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Jim Henson - Life's like a movie, write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending. · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Welcome to The Daily Quote, a podcast designed to kick start
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  your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew Mcgibbon
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  for August 6th. Today is National Root Beer
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  Float Day, and is there a more perfectly nostalgic treat?
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  The root beer float, or as some call it, the Brown Cow, is pure
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  Americana in a glass. It's the magical moment when
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  busy root beer meets creamy vanilla ice cream, creating
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  something that's greater than the sum of its parks.
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  The root beer float was invented by Frank J Wisner in 1893.
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  He was the owner of Cripple Creek Brewing in Colorado.
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  Legend has it that the snowy peaks of Cow Mountain inspired
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  him to add a scoop of vanilla ice cream to his root beer,
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  creating what he called a black cow.
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  And just like that, a summer classic was born.
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  There's something beautifully simple about a root beer float.
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  It doesn't need fancy ingredients or complicated
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  techniques, just two things that taste great together, combined
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  with a little bit of busy magic and a lot of childhood wonder.
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  Which brings us to today's quote from Jim Henson, the creator of
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  The Muppets, who once said life's like the movie, write
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  your own ending. Keep believing.
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  Keep pretending. Now.
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  Jim Henson understood something profound about keeping that
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  childlike sense of wonder alive. He spent his career creating
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  characters that reminded adults what it felt like to see the
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  world through young eyes full of possibility, imagination, and,
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  yes, simple pleasures. A root beer float is exactly
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  that kind of simple pleasure. It's the kind of treat that
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  makes you feel like a kid again, even if you're ordering it at a
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  fancy restaurant or making it in your own kitchen at age 54.
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  There's something about that first sip, the way the foam
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  tickles your nose, the perfect balance of suede and fizzy that
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  takes you right back to summer afternoons and simpler times.
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  Henson's quote reminds us that we get to choose how our story
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  goes. We can be the adult to say root
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  beer floats are just sugar and calories, or we can be the adult
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  to say let's make this Tuesday a little more magical and add some
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  vanilla ice cream and root beer together.
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  Not every Tuesday, just every once in a while because it's not
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  very good for you. But the beauty of a root beer
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  flowed, and life really is in the combination.
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  Neither ingredient is revolutionary on its own, but
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  together they create something that brings joy, nostalgia, and
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  a little bit of effervescent wonder to an ordinary day.
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  I remember making root beer floats when I was a kid, and
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  they were magical. As I got older and I realized
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  how much sugar is in pop or soda, I pretty much stopped
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  drinking them, full stop. And diet pops too, because why
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  substitute sugar if it's just replaced by chemicals?
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  But for me, even now, when I see root beer floats on a menu, I
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  feel a little nostalgia as I remember the fizzy, creamy
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  goodness. So today, whether you actually
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  make yourself a root beer float or just hold on to the memory of
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  one, remember Jim Henson's wisdom.
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  Keep believing in the simple magic around you.
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  Keep pretending that ordinary moments can be extraordinary if
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  you approach them with the right spirit.
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  Life's better when you remember to add a little sweetness and a
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  little fizz. That's going to do it.
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  For today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.