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Unlock Portland's Unique Treasure Trove - Paxton Gate · PNW Haunts & Homicides

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  Speaker 1: So there are a lot of things that are unique
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  Speaker 1: to the pacton Gate stores. You know, we have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of specialty pieces as well that there are only
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  Speaker 1: one of a kind. So it's if you're looking to
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  Speaker 1: go a pasta Gate travel trail worth it to hit
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  Speaker 1: all three stores because every single one is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, creepy people, we have another spooky season bonus for
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  Speaker 2: you guys. As you can probably hear, I am not
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  Speaker 2: alone today. Usually I am with my co host, but
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  Speaker 2: today I am with Lilah and we're here to talk
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  Speaker 2: about this really cool spooky store in downtown Portland, Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe some other places called Paxton Gate. So can
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  Speaker 2: you tell us a little bit about how you're affiliated
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  Speaker 2: with them.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So I have been here at Paxton Gate for
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  Speaker 1: about five years now. I have pretty much gone through
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  Speaker 1: every position in the store at this point, so I've
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  Speaker 1: done our you know, I started off sales team, was
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  Speaker 1: in management for a while, and now I kind of do.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of behind the scenes things.
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  Speaker 1: So I teach our entomology hitting classes, I do all
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  Speaker 1: of our marketing, and I have a couple of products
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  Speaker 1: that I work on for the store. So we have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you know, locally designed stuff, and some
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  Speaker 1: of that is done in house, and I am kind
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  Speaker 1: of one of the people that's.
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  Speaker 3: In charge of that.
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  Speaker 4: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So you definitely know kind of the ins and outs
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  Speaker 2: of the store.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like definitely, I feel like I have explored
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  Speaker 1: every corner of the store one hundred times over.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know where the name came from.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So we are named after Sir Joseph Paxton. So
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  Speaker 1: the original flagship store, Paxton Gate, was opened in San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco in nineteen ninety two. The founder Sean quickly opened
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  Speaker 1: it up and named it after Sir Joseph Paxton.
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  Speaker 3: So he was the.
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  Speaker 1: Apprentice gardener for the Duke of Devonshire. He was kind
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  Speaker 1: of known for creating us like bridge between utility and design.
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  Speaker 1: So Sir Joseph Paxton constructed the largest glass greenhouse of
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  Speaker 1: its time.
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  Speaker 3: It was called the Great Conservatory.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty cool, so it was heated by a
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  Speaker 1: separate structure that kind of pumped in warm water and air,
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  Speaker 1: so it was a true greenhouse. And then he upped
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  Speaker 1: the steaks and created the Crystal Palace. And the Crystal
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  Speaker 1: Palace was kind of one of the more famous ones,
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  Speaker 1: and it was designed specifically for one type of flower,
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  Speaker 1: the grape thorned lily, and Paxton was the first person
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  Speaker 1: to force the grape thorned lily to bloom out of
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  Speaker 1: its natural habitat by using those greenhouse conditions, which is
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool. So we were named after Sir Joseph Paxton.
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  Speaker 1: The original San Francisco Paxton Gate was a specialty plant
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  Speaker 1: store and then evolved to kind of include a variety
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  Speaker 1: of natural, science based items. And then in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and ten, our Portland owners and Ms Brown, who are
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  Speaker 1: longtime friends with the founder, Sean Quickley, moved up to
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  Speaker 1: Portland and they thought a store like Paxton Gate would
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  Speaker 1: be fantastic for Portland. They both grew up in families
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  Speaker 1: that were rooted in educational, curious, natured backgrounds and it.
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  Speaker 3: Just seemed like a perfect fit.
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  Speaker 1: So they started talking with Sean about the idea and
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  Speaker 1: came to the joint conclusion that it made sense to
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  Speaker 1: partner on opportunity. So we're actually separate companies from the
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  Speaker 1: flagship store in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: Sean, the founder, has.
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  Speaker 1: A small ownership position in the Portland company, but both
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  Speaker 1: Paxton Gate Portland locations were our own separate standing thing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's really cool though that it started in
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  Speaker 2: this kind of interesting way with the plants and things.
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  Speaker 2: Because I visited the store and I saw like the
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  Speaker 2: carnivorous plants and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And all over the place. It was really cool.
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  Speaker 2: But that does make a lot of sense now kind
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  Speaker 2: of why you guys have that type of thing. Definitely,
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  Speaker 2: So I have a lot of carnivorous plants actually, so
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  Speaker 2: when I went into your sore, it was like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, new place to get my carnivorous plants because
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  Speaker 2: I have killed them all and I'm gonna need to restock.
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  Speaker 2: So can you tell us a little bit about your
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  Speaker 2: supply of carnivorous plants.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely. Our carnivorous plants are really special.
