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Welcome back to This Is My Circus — where we embrace the chaos, keep it real about parenting, pop culture, true crime, and the books, shows, and internet rabbit holes we can’t stop talking about.

Stefanie and Meredith are officially back, and this episode is full of life updates, feral puppy energy, senior-year mom feelings, dating fears, wedding vendor chaos, Netflix true crime, suspicious dolphins, and one very unhinged “Am I the A-Hole?” wedding story.

Buckle up. We missed you.

✨ Inside This Episode:

• 🐶 Clifford the chaos puppy has joined the family, and Rex is not emotionally prepared.

• 🎓 Dylan graduated, Jackson survived another school year, and the senior-year mom emotions are already hitting hard.

• 🎣 Beach trips, deep sea fishing, teenage boys, and why sitting still sounds peaceful until your brain gets involved.

• 💘 Stefanie considers dating again, immediately regrets it, and realizes background checks may need to be part of the process.

• 💸 The ladies discuss rich husband applications, NBA ticket prices, yacht outfits,

• 🧠 Meredith shares a chaotic wedding-day story involving a car accident, Jackson’s broken collarbone, and a suspiciously timed TikTok mental health check.

• 💍 Wedding business updates, missing vendors, emergency makeup saves, and why wedding pros deserve more credit.

• 🚗 A deep dive into The Crash on Netflix, including reckless driving, complicated grief, questionable parenting, jailhouse behavior, and the sentencing debate.

• 🗳️ A hilarious political name mix-up involving two men named Dan Sullivan running against each other.

• 🐋 A lonely killer whale becomes a town mascot, and honestly, we support him.

• 🐬 Gerald the dolphin kidnapping people for unpaid underwater labor...but is he really a dolphin or is it an alien?

• 🧳 Vacation planning paralysis, Florida fears, Raccoon Island dreams, and the never-ending list of unfinished projects.

🎙️ “Am I the A-Hole?”

A bride kicks a young server out of her wedding because she thinks the server is too distracting.

And the update made it even better!

📺 What We’re Watching:

The Crash on Netflix

Stefanie and Meredith break down the documentary, the case, the parents, the interviews, the jail behavior, and why this story is every parent’s nightmare when it comes to teenagers, driving, drugs, emotions, and getting into the wrong car.

📢 Final Thoughts

This episode has everything: puppies, graduation feelings, dating trauma, wedding chaos, Netflix true crime, suspicious ocean animals, and one bride who owes every server in America an apology.

We’re back!

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Welcome back to This Is My Circus — where parenting is wild, hot tubs are overcrowded, and mermaids might just be real. In this final episode (for now), we’re going out with chaos, conspiracies, cringe, and a little cry. Buckle up — it’s a ride.

✨ Inside This Episode:

• 🛁 Vacation recap: 5 teenage boys + 1 tiny Airbnb hot tub + double-fisting honey buns = chaos we did not plan for
• 🚪 Wrong door + stolen Oreos = peak awkward
• 🦙 Capybara obsessions, otter encounters & a Charlotte-area zoo with a sketchy website that needs a Honey Drop glow-up
• 🐬 Area 51’s on fire (literally), mermaids may be locked in Nevada, and dolphins might be telepathic
• 👀 Public cheating caught at Coldplay and a credit union office. It’s giving main character energy (but not in a good way)
• 🛏️ Creepy bunk bed request for 36 kids leads to a registry check and a police arrest — thank you, Texas furniture guy
• 🎤 And… we’re officially hitting pause on the podcast. (For now!) We love y’all and explain why we’re stepping back.

🎙️ “Am I the A-Hole?”

A wedding guest performs the entire Catholic ceremony (organ, vocals, the whole thing)… then finds out he was never invited as a guest. So he sues the couple — and wins.
Verdict: Everyone’s the a-hole. Including the groom, who said “I’ll talk to her” and never did.

📚 Book Chat: Zodiac Academy: The Awakening by Caroline Peckham

Twin sisters with all four elemental powers are thrown into a magical school full of bullying, betrayal, and elite fae chaos. It's giving Harry Potter meets Vampire Diaries with a splash of Gossip Girl and a whole lot of hot underwear.

⭐️ Rating: 8/10
🌶️ Spice: 2 chili peppers for Book 1, but it definitely heats up in future books
🎧 Audiobook: Distracting sound effects + identical twin POVs = mild confusion
💬 Our verdict: Confusing but addictive. We’re already three books deep.

📖 Next Book Pick (For Those Continuing Along):

All This and More by Peyton Shepherd
A twisty “choose your path” novel about big life decisions and multiple realities. Perfect for fans of Sliding Doors, The Midnight Library, and interactive fiction.

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: Taking a Break

Between new businesses, football seasons, and our senior-year mom feels, we’re taking a pause from regular podcasting to soak up every second. This isn’t goodbye forever — it’s just a break.

We love you. We’ll miss you. And we might just randomly drop back into your feed.

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It’s a mini episode, but we’re still bringing the chaos. This week’s snack-size episode is packed with bizarre headlines, dark history, and weird facts you didn’t ask for — because we know you’d miss us. No books this week, bookies — take a breather and read something wild.

✨ Inside This Mini Episode:

• 🦷 The Toothbrush Murder: California dentist poisons husband via $25,000 gold-plated toothbrush. You read that right.
• 🇪🇨 Real Life Purge in Ecuador: Cartels, military curfews, motorcycle executions — it’s giving Hunger Games meets The Purge.
• 🐜 Weaponized Mosquitos & Exploding Cigars?: CIA Project MK Naomi files exposed. Bio-weapons, anthrax, and rat delivery systems… nothing weird here.
• 🐱 $20 Million Cat Spy Fail: The CIA put microphones in cats. You can guess how that ended.

💡 Mini But Mighty Topics:

• Why gold toothbrushes = murder weapons
• How South America’s cartel violence looks eerily like a dystopian film
• More shady CIA projects you didn’t learn about in history class
• The cost of bad government decisions (spoiler: millions wasted on cats)
• Why Inspector Gadget might be more fact than fiction

❌ No Book Chat This Week

Bookies, enjoy the break! We’re resetting the A-Z challenge next week with “A” — get ready to start fresh.

🛑 Friendly Reminder:

If your neighbors have surveillance and your spouse has life insurance… don’t clean their toothbrushes with potassium chloride.

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