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a little bit. We recorded a two of these
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episodes on Day of the Dead today.
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Is All Souls day? All Souls Day.
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So it's the we're we're going to dive into it.
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We told you last episode when Lily was wearing her pink hat
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with Bunny ears. Is that that we're going to do
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familiars today? I know the coloring makes it
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weird, but it's orange and they're cat ears.
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Cat ears, not Bunny ears. I'm sorry Bunny cat, I'm
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This episode includes mentions of witch trials, persecution,
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superstition, and cruelty towards animals.
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All discussions and historical context.
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Nothing graphic, but it's important to know before we dive
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in, so let's dive into it. Our first segment here.
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What are familiars? Before witches had broomsticks
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or cauldrons, they had companions, spiritual sidekicks
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called familiars. In folklore, a familiar is a
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supernatural being, often in the shape of an animal, that assists
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a witch or a magician in their work.
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Cats, owls, toads, dogs, Ravens, you name it.
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So you see this a lot in Harry Potter.
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They. Have familiar Ron had rat.
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Just throwing that out there. Yeah, but these weren't pets.
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They were magical partners, sometimes protectors, sometimes
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informants, sometimes the embodiment of an ancient spirit.
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Suggested visuals of this are historical artworks and medieval
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manuscripts. Soft, candlelit, with smoking,
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curling around a black cat. So this is a little bit of
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discussion. How do modern audience still
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romanticize the image of a witch with her familiar?
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Do we still do we believe in spirit helpers today, even non
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magical forms like intuition and creativity?
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So if we go back to like witches, if we're just going
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like in depictions, I feel like witches are, are often depicted
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with a black cat as like a companion, as not a pet, but
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someone that they they respect them on the same level on a
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spiritual level. So I think that that's something
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that's kind of like boldly emblazoned in people's heads.
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But I think that even I think that like when you go back to
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even not going back. But I think that some other
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another example of it is maybe the superstition of if someone
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passes away and you see a cardinal, that that spirit is
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with you. Is it a cardinal and a blue Jay
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or just a cardinal? I'm not sure about the Blue Jay.
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I'm not certain of that. I thought Blue Jay has
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significance too. I.
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Know there's some people believe that butterflies too carry
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significance like that. Dragonflies, yeah.
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Yeah, I think the first for me, I know we talk about pop culture
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a lot because it's kind of interweaving with a lot of this
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topics. I think the first time I
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remember seeing a familiar are seeing it like Showcase is
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Salem.
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Her cat, Yeah. And then Harry Potter really
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dove into it. But Harry Potter's companions
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were more like pets and not, Did you?
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Watch Bewitched. No.
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Or did she have a companion? I'm.
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Trying to remember, did Sam? Have.
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I don't think so. You know what 2 shows I confused
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a lot. I only watched them when they
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were on. I never seek them out when I got
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older or snuck them out. Sneak them out.
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I don't know how it's. No, you said it right the first.
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Sneaked them out. Seeked.
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Seeked them out. I'm an idiot.
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Sorry. I'm in a lot of pain.
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What I I, I always confused, bewitched and my gene.
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My my. Genie, Genie.
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They they were very so they were so similar in style of shows.
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It very much was if they had like the laugh track with the
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back, the background of them, but they were like 70s sitcom
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like that same era. I watched The Honeymooners and
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then I watched I Love Lucy and then if that came on, I just
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left it on. Mash and.
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I hated mash. What about Gilligan's Island?
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Hated Gilligan's? Island.
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Oh Lord, OK. I hated it.
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That was so boring. Fair.
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Yeah, I Honeymooners. I Love Lucy.
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I hated The Brady Bunch, Twilight Zone.
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I Love Lucy. Though what's another?
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What about happy days? I liked Happy Days.
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OK, yeah, until I get older and then I didn't like Happy Days
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anymore. I just think it got corny.
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Yeah. I don't think I related to any
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of the characters as I got. Older Reese, like I really did
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like that whole like Doo wop era.
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I still do love the whole like 50s era of like music and style,
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but like I think when I go back and watch Grease, like watching
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it as a kid, it was like so cool and I'm like.
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You know, you know where I I watch it and I got older because
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I was like, oh man, I'd love to have a team like Happy Days
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where everyone's friends and they hang out.
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And then the real world hit and I was like, this is fucking
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bullshit. And they're posers and I don't
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think I'd fucking hang out either one of them.
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Fuck them. Fair enough.
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And Fonzie Fonzie's the older dude who fucking probably failed
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school 45 times who bullies everyone and thinks just a jerk
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and everyone thinks he's cool because he's just older.
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And he has a leather. Jerk, and he's probably trying
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to hit on younger girls the whole time.
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Yeah. Oh yeah.
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But the guy who played Fonzie's a sweetheart.
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All right, P, what's his name? Is he?
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Winkle, is he dead? I I didn't he just pass away.
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I don't know if you I want to say I'm going to Fact Check that
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I. Don't think he's dead.
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I'm going to fact. Check we didn't do our who.
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Who would tribute this episode to today?
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We did not. Would you like to do that?
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Yeah, I, I wanna, I wanna do, I'm gonna do two people go on
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and they're not people. I'm gonna do 2 pets.
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So I'm totally for this, but actually I believe it's on the
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17th is kind of like a Day of the dead for pets.
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As well. So I'm gonna do my dog Cujo, who
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was like my best friend me and like that he, we slept together.
