EP317: Aura Points, & Aura Farming, Gen Z Aura Terminology Explained

Summary

Know Your Aura with Mystic Michaela

Episode 317: Aura Points & Aura Farming, Gen Z Aura Terminology Explained
Date: April 23, 2026
Host: Mystic Michaela | Co-host: Scotty

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Mystic Michaela and Scotty dive into the emergence of “aura” as a pop culture term among Gen Z, exploring what “aura” means for this generation, the concepts of “aura points,” and “aura farming.” Michaela compares Gen Z’s ideas to her own aura expertise, explains how authenticity and presence are perceived energetically, and applies these ideas to celebrities, influencers, and even historical figures. The discussion is light-hearted, self-aware, and full of banter, with plenty of real-life and historical examples.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Gen Z and the Language of "Aura"

• Defining Gen Z: Born 1997–2012, currently ages 14–29. (00:34)
• Gen Z uses “aura” to describe someone’s confidence, vibe, presence, or “cool factor.” For them, aura is about how genuinely someone comes across and the effect they have on a room.
• Michaela’s take: “Your energy speaks before you open your mouth to say one word. So it makes sense that Gen Z…have picked up this unseen thing and put the word aura to it.” (01:12)
• Memorable quote – Mystic Michaela (01:12):
  "They’re validating your authenticity factor, not what somebody says about you, but what you make other people feel like when you enter a room."

Examples of Gen Z “Aura” Usage (03:21)

• Someone could have “main character aura” or a place can have “major aura.”
• Key aspect: Real aura is authentic, not forced.

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2. Explaining "Aura Points"

• Aura points are the daily “score” of your presence—actions can add or subtract aura points throughout the day.
  • Example: Being funny in a group chat = gaining points; tripping in front of your crush or being cringy = losing points. (05:08)
• Michaela (05:43): “Saying something funny in the group chat…you just gained aura points.”
• Memorable moment: Scotty spills water on new podcast equipment—"losing aura points!" (05:43-05:52)

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3. The Concept of "Aura Farming"

• Originates from gaming: “farming” means grinding to accumulate something (XP, coins, etc.).
• Aura farming is trying to look cool or curate an image intentionally.
  • If done subtly or with humor, can add aura points.
  • If too try-hard, it’s "negative aura farming" and comes off as cringy. (09:10–10:41)
• Michaela (10:27): “If you’re aura farming, you’re trying to look cool on purpose. It’s this curated presence…can be good or can be not good.”

Types of Aura Farming

• Looks-maxing: Telling your friends to dress casual, but showing up dressed up (14:21).

• Mystique farming: Deliberately being mysterious.

• Class clown farming: Doing outrageous things for laughs (Scotty’s examples from high school).

• Key insight: Genuine aura comes from not caring about gaining or losing points, or whether you’re farming—just being yourself. (14:56–15:33)

  • “To have real aura…you don’t care about gaining or losing points or if you’re farming or not. You just do you.” (15:03)

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4. Applying Aura Concepts to Celebrities & Influencers

Celebrity Aura Case Studies (18:03–32:05)

• Justin Bieber:
  • Had “major aura” at Coachella by just being himself and not trying too hard.
  • “For some reason, his lack of perceived effort...actually did farm his aura.” (18:13–19:23)
• Al Roker:
  • Is the gold standard: “He’s just got aura. Natural aura.” (19:58–20:02)
• Conan O’Brien:
  • Once had aura but “lost it” as he went more mainstream; accused of “aura farming.” (20:41)
• Beyoncé:
  • “She just walks out, and everyone’s like…whoa. She aura farms her mystique, but it works for her.” (21:07–21:37)
• Alex Honnold (Free Solo):
  • Gained monumental “aura points” with his El Cap climb, but lost them by starring in Netflix’s more curated documentaries—now seen as aura farming/selling out. (21:41–25:41)
  • “Aura farming could be selloutness.” (24:47)
• Alex Cooper vs. Alix Earle (Podcast Feud):
  • Aura explained through their aura colors (Cooper: yellow/purple; Earle: yellow/purple/blue).
  • Michaela dissects their conflict as miscommunication and mismatched business/personality approaches, with Earle earning Michaela’s “high aura score” for kindness. (25:46–32:05)

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5. Historical Figures: Aura & Aura Farming in History

Brianna’s Picks (Michaela’s daughter, 17) (35:44)

• John Adams:
  • Had aura because he didn’t own slaves and kept his cool during major crises.
• James Polk:
  • Has aura “because he met with the King like a boss.”

Deep Dives by Scotty (36:33–48:14)

• Napoleon Bonaparte:
  • Had “major aura” for being repeatedly spared by his enemies; exuded a commanding presence even after defeat.
  • “They didn’t kill him…they exiled him nicely…He kept his titles.” (39:49–41:37)
  • Memorable moment: “For a little guy…he became the emperor of France and ravaged Europe…this guy was the ruler.” (38:15)
• Andrew Jackson:
  • Known for negative actions but had “defiant aura” and was one of the first overt aura farmers—built a mythos and image around his hardiness (“Old Hickory”).
  • “He had a bullet in him…he liked to fight in duels…he had lore.” (44:45–44:57)
• Genghis Khan:
  • Massive aura attributed to a legendary presence and influence (“1 out of every 200 men could trace their lineage to him”).
  • Memorable quote: “He was kid maxing…something maxing. Jumanji maxing.” (48:01)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Michaela (03:20):
  “You have aura by being so confident about saying that you had aura.”
• Scotty (22:09):
  “It’s very hard to impress me. Extremely hard. But Alex Honnold—this guy’s not human. Thus, he’s out of my scope of my logic.”
• Michaela (29:10):
  “If Alex and Alex sat down and just, like, held each others’ hands and had a good hug-out cry session, it would be fine. I just don’t think it’s that deep.”
• Scotty (44:44):
  “He was Ora farming. He had this whole image of himself.”

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Important Timestamps

• Aura definitions & generational context: 00:06–03:52
• Aura points introduced: 04:53–05:52
• Aura farming concepts & examples: 09:10–15:33
• Celebrity & influencer aura reviews: 18:03–32:05
• Historical figures with (and without) aura: 35:44–48:14

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Tone & Vibe

• Playful, self-aware, and at times “cringy” (intentional, to match the Gen Z theme).
• Educational: Offers both mystic insights and history teacher angles.
• Accessible: Breaks down spiritual concepts for all ages.

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Final Takeaways

• Gen Z’s “aura” language mirrors Mystic Michaela’s long-held views: presence, authenticity, energy, and how these qualities speak for themselves.
• Aura points and farming give a fun—sometimes ironic—way to measure and discuss authenticity, presence, and social capital.
• Real aura is about not worrying what people think or focusing on points—just genuinely being yourself.
• Anyone can have aura, lose aura, or farm it (for better or worse), whether they’re a celebrity, influencer, or figure from centuries past.

