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52. Lughnasadh: The Golden Hour
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Welcome back to this magical time of the year when everything feels soaked in golden light. We talk traditions, food, and magic all fit for this, the first harvest holiday of the Wheel of the Year. <3
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Applying for a New Job
00:00:23
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So I just was going talk about the job thingy for a second. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I applied for just fill in the audience.
00:00:35
Speaker
Yeah. I applied for another position within the school district that I work for as an administrative assistant. And I've never done that kind of job ever. I've never had a desk job.
00:00:50
Speaker
Ever, ever. And like... um I don't feel like it would be too complicated for me to figure out. like, admit like the title administrative assistant is like a entry level title.
00:01:04
Speaker
Yeah. For like anybody who's, you know, starting out with like desk job work, office work. but Even though it's a level four or something like that. I don't even know. I mean, like, i don't really understand how levels work within government.
00:01:20
Speaker
employment you know um but it's like you know it's not level four within the office it's like probably level four within like everybody that's employed at that building or that like okay like you know including like the janitors and stuff like that's how when my ex would explain to me about the post office they have the levels and stuff too and like the janitors at the post office are like at level one or whatever okay and so no shade janitors they do the best work that nobody else wants to do custodians janitors custodians building maintenance building maintenance yeah i don't remember anyway but that's that's why it's probably like a level four but it's still like entry level is what i mean okay
00:02:06
Speaker
Cool beans. um Yeah. Anyway, continue. So it's kind of weird, like backstory. I've been considering doing another type of job within the school district, any school district in Michigan, to be honest, because it all goes in the same bucket, if you will, for my pension.
00:02:28
Speaker
Right. um Okay. Yeah. Towards my pension, I should say. And like, So it doesn't matter like if I work for a regular school district or whatever, or it doesn't matter what position I take within any, any school district in Michigan, it all goes in towards my pension.
00:02:43
Speaker
Okay. So I'd been considering it because driving has just become increasingly more difficult on me in a number of different ways.
00:02:54
Speaker
Like particularly physically, I'd say. Yeah. Like the strain of the job and also like the schedule. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, the starting pay is lower than what I'm making now.
00:03:09
Speaker
And I wouldn't be getting any overtime that I, that I even can, you know, imagine.
Discovering Opportunities and Challenges
00:03:16
Speaker
Right. Um, in in a way I think it will be worth it because my quality of life is going to get better substantially.
00:03:26
Speaker
Um, if I get the position and, really it really came about in an odd way because i called off sick on the 15th of july right i was laying around in the bed just feeling like well and i was scrolling facebook which i don't do very much right so then i saw one of the other people that works in my office posted on her personal facebook um because i'm friends with her on facebook uh about a position at transportation and she was like please apply for this or something like just you know like a general to the public like please somebody you know apply for this or whatever somebody please take this job yeah yeah so i was like
00:04:13
Speaker
huh so then i started messaging her on messenger and i'm like asking her like well what do you know about the position where like what is it blah blah and it's like filling in for a secretary that we had that moved into a different position within our office um for another person who retired so yeah and when you say filling in you don't just mean like that they're like temporary filling her position is yeah okay yeah yeah yeah yeah um so That's what what it was. And she, you know, gave me some other little pointers and stuff. And she's like, basically, she goes, trust me.
00:04:52
Speaker
blank this person's name insert well it wouldn't even matter but anyway um i guess i won't say the name um blank was a lot less busy than she looked or something like that she looked a lot no she says she looked a lot busier than she actually was trust me yeah she said yeah and i was like that sounds like my kind of gig i'm just kidding um no the busier the better because i think it would make the work day go faster yeah totally Totally. So I mean, I can speak from experience yeah there. yeah Having worked in an office position during the pandemic, where we already weren't doing a whole ton anyway. And the pandemic just slowed everything way down. And I will say, though, my success rate on ah completing Udemy courses went
00:05:43
Speaker
you know, skyrocketed during that time. I love it. That's awesome.
Evaluating Job Offers and Life Quality
00:05:52
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So anyway,
00:05:55
Speaker
you know I don't have it in my mind like that if they offer me the position, I'm definitely going to take it. But um it's kind of it's it's a weird headspace to be in.
00:06:07
Speaker
And this is what I'm going to try to explain. yeah The day that I filled out that application, i was really excited about it. And I felt like excited, but not overly like like geeked. like I wasn't like, you know. yeah I was like, I felt hopeful Excited and calm at the same time.
