March 26, 2024 • 74 mins
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Welcome to the wandering musings of AJ and A-Rey!
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To Mamas After Dark!
Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
Welcome, welcome, welcome!
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Welcome to our Easter episode!
That's the only title I came up with.
Easter exclamation point.
I was trying to think of...
Like a celebratory exclamation for Easter, but I can't think of one.
Go Easter bunnies!
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Chocolate.
Although I'm sad they don't make enough dark chocolate bunnies, all of them are fine.
I find our milk chocolate.
Yeah.
And I don't like milk chocolate.
But that's fine.
Less calories.
Yeah, that's what I have to worry about.
Less sugar consumed.
It's fine!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just do my dark chocolate chips.
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Like a little bit of those.
Like a quarter size handful.
And then I put a little peanut butter in it.
Because that's what my grandma always did.
So that's what I do.
Nice.
And then that's my sugar intake.
I like it.
As much as I possibly can, right?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
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So, whatcha drinking?
It's time to spill the tea.
What are you thinking?
What are you drinking?
I am drinking out of this adorable mug that was handed to me.
Which is one of my favorite colors.
Teal color.
I'm drinking a...
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Not ice, because it doesn't have ice, but it smells like ice.
It's cold.
Cold.
Chai tea.
Sugar-free.
Sugar-free.
Is there anything else in it?
Well, I mean, there's milk, but...
That's part of the thing.
You like to slip things in without...
That's true.
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That's weird.
You like to slip things in?
You slip things in my drink.
Yes, there's nothing else in there.
Because I didn't actually brew it.
I just poured it out of a container and then put my milk in it.
Delicious.
But it was funny because it's in a mug.
And so she handed it to me, and I...
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I was expecting it to be hot.
Because it's in a mug.
So I took a sip, and it was cold, which is totally fine, because I love...
I prefer my chai tea.
Right, chai is... I prefer cold.
Cold.
It startled me.
She's like, um, you broke me.
Sorry.
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It was fine. It was delicious.
But I love this brand, so I was like, yes.
And I was reminded of it when we were at Grounds for Coffee.
They had a dirty chai.
They make me a dirty chai sometimes.
And it was that brand.
And I was like, oh yeah.
But they have a sugar-free one I found when I was over at the Amish store.
And I went back to go get more.
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And it was gone.
I was like, dude.
So I did what everybody else does.
I Amazoned it, because...
The sugar-free, I will say, is a lot better than the regular.
The regular is very sweet.
I couldn't handle it.
Good. Well, I'm glad the sugar-free works for you.
Yeah, I like it a lot.
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Thank you for sharing.
You're very welcome.
And then, of course, I have my usual water to the side of me.
Yeah, she's two-fisting it today.
Yep.
Usually I'm...
Yeah, that's about right.
Yep.
What about this wind?
Have you had as much wind as we have?
Yes.
Gosh.
This... I...
I'm a little bit over it.
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It's dying down.
But for a couple of days there...
Wednesday night to Thursday night, we had 30-plus mile per hour winds up here.
I thought we were going to end up in a different...
We had...
I don't remember.
I don't think I checked how strong it was, but we had windstorm warnings.
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The alert that I got on my phone, one of the things that said was life-threatening winds.
I was like, hope that doesn't look good at all.
That doesn't sound good.
Are we talking tornadoes?
What are we talking about here?
Yeah, it was a little scary.
I was like, oh, we're going to end up in a different state here.
Well, it's funny you say that because my dad, who's new up here...
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Because we get winds every year up here.
Yeah.
And a lot of the times...
Because we're higher up.
Yeah, we're higher up.
We're next to a canyon and we're next to a bay.
And so we have one on one side and one on the other side.
So, you know, we get it a lot.
And sometimes it's like way out of the blue.
Like there's no warning.
And we're like, oh, well, that happened.
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And it was like five...
We've had it to where it lasted like five seconds.
And we're like, okay.
All right.
So we just have everything hunkered down all the time.
Well, my dad, who's new in our area...
He texts me on Friday morning.
No, Saturday morning.
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I know what day it is.
It's fine.
Saturday morning.
He's like, so we're in Kansas now.
My house tonight.
We're all in Kansas.
It made me laugh.
I was like, what are you doing in Kansas?
Well, the wind.
Oh.
Yeah.
It was not by choice.
You're referring to something, I wonder.
Yeah.
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Friday is garbage day.
So once all the garbage cans had been emptied, if we're lucky enough to have it emptied,
because some of them had...
You put your garbage cans out on the street.
Some of our neighbors, I noticed the cans blew over while waiting for the truck to come
pick it up.
So they had garbage everywhere?
Yeah.
The truck didn't actually grab the garbage can.
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And so, you know, bags are strewn out all over the...
Well, why would they?
They would have to get out with their truck.
I know, right?
Never mind.
I'm grateful for garbage people.
You have to deal with that all the time.
Right.
But once they were emptied, there's nothing in them to hold them down, of course.
So our area was littered with these garbage bins everywhere.
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And it was like, I was referring to, you know, like a video game where you have to drive
around all the different...
All your obstacles?
Yeah, you have to drive around all the garbage cans to just get out of the...
I'm pretty sure we have a nugget bag from our neighbor in our window well over here.
Oh, what bag?
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A nugget bag, a chicken nugget bag.
Oh!
Like Costco size.
Yeah.
They have a lot of people in their family.
Yeah.
And I was like, that's not ours.
Yeah.
That's all right.
I just...
Oh, okay.
Well, I'm going to pick this up now.
I'm going to add it to the thing.
So yeah, allergies are in the high...
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Yeah.
Well, especially me.
So I apologize if I sound nasally and et cetera.
I was at the hospital with a friend.
What did you say?
Unacceptable.
Apology not accepted.
Well, I'm not apologizing to you then.
I'm just kidding.
I'm face-feed today.
So am I.
It should be fun.
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So that started being at a hospital all day, waiting for my friend, which I had no problem
doing, but I forget how much the air is different because I've worked in a hospital before.
So it's not like a different atmosphere.
But I was like, my nose started running and I was like, what in the world?
Oh, that's right.
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And then with the windstorm on top of it, I was like, I'm doomed.
I'm actually better today.
You should have heard me on Friday.
I'm all...
I'm pretty sure Spot would hate me if I did that again.
But yeah.
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So much fun.
But we're hanging in there.
Sounds like we're both hanging in there.
With all the weird, wonderful and lovely things life has to offer.
Wild, wild week.
That's fine.
It's fine.
We just have, we can try again next week.
Sure.
Wind stay away.
Give us a nice spring.
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I'm okay if wind doesn't...
Not necessarily wind that's bad.
It's when it gets so bad that it causes destruction, right?
That's one that's kind of...
I'm pretty sure that's why I had a migraine for the last couple of days.
Does that make sense?
That just dawned on me.
I'm like, oh.
Your sinuses might be plugged up.
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Yeah.
I need to know it.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
There we go.
Everything's falling into place here.
I was like, where'd this come from?
See on the hot, hot days when we wish we had wind, we're going to be like, why did you blow it all out before?
We just like to complain, okay?
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That's what we do.
That's what humans do.
Do you have a quote for us in our musings?
I sure do.
Let's listen to some musings.
Quotes, poems, short stories, inspirational, uplifting news, and of course, tippy-dippy astrology.
Today's quote is short and sweet.
It is by a writer and artist, Marianne Radmacher.
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I'm deeply sorry if I mispronounced your last name.
It says, courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I'll try again tomorrow.
I like that.
And I think sometimes we forget that it takes courage to continue on.
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And we just, oh, I have to do it.
Well, you're being courageous at that point.
Yep.
And a little plug here.
I was having, I had so many different good quotes I wanted to share.
I asked my son, which one should I share?
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And he goes, you should quote me.
And I said, oh, what's your quote?
He goes, la la la, la la la la la la la la.
And I said, well, what does that mean?
And he goes, I just wanted to be on the podcast.
Well, there you go. You quoted him too.
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I like it.
I had two quotes for you.
Dang, we're lucky today.
Yep.
That's cute though.
Yeah, that's my quote for the day.
Well, he was on a video of a recording, but we don't release the video.
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Oh, yes.
Remember?
Yes.
We don't speak of that.
It's funny.
He got upset at you.
I called him out. That's why.
He was like, I was laying really still.
And I was like, no, you were not. Don't lie to your mother.
The camera was pointed right at you.
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Kids, moody teenagers.
Which is, I mean, it was fine.
And we don't release a video as of right now.
And for the record, I had given him permission to enter the room.
True. He wasn't being naughty. It was just really funny.
Anyways, on to Hippie Dippie.
Are you trying to say something?
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No.
No, just kidding.
I'm not.
I'm not.
Wait, what? No.
Anyways, on to Hippie Dippie.
Are you trying to say we're done?
We're done with conversation?
Yes. No.
I'm moving it along.
All right. For Hippie Dippie, I wanted to talk about nettles.
It's one of the plants that you might start seeing around in March and
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April.
And.
Most people consider it a weed.
They don't want.
Which is what I think a weed is.
It's just a plant that you don't want in the area that it's in.
But it is also very helpful, not just in our gardens.
As a way to take care of our plants and things like that.
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But it's also very beneficial to us as humans.
Of course, you do need to prep the nettle.
You can't just eat it raw.
That will make you very sick.
So there are steps to preparing it.
But before I go into nettle completely, I wanted to share this disclaimer.
While information here on our podcast has been researched to an extent.
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And is worthwhile information.
It is not for treatment purposes.
Please consult your or a qualified health care provider and professional before use.
And always use caution when starting new things, especially concerning.
Concerning dietary changes and additions.
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So nettles are good for your gastro health, bowel and gut.
Like it opens it up.
It's a decongestion and it clears your respiratory area.
It's good for your reproduction system.
Stimulating menstruation and breast milk.
And for our gentlemen, it helps with prostate problems.
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It can.
It's a blood restorative.
It's a diuretic.
It helps with worms.
You know when we talked about worms.
From Brazil.
Yeah.
I could have been drinking nettle tea.
It would have been fine.
It's a good way to increase and decrease.
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Interesting.