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  Speaker 1: They are actually grown locally by a former employee of ours.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so we have a really good relationship with them.
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  Speaker 1: We easily have the best carnivorous plants in Portland, like
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  Speaker 1: hands down, there's no competition about it.
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  Speaker 4: They were beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: We have probably five to six varieties at any given time.
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  Speaker 1: So we have our you know, venus fly traps, the classics.
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  Speaker 1: The pitcher plants are kind of my personal favorite. I
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  Speaker 1: have a big beautiful bog in my backyard that is
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  Speaker 1: all supplied off of Pexton Gate carnivorous plants. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we have the underground ones, so the bladderwarfs, Tricularias, Mexican butterworts, penthees.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we have literally any type of carnivorous point
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  Speaker 1: you can think of. We also regularly do pop ups
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  Speaker 1: with our carnivous plant vendor, so they come down with
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  Speaker 1: some of their specialty kind of more unique varieties. They
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  Speaker 1: bring down someones that you don't really find anywhere. So
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  Speaker 1: Darlingtonia's are a fun ones that are actually native here
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  Speaker 1: in Oregon, which I know a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 1: know that we actually have carnivorous plants that are native
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  Speaker 1: to Oregon. I had no idea, but they come down
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  Speaker 1: and they talk about that and they give you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: care tips on how how to not kill your carnivorous plants.
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  Speaker 4: They're really hard to take care of, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: I kept them alive for a long long time, but
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  Speaker 2: I recently moved out and I had to leave all
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  Speaker 2: my plants at the house and so it's harder to
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  Speaker 2: come by and water them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, fun fact here, since.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of them are native here in Oregon. If
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  Speaker 1: you just put them in a dish of water outside,
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  Speaker 1: they go crazy. They love it. I keep my bog
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  Speaker 1: just out of my back and I've had to repot
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  Speaker 1: it probably twice in the last year because it is
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  Speaker 1: just putting out new pictures constantly. But definitely, we have
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  Speaker 1: so many guys and tips and tricks for taking care
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  Speaker 1: of any type. We have recommendations for well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a fly problem, we think these carnivorous
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  Speaker 1: plants are better. If you have a fruit fly problem
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  Speaker 1: or an ant problem, these carnivorous plants are.
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  Speaker 4: Better, the little sticky ones exactly.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite trick when I had a really bad fruit
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  Speaker 1: fly problem was to get the a pinglicula or a
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  Speaker 1: Mexican butter work and just swing it through the air,
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  Speaker 1: swing it through a swarm of fruit flies, and it
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  Speaker 1: was so sticky that they would just get stuck on
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  Speaker 1: it like fly paper.
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  Speaker 4: Genius.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm definitely gonna have to come to you guys when
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  Speaker 2: I get myself situated again and have My dream is
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  Speaker 2: to have a box, So like I'm going to ask
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  Speaker 2: you all the questions you come in directly to you.
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  Speaker 4: I have your email.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a Bog queen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always you know pro Bog does the one in
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco, like sell the same kind of stuff or
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  Speaker 2: they completely different?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we have a lot of similar vendors.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of things that we do partner on,
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  Speaker 1: so if you visit both. I actually visited the San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco store for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of weeks ago. Your brain, it's especially my brain,
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  Speaker 3: but I was pleasantly surprised.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of you know, similar items, similar
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  Speaker 1: type taxaermy pieces, bones. But we, you know, as our
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  Speaker 1: independent company, have really grown to kind of work on
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  Speaker 1: our own niche and work on our own stores. So
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that are unique to
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  Speaker 1: the Pacta Gate stores. You know, we have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of specialty pieces as well that there are only one
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  Speaker 1: of a kind. So it's if you're looking to go
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  Speaker 1: a packsa Gate travel trail worth it to hit all
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  Speaker 1: three stores because every single one is a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely want to visit the other Portland one. I
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  Speaker 2: can't even remember which store I visited.
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  Speaker 1: The bigger one is Northwest twenty third and that's the
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  Speaker 1: one that was opened in twenty nineteen, so it's about
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  Speaker 1: two and a half three times the size. We've got
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  Speaker 1: two different levels and it's a big store. And then
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  Speaker 1: our original Portland location, which was open in twenty ten,
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  Speaker 1: is on Mississippi Avenue and it's a little bit smaller,
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  Speaker 1: more compact, but there is just as much stuff in there.
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  Speaker 2: I went to the one with the freeze dried cat
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  Speaker 2: and like the human skeleton that was like in a
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  Speaker 2: suitcase and like half as Oh Matilda, Yes, Matilda, I
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  Speaker 2: got to hold Matilda's wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: It was like you're letting me touch a human bones.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the coolest thing. I was so excited.
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  Speaker 2: It was my birthday when I went in, so I.
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  Speaker 3: Was just all, that is such a fun treat.
