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, brand,
Speaker 1: earth school is hard. In fact, you taught me.
Speaker 2: That, let's crush Earth School together.
Speaker 1: Well, hello, my witchy o pooh, how are you you know?
Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness, my alf I am a busy, good
Speaker 2: witch these days. I am getting ready to teach my
Speaker 2: only spirit guy class online this year. Whoa no, And
Speaker 2: we've got some new visuals and it's all just very exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's coming up.
Speaker 1: I love that. When wait, when is it coming up?
Speaker 2: August eighth is the first class.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, not for nothing, it's a day after my birthday.
Speaker 1: Because I am a Leo. I have to tell everybody that.
Speaker 1: So I was commenting on your Instagram host about we're Leo.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, we are very response. Okay, so August say,
Speaker 1: now where can people sign up?
Speaker 2: Just Brenda dash Roods dot com.
Speaker 1: Oh that's easy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think it's really interesting and my you know
Speaker 1: elfin way that the irony or this is call it synchronicity.
Speaker 1: You you beginning this class very soon, and and I
Speaker 1: just have to say I have been Actually I got
Speaker 1: kind of lack with my guides. I think have my
Speaker 1: own personal crap, you know, like well moving and just
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. You kind of get caught
Speaker 1: up in that stuff. And it's funny because I think
Speaker 1: I was just telling you the other day, I started
Speaker 1: to get reconnected and it has been incredible, I mean incredible.
Speaker 1: I just encourage people like it's I mean ideally you
Speaker 1: practice it regularly. There are people that do and have
Speaker 1: those conversations. And everybody's heard about my story about Jacob
Speaker 1: take the Wheel and how he saved my laugh on
Speaker 1: the four or five. But you know, I went just through.
Speaker 1: I went recently to Los Angeles and I saw Patricia
Speaker 1: and we were back in her weird awesome room she
Speaker 1: has since she closed a Crystal Matrix, and we were
Speaker 1: both like jiving with our guides talking about stuff and
Speaker 1: it was just so much fun and it was so
Speaker 1: healing and like, even though it doesn't feel like you're
Speaker 1: on Earth, but I feel like I'm back to Earth
Speaker 1: as a result of it, because.
Speaker 2: Of Yeah, it's very grounding, right, yes, yes, And it's
Speaker 2: so interesting because you know, recently I taught the class
Speaker 2: in person at Eslyn in June, and so we just
Speaker 2: had our forty day check in together as a group,
Speaker 2: and it was just so sweet to see everyone and
Speaker 2: everyone was so excited to be reunited, you know, visually
Speaker 2: and see people and see each other. It was really sweet.
Speaker 2: But to hear about their experiences and how their lives
Speaker 2: have changed, and you know, with the practices that they
Speaker 2: were given in class, how they're using them and it's
Speaker 2: just shifting their lives.
Speaker 1: Can you share anything without names?
Speaker 2: Well, it's just they notice the difference between when I
Speaker 2: do the practice in the morning before you know, I
Speaker 2: engage in my world and then when I'm done doing
Speaker 2: the practice, or if if you know, something happens in
Speaker 2: the morning and I don't get my practice in the
Speaker 2: day is just harder. It's a little wonky, it doesn't flow,
Speaker 2: it's not as easeful. I'm not as calm like. It's
Speaker 2: so just taking that time to connect in with those
Speaker 2: guides and have them on the ready and feeling the
Speaker 2: confidence of that. And one of the students reminded me
Speaker 2: in a reconnection. She was so sweet, she said, I
Speaker 2: remember you said you teach this class because you want
Speaker 2: as many people as possible to have the experience where
Speaker 2: they never have to be lonely again, that they are
Speaker 2: so connected and loved and supported in their journeys. And
Speaker 2: when you said it, I thought that was really nice.
Speaker 2: But then I took the class and I really under
Speaker 2: and I practiced when I came home, and I understand
Speaker 2: now what you're talking about. I didn't really know that
Speaker 2: feeling before, and how it's just empowered her confidence in life,
Speaker 2: in everything she does, not just in connecting with her guides,
Speaker 2: but knowing that she had you know they have her back,
Speaker 2: and that you know it's they're going to support her,
Speaker 2: They're going to be there, They're going to make it great. Anyhow.
Speaker 2: It was really it was really quite beautiful to hear
Speaker 2: her new perspective on life.
