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Butcher and Blackbird, Part 1
Join Chanel, Ashley, and Stacy on this week's episode of Fiction Fanatics as they dive into the darkly comedic world of "Butcher and Blackbird" by Brynne Weaver. In this first installment, they unravel the twisted tale of two serial killers in a genre-bending romantic comedy. Brace yourselves, Nerds, because this book discussion comes with a hefty dose of laughter and love for all things literature.
Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of dark themes related to serial killers. Listener discretion is advised.
Tune in as the hosts dissect the first half of this gripping novel, sharing their favorite moments, hilarious insights, and why they can't put it down. Whether you're a bookworm or just curious about this unique blend of genres, Fiction Fanatics promises an entertaining ride filled with witty banter and unabashed book nerdery.
Summary:
When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country. But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their newfound love. Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves? Or have they finally met their match?
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***Produced by Jen Hardin***
***Produced by Jen Hardin***
This scene was effing nuts. It was really intense, you guys.
Speaker 2:So intense, this whole scene.
Speaker 1:Jumps on top of this man's hood to like what is he going to do? What's he going to do?
Speaker 2:There is no plan None.
Speaker 1:He's like this guy's got this car like trying to swerve all over the road to yank him off. Rowan's just holding on to the hood like beating the window in with his other hand trying to get in hi, I'm chanel hi, I'm stacy hey nerds.
Speaker 2:This is ashley and this is fiction fanatics is Fiction Fanatics. She's only. She's only published four of these.
Speaker 1:All of her special editions are so beautiful it makes you wonder if she has a hand in helping. Like design, the theme and design. I say that because I know ashley likes the red queen um I love her right. Well, she's just hilarious. I haven't read the books, but I follow her on tiktok and she. She had a hand in her cover designs because she wanted them all to match, because she agrees with us that when they change it up mid-series it fucks everything up yeah, you gotta buy more books you're right.
Speaker 2:I think you're right. Uh, victoria av avallard, I think that's how you say her name. Um, she, you're right, she had a hand in her and I think samantha shannon, I think she had to say, because she's talked about, like, because there's a ton of flowers on that, it's the bone season, there's a ton of flowers and it's very symbolic. I haven't read the, the series yet, but it's all the flowers are very symbolic in that season and she's talked about how she wanted that on the sprayed edges and stuff like that, and so I think she's had a hand in the like the cover design and stuff like that, which is very good for an author.
Speaker 2:I'm like, these are your books, this is like yes why wouldn't you have versus um, just like Samia, um Sarah J Maas, like you know, kind of that transition or change. I don't know how much of a hand she's had in her book cover designs. Maybe now that it's more popular she has, but I don't think originally she did, and maybe that's just because she was a young author and she didn't have, like you know, say, or like power when it first got published. You know what I mean, but but yeah, anyway, I had to show you those because they're gorgeous, they're gorgeous.
Speaker 1:I have um, I was gonna surprise you guys. This isn't like a good surprise for you. It's more of like um. Speaking of like books and stuff like that, did you see that julie soto's new book, not another love song? There's a signed edition you can buy with the overlay. Yeah I already I ordered it okay and you can order like her to sign it and you can have like something up to five words on it oh, I didn't know that do you want to know what I put in for her to sign?
Speaker 1:it and I guess, can I guess? No, I guess I'm guessing ashley had her signed to my saturday girl. Uh no, but that's better. Oh, wow, wow. What a missed opportunity you ruined it well, um no, it's signed to my favorite fiction fanatic oh, that's so cute I thought you guys would be more annoyed by it, because it's saying I'm her favorite, not you guys.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh no, it's cute I wish you would have told me that, though, because spoiler alert for people listening um I got a second copy of that so we can do a giveaway, and I should have had her sign something like that in it for the giveaway. Well, I mean, it's from all of us, whatever.
Speaker 2:But oh, yeah, yeah you didn't see that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, up to five words. I mean I don't think she guarantees like, I think it just depends. But you can if she has time or can't, up to five I didn't see that no how many people do you think asked her to sign to my Saturday Girl, though you got to admit it's my favorite sticker of all time that I have is my Saturday Girl. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2:I love it. I'm reading I'm on what chapter I'm on? I'm on like 10 of that book. Oh my God, I'm not even at a spicy scene yet with this. You know I love sexual tension right now. Have you guys started it yet?
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm like 30% done with it right now. Nice, it's so good. It's just classic, Julie Soto. Like you can't put it down Once you start it. You love the characters, the banter, the relationship. I was reading it last night in bed. I'm like I have to go to sleep.
Speaker 2:I have relationship I. I was reading it last night in bed. I'm like I have to go to sleep. I have a full day this morning. I'm like it's so freaking good sexual tension, so good anyway.
Speaker 1:So yeah, we're you know obviously we're gonna cover that anyway. So, yes, okay, well, do you want to jump into our episode then, ladies? Yes, so excited. So happy june nerds. Today we well, today, this month, we are covering, uh, bren, weavers, the butcher and blackbird, and it's actually a trilogy. The second book came out a week ago and it's leather and lark, um, so I'm excited about that too, but we're going to do the first half, even that I'm halfway through that.
Speaker 1:It's so good. I haven't started any of these yet. They say who are you? My life has been chaos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm like halfway through Leather and Lark and it's always just so surprising when you love these quote unquote secondary characters just as much as the original, when they their story builds and I love, I love Lark.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ok, so for part one, we're doing chapters one through 12 and it's going to ends at a good we. It actually, naturally the halfway point was a good like pausing point, so we should just jump right in. So for the first part, we for chapter one, we have I call it the meet cute because it is the the least cutest meet up we've ever heard of, but I was a fan. So it starts off. We have Sloan and she is trapped in a cage in a basement somewhere and, um, I will have you guys know I'll never look at that orzo pasta the same way again. Basically, she's murdered a man. I love this book. So much from chapter one. I love this book. She's murdered a man and got trapped in a cell with his dead body. She's been there for three days. What'd she do? She like tripped over him or something and like no, he, he kicked her right before he died.
Speaker 2:He kicked her in like the chest and then she fell backwards into this cage and got locked in it made me think of you, the show you like oh, I was like yeah, I was like what you thought of chan Chanel.
Speaker 1:No, not Chanel.
Speaker 2:Like I would do something. That's stupid.
Speaker 1:I was like thanks, but you need to picture she's in Louisiana in the middle of summer with no air conditioning in this basement. So she's been there three days A dead body.
