Past Musings: "Spooky Things" S1 E3
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Spooky Things S1 E3
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Welcome to the Wandering Musings of AJ and A-Rae!
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To Mama's After Dark!
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Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
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Hello everyone, welcome to the Spooky Things!
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That aren't so really spooky episode.
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Hey guys!
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I'm so excited.
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Really excited for this drink.
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Yeah, what does it smell like?
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Another delicious drink.
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What does it smell like?
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It smells like...
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It smells like goodness.
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Okay, this one is an actual cocktail.
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This one's called Spice Candied Apple.
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It's one that I kind of came up with.
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I was going to say it smells literally like a candy apple.
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Well, okay, so I have...
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It was last winter.
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I was like, I really want apple.
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I really want something like...
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Candied but not like overly sweet,
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because I don't like overly sweet drinks.
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I feel like I need to say before we get going,
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you can hear the kettle in the background.
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Yes, you can.
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They're probably like, what is that noise?
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It's true.
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It's adds to the audience of the spooky episode.
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It's spooky.
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Or it's the kettle that we got our liquid from.
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That way they know that this drink is authentic.
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It's authentic.
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We just made it.
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It's too hot to drink.
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It is too hot.
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It smells good.
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It smells delicious.
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Anyways, continue.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So I was craving it.
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I whipped it together.
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I had like...
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I had some apple whiskey.
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I'm using Royal Crown.
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I had some cinnamon schnapps.
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It's hot damn.
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Sorry about that.
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I just had to say it fast,
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because it's technically a naughty word, I guess.
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One swear can have.
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You know.
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Like the, you know, dam that you go to, the water dam.
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Yeah.
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And then...
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Normally I put whipped vodka in it,
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whipped cream vodka,
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but I didn't have any.
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I did at that point when I was trying to make this drink.
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It'll be fine.
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In the very beginning.
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So I put vanilla extract in this one
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to just kind of give it a little bit of like the sweeter side of life.
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Because it's supposed to be a candied apple.
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I could just smell this all day long.
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Right?
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It smells so good.
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But you can have it either hot or cold.
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I don't remember if I said that or not.
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I requested it hot because it just...
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Because it's cold.
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It's cold.
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It's cold.
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Um...
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But yeah.
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So how are you doing?
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I'm good.
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I am...
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Recovering from a busy week.
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Okay.
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I say this every week.
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But every week is busy.
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Right.
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We're moms.
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I mean...
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Full time.
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Mom's full time.
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Work was really busy this week.
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Work, full time.
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Everything.
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But you know, after fall break,
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I'm getting into the swing of things again.
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I feel like...
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I don't know if this was...
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It was like this for you with your boys.
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But...
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After our school break,
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they don't want to go back.
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No.
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I miss when they were little.
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I don't know.
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Mine are crazy.
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They do like school.
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So they're like,
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Yeah!
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Mine doesn't.
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I miss when they were little.
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And they want to go to school all the time.
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Mine hates school now.
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And doesn't want to go back.
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So it's like, come on.
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Let's go.
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Let's get back in the swing of things.
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But...
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But he has some other things that he's working through.
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Yeah.
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I mean...
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Work through life.
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We're adjusting to the junior high.
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Life brings every little fun obstacle that's great when you're done.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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It's like a hike.
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It's like a hike when you go up the hill and you're like,
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I'm going to be fine when I get up to the top.
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Yes.
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But going through that little part,
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it's a little harder.
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You have to stop sometimes.
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You have to reset sometimes.
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And then when you get up to the beautiful view,
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you're like, huh, worth it.
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That's what's going to happen.
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Speaking of, we did do a hike.
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It's part of the challenge.
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We will speak on later.
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Yes.
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And you took pictures.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Share those pictures.
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I mean, I can hike around my yard.
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I have pictures of that.
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I have pictures of that.
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I love my mini farm.
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I love my mini hobby farm.
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So we did a hike.
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And then I went to an art exhibit.
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So...
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Which is another part of the challenge.
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It was me time because I love art.
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Yeah.
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So it's been a busy week, but a good busy.
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Was it like old, like older artworks?
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Or was it a modern gallery?
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No, it was an older...
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It was a specific, I feel like I can never say that word.
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Me too.
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It was an older art, artwork for a specific...
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I feel like if I say what art exhibit,
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it will say where I live.
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That's fair.
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We can just skip it.
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But it was an art.
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It was beautiful.
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It was older art by one particular person.
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And I really liked the way it was done.
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And it was art that I hadn't ever seen before.
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Was it like landscapes or architectural or abstract?
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So it was really weird.
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Not weird.
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I'm trying to sneeze.
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Sneeze, is that what you said?
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Did your drink make you sneeze?
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No, not yet.
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I just got a whiff from it.
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Keep going.
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It was interesting because it was a female artist and her...
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The dynamic of her art changed throughout the years.
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Some of her art was very...
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I don't know how to say it.
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It just looked like she was angry almost and just brushed on the canvas.
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Big strokes.
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Yeah, just took out her emotions on it.
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And other ones were very...
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It was like portraits.
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It was very interesting.
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Maybe you can do that.
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I'll just make a corner down here in my workspace and just...
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They said that she would put up her canvas on the wall of her farmhouses.
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And it was so big, the canvas was so big that she would do half at a time.
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I don't know if I could do that.
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If I was angry enough, yeah.
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But it was just very interesting because it wasn't consistent.
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So guess what I'm trying to say?
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She dabbled in all.
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Yeah, her art wasn't consistent.
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And it just kind of...
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I'll go in my mind a little more.
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Me being a dabbler myself...
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Well, we talked about this last time.
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I really think I have ADHD.
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So me being a dabbler myself, I understand why there would be different perspectives
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and different techniques to be used.
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I always think the mediums or the projects that look the coolest are the ones that dabble
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in a lot of mediums and not just one.
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So that makes sense.
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You put your color pencil with your paintings and your drawings with your, I don't know,
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chalk or something.
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Does that make sense?
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It does.
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Yeah.
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Anyways.
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That was cool.
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I really enjoy art exhibits.
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I need to start going to more art exhibits.
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I used to go all the time.
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We would go down in...
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What is it?
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What is the boardwalk there called?
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Where?
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Downtown Portland with my mom and stuff.
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We would go down there and we'd see all the art galleries, in Portland. Artsy fartsy stuff...
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Artsy fartsy stuff.
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Apparently is my new word for every episode.
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Artsy fartsy stuff.
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But down on the boardwalk, we would go all the time.
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But I will include...
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I will include pictures of my trees that I put in.
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Because at first when I put them in, there was like, all the leaves were falling off.
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And I was like, oh my gosh, you died.
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But the little...
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Tree killer.
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No, but there's little leaves growing.
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Oh, okay.
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You brought it back to life?
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And they're like little red ones.
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That's what you did this week?
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You planted trees?
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No, I planted those a while ago.
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But I noticed this week that they weren't dead.
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Okay, gotcha.
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And so I took pictures of them as proof that I'm not a tree killer.
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Because my other trees don't have leaves.
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Well, the one in the back that I put in spring, that one doesn't have any leaves.
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And I'm afraid I might have killed it.
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But it's a grafted one.
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And I think it's done, like the beginning of spring.
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It comes on and then...
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No more fruit for right now.
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So I don't know.
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We'll find out next spring if I'm a tree killer or not.
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If I was...
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It's okay.
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I won't judge you I'm a plant killer.
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You're not.
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You're just learning how to interact with your plants.
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It takes some time sometimes.
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Someone told me that I just give them...
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I love them too much.
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There's that.
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Or maybe it was protecting you.
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I've read that...
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Okay, so in my little spiritual-ness, I have read that your plants sometimes because of
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all the love and care that you give them, if somebody is doing like a negative charge
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attack towards you or your psyche or an entity, that sometimes it absorbs it for you because
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it doesn't want you to get hurt.
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So it takes, like, throws its life force at it.
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Like, go away.
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I must have a lot of negativity and thrown at me because I kill everything.
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Or sometimes it's just because we're learning how to love our babies.
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It's like my pine here.
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It was upstairs and it was totally fine.
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And then during the summer, it started to die.
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And so I brought it down here and it seems to be doing better.
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And then this one was totally fine until the cat's got into it.
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So I moved it down here and it's not dead yet.
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So we're doing great.
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I'm learning.
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Yeah.
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And my...
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Well, you saw my Christmas cactus.
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It's like, loving life down here.
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It didn't love...
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It's all about your environment.
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It didn't love it up in the window that all my other plants love.
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It's all about the environment.
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Plus, I need to find more windows.
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Anyways.
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It is all about the environment.
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But yeah, my week was fine.
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Busy as usual, just trying to get through harvesting and prepping as much as the end
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of fall or this fall time so that in the spring, I don't have to do as much work.
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You know.
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Business as usual.
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Yeah.
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That's what it sounds like.
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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Someday before I die, I will take a rest.
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Might as well use my body while I can, right?
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Right.
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I have a quote for you.
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Oh, let's hear it.
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I do.
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And so to kind of give you a look, it comes with artwork, but I didn't print it because
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it would have taken up a lot of my paper.
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But it was a tree and it had two spheres on it and it had different colors and it had
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just fun, pretty colors to brighten your mood.
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And it says, gratitude helps us see what is there instead of what isn't.
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So gratitude helps us see what is there instead of what isn't.
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And it was posted by Energizing Souls.
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It can be found on the Facebook feed page and I looked it up because I was like, who
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are you?
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Why am I putting your work on here?
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Why are you so smart?
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Why are you saying that gratitude does help us see?
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Because sometimes when we take things for granted, we don't see clearly the beauty that
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we have around us.
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Yeah.
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Yeah?
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Exactly.
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At least that's why I was drawn to it and I wanted to share it.
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But Energizing Souls, she is in Australia.
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Isn't that great?
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She's reached us all the way from Australia.
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Great though, like how connected we are and we don't think about it, how connected we
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are to people that we don't know?
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The internet is a magical thing.
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It's just magic.
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I think so.
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I think technology in general is magic, but I mean, neither here nor there.
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I could go down that rabbit hole for you if you wanted me to.
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Where did I put it?
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Oh, right here.
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So she is, I don't know what this is and I probably should have looked it up before saying
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it, but she does dip polarity therapy.
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Have you heard of that?
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No.
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I don't know.