Speaker 1: And not for nothing, humans like in the in our
Speaker 1: meat puppet body, we all drag around. Part of that
Speaker 1: is that we're social creatures, right when we talk about
Speaker 1: a loneeness. And you know, I wrote this in my book,
Speaker 1: It's like, why why is the harshest penalty for our
Speaker 1: worst criminals is that they're in solitary confinement because that
Speaker 1: is the worst punishment for a human, right.
Speaker 2: We're social creatures, yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, And so it makes all the sense in the
Speaker 1: world about why it sounded good, right, But then when
Speaker 1: you're your student practiced it embodied what it had sounded like, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's like, oh, this is so much better because
Speaker 1: now because she feels it. Right, it's not just in
Speaker 1: the it's not in the in the air and the
Speaker 1: head kind of thing which is just dawned on me,
Speaker 1: is that what we call people airheads because the air
Speaker 1: sign is the mental sign. It's all I'm saying this
Speaker 1: question for later because I have so noticed. I know
Speaker 1: this is like it's your class, but you know, I
Speaker 1: can't help it. I step to keep talking. But you know, Jacob,
Speaker 1: who was my main man, there are times like I
Speaker 1: can feel him and it's behind me because when I do,
Speaker 1: like like my work work with him, he's usually behind me.
Speaker 1: And that rapping. It's like wings. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: it's like a safety, you know, even though it's so
Speaker 1: ethereal right, and safety is such a like on mas
Speaker 1: Low it's like number two from the bottom of the pyramid, right,
Speaker 1: but it's this, it's this safety that is extends humanness.
Speaker 1: I don't yeah, no, I that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's what I mean, like they have your back,
Speaker 2: They literally have your back.
Speaker 1: Oh my, technically I just told that story. You just
Speaker 1: said that would even connect it.
Speaker 2: That's what I was talking about.
Speaker 1: Your elf is slightly slow, not at all, because I
Speaker 1: have to confess I just learned something that was I
Speaker 1: was a little distraught when I got my haircut. You
Speaker 1: can't tell I got my haircut, by the way, it's
Speaker 1: in a pony because I can't wear this hits it
Speaker 1: with me, right, Okay, not that everybody's listening cares. We're
Speaker 1: just sorting this out. I got my haircut yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm like, what product I go my hair
Speaker 1: It's like it's humid, but I know it's dry here.
Speaker 1: And she's like, oh no, Julie. She goes, you're eighty
Speaker 1: five percent gray now, and those are white hair and
Speaker 1: they're wild and there, and she goes, you could very
Speaker 1: well end up with that, like only I said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be like a white haired witch, like by the
Speaker 1: time I'm old and I'm and I'm not even that old,
Speaker 1: so not even that olde yet. And but it's like
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, she goes, you have a little bit
Speaker 1: of your natural color, you have gray, and you have
Speaker 1: the wild white hair.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, shit, well you are a wild child.
Speaker 1: It's just a reminder what the body's doing, you know.
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, here we go, white haired witch. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the I don't know where I was going with that
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter the most important part of this whole
Speaker 1: first section is that y'all sign the fuck up. It
Speaker 1: is life changing. And I love that you taught it.
Speaker 1: This an escellent and they're getting back to you and
Speaker 1: they're sharing these stories with you. Everybody needs to me,
Speaker 1: Everyone needs to find their Jacob. And there's more than
Speaker 1: just one.
Speaker 2: But yeh, And I would just remind people that you're
Speaker 2: working with your guides anyhow, you might as well become
Speaker 2: aware of it, right right, so you can like have
Speaker 2: a little party and give.
Speaker 1: And they have names.
Speaker 2: They have names, and they have names and functions, and
Speaker 2: it's nice to be able to personalize it, to let
Speaker 2: it be a deep spiritual practice and you know, bring
Speaker 2: you to your best in everything you do. Like that, right,
Speaker 2: It's part of their job. It literally is their assignment
Speaker 2: that they've they've signed up for.
Speaker 1: And if you care to have your life saved, get
Speaker 1: to know your guide.
Speaker 2: It can come in super handy, without a doubt, without
Speaker 2: a doubt.
Speaker 1: So today we are talking more in our folklore mini series,
Speaker 1: and today we're we're talking about fairies. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean like my gay people fairies. I mean like the
Speaker 1: ethereal fairies, because I could do that all day long.
