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Spiritual family. Welcome to Know youw Aura with mystic Mikayla today. Do you ever feel like you're cursed? Did someone put a hex on you? Is that string of bad luck in your life right now because of a spell? Well, these are questions I get asked all the time, and I am going to address this directly today. But first. Hey, Scotty.
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Hey, guys. Well, I have actually a question.
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Yeah.
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Question for you. Yeah, can see, I think this might be happening. Oh, can your spirit guide. My spirit guide is Phoebe. I have another one named Mikey, but Phoebe's my main one.
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Yeah.
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Can your spirit guide put, like, a curse? Because I think that might have happened to me. I think she might be putting, like, a curse or a hex or whatever you want to call it on me.
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I think those are just your life lessons that she keeps putting in your ways that you feel, like, very victimized by.
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Okay, so it's not some sort of witchcraft she's doing. To me.
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Life lessons aren't curses, because I feel
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like this could be happening to me, but I don't know. All right, so what are we talking about today with these?
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Yeah, so I think, like, this is. I had to address it, and I've. We've talked about this so much throughout the. The life of the podcast. And right off the bat, I have to tell you, if somebody is charging you to remove a hex or a spell or a curse, that's a scam.
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Yes.
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And you have all the power in you to clear up your energetic body, and your energetic. Just the climate around you is up to you and in your control. And that's the first thing I want to say.
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Okay. Yeah, 100%. If it's a human doing it, it's a total scam.
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Right.
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If it's your spirit guide, maybe not.
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Okay. But like your energetic body, it's kind of like the climate of you. It's like your ozone layer. All right? It's something. It's the body before your physical body. It also is the body that protects your life, your. Your, you know, goals, your dreams, the path that you're taking, the opportunities you have and whatnot. When your energetic body has deteriorated for lack of self care, it can allow energy that's not awesome to kind of seep its way in. Your energetic body needs to be in harmony with you, and it's something just like your. Your physical body. Sometimes it's easier to think about it that way. If you're burning the candle at both ends, you're going to get a cold. You know, if you're burning the candle at both ends. You're not, you know, living your best life. You're not working to your potential. You're not being the best version of yourself. You're. You're kind of like going through the motions. And your energetic body has to be taken care of too, so that it can provide you the same opportunities of living your best life and protecting you and make. And also offsetting negative energy. I mean, there's negative energy coming at you all the time. There's probably people constantly like jealous of you. They want you to fail, they don't want you to, to do something. They think what your. What's yours is theirs. That's all the time. Like, this isn't new. Like this has been probably your whole life. People have that when your energetic body is strong, you don't feel it as much, it doesn't affect you as much. It doesn't like come into your, I guess, your mind as much in a way that can impact you negatively. Does that make sense?
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Yeah, I guess. Like, okay, so like for a red person like me, you know, the physical body, okay, if I stub my toe, I feel it. Yeah, my toe hurts, you know, get over it, whatever. Or something happens to you physically, you feel it and you know it's happening to you. So for someone like me and maybe others that are listening, although our listeners are more in tune. Yeah, the energy, you might not realize the energetic body is weaker or stronger or, you know, whatever the case may be.
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Correct, Right? Yeah. Your energetic body, in terms of feeling like you're out of control with what's happening to you, it feels a little different. Like you might feel, wait a second, why does that person hate me? Like you might be more. And it's not paranoia. You're just all of a sudden aware of something like that is making you off track. Or you might notice, why am I the target of such gossip? Or why is there a target on my back at all? Or why am I being so emotionally available to everybody? Why do I feel the need to overshare in environments that aren't safe? You might notice that there's things going on around you. You're preoccupied with an individual. You're feeling like you hit a string of bad luck. You feel like your body's always sick or the kids are getting sick all the time now, or everything's breaking, like, what's going on? You know, that's when you know your energetic body needs a bit of a tune up. And it's a, it's a Controversial thing to say because also life happens. That's the other thing. Like, life is life. You know, you're going to be hit. Blows. Nobody's guaranteed an easy ride around here. Like, it's not. Everything's your fault. Okay. Things happen. But you can mitigate it to an extent by making sure your energetic body is up for the task of what life is going to throw at you anyhow.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. That's interesting. So let's say you do realize that you have these cracks in your energy. I don't know what we call them. Crack. Can we call it that?