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  Speaker 1: We definitely we call ourselves, you know, a natural science museum,
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  Speaker 1: but you can touch everything and you can buy it
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  Speaker 1: and take get home at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Ye you know.
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  Speaker 1: But our staff is just so excited to talk about
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  Speaker 1: every single thing we have in the store because we're
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  Speaker 1: also passionate about it and everything we have is just
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  Speaker 1: so unique and cool and we love to share it.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely wanted to know if you can tell the
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  Speaker 2: story of Matilda.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so all of our human specimens are
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  Speaker 1: retired medical specimens, so they come from medical articulators, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them are going to be dated to
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  Speaker 1: like pre nineteen seventy in medical articulation, the preservation's method.
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  Speaker 1: Preservation methods have changed a lot since then. So usually
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  Speaker 1: when you see kind of darker color bones, they tend
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  Speaker 1: to be pre nineteen sephanies, whereas the wider bones are
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  Speaker 1: usually post Matilda herself is disarticulated, which means that she's
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  Speaker 1: not you know, a full skeleton in one piece, she's
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  Speaker 1: in several pieces in a box.
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  Speaker 3: We call her Matilda. We at Vaxtingag came up with
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  Speaker 3: that name.
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  Speaker 1: When you donate your bodied science, you become anonymous, so
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  Speaker 1: there is no way to track who you were in
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  Speaker 1: life or where you came from other than what we
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  Speaker 1: can tell by looking at the bones here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're not necessarily medical experts. However, we have had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of our employees to have really deep special interests
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  Speaker 1: in these things and have gone and done their own
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  Speaker 1: research and been able to give us this information. So
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  Speaker 1: that's how we know that she's a female.
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  Speaker 3: If I remember correctly, she was I think in her
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  Speaker 3: like mid forties, and.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of what we know about her is
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  Speaker 1: just from what we can tell about the bones just
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  Speaker 1: by looking at them.
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  Speaker 3: But all of yeah, all of our.
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  Speaker 1: Human specimens were again retired medical specimens. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: the times when we get the skeletons in, they still
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  Speaker 1: have their medical markings on them. So we've had things
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  Speaker 1: like a bou Shane skull, which is essentially a skull
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  Speaker 1: that you can open up so you can open the sinuses,
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  Speaker 1: you can open in the jaw, you can open the
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  Speaker 1: school plates so you can see the inside of the schools,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of these are used in medical studies.
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  Speaker 1: So we've had, you know, dental school schools as well,
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  Speaker 1: where there are slices in the jaws that you can
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  Speaker 1: open them up, and they've got the veins and the
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  Speaker 1: arteries all drawn in so that dental students can go
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  Speaker 1: in and see where the blood best has come and
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  Speaker 1: connect along your jaw. Same thing again with the Bauschane schools.
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  Speaker 1: You are able to open up all of the different
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  Speaker 1: parts of the school so that when you're using them
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  Speaker 1: in a school setting, you can go in and you
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  Speaker 1: can learn about all.
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  Speaker 3: Of the internal anatomy of these things. And usually, you know,
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  Speaker 3: after schools or articulators or.
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  Speaker 1: Museums even have had these things for a certain amount
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  Speaker 1: of years, maybe they become outdated, maybe they're not as
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  Speaker 1: accurate as they were. You know, we learned new stuff
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  Speaker 1: about science every single day, and then they will sell
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  Speaker 1: them off, so us as a store are able to
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  Speaker 1: go buy these old medical specimens because they were you know, tired,
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  Speaker 1: they're not being used anymore, and that's how we end
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  Speaker 1: up with some pretty cool things.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I learned so much when I was there.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So we kind of went over some of the
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  Speaker 2: items that you sell their, like taxidermy, plants, crystals. Is
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  Speaker 2: there anything else that you wanted to touch on that
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  Speaker 2: you think people should know that you sell in your store.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean we really focus on all things natural science,
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  Speaker 1: so there's an area in the store for everyone. We
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  Speaker 1: have skulls, bugs, wet specimens, taxidermy, we have fine jewelry, plants, books, phones,
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  Speaker 1: We carry a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of local artists.
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  Speaker 1: We have interactive science based kids, toys, fossils, minerals. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's really you can be any type of person
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  Speaker 1: and come into a Pacston Gate and find something fantastic
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  Speaker 1: to take home.
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  Speaker 2: What, in your opinion, is like the most, the strangest
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  Speaker 2: or the most interesting thing that you've had in the store.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have sold a hippo to a bar that
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  Speaker 1: was up in Washington. We sold a giraffe to a
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  Speaker 1: bar down in Eugene. We have sold a cyclops of
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  Speaker 1: wet specimen kitten, so you know, a kitten with just
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  Speaker 1: one big eye. We've sold things like a walrus usk, which,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know what an usik is, it's a
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  Speaker 1: penis bone, so it's a large vaculum basically.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but we're very interested in those.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we've gotten a few of those, and they're pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: They're fun because they're you know, about a foot long,
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  Speaker 1: and usually when we get those pieces in they're fossilized,
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  Speaker 1: so they're super old, over ten thousand years old, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: up to a couple million, depending.