Yeah.
I was like, maybe it's the dosage.
I would assume it's your dosage of it.
But that's something that you see a lot in nature.
Like the same thing that could help with something also causes it.
Pending on the balance.
It's listed or has been known in the past as an aphrodisiac.
It's an energizing component to it.
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It's known as an antidote for some things.
Skin conditions can be helped with it.
Nose bleeds can be helped with it.
Thores and scabs can be helped with it.
Joint pain can be helped with it.
And urine testing.
What do they do with urine testing?
It's supposed to help like determine different things.
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It's supposed to help with the
different things.
It's supposed to help with the different things.
It's supposed to help with the different things.
They used more in the 17th, 18th century.
It's very interesting that it has such a wide variety of uses.
Sure.
That is fascinating.
From what I read, it's what parts are using.
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Right?
Cause sometimes you're like,
you would use the seeds or you would use like the leaf or the roots.
Like.
Had different.
Like, you know,
Like, you know,
you're getting different amounts of nutrients.
So like, are you doing it topically?
Are you doing it?
For ingestation.
Are you eating it or are you drinking it?
Are you like all of these different things?
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You're getting different amounts of things.
And.
Of those nutrients and things.
So it does different.
Things.
That is fascinating. I had no idea.
Yeah.
I'll put it in our blog post when we release about nettles.
But.
I've heard of it being good in your garden.
Where.
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You make like a.
A garden juice kind of thing with the nettles and you can use like.
Other things with it, but you make like this fermented.
Juice cocktail of like nettles and stuff like that to put on your plants.
You don't drink it.
Don't drink that.
You don't drink it.
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But it helps like give your.
It helps your soil.
Like a fertilizer.
Yeah.
Kind of.
Just not.
Yucky chemicals.
It's like organic.
We're going to use that word.
Wow.
I'll clip.
I'll clip a person that I follow that he talked about it and he talked with an
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author about.
How that works.
And I'm like.
You know.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that.
So I'll just do that.
I'm like.
I'm going to do that.
So that's that's the information.
But it's fascinating.
This is why I nerd out about stuff like this.
It's like.
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Oh.
What I was researching about this and something else.
Or different blog posts.
And.
While I was waiting at the hospital and I was like.
To AJ, I was like, I just spent like an hour and a half learning about
things like that.
And I was like, Oh.
Okay.
What.
Like I'm going back to work.
Good for you.
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Now I understand.
I'm totally used to the randomness.
It is random.
I am.
Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome.
I'm going to share some uplifting news.
Okay.
Do share.
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It's on a personal level.
It's not an.
Out of the home.
Okay.
Thing.
But.
So as many of you may or may not know.
My husband is going through.
A time of his life where his eyesight is being affected.
And it's a genetic thing.
There's not really much we can do.
About it.
So we've tried different things.
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And we've tried different things.
And we've tried different things.
And we've tried different things.
And we've tried different things.
No offense to the place that we were going.
Cause they are war.
Not world renowned, but they're very well known.
For eye care.
And they're very helpful for emergency situations.
Like when he had that.
Dainting.
Growing in his eye area that he couldn't see through.
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They, they took care of that and.
They're really good at that.
But for his.
Long-term care.
And he was like, I'm going to go to the hospital.
And I'm going to go to the hospital.
And I'm going to go to the hospital.
Because he was like, I pretty much go.
Pay a lot of money for them to tell me, yep.
You're going blind and I'll see you in six months.
And.
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It's just.
It's the same place that I go to, right?
Yes. Okay.
I understand the feeling.
And.
Our little, our little place up here,
where he was like, I'm going to go to the hospital.
And they gave him like eye drops to help with like his.
Like moisturizing his eyes.
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They gave him like, they cleaned his eye lashes for him.
To see if that helped anything.
They they've done all these different things.
Well, we.
Had an appointment on.
Friday.
And he kind of didn't want to go.
Cause he's like, well.
He's like, I don't want to go.
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Like, I don't want to go.
Like I said,
like it just felt like really discouraged, you know?
And I'm happy to say that in the 20,
30 minutes that we were there,
his whole attitude about it changed.
Significantly.
And it's.
Why I'm really grateful for people who do.
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Go into their healthcare professions and care.
when it feels like you're a member and you're not always looked at as the individual that you are.
Is that a good way of saying it? Those providers that go above and beyond for you? Yeah. And never
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give up on you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's those that are just, they're the ones that are truly in it
for helping people. Yeah. Because they have a nurturing and caring soul. And so we encountered
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one such person on Friday and he was like, well, what do you do? And you know, Spot has been really
nervous about what would happen if his eyesight did go because he's our only income right now. And
he was like, there are so many new advances in the digital world that you should be able to continue
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to work and work in your position. And he's like at the school of the blind, because he works there
too, this guy, ophthalmologist, I should say, more this guy. He was like, we have a lot of
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we have a completely blind IT person that I always call for everything because he knows everything.
He's like, just go here and do that and do this. And he is not seeing, you know, he's navigating it
without his sight. So that gave him comfort. Plus there's like this really cool,
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like, it's called OrCam. You put on your any type of glasses that you're wearing,
and it'll read the page for you. So it's not like where you have to have it already digitally put in,
it'll take what you're seeing and read what it is. That's cool. Yeah. And then he was mentioning that
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he was mentioning that Braille now, if you get like a digital kind of tablet kind of thing,
it updates it. So you don't have to like wait, like some there was usually a long lag. And so
they weren't very useful. And people would still have to like, when he was on his mission,
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he had a person who had the Bible that took up most of the room in Braille, because
all of the Braille, like it's a huge thing to put all of those words and little dots and stuff like
that. So he was like, it sounds to me that like a basic Braille thing course would be good for you
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when the time counts, when you can't see very well, just so that you can, like when you're at a
restaurant, go in the right bathroom, you know, touch it and, yep, that's the men's, and I go, or
you know, what floor am I going to? And you can feel like the button and see what floor you need
to go on kind of thing. But I was just really happy that he took the initiative and was like,
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I'll call you about the OrCam and you can try it out and see if it works for you. And did this
place that we were talking about before, did they already put in a referral for that? And he was
like, no, they haven't done anything besides tell me I'm going blind and taking the appropriate
images every time I come in, which is half the battle I get. And it was just nice that the doctor
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was like, oh, shame on them and let's get this ball going. And I don't know, it just felt really
good because his mood, for me, his mood was night and day different from when we got there too,
when we left. That's awesome. I know that that's been a big weight on your shoulders too. I know
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you've been worried about, you know, the income and what happens if something happens to him.
I mean, I still am. Yes. But not to the same like, yeah, I have a ticking time bomb that I don't
know when it's going to go off. Yeah. It's very different too. Okay, we can, we can prepare
appropriately. There's hope and you have a, potentially have a course of action and you know,
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you're very much a planner. And so to have things laid out for you, you can do and research and plan.
Yeah. That is awesome. Yeah. Yes. Yay. So that's my good news. And I'm really round about what I'm
saying. I can't believe you kept that in. I was hard. I was like, oh, I've got, no, no, no, no,
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no. But yeah. That's awesome. But I just wanted to make sure there was nothing else that, oh,
and he did bring up, so well, we've known what protein has been affecting his eyes for a long
time. Like we found this out maybe five years ago, four or five years ago. Was it four years ago?
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Whenever I told you. Okay. Time has been a real blur lately. I hear you. I hear you. But he broke
it down even further. He was like, well, the way that it's going, it leads me to believe that it's
whatever thing he said it was, but it goes from the outside, inside to the outside. A lot of the
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time, the degeneration goes from the outside to the inside, which is why it goes completely away.
But because he's like, there's actually really good hope that you'll always have your center vision
because it doesn't seem to be affecting that. It seems to be more of your rods. And so it's going
from the outside to the outside. So we also have really good hope that his center vision will
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always be there. If the pattern continues. That's awesome. I like this doctor. So yeah, we do.
That's a really good feeling when you finally find a doctor that you feel comfortable with and gives
you hope and not false hope, but real hope. Well, and he kind of broke it down a little bit too.
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Like when you hit this stage, we can get you into learning how to walk with the stick if you need to,
like the white stick or I was like, even if we don't do, because he was like, but you don't seem
like you're at that position yet. And I was like, well, even if we can walk with the stick,
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and I was like, but even if we could just kind of help him learn to use like a hiking stick,
we have hiking sticks for when he walks around the yard because of the dogs digging up holes
and stuff. I'm like, but even if he would learn how to be more open to using it as a tool and
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not just as a walking stick, you know. So it's a lot of practice and I find myself like getting
frustrated and I'm like, what am I doing? Like it's right there, duh. Yeah. Well, he can't see it.
Come on. Awesome. So it'll be good. Yay. That's the best news. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Well,
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should we dive right in? Splish splash. We're diving into the main topic. You know,
it just popped in my head. What? Cause I'm a nerd. Splish splash. I was taking a bath.
Oh my gosh. Welcome to my brain today, everyone. That is amazing. So onto Easter.
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So I think we found a lot of, when we were researching Easter, I think we found a lot of
similar facts about the history of Easter. I think so too. And there's a lot of things
about Easter that we could cover. Oh yeah. There's so many things, a lot of them that I didn't know.
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I mean, to me Easter, Easter is Easter, you know, but there's a lot of things that I didn't know.
Okay. So let's bring it down this way. When somebody says Easter, what do you think of?
So I think, well, there's two aspects to Easter that I think of. First, I think of, you know,
the spring and flowers and greenery and the Easter bunny and the commercial side of it,
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where they get the Easter bunny and they decorated Easter eggs and the candy and the chocolate and
and Easter egg hunts and all that. So I think of that side of it. And then there's the more religious
side of Easter, where you think of, I always had an Easter dress that my grandma made.
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You're one of those that got a new Easter dress every year. I got a new Easter dress every year
until I became, oh, that's me, sorry. I'm sorry. I even tried to remember to do that and I didn't.
But then I think of the more religious side of it, where you have, you know, the Christ
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dying in the resurrection, the crucifixion, and there's that aspect of it, which I feel
like does not get focused on as much anymore. Sure. Because I feel like people,
either they forget about it or it's just not the focus.