Speaker 1: I can tell you all about other fairies which they
Speaker 1: can't be banilla, banillovant, it's a word I hate say
Speaker 1: it for me, banilla, but bvlla, yeah that too. They
Speaker 1: can be that, and they can be evil. But those
Speaker 1: are just the gay fairies. So but we're going to
Speaker 1: be back in just a minute and we're going to
Speaker 1: talk fairies. Y'all.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 1: We laugh, I mean, just do y'all. Do you wonder
Speaker 1: why we laugh every single time we come back? We
Speaker 1: start every sin. When we restart, we just like are giggling,
Speaker 1: We just have fun. Ye.
Speaker 2: I love that we have fairies and talking about spirit
Speaker 2: guides in the same episode because like they're nuanced and layered, right,
Speaker 2: So what do you know, what did what did nerdy
Speaker 2: el find out about fairies?
Speaker 1: Well, nerdy elf has stuff to say. But in my way,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, I like to go I start
Speaker 1: with movies, so we're going to start there. And what's
Speaker 1: really interesting. Out of really all of the folk lore
Speaker 1: mythicalness creatures, if you want to call them that kind
Speaker 1: of category, fairies are funny enough, the most prevalent in storytelling.
Speaker 2: I did not know that.
Speaker 1: I have a list and I'm just going to run
Speaker 1: through some of them. And because I think that maybe
Speaker 1: some people who want to like kind of live this
Speaker 1: whole little fairy world right now, which ps I have been.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you guys, it is the greatest thing
Speaker 1: h studying, right because it's like I'm living, like with
Speaker 1: the fairies as I go through this stuff, and it's
Speaker 1: so much fun. So shrinking down, I mean tiny, y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a tiny ass elf, not just a
Speaker 1: short one.
Speaker 2: It's the movie where they shrunk them down that one.
Speaker 1: Honey, I shrank the kids. I don't think it was fairies.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, but that's I'm thinking for you, Like, yeah.
Speaker 1: Totally, that's me. It's gonna be uh, which I shrunk
Speaker 1: my health or whatever. So you know tinker Bell being
Speaker 1: the most famous, right, it's got it. I mean it's
Speaker 1: also the oldest, the most famous. Huh. Very global, Oh,
Speaker 1: totally global. But we also have there's a movie called
Speaker 1: fairy Tale the Dark Crystal. I did watch that and
Speaker 1: I really liked it. It's kind of a it's a
Speaker 1: little CULTI because it's weird.
Speaker 2: I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I love I have a I have a
Speaker 1: long sleeve T shirt that I bought from the Oscars
Speaker 1: dot org. Like they have a store that they had
Speaker 1: me museum store and they actually sell or did these
Speaker 1: like dark Crystal themed. I mean it has like the
Speaker 1: poster on it and the cools. Anyway, I have a
Speaker 1: long sleeve T shirt of the Dark Crystal because it's weird.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying out loud. We had Peter pan
Speaker 1: I mean, come On, which eventually became the movie Hook, right,
Speaker 1: that had.
Speaker 2: So Peter pans a fairy.
Speaker 1: There's a fairy in Peter Pan.
Speaker 2: Oh there's a very yeah, isn't this But.
Speaker 1: There are two separate movies. I'm just telling it. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of fairy action going on here.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: There's also like a kind of a kid's movie called
Speaker 1: Ella Enchanted. There's another movie which I haven't seen. So,
Speaker 1: by the way, I now have a new movie list.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna live. But you know it's my fairy
Speaker 1: movie list. So you'll get your if you if you're
Speaker 1: not driving or do anything important, start writing the ship down.
Speaker 1: So Willow is another one. Oh, Pans lab lab LABYRINTHA.
Speaker 2: What is wrong with me? It's in its shadow phase.
Speaker 2: We'll just let that go.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's another one. Also weird like it's there's
Speaker 1: some good weird fairy movies, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So when you say weird, do you mean dark?
Speaker 1: Do you mean they can sometimes dark? But sometimes it's
Speaker 1: weird like it's not like so when you have like
Speaker 1: kids stories for fairies like a Peter Pan or a
Speaker 1: tinker Bell, you have them like interacting a lot with
Speaker 1: humans and very much on the human kind of plane.
