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Scrooge Meets A Glow Stick Therapist · Grandpa Bill's Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome one and all to another edition of the BH Sales Holistic Healing Hour with your host and moderator, me, Grandpa Bill.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right into our main daily digest, where we've been talking about the great classic A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens.
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  SPEAKER_02: Talked about in one of the most recent shows the actual original book in reprint.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we did in the native jargon of the time, stave one, which was actually chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_02: Today, stave two, the first of the three spirits.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to the Maine Daily Digest and the BH Sales Holistic Healing Hour.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I am your host, Grandpa Bill, broadcasting live from our cozy studio here in Maine.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's about 2 38 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eastern daylight time at the time of this recording.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is November 11th, 2026, as we wind our way deeper into the holiday season and continue our journey through memory mastery and human connection.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: We're not going to sit through a three and a half hour marathon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, I may do the entire book in narration in December closer to the said holiday.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: And you all have been forewarned that probably will be the better part of three, three and a half hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here, instead, we're gonna continue diving deep into the absolute heart of the matter.
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  SPEAKER_02: Today, stave two of the Charles Dickens Immortal Classic, A Christmas Carol.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're looking at the first of the three spirits, the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future.
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  SPEAKER_02: Settle in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grab your notebook or three by five index cards if you do play along at home.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you are students of the magnetic memory method, we'll do our mnemonic version of Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: McGee as Scrooge at our audio shows.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's explore what memory, time, and reflection truly mean for us today.
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  SPEAKER_00: From kids from one to ninety-two.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: For those of you that joined me at one of my other audio shows, Workouts for Geriatrics, aka Silver Streakers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good for all kids from one to ninety-two.
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  SPEAKER_00: There, everything about health and wellness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deep calming breath Awakening to the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: Picture this scene with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scrooge wakes up in the deep dead of night, the clock strikes one, and the curtains of his bed are drawn aside.
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  SPEAKER_00: He finds himself face to face with a stranger, spectral figure, part child, part old man wearing a tunic.
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  SPEAKER_02: Deep calming breath.
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  SPEAKER_02: That'll all be edited.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our story picks up right where last year left off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Featuring our nearsighted, lovable protagonist, Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Magoo, in the fictional adaptation.
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  SPEAKER_02: Over at my radio ships.
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  SPEAKER_00: There, using the cave COGS acronym, K-A-V-E, the K being kinesthetic, the A being auditory, the B being visual, the E being emotional, the C being cognitive, I'm sorry, conceptual, the O being olfactory, the G being gustatory, and the S being spatial.
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  SPEAKER_00: So at one of my other audio shows, we actually did the three ghosts in the fictional adaptation.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first of the three, there'll be more fictional ones before the holiday.
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  SPEAKER_00: There it was Methuselah as the ghost of Christmas past, Jack Benny as the ghost of Christmas present, and Elon Musk as the ghost of Christmas future.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today we're going to jump back to the real Charles Dickens books to correlate and coordinate.
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  SPEAKER_00: We did stave one and or chapter one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well we experienced the timeless magic of Charles Dickens' masterwork.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I do narrate the full book, it's gonna be approximately three to three and a half hours bringing Victorian London to vivid light.
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  SPEAKER_00: Follow the miserly Ebenezer Scooge on Christmas Eve as he receives chilling nocturnal visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present, and yet to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: Witness his profound transformation from a cold-hearted communion into a man who embraces the true spirit of generosity, redemption, and community.
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  SPEAKER_00: Settle in by the fire, and let this cherished holiday classic remind all of us of the enduring words of Tiny Tim.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless us, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: To this juncture, wherever you're coming in, get a couple of questions if you care to participate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can a single night completely change a lifetime of bitterness?
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  SPEAKER_00: Step back into Victorian London as Scrooge learns the true meaning of redemption.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is your favorite lesson from Dickens' classic tale?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let us know below in the comments of today's show.
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  SPEAKER_00: One more for you, question-wise, what legacy did you care to play along?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are we leaving behind for the future?
