Speaker 1: Welcome to Insider's Guide to the Other Side, a production
Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. Hi, y'all, I'm Julie.
Speaker 2: Hi there, I'm Brenda. Welcome to Insider's Guide to the
Speaker 2: Other Side.
Speaker 1: Now, y'all need to know that we are obsessed with
Speaker 1: everything on the other side.
Speaker 2: Yes, we are, because once you learn to navigate the energetic,
Speaker 2: or to some the invisible world, life is going to
Speaker 2: be more fun and much more serene.
Speaker 1: Uh heck, yes it can, because, let's be honest, br in,
Speaker 1: earth school is hard. In fact, you taught me.
Speaker 2: That, let's crush Earth school together.
Speaker 1: Hello, my witchy oh pooh. It is so good to
Speaker 1: see you. Hi.
Speaker 2: Now spend a minute of my own ough you flew solo.
Speaker 2: You did such a great job.
Speaker 1: I did not like it. I mean I can write
Speaker 1: a whole Doctor Seuss poem on why I I didn't
Speaker 1: like it Stanza by Stanza on how I missed you
Speaker 1: and how lonely I was.
Speaker 2: I know it's not as It's not as easy.
Speaker 1: No, and I've recorded it twice for the record, did you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's impressive.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the commitment in security.
Speaker 1: And I didn't have my witchy poop on my side,
Speaker 1: and it just wasn't as good. Are you good like
Speaker 1: we missed you? As everything good?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I am in recovery, but I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You can still hear a little, a little in my
Speaker 2: voice that not quite one hundred percent, but I'm pretty close.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you said eighty, and I think eighty is
Speaker 1: an understatement for where you see. But you know your
Speaker 1: percentage is better than me. I think I normally I
Speaker 1: met an eighty. Eighty is one hundred to me. So
Speaker 1: I just like, I'm like, eighty, Holy shit, Like that's
Speaker 1: a B minus in soul, which is above average. That's
Speaker 1: why I think I'm always there.
Speaker 2: You're passing.
Speaker 1: I don't right. If you said sixty, I'm like, oh girl,
Speaker 1: you're almost in the F zone, right, But you didn't.
Speaker 1: You said eighty. So maybe your scoring is very different
Speaker 1: than my scoring.
Speaker 2: I do not score on a curve.
Speaker 1: Okay, you see us scoring on an elf curve?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you make me laugh. I just appreciate that,
Speaker 2: first of all, you're covering while I was out, and
Speaker 2: also just the generous heart in which you told your story.
Speaker 1: It was no thanks. It's also my love of entertainment.
Speaker 1: Which actually brings us, I think to kind of why
Speaker 1: we're starting a new series, not a whole podcast, shy'll
Speaker 1: just a series within our podcast. So of course I
Speaker 1: have to tell you the story why because I am
Speaker 1: me and so I was in Los Angeles last week
Speaker 1: and busy, I mean like busy, like an ELF busy,
Speaker 1: busy busy where I wasn't getting back to the hotel
Speaker 1: until most nights between eleven thirty and twelve thirty, Like, well.
Speaker 2: You're with your people, come on, we know that you're
Speaker 2: going to be out late.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved every second, but it's like
Speaker 1: not a lot of time. And I have to say this.
Speaker 1: Nobody cares. You know why I'm saying this. I actually
Speaker 1: checked a bag and that's like a huge no, Like
Speaker 1: that's a huge trust issue with me, and I know
Speaker 1: it's it's like a trust fall if I if I
Speaker 1: check a bag, that's a trust fall.
Speaker 2: So so I always check bags because of my skincare. Okay,
Speaker 2: I can't fit it in a court sized bag.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's hilarious, but it's literally a trust fall. Of
Speaker 1: all the times I traveled inter nationally and my bags
Speaker 1: were lost, delayed, all that kind of stuff. It's like
Speaker 1: I try to jam everything in there, and I'll even
Speaker 1: carry like stuff in my backpack that should be in
Speaker 1: a suitcase because I don't trust airlines, so anyway is
Speaker 1: a trust fault. It worked Southwest, you know, they caught
Speaker 1: me going there and coming back. So anyway, I packed
Speaker 1: full back, very exciting, stayed in hotels, the pool, swam
Speaker 1: it was fantastic. But here's what happened. I know it's like,
Speaker 1: this is the irrelevant part of the section of the podcast.