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Yes, but I think what it, like for my family, Easter was both, and it was,
with your family, you focused on the religious aspect and then with your friends and to have
a good time, you did the community commercial side of it. And I think that's because
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there's a lot of other people around who don't believe in Christianity. It's a Christian
religion. And I think now that we're changing and evolving and having different
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religions be a part of this country and in the world, we're accepting of the other,
it's a great way to have our communities come together. And of course, we're not going to
focus on the religious aspect with those that don't believe in Christ.
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That's what comes to my mind. Now, I grew up Christian. That's not what I claim anymore,
but I understand the feelings that come along with that.
Absolutely. Of Christ and the Savior and everything like that. And so,
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I think most of the time people are accepting of the fact that it is something for a Christian
to remember their faith and to grow in their faith, but it's not going to be a highlight
when you're in a community. At least I haven't heard of people hating on other families or
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traditions. If they're highly religious and other people, they focus on the commercial side of it.
I don't think so either. Whatever your tradition is, great. If you love Easter and it's all about
the Easter egg hunts, that's what you do. If you are the one that goes around to all the community
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egg hunts, then good for you. If you are the one that's in church, that's great. I don't think
that there's... I don't think so either. I haven't really noticed or heard of it in all my life.
I haven't heard anything either against different religions. Which is great. It's just what my brain
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came up with when you were like, I don't see that a lot of people reflect on Christ anymore. And
I think it's because it's more of a private thing to not be offensive to other people.
Exactly. Well, that's the way it's supposed to be, in my opinion. You don't always have to be
religious in front of people. No, that's not the way religion is supposed to be.
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So growing up, my family, well, they still are, but my family was very highly religious.
In my parents' effort to keep the true meaning of Easter in mind,
our family would do the commercial, quote unquote, commercial events,
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would not do them on Easter Sunday. They would do them the night before or whatnot. Sure. And we
would not do Easter egg hunts. They didn't like to call it Easter things. They called it spring
fling. Cute. That's cute though. So and then they would do like the candy and the small little
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trinkets. It's very small scale, not a huge event, but they would just hide things around the house.
And then we would come downstairs with our little baskets or whatever we had. Yeah. And find them
on the search board. And I always remember this. Sometimes think candy would be found in July
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because nobody could remember where they hid it. That is true. We got to the point where we had to
like map out where we hid things. Yeah, it's really funny. So we always had Easter eggs and
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always had Easter Sunday at my granny's house. And she always had a cake with jelly beans on it.
It was a coconut cake that she would dye the coconut green for grass. And she had this Easter
bunny wax thing that is up in my fridge because my grandma gave it to me that she would put on
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the cake and would have the jelly beans for the bunny's eggs. And it was like a two layer
cake all the time too. I was like, oh my gosh, it's so sugar. How did I survive? And then we
would dye Easter eggs before. I would always go over to her house before Easter. We would dye
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Easter eggs before, but we wouldn't hide those ones. Those were just prettiest for our Sunday
dinner or lunch kind of thing. And then they would hide the plastic eggs. But I was the only kid
for the longest time. So it was always me finding that. More than you. So they didn't have to hide
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very many because it was just me kind of thing. And then my dad would be like, no, getting warmer,
getting colder kind of thing. And then we called it Bula Bula. I love it. And then my kids,
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I hid them when they were little. I would get, oh, and of course we had our Easter basket.
But when they were little, I would take them over to the park where I used to live. And I would
hide a couple of things around there. And then they would be able to draw, because I always got
them new chalks every spring and things like that. But it wasn't like we didn't do an Easter
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breakfast or anything like that. We would just kind of play it low-chill, key kind of thing.
So we'll see what happens now that my parents are closer again.
I do remember us dying Easter eggs, but yeah, we didn't hide them. It was just to decorate them.
I don't have to die them now. I get multicolored eggs.
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That's true. You have Easter eggs all year round. I personally despise dying eggs.
It makes your eggs look weird. I don't know why. I just hate it with a passion.
He would always want to. I'm like, fine. But now he's old enough, I can just buy the dang kit and
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let him do it himself. And I get to eat them. That's true. That's true. I like it. But I never
bought him the pre-made Easter baskets or I would never even make him a basket. Sometimes I buy him
a little stuffed animal because he loves stuffed animals. That's okay. We have established that I
am anti-holiday. There's no shame in it. There's no shame in it at all.
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I'm not religious now as an adult, but I did carry over the tradition from my parents of the spring
fling. I would hide candy and little things around the house and let him find them. I thought it was
it's fun. It's fun. I don't do it outside where it's usually too cold, honestly. Right?
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It is really fun to watch all the little kids when you go to an actual Easter hunt.
We did one couple years. They'll usually do different age brackets and the
little foodles. You're like, oh my gosh, they're so cute. And they're cute little
costumes. And their baskets didn't fall. They put them in their cute little dresses and you're like,
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they're going to get so dirty. And they're like falling. I do remember when he was little. And
their parents are picking up the eggs before other kids do. And you're like, yo, it's for them.
They don't care. I do remember when he was little, little getting him like a new Easter
suit with a little tie and the pastel. I think I did it a couple years. Their little pastel ties.
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Yeah. The pastel colored shirts. Cause my kids used to go to church. So I did the same. Yeah.
But now I don't do that. That was the point. But I'm like, does everything still fit you? Cause
if it doesn't, now's the best time to do it. Cause it'll be cheaper. I'm going to have to dig up
pictures. Oh, memories. Yeah. They're fun. Memories are great. So like we said, it's a Christian
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holiday. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ the third day after the crucifixion.
The earliest observance was recorded in the second century. Did you see that too?
English word Easter parallels the German word Ostern. Unknown. I think that's how you say it.
Unknown in origin from what I read. Eighth century there was Badi, I think is how you say it,
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expounded. Eostre, or Eostre is an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility. I think that's
why we have those parallels between Christ and his resurrection and remembering that
and the spring and celebrating the springtime. What I found was really interesting. The Latin and Greek
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word Pascha, meaning Passover, lends its roots to Paches. I think it's how you say it, the French
word for Easter. And then the designation of Easter week, Albus, which is Latin, is plural for Alba,
which is dawn. I know I'm a nerd. I love this stuff right here. And it became Ios Darum in old
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German, which is a precursor for the modern German and English Easter. Kind of where you get the
EA. And I found it interesting that there were two different times in the old world that people
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would celebrate Easter, depending on where you were at. I found that in Asia Minor, they were
doing it kind of the same time as the Passover for the Jewish people, celebrating the crucifixion.
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I shouldn't say celebrating, but acknowledging the crucifixion on the same day as the Passover
started. And then it was always two days after, no matter what day of the week it was, that they
celebrated the resurrection. Whereas in the West, and I say that in quotes because the West is not
what we think of Western civilization now, they always celebrated it on Sunday. So this kind of
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ties into why we always celebrate it on the same Sunday. And it's because it's the day of the
Eucharist. And it's because of a council in 325 decreed the observance the first Sunday, the first
full moon after the spring equinox. Because I was like, well, Osara is the spring equinox. I wonder
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why Easter doesn't fall right on it. Well, this is why. This is the reason why it falls between
so just right after Osara and April 25th. Because I've always been like, well, why are we celebrating
Easter so early? Why are we celebrating Easter so late? I never really took the time to figure that
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out. Until now. I was like, oh, that's why it can be a whole month different.
And well, that moon. That moon. When I read that, I was like, I wonder if A-Rey nerded and geeked
out as much as I did. She's all about that moon, the lunar faces. Yep. I probably, probably. I
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didn't cheat and look on your tab this time. I put down the exact same thing as about the
the moon. I found it very interesting. And then I think this is why we have to go back what you
mentioned before, why we have a very religious side and a very natural pagan side. I'm going to
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say that word loosely because it's just pretty much folksy, right? It's not necessarily a religion
on that one. But some Easter traditions celebrate the resurrection of Christ and some
celebrate the natural world, what it's doing, right? Like the Easter lamb is a reference to
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the symbol of Christ. Well, if you've been to a Christian chart to understand that,
you know, the lamb of God is a phrase that you hear commonly. So the lamb was used for that.
But it's also because it is a symbol of the sacrificial animals that ancient Israel used to use,
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was the lamb. Do you, let's see. Did you, oh, this one I didn't know. 12th century, 10 now.
After Lenten fast, because, okay, we grew up in the same church and our church, yes, it's Christian.
It has a lot of similarities and a lot of differences. There are things that they picked
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to incorporate and things that they left out. And this is one that I had no idea existed.
After the Lenten fast, always have a meal consisting of eggs, ham, cheese, bread, and sweets.
I did not know that. Honestly, that sounds delightful. I feel like I missed out.
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Why wouldn't you bring the food one? I'm just saying anyways. But the fact that it started in
the 12th century and it is something that people still do is amazing. Well, and to go off that,
because you mentioned Lent, prior to Easter, there is Lent, which is the 40 day
season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and it ends at sundown
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on Holy Thursday, which is the Thursday before Easter. And it's the period of preparation to
celebrate the Lord's resurrection at Easter. Yeah. And that's something that I never knew about.
You know, I- In the religion that we were raised in, they don't really talk about that.
And I didn't know growing up, but as an adult, I would hear and see things, you know,
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oh, preparing for Lent. Oh, it's Lent. You know, I'm like, okay. Which I've heard that before.
Yeah. I'm like, okay. You know, but I didn't. And now in the day and age of social media,
you see, oh, I'm giving up this for Lent or I'm doing this for Lent. I'm like, okay. You know,
it's in the back of my mind, but I never took the time to research it until now.
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And then sometimes you put your foot in your mouth, which happens to happen to me as a grown
person. I'm like, what's that for? Like a person had ash on there. Oh yeah. And I had never, ever
seen it before. Yeah. Outside in public. And the person was really sweet. And I was so grateful
because I was like, just me and my ignorance. I'm so sorry. What is, what does that mean? Yeah.
