, let me find. Cause on, we end with Kathleen's point of view, but before we end with Kathleen's point of view, we get his point of view and he says, um, because she gets like the phone call from the lady. Okay. And it says, um, Kathleen was still waiting. Cold water ebbed from her round shoulders lit by the moon and silver rings. The wet drape of dark hair on her head looked like a helmet. Virgil's heart was light. He loved Kathleen. He really did. He loved the boys. A saxophone, he said, and fell fully clothed into the swimming pool. So to me, that was like him just being like, all right, let's get it out.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:jumps in the pool with her.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:to me, that's him choosing the marriage and taking the mask off, right?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:And
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:The
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:at the end of her point of view, it says, um, yeah, but, um, see. She would be honest with him as soon as he would do the same. All they needed was a little death. Nine years of a marriage was nothing when you thought about it. People went 60 years, sometimes longer. She would let him get it all out, and when he was finished telling her the truth about the man he wanted to be but wasn't, she could tell him the truth about the woman she was, wanted to be. Kathleen was prepared to tell him everything.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah. I loved this book.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:No, I yeah, the more we talk about the more i'm like, I actually really do like it because that's really I think relatable And I like hate doing this because i've only been married for like a year and a half But like when you're in a long term relationship with somebody I think you come to a moment where You And hopefully it's before you're married or maybe soon after, but like where you have to sit down and just be like, we have to talk about like the ugly stuff of like how we're feeling or like where our mindset is and where the future we want it to be. Because if you don't have those conversations, you get stuck in a marriage like this for seven years,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Mm hmm.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:you know? And like, If you don't, I personally believe, like, if you don't figure that shit out early, you do get stuck in complacency, and I think that's why, you know, you have situations of people being like, it just didn't work out, or we fell out of love, or all these things. But I also come from a belief of like, Yeah, you love somebody and you have feelings for somebody, but love is mostly a choice and marriage is definitely a choice. And that's how Jose and I have always ran our relationship. But, um, yeah, it's just, I think that like last two paragraphs of the book is really honest. And it's really like, For the first time because the whole book they're just thinking about themselves and I think for the first time they're like, okay Maybe we shouldn't be just thinking about ourselves. Maybe that's what's wrong in this relationship
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:No, it was a great book. It was a great read It's like one that you're like I kept thinking about it after I finished it
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:think that was going to happen with this book It's like and like I told you earlier, like I think I might reread it from a different perspective now that you kind of finish it kind of understand what it's about. Like I think a lot of things can be missed the
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm. I still want to figure out what the importance of the whole Russia sending the spaceship Because I, I, I know it plays a part in like the setting and the timeline and the time frame of like when all this stuff is happening because it does happen in what, 1957? Which she does a great job like painting that picture.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:gotta
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Like I did not second guess for once, huh?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:It's gotta be a metaphor of some kind
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That's what I feel like, especially the dog.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:dog
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:she does, there is a part in the book and I didn't highlight it, I should have, but there's a part in the book where she talks about the dog. I think it's when she's having her stream of consciousness at the very end.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:and she talks about how it's like gonna die and shit.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:In like a corner and stuff if if nothing happens and I think that's supposed to be a metaphor for her and her marriage
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:too. We
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:but um,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:let me see
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:You gonna look for it? Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Here it was
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Wow, uh, now you're opening right up to it.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I I thought I saw it. It's like on it's almost last page 132
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Hmm.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It says above them in outer space. Let me hold this a little moscow street dog was crying out in her chamber She was far from where she had been picked up by the fountain in the yard SoCal Leiki Park,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:harness. She wore The harness she wore was too tight. The tiny capsule into which she had been placed was losing oxygen. It beeped and shook. The heat shield had failed. It was over a hundred degrees. Her pulse was decreasing. Death was imminent. Mr. Mrs. Donovan and all the old. Other old folks in singles and pairs had come to Aquapolis's place to die. That was the apartment complex
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:the what?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:that visual of that poor dog in the space dying. Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:all it says about the dog. I was gonna keep reading because that's all it says about the dog But I think that that's how she feels like in her her marriage and especially since it's at the very end of the book She's like basically, you know, the harness she wore was too tight. The bathing suit she's wearing is way too tight tiny capsule in which she has been placed was losing oxygen. She's in a pool. She's in a pool that has no oxygen.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Well, I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:The heat shield had failed. It was over a hundred degrees. She kept saying she was hot all day. Her pulse was decreasing. Uh, death was imminent.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:And the death