Speaker 1: So here's what happened. I have not flown Southwest in
Speaker 1: a really long time. And it's not because I don't
Speaker 1: like them. I'm super cool with Southwest. It's just they weren't.
Speaker 1: They didn't match up right to flight. They will come
Speaker 1: to find out there's a direct flight from Albuquerque to Burbank.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh sweet, right, and I worry a little
Speaker 1: bit it might just be like seasonal. I hope it's not.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, fuck yeah, I'm going. And I've never seen,
Speaker 1: by the way, both airports more busy in my life
Speaker 1: because it's it's it's you know, summer vacation, it's all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. I mean, like I used to
Speaker 1: own the Albuquerque Airport. When I would go, it was
Speaker 1: man like four other people. Now I'm like, where did
Speaker 1: they come from? But it's you know, it's it's terristyme
Speaker 1: and that's pretty much what we're really good for here.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so on Southwest Airlines, I was not aware
Speaker 1: that when they turned on the Wi Fi, you could
Speaker 1: go on your phone or your whatever device and they
Speaker 1: have a list of free movies. And I'm like, two
Speaker 1: favorite words free in movies. They don't always have to
Speaker 1: be next to each other, but it's nice when they are.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to see what they have in
Speaker 1: the free movie.
Speaker 2: Mean, they don't have the little TVs in the back
Speaker 2: of the sea.
Speaker 1: No, there's a long gone honey. I didn't know. You
Speaker 1: didn't know that, but there you go. So I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know. I played the field. I'm like a
Speaker 1: quad sexual when it comes to airlines. It's like, whoever
Speaker 1: gets me there fastest, I'm your date. Okay, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't care about Miles. I don't care about that shit.
Speaker 1: I just want to get there. I want to get home.
Speaker 1: So I used to care about Miles, and I realized
Speaker 1: because I traveled so much I never used them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so there's that anyway. So so I realized, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can watch a movie. So the movie they had
Speaker 1: go fucking figures like gold Mine, shit, it was ghost
Speaker 1: it was it was Ghostbusters, Frozen, Empire. I'm like, again
Speaker 1: favorite words. I like the Cold so Frozen works, love Ghostbusting,
Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm kind of a fan of Empires.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I will watch this movie so that this.
Speaker 2: Must be the latest of it. Is it a remake?
Speaker 1: Right, it's not a remake, No, it's it's it's new there, yes, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: and also some of my favorite actors are in there
Speaker 1: as well. Okay, yeah, it's great. Who's in it? Well
Speaker 1: we had the oldies, right we have uh, we have
Speaker 1: Bill Murray was in there, and Annie Potts, who I
Speaker 1: love Annie Potts. She's also in Young Sheldon. I just
Speaker 1: love Annipots. And they also had a woman named Carrie
Speaker 1: Khon who is in it. And Carrie Cohne is not
Speaker 1: like a super popular actress, but she was in one
Speaker 1: of my favorite series ever called The Leftovers, and I
Speaker 1: became obsessed. I mean, she's so good. It's an HBO series.
