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- Jenny O'Mahony: Hello and welcome to Off Topic. My name is Jenny. Samantha Potter: I'm Samantha. And I'm Megan. Jenny O'Mahony: And that's all you get for an intro, because we don't do intros. They're boring. I know we had kind of talked about your ghost situation, Samantha, and we've had quite a lot of side conversations regarding witches and a bit of woo. do we want to go there or does it feel too soon? Is it still in your house? Do you not wanna do you wanna Samantha Potter: It's not in my house anymore, which is nice. But may should I give the backstory? Because I feel like that would be probably useful Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: you should give the backstory and I think it's also important to mention that we are not alternative people in the general sense. Like we are very much like Samantha Potter: Speak for yourself. I'm in on my own world. Jenny O'Mahony: I just mean that a lot of times people that are witchy, they you kind of stereotype, Samantha Potter: And like ghosts believe in ghosts. Jenny O'Mahony: right? And you're like, Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: they don't go to a doctor. They free birth at home. And it's like, no, no, Samantha Potter: I do that. I don't do Right, right. Jenny O'Mahony: vaccines save lives. we bel we are here and present. Samantha Potter: We believe in medicine. Yeah. Yeah. And also a little woo-woo. little. Jenny O'Mahony: And also, we love a little woo. Okay, sorry. So just that's just like our check and balance. Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah, I like that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I know. And once again, like we should probably just say that none of this is fact checked. So I mean, don't take what we're saying for as the we are not experts. I mean, if you're Jenny O'Mahony: Can you fact check Can you fact check ghosts? Come on. Samantha Potter: We are not experts. I mean a medium, maybe just the mediums in the Okay. Okay, Jenny O'Mahony: I guess so, sure. Fair. Samantha Potter: Your feeling. so this ghost. It started. I it wasn't I don't think it's a ghost, it is a it was a spirit. That's what I'll call it, an entity of some sort. and it came home with me after I delivered my first child from the hospital. And it's so weird because I we had talked about this. How do I know that? Because I have like a okay. Jenny O'Mahony: Okay, but how do you know that? How do you know like yeah, like how do you know that it came home with you? Samantha Potter: I know that it came home with me because the medium told me that it did, but it was here Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: once when my daughter arrived. So it was like I can feel like presence as spirits. I can Definitely right when I go into a space, I I can feel when something's off or different or just not accurate. and at like how it should be or how it should feel. And I've never wanted to hone in on that because like the movies, the horror films that we grew up with, like The Exorcist and those kind of like I I don't want to see somebody floating in the air. I don't want that creepy horror stuff, which Doesn't actually happen. I realize that, but also I just don't want to open my world to that. So, anyways, Jenny O'Mahony: I think it does happen. I think it just I off topic, I personally Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: and we've this is from our group chat, I think that we just live in a country that is not old enough to have had enough experiences. You go to anywhere in countries where you you go to the UK and people talk about their ghosts in the buildings they live in. Like it's a matter Samantha Potter: But are they Jenny O'Mahony: of fact. Samantha Potter: for sure, I get that the ghosts Jenny O'Mahony: So and some of them float. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Some of I felt I've felt a floating one before in in Scotland. I meant sorry, I meant like I don't want to see it take over like your body, Megan, and then like you float. That's it. Literally one of us, the exorcist level. Yes. I fully I'm yes, Okay, got it. Got like possess you don't want to see me possessed, essentially. Got it. That's not what I was thinking, but yes. Exorcis the exorcist. Okay. Fair. Jenny O'Mahony: like literally r the exorcist thing Yes. Right. Samantha Potter: they float, they bop about, they do their thing. Yes, I'm on board with that. I don't want anyone to become possessed. I also do not want to see anyone be possessed, so I hear ya. That's her that's her line with the ghost. Jenny O'Mahony: No, we don't want anyone barfing pea soup. No. so you were in your your Samantha Potter: Yeah, I feel like that's my that's my line. Anyways. Jenny O'Mahony: house before you had your daughter and you Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: didn't feel anything creepy and then you came back from the hospital and you felt that your home felt different. Yes? Okay. Samantha Potter: For sure. Yes, that's right. Upstairs And like immediately. Like immediately when you came home. Okay. in particular. It pretty immediately. And the hard part is like you're sleep deprived. You're kind new phase. Totally. And also, I think first child, And this was your first your first child, so like you don't really know. Yeah. she had lots of medical issues. So that was its own thing. So there was just a whole bunch of different layers involved there. And I think we've kind of chatted about this before, but I'm pretty sure when you're sleep deprived, you're like you're walls, propial walls that you'd put up to a different world are up or sorry, down lower when you're sleep deprived. So Right. Right. I could feel something, but was also like, am I hallucinating because I'm so tired? Am I, you know, Right. what is going on here? But to the point where like something's hovering over me and honestly go right to being possessed. Like I'm like, don't you can't take over my body. You can't come this way like no, no, no. And Eventually it stopped because I just I learned that if you just put those boundaries up for spirits, like they aren't gonna come interfere with you. And especially I couldn't. I was like paralyzed. Like I couldn't move, I couldn't like do anything. So it's all in my head. And I And did you say it out loud? Like were you saying that okay. Jenny O'Mahony: it was like all in your head. Hmm. Samantha Potter: like and I will fight. Like I am I'm feisty, I'm a fire sign, so I will fight. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: And I feel like you've both witnessed it. We've all got a lo yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: an Aries, I get it. Yeah, yeah, we're good. Samantha Potter: yeah, yeah. Yeah. So it was all in my head, and it's but it's like, don't, you know, don't bother me, don't come near me, don't do any of this anymore. And so it did. It stopped bothering me. But then it started bothering my daughter, which I didn't even clue in Mm-hmm. that I didn't like remove this thing or get it out or whatever. And my daughter's super like aware of. differences to like, you know, she can tell when something feels off. And so something has really gotten to had really gotten to her in her room for a while. So I finally decided to get a medium who was able to like tap in, connect to this entity, which was a lower lower astral entity. I don't even know what that means, but it's she's like, it's not really like a person. It's like some kind of weird energy. The look of it's different. It's really dark and heavy in comparison to like, you know, like an ancestor kind of energy. and so she was able to connect with it, tap in to to it, and asked questions. So that's when it confirmed, like, I followed them home from the hospital. I was sent to follow Okay. them home. And Its name was King, which is just ridiculous right off the get-go. I'm like, right? I'm like, absolutely Jenny O'Mahony: Like of course it was male. Samantha Potter: Yeah. And king. and king. I'm like, no, we will not use that name. So my aunt and I actually renamed it Ed. This name is just Ed. Sorry Jenny O'Mahony: Ed. Samantha Potter: to any Eds out there. But I refuse. My gosh, I love it. Jenny O'Mahony: Perfect. Samantha Potter: so, anyways, she Ed was sent to us because apparently, like, Sloan and I are special together in some capacity, whatever our life mission is on this earth. Ed needed to stop it and help prevent it. And it did that through like toying with Right. our emotions, which, you know, is very interesting. but So scary. the medium removed Ed from the house. Ed is no longer welcome. I have been like saging and doing all the things and my husband thinks I'm insane because the sage really gets to him. It's like, can you Sage is a lot. Yeah. It's a lot. Yeah. I don't want the sage. Yeah. Pick something else. I know it is a lot. And then we have the air purifiers. I know, I know. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: You're like, I didn't pick the sage. I was told to use the sage. It wasn't like my I I'm not the Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: original person who decided sage would work. Samantha Potter: Right. I did not feel better. It does. It And does your house feel better? Like does it feel lighter? Does it does. And my daughter's room in particular, because that was the heaviest room for sure. Like I could feel Yeah. the heaviness in her room, which is so weird because I really don't want to feel that. I'm like, I don't want to have this connection to another world. I'm good. but it feels so much lighter and so much better in there now. But it got me on to because I don't want to feel the spiritual connection so much. maybe there's there's probably a way to do it so that you're with, you know, your ancestors or people who are good spirits, you know, the light, the light spirits instead of the dark spirits. But I decided to go a little witchy woo-woo instead. So now I'm having these like little mini spells where it's just I'm like following the people on Instagram and TikTok of like, do this to Protect your name or protect your house or whatever. And I'm so that I can get right on board with. So are you like say many like you say many spells like at d at night? Is that what you mean? Yeah, they're more like manifestation kind of things. Okay. did you guys hear about the Lionsgate portal, which was on it was eight, eight, August eighth? No. and it was some big new portal opening thing. And it was like Jenny O'Mahony: I've heard of it. I don't know what it is though. Samantha Potter: so it was like a really big No, I don't know nothing about it. day in astrology and manifestation and things being able to come your way. you could take like leaps and bounds in areas of your life that you wanted to, but you need to do, not need to, but like, you know, you just like manifest certain things. It's like the, this is where I think it's kind of funny because it's like the, is it the power of now or the secret, or, you know, thinking Right. through all these positive things Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: that you want in your life and kind of acting and believing that you already have these things. And then you manifest it into your life. And so that's kind of I haven't gotten like into there's some wild spells out there. you can get an Etsy witch, right? Have you guys heard of these Etsy witches? Essentially get yeah, you can like hire a w a witch on Etsy. Yes, and they'll do spells for you. And so so many people. Jenny O'Mahony: Isn't Etsy for things that are like handmade? Samantha Potter: like products? Yeah. Yeah, no, you can get an Etsy witch to do a spell for you. So I've seen like, and it's been popularized by, I don't even know who the celebrities are, but they use them on their wedding days. They're like, I don't want rain on my wedding day. Can you cast a spell so there's no rain on my wedding day? And it has worked for these celebrities and they've said it. And other people have been like, I got an Etsy witch for my career. And then I've you know, my I gotta raise the next day or promotion or whatever. And so it's I think it's All part of that manifestation. He's putting it out there. Your belief in it is so strong. Whether or not it's the spell, I don't, I don't really know. But anyways, it's a long digression from the ghost, but I feel like it's all. I like it though. Yeah. It's like almost like vision like vision boarding too, isn't that the idea beh behind vision boarding is that you're like Yeah. manifesting that stuff into the world. Yeah. Hundred percent. Like, did we talk about that? my phone screen is literally my vision board because I open my phone Yes. Yeah. every day, I see it, I look at it, and it's, you know, manifesting the things on my board. So a lot of people swear by it. That's a good idea to put it as your your phone background. I like that. You're looking at it constantly. Like I have, I think, Yeah. Yeah. Jenny, did we do was it a vision board last year that we were kind of doing and like Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. I like I have it in my phone, but no did it transfer over? I feel like this phone transfer was easily the most annoying thing I've done. this was not the typical Apple phone transfer. Every single one of my apps I've had to re-log I want to throw it against the wall. It was a whole thing, it was Samantha Potter: and you had to you ended up having to log onto your computer, didn't you, to finally get in? Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: whatever. But now it's just I have a blurred, I have to reset it, is what I'm saying in a very roundabout way. Samantha Potter: Nah. That's really annoying. Fair, Fair. Yeah. fair. Jenny O'Mahony: vision boards. I think that they can bring like a tactile experience. I think it can allow a time to sort of pause, especially as women and moms and just think about what we want. And I think that can be amazing. I personally think things like The Secret, yes, I've read it, can be kind of They can slide into a harmful area because there's Samantha Potter: Yes. Jenny O'Mahony: a lot of it's essentially victim blaming, right? things Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: went badly for you. You you didn't do it right. You know what I mean? so I think it's one of those things where if you are in a privileged position, you can take what you like and leave the rest, which is totally fine and harmless. It's just that you don't I my sort of trepidation is internalizing the like, well. Like, that you've had a shit shitty time with whatever, like, you did it wrong versus because there's obviously things are always multifactorial. Samantha Potter: yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: but if you're just looking honestly, an Etsy witch, if all you are gonna lose is money and you don't care, like, and that's not putting you in a position where you can't where you can't buy food or you know what I mean? that is not harmful. There are some people it could be harmful for if they're like, Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I honestly for sure. Jenny O'Mahony: but like Samantha Potter: Like Jenny O'Mahony: That's not the case for a celebrity Samantha Potter: how much are these at at Sea Witches? Jenny O'Mahony: a celebrity Samantha Potter: I think a spell's like fifteen, twenty bucks. Like it's not it's not crazy from my understanding. I'm so intrigued and I am going on I am going on Etsy Jenny O'Mahony: I had no idea. Samantha Potter: after this and looking at us. I'm just so curious. Jenny O'Mahony: To find a witch. You want to find a good one. Samantha Potter: to find it with But the thing, what are you gonna like, what what I don't know. kind of spell do you I was like, I wanna try an Etsy Witch, but then I was like, I don't actually know what I want. Like what kind of spell I want her to cast. I need I need to go back a few steps. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, you're like, hold on, I've never considered this. Yeah. Samantha Potter: I fe yeah, I'm I'm like seriously thinking. I feel like I would maybe do something around my career because I'm like on a bit of a career Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Samantha Potter: a work career journey in transition right now. So I don't know. Maybe to get some clarity. I don't know. What I don't know. Yeah. That's not really a spell. yeah. I like it. I like it. Clarity? Yeah, yeah. I like that. Jenny O'Mahony: But do you want a witch for clarity? Like that's not a spell. To me, that's like you want to like hash it through with somebody who is like, if you're gonna go woo, you'd wanna talk to like a clairvoyant about that. Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. I got a girl Jenny O'Mahony: Right? Samantha Potter: for you. Yeah. I I had Do you? I like it. I like it. a really good reading with a girl. My hairdresser actually recommended her. And he was so, he was like so, so distracted one day when I went into him. I'm like, what is happening? And he's like, okay, so, and then he's telling me all about how he he she just sent him this voice memo. Like, all she needs is your name and your sign. And then she can kind of like tap in however she That I love it. does. Anyways. He said that everything that she has said to him has come true. So I believe it. I've seen so I've seen a few, but I saw one. There's this woman in California, her name's Wendy, and my brothers swear by her. And I talked to her a few years ago and she more talked about the kid like my kids and what they were like and what was gonna happen with them. And a lot of it has come very true, especially with my daughter. And three years ago. This was like before Interesting. Yeah. when my daughter was younger. And yeah, it's so fascinating. Yeah. I love that stuff. Jenny O'Mahony: That is interesting. I mean, I and we we've talked about Samantha Potter: said I. Jenny O'Mahony: this before. We've literally talked about everything before, but Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I think that a lot of the witchiness that used to be is kinda is not kinda gone. It's gone because they were burned and had to learn Basically Samantha Potter: To hide it. Jenny O'Mahony: being a witch was like a catch-all for getting rid of a woman that you didn't want there anymore, right? You just be like, she's a witch. Samantha Potter: That was like questioning things or yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: She's a witch. You just gotta burn her, right? And like they've done this Samantha Potter: We're just we're just gonna get rid of her. Jenny O'Mahony: for hundreds and hundreds of years. how many real witches did they burn versus just like women who didn't do things right by the Yeah, totally who Samantha Potter: Fit into the box of the times, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: knows? But It kind of, I feel like there was a little bit of a witch culture cleansing, know what I mean? Like it just so you decide, okay, we need to keep ourselves safe. How do we stay safe? we don't do XYZ, right? if witches are real, all of their spells would have been passed down through verbal dialogue and like teaching. You know what I mean? It's not like that's not documented the same Yeah. So that I think is what's kind of Samantha Potter: Right. Like through the through the generations, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Got it. Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: probably been lost. But I think a lot of people that are just more intuitive or you know what I mean? Especially with kids, Samantha Potter: Can feel it. Jenny O'Mahony: right? You always hear it's like more kids are more open to that stuff. Samantha Potter: Well isn't there like something if kids under five or six, like they can feel things more and they can like see spirits and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah. I don't know if it's true, but I've heard that too. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, I that's what I've heard. Samantha Potter: I f yeah, yeah. I fully, fully believe that. I do too. My kids Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: just said some weird shit when they were younger that I was like, there's no way you're not seeing things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like you're too and you're too young to even you to all the like well, like haven't you read those stories? Well, there's like these Jenny O'Mahony: yeah, me too. Yeah, yeah. And you're too young to be schizophrenic, so we're not gonna Yeah. Yeah. You're not t hallucinating at age two, like Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. How are you? Yeah. all these stories. I like got deep into it one day of little kids like saying things about past lives and Yes. you know, knowing who like great great grandma was or all this crazy stuff. You're like, well, how would you know? Like a two year old. My son once told Yep. How would you know that? It's so wild. me when he was like, I think he was three or four. Have you seen the movie Soul? Like that movie, that Disney movie? Anyway. And there's like something about how like all these souls are floating and then you like pick your family and you like that you know, the whole reincarnation thing. Jenny O'Mahony: That that's also like a there's a certain No, but there's actually like no that's a belief system. Like like a cultural belief system that Samantha Potter: There's a book about it too. It's called like Journey. Yes. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: babies basically choose their families. That's like an act I can't remember, but yeah, no, that's a thing. Yeah. Samantha Potter: families. And it's and it's like there's it's like the souls and there's like old souls and new anyway. He went into this long winded explanation to me one day and he was like three. So maybe you did pick us. Yeah. It's a good movie. It's a cartoon. I think so. I think so. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. He like Jenny O'Mahony: so that sounds like a fun movie to watch. It's on Disney Plus, I assume? Hmm. Samantha Potter: Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah. Yeah. yeah, what's interesting Jenny O'Mahony: Cool. Samantha Potter: when I went through with the medium and the ghost side of things, cause I was asking her, what is it, what's my life purpose? Like, what is it that Sloane and I were sent here to do? And she's like, I can't, yeah. she's like, I can't actually tell you Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, that's a good question. Samantha Potter: that. Like, y this is something that you'll find out as you go through it. And if she Jenny O'Mahony: Does she know? Did did he tell her? Samantha Potter: But yeah. No, he didn't well, the way that she phrased it is that she does not know and that he did not tell her because Jenny O'Mahony: Okay. Samantha Potter: like we're not supposed to know because we have free will and so we can change the course of how that happens Right. Okay. and how that works. But in through the same explanation, she did say like we have these spiritual agreements like in past lives that, you know, my daughter and I agreed in a past life that we would come back to or come into this life together and be, you know, I'd be the mother, she would be the daughter. In past lives, it could have been reversed, or she could have been like an aunt, or you know, where it's like, so interesting. so apparently all of us, based on this these beliefs, all of us have all of these connections that we've known in past lives and that are have just come back in different ways. And like same with our animals. They are, you know, maybe people that have come back as your pet. Yeah, it's really interesting to think about and look at that way. Jenny O'Mahony: I mean, how many times do you meet someone for the first time and you just click and you feel like you've known them forever, right? So like Samantha Potter: Totally. Yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: and once again, that belief is not that I don't see that as I'm sure there's a way you can make any belief system harmful. But I think you'd really have to stretch on that one. I Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: guess the flip side would be if you have a someone who's had a really traumatic life, then that would be your flip side. But let's just keep it in our Samantha Potter: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Personal spheres, I guess. That is so I heard someone describe, obviously you guys know. one of my daughters is autistic, and so I do follow some content creators who, you know, autistic content creators, practitioners who work with autistic people. And one one of them had said that her belief was that because autism is predominantly genetic, right? So her but it doesn't Show up the same way, right? like my autistic kid might not necessarily be reflective of what David looked like, right? she is, but she that's not always the case, right? Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: So what this this woman was saying was that her belief was that the presentation basically shows up with parents that can do the healing like within that window, right? Because a lot of the sort of behaviors you do see with in particular like PDA or higher masking, low accommodation needs, autistic kids. Like those are usually really big b big behaviors, big feelings. Like they're very, very challenging to manage. And so they sort of show up where there can be some some healing. And I was like, I I I Samantha Potter: I love that. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. That's so cool. Jenny O'Mahony: Also need to hear that sometimes, you know? So that's kind of along the Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: same sort of line, right? Like those traits sort of come out in a more predominant, noticeable way where they can be supported best. Obviously, that's not gonna be the case everywhere, but I choose to believe that to be the case for my family at least. So yeah. So I like that. Samantha Potter: I like that. Yeah. I like that. Yeah, I like that too. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, and it's kind of in that same Samantha Potter: Yeah, that's really cool. Jenny O'Mahony: vein. I have to remember Samantha Potter: For sure. Jenny O'Mahony: my friend was telling me about the that I that belief. I wanna say it's almost like within the Montessori system that that's their like that the kids choose their parents. Like it's an entire Samantha Potter: Yeah, I have no idea. Jenny O'Mahony: I probably it's probably not, and people that whose kids do Montessori are like, what the f- Fuck are you talking about? Like absolutely not. We use wooden blocks and no We don't give a shit about souls. Anyways, no, but it is like somebody, it is like a belief system somewhere. It's Samantha Potter: I've never heard that in that capacity. What party talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: not just like a rogue thing. It's like actually like a group's belief system. Samantha Potter: funny. Funny. I am finding it really interesting though how like you know, the witches and the spirituality. I feel like it's coming back. Like I feel like it it kind of went through Totally. like a a quiet period, if you will. And now it's like it's having this resurgence. And I almost wonder, I would I almost wonder if it's like, I don't think so, because my mom looks at me like Jenny O'Mahony: Or is it just her age? Do you know what mean? Yeah. Okay. Samantha Potter: Is it our age? Yeah. I'm an insane person. I don't know. Jenny O'Mahony: Okay, valid, that's fine. I was just wondering if it was one of Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: those like, I don't give a shit anymore 'cause of my age and now I just receive yeah. Yeah. You're like, fuck, fucks are gone. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Well maybe like so let's just do Like as soon as you like hit hit your late thirties, you're like, I don't care what people think about me, so I'm in it. Yeah. it. Yeah, I mean maybe, So I'm gonna d let everyone know I believe in witches. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Samantha Potter: but I I also wonder if it's just like the way that kind of the world has gone and evolved because you had like you had Jenny O'Mahony: Hmm. Yeah yeah. Samantha Potter: initially like mass religion where like everybody fell under a religion and then that people came out of that, Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: it went into like individualism. and then after like there's a gap that it's now kind of individualism has like left. And so people are going into like something a little bit different again and trying to find some kind of life purpose to be able to like sit back and relax and for a minute and take it easy. So they're going to a religion or a witchcraft or something spiritual Yeah. where it's like something's giving them permission. And maybe it is like Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: the late the women in their late thirties, early forties who are like, I just need like permission to take a break. I'm being told that Yeah. it's okay. I don't need to be like a high functioning work hard kind of get ahead individual in my life. I just need a minute. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, I think hustle culture is such an insidious thing in that it's so easy to criticize it. And yet, I hate hustle culture. I still live in the city. Right? Wha what have I done about it? Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: Other than apparently being the only person to not send their kid to math camp. before school went back. Like like but Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: but genuinely, right? Like I can be as critical as I want. But am I living in the countryside with my ducks? No, I'm not. I'm still participating in it. Samantha Potter: No, you're still participating in it. Yeah. You're still Yeah. driving your kids to four different activities every week, right? Like, yeah. More. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Samantha Potter: No sort of the day. You're doing it a day. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Three kids. No, but I mean, like, yet. That's a September problem Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha. Jenny O'Mahony: that I'm like la la la la la. But I mean, I think that it's it's Samantha Potter: Yeah. We're ignoring, we're ignoring it's not September yet. Jenny O'Mahony: almost like a little bit of escapism in a way where you can just sort of Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: in your same space kind of be imaginative and creative and just have a bit more of a appreciation for things that you can't see. Right. Like it's it's kind of having Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: that connection away, that moment to sort of drift away from the hustle culture and appreciate that we don't understand everything or even most things. And we don't need Samantha Potter: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: It's like a really nice reminder that we don't need to fully understand or to fully agree with or to need to be have proof, right? For everything. Some things we do need to have, tangible proof. That's a safety thing, all of that. But like, not everything. And I feel like witchy Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: stuff kind of gives, it's an easy way to have permission to just not participate in that shit. And Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: allow things Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: to kind of just be versus Yeah, a hundred percent. A hundred percent. Samantha Potter: And believe things you like don't have proof for all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which Even though I think we all kinda have proof, but yeah, still. Yeah. like Jenny O'Mahony: But you don't need to, right? Like I haven't had the experience Samantha's had to believe her. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Thank goodness, because that was creepy. Don't no, don't. True. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Right? So I think it just yeah, and and like I'm I'm fine with that. I'm very good with that. Yeah, Samantha Potter: Yeah. I don't really want that experience. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I don't know. I think it's also kind of fun because it's a predominantly woman space. You don't hear okay. I don't Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: hear, I'm open to this being my algorithm, and maybe I will now that I'd say it out loud. I don't hear wizards talking about wizarding. Samantha Potter: That's true. Yeah. Right? Jenny O'Mahony: Right? Samantha Potter: That's very true. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: As far as I'm aware, witches are women Samantha Potter: That's very true. Jenny O'Mahony: and a male witch is a wizard. Samantha Potter: That's my understanding as well, and I think that's very That is also my understanding. valid. Jenny O'Mahony: Except in Harry Potter when the they're all wizards, but like that's an opinion. Samantha Potter: Hermione representing. Yeah. But is she called is she called a wizard? Jenny O'Mahony: Aren't they still don't they call them wizards? I thought they were all wizards. Samantha Potter: No, I think she's still a witch. Jenny O'Mahony: You gotta Google that. Samantha Potter: Yeah, Google that. We're gonna fact check this one. I don't I don't know enough of I haven't Jenny O'Mahony: Is Samantha Potter: read any of the Harry Potter books. Jenny O'Mahony: hermione witch or wizard? It's Samantha Potter: Professor McGonagall. Jenny O'Mahony: a high search term. she's a witch! Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: There you go. Samantha Potter: Yeah, yep. I Interesting. speaking of like Jenny O'Mahony: Dumbledore it apparently tells her she's a witch so Dumbledore, he's a he's a good fact check right there. That's wisdom. Samantha Potter: Okay, so there we go. I love it. Yeah, there you go. I love it. Okay, because this That's his story. wouldn't be this podcast without going totally off topic, but it's still related because Jenny O'Mahony: bring it. Samantha Potter: you you spoke about this being very largely female ran. But did you guys see and or hear about the sign in that little shop in Nantucket? So there's like there okay, there's a there's No, I've no idea what you're talking about. a little store in Nantucket and they put up a sign and it said no influencers. I did hear about that. Yeah. On the sign. And I got some really I did hear about this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. interesting conversations going. Jenny O'Mahony: Is it just because they didn't want people coming in and filming themselves or were they just being contrarian for fun? Like what was the Samantha Potter: Yeah. I think no, it Yeah. my understanding is it wasn't for fun. They didn't want people coming Jenny O'Mahony: okay. Samantha Potter: in. They find they find influencers annoying. they find Jenny O'Mahony: Okay. Samantha Potter: them that they're you know, taking up too much space, taking up, you know, you're taking your pictures, you're they're filming in the store, they're filming. Like, 'Cause were they filming in the store? Like it. I my understanding again, I haven't been to Nantucket, but my understanding is that influencers have largely made Nan Nantucket quite popular now. where it used to be like Jenny O'Mahony: I mean look at Quarry Rock. Right? Come on. Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. Where it used to be like quiet, yeah. How right? And not annoying. that exciting. Anyways, it did turn into a whole conversation where instead of outlining like poor behavior of like please don't spend 20 minutes taking a photo right here, it went to Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: the blanket of like n influencers are not allowed and influencers are the ones who are doing the bad behavior. Which then I know, I like Jenny O'Mahony: So I shouldn't be laughing. Okay. Samantha Potter: Right, right. Yeah. I get that, but I also I took issue with it because influencers are largely a female dominated industry. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Right, mm-hmm. And by by saying like no influencer is allowed, you're almost ta you you are like f taking a group of people and telling them that they're not allowed in a space. Jenny O'Mahony: It's also it's just like really shitty communication. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Horrible. Absolutely horrible. And like there's Yeah. And 'Cause you're like why yeah, there's no explanation to why. You're like hiding. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: You're like, I need more I need more. Yeah. Samantha Potter: it's, you know, I felt like it was a bit of an attack on women too, because we are largely the ones in this space who can Yeah. dominate this space. We've found a way to make a great income for ourselves, not needing anyone else to do it and actually be paid fairly. And I and so it it was just a r a lot of very interesting discourse around that because a lot of people were like, Yeah, I don't like influencers. If somebody's sharing a link, I'll purposely find the product and not use their affiliate link so that they don't get commission, Jenny O'Mahony: Sounds like they need to clean up their algorithm. Samantha Potter: yeah. et cetera. Like where it's just it, I know. But it also is Jenny O'Mahony: Why are they on social media? Samantha Potter: just like an attack Yeah. on women. If somebody, if somebody did find that for you, what difference does it make to you if they get the commission or not? Literally doesn't. that's how they found a career. Absolutely Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, it's not costing that person anything. Samantha Potter: not. Absolutely not. It's not costing, yeah. You're not paying for it. No, it's not costing them anything. So yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: That's so bizarre to me in this sense that it's just poor blanket statement and poor communication. And I get obviously this was a problem. And when you have somebody at the store, instead of being like, okay, so what is the issue? Are they moving shit around on the shelves and breaking stuff? Maybe the appropriate action is a sign that's like, please don't touch the display, or I don't know. Samantha Potter: Yeah. If the store too small and they're taking up room and not buying anything, I don't know. But yeah, just explain Jenny O'Mahony: It's Samantha Potter: what the issue is and then get them to stop doing that. Exactly. There's a creator who has a store in Nan Tucket as well. And she just did the exact opposite where she her sign was just everyone's welcome. And I was like, that like good is the exact I love that. Yeah. same sign. It like she knew exactly Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: what she was doing, but it was a the exact same format. Like every she had it made for that. like it was the exact same sign. cool. Yeah. She yeah, she had it dialed. So it was I was like, That's that's good marketing right there, my opinion. That is good bark today. Jenny O'Mahony: It's