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Maybe I'll research it and put it, I shouldn't say maybe.
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I will research it and I will put it on one of our posts so that you guys know what it
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is too, unless you want to be as to it and then you can do that as well.
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She is an accredited shamanic and crystal practitioner and teacher, which shamanism
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is just sounds right up your alley.
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For all of you that don't know, I grew up in Portland, Oregon.
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So I'm a little bit of a hip.
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She's a hip into the hippie-dippy things, as I like to say?
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I am.
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Not the chemical parts of things, but more of like just the way of life.
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Yeah.
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That's fair.
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I realized after I said that.
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I call myself a hippie too, but I.
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So when I say hippie, I don't mean the chemical part.
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The granola, organic thing, not the other stuff.
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No.
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She's a reiki master, is it reiki?
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Yeah, reiki master and teacher.
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She does tarot, so she's alternative and holistic health services is what she supplies or gives
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to people and she is in Australia.
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And her website, if you want to check her out because she has a lot of other pretty
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things and sayings is energizing souls.com.au for Australia.
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In case you didn't know.
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Really like that quote, gratitude helps us see what is there instead of what isn't.
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Because I think a lot of times, especially for me, I don't take the time to slow down
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and be grateful for things that I have.
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Yeah.
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You do.
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How do I say is, you want things.
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Or you think about what you need, right?
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Yeah, you're too busy.
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You're too busy.
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Focusing on what you don't have and not on what you do have.
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Be grateful for what you do have.
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Yeah.
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And what's in front of you?
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I find myself doing that too.
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Like, oh, I have to do laundry and I have to, you know, go grocery shopping and I have
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to go and do all of these things, but we live in a place where we can go grocery shopping
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and get a variety of things.
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We live where we can do our laundry by a machine as opposed to by hand.
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Which I, when I went over… you know? to a different part of the world and had to do
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laundry, I had to do it by my hands in some places, like in buckets.
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And probably outside sometimes.
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I will never, ever, ever complain about doing laundry again.
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Yeah.
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But yeah.
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Just slowing down, remembering the beauty that we have of technology and things that
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can help us and maybe not focusing on the fact that we have to do something.
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It's more that we get to do it and that we get to do it in a way that is proficient as
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opposed to what our ancestors did.
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Like, you know, just learning about harvesting and stuff like that.
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Like, they had to do that or they wouldn't eat.
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And what if I run out of eggs, not that I have yet with my chickens, but if I run out
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of eggs, I can go to the grocery store and buy a carton of eggs.
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It's not like I'm going to starve from not having it.
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We're blessed.
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We need to remember that.
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Very good point.
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Yeah.
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Thanks for sharing that.
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You're welcome.
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Are you getting cold?
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Because if you are, I will start a fire in my electric fireplace.
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Hey, you might as well.
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Speaking of gratitude of things that are nice.
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That's really funny that you said that because I was thinking, you know, you can be instead
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of saying, oh, man, I wish that my house had the fancy fireplace that such and such a person
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has instead of being grateful that your house has heating where some people in the world
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don't have heating.
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They don't have heating.
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And don't be nitpicking on the little fancy things.
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You don't always need fancy.
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I have found that simple does just as best or better.
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What you have sometimes is better.
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Then you have all these things that you have to store.
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Yeah.
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They'd be keepers of or fix when they break.
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Like my writing on my mother.
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We won't get into that.
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So tell me what's happening in the world with the what was it?
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The one that we mentioned last time and then just was like, okay, we're done.
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That one.
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So much to talk about.
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I did.
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But before I totally went off on like the spiced candy apple and then forgot to mention
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other drink choices.
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So I wanted to bring them up because, you know, Halloween, Samhain, whatever you practice.
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There's some really cool things that you can dabble in.
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Most of these are alcoholic.
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The drink that we're drinking is alcoholic.
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And I understand if you don't drink, I didn't for most of my life.
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But you can do variants of it.
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You can look it up and do variants of these things.
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And you can like for us, we put in apple whiskey and the cinnamon sticks.
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You don't necessarily have to do that.
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You can put in your apple cider that you made last week.
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I'm still dreaming about.
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I know, so good.
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So good.
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You can put that in and then you can add like whipped cream on the top.
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Then you have that spiced apple taste with your little sugar on top that makes it kind
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of that candy flavor.
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But back in that cocktail book that I mentioned that I stole from my husband after I gave
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it to him, which was in case you forgot cocktail chemistry by Nick Fisher.
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We could do Corpse Reviver number two.
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That is on page 28.
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That sounds strong.
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Corpse Reviver.
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Right.
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I was like, OK, so we're like Corpse-y, spooky things.
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OK.
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I'm a nerd.
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OK.
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I love Manhattan drinks.
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I don't know if you've had it before a Manhattan cocktail.
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It usually has vermouth.
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The perfect Manhattan has both vermouths in it and whiskey.
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I'm doing this like, I'm making a drink for you.
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Thumbs down.
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She's using her thumbs like she's sparring.
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Like they're the spouts, you know?
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It looks like she's thumbs down.
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I'm like thumbs downing it.
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No, just kidding.
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This one is a Black Manhattan.
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Again, spooky.
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That's on page 38 of the same book.
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Again, a note.
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It is an alcoholic beverage.
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You can make changes and do different things to make it fun.
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Then the last one, it doesn't sound spooky, but the color of the drink was dark purple.
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That's a color that we see, right?
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We see orange, black, and purple a lot for the Halloween spirit.
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Somehow dark purple has become like a witchy color.
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Yeah.
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Perfect.
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I think it's pretty.
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So it's like, sure.
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Like Midnight Sky.
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It's a great drink for if you're hosting a Halloween party.
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Yeah.
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And this one's called Improved Flaming Homer, like Homer Simpson, which is called what?
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Improved Flaming Homer because again, it's purple, but you light it on fire.
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Oh my gosh.
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I was like, there's purple and there's fire and wow.
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So if you're brave enough to do that, it's on page 170 of this cocktail book.
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I post, okay, so to tell you the truth, we're doing this on the same day we did another
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episode, but it'll be posted on out there for you.
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So if you want to, not that he has sponsored us to give him credit for anything or have
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people go to him.
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If you want to try out these drinks, you should because he did a great job putting them together
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and providing.
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They sound really good.
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I'm not a.
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Well, let me show you.
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It's all drinks.
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The first thing that I'm talking about is on the cover.
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It's like that cool.
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Oh, it's like that cool.
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Right?
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Is that a lime?
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What is it?
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Yeah, that's the boat you make.
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You make it in a boat so you don't taste that.
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What do you call that?
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The liquid that combusts.
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The liquid fire thingy?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Cause who wants to taste that?
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So you put it in the lime.
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You cut it in the lime.
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He tells you how to do it.
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It does look really cool.
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He tells you how to do it.
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Just prep everything before you drink because if it is an alcoholic beverage and you're
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doing with fire.
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Don't play with fire.
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Why are you drinking?
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Have your designated light person do it for you so that you don't have your house burnt
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down.
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We don't want that.
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00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,760
Let's not end the year with your house burnt down.
532
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,840
So let's not do that.
533
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,040
But it's cool drink.
534
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,040
It looks cool.
535
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,040
That's awesome.
536
00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:03,920
If anything, just put some grape juice in the thing and do a lime wedge and light it
537
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,720
on fire because cool.
538
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:07,720
Cause cool.
539
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,000
She's not passionate about things at all.
540
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000
Can you tell?
541
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000
I was just so excited.
542
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000
It's purple and there's fire.
543
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000
Come on.
544
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,000
Oh.
545
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,320
What was the other thing that you asked me about?
546
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,840
I asked you what was happening in the world.
547
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,360
Look, I got distracted.
548
00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:30,360
What did we think you have?
549
00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:31,360
ADHD.
550
00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:32,760
I'm pretty sure, if I didn't before…
551
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:33,760
It's coming out strong today.
552
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:39,560
If I wasn't born with it, I'm pretty sure I gave it to myself at some point in my life,
553
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:40,560
which you can.
554
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:45,360
I have read you can you can do that, with the world pulling you into so many directions.
555
00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:47,360
I'm just sitting back here.
556
00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:48,360
My dream.
557
00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:51,200
She's like she's fine. I'm laughing at you.
558
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,200
I'm glad at least I'm entertaining to somebody.
559
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,200
Okay.
560
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,200
So October 28th.
561
00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:01,200
Did you know what's happening on October 28th?
562
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:02,200
No.
563
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,720
Cause you know, spooky things.
564
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,200
The full moon.
565
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,200
Oh.
566
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,200
Well, okay.
567
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,760
So we have 12 of them a year.
568
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:14,440
But anyways, it's the one for October and it's called the hunter's moon.
569
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:15,440
Okay.
570
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:20,120
I didn't do much research on it and I kind of feel bad, but you can do research on it.
571
00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:21,320
It's the hunter's moon.
572
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,200
It happens on the 28th.
573
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:30,680
If you're in the eastern part of the United States, it will be at 424 p.m. because the
574
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:31,680
sun's out.
575
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:37,800
So I'm not sure why I brought that up.
576
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:42,800
No, I just started thinking of suns out.
577
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:43,800
Suns out.
578
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:44,800
Suns out.
579
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:45,800
Okay.
580
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:52,800
I got to stop drinking this drink.
581
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,800
You're fine.
582
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,520
Anyways, but the sun's out.
583
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:03,360
So just make sure you watch for it later in the day.
584
00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:06,120
I guess by that time the sun goes away earlier, right?
585
00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:07,120
About five-ish now.
586
00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:08,120
Yeah.
587
00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:09,120
I don't know.
588
00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:10,120
That's sad.
589
00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:12,120
Between 5.30 and 6 o'clock is what I've been seeing.
590
00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:13,120
Ish.
591
00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:14,120
Yeah.
592
00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:16,080
That's how I get off work.
593
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,080
It's dark.
594
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,800
The other day that it was moon gardening, it was about 6.15.
595
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,560
I was like, really?
596
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,880
So that was one interesting fact.
597
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:38,880
So on the 28th and then the other is our moon's zodiac sign for the 31st because that's what
598
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:43,600
day you'll be able to hear this.
599
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:50,040
So on the 31st, Halloween, the moon will be in Aquarius.
600
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,880
What does that mean?
601
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:53,880
I have no idea.
602
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,440
You're supposed to love these things.