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End of summary. This episode delivered a lighthearted but insightful take on how spiritual energy and Gen Z language overlap, with plenty of real-life and historical context for listeners of all ages.

Transcript

[Scotty]

Foreign.

[Mystic Michaela]

Hey, Mystic Michaela spiritual family, welcome to Know youw Aura with Mystic Michaela. Today, like usual, we're talking about all things aura, but in the Gen Z way. What does aura mean in that capacity? What is aura points? What's aura farming? We're gonna talk about all things Gen Z Aura Genesis today. But first. Hey, Scotty.

[Scotty]

Hey, guys. All right, first, my first question here is what age group is Gen Z? How old are they?

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, Gen Z was born between 1997 and 2012.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

So right now they're around, if I'm doing math, right, 14 to 29 years old.

[Scotty]

Okay. So what I want you guys to do is grab your, your kiddos. If you have an older kid living at home still, grab them kids.

[Mystic Michaela]

Grab your 29 year old. Sure.

[Scotty]

Grab your 29 year old. Maybe you are 29 and Abby knows about this stuff too. So grab your 11 year old, 12 year old.

[Mystic Michaela]

Grab the Gen Alphas. They know better, they know best.

[Scotty]

Yeah. So this is, this is for them. You know, we're, me and you, we're just going to come off cringy today.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, this would be very cringy. Fair warning.

[Scotty]

So let's define some of these terms.

[Mystic Michaela]

All right, so here's the thing. There's the Gen Z, like aura terminology, and then there's my, the way that I do it. So it's actually not that different. So aura for the Gen Z is like your presence, your unique energy, your confidence, your vibe, your style. Okay, so they say like somebody has aura. That's a positive thing. Like, oh, he's got aura, she's got aura. It's, it's definitely what I do. I see life force energies around people when they're healthy and authentic, they present in kind of vibrant ways. And I always say you can feel people like you. Your energy speaks before you open your mouth to say one word. So it makes sense that Gen Z, you know, has picked this up, have, has picked up this energy, this unseen thing and put the word aura to it. Cause I feel like it's the same thing.

[Scotty]

Yeah. So basically what you're saying, like they're saying aura is like the cool factor, a presence.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

But you're really saying the same thing too. I remember when you were on Kaitlyn Bristow's podcast the first time she was not in the room.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh my gosh. That's right.

[Scotty]

And you could feel her aura in the building.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes.

[Scotty]

And I think she's a small person.

[Mystic Michaela]

She's really tiny. Yeah, I met her. She's little.

[Scotty]

Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And, like, you asked me did I feel it? I said no, but. Oh, yeah, but you felt it throughout the building. And I'm like. And I think my thing. But she's so little, you know?

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And I think Kelly Pickler, too, when you went on her show.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

She also. You said the aura just was everywhere.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes.

[Scotty]

So I think that's what they're getting.

[Mystic Michaela]

That's what they're saying, and it makes sense. Like, that generation, if you think about it, they've had to put a lot of. I love young people. Like, I really. I've. You know, I've always been like this when I was teaching and whatnot. I love how, like, the younger generations put words to things that the older generations maybe have kind of just, like, you know, let. Let go of or haven't talked about or haven't validated. So I feel like this younger generation, what they did with energy is they're validating your authenticity factor, you know, not what you have written on your resume, not what somebody says about you, but literally what you feel like and what you make other people feel like when you enter a room. And that's what they are calling having aura.

[Scotty]

Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

And they do it in ways. It's really funny. So it's very positive when used alone. You know, like, she has a natural aura. She doesn't even try. Or. Or a place can have aura. Like, this thrift store has major aura.

[Scotty]

Or.

[Mystic Michaela]

Or, like, somebody could have, like, main character aura. Like, they're living a movie. They draw attention. All right. So it's just kind of like this. Just this. The thing that speaks for you, but you're not. Here's the key thing. Like, you're not trying. Like, this is exactly who you are authentically. That's aura.

[Scotty]

Right, Right. And the thing is, like, this is not anything new. Now, Gen Zers didn't come up with it. Just because you were born in 1997, you think you came up with this. We were doing this, too. I was group leader. Okay. We had that episode.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. When you were a kid, you're saying.

[Scotty]

But I didn't use the word aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

You're saying when you were 17.

[Scotty]

Right. I had aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

You had aura. Wow.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, my God. It's kind of aura to admit that you had aura.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Like, to me, I feel like you have aura by. By being so confident about saying that you had aura.

[Scotty]

Now I have no aura. But back then, I had the aura, and. But I never called it that. I didn't even know the word. I didn't if you ain't even told me the word when I was 17, I wouldn't know what it was.

[Mystic Michaela]

Well, we back then, we didn't have that. We would have used like cool factor, like that kind of thing. Like, oh, he's cool. Yeah.

[Scotty]

I don't know if I was ever called cool.

[Mystic Michaela]

But you had aura in my group.

[Scotty]

Let me redefine this. In my small group of friends, in my friend group, I had aura. The rest of the school probably thought I was no aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, okay. So then there's aura points. So if your aura is a thing they call aura points is like the sum of your aura. So throughout the day, let's say you have aura. Right. And throughout the day you can gain and lose aura through actions.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

And that's like aura points. So you can have positive aura points or negative aura points. Okay.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

So your cool factor basically goes up or down and like how cringe you are can take away how cool can add it. So for example, let's say you're walking down the hallway and your backpack's open. You ever see a kid like that? Remember in school the kid like had their backpack just flopping open?

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

You know they lost aura points. Or let's say in the group chat, like you say something funny in the group chat, like, haha. Oh my God, that was so fun. You just gained aura points.

[Scotty]

Like right before we tape started taping this episode, I spilled water over everything.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. Over our new equipment.

[Scotty]

Like a doofus. And that would be losing aura points.

[Mystic Michaela]

If you're a doofus, that's negative aura. Negative, negative aura points. It's right. If you have cats like I do, they watch me clean the litter. Right. And then they wait and then they proceed to go into the litter and. And do their best work, let's put it that way. And what would it be like if you had a litter box that never smelled again? Well, this podcast is sponsored by Boxy. Boxy is the last cat litter you'll switch to. And their Boxy Pro Deep Clean is the best cat litter money can buy. The pro in Boxy Pro stands for probiotics, which Boxy puts right in the litter that gobble up odor causing bacteria and keeps the box continuously odor free. Yes, continuously. Not for 10 days or 20 days. Infinite days of continual odor freeness. And your cat won't smell anything either. So there's no like fake sense, which gives your kitty one less reason to avoid the box. And for a limited time, get 30% off your first order plus free Shipping. When you head to boxy cat.com know your aura and use code kya. The team at Boxy sent me Boxy pro, deep clean, and oh, my gosh, this will be the last litter I ever use. There is no question about it. You do not need to do full litter changes. Okay. That's. That's. You just scoop it, top it off with a little more fresh, boxy litter, and that's it. And that actually work. So if you're tired of switching litters and looking for the one, get 30 off your boxy. Order at B O x I e cat.com backslash kya and use code kya. That's boxycat.com kya. And make sure you use my code kya so they know I sent you.