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He was like my pillow. He was just super dope.
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He was only like 3 or 4 years old and fortunately he has some
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kidney and liver issues. So we lost him, but he was, he
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was fucking amazing. And then my dog Angel, my
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Rottweiler, I have her tattooed on my collarbone.
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She was like my first dog that I got to like really raise and be
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around. Actually, Angel died as a puppy.
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I, I worked at the pawn shop and the one dog had puppies and I, I
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walked upstairs to see puppies all over the place, some alive,
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some not. Because when they came out, they
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didn't come out of the sack and the mother didn't take them out
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of the sack, right. So some of them were like.
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Suffocating. They were dead, right?
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So I started. Now you seen, you know me.
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I have a weak stomach. I don't fuck with shit like
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that. Right.
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But you're also like someone who's very, I would say someone
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who's very much like a, a fighter.
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Like if you if you see someone in help even like it's not your
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job, you're the first person out to be like, let me go help that
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person. Yeah, you pull.
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Over the car in the middle of a tornado.
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I pulled, I pulled dogs out of these like these bloody grocery
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sacks and I started giving these dogs CPR and I brought three out
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of four of them back to life. One did not unfortunately make
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it, but the other ones did. And I got to keep one of them.
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And one of them was Angel. So I essentially saved Angel and
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I had her my entire life until she passed away.
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She survived cancer had was missing a leg.
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If I had like a familiar, it would probably be those two
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dogs. There's no other pets I do care
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and cherish, but they're the two that I want to dedicate this
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one. Sir, if we're going to do that,
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which I think does fit the theme for the topic today, I also had
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a dog that passed away as a puppy who did have cancer.
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And she was a little bit over a year old after we had to put her
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down because she just was repetitive, like having a tumor
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and then having it taken out. And then a week, a few weeks
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later, she'd we'd be back for a checkup and she'd have another
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one. And it was just kind of, yeah,
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it was a lot in that first year. So it was the doctor and I
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talked about it. It was like the best decision.
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Like she really didn't have any quality of life.
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So she was put down. So that was my Nova girl.
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And the other one I'm going to say is I believe was like my
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familiar, like was just knew my soul in my opinion.
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And that was Cleo. And she was like robbed from me.
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That's another story from another day.
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But she's she's no longer with us.
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So but I will dedicate it to them.
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Put in the comments if you're listening your favorite pet or
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who you felt was you're familiar or you would like to shout out
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and put out there. I do like that thing where we
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kind of remember the dad or the people who are no longer with
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us. They might be celebrities
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sometimes it may be other, but who who's feels like we're in
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our spirit when we come and talk about this topic.
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So I kind of like that. I almost forgot that in the
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beginning, but yeah, ancient origins, our next topic, our
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next segment here. The familiar spirit concept goes
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way back in Norse mythology. People had Foliglia Foliga.
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I'm sorry. Phiga.
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I'm sorry, I don't even know how to say that.
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I would say yeah. A spirit animal linked to 1
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solar destiny. In Celtic belief, Druids called
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them totems, animals or strength, and for strength and
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prophecy. Shamik traditions Worldwide
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Shamanic traditions worldwide describe spirit animals that
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help traverse other worlds. When Christianity spread across
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Europe with force, those spirits were recast as something as
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evil, twisted into demons who served witches instead of gods.
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So as you should. Yeah, it just kind of sucks,
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man. Like people had their thing and
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it wasn't. It wasn't fitting their
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narratives. So they were like, oh.
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Immediately said it's evil and it was disgusting and it's
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terrible and it's like, man, you fucking ruined a lot of people's
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cultures and. For what?
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Yeah, for money and a cool Vatican I guess, where you can
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hide pedophiles. Anyway, so this is a little bit
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of an archive from 1487 from Malleus.
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The the devil sends familiars like the likeness of the beasts
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who serve the witch and malice and and guile and guile.
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So yeah, there there's, there's a little bit of some dirtbaggery
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right there. Why do you think religion is so
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often reinterpreted older beliefs into moral warnings?
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What does it say about the human fear of the unknown?
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I think that's kind of what we were just talking about.
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Like, I feel like that it was very much like if it didn't fit
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their agenda or if it wasn't what they were trying to
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portray, then it needed to be cast out.
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And you needed to be like, you needed to be sent away because
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you might change other people's minds.
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And we don't want that word. Yeah.
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This is what we're trying to put forth as the common belief among
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everybody. I feel like the Bible too, is a
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very black and white style of religion where like it's this
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way or no way. And if you don't do it this way,
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you're, you're not S you're not, you're going to die.
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It's not good. And and it was, it was kind of a
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situation where like the other beliefs, especially the Nordic
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and the Pagan were kind of like, no, it's kind of open to
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interpretation. Do do what it what what works
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best for you and also like you know, the nature changes, the
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things change and. To a degree, I mean, they did
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still have their gods that they like it was still very much.
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You're not going to believe in the new or like the yeah,
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basically the new God. It's the old gods that we, we
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believe in this God for fertility.
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So we're going to pray to her for fertility and we're going to
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pray to this goddess for war. And we're going to pray about
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this God for war. And we're going to, you know,
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for different. Reasons, but that wasn't part of
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your. I think you can kind of bypass
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that God and work will work best for.
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You right, like if you were with if you were with this God,
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because he was all up into war and you took him as you're as
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you're like, I don't want to say you're I don't know.
