July 31, 2024 • 35 mins
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😊 "Smiling's my favorite!"
🦷 "I want to be a dentist!"
🧦"Dobby is free!"
Today, we begin a Folklore series, and our first subject is Elves! Elves love to show up where you least expect them. Except, don't look for them in your dreams or meditations. They reside solely on the Earth plane, and despite pop-culture legend, they're rarely in trees making cookies. Tune in to learn the facts and fun surrounding these little trickers, how you can spot them, and the origin behind Julie the Elf's nickname.
Because Earth School is hard without a little elfin magic...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Insider's Guide to the Other Side, a production
of iHeartRadio. Hi, y'all, I'm Julie.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hi there, I'm Brenda. Welcome to Insider's Guide to the
Other Side.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Now, y'all need to know that we are obsessed with
everything on the other side.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, we are, because once you learn to navigate the energetic,
or to some the invisible world, life is going to
be more fun and much more serene.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Uh heck, yes it can, because, let's be honest, br in,
earth school is hard. In fact, you taught me.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That, let's crush Earth school together.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Hello, my witchy oh pooh. It is so good to
see you. Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Now spend a minute of my own ough you flew solo.
You did such a great job.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I did not like it. I mean I can write
a whole Doctor Seuss poem on why I I didn't
like it Stanza by Stanza on how I missed you
and how lonely I was.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I know it's not as It's not as easy.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
No, and I've recorded it twice for the record, did you. Yeah,
that's impressive.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I appreciate the commitment in security.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And I didn't have my witchy poop on my side,
and it just wasn't as good. Are you good like
we missed you? As everything good?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, yeah, I am in recovery, but I'm good.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You can still hear a little, a little in my
voice that not quite one hundred percent, but I'm pretty close.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
So yeah, you said eighty, and I think eighty is
an understatement for where you see. But you know your
percentage is better than me. I think I normally I
met an eighty. Eighty is one hundred to me. So
I just like, I'm like, eighty, Holy shit, Like that's
a B minus in soul, which is above average. That's
(01:56):
why I think I'm always there.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You're passing.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I don't right. If you said sixty, I'm like, oh girl,
you're almost in the F zone, right, But you didn't.
You said eighty. So maybe your scoring is very different
than my scoring.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I do not score on a curve.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Okay, you see us scoring on an elf curve?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh my god, you make me laugh. I just appreciate that,
first of all, you're covering while I was out, and
also just the generous heart in which you told your story.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It was no thanks. It's also my love of entertainment.
Which actually brings us, I think to kind of why
we're starting a new series, not a whole podcast, shy'll
just a series within our podcast. So of course I
have to tell you the story why because I am
(02:49):
me and so I was in Los Angeles last week
and busy, I mean like busy, like an ELF busy,
busy busy where I wasn't getting back to the hotel
until most nights between eleven thirty and twelve thirty, Like, well.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You're with your people, come on, we know that you're
going to be out late.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I loved it. I loved every second, but it's like
not a lot of time. And I have to say this.
Nobody cares. You know why I'm saying this. I actually
checked a bag and that's like a huge no, Like
that's a huge trust issue with me, and I know
it's it's like a trust fall if I if I
check a bag, that's a trust fall.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So so I always check bags because of my skincare. Okay,
I can't fit it in a court sized bag.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, that's hilarious, but it's literally a trust fall. Of
all the times I traveled inter nationally and my bags
were lost, delayed, all that kind of stuff. It's like
I try to jam everything in there, and I'll even
carry like stuff in my backpack that should be in
a suitcase because I don't trust airlines, so anyway is
a trust fault. It worked Southwest, you know, they caught
(04:04):
me going there and coming back. So anyway, I packed
full back, very exciting, stayed in hotels, the pool, swam
it was fantastic. But here's what happened. I know it's like,
this is the irrelevant part of the section of the podcast.
So here's what happened. I have not flown Southwest in
a really long time. And it's not because I don't
(04:26):
like them. I'm super cool with Southwest. It's just they weren't.
They didn't match up right to flight. They will come
to find out there's a direct flight from Albuquerque to Burbank.
I'm like, oh sweet, right, and I worry a little
bit it might just be like seasonal. I hope it's not.
(04:48):
And I'm like, fuck yeah, I'm going. And I've never seen,
by the way, both airports more busy in my life
because it's it's it's you know, summer vacation, it's all
that kind of stuff. I mean, like I used to
own the Albuquerque Airport. When I would go, it was
man like four other people. Now I'm like, where did
(05:08):
they come from? But it's you know, it's it's terristyme
and that's pretty much what we're really good for here.
But anyway, so on Southwest Airlines, I was not aware
that when they turned on the Wi Fi, you could
go on your phone or your whatever device and they
have a list of free movies. And I'm like, two
favorite words free in movies. They don't always have to
(05:30):
be next to each other, but it's nice when they are.
I'm like, I want to see what they have in
the free movie.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Mean, they don't have the little TVs in the back
of the sea.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
No, there's a long gone honey. I didn't know. You
didn't know that, but there you go. So I wouldn't know.
I wouldn't know. I played the field. I'm like a
quad sexual when it comes to airlines. It's like, whoever
gets me there fastest, I'm your date. Okay, Yeah, I
don't care about Miles. I don't care about that shit.
(06:00):
I just want to get there. I want to get home.
So I used to care about Miles, and I realized
because I traveled so much I never used them. Yeah,
so there's that anyway. So so I realized, like, oh,
I can watch a movie. So the movie they had
go fucking figures like gold Mine, shit, it was ghost
it was it was Ghostbusters, Frozen, Empire. I'm like, again
(06:24):
favorite words. I like the Cold so Frozen works, love Ghostbusting,
and I'm not I'm kind of a fan of Empires.
So I'm like, I will watch this movie so that this.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Must be the latest of it. Is it a remake?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Right, it's not a remake, No, it's it's it's new there, yes, okay, yeah,
and also some of my favorite actors are in there
as well. Okay, yeah, it's great. Who's in it? Well
we had the oldies, right we have uh, we have
Bill Murray was in there, and Annie Potts, who I
love Annie Potts. She's also in Young Sheldon. I just
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love Annipots. And they also had a woman named Carrie
Khon who is in it. And Carrie Cohne is not
like a super popular actress, but she was in one
of my favorite series ever called The Leftovers, and I
became obsessed. I mean, she's so good. It's an HBO series.