603
00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:03,880
Look, I am like a baby at learning about the astrological sphere of things, which is,
604
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,720
I mean, you can go down a lot of rabbit holes.
605
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:07,720
Okay.
606
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:08,720
Yeah.
607
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:09,720
No rabbit holes today?
608
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,200
No rabbit holes today, maybe in the future when I start learning a little bit more.
609
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:14,200
Okay.
610
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:23,040
But the moon, in case you're wondering, is going to be in Aquarius on October 31st.
611
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:30,240
So you can all sing the Aquarius song and dress up in your like 60s, 70s and answer doors
612
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:31,720
and say, hey yo.
613
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:32,920
Oh my gosh.
614
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,160
And have that theme song and then all the kids will be like, you're weird.
615
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,560
Give me your candy so I can go now, please.
616
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,320
I really looked up what Aquarius moons means.
617
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,160
Oh yeah, tell us.
618
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:52,120
Aquarius moons frequently surprise others with their out of box thinking and flash of genius.
619
00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:56,160
I was a genius for suggesting the 60s and 70s.
620
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:57,160
You're correct.
621
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,360
I'm not an Aquarius though.
622
00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:05,040
Aquarius moons are often regarded as oddballs due to their unique lifestyle, philosophy,
623
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:13,840
your sense of style, moon and Aquarius.
624
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:14,840
Did you know?
625
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,960
It just sounds funny to say moon and Aquarius.
626
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:25,320
Did you know that Kaden is on, this is my youngest, he's on the cusp between Aquarius
627
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:26,320
and the Sagittarius?
628
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:27,320
I didn't know that.
629
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,480
I was like, oh boy.
630
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,480
Bless me.
631
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:36,520
With the moon and Aquarius, individuals are inclined to remain distant and aloof from
632
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,520
others.
633
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,680
Okay, so the opposite of trick or treating.
634
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,120
Yeah, pretty much.
635
00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:44,320
Everybody turn on your lights.
636
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:45,800
Say come back tomorrow.
637
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:46,800
Yeah.
638
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:52,480
Well, so where I live, I didn't know this until this year.
639
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,840
I was like, why are you guys going to school if you're not going to tell me this stuff
640
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,240
until like three years later?
641
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:04,520
The boys, we've never had trick or treaters here because we don't go like super cray-cray
642
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:05,960
in our front yard.
643
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:10,000
And apparently if you don't have a ton of decorations out, then you're not a person
644
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000
that has candy.
645
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000
In your community?
646
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,000
Yeah.
647
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,000
In our space.
648
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,800
I was like, so you're telling me the reason why I always have a buttload of candy after?
649
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:23,200
So it's not just the porch light on your off thing, it's the decorations?
650
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:29,000
Well, okay, so I live in an agricultural or what kind of, and yes, we were city people
651
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,200
that came into this community and have no idea on the traditions of things that we
652
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:34,200
are learning.
653
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:40,520
Apparently, because everybody has their porch lights on all the time to keep critters away.
654
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,160
Well, because it's pitch black out here if you don't have your porch light on.
655
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,600
Yeah, but see right now we don't because we don't want all the mosquitoes up here.
656
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:54,640
But it also is a deterrent for keeping like the raccoons off your porch and stuff like
657
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,200
that, which I haven't seen since we moved here.
658
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,280
Thank, goodness.
659
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:02,280
Different rants.
660
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,640
So the way to differentiate is the decorations? You have to put up a lot.
661
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:12,000
I was like, but what if I only have like a little bit because I do all this other stuff?
662
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,520
You have to go out and buy decorations.
663
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:17,600
So apparently I have to go get like a huge spider and put it…
664
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,600
No, don't do spiders.
665
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,600
I don't know.
668
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:29,480
It's so speaking of Halloween and traditions and things.
669
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:34,680
Do you have any Halloween traditions Halloween like?
670
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,920
Okay, so I always have like this image that I want, right?
671
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,440
Yeah, like the bling out house.
672
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:54,160
And then by like October between October, like 26 and 30th, I'm like, Oh, no.
673
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,600
I haven't done anything.
674
00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,160
And then I go down and I get my little tote.
675
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,160
And then I wonder why people don't come and knock on my door.
676
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,400
You know, just kidding.
677
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,600
So this year I was trying to be a little bit better.
678
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:15,000
So I have like, I have the things that I already mentioned, my huge jack-o-lantern barrel that
679
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:21,760
I put candy in that I don't put as much candy in anymore because they don't come.
680
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:22,760
They don't come in.
681
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,760
There's only so much candy I can eat.
682
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:26,760
But watch this year.
683
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,600
Everybody will come and be like, I only have 250 pieces of candy.
684
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,600
So go away.
685
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,400
Please don't trick my house.
686
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,400
Go away.
687
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,760
That's when you go out and take your decorations down.
688
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:44,640
Oh, it's gonna be cold.
689
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,920
But I have my like wood bead thing that I made, my garland thing.
690
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:49,920
Yeah.
691
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:54,160
And I have the cutouts that I did, the leaf cutouts.
692
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:59,520
And I have like some pumpkin-y stuff, but not real ones because I'm afraid of the racoons.
693
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:00,520
Apparently that doesn't count though.
694
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:01,520
Well, tough.
695
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,600
Apparently you need to be the house that goes all out and has those things.
696
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:10,600
Christmas time, I will. Blow out, blow out (insert laugh here), blow up things.
697
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,600
Yeah, but those things called the inflatable things.
698
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,920
Yeah, the inflatable things that everybody puts up because that means you have
699
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:18,920
candy.
700
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:19,920
Sure.
701
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:20,920
But here's the problem with those.
702
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,320
And this is why I don't buy them.
703
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,320
Number one, they're too expensive and they probably will pop.
704
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,000
Look, I have four dogs.
705
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,000
Let's be real.
706
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000
They're gonna pop.
707
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:34,280
Number two, when they're deflated during the day, they look like a whole bunch of stuff
708
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,000
in your yard.
709
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:44,520
And I would rather just show off my weeded, weed-growing yard as opposed to...
710
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,040
You want to show off your weed-growing yard?
711
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,040
Sure.
712
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,040
It looks better.
713
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,040
I have weeds growing in the front.
714
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:56,040
So might as well have my weeds showing is what I'm saying is better.
715
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,040
What?
716
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,040
I don't know.
717
00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:59,040
I'm just ranting.
718
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:03,160
I find that interesting though in this community.
719
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,960
That's what determines whether or not you stop.
720
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,360
I wouldn't have known that.
721
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,360
I would not have either.
722
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:10,360
But I don't live in this community.
723
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:11,880
But that's what Kaden told me.
724
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,720
I said nobody's coming this year anyways and he said, well, the reason why is because...
725
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,520
Have your kids gone trick-or-treating in the past since you lived here?
726
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:20,520
Not because they're too old.
727
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,040
Okay, I was gonna say, did they go to these houses?
728
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:32,520
No, but he's told apparently that the word on the street and down low, the DL.
729
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,480
That's a different rant which I won't bring up.
730
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,200
The gal said it was like the DL.
731
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,200
No, that means download.
732
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,640
And I was like, I'm not that old to not...
733
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:40,640
You didn't know what the DL meant?
734
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:41,640
No, no, no, no.
735
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:42,640
That's what I'm saying.
736
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:43,640
I told her.
737
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:49,120
I was like, I'm not that old to not know what it is.
738
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:50,120
You were there.
739
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,280
I was giving her a hard time too.
740
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,840
I was there when this happened?
741
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,760
Yes, you and Nettie and we did it on our birthday dinner.
742
00:31:58,760 --> 00:31:59,760
Oh, yes.
743
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:00,760
Remember?
744
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,760
Yes, yes, yes, it's coming back to me.
745
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,480
I have a dory-like memory.
746
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,480
Okay.
747
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:06,480
Okay.
748
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:07,480
We...
749
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:16,640
In the little community that we've lived in for the past, I don't even know how many
750
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:17,640
years.
751
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:18,640
Seven, eight years.
752
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:19,640
Really?
753
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:20,640
That long?
754
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:21,640
Wow.
755
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:22,640
They don't...
756
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:23,640
Kids don't trick-or-treat.
757
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:24,640
That's weird.
758
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,640
It's really weird.
759
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:26,640
We put out...
760
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:31,720
Because it's just the two of us.
761
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,320
So nobody's left behind to hand out candy.
762
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,720
So we've always just put a bowl of candy on our porch.
763
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,840
And I always thought, oh, it's going to be empty by the time we come back.
764
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,440
There's going to be no candy left because people are greedy and they're going to take
765
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,400
it every single year.
766
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,800
It's still been full.
767
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:49,800
That's crazy.
768
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:50,800
Every single year.
769
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,880
My last area, that big of pumpkin that I have.
770
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:55,960
Yeah.
771
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,280
I had to fill it up like twice because everybody came.
772
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,800
I was like, what?
773
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,040
So imagine the shock when I had that much candy and nobody came.
774
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,440
I was like, I'm not going to have this candy.
775
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:10,920
I think it was two years ago.
776
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:12,720
I got smart and I bought candy.
777
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:13,720
I like...
778
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:14,880
Yeah, that's what we do now.
779
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,760
So that when it's left over, I can eat it.
780
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,760
That's what we do.
781
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:27,560
Granted, I also think that the fact that the subdivision has to walk at least a block,
782
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,360
but the block is a bigger block because of the fields that we have.
783
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,360
Yeah.
784
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,880
They have to walk that in almost dark.
785
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,680
Yeah, you do have to walk pretty far.
786
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,280
To get to the two houses.
787
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:45,040
We're like, us two, and then walk a little bit more, and then there's another one, and
788
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,680
then there's like all this fields, which I love.
789
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:54,720
And I, if ever more people come, we may move because I can't.
790
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:55,720
People...
791
00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:02,480
Growing up in our neighborhoods, when we were younger, we would always go to every house,
792
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,920
but then when we got a little bit older, we would go to the houses we knew, and that
793
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:06,920
was it.
794
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,240
And I wonder if people do that.
795
00:34:09,240 --> 00:34:10,240
Probably.
796
00:34:10,240 --> 00:34:13,280
They go to the houses they know.
797
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,480
And last year, my son is getting a little bit older now.
798
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,960
He's getting to the point where I don't even know if he's going to go trick-or-treating
799
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:20,960
this year because he's...