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:So she's like, I think she just finally reached a point. Cause there's another part in the book too, where she says like she knew this day was coming. She didn't think it was going to be today until she like woke up and like saw that the pool was, um, uncovered. But, um, She talks, I think she just kind of like hit her limit and was like, you know, I don't know I know when I have like moments like that or when I'm super stressed like I am Anxious like I start getting hot and you know stressed out and I don't know what I'm trying to say, but I think that's definitely like a Parallel of like
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, there's gotta be a
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:this helpless dog and she feels helpless in her marriage.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah. Love it. Definitely a great read.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, I would recommend it I saw you did three stars on Goodreads. Would you change it?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I almost think this is like almost a five star.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, I mean, it sits with you, it sticks with you.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:It sticks with you for sure. I'm gonna change my rating, cause I don't, I want people to know.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, I was actually, well, especially after you texted me and was like, this is boring. I was really surprised like I was actually like enjoying it. And I think, I think if you can, if you can take a day
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:You're
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:and read a book. No,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:you rated it three stars, bitch.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I didn't. I didn't read anything.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Oh, it says your rating. I'm so dumb. See, you're smarter than me.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:But I think if you can, if you can take the time, I think it took me like three hours to read it. Sit, read it in one sitting because I think it, it keeps you, it keeps you locked into the world and to the state of mind of the characters really well.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I didn't read it in one sitting and it fucked me up. I think that's what fucked me up.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I think that this is that kind of book where you have to
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, have you
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:and you can.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:lately?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I finished Reckless by Lauren Roberts. That's the sequel to Powerless.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Oh.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It was okay. I liked the first book a lot more. Just a lot in the plot. It doesn't, a lot doesn't happen. Um, I read King of Sloth by Anna Hwang. That's just like a silly book. And then, right now, I just, I'm starting today The City of Death by Priyanka something. Let me get it. Hold on. The City of Death by Priyanka Champaneri.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Hmm. Looks
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:for literary agents and she represented her. One of the literary agents I was querying to, she represents her and I watched an interview about it and this book seems like really good. Do you want me to read the synopsis?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, go
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Let me read. As the dutiful manager of Death Hostel in India's holy city of Banaras, Parmesh Prasad tends to dying pilgrims who hope to be released from the cycle of reincarnation. But when a dead man identical to the manager shows up in the river and an unwelcome guest takes up residence in the hostel, Parmesh is forced to confront his own ideas about death, rebirth, and redemption. Priyanka Champanery's transcendent Okay.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah. See, that's so
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It's like a It's more spiritual.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, no, it sounds really good.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I don't know, I thought it was different.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:reading different stuff.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Finished Queen of Shadows
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Did it end good?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:But before I start, so I'm I'm gonna tandem read the next two Throne of Glass books, which is recommended. It's not necessary, but recommended. So I have both of them. So I'm going to tandem read those, but I am going to
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Are you there?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:what? Say something.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Okay. I don't It was like, glitching. I don't know if your audio was glitching or if it was just my computer.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Oh, um, did you hear me say I'm going to tandem read the next
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yes. You're in Tandem Radia.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:going to give myself a minute before I do that. Cause I want to read a few more. So I'm going to start this one.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Is that about a prison guy?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah. So it's called
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I figured.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Look at the, look at this. It's a sprayed edge.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh, that's cool. What does it say? Okay. Okay.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay. So pen pal, this just came out and I'm like seeing like a really, a bunch of really good things about it. Um, but basically here I'll read the back. The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary and it contained a single, a single sentence. I'll wait forever if I have to. was signed by Dante, a man I didn't know out of simple curiosity. I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for his reply. You. I told the mystery man he had the wrong woman. He said he didn't. I said we'd never met, but he said I was wrong. We went back and forth exchanging letters every week that grew increasingly more intimate. Then one day the letter stopped when I found out why it was already too late. Dante was on my doorstep and nothing on earth could have prepared me for what happened next.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That's creepy as hell.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I love it. I can't wait to read it. I'm going to start that probably today. And then Okay. So I, you know, I like love like weird horror books.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:So there's this one girl that I follow on Instagram and she reads like the weirdest shit. And she posted about this book. I guess you could call it a book. It's like, it's a seven page story. Okay. And it's on Kindle unlimited.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It's like flash, flash fiction,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah. Um, so I put it on my Kindle last night and I read it it was just seven pages and I'm still not right. Like I'm still fucked up over it