I encourage everybody to watch and if anybody wants to
(07:23):
be my friend, you have to watch that, unless you're
Brenda because she gets exempt from No, not at all. Actually,
it's not scary at all. It's it's there's an event. Okay,
we're totally going off track. I love this. It's there's
an event that happens, and I think it's like three
percent or five percent of the population on the planet
just disappears, and it's an event COVID, but they literally
(07:49):
physically disappear like this, And I love it because it's
really a story about what we do when we're fraid,
when we're in grief and seeking shelter, solace, safety, whatever
it may be, who we connect ourselves to, how we
(08:09):
act like I just love those types of shows. And anyway,
so she stars in The Leftover, so I was very
excited about that. So I'm watching this show. I'm not
going to tell you guys about it, because this movie,
you guys could watch it. It's fun. But there's this
moment when somebody was explaining to another and one character
was explained to another character something like, well, yeah, you know,
(08:34):
I believe in that, and then continued on and say
something about the singing cheeses of Copenhagen, like that it
was some folklore or myth or something like that. So
I get all excited. Right, So I'm like, oh my god,
a new folklore for me. And I go look it
up and okay, it with some episode on Rimy and Stimpy,
(08:55):
a cartoon. I'm like, well, fuck this, it's not a
real folklore. There's nothing about the singing she's of Copenhagen.
And I'm like, I'm so disappointed. So but what was
awesome about my disappointment? I'm like, you know, me, would
you poo have not actually gone through and kind of
addressed all the different folklores that are out there, and
(09:18):
I thought, what a fun series it would be for us.
Am I right.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Absolutely? I can't wait to see where this goes.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, we're going to start with elves because why not.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Of course we are.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And I've done homework because you know nerdy elf does
homework too, and I have. You know, when you do
research for these types of topics, you have to go
deep into like Reddit, and you to go deep into
like discord and shit like that to like really go
in to get the stories. And I think I found
a good one, so I wanted to hear.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So we should probably take a break.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Maybe I'm just kidding, Yeah, take a break. But I
just want to say to everyone, as you listen to this,
we're not trying to sell you guys folklorees. We're just sharing, right,
We're going to talk about what we think and what
possibilities are. But I just think it's really interesting just
the fact that there's so many that there's so many
(10:17):
and we're going to cover a lot of them from
around the world, and I just think it's just a
really fascinating topic. And if you don't believe, that's fine,
But the next party you go to you'll have stuff
to talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, and remember it's about how culturally we make sense
of the.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
World exactly, exactly. Okay, we'll be right back. I'd welcome back,
thank you. Okay, so let me tell what I found. Well, yeah,
and we can talk as we go through it, right,
(10:53):
But this is really awesome because the headline, well, it's
under tags of so our little rs reddit slash paranormal,
so it's in the paranormal section of Reddit, and it
has a tag of encounter. So just everybody knows okay,
but there's a headline and this is what I love.
Did I meet in elf? Or was it something else? Classic? Right,
(11:20):
isn't this fantastic? I'm going to try to like make it.
Oh no, it doesn't want to go horizontal on me,
old age. I'm gonna have to look at it really closely.
So here we go. Here is did I meet an elf?
Or was it something else? So this happened to me
when I was ten, but I was so shocked I
remember it vividly. My parents go to the farmer's market weekly.
(11:43):
This time they brought me along. So this farmer's market
was held on a big parking lot and on the
ground here and there there were some sorts of metal
gratings and you could see the sewers. By the way,
it sounds like an intro to it, that evil clown.
I thought you're going to say Poltergeist. No, no, because
(12:06):
it's not a comedy. Neither was neither was it. By
the way, it's kind of scared the shit out of me. Okay,
I don't know if you can picture, but I could
try finding a pic. Okay, Okay, sorry, I didn't mean,
who cares? Uh, we can picture it, right, because farmers.
Yeah right, really Farmers Market, parking lot medlow grade. See
(12:27):
the sewer, got it? And if you can't picture it,
go watch it anyway. I was always scared of walking
on them as a kid because I thought I would
fall in. Totally fair. And by the way, if you're
a lady and you got some heels on it, you
avoid that shit too. Clearly, this is not a lady.
I think it's a heat it is. Oh no, maybe
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a lady. This person continues and says, But that day
the market was full, not a lot of space to
go around, and I had to walk over them. As
I did, I looked down and there was somebody down
there looking back. Oh no, that's some freaky shit.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, I mean, as a ten year old, I don't
think he would make that up.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I don't think so. But I'm fully convinced this is
not made up. But you tell me, because you are
the wishy poo. This person continues. He was small, he
had pointy ears, but it's his eyes that I can't forget.
They were golden and so shiny. I looked at him,
(13:35):
he looked at me for what seemed to be an eternity.
I was so shocked that. I just kept on walking,
went back to the car. I told my parents, I
told everyone, but nobody would believe me. I mean seriously,
I mean I get it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I totally get it.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I totally get it. To this day, nobody does. It
has become a running joke amongst my friends, so I
stopped talking about it altogether. It's the first time I've
told this story in a decade. Trust me, reading it
as an adult. I know how crazy, corny and ridiculous
(14:14):
it sounds, but I know it happened. Has anybody ever
heard anything blah blah that's happened to them? Why do
I feel like I missed a part? I said twenty
years right, Okay, that's the part they caught me. Yeah,
you're kidding, I mean, and then I realized, Hey, actually
say it, because in my head I've said it a
(14:35):
thousand times since I've read this story. Pointy years, twenty years,
twenty years golden eyes, golden eyes, come the fuck one? Yeah,
that would do it. Okay, So do you feel that
we're talking about like this is this child adult now
(14:55):
encountered this? Yeah? I mean this it sounds pretty incredible.
So here's what's interesting is the elves, which the Internet
calls fictional beings and have to say specifically who calls
it fictional beings, has been in the European folklore for
(15:18):
since the fifteen hundreds at least. Well this is what
they say, right, I think there's I think there's Celtic
folklore that might be a little bit older. But what's
interesting is, you know they talk about like what they
look like. You know, they're small, usually in the form
of a tiny human, right, so that tracks they're known
(15:42):
for playing tricks and causing troubles. I mean, listen, if
like you're gonna have an ELF's gonna catch your eye
through grades, like you're causing trouble. Yeah, you're not hiding
from humans. You're like messing with humans. And is it.