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Yeah, like cracks.
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Cracks in the energy field or whatever. Were you thinking people are talking about you or whatever. And we've talked about this before too, where a few episodes. I got in trouble. By the way, I'll tell everyone I said I put out that call. Like, I'm thinking of someone.
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Oh, right, right.
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I'm thinking of someone there. And you put in, they're gonna be in Canada.
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That was the Energy Eaters episode.
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And I got a. Yeah, and I got a lot of emails of people saying, oh, it's me, me.
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Right, right.
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And I just want to say it was everyone in Canada. I was thinking everybody in Canada. It was not a specific person. So all of you. I love everybody that listens in Canada.
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You really got them. Yeah.
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Okay, so let's say you. You do realize people are talking about you, right? How do you protect your. Yourself? What do you. What are you gonna do?
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There's a couple things you can do in the moment. Like actually right now with me, we can do this together.
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Okay.
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All right. And one of my favorite ones is I call all my energy back to me. That's a huge one. Like, how much energy in the day do you put? Like, oh, that was a weird exchange with the. With the clerk at the store. Or that mom gave me a really weird look at pickup. Or that I was left out of this party that I was previously invited. Like, how many times? That's all energy. Like every. That that puts a strain on your energetic body. Like there's pieces of yourself. You leave places. And now it creates some sort of a bridge or some sort of a connection. And so just telling your energy, I call all energy of my own back right there. And you visualize without any hesitation, but without any guilt, without any remorse, it all just bouncing right back to you right there. It can give you a boost. It can make you feel a little bit better. Even if, as I say it right now, like, I call all my energy Back to me right now.
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Boom.
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Done. It healed you. It's there. You have that back. That is a quick repair and it works. You can also say, so I just
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kind of say it.
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I just say it. I just say it and I say it and I visualize it. And, and, and, and if there's any sort of tugs or places where I'm like, oh. I think like, oh. And that. And I call all that energy back too. You know, like you don't have to keep your energy in all these places just. Cause you don't feel like there was closure or there's something you have to do or there's something that wasn't mended or it was awkward or it made you feel bad. Nope. I'm calling all my energy back from that. And that really repairs a lot of your. It just gives you more fortification where it was lacking. We get spread thin with where we put our energy. Another thing you can say is I release all energy that is not mine. And then imagine any energy that is not yours. It's somebody else's little sticky bits of energy in your spots gone. Goodbye. It's outside your bubble and you visualize it just leaving out and it's kind of just cleaning energetic house. It makes you stronger. You can also say something like, this is, this is for the extra. Woo woo. Here's for the turquoises. I call my energy back from every place, person and timeline.
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Whoa.
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Yeah. Because sometimes we leave our energy in places and this is like, this is where I get crazy psychically. Let's go a little crazy here, psychic lady. We have energy stuck in past lives, in traumas that are generational. Okay, okay. Like it's whatever your mom went through and then she raised you and it kind of sat in your lap and it's there and you don't even know what it is. You just know it's something like I released my energy from that too. Like generational trauma, ancestral trauma, past life trauma. Goodbye. You know, I really. From timelines, from decisions I could have made but didn't. Boom. Done.
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How do you do that? Just say it.
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Just say it.
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Just say it.
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You just say it. I like to visualize all my energy just, just across any certain limitations of plane or time or existence or universe just come back at me. And it really does work. It makes you.
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That's. That's wild.
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It makes you. That's.
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That's crazy. So. But let's say you don't even know what that is.
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Like, you don't have to know, okay? Because you have something called inherent wisdom. Right now, your inherent wisdom is your. You can call it your higher self wisdom. You can call it your. Your wisdom of the spiritual self. Like what you can from God, whatever word you want to use. Like, that's your inherent wisdom. And that inside of you is unburdened by how you were raised from your culture, from your socioeconomic status.
