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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Forty Six One Running From The Forest · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, when it comes to podcast listening, are you like me?
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  Speaker 1: the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Four Stories.
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  Speaker 2: A series of short-winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping
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  Speaker 2: trees stuck feet first in Georgia clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 2: over 33 years. I am the poet in the forest,
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  Speaker 2: a children's series written and recorded in the 1990s. It's
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  Speaker 2: grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 2: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 2: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. At the base
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  Speaker 2: of Heartbreak Hill sits a sign that reads, RAINBOW FOREST. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations.
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  Speaker 2: Long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 2: around this beautiful lake, slow-moving stream, flatland swamps, and array
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  Speaker 2: of natural animals, there were families and business owners who
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  Speaker 2: are said to have raced into this area for the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and wild grapevines.
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  Speaker 2: Those before me either forgot to write about it, or
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  Speaker 2: it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the forest. And this could actually be
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  Speaker 1: something that means nothing at all. There's no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as a forest that doesn't have some sort of living
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  Speaker 1: quarters somewhere in it, be it the ranger station or
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  Speaker 1: just be it a community that's tucked so far back
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  Speaker 1: away from society that they live in this hidden away
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  Speaker 1: attempt at just being as natural as one can be.
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  Speaker 1: But as you make your way through a forest and
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  Speaker 1: you walk beside these homes, these beautiful places of, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, just escapism, you begin to notice not just
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  Speaker 1: the weathering changes, but the physical changes of no human beings. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I went through this during the COVID lockdown. We called
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  Speaker 1: them the COVID homes, where you would walk by all
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  Speaker 1: of these beautiful homes inside this forest, but there was
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  Speaker 1: nobody inside. But at least during the COVID lockdown, you
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  Speaker 1: wondered about something such as, did they survive? And what
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  Speaker 1: I learned in later years and months was the fact
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  Speaker 1: that people knew that we were in a hotspot when
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  Speaker 1: it came to the COVID lockdown. So therefore, people just
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  Speaker 1: backed up and moved on to be with family members
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  Speaker 1: in other regions that were deemed safer when it came
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  Speaker 1: to the COVID lockdown. But what do we have as
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  Speaker 1: a situation today with so many people unbelievable homes in
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  Speaker 1: this gorgeous forest hidden away tucked away secretly placed and
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  Speaker 1: the lawns aren't being touched the windows are covered by
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  Speaker 1: white sheets you can't see in there's darkness not even
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  Speaker 1: a dim light at night it has this essence of
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  Speaker 1: the birth of a ghost city but why why now
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  Speaker 1: Is it because society has put us in a position
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  Speaker 1: of making choices and having a house payment that high
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  Speaker 1: with rising interest rates and other costs that it's like,
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  Speaker 1: we just got to move on. We've got to plant
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  Speaker 1: our feed and our seeds in other fields of fortune
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  Speaker 1: or misfortune. But this place is no longer part of
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  Speaker 1: our escape. But it's happening. I've walked by five homes
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  Speaker 1: just today that are really exposing what I called the
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  Speaker 1: COVID house. Nothing is taking place. Nothing is unraveling. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: is in place. Therefore, my imagination wants to do nothing
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  Speaker 1: but race. Why are the humans running from this forest? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being a part of the conversation.