One of the other things that happens is they steal children.
They steal a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
They can steal a lot of things, but they will Yeah,
they can steal children. But also they they tend to
hang out in what we call the tweenier places, right,
the places that are thresholds to other places, like a
great a sewer, grade, a window, a doorway. Right, that's
(16:22):
those those little thresholds because they can go between the Earth,
you know, the earthplane and the magical world. And so
they you know, they can turn any of those thresholds
or you know, vortexes into transportation into the into the
magical world. So that's usually where'll they will catch your eye.
(16:46):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, So like they can now they can pass through
to our dimension, can we pass.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Through to their not without them, without their guide, like
they without their abduction really when I think of but yeah,
like that, so.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
They were believed and in various reasons to cause diseases
in humans and cattle. I've never heard that. Yeah, that
just sounds like pre understanding bacteria. Right, and that also
keep in mind of timelines, right, like fifteen hundreds, was
(17:29):
this to say that's the latest, right? That was certainly
a time of widespread illiteracy. Yeah, right, Like this is
back in the day when religion was was they're they're
guiding force. Like when the sun came up every morning,
there was like, oh they thank God that the son
(17:51):
that thank God that God allowed the sun to come
up that day because they thought it was a choice. Right,
there's no understanding of a galaxy, a universe solar system,
not that it was the divine, right right, right, It
was the divine And it's really funny because, uh, you know,
(18:12):
there's a there's a little like I've read, as you
can imagine, quite a bit about elves and I'm in
my next place on my vacation, like my hit list
is actually Iceland, Like I want to go hang out,
and I think they're waiting for me, no doubt. Well,
the magical L's and they like to cause a lot
of ruckusts and stuff. But there's a lot of cases
(18:33):
that that do a lot of stories that come out
of Iceland of interacting. In fact, I think there's one
of the highways that they made to avoid this kind
of part of a force which was known where the
L's were.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
They and they were instructed to build around it, to
build it right, yeah, because like things people would go missing.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Hey, man, don't mess with the elves because it's funny
because they say, you know, are they because you know,
I rarely have had elf conversations before, and people have
asked like are they good or bad? And I'm like,
they're both, yeah, just like people, they're both right, you know,
they're known for these magical qualities. I think there's certain
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you know, possibilities that they can have. But yeah, of
course they're gonna be They're gonna be bad. They're gonna
be mischievous. I don't know what dry. So tell me, like,
why would they steal children?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You know, well, one because they can and to get
enough answer if they're trying to get the humans attention
to do something or pay attention to something or said
something right, and they they are too stubborn, or they're
not paying attention to how how cherished their children should
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be or something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
They're teaching a lesson kind of things.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, they're like, okay, we'll show you dipstick.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Where do the kids go? You know?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They go into another Yeah, they go into the magical
they go to the elf land.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Why didn't that happen to me? We don't know that
it didn't. Oh good fight nicely. Yes, Maybe that's why
I like them so much. Maybe that's why you got
your magical powers. Maybe. So okay, so I'm just going
to bring up one thing and then we should probably
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take another break, which I can't believe I said that
out loud. It's a hate breaks. There's a list of
like these characteristics, right, so they're small, the form of
tiny human. They remain youthful for more than five hundred years.
They're known for playing tricks and causing troubles. They're associated
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with magic, skilled with weapons and magic, and sometimes shape shifters.
Oh yeah, they possess anate grace and beauty. Here's my
favorite part. Like, I like literally cannot get this out
of my head. Antagonistic and often at odds with dwarves,
(21:04):
Like what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I think back to think wrestling.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Now, think Lord of the Rings in photos posse, right,
how the elves and the dwarfs would like snarl at
each other.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Isn't it funny? I mean, but it's like it's like,
I guess you know, when you have like a very
large person who's antagonizing a small person, if they pick
on some of your own size. I think in this
case they pick the right size.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Nice. Yes, all those things out there are definitely associated
with magical things, stirring up trouble, and sometimes stirring up
trouble just to create more magic. Like, hey, you think
we're not real, huh, jokes on you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We'll show you. You're gonna have to build a road
around as fuckers. Okay, we're going to come back, and
I want to talk a little bit about the Keilp
folklore of elves and we'll dive into some other aspect
of elves. Okay, we'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And welcome back to more alphology.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Okay, so this is just fun facts. These are just
fun elfin facts. So there's a question, So you know,
what are the elves and Celtic folk lore Jesus Julie,
say it properly, say it, don't spit it or stutter it.
So who are the elves? In Scotland mythology and folklore
(22:41):
and Scottish mythology and folklore, elves are known as it
doesn't matter the sith the sith is something like that,
but they're believed to be, to your point, supernatural beings
who live in a parallel world alongside humans and have
the ability to interact with and influence human affairs. Like
that is probably the best definition. Yet, what I think
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is really fascinating is they say, kind of where do
elves come from? Like it's like, how do elves come
to be? So once I really am interested to get
your take on this. So when Middle Earth universe was
created by the supreme being e Eru, I think it's
(23:27):
I l u v A t A r oh. That's
like Vader eleu Vader. That sounds like Darth Vader. Two
species were made directly by the Creator God and it's
little c little g elves in humans called men in
the Middle Earth lore, the l's were spread across the
world in mated pairs, while humans were held back until
(23:51):
a later time. So according to this else Predate Humans
Psychicoma book. But go ahead.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I was thinking more like the al you know, alpha test.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Alpha. Oh my god, that's hilarious to be little there's
still alpha.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's like little dogs or the Barquie, the ones that
scare everybody because they just bark constantly, and it's like
they're like little they're the elves and they are alpha elves.
So you know, it's funny. We've been doing this show
for many years now. I think we're coming upon another
anniversary for this show, probably our fifth. In your anniversary,
(24:39):
and you know you've been calling me Elf. I get
text conversation. I am called Elf within my family. So
the only one who doesn't call me that is Susanne,
and I'm glad because that'd be weird. But I'm called
(25:00):
a lot, and so I don't know we've ever talked
about the origin story of when I kind of got
that name and it wasn't me, but it had to
do with you, and that's the funny part. So I
was working at Fox and you know, listen, my last days,
(25:23):
last years at Fox were pretty wild, right because Mom died,
you know, like there's a lot of death that I
dealt with. It was it was really the beginning of
what my spiritual journey. It began there, like full swing
there and I spent so much time there, so I mean,
how does it not affect everything around me? And we met,
(25:47):
you know, in that time early early, And there's a
really good friend of mine named Alison. And Alison I
think Allison's a dwarf, but because she little and or
she feisty, and I love her. She's like been such
a great friend. She's like that friend that only tells
(26:09):
you the truth and there's no other option, you know
what I mean. Ye love that. Oh she's great. She
used to rewrite my emails. She's like, you have to
quit being so emotional, and this is how it right.