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:What is it about?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay, so there's no synopsis or anything like the only The book description, so this is what it looks like
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, that looks creepy.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:called
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm-Hmm?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:and the only description is Mary just wants to live Okay. I start reading it and it's basically like told from Mary's perspective. And she is like, um, it's like the first line is like, Mary knew she was going to die today. Um, and it's like, they've, so basically it kind of lets you, it, don't know how to explain things.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm-Hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:kidnapped with a group of friends and there's two people who are like torturing them basically two men. And, um, she basically says they've taken each of my friends one by one and like they haven't come back. So they kind of she's put two and two together and they're killing off her friends one by one.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm-Hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:um, basically it's like, They come in, there's like a bigger gentleman and a smaller gentleman. And like the bigger gentleman's the one that's actually killing them. And then the smaller one, like, looks like he's like sad and like, looks like he doesn't want to actually do that. So she tries to empathize with the, with the smaller one.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm-Hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:And, um, they come in and it's her and her friend, Lily, or the last two. And the men come in and the older men's like, which one are we going to take for, or take next? There's just two more, two more left. And they end up grabbing Lily like they say, like, uh, Mary's like, yeah, he hits her over the head or something and drags her out of the room. And Mary knows that she's next and she's like sitting there like on her alone, like thinking about like, I'm not getting out of this. they come back in. she tries to like look at the, the littler man, right. And try to empathize with him. And he like, kind of like looks away and she starts like pleading with him. Like, please don't do this. Please don't do this.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm-Hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Um, and then the older one like hits him over the head, right. Hits her over the head and like kills her. And then it jumps from Mary's perspective to the men's perspective. Um, hold on. I'm going to, this is so fucked up, dude. Let me pull it up. Okay. It says, um, This is the end of Mary's perspective. Mind numb with pain, eyes streaming with tears, Mary was dragged from the room, unable to fight anymore. And then it jumps to their perspective and it says, Are you alright, mate? Dave Green looked up from his pint and found his workmate, Pete, grinning at him from across the table. He nodded, forcing a smile as he raised his drink and began to swallow some, lowering his gaze from that of the older man. And cast his. Okay, so basically they're like at, they're, the two men are having a beer now
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm-Hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:his gaze from that of the older man and cast his mind back to the last cow that they had taken from the holding bay to be slaughtered that afternoon. His stomach nodding as he recalled the depth of emotion in her big brown eyes.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh my god.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm never eating meat again.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That's, that's a great plot.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Dude, crazy. And then it says, what the fuck had he been thinking, taking the job? He had somehow made it through his first day without breaking down in tears or physically assaulting another member of the Abitur staff. But when he had seen that last cow, he had known that he couldn't ever return. Movement across the table made him glance up and he nodded as Pete told him he was just going to the toilet. Um, Dave waited only long enough for the man to vanish out of his sight and then he rose and left the pub. Leaning back against the wall outside, the heavy rain pattering down upon his face as he reached into a pocket and withdrew the small piece of card he had taken from the rope around that last cow's neck and read the word on it, Mary.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh my god.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I literally sat and stared at the wall for like
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:that's good.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm like still not okay.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That's so good.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I know you should just download it. I mean, it's only seven pages. Just like read it. I was like, that was not what I was expecting at all. And then it like really makes you think about like, how easily like people have desensitized
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:and like trafficking of humans and stuff like that. Like I wasn't even, I was like, Oh fuck yeah. I want to read about some bit, Oh God, I don't want to say that. I want to read about like some, like, you know, I love like reading about horror and stuff. And then like plot twist, they're like talking
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh shit.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:cows. I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:on the floor. Like, I was like, there's no