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And, and she was really lovely about it. So I think that's a reminder. I don't know why I
brought it up, but I think it's a good reminder of, you know, when people are asking, they're not
asking to be rude. They're, they just don't know. And to have the perspective of a teacher, as
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opposed to, well, why are you being hateful and rude? Take, take, well, obviously people can be
rude, but when they are truly asking, be, be kind because that's how they're going to formulate
their opinion about you and whatever religion you are representing at that time. Or group, not just
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religion. Just a plug for that. Because I think sometimes people don't do that. And they're like,
well, what do you mean? You don't know what this is. Sorry, you didn't grow up Catholic.
Well, I think that a lot of, not a lot, but maybe some people aren't openly practicing it that way.
And so for some of us, we're like, Oh, maybe that's something that we can do. And so,
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I was like, Oh, maybe that's something I want to do. So, it's a great learning experience.
So I was really glad talking about Lent. That's what sparked it. I was like, how did I get to this?
Painted eggs. Did you see when it started?
Let me, I don't, no, I did not. It's the 13th century. Oh, yes, I did. Yes, I did.
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Yes. And it was because of Holy Week. There was a decree that prohibited the consumption of eggs
during the Holy Week. But I mean, a chicken's not going to stop laying eggs because you're like,
Nope, can't eat them. They would paint and decorate them to mark the end of the period of
fasting and then eat them as celebration. Yes. And the symbolism was the resurrection
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with the new life emergent from the eggshells. It was just so interesting. And to add to it,
the Orthodox Church, they always painted it in red to symbolize Christ's blood.
I was like, interesting. Makes sense. And it was believed that eggs represented the fertility and
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birth in certain pagan traditions that predated Christianity. So, you know, there comes the
paganism, you know, everything all ties together. It does. And when we say paganism,
we're talking about anything that's not Christian. Yes. Thank you. Yep.
Easter eggs were popular and are still popular in the US. That's what kind of made it
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more of a commercial. So, let's get our fingers in it.
Which isn't a bad thing, I'm just saying. The First Lady, Lucy Hayes, was credited for the
first annual Easter egg roll, which I never knew about an Easter egg roll. What is that?
It's where you would roll an egg down a hill, a grassy hill. What's the point? I don't know.
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This is one of those random fun things. I think that's where we get our eggs being hidden though.
Oh, okay. I think they did the egg roll first and it probably was a mess.
Yes. I'm just as a parent thinking about them running into each other and some kids stepping
on it and having egg everywhere and then throwing the egg, you know, they were like,
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we're not doing this game anymore. But they moved it from the Capitol Building because the
this made me laugh because the politicians didn't like the kids running around. Party poopers.
So, the First Lady was like, well, we could do it at the White House. And then
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that's funny. I thought that was funny. Rabbits and bunnies. That comes mostly from the Protestant
areas of Europe in the 17th century, which didn't really become a very popular thing until the 19th
century. They decorated and hid. So, the bunnies would decorate and hide said eggs. And then the
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US ads leaving a basket of toys and candies for the children on Easter morning. So, that's where
we get that. I always thought that was a really big leap. I was like, where did it? Yeah, I know
that's like the bunny and the like the, you know, the Cadbury bunny and the eggs. I'm always like,
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honestly, and I've said this before in other holiday episodes, leave it to us
to commercialize any holiday. Yeah, but it's kind of fun. It's like a fun whimsical thing. It is.
It is. And I honestly think. And it's up to the consumer to decide on how far they want to go.
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And this just popped into my head. I think it's honestly, we're tired of being cooped up in the
in for winter. And we just want to get out and celebrate. And we just want to have fun. And it's
it's just like a little excuse to have fun. Well, that's what St. Patrick's Day is. Oh, it's an
excuse to put on green beads and hang out with people and food. I like the fact that we have food.
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If no one knows, I love food. I found this interesting. I don't know if you saw this, but
there is a thought that the Protestants did the bunnies to move away from the
Catholic traditions of Easter. And in Switzerland, the animal is a cuckoo.
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And I don't know what Westphalia is, but it's animal as a fox. Interesting. I was like, that's
cool. Easter celebrates spring and new life, like you mentioned. Eggs and flowers, symbols of female
fertility, which you mentioned. Hairs. Now this I went down a rabbit hole, no pun intended.
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They were given ritual burials with humans in the Neolithic age. I don't know if you saw that,
which symbolized rebirth. In the Iron Age became very common to have a burial with a hair,
like everyone. 51 BCE, Julius Caesar notes that Britain did not consume hairs due to religious
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significance. Greeks also considered hair sacred for Aphrodite, and her son always carried a hair
as a symbol of unquenchable desire. So I think that's where we get the love aspect of spring too.
From the Greek world through the Renaissance, hairs were the symbol of sexuality in arts and
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literature. Folk traditions of England and Germany, Easter hair hunts, eating a hair at Easter.
I know, that sounds funny, huh? But that's where we get the bunny. I was like, still, I don't
understand why we have a bunny. This is where we get all the bunnies from.
It was said that they did it, oh, I have to tell you this, hair pie scramble.
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What? Hair pie scramble. It is still eaten in Haliton, England today.
You make a pie with a hair, like rabbit meat and scrambled eggs and everything.
No thanks, pass. No thanks, pass. At least you're very polite about it.
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It is said to have been to scare away witches, as witches would turn into a hair to do their
mischievous acts. I take slight offense to that, but that's just me. Poor rabbit.
Why are we eating rabbits? I don't know. They're cute and fluffy. Why would you do that? Moving on
from rabbits. It is very close to the spring equinox and with that, it's a promise of new life.
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I think that's why Easter was put, the fact of it, is that it's a promise of new life.
I think that's why Easter was put, the fact of the correlation with the resurrection of Christ,
new life, resurrection. I'm pretty sure that's why the decision to put it during this time,
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as opposed to other times than it probably was. Anyway, Osterfeuer, sorry, I don't speak German,
is the Easter fire. It was also a very common thing. I was like, yes, bonfires. Any excuse for
a bonfire. Right now I'm waiting for wind to go away so I can burn all the twigs that are in my
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backyard. We don't want to be the cause of a huge massive fire. That would be really bad.
But I have all these twigs that I have had for a long time and I would like them to go on.
So I'm like, I can do a bonfire. April in the eighth century England was Eostermanneth,
or Eostri month after the goddess. I found it interesting that April had a different name.
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Archaeology evidence has, according to the article that I was researching,
confirmed the worship of Eostri. The Eostri is a god of the gods.
The Eostri, according to the article that I was researching, confirmed the worship of Eostri
in parts of England and Germany, with the hair being their main symbol. So again, just alludes
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to why we have a rabbit and nobody understands why an egg comes out of a rabbit. And because
there's so many parallels to this holiday, I wanted to bring up Ostara, which at the time
out will have passed, but as we are recording, it is still in the future. Now Ostara,
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much like Easter, celebrates new life and spring and animals beginning to do their thing.
It's March 19th through the 23rd is kind of, because it's the spring equinox. Whenever day
the equinox comes on is the day of Ostara. It's a pagan celebration, because it varies a little,
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not by a lot, just within those days. And it celebrates the goddess Eostri if you celebrate
gods. Not all pagans celebrate gods, just so everyone knows. Beginning of spring, it's a good
time to plant seeds, right? Because springtime, both physically and figuratively. So the new
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things for you, you could start putting in effect and taking those steps. And while you're planting
your basil, you'd be like, we're going to work together on this, friend. It's a great time to
take action on the goals that were set in yule or in bulk season. I put those in quotes because
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they're not really seasons, but you know. And suggestions for Ostara, like we said, plant seeds
and plan garden spaces I added. Spring cleaning, decorate for the season, make dishes with egg
as the base, desserts too, nature walks, because we can go outside now, maybe with a coat if it's
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windy, don't bring an umbrella or you'll fly away. Tea parties with the spring themed. I was like,
oh, I've never done a host for a tea party. I was like, that could be kind of fun. And then I was
like, hmm. A lot of work. That's a lot of work. So I'll provide the tea, y'all bring your food.
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That works, right? Yeah, totally. It's like a potluck tea party. Yeah, I feel like this is
appropriate. And meditate in journal, which I think you should be doing all the time, but
there's endless possibilities for this time. What other things do you do kind of do during Easter?
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Let's see. Well, I think we kind of touched on it, but you know, people start,
you see more flowers, you know, the time that people, if they don't plant, they start
providing, or like, you see more and more bouquets in their houses. Yeah. You see the...
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If they don't start with seedlings, they go to the nursery. Yes. Which I think I'm going to do this
year for some things that I haven't started yet. Let's see what else. Oh, something that's popped
in my head. Did you know that there are places instead of using lamb for their Easter dinners,
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they do fish? No. I almost said pesce. That's fish in Portuguese. We always just did it ham.
Yeah. Well, not always. Ham was the go-to for holiday. We didn't traditionally do dinners
for Easter, but you know, yeah, ham was common in our house. Well, it's easier than buying lamb.
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That's expensive. I don't really like lamb. It's not my thing. It's very,
it doesn't really have a huge... I'm down with fish. Is there any particular type of fish or just fish?
Fish. And I was, and I always thought like when I was on my mission, because they did that,
I was like, why fish? And Christ is fisher of men. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Like the miracle of
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the three fishes and the loaves of bread that he fed the multitude is why.
But oh, if I'm choosing between a lamb and fish, I'll take fish. Oh yeah, me too.
Now if it's fish or ham, I'll take both. You can do both, pending on how you prepare it.
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I did want to briefly touch on if we have time. A little bit. Okay. Really quickly,
because I meant to talk about it. Yeah, do it. The Holy Week.
Yes. Go into it more, because I only threw up a sentence on it. Because I found this fascinating.
I did not know about Holy Week, so I'll just very quickly go into it. Yeah, please. And then I can
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give you, I found this really cool little thumbnail that we can throw into a blog post or something
like that, because it's really cool. And it broke it down for me. So the Holy Week is leading up to
Easter. We have Palm Sunday. This is Sunday, and we have the Holy Week. And we have the Holy Week
Sunday. This is Sunday before Easter. It's the celebration of Jesus's triumphal entry into
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Jerusalem. And it's observed with palm branches, parades, and celebrations. Okay, that makes sense.