I mean literally, she would like I would send her
an email before I sent it out usually highly charge.
It wasn't every day I sent Alison my emails, but
(26:30):
like the highly charged one, and I would send to
her and she would rewrite them and almost every time,
you can't be so emotional, this isn't about you, And
she would rewrite at least parts of my email. So
I love her for that. I learned a lot from her.
And we were talking about you, and because she's the
(26:50):
one that brought you to the Poulter Guy set, if
you recall Allison. Yeah, And we were just talking about,
like I don't know, just all sorts of things all
Brenda and I go, well, what if we do this
and that? And da da da. She's like, she's you're
like an elf. You're just run around doing shit. And
(27:11):
she's like, you're Brenda's elf. She goes, because you don't
do this for anybody. She's ying, you're just like and
I said, am I hollowing out trees and baking cookies?
She goes, you probably are. So I think a dwarf
anointed me in health? That is awesome. Do you wanted
(27:35):
to know all the pieces of that story? I did.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
No, I did not know all the pieces to that story.
I did not that hilarious. Yeah, that is very, very funny.
It's good to know that. I just somehow parts of
that story came to me, and I didn't know that
other people didn't call you out because.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Susan, Oh no, oh, you thought that that was a
name for me pre Yeah, yeah, like B b B
before Brenda.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, I just thought that was kind of a moniker
for you, because.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, it's a B after Brenda, because.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
You do kind of run around and help.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
For sure, for sure, you like, I don't steal babies.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
But well sometimes you do think of it this way, yeah,
because you'll you'll get it. You'll see someone's idea that
you love. Oh, and you'll be like, we're blowing that out.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Oh that's fair. You're right. I do steal babies. Yeah,
you steal babies. Yeah, you're right. It sounds worse than
it really is, but yes, you are. I don't steal
physical babies, human babies.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, but it's more it's more like a you're right, more.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Like a dola. There you go. I like that. But
you thought that people called me that before. No, it
was Allison and she named it, and you know what
odds are she was was probably twirling around in her
head at some point or another. You too.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
You two are well matched.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
We are so well matched. It's so funny. I love
her so much. But here's the funny thing about it is,
you know, I think again, whether you believe, you don't
believe that I be characteristics things that reflect you, and
you embrace. And I have to tell you it's really
fun you know, I mean it is. It's like I
(29:17):
love calling you wichi poo, and I love like elf
and all that kind of stuff, because, you know, because
their school is hard, and whenever we have a chance,
I think to be playful, I think that we should
embrace it. And so I completely embrace the elf thing.
I completely embrace all of that. And you know, even
(29:38):
to the degree of you know, it's funny, because I
seriously have a pattern. When we got our cat, Booger,
I named him Booger. He was named it was a
terrible name. It was nearly as fun and people would say, well,
why'd you name your cat Booger? And I said, because
I want to laugh every time I say his name.
I remember, and and that was achieved. And you know,
(29:59):
have a sticker on the back windshel of my car,
and it's of an alien ship and it has like
the light coming down onto earth, like the beam, you know,
and it says get in loser, and I had and
I put it on there because I just want to
laugh every time I walk up to my car. So
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anytime I'm called Elf, it just makes me giggle. I've
had people like have written, texted, called and said I
want to be in elf in training. And that means
that like there's power behind and that power is in
control power, but like there's energy, but the energy is
a better there's energy behind it, and and it's fun
(30:41):
and it just makes I think things more playful. And
I really really really can't wait to meet when in
real life and Iceland and have them like pull me
over for a little while, just for minute without transporting
you to the other dimension.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
But I do mind to say biz about the elfin
world is that they do meet us in the earth plane. Yes,
And so they don't usually show up in meditation, they
don't usually show up in dreams. You will see them,
like I said, in those thresholds between two spaces like doorways, windows,
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sewer grades apparently.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Apparently right, so you see scary clowns too.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah, yeah, but this is this is so just seeing
know where to look for else.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So that's just one quiet yeah, and it's so funny.
Stay dreams. Can I tell you really quickly about a
dream that I had the weird So this is off
the subject and I'll end it. It just remind if
you said dreams. And this is the craziest thing ever.
It's two mornings ago. I woke up and I'm like,
I woke up with that what the fuck is happening
kind of thing? You know what I'm talking about? Right,
Not like I'm scared, but like, what the fuck, like
(31:48):
is this real? So here's what's happened. Suzanne and I
have been watching a lot, like two series actually that
are about like a teenage kid like committed like committing
a murder and the parents covering up for it. Oh yeah,
this is on net. It's called Your Honor, Like that's
one of them.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
And we were watching that. That was a good series.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, it's really good. Okay, well, but like he's there's
a cover up that's happening, and so it was the
strangest thing. So I woke up and I woke up
from this place where I was being questioned by the
police about my whereabouts and all I had, and I
told him I was I was a murderer apparently, and
(32:32):
I and the evidence that it was all about the evidence.
It wasn't about the murder. It was about the evidence,
and it was about some invitation. I'm like, well, I
have the invitation, like well, but normally you get a
handwritten whatever back. Well I didn't have the handwritten whatever back.
And then I wake up and I'm like, what the fuck.