800
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:21,960
Borderline.
801
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:22,960
Yeah.
802
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:28,880
Went to the houses, and this might play into your neighborhood kind of thing, went to
803
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:34,480
the houses with the best decorations because we felt like they might have the best candy.
804
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:35,480
That's right.
805
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:36,480
I always get chocolate.
806
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,280
I'm a chocoholic.
807
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,440
I just pass that a long.
808
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:45,960
And for a little while, when I have a little extra, I get like the big chocolate bars.
809
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,080
But nobody comes to this place.
810
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,680
I'll just eat them all.
811
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:50,680
It's fine.
812
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:51,680
It's fine.
813
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:52,680
It's fine.
814
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:53,680
You know, whatever.
815
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:54,680
It's fine.
816
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:55,680
I'm not a bit...
817
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:56,680
I'm not a bit of a...
818
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,280
I found a fun fact about candy.
819
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:00,280
Yeah.
820
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,280
I wonder if it's the same one I found.
821
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,280
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me.
822
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:08,200
That one quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. is purchased for Halloween.
823
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,200
I believe it.
824
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:10,200
Which...
825
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:11,200
It's Christmas, the other one?
826
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,200
It didn't say what the other one was.
827
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,200
I bet you it's Christmas.
828
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:14,200
But I'm sure it is.
829
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:15,200
And Valentine's.
830
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,200
Which is insane.
831
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:17,200
So much candy.
832
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:18,200
So much candy.
833
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,200
Do you want another fun fact?
834
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:26,520
Since we're talking about Halloween, might as well just start now.
835
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:32,480
Um, in the 1950s is when candy manufacturers began to get into the candy.
836
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:36,840
Like is the best thing for you to do for trick-or-treating and stuff like that.
837
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:45,160
Because before in the 1930s and 40s when it started, they were doing homemade cookies,
838
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:46,160
pieces of cake.
839
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,160
For trick-or-treaters?
840
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:52,520
I was like, maybe I was born in the wrong sphere for Halloween.
841
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,520
Imagine walking up to a house and getting a piece of cake?
842
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:55,640
Here's a piece of chocolate cake.
843
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:56,640
I'd be like, thank you.
844
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:57,640
I'm done.
845
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:58,640
Bless your soul.
846
00:35:58,640 --> 00:35:59,640
I'm done.
847
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:00,640
That's my kind of trick-or-treat.
848
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:01,640
Yeah, they did that.
849
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:02,640
They did fruits.
850
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:03,640
They did nuts.
851
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,720
I mean, fruit nuts make sense because they're probably harvesting those.
852
00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:08,720
Yeah.
853
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:09,720
You know?
854
00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:10,720
Coins.
855
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:11,720
Toys.
856
00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:12,720
Interesting.
857
00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:15,800
Things that aren't going to rot in people's teeth out.
858
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:16,800
Yeah.
859
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,080
Which, I don't know.
860
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,000
And now what we do is trick-or-treating.
861
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,520
Do we know why they switched to candy?
862
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,720
Because the candy manufacturers were like, hey, this is a way that I could be getting
863
00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:29,720
money.
864
00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:30,720
That's interesting.
865
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:31,720
Yeah.
866
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:34,720
So that was in the 1950s.
867
00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:42,200
And then 1970s is when it truly became, because even then, you would still get fruit or like...
868
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,520
I know some houses still give out like box of raisins.
869
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:46,520
Yeah.
870
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:47,520
Random things.
871
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:53,320
I knew a dentist's house that would hand out toothbrushes because it was his dentist
872
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:54,320
own...
873
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:55,320
How do I say it?
874
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:56,920
That seems like a private practice.
875
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:57,920
There we go.
876
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:58,920
Very dentist thing to do.
877
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,920
It was a privately owned.
878
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:01,920
Sure.
879
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:06,520
He was probably like, please don't come with all of your cavity teeth to me..
880
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:07,520
Yeah.
881
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,520
I don't want to smell them.
882
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:17,520
And the 1970s is when it became a thing for only acceptable thing to be handed out as
883
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,520
the wrapped.
884
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:26,040
Because I remember when I was little doing the trick-or-treating stuff, they were always
885
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,280
looking for like razor blades and all of this stuff.
886
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,280
Yeah.
887
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,520
But I think that's just the world that we've started to have.
888
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:33,960
I don't think it was...
889
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:39,240
I don't think that bad things didn't happen back then.
890
00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:44,600
I just think it's a more prominent thing in the forefront of people's minds.
891
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:45,600
Yeah.
892
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:51,440
And then people started getting drug-laced candy and all that.
893
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,720
I remember when that was a big deal.
894
00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:58,960
And then even more so now with when COVID was more prominent.
895
00:37:58,960 --> 00:37:59,960
Yeah.
896
00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:01,560
You had to be very careful.
897
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:02,560
Yeah.
898
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,160
Yeah, don't go is what the first year was.
899
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:05,160
You couldn't go trick-or-treating.
900
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,800
And then when it started to pick up again...
901
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,520
Which we still had a ton because we were still over in the other house.
902
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:11,520
Yeah.
903
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,040
We still had a ton of people and I was like, I guess COVID doesn't count anymore.
904
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,320
We still wanted to make sure that everything was wrapped.
905
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,560
Oh yeah.
906
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:19,560
And then spray it down.
907
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:20,560
Yeah.
908
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:21,560
Like, sprayed down the candy.
909
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:22,560
Clorox wipe the candy.
910
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:23,560
Here's your candy.
911
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:28,800
But yeah, yeah, you definitely want to make sure there's no drug-laced or...
912
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,760
Yeah, anything that was open.
913
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,320
I remember my dad would pick through and like throw away stuff.
914
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,440
And then I did the same thing.
915
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,880
I also picked through and took the candy that I wanted.
916
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,360
I don't think he did that, but I did.
917
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:46,200
Do you remember sorting it out like sorting it by kind and then you would trade with your
918
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,200
siblings or your friends?
919
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,200
Oh yeah.
920
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,200
Well, I didn't really have siblings, but I traded with friends.
921
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:51,200
I don't like this.
922
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:52,200
Do you want it?
923
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:53,200
Exactly.
924
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,200
Or just give it away.
925
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:55,200
Yeah.
926
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,200
I...
927
00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:01,680
So I know I've already said that I grew up in Portland, a lot of the times we went trick-or-treating in
928
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:02,680
the rain.
929
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,680
There were several times.
930
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,720
So it never would deter you?
931
00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:07,720
No.
932
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:08,720
I guess it would.
933
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:10,720
But I think my dad was more into it too.
934
00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:13,240
Like, let's get this candy.
935
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:16,520
Because I just remember like halfway being like, can we be done now?
936
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:20,000
We'd just be like, one more house, one more house.
937
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,720
And then we would go to my granny's house and she would give me a whole bunch.
938
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:24,520
That would be miserable.
939
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:25,520
It was miserable.
940
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:26,520
Thank you.
941
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,520
I feel like no.
942
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:28,520
No.
943
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:29,520
But I grew up in California.
944
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:30,520
It wasn't bad.
945
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:37,760
It was just cold after the sun went down.
946
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:42,560
But then most of the time I dressed up as a witch because then I could have like my pants
947
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:48,920
on, my black shirt on, and then put like a dress over and then have like the apron on
948
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,680
and then the hat.
949
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:54,440
My hat would always be like plastered to my head.
950
00:39:54,440 --> 00:40:00,760
So the rain and wind wouldn't take it off.
951
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,840
One year my grandma put green paint on my face.
952
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,080
Not like, like facial paint, not paint- paint.
953
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:06,080
Yeah.
954
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,520
So she put that on and like by the time I came home it was all like.
955
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:09,520
Running down my face.
956
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,520
Makes you look more witchy.
957
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,520
Yeah, I was like googly- googly.
958
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:14,520
But.
959
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:20,960
So now that your boys are older, you don't go trick or treating, do you have traditions
960
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,520
that you do with them?
961
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:29,240
Um, last year they dressed up, they were Vikings.
962
00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:31,120
I'm wondering what they're going to do this year.
963
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,520
I told them they have, they're in charge of their costumes.
964
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,080
This is their first year they're in charge of their costumes.
965
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,520
I said, if you want to make something, let me know.
966
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,160
If you want to get something, let me know.
967
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,120
If you don't want to dress up, don't let me know.
968
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:43,120
Like just.
969
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:44,120
So they still dress up.
970
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,520
They just don't go out trick or treating.
971
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:47,520
Yeah.
972
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,520
And they always wait for people to come knock on the door and no one comes.
973
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,520
So they just play on the PlayStation.
974
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,520
They just sit there playing dress up.
975
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:56,520
Oh, cute.
976
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,160
Yeah, you know, that's cool.
977
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:03,760
I think this year they're probably going to wear their capes and they're into the historical
978
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,760
fencing, which we were talking about.
979
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,520
And I think, I think they might have that as their costume.
980
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:11,520
That'd be cool.
981
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,040
Yeah, it's cool.
982
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:14,040
And it's something they already have.
983
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:17,000
And it's nice when he can, there's a double use for things.
984
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,520
And Kaden has a potato on his buckler shield.
985
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:24,480
Because he loves potatoes.
986
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,520
He is Sir Spud in this house.
987
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:27,520
Oh, yeah.
988
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:36,000
And then this year, Spot and I were hoping, we were hoping to dress up like Volcano Man,
989
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,520
the music video that is in Eurovision.
990
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,520
Oh, yes, please.
991
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:47,720
But we've had so many distractions that I'm not sure if we're going to be, excuse me,
992
00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:52,040
if we're going to be able to get it in time, like together in time.
993
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,240
So if we don't, we're going to do it.
994
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:58,840
I know if we don't get it together in time for it to be good, then I'm going to put a
995
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,240
pin in it and we're going to do it next year.
996
00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:02,240
Yes.
997
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:04,480
Because it is definitely one that you have to do right.
998
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,480
Yeah.
999
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:12,240
So my backup is, I don't remember if you were working there yet or not when I bought it.
1000
00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:15,120
But I bought this.
1001
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:16,760
It's a monster hat.
1002
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:22,560
It's like a fluffy, hairy monster hat and it has like its little horn things that kind
1003
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,040
of come down and it has horns up here.
1004
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,320
It's not earning any bells, but that doesn't mean anything.