[Scotty]

Well, I do. I do have to plug. If you did not see the Tamron hall Show this week, Mr. Michaela was on it.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes.

[Scotty]

Doing her version of aura. And they were talking about aura points for one of the segments. So I have to say, and. And I think you could probably watch it on some.

[Mystic Michaela]

It's on abc.

[Scotty]

Yeah, Demand, Right. I'm sure you can get on demand. It would have been a couple days before this aired. I would just say you had a lot of aura going out there. You. You got the points. Thank you for going out there, doing your thing. You really gained a lot of aura points.

[Mystic Michaela]

My recommendation to having aura is, you know, I was nervous because it's a live studio audience, so, you know, I'm not. You walk out, and it's just like, bam. There's a hundred people looking at you at once, and they're all like, oh, this is the girl that does auras. And you're, like, walking on there. And there's Tamran hall, and she's so beautiful, and she is aura. We're gonna be. We're totally cringe this episode, guys. Yeah, we're using it.

[Scotty]

It's kind of like a full overtime episode.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, is it?

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

Overtime has aura.

[Scotty]

Overtime has aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

But it could be aura farming. We're gonna get into this. We're gonna get into this. Okay. Anyway, so you walk out, and my recommendation to anybody that has to go do public speaking or anything, like, really scary where there's people looking at you, like, immediately just get into it and connect with everybody. Like, I was just like, whatever. I love every single person looking at me right now. And I did. And that, like, really helped me.

[Scotty]

And it showed in your aurora.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, good. Yeah, that's really good. Okay. But we have to talk about aura farming. Okay, so aura farming is when you're trying to look cool on purpose, from what I understand. So. All right, so where did this come from? I guess this all comes from, like, the gaming community. This is so not my age. But, like, if you have kids, they. They might talk about, like, I gotta grind. That's what our kids say.

[Scotty]

Yes, they do.

[Mystic Michaela]

Like, on Adopt Me all the time. They're like, I gotta grind.

[Scotty]

I'm like, abby, do you wanna watch, like, Vampire Diaries or something? No, I have to grind.

[Mystic Michaela]

I'm grinding.

[Scotty]

I'm like, what does that even mean?

[Mystic Michaela]

I gotta make my mega ne Easter Bunny. I'm like, okay. Like, so. So. So it kind of comes from, like, farming on, like, in these games or grinding or farming. Like, it's like making something anyways. But if you're aura farming, you're trying to look cool on purpose. So it's like this curated presence. So it's. It, I think. And this is where I. I kind of don't understand 100. Like, it can be good and it can be not good. Like, if you're farming aura and you're doing it in the right way, that's good. But if you're aura farming, that means you're trying to look like a. Try hard. That's. That's negative. So, like, this episode is aura farming. Like, we're using the language to make ourselves cooler.

[Scotty]

Is that so we're doing it.

[Mystic Michaela]

This is negative things. Negative aura farming. This is bad. We negative aura points. We get negative or 100% with this episode. So, like, this would be like aura farming. Especially if you ask, like, our kids.

[Scotty]

Okay, so, like, so, like, influencers. They're aura farming.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. If they're doing it, it's, like, too, like, cringy. Like, oh, she's cat her captions. Oh, my gosh, how cringe. What? She's aura farming or Kya podcast is aura farming. A whole episode about Gen Z terms or those filters. Aura farming. Omg. You know, like, that kind of thing.

[Scotty]

So that, like, Mormon wives show. That's total aura farming. Because it's horrible. And they're all trying to be something. I don't know, you know?

[Mystic Michaela]

Well, you have your own version of aura farming. That's when you personally don't like somebody. Now you just start saying, oh, that's aura farming.

[Scotty]

So basically, if I don't have your own.

[Mystic Michaela]

Like, I think we were driving behind somebody slow today, and you were like, wow, there's such an aura farmer. And I'm like, that's not just because you don't like somebody. So it's not that, say, aura farmer

[Scotty]

Scotty doesn't like you. That's not Aura farmer.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right. So I feel like. So that's like, the three main things before we get into, I guess, like, utilizing these.

[Scotty]

So how would you do, like, oral farming? Pot. Like, positively. You'd have to be like. Like, really, honestly. You'd have to be cool.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right? So, like, there's this trend right now, and. And I think it's happening a lot in schools, like, where. Let's say you're walking behind a kid. Let's say you're the teacher and you're walking behind a kid, and the kid, like, drops a piece of paper, and you're like, here, you know, Johnny, here's your piece of paper. And he turns around, signs it, and hands it to you like you want it. Like, kind of like you wanted his autograph. You're welcome. That's like, funny Aura farming. Like, he just farmed his aura in, like, a funny way.

[Scotty]

So, like, the stuff I did in high school, I could say a couple of things right now, probably, like, okay, so, like, one day, it was for English class, it was after lunch, and I decided to take out a toothbrush and brush my teeth in the class while the teacher was giving a lesson.

[Mystic Michaela]

What row were you in?

[Scotty]

Like, the middle. Like, okay, is that so that would be trying to orifar but gone wrong.

[Mystic Michaela]

No, I think that that's. Or a farming in a good way.

[Scotty]

Oh, that is a good way.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, I think that's like a good way because, like, you just kind of went for it and it could have been cringy.

[Scotty]

Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

But did you get laughs, like, where people, like, did they think it was funny?

[Scotty]

Well, I got kicked out of the class.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

But I think I got more confusion, like, like, what is he doing?

[Mystic Michaela]

Like, what's he doing? But, yeah, your humor takes a while. It really takes a. Like a palette. Okay. You know, like. Like a. Like, did other students come up to you later and they're, like, funny? Or they were, like, such a freak. So, no, I think it was more

[Scotty]

like, yeah, you missed the mark on that. Now, the other time I did it, it was again English class. It was always English class. No, this was a different teacher. This is next year English class.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

It was 11th grade, I think, or senior year. I don't remember a big song then was I Can't Dance by Phil Collins.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

And they had this dance where, like, three guys would walk doing a funny dance. And I Decided with two other people to get up on the windowsill of the classroom while the lady was teaching. I was terrible. And we did the. The I can't dance walk.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

Is that aura farming?

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, that's aura farming.

[Scotty]

So it's bad.

[Mystic Michaela]

They think it was funny.

[Scotty]

I think that one I got more, like, laughs.