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How do I, like, connect to that? Is it like, I don't know if I can connect to that? Like, this is me talking.
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Well, I say things like I align with what my highest self aligns with. You know, so I just say it, and then I picture that highest self version of me as kind of like a really can do person that is handling it right now. Like, I don't have to know what she's doing. Like, that higher self, Megan, who's not even named Megan, she's like an eternal light, source of light or whatever. Like, we all have it. Like, that person knows what they're doing. And I just say, like, you know what? Whatever's aligned with you, take care of it. It's called delegation. You have to tell, which is harder for some people to do. Now I'm purple indigo.
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Yeah.
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And if somebody comes in and they're like, hey, can I. I'm like, yes. Like, if somebody comes in, like, hey, can I do. Yes, of course. You have a harder time. Yeah. I feel like, like, control.
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I feel like I'm not on that level yet.
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I think you are. You just have to delegate to your higher self. Doesn't higher self Scott know better than Scott here? You know, like, it's still you. It's just higher self you. Okay. I mean, can you imagine if somebody's tuning in for the first time? Like, what this sounds like? Like, I just. Sometimes I just have to take a step back and be like, wow. And this is why I can't talk to normal people anymore. Like, I can. Like, like we were having this conversation the other day. Like, we only talk to people that talk like this.
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Yeah. Who get it. Yeah.
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Like, yeah. So anyway, so you have to delegate to your higher self view. It's harder for some people to alligate than others. Like, yellows have a hard time delegating. But if you. If you pay, picture your higher self, you as the most organized and efficient version of you, then you can. And it's still you. You can be like, okay, yeah, do it. Okay. It's like that. Another thing you can say is. We can all say it together. My body is safe. Okay.
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Oh, should we say it Together.
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Yeah. My body is safe.
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My body is safe, okay?
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Like, my body is my own.
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My body is my own, okay?
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And I mean my physical body. I mean my energetic body, meaning anybody else's infiltrations or manipulations or energetic connections, they're not welcome here, you know? And that's okay. It's just closing the door. It's closing the door, close sign on the shop open later, not open right now. You know, like that. And that's okay, too. And also putting closure to things. Like sometimes it's hard to call. Like, when I say, call back your energy, and you're like, oh, but I have this going on, and I can't really call my back. My. Visualize exactly how you would like it to end. Okay. Like, this is a success. This has worked out in my highest good. This is done. Just say that. Like, this was. This has worked out in my highest good, and it is done. And you. You bless it, Dawn. You bless it closed. You bless it. A success. Sometimes successes aren't successes on paper. Sometimes a success is something that you decide, you know what? That was great for me. That worked for me. Even if it doesn't look good on paper, even if somebody else is like, wow, what a mess. You're like, you know what? It was a success. I've decided. So moving on, you know? And then you call your back, your energy from that. You don't need to sit with that anymore. So these are little things that we can do right now to protect our energetic body, to strengthen it, and again, to make sure that those negative infiltrations from people listen. They're around you all the time for reasons that are not personal to you, for they're personal to other people. And you do tend to notice it more when you're weakened. And these kind of little things can make you stronger and make it just harder for them to infiltrate.
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All right, that sounds.
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So you're not cursed.
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Well, okay. Well, that's good to know.
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Yes.
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All right, well, if the mantras don't
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work and you need a little bit
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of help, and you might need something else.
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Yes.
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We're gonna talk about. We're gonna take a quick break, but we're gonna talk about things that you can find in your pantry, things you can find in the grocery store. You could go to Costco and get all these things.
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Oh, in bulk.
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Get in bulk. Cause you might need a lot of these.
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Yeah.
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If you feel there's a lot of energetic holes in you and a lot of curses on you. But when we come back Our next
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Hey, guys. Okay, so I am talking right now to the author of the Encyclopedia of Energy Healing, an A to Z Guide to Spiritual Elements and How to use them. This is MM's newest book. It's coming out, I think June 23rd. 23rd. June 23rd it is. You can pre order now, Amazon or wherever you get your books. This, this is incredible. Our publisher, Simon Schuster, they went all out with this one. It is beautiful.