Speaker 2:He's decomposing like right.
Speaker 1:I guess I should have said when we started please, god, god, check the trigger warnings. Like I feel like if anyone's heard of this book they know going into it. To me it's everything I've ever wanted, like her little acknowledgement in the beginning like hit my little dead soul so there'll be a lot of murder and gore and sex and cannibalism and I can't wait. So heads up, guys, um. But so she's stuck in there and I like this book from the get-go because it's such a fast pace. Like we meet sloan, we realize that she's a serial killer. She, you know, she kills her. Like victim choice, for killing people is terrible, people who kill people, so kind of like that dexter feel. But we meet her and then, like a page and a half later, we meet rowan and he's the boston butcher and he shows up because he was also going to kill this guy in louisiana. So thank god.
Speaker 2:So basically he shows up and saves her yeah, he was after one, he was already targeting that guy and so he obviously comes in to like yeah, like, save her.
Speaker 1:And he's hot with an irish accent can you like immediately, you love this guy. Immediately, immediately, you love him. He's witty right off the bat. He, like she's in this cage hasn't bathed in three days. Like he already thinks that she's beautiful like, and he comes up with her nickname on the spot because when he goes in she's seen that song blackbird.
Speaker 1:So that's where he comes up with her nickname blackbird yeah, she's like self-soothing by singing this song, because she's like I'm about to die next to this guy and so she tells him her name's sloan and that she her like serial killer name is the orb weaver, and so I thought this was nuts, but like basically her mo, for as a serial killer she takes out people's eyeballs and makes these intricate web designs and puts the eyeball in the web at crime scenes but she also is like super smart that she like leaves clues about the person that she kills, like because, like you said, their their killers as well are like, um, like molesters or you know terrible people, and so she like leaves clues in these like webs about their killings to to prompt the detectives and cops on how she found them.
Speaker 2:Essentially, she like, and she like cuts part of their like skin and um like you said, their eyes and stuff like makes a little map with it, right, yeah, yeah, locations but so far none of the detectives have been able to like connect her victims to their crimes, slash to her because it's so like intricate and complicated and um so. But he has, um rowan has been able to and that's why he figured out, obviously, that she was like the orb weaver Anyway.
Speaker 1:But I just think it's funny and typical. I guess A lot of this kind of makes me think of Dexter. And then I know you guys haven't watched the show Hannibal. But a lot of the serial killers in Hannibal set up like really intricate murders and like Hannibal does too, in Clues and the police never get it. So it made me think of that. That was pretty. I like that little clue. Um, so right off the bat we, though we know sloan's smart, we figure out. The butcher is smart because he's been able to figure out you know these clues. So he lets her out. And I thought this was hilarious. She was like I'm in the mood for barbecue. I don't know about you. She's been like right next to this corpse for like three days. Um, so they go to get lunch and they just kind of like talk and flirt. The tension's immediately there. It's so cute and well written like I love that. I'm saying cute for this book, but it is really cute. Um, it's really campy, that's that's what was?
Speaker 1:it's like campy, but then it's also really dark, so, um, it's an interesting tone switch. All the time I feel like, yeah, so, and you're right, the tone switch it keeps it very interesting and fresh the whole time you're reading it, because it's really serious moments, it's love moments and even when it's, like you said, they're killing people, it has these like hilarious, like what the fuck is happening? Moments which I can't wait till we talk about that murder. But you know what I'm talking about like towards the end of part one. Um, so while they're talking, he doesn't want to let her go. He can already sense that if she walks out the door he'll probably not see her again. She'll like disappear.
Speaker 1:So he kind of comes up with this idea and she likes the idea of it that they're gonna do a competition of who can kill someone quicker, like find them and serial kill them quicker, and that's how, um, how that part lives, like exchange numbers or whatever. And so then, right after that lunch, um, we jump forward a year and they're getting ready to leave to do their first game, the hunt of who can find and track and kill their victim first. And it's obviously gonna be a bad guy they're gonna kill. And this is when we first get introduced to butcher's brother, lachlan, and he sounds so fucking hot. He is a leather maker, like works with leather and he's also a contract killer as well yeah, I imagine he's like tall irish.
Speaker 1:I didn't listen to it so I've just been reading it, but I'm sure, listening to it, the irish accents with them talking with everything, anything with the three brothers, like when they're all interacting. It's so funny.
Speaker 1:I feel like the author does a great job with their relationship yeah, yeah, they're really close and um, but like also give each other shit yeah, so we meet um him, and then it goes back and forth between him texting sloan, and then sloan is with her friend lark, who knows that sloan's a serial killer, murders people. Um, it's her best friend and so we get introduced to them for the first time. When I started this book I knew that the second book was coming out and I knew what the title was and everything. So I was really pumped when we first met them and got introduced. Um, but it's just funny because butcher's brother he's the one setting up the game, setting up where they go and giving them clues and who they can figure it out. And so the text and banter between sloan and butcher are really, is really cute because she thinks he's gonna get a leg up, because it's brother and you learn really quick that like his brother probably wants him to lose, like he wants this girl to kick his ass in this game. So funny. And so then they take off to west virginia and they're on the same plane, right? No, I think she some technically like she is on a plane first. Yeah, never mind, for some reason I was thinking they were on the plane together, but I think she was just texting him before she got on the plane, yeah, but he still gets there pretty quickly because he's at the hotel when she is so like, even though I think she technically leaves before him, I they either get there at the same time or he gets there pretty quickly after her because he's at the hotel when he's already in his room, when she's in the lobby of the hotel. So, oh, okay, you're. Yeah, they're not, they're just texting. I was reading this part, um. So his brother has her phone number too. So this is what I thought was cute he texts her um while she's gonna get on the plane and he says and good luck, eyeball, spider, lady or whatever the hell your name is. Just think, little brother, your title of loser is about to be official. I love good banter in a book, um, so yes.
Speaker 1:So then we end up in west virginia, which I've never been. I've only drove through west virginia, so I can't speak of it. But they end up in this like real small, quaint motel hotel that they check into. And sorry, I had something stuck in my throat. I thought I was gonna call for a second um. So they end up in west virginia and all they really know is that a bunch of people over the years have been disappearing and they've been saying it's like hiking incidents and such, and obviously it's someone like knocking these people off, which I don't know. If you guys know this, I listened to a podcast called park predators. This is like a real thing. People disappear in these national parks all the time. That's why you don't hike, just don't. Even so, you don't work out, just don't do.