[Mystic Michaela]

I think, like, if. If it's well received, aura farming can be positive.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

But there's, like, ways that people farm their aura on purpose. Like, like, I was looking. There's, like, different types of aura farmers. Okay. Like, there's an aura farmer, for example, who. Your looks. Oh, my God. I. This is so cringey, guys. I'm sorry. There's like, looks maxing. Aura farming was that. Swear you, like, let's say you're meeting up with all your friends, okay. And you're like, hey, guys. But, like, everybody just, like, dress casual. You know, Don't. Don't try or anything. And then you come in, you look, like, amazing. Like, you obviously tried, like, your looks maxing, but you farmed your aura for. By making sure everybody looks like crap. And then you come in looking, like, amazing.

[Scotty]

Okay, I never do that. I just always wear my hoodie. But Petro Honchar sometimes does.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes, I can see, like, Petro Honchar doing that. So there's, like, different types of aura farmers. Like, you can also aura farm your mystique.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

You know, by being more mysterious on purpose. Like, like when somebody asks you a question, you're just, like, silent or you're like, I don't know. Like, that's like aura farming. Like, with mystique, that's like a different kind of aura farmer as well. So maybe your aura farming was more like getting, like, class clown was your way of aura farming.

[Scotty]

Okay, this sounds a lot more complicated than your style of the nine order colors, mixed match, tricolor, tornado, blah, blah, blah. Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. It's interesting because the kids. I think the idea behind it is you being authentic, but then. And just be in yourself. And the whole thing of, like, to have aura is you don't care what anybody thinks. Like, that's how you really have aura. But then all the stuff around it is based on what people think about you at the same time. So to have real aura, my thought would be you don't care about gaining or losing points or if you're farming or not. Like, you just do you. And then you have aura. And then like, forget about, like, oh, negative aura. Or she's. Or like, you can't. You got to forget about all that. To even have aura, okay, it's crazy.

[Scotty]

Crazy.

[Mystic Michaela]

It's really, it's in depth, but at

[Scotty]

the end of the day, they're really just tapping into the same thing.

[Mystic Michaela]

It's just like, enter it's authentic energy. And you're picking it up.

[Scotty]

And you're just picking it up. Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

And then also I think like, if you, let's say you lose your like negative aura points. Like, let's say you trip in front of your crush. Like you're walking and you're like, oh, I tripped in front of my crush. Or like you see somebody waving if this ever happened to you and you're like, oh, hi. And you wave and you realize they were just waving at the person behind you. That's real bad. You know, like that's like losing. But like, if you own it, you know, you know, your aura can break through the negativity of it. All right, so should we, I think

[Scotty]

we maybe need some examples. Like, who has aura? Who doesn't have aura? Who's got aura points? Who doesn't have aura points?

[Mystic Michaela]

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[Scotty]

All right, I think we got to do this. All right, let's start with. Everyone loves this guy. Yeah, we talk about him all the time on the show. He gets his peaches down in Georgia. Yes, we know that Justin Bieber.

[Mystic Michaela]

Justin Bieber has had a rough ride lately. But when he came out to do his Coachella set, and if you didn't watch it, what happened was he came out, he kind of fiddled with a laptop or something. I'm gonna be honest. I didn't watch the whole thing. I only watched, like, clips I saw. And he fiddled with his laptop, and then behind him came his old YouTube videos from when he was a kid. And then he just sang along with his old YouTube videos, and that was it. Okay. I will say his aura, which is green purple me, looked amazing. It was projecting. It was authentic. He was having fun. He was doing what he wanted to do. So based on Gen Z terminology, I would say he had aura. And I don't think he was aura farming on purpose because he was just like, I'm gonna do the bare minimum to get my unprecedented Coachella pay, which was like $10 million for this set. And he's like, I'm gonna do the bare minimum, and I don't care. And he did. And for some reason, his lack of perceived effort towards it, I think actually did farm his aura. Okay. If that makes sense.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Because he wasn't farming his aura on purpose.

[Scotty]

Right, Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

Am I doing this right? I don't know, but does that sound right?

[Scotty]

Yeah, it sounds right.

[Mystic Michaela]

But he looked great. He looked like just back to the Megan Mystic, Michaela way of doing it. Like, his aura did look really healthy. And I always worry about this kid. I think my mom instincts are always like, oh, my God, Justin. You know, like. And he looked better, so I was

[Scotty]

happy that he looked good, so. And we'll give him aura points for that.

[Mystic Michaela]

He gets aura points for taking care of himself and doing things his way.

[Scotty]

This person's not on the list, but I'm just going to add her right now. Selena Gomez. No, Aura. No aura points. Negative aura points. Stealing from mystic Miquella, even more negative aura. I am not letting that go.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay, okay.

[Scotty]

All right. Al Roker.

[Mystic Michaela]

Al Roker's got aura.

[Scotty]

He's got aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

He's just got aura. Natural aura.

[Scotty]

Natural aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

He's green, purple, blue, by the way. But he just has. He has aura. He just has it done.

[Scotty]

How?

[Mystic Michaela]

I don't know.

[Scotty]

How come I can't have the Al Roker?

[Mystic Michaela]

He's just so cool.

[Scotty]

How come I can't have the Al Roker aura points?

[Mystic Michaela]

Everybody wants Al Roker aura points. Al Roker aura should be its own aura.

[Scotty]

And the thing is, he's been doing it, you know, it's real.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Oh, it's real because he's been doing it forever.

[Mystic Michaela]

He's so consistent.

[Scotty]

I don't know when he started doing the weather.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

But it was, like, many, many years ago, and he still hasn't.

[Mystic Michaela]

He used to go on Conan o'. Brien. I'm ajing myself. He was so funny. Like, he's just. He's just, like, consistently cool.

[Scotty]

Conan o'. Brien. He's not on the list either, but we could go off list here.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

I think he ora farms.

[Mystic Michaela]

He does aura farm. You know, he lost aura points. Like, with the. I think going more mainstream, like, with posting the Oscars and stuff. To me, I'm like, you lose negative aura.

[Scotty]

Like, he had it, I think, in the beginning when he started.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, he had the aura. He had aura.

[Scotty]

But then somewhere along the line, I think he lost it.

[Mystic Michaela]

I think he's always been farming his aura, but at some point, it just got too much.

[Scotty]

Bad crops.

[Mystic Michaela]

The crops are bad bad. Or a crop.

[Scotty]

Bad crops.

[Mystic Michaela]

All right. Beyonce ora. I mean, she just walks out, and everyone's like, there's something about her.

[Scotty]

Sure.