Speaker 1: I encourage everybody to watch and if anybody wants to
Speaker 1: be my friend, you have to watch that, unless you're
Speaker 1: Brenda because she gets exempt from No, not at all. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's not scary at all. It's it's there's an event. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're totally going off track. I love this. It's there's
Speaker 1: an event that happens, and I think it's like three
Speaker 1: percent or five percent of the population on the planet
Speaker 1: just disappears, and it's an event COVID, but they literally
Speaker 1: physically disappear like this, And I love it because it's
Speaker 1: really a story about what we do when we're fraid,
Speaker 1: when we're in grief and seeking shelter, solace, safety, whatever
Speaker 1: it may be, who we connect ourselves to, how we
Speaker 1: act like I just love those types of shows. And anyway,
Speaker 1: so she stars in The Leftover, so I was very
Speaker 1: excited about that. So I'm watching this show. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to tell you guys about it, because this movie,
Speaker 1: you guys could watch it. It's fun. But there's this
Speaker 1: moment when somebody was explaining to another and one character
Speaker 1: was explained to another character something like, well, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I believe in that, and then continued on and say
Speaker 1: something about the singing cheeses of Copenhagen, like that it
Speaker 1: was some folklore or myth or something like that. So
Speaker 1: I get all excited. Right, So I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: a new folklore for me. And I go look it
Speaker 1: up and okay, it with some episode on Rimy and Stimpy,
Speaker 1: a cartoon. I'm like, well, fuck this, it's not a
Speaker 1: real folklore. There's nothing about the singing she's of Copenhagen.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm so disappointed. So but what was
Speaker 1: awesome about my disappointment? I'm like, you know, me, would
Speaker 1: you poo have not actually gone through and kind of
Speaker 1: addressed all the different folklores that are out there, and
Speaker 1: I thought, what a fun series it would be for us.
Speaker 1: Am I right.
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I can't wait to see where this goes.
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to start with elves because why not.
Speaker 2: Of course we are.
Speaker 1: And I've done homework because you know nerdy elf does
Speaker 1: homework too, and I have. You know, when you do
Speaker 1: research for these types of topics, you have to go
Speaker 1: deep into like Reddit, and you to go deep into
Speaker 1: like discord and shit like that to like really go
Speaker 1: in to get the stories. And I think I found
Speaker 1: a good one, so I wanted to hear.
Speaker 2: So we should probably take a break.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just kidding, Yeah, take a break. But I
Speaker 1: just want to say to everyone, as you listen to this,
Speaker 1: we're not trying to sell you guys folklorees. We're just sharing, right,
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about what we think and what
Speaker 1: possibilities are. But I just think it's really interesting just
Speaker 1: the fact that there's so many that there's so many
Speaker 1: and we're going to cover a lot of them from
Speaker 1: around the world, and I just think it's just a
Speaker 1: really fascinating topic. And if you don't believe, that's fine,
Speaker 1: But the next party you go to you'll have stuff
Speaker 1: to talk about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and remember it's about how culturally we make sense
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 1: World exactly, exactly. Okay, we'll be right back. I'd welcome back,
Speaker 1: thank you. Okay, so let me tell what I found. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and we can talk as we go through it, right,
Speaker 1: But this is really awesome because the headline, well, it's
Speaker 1: under tags of so our little rs reddit slash paranormal,
Speaker 1: so it's in the paranormal section of Reddit, and it
Speaker 1: has a tag of encounter. So just everybody knows okay,
Speaker 1: but there's a headline and this is what I love.
Speaker 1: Did I meet in elf? Or was it something else? Classic? Right,
Speaker 1: isn't this fantastic? I'm going to try to like make it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it doesn't want to go horizontal on me,
Speaker 1: old age. I'm gonna have to look at it really closely.
Speaker 1: So here we go. Here is did I meet an elf?
Speaker 1: Or was it something else? So this happened to me
Speaker 1: when I was ten, but I was so shocked I
Speaker 1: remember it vividly. My parents go to the farmer's market weekly.
Speaker 1: This time they brought me along. So this farmer's market
Speaker 1: was held on a big parking lot and on the
Speaker 1: ground here and there there were some sorts of metal
Speaker 1: gratings and you could see the sewers. By the way,
Speaker 1: it sounds like an intro to it, that evil clown.
Speaker 1: I thought you're going to say Poltergeist. No, no, because
Speaker 1: it's not a comedy. Neither was neither was it. By
Speaker 1: the way, it's kind of scared the shit out of me. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can picture, but I could
Speaker 1: try finding a pic. Okay, Okay, sorry, I didn't mean,
Speaker 1: who cares? Uh, we can picture it, right, because farmers.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, really Farmers Market, parking lot medlow grade. See
Speaker 1: the sewer, got it? And if you can't picture it,
Speaker 1: go watch it anyway. I was always scared of walking
Speaker 1: on them as a kid because I thought I would
Speaker 1: fall in. Totally fair. And by the way, if you're
Speaker 1: a lady and you got some heels on it, you
Speaker 1: avoid that shit too. Clearly, this is not a lady.