Speaker 1:It's not worth it, just stay home I do have a question, and maybe this is just like, really like in your face, so everybody knows it, and I was just like do you, did you notice that all of these throughout the book, all the serial killers that they go after, they're all based on popular serial killer movies and stuff like this is where it's supposed to be Bates Hotel, right? It's kind of what this is supposed to be like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then the other one they reference was like up in Seattle, which was based off of like the Green River Killer and yeah, and isn't one like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Yeah, literally the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, yeah, okay okay, that's what I thought I was like.
Speaker 1:That's what it said.
Speaker 2:It sounded like you're like. It sounded so familiar, so familiar.
Speaker 1:You know, my favorite killer was the one who gave Hannibal vibes, obviously like the super pretentious smart rich.
Speaker 2:Ashley, you're not immersed in the serial killer world because it gives me nightmares.
Speaker 1:I can't handle it. It's terrifying. These people are terrifying and I take could I make a side note? Just take a serious turn. I listened or I read an article and it was like talking about how women love reading about true crime and serial killers and men.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they don't get it. And someone said women love listening to true crime and aren't affected by it, like it doesn't freak them out as much generally like it does men, and that's because generally victims are women and women like listening to it because it's women being believed about being harmed or whatever oh, and that's why what so the article said, subconsciously, because it's generally the audience for these true crime shows podcasts all this stuff is women generally, and usually the victims.
Speaker 1:What is it like? 85% of serial killers are white men or men in general, but most of them are white men and generally the victims are women, and so women like listening to it and it doesn't freak them out as much because it's women being believed about being harmed.
Speaker 1:People believe them and so they're comforted by they listen to these stories and it's victims being hurt and believe that they were hurt yikes sorry that was really deep, but it just made me think of it, because I read this article and I was like wow, that's really fucked up, but like who knows, yikes well, you're like the victims that survived yeah, yeah, yeah, yikes.
Speaker 1:Anyway, let's jump back into this, okay, so the but ashley's right. So the first got the first um part of this competition, the first victim that they're supposed to see who can kill first. The whole ordeal is very reminiscent of bates motel, which we'll get into um, but I love it because when butcher shows up, she's reading in the lobby and he's like what are you? This is how I knew I would fucking love this book. She says that she's reading monster mutt, like a monster, and he has no idea what it is. He starts reading it about. He's like dp, like for, like double penetration, like reading. He likes it.
Speaker 1:Well, clearly we'll find out later why yeah yeah, yeah, this is why he's the fucking dream. I was reading this part and just like smiling because don't we want someone, a partner, who would read the crazy shit we read and be like, wow, this sounds really good, like so it's really sign me up, let me read that, so they just have like a cute interaction. There's a cat made me think of Chanel. I think the cat's name was Winston.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's her crazy demonic cat that she loves oh sorry no, no, I was gonna say maybe she takes the home, no, I'm just kidding, um, but yeah, that cat's amazing, probably my favorite character, and it'd be in this chapter other than them too. Yeah, and then, uh, and then the only other person at this hotel is the guy who runs it and owns it, and then he has the house up the road, the hotel, and there's no other guests no what?
Speaker 1:it's just them two. Um, so kind of fast forward a little bit. Sloan ends up going on a date with this guy from the hotel. Butcher does not like this. Obviously he is annoyed. He stays up the whole time she's gone on her date. Clearly she's doing it to like, try to get information about the area and like who this killer could be. And then we go head first into the deep end with the smut right off the bat, which I love. So the rooms, the walls are next like to each other, so she, he can hear pretty much. You know how, whatever hotels are. And she gets home from her day and I'm sure, from all the sexual tension that you could cut with a butter knife, she starts wanting to Self-explore. What's happening?
Speaker 1:I was waiting to see what word you were going to use. Self-explore. I couldn't decide what to say. I could not. She starts to self-explore, so she has a toy and you know, she started to get it on with herself, which I support 100 always, you know. And she starts. She says, uh, butcher's name, which is rowan, which is rowan sorry. I love calling him butcher, though, because it makes me feel like he's a serial killer all the time, and I love it.
Speaker 2:So she's also a man, let's respect. He's also what? No, we respect.
Speaker 1:Wow, heteron why you met a hard pass. I'm just kidding. So she says Rowan's name, he's going to lose it Like he's going to self combust, and then he hears like a noise. Right, how does yeah, yeah, yeah, he's listening through the wall.
Speaker 2:He's like this he's listening through the wall and then, like you said, he hears guy who's the owner and he's in the wall watching.
Speaker 1:It's not as hot when we find out it's him doing it too. Yeah, and in rowan's defense, when he realized what was going on, he did start to back away. So he wasn't listening to her, like he was not trying to be a creep about it. He just happened to hear francis when he was like backing away from the wall, yes, yes, breathing and like moaning into the wall.
Speaker 2:So, yes, yes, but so then he was like oh hell, I gotta stop this guy oh yeah, so he like kool-aid mans through the wall to get francis.
Speaker 1:It's so funny like it's amazing poor, poor, um sloan on the other side like just somebody bulldozing through these walls not poor sloan, she set it up.
Speaker 2:She knew that the guy was there.
Speaker 1:You find out that it was a whole setup like she's still like I don't think she's expecting people to come through the wall.
Speaker 2:Well, okay, yeah but then she gets ends up getting mad because the dude runs away, because rowan busts through the wall and she was like what the fuck, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Did she know that? He was watching her through the wall, though, because she was like saying rowan's name and stuff, so I feel like she wouldn't actually be.
Speaker 2:She'd be like more faking it, no so she, she, I don't know, she probably wasn't actually like faking it because she, like you said, she was saying roman's name, but like she's planned to set it up because she knew that guy was creeping on yeah, I, I mean I knew that she knew that he was the killer and like that's why she was trying to get information.
Speaker 1:I guess I didn't catch it that she knew that he was in the wall yeah, yeah, yeah, she knew that he was like watching her.
Speaker 2:She probably didn't know where or anything like that, but she definitely planned to like rope him in and like um, and like she knew she was like acting as bait by, you know, getting herself off again. I don't think she planned for Rowan to bust through the wall.
Speaker 1:But it was definitely a setup.