[Mystic Michaela]

Like, even if you're. I can't imagine what it's like to see her in person. Like, on stage or whatever. It must be like, whoa. You know? But like, even on TV or whatever, you're like, wow. And she's got, like, the mystique aura of farming. Like, I feel like she doesn't talk unless she wants to. She's very careful about how she appears and who she appears and when she appears. So I feel like she aura farms her mystique, but it works for her. Okay. That's what I think. Okay. Yeah. She's purple blue, but.

[Scotty]

All right, now here's one that upsets me. Oh.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, yeah.

[Scotty]

Alex Honnold.

[Mystic Michaela]

That's hard for you.

[Scotty]

Okay. Alex Honnold. Was the guy that free soloed El Cap.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. You know him now because.

[Scotty]

Yeah. He did the stunt with the tower,

[Mystic Michaela]

the Netflix special, and was it Shanghai?

[Scotty]

I forget.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Well, okay, so his aura is what? Green?

[Mystic Michaela]

He's green.

[Scotty]

Definitely green.

[Mystic Michaela]

He's green.

[Scotty]

Green. Just green.

[Mystic Michaela]

He's like, very green. Blue. He's green. Blue.

[Scotty]

All right, so let me do a little history with.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes, go ahead and do it. Aura related with context.

[Scotty]

Okay, well, first, I have to say it's very hard to impress me. Extremely hard to impress me. And I've. Throughout my life, I just feel I'm no better than anyone, and no one's better than me.

[Mystic Michaela]

I feel like the speech is aura farming.

[Scotty]

It might be, but let me just give the speech. And the reason why is because we all do the same functions. We all go to the bathroom. We all have to do things. You know, sleep, eat, blah, blah, blah, blah. So that's why, you know, when I see someone like Kim Kardashian out there or Selena Gomez, I'm like, ugh, gross. You know, you're not better than anybody, even though they think they are. Okay. But Alex Honnell, when he climbed El Cap without a rope, it impressed me so much that I'm like, this guy's not human. Thus, he's out of my scope of my logic, which is no one's better than me because we all do the same things. But this guy isn't human.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

How did he do that? Yeah, he impressed me so much that I put him on, like, a pedestal of no one else in the world.

[Mystic Michaela]

It's true. For many years.

[Scotty]

For many years, this was the one exception to the rule. If he wanted to be better than me, I would be, like, okay with it.

[Mystic Michaela]

If you want to see someone with aura, you watch Free Solo, right? Watch that documentary. That guy's got aura.

[Scotty]

I watched that documentary 10 times.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

This guy had aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

Aura.

[Scotty]

The greatest points you could give someone as many feet as, you know, Mount Everest, whatever. That's how many aura points.

[Mystic Michaela]

He had lived in a van, and he didn't even bother to have utensils. He ate with just the same spoon he cooked with.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Just ate with a spoon.

[Mystic Michaela]

I mean, that's aura.

[Scotty]

And he. Okay, now, then, of course, this documentary got big. He did a couple other documentaries which were. Okay. Lost a few points, but not a lot of points. But then he did the tower thing.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And I know, first of all, that is an incredible feat.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

It's insane. I totally was mesmerized.

[Mystic Michaela]

Obviously, that's cool. Yeah.

[Scotty]

But to me, he. And if you watch any of his other documentaries, he never ever talked about doing a Man made structure. He was only about structures in nature.

[Mystic Michaela]

That is true and all.

[Scotty]

And the documentary was leading you to believe that that was his number one goal in life, to climb that tower. Now, maybe it is. I don't know the guy personally, but I don't think so.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

So I would say he lost a lot of aura points with me, maybe others, but he was aura farming. Was that documentary Aura Farming for Netflix.

[Mystic Michaela]

I feel like that documentary was aura farming from Netflix. I mean, if you. If you hadn't been familiar with him before, right. You might not have thought that way. You might like. Well, but I think because, yeah, we were so familiar with him parasocially before we saw that. We're like, oh, yeah, sell out.

[Scotty]

Yeah, sell out.

[Mystic Michaela]

And then I think aura farming could be selloutness.

[Scotty]

It could be.

[Mystic Michaela]

That could qualify as a. As an aura farming.

[Scotty]

Yeah, it was a total sellout.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

I couldn't. I had to watch it on like fast forward.

[Mystic Michaela]

It was, well, the announcer, you know,

[Scotty]

there were signs that he was aura farming. I think he did like a deodorant commercial or something.

[Mystic Michaela]

Like a soap.

[Scotty]

So commercial or something. I'm like, alex, come on, man.

[Mystic Michaela]

You're the guy that did all Cap with all. I kept saying, like, you know, you know, he's married and I think he doesn't know. His wife's probably like, please stop climbing things.

[Scotty]

Yeah, but. But you know, but that was terrifying. The tower. He could have died.

[Mystic Michaela]

I know, but for him, it's like, easy. That was probably also, if you see him climb other things, like.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Like a man made structure. I'm not saying that's not hard, but if just I. It's like, it's a pattern. He probably understood.

[Scotty]

Yeah. His green brain.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, he's like. It's like this, this, this, this. He memorized all the steps of his hands and his feet for El Cap. Like, he had it totally, totally memorized in his head. Like, you gotta watch that. That's a crazy.

[Scotty]

Well now, Alex Ponald, I think you lost orb.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes.

[Scotty]

All right, the next one we have on the list is Alex Cooper.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Versus Alex Earl.

[Mystic Michaela]

Everyone's asking me about this. Okay. And I just don't think it's that deep. No, but we have to talk. I thought. Let's throw it in here.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

All right. So Alex Cooper is yellow, purple. Alex Earl is a tricolor. She's yellow, purple, blue. I was on Alix Earle's podcast.

[Scotty]

Correct.

[Mystic Michaela]

And she is like, I just. I'm biased. She is the nicest person. She made a video for my daughter. I was like, oh, my daughter's such a fan. She took my phone and made a video like, hi, Brianna.

[Scotty]

Yeah. And I will tell you, I think the most aura points you ever had was after you did the Alex Earle podcast. Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

You're so right.

[Scotty]

Because every one of Bri's friends looked at you with googly eyes.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And we're like, oh, my God, tell us everything. And they all knew that you were on the podcast. I think our nor our other listeners are. I don't know what the age of our average listener is. I say maybe 30s or something around there.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

They. I don't know if they were impressed, but the kids.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, my God, I was the coolest kid. I mean, cooler than I've ever been in high school. Even when I was in high school,

[Scotty]

we walked into the Y, and all the teens that worked there were.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, my God. Yeah. They're like, I just. I heard you. I heard you on the podcast. Like, I was like the coolest person. If you were like 15, 18 to 18, you.

[Scotty]

That was your peak week.

[Mystic Michaela]

I was in life.

[Scotty]

In life.

[Mystic Michaela]

My aura points were so highest ever. Yes. Super big that week.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

But anyways. But she's a very nice person. So anyway.

[Scotty]

Yeah. The color.