Speaker 1: But in some of these they're not on the human plane. Okay,
Speaker 1: Like right, so, like Dark Crystal is not Pan's Lab
Speaker 1: Labyrinth is not. Like that's what I mean, Like it's
Speaker 1: more otherworldly. But it's a very very fine question on
Speaker 1: my definition of weird. Okay, there's the Spiderwork Chronicles that
Speaker 1: actually if you have Roku, you can watch it on
Speaker 1: Roku based on the books. I can't believe. I know that.
Speaker 1: I just talked to my friend at Roku random. Well,
Speaker 1: I just talked to my friend Jay over there. There's
Speaker 1: there's a movie called It's a Disney movie called Artemis Fowl.
Speaker 1: There's another. There's several Disney movies that have fairies in them,
Speaker 1: like even Maleficent with Angelina Joli there's fairies in that.
Speaker 1: I even saw there's a movie and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I need to watch this one. It's called Pirate fair
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell is that? I need to
Speaker 1: watch that. There's another uh uh. I think it was
Speaker 1: a DreamWorks movie and I don't think. I think maybe
Speaker 1: I did work on it called Rise of the Guardians.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that was right before I started working on DreamWorks.
Speaker 1: Was called Rise of the Guardians. It's a uh uh,
Speaker 1: it's an animated film Fairies, and that my favorite one
Speaker 1: is actually The Tooth Fairy. Okay, I have a feeling
Speaker 1: I've never told this story, so we're going to divert
Speaker 1: slightly because this is one of my favorite Hollywood stories ever.
Speaker 1: So The Tooth Fairy started Dwayne john Has starred Dwyane
Speaker 1: Johnson The Rock. It also had Julie Andrews in the
Speaker 1: movie as well, and so it was the cutest movie.
Speaker 1: It was one of the first, like within my first year, now,
Speaker 1: maybe my first few years I worked at Fox, probably
Speaker 1: my first three. So we have they're called filmmaker meetings,
Speaker 1: and Dwyane is in the filmmaker meeting and ps in person,
Speaker 1: you don't call him the Rock. His name was Dwayne.
Speaker 1: So we're having this great meeting with him. And afterwards,
Speaker 1: so and you remember when I was around that age,
Speaker 1: I was in the best shape ever. I had hatch
Speaker 1: my trainer, I was skinny, I was strong. I was
Speaker 1: like beating boys at work arm wrestling like that was
Speaker 1: that face so left handed just ps everybody, and I'm
Speaker 1: right handed. So after the meeting, Dwayne was like, Juliet,
Speaker 1: was so great to meet you. I'm so excited. The
Speaker 1: marketing plan looks great. We have this really lovely conversation
Speaker 1: and I said, I cannot wait to see you again.
Speaker 1: And I said, and I have to tell you. He goes,
Speaker 1: what's that? And I said, next time, I'm going to
Speaker 1: challenge you to him arm wrestle. He goes, oh you are.
Speaker 1: He goes, well, let me tell you some I go,
Speaker 1: what's that? He goes, I'm not going to let you win.
Speaker 1: I said, that's interesting, because let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: He goes, what's that? Literally, guys, this is that. When
Speaker 1: he goes, what's that, I said, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: let you win either. That man stood twice my size,
Speaker 1: giggling like a little school girl. So watch The Tooth Fairy,
Speaker 1: just because he's an awesome dude, I mean, because he
Speaker 1: was like in the movie, he was this guy who
Speaker 1: didn't believe he was made to be a fairy and
Speaker 1: that he was kind of a fussy kind of guy.
Speaker 1: And you know this, this is his transition to not
Speaker 1: being a fuzzy guy, you know whatever. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: had to share that story. I'm very excited about The Tooth.
Speaker 1: I still love that movie. So anyway, there's lots of
Speaker 1: movies about it. And it's funny because seriously, I just
Speaker 1: I want to repeat this because I've been I've literally
Speaker 1: been saying this. It is the most prevalent. It's like,
Speaker 1: you don't see this many movies about the Lockness Monster.
Speaker 1: You don't see it about Bigfoot, you don't see as
Speaker 1: many dragon movies. You don't see Elf movie, like you
Speaker 1: see a couple Elf movies. But it's fairies, like they're
Speaker 1: literally everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's that is the thing about fairies.
Speaker 1: They're everywhere exactly. So let me tell you my nerdy party.
Speaker 1: Ready for my nerdy part. I know I'm very tatty,
Speaker 1: I promise y'all, and that you're gonna hear from Brenda
Speaker 1: a lot more. But it's like, I get it super
Speaker 1: excited about this stuff.