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You were a soldier and you needed that for protection to go
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into that. You're not going to be praying
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to the same goddess of fertility like you don't really care
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about, like being a maternal figure to people and teaching
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them how to grow plants and. And Christianity is kind of
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like, here's your one God. He does it all.
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Yeah, yeah. And you believe in him and no
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one else. Yep, Segment 3.
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We're going to dive into a little bit of the witch trials.
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So between the 15th and 17th century, Europe and the early
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colonists fell into a witch hunting madness.
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Familiars became courtroom evidence.
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Records from 1645 Essex witch trials list familiars named
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pywak vinegar, pywak it, vinegar Tom and Grizelle Greek.
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Greed gut, grizzle. Greedy gut.
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Grizzle greedy gut Authorities claim these little creatures
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drank witch's blood and carried out curses.
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In Salem, MA, witnesses spoke of spectral birds perched on the
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accused. The familiar had become a
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scapegoat, a symbol of guilt projected into the innocence.
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Could you imagine a bird just lands on your shoulder?
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She's a witch. Yep, it was done.
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Dude. Imagine like people probably
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just stay in their fucking house.
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Like I'm not going out like I do one thing wrong and.
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Could you imagine like you know how sometimes if you're just
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overtired, your muscles like spasm and you get like an eye
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twitch? Could you imagine just getting a
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random eye twitch? Like absolutely nothing wrong,
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just something like happens for like a second in your life and
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they're just like Yup, dead, gone.
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She's a witch. Yeah, she's.
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Under spell. How the idea of the witch
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witch's familiar feed into the mass hysteria?
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Can we compare this today of a modern conspiracy of fears?
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I have a comparison. OK.
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I, I think right now, I think the LGBTQ community is, is
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definitely under a conspiracy theory of like if children are
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people don't are are are subjected to it, they become gay
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or they can be swayed into the sinful ways of the LGBTQ
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community. Or they don't even call it a
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community, They call it a. What do they call it?
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I think, I think you're going very broad.
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I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
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But I think that a. Conspiracy.
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The modern conspiracy. OK, I think a modern conspiracy
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for familiars would be something more like a Rottweiler or a pit
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bull. Just for being what they are.
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Are the devil. They're evil because look at
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them. Look at their size.
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They're menacing. Better than that.
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That's a conspiracy. We're not attaching them on a
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scale of like Salem witch trials as we are.
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What I'm saying right now the. Question.
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I'm sorry. Go on.
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Yeah. I'm just trying to say how
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people can be swayed into believing things and persecuting
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people and going after them and, and symbols of the community
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like rainbows, our love, our hearts, you know what I mean?
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Or like if a kid sees a rainbow, Oh my God, my kids are going to
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turn. No, they're not like your kids
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either gay or not gay. And it's for you as a parent to
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accept them regardless. You know, I'm not saying like
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the animal comparison. I'm just saying in modern day,
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that's to me, that's like I, I look at that and I immediately
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flashback to like, wow, when uneducated people thought
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science and things like that were fucking coincidence.
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You know what I mean? Like, yeah, that's kind of where
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I lie. Sure, there's theories of like,
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not theories, but like certain dog breeds.
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How You're saying like that one point in time the bulldog was
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bred to be a fucking. Monster animals in general, like
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you can't. I'm trying to think of like
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possums are, are riddled with rabies or raccoons are riddled
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with rabies and like things like that.
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And it's like not accurate. It's not it, it's like
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misconceptions, but it's like things that are said to make you
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fear them or not want to touch them or not go around them like
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they're dirty creatures or, and it's like like it's still a
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misconception that's still to this day that like these animals
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are going to hurt you or they're not not saying that they can't
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hurt you because I. Should still leave them alone.
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Yeah, definitely. But I do think if.
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You say a raccoon or Opossum in the broad daylight.
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Probably not a good idea, yeah. Don't fuck with that thing that
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probably has rabies. The.
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Squirrel might be OK, but I would still leave it alone.
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It's still squirrely, yeah, but. Let non domesticate animals
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alone unless. They're unless they come to you,
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if they come to your house, they have raised.
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I love those. I well, I love the, the the
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videos of like somebody that has like a moose came into their
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house and you're like, that's dope.
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No, it's not. How much damage is it going to
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do, though? And who's fixing that?
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It's It's adorable when like a bear learns to open the front
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door of your. House.
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Yeah. So cute.
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So adorable. Yeah, yeah.
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Fuck, that's not cute. That's scary.
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So no, I actually was terrified. I, I don't know if I ever told
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you that that happened. I had a baby cub.
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I had two dogs. One was a pit bull, the Nova
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that we are celebrating in remembrance of today.
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And the other dog was a coonhound and she like they were
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both out. We put them out to just do their
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business before going to sleep. And we had a gated, like a
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little fence, not a full tall privacy fence, but like a chain
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link, waist high fence with a little latch over it.
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And I hear the dogs barking and I'm like, OK, but I'm in the
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bathroom right on the other side of the door.
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So I'm like, OK, just like, give me a minute, shut the hell up.
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Like I'll be right out there. And I finished doing my business
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and I go to open the door and my fence is open.
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But also like the side of the fence that the actual gate is
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attached to. Like the next panel of fence is
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bent in like there's just it's supposed to be a rectangle and
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it's like. U-shaped like it was pushed down
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and me and my ex were like I was like I don't know what happened.