It was the craziest thing, but like the power of
stories and how they can seep in to like that space,
(32:55):
it was and I going because he's in as always
up before I am, and I'm like, say, it's like
when I go, did I murder somebody? And she's like
I don't think so. And it was in.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Okay, now I can go back to sleep. Okay, thanks said, yeah, no,
for real, it was.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It was crazy. But but you said dreams they don't
go there. But I'll tell you murder rage and cover
them up. Apparently can't see them into your from telewatching
television lunch.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yes, that's why I'm so careful about what I consume.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I am not and I'm not gonna stop you are
out in the wild, I am out in the cosmic, woild.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Gold, Ghostbusters on Southwest, and Everything.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Right and that brought us to this episode and many
more about folklore y'all.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
So we can't wait to share more of my nerdy
else research with you. Thanks so much for listening, and
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Welcome to Insider's Guide to the Other Side, a production
of iHeartRadio. Hi, y'all, I'm Julie.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hi there, I'm Brenda. Welcome to Insider's Guide to the
Other Side.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Now, y'all need to know that we are obsessed with
everything on the other side.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, we are, because once you learn to navigate the energetic,
or to some the invisible world, life is going to
be more fun and much more serene.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Uh heck, yes it can, because, let's be honest, br in,
earth school is hard. In fact, you taught me.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That, let's crush Earth school together.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Hello, my witchy oh pooh. It is so good to
see you. Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Now spend a minute of my own ough you flew solo.
You did such a great job.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I did not like it. I mean I can write
a whole Doctor Seuss poem on why I I didn't
like it Stanza by Stanza on how I missed you
and how lonely I was.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I know it's not as It's not as easy.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
No, and I've recorded it twice for the record, did you. Yeah,
that's impressive.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I appreciate the commitment in security.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And I didn't have my witchy poop on my side,
and it just wasn't as good. Are you good like
we missed you? As everything good?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, yeah, I am in recovery, but I'm good.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You can still hear a little, a little in my
voice that not quite one hundred percent, but I'm pretty close.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
So yeah, you said eighty, and I think eighty is
an understatement for where you see. But you know your
percentage is better than me. I think I normally I
met an eighty. Eighty is one hundred to me. So
I just like, I'm like, eighty, Holy shit, Like that's
a B minus in soul, which is above average. That's
(01:56):
why I think I'm always there.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You're passing.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I don't right. If you said sixty, I'm like, oh girl,
you're almost in the F zone, right, But you didn't.
You said eighty. So maybe your scoring is very different
than my scoring.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I do not score on a curve.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Okay, you see us scoring on an elf curve?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh my god, you make me laugh. I just appreciate that,
first of all, you're covering while I was out, and
also just the generous heart in which you told your story.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It was no thanks. It's also my love of entertainment.
Which actually brings us, I think to kind of why
we're starting a new series, not a whole podcast, shy'll
just a series within our podcast. So of course I
have to tell you the story why because I am
(02:49):
me and so I was in Los Angeles last week
and busy, I mean like busy, like an ELF busy,
busy busy where I wasn't getting back to the hotel
until most nights between eleven thirty and twelve thirty, Like, well.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You're with your people, come on, we know that you're
going to be out late.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I loved it. I loved every second, but it's like
not a lot of time. And I have to say this.
Nobody cares. You know why I'm saying this. I actually
checked a bag and that's like a huge no, Like
that's a huge trust issue with me, and I know
it's it's like a trust fall if I if I
check a bag, that's a trust fall.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So so I always check bags because of my skincare. Okay,
I can't fit it in a court sized bag.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, that's hilarious, but it's literally a trust fall. Of
all the times I traveled inter nationally and my bags
were lost, delayed, all that kind of stuff. It's like
I try to jam everything in there, and I'll even
carry like stuff in my backpack that should be in
a suitcase because I don't trust airlines, so anyway is
a trust fault. It worked Southwest, you know, they caught
(04:04):
me going there and coming back. So anyway, I packed
full back, very exciting, stayed in hotels, the pool, swam
it was fantastic. But here's what happened. I know it's like,
this is the irrelevant part of the section of the podcast.
So here's what happened. I have not flown Southwest in
a really long time. And it's not because I don't
(04:26):
like them. I'm super cool with Southwest. It's just they weren't.
They didn't match up right to flight. They will come
to find out there's a direct flight from Albuquerque to Burbank.
I'm like, oh sweet, right, and I worry a little
bit it might just be like seasonal. I hope it's not.
(04:48):
And I'm like, fuck yeah, I'm going. And I've never seen,
by the way, both airports more busy in my life
because it's it's it's you know, summer vacation, it's all
that kind of stuff. I mean, like I used to
own the Albuquerque Airport. When I would go, it was
man like four other people. Now I'm like, where did
(05:08):
they come from? But it's you know, it's it's terristyme
and that's pretty much what we're really good for here.
But anyway, so on Southwest Airlines, I was not aware
that when they turned on the Wi Fi, you could
go on your phone or your whatever device and they
have a list of free movies. And I'm like, two
favorite words free in movies. They don't always have to
(05:30):
be next to each other, but it's nice when they are.
I'm like, I want to see what they have in
the free movie.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Mean, they don't have the little TVs in the back
of the sea.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
No, there's a long gone honey. I didn't know. You
didn't know that, but there you go. So I wouldn't know.
I wouldn't know. I played the field. I'm like a
quad sexual when it comes to airlines. It's like, whoever
gets me there fastest, I'm your date. Okay, Yeah, I
don't care about Miles. I don't care about that shit.
(06:00):
I just want to get there. I want to get home.
So I used to care about Miles, and I realized
because I traveled so much I never used them. Yeah,
so there's that anyway. So so I realized, like, oh,
I can watch a movie. So the movie they had
go fucking figures like gold Mine, shit, it was ghost
it was it was Ghostbusters, Frozen, Empire. I'm like, again
(06:24):
favorite words. I like the Cold so Frozen works, love Ghostbusting,
and I'm not I'm kind of a fan of Empires.
So I'm like, I will watch this movie so that this.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Must be the latest of it. Is it a remake?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Right, it's not a remake, No, it's it's it's new there, yes, okay, yeah,
and also some of my favorite actors are in there
as well. Okay, yeah, it's great. Who's in it? Well
we had the oldies, right we have uh, we have
Bill Murray was in there, and Annie Potts, who I
love Annie Potts. She's also in Young Sheldon. I just
(07:01):
love Annipots. And they also had a woman named Carrie
Khon who is in it. And Carrie Cohne is not
like a super popular actress, but she was in one
of my favorite series ever called The Leftovers, and I
became obsessed. I mean, she's so good. It's an HBO series.
