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50. The Big Five-Oh
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We made it, y’all.
We’re so excited to celebrate 50 episodes of Soul Pod: The Podcast with you guys! Thank you so much for being on this journey with us. We can’t wait to see what the next 50 will bring. <3
We're so grateful you're here! If you like what you’re hearing, you can find more exclusive content on Patreon: www.patreon.com/soulpodthepodcast - especially if you want that freeeee exclusive bumper sticker hehehe. We can’t wait to see you over there!
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Hosts: Christina Bell & Molly Wilde
Music: The Confrontation, by Jonathan Boyle, licensed from Premium Beats by Shutterstock
Editing: Molly Wilde
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Celebration of Milestones
00:00:25
Speaker
Okay then. We just spent all our energy right out the gate. Now it's time for snooze. No, I'm just kidding. No.
00:00:38
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Oh my god, you guys! Welcome! Hello, hello! It's episode number 50! woo! Oh my oh my god Dude, we're almost to a year.
00:00:55
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yeah Holy shit. Like in just over a month will be the anniversary of the day we first published episodes. Yep. Holy shit.
00:01:07
Speaker
That might mean we've actually been recording for a whole year. Yeah. and I think we started. We started recording in like mid July of last year. Cool.
00:01:18
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So, yeah, we're getting there. Damn. We're getting there. Time be flying, bitches. It do be flying. You know, it's like so crazy. ah we like, what did what's today?
00:01:32
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Today is Tuesday. yeah Yeah.
Reflecting on Personal and Podcasting Journeys
00:01:34
Speaker
So two days ago, we went out to eat with my husband's family. And, you know, it was like his dad's 81st birthday was July 4th.
00:01:43
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ah And literally... We're just saying, I cannot believe it's been a whole year since we celebrated his 80th, which was a big shindig. I know. A big giant, you know. Right. and Yeah, you guys had a big old party. There was a big tent and catering and people came from out of the country.
00:02:03
Speaker
ah From Canada. They wouldn't be able to do that now. know. Yikes. And I was just like, I can't freaking believe it's been a year already since then. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Holy shit.
00:02:17
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know right crazy shit it feels like yesterday and it also feels like a hundred years ago yeah both at the same time for sure so much has happened in the last year
00:02:30
Speaker
i'm really proud of us dude yeah can i just like be super super like savvy for a second because i'm really fucking proud of us yeah we did this i'm especially proud of you all the extra work that you have put into this it is so fun though like i love it i'm glad that you really do because I don't have time to do all the work that you do. And I'm grateful that you do it.
00:02:59
Speaker
So grateful. Oh my God. I am grateful that you do this with me because to be honest, I was thinking about this. I literally was thinking about this not too long ago.
00:03:14
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Like if you weren't doing this with me, I wouldn't be doing it at all. No matter how fun it is. Like I wouldn't able to do this alone. yeah i can't I can't imagine myself trying to have a podcast all alone. yeah like If that ever happens in the future, cool. I don't know what mentality shift has to happen for me to be able to feel like I can do that, but I cannot do that right now.
00:03:34
Speaker
Yeah, I imagine it must it must be ah ah difficult undertaking. Yeah, it's like, it's I mean, like the closest I can come is when I post the readings on Patreon.
00:03:48
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And even that feels weird because I'm just sitting over here talking to myself. But at the same time, it's a little not the same thing because it's not a podcast. It's a tarot reading, you know, but like, i don't know, it's just different. And I, ah I don't know. I, I just, I know that I could not be able to do this without you. Like, no matter how much you feel like you always are giving me all the cred And like, you know, giving me mad props and I'm always grateful for that. Like, I appreciate it. I really do.
00:04:18
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But at the same time, like none of this would be possible if you weren't doing it with me. Well, I'm glad we have each other. but
00:04:27
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Super glad. All
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all
Exploring Tarot Readings and Personal Connections
00:04:35
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right. Mushy stuff aside. Let's move on. ah ha You may or may not. Yeah, I was going to say. oh um sorry. We just like how you go for tried to segue at the same time.
00:04:50
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You may or may not have been hearing some card shuffling in the background. Yeah. On both of our parts because I'm over here shuffling. this deck as well. Yeah. But we thought we would each pull a card for this 50th episode.
00:05:11
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And we're actually using decks that we got from our friends that we met up with at the Solstice. um Yeah, i didn't get this deck there.
00:05:23
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ah you didn't? No. um Wait, i thought you just said that you did. no i It's one that our friend has that she owns. and And when she showed us on Marco one time, I was like, I need to see that again because like I forgot the name of the deck. And so she showed me in a private Marco and I ordered it And then she brought it with her. I fully misunderstood what you meant. Yeah. Okay. It was just that one that our friend had at solstice, but like, I didn't take it from her. Okay. So it wasn't one of the ones that she gave away. Cause she gave away a few.