Speaker 2: Woice, come on.
Speaker 1: So it's fucking fairies. Not just fairies, it's fucking fairies.
Speaker 1: So in speaking of I will talk about fucking fairies
Speaker 1: here in a minute. But so for real, there's a
Speaker 1: thing in here about not technically don't use that language,
Speaker 1: but that's elf language. But anyway, so for those who
Speaker 1: might not be totally familiar with what a fairy is,
Speaker 1: it is in writing what they say. It's a mythical being,
Speaker 1: which we will address that of folklore and romance, usually
Speaker 1: having magical powers and dwelling on earth. In close relationship
Speaker 1: with humans. It can appear as a dwarf creature, typically
Speaker 1: having green clothes and hair, living underground or in stone heaps,
Speaker 1: and character and characteristic. I can't speak characteristically, good God, damn,
Speaker 1: exercising magic powers to benevolent ends. I should not be
Speaker 1: reading today.
Speaker 2: They're doing great, You're doing great.
Speaker 1: I can't pronounce anything, so I just made it.
Speaker 2: It makes me giggle because when you do the fairy emojis,
Speaker 2: they're they're green, right.
Speaker 1: They're green, and that funny. I didn't know that until
Speaker 1: you just made that connection.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: See, yeah, there's also multiple ways to spell them, but
Speaker 1: we don't have to get into that level of detail.
Speaker 1: So here's what's.
Speaker 2: Actually that just comes from the because it's a global phenomena.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, which is when you go back to.
Speaker 2: The Celtic right, they spell it differently.
Speaker 1: This is where we're headed, whichy pooh pooh, pooh wooh
Speaker 1: is The term fairy goes back to the Middle Ages
Speaker 1: in Europe. They appear like they're they're from, like when
Speaker 1: we have our oral history as well, because we know
Speaker 1: we start going back, you know, four or five hundred
Speaker 1: plus years ago, we were dealing with, you know, a
Speaker 1: population that was pretty illiterate, right, So so much was
Speaker 1: through oral history. They also have written history as well
Speaker 1: about fairies, and they have them from Sanskrit. There's a
Speaker 1: word called gandharva g a n d h a r
Speaker 1: v a, which means semi divine celestial musicians.
Speaker 2: Isn't that fun like cord gestures.
Speaker 1: But fairies is what they call them. Yeah, And then
Speaker 1: they talked about, of course, the the nymphs nymphs of
Speaker 1: Greek mythology and Homer, and then they also have the
Speaker 1: j I n n i of Arabic mythology. And then
Speaker 1: there's also similar folk characters of the Samoans, of the
Speaker 1: Arctic peoples and of other indigenous Americans. So you said global,
Speaker 1: and you were fully you got a plus on the
Speaker 1: global because it is. But this is where all the
Speaker 1: you know, again, whether it's written or oral, this is
Speaker 1: where this has been compiled from was all over the world.
Speaker 1: And the different you know, terms they had for them,
Speaker 1: the names they had for them, and the different parts
Speaker 1: of the world. So I think it's really fascinating. And
Speaker 1: of course we've certainly talked about how fairies have been
Speaker 1: characterized in like children's movies specifically, and so a lot
Speaker 1: of what I pulled up talks about that. What's interesting
Speaker 1: is some of them how it shifted from the early dates.
Speaker 1: Is that again, this is like, you know, because modern
Speaker 1: day we ruined lots of stuff, they have made them
Speaker 1: more sinister at times, right, Like, so we see the
Speaker 1: sinister part coming in.
Speaker 2: Well fairies, can you know we talked about elves and
Speaker 2: how elves can take things into the other realm. Fairies
Speaker 2: can do the same thing.
Speaker 1: Yes they can.
Speaker 2: I mean they do it a little differently, but they do.
Speaker 2: They do like to hide things on us because they
Speaker 2: like to play with us.
Speaker 1: They like to play with us, exactly right. So let
Speaker 1: me just tell you. So I'm going to read again.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I can say these words so, but but if
Speaker 1: I read it, I'm going to get it right because
Speaker 1: it's interesting about how things have how have they've shifted,
Speaker 1: And it also gets to the point when I call
Speaker 1: them fucking fairies. So hold on. So fairies are usually
Speaker 1: conceived as being characteristic, characteristically beautiful or handsome, and is
Speaker 1: having lives corresponding to those as human beings.