[Mystic Michaela]

So here's the feud. So I'll do the feud in aura color. My aura color.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

So Alex Cooper is yellow. Sorry, Yellow, purple. And she has the whole unwell network or whatever. And then she got Alex on her network with her podcast, and nobody knows what happened, but they kind of split up, and everybody was like, that seems a little awkward. Like, it felt awkward. We felt it. Okay. We felt it. Everybody felt it, but nobody ever talked about it. But I guess Alex Earle, according to Alex Cooper, has been, like, liking posts that say things about Alex Cooper that aren't nice or reposting things that are a little bit, like, according to Alex Cooper, passive aggressive. Okay. And so it's like, well, what's going on? You know? And because Alex Cooper, when she did release Alex Earle from the podcast network, I guess she did give her all her rights and she could still do her podcast under her own name and all that. So. So here's my thought. Alex Cooper is yellow, purple. They're very honest and they're very direct, and they will do things by the book, like what they think looks good on paper, like, that kind of thing. So I think Alex Cooper is like, okay, I don't want, for whatever reason where this isn't working and I'm just gonna let you go and I'm gonna. And I. And it. In her mentality and her logic, I feel like she felt like she did the honorable thing logically. Like, here's this, here's this, here's this. But we're not going to be best friends, you know, and I'm not going to hold your hand through it. And I'm not going to. You know, sometimes yellows can get a little, especially when they're in business situations, they can be perceived as a bit cold.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

So I think Alex Cooper might have been perceived that way by Alex Earl a little bit like, all right, we're not going to be besties by, you know, and I'm probably not going to return a lot of tax or I'll take a long time or my system will go back to you instead. I don't know any of this. This is just what I. These are my examples.

[Scotty]

Okay?

[Mystic Michaela]

Now Alex Earl has the blue in there and she's tricolor. And I met her, she's very sweet and she's kind and she's like very emotional, you know, and I am too. So I get it, you know, and so it's kind of like I don't want to just like break up with you as a, you know, I want this to be, you know, give me a pat on the back. Like, let's keep the doors open. Like, let's be nice to each other. Like, let's not pretend we didn't even have a relationship ever, you know, or a friendship ever. And, and I can see Alex Earl being a little bit like feeling slighted and being like, hey, that's not cool, you know, and, and I can see, and I don't know if this is true, but I can see her kind of maybe reposting things or liking things in her way of being, like, well, yeah, because she wasn't that nice to me. She doesn't talk to me now. She's, you know, like that. I get it. Because like, I've been there. Like, I get it, you know, So I think it's not that deep. I think like if Alex and Alex sat down and just like held each other's hands and looked each other's eyes and just had a good hug out cry session, it would be fine. I just don't think it's that deep. I think it's just misinterpreted stuff without communication. That's happened. I mean, I'm sure there's business things and whatnot that might be I'm missing or not leaving out. But I think, like, that's the crux of it. Okay.

[Scotty]

I have a little bit of a take, too.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay, go ahead.

[Scotty]

And this goes back to my people thinking they're better than other people. Okay, we'll do it. That angle. And I could be wrong on this, too, but. And I don't want to upset anyone here, because Alex Cooper, if you're listening, call your. Was it. Call her daddy. You know, invite us anytime. Or invite Mr. McCanna anytime. Alex Earl already invited us. Now, what about this? Take both yellows. Alex Earl.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Got. So she got big.

[Mystic Michaela]

She did.

[Scotty]

She got real big.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And maybe. And I don't want to knock Alex Cooper.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Maybe she got. And she has a big network. Huge network.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes.

[Scotty]

Maybe she got a little too big for the network, and there. Maybe there were some bad feelings there because maybe Alex Earle realized she needed to spread her wings.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

You know, because Alex Cooper is made. Right. She's self made with her whole network of podcasts.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And then maybe Alex Earle got two big. To be on that network.

[Mystic Michaela]

Like, too popular.

[Scotty]

Too popular. Yeah. Too popular.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

But I love them both. I think they're both great.

[Mystic Michaela]

Like, I want to go and call her a daddy. That'd be so much fun.

[Scotty]

Yeah. So both great. I'd love to explain Michaela's advice. Work it out, sit it down, get your yellows going together.

[Mystic Michaela]

What you mean, you mean, though? I think there could be some. I see what you're saying. Like, some business dealings.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Where it's like, I want a percentage and, no, I don't want to give you that percentage. Who knows? Like, kind of like little weird little things like that.

[Scotty]

Or maybe people were even saying, you know, if you stay under that umbrella. That's her umbrella.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Maybe you need your own umbrella, because

[Mystic Michaela]

then she's like, she's gonna take this and this and this.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Yeah. Which is, I think, a thing that could be worked out.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay. I do, too.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Anyways, I don't know if that has to do with.

[Scotty]

I am Aura. I'm Aura treading here. You're treading just in case someone listens.

[Mystic Michaela]

I'm treading aura. Because you're admitting it.

[Scotty]

Yes.

[Mystic Michaela]

Which is aura. I don't know what that is. I don't know.

[Scotty]

Poorly. I got.

[Mystic Michaela]

I don't know.

[Scotty]

I got battle crops.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Okay, now, I put this one down. This was my.

[Mystic Michaela]

He just had to do this one,

[Scotty]

had to do this one.

[Mystic Michaela]

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[Scotty]

we sent you Jack Nicholson. All right, all right. So you would have to be an older listener to know this one.

[Mystic Michaela]

Maybe the Shining.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Chining One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Actually one of the books I did read in high school. Every other book I didn't, so I actually did read that one, but. And now today, you wouldn't know who he is. I bet you Gen Z would not even know who this guy is. They don't know who that is. They would know.

[Mystic Michaela]

Even kids don't know who that is.

[Scotty]

And the last movie he made, you'd be like, oh, that guy.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

But when he was younger, this guy had aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

He had aura.

[Scotty]

This guy had aura when he was in those movies, you know, One Flew Over Kukunesa. Again, the guy had aura. This guy was just like, wow. And I think if you would have met him at that time, you would have, like, it would have oozed out of him.

[Mystic Michaela]

There's like creepy stuff coming out about him.

[Scotty]

Yeah, yeah. No, no, I, I, I'm not gonna say he's the greatest person on Earth or anything.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. I don't think it means you're great.

[Scotty]

No, no. Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

I think it just means you have a presence.

[Scotty]

Yes, I think.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

Yeah, he had. He had, like, a presence.

[Mystic Michaela]

Like, if you.

[Scotty]

When you think of, like, when the Oscars were big. Yeah, they're really, like, they're crap today, but, like, when they were actually.

[Mystic Michaela]

He was always in the front row.