00:06:27
Speaker
But like, it's, I still feel the same way where it's like, okay, this is a possibility that I think will be good for me. And whether or not my finances suffer for it, right I'm not super worried about, but...
00:06:45
Speaker
um i'm not definitely taking it i just i just know that if they offer it to me that i would be like i don't know i don't know what i'm trying to say here like hopeful that they offer to me not definitely gonna take it but right like you're not you're not in a headspace of like desperation yes about it exactly yeah exactly yeah i think that in a way that that kind of helps contribute to manifest manifestation. Right.
00:07:14
Speaker
So and that it's really cool because this is just happening naturally. Like I feel right. And excited, but I'm not freaking out worried. I'm not like, I don't, I'm not super invested in it and like whatever way it turns out it's fine because I might just decide to stay driving the bus and making as much money as I possibly can until I retire, you know?
00:07:37
Speaker
yeah I don't know. i I'm not super worried about any either outcome one way or the other. But when I try to put myself in the position like mentally of like sitting at a desk, getting there at 930 in the morning instead of like 530 in the morning, you know, just things like that. and And then other people that I know who've been bus drivers who end up working in different positions in the district.
00:08:03
Speaker
People who've become supervisors where work. people who have left and become parapro, parapros, which is like a classroom helper, um, in various schools.
00:08:16
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They're all like, I don't know why I waited so long. All of them. I don't know why I waited so long. I'm so happy. I'm so much happier, blah, blah. blah You know?
00:08:27
Speaker
Yeah. So in a way it feels like I probably should do it regardless because I think I will be happier in a lot of ways than I am now.
00:08:38
Speaker
I think that the time to make the decision will be once you have an offer. like waiting for you to accept or reject it. And, and so at that point where, you know, like, here it is, it is ah actual potential reality now, like, then you get to sit in that feeling of like, like, how do I really feel about it?
00:09:02
Speaker
How much do I really want it? and that you know because i know you struggle with the decision paralysis like crazy like hopefully like being faced with like hey this is an actual possibility now like they want me and all i have to do is accept the offer like hopefully being in that position and like you know sitting with the choice right in front of you will help you to then sit in this the space of like, I, you know, for example, wondering, you know, how are how are you going to feel if you decide not to take it, you know, six months down the road.
00:09:47
Speaker
Yeah. Like halfway through the rough ass school year. um Like, and, you know, see, you just see where your heart's at with it when that time comes.
00:10:02
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Because I feel confident about it for you. Like, you know, where you're at this place of like, you know, you haven't been officially interviewed yet, like by a human being. Right. ah But like, you know, so it's not like a guarantee yet.
00:10:19
Speaker
But i i have ah i have a good feeling that it will be. Yeah. Yep. So, dude, what are we talking about today?
Podcast Planning: Llamas and Conversations
00:10:29
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I am very excited.
00:10:32
Speaker
To talk about llamas. Llamas. We're talking about llamas.
00:10:41
Speaker
It's llamas, bitches. Oh, hi, Maisie. My little fur baby came to say hi. She put her hands hand. have a potato sighting? Potato sighting.
00:10:51
Speaker
Potato sighting. Fuzzy potato. The baby potato. llamas llamas yo mamas we like kind of talked about this last year but we sort of transformed it into like a general celebrating the sabbaths episode it was our third episode i think Because we already started, like, la Llamas had already, Lamas, sorry. and or Lamas had occurred, or it was occurring at the time that we recorded, but, like, we weren't publishing yet.
00:11:34
Speaker
Right, right, right. We were still, like, two weeks away from publishing anything. And so um that's why, like, it was, like, a delayed, we were like, we want to talk about Lamas, but it's, like, kind of late.
00:11:48
Speaker
um you know publishing it two weeks after the moss technically occurred um even if it was recorded at the right time but now we are on time we oh my god it's so weird because yeah like this we're kind of in we're we're in that space now of like it was about exactly a year ago we started to record I have an idea.
00:12:15
Speaker
oh no. For the title of this episode. Okay.
00:12:20
Speaker
Llamas. The ADHD edition.
00:12:25
Speaker
But. The problem is that every single one of our episodes is an ADHD edition. Oh my god. How many different topics have we already discussed and we haven't even gone into the Llamas?
00:12:38
Speaker
I know. I'm like, man, if we go if we go long enough, I could probably pull an outtakes episode out of this. Oh lordy. okay nice save it for the Save it for the Patreon.
00:12:55
Speaker
Yeah. Anyway, I want you to talk about llamas. Llamas. Llama, llama, red pajama. That's your favorite children's book. I love it.