Speaker 2: Mh uh.
Speaker 1: Though they say that the fairies live longer, they also
Speaker 1: say they don't have souls. So that's one thing I
Speaker 1: had a question for you about. And I say that
Speaker 1: the Internet says they don't have souls.
Speaker 2: Is they don't have human souls. They have fairy souls.
Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking because.
Speaker 2: I identified it as like how we identify our human song.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, because I read that, I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: think my wichipo is gonna agree with this, because like
Speaker 1: my intuition was, no, that's not right. They're just not
Speaker 1: getting it right. They like, yes, like the human soul
Speaker 1: part for sure. So then it continues. They often carry
Speaker 1: off children and there, but they they will leave changeling substitutes.
Speaker 1: Do you want to tell everybody what changeling is, Well,
Speaker 1: they'll just leave.
Speaker 2: It's like when they take something they so that you
Speaker 2: don't think like, oh, maybe I didn't put it there.
Speaker 2: They'll leave something in its place, like a calling card
Speaker 2: that says now game on, like now you have to
Speaker 2: play with me. You have to play with me to
Speaker 2: get this back.
Speaker 1: That's how hilarious.
Speaker 2: That's how I think of it. I'm throwing down. They're
Speaker 2: thrown down a gauntlet to play, right.
Speaker 1: They also carry off adults to fairyland, which resemble what
Speaker 1: they say, which resembles pre Christian abodes of the dead
Speaker 1: what that sentence means. But here's the interesting part. People
Speaker 1: transported to fairy land cannot return if they eat or
Speaker 1: drink there. It's note if you get carried off, y'all.
Speaker 2: Okay, but think about it. Fairies are little. What are
Speaker 2: they going to serve you that you're interested in? Right?
Speaker 1: Well, that's totally fair. Like you can get a shot
Speaker 1: of something, you know, like here's a geos seed, here's
Speaker 1: a fairy cheese seed. Oh my god, we should start
Speaker 1: a whole new line of chia seasons. It's call them
Speaker 1: fairy seeds and eat them.
Speaker 2: But my point is, like, you know, if you're human,
Speaker 2: you get carried into fairy land, they're not gonna it's
Speaker 2: not gonna be enticing to you like that. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to eat like a hole, you know, a whole
Speaker 2: truckload of that to even taste it.
Speaker 1: Come on, right, Okay, I'm just telling this is what
Speaker 1: they're saying, this is what theyself me. Let me tell us.
Speaker 1: The Internet tells me fair in human lovers may marry,
Speaker 1: though only with restrictions whose violation ends the marriage and
Speaker 1: often the life of the human. That's why I said,
Speaker 1: That's why I said, fucking fairies, people do.
Speaker 2: Not do not be confused. It's not worth your life.
Speaker 1: That's right, y'all. There's yeah, there's no Jdvans. You don't
Speaker 1: need to do it with a sofa. You don't need
Speaker 1: to do it with a fairy. You've been out of
Speaker 1: the news, Brenda anyway, you look it up later. And
Speaker 1: it also some female fairies are deadly to human lovers.
Speaker 2: Go girls make black widow sort of situations.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, Also, female fairies may tell fortunes, particularly prophesizing
Speaker 1: at birth and foretelling deaths. Internet says, what do you
Speaker 1: think about.
Speaker 2: That, Well, considering that they are black widow lovers think
Speaker 2: that would be an easy they'd be a ringer.
Speaker 1: I think so too. It's like the fairyland is truly
Speaker 1: where girls rule. This is what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 1: I love it. There's also there's apparently herbs that are
Speaker 1: potent against fairies. Do you know about that? One of
Speaker 1: them is Saint John's wart, and it's also it's called it. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's saying it's a John and it's a wart. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: the name of it makes it frankly potent against me.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a no on that, Okay, horse shit. Okay,
Speaker 1: what about ya o y A R R O W.
Speaker 2: I'm getting a no on that.
Speaker 1: Okay. So this is a bullshit part. So it Elsa
Speaker 1: says hawthorn trees checking that one too. She's doing her
Speaker 1: little charley stuff, y'all.
Speaker 2: It depends on it depends on the regional of the
Speaker 2: region of the fairy.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's hilarious. Okay, a foxglove and grand cellar,
Speaker 1: oh are also dear to them. Oh and if you
Speaker 1: abuse those trees or plants, it may bring retribution.