Speaker 1:I gotta read you this part, though, because I think it's hilarious. This is when he figures out that Francis is in the wall. I march. And then it very quickly goes into, like Chanel said, that it was a setup. Oh, I march over and rip it out from the plug. This is a lamp, gripping its long body like a baseball bat. As I turn towards the section of the wall where the pervert is hidden, I'm just about to take my first swing when the eyes of the painting flicker open. A real set of human eyes stare back at me and widen with alarm. Oh shit, my instant, my instant of shock dissolves into fury as eyes disappear, leaving dark holes behind. Motherfucker, I rush the wall and smash the painting with my weapon, lurching halfway into the tiny hidden room when the thin canvas gives way and nothing behind it. I don't even catch sight of the other man. I can only hear him scray away like the fucking rat, he fucking rat he is.
Speaker 1:And then it jumps to to sloan and she's saying rowan kane, you fucking irish pervert, weirdo, what the fuck are you doing? I'm gonna fuck you up. No, no, no. I protest. And then it it jumps down a paragraph because she's like trying to beat him up and it goes. There was a man in the wall. I blurred out that was rowan. She goes. I know she snarls as she shoves me with both hands. His name. His name is rowan kane and he has no fucking boundaries because he's a oh wait, hold on. Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. She, I don't think she knew that that guy was in the wall. She said, yeah, she's. She's saying yeah, rowan was in the wall.
Speaker 1:Oh she didn't know, she knew Rowan was listening. Well, she didn't even know Rowan was listening. She knew when he. Oh, she didn't know this Because, look, people were like, did they even read this fucking book? Rowan says, and then I heard something. I say rowan says, and then I heard something. I say, grabbing her wrist with my free hand, I tell her behind me she squirms in protest, but I refuse to refuse to let go. You're right, there was someone watching you in the wall and he took off right before I had a chance to see his face, let the let alone bludgeon him with the lamp. And then she's, she like looks in the wall and sees the room and whatever, she assesses it, and then she says, motherfucker, so she didn't know that, she didn't know, she knew that he was the killer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but she didn't know he was watching her I just don't think that she knew that she was being watched, no, during that time. Yeah, yeah, yes okay, okay I was like you know, I think I was just reading it too quick and I got confused too when she said I know, and she's talking about rowan yeah, pervert.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, gotcha, gotcha, okay, okay. When she said, I know I was like, oh, yeah, she like was setting that up, like that was a gosh, okay, okay I do honestly, this is a compliment, because when I get all giddy and I read too quick, and sometimes I so.
Speaker 1:Anyway, go ahead, ash, what you're gonna say? No, I just um, I love both of them, but I think it just also shows how smart sloan is, because she figured it out so quick that this guy. He was the killer was the serial killer, and rowan is just so, and not a bad way. Obsessed with sloan, here he is pouting all night because she's like looking hot out on this date.
Speaker 2:He's just pissed, pacing his bedroom jealous she's winning the competition seriously, and that comes up later too. That comes up later too, like where she's super smart not that he isn't but yeah, like, yeah yeah, anyway good no, no, you're right, it's just cute.
Speaker 1:So she you can tell he definitely thinks more with his heart and his emotions and she's very analytical and can like separate the two, whereas he's like, instead of planning what, why she's going out on a date with this guy, in this random hotel in a weird pink shirt, he just sits in his room fuming for four hours walking around yeah, you know what I mean yes, so then they take off after this guy.
Speaker 1:He's running up towards his house and um you hear him get in his car and he's like speeding away. This scene was effing nuts bro it was really intense, you guys so intense this whole scene jumps on top of this man's hood to like what is he gonna do? What's he gonna do?
Speaker 2:there is no plan none.
Speaker 1:He's like this guy's got this car like trying to swerve all over the road to yank him off. Rowan's just holding on to the hood, like beating the window in with his other hand trying to get in. No, um, so in the confusion, confusion of this crazy scene, he hits a tree which, thank god, sloan's like there's a tree, so that rowan rolls off the hood and francis gets out of the car. Um, he's all beat up and this is where we really see. We, we know sloan's killing style, which is again not to bring up dexter, but it seems very desperate, dexter-esque with how she kills people very surgical knives or scalpels. Um, takes her time, it's very planned and meticulous. You can tell she's a thinker and we really. I mean, we know we call him, we know that they call him the butcher of boston, so we assume there's maybe like knives or whatever. We don't really know how he kills people. Yet he literally beats Francis to death in front of Sloan with his bare hands.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Very, like you said, emotional, right, yes, very emotional. And Sloan is like watching it for the first time and she's overwhelmed that's a good word for it.
Speaker 1:She is very overwhelmed.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I think this, this point really defines their relationship, like for both of them. You see it from at different points in the book. You see it from their points of view.
Speaker 1:They talk about it and where it almost was like the breaking point in their friendship and then eventually their relationship where she could have walked away and not like stayed, yeah, yeah, so it's very interesting and like sloan doesn't hear, he whispers something right to francis, right before he kills him. We get to hear what it said, what he says to this guy saying that sloan is his, basically his emotion that he would violate sloan in that way has driven him to like this rage in his eyes. He blacks out almost from the rage and just completely demolishes this man. Um, it freaks sloan out. So at first, when it's all done, he starts calling for her and he's positive that she has ran away. And we find out later. She thought about it about just running away because it was so intense to see which is valid the emotion from him. But she shows back up and she ends up helping him dispose of the body and like taking care of his. His knuckles are obviously like totally fucked up and she cares for him and it's really sweet. And they basically part ways after this and they make plans that they are going to do it again, have their little competition.
Speaker 1:So I have to say that. So I love this book. So we preference, preference this before I say this, to say that. So I love this book, so we preference it, preference this before I say this.
Speaker 1:This was so intense to me that, um, sometimes this is what I struggled with a little bit in this book is that it's so campy sometimes and, like you know, um, in a good way can't be, yeah, and then away. And then all of a sudden it's like so intense and dark. I was just like I feel like I was having whiplash with some of my emotions here with this. Yeah, he does, he. I mean it's pretty graphic, like he beats this guy to death and I was like, oh, anyway, well, it's like you said, like I don't mean to say like so much. It's as you said, when he's watching and you know, watching her and through the wall it's intense, but it's funny like him and sloan are fighting, they're chasing this guy. It's a violation of her privacy and all this stuff, but it's still funny how it's happening. And then, like you said, it takes the turn where it's serious. We see how, how quickly he seriously fills for sloan and it does give you that whiplash, but I love it yeah, like I still enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:I was just like yeah, that's like the first time I feel like you really kind of get that whiplash into it.