00:13:06
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think I love it so much. Yeah. And yeah, I'd never even read it until I had baby. hmm. A baby.
00:13:17
Speaker
baby. Wow. Wow.
00:13:20
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two Lamas. Sorry. I can't do that. I can't the look up to these conditions.
00:13:35
Speaker
Oh my God. Put
Exploring Llamas and Seasonal Traditions
00:13:39
Speaker
in your two weeks notice then.
00:13:44
Speaker
shit hello
00:13:49
Speaker
Well, that's all she wrote, folks. Two weeks and we're out. Oh, no. no I'm just kidding. No, we're not going anywhere. Okay, Lamas.
00:14:03
Speaker
Yeah, thereabouts. It's like in the in the, it's one of those that gets the three days a three day date range. Don't all the pagan holidays get that? No, because like there's there's some that like actually occur on a very specific day. no And then there are some that just sort of, they like span three days. And those are the but fire festivals.
00:14:28
Speaker
Yeah. As it were. Like the last one we had was Beltane. um And that's like, you know, it goes between April 30th to May 2nd. um Like each year, like there will be a date assigned to it, but like you can be celebrating it on all three of those days or any any one of the three days and still be accurately celebrating on time.
00:14:58
Speaker
And so llamas is one of those. All right, biatch. Wicca calendar. Wiccan calendar.
00:15:09
Speaker
have downloaded this thing for my phone, even though I'm not on Wiccan. Is it an app? Yeah. Okay. It's actually called Wicca calendar. Wicca! Wicca!
00:15:20
Speaker
And it's got like the wheel of the year. And tell me now, what is the other word for llamas? Because I can't say it! Lunasa.
00:15:33
Speaker
but Okay, goddammit. I should be able to say that. I mean, like, it doesn't... The spelling does not... look like it. So it's okay. No, and according to, I'm sorry to do this because I didn't plan to do this. According to this app, this calendar, it's only August 1st.
00:15:51
Speaker
Right. And according to the Witch's Datebook that you gave me, it also is on August 1st. Okay. But what I'm saying is you can celebrate it oh yeah between July and August july thirty first and august second Got it.
00:16:08
Speaker
Like you're not off base to do that. Right. um I did take that day off. i like say I'm very excited. Nice. I don't have any plans yet, but maybe I'll just eat some bread.
00:16:22
Speaker
That works. It is the bread holiday. That works. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. even the Llewellyn Sabbath Essentials. Lunasaw book says August 1st on the wheel of the year.
00:16:37
Speaker
Right. Like, cause that's like right in the middle. I know. Right. Right. Yeah. wait. Like halfway across from whatchamacallit in bulk.
00:16:47
Speaker
Right. Which is February 1st. Right. Yeah. Okay. All right. I like patterns. I like being able to see patterns. shit Yeah.
00:16:59
Speaker
Yeah. No, it's good. Right. yeah It's good. It's interesting because like Samhain technically falls in that category of fire festival. who This because it is right directly across the wheel of the year from Beltane.
00:17:19
Speaker
Yeah. ah But it's always, you know, looked at as being the same as Halloween, which is always the 31st of October. but Samhain itself is between the 31st and November 2nd.
00:17:34
Speaker
Sweet. Yeah. That way it includes the Day of the Dead.
00:17:41
Speaker
yep Even though that's a separate holiday. Right. I know. But. It's all part of the same. It's the same kind of celebration. Time frame. Yeah. It's like across the entire world.
00:17:54
Speaker
Everyone in every culture could see and feel The fact that the veil is thinning. Yes. Or the veil is the thinnest at that time of the year.
00:18:06
Speaker
So. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Further legitimizes the date choice as well as like the subject choice of the holiday. Yeah.
00:18:17
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I like it. But we're not there yet because we're still at Llamas. he We're at the bread holiday. We're at the first of the three harvest festivals.
00:18:32
Speaker
Ooh. So I just randomly flipped open a page in my book. Yes. And it solitary ritual day in the life of the goddess.
00:18:45
Speaker
Ooh. Do you want me to read a little? yeah I am very curious. So yes, please. Okay. In Celtic lore, it was not loo. if i'm saying that right l-u-g-h yes that's correct but lou's divine stepmother tell to god i'm sorry i'm gonna spell it t-a-i-l-t-i-u tail two you sorry
00:19:17
Speaker
I don't even know. I cannot even begin. it's so it's a stepmother who was originally honored at Lunasa. The Taltean Games being instituted in honor of her labor and sacrifice in preparing the fields of Ireland for agriculture.