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  Speaker 3: On you know, when and where we found it.
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  Speaker 1: But we've had a few of those, which are pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: One of the cooler things we sold was this giant
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  Speaker 1: two hundred year old lobster.
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  Speaker 3: And when I say giant.
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  Speaker 1: The lobster itself was probably four feet long with very cool.
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  Speaker 1: When we got the specimen. The specimen itself was one
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  Speaker 1: hundred years old before it died, and then the piece
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  Speaker 1: was another one hundred year old, so it had been
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  Speaker 1: around for two hundred or more years, which I think
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  Speaker 1: that was probably one of my favorite pieces.
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  Speaker 4: That is so cool.
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  Speaker 2: I want a giant two hundred year old love Who
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  Speaker 2: doesn't just you know, a nice center piece.
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  Speaker 4: What do they call it? A conversation piece.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you come into somebody's house there's a giant four
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  Speaker 1: foot lobster on the wall.
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  Speaker 3: You feel totally at home.
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  Speaker 2: So you did mention earlier. The pinning classes, the bug pinning.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely, they're one of my passion projects. You know, they're
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  Speaker 1: sort of my special area of the store.
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  Speaker 3: But we do them quite a few.
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  Speaker 1: Times a month, so we try to do about every
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  Speaker 1: other week, and we do a variety of specimens. So
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  Speaker 1: every year we come out, you know, with some quarter
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  Speaker 1: at a time, and I try to keep them interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll go through spiders, butterflies, moths, we've done scorpions.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying to plan the lantern flies.
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  Speaker 1: Just really get a good variety of insects, so that again,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't like the creepy crawley stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You can come get a pretty butterfly.
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  Speaker 1: If you have enough butterflies in your house and you
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  Speaker 1: want to get weird with it, you can.
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  Speaker 3: Come to our tarantula pinning pass.
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  Speaker 1: But we talk a lot about insects in general, the
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  Speaker 1: history of entomology, insects and their place on Earth, so conservation, sustainability,
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  Speaker 1: and then you get to learn about all of the
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  Speaker 1: processes behind pinning and preserving your own specimen, and then
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  Speaker 1: you get to take it home at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the bus.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's a really good time.
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  Speaker 2: I have some and I like not that I've pinned myself,
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  Speaker 2: but that would be the coolest thing to have. It's
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  Speaker 2: something that you did yourself. And then you can go
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  Speaker 2: find us other places and exactly little pinning collection.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, once you get the method down, you
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  Speaker 1: can pretty much apply it to anything. And that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're here to help with, is how do we
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  Speaker 1: how do we apply this to other things in our
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  Speaker 1: life too.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any other classes that you guys offer?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely, So we have quite a few different workshops that
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  Speaker 1: we offer. One that we're really excited to host at
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  Speaker 1: the end of October is our taxidermy workshops, So we
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  Speaker 1: have three different taxidermy workshops going on a jackalope workshop
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  Speaker 1: which as of today October tenth still has space available
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  Speaker 1: in it, So if anybody's looking to come learn how
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  Speaker 1: to tax amize their own jackalope.
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  Speaker 3: We've got space in that.
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  Speaker 1: When is that That is going to be on October
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifth, from twelve to six thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, put it on your calendars.