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He goes grab your gun. I was like OK that's not
20:10
terrifying. So we went on opposite sides.
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I don't know why we didn't stay together, but we decided to go
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in opposite directions around the block.
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And then I saw the Mama bear and I got terrified.
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So I called him on my phone. And then he met me there and we
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found the one dog. And my silly little puppy was
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back at home rolling around in her own poop.
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But yeah, we had bears open, like tear apart our fence.
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And then after that, I was like, OK, it's not cute.
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It's. Like, I love bears, but I
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respect bears. Yeah.
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If you can domesticate an animal, it would be that for me.
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And a goat. A goat.
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The evolution of the familiar. By the 18th and 19th centuries,
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the demonization faded. In Gothic and Romantic
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literature, familiars evolved from evil, from evil to
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eccentric. They became metaphors for
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creativity, rebellion, and the supernatural.
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The occult revival reframed familiars as spirit guides as
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more protectors in modern Paganism and Wiccan familiars
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are are often beloved pets that share magic and into our sorry
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our magical or bonds. What one evidence of evil became
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a symbol of empowerment, our connection.
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So what makes the idea of a spiritual companion so enduring?
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Is it the just the comfort or is there something deeper about
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needing a witness to our power? I think that I, I don't know
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that I can really speak for people getting into their
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awakening today, because nowadays you have TikTok, like
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it's so easy to find a community.
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But I think that when I first started my journey with my
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spirituality, I was by myself. It was me and my dog.
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And then my dog passed away and then it was me and my cat and it
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was just something like, maybe it was just irony that every
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time I practice, they wanted to be directly next to me.
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And like there was an instance that something happened when I
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was living in Texas and it was before I put Nova down, but I
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felt like there was a darkness that came into my house and I
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saged my house and I literally was just staging the house.
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And sometimes Sage gets super smoky and maybe there really was
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an evil entity in there, I don't know.
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But like I felt like I just had all this smoke hit me in the
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face and I like passed out. Like I literally like I didn't
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pass out, but I like fell to my knees.
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Like I just felt really weak all of a sudden.
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And like after that day, Nova never left my side.
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And she got really, really sick after that.
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So I don't it maybe it's just crazy belief of mine, but I kind
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of feel like she was there whenever that darkness was there
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and she took it from me. But also I feel like she was
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there too. Yeah, I shared that with her.
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Like I had that bond with her because I didn't.
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I couldn't have it with anybody else.
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Yeah, I think a lot of it too. I think as we grew as society,
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we've also learned more about domestication of animals.
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And I think culturally and humanity, like with human
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humanity and stuff, animals have learned to depend on humans more
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as as centuries went on and went on.
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And I think the human mind, and this is just maybe by skeptic
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brain talking a little bit. I think as a human, when when a
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pet or an animal needs us because they genuinely knew do
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for food or comfort or whatever, you almost feel more empowered
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or bodied or connected to that. It's almost like a maternal if
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like type thing or if you maybe don't have children or you don't
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have people around and your pet is your thing.
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That's where I think like, Oh well, my, my pet might be, I
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feel connected to that because it might be a past relative or a
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past friend or someone's channeling through my animal.
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But. Also, like, pets do have
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personality. Sure.
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Like, you can definitely tell the difference.
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And like, you can't say that just because a pet has these
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parents that it's going to act a certain way.
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I have two cats that are polar opposites.
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Yeah, but but yeah, I know I agree with that, that I do think
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that there are certain, I don't know if that I agree with
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everything that you were saying, but something what you were just
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saying that like some people do believe that there's they have
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people that passed with them that have been reincarnated, so
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to speak, with their animals. And I feel like I've kind of, I
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don't want to say I felt that completely, but I'll be like, Oh
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my, this animal just did this and that was sent.
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They did this thing that this person did to me all the time as
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like a little sign like that was that person talking to me
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through them. But I wouldn't say that like
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that was them being reincarnated through them completely.
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Yeah, it's, it's it reinfurms your comfort levels and helps
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you cope with something, right? Whether it's real or not, it
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doesn't matter. It's for you, right?
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Yeah, familiar is in pop culture.
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From Shakespeare to streaming television, the familiar has
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taken on every form imaginable. Macbeth gave us Grimlock the
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cat. Sabrina the Teenage Witch made
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Salem the snarky mascot of a generation.
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Harry Potter enchanted the archetype with Hedwig the Owl.
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The witch turned Black Philip into pure nightmare fuel.
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Kiki's Delivery Service gave us Gigi, the Adorable yet
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wisecracking friend. Pop culture turned familiars
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into symbols and I of identity, loyal companions, sources of
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Comic Relief and reflections of consequence.
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So which modern familiar sticks out to you the most?
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The spooky, the funny or the tragic ones?
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So whenever I look at Harry Potter, do you know who actually
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comes to my mind as familiar more than anyone else?
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In your case, I would probably say the rat Harry, What's the
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name? You're on the same thought
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process and they're not are. Hermione's cat.
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Crookshanks also no. My answer would be Nagini the
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snake. Voldemort snake, that is.
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You have a that's. Familiar type.
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A familiar stuffed animal. I do, I have a Harry Potter
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stuff. You got it for We got you a
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Hedwig for Mother's Day slash birthday.