Speaker 2:But but I think it also explains, like I mean, we're dealing with death and murder and serial killers and you kind of have to have like there has to be a reason of why they do what they do, of why they like their backgrounds and and so I think you understand to an extent like he obviously has trauma and rage in his background and it's coming out, you know what I mean like I mean it kind of alludes to his like um, you know his trauma in his past, a little bit like with his dad and stuff like that, and she obviously has some in her background too. But but I understood what you mean, yeah.
Speaker 1:Then we jump forward about six months later and Lark has convinced Sloan because they've been texting and keeping in touch and flirting and all this stuff. The tension we love Lark is her friend is telling her you should go see him in Boston. Clearly you like him, you talk about him all the time. You guys talk all the time and Sloan is very hesitant too. We find out Lark is really the only person in her life that she it's like, her only family, the only person she talks to, who knows the true her, um, she about. Obviously she really values lark's opinions and stuff. So she's decided, okay, I'm gonna go see rowan in boston and see his restaurant, which is called three and coach. And we find out later it's called three and coach because he has two other brothers and they ended up coach, like being in coach in an airplane when they had to leave and started start their lives over in in boston. So like that's how the name came about. He's really nervous.
Speaker 1:She shows up at this hotel or at his restaurant he has no idea that she's in boston or showing up or anything and she the hostess sets her at this like very large booth and she it's just really cute how nervous she is the whole time. I just remember when I was hearing it the waitress was like, do you want anything to drink? And she's like alcohol. Just give me the alcohol. And so she gets a drink and a meal. She doesn't see rowan at all until she's actually getting up to leave, because she sees lachlan come in with a group of people and she immediately can tell it's his brother. There's like the irish accent, they look similar. And then rowan comes out of the kitchen and I'm sure in my head he looks so hot, just like tall. The chef's thing rolled up makes me think of the bear, but like a tall person, you know. See, I was thinking of emily and paris the chef from that show. Do you guys watch that?
Speaker 1:no anyways, I love the chef, the actor who plays the chef in that, and he looks great in a chef costume and that's what I was picturing a chef costume or you know an outfit, whatever it is you know, like our chef whites it's a good look, you guys it is a good look, but she.
Speaker 1:She immediately freaks out that she's there and he confronts her um, he pissed at the hostess that she didn't like. Let him know that she was there and their encounter is very brief and basically she runs out the door and just well, and then she, but she leaves on a napkin, she draws a blackbird, oh yeah yeah, that's left there, which ends up being a big deal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, because she's an artist. Maybe we find out about that later or something, but she's a great artist. Yeah, like Feyre level. Don't even start Chanel. We don't know how good Feyre is. Nobody ever actually says that her paintings are great. Tamlin said they were good, ashley say so you still have my tamlin thing. You gotta give it to me this weekend I, yeah, I got mine, she has it is it in your car?
Speaker 2:no, I haven't. I haven't taken out of my pack, out of the package, but I got chanel and ashley.
Speaker 1:This little car air freshener. It's like a little tumbler cup with a straw and then on the inside it says Tamlin's tears. I cannot wait, it's going up as soon as I get it from you this weekend. I can't.
Speaker 2:I didn't know, it was just going in my car. I can get it from my car now.
Speaker 1:Chanel actually got to see your other present that came that is book related. It's pretty good, isn't it? Yeah, present that came that is book related it's pretty good, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Uh. Well, not to brag, since we're talking about gifts, chanel, you're gonna die when you see what me and stacy got you for your birthday. That's coming up. Chanel's gonna be old guys I mean not as old as me and ashley, but yeah, I'll never catch up to you guys no one will ever catch up to me.
Speaker 1:Once you have kids, your spiritual age goes up like five years by each kid. I'm like 65 years old now. No, stop, stacey, I'm not kidding. Yesterday it was like 730 and I looked at Theo and I was like we should probably get home. It's getting late, god. Yeah, I wish I could keep a secret better, but I'm so excited about this Chanel. Yeah, keep it, stop it. I'm not gonna tell you what it is.
Speaker 2:I just want you to get excited. I am excited now. I didn't think I was gonna get anything, so I'm definitely talking about.
Speaker 1:You're like my favorite person, even more than.
Speaker 2:Stacy. I was gonna say that's all I care about that's the gift. Enough for me.
Speaker 1:I couldn't live without you too seriously. So that is true. Let's get back to it.
Speaker 2:Let's get back, okay, before we get all emotional.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll save it for the end and everyone can skip it and and um. So she takes off, she leaves, she like immediately flies back home, and this is why I love rowan's character in this book. He does not take it, he ends up going and he's sad and he tells her once she leaves he wishes she would have stayed because they could have cooked together, which is so sweet.
Speaker 2:I love this part.
Speaker 1:It's so sweet because you can tell that's something he'd really want to do with a partner is make food with them, and of course, if you're a professional chef, I'm sure it's a very like, intimate, fun thing to do. So he ends up going to her house. He knows that she is kind of flighty and nervous. He pays this kid to drop off ingredients to cook things at her front door and then he calls her.
Speaker 1:So he's there watching her get the groceries yeah, like he's literally across the street and then they text and the whole, and my favorite part is the first dinner she makes has orzo pasta in it, by the way, I don't know if you guys caught that.
Speaker 1:I did this writer is so, so great, um, and it's so sweet. He walks her through how to cook things so that they're kind of cooking together, but giving her space at the same time to really process what's going on. And he does it three days in a row. I think, yeah, and he never goes to see her um, he never lets her see him and then he goes back home. But it's really sweet and it's very intimate. I loved it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was very sweet.
Speaker 1:It was really sweet.
Speaker 2:And it shows like how you can know someone but still like, like you said, like make a connection with them and still be intimate and yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I liked it. And now it's time in my book and in my in my book. Now it's time for this book, for one of my favorite parts murder scenes, whatever. Then we go forward, it's time for their yearly competition and it starts out that sloan is on a date with this man. She's reading his personality immediately, this man. She's reading his personality immediately. He's wealthy and she's figuring out his personality and how she's gonna like get back to his place and seem interesting but not too smart and like, like you said, very like we've said, her character is just very intellectual. And then here comes fucking rowan, just busts into this all this work, all this preparation. He just blows it all out the window. He shows up at their date and just joins their party. The guy thinks he's charming and funny and it's like join us, have a drink, you know, and then so now it's like a threesome yeah, it's a, it's a throuple.