Speaker 1: I think it's a heat it is. Oh no, maybe
Speaker 1: a lady. This person continues and says, But that day
Speaker 1: the market was full, not a lot of space to
Speaker 1: go around, and I had to walk over them. As
Speaker 1: I did, I looked down and there was somebody down
Speaker 1: there looking back. Oh no, that's some freaky shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, as a ten year old, I don't
Speaker 2: think he would make that up.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But I'm fully convinced this is
Speaker 1: not made up. But you tell me, because you are
Speaker 1: the wishy poo. This person continues. He was small, he
Speaker 1: had pointy ears, but it's his eyes that I can't forget.
Speaker 1: They were golden and so shiny. I looked at him,
Speaker 1: he looked at me for what seemed to be an eternity.
Speaker 1: I was so shocked that. I just kept on walking,
Speaker 1: went back to the car. I told my parents, I
Speaker 1: told everyone, but nobody would believe me. I mean seriously,
Speaker 1: I mean I get it.
Speaker 2: I totally get it.
Speaker 1: I totally get it. To this day, nobody does. It
Speaker 1: has become a running joke amongst my friends, so I
Speaker 1: stopped talking about it altogether. It's the first time I've
Speaker 1: told this story in a decade. Trust me, reading it
Speaker 1: as an adult. I know how crazy, corny and ridiculous
Speaker 1: it sounds, but I know it happened. Has anybody ever
Speaker 1: heard anything blah blah that's happened to them? Why do
Speaker 1: I feel like I missed a part? I said twenty
Speaker 1: years right, Okay, that's the part they caught me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're kidding, I mean, and then I realized, Hey, actually
Speaker 1: say it, because in my head I've said it a
Speaker 1: thousand times since I've read this story. Pointy years, twenty years,
Speaker 1: twenty years golden eyes, golden eyes, come the fuck one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would do it. Okay, So do you feel that
Speaker 1: we're talking about like this is this child adult now
Speaker 1: encountered this? Yeah? I mean this it sounds pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: So here's what's interesting is the elves, which the Internet
Speaker 1: calls fictional beings and have to say specifically who calls
Speaker 1: it fictional beings, has been in the European folklore for
Speaker 1: since the fifteen hundreds at least. Well this is what
Speaker 1: they say, right, I think there's I think there's Celtic
Speaker 1: folklore that might be a little bit older. But what's
Speaker 1: interesting is, you know they talk about like what they
Speaker 1: look like. You know, they're small, usually in the form
Speaker 1: of a tiny human, right, so that tracks they're known
Speaker 1: for playing tricks and causing troubles. I mean, listen, if
Speaker 1: like you're gonna have an ELF's gonna catch your eye
Speaker 1: through grades, like you're causing trouble. Yeah, you're not hiding
Speaker 1: from humans. You're like messing with humans. And is it.
Speaker 1: One of the other things that happens is they steal children.
Speaker 1: They steal a lot of things.
Speaker 2: They can steal a lot of things, but they will Yeah,
Speaker 2: they can steal children. But also they they tend to
Speaker 2: hang out in what we call the tweenier places, right,
Speaker 2: the places that are thresholds to other places, like a
Speaker 2: great a sewer, grade, a window, a doorway. Right, that's
Speaker 2: those those little thresholds because they can go between the Earth,
Speaker 2: you know, the earthplane and the magical world. And so
Speaker 2: they you know, they can turn any of those thresholds
Speaker 2: or you know, vortexes into transportation into the into the
Speaker 2: magical world. So that's usually where'll they will catch your eye.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So like they can now they can pass through
Speaker 1: to our dimension, can we pass.