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Yeah. I love it and it looks like it's
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it looks like it's knitted, like the way that it's made looks
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like it's it's not knitted, but it's still super.
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So that's you're familiar that you you attach yourself.
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With not that I attach myself with, but somebody that I think
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like as far as familiar type energy goes, I would say that
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that's something that's really big in my head.
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But also I don't, I don't know if it counts, but like, I'm
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sorry, I I had it. But I think that it's, it's a,
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it's a, it's a, it's ATV show from like it's so obscure and
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it's like a kids TV show from like Nick Junior.
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But I don't, I don't, I remember, I don't remember the
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name of the TV show. That's like Gilagila Island.
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It's like, it's like Stanley something.
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Stanley and I, we were just talking about this guy
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yesterday, but the guy from the nanny that plays Mr. Sheffield,
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he plays a goldfish. And it's just this kid who like
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has this goldfish that talks to him all the time.
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But anytime anybody else comes around, the goldfish can't
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speak. It's kind of on the same lines
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of like Sabrina and Salem. American Dad has a goldfish that
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talks. Yeah, that has like a very
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German. Yeah, here's a question.
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If is Scooby-doo a familiar? I would say, yeah, I would have
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that. That's gotta count the familiar.
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But they don't give dogs a lot of the credit for being
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familiar. But they're the same energy.
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It's the same energy like it is almost.
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Humanist human has human characteristics.
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Right. But he's like he's human version
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of Shaggy. I wouldn't say he's everybody's
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familiar. I would say he's.
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She's definitely Shaggy's, Yeah. He's more adapted to Shaggy than
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anybody else. Absolutely.
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Shaggy's always kind of alone. Fred's trying to get that
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threesome every time they're in the fucking castle.
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This is why this is not for children.
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But like he's always like, hey, Daphne and Velma's coming with
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me. I'm going to tighten up my Ascot
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and go look for clues. Shag and Scoob go fucking do
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what you do eat. Some food.
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Or something I don't know. Trying to think who else could
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be possibly a a familiar in TV that maybe doesn't get credit
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for it trying to I I. Well, what about Brian from
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Family Guy? Yeah.
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Is he familiar or is he just he's too humanized?
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Yeah, I know that's fair because everybody else can.
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He goes the. Like, and Brian kind of has his
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own life. He dates people, he lives like
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he doesn't really. He can go on his own and live by
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himself. He's not.
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He's not like a companion to The closest person He's a companion
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to is probably Stewie. What about Garfield?
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I would say more. Odie.
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Would be more of a familiar to John than Garfield.
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Garfield's kind of his own thing, too.
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And he's a jerk. And he's a jerk.
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They don't really. Yeah, he's an orange cat.
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Yeah my my pick would be and people hated the reboot of
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Sabrina because Salem didn't have the talking snarkiness type
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deal like the original. So I was, I just started
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rewatching the original Sabrina the Teenage Witch and I'm so
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upset 6 year old me that I didn't couldn't tell that that
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was an animatronic cat because I'm like, that is the cheesiest
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looking cat now And I'm like, wow.
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That was really thought that was wrong, but don't tell.
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Melissa Joan Hart. She had a show with two
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familiars. She also had Clarissa explains
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it all right. What was her pet in that?
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I don't remember. She had a pet alligator and a
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kids pool in her bedroom. I don't.
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So I got, I need to remind you that I was only allowed like an
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hour of television. That's true.
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Most of my like, yeah, childhood, childhood.
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Let's get a little bonus with this one with some fun fast and
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Easter Easter eggs. Some witches describe their
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familiars as tiny humanoid sprites dressed in miniature
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clothing. Cats became infamous with witch
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Laura so much that thousands were killed in Europe.
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Also too, cats are terrible for ecosystems because they just
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fucking murder like certain parts of the world and country.
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Like you're not allowed to own a cat because they have killed off
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smart rodents and shit like that.
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And they think he'd be very destructive, ironically leading
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into the surge of the plague of rats.
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So where you take all the cats away to get rid of the small
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creatures? Also disease and plague can kick
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in like they did in Europe. The familiar influence appears
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in everything from Pokémon. Oh.
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Yeah, how do Pikachu think of Pokémon?
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Pikachu is a familiar. I've been staring at them too,
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like looking around at like, yeah.
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I think Pikachu's more of a familiar.
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Like I think there's animals in the world of Pokémon, like
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Pokémon, and then I think there's ones that are companions
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of more like familiars. Yeah.
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Where was I at? Out the the familiar influence
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appears in everything from Pokémon video games to Elden
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Ring, where Sprite wolves fight by your side.
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Why do we keep reinventing old myths into pop culture?
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Is it comfort, nostalgia, or the survival of story?
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Oh my gosh, Derpy from K pop demon hunters.
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Yeah. The big cat you, you haven't
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seen enough of it, but he comes with.
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I played Fortnite, I've seen it. And and a little bird too, with
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a little bitty hat. They're both, I would say
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they're both familiar, as you know, I'm sorry, but we were you
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were asking me why do we think we keep reinventing old myths
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into pop culture? Because stories still.
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Whooshoo. Alright, that'd.
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Be familiar. Disgrace on this family.
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Disgrace to you. Disgrace to your family.
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Disgrace to your cow. Yeah, because.
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Because Eddie Murphy's good at doing all.
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Over, but yes. The voices of.
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Dishonor. It's dishonor.
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Dishonor on you. Dishonor on your family.