I encourage everybody to watch and if anybody wants to
(07:23):
be my friend, you have to watch that, unless you're
Brenda because she gets exempt from No, not at all. Actually,
it's not scary at all. It's it's there's an event. Okay,
we're totally going off track. I love this. It's there's
an event that happens, and I think it's like three
percent or five percent of the population on the planet
just disappears, and it's an event COVID, but they literally
(07:49):
physically disappear like this, And I love it because it's
really a story about what we do when we're fraid,
when we're in grief and seeking shelter, solace, safety, whatever
it may be, who we connect ourselves to, how we
(08:09):
act like I just love those types of shows. And anyway,
so she stars in The Leftover, so I was very
excited about that. So I'm watching this show. I'm not
going to tell you guys about it, because this movie,
you guys could watch it. It's fun. But there's this
moment when somebody was explaining to another and one character
was explained to another character something like, well, yeah, you know,
(08:34):
I believe in that, and then continued on and say
something about the singing cheeses of Copenhagen, like that it
was some folklore or myth or something like that. So
I get all excited. Right, So I'm like, oh my god,
a new folklore for me. And I go look it
up and okay, it with some episode on Rimy and Stimpy,
(08:55):
a cartoon. I'm like, well, fuck this, it's not a
real folklore. There's nothing about the singing she's of Copenhagen.
And I'm like, I'm so disappointed. So but what was
awesome about my disappointment? I'm like, you know, me, would
you poo have not actually gone through and kind of
addressed all the different folklores that are out there, and
(09:18):
I thought, what a fun series it would be for us.
Am I right.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Absolutely? I can't wait to see where this goes.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, we're going to start with elves because why not.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Of course we are.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And I've done homework because you know nerdy elf does
homework too, and I have. You know, when you do
research for these types of topics, you have to go
deep into like Reddit, and you to go deep into
like discord and shit like that to like really go
in to get the stories. And I think I found
a good one, so I wanted to hear.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So we should probably take a break.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Maybe I'm just kidding, Yeah, take a break. But I
just want to say to everyone, as you listen to this,
we're not trying to sell you guys folklorees. We're just sharing, right,
We're going to talk about what we think and what
possibilities are. But I just think it's really interesting just
the fact that there's so many that there's so many
(10:17):
and we're going to cover a lot of them from
around the world, and I just think it's just a
really fascinating topic. And if you don't believe, that's fine,
But the next party you go to you'll have stuff
to talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, and remember it's about how culturally we make sense
of the.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
World exactly, exactly. Okay, we'll be right back. I'd welcome back,
thank you. Okay, so let me tell what I found. Well, yeah,
and we can talk as we go through it, right,
(10:53):
But this is really awesome because the headline, well, it's
under tags of so our little rs reddit slash paranormal,
so it's in the paranormal section of Reddit, and it
has a tag of encounter. So just everybody knows okay,
but there's a headline and this is what I love.
Did I meet in elf? Or was it something else? Classic? Right,
(11:20):
isn't this fantastic? I'm going to try to like make it.
Oh no, it doesn't want to go horizontal on me,
old age. I'm gonna have to look at it really closely.
So here we go. Here is did I meet an elf?
Or was it something else? So this happened to me
when I was ten, but I was so shocked I
remember it vividly. My parents go to the farmer's market weekly.
(11:43):
This time they brought me along. So this farmer's market
was held on a big parking lot and on the
ground here and there there were some sorts of metal
gratings and you could see the sewers. By the way,
it sounds like an intro to it, that evil clown.
I thought you're going to say Poltergeist. No, no, because
(12:06):
it's not a comedy. Neither was neither was it. By
the way, it's kind of scared the shit out of me. Okay,
I don't know if you can picture, but I could
try finding a pic. Okay, Okay, sorry, I didn't mean,
who cares? Uh, we can picture it, right, because farmers.
Yeah right, really Farmers Market, parking lot medlow grade. See
(12:27):
the sewer, got it? And if you can't picture it,
go watch it anyway. I was always scared of walking
on them as a kid because I thought I would
fall in. Totally fair. And by the way, if you're
a lady and you got some heels on it, you
avoid that shit too. Clearly, this is not a lady.
I think it's a heat it is. Oh no, maybe
(12:49):
a lady. This person continues and says, But that day
the market was full, not a lot of space to
go around, and I had to walk over them. As
I did, I looked down and there was somebody down
there looking back. Oh no, that's some freaky shit.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, I mean, as a ten year old, I don't
think he would make that up.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I don't think so. But I'm fully convinced this is
not made up. But you tell me, because you are
the wishy poo. This person continues. He was small, he
had pointy ears, but it's his eyes that I can't forget.
They were golden and so shiny. I looked at him,
(13:35):
he looked at me for what seemed to be an eternity.
I was so shocked that. I just kept on walking,
went back to the car. I told my parents, I
told everyone, but nobody would believe me. I mean seriously,
I mean I get it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I totally get it.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I totally get it. To this day, nobody does. It
has become a running joke amongst my friends, so I
stopped talking about it altogether. It's the first time I've
told this story in a decade. Trust me, reading it
as an adult. I know how crazy, corny and ridiculous
(14:14):
it sounds, but I know it happened. Has anybody ever
heard anything blah blah that's happened to them? Why do
I feel like I missed a part? I said twenty
years right, Okay, that's the part they caught me. Yeah,
you're kidding, I mean, and then I realized, Hey, actually
say it, because in my head I've said it a
(14:35):
thousand times since I've read this story. Pointy years, twenty years,
twenty years golden eyes, golden eyes, come the fuck one? Yeah,
that would do it. Okay, So do you feel that
we're talking about like this is this child adult now
(14:55):
encountered this? Yeah? I mean this it sounds pretty incredible.
So here's what's interesting is the elves, which the Internet
calls fictional beings and have to say specifically who calls
it fictional beings, has been in the European folklore for
(15:18):
since the fifteen hundreds at least. Well this is what
they say, right, I think there's I think there's Celtic
folklore that might be a little bit older. But what's
interesting is, you know they talk about like what they
look like. You know, they're small, usually in the form
of a tiny human, right, so that tracks they're known
(15:42):
for playing tricks and causing troubles. I mean, listen, if
like you're gonna have an ELF's gonna catch your eye
through grades, like you're causing trouble. Yeah, you're not hiding
from humans. You're like messing with humans. And is it.
One of the other things that happens is they steal children.
They steal a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
They can steal a lot of things, but they will Yeah,
they can steal children. But also they they tend to
hang out in what we call the tweenier places, right,
the places that are thresholds to other places, like a
great a sewer, grade, a window, a doorway. Right, that's
(16:22):
those those little thresholds because they can go between the Earth,
you know, the earthplane and the magical world. And so
they you know, they can turn any of those thresholds
or you know, vortexes into transportation into the into the
magical world. So that's usually where'll they will catch your eye.