00:05:58
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I think this is one of the ones that she very much connects with and uses regularly, but everyone was looking at it. Yeah. But it's so beautiful. And I remember you were looking at all the cards and you were just like gaga-ing about them. Like they're so pretty.
00:06:15
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art is gorgeous. You want to hit us with that deck name? Yeah. um Earthly Souls and Spirits Moon Oracle. And it is so beautiful. Like the artwork, like check that out.
00:06:31
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It's so She looks ghostly. She is. She's so pretty. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Check this one, dude. Ooh. We got a witch. Is she holding a pumpkin?
00:06:44
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She's got like a jack-o'-lantern bag Or it's like a... It looks like pumpkin. like a little... but Like one of those little candy buckets. Yeah. So very Halloween-y. And she's got raven or perched on top of her walking stick.
00:06:59
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Ooh. Yeah. It's so pretty. i mean, the art is just... God dang. Wow. It's really beautiful. Wow. So you're going to pull from that deck. Yeah.
00:07:11
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And I am going to pull from ah deck that I got from are buddy ah and previous soul pod guest, Alyssa.
00:07:24
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ah The intuitive night goddess tarot. Yay. this was another one of those decks where I was looking at the cards and just like,
00:07:37
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just exploding inside. Yeah. I was like, what the fuck? This is incredible. And we're going to not go to ham with these. We're just going to pull what, like one card each.
00:07:51
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Probably. Yeah. um And we're going to what they say. um Particularly, you know, the guidebooks, but we'll also pull in our own intuition.
00:08:05
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um i was going to ask, What is the question on your heart when you are going pull this card? As I've been shuffling, I've just been saying, what message does the universe have for the collective tonight?
00:08:20
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So we'll see. I like those generalized questions. Yeah, they are They're easy. They are easy. And it's and it's good for like, you know, so circumstances like this.
00:08:32
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You know, where we're speaking to an audience and our messages are for the audience, whether we pull cards or not. So right this those kinds of general questions are perfect for pulling a card in the presence of an audience.
00:08:49
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Should I go first or should you? You should go first. All righty. And we have magical. Magical. Oh my God. And it's so pretty. Describe the card.
00:09:02
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Describe it. It's. um Oh, it's so pretty. Big old moon, but it's like watercolors, different colors in it. And um there is a beautiful owl underneath with its wings spread all the way open. And the way it's drawn are the wings are kind of like cupping underneath Like around the bottom half of the moon.
00:09:25
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pretty. And there's pine trees underneath. Like nice dark greens and some light greens. And then above it, above the moon is like branches reaching from either side, intertwining in the middle. It's really pretty.
00:09:43
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Very pretty. Colors. Incredible. and love the colors. Yeah. Yeah. So obviously... You don't have to explain shit to me about that.
00:09:55
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We need some magical bitches. Yeah, we be making magic in this collective. Hell yeah. All day or day. you gonna read the guidebook though? I am. I look it it can't wait to hear what it says.
00:10:11
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Magical. Sacred space. Nice. Our podcast the is a sacred space. Guidance and enchantment.
00:10:25
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. Your inner light and vibrational energies are awakening your awareness.
00:10:36
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Unveil your intuitive knowledge and release your powers by shining this inner light. Enhance your mood and environment by making a sacred altar space.
00:10:47
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You think it's talking to me? I still have not made an altar space. um Not a specific one anyway. i do have areas where I have things set. yeah Anyhow, let me keep going.
00:11:03
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Add touches of magic to your surroundings or a specific area. This can be as simple or elegant as you wish. You may want to gather some bits of nature, ah candle, photos of loved ones,
00:11:18
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inspirational trinkets or a cup of your favorite tea. Enjoy and absorb the space that you have created. Allow it to assist you as you call for guidance open the doors to other realms.
00:11:33
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Intention. Celebrate your miraculous self. Charge your spirits with all that is magic, candles, crystals,
00:11:45
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Sorry, charge your spirit. Sorry. I just want to make sure I read that correctly. Charge your spirit with all that is magic. Candles, crystals, tea, books, and nature.
00:11:59
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I think this is speaking to me. You know, I feel that way every time I do a reading on Patreon. I really do. i'm like, every time I'm like, oh my god, did is this is the deck confused? This is a reading for the collective. It's not for me. It's not supposed to be for me, but it feels like it's for me.
00:12:19
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Oh my god. But for real, y'all rewind two minutes and re-listen to that again. That message is for you. Everyone.
00:12:30
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That message is for you. Yeah. Yeah. You're fucking magical bitch. Yep, and we all need to take that time to ourselves to charge our spirits with the magical things.
00:12:43
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Yes, absolutely fucking lute we do. I goddamn love that. Oh, I'm so happy. That's good. I got chills. I got chills again.