Then we have, and I did not know this one. I had to look up what it meant. It's called
Maundy. I hope I said this correctly. M-A-U-N-D-Y. Sure, I'll take it.
Maundy Thursday. It's the Thursday before Easter. And Maundy comes from Latin
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montaedum or command, which refers to the instructions that Jesus gave his disciples.
And so it commemorates the Last Supper. Okay. And it's the Thursday before Easter.
Okay. And then there's Good Friday, the Friday before Easter. And it is the most
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solemn day of the church year. I mean, I always saw that on the calendar. I never knew what
Good Friday was for. Yeah. And it deserves the day that Jesus was actually crucified.
Okay. And it is, people go to church and they observe it. And it's observed by praying
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to the cross. If you're a Christian, you go to... In whatever form that you do it.
But the traditional Christian, you pray to the cross for three hours of silent prayer
while Jesus was on the cross. And then there's the Holy Saturday, the Saturday before Easter.
And it deserves the day that Jesus was in the tomb. And this is the day of somber reflection
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and reflecting on what we would miss in a world without Jesus. Also did not know this.
Same. And then there's, of course, Easter Sunday itself, the day that Christ rose,
the day that we celebrate the resurrection. And I had no idea what... I didn't know that
there was Holy Week to begin with. No, I didn't either. I knew Good Friday.
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I've heard of Palm Sunday because it's on the calendar too.
The ones that are on the calendar, yes. Not that I knew what it was for.
Good Friday. Yeah. Because I don't celebrate those. Our Christianity is slightly different.
Our Christianity of our youth. Yes. How about that? I was like, I'm not...
So it was really fascinating. Yeah.
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But then very briefly, non-religion things. I found some really random fun facts because you
know I love fun facts. Yes. But before you do that, because I was thinking about... We were
talking about our ignorance of some of these things. And you're like, what is this for? What
is this for? And then when you find out, you're like, oh, okay, that makes sense. Yeah.
We were at a recital for the boys and Spot was like, oh, this church is really cool. They have
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these really cool foot rests in front of us. Oh. And I was like, I don't think those are foot rests.
I think those are for praying. Like your knees, because they were really nice. And he was like,
and he quickly put his feet down on the ground. Oh, cute. I was like, that is really cute.
Yeah. The first time I went to a funeral at a Christian church. Well, again, it's one of
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those things where in our tradition of our youth, in our religion of our youth, we didn't have
knee rests for that reason. We pray differently. Because we don't kneel down and pray in the church.
In the church. Yes. We do have other places. Or did, but yes. Yeah. At the home or in the temple.
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Yes. But in the church building, we don't kneel down and pray. Yeah. When I went to the funeral,
it was fascinating. Yeah. The different aspects of it. Side note. Go with your cool facts.
So non-religious, totally non-random facts to end this Easter episode. The largest Easter egg
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ever made was over 25 feet high and weighed over 8,000 pounds. Now, was this of chocolate?
It was made of chocolate and marshmallows and it was supported internally by a steel frame.
Why would you do that? Because that's a lot of weight. Could you imagine? Right. And what I want
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to know is what did they do with it? How did they eat it? How did they transport it? Everybody eats
a bite. Do they just gather around and eat it there? Okay, you start here. Right. Easter is the
second best selling. That makes my stomach hurt. Sorry, keep going. Easter is the second best selling
candy holiday in America after Halloween. Makes sense. For the past decade, the top selling
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non-chocolate Easter candy has been, do you have any idea? The Chicklets. Not the Chicklets, but
like the little marshmallow chick things. The marshmallow peep. Yeah. Yep. Marshmallow peep. Yep.
They're disgusting. Oh, they're so nasty. And every year my child wants me to get them. And I'm like,
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you don't even like them, but we always have to get them. They're cute. And then he gets them and
he goes, I don't like these. I'm like, why did you want them? And they have so many different flavors
now. Random weird flavors that are. Don't they have blue ones? I think they have blue ones,
the purple ones. They have watermelon, root beer. I think they have peanut butter maybe. Do those
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ones taste better? No, I don't know. I don't like marshmallows. I refuse to touch those things.
They're sticky. Do you like Rice Krispy Treats? No. Okay. Absolutely not. No marshmallows for AJ
ever. Okay. I have very bad personal experience with Rice Krispy Treats. Oh, that will make me
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throw up. So, okay. No, please do not ever. That is a story for a different day. Okay. What other
other facts do you have? According to the National Confectioners Association, which I did not know
was the thing, over 16 billion jelly beans are made in the United States each year, just for Easter.
16 billion. I like jelly beans. I like jelly bellies. Yes. Enough to fill a giant egg measuring 89
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feet high and 60 feet wide. Holy crap, Ton. My family lives within driving distance of a jelly
belly factory. And I remember going there. Oh my gosh. And it's so much fun. I love jelly bellies.
I don't know the difference, but they're so much better. I don't know what the difference is. Maybe
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it's because it's smaller, so you get like more actual flavor and not just sugar taste. And then
the final is a black licorice one. I like black licorice actually. I like black licorice better than red.
Final fact, and this is not just, it's not a fun fact, but it's a fact.
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Lilies are the traditional flower of Easter celebrations across the United States. Yes. And
I think it's mostly because of being a symbol of Christ. For my understanding, back when I did go
to church. So those are the facts. Run, run. Fun, random facts. It makes me think of the,
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I don't remember the actual name of the song. I don't know if it's considered the lilies is
the actual name, but one of the apostles wrote for the LDS church, considered the lilies of the
field. Oh yes. I always, even now that I'm not a member, active member. That's a beautiful song.
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It's a beautiful song, but it always comes to my mind at this time of year,
because of the lilies. And I actually have daylilies in that front garden thing that are coming up
right now. I do love lilies. They are beautiful. So pretty. So that wraps up our Easter episode.
It does. Happy Easter. Happy Easter. And it's another holiday that I feel the presence of my
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grandma, because I see all of the lilies come up and we used to plant lilies all the time.
And we would go to like the tulip garden and all the tulips are starting to come up. So
it's happy memories. It's a throwdown. It's a challenge. We've got something for you.
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So our challenge for growth this week is to take a minute from your festivities and traditions
and just appreciate the beauty all around you. Flowers are starting to bloom, hopefully.
Hopefully the sun's out more. Yes. Hopefully the sun is out and hopefully there's blue skies and
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you're not being blown away. Just take a moment to take it all in and enjoy it. Take a deep breath.
Sunbathe like my kitty cat. And actually Murphy was sunbathing this morning. It's so cute.
It's cute watching him do that. And then our Q&A for this week is what are some of your Easter
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traditions or whatever you celebrate and do at this time of year? We're looking forward to your responses.
So with that we're going to wrap up this week with a little bit of a little bit of a
quick intro to our new YouTube channel. We'll see you next week with more fun activities that
you might want to do this time of year. We're looking forward to your responses. Awesome.
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To Mamas After Dark!
Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
Welcome, welcome, welcome!
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Welcome to our Easter episode!
That's the only title I came up with.
Easter exclamation point.
I was trying to think of...
Like a celebratory exclamation for Easter, but I can't think of one.
Go Easter bunnies!
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Chocolate.
Although I'm sad they don't make enough dark chocolate bunnies, all of them are fine.
I find our milk chocolate.
Yeah.
And I don't like milk chocolate.
But that's fine.
Less calories.
Yeah, that's what I have to worry about.
Less sugar consumed.
It's fine!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just do my dark chocolate chips.
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Like a little bit of those.
Like a quarter size handful.
And then I put a little peanut butter in it.
Because that's what my grandma always did.
So that's what I do.
Nice.
And then that's my sugar intake.
I like it.
As much as I possibly can, right?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
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So, whatcha drinking?
It's time to spill the tea.
What are you thinking?
What are you drinking?
I am drinking out of this adorable mug that was handed to me.
Which is one of my favorite colors.
Teal color.
I'm drinking a...
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Not ice, because it doesn't have ice, but it smells like ice.
It's cold.
Cold.
Chai tea.
Sugar-free.
Sugar-free.
Is there anything else in it?
Well, I mean, there's milk, but...
That's part of the thing.
You like to slip things in without...
That's true.
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That's weird.
You like to slip things in?
You slip things in my drink.
Yes, there's nothing else in there.
Because I didn't actually brew it.
I just poured it out of a container and then put my milk in it.
Delicious.
But it was funny because it's in a mug.
And so she handed it to me, and I...
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I was expecting it to be hot.
Because it's in a mug.
So I took a sip, and it was cold, which is totally fine, because I love...
I prefer my chai tea.
Right, chai is... I prefer cold.
Cold.
It startled me.
She's like, um, you broke me.
Sorry.
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It was fine. It was delicious.
But I love this brand, so I was like, yes.
And I was reminded of it when we were at Grounds for Coffee.
They had a dirty chai.
They make me a dirty chai sometimes.
And it was that brand.
And I was like, oh yeah.
But they have a sugar-free one I found when I was over at the Amish store.
And I went back to go get more.
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And it was gone.
I was like, dude.
So I did what everybody else does.
I Amazoned it, because...
The sugar-free, I will say, is a lot better than the regular.
The regular is very sweet.
I couldn't handle it.
Good. Well, I'm glad the sugar-free works for you.
Yeah, I like it a lot.
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Thank you for sharing.
You're very welcome.
And then, of course, I have my usual water to the side of me.
Yeah, she's two-fisting it today.
Yep.
Usually I'm...
Yeah, that's about right.
Yep.
What about this wind?
Have you had as much wind as we have?
Yes.
Gosh.
This... I...
I'm a little bit over it.
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It's dying down.
But for a couple of days there...
Wednesday night to Thursday night, we had 30-plus mile per hour winds up here.
I thought we were going to end up in a different...
We had...
I don't remember.
I don't think I checked how strong it was, but we had windstorm warnings.
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The alert that I got on my phone, one of the things that said was life-threatening winds.
I was like, hope that doesn't look good at all.
That doesn't sound good.
Are we talking tornadoes?
What are we talking about here?
Yeah, it was a little scary.
I was like, oh, we're going to end up in a different state here.