00:19:40
Speaker
Lunasa is a great time to honor goddess energies in your own life. giving thanks to Mother Earth and reconnecting to the goddess qualities of beauty, compassion, inspiration, and tenacity. Here's a ritual to help you do just that.
00:19:54
Speaker
Though designed especially for solitary practice, it can be performed by couples and groups as well. Who is it? Sex magic? No. and solitary sex magic no but was it she specified you know couples and so i was like yeah right as a day-long ritual the ceremony is a little different from the typical sabbath rite you will begin this ritual first thing in the morning blah blah blah you want me to keep going or do you want me stop um i don't want to get in trouble with luellen yeah so uh if you to learn more get that book um
00:20:37
Speaker
But that sounds cool. And I also really like the um the focus on feminine aspects. um And I and didn't quite hear it. And I don't feel like it's shoehorning to say that ah creation, manifestation fall into that like category for this time of the year. No.
00:21:02
Speaker
um because it is a harvest holiday there is bounty to be had and uh yeah manifestation only works if you already feel gratitude for the bounty that you have so as always we tie everything back to manifestation we tie everything back to gratitude if We try to We certainly try to, but it also just sort of keeps happening because maybe that's the entire point.
00:21:32
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. You know? and for some reason, i don't know. I really don't know why, but like suddenly I'm just desperately craving crepes.
Seasonal Food Cravings and Community Events
00:21:48
Speaker
I'm like, I feel like crepes would be a great food to celebrate this holiday. that would work for sure especially like a whole wheat crepe yeah i was gonna say or what do we usually stuff in the crepes some kind of berry right oh my god oh or nutella but yeah you ever had a nutella crepe i don't remember oh you would love them up I had some kind of Nutella breakfast like meal.
00:22:23
Speaker
I almost said breakfast dessert because it was like a dessert. That's basically what a crepe is. A breakfast dessert. No, I think it was like pancakes or waffles or some kind of thing like that. Oh, yeah. with With Nutella in it. I love it. and Anywho.
00:22:41
Speaker
Anywho. I don't know why I, you know, my mind first went to the berries. I'm thinking of some raspberries. No, but like, yeah, the raspberry, like a raspberry preserve or strawberry preserve.
00:22:54
Speaker
um Also, this time of year is all about the blackberries. um Blackberries and peaches.
00:23:02
Speaker
Oh my God. last year, i think I talked about this briefly. might've mentioned it. I can't remember when we were recording last year, but I remember I was having a gathering with my friends and I really wanted to make a blackberry peach cobbler. Yeah.
00:23:21
Speaker
But there were no blackberries to be found in the grocery store. And I was like, what the fuck is this? So I had to settle for strawberry peach cobbler, which was also delicious, but also so juicy that it wouldn't bake in the middle. It was in the oven for like a long time. Oh, no, no. Blueberry does not cut it.
00:23:46
Speaker
Blueberry with peach? No. No. No, I think it would get overpowered. I think the blue... we We did talk about blueberry lemon being like a classic like quintessential flavor combination. i think that that is... like That has to stick with that rather than branching out. And also, I associate that with earlier in the summer.
00:24:07
Speaker
like I associate that with like late May and like June time. yeah Myself, personally. got it. But yeah, like blackberries for...
00:24:20
Speaker
July, August, especially August. Peach is all year, all not all year round, all summertime long, you know? ah But it was good. The strawberry peach cobbler, but it was just, it wouldn't bake. It was runny.
00:24:36
Speaker
It was wet.
00:24:41
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Wet. Wet. Wet. Sorry. yes
00:24:46
Speaker
sorry It's okay. ah In Romeo, Michigan, which is where a good one majority of my route goes right on the bus, um they have a peach festival every year and I have still never, ever been.
00:25:00
Speaker
oh my God. You gotta I don't know what's wrong with me. You gotta go. You, you, you gotta go. you ought to know.
00:25:11
Speaker
All right. Hold on. I'm going to look up and see when it is. Because I think it's like early September maybe, but I could be wrong. e Romeo.
00:25:22
Speaker
Romeo! Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Peach Festival 2025.
00:25:31
Speaker
oh yeah! I wish you were here just a little bit longer. It's Thursday, August 28th through Labor Day, September 1st. Damn! Yeah. Well, I have other plans. That means I can go. Yeah, you can go.