00:12:54
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Oh my god. Oh my god. Alright. So I actually when I pull...
00:13:05
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ah card from my deck. want my intention, my question, my whatever on my heart is what do we as facilitators of this podcast space need to know going forward into our next 50 episodes?
00:13:34
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That's a good question. going pull a card. going to try hopefully feel like I got the whole message with one card, but if I have to pull a second to clarify, i will. um Excellent. But here we go.
00:13:58
Speaker
we have the wayfarer and this i believe if i'm reading the roman numeral correctly is card number six which off the top of my head i cannot recall that card in the like regular major arcana um but the wayfarer it's this beautiful and if you can see beautiful person in a red robe
00:14:30
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out in the open and like under the night sky with a planet in the background it looks like it could i mean i would have thought a moon but it almost looks like it has like it's a plans like jupiter yeah yeah that's a planet for sure and then a whole bunch of candles and flowers and a snake wrapped around her arm sweet oh gorgeous pretty one yes gorgeous okay now gonna read what this little guidebook says about the wayfarer ah traditionally the lovers oh okay the wayfarer traditionally the lovers this one says ready yeah a goddess ventures alone on her journey and comes to a crossroads
00:15:23
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Each path is illuminated by six candles, totaling 12 in reference to the astrological houses and the cycles we go through. a wayfarer is a journeyer, often on foot, and this means you are on a path where it's okay to go at your own pace.
00:15:42
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The wayfarer's right arm holds apples, denoting knowledge, and her left has a snake around it, referencing the union of Adam and Eve. but also how the snake gets an underserved negative reputation.
00:15:57
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This card offers the reader a choice to meditate on ideas of self-love. Are we talking about readings that sound like they're for us?
00:16:09
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Jeez. Well, you said this one was supposed to be for us. Well, for me specifically, like as I pull this card, I'm like self-love. Oh, whoops.
00:16:19
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ah All right. Continuing on The lovers are the union of separated parts and as a unit ask us to find the wholeness of self or ourself with the universe.
00:16:33
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Jupiter, known as the guru or teacher planet, looms overhead In astrology, Jupiter oversees our soul journeys and the paths we take to discover our spiritual selves.
00:16:47
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The path on the left is without struggle, but also without reward. the path The right path shows a mountain adorned with flowers. It might be more difficult and you will experience obstacles obstacles along the way.
00:17:02
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but experience begets self-respect tune into your highest self and begin forming that relationship with love love will then find you in unexpected ways this card may also mean travel literal or metaphorical personal or in a relationship this is the alchemical union referencing love we can find in each other and the ways in which we seek on our own solo journeys.
00:17:30
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You don't need someone else to catalyze your experience of love. Keep wandering, keep finding and loving yourself. um There are also keywords at the bottom here.
00:17:41
Speaker
They say love, harmony, values, balance, self-love and choice. That's fucking powerful. Yeah, I think that that had a special meaning for you. you know Just like you're saying. I think there was theres something in the reading I did for me, for sure. And but something a little in yours for you, for sure.
00:18:06
Speaker
yeah But how would you translate that in terms of a reading for us going forward in our next 50 episodes?
00:18:18
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I think that... Well, I'm inclined to say we are already on the path and we're particularly on the path that has more challenges but more rewards.
00:18:35
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And that's in our project here with this podcast as well as in our individual lives. We're both at precipices that have been daunting for a long time and we don't we're not going to get into it but this is an important reminder I think that the way is challenging but there is so much to be earned gleaned and so much to learn by doing the harder thing
00:19:20
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Yeah. So this to me tells us, like, I think it's telling us to stay the course that we're on the right track. ah I like it.
00:19:32
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i feel really good about it. And I will also say, i didn't notice this earlier, but this girl's got her third eye all the way open. Ooh, I don't know if I could see that.
00:19:48
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Oh, it's oh It's right on her forehead. Yeah, it's just a little blurry for some reason. It doesn't want to really focus. I guess, I don't know, cameras are stupid. her Her third eye is right up there.
00:20:02
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Like wide open. right And I'm like, yep. That's correct. Amazing. Also, it's a little funny that her third eye has an eyebrow.
00:20:13
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I think.
00:20:16
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Is that an eyebrow? It might not be. it might just be the shadow of an eyelid. There you go. Either way. Third eye. Wide open. who Yes.
00:20:29
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Oh my god. i love that. I love that for us. On our 50th fucking episode. woo!
00:20:39
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God.
Podcasting Success and Audience Growth
00:20:41
Speaker
And on that note, I got some stats. oh let's hear some stats some stats y'all you've heard us reference before we're a little obsessed with our analytics i think it's just so fucking cool and fun to be able to like review and read and like see where where people are we're creeping on you we're at back door dude you we got a couple new countries recently right
00:21:10
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We did. We got Australia. We got Spain. Spain wasn't too new. We had one or two listens before. Okay.