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Well, I think there is like a desensitization, desensitization to um, crime in general in our society.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Right.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:just watched um, I was gonna bring up, I just watched the Lacey Peterson documentary that just came out on Netflix. Did you see that?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:it.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It was okay, but um, Like,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I just got to read this to you. Hold on. It's like, um, it like, it's so good. Like, it says the most terrifying thing was that the men didn't even seem to hate them. This is back in, this was Mary's perspective.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:didn't seem to hate them. They just didn't seem to care about the hurt they caused them. But then it always had been that way in her life for as long as she could remember, sold into slavery at an early age after being abducted from her mother and then violated her entire life. So it's like talking about like, she's was like a cow born into.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:probably and then slaughtered for me,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:or even a breeding cow. Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:but no death was still death Didn't she and her friends have a right to live a right to breathe and enjoy the world? Time lost all meeting as she stood there half in the light Thinking about all her friends that had died during her life her heartbreaking as she pictured Lily just moments before being dragged away to her death She jerked her head as the door opened with a clang once more, her stomach lurching as she saw the men standing there watching her. One smiling, other grim faced and looking like he wanted to be somewhere else. She tried to reach him, calling out to him as he lowered his eyes again, her pleas turning to screams as the other man began to beat her as he had Lily. And then you realize it's a cow. Are you I'm not this is so fucked up. How dare you write that? Like, fucked
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:But isn't it kind of funny or it's not it shouldn't be funny, but isn't it kind of Interesting or sad how our perspective changes
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:So drastically.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:between it being a human and being a cow But I know I don't like I see the point of like, you know We need to treat our animals better and I see that ploy being used but also like the ploy of like You Why did this become so much more devastating when it was a cow than it when it was a human?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That's an interesting thought.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:it's crazy. I mean like he did his thing with that for sure because
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah. Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I it's some I've I haven't read something um that like made me sit and think like that
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:in a long time
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:and it like happened in seven pages.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, it's talent.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I thought it was just like a rant, like I was like, Oh yeah, let me just see what
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Who is that by?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Um, author is, he's a horror author. Uh, hold on. Kelvin V. A. Allison.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Helvin? Kelvin. Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:So yeah, I've like been like looking at all his other works and stuff. They're all, they're all like horror stuff. Like I really, I don't know how impactful he is as an author, like I'm, I mean, I'm sure he's great, but that one really fucked me up. Um, but going to read another one of his books that I found. I don't think it's anything. This is like a silly one. I don't think it's anything like that. cause I see that, the one that I was just talking about, it's called Mary. I S I've seen that one a lot. And then, um, the girl that I like, like, about it and I was like, I'm just going to read it. It's just seven pages.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I've never seen anything about this one, but I'm going to fucking read it for fun. Okay. It's called, it's called, um, a reptile. Okay. Like a lizard, like a reptile, a reptile dysfunction. Okay. Okay. And basically It's about a summer camp. it says, As the staff prepare for their arrival, horror strikes when a new species of minuscule water borne lizards mutated by chemicals dumped in the lake get inside the urethra of one sex crazed young counselor, which then turns everyone they come into contact with into sex crazed cannibals.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I mean, he seems like an author that loves to play with like word play
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:and thought play.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, I'm going to read that one. It's only like 160
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:are always fun to be like fans of,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I like the,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:about like really spiritual nice things, I'm going to read about
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:well, this still has death in it.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:penises.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah. Sounds good. Have you watched anything recently? Did you like that Scott? The Lacey Peterson?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm so versed on Lacey Peterson and Scott Peterson, so it just felt like a
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I didn't know all the details of the case. I didn't really,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Oh,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:wasn't, yeah. But I mean,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Did like a deep dive of Scott Peterson, like a couple of years ago, maybe like last year, um, to like a whole docuseries on him. Personally, I go back and forth. I think he did it because I think the simplest explanation is always the right explanation
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm-Hmm?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I mean, I know that there's coincidences and I know like, that's not always the answer, but like
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm-Hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:most
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:think that that's always. The truth, like the simplest explanation is the explanation. And in Scott Peterson's case, like there's so many things him, but there's also a lot of evidence showing that like he could, he didn't do it.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:like a law on both sides, but it makes sense. Like the case that he did, it makes more sense to me. And then there's other things that like just could potentially prove his innocence. That just are like happenstance.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I Think it's interesting. Sorry.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:of people who think he's innocent. And like, I remember like listening like a docuseries about like these women are fighting for his innocence.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, I think it's interesting because I did some research after it that the innocence project picked him up Which is like they don't pick anybody up. It's really hard to get picked up by them But
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Like I would have convicted him right after the In N Out