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Dishonor on your cow. I think it's just easy when
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you're with pop culture, especially with kids movies, to
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put a strong character with a. Well, I mean, companion, I was
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going to say you could go with like any Disney Princess
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flounder, Sebastian, you could go with.
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Good marketing. Yeah, Pascal from Rapunzel
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tangled. Some villains have familiar.
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Oh my gosh, Jolly on my leg. Hello, I have a familiar.
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Oh for that matter, I'm not sure if it counts but I think it
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should count. Thing from The Addams Family
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Things should count as Wednesday's familiar in
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Wednesday, at least. I can.
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I'd give it to you, but I would. I feel like he OK.
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I can't even say that because I think that, spoiler alert, they
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do say that he had his own body that he came from, yeah.
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That's what I'm saying. I think he he's more human than
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but. He had his own spirit though.
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The the thing really weird. Did they ever do in the
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Wednesday TV show The Thing? Nothing.
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What was the other one? The one with the long fucking
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hair? It it.
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Cousin It. Is cousin it in Wednesday?
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I I feel like I don't remember if he was in it already or if
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they just alluded to him being on it.
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I think he might have been in season 1 but I can't remember
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exactly. OK, I like Cousin It and I I
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never see anything used for him in the TV show and I was like,
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did they just erase that character?
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Did, but I feel like it might have just been like a something
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in passing. 'Cause they knew that it would
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take the fuck he'd steal the show.
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Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
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Legacy and culture reflection Familiars began as feared
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spirits, transformed into pets, and finally became symbols of
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creativity and protection. They followed humanity through
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superstition, art, and imagination, providing that even
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a fear can evolve into fascination.
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So I think we've kind of answered a lot of these
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questions again. So I'm just going to go go into
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our recommendations if you want to deeper.
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I like this question. You want it all right?
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What does your personal familiar look like?
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And does the voice, the voice that guides your gut?
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So like I feel like in that instant.
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I just thought of a good familiar.
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Sorry, just the one you said. Guide your gut and always let
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your conscience be your guide. Jimmy Cricket, Jimmy Cricket,
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He's a familiar. See, I could argue with that
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because Jiminy Cricket was a person who got turned into a
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cricket, Did he? I didn't know that.
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And then like as his good anyway, that's a whole another.
34:25
Yeah, that's a whole other. I was gonna say Tinkerbell, but
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Tinkerbell's a whole another right Cat.
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Yeah, she's a fae. She's a fae.
34:30
Yeah, yeah, which is a whole nother topic, a whole nother
34:34
episode. I think we've covered it in the
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past. We did a Fay episode back in the
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day. I mean, we could retouch on it.
34:38
It's not a big deal where we are going back and talking about
34:40
older stuff, but. One of my daughter thinks that
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she just stepped into a fairy circle not too long.
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Ago Yeah, Fate traps because she's found out.
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Learn about them on Tick. Tock.
34:47
Yeah. And I was like, well, you done
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did it now. But no as far as like a personal
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familiar so. Just to finish what you read.
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The voice that guide your gut, the energy that protects you.
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Maybe we still have one, just not in the way that the the
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witch hunters imagined. Right, so I think that I'm not
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going to say that anyone has their one specific pet love more
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than the other, but I think that like both of my animals, I
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literally don't have. Oh, I do have one cat by me.
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He's always by me. I do have one cat that favors me
35:23
more and I won't say that he favors me more as much as he
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pisses my other cat off. So my other cat wants to stay
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away. But Ziggy was all like was.
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He was. Connected to me at the hip.
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Yeah, he was more personable to us, right?
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And then boom, kind of attached to himself, to you or us more.
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And then say he's like, he just annoys me so I'm gonna stay
35:43
downstairs. And he's attached himself more
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to my mom. Right, right.
35:48
But I think as far as like familiar energy or what does it
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mean to you, I think that like it's not, I won't say that I
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don't believe that in spiritual energy or spiritual connections.
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But I think to me it's that that feeling of not being alone of
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like you have someone with you. You have someone that for
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whatever reason cares about you or whatever.
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And you can give that like if you're hurting or whatever that
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you can, you'll still always have that.
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If you have no one in the world to talk to, not a single person
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you can speak to, you'll still have that familiar with you and
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you still can like, lay that energy down for a minute and
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just take a rest. I think when it comes to right
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now for me, the cats are cool. I have no problem with them, but
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I don't definitely feel like I'm connected to either one of them
36:33
on a deeper level. But Jax, like me and Jax have
36:36
always been, had had a cool relationship.
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Like I can do things with Jax and get him to exert emotions
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and feelings that people are like, oh, he's gonna bite you.
36:43
I'm like, well, that's how we play.
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You've got yeah, you can get that and.
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He used to and anytime Jax genuinely scared or
36:50
uncomfortable he runs right to me.
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He comes upstairs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, no, no, I'm joking. He definitely does go right to
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you. Like half, half of the time he's
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just like looking for if he I felt like if he comes up and he
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comes to me, it's only because he's looking for you.
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Yeah, and and he right now his his body is not great.
37:09
So he he doesn't do the stairs as well anymore.
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But like when I come in the stairs, he just stares.
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I'm like, can you please just come over and just give me a
37:15
little bit of love, right. But yeah, that's probably my
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homie right now is. Yeah, and I think that's fair.