00:21:21
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But we got suddenly 50 downloads in Spain, which was, i was like, yo. Yeah. Yo. What up? That's so freaking cool. Mm hmm.
00:21:35
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And so like we've just been a little like we we pay close attention. we really enjoy it. I love a map. So I'm always looking at the map. And so i thought for our 50th episode, I would gather some statistics just to rattle them off because it's fun.
00:21:51
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I can't wait. he So to start us off, i have I found which episode has the most listens of ours.
00:22:05
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And the second most. So... Alright. The episode with the most listens is episode number eight, Mabon. o That one has 108 listens.
00:22:19
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Which doesn't surprise me because that one popped off. Like, that one, like, just in know in a weird way, it has... Not in a weird way. I shouldn't say that. Like... It's... For some reason, it was, like, so popular...
00:22:35
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when we first, well, I mean, like we timed it so that it would release before Mavon intentionally. And then it was like, everybody was like, it's Mavon. I have to listen to the Mavon episode. okay yeah And ah so therefore ah the month of all the time that we have been releasing episodes, the month that has the most episodes is September because of the Mavon episode. Yeah.
00:23:03
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The most episodes? Sorry, the most downloads. I'm so sorry. no, no. no I got it. For the whole month, they're like we've not even come close to matching the number of episode downloads.
00:23:15
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Really? From September last year. wow And it's because of the Mavon episode. So, 108 to the Mavon episode. Wow. And then our second most, probably unsurprising, but it's our introduction.
00:23:31
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Our very first one? Our very first one, episode one. Please allow us to introduce ourselves. Nobody asked, but i was fully drawing upon Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses, Welcome to the Jungle.
00:23:47
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or no, not Welcome to the Jungle. Forgiveness for the Devil? Wait. I don't know. I don't know. He's the one, he's like, pleased to meet you. Won't you guess my name?
00:24:03
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yeah. The very beginning, he's like, please allow me to introduce myself. um And I just hear that and I'm like, that's, that it's the name, it's the name of the episode. I don't care.
00:24:20
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I think it's Forgiveness for the Devil. Sympathy for the devil. Sympathy for the devil. That's the one. oh Thank you. That is remake. It was originally. Remake. Yeah.
00:24:31
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Yeah. It was originally Rolling Stones. Right. Yeah. And then Guns N' Roses covered it. And Guns N' Roses is. That's the one that's in my head. Okay.
00:24:42
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So, uh, also just because Axl Rose, he does an incredible like demon singing voice. So, you know, I might have to listen to that because I think I've only heard the Rolling Stones version.
00:24:57
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oh Oh yeah. You gotta, you gotta anyway, moving moving right along. i have the top two countries outside of the U S that have the most downloads.
00:25:12
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All right. Number one, unsurprisingly, again, Spain. Awesome. Most recently, because of the recent development of somebody downloading 50 of our episodes.
00:25:26
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Oh, my God. They have 52 total. Wow. And our second most ah is in the Netherlands with 49. Wow.
00:25:39
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wow but up that's your age good
00:25:46
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and then we have the u.s states the top two u.s states that have the most listens of our episodes number one actually okay so i i will say i had to skip over massachusetts
00:26:05
Speaker
I do have a nice, we have a beautiful like smattering of, you know, they're all over the the state. A lot of people from Massachusetts listen to us and I love it.
00:26:16
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We love you. Thank you. But I have dramatically skewed those numbers. Yeah. So I can't count Massachusetts, but it was like 214 or something.
00:26:28
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um But the top, besides Massachusetts, the top ah state with the most listens is Virginia with 143.
00:26:39
Speaker
Wow. And coming in second is South Carolina with 131. Wow. Yeah. wow um yeah ah And then weirdly, when we go down to the cities with the most listens, we get a weird reversal because our top state city with the most listens is in South Carolina and our second city with the most listens is in Virginia.
00:27:05
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but That's weird. So our city with the most listens in North Carolina, in South Carolina is North Charleston and that's 130 And Virginia our second most listens,
00:27:20
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virginia for our second most ah is Ashburn, Virginia with 104. Nice. Fucking dope. Thank you for listening. I appreciate the fuck out of you. I appreciate the fuck out of every single one of you.
00:27:38
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Even if you are like alone in listening to us within your state.
00:27:47
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I'm so fucking grateful for you. I love it. I'd love to see it. None of my friends here in Michigan give a crap.
00:27:56
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None of them here. The very interesting thing is I'm not 100% sure. I know some of my friends in Massachusetts who are listening and I can identify based on the towns that pop up on our little map.