Speaker 1:Now a throuple, if you will. It's a throuple. And so rowan gets himself invited to dinner with her. I can just see her like rolling sloan, rolling her eyes and like here we fucking go, like I was gonna. You know, I had it all set up to win this so easy and have it planned out. So they show up at this man's house to have dinner and he's very pretentious with this wine and everything and Rowan's just yucking it up. He's not paying any attention.
Speaker 2:He's just having the time of his life. But this kind of goes back to what you said, like, where he's just like kind of like clueless, like he's, you know, like not like like thinking sometimes, like she's very observant and like, yeah, this guy seems a little off, like, yeah, he's rich and like charming, but she's like picking up clues, like you know probably did a little research on this guy, like because the whole time I'm thinking to myself like I would not be one drinking this wine from this guy, or at least like pacing myself yes and then and Rowan's just like, then the food.
Speaker 2:I'm like, okay, I also would like he's goblin. He like I can't even remember what the food was, um, but he was just like, oh, I freaking love um, steak tartar, I think that's what it was. He's like I freaking love that. And I just immediately was like something's off about this, like this food I don't know like it's suspicious about this guy. And she's like trying to signal to him like look at rowan, don't eat this food, because this guy there's something off about him, especially when they're supposed to be on a competition, like you're literally looking for a serial killer and like why are you just trusting him so much? But again, one, he's not thinking and two like he's drunk right, so he's too focused on slowness yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 1:She's the ultimate distraction he's like I'm just gonna let her do the work, I'll just like ride these coattails, come in here, finish this job off. He he doesn't even know what kind of serial killer this guy is. Right like he doesn't. He didn't do any research on this guy and she's at least could you get her point of view too. She's at least clocking like when the host is drinking from the same bottle that they are and then when he serves them wine that he's not drinking from. But and he's just like you said, ch, and he's just like you said, chanel, he's just knocking it back and she's trying to signal him like what are you doing?
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm just cause even I was like before it had. She had like pointed that out. Like you know, in the book and I'm listening to it, I'm thinking to myself your mission is to get a serial killer. So clearly this person is off. Clearly this person like you got to watch this person. What they're doing, they're not normal, they're evil there. And why aren't your like warnings going off and he's just like host.
Speaker 2:He's like oh, this, this would be better with like this and this, and like they're just yucking it up and she's just sitting there like no, I know, like I said, she, you know she was trying to warn him about the wine, about the food and, like I said once he started saying I freaking love steak tartare I was like something's up with that freaking. What is which? So what is steak tartare? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1:no, I was gonna say because what she? What you just said. She mouthed something to him about the food or the wine, and what does he think? That she says? Something like he likes her or something like he's so focused? Oh, yeah, he like misinterpreted yeah, and he's like look at you and she's like what?
Speaker 2:yeah, anyway, she's like, oh god, I love you. I don't freaking love you. I mean, she just thought it was a little premature. Just a tad. Just a tad, yeah, because then that ends up coming back up because he's so drunk and he pretends like he doesn't remember, even though he does Mm, hmm, mm, hmm. So yeah, like you said, he admits that he's Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. So yeah, like you said, he admits that he's in love with her.
Speaker 1:I have to Sorry, no, no, you're good Because this scene is so funny. There's just so much going on, yeah, so I also want to read some parts. She also clocks that this server that he has that's serving them is acting really strange. So there's this part that he has that's serving them is acting really strange. So there's this part she's looking at. She's looking at rowan trying to tell him like, and it says um, she starts like mouthing to her head. He's just looking at her and then she starts mouth lobotomy and he just tilts his head like what? And she's like lobotomy and then he goes.
Speaker 2:You love me like that's what it is.
Speaker 1:That's what it is, you love me.
Speaker 1:And then she smacks her. And then she does this and everything all right. My darling Thornton asks David, yeah, that's the guy. Or Thornton asks her as he's looking at David, about David's the server. And then he's getting really forward, their host, and she's saying how she doesn't necessarily, um, she might want to leave because she'll have an early morning for work. And then thorsten says late mornings at this rate.
Speaker 1:The wine is going down like a tree and he has this really weird charming smile. She's like clocking. All this fucking rowan isn't paying any attention. She's trying to get his attention. And then he looks over at her. His eyes are all glass, like you said. He's getting ready to pass out and he's like you look so pretty blackbird. That's what he says. And then he says sloan is the most beautiful girl in the world. And then he's you can tell during fall over. And then my brother called me I can't say it because I don't have an Irish accent With an Irish accent calls him a fucking idiot Because I could have all the pussy I wanted in Boston, but instead I've taken a vow of obstinance. And then she says abstinence to correct him. Oh, and he goes. He goes abstinence over a girl who doesn't even want me, and then he passes, oh. And then he says he's eating beef noice.
Speaker 1:Oh, nicois beef nicois, yeah sorry, it just made me think of a movie where they can't say nissau white, right, like the salad. I just said it wrong. But anyway, he says he loves that meal and then he pretty much just passes out in the food and she's probably like, thank god, thank god, you passed out at this point, so we can handle this but, some of the meat like hanging out of his mouth, right like he passes out with it.
Speaker 1:It is not beef, bt doves. So then when rowan finally wakes up, she tells him that it's human meat, that this guy is a cannibal, so he's like throwing up, so he has, he's been drugged and then he's vomiting everywhere. She's probably like jesus christ, like do I have to do everything? Um, but then we see the scene she set up their host is actually still alive, even though she has ripped out his eyeballs with him alive. And she's made this very intricate, artful, like web, and we find out that it's actually a map and this we get a better doubt.
Speaker 1:Uh, deep dive into how she sets up her um designs for her victims to leave clues and she talks about how she's pulled certain things from, like this man's bicep to for the b for the victim, the last victim he killed, and it's actually like a map to this victim's house and she kind of says how the police won't figure it out and rowan's just dying. He feels terrible, like from being drugged. He's eating human meat because he wasn't paying attention, like chanel said. He says he doesn't remember the things he said about her before he passed out. Even though he does, he doesn't want to freak her out. And then my favorite part is the ice cream part.
Speaker 2:This still gives me like, like you said, because then they go into the kitchen and they this is when you like officially meet that like servant guy or helper guy who's had he has had a lobotomy?