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I'm. Just always more connected than
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dogs than anything else. Dog would be my familiar.
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I would say that, yeah, like I feel like some people have like
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spirit animals. Like they'll say I have a spirit
37:28
animal, right? Like if I see this animal a lot,
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right? So I feel like I am really
37:33
connected to dark birds, like Ravens and crows and stuff like
37:36
that. I feel like I see them a lot.
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Maybe I'm just always looking for them, but I think that
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that's something that's a constant familiar for me.
37:43
But I always end up with, I can't say I always end up with
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because obviously Ziggy is a he's a Merle colored cat, but I,
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I have had a few Black Cats and I love Black Cats.
37:55
Boom is my tuxedo cat. He's a long haired cat.
37:58
But I think that that's I think that cats give that and that
38:03
same energy that I have to that like, Oh, I want you to love me,
38:06
but like not too much. Like give me all of your
38:09
attention, but not all at once and leave me the F alone, but
38:13
also worship me. Like I think that me and cats
38:17
kind of. Yeah.
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I'll go over on that, Lily. And then she bites me.
38:20
And then I'm like, alright, well I'm gonna leave you alone for
38:21
fucking 1520 minutes. And then I'm like, where are you
38:23
going? Who said you can leave?
38:25
Yeah, you just fucking scratched me.
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I am. I'm gonna leave you alone for a
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while until you need to get fed again, you know what I mean?
38:30
Yeah, or your cat nips running low, you know, So bonus
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recommendations if you want a deeper dive into familiar,
38:38
here's some stuff you can check out.
38:40
The Witch 2015 film. Haunting realism of 17th
38:43
folklore, 17th century folklore, His Dark Materials of trilogy.
38:49
I'm sorry. His Dark Material Materials
38:51
trilogy by Philip Pullman, Witchcraft and magic in Europe.
38:57
Oxford Press at university The familiar spirit in English
39:00
witchcraft by Emma Wilby and Dungeons and Dragons players
39:04
handbook. Fine familiars for a spell run.
39:07
So before we close out, Lily, do you want to plug your business
39:10
or anything you got going on? So sure, I am a I'm Lily of
39:15
witchcrafts by Lily. I have familiars.
39:18
No, I have a business that's mainly me making different
39:26
crafts. I make, I crochet things, I sew
39:29
things, I bleach things and I cut things and upcycle things
39:34
and I just, I don't know, I like making things and stuff that are
39:39
used useful or just look pretty and are nice to wear and you can
39:45
decorate your body with them. And I also make moon water and
39:49
things like that. So you like any of those things,
39:53
go follow me on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, The things,
39:57
the places, the stuff. We watched a movie.
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Well, I watched half of it with you, and then you watch the
40:02
second-half. I don't know if we're going to
40:04
do a full episode on it, but I put it on for you because it has
40:06
some paganism in it and some stuff like that.
40:09
You watched Midsummer for the Midsummer, or however you want
40:12
to say it. It's still, it's still said
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Midsummer. It's just spelt the correct way.
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Yeah. So what did you, what did you
40:18
think of the movie and how did it?
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How did it? Because I, so I knew going into
40:21
it that they're the horror aspect and the average person
40:24
who watched it would be like, this is fucking crazy.
40:26
This is like a spooky cult. But then I also knew you would
40:29
watch it and be like, they're not really spooky or evil or
40:32
intent, bad intention. That's just how their religion
40:36
is practiced, right. But there is an element of they
40:39
brought outsiders in to possibly use them or recruit them.
40:43
So, OK, it's I, I'm not arguing that completely, but I will say
40:50
that I spoiler alert completely on this because we're not going
40:54
to do like a full review on this.
40:55
So I'm just going to do spoiler alerts now if you don't want to
40:58
hear the rest of this pause, Fast forward 2 minutes.
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So, so I think that there were elements to I I actually thought
41:07
that as far as horror goes, I don't think that anything was
41:13
wild. I don't think anything was like
41:15
super crazy. I think the only thing that
41:16
really took that shock value for me, like I feel like I knew what
41:20
was coming as soon I think I, I think you heard me say it before
41:23
you fell asleep. But like when the old people
41:26
came out, I was like, oh fuck, this is their Last Supper.
41:28
They're they're gonna sacrifice themselves.
41:30
This is it. Like this.
41:31
You thought they were gonna do it at the table.
41:33
No, I did. I was like, they're gonna poison
41:34
themselves, but I was like trying to figure it out.
41:36
But I knew that they were going to be sacrificed in some way.
41:39
But when they took the OR when the the woman takes the jump 1st
41:43
and I saw it, that like shook me.
41:46
I was like, oh, at like, this is the kind of.
41:48
They show some gratuity there a little.
41:50
Bit yeah, but but when that happened, I was like, oh, OK,
41:53
this is this is where the horror, isn't it?
41:56
And I'm like, OK, what's going to happen next?
42:00
Like, and then when the man jumps, doesn't hit his head off
42:07
the rock and he breaks his leg, but when he looks up and he
42:11
starts screaming, then everyone else starts screaming too.
42:15
I was like, Oh my God, I like, I'm like, I feel so bad for this
42:19
woman who just watched or who has had this like traumatic
42:22
thing going on in her life and now has to watch someone jump to
42:25
their death. But at the same time, I'm like,
42:28
this is so beautiful because like they're all sharing that
42:32
pain in some demented way. But then going through the rest
42:37
of the movie, everyone who fucking died deserved to die.