Speaker 2: So the fairies do have such a strong connection with
Speaker 2: herbs and plants in general. So often if you are
Speaker 2: working in a garden or you are, you know, harvesting
Speaker 2: medicinal plants, you would make offerings, right, you would think
Speaker 2: the plant and the fairies that helped it grow, so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to remind Susannah that because she's getting
Speaker 1: ready to do that at our house. Okay, I just
Speaker 1: noticed the time. We're going to take a really quick
Speaker 1: break and we're going to come back because I can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear what you have to say. Okay, y'all,
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. Okay, y'all, we're back, and Brenda's
Speaker 1: going to fix everything I just said. Except because it's
Speaker 1: a girl's wonderland. I love that. I want to go
Speaker 1: to Faeryland.
Speaker 2: So all I was saying is I asked what Susanne
Speaker 2: will be harvesting. And because it's not always clear what
Speaker 2: an offering is, and an offering can be anything that
Speaker 2: is heartfelt. It can be something that you create. It
Speaker 2: can be food, it can be song, it can be
Speaker 2: a dance, it can be a prayer. But something that's
Speaker 2: very traditionally an offering is tobacco. Julie's doing an interpretive dance.
Speaker 1: I got a dance man.
Speaker 2: My friend Sianna plays a penny flute that she's always
Speaker 2: making offerings. Today.
Speaker 1: I need to get Susanna flute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just it can be a little recorder, a little
Speaker 2: penny for yeah.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm going to get one off Amazon, like
Speaker 1: literally after we finished recording. I'm getting I'm making a
Speaker 1: note flute and she'll be like, what the hell are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 2: It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, baby, this is your offer to the fairies.
Speaker 2: Did keep the soil fertile and vibrant?
Speaker 1: And yes? And I can sit and watching giggle in
Speaker 1: the corner that my girls.
Speaker 2: Play in a flute and helpfully dancing, and.
Speaker 1: I'll be dancing. Oh my god, I'll dance their.
Speaker 2: A flute exactly. See how he dovetails together?
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 2: But it creates such a lovely cycle, right, because you're
Speaker 2: receiving the benefits of the plant and they're receiving your blessings.
Speaker 1: So now I think we've talked about this, but we've
Speaker 1: been doing the show now. It was five years, so
Speaker 1: you know, long term memories get a little sketchy. But
Speaker 1: I because of this topic and one of the things
Speaker 1: I remember so much about just getting to know you
Speaker 1: over the years has been kind of your your first
Speaker 1: experience with the other side, Like you were a little girl, right,
Speaker 1: So why don't you tell us, tell us give us
Speaker 1: your version of fairies from your experience.
Speaker 2: So I'm I'm under the age of five, and we
Speaker 2: are in a nineteen seventies station wagon, like the full
Speaker 2: Ford station wagon experience from the seventies. Google it. It's
Speaker 2: and so we have this. We have the back seat
Speaker 2: down and we have the way back seat down, and
Speaker 2: so it's like we've got blankets and pillows and books
Speaker 2: and crayons and toys, and you know, it's like I
Speaker 2: thought I'd think of it like a moving campground in
Speaker 2: the back, right, and is what's happening? And we of
Speaker 2: course this was pre air conditioning, right, So the windows
Speaker 2: are all down and we're driving from Wisconsin. We have
Speaker 2: a family of five, Yeah, driving from Wisconsin to Texas
Speaker 2: in July, right, So it's just a nightmare. It's hot
Speaker 2: and it's it's crazy. And so we were ritsen around
Speaker 2: in the back seat and we're going through Saint Louis
Speaker 2: or rush hour traffic, and my mom's navigating from the
Speaker 2: passengers side with this fold out map and telling my
Speaker 2: dad where to go, and and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: my feather pillow breaks loose and there are feathers everywhere,
Speaker 2: like it is everywhere, and it's swirling in the car. Right.
Speaker 2: My dad can't see, and he's somehow he instinctally knows
Speaker 2: that it's my pillow, right, and starts yelling at me.
Speaker 2: How do you know that? But the reason it's important
Speaker 2: of the pillow breaking is because I couldn't stop giggling.