good marketing and it's also when you say something like a bold statement like that, you need to be prepared for what's gonna happen afterwards, which is Samantha Potter: a hundred percent. Jenny O'Mahony: bad Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: publicity. And there is such thing as bad publicity. Samantha Potter: Kind like the Callaway. Jenny O'Mahony: they're turds. Fucking idiots. How many how many fucking Samantha Potter: I just can't even like Jenny O'Mahony: idiots in a row had to participate to make that ad? Samantha Potter: It's insane. It was actually just absolutely mind-boggling that that's something that I don't nobody stopped it. I don't understand. Nobody stopped it. Yeah. I don't even understand how it gets to that point. how could you be, regardless, we I think we can can all agree that ad was absolutely terrible and just like hor regardless if you think that ad was terrible or not, you are in advertising. it is your job to think through Yeah. what the backlash Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: of this could be. So regardless as to Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: A hundred percent. Samantha Potter: your beliefs or not, that is all those people should be fired. they are not doing their job correctly. They did Yeah, they're not doing their job. quite literally the shittiest job they could possibly do. Jenny O'Mahony: Do you know what reminds me of? And I'm forgetting the name of the movie. There's a movie where people trade bodies and it's a man goes into a woman's body and they're try it's like it's supposed to be a Nike ad. Samantha Potter: Is it an Adam Sandler movie? Jenny O'Mahony: I'm trying to remember. It's an either he's it's marketing and he's supposed to do a Nike ad. And it's this woman running in the dark. And they're like, why would a woman be out running in the dark? It's not safe. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: But this whole room of people are like, this this concept's great. And they're like, except for it would never happen. Samantha Potter: Yeah. X yeah, yeah. Yeah. It it's not realistic at all. Yeah. No woman would run at night by herself. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: But and that's why we need diversity in our workplaces so that you have different lenses looking at things. Cause maybe Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: one person is like, this is so funny, but that's why you need other people to be like, that's we're gonna not do that. It's actually Samantha Potter: Offensive or yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: not fun. You can you may think that is funny, sir. Cause a man absolutely came up with it. Sir, you you you may find that funny, but it's Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: not. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: not. Samantha Potter: So bad. Jenny O'Mahony: It was so bad. I don't golf, so the only reason I saw the ad was because of people being vitriolic and so angry sharing it. But I Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Me too. Me too. Yeah. same. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well it's it got removed like almost instantly, my understanding, 'cause it just picked up so much steam. is that fast? Jenny O'Mahony: With a lackluster apology, I think. Samantha Potter: Yeah, I didn't even see the apology. I was Of course. Yeah. like Jenny O'Mahony: didn't mention women specifically how it would be considered, you know, abusive or offensive to women. They didn't include that in their apology. Samantha Potter: That's like They just said we didn't know. Equinox and they have you seen Equinox's Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, we didn't know. Samantha Potter: ad? It's been out for ages. No. They basically have like a very young Asian woman's head on a robot. Like just Jenny O'Mahony: What? Samantha Potter: like the head on a robot. And it's it looks provocative and it's basically just promoting, in my opinion, a very unsafe environment for women where it's you're just by that image, you're seeing somebody who you can do anything you want to. Jenny O'Mahony: That's gross. Samantha Potter: Mm, that is ghost. it's disgust it was disgusting. And so they f they did finally take it down, but they also their apology was very lackluster as well. Jenny O'Mahony: Apparently Target did a racist Halloween costume ad. Samantha Potter: really? Jenny O'Mahony: It's been a real week for American products. Equinox is American, I assume too. I'm assuming Callaway's American or are they brit British? Because they're golf clubs. It was a very American ad, but I'm open for them. Samantha Potter: really? They're doing well. I think so. She's I think so. That was Econox has been very ongoing. You know the question. I have no idea. Yeah. Well, 'cause they were it was a partnership I feel like they're American. Yeah. with like a bro golf crew, like like very broy golf group. I don't even know what they yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: A whole bunch of people that should know better. But no, Target apparently had a Jim Crow costume on a black child. And that was the ad. Like a Halloween costume. Samantha Potter: And like how does Wow. that happen? Like it goes through so many layers. How did nobody catch Yeah. that? Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: What do you mean catch it? They made it they made it. They they Samantha Potter: They made it, yeah. Right. Jenny O'Mahony: created it as a children's Halloween costume. Samantha Potter: Like how does that happen? How does that happen? Hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: I don't know, but I mean I haven't chopped at Target Samantha Potter: I think the the moral. Jenny O'Mahony: in a long time because of that government and not going down there to be at Target, so I did not see it. You're Samantha Potter: I did go. My mom my mom broke her I did too. yeah, you were just there. shoulder, so I did go. I Jenny O'Mahony: But your mum lives there. That's different. Samantha Potter: was just there. Yeah, she does. Yeah. Yeah. But I will say, like, their stuff is just so superior. So irritating. Like all of the snacks I know. for kids for their school lunches, all of the home decor, their kids' Their kids' clothes are good. Yeah. cloth I was like, my gosh. I hate I hate how much I love it all. Their kids' clothes are good. I know me too. Jenny O'Mahony: I know. I It's tricky. It's tricky. Samantha Potter: Yeah. I know. If we could just catch up in some capacity, that would be great. Jenny O'Mahony: I think it can take a long time to get to Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: where we were before all this mess there, that's for sure. Samantha Potter: yeah, no that's not happening, but I yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Unfortunately. Samantha Potter: Definitely not. I feel like we need to end on a lighter note than this. S feels like Yeah, I know. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, my god, something good. What's good? I have Samantha Potter: That's good. Jenny O'Mahony: something I was gonna text you, but I haven't yet. Samantha Potter: Ooh, secrets withholding from us. Okay, okay. Ooh. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: No, it's not a secret. The good people of Costco love Costco. Okay, I've told you about their chicken breast chunks that my children have exclusively lived off of all summer because they can make them themselves in the air fryer. They're pre-cooked. They cannot give themselves salmonella poisoning. They're Samantha Potter: They're like pre cooked ones. Like the pre cooked chicken. Yeah, yeah. Love it. Jenny O'Mahony: great. Have you tried the croffles? Samantha Potter: What The what? Jenny O'Mahony: They are croissant waffles. It is a croissant Samantha Potter: I can eat those. Jenny O'Mahony: with the no, no, your children. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: The fat that it's not meeting macros for anybody, check in there. It's like a squish croissant. And but for those of us who Samantha Potter: So was it like a squished squish cruis huh? Jenny O'Mahony: have children who have challeng have challenges meeting their growth curve, Megan, I'm looking at you. So they're Samantha Potter: Yeah. Who needs who needs some extra calories in them? Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: like high calorie, they're calorically dense. Okay. This is a food that you and that most people would look at and be like, that's a lot of fat. That's a lot of but people with kids who struggle with their eating and their weight grain and their growth. That is it's so calorically dense and all three of my kids are obsessed with them. S No, they're frozen. So they're in Samantha Potter: Ooh, they in the bakery section or are they frozen? Okay. All right. Frozen? Jenny O'Mahony: the Costco that I go to, they're right before like where the breakfast stuff is before the fish. Okay? Samantha Potter: Yeah. Okay. Jenny O'Mahony: So they're the first sort of kid they're like You transition. I don't know how they went from breakfast to fish, but that's the choice that was made. So they're in the Samantha Potter: Yeah. Ha ha. Jenny O'Mahony: breakfast to fish section. They're we're in the breakfast section. Yeah, they segue Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha That's how they do it. They put these things in there and that's the what are they called again? Jenny O'Mahony: to fish crawls like croissant waffle. Crawful. Samantha Potter: Okay, got it. I'm gonna look for them. Jenny O'Mahony: so what we've been doing, which you most you people that are listening do not know my child, but these ladies do. my child is eating a complete breakfast for the first time. I don't actually know when, since before she went to school. And so she'll have a crawle And then she'll have one of those protein chocolate milks, The Fair Life. She gets a quarter of one. We top the rest up with milk because her protein requirements are absolutely not of that. And then the only fruit she'll eat is it popsicle. So I have like homemade strawberry popsicles that are just strawberries, blended with a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of lemonade powder to pretend that they're strawberry lemonade popsicles. So she'll Samantha Potter: Mm, Jenny O'Mahony: have she's got her fat, her carb, her protein, and essentially fresh fruit because it's frozen. So it's actually Samantha Potter: Good breakfast. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: a great breakfast. Breakfast. And before Samantha Potter: Yeah. It's amazing. Jenny O'Mahony: school, having like a big calorically dense meal, especially she's Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: a kid that takes stimulants. She often doesn't eat all day at school due to stress. This I am super excited about this. So crawles. And you can put Samantha Potter: For the win. Jenny O'Mahony: them in the toaster. You can just put them in the toaster. Samantha Potter: How greasy are they? Jenny O'Mahony: So greasy, Samantha. It's a croissant. Samantha Potter: But I'm just wondering, like, does it go through the toaster? Jenny O'Mahony: No no no no no. no, the good people of Costco would never do that to us. They would never do that. No, it's it's perfect. It is like it's greasy because it's a croissant. Like she's got Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: a lot of butter in there, okay? Samantha Potter: you know those like McDonald's style hash browns? Like I used to cook those in the toaster and those would like drip with grease though. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, because they're deep fried beforehand. These aren't so b I'm assuming that's why the anyways, regardless, these do not drip. No, they're perfect. Samantha Potter: They don't do that. Perfect. Jenny O'Mahony: They're phenomenal. So, anyways, just add that food that kids will eat that you don't have to actually make yourself. I know a lot of people want to make everything themselves. This this is not a food for you if you want to make everything yourself. Samantha Potter: O look at you ready for September. Breakfast dialed. Jenny O'Mahony: the S word Samantha Potter: I love it. I have one more, I have one last question. Megan. The creatine gummies. The array creatine gummies. I kept I keep getting fed advertisements. Like you're gonna get these abs if you take these creatine gummies. Ha ha ha. honestly I can't like the there's something weird about I put it in my water, I don't like it. I don't like it. So I w I wanted to try the gummies. Jenny O'Mahony: well then if the gummies were Samantha Potter: But I'm also waiting for the immediate abs. So I'm just saying We'll report back. Megan likes them, so Jenny O'Mahony: They're good yeah. whatever works. Samantha Potter: I don't make I'm gonna Etsy which is spell for abs. Full circle. This is how we do it. Jenny O'Mahony: That that feels like that was the end. That's awesome. Samantha Potter: all right. You guys have a great rest of your week. Jenny O'Mahony: Okay, bye! Samantha Potter: Bye!