00:25:48
Speaker
You could go if I was there, too. yeah but yeah But I mean, because yeah because I don't work specifically. Right. it's um On a weekend. And Thursday, August 28th and Friday the 29th, I don't work.
00:26:01
Speaker
Right. Well, I might work a little, but I don't have like full days or anything. Right. Oh, yeah. I gotta do it this year. Okay, so I'm gonna read, like,
00:26:12
Speaker
one paragraph here from this Llewellyn's Witches Datebook that you had given me after I gave it to you. Yeah, because I already had bought one for myself. I was like, sorry.
00:26:28
Speaker
But you can have it. um But on the page that says Bread Day um for for the llamas, this paragraph here, It says, the very act of great baking bread
Cultural Traditions and Personal Celebrations
00:26:41
Speaker
was considered a sacred and magical act that often involved gathering with family members and decorating and shaping the bread for different holidays and traditions.
00:26:50
Speaker
Many Slavic breads are shaped into wreaths, are braided, or have cut art cut into the crust. The first loaf from the oven was to be broken only with hands because it was bad luck to use a knife.
00:27:01
Speaker
The knife might cut off the family's good fortune. So that sort of gives me the feeling of... like that's a very very easy tradition to incorporate into my life and my practice yeah and my celebration of the wheel of the year so like even if I don't bake the bread from scratch because that terrifies me but if I just do my usual like get me the pizza dough from Trader Joe's and make me a braided bread like to do that and then
00:27:36
Speaker
make it a tradition that I have to only tear the pieces off to eat it. Yeah. I want to do that. That feels good. I like that tactile aspect.
00:27:47
Speaker
Hell yeah, dude. Makes me feel like a Slavic lady who from the Middle Ages. Nice. Yeah.
00:27:58
Speaker
And you should too, listeners. Give it a try. if you want. Only if you want. But it is nice to sort of to have those things that like tie thing tie like your consciousness back to a like, you know, the origins of humanity and like, you know, our history in general as as a collective humanity.
00:28:22
Speaker
But also like with the tactile on this, I feel like there's a little bit of an element to of like getting further in touch with like the senses and getting in touch with Mother Earth. Hmm.
00:28:33
Speaker
Our human origins. Right. Right. But like doing so through the senses and doing so as a method of honoring the great earth mother that gives all.
00:28:50
Speaker
I say with lifted hands. um But I feel very sincere about that. So. Yeah. Yeah. I might have to.
00:29:02
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have that be my thing that I do yeah even I still haven't made a braided bread yet this year i don't think I got around to it at Imbolc last year or this past year so no better time aside from Imbolc than to make it on the bread holiday yeah yeah who I bought a jalapeno cheddar bread loaf
00:29:35
Speaker
in Frankenmuth last weekend. Oh, man. Yeah. It was on the day-old rack, so it was like half off. Nice. In the fridge, so it won't get moldy, hopefully.
00:29:48
Speaker
Hell yeah. And now I'm thinking, because, you know, John won't eat it because it's got jalapeno on um Not that he he's afraid of the spice, but he doesn't like any kind of pepper vegetable at all.
00:30:00
Speaker
He's so weird.
00:30:02
Speaker
He is weird. um I'm thinking that when I get into that bread, I'm going to rip a piece off first before I cut it. Do it. Do it. Hell, rip only pieces. I might literally just take a bite out of the whole lovely hour. Yeah.
00:30:19
Speaker
I would not blame you. I love that. Like, I always have that impulse with us big, like, especially like blocks of cheese. um You ever have that impulse to just bite a chunk out of it rather than slice it up?
00:30:35
Speaker
But i could now you do. yeah There's some brand new blocks of cheese in our fridge right now. might have to go do that. Oh, boy. who ah I still got to get my cheese slicer out.
00:30:48
Speaker
that i ordered like seven months ago oh my goodness it's like just just still sitting in the package in the corner silly it's just whatever um but yeah yeah that would be an obvious like to do that with like on the side of like a charcuterie board oil I want to cut a piece of this cheddar jalapeno bread and toast a piece.
00:31:20
Speaker
Fuck yeah. And then put like thin slices of cheddar cheese on it and then stick it the microwave for a second and like melt that cheese. and You don't have a toaster oven, right? I do actually. but Yeah, do it with a toaster oven.
00:31:33
Speaker
Okay. um That's how I would always, when I was a kid and we made cheese on toast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. We always put it in the toaster oven. like Oh, that was a that that's a thing that we always did when I was a young warthog.