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It's gorgeous.
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This book is gorgeous. Yeah, it is just incredible. The amount of work you put into this is. We put our lives on you guys hold for an extended period of time.
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I learned so much for you to get this done. Yeah, this was. This was. It's beautiful. It's like pictures and glossy.
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Glossy.
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Yeah.
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The paging is beautiful. The fonts, everything, the pictures, everything to me is perfect in this book.
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Yeah. I mean, this took a lot. I mean, this was like a labor of love. I'm really excited because it's. I think it's like an evergreen just guide for any energy healer anybody has like all the crystals and herbs and flower essences and all sorts of different healing modalities. And the big thing, and this is why I'm so excited about it, is it's about strengthening your intuition, refining your practice, awakening energy that transforms life from within. It's about restoring that energetic balance to your life. How important your energetic balance is important to your spiritual health. So, yeah, I'm really excited about it.
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Excellent. So I figured I would pick a few items from this book because you're talking about energetic bodies and healing the body and you did the mantras. But then you're also going to talk in this book, you talk about different items that you could use.
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Yeah.
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You know, you could go. So I was going through the pantry trying to find all these things. Some of the things, I didn't even know what they were. I'll be honest with you.
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Okay.
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Like, I didn't even know some of these plants that you have in here. And you have like crystals and all that stuff in the oils.
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Right.
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But, you know, I try to find ones that, you know, that I think I can find. I found ginger.
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Ginger.
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So the first thing I found was ginger. Yes, we had that and it was very interesting because here you tell me in this book, for personal protection, all I have to do is keep a small piece of ginger root in my purse or I can use my pocket.
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Yeah.
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And it invites protection from the universe.
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Yes.
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Is okay.
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Yeah. These are like age old things that people.
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Someone asked me the other day, why, what is that in your pocket? And I pulled out my ginger root.
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Okay.
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And they said, why do you have that? And I said, well, I wanted to be protection. I wanted the protection of the universe.
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Thank God that's all it was, you know, a bonus.
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Okay.
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Ginger root's really good for manifesting. You can write your intention on a piece of ginger root. Like write it on there and then bury it. And then apparently it speeds it up.
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Write it. Like, actually, yeah.
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Like in the book, I go through like every. Like what the item is, what the history of it being used. In different healing modalities throughout time. And then I go into, like, the personal protection, spiritual protection, like your spatial protection, and even health uses for each one. But I thought that was really cool because ginger root is like. People write intentions on it, and then they bury it.
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How would you write on it, though?
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You can write. Have you ever seen a piece of ginger root?
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Yeah, it's in my pocket now.
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Okay, stop it.
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Of course I've seen a piece of ginger root.
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The thing is, guys, he hasn't. And I'm going to show him next time we're at the grocery store what it looks like, and he's going to be like, oh, my God. And everybody who knows what ginger root is gonna be like visualizing this, what you pulled out of your pocket.
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Oh, no, no, no. Jumanji here, people. No Jumanji. We're not playing that today.
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It's big, and you can write on it. Okay. Not overtime, right?
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That's true. That's true. All right, all right. So then, you know, I said, all right, fine. So I got my ginger root, and I kept looking through the pantry, and another thing I found was cinnamon.
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Yes.
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The other thing, by the way, lately, things have just been been sprayed upon my head randomly, you know, I don't know why.
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You were my test subject.
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Yeah. All of a sudden, she sprayed me with lemon juice the other day or something like that. But this has been going on now for a few months. Okay. So I got these cinnamon sticks out of the pantry.
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Yeah.
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And cinnamon thought of it as a good luck charm carrying a stick. Shields against malevolent energies.
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Yes.
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So.
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So, you know, like in the fall, when they always sell those cinnamon brooms and stuff, and they smell so good. That's. That's, like, ain't, like, an ancient way of warding off negative negativity or, you know, negative energy. And you can do that now. You can do that. You know, bonus, you can put, like, cinnamon oil, like, on your purse, and it's supposed to attract abundance and stuff like that.