Speaker 2: Through to their not without them, without their guide, like
Speaker 2: they without their abduction really when I think of but yeah,
Speaker 2: like that, so.
Speaker 1: They were believed and in various reasons to cause diseases
Speaker 1: in humans and cattle. I've never heard that. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: just sounds like pre understanding bacteria. Right, and that also
Speaker 1: keep in mind of timelines, right, like fifteen hundreds, was
Speaker 1: this to say that's the latest, right? That was certainly
Speaker 1: a time of widespread illiteracy. Yeah, right, Like this is
Speaker 1: back in the day when religion was was they're they're
Speaker 1: guiding force. Like when the sun came up every morning,
Speaker 1: there was like, oh they thank God that the son
Speaker 1: that thank God that God allowed the sun to come
Speaker 1: up that day because they thought it was a choice. Right,
Speaker 1: there's no understanding of a galaxy, a universe solar system,
Speaker 1: not that it was the divine, right right, right, It
Speaker 1: was the divine And it's really funny because, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a little like I've read, as you
Speaker 1: can imagine, quite a bit about elves and I'm in
Speaker 1: my next place on my vacation, like my hit list
Speaker 1: is actually Iceland, Like I want to go hang out,
Speaker 1: and I think they're waiting for me, no doubt. Well,
Speaker 1: the magical L's and they like to cause a lot
Speaker 1: of ruckusts and stuff. But there's a lot of cases
Speaker 1: that that do a lot of stories that come out
Speaker 1: of Iceland of interacting. In fact, I think there's one
Speaker 1: of the highways that they made to avoid this kind
Speaker 1: of part of a force which was known where the
Speaker 1: L's were.
Speaker 2: They and they were instructed to build around it, to
Speaker 2: build it right, yeah, because like things people would go missing.
Speaker 1: Hey, man, don't mess with the elves because it's funny
Speaker 1: because they say, you know, are they because you know,
Speaker 1: I rarely have had elf conversations before, and people have
Speaker 1: asked like are they good or bad? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: they're both, yeah, just like people, they're both right, you know,
Speaker 1: they're known for these magical qualities. I think there's certain
Speaker 1: you know, possibilities that they can have. But yeah, of
Speaker 1: course they're gonna be They're gonna be bad. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be mischievous. I don't know what dry. So tell me, like,
Speaker 1: why would they steal children?
Speaker 2: You know, well, one because they can and to get
Speaker 2: enough answer if they're trying to get the humans attention
Speaker 2: to do something or pay attention to something or said
Speaker 2: something right, and they they are too stubborn, or they're
Speaker 2: not paying attention to how how cherished their children should
Speaker 2: be or something like that.
Speaker 1: They're teaching a lesson kind of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, okay, we'll show you dipstick.
Speaker 1: Where do the kids go? You know?
Speaker 2: They go into another Yeah, they go into the magical
Speaker 2: they go to the elf land.
Speaker 1: Why didn't that happen to me? We don't know that
Speaker 1: it didn't. Oh good fight nicely. Yes, Maybe that's why
Speaker 1: I like them so much. Maybe that's why you got
Speaker 1: your magical powers. Maybe. So okay, so I'm just going
Speaker 1: to bring up one thing and then we should probably
Speaker 1: take another break, which I can't believe I said that
Speaker 1: out loud. It's a hate breaks. There's a list of
Speaker 1: like these characteristics, right, so they're small, the form of
Speaker 1: tiny human. They remain youthful for more than five hundred years.
Speaker 1: They're known for playing tricks and causing troubles. They're associated
Speaker 1: with magic, skilled with weapons and magic, and sometimes shape shifters.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they possess anate grace and beauty. Here's my
Speaker 1: favorite part. Like, I like literally cannot get this out
Speaker 1: of my head. Antagonistic and often at odds with dwarves,
Speaker 1: Like what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I think back to think wrestling.