00:28:09
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But some of them, I don't know people in those towns. Right. And I love it. I'm so grateful. Thank you for listening to us. But yeah, we are just so...
00:28:21
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but yeah we are just so grateful we're so lucky we're so excited that anybody listens to us at all yeah dude fucking dope truth who
00:28:38
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and uh i know you already told me this but we have a listener in india oh yeah amazing oh my god for real yep fuck ya we yeah we got some especially appreciate you We got Finland.
00:28:57
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We've got a lot of Europe. Yeah. not we got Not all of Europe, but we've got a lot. We did get Italy. Dude. I know, right? We got eagle England.
00:29:09
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Yeah, yeah. hu We got Sweden. I know. It's a Inga from Sweden. Oh, my God. Now we don't have anybody from Sweden.
00:29:23
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Oh, my God.
00:29:27
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That's what I have to say about that.
00:29:31
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Oh my God. I'm poking around in the map because you know, like you said, we love us some maps. who Lombardi. Lombardi.
00:29:43
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i guess. Oh, in in Italy. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. Yeah. Interesting. Love it. I love that we are worldwide.
00:29:56
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pretty much at this point both hemispheres and well i guess hemispheres goes both ways so all four hemispheres actually no we don't have anybody in south america yet so i can't necessarily say southeast or southwest but nobody in south america or central america not yet yeah not yet yeah oh how could we have forgotten canada Oh yeah, we got the Canadians, man. We do got the Canadians.
00:30:29
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Hell yeah. They were one of the first. True. the yeah of the countries. Yeah. Not the first. Yeah, I can't remember who was. I know we had Belgium was our first in Europe.
00:30:42
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o um But I can't remember if Belgium listened before anybody in Canada listened. right I feel like Canada was first. yeah I could be wrong.
00:30:55
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At this point, we'll never remember. he won't It's all good. It doesn't even matter. No. Oh my god. good.
Memorable Episodes and Inside Jokes
00:31:05
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ah So I also sort of wanted to have this episode would be a little bit of like a self-review or like a like a self-reflect for us.
00:31:18
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um So I... Thought of a couple questions for us to ponder and talk about. And I'm actually also going to pull this up here.
00:31:31
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um My first question that I have here is for each of us, what has been our favorite episode so far? Mine and yours. and I think I feel like I always just like really enjoy all Like every episode has been enjoyable in different ways.
00:31:54
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i honestly feel like, oh man, it's a challenge. I, okay I will say i really loved our Anahata's episode.
00:32:10
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Yeah. I think I go back and re-listen to that one the most. Really? i've I've gone back and re-listened to quite a few of them. But that one i love to go back to. It's so fucking good.
00:32:23
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It's so fucking good. But I also
00:32:29
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i think I also need to God, I really thought I had an answer here. ah really thought I had something like super, super solid. But you know what?
00:32:41
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It was um Burn the Idols. Really? That one was so fucking cool. to like i I just i love the way the conversation turned out.
00:32:55
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And especially the correspondence with the the card pull that you did. That was so fucking cool, dude. Yeah. yeah And that was our episode number 42, which was released it was really some May 19th.
00:33:12
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if you have not listened to that yet, absolutely fucking... Go listen to it. It was pretty dope. Yes. So I was going to say um one of my favorites was Love Ain't Just a Four Letter Word.
00:33:30
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Number 24. got to re-listen to that one. Yeah. That was a really good one. It was released January 13th. Yeah. yeah And i will say our episode we recorded with Miss Alyssa. Oh.
00:33:46
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Yeah. Really amazing. Loved it. Oh my God. So much fun. Yeah. Oh, so good. I don't know what the, I don't remember the number of that one. Oh, that one has to have been, oh it wasn't too long ago.
00:34:03
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was number 29. It was released on February 17th. Okay. Empathy, selfishness, and everything in between. Yes, there it is. Yeah.
00:34:14
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With Alyssa, blissful magic. Go listen to that one, you guys. And then also go follow her and like listen to her podcast. She's fucking dope, dude.
00:34:28
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So good. Okay. Actually, also, we got to say, very insightful and very excellent tarot reader as well. like Oh, fuck. Yeah.
00:34:39
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Very excellent. Yeah. Oh my God. ah Listen to her podcast. Check out her um stuff on Instagram. Book a reading with her. Just fucking do it. You will not regret it.
00:34:53
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Holy shit. God. Okay. who And then i I can't move on without also mentioning episode 31. This episode will make you angry.
00:35:08
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o That one was a bitch to edit it took so long it's a long fucking episode but it was so good even though it made us so mad yeah you know there's a couple of these that we are supposed to revisit and do a part two on we're totally going to for all of them yeah like we fully intend to but we don't we're not in a rush no just like that reading said we're not we're not uh hurrying anywhere i feel like the uh number 31 was one of those
00:35:38
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Yeah. Oh, and we will. We will. I have more to say. that i have more to say about that later. For real. um But yes, absolutely. Yeah. right And then moving right along.