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Well, I mean, I have those sticks in my pocket.
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You have those in your pocket as well?
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Yeah, I have. It's weird because I have been getting a lot of looks lately.
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Like, what's in your pockets?
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Yeah. What's going on with you?
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Okay. All right, all right.
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You want to do another one? All right, so, you know, again, it's
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like a Comedy Central routine here.
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So I was going through the pantry again.
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Oh, yes, of course.
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And I found basil.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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And, you know, this is what it says.
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Yeah.
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Keeping a pot of this herb close to you and using its leaves in tea oils and aromathery can assist with attracting. Aromatherapy can assist with attracting love.
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Yes. People actually put basil in bath water to get over, like, a relationship. Like you're going through a breakup and it's like really hard. You just want, you know, like that feeling, like, just get out of my head. Like, I just want to be happy again. I don't want. I want to just have a day where I'm not thinking about you. Like that. Like that feeling.
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Yeah.
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You could put basil in your people for a really long time. Throughout Human has been putting basil in bath water to help that you have. Yeah, I've done that. Sure. And it's supposed to invite new love in, too.
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I've been sprinkling in the pool. I put a lot of basil all around. I don't know if you guys noticed this.
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It's a purification herb.
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Yeah. And everyone's been a lot more loving in our home.
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It does cleanse a home of negativity. And it also makes a good gift, like when you're going to somebody's house, like a housewarming gift, like a little potted basil. It's to ward off negativity and bite positive abundance in.
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I have also put some basil in the kitty litter, and I noticed the cats have been much nicer to me.
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Okay, well, anyways.
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All right, so these.
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This concludes.
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So I know I'm kind of goofing, but so things like ginger, cinnamon, basil, and all these other things that you talk about in the book can definitely help you heal that energetic body that we were talking about. Along with the mantras that you discussed earlier. These things are definitely. That would help.
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The book itself is really an encyclopedia. You know, it's like a handy guide. It's nice to have on hand. That's what. And I was really excited to write it for the purpose of, you know, informing and people having something that they can, like, look into daily for. Oh, what's this again? What can you do with that again? What are some new uses for this crystal or this essential oil? But I just want to say thank you so much to the mystic Michaela spiritual family. You guys are so supportive with pre orders and all my books and writing reviews. And I just want to say thank you so much. And of course, I want to say thank you to Scotty because I disappear for months when I'm writing these books and he does everything. And I really appreciate him too. Thank you, Scott.
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It's also really cool because you have, like, power, like, of symbols and movement in here. I know. I'm just going now.
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You're just looking at the.
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Yeah. Power touch, and you got crystal healing, acupuncture.
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It's a really long time. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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This is really. A lot.
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A lot of the crystals are in here.
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Yeah.
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Herbs, spices. It's.
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It's crazy. It's. It's an abundant.
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Yeah. So if the turquoise aura say you never, like, you know, kind of cater to them, I think they're going to love this. Everyone's gonna love this. But the turquoises and the greens, I think particularly might love this.
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Okay. That's good. That makes me happy.
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Yeah. So. But every. Every aura color should get it.
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B
Okay. Thank you.
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A
All right.
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B
Thank you.
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A
You wanna do a little overtime?
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B
Let's do overtime. Hey, Scotty.
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A
Hey, guys.
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B
Okay, so, rules of overtime.
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A
Yes.
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B
Oh, the rules of overtime are you should leave.
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A
You can go now.
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B
Please go.
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A
Please go.
- [24:24]
B
You always say, you know, we're not
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A
responsible if we make an energetic hole in your energetic body from this.
- [24:32]
B
That's on you. That's on you. That's on you.
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A
There's actually no way to heal that. There's nothing in mystic Michaela's book that can help you. No ginger, no basil, no dandelion, nothing.
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B
No, it's on you.
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A
It's on you.
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B
So you should probably leave.
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A
Yeah. Just go.
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B
All right.
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A
All right.