Speaker 2: Now, think Lord of the Rings in photos posse, right,
Speaker 2: how the elves and the dwarfs would like snarl at
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 1: Isn't it funny? I mean, but it's like it's like,
Speaker 1: I guess you know, when you have like a very
Speaker 1: large person who's antagonizing a small person, if they pick
Speaker 1: on some of your own size. I think in this
Speaker 1: case they pick the right size.
Speaker 2: Nice. Yes, all those things out there are definitely associated
Speaker 2: with magical things, stirring up trouble, and sometimes stirring up
Speaker 2: trouble just to create more magic. Like, hey, you think
Speaker 2: we're not real, huh, jokes on you.
Speaker 1: We'll show you. You're gonna have to build a road
Speaker 1: around as fuckers. Okay, we're going to come back, and
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about the Keilp
Speaker 1: folklore of elves and we'll dive into some other aspect
Speaker 1: of elves. Okay, we'll be right back.
Speaker 2: And welcome back to more alphology.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is just fun facts. These are just
Speaker 1: fun elfin facts. So there's a question, So you know,
Speaker 1: what are the elves and Celtic folk lore Jesus Julie,
Speaker 1: say it properly, say it, don't spit it or stutter it.
Speaker 1: So who are the elves? In Scotland mythology and folklore
Speaker 1: and Scottish mythology and folklore, elves are known as it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter the sith the sith is something like that,
Speaker 1: but they're believed to be, to your point, supernatural beings
Speaker 1: who live in a parallel world alongside humans and have
Speaker 1: the ability to interact with and influence human affairs. Like
Speaker 1: that is probably the best definition. Yet, what I think
Speaker 1: is really fascinating is they say, kind of where do
Speaker 1: elves come from? Like it's like, how do elves come
Speaker 1: to be? So once I really am interested to get
Speaker 1: your take on this. So when Middle Earth universe was
Speaker 1: created by the supreme being e Eru, I think it's
Speaker 1: I l u v A t A r oh. That's
Speaker 1: like Vader eleu Vader. That sounds like Darth Vader. Two
Speaker 1: species were made directly by the Creator God and it's
Speaker 1: little c little g elves in humans called men in
Speaker 1: the Middle Earth lore, the l's were spread across the
Speaker 1: world in mated pairs, while humans were held back until
Speaker 1: a later time. So according to this else Predate Humans
Speaker 1: Psychicoma book. But go ahead.
Speaker 2: I was thinking more like the al you know, alpha test.
Speaker 1: Alpha. Oh my god, that's hilarious to be little there's
Speaker 1: still alpha.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like little dogs or the Barquie, the ones that
Speaker 1: scare everybody because they just bark constantly, and it's like
Speaker 1: they're like little they're the elves and they are alpha elves.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's funny. We've been doing this show
Speaker 1: for many years now. I think we're coming upon another
Speaker 1: anniversary for this show, probably our fifth. In your anniversary,
Speaker 1: and you know you've been calling me Elf. I get
Speaker 1: text conversation. I am called Elf within my family. So
Speaker 1: the only one who doesn't call me that is Susanne,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad because that'd be weird. But I'm called
Speaker 1: a lot, and so I don't know we've ever talked
Speaker 1: about the origin story of when I kind of got
Speaker 1: that name and it wasn't me, but it had to
Speaker 1: do with you, and that's the funny part. So I
Speaker 1: was working at Fox and you know, listen, my last days,
Speaker 1: last years at Fox were pretty wild, right because Mom died,
Speaker 1: you know, like there's a lot of death that I
Speaker 1: dealt with. It was it was really the beginning of
Speaker 1: what my spiritual journey. It began there, like full swing
Speaker 1: there and I spent so much time there, so I mean,
Speaker 1: how does it not affect everything around me? And we met,
Speaker 1: you know, in that time early early, And there's a
Speaker 1: really good friend of mine named Alison. And Alison I
Speaker 1: think Allison's a dwarf, but because she little and or
Speaker 1: she feisty, and I love her. She's like been such
Speaker 1: a great friend. She's like that friend that only tells
Speaker 1: you the truth and there's no other option, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Ye love that. Oh she's great. She
Speaker 1: used to rewrite my emails. She's like, you have to
Speaker 1: quit being so emotional, and this is how it right.