1005
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:33,400
I feel like with you guys being in theater, you have so many costumes you can walk in
1006
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:38,040
and you can pick anything you want to be.
1007
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:39,760
I do have a lot of stuff.
1008
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:41,560
I have a lot of stuff here.
1009
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:42,960
The theater has a lot of stuff.
1010
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:47,760
I know in person in terms of theater.
1011
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:48,760
That's awesome.
1012
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,040
Most of the time I'm just like, okay, I want to put the shelf up.
1013
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,800
I want to put this away and then I'm going to go home and do my other chores and then
1014
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,640
come back in the next day or whatever.
1015
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:00,000
I'm in my break moment right now.
1016
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,000
Short break.
1017
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,360
Yeah, it's probably going to happen this week.
1018
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:04,360
But anyways.
1019
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:11,200
I think we're going to do sort of scary movies because I don't do scary.
1020
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:12,200
I don't do scary.
1021
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,200
I watch Hocus Pocus.
1022
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,200
I watch the Hocus Pocus 2 now.
1023
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:16,200
Hocus Pocus.
1024
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:17,200
Halloween Town.
1025
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:18,200
Oh, yes.
1026
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:19,200
Do you watch that one?
1027
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,200
Yes, I saw that one for the first time.
1028
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:22,200
Practical Magic.
1029
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:28,200
So we're going to do like Halloween type sort of not, I say scary movies, but not really
1030
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,200
scary movies.
1031
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,880
I think we're going to do a bunch of snacks and watch some movies.
1032
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:32,880
I like it.
1033
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,080
I think that's going to be what we're going to do this year because last year we tried
1034
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:41,920
to do games and that didn't go well.
1035
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:47,920
I feel like if we give the attention to the screen, we might all survive.
1036
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,920
Yeah, I like that idea.
1037
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,920
Make the apple cider.
1038
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,920
I love that.
1039
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,920
It's so good.
1040
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:58,920
Just be nice and relaxed.
1041
00:43:58,920 --> 00:43:59,920
Just have some snacks.
1042
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:01,920
We do stuff all the time anyways.
1043
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:02,920
Yeah.
1044
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:04,920
I don't really like drug retreating.
1045
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,920
I'm not the type that, even when I was a kid, I stopped really young.
1046
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,920
I'm just not.
1047
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:11,920
I don't like it.
1048
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,920
I do it for the kids, but I don't.
1049
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:19,920
Well, see, I still buy candy because I'm afraid somebody's going to knock on my door.
1050
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:20,920
I really have a bad kidney.
1051
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,920
Of course I'm going to for kids coming around, but I don't like to go out.
1052
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,920
Even though I do it.
1053
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,920
Everybody is doing trunk or treat now.
1054
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:28,920
Yeah.
1055
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:29,920
Remember?
1056
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:30,920
Oh yeah.
1057
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:31,920
Who wants to decorate their car?
1058
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:32,920
I can't even get my house decorated.
1059
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:33,920
I feel bad.
1060
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:38,920
I'm not into Halloween, but my son is the poor child to have such a party.
1061
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,920
I love Halloween.
1062
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:42,920
I don't.
1063
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,920
I just have a hard time being slow enough in my busy schedule to do it.
1064
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:52,920
I'm just not fast enough of a mom's decree and take part of festivities.
1065
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,920
In my early 20s, I was.
1066
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:58,920
Sure.
1067
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,920
I've never been a, I've never been a.
1068
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,920
You need to try the Charlie Brown tree.
1069
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:05,920
Person.
1070
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,920
I think I did at one point.
1071
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:08,920
Yeah.
1072
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,920
Cause I just have to fill one little ornament.
1073
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,920
I'm the type of, I mean, we'll talk about it more when we get into Christmas.
1074
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:20,920
I'm the type of mom that only decorates for Christmas on the years that I have my son.
1075
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,920
There ain't no shame in that.
1076
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:23,920
There ain't no shame.
1077
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:24,920
So yeah.
1079
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,920
Um, so that's the backup plan.
1080
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:29,920
Monster hat.
1081
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:34,920
And then I have, you know, this old school, like steam…
1082
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,920
Um.
1083
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,920
Like, why is my brain not working?
1084
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,920
Steampunk.
1085
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:43,920
Like the old school hats.
1086
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,920
Ladies would wear.
1087
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:50,920
I have a couple of those that you can wear as a headband and I usually make spot wear that.
1088
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,920
When we're going to.
1089
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,920
Dress up. I just, I'm in my pajamas. I'm a tired mom.
1090
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:58,920
That's when I'm dressed up.
1091
00:45:58,920 --> 00:45:59,920
You're fine.
1092
00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:00,920
You're fine.
1093
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,920
I remember one year, one year I.
1094
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:08,920
I wore, you know, my own clothes and then I went and got a little tiara and I pretended to be princess Mia from.
1095
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,920
Princess Tyrese.
1096
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:11,920
I like it.
1097
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:12,920
That was my dress up
1098
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:13,920
Done. Boom.
1099
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:14,920
That's what I did.
1100
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,920
I like it because there's a scene where she's in her pajamas. I get it.
1101
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:19,920
I like it.
1102
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,920
Someone asked me what I'm. I'm a tired mom. That's what I am!
1103
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,920
The end.
1104
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:31,920
Um, so just some things about light, light touch, because I know a lot of people bring up.
1105
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,920
Halloween and the history of and.
1106
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:40,920
Um, just a couple of things. It evolved from the ancient Celtic holiday.
1107
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,920
Samhain. I know it's spelt like Samhain.
1108
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,920
I had to look up how it was pronounced.
1109
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:46,920
Samhain.
1110
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:47,920
I was very surprised.
1111
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:54,920
Yes. Um, and, um, there are a lot of different holidays.
1112
00:46:54,920 --> 00:47:03,920
Um, around Halloween time in different parts of the world that are go by different names and have a difference.
1113
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:20,920
Like thought for it, but, uh, like we have like, we say, Samhain, we have Day of the Dead, the, the, the, the, the Dias dos Muertos, um, Halloween around the world all souls day, which is on the second, and last for like three days.
1114
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:28,320
And of course I wrote in the Halloween that we know here in the US is a lot like the Halloween
1115
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:29,960
in Ireland, and in Canada.
1116
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:39,880
I didn't know that Ireland also has more of the treats and stuff like that.
1117
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:44,840
Where you have your costume parties and your trick or treating and your pranks and if you
1118
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:50,840
do pranks make sure they're not naughty ones that hurt anyone or anything.
1119
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:55,560
I'm up for fun just as long as no one gets hurt.
1120
00:47:55,560 --> 00:48:05,760
And then what I did notice was a lot of it is kind of murky on giving.
1121
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:14,760
Not 100% does it say that it's kind of the pagan Samhain but more of going into like the
1122
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:21,560
early Roman Catholic holidays that they had and the medieval practices and stuff like
1123
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:25,400
that kind of pulls it in as well.
1124
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:35,080
You have in the UK and England specifically the guy is it Fox Day where they do the bonfires
1125
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,680
and fireworks and that's on the 5th of November.
1126
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:46,760
It's like a person that they put to death and then they celebrate it for some reason.
1127
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:47,760
I don't know.
1128
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:49,080
Anyways, it seems a little brutal.
1129
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,800
I don't know a whole bunch about it.
1130
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,400
I think it's evolved.
1131
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:57,920
I think it's evolved from being kind of dark and gloomy.
1132
00:48:57,920 --> 00:48:59,880
Yeah, a little dark.
1133
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:06,240
I mean we still have it like you know Friday and all those scary movies that I don't watch
1134
00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:09,000
because it freaks me out.
1135
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,320
You still have people dressing up like vampires and things like that.
1136
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:19,160
But it's more of I do like the fact that the commercial side of things has put it more
1137
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:24,720
of a fun and lighthearted way.
1138
00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:33,080
It is to remember that the harvest season this is what truly sawn is.
1139
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:39,880
Since the end of the harvest season we've had four other harvests that have happened
1140
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,080
with Imbolc, with Lughnasadh.
1141
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:50,280
I wrote them all down and I do know them because I do practice this neopaganism stuff.
1142
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,640
But of course because I'm trying to remember them I can't remember them.
1143
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,880
That's always how it is.
1144
00:49:57,880 --> 00:49:59,000
Right.
1145
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,200
Right.
1146
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,320
It's the fourth and final harvest.
1147
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,000
This is where you're getting the rest of all of your crop in.
1148
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:11,200
Your very first is your in bulk where you're starting to get your vegetable stuff and you're
1149
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,160
starting to get all of those things from your gardens.
1150
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:20,680
Your next one is your next set of harvest from your other fruit trees.
1151
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:25,800
Then you start going into your third harvest which we just had with Mabon which is the
1152
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:28,920
autumn equinox.
1153
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:41,080
This one is the halfway point between Mabon, the autumn equinox, and Beltane which is the
1154
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:45,320
winter equinox.
1155
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,720
Or not Beltane, excuse me, Yule.
1156
00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:49,840
I know the difference.
1157
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:51,720
Do I?
1158
00:50:51,720 --> 00:50:55,200
Am I?
1159
00:50:55,200 --> 00:51:02,360
And with the Samhain, wasn't it where the November 1st it marked the end of the summer
1160
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:09,920
and the end of the harvest and the beginning of the winter, cold, dark winter where in
1161
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,480
the time of year it was associated more with death.
1162
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:21,200
It's where it's believed you have more of an opening or you can breach and fill your
1163
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:22,200
ancestors.
1164
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:23,200
Yeah.
1165
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:28,560
It's the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead is blurred.
1166
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:37,360
And so the night of October 31st they would celebrate the saw in where they believed that
1167
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,960
the ghosts of the dead would return to earth.
1168
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:41,960
Right?
1169
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:49,120
And a lot of these things are to kind of keep them from coming in and consuming you.
1170
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:56,520
Yeah, they would light the bonfires too and they, and I think this is where the costumes
1171
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:57,520
come into play.
1172
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:01,320
They would wear costumes to ward off the ghosts.
1173
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:02,320
Yep.
1174
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:03,320
Yep.
1175
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:04,320
And to not be recognized.
1176
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:09,720
Yeah, because they were trying to protect themselves.