00:35:55
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i wanted to ask, what is your favorite recording memory? And I think I'll answer this one first. Go for it. I can't wait to hear what you have to say.
00:36:07
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i'm so curious if we have the same one. oh Oh my gosh. Okay. so one of the ones that sticks out the most was when we did Beltane and I made a ah reference or joke about carrot vibes.
00:36:26
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And now it's an inside joke in our fucking Anna Hattis Margo group. Is it? Yeah! Oh, no! How did I not know that?
00:36:37
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Because you don't keep it. No! You gotta catch up in Oh, man. Oh, carrot vibes. Yeah, dude. Carrot vibes. Carrot vibes? I'm glad. oh my God.
00:36:50
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ah my
00:36:54
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I have so many and we probably should probably allow ourselves more than one. But as I was thinking about the Anahata's 2024 episode and sitting and recording that with Sierra all huddled around one little mic
00:37:13
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You were sitting on that exercise ball. And you were stretching and you fucking rolled backwards. And you couldn't get up.
00:37:27
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Yep. And it's not just because... I'm fat. It's literally because there was also an air mattress blown up behind me and I got wedged between that and the actual bed in that bedroom.
00:37:45
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So I was wedged and I was laying there with my legs straight up in the air going, how the fuck do I get out of this without making goddamn commotion?
00:37:57
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And you guys were just la-dee-da, carrying on recording, and I'm just laying there going like, what the fuck do I do? you guys both looked over and saw me.
00:38:08
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Oh my god, that was funny. I was like, I don't know how to get up right now. oh my god.
00:38:19
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Oh my god. And I wasn't really stretching. don't know what I was doing. I think I just happened to roll backwards on it a little too far. And like, the whole thing just went back. I went, oh boy.
00:38:30
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That makes it funnier, honestly. It was funny. It was funny. my god. Oh my god.
00:38:40
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ah Oh my god. i have tears in my eyes right now. My face hurts, actually. For real.
00:38:50
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Oh, god. Too funny. Man, and these episodes, like, they're getting, like, duplicate mentions because they're so fucking gold.
00:39:02
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who another one that stands out in my mind is um
00:39:11
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The three minutes of uncontrollable giggling about balls in the beginning of the Mabon episode.
00:39:22
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Oh, Lord.
00:39:26
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oh so good. Oh, Lord. What about the one where I was talking about... ah
00:39:37
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Oh, no. Like, oh, God, I wish I could remember what I said. it was really funny. I was like... Do you remember which episode? One good fart and I'm going to blast off to the moon or something like that.
00:39:49
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Something like that. Oh, God. I was like, if I pee my pants when I sneeze... What is that? oh that was like at the beginning of this year and i'm taking off to the moon yeah that was a good one that one was really funny my god oh i don't remember which one it's like it's at the end of an episode i know and it was so good i find it because i i vaguely remember i actually played it for john like that segment i was like listen to this it's so funny oh
00:40:26
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yeah Oh, Lord. ah Lord. you ready for the next question? hmm.
Future Plans and Collaborations
00:40:33
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The next question is, do you have any thoughts or ideas or hopes for the future of this podcast?
00:40:45
Speaker
Oh, I mean, nothing specific other than I hope that we can keep going. but Yeah, that's a given. Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:40:56
Speaker
um Yeah. Mine is in the vein of that episode that made you angry. these The episode that makes you angry. ah i want to I want dive more into books.
00:41:17
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ah yeah Yeah, yeah. We got to do music and books. Yeah. Well, i like I want to dive into so books, like specific books and like the way that we did that episode of like reflecting on sections of that book rage becomes her i right and want i want to continue in that book i have other books in mind i've actually had other books in mind one of which is ah really just like a short essay well it's a book it's a collection of essays uh
00:41:51
Speaker
by emma goldman anarchism and other essays ah okay i want to get into this want to explore it with you guys um cake yes hu sorry what hey i feel like that episode where i where i make that silly joke about farting and blasting off okay was our latitude is gratitude I don't think so. It was talking about, it says, we're in the love wars now. Tis the season to give thanks. It was Thanksgiving.
00:42:29
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We have so much to be grateful for. Buckle in for a giggly episode where we express our gratitude for all the ups and downs ah that our lives have.
00:42:41
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had to offer and all the good things looming on the horizon and I think that's the one where I was talking about what things are going to be like once I no longer had a car payment and stuff huh was that in that episode because I thought that that discussion occurred like earlier this year like in January do remember you were recording on your bed though yeah yeah i remember that And earlier this year, I had the car accident and I already paid off my car for the last time in the in the middle of January. So this was like when we were talking about the possibilities of what could be happening once that was done. Right.