Well, it's funny you say that because my dad, who's new up here...
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Because we get winds every year up here.
Yeah.
And a lot of the times...
Because we're higher up.
Yeah, we're higher up.
We're next to a canyon and we're next to a bay.
And so we have one on one side and one on the other side.
So, you know, we get it a lot.
And sometimes it's like way out of the blue.
Like there's no warning.
And we're like, oh, well, that happened.
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And it was like five...
We've had it to where it lasted like five seconds.
And we're like, okay.
All right.
So we just have everything hunkered down all the time.
Well, my dad, who's new in our area...
He texts me on Friday morning.
No, Saturday morning.
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I know what day it is.
It's fine.
Saturday morning.
He's like, so we're in Kansas now.
My house tonight.
We're all in Kansas.
It made me laugh.
I was like, what are you doing in Kansas?
Well, the wind.
Oh.
Yeah.
It was not by choice.
You're referring to something, I wonder.
Yeah.
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Friday is garbage day.
So once all the garbage cans had been emptied, if we're lucky enough to have it emptied,
because some of them had...
You put your garbage cans out on the street.
Some of our neighbors, I noticed the cans blew over while waiting for the truck to come
pick it up.
So they had garbage everywhere?
Yeah.
The truck didn't actually grab the garbage can.
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And so, you know, bags are strewn out all over the...
Well, why would they?
They would have to get out with their truck.
I know, right?
Never mind.
I'm grateful for garbage people.
You have to deal with that all the time.
Right.
But once they were emptied, there's nothing in them to hold them down, of course.
So our area was littered with these garbage bins everywhere.
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And it was like, I was referring to, you know, like a video game where you have to drive
around all the different...
All your obstacles?
Yeah, you have to drive around all the garbage cans to just get out of the...
I'm pretty sure we have a nugget bag from our neighbor in our window well over here.
Oh, what bag?
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A nugget bag, a chicken nugget bag.
Oh!
Like Costco size.
Yeah.
They have a lot of people in their family.
Yeah.
And I was like, that's not ours.
Yeah.
That's all right.
I just...
Oh, okay.
Well, I'm going to pick this up now.
I'm going to add it to the thing.
So yeah, allergies are in the high...
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Yeah.
Well, especially me.
So I apologize if I sound nasally and et cetera.
I was at the hospital with a friend.
What did you say?
Unacceptable.
Apology not accepted.
Well, I'm not apologizing to you then.
I'm just kidding.
I'm face-feed today.
So am I.
It should be fun.
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So that started being at a hospital all day, waiting for my friend, which I had no problem
doing, but I forget how much the air is different because I've worked in a hospital before.
So it's not like a different atmosphere.
But I was like, my nose started running and I was like, what in the world?
Oh, that's right.
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And then with the windstorm on top of it, I was like, I'm doomed.
I'm actually better today.
You should have heard me on Friday.
I'm all...
I'm pretty sure Spot would hate me if I did that again.
But yeah.
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So much fun.
But we're hanging in there.
Sounds like we're both hanging in there.
With all the weird, wonderful and lovely things life has to offer.
Wild, wild week.
That's fine.
It's fine.
We just have, we can try again next week.
Sure.
Wind stay away.
Give us a nice spring.
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I'm okay if wind doesn't...
Not necessarily wind that's bad.
It's when it gets so bad that it causes destruction, right?
That's one that's kind of...
I'm pretty sure that's why I had a migraine for the last couple of days.
Does that make sense?
That just dawned on me.
I'm like, oh.
Your sinuses might be plugged up.
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Yeah.
I need to know it.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
There we go.
Everything's falling into place here.
I was like, where'd this come from?
See on the hot, hot days when we wish we had wind, we're going to be like, why did you blow it all out before?
We just like to complain, okay?
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That's what we do.
That's what humans do.
Do you have a quote for us in our musings?
I sure do.
Let's listen to some musings.
Quotes, poems, short stories, inspirational, uplifting news, and of course, tippy-dippy astrology.
Today's quote is short and sweet.
It is by a writer and artist, Marianne Radmacher.
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I'm deeply sorry if I mispronounced your last name.
It says, courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I'll try again tomorrow.
I like that.
And I think sometimes we forget that it takes courage to continue on.
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And we just, oh, I have to do it.
Well, you're being courageous at that point.
Yep.
And a little plug here.
I was having, I had so many different good quotes I wanted to share.
I asked my son, which one should I share?
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And he goes, you should quote me.
And I said, oh, what's your quote?
He goes, la la la, la la la la la la la la.
And I said, well, what does that mean?
And he goes, I just wanted to be on the podcast.
Well, there you go. You quoted him too.
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I like it.
I had two quotes for you.
Dang, we're lucky today.
Yep.
That's cute though.
Yeah, that's my quote for the day.
Well, he was on a video of a recording, but we don't release the video.
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Oh, yes.
Remember?
Yes.
We don't speak of that.
It's funny.
He got upset at you.
I called him out. That's why.
He was like, I was laying really still.
And I was like, no, you were not. Don't lie to your mother.
The camera was pointed right at you.
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Kids, moody teenagers.
Which is, I mean, it was fine.
And we don't release a video as of right now.
And for the record, I had given him permission to enter the room.
True. He wasn't being naughty. It was just really funny.
Anyways, on to Hippie Dippie.
Are you trying to say something?
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No.
No, just kidding.
I'm not.
I'm not.
Wait, what? No.
Anyways, on to Hippie Dippie.
Are you trying to say we're done?
We're done with conversation?
Yes. No.
I'm moving it along.
All right. For Hippie Dippie, I wanted to talk about nettles.
It's one of the plants that you might start seeing around in March and
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April.
And.
Most people consider it a weed.
They don't want.
Which is what I think a weed is.
It's just a plant that you don't want in the area that it's in.
But it is also very helpful, not just in our gardens.
As a way to take care of our plants and things like that.
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But it's also very beneficial to us as humans.
Of course, you do need to prep the nettle.
You can't just eat it raw.
That will make you very sick.
So there are steps to preparing it.
But before I go into nettle completely, I wanted to share this disclaimer.
While information here on our podcast has been researched to an extent.
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And is worthwhile information.
It is not for treatment purposes.
Please consult your or a qualified health care provider and professional before use.
And always use caution when starting new things, especially concerning.
Concerning dietary changes and additions.
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So nettles are good for your gastro health, bowel and gut.
Like it opens it up.
It's a decongestion and it clears your respiratory area.
It's good for your reproduction system.
Stimulating menstruation and breast milk.
And for our gentlemen, it helps with prostate problems.
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It can.
It's a blood restorative.
It's a diuretic.
It helps with worms.
You know when we talked about worms.
From Brazil.
Yeah.
I could have been drinking nettle tea.
It would have been fine.
It's a good way to increase and decrease.
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Interesting.
Yeah.
I was like, maybe it's the dosage.
I would assume it's your dosage of it.
But that's something that you see a lot in nature.
Like the same thing that could help with something also causes it.
Pending on the balance.
It's listed or has been known in the past as an aphrodisiac.
It's an energizing component to it.
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It's known as an antidote for some things.
Skin conditions can be helped with it.
Nose bleeds can be helped with it.
Thores and scabs can be helped with it.
Joint pain can be helped with it.
And urine testing.
What do they do with urine testing?
It's supposed to help like determine different things.
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It's supposed to help with the
different things.
It's supposed to help with the different things.
It's supposed to help with the different things.
They used more in the 17th, 18th century.
It's very interesting that it has such a wide variety of uses.
Sure.
That is fascinating.
From what I read, it's what parts are using.
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Right?
Cause sometimes you're like,
you would use the seeds or you would use like the leaf or the roots.
Like.
Had different.
Like, you know,
Like, you know,
you're getting different amounts of nutrients.
So like, are you doing it topically?
Are you doing it?
For ingestation.
Are you eating it or are you drinking it?
Are you like all of these different things?
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You're getting different amounts of things.
And.
Of those nutrients and things.
So it does different.
Things.
That is fascinating. I had no idea.
Yeah.
I'll put it in our blog post when we release about nettles.
But.
I've heard of it being good in your garden.
Where.
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You make like a.
A garden juice kind of thing with the nettles and you can use like.
Other things with it, but you make like this fermented.
Juice cocktail of like nettles and stuff like that to put on your plants.
You don't drink it.
Don't drink that.
You don't drink it.
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But it helps like give your.
It helps your soil.
Like a fertilizer.
Yeah.
Kind of.
Just not.
Yucky chemicals.
It's like organic.
We're going to use that word.
Wow.
I'll clip.
I'll clip a person that I follow that he talked about it and he talked with an
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author about.
How that works.
And I'm like.
You know.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that.
So I'll just do that.
I'm like.
I'm going to do that.
So that's that's the information.
But it's fascinating.
This is why I nerd out about stuff like this.
It's like.
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Oh.
What I was researching about this and something else.
Or different blog posts.
And.
While I was waiting at the hospital and I was like.
To AJ, I was like, I just spent like an hour and a half learning about
things like that.
And I was like, Oh.
Okay.
What.
Like I'm going back to work.
Good for you.
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Now I understand.
I'm totally used to the randomness.
It is random.
I am.
Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome.
I'm going to share some uplifting news.
Okay.
Do share.
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It's on a personal level.
It's not an.
Out of the home.
Okay.
Thing.
But.
So as many of you may or may not know.
My husband is going through.
A time of his life where his eyesight is being affected.
And it's a genetic thing.
There's not really much we can do.
About it.
So we've tried different things.
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And we've tried different things.
And we've tried different things.
And we've tried different things.
And we've tried different things.
No offense to the place that we were going.
Cause they are war.
Not world renowned, but they're very well known.
For eye care.
And they're very helpful for emergency situations.
Like when he had that.
Dainting.
Growing in his eye area that he couldn't see through.
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They, they took care of that and.
They're really good at that.
But for his.
Long-term care.
And he was like, I'm going to go to the hospital.
And I'm going to go to the hospital.
And I'm going to go to the hospital.
Because he was like, I pretty much go.
Pay a lot of money for them to tell me, yep.
You're going blind and I'll see you in six months.
And.