(16:46):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, So like they can now they can pass through
to our dimension, can we pass.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Through to their not without them, without their guide, like
they without their abduction really when I think of but yeah,
like that, so.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
They were believed and in various reasons to cause diseases
in humans and cattle. I've never heard that. Yeah, that
just sounds like pre understanding bacteria. Right, and that also
keep in mind of timelines, right, like fifteen hundreds, was
(17:29):
this to say that's the latest, right? That was certainly
a time of widespread illiteracy. Yeah, right, Like this is
back in the day when religion was was they're they're
guiding force. Like when the sun came up every morning,
there was like, oh they thank God that the son
(17:51):
that thank God that God allowed the sun to come
up that day because they thought it was a choice. Right,
there's no understanding of a galaxy, a universe solar system,
not that it was the divine, right right, right, It
was the divine And it's really funny because, uh, you know,
(18:12):
there's a there's a little like I've read, as you
can imagine, quite a bit about elves and I'm in
my next place on my vacation, like my hit list
is actually Iceland, Like I want to go hang out,
and I think they're waiting for me, no doubt. Well,
the magical L's and they like to cause a lot
of ruckusts and stuff. But there's a lot of cases
(18:33):
that that do a lot of stories that come out
of Iceland of interacting. In fact, I think there's one
of the highways that they made to avoid this kind
of part of a force which was known where the
L's were.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
They and they were instructed to build around it, to
build it right, yeah, because like things people would go missing.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Hey, man, don't mess with the elves because it's funny
because they say, you know, are they because you know,
I rarely have had elf conversations before, and people have
asked like are they good or bad? And I'm like,
they're both, yeah, just like people, they're both right, you know,
they're known for these magical qualities. I think there's certain
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you know, possibilities that they can have. But yeah, of
course they're gonna be They're gonna be bad. They're gonna
be mischievous. I don't know what dry. So tell me, like,
why would they steal children?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You know, well, one because they can and to get
enough answer if they're trying to get the humans attention
to do something or pay attention to something or said
something right, and they they are too stubborn, or they're
not paying attention to how how cherished their children should
(19:49):
be or something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
They're teaching a lesson kind of things.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, they're like, okay, we'll show you dipstick.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Where do the kids go? You know?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They go into another Yeah, they go into the magical
they go to the elf land.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Why didn't that happen to me? We don't know that
it didn't. Oh good fight nicely. Yes, Maybe that's why
I like them so much. Maybe that's why you got
your magical powers. Maybe. So okay, so I'm just going
to bring up one thing and then we should probably
(20:22):
take another break, which I can't believe I said that
out loud. It's a hate breaks. There's a list of
like these characteristics, right, so they're small, the form of
tiny human. They remain youthful for more than five hundred years.
They're known for playing tricks and causing troubles. They're associated
(20:42):
with magic, skilled with weapons and magic, and sometimes shape shifters.
Oh yeah, they possess anate grace and beauty. Here's my
favorite part. Like, I like literally cannot get this out
of my head. Antagonistic and often at odds with dwarves,
(21:04):
Like what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I think back to think wrestling.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Now, think Lord of the Rings in photos posse, right,
how the elves and the dwarfs would like snarl at
each other.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Isn't it funny? I mean, but it's like it's like,
I guess you know, when you have like a very
large person who's antagonizing a small person, if they pick
on some of your own size. I think in this
case they pick the right size.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Nice. Yes, all those things out there are definitely associated
with magical things, stirring up trouble, and sometimes stirring up
trouble just to create more magic. Like, hey, you think
we're not real, huh, jokes on you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We'll show you. You're gonna have to build a road
around as fuckers. Okay, we're going to come back, and
I want to talk a little bit about the Keilp
folklore of elves and we'll dive into some other aspect
of elves. Okay, we'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And welcome back to more alphology.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Okay, so this is just fun facts. These are just
fun elfin facts. So there's a question, So you know,
what are the elves and Celtic folk lore Jesus Julie,
say it properly, say it, don't spit it or stutter it.
So who are the elves? In Scotland mythology and folklore
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and Scottish mythology and folklore, elves are known as it
doesn't matter the sith the sith is something like that,
but they're believed to be, to your point, supernatural beings
who live in a parallel world alongside humans and have
the ability to interact with and influence human affairs. Like
that is probably the best definition. Yet, what I think
(23:04):
is really fascinating is they say, kind of where do
elves come from? Like it's like, how do elves come
to be? So once I really am interested to get
your take on this. So when Middle Earth universe was
created by the supreme being e Eru, I think it's
(23:27):
I l u v A t A r oh. That's
like Vader eleu Vader. That sounds like Darth Vader. Two
species were made directly by the Creator God and it's
little c little g elves in humans called men in
the Middle Earth lore, the l's were spread across the
world in mated pairs, while humans were held back until
(23:51):
a later time. So according to this else Predate Humans
Psychicoma book. But go ahead.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I was thinking more like the al you know, alpha test.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Alpha. Oh my god, that's hilarious to be little there's
still alpha.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's like little dogs or the Barquie, the ones that
scare everybody because they just bark constantly, and it's like
they're like little they're the elves and they are alpha elves.
So you know, it's funny. We've been doing this show
for many years now. I think we're coming upon another
anniversary for this show, probably our fifth. In your anniversary,
(24:39):
and you know you've been calling me Elf. I get
text conversation. I am called Elf within my family. So
the only one who doesn't call me that is Susanne,
and I'm glad because that'd be weird. But I'm called
(25:00):
a lot, and so I don't know we've ever talked
about the origin story of when I kind of got
that name and it wasn't me, but it had to
do with you, and that's the funny part. So I
was working at Fox and you know, listen, my last days,
(25:23):
last years at Fox were pretty wild, right because Mom died,
you know, like there's a lot of death that I
dealt with. It was it was really the beginning of
what my spiritual journey. It began there, like full swing
there and I spent so much time there, so I mean,
how does it not affect everything around me? And we met,
(25:47):
you know, in that time early early, And there's a
really good friend of mine named Alison. And Alison I
think Allison's a dwarf, but because she little and or
she feisty, and I love her. She's like been such
a great friend. She's like that friend that only tells
(26:09):
you the truth and there's no other option, you know
what I mean. Ye love that. Oh she's great. She
used to rewrite my emails. She's like, you have to
quit being so emotional, and this is how it right.