Speaker 2: I thought it was the funniest thing that had ever
Speaker 2: happened in my short life. Like I was just like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is the best thing ever. And
Speaker 2: I'm inhaling feathers because I'm laughing so hard. And when
Speaker 2: the feathers cleared, and what I saw were these like
Speaker 2: clear bubbles that I could play with and I could
Speaker 2: move with my mind or I could move with my
Speaker 2: fingers before I could touch it, and it was like
Speaker 2: these energy patterns that I was playing with. And someone said, oh,
Speaker 2: it's totally what the fairies would do. They would totally
Speaker 2: break a pillow and then want to play with you.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I love that. And you were so young, yeah,
Speaker 1: and how And that's actually what a perfect age, right,
Speaker 1: because you know, the all the movies that I mentioned,
Speaker 1: most of them are animated movies, and like it's for children,
Speaker 1: it's for the wonderment right of being a child, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you during my my beginning of my ghost
Speaker 1: photography and still to this day, I have seen and
Speaker 1: you talked about bubbles, right, I've seen other photos and
Speaker 1: it's so funny to me because I've seen them and
Speaker 1: really nice hotels where they just have whatever art they buy,
Speaker 1: you know, and they'll have like if it's at nighttime
Speaker 1: in the street lights. And sometimes when you see that
Speaker 1: photograph you see little round bubbles, there's something inside of
Speaker 1: every one of them. I have stood there at work
Speaker 1: meetings and I have brought executives, you know, with me.
Speaker 1: Do you guys see that in there? They're like, what
Speaker 1: is that? They'll have it there, Holy crap, and they're like,
Speaker 1: nobody's probably ever noticed this. I said no, because nobody
Speaker 1: notices the fairies the way they should.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: They don't look the same either, by the way, they don't.
Speaker 2: But they have a different charge than the rest of
Speaker 2: the background.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do. I've seen little I've seen little elephants
Speaker 1: and some of the bubbles.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Not like all kinds of creatures.
Speaker 1: Right, they can write, like you said, they.
Speaker 2: Can take different shapes and forms and yeah, and colors
Speaker 2: and yeah. But these these were very playful, very joyful.
Speaker 1: So let's redefine a word that I used in the
Speaker 1: beginning of this the definition that came from the people
Speaker 1: of the Inner Web, and they talk about it being methought,
Speaker 1: like it's it's a myth and it's just another dimension,
Speaker 1: is what it is. It's not a myth. And if
Speaker 1: you experience things like this, you're not crazy. Obviously we
Speaker 1: say this all the time. If you do this, you're
Speaker 1: not crazy. But it is it is a very real experience.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the important part of this. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about elves. You know, people in
Speaker 1: Ireland they actually changed their their design of their highway
Speaker 1: system because of where the elves were very real to them. Right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make it where it's not. It's not untrue.
Speaker 1: It's not a myth. It's real. Fairies to you were real. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And often like puppies and babies and kiddies will play
Speaker 2: with things that we can't see, right, oh and a
Speaker 2: lot of times that'll be uh, you know, just energy
Speaker 2: patterns we can't see.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Or if you take a picture, sometimes you'll catch
Speaker 2: those those globes of light.
Speaker 1: I catch those little yeah, little fuckers all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's fun when you get when you because
Speaker 2: I have a picture of my shitsu when she was
Speaker 2: a puppy playing with those botts of light that I
Speaker 2: couldn't see when I took the picture. When I got that,
Speaker 2: got it developed because it was back in the day.
Speaker 1: So Maggie was you get Maggie's magical dog. Let's be honest,
Speaker 1: because I took a picture for your house after it
Speaker 1: was her time to cross, and I'm like, girl, I
Speaker 1: think this is Maggie. You're like, oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: my girl. She was most magical dog. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: love these conversations. I hope that. I mean, I hope
Speaker 1: we just changed this podcast to like lore and mythology
Speaker 1: because this would be It's just so much fun to
Speaker 1: talk about it. It's so much fun, and it's a
Speaker 1: part of our world, right it isn't. It's energetic, it's
Speaker 1: not just the mythical part.
Speaker 2: And again I love that it goes back so many
Speaker 2: centuries and across the globe.
Speaker 1: Yes, me too.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just part of the human experience.
Speaker 1: So yes, it is. Wait till we talk about Dragon Jall.
Speaker 1: That's coming up next.
Speaker 2: Well, nerdy elf, thank you for bringing all the fun,
Speaker 2: all the magic, and remember our.
Speaker 1: School without the other side. And fairies and spell them
Speaker 1: any way you choose, and even your gay friends there
Speaker 1: your fairies too.
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