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  Speaker 1: But we love doing our taxidermy workshops centers than a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years that we've done them. Now we're hoping
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  Speaker 1: that it's a continuing thing. Idea we get to have
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  Speaker 1: them a couple times a year. So you know, we
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  Speaker 1: have our newsletter that you can find through our Instagram
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  Speaker 1: and we update regularly whenever we announce new workshops and
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  Speaker 1: classes like that. So if you're someone who wants to
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  Speaker 1: get on the list first, you can definitely get notified
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: to be able to get spots in any of our workshops.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: We've also done.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: We've partnered with Tulsa artist Tyler Thrasher and we did
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: a Moonbeam Flora workshop where he came and hosted a
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: bunch of students to create their own biofluorescent glowing flowers,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: which was really cool and unique.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: He's a very special artist.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: He's actually also coming mid October, on October nineteenth, He's
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: coming to do a book siting with us here.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: That sounds so cool, Like I want to ask how
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: that works, but I feel like you just you would
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: have to go to the class.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: You Yeah, you might just have to come to one
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: of our workshops.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: If I out, I want all the secrets.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: We do have.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Kind of a fun upcoming event as well. We're participating
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: in AMSY after Dark on October thirtieth, which is after
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: dark adult only experience where you go to AMSY, which
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: is the organ Museum of Science and Industry. They are
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: opening a new bug exhibit this month, so the Exquisite
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Creatures Exhibit, and we'll be tabling at the event with
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: some of the items that you can find in our store,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and then you get to roam the museum after dark,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: sip on some whiskey, see some cool museum exhibits, and
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: shop a little bit at our store as well as
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: some other artists, pop ups, vendors, food, drink.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: It's going to be a really fun time.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I've always wanted to go to that, Yeah, this is.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Going to be our second Amsy after Dark experience, so
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: something that we will hopefully do a couple of times. Again,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: if you just hoped on our newsletter, you'll never ever
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: miss a facting Gate event.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: So I saw something about mystery boxes.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, our mystery boxes are fantastic. I talk them up
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: all the time, especially around the holiday season. So they're
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the perfect gift for giving to someone that maybe they
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: have everything. Maybe you're not sure what to get this
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: person in your life. Our mystery boxes are a great option.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: They are fully customizable, so you fill out a form
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: online and you fill out things like your likes, your dislikes.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: You get to pick your own price, so there's no
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: price limitations. You could literally fill out in the box.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I hate the color yellow, but gosh do I love
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: things with multiple sets of eyes?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: And our team will take that information and run with it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: So every single box is hand curated by our team.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: We usually give you a call to just a double check,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: make sure you don't already have anything, pick out which
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: sections of the store you wo like the most, and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: we really just run with it. So our mystery boxes
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: are a fantastic gift idea. You can even gift it
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: to yourself because you don't know what's going to be
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, So if you're looking to buy yourselves
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: up in a little special same thing, just tell us.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: All the things you like, your favorite colors, and we'll
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: we'll run with it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: That's a genius idea.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I always see like the mystery box type things where
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: it's you know, kind of like pre filled, don't you
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: don't really know what's in it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: So this seems so personal. That's amazing.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean our team really loves doing it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It's it's getting to go shopping for someone else.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great Christmas idea, So everyone keep that
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: in mind because I don't know if anyone looked at
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the calendar, but Christmas is like basically right around the corner.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: So well, the good news is we offer complimentary gift
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: wrap year round, so you can come in, you can
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: come in mid March and we will Christmas gift wrap
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: your gift for you, put it in your closet, forget
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: That is great.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: That's actually a great idea to just wrap the gifts
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: all year as you go. How much less stressful would
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Christmas be if everyone is that exactly. We're here to help, yeah,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: or not just Christmas, any holiday, any gifting, you know.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: So when I was there, they were telling me that
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: like sometimes mediums or psychics would come by and like
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: get feelings from anything. Do you know of any of
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: those stories?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: We have a few we were reminiscing when we were
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: kind of going through our notes about all of the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: spooky things that all of our employees have experienced.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: We have one piece in here.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: It's called the hobby Horse, and it's real horse skin,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: but it's stretched over a child's toy. So it's one
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of those little horses that kids used to ride, you, like.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: A rocking horse. WHOA. I love him.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I personally think he's just darling, but he is maybe
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: not the prettiest thing in the store.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: And we had one.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Incident where we had a couple of employees who were
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: talking and they started gossiping about the hobby horse, and
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: as I started gossiping about it, a boehead just flew off.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: The wall and crashed down on the ground.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And so now we say, you know, if you leave
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the hobby horse alone, it will leave you alone.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Whoa, it's just throwing four his heads around.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems so creepy though. When you said that
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: it was like horse, real horse skins stretched over a toy.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I just got a visual of like human like he
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: stretched over like a toy.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: You know, you're a little bit cutter than that.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: He's got, you know, a beautiful brown and white modeled pattern.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: He's got his little horse hair tail. Again, I think
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: he's darling, I probably would think.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And he's never done anything bad to me. He's never
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: thrown anything at me.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: And that's why you're saying that you have to you're
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: here that if you say he's not cute, he'll throw
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: something at you.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, if I look to my right, do I
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: see him staring back at me? Perhaps? Oh?