00:31:47
Speaker
Oh my god. yo Yeah, yeah. We were like a weirdly English family for having never directly been like, we're from England. But as I'm learning about or as I have been learning about world you know or as i have been learning about world culture I'm learning so many things that my grandmother and my mother like did in the in the kitchen were like English exclusives.
00:32:16
Speaker
a So, yeah. That was one of them. Cheese on toast. Sounds good. Of course, we just we just called it cheese toast.
00:32:28
Speaker
Like cheese toast. Cheese toast. Cheese toast. Oh my goodness. But it was bomb. Bomb diggity. Sounds yummy. It was good. Yeah. i'm going to do it.
00:32:39
Speaker
yep i was also going to suggest if you have any of that borson cheese oh yeah spread that on there that would be good i still have i got borson cheese that's the caramelized onion flavor oh and i'm very excited to try that Yeah, like for but for some silly reason, i literally was thinking about cutting this jalapeno cheese, cheddar bread, whatever, and like putting cream cheese on toasted. Yeah.
00:33:14
Speaker
Like toast it and then cream cheese on it like a bagel. I'm like, I'm just going to do that. But like that would that would also be really good. But yeah, bourbon cheese or whatever. i don't know if we have any right now, but I probably could find some frozen in our freezer somewhere.
00:33:29
Speaker
Right, because John bought like, what, 20 of them one time? They were like 50 cents a piece. Yeah. 50 cents a piece or a dollar a piece, whatever it was. It was super cheap. And like, he just bought a crap ton of it. And you were like, I can't find any for less than $5 a piece. You know, whatever.
00:33:48
Speaker
Yeah. it's like, what the frick, dude? Yeah, like, what the hell? But that's amazing. You're so blessed. Yeah. Yeah, like this grocery store up here around the corner, he finds deals there every week for ah dollar.
00:34:02
Speaker
Stuff's like a dollar. Like those big Toblerone chocolate beans. He found those like before Christmas a couple years ago for 50 cents each. dude Bought about 20 of them. Dude. I'm not kidding.
00:34:16
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No, I believe you. We gave them away for part of Christmas gifts as like a little side. Yeah. No, that's an excellent Christmas gift. Toblerone's bomb. Yeah, dude. my God. Yeah, they were really good ones too because there's different flavors.
00:34:28
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This one was like a light blue color. I'm trying to remember it was like toasted almond in it or something like that. It was really good. Nice. Anyhow. Anyhow. Yes.
00:34:39
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I was just reminded of another food that goes along with summertime. And that is my fig and onion burger topping that i haven't made in a couple of years. um i think I'm going to have to do it.
00:34:57
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That sounds so yummy. Yeah. Yeah. You made that by hand. ah Yeah. Well, I mean, like, there's not really another way to do it. Okay, so it wasn't like a thing you found in a jar. No, no, I like i was told the recipe and have used that recipe ever since.
00:35:17
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Nice. It's like yellow onion or Vidalia onion are both diced chopped up fresh figs.
00:35:28
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You can use dried figs if you absolutely have no other choice, but fresh figs are. way better. Chopped up, like, quartered, basically, or cut into eighths.
00:35:42
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And you have to, like, simmer them with the onions for, like, a while. Like, it takes while. With butter? No. With, I think, if anything, some olive oil, but you don't need much, because there's a lot of moisture in the figs and the onions.
00:35:59
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um And although butter would probably not be bad but uh you also add into it brown sugar and apple cider vinegar my god yeah yeah i literally have never assigned measurements to that um it's always just sort of do it to my heart's desire um But ah you just, like, let it simmer down until it's this big, gooey, like, mess in a pan.
00:36:35
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Mm. Mm. That sounds so good. Yeah. And you also, at the same time, cook your burgers on the side. Or your brats, if you're going to do a bratwurst. um It goes on that pretty well as well.
00:36:49
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And then you've got to have pretzel buns. Mm. And you've got to have minster cheese to melt on your burgers. And you got to have bread and butter pickles and mayo and Dijon mustard.
00:37:02
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What the hell? That's a lot. That's not a lot compared to a lot of burgers. Like cheeseburgers, know, usually have cheese on them already. then there's pickles and condiments. That's all.
00:37:14
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But with the pretzel bun. Yeah. And you put that topping on. Sounds yummy. Fucking incredible. Like there was no better, no bigger, more gratifying time.
00:37:27
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of my career as a kitchen witch than the time that I made this for two hungry men who sucked down their burgers in like five minutes.
00:37:39
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No words were said, just burger noises going down the gullet. Oh my goodness. And I was like, this is but I don't need the compliments.