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I think I think he did it but I think he didn't get a fair trial like when they moved the trial, they literally moved it closer to where her body was found.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Like they should have done it like in a completely different county that was like not related in any way. But yeah, I think it's, I think it's hard too because he's still claiming his innocence so strongly where it's like you just second guess yourself. But like a lot of the stuff I kept just being like, damn, he's fucked if he did it this like that's fucked.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:But there's a lot of things too that like just don't make sense. Like the whole In N Out of it all.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Like, what do you mean? I don't know. Like you would just like, and I know like we always say, like, you can't ever, you don't know how you'll react in certain situations, like in the face of like trauma, cause it really does like make you do weird shit.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:if someone told me like, I just found your unborn son and your wife dead, like their bodies. And the
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Mm hmm.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:is like, Oh, I'm hungry. I'm going to order a double double with animal style.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, in a vanilla milkshake. That was crazy and the when he gets the voicemail from I think it's his sister saying like it wasn't their bodies and he's like And he's like, you know, they didn't find him in the lake and he's like whoo
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Like it wasn't like oh, thank god. It was like whoo past like dodge that one.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:or, and I mean, you could look at it from both ways, honestly, because maybe he accepted that they were dead and now he's just fighting for his innocence.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:So he's like relieved he doesn't have something pinned against him.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:So you can look at it in a bunch of ways, but like the whole, the In N Out order really fucked me. That doesn't make any sense to me. Out's not even that good. And then if you, and then like the whole girlfriend, he's him having a girlfriend and
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That girlfriend she's
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:even missing that she was
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:dead. Yeah
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:That's strange too.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That's very strange. Or the fact that when they've arrested him, Yes, I understand you're close to the border where you weren't at the border, but you had bleached hair. You looked completely different. And then he had over 15, 000 in cash. He had like all this shit in his car. Like if you were to go off, you could live like, that's a little suspicious. Let's be honest. He wasn't just going for a golf game.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:However, like if you look at it the other way, like if he would have I think he, I think no matter what Scott Peterson did, he was always going to look suspicious because like I think about like other cases where people just kind of like stay and go on with their lives. And it's like, that's suspicious. That's weird. Why are you just like being normal?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah. Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:You know,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Or like when he, when he invited that the reporters into his house, there's one. Reporter that asked, like, what did you love about your wife? And he, like, couldn't even answer.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:know. And like, I don't like his face. Like, I don't
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:there's something about his expressions.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:He's got like a weird smirk. It's just like
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Well, then he was talking about like, you know, I don't go in like talking about the nursery. I don't go into that room. Like that door stay closed and they're like, well, and he's like, that's going to stay closed until there's a baby to put in there. And then it's like, they go back in and it's storage. Like shit's like thrown everywhere. It's just that type of thing. I don't know.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Interesting.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Very interesting.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I think he did it, but I think it, the, the hustle and bustle of everything, I think messed it up a little bit.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I think I would say for sure he did it
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Like the missing weights alone, like the, the weights that he made and then them being missing, I think is, you know.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:there's, it's the simple, like there's, it's the simplest explanation. He did it.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I just gave myself a paper cut. What the heck?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:What the heck?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:What the heck?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yo Fingos.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Your finger, my finger. Give me a paper cut on my finger.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm going to Have you seen, um, I can't wait for you to get here with my puzzle table.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Tomorrow I'm cleaning out that third bedroom. And then, I'm going Have you seen those little things, like the papers where you like kind of like bedazzle them and you like stick diamonds on them?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:The papers?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah, they're like, it's like a little craft, but like you like stick like
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got this.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Did I? No, me and Melanie are going to get some today. Did you see I sent you like a TikTok where they like bejeweled like book covers?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I don't know if you sent me that.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I thought I did, but they did it on like book cover and you know, I've been like kind of playing with the idea of like starting a book club again.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I think I might want to do that. But I've talked to like a few girls, about it. And I want to bejewel every book club book that we do.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Well, that'll be fun.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:So fun. Anyways, I have nothing else to give you.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, me either. I am watching The Bachelorette, that's it.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Ugh, disgusting.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I usually do this. I usually just watch the last few episodes.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm re watching Real Housewives of New York for the 700th time. I'm on season three.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Have you watched Real Housewives of Dubai?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:No.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh, I feel like that one might be interesting.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Housewives of New York is my comfort show and I like to