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: I said, Hi, can you tell me any other speaky.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Stories that have happened in the store.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Let's see we have.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: We have some antique tin types and if you're not
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: familiar with tin type photography, it was a type of
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: photography used I want to say, in the early nineteen
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: hundreds before digital cameras were invented. So it's light flashing
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: onto a tin background and it kind of superimposes the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: image onto there.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: But because the photography.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Is so old itself a lot of the tin types
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: that we get in are from sometimes the eighteen hundred
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: seventeen hundreds.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: They're very, very old.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: We have some employees who there are particular tin types that.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Just you know, their eyes kind of seemed to follow you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: But one of our employees is saying that there was
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: one where every time she picks it up, she gets
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a little bit nauseous, which that is saying, yeah, I'm
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: hands off of that.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I wonder if it just it captured and trapped some
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: sort of energy inside of it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: What's it a picture of?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: They're people, yeah, generally, so they would be portraits of
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you know, individuals, sometimes their family portraits. You don't often
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: get to see portraits of pets because the way that
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the tin types work is they take about thirty seconds
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of having to sit still for that imassion transfer. So
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: it's really rare to find pet tin types. But we
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: have lots of like Victorian women, Victorian men family portraits.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Not a lot of babies, I assume either the same reason.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: There's this historical showing of women taking pictures of their
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: babies tin type wise, and they have to cover themselves
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: in shawls so that they're not in the photo. But
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the baby I won't hold still unless mom is sitting
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: there holding it. So there's these wide variety of tin
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: types where you have this like ghostly shroud of a
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: woman in the back and then this beaming little baby
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: in the front.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: That's like kind of creepy.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're as beautiful as they are, they are almost
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: always a little bit spooky.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think spooky and creepy things are beautiful.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: So it's like one and the same for me. I
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: know everyone doesn't feel that way. Probably my co host
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: she probably wouldn't feel that way. She also like doesn't
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: like phones, and I'm like obsessed with bones, so every
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: time I'm like talking about, you know, phones, holding phones,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: holding a human hand, She's like, what is wrong, You're insane.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: But she's also kind of like one of those I
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: call them like sponge people, where they just like absorb energy.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: So I feel like, if you're holding a bone, you
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: can kind of still feel the energy of like what
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: it used to be.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: So definitely, yeah, I feel like that's.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Kind of why she's she's scared of it, because she
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: can feel it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a little bit more sensitive.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Do you ever feel that kind of thing when you're
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: holding phones or something that used to be alive.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I definitely I get that a lot, just in general.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: And I don't know how much of it is, you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: me imposing that in my own head, but I, you know,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: as the insect depending.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Instructor, I get that a lot with our books.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: So you know, a lot of what I talk about
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: is again sustainability. But I have just a connection with
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the insects that are on our wall in our in
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: our store, and I just I feel like I can
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: see how they were when they were alive and now
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: they're they're here in a frame, and it's it's kind
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of like a second life to them.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: We talk about this with our like our wet specimens
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: as well. Is that a lot of them, especially when
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: we talk about the wet specimens, were natural death, so
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: they passed of you know, illness. You know, sometimes we
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: get younger ones that were miscarried or death in utero,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: or maybe it was someone's pet and they wanted it preserved.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: So we have all of these creatures. We have these snakes, we.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Have sometimes like squirrels, hedgehogs, these adorable little things in jars,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and it's kind of looking at the alternative of well
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: this thing has passed, you can put it in the garbage,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: or we can kind of give it a second life,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you know, now it can instead of rotting away somewhere,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: it is allowed to sit in someone's home, on their shelf,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: with someone who will love it and appreciate it eternally.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: You know, these methods of preservation that have been shown
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: that they can stay preserved for hundreds hundreds of years.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: There are like insect specimens that.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I've seen that are two hundred years old that are
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: still almost identical to the ones that we have, you know,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: alive today. So we're properly preserved. You're just you're looking
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: at history. Yeah, and you get to look at well,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: this is how this animal was one hundred two hundred
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: years ago, and kind of drawing those parallels between how
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: they are today and it really it's just a connection
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to the past.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Do you ever I don't know why this just popped
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: into my head, but do you ever see any bugs
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: like crawling on the bug decorations like checking them out?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know, generally in the tax fermy and oddities world,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: that's a very bad sign.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Oh really, yeah, So there's.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: You know, there are pests that will come. This is still,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you know, an organic matter. So we do lots of
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: regular pest control. But if you see bugs that are
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: crawling on your taxidermy, that usually.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Means that, uh, you need to do something about that.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, I guess that does make sense.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I was just kind of thinking like they were like, hey, like,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: what are you doing in there.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I've heard of rumor that if you have a giant
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: framed tarantula on your wall, the spiders in your house
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: will think it's real and.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: We'll leave you alone.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Why. Don't know how much truth there is to it,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: but I guess you have to come by a tarantula
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and try it out.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like you're gonna have an uptick in
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: your tarantula sales now.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Perfect. That is really good to know.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Actually, So you guys also have tarot cards at the store, correct.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: We do.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: We have a lot of different varieties of tarot. So
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I brought one of my personal favorites up here. This
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: is tattoo Taro.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: We actually have that deck.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Oh fantastic. We have a lot of different decks from
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: different artists. Both of our stores actually have different varieties
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: of decks too, So we have some local artists that
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: have decks over at our Mississippi Avenue location. We've got
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: some big artist decks, We've got the original decks, some
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: really cool stuff.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: But like I said, this one is personal favorites.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: So you're gonna pull a card for us today, definitely.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Just in a little light shuffling here.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: And I'll send you my energy.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I always tell the audience to send us their energy
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: from the future.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Perfect, all right, So we have our ace of coins here.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Okay, that's pentacles.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I think I believe you're correct. So our Ace of
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Coins means treasures, riches, prosperity, attainment, recognition, contentment, fulfillment. It
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: may relate to work, pregnancy, childbirth, et cetera, triumph, profit, security,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and its price, a fresh financial start or a new enterprise.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: I feel like this is perfect for talking about this store.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: There was a lot about uh, profit, it said like profit.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Right, Yes, yeah, definitely. Oh and it's such a beautiful
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: peacock too.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Visuals see the Ace of Pentacles as your green light.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: It marks the initial stages of manifesting your goals and
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: assures you that you can truly achieve what you've set
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: your mind to the world is your oyster, and through
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: careful planning and determined effort, you can manifest your goals
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and desires.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's like the store.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, someone's.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Like desire and they've manifested everything that they love into
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: one store.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I mean so many times we have people coming and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: they're like, that's so crazy.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I was just talking about this the other day. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: have to get it. It's fate. You are so right.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: I agree with that. I know.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: I think when I went in there, I kind of
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I say, I don't plan to buy anything, but you know,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: things always just call out to you.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: And one of the things.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: That called out to me was like, is it like
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: a devil seed or something?