Speaker 1:yeah, so we find out that the guy that's that sloan killed, that they've been tracking this competition. He's given this guy a lobotomy so he can be his helper server without going home, or whatever. Sloan convinces rowan to basically take this man with him to work in his kitchen because she doesn't feel right leaving him there. This man's eating all the food in the kitchen when they go in there, all these human remains and then he's just like shoveling in this ice cream. And I thought this, this part, was hilarious, because Rowan's like please don't tell me, and she's like you want me to tell you what this ice cream is made out of. It's like cookies and cream ice cream and it said I had it highlighted. It's on like the label it says semen Milked. Milked on like April 12th or whatever.
Speaker 2:Disgusting Say the date.
Speaker 1:Say the well disgusting. Say the date.
Speaker 2:Say the date oh, okay, okay, let me pull back up. Pause, please pause, pause, pause. It's so gross, but clearly, like you know that, guy is where'd I go?
Speaker 1:where'd I go? Hold on one second, I literally oh. At one point she goes oh sorry, this isn't this part, but, um, it's too quiet. She whispers. I don't like it. Maybe he wandered off. They're talking about david. And then she says maybe he's in a meat coma. And then rowan says christ, too soon they peer through the door. David is sitting on the counter his legs swinging in his glaze vanquish. He spoons what seems to be cookies and cream ice cream into his mouth straight from the tub. That's a relief.
Speaker 2:That's what rowan says but yeah, so they're like something's off about this dude. He's, yeah, and then eating human right. And then um rowan asked flown, when did you figure out who he was?
Speaker 1:and she said pretty much right away, I would be like duh duh. And Rowan asked Sloane, when did you figure out who he was? And she said pretty much right away, I would be like duh Duh. Oh, and then he put did you ever consider at any point that you might want to clue me in about a cannibal inviting us over for dinner? She shrugs Maybe Mostly only when I was scraping human meat off your tongue Up until then. No, I can't say that I did. You insisted on worming your way into my dinner invite after all.
Speaker 1:Okay, I might never look at ice cream the same way again. She's reading the homemade label when she draws to a halt in front of me. I might never look at ice cream the same way again. I don't want to know Ingredients. Cream Sloan Sugar front of me. I might never look at ice cream the same way again. I don't want to know ingredients. Cream sloan sugar. Rowan says I'm begging you. I say, but as soon as beg leaves my lips, her grin ignites. Steeman milked april 10th to april 13th, yeah, and then he throws up again in the sink. Okay, yeah, so that was the date. Yeah, and then he throws up again in the sink yeah, so that was the date, because that's important.
Speaker 1:So Ew, ew, ew Ew ew, ew, ew ew ew, that ain't good Okay sorry, anyway, yes, so basically after that they're gonna go their separate ways. He's agreed to take uh david with him. He takes him to the hospital first and then he ends up taking it back to boston with him, but they talk pretty much every day after that. This was like a big turning point in there. They were talking a lot before and it was building up to this, but now they're're texting almost daily and then they're calling each other all the time after this, after this part of their competition. So then this is the last part in part one that we get to before we'll break.
Speaker 1:Um, it jumps forward eight, eight months from when they had their cannibal dinner together and uh, sloan has decided that they're going, gonna go on like an actual date. She's going back to Boston and she's gonna go to this best of Boston gala with him. Lark's helper picked out this really beautiful dress, she's all dressed up, she's super nervous, she's pretty much knows she has feelings for him at this point and, um, she's more open to it, I guess. And they meet and they talk. We find out that Rowan is in the process of opening a second restaurant, which is exciting. It's exciting. Later We'll find out in part two. There's cute parts to it, but yeah.
Speaker 2:So he's super busy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which I can only imagine. I know nothing about restaurant restaurant I've never been in the restaurant business or anything but just from watching three seasons of the bear, I can only imagine how stressful it is. And that's got to be accurate, so has to be so. They're having a really good time, they're dancing, they both look really hot, they're flirting, and then rowan is like oh, do you want to get out here and have some real fun? And we I knew instantly when I was reading, I was like he is gonna fuck this up. He thinks they should. I knew he's gonna set up. They were gonna like murder someone together and she's getting the impression that they're gonna have like alone time together and like and make it official, yeah, like, yeah, more focused on a relationship, the sexual aspect of it, whatever yeah, yeah, yeah and like seal the deal and be like we're like boyfriend, girlfriend and like like romance, because that hasn't happened yet, obviously, and he's like yeah, yeah, let's, you know, be best murder buddies, you know?
Speaker 1:yeah, he was doing murder yeah, and she's like wow, you are, you are clueless right now. Yeah, it actually.
Speaker 2:It made me really sad like it's sad because sloan is so disappointed I know, but it's not like he wasn't feeling that like you could. Yeah, he like he's obviously attracted to her and like he like wants that, like he wanted to kiss her, but I think he like he just likes being friends, like he likes that aspect of their relationship as well. You know, I don't know in my head.
Speaker 1:I think he's so emotional things with his heart he doesn't want to scare. I think he's always afraid he's going to scare her off. So I think that's why he thought doing a murder together would be great. So it's not too serious for her yeah and he this is the moment she wants it to be that. So, yeah, it's the miscommunication of it all, you know, yeah, yeah I don't think it was like malicious.
Speaker 2:I don't think he was like rejecting her. I think I think it's like he's still trying to like take it slow and be like let's just keep going with what we're, what we know and what we're good at. Yeah, what's working, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So in the middle of them like talking this out and figuring out what's happening, he gets a call and there's an emergency with the new restaurant, so he has to leave. And she's afraid that he's just going to leave and they're not going to talk. And she would. Basically she's like well, if you still want to do our competition and all that, you know their tech. After they leave, they're texting this and he says I miss you already. And she texts back I miss you too. And then she says are we still on for August? No pressure if you can't. Truly, I know you have a lot going on with the restaurant and everything. This is so sweet I have chills. And it's a text message. He says Blackbird says blackbird, dot dot dot, as in like he's still texting I will blow this restaurant up myself before I miss it. I'll see you in august. And then she's oh. And then he says and then change your oil, you bloody heathen, because he's, he's, he's stalking, creeping her nose that she hasn't changed the oil.
Speaker 1:Which we love, we love a toxic stalker we love it. No problems with me, I love it. And then that's where we'll pause for part one and we'll do part two next week. Sounds good, so Obsessed.
Speaker 2:Obsessed.
Speaker 1:It's so good. It's so good, that is a good like middle point to end, though, because I feel like after this is like it's. I mean, the whole thing is exciting, but a lot more happens too after this. So yeah, you know, part two, things just like go zero to 60, like, yeah, we ain't hitting the breaks next week.