1177
00:52:09,720 --> 00:52:17,040
And I did find what, um, Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh, are the other three of the four Gaelic seasonal
1178
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,120
festivals for this time of year.
1179
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:21,120
Okay.
1180
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:27,200
But it is the, like I said before, it's halfway point between the autumn equinox and the winter
1181
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,400
solstice, which is really important.
1182
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:30,400
Okay.
1183
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,160
That is cool.
1184
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:41,560
I also found that in the Celtic pagan origins and some of the Neolithic passage tombs in
1185
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:45,760
Ireland are aligned with the sunrise at the time of Samhain.
1186
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:52,560
So if you're like at these structures, as soon as the sunrise comes up on Samhain, you
1187
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:56,760
kind of, it hits the viewpoint.
1188
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:57,760
It's kind of cool.
1189
00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:58,760
That is cool.
1190
00:52:58,760 --> 00:52:59,760
Yeah, I think so.
1191
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:07,440
Um, but, um, like you were mentioning, burial mounds were open in, in feasts and stuff like
1192
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:08,440
that.
1193
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:13,920
Um, the ancient ones were open and they were seen as the portals kind of to the other
1194
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:15,920
world.
1195
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:17,600
I'm not saying go open up a grave.
1196
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:18,600
That's gross.
1197
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,600
No, please don't do that.
1198
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,160
This is what they did.
1199
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:23,680
This is not what we have to do.
1200
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:28,200
Um, and then Samhain has bonfires and sacrifices.
1201
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:34,520
It's usually, I mean, nowadays the Neopagans would probably, and I would put like, okay,
1202
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,040
this is something that I'm ready to give up.
1203
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:48,960
Um, whether it's a viewpoint, um, whether it's something that I think is super important,
1204
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:54,800
but isn't so important, excuse me, you would grind it down and, and offer that up.
1205
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,800
That, that thing.
1206
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:02,800
They, I think it's evolved more from they would, I read that they would appease the
1207
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:09,040
pagodas by putting like bowls of food outside, you know, to, you know, here you go, leave
1208
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:14,680
us alone, don't come in my house, you know, and now it's more of, um, you're my ancestor,
1209
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:16,680
come and have a feast with me.
1210
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:22,560
You're a god that I believe in, or a goddess that I believe in.
1211
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:24,640
Or like send up a prayer type of thing.
1212
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:28,520
Yeah, because we have to remember we have all spectrums, right?
1213
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:33,280
We have those who are Christian, who also believe in the will of the air, and then you
1214
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:42,360
have those that are more Neopagan or polytheists who have more than one deity that they reach
1215
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:43,360
into.
1216
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:44,360
Yeah.
1217
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:50,480
And so those are their times to offer up those offerings, those gifts, those presences, and,
1218
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:53,760
and feast with them.
1219
00:54:53,760 --> 00:55:03,120
One of the things I found interesting, I don't know if you picked up on that is the name,
1220
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:15,320
what we call Halloween, it's evolved from sovereign to, and then they, there was a pope
1221
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:20,200
in the eighth century that wanted to honor the saints.
1222
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:30,200
So we came all saints day and they incorporated some of the traditions of Solomon, and then,
1223
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,200
then it went into all Hallows Eve
1224
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,160
And then it became Halloween.
1225
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:39,640
I thought it was really interesting how they pull traditions from their ancestors or from,
1226
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:41,680
you know, other, even other countries.
1227
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:42,680
Sure.
1228
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:44,680
Well, it's living just like any other culture.
1229
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:45,680
Yeah.
1230
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:47,880
And then they change the name, tweak it a little bit.
1231
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:48,880
Sure.
1232
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:50,440
But not quite.
1233
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:51,440
Yeah.
1234
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:59,040
Well, and, or all saints day, all souls day, you know, it's so interesting to me.
1235
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:05,480
It's interesting, you know, earlier in a different podcast episode, we were mentioning the last
1236
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:11,360
one I think it was that you watch how it starts from like a practical thing and goes more
1237
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:19,480
into a fun or spiritual way.
1238
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:24,600
So it started with the cattle were being brought down into their summer pastures and then the
1239
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,000
livestock were being slaughtered.
1240
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:32,880
So special bonfires were lit that would protect and cleanse things.
1241
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:42,520
Well, yeah, because you don't want all of that gross, grime, yuckiness around, right?
1242
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:48,680
But they also believed more in the natural world having a spiritual connection and being
1243
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:49,680
connected with.
1244
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:57,600
And I noticed that in our modern times, more people are starting to note, oh, we do need
1245
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,120
to be connected to nature.
1246
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:04,400
But we don't have to do it in the we're slaughtering our cattle.
1247
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,680
So therefore we're going to have these bonfires.
1248
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:13,720
We're, you know, we're creating a fun atmosphere where we can enjoy everyone and then reflect
1249
00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:21,120
on our past and see what we're doing before, you know, what we need to do moving forward.
1250
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:26,800
In the Celtic world in the past, this was the end of their year.
1251
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:30,920
It didn't end in December like our calendar does now.
1252
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:37,320
It was now this was your new year that you were moving into, into the dark, into the unknown
1253
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,000
of and they felt it a little bit more.
1254
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:41,080
They were prepping it.
1255
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:46,680
And so they did all of these things to protect and cleanse and move forward.
1256
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:50,600
And so that's why it kind of has that feeling.
1257
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:56,080
Yeah, of death of the year and then moving forward a little bit more than even Yule does.
1258
00:57:56,080 --> 00:58:00,320
Yule doesn't really have that feel of death.
1259
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:04,160
We've already been living in death and darkness at this point, right?
1260
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:09,280
It has more of a feeling of, OK, we're starting to like come out of it a little bit.
1261
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:16,000
We just have this little bit more of time to get through before we see the light coming
1262
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:17,000
a little bit more.
1263
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,000
Yeah.
1264
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:22,000
So it's just like your last little to push for the light.
1265
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:23,000
That makes sense.
1266
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,600
I thought that was interesting.
1267
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:25,600
Yeah.
1268
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:30,000
It was actually and it was in the late 19th century.
1269
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:36,440
It looks like John Rice and James Fraser suggested it would be the Celtic New Year.
1270
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:43,280
Yeah, they used to and I and I do remember hearing this before and I am just bringing
1271
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:52,080
this up from Wikipedia that they where did it go?
1272
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,920
The souls of the dead can were also thought to revisit their homes.
1273
00:58:54,920 --> 00:59:01,520
We talked about that seeking hospitality and a place was set at the table for them
1274
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:02,520
during a meal.
1275
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:07,840
Mummy and guising were part of the festival from at least the early modern era whereby
1276
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:12,120
people went door to door to costume reciting versus in exchange for food.
1277
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:16,200
So that's kind of where trick or treating started to come into it.
1278
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:22,920
And then the costumes may have been a way of imitating and disguising themselves from
1279
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:29,400
the … and divination was also a big part of the festival and often involved nuts and
1280
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:33,040
apples which we talked about.
1281
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:35,680
But I thought that was interesting as well.
1282
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:38,320
And then you already brought that up about all saints day.
1283
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:45,800
But folklorists have used the name Sal and to refer to gay like Halloween costumes up
1284
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until the 19th century.
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And then it kind of fell on the wayside and then it came back up, which I thought was
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00:59:52,280 --> 01:00:02,120
interesting and that was through the Celtic neo pagans and Wiccans and other neo not even
1287
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:08,120
Celtic neo pagans but just neo pagans in general because it is associated in the will of the
1288
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:09,840
year that we talked about.
1289
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:14,000
So it is also a religious holiday for those people.
1290
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,320
It's not just like I love the Halloween part.
1291
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:23,400
This is me growing up in a Christian world and all of the traditions that I have gotten
1292
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:28,040
from that and I don't turn my back on that but also learning of my other sphere that
1293
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:36,360
I'm going into and my new older season life more of a natural and pagan way, not that
1294
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:39,000
I don't believe in a God or gods.
1295
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:47,280
I'm more of a more than one being polytheist myself.
1296
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:54,840
It's a little bit more sacred than I realized, a little bit more spirituality happening than
1297
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,360
I remember growing up.
1298
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:02,640
This is about your ancestors and remembering them and still having them and I think it
1299
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:07,000
hits more of now that my grandma's gone too.
1300
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:11,960
Having those memories still and incorporating them into our traditions.
1301
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:17,240
Yes, we can stop on and all that fun stuff but we have to remember that we're also selling
1302
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:23,040
and celebrating our past, our past people that we come from, whether they're Celtic,
1303
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:28,240
whether they're English, whether they're Native American, etc.
1304
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:35,080
We have to remember them and add them and their memories into our celebrations.
1305
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:36,080
Definitely.
1306
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:37,080
I'm rambling.
1307
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:49,040
One of the things I've read was in the 20th century Halloween lost most of its superstitious
1308
01:01:49,040 --> 01:02:02,400
and religious overtones and I think that nobody ever really thinks why do we celebrate Halloween?
1309
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:09,160
I don't think I've ever really taken the time to think, yeah, there is a religious aspect
1310
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:10,160
to it.
1311
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,320
I think most people think, oh, it's just a commercial thing.
1312
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:13,820
Yeah, it is commercialized.
1313
01:02:13,820 --> 01:02:18,080
There was a point in my life that I thought the same thing like in my early 20s, after
1314
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:24,000
I wasn't celebrating it, I had my kids and I was taking them around and it just seemed
1315
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:25,960
like one more thing I had to do.
1316
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:27,040
It was fun.
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01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:28,120
It was fun to dress up.
1318
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:30,680
It was fun to do all of these things.
1319
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:31,680
It's like other holidays.
1320
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:40,840
Like Christmas or there's religious reasons for Christmas Halloween, but everything is
1321
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:41,840
commercialized.
1322
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:45,640
You forget those spiritual things that you can do for me.
1323
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:48,960
Yeah, there's spiritual reasonings and behind things that everything has come about like
1324
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:54,680
we talked about in another episode and you brought it up earlier of there are reasons
1325
01:02:54,680 --> 01:03:04,880
that we do these things and they've evolved into commercialized things.
1326
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:06,880
Capitalism.
1327
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:09,080
Capitalism and things.
1328
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:10,960
And we're not bashing that.
1329
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:12,460
We're not bashing that at all.
1330
01:03:12,460 --> 01:03:14,880
There was another fun fact that I found.
1331
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:20,880
I think it's a reminder that just because you can doesn't mean you should.