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, those seed pods?
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the devil seed crazy And I was like, what
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: is this. It looks so demonic in him, this is
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: like from nature.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Well, that's so fun too. Those were such a one
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: off thing.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: That's the first time we've ever had them in the store,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and I haven't seen them come by since. So really,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: it was definitely fate that you were able to snag one. Wow.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: That is actually really cool to know, and I like
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: randomly bring it up too. Do you sell any other
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: like divination like pendulums or Ouiji boards.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Do you have anything else in there?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: We have We have a lot of crystals, so we
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: have a very large crystal section and we have a
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: couple of different books as well that can go with
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the crystals, so that we'll talk about all of the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: metaphysical properties, spiritual properties, emotional properties. But we have just
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: about any type of crystal you can imagine. So I
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: know a lot of people like to come in and
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: shop for their altars, do little crystal setups in that
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: realm find things that kind of me to tate with them.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: So we have like mold of Bte was a really
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: big one a few years ago, but we have a
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: nice selection of moldavite.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: But I always look like it's so pretty.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: So moldivite is this green, it's almost like a glass,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: so it's superheated. Essentially belief rocks will come down from it's.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Like a meteorite.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: But when a meteorite hits the earth with sand will
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: spray back up and heat in the atmosphere, and then
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: as that comes back down it cools into glass.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: So it's this green sort of pocketed glass like mineral.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: It's incredibly rare.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: It only comes from I think one to maybe three
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: places in the world, but it's it's really highly charged
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: in energy. So there was there's a big push for
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: folks who are looking to kind of I think upending
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: things was the big push for moldivite that it was
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: a big one that leads you to kind of make
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: those hard decisions.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: But definitely when folks.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Come in and are shopping in the crystal section, I
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: encourage them to just pick stuff up, hold it in
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: their hands, you know, see see what happens, See what
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: finds you?
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, is that a skunk butt behind you?
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: It is at behind me.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Let's seeing here. I've got that guy there.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I pulled the skunk because skunks are one of my
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: absolute favorite tax at ermis.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: But they're they're pretty cool. He's got your little hands
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: hanging down here. So we have one of our coworkers.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: It's a big.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Fan of dressing up the taxidermy and anything with their
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: little hands hanging down in front of them is just
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: asking to have bracelets.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Oh yes, bracelets.
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  Speaker 3: Hats.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes if you come into the store and you find
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: a taxidermy with a little hat on it, and you
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: will let you keep the hat.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Oh that is good to know. It's like a little uh,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: what is it a scavenger hunt?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Exactly what else is back there?
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: So I can kind of walk through the wall here
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: actually on their.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Farloo, I guess yeah, far left, we'll say it's the left.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: This is a print from They are Antwerp, Belgium based artists.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: They're named Mothmeister. They are costumers photographers and they work
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: a lot with They call it post mortem fairy tales,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: so they do a lot of really dark and kind
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: of spookier artwork and then have these gorgeous haunting prints.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: They're actually coming out with a new book and twenty
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: twenty five about all their artwork, and we're hoping to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: do an event with them, which is gonna be pretty cool.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: We think we might do music, we might do some food.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Definitely going to be an artist talk and book signing,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: which is gonna be.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Very very cool.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: That sounds fun.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I've got some show and tell from our bug classes,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: so I've got a big old piece of honeycomb here.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: We talk a lot about and our insect pinning classes.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: We talk about the bee decline, how native bees are
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: so important for our ecosystem, for our gardens, and we
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: kind of talk a little bit about what honeybee's role
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: is in the ecosystem and how it's kind of misconstrued,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: and then we talk about some These are some of
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the largest bugs in the world. So on the top
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: one here, I've got a white witch moth. This is
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: a bird wing butterfly. And these are paper cutouts there.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, is that the actual size though?