00:37:51
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This is the compliment. Is listening to this sound. i The sound of silence and chewing. The sound of guzzling burgers.
00:38:03
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Oh my gosh. It was really gratifying. Anyway. I call them i call them the Figgy Pub Burgers. oh But I need to try them with bratwursts now too.
00:38:17
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Anyway, we always end up talking about food. Well, we are going to naturally because of Lunasaw. Llamas. Because lamo cooking, cook something, is part of the tradition of ritual.
Outdoor Celebrations and Ritual Practices
00:38:32
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twelve yeah Part of the ritual tradition of any Sabbath.
00:38:37
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Most of the time, I would say. none every time. Yeah. And it like it factors into... like any kind of spell work, but especially spell work to do with manifestation, oh especially when you're doing kitchen witching.
00:38:56
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But there's other things to do besides food on llamas.
00:39:04
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I think, I think it's a good, well, I don't, I shouldn't say I think I know it objectively is. a good outdoor holiday man just continually making me wish that i had a private outdoor space because i would be i'd be spending so much more time in general out there if i did but on the holidays like this like it'd be so much easier to just take my little celebration outside god damn it yeah i just wish i had a working oven
00:39:41
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man my i mean we do have a working oven next door right right well it is a fire festival so i would need a i would i would want to do a bonfire or a fire pit you should do a fire pit with your fire pit that you have that i'm jealous of yeah but you know who's gonna have to be out there with me because you know he he's going to want to always be a part of that because he does that like 20 times more often than I do.
00:40:14
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Do it on ah night that he's working. Well, isn let me look at the calendar. Oh, yeah. August 1st is Friday and he don't work that day.
00:40:27
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Well, it's all right. don't matter. You can do it Thursday night. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Maybe. But I will say this.
00:40:39
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I'm better at fire building. Not that I've ever started one from scratch to begin with, but like the way he does it is insane. Like...
00:40:50
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he's like when you build a fire yeah you do need to have some bit of gaps between the logs but not like giant gaps between the right like big you know the size of your head yeah they have to be touching it like close enough where the heat and all that can build up in the right and right yeah so like i'm I'm always out there poking at the damn thing and rearranging the logs when I'm out there. And I actually really enjoy doing that.
00:41:21
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Yeah. It's like a little puzzle. It's not, no, it's not like that to me. It's more like a meditation. Oh well yeah. Literally like a meditation because I'm staring at it. Yeah. I'm watching the flames and then I'm, I'm seeing where it can be adjusted to make it better. And I'm just like doing it like, yeah. Okay. I'm going to do this little.
00:41:40
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And then it's like, all of a sudden the flames are like, yeah, yeah. And I want to sit there and just watch it and just meditate on it. like yeah So you should do that.
00:41:53
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Do that a week from tonight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. What else are we talking about with the llamas? Well, we were talking about fire and, uh, I mean, in that vein,
00:42:10
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Whether you're doing it alone or in a group, like, to sort of do, like, spell work with the fire would be fucking cool. Yeah, like even with candle. Like, sprinkling herbs into it.
00:42:22
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Even if you just had a candle to do some fire spraying or fire or anything. Yeah. yeah You don't have to have a bonfire, but yeah. True. you're going throw some in it, make it a bonfire.
00:42:33
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Right, that's what i was saying. In the vein of thinking of bonfires or fire pits or whatever, to like sprinkle herbs into it is not only aromatic, but you know manifestation.
00:42:48
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it's like It's interesting to consider how a bonfire or a fire pit could be turned into like a spell. Like an active, like packaged with a beginning and ending spell, you know, um the way that like we think of a candle spell or a jar spell, spell jar.
00:43:10
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But like, but it is. You know, you could spend effectively the same amount of time on it as you do another kind of spell, you know, a few hours and you spend your time meditating around it. You spend your time scrying with it.
00:43:23
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Yeah. And also putting your intentions into it, whether that's with physical things like herbs or, you know, whatever else that is burnable safely or just meditating your intentions into it.
00:43:39
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But also, you if you wanted to incorporate like written out intentions that you speak into the universe as you like walk around the fire or something like that I have an idea tell me your idea I was thinking of like, cause you were talking about sprinkling spices and things, herbs and spices or whatever into the fire.
00:44:04
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And I was like, Ooh, cinnamon. And then I was like, Ooh, wait a minute. Take a piece of paper towel and write something on that. Yeah. Or a Bailey's. Well, no, listen, this is why i'm going to say paper towel.