00:43:26
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was Thanksgiving. And it was Our Latitude is Gratitude. I'm pretty sure that's the one where I made that funny joke. but and Okay. That was also a very good episode. I really liked that episode.
00:43:37
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It was. I have had a friend reach out being like, are we going to Hooters? What? For your birthday before Anahata's. Who said that?
00:43:48
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Since we talked about ah ah but about about potentially going to Hooters while you visited over Thanksgiving.
00:43:58
Speaker
Wait, I'm confused. when i or oh Oh, you know what it was? It was, um it was okay. So the friend that said this was Sierra. Okay. um yeah It was actually like, it was in reference to Hooters or it was, it was in the vein of Hooters, but it was like, are we going to go to a strip club?
00:44:19
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Oh my God. For my birthday. Do you remember I had said like, maybe we should go to a strip club while you were here for Thanksgiving. you have to go back and listen, dude. That's that was the episode where I said something in the vein of, we should go to Hooters and then maybe we should just go to a strip club while you, while you were here for Thanksgiving. And of course we didn't end up going hardly anywhere because my car was dead.
00:44:46
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Um, and,
00:44:51
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And now Sierra's like, well, on mom's birthday, we should go to the strip club.
00:44:59
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Is there any a in Pennsylvania around ah I don't know. i don't know. Can you say that any higher?
00:45:11
Speaker
I don't even know of any good ones here, like around where I live. So I especially don't know. Oh my god, that's funny. In an area where I don't live. But don't worry, i got plans for your birthday.
00:45:24
Speaker
Oh boy. Should I be scared? No. um Moving on. Thoughts for the future. Okay.
00:45:34
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Sorry for that brief interlude there. I also want to have more guests. yeah yeah yeah Yeah, yeah. I want to bring Alyssa back.
00:45:46
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absolutely definitely and I want to have some more of our friends yeah especially our friends from Anahata's want to invite them on 100% yeah so I think we'll we'll make that happen yay
00:46:10
Speaker
then any thoughts come to you or um for the future yeah yeah um more together recording true
00:46:25
Speaker
we will we have two more planned seeings of each other for the year that's true yeah we can make it happen yep we can totally make it happen he am i gonna are we gonna record while i'm out there well that's now i'm thinking about that we'll have to figure out if we can do it but we should be able to for sure yeah yeah but at the very least we will absolutely be ah recording after anahaba's 2025 yeah yeah yeah
00:47:03
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yeah yeah yeah Chocolate covered raisins. The bomb. Look at this bad boy. o It's about as big as my head. Yeah, that's enormous.
00:47:20
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Do you remember, and this is actually going back to thinking about some of our recording memories and episodes we enjoyed. Do you remember the cranberry, chocolate covered cranberries? Hmm.
00:47:34
Speaker
That I was eating while we recorded our saw one episode. Not really. I remember them distinctly. and particular, I remember the segments of the recordings that I put into you the outtakes episode.
00:47:54
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I remember the outtakes episode. Yeah, because I lost some on the floor. Oh, they've rolled away. and I made a mess um and in particular though I will say I think it's like starting around like 29 minutes 30 seconds like that five minute span silly such silliness its tis us I re-listen to that just that span very often do you
00:48:31
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It's so funny. it's It makes me laugh so hard.
00:48:39
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We're silly. And I did a really good job with it. Yeah, it was a very good, well done outtakes episode for sure. Thank you. Maybe we should do another one. If we spend another four hours recording.
00:48:53
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Drunk. By the way, did not have anything. Yeah, I did not. oh I can't. I can't do that anymore.
00:49:05
Speaker
I'm too old. yeah I don't drink heavily. like i used to drink heavily. I don't do that anymore. I yeah just have like one or two and I'm usually completely fine.
00:49:18
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If I have one or two, I feel like an actual literal garbage truck.
00:49:25
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yeah like It's just not good. Yeah. yeah Plus, especially in this heat and like alcohol always makes me hot. True. I can't do it.
00:49:37
Speaker
I can't do it. You know, dehydration is already a problem in this kind of heat as it is. i know. that's problem. Yeah. Definitely what contributes to hangover type situations. Oh, yeah.
00:49:49
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Oh, yeah. ah maybe we should do on stoned though i can't i know i know you can't i don't like it i don't i don't want to enjoy weed maybe i mean we should do the whole you have your drinks and i have my gummy yeah maybe yeah we'll try it okay for a patreon episode we should do an episode about tattoos I just thought of that.
00:50:20
Speaker
Because I'm looking at like your arm that's bent. Yeah. y And I've thought about tattoos again recently. like I might need to get another new one soon. i know. I was thinking about that too.