Speaker 2:Okay, guys, prepare, prepare true, true, yeah, we doing some kudos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll go first. Okay, I'm very prepared today because I've been drinking espresso since I got up this morning, so I'm ready to go. I got six hours of sleep, guys. My baby slept six hours.
Speaker 2:I could run a marathon right now.
Speaker 1:Stacey, you look so refreshed. Your hair looks great. You have makeup on. You were drinking starbucks like you're just the mom doing it all right now seriously well, ivy's been waking up every two hours for the last three nights. My sleep has been horrendous. So when I woke up at five this morning and she had been asleep for six hours, I was just like oh, oh, oh, I'm refreshed, i'm'm so refreshed, like I'm a spring daisy.
Speaker 1:So my main kudos this week, I have to shout out my mom. So me and Theo are in the process because why would we not with a newborn of selling our house and we have two dogs and we just have showings and everything, and I don't know people who've sold a house. They probably know this. I totally forgot from when. I've only sold a house one other time and I didn't remember this part. But you get like an hour's notice usually before someone comes to see it.
Speaker 1:So it was kind of stressful one with two kids to make sure the house is somewhat decent for people to walk through it and see it. But we didn't want to have to worry about leaving the house with our kids and then taking two dogs. So my mom has taken Stitch, my little French bulldog, and she's been so great. Oh, I know he's spoiled. I feel bad because since we've had Toby and now the baby, he's not the baby anymore. It's hard for him. She took him to get groomed for me yesterday and so she's been taking care of him. She groomed for me yesterday and so she's been taking care of him. She's going to take care of him this week and next week probably. So I want to kudos her for sure, because it's one thing off my plate that was really stressing me out.
Speaker 1:She's called me every day to update about Stitch. It's so funny. She loves him so much. She likes these dogs more than us. Honestly, she does. She loves her dogs so much. Stitch is oh, I know he's sleeping in the bed with her cuddling, getting treats 24-7.
Speaker 2:I'm sure he's going to be like Homemade treats.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, my mom makes them homemade treats. Where's my homemade treats, mom? She'll send some homemade dog treats home with you, though, so that's a plus. She does that for me sometimes.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:She's an A plus mom right there, yep dang, kudos to donna, kudos to donna.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're doing the damn thing seriously. Um, I'm gonna do kudos, um, to my brother and his wife, my sister-in-law, because I got to spend some time with them this week and they took me out to lunch and it was fun hanging out with them. So kudos to Kendall and Kiki. And also it's Father's Day this weekend, so kudos to my dad and kudos to Bob, who I took out for lunch and he's my pseudo, he's, he's my daddy, my zaddy we love a zaddy Chanel.
Speaker 1:I cannot with you right now, I love. Bob okay.
Speaker 2:I love Bob, I said. I said to him I was like Bob, you're my sugar daddy, you buy me things and you, uh, you're my confidant and I always ask about decorating and stuff.
Speaker 1:And fancy art and landscaping. Well, because Bob has the best style of anybody I've ever met, before ever he does, so I said happy birthday Shinkanetti Yesterday at lunch. I'm sure he loved it.
Speaker 2:Yes, so happy Father's Day to them, them.
Speaker 1:So yeah, those are my kudos well, um well, my kudos are for you guys, because I love you and this made my whole weekend, because I missed you.
Speaker 1:And then I have to give a second kudos to like all my work friends because I'm so grumpy all the time at work and they have to deal with me, so I just I've been extra grumpy for some reason this week. There's like dog stuff going on with my dogs. They've not been doing great, so I think I'm just a little anxious over it, and work drives me crazy in general. So, um, but they always make me laugh and kind of like joke it off and are so supportive so I'm lucky to work with like people that I really love. So all of those all my mid shifters and a couple of the day shifters sprinkled in there they make they make working bearable. So, and you guys, I feel like if anyone's ever worked any kind of healthcare job, they know how fucking stressful it is. So I don't make anyone grumpy. I have to tell you this story just real fast. This is how ridiculous and dramatic I am.
Speaker 1:So, danny, who's been on the podcast and is all of our friends, we work the same shift, so we always park and walk in together every morning. Right, that's our routine. We park by each other and we walk in. Fridays are called fifth floor Fridays. Okay, me and Danny almost like broke up yesterday, friend wise, over this Fifth floor. Friday, friday, every Friday we park on the fifth floor. I'm like rushing into work because I'm running late, like I'm just flying up this, the garage parking, the garage lot, to get up to the fifth floor. As I park in the spot, danny calls me. He's like hey, I parked on the second floor, there's a spot down there. I instantly just like lost my mind. I was like I got to get off the phone. I was like I, I literally I said I would never do this to you like you would have like you would have thought that he murdered somebody or something.
Speaker 1:Like I would never do this to you. I was like I'm getting off the phone, I wouldn't let him talk. I was just like bye, bye and like got off the phone and danny said later, when we were talking it out, because I could see him like walking in from, because I was waiting for the elevator on the fifth floor and there's a window, I could see him walking and he was just shaking his head walking in. I was talking to him. Talking to him later about it. He's like, yeah, I was like I get this enough outside of here, so I just said I'm going into work. I was sorry, laughing. I was like I'm so sorry. I don't know why I was so upset about that, but I just could not handle it in that moment that you didn't bark by me. I'm insane. He's been friends with us long enough. He's not surprised. He knew exactly what he was doing when he parked on the second floor he knew what was gonna happen.
Speaker 1:I don't even feel bad for him. That was the ultimate betrayal. How, why would he do that to you?
Speaker 2:he said I mean, that was, that was literally like some harry potter like peter pedigree betrayal like peter that was very peter prodigy of him to do to you.
Speaker 1:He said that he was calling me to try to catch me before I got up past the first floor so I could park by him because there's another spot and I just could not even handle it. And then and then all day, the joke was just like Danny. Everybody gave Danny a hard time because everybody else parked on the fifth floor too, because it's fifth floor Friday, and like I was like we have to stop giving Danny a hard time. He's never gonna be friends with us anymore. He's been getting it since he parked. He was so happy when he called me too. He's's like you won't believe it I found a spot on the second floor instantly. Just like kill this joy. It's just like an asshole, like I don't even know. Anyways, that's how crazy I've been this week.
Speaker 1:So kudos to all of them dealing with me. I love it. I think that was a perfect story to end on. Honestly, yeah, stacey, you want to lead us out now. Yeah, um, you guys have a great week. We can't wait to talk about part two next week. So make sure you listen and make sure you read what you like.
