🎪 Episode 85: Hot Tub Honey Buns, Area 51 Fires, & the End of an Era (For Now)

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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.