1332
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:23,680
It should be fun and we should dress up and we should have fun.
1333
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,160
There's nothing wrong with having fun.
1334
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:33,160
As you also remember that it came from people remembering their loved ones or people being
1335
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:34,680
afraid of their loved ones.
1336
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:36,760
And why both ways.
1337
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:40,880
And if your child is wanting to dress up as a ghost, why are they wanting to dress up
1338
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:41,880
as a ghost?
1339
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:44,680
This is why they dressed up as ghosts back in the day.
1340
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:45,680
In the ghouls.
1341
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:46,680
Yeah, exactly.
1342
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:55,440
And there was a fun fact that I found that today Americans spend an estimated six billion
1343
01:03:55,440 --> 01:04:04,600
annually on the Halloween making it the country's second largest commercial holiday after Christmas.
1344
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:05,600
That's a lot of money.
1345
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:10,000
If you drive around, at least in my neighborhood at least.
1346
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:11,280
It's everywhere.
1347
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,680
Their decorations are just as elaborate as Christmas.
1348
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:15,680
Oh yeah.
1349
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:19,880
Some of them are even more like those huge skeletons.
1350
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:22,280
There's the one in your old neighborhoods.
1351
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:23,280
I love this holiday.
1352
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:27,280
The one that I don't know if you've ever been to it, but the one that they start building
1353
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:29,360
it in summer.
1354
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:30,360
The backyard.
1355
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:31,960
Exactly what I'm talking about.
1356
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:32,960
I do.
1357
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:37,080
I'm telling you that neighborhood is like Halloween town.
1358
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:38,080
Yeah.
1359
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:40,200
It's insane to me.
1360
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:41,360
It is insane.
1361
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:45,160
But I see when I was researching all this, I'm like, I didn't know.
1362
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:46,520
I didn't know this about Halloween.
1363
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:47,520
I didn't know this.
1364
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:48,520
Like really?
1365
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:49,520
Yeah.
1366
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:56,240
And it is fascinating to me that all these things have come about and they've evolved
1367
01:04:56,240 --> 01:05:00,320
into what we know as Halloween.
1368
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:06,960
The dressing up in costumes are covering themselves so they wouldn't be recognized.
1369
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:14,400
Going from door to door asking for food or money that has evolved into trick or treating.
1370
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:15,400
Yeah.
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01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:16,400
Who knew?
1372
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:17,400
Yeah.
1373
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:18,400
Yeah.
1374
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:20,000
And it's so fascinating to me.
1375
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,520
And now I can understand why there are literal degrees.
1376
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:25,840
Or when I take a picture.
1377
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:26,840
History degrees.
1378
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,160
When I take a picture of someone, you're like, what's Sam hanging?
1379
01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:35,720
Oh, this is why there's such a thing as a history degree.
1380
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:38,720
It's so cool.
1381
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:48,040
And it comes about because it's becoming wintertime and they're afraid of the season
1382
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:49,040
of death.
1383
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:50,040
Well, they're afraid of dark.
1384
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:51,040
Yeah, it's dark.
1385
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:52,040
The dark is coming.
1386
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:53,040
Yeah.
1387
01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:54,040
And they didn't have light bulbs.
1388
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:56,320
They didn't have all these things.
1389
01:05:56,320 --> 01:06:03,360
And so it's your last chance to get the light of the summer out on the bound fires and clean
1390
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:10,600
all of these areas so that disease doesn't get in and harvest everything at the last
1391
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:15,840
time, but then celebrate that you can do those things with the feasts.
1392
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:19,280
I think that's what I like most about this.
1393
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:25,840
Plus, like I said with my German pasting, the extra factor of then you can start reflecting
1394
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:31,720
not that you don't reflect on them on a daily basis, depending on how close you are, but
1395
01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:35,480
your time to really reflect about them.
1396
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:42,080
And I always think of the bonfires like you're lighting a fire and it's going to be your
1397
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:48,240
warmth and your light until you'll, where you have your you'll log in.
1398
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:51,240
We'll get into that later.
1399
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:58,360
But you know, so it kind of just carries you that extra burst of fire and flame kind of
1400
01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:04,840
carries you into the winter and the coldness, but you have that spark still and you're able
1401
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:06,200
to get through those months.
1402
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:12,720
And remember, yes, it's hard right now, but we're going to be able to make it to this
1403
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:20,160
last point and then have that little feast and festival and then push through until defrost.
1404
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:23,720
And we have the beauty of the spring again.
1405
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:25,520
That's awesome.
1406
01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:26,520
That is.
1407
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:28,120
But that's me going into this.
1408
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:30,600
That's me going into the spiritual thing.
1409
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:33,400
I do those every once in a while.
1410
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:35,320
That was beautiful.
1411
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:41,440
But yeah, this year, for those who don't know, my grandma passed away in February and this
1412
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:44,160
is my first year of she was very strong.
1413
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:46,280
Well, let me back up again.
1414
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:54,360
She was she was my one of my constants that was here all the time that in a lot of ways,
1415
01:07:54,360 --> 01:08:01,440
she wasn't just my grandmother, but she was my mother, she was my best friend more than
1416
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:06,920
even the sweet ladies that I have in my life now because she she saw me when I was born
1417
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,560
in up to the now.
1418
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:12,800
And this is my first year that I don't have her.
1419
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:17,920
And it's been a lot of reflection as each of these holidays come up.
1420
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:24,200
They hit a little bit closer and those profound moments come out a little bit more.
1421
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:27,880
Plus, I think I'm just getting old.
1422
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:29,880
No, no.
1423
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:37,320
I mean, yes, we are old, but no, I think it does hit you a little bit differently when
1424
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:40,560
these big life moments happen.
1425
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:47,160
And we are getting into the other grateful season, season of gratefulness.
1426
01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:53,440
And it makes you realize how much you have to be grateful for.
1427
01:08:53,440 --> 01:08:55,520
Yeah, absolutely.
1428
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,760
And how much we have.
1429
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:05,120
We have compared to you know, our ancestors.
1430
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:08,160
Now that I'm looking at my notes, can I throw some stuff in?
1431
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:09,160
Yeah.
1432
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:10,160
Okay.
1433
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:13,040
So I got on tangents.
1434
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:19,200
So just some clarification ritual bonfires like Beltane bonfires were lit on hilltops
1435
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:23,520
at Samhain and there were rituals involving them by the early modern era.
1436
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:29,160
They were most common in parts of the Scottish Highlands and the Isle of Man in North and
1437
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:34,800
Mid Wales and in the parts of Ulster, which is in Ireland.
1438
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:44,560
It, let's see, the customs to die out a little bit, but they are coming back with the neo-paganisms
1439
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:47,120
bringing them back to life.
1440
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:51,280
They would use only certain kinds of woods, but later it showed that they would pretty
1441
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:56,280
much use anything that would be flammable towards, which makes sense.
1442
01:09:56,280 --> 01:10:00,600
You know, you're trying to create this huge fire and put as much in it that you can.
1443
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:07,600
But I think it was also a way of them getting rid of things that they don't have.
1444
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,960
Do you see all the branches I have laying around now?
1445
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:13,160
They don't have garbage trucks there.
1446
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:14,160
Yes.
1447
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:19,480
It was symbolic to burn up and destroy all harmful influences, which I think we talked
1448
01:10:19,480 --> 01:10:20,480
about.
1449
01:10:20,480 --> 01:10:26,520
And then also it was an imitative or sympathetic magic mimicking the sun, helping the powers
1450
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:30,640
of growth and holding back the decay and darkness of winter.
1451
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:35,600
In the 18th and 19th centuries, it suggests that the fires, smoke, and ashes were deemed
1452
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:38,360
to have protective and cleansing powers.
1453
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:43,640
So just to add into there, if you want to put a little bit of that magic into your Halloween
1454
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:53,280
sowing time, you can light a fire in your backyard in your little pit and think about
1455
01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:56,520
the things that you can cleanse from your life and just let them go up with the smoke
1456
01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:57,520
and the flames.
1457
01:10:57,520 --> 01:10:58,520
Love it.
1458
01:10:58,520 --> 01:10:59,520
Yeah.
1459
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:00,520
That's awesome.
1460
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,520
How do these fun facts?
1461
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:03,520
I know.
1462
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,520
I was like, I'm going to do this now.
1463
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:11,120
I'm going to do this now.
1464
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:17,720
The last thing that I have was just other related festivals.
1465
01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:24,760
The Brittonic branch of Celtic languages sowing is known as Callan's of Winter.
1466
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:29,240
And that's in the Wells, Cornwell, Brittany areas.
1467
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:33,000
They are held on the 31st of October.
1468
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:37,520
And then there's another part that's Callan Gaeauff.
1469
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,840
And I'm probably saying that wrong.
1470
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:42,800
It's also in Wells.
1471
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:46,680
Cornwell is known as Allentide or Callan Gwa.
1472
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:48,680
Gwa, maybe.
1473
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:49,680
G-W-A-V.
1474
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:52,720
Sorry if I'm breaking your language.
1475
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:55,720
And Brittany, it is Callan Gwanv.
1476
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:59,520
G-O-A-N with a little whiff on it and a V.
1477
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:00,520
What was that?
1478
01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:02,520
A little whiff?
1479
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:04,120
Yeah.
1480
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:16,680
But I think that's sometimes to talk more of the paganism with the neo-paganism.
1481
01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:20,000
Sowing starts on the 31st, but goes until November 1st.
1482
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:24,800
So you will see people, you probably have people around you that you're like, why are
1483
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:26,480
they still celebrating stuff?
1484
01:12:26,480 --> 01:12:28,800
Because to them, it is a little bit longer.
1485
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:32,560
It'll just be respectful.
1486
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:39,320
It's a religion that is not recognized.
1487
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:40,480
It's not a structured one.
1488
01:12:40,480 --> 01:12:45,040
I mean, you do have religions in it that are structured, right?
1489
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:46,760
Like the Wiccan or...
1490
01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:51,080
It's a practice that is not recognized as much.
1491
01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:57,560
And so I don't think the people are as mindful of it.
1492
01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:00,720
So just be mindful.
1493
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:02,280
Yeah, just be mindful of it.
1494
01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:03,280
Enjoy.
1495
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:04,280
Everybody have fun.
1496
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:05,280
Enjoy time.