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: It is?
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I formatted them true to size.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Wow, fighting with Microsoft Word for hours. Only a few
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: tears were shed. Oh, but you did it. And then
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: on the bottom here this is a replica of a fossil.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: So this is a dragonfly that was around in the
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Permian era. So back when dinosaurs are around, insects were
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: so much bigger. So dragonflies over here this is about
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: three feet long. It would be the size of that
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: dragonfly if it were today, which is insane.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: Can you imagine that flying around your head?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if dragonflies were that big today, we would not
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: have things like cats or small dogs or birds.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: They would they would eat cats one d.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Dragonflies will eat anything. Dragonflies will eat hummingbirds if they
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: can catch them. Mantises will also eat hummingbirds if they
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: can catch them. But they have three hundred and sixty
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: degree vision. They have about a ninety eight percent success
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: rate in catching prey. Something like a liar or tiger
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: has about a twenty five percent success rate. Wow, And
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: they are just voracious predators. They're really really good pest control,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: so they're taking care of all the things like the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: wasps and the pests in your garden. So as scary
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: as that sounds, they are a good thing, and you
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: do want them around.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: They probably won't eat you. You're probably fine.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: As long as you're not the size of a small bug.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Think you'll survive. That's a lot of what our classes
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: are are. So many people come to the insect pinning
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: classes and they say that it's exposure therapy. Yeah, and
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: then I sit here and I talk about how amazing
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: bugs are and how we all should love bugs all
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: the time, and then they touch a bug for thirty
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: minutes and they leave.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Going, you know what, that actually did help?
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not that bad.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: I used to be so scared of spiders and now
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: like a giant spider was on the trash can today
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: as I was holding the handle, and I felt like
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: a little tickle, and I was like, what was that?
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: And I looked under and there was a giant spider
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: and I just got a stick and I put her
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: in the bush.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I didn't freak out one time.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: But I love like moths and things, so like spiders
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: are growing on me too.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: And that's how it starts. We literally we call butterflies
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: the gateway bug.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Once you start caring about the really pretty, bright, colorful butterflies,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: then you start caring about the really pretty moths, and
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: then you start caring about beat not so pretty moss.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: The next thing you know, you're saving the spiders in
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: your house. You're building a pollinator garden in your backyard,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: and you're helping to save the insects.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: And you've gone full Portland on everyone exactly.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Portlandia says, put a bird on it. I say, put a.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Bug on Put a bug on it. That's perfect.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: You guys should make stickers that save a bug on it.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Done.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Was there any last words that you have?
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: You know, I would say to just come visit our stores.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: We're open every day eleven to seven. We're open longer
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: during holiday. You can come in and ask literally any
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: question you could ever think of, and someone in the
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: store will jump over.
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  Speaker 3: The moon to answer it.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: We are just here to talk about the things that
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: we love, like we we are here because we love
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: what we do.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: We love the creatures that we sell.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: We love plants, we love phones, we love human skeletons,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: and we love the weird and the creepy things, and
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: we just get so excited to be able to talk
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: to anyone about the stuff we've got.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for talking to me today.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: And I can really attest to like going in the store,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: you can you can feel the excitement of everyone working there,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: and like I think I just like asked a question
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: to the air kind of and like someone behind me
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: was started talking to me, and then I started, you know,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: asking more questions, and then going along through the store
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: and finding more people that work they're come look at this,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: and so it's it's a really.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Cool experience going there.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: It's definitely not not totally what I expected.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: When I'm definitely yeah, and there's I mean, we love
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: to just pull everything out.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Of a case, you know.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: If yeah, if I'm behind the bug case and I
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: get to pull every single bug out that's a good.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Day for me.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I feel like you go into like some antique stores
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: and stuff and there's you know, no one there to
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: help you, or people don't want to take some out
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: because they just want to sit behind the counter. But
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: that's definitely not what you're gonna get when you.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: Go to for sure game. Yeah, we definitely.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: We pride ourselves on our customer service. And again we're
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: like a natural science museum, but you can touch it
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: and you can put it in your hands and you
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: can take it home at the.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: End of the day as long as you're nice to it. Everyone,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: you know, use your delicate fingers.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: We're not manhandling the one hundred thousand year old fossils,
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: and we're being nice to the hobby horse.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I think that's the biggest thing I learned
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: today is be nice to the hobby horse.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you so much, Lailah. I love talking to you.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Cassie and looking forward to hearing
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: the episode.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Have it Creepy Yes day.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Bye.