00:44:17
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Then i would take like my cooking, cooking spray, cooking oil spray, spray oil, whatever. excuse Spray, like spray it on the paper towel.
00:44:28
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Then take cinnamon because the cinnamon will stick into the oils the paper towel and then you can like roll it up. True. And then like stick it into the fire.
00:44:41
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very good point yeah you could also take a whole cinnamon stick just pop it in there but yeah but if you wanted to write an intention on the paper that's true that's very true yeah yeah and then you know turn it like turn it into a big cinnamon joint and stick it into the fire I don't mean like you have to pour an entire bottle of cinnamon it and roll it up.
00:45:03
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yeah But you know what I mean? Sprinkle some in that. Like I say oil just because then the cinnamon's not just running out of the paper towel as you're walking. like Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it sticks. Exactly. Yeah, but I like that idea of like making, turning your evening bonfire into ah spell.
00:45:23
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. and I knew it. You should. And I wish that it could. So I will live vicariously through you.
00:45:35
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Oh, yeah. But yeah, I'm trying to think what else, what else we can do or could do to celebrate the llamas.
00:45:48
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That's not food related. Read Llama Llama Red Pajama. Yes.
00:45:56
Speaker
It's the best. Oh my god. It makes me cry. i know. It's a good one. Yeah, just basking, I feel.
Welcoming Autumn and Listener Engagement
00:46:05
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And this is like so vague.
00:46:07
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But just to bask in the sensation of this feeling of entering harvest season. Once again, we are entering the golden hour of the year.
00:46:18
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Like we described last year. That's what it feels like. hu it's also the prime time of new england o you know it's i mean we're still like two months away from starting to see leaves change but like they're gonna start changing and it's gonna be the best yeah i'm so excited you know it's really funny i i don't know why i didn't even think about this i just put two and two together ah earlier this morning I had that odd sensation of fall hit me.
00:46:53
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Really? Yes. It was like not not the smell in the air that I've described before, but like, right. Just the feeling for some odd reason. It just like kind of like how when it becomes August, I'm already ready to like start smelling the pumpkin spice thing. Yeah.
00:47:09
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Right. That's feeling got this morning. I was just yeah like, oh, I feel it. And I feel it. You know, I kind of have been, too.
00:47:20
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And it's just this morning. It hit me. Yeah, like kind of today, kind of in general, I've just been getting this this sensation of like, it's coming. It's coming.
00:47:33
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It's the um the trending sound on TikTok that has that I think is probably super niche, actually. But it's taking from version of Sleeping Beauty.
00:47:47
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um version of sleeping beauty ah from Disney, the original animated. Yeah. The little part where she's being like put in a trance and called to the spinning wheel.
00:48:03
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Yeah. Whatever you call it. Yeah. To prick her finger. And there's that music that plays and it's like the intense music that's scary.
00:48:15
Speaker
And you don't, i don't think as a kid I realized it, but like I realized it when this sound started to trend on TikTok where the voice that's singing is saying her name. Aurora? it's like Yeah, it's like saying like Aurora!
00:48:34
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And then the like violins, the strings would go boom! Like, you know, real intense. Oh my goodness. And witches have been using this sound as like you know, a trending sound on TikTok to describe like the feeling of just like picking up on something in the universe.
00:48:56
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You don't know what it is yet, but you know, just sort of like, you know, perking your ears up. Like, what is it? Like your spidey senses are tingling. Something's coming. And that's what I picture with fall happening with us now.
00:49:12
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Nice. Send me, oh wait, you probably have sent me those. i probably have at some point. um But I'll look some up and send them to you so that you can deliberately go watch.
00:49:28
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Because you know Maleficent is my favorite Disney evil queen. Yeah. Anyway, shall we wrap it up? Yeah. This has been Llamas.
00:49:41
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The 80th version. Edition. Whatever. but i Pretty much.
00:49:49
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00:49:59
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00:50:46
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00:53:10
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00:53:25
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Connecticut's fine. yeah Like, come on. Alaska and Hawaii. Come on. We've gotten Rhode Island. We've gotten Yeah. How have we not gotten Connecticut?
00:53:38
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We've gotten, like, India. Yeah. late
00:53:44
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Good God. We've got to Australia. Yeah. yeah Yeah. But we can't get fucking Connecticut 20 minutes from my house. yeah Molly, you need to drive down there and hand out some bumper stickers. Oh, wait, I didn't send them to you yet.
00:53:59
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00:54:04
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