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  SPEAKER_00: From the chill of Marley's chains to the warmth of the Cratchit family table, this full length journey, when we do the full length, hopefully will touch every corner of the heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how do you keep the Christmas spirit alive all year round?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you do.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, classic audiobooks and storytelling, holiday classics, Victorian literature, Christmas Eve, Scrooge and Molly, audiobooks, Timeless Stories, God loves us, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here is a specialized broadcast with narration by myself for stave two of a Christmas carol.
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  SPEAKER_02: As we wind our way deeper into the holiday season and continue our journey.
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  SPEAKER_02: Stave two Christmas Carol.
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  SPEAKER_00: Picture the scene with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scrooge wakes up in a deep dead of night.
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  SPEAKER_00: The clock strikes one, and the curtains of his bed are drawn aside.
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  SPEAKER_00: He finds himself face to face with a strange, spectral figure.
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  SPEAKER_02: A ghost of Christmas past a recap of Stave One in the fictional adaptation.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Ghost of Christmas Past, what does it represent for us?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the journey back into the archives of our own minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice how the spirit's head glows with a bright, clear jet of light, symbolizing the illumination of memories we often lock away in the back rooms of our mental memory palaces.
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  SPEAKER_00: Returning to youth in Fezziwig's warehouse, the spirit gently touches Scrooge's arm, and just like walking through an old familiar street in Portland, Maine, the walls of the room vanish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Suddenly they're standing upon a country road, cold and clear, with fields on either side.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scrooge sees himself as a solitary boy neglected by his friends, left behind at school while others went home to their families.
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  SPEAKER_00: And right there, Grandpa Bill has to pause and reflect.
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  SPEAKER_00: How often do we forget the lonely chapters of our own youth?
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  SPEAKER_00: But the spirit doesn't let him dwell on only in the sorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: They move forward in time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The scene shifts to a bustling warehouse storage floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Old Fezziwig busts heart, is throwing a grand Christmas party for his apprentices.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fiddler tunes up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fezziwig Fezziwig beams with joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And young Emanesa dances with a heart full of light before money and fear took the steering wheel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deep calming breath.
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  SPEAKER_00: The turning point, the loss of connection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the light grows brighter, revealing a slightly older Scrooge in the prime of his manhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: His face is not yet hard and lined with greed, but you can see the shadow beginning to creep in, the eager sparkle replaced by the cold calculation of the ledger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beside him sits a fair young girl.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's quite young.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a morning dress, M O U R N I N G, the woman who loved him, releasing him from their engagement because a golden idol, quotation fingers in the audio studio, has replaced her in his heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: She tells him that as his soul has grown richer in wealth, it has grown poorer in human affection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scrooge cries out to the spirit, remove me, bring me back, conduct me no more.
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  SPEAKER_00: He tries to pin the cap gown down over the spirit's glowing head, his nightcap, as his bedroom garb, trying to extinguish the blinding, painful light of truth, but the light streams out unabated, illuminating every corner of the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grandpa Bill's closing reflections for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And right there, my friends, is why we revisit stage two.
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  SPEAKER_00: The past isn't there to haunt us or lock us in chains like Marley.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's there to teach us in our own lives whether we're tracing memory palaces across the Western Promenade here in Portland, Maine, practicing hand dexterity at workouts for geriatrics, aka silver streakers, good for all kids from 1 to 92, everything about health and wellness there.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: Or appreciating the clean natural flow of spring water, which we talk about quite often.
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  SPEAKER_00: My brand of choice, Tourmaline Spring, my personal family history, professional history, and drinking the water in one way, shape, or manner since the 1960s, and over the last decade, pretty darn near daily, having bought it by the palate in days of old.
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  SPEAKER_00: Revisit our past to remember what truly matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's about human connection, laughter, empathy, and love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for tuning in to today's special reading of Stage 2 on the main Daily Digest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep using correct knowledge, keep cherishing your memories, and until next time, this is Grandpa Bill wishing you peace, health, and a very merry journey ahead.
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  SPEAKER_02: Continue to join us as we dig deeper into the real book, the fictional book, and the goop classic for Christmas twenty twenty six.
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  SPEAKER_02: We'll say bye bye for now and may God bless.