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It's just.
It's the same place that I go to, right?
Yes. Okay.
I understand the feeling.
And.
Our little, our little place up here,
where he was like, I'm going to go to the hospital.
And they gave him like eye drops to help with like his.
Like moisturizing his eyes.
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They gave him like, they cleaned his eye lashes for him.
To see if that helped anything.
They they've done all these different things.
Well, we.
Had an appointment on.
Friday.
And he kind of didn't want to go.
Cause he's like, well.
He's like, I don't want to go.
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Like, I don't want to go.
Like I said,
like it just felt like really discouraged, you know?
And I'm happy to say that in the 20,
30 minutes that we were there,
his whole attitude about it changed.
Significantly.
And it's.
Why I'm really grateful for people who do.
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Go into their healthcare professions and care.
when it feels like you're a member and you're not always looked at as the individual that you are.
Is that a good way of saying it? Those providers that go above and beyond for you? Yeah. And never
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give up on you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's those that are just, they're the ones that are truly in it
for helping people. Yeah. Because they have a nurturing and caring soul. And so we encountered
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one such person on Friday and he was like, well, what do you do? And you know, Spot has been really
nervous about what would happen if his eyesight did go because he's our only income right now. And
he was like, there are so many new advances in the digital world that you should be able to continue
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to work and work in your position. And he's like at the school of the blind, because he works there
too, this guy, ophthalmologist, I should say, more this guy. He was like, we have a lot of
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we have a completely blind IT person that I always call for everything because he knows everything.
He's like, just go here and do that and do this. And he is not seeing, you know, he's navigating it
without his sight. So that gave him comfort. Plus there's like this really cool,
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like, it's called OrCam. You put on your any type of glasses that you're wearing,
and it'll read the page for you. So it's not like where you have to have it already digitally put in,
it'll take what you're seeing and read what it is. That's cool. Yeah. And then he was mentioning that
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he was mentioning that Braille now, if you get like a digital kind of tablet kind of thing,
it updates it. So you don't have to like wait, like some there was usually a long lag. And so
they weren't very useful. And people would still have to like, when he was on his mission,
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he had a person who had the Bible that took up most of the room in Braille, because
all of the Braille, like it's a huge thing to put all of those words and little dots and stuff like
that. So he was like, it sounds to me that like a basic Braille thing course would be good for you
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when the time counts, when you can't see very well, just so that you can, like when you're at a
restaurant, go in the right bathroom, you know, touch it and, yep, that's the men's, and I go, or
you know, what floor am I going to? And you can feel like the button and see what floor you need
to go on kind of thing. But I was just really happy that he took the initiative and was like,
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I'll call you about the OrCam and you can try it out and see if it works for you. And did this
place that we were talking about before, did they already put in a referral for that? And he was
like, no, they haven't done anything besides tell me I'm going blind and taking the appropriate
images every time I come in, which is half the battle I get. And it was just nice that the doctor
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was like, oh, shame on them and let's get this ball going. And I don't know, it just felt really
good because his mood, for me, his mood was night and day different from when we got there too,
when we left. That's awesome. I know that that's been a big weight on your shoulders too. I know
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you've been worried about, you know, the income and what happens if something happens to him.
I mean, I still am. Yes. But not to the same like, yeah, I have a ticking time bomb that I don't
know when it's going to go off. Yeah. It's very different too. Okay, we can, we can prepare
appropriately. There's hope and you have a, potentially have a course of action and you know,
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you're very much a planner. And so to have things laid out for you, you can do and research and plan.
Yeah. That is awesome. Yeah. Yes. Yay. So that's my good news. And I'm really round about what I'm
saying. I can't believe you kept that in. I was hard. I was like, oh, I've got, no, no, no, no,
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no. But yeah. That's awesome. But I just wanted to make sure there was nothing else that, oh,
and he did bring up, so well, we've known what protein has been affecting his eyes for a long
time. Like we found this out maybe five years ago, four or five years ago. Was it four years ago?
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Whenever I told you. Okay. Time has been a real blur lately. I hear you. I hear you. But he broke
it down even further. He was like, well, the way that it's going, it leads me to believe that it's
whatever thing he said it was, but it goes from the outside, inside to the outside. A lot of the
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time, the degeneration goes from the outside to the inside, which is why it goes completely away.
But because he's like, there's actually really good hope that you'll always have your center vision
because it doesn't seem to be affecting that. It seems to be more of your rods. And so it's going
from the outside to the outside. So we also have really good hope that his center vision will
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always be there. If the pattern continues. That's awesome. I like this doctor. So yeah, we do.
That's a really good feeling when you finally find a doctor that you feel comfortable with and gives
you hope and not false hope, but real hope. Well, and he kind of broke it down a little bit too.
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Like when you hit this stage, we can get you into learning how to walk with the stick if you need to,
like the white stick or I was like, even if we don't do, because he was like, but you don't seem
like you're at that position yet. And I was like, well, even if we can walk with the stick,
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and I was like, but even if we could just kind of help him learn to use like a hiking stick,
we have hiking sticks for when he walks around the yard because of the dogs digging up holes
and stuff. I'm like, but even if he would learn how to be more open to using it as a tool and
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not just as a walking stick, you know. So it's a lot of practice and I find myself like getting
frustrated and I'm like, what am I doing? Like it's right there, duh. Yeah. Well, he can't see it.
Come on. Awesome. So it'll be good. Yay. That's the best news. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Well,
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should we dive right in? Splish splash. We're diving into the main topic. You know,
it just popped in my head. What? Cause I'm a nerd. Splish splash. I was taking a bath.
Oh my gosh. Welcome to my brain today, everyone. That is amazing. So onto Easter.
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So I think we found a lot of, when we were researching Easter, I think we found a lot of
similar facts about the history of Easter. I think so too. And there's a lot of things
about Easter that we could cover. Oh yeah. There's so many things, a lot of them that I didn't know.
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I mean, to me Easter, Easter is Easter, you know, but there's a lot of things that I didn't know.
Okay. So let's bring it down this way. When somebody says Easter, what do you think of?
So I think, well, there's two aspects to Easter that I think of. First, I think of, you know,
the spring and flowers and greenery and the Easter bunny and the commercial side of it,
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where they get the Easter bunny and they decorated Easter eggs and the candy and the chocolate and
and Easter egg hunts and all that. So I think of that side of it. And then there's the more religious
side of Easter, where you think of, I always had an Easter dress that my grandma made.
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You're one of those that got a new Easter dress every year. I got a new Easter dress every year
until I became, oh, that's me, sorry. I'm sorry. I even tried to remember to do that and I didn't.
But then I think of the more religious side of it, where you have, you know, the Christ
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dying in the resurrection, the crucifixion, and there's that aspect of it, which I feel
like does not get focused on as much anymore. Sure. Because I feel like people,
either they forget about it or it's just not the focus.
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Yes, but I think what it, like for my family, Easter was both, and it was,
with your family, you focused on the religious aspect and then with your friends and to have
a good time, you did the community commercial side of it. And I think that's because
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there's a lot of other people around who don't believe in Christianity. It's a Christian
religion. And I think now that we're changing and evolving and having different
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religions be a part of this country and in the world, we're accepting of the other,
it's a great way to have our communities come together. And of course, we're not going to
focus on the religious aspect with those that don't believe in Christ.
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That's what comes to my mind. Now, I grew up Christian. That's not what I claim anymore,
but I understand the feelings that come along with that.
Absolutely. Of Christ and the Savior and everything like that. And so,
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I think most of the time people are accepting of the fact that it is something for a Christian
to remember their faith and to grow in their faith, but it's not going to be a highlight
when you're in a community. At least I haven't heard of people hating on other families or
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traditions. If they're highly religious and other people, they focus on the commercial side of it.
I don't think so either. Whatever your tradition is, great. If you love Easter and it's all about
the Easter egg hunts, that's what you do. If you are the one that goes around to all the community
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egg hunts, then good for you. If you are the one that's in church, that's great. I don't think
that there's... I don't think so either. I haven't really noticed or heard of it in all my life.
I haven't heard anything either against different religions. Which is great. It's just what my brain
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came up with when you were like, I don't see that a lot of people reflect on Christ anymore. And
I think it's because it's more of a private thing to not be offensive to other people.
Exactly. Well, that's the way it's supposed to be, in my opinion. You don't always have to be
religious in front of people. No, that's not the way religion is supposed to be.
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So growing up, my family, well, they still are, but my family was very highly religious.
In my parents' effort to keep the true meaning of Easter in mind,
our family would do the commercial, quote unquote, commercial events,
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would not do them on Easter Sunday. They would do them the night before or whatnot. Sure. And we
would not do Easter egg hunts. They didn't like to call it Easter things. They called it spring
fling. Cute. That's cute though. So and then they would do like the candy and the small little
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trinkets. It's very small scale, not a huge event, but they would just hide things around the house.
And then we would come downstairs with our little baskets or whatever we had. Yeah. And find them
on the search board. And I always remember this. Sometimes think candy would be found in July
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because nobody could remember where they hid it. That is true. We got to the point where we had to
like map out where we hid things. Yeah, it's really funny. So we always had Easter eggs and
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always had Easter Sunday at my granny's house. And she always had a cake with jelly beans on it.
It was a coconut cake that she would dye the coconut green for grass. And she had this Easter
bunny wax thing that is up in my fridge because my grandma gave it to me that she would put on
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the cake and would have the jelly beans for the bunny's eggs. And it was like a two layer
cake all the time too. I was like, oh my gosh, it's so sugar. How did I survive? And then we
would dye Easter eggs before. I would always go over to her house before Easter. We would dye
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Easter eggs before, but we wouldn't hide those ones. Those were just prettiest for our Sunday
dinner or lunch kind of thing. And then they would hide the plastic eggs. But I was the only kid
for the longest time. So it was always me finding that. More than you. So they didn't have to hide
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very many because it was just me kind of thing. And then my dad would be like, no, getting warmer,
getting colder kind of thing. And then we called it Bula Bula. I love it. And then my kids,
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I hid them when they were little. I would get, oh, and of course we had our Easter basket.