[Scotty]

He was always in the. And he. You know, when people actually watch the officers, he was. He was like a star right there. He, like, oozed it out of him.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes, yes, yes. He was authentically that way.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Just his mannerisms, his facial expressions, how he was. So I thought. And I think he's. I would have to guess he's green and purple.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, he's green. Purple.

[Scotty]

Purple.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. Well, now, we thought it would be interesting. Oh, wait, are we doing the. Which one do you want to do next?

[Scotty]

You want to do some historical figures?

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay. We thought it would be interesting. Scott's a history teacher, and we thought we would do historical. Do you have aura? And aura points in Aura Farming. But first, our daughter, who's 17 in high school right now, is also a history buff. And this is the text I sent her, literally, like, five minutes before we started taping. I said, which figure from history has aura?

[Scotty]

Okay. Who'd she say?

[Mystic Michaela]

And then also, why do you think John Adams had aura?

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

Cause she loves John Adams.

[Scotty]

She does.

[Mystic Michaela]

John Adams has a fan. It's our kid Brianna.

[Scotty]

Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay, so this is why, according to her, John Adams had aura.

[Scotty]

Okay.

[Mystic Michaela]

He didn't own slaves, and he kept his cool during the Quasi War with France and the XYZ affair.

[Scotty]

Ooh.

[Mystic Michaela]

And then she also wants to tell everybody that James Polk has aura.

[Scotty]

James Polk.

[Mystic Michaela]

Who's that? And he met with the king, like, in 1785. Like a boss. And Abigail Adams is a boss, too, by association.

[Scotty]

Wow. James Polk, he got us our. He got us our northern. He's a president. He got us our northern border. So we're like, if you look at where, you know, Washington State meets Canada, okay, that was like, James Polk.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah. Cool. You that aura. Because he met with the King.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

To do it.

[Scotty]

54, 40 and fight. 54, 40 and fight, I think was his campaign slogan.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Like, to get that line of latitude.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay. And what does it mean by James. John Adams kept his coat cool during the quasi.

[Scotty]

What? I mean, John Adams did have some scandal, but I think what she's Picking up with John Adams is like when you think of the American Revolution. And if you think of a guy who was really like, to the principles, I would say he had to be either red and blue or a Christmas tree guy.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

I think he, to the core, really, truly believed in the principles of the revolution.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

And I think he stuck to that. Maybe when he became president, maybe. I don't know if that dissipated a little bit.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

But I think when he was, you know, running, you know, one of the leaders of the revolution.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

And you know, in the Continental Congress and all that, I think he really held to those principles. I think he had aura. I think a lot of people didn't like him though.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

I think he might have had too much aura at times.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

And maybe he did aura farm a little bit. He was like long winded and talk a lot. I don't know.

[Mystic Michaela]

All right.

[Scotty]

Cool character in history.

[Mystic Michaela]

All right, so there you go.

[Scotty]

All right.

[Mystic Michaela]

And then we have. What's his name? Napoleon. I was gonna call him Neapolitan. Yeah. All right, now what about Napoleon?

[Scotty]

I want to preface this. I'm gonna do a couple of historical things.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

Yeah. And I want to preface this, that these. It doesn't have to. There weren't good guys. They're not. Doesn't mean they were good people.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

I'm just saying that they had.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

So this is why I think Napoleon had aura. First of all, they, you know, they. They always say he has like the short man syndrome.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes.

[Scotty]

So for a little guy, but he's probably average height for the. For the time. So this is a guy that, you know, he became the emperor of France.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

He ravaged Europe, can took it all over. Right. Control all of Europe from Spain to invading Russia and everything in between. Italy, you know, Scandinavia. This guy was the ruler, Right. He had put the rest of Europe in despair.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

Okay, so you would. So if you did that right, you would think all the leaders would hate him and everything, right?

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Okay. So he. He finally, you know, he goes into Russia. He's got a big blunder. I know I'm going a little bit too much history here. But he's got a retreat from Russia.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

And then the European nations finally realize, okay, we got him at a weak point because his grand army just got annihilated in Russia. But more from the elements than anything else, the winters. And now we could attack him. So Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, all these countries came together and to fight France, just France, just France in the battle of nations.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

And they finally defeated Napoleon.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

Okay. So now what would you think if you. This guy had just, you know, just destroyed Europe for almost, like a decade.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

And he lost and you captured him.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, they captured him.

[Scotty]

Yeah. He's captured.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

What would you do with this guy

[Mystic Michaela]

when they didn't kill him?

[Scotty]

You'd kill him right away, right?

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

You know, you just shoot him.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Right on the spot. We don't want this guy ever, ever to be anything again.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, actually, they didn't. Why?

[Scotty]

They. Well, that's what I'm saying. I think he had this. Why? I think he had aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

He had aura.

[Scotty]

They exiled him to a nice cushy island called Elba.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

He kept his titles. They still called him Emperor. Why? That's what I'm saying.

[Mystic Michaela]

There's no, like, historical reason, like, he didn't know somebody or, like, what?

[Scotty]

No. Well, you know, people of France could have still said, you're the emperor.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

He was their emperor. But why would the Russians and the Austrians and the Prussians.

[Mystic Michaela]

Maybe he was just very, like, cool.

[Scotty]

Yeah, well, that's what I'm saying.

[Mystic Michaela]

He must have something likable or something.

[Scotty]

Right? So. So what is it? Okay, so you'd think, all right, we got. This is like Vampire Diaries, you know, when people. They have a chance to kill someone and they never do.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yes. We're on season seven, by the way.

[Scotty]

So it was like, all right, why don't you just kill them right then and there?

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

They don't kill him. Guess what he does.

[Mystic Michaela]

What?

[Scotty]

He escapes. What?

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

They didn't even put him far away like you'd think. Okay, fine. We're gonna put him on the most

[Mystic Michaela]

remote island we can find, like Siberia or something.

[Scotty]

Elba was pretty close to Europe. He escapes, gets back to France.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

Gets his army back.

[Mystic Michaela]

What?

[Scotty]

Yep. And wages one, one massive last battle.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay?

[Scotty]

So escapes from Elba. He's 100 days after the.

[Mystic Michaela]

Only a hundred days later.

[Scotty]

100 days later.

[Mystic Michaela]

Wow.

[Scotty]

He's got a huge French army ready to go again. And then. And they fight it out in Belgium. Battle of Waterloo.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, yeah.

[Scotty]

And, you know, same England, you know, Russia. They all show up again.

[Mystic Michaela]

They're like, show up again? Yeah.

[Scotty]

Ken, with this guy. They defeat him at the Battle of Waterloo.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

And. Okay, what, do you think they would do it?

[Mystic Michaela]

They thought they'd kill him.

[Scotty]

You'd think they'd kill him. Right, Right. You're never gonna do this again to us.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right?