Speaker 1: I mean literally, she would like I would send her
Speaker 1: an email before I sent it out usually highly charge.
Speaker 1: It wasn't every day I sent Alison my emails, but
Speaker 1: like the highly charged one, and I would send to
Speaker 1: her and she would rewrite them and almost every time,
Speaker 1: you can't be so emotional, this isn't about you, And
Speaker 1: she would rewrite at least parts of my email. So
Speaker 1: I love her for that. I learned a lot from her.
Speaker 1: And we were talking about you, and because she's the
Speaker 1: one that brought you to the Poulter Guy set, if
Speaker 1: you recall Allison. Yeah, And we were just talking about,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, just all sorts of things all
Speaker 1: Brenda and I go, well, what if we do this
Speaker 1: and that? And da da da. She's like, she's you're
Speaker 1: like an elf. You're just run around doing shit. And
Speaker 1: she's like, you're Brenda's elf. She goes, because you don't
Speaker 1: do this for anybody. She's ying, you're just like and
Speaker 1: I said, am I hollowing out trees and baking cookies?
Speaker 1: She goes, you probably are. So I think a dwarf
Speaker 1: anointed me in health? That is awesome. Do you wanted
Speaker 1: to know all the pieces of that story? I did.
Speaker 2: No, I did not know all the pieces to that story.
Speaker 2: I did not that hilarious. Yeah, that is very, very funny.
Speaker 2: It's good to know that. I just somehow parts of
Speaker 2: that story came to me, and I didn't know that
Speaker 2: other people didn't call you out because.
Speaker 1: Susan, Oh no, oh, you thought that that was a
Speaker 1: name for me pre Yeah, yeah, like B b B
Speaker 1: before Brenda.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just thought that was kind of a moniker
Speaker 2: for you, because.
Speaker 1: No, it's a B after Brenda, because.
Speaker 2: You do kind of run around and help.
Speaker 1: For sure, for sure, you like, I don't steal babies.
Speaker 2: But well sometimes you do think of it this way, yeah,
Speaker 2: because you'll you'll get it. You'll see someone's idea that
Speaker 2: you love. Oh, and you'll be like, we're blowing that out.
Speaker 1: Oh that's fair. You're right. I do steal babies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you steal babies. Yeah, you're right. It sounds worse than
Speaker 1: it really is, but yes, you are. I don't steal
Speaker 1: physical babies, human babies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's more it's more like a you're right, more.
Speaker 1: Like a dola. There you go. I like that. But
Speaker 1: you thought that people called me that before. No, it
Speaker 1: was Allison and she named it, and you know what
Speaker 1: odds are she was was probably twirling around in her
Speaker 1: head at some point or another. You too.
Speaker 2: You two are well matched.
Speaker 1: We are so well matched. It's so funny. I love
Speaker 1: her so much. But here's the funny thing about it is,
Speaker 1: you know, I think again, whether you believe, you don't
Speaker 1: believe that I be characteristics things that reflect you, and
Speaker 1: you embrace. And I have to tell you it's really
Speaker 1: fun you know, I mean it is. It's like I
Speaker 1: love calling you wichi poo, and I love like elf
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, because, you know, because
Speaker 1: their school is hard, and whenever we have a chance,
Speaker 1: I think to be playful, I think that we should
Speaker 1: embrace it. And so I completely embrace the elf thing.
Speaker 1: I completely embrace all of that. And you know, even
Speaker 1: to the degree of you know, it's funny, because I
Speaker 1: seriously have a pattern. When we got our cat, Booger,
Speaker 1: I named him Booger. He was named it was a
Speaker 1: terrible name. It was nearly as fun and people would say, well,
Speaker 1: why'd you name your cat Booger? And I said, because
Speaker 1: I want to laugh every time I say his name.