00:50:32
Speaker
yeah Add it to the list. Okay. Add it to the list. I added Storm Magic to the list. What is Storm Magic? or Storm Magic. I also added Sensory Play.
00:50:49
Speaker
Is that in a sexual context? It could be either Okay. okay Because I don't know about it in any other way besides sexual. Well, like a fidget spinner is a sensory thing.
00:51:04
Speaker
Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Or those little poppy things. Yeah. Yeah. Poppets or whatever they call them. Or also... ah That's a sensory play. Wow. what did you just do? just stabbed my thumb with my pen.
00:51:19
Speaker
Ow! I've been like popping this lid, this cap on and off. And popped it off. It flew all the way off. And instead of pushing it back on, pushed my thumb around with a ADHD. Stab yourself.
00:51:39
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but
00:51:42
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Oh my Oh my Yeah, you know what sensory things I've actually been thinking about lately? what they' Like that weird sand that you can mold.
00:51:53
Speaker
oh yeah. And then and kinetic sand or whatever. yeah, yeah. And then there's this other stuff that's like a moldable foam. It's like styrofoam beads that are stuck together with some kind of thing. Oh, those make me feel so gross.
00:52:10
Speaker
yeah i haven't kinetic sand i can vibe with but those just i feel like there's a residue that gets left behind yeah i don't like it i still want to play with it though it would be kind of fun i like the ones the like magnetic metal uh balls oh yeah that can like be in a cube and you can like flip them around and stuff yeah yeah yeah yeah those are fun you know what else i really loved this was such a weird thing for a like child to love but you know those old like the little random like tchotchkes that would be on a rich like fucking ceo's office desk yeah and the like the one that's the balls and like you clack clack clack yep
00:52:56
Speaker
ye i loved those. I did not understand them. I was like, how does it keep going forever and ever and ever? Yeah. yeah I'm trying to remember what they're called, but yes, I know exactly where you i do not know what they're called, but yeah, those are cool.
00:53:15
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Anyway, ADHD. Fuck.
00:53:20
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I do want to record more in person for sure. Yeah. for sure. For sure. Anyway, thank you for joining us on our 50th
Gratitude and Support Encouragement
00:53:31
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episode. It's been fun.
00:53:34
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It has been. It's like, I don't know if ah I could have figured out how to do like a regular topic. So I hope that it's okay that we didn't.
00:53:46
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I was just like, I just want to like celebrate. Yeah. Enjoy. Reminisce. Yeah. Honestly. Just a little. hmm. Mm hmm.
00:53:57
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And I'm glad we did. Yeah. I'm glad we did. As a reminder, we got a fucking sticker. yeah. need to get.
00:54:09
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yeah. All the cool kids have it. All the cool kids have it. Peer pressure, peer pressure, peer pressure. No, but for real, if you would like a sticker to be sent to you by us, ah and it it was one that Christina designed um So designed by us as well.
00:54:31
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you gotta to go subscribe to Patreon. Do it. Any tier. Any tier. Come taste our pickles. Oh my god. I don't
00:54:45
Speaker
know why always seem to catch you off guard when I do that. don't know why either. I shouldn't be surprised. Molly. oh no. Tell the people to come suck on our pickles. Oh no.
00:55:00
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Oh no. No. Don't suck on them.
00:55:07
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yeah sure
00:55:10
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Why not?
00:55:14
Speaker
It's not consensual. What? It's not consensual.
00:55:21
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Yes, it's consensual. Not for They're paying money.
00:55:27
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Does that make us whores? It makes us big fat whores. God. You whore. You whore.
00:55:39
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That was Scottish out of nowhere.
00:55:44
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Oh my god. Anywho. i guess come suck on our pickles. I guess. Hey, you were sucking on some pickles before we started recording. I did not suck on them. I bought i bit right into them.
00:56:04
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yeah Yes, that is a threat. That's amazing.
00:56:10
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that's amazing my god oh yeah subscribe to our patreon and get you a fucking bumper sticker and it's awesome and if you don't want one but you want to subscribe anyway you don't have to have one just tell us you don't want one when we ask you where to send it yeah and then we'll move on to the next person so hey Even when we hit 50, there might still be a chance.
00:56:41
Speaker
Some people might not That's true. And you might still get one. So you should still go and jump on that. ASAP. ASAP.
00:56:52
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ASAPickles. All right. I think we're done terrorizing our listeners now.
00:57:04
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Thank you so much for being here. We are so grateful for you. We are so grateful that you've been along for the ride. And we hope you stick a lot stick take along ah even further ah for our next 50.
00:57:21
Speaker
oh hell yeah. And then on and then beyond. infinity and beyond. I was just thinking it. murder Yes. Oh, my God.
00:57:32
Speaker
Thank you so much, you guys. We love you so much. Time for a drink. Yes.
00:57:40
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And we will see you back here again next week for episode nine.