[Scotty]

We're going to kill you now.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

No. What? They exile him again, to St. Helena, an island a little further away with less amenities because Elba had like a nice. All these amenities, like a palace and Elba, But Saint hello was like kind of like a shack.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

So they kind of downgraded him.

[Mystic Michaela]

All right.

[Scotty]

We got to send you further away.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right.

[Scotty]

But they didn't kill him. And they still, you know.

[Mystic Michaela]

He did. He stayed there.

[Scotty]

Yeah. Until he died. They believe he died of stomach cancer. You know how he always had his hand, like, in his shirt? An image of him, as always, has like the hand in his pot, like.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, yeah.

[Scotty]

Across his stomach. The theory is that he had stomach cancer and that's why he always did that. I don't know if that's true or not.

[Mystic Michaela]

God. But interesting.

[Scotty]

They think he died of stomach cancer. I don't know if it's 100%.

[Mystic Michaela]

That's a bad one.

[Scotty]

Yeah. So a guy like that.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

Although he, you know, destroyed Europe and had them at war for so many years, there was still something about him that they respected.

[Mystic Michaela]

He must have had aura.

[Scotty]

He had aura. You know, I think it was probably more, to answer your question that you were asking me earlier, I think it's probably more the way he conducted himself on the battlefield.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

The way he waged war. It was very by the book.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

It was. It wasn't underhanded. It was, I'm going to beat you in a fair pitched fight.

[Mystic Michaela]

So they had respect.

[Scotty]

I think they had respect.

[Mystic Michaela]

Way of doing things.

[Scotty]

Correct.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

Yep.

[Mystic Michaela]

Interesting.

[Scotty]

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[Mystic Michaela]

Who do you got next?

[Scotty]

I'll do a couple more.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

All right. Andrew Jackson. Now, I. First of all, this is a. He's not a nice person. Very bad, man. Very bad.

[Mystic Michaela]

That's, like, Bree's least favorite.

[Scotty]

Yeah. He and I can understand why.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

We all know about the Trail of Tears.

[Mystic Michaela]

Not everybody knows that.

[Scotty]

Well, yeah, he sent, basically, the Cherokees to their death.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

On the Trail of Tears to find the courts. But this guy definitely did have aura about him. Old Hickory was his nickname. He really was, like, kind of the first president to campaign. Like. Like, when we think of campaigns, he's aura farming. He was Ora farming.

[Mystic Michaela]

This guy was.

[Scotty]

And he had this whole image of himself that, you know, I'm this guy. I fought in the War of 1812. I did this, I did that. He. You know, he had a bullet in him. He had, like.

[Mystic Michaela]

He.

[Scotty]

He liked to fight in duels. You know, where you just line up and you shoot guns. That. Yeah, I think he was in over 100 duels, they say. I don't know if that's the lore. Maybe he wasn't a lot of duels, but I don't know if it was a hundred.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

One. One. He got shot in. That's why he had, like, a bullet in him.

[Mystic Michaela]

Stayed there.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

Then there was one time someone was going to assassinate him, and the gun misfired, and then he just took his cane and just started beating the crap out of the guy.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, really?

[Scotty]

Yeah. So he had, like, a lot of lore.

[Mystic Michaela]

He had lore.

[Scotty]

Lore.

[Mystic Michaela]

The kids always say that.

[Scotty]

Lore. Painting aura. Again, not a good guy. I'm not saying he's a good guy.

[Mystic Michaela]

No.

[Scotty]

You know, he defied the courts. You know, the court said, you can't do that. And he's like, all right, you're gonna stop me. What is the Supreme Court gonna do? They had no army.

[Mystic Michaela]

Sounds very familiar.

[Scotty]

It does sound very familiar.

[Mystic Michaela]

Right? Yeah.

[Scotty]

A lot of people do compare him to the current president. Yeah. So there was something about him. Again, I'm not giving him a positive spin here.

[Mystic Michaela]

No, no, but he had aura.

[Scotty]

But he had aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

That's interesting. And lore.

[Scotty]

And even money. Like, he hated money. The Funniest part is, like, he hated money, but he's on the $20 bill. He tried. He just tried to. He created the panic of 1837, which basically set us into a, you know, depression, recession.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

Because he didn't like money, and he wanted to get rid of the bank of the United States, bring everything to, like, go. I don't know what he was trying to do, but it didn't work. But he was. He was defiant.

[Mystic Michaela]

He was defiant. Okay. He's a defiant aura.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

All right.

[Scotty]

But again, I just want to make sure. I'm not a fan of Jackson. Please. I know what he did to the Native Americans, and that is so awful.

[Mystic Michaela]

But aura can. Aura can. How do I put it? Yeah. Like, I think the way Gen Z uses it, it's supposed to be kind of like a positive thing, but it. But it can be just like someone's presence, I think, too, is another way they use it.

[Scotty]

All right. And the last one I put down here, you know, Jumanji style, Genghis Khangis Khan.

[Mystic Michaela]

I only know him from night at the museum.

[Scotty]

Oh, right. Aaron's got the aura raised.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah, he had aura.

[Scotty]

You know, he was the one that brought the Mongol Empire. Like, Mongol Empire brought them, you know, fought off the Chinese, brought them back. But the reason why I put him down as Oro is because apparently one out of every 200 men could trace their lineage, really, back to Genghis Khan.

[Mystic Michaela]

He had that many kids?

[Scotty]

Yeah, Well, I guess so. The claim is that he had over 500 lady friends.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, my God.

[Scotty]

I think like, five or six serious lady friends.

[Mystic Michaela]

Okay.

[Scotty]

But over, like, 500 something total lady friends and that.

[Mystic Michaela]

Like, that many kids. I guess.

[Scotty]

I guess you. I mean, that's, like, constant. Like, he was just.

[Mystic Michaela]

He was. This is, like, all day long.

[Scotty]

Yeah.

[Mystic Michaela]

To get, like. What was he. How did he have time to do anything?

[Scotty]

I know. To get, like, one, like, almost 1% of the world's population to your genes.

[Mystic Michaela]

That is weird.

[Scotty]

You got to be. Yeah. When did he have the time?

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

So I guess he must have had a lot of aura.

[Mystic Michaela]

Yeah.

[Scotty]

To be able to do this.

[Mystic Michaela]

Well, I mean, I don't know if those women had choices. Yeah.

[Scotty]

Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

But he definitely was, like, kid maxing.

[Scotty]

Right, Right.

[Mystic Michaela]

Something maxing. Jumanji maxing. Yeah.

[Scotty]

All right.

[Mystic Michaela]

We can't just leave it there.

[Scotty]

Yeah, we can.

[Mystic Michaela]

Oh, we can. This was the most cringiest episode we've ever done for any Gen Z or Gen Alphas that had to endure this. Sorry. I won't be doing it again. But this podcast is for you and about you, and we're so glad you spent some time with us today.