Speaker 1: I remember, and and that was achieved. And you know,
Speaker 1: have a sticker on the back windshel of my car,
Speaker 1: and it's of an alien ship and it has like
Speaker 1: the light coming down onto earth, like the beam, you know,
Speaker 1: and it says get in loser, and I had and
Speaker 1: I put it on there because I just want to
Speaker 1: laugh every time I walk up to my car. So
Speaker 1: anytime I'm called Elf, it just makes me giggle. I've
Speaker 1: had people like have written, texted, called and said I
Speaker 1: want to be in elf in training. And that means
Speaker 1: that like there's power behind and that power is in
Speaker 1: control power, but like there's energy, but the energy is
Speaker 1: a better there's energy behind it, and and it's fun
Speaker 1: and it just makes I think things more playful. And
Speaker 1: I really really really can't wait to meet when in
Speaker 1: real life and Iceland and have them like pull me
Speaker 1: over for a little while, just for minute without transporting
Speaker 1: you to the other dimension.
Speaker 2: But I do mind to say biz about the elfin
Speaker 2: world is that they do meet us in the earth plane. Yes,
Speaker 2: And so they don't usually show up in meditation, they
Speaker 2: don't usually show up in dreams. You will see them,
Speaker 2: like I said, in those thresholds between two spaces like doorways, windows,
Speaker 2: sewer grades apparently.
Speaker 1: Apparently right, so you see scary clowns too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but this is this is so just seeing
Speaker 2: know where to look for else.
Speaker 1: So that's just one quiet yeah, and it's so funny.
Speaker 1: Stay dreams. Can I tell you really quickly about a
Speaker 1: dream that I had the weird So this is off
Speaker 1: the subject and I'll end it. It just remind if
Speaker 1: you said dreams. And this is the craziest thing ever.
Speaker 1: It's two mornings ago. I woke up and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I woke up with that what the fuck is happening
Speaker 1: kind of thing? You know what I'm talking about? Right,
Speaker 1: Not like I'm scared, but like, what the fuck, like
Speaker 1: is this real? So here's what's happened. Suzanne and I
Speaker 1: have been watching a lot, like two series actually that
Speaker 1: are about like a teenage kid like committed like committing
Speaker 1: a murder and the parents covering up for it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this is on net. It's called Your Honor, Like that's
Speaker 1: one of them.
Speaker 2: And we were watching that. That was a good series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really good. Okay, well, but like he's there's
Speaker 1: a cover up that's happening, and so it was the
Speaker 1: strangest thing. So I woke up and I woke up
Speaker 1: from this place where I was being questioned by the
Speaker 1: police about my whereabouts and all I had, and I
Speaker 1: told him I was I was a murderer apparently, and
Speaker 1: I and the evidence that it was all about the evidence.
Speaker 1: It wasn't about the murder. It was about the evidence,
Speaker 1: and it was about some invitation. I'm like, well, I
Speaker 1: have the invitation, like well, but normally you get a
Speaker 1: handwritten whatever back. Well I didn't have the handwritten whatever back.
Speaker 1: And then I wake up and I'm like, what the fuck.
Speaker 1: It was the craziest thing, but like the power of
Speaker 1: stories and how they can seep in to like that space,
Speaker 1: it was and I going because he's in as always
Speaker 1: up before I am, and I'm like, say, it's like
Speaker 1: when I go, did I murder somebody? And she's like
Speaker 1: I don't think so. And it was in.
Speaker 2: Okay, now I can go back to sleep. Okay, thanks said, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: for real, it was.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. But but you said dreams they don't
Speaker 1: go there. But I'll tell you murder rage and cover
Speaker 1: them up. Apparently can't see them into your from telewatching
Speaker 1: television lunch.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's why I'm so careful about what I consume.
Speaker 1: I am not and I'm not gonna stop you are
Speaker 1: out in the wild, I am out in the cosmic, woild.
Speaker 2: Gold, Ghostbusters on Southwest, and Everything.
Speaker 1: Right and that brought us to this episode and many
Speaker 1: more about folklore y'all.
Speaker 2: So we can't wait to share more of my nerdy
Speaker 2: else research with you. Thanks so much for listening, and
Speaker 2: remember our school is hard.
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