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B
Overtime.
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A
Overtime.
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B
All right.
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A
Well, May.
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B
May is ridiculous. What is with May? May is stupid.
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A
It's ridiculous.
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B
May is stupid. They call it Maysember.
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A
Maycember.
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B
Because, you know, December is crazy, and May is just as crazy as December. But, like, without Santa.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You know, it's just so dumb.
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A
It's true.
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B
I hear.
- [25:08]
A
I hear about, like, a lot of nonsense. Like, and.
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B
And we have kids. Let's preface this.
- [25:14]
A
So, like, basically, like. And this hasn't happened. This part hasn't even happened to us yet. This is gonna be next year. Maybe. But, you know, I was told that next year, May, we're gonna have to have a bed party.
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B
Yeah. I had a.
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A
And I'm like, what are you talking about?
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B
Yeah. So our daughter's a junior. Next year she'll be a senior. And I had to prep him for something a year in advance. Yeah. Oh, you have to. With you. Yeah, you have to. Because you're like, bed potty.
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A
Yeah.
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B
What is this?
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A
What is this?
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B
What is it so bad?
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A
Nonsense. Right.
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B
Yeah. So if you haven't heard of a bed party, it is stupid.
- [25:43]
A
You like that word today?
- [25:45]
B
I just Dumb. Unless you're yellow. And then, I don't know, like, I already even talked to two of my yellow friends. I'm like, hey, do you know how to do, like, bed parties? And they're like, oh, yeah. And, like, one decided she's an expert fringe maker or something. She's, like, real good at hanging fringe. She's like, I know how to hang fringe. I'm like, you're hired for next year to hang fringe. She's just really good at hanging fringe.
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A
What does that even mean?
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B
You need, like. Like, you need to what? A bed party. When you graduate high school and you know where you're going to college.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You invite people over to take pictures on your bed.
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A
Wow.
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B
And I think your friends and your family make your bed themed to the school you're going to.
- [26:24]
A
Okay.
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B
And then you walk in, you're like, oh, my gosh. And then you take pictures. And so by. By fringe. It's like you have to hang up. Like, I don't know, like, what's. What's the word for it? It's like you stick it on the wall and it comes down. It's like, metallic.
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A
Like streamers.
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B
Streamers. Like, streamers and banners, and people go crazy. It really depends where you live now, down here. I've seen crazy. I've seen some crazy stuff. I've seen crazy stuff. And then your sister, who's from Long island, was showing me, like, they have catering and DJs, and I'm like, what is this? Like, it's. It's really. It's really odd anyways, but you can spend a lot of money and then you have to cover their entire bed in, like, a blanket from, like, something themed. And then, like, just stuff like candy treats and, like, merch. Merch from their school. And when you go to a bed party, you're supposed to. I didn't know this. This is bed party etiquette. You're supposed to bring a gift. That's like school merch or something. Well, sounds expensive. Yeah.
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A
This sounds ridiculous to me. Hopefully you guys all change your mind.
- [27:27]
B
No, this is what happened.
- [27:28]
A
Maybe social media will change their mind by next year. That's what I'm hoping. Because obviously this is just a ploy to get people to buy college merchandise.
- [27:36]
B
Everyone's doing it.
- [27:37]
A
Well, yeah.
- [27:38]
B
Everyone always follows. Friends that are graduating this year are doing so. So. Yes. So there's bed parties.
- [27:42]
A
All right, so that's going on in bed.
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B
So that's going on.
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A
Graduations.
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B
Yes, there's parties.
- [27:47]
A
There's a Thousand things at the school. Like, every day, the school wants something from me.
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B
Every day.
- [27:51]
A
Every day it's like.
- [27:54]
B
Cause we have a fifth grader too, so that's like spirit week. So it's like funny socks day. Mom, I'm gonna have funny socks. It's like a day before. I'm like, What? Sign this. Dollar for popcorn, $2 for popcorn, $3 for icies.
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A
Like, yellow green shirt day. Like, we yellow green.