I mean literally, she would like I would send her
an email before I sent it out usually highly charge.
It wasn't every day I sent Alison my emails, but
(26:30):
like the highly charged one, and I would send to
her and she would rewrite them and almost every time,
you can't be so emotional, this isn't about you, And
she would rewrite at least parts of my email. So
I love her for that. I learned a lot from her.
And we were talking about you, and because she's the
(26:50):
one that brought you to the Poulter Guy set, if
you recall Allison. Yeah, And we were just talking about,
like I don't know, just all sorts of things all
Brenda and I go, well, what if we do this
and that? And da da da. She's like, she's you're
like an elf. You're just run around doing shit. And
(27:11):
she's like, you're Brenda's elf. She goes, because you don't
do this for anybody. She's ying, you're just like and
I said, am I hollowing out trees and baking cookies?
She goes, you probably are. So I think a dwarf
anointed me in health? That is awesome. Do you wanted
(27:35):
to know all the pieces of that story? I did.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
No, I did not know all the pieces to that story.
I did not that hilarious. Yeah, that is very, very funny.
It's good to know that. I just somehow parts of
that story came to me, and I didn't know that
other people didn't call you out because.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Susan, Oh no, oh, you thought that that was a
name for me pre Yeah, yeah, like B b B
before Brenda.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, I just thought that was kind of a moniker
for you, because.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, it's a B after Brenda, because.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
You do kind of run around and help.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
For sure, for sure, you like, I don't steal babies.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
But well sometimes you do think of it this way, yeah,
because you'll you'll get it. You'll see someone's idea that
you love. Oh, and you'll be like, we're blowing that out.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Oh that's fair. You're right. I do steal babies. Yeah,
you steal babies. Yeah, you're right. It sounds worse than
it really is, but yes, you are. I don't steal
physical babies, human babies.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, but it's more it's more like a you're right, more.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Like a dola. There you go. I like that. But
you thought that people called me that before. No, it
was Allison and she named it, and you know what
odds are she was was probably twirling around in her
head at some point or another. You too.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
You two are well matched.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
We are so well matched. It's so funny. I love
her so much. But here's the funny thing about it is,
you know, I think again, whether you believe, you don't
believe that I be characteristics things that reflect you, and
you embrace. And I have to tell you it's really
fun you know, I mean it is. It's like I
(29:17):
love calling you wichi poo, and I love like elf
and all that kind of stuff, because, you know, because
their school is hard, and whenever we have a chance,
I think to be playful, I think that we should
embrace it. And so I completely embrace the elf thing.
I completely embrace all of that. And you know, even
(29:38):
to the degree of you know, it's funny, because I
seriously have a pattern. When we got our cat, Booger,
I named him Booger. He was named it was a
terrible name. It was nearly as fun and people would say, well,
why'd you name your cat Booger? And I said, because
I want to laugh every time I say his name.
I remember, and and that was achieved. And you know,
(29:59):
have a sticker on the back windshel of my car,
and it's of an alien ship and it has like
the light coming down onto earth, like the beam, you know,
and it says get in loser, and I had and
I put it on there because I just want to
laugh every time I walk up to my car. So
(30:21):
anytime I'm called Elf, it just makes me giggle. I've
had people like have written, texted, called and said I
want to be in elf in training. And that means
that like there's power behind and that power is in
control power, but like there's energy, but the energy is
a better there's energy behind it, and and it's fun
(30:41):
and it just makes I think things more playful. And
I really really really can't wait to meet when in
real life and Iceland and have them like pull me
over for a little while, just for minute without transporting
you to the other dimension.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
But I do mind to say biz about the elfin
world is that they do meet us in the earth plane. Yes,
And so they don't usually show up in meditation, they
don't usually show up in dreams. You will see them,
like I said, in those thresholds between two spaces like doorways, windows,
(31:16):
sewer grades apparently.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Apparently right, so you see scary clowns too.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah, yeah, but this is this is so just seeing
know where to look for else.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So that's just one quiet yeah, and it's so funny.
Stay dreams. Can I tell you really quickly about a
dream that I had the weird So this is off
the subject and I'll end it. It just remind if
you said dreams. And this is the craziest thing ever.
It's two mornings ago. I woke up and I'm like,
I woke up with that what the fuck is happening
kind of thing? You know what I'm talking about? Right,
Not like I'm scared, but like, what the fuck, like
(31:48):
is this real? So here's what's happened. Suzanne and I
have been watching a lot, like two series actually that
are about like a teenage kid like committed like committing
a murder and the parents covering up for it. Oh yeah,
this is on net. It's called Your Honor, Like that's
one of them.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
And we were watching that. That was a good series.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, it's really good. Okay, well, but like he's there's
a cover up that's happening, and so it was the
strangest thing. So I woke up and I woke up
from this place where I was being questioned by the
police about my whereabouts and all I had, and I
told him I was I was a murderer apparently, and
(32:32):
I and the evidence that it was all about the evidence.
It wasn't about the murder. It was about the evidence,
and it was about some invitation. I'm like, well, I
have the invitation, like well, but normally you get a
handwritten whatever back. Well I didn't have the handwritten whatever back.
And then I wake up and I'm like, what the fuck.
It was the craziest thing, but like the power of
stories and how they can seep in to like that space,
(32:55):
it was and I going because he's in as always
up before I am, and I'm like, say, it's like
when I go, did I murder somebody? And she's like
I don't think so. And it was in.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Okay, now I can go back to sleep. Okay, thanks said, yeah, no,
for real, it was.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
It was crazy. But but you said dreams they don't
go there. But I'll tell you murder rage and cover
them up. Apparently can't see them into your from telewatching
television lunch.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yes, that's why I'm so careful about what I consume.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I am not and I'm not gonna stop you are
out in the wild, I am out in the cosmic, woild.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Gold, Ghostbusters on Southwest, and Everything.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Right and that brought us to this episode and many
more about folklore y'all.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
So we can't wait to share more of my nerdy
else research with you. Thanks so much for listening, and
remember our school is hard.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Without the other side. And wait till we start talking
about dragons people. That's gonna be fun. Bye everybody, Bye everybody.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
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to our producer Joey Patt and our executive producer Maya
Cole Howard, who guides us while we guide.
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