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Do you still watch Potomac?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:No. I just, because
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:No
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:so well, I've seen it so many times, I literally like can recite most of the episodes. I just like, like to have their voices on in the background. I think it's fucking hysterical. It's therapeutic for me. like, look up and I see, like, Bethany and Jill screaming at each other, and I think it's, I'm like, ugh. I just get warm and fuzzy.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Do you watch, um, Emily in Paris?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:No.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Oh, I watched the, I hate how Netflix is doing this now. When a new show comes out, they release half of the season and then they wait a month and then they release the other half. I didn't know they did that. Usually I'll wait till all of it's out and I'll just binge watch it. But, um, I didn't know they did that with this one and they only released four episodes. And so I like watched all the episodes and I was like, are you fucking kidding me?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:They do it because they want people to buy,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Pay for the subscription.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:month, which is so fucked up. Like, honestly, you don't have enough money, Netflix, come on.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Which is so, okay, this is odd, right? We were like apartment hunting and a lot of the places that we were looking at do like, um, bundles with like Xfinity or, or AT& T and they do like your internet phone and then they did, um, cable
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah. Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:like, but like, we can't just pick one, like we have to pay for all three
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:it's like a bundled number and we're like cable. People still use cable? No.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:don't.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:No.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:don't
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:got still got like dishes in their yard.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:know.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:There's older people
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I don't know. I
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Huh? That's not interesting now. I'm just ranting Well, I gotta go to costco
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Go to Costco, get a hot dog.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:You want to see my passport picture?
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:They better be sending me another package because they have my marriage license
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Cute! I love!
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:don't steal my identity
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Do you like that?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah, I think it's better than the other one the other one mom woke me up at the crack of dawn I still lived with mom and tequila and mom woke me up at the crack of dawn I was senior in high school and I was like I was, I don't know why I didn't, I like didn't put any makeup on. I literally like just like put, I had my hair down, but I just kind of like pulled the front pieces back in a clip on my head. And so in my picture, I literally look like I'm a drug addict. Cause like I have dark circles under my eyes and my clip is like, like on the side of my head. Like it's not even in the center of my head. And it was so embarrassing. Like every time I would go use my passport, I'd be like, Yeah. Don't ask. Like they would like laugh about it. And I was like, I promise I'm not like with me and Jose traveling. I was like, I promise we're not like drug addicts or like terrorists.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm not a terrorist, Abby. You can't drop that word.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Sorry.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:have a,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:out of here.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:okay.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:What were you about to say?
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:I have one of dad's old passport pictures out to send you a picture of it. And he full blown like looks authentic.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:No,
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:It's so funny.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Dad was scary looking.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Yeah.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Yeah.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Okay.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'm glad you look like him now.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Love my father, but I got a lot of his quantities or qualities.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Megan's favorite insult. This is so fucking funny. Megan's favorite insult. She'll see somebody that she doesn't like. And like, we've only said it about like a couple of people, but not we, I'm not including myself in this, but Megan will be like, I've never seen her father, but I know she looks like him
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:Well, I can be pretty if I want to,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:on that. No, everybody take care of your fingers
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:take care of your fingers,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:and
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:let them get poony.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:And read the most. That was a great book. And
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:That was a great book.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:want your heart ripped out of your system.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:you ruined it for us, but yes,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:But I mean, I mean, you know, you can still read it
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:it's okay. Read it for the writing, yeah,
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:I'll circle back on that one for you.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:okay, yeah, because I won't read that. You can ruin that one.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Okay. Cool. Yeah. Spoilers all day.
abby_1_08-27-2024_090714:All right, bye.
squadcaster-8h9d_1_08-27-2024_090715:Bye.
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