- [28:15]
B
Have to have blue green. No, it must be yellow green. Like, why? Yeah, like, what is this? Like, just. Just obscure things that you have to do every day. And then if you don't do it, you know, your kid's the only one, like, just sitting there not doing it, right? And. And then you ask them, like, is anybody else not doing it? Like, no, everyone's doing it. And you're just like, what? They're just like a field trips. Here's $200. Yeah, $200. We're going to SeaWorld. $200 and they're going to SeaWorld. And I hate SeaWorld.
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A
And we hate SeaWorld.
- [28:44]
B
I hate SeaWorld. But they're all going to SeaWorld. So what am I gonna do?
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A
I had to pay $200 to go
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B
to a place I do not ethically aligned with.
- [28:51]
A
Yeah. And you know, the other thing is, I look up what the ticket price is too, people. Okay? And it wasn't 200. Okay? It was like 59.99. So, like, where.
- [29:01]
B
Where is this money going?
- [29:02]
A
Where's the other $140?
- [29:05]
B
What is this?
- [29:06]
A
What is that? The bus ride? Give me $140. Bus ride.
- [29:10]
B
I don't know what this is about two hours away. Chaperones had to pay for themselves, too. So, like, what that is that like you're paying for the chaperones.
- [29:15]
A
Right. Exactly.
- [29:17]
B
And then. And then, like, thank God.
- [29:18]
A
And what do they give you, like a juice box?
- [29:20]
B
Yeah, I mean, well, thank God, like one of. One of her friend's mom's going. And I. I like, looked at her in the eyes and I was just like, thank you. Because that meant I didn't have to go, like, thank you. Make sure she doesn't lose. Get lost. You know, like that.
- [29:34]
A
And then you got. And then you got fine. Like, Bree's got the finals, all the AP exams.
- [29:38]
B
AP exams are stupid.
- [29:41]
A
Don't get me started on her. AP history.
- [29:44]
B
So Scott was 20 years. You. You taught AP. You taught high school history.
- [29:50]
A
Yeah.
- [29:51]
B
And then God bless anybody who teaches her his kid history now.
- [29:55]
A
No, no, no.
- [29:56]
B
They're Right. About this.
- [29:57]
A
This one is legit.
- [29:58]
B
Yeah.
- [29:59]
A
This guy. Okay, so there's a few parts to the AP history test.
- [30:04]
B
Settle in, guys.
- [30:04]
A
Yeah. You got a multiple choice section.
- [30:06]
B
This is over time.
- [30:07]
A
You get the multiple choice section. You got your DBQ document based question. You got. Now they added a short answer. Didn't have that one. I was teaching. And you have a long answer, long essay. Okay, ask me this question. How many long answer essays did they practice?
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B
How many long answer essays did they practice?
- [30:25]
A
Zero.
- [30:25]
B
What?
- [30:26]
A
Ask me how many DBQs they practiced.
- [30:28]
B
How many DBQs?
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A
Zero.
- [30:29]
B
That's crazy. That is crazy.
- [30:30]
A
Let me ask you how many short answers they practice. How many throughout the whole year?
- [30:33]
B
How many?
- [30:33]
A
Zero.
- [30:34]
B
That's nuts.
- [30:35]
A
Let me ask you. Every test they took, how many tests did he give back and go over them? Zero. So how is a kid supposed to learn how to do the skills of an AP now? He taught him the history. I think he did all that. And he told his stories and his fables and his nonsense. Yeah, but how is a kid supposed to do well if you don't teach them all the skills?
- [30:57]
B
I have a new job for me as a psychic. Bring me to your kid's open house.
- [31:02]
A
Yeah.
- [31:02]
B
I will tell you how the year is going to go. I don't often toot my own horn. Okay. Like, I know I have a podcast. I wrote a book. I'm like, thanks for being, you know. You know, I talk about this all the day. But I will tell you my. On, what is it like, my unspoken greatest gift is I will tell you what the year is going to be like for your kids with this teacher. Just bring me to open house. I called it. That's what I'm saying. I called it. And at the beginning. Oh, no. He's like, no, I called it. I know. Like, I just. I'm not gonna read him to filth here because he's a real person. But like, I called it.