42:40
That is how I feel about it, with the exception of Connie,
42:44
the the girlfriend who she's like, Oh my, my boyfriend just
42:47
left me behind or whatever. I don't think that she deserved
42:51
to die. Everyone else did something to
42:53
mess up. They're the one.
42:55
They tried to leave and maybe that's.
42:58
What it was maybe because the guy and the girl were trying to
43:00
leave and maybe that's what it was.
43:02
But I think at the end they did say like they had people who
43:06
were willing to sacrifice themselves.
43:08
Like they brought people there so that they could witness it.
43:11
And the reason the other reason that they brought people in were
43:14
so that they could keep the bloodline pure was so that for
43:17
it to keep going or whatever that like they they didn't, they
43:20
still didn't believe in incest. It was still taboo to some
43:25
degree because their shaman was also a product of incest.
43:29
Go figure. But at any rate, I did think the
43:31
whole movie overall, it kept me on my toes.
43:35
But I think that as far as the religion, the pageantry into it,
43:42
and the way that the rituals so to speak went, the numbering.
43:48
I was even in the, in the scene where the women are in one, in
43:55
one Hut, they're moaning and in the other hunt that in the other
43:58
Hut they're screaming and crying.
44:00
I, I was sitting there watching it because I am a weirdo that
44:04
like I, I do need to dissociate myself to a certain degree for
44:08
certain scenes so that I don't trigger just what I don't get
44:13
triggered. So I do things like I count
44:15
things there were 13 women in the room.
44:18
There were 12 women around and then the main woman to make a
44:22
total of 13 women in each room. The, the the May queen made the
44:27
13 woman and the woman who was being impregnated made the 13
44:30
woman, but there were 12 women with them for which is a perfect
44:33
coven. So like they were definitely
44:36
like, that's a that's being in your full power, no matter which
44:39
way it's taken. And the as above, so below type
44:42
thing, there was duality in it. And I think that overall, even
44:46
the cinematically, the colors, the representation, I think I
44:50
even told you, I said, oh, these two people are wearing sashes.
44:54
Why are they wearing sashes? And when the man doesn't die,
44:58
you realize, oh, he's the chosen one that has to now finish out
45:01
the deed. So everything was done for a
45:04
reason. And I think it was really
45:05
beautifully done. And I think as far as horror
45:08
movies, like I said, I do get very cringed out at certain
45:13
things. And I think that this is
45:14
something that I had to watch by myself for my own specific
45:18
reasons. But I, I am glad that you
45:20
recommend like I'm glad you put it on.
45:22
It was something I've been wanting to watch.
45:23
I wanted to watch it with you because I am afraid for a lot of
45:26
horror movies, but I am. I knew you wouldn't be afraid of
45:29
that one. Yeah, I think I'm more.
45:30
I think I am. That was a good movie for me to
45:33
watch that I was OK to watch it alone.
45:34
It was like very Edgar Allan Poe.
45:37
It was very dark, but finding that beauty in the darkness,
45:39
which ironically was in the 14 hours of daylight.
45:42
Yeah, So let's close out. We do have some topics coming
45:46
up. I actually want to give you guys
45:47
a little peek behind the curtain.
45:49
So we're going to be tackling Aleister Crowley again.
45:51
That one might be 1. I do solo.
45:53
I don't know if you if you want to join me on that one.
45:56
We have one for Pennsylvania Dutch Magic, which would kind of
45:58
be a rewrite of one we'd done in the past very, very early on in
46:01
the thing. I kind of want to retouch that
46:03
one. So are we going to do Texas
46:05
Mexican magic too? It's possible.
46:08
I'm for that. The Gordon Mountain Ghost is
46:10
another one we did in the past that I kind of want to tackle
46:12
again. And then for my birthday, we're
46:16
going to do the history of Krampus.
46:18
Krampus, or however you want to say it.
46:20
Yeah. I literally have a notebook
46:23
right there on that desk that has three pages worth of
46:26
Krampus. Well, you can.
46:27
So I'm very happy that we're going to be doing that.
46:29
So, and there there is a 90, I'm going to say 95% chance that we
46:37
will be participating in a Krampus parade this year as well
46:40
because I will be vending at 1:00.
46:42
Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm all for Krampus.
46:44
That's, well, the day of Krampus starts on my birthday, December
46:47
5th. So that's that's always been
46:49
something I'm into. I like Krampus.
46:50
I'm having the parade. This little.
46:51
Krampus statue right there. I will drop more information as
46:55
that comes, yeah. We don't, we're not really sure
46:58
because we recorded three or four of these in two days.
47:01
So I'm not sure when they're going to air how they, I'm kind
47:03
of testing out this new setup with the microphones and the
47:05
cameras to see if it works. So be patient.
47:09
We do have a lot we we don't want people to think we
47:11
abandoned the streets behind the illusion altogether because
47:13
people really do like this and they're kind of bummed that it
47:16
hasn't returned. But I wanted to do this with you
47:19
as well. We're back and and you were, you
47:21
needed some time to go through some stuff and figure them out
47:23
and then we're here. So let's close this one out.
47:28
If I could find my spot again, all right.
47:32
Familiars have changed the the the shape over centuries.
47:36
They never, they never disappeared.
47:39
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47:42
often come in unexpected forms. Sometimes furry, sometimes
47:46
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