1497
01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:06,280
That's what it is about.
1498
01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:10,080
Is it enjoying company and things like that.
1499
01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:16,960
But remember that there are spiritual starts from it because Halloween wouldn't be around
1500
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:26,840
without that Samhain tradition that started so long ago that people nowadays might not
1501
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:27,840
understand so much.
1502
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:33,400
All of your yummy candy on sale on November 1st without it.
1503
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:34,400
Right.
1504
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:35,400
Right.
1505
01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:40,720
I did want to also bring up a couple of holidays because we didn't bring them up in our last
1506
01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:43,880
episode that are happening around autumn time.
1507
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:44,880
You can do that.
1508
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:48,120
Just a quick blah out there.
1509
01:13:48,120 --> 01:13:51,520
And you guys can look up when they are and if they've already passed, I apologize to
1510
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:54,440
you know for next year because that's kind of where I am.
1511
01:13:54,440 --> 01:13:57,800
Like oh, next year I can figure this out.
1512
01:13:57,800 --> 01:13:58,800
Yeah, de Muertos.
1513
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:00,960
We've already talked about Dave the Dead.
1514
01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:01,960
Yes.
1515
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:02,960
Moon festival.
1516
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:05,600
Have you ever heard of a moon festival?
1517
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:06,600
I was intrigued.
1518
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:08,840
I was like Luna.
1519
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:10,680
I know Luna.
1520
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:11,680
Moon festival.
1521
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:17,800
Lantern festival that's in Thailand which made me think of not Rapunzel but.
1522
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:20,800
Oh no, I can't think of it either.
1523
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,800
The Disney movie was she has a tangle.
1524
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:24,800
Thank you.
1525
01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:27,800
And I was like, I want to do that.
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Bonfire nights which we understand.
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October fest.
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You know, Germany.
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01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:42,120
They do that and they do that from September 23rd to October 3rd and I was like we need
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01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:47,040
to get better on that celebration.
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Diwali.
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01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:50,320
Oh yes, it's an Indian.
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01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:52,160
Isn't it an Indian?
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01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:53,160
Sure.
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01:14:53,160 --> 01:14:55,280
I only know this because of the office.
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Isn't it in the office?
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01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:58,200
I think so.
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01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:00,000
Diwali or my thing is something else.
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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,000
I don't know.
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01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:02,000
I might have missed that one.
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01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:03,880
I didn't watch all of the office.
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01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:07,160
I do love the office and probably should watch it more.
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01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:13,120
Again, but anyways, Thanksgiving which will probably, I know they're going to come with
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01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:14,120
me too.
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01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:15,120
I'll have to tell you.
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01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:19,120
Thanksgiving which we know is coming up next month.
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01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:25,760
One that I cannot probably say very well, Lowy Cross Thong and a couple more that I
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01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:28,520
cannot pronounce which I'm not even going to try.
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01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:32,960
Halloween which we just talked about and Salon which we just talked about.
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01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:37,480
The Autumn Equinox Mabon which we said but we didn't get into it.
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01:15:37,480 --> 01:15:42,600
And Columbus Day for us, U.S. peoples which was a while ago.
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01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:43,600
October 12th.
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01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:48,360
I was like that's like the only one that I know when it is.
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01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:50,320
And what I just said.
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01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:55,280
So just some food for thought for next year.
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01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:56,800
I had to look it up.
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01:15:56,800 --> 01:16:03,320
Diwali is the Indian festival of lights.
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01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:04,640
Oh, okay.
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01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:07,160
Lots of festival of lights I'm seeing.
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01:16:07,160 --> 01:16:11,920
I think for me personally I need the Moon Festival in my life.
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Because I'm already drawn to the moon.
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01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:16,800
I think she's so pretty.
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01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:22,360
And when Kaden was little Kaden had the moon and Lorenzoh had the sun.
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01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:27,160
And so whenever they saw them my moon, my moon, my sun, my sun.
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01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:31,000
And so it just makes me think of Kaden.
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01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:33,480
And then Lantern Festival I think would be really fun.
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01:16:33,480 --> 01:16:34,480
Oh yeah.
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01:16:34,480 --> 01:16:35,480
I think that would be so gorgeous.
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01:16:35,480 --> 01:16:39,680
And of course the bonfire campfires are so yummy.
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01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:42,960
Just bottom line this time of year is amazing.
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01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:44,200
If you already know.
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01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:45,200
Bottom line.
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01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:47,880
There's so many amazing things going on right now.
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01:16:47,880 --> 01:16:48,880
Yeah.
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01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:51,480
It's just a wonderful time to be alive.
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01:16:51,480 --> 01:16:57,240
And that kind of our quote and bringing up our ancestors and being grateful for the things
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01:16:57,240 --> 01:17:02,960
that they presented in the life that they had and what we can take from them and make
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01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:08,360
it into our own traditions and seeing how it's evolved up to this point of you know
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01:17:08,360 --> 01:17:16,320
Samhain to Halloween to Samhain or whatever now I'm going to present a challenge for us.
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01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:17,320
Oh I love our challenges.
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01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:21,280
In the spirit of gratitude which is coming up.
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01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:25,640
Well when you listen to this we will be coming up well it will be tomorrow.
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01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:27,120
November 1st.
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We want to extend and we're going to do it too.
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01:17:31,440 --> 01:17:36,960
And we're going to see if everyone's on board with us as we get through the month of November.
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01:17:36,960 --> 01:17:41,720
30 days doing a 10 things grateful for journal.
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01:17:41,720 --> 01:17:46,360
It can be written down hand wise which I like to do because then I feel like I'm using all
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01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:47,360
my senses.
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01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:48,360
I'm seeing it.
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01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:50,760
I'm smelling it because you smell the paper.
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01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:52,160
I'm writing it out.
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01:17:52,160 --> 01:17:56,560
So it's a little bit more interactive but you can type it out.
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01:17:56,560 --> 01:17:59,680
You can say it out to the world.
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01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:00,680
However you want to do it.
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01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:05,160
10 things you're grateful for each day for 30 days at least.
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01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:08,320
It can be more but you might want to save those for the next day because you kind of
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01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:09,320
want to vary it up.
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01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:13,160
And it can be little things like I'm grateful for the sun.
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01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:18,280
I'm grateful for my I'm grateful that I have indoor plumbing.
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01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:19,960
I'm grateful I can take a shower today.
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01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:25,080
You know just yeah but it can also be I'm grateful for my mentor.
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01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:28,000
I'm grateful for you know the food I can take.
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01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:33,880
I'm grateful for like you said the sun the moon the stars.
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01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:37,000
Water because we have a lot to be grateful for.
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01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:38,000
We do.
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I don't think we realize we do.
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We do.
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01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:49,880
And that is going to be also to honor our upcoming holiday in the US which is catching
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on because of the commercialization of it.
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01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:54,240
Thanksgiving.
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01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:55,240
Yes.
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01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:59,400
Which also has a spiritual thing but we'll save that for later.
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Yes.
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01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:01,400
So yeah.
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I love it.
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01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:03,400
Yeah.
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01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:06,120
I'm going to be partaking in this challenge.
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01:19:06,120 --> 01:19:08,120
I like it.
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01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:09,120
Just go with it.
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01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:10,120
Yeah.
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01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:11,120
I'm partaking.
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01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:12,120
Partaking of this challenge.
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01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:13,120
Yeah.
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01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,200
I'm partaking of this.
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01:19:15,200 --> 01:19:21,720
I definitely need to pay more attention to what I'm grateful for.
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01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:24,520
And you can you know what you can do you can start your campfire.
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01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:29,200
I'm just going to add this in here to your night campfire.
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01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:35,480
If you're in a place you can't do a campfire then cut one out.
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01:19:35,480 --> 01:19:40,680
You know what we do because we don't have we don't have a fireplace or we don't have
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01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:42,600
a camp like a campfire type thing.
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01:19:42,600 --> 01:19:46,520
You know we don't have a backyard that we can have a backyard but we don't have.
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01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:47,520
Yeah.
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01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:48,520
You can't do it.
1634
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:50,720
It's not like you can go out in the back of my yard.
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01:19:50,720 --> 01:19:51,720
We pulled up.
1636
01:19:51,720 --> 01:19:53,720
We pulled up on YouTube.
1637
01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:55,720
Put it up on our big TV.
1638
01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:56,720
Oh yeah.
1639
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:58,720
They have the crackling fire sounds.
1640
01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:02,680
And we turn the heat on and that's what we do for our fire.
1641
01:20:02,680 --> 01:20:03,680
I like it.
1642
01:20:03,680 --> 01:20:04,680
Every time we want a fire.
1643
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:06,360
So we do on Christmas day.
1644
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:07,360
That's what we do.
1645
01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:08,360
Christmas Eve.
1646
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:12,080
But anytime we want a fire we pull it up and that's what we do for fire.
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01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:14,960
I'm like I now see I'm going to go into where I'm blessed.
1648
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:21,840
I feel blessed then I can walk out and start a fire in my yard in my little firing.
1649
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:27,280
And during the Christmas time I can put wood in my wood stove and turn down my heat.
1650
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:30,720
Because it gets a little too hot.
1651
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:33,400
And I can smell the wood.
1652
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:36,320
It's so good.
1653
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:38,000
I can smell it right now.
1654
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:40,000
So start.
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01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:43,120
Do your fire on the 31st.
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01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:46,200
Bring in those feel goods from your ancestors.
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01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:51,680
Push out all of the negative that you don't want for the remainder of what we know now
1658
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:55,960
is our calendar and move that forward into the new year.
1659
01:20:55,960 --> 01:21:01,720
And start writing down what we're grateful for and forgetting the negative because the
1660
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:03,280
negative will pass away.
1661
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:06,280
It'll come out if you don't focus on it.
1662
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:10,520
I'm not talking about other negatives that we do need to work on as a society.
1663
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:15,040
I'm talking about ourselves and maybe the things that we don't like about ourselves
1664
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:16,040
so much.
1665
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:20,000
If we focus on the positive, the positive will come out and we don't have to worry much
1666
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:22,000
about the negative.
1667
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:24,000
Beautiful.
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01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:27,000
New beginnings.
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01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:30,160
Thanks for hanging with AJ.
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01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:34,880
And A-Rae, we hope we've brought a little fun, sass, and joy into your lives.
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01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:40,360
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