- [31:41]
A
Yeah. You know exactly how he was gonna.
- [31:43]
B
So if you need me to come to your open house.
- [31:45]
A
Yes.
- [31:46]
B
And I'm not already in my pajamas because those are always like a little late for me. I'll go and I'll tell you.
- [31:52]
A
Well, anyway, for the past week, I've been, you know, because I've been out of the game for seven years or whatever it is now. I had to teach her all the skills of the DBQ and everything because I didn't realize this until the last minute. But anyway, so that's been going down. It's. May is crazy.
- [32:12]
B
Yeah. And I feel like, you know, so she had the AP exams, and that was our first time really dealing with a kid, like, just, like, really getting stressed about that. So we had that. And then our fifth graders going to middle school next year. And I think it just. And then she's also in ballet, so there's like, recitals, and. And it's really hard to tell your red or a husband. Like, everything keeps costing money.
- [32:33]
A
Yeah.
- [32:33]
B
You know, it's like tickets for the recital. You know, it's like, here's a costume. It's like, we have to pay for photos now. You know, and then. And then I'm already prepping you for next year because senior year's incorrect. Like, people, everybody warned me, get ready for how expensive senior year is. And I'm like, wait, what? Like, and. And then it's not. We're not even done with junior year yet. And I'm getting calls for scheduling her senior portraits. So I've had to. Told you. And that was, like, a whole conversation. It's been fun.
- [33:03]
A
It's been fun.
- [33:04]
B
And we have three cats. Yes. Okay.
- [33:06]
A
We have three cats. We're doing all this with three cats?
- [33:08]
B
With three cats.
- [33:08]
A
Maybe it'd be easier if we had one. Maybe a cat has to go.
- [33:13]
B
I feel like the cats. As the kids get older, the cats get more needy. What is that?
- [33:17]
A
They're really needy. Lately, they've been really needy in the month of May.
- [33:20]
B
Well, Dusty will only eat if you tell him to now. Yeah, he's our old one.
- [33:24]
A
Tell him to eat.
- [33:25]
B
I'm like, scat. Tell Dusty to eat.
- [33:28]
A
Yeah.
- [33:29]
B
And then you do. You don't even question it. You're like, dusty, eat. And then you will.
- [33:33]
A
Well, at least May's almost over. Halfway over. Halfway over. Oh, bizarre.
- [33:37]
B
Not really, no. Because, like, I'm purple and like, I. It's. It's extra work for me because I can't think like that. But I really love summer.
- [33:46]
A
Yeah. I wonder up north, this must be, like, June, because when we lived in New York, school ended, like, later.
- [33:52]
B
Yeah.
- [33:53]
A
So this, you know, like, towards the end of June.
- [33:54]
B
Yeah.
- [33:55]
A
June must be their bad month.
- [33:56]
B
June's. It's like, June.
- [33:58]
A
May is the bad month.
- [33:58]
B
Yeah, May, because we're done. Like, we're done. Last week of May is done here.
- [34:02]
A
Kids are almost done.
- [34:02]
B
But then summer, it's just, like, no rules. Y. I'll allow it. All right. This podcast is for you and about you, and we're so glad you spent some time with us today.
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C
Are you really buying a car online on Autotrader right now.
- [34:22]
B
Really?
- [34:22]
C
At a playground?
- [34:23]
B
Yeah. Really? Look at these listings from dealers.
- [34:26]
C
Wow, your search can really get that specific.
- [34:29]
B
Really?
- [34:29]
C
And you just put in your info and boom, car's in your budget.
- [34:33]
B
Mom needs a second.
- [34:34]
C
Honey, you can really have it delivered.
- [34:36]
B
Really? Or I can pick it up at the dealership. One sec, sweetie. Mommy's buying a car. Mommy, look.
- [34:42]
C
I think your kid is walking up the slide.
- [34:44]
B
Kyle. Again? Really? Autotrader, Buy your car online. Really?
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D
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