But when they were little, I would take them over to the park where I used to live. And I would
hide a couple of things around there. And then they would be able to draw, because I always got
them new chalks every spring and things like that. But it wasn't like we didn't do an Easter
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breakfast or anything like that. We would just kind of play it low-chill, key kind of thing.
So we'll see what happens now that my parents are closer again.
I do remember us dying Easter eggs, but yeah, we didn't hide them. It was just to decorate them.
I don't have to die them now. I get multicolored eggs.
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That's true. You have Easter eggs all year round. I personally despise dying eggs.
It makes your eggs look weird. I don't know why. I just hate it with a passion.
He would always want to. I'm like, fine. But now he's old enough, I can just buy the dang kit and
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let him do it himself. And I get to eat them. That's true. That's true. I like it. But I never
bought him the pre-made Easter baskets or I would never even make him a basket. Sometimes I buy him
a little stuffed animal because he loves stuffed animals. That's okay. We have established that I
am anti-holiday. There's no shame in it. There's no shame in it at all.
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I'm not religious now as an adult, but I did carry over the tradition from my parents of the spring
fling. I would hide candy and little things around the house and let him find them. I thought it was
it's fun. It's fun. I don't do it outside where it's usually too cold, honestly. Right?
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It is really fun to watch all the little kids when you go to an actual Easter hunt.
We did one couple years. They'll usually do different age brackets and the
little foodles. You're like, oh my gosh, they're so cute. And they're cute little
costumes. And their baskets didn't fall. They put them in their cute little dresses and you're like,
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they're going to get so dirty. And they're like falling. I do remember when he was little. And
their parents are picking up the eggs before other kids do. And you're like, yo, it's for them.
They don't care. I do remember when he was little, little getting him like a new Easter
suit with a little tie and the pastel. I think I did it a couple years. Their little pastel ties.
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Yeah. The pastel colored shirts. Cause my kids used to go to church. So I did the same. Yeah.
But now I don't do that. That was the point. But I'm like, does everything still fit you? Cause
if it doesn't, now's the best time to do it. Cause it'll be cheaper. I'm going to have to dig up
pictures. Oh, memories. Yeah. They're fun. Memories are great. So like we said, it's a Christian
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holiday. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ the third day after the crucifixion.
The earliest observance was recorded in the second century. Did you see that too?
English word Easter parallels the German word Ostern. Unknown. I think that's how you say it.
Unknown in origin from what I read. Eighth century there was Badi, I think is how you say it,
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expounded. Eostre, or Eostre is an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility. I think that's
why we have those parallels between Christ and his resurrection and remembering that
and the spring and celebrating the springtime. What I found was really interesting. The Latin and Greek
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word Pascha, meaning Passover, lends its roots to Paches. I think it's how you say it, the French
word for Easter. And then the designation of Easter week, Albus, which is Latin, is plural for Alba,
which is dawn. I know I'm a nerd. I love this stuff right here. And it became Ios Darum in old
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German, which is a precursor for the modern German and English Easter. Kind of where you get the
EA. And I found it interesting that there were two different times in the old world that people
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would celebrate Easter, depending on where you were at. I found that in Asia Minor, they were
doing it kind of the same time as the Passover for the Jewish people, celebrating the crucifixion.
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I shouldn't say celebrating, but acknowledging the crucifixion on the same day as the Passover
started. And then it was always two days after, no matter what day of the week it was, that they
celebrated the resurrection. Whereas in the West, and I say that in quotes because the West is not
what we think of Western civilization now, they always celebrated it on Sunday. So this kind of
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ties into why we always celebrate it on the same Sunday. And it's because it's the day of the
Eucharist. And it's because of a council in 325 decreed the observance the first Sunday, the first
full moon after the spring equinox. Because I was like, well, Osara is the spring equinox. I wonder
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why Easter doesn't fall right on it. Well, this is why. This is the reason why it falls between
so just right after Osara and April 25th. Because I've always been like, well, why are we celebrating
Easter so early? Why are we celebrating Easter so late? I never really took the time to figure that
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out. Until now. I was like, oh, that's why it can be a whole month different.
And well, that moon. That moon. When I read that, I was like, I wonder if A-Rey nerded and geeked
out as much as I did. She's all about that moon, the lunar faces. Yep. I probably, probably. I
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didn't cheat and look on your tab this time. I put down the exact same thing as about the
the moon. I found it very interesting. And then I think this is why we have to go back what you
mentioned before, why we have a very religious side and a very natural pagan side. I'm going to
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say that word loosely because it's just pretty much folksy, right? It's not necessarily a religion
on that one. But some Easter traditions celebrate the resurrection of Christ and some
celebrate the natural world, what it's doing, right? Like the Easter lamb is a reference to
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the symbol of Christ. Well, if you've been to a Christian chart to understand that,
you know, the lamb of God is a phrase that you hear commonly. So the lamb was used for that.
But it's also because it is a symbol of the sacrificial animals that ancient Israel used to use,
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was the lamb. Do you, let's see. Did you, oh, this one I didn't know. 12th century, 10 now.
After Lenten fast, because, okay, we grew up in the same church and our church, yes, it's Christian.
It has a lot of similarities and a lot of differences. There are things that they picked
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to incorporate and things that they left out. And this is one that I had no idea existed.
After the Lenten fast, always have a meal consisting of eggs, ham, cheese, bread, and sweets.
I did not know that. Honestly, that sounds delightful. I feel like I missed out.
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Why wouldn't you bring the food one? I'm just saying anyways. But the fact that it started in
the 12th century and it is something that people still do is amazing. Well, and to go off that,
because you mentioned Lent, prior to Easter, there is Lent, which is the 40 day
season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and it ends at sundown
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on Holy Thursday, which is the Thursday before Easter. And it's the period of preparation to
celebrate the Lord's resurrection at Easter. Yeah. And that's something that I never knew about.
You know, I- In the religion that we were raised in, they don't really talk about that.
And I didn't know growing up, but as an adult, I would hear and see things, you know,
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oh, preparing for Lent. Oh, it's Lent. You know, I'm like, okay. Which I've heard that before.
Yeah. I'm like, okay. You know, but I didn't. And now in the day and age of social media,
you see, oh, I'm giving up this for Lent or I'm doing this for Lent. I'm like, okay. You know,
it's in the back of my mind, but I never took the time to research it until now.
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And then sometimes you put your foot in your mouth, which happens to happen to me as a grown
person. I'm like, what's that for? Like a person had ash on there. Oh yeah. And I had never, ever
seen it before. Yeah. Outside in public. And the person was really sweet. And I was so grateful
because I was like, just me and my ignorance. I'm so sorry. What is, what does that mean? Yeah.
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And, and she was really lovely about it. So I think that's a reminder. I don't know why I
brought it up, but I think it's a good reminder of, you know, when people are asking, they're not
asking to be rude. They're, they just don't know. And to have the perspective of a teacher, as
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opposed to, well, why are you being hateful and rude? Take, take, well, obviously people can be
rude, but when they are truly asking, be, be kind because that's how they're going to formulate
their opinion about you and whatever religion you are representing at that time. Or group, not just
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religion. Just a plug for that. Because I think sometimes people don't do that. And they're like,
well, what do you mean? You don't know what this is. Sorry, you didn't grow up Catholic.
Well, I think that a lot of, not a lot, but maybe some people aren't openly practicing it that way.
And so for some of us, we're like, Oh, maybe that's something that we can do. And so,
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I was like, Oh, maybe that's something I want to do. So, it's a great learning experience.
So I was really glad talking about Lent. That's what sparked it. I was like, how did I get to this?
Painted eggs. Did you see when it started?
Let me, I don't, no, I did not. It's the 13th century. Oh, yes, I did. Yes, I did.
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Yes. And it was because of Holy Week. There was a decree that prohibited the consumption of eggs
during the Holy Week. But I mean, a chicken's not going to stop laying eggs because you're like,
Nope, can't eat them. They would paint and decorate them to mark the end of the period of
fasting and then eat them as celebration. Yes. And the symbolism was the resurrection
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with the new life emergent from the eggshells. It was just so interesting. And to add to it,
the Orthodox Church, they always painted it in red to symbolize Christ's blood.
I was like, interesting. Makes sense. And it was believed that eggs represented the fertility and
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birth in certain pagan traditions that predated Christianity. So, you know, there comes the
paganism, you know, everything all ties together. It does. And when we say paganism,
we're talking about anything that's not Christian. Yes. Thank you. Yep.
Easter eggs were popular and are still popular in the US. That's what kind of made it
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more of a commercial. So, let's get our fingers in it.
Which isn't a bad thing, I'm just saying. The First Lady, Lucy Hayes, was credited for the
first annual Easter egg roll, which I never knew about an Easter egg roll. What is that?
It's where you would roll an egg down a hill, a grassy hill. What's the point? I don't know.
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This is one of those random fun things. I think that's where we get our eggs being hidden though.
Oh, okay. I think they did the egg roll first and it probably was a mess.
Yes. I'm just as a parent thinking about them running into each other and some kids stepping
on it and having egg everywhere and then throwing the egg, you know, they were like,
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we're not doing this game anymore. But they moved it from the Capitol Building because the
this made me laugh because the politicians didn't like the kids running around. Party poopers.
So, the First Lady was like, well, we could do it at the White House. And then
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that's funny. I thought that was funny. Rabbits and bunnies. That comes mostly from the Protestant
areas of Europe in the 17th century, which didn't really become a very popular thing until the 19th
century. They decorated and hid. So, the bunnies would decorate and hide said eggs. And then the
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US ads leaving a basket of toys and candies for the children on Easter morning. So, that's where
we get that. I always thought that was a really big leap. I was like, where did it? Yeah, I know
that's like the bunny and the like the, you know, the Cadbury bunny and the eggs. I'm always like,
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honestly, and I've said this before in other holiday episodes, leave it to us
to commercialize any holiday. Yeah, but it's kind of fun. It's like a fun whimsical thing. It is.
It is. And I honestly think. And it's up to the consumer to decide on how far they want to go.
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And this just popped into my head. I think it's honestly, we're tired of being cooped up in the
in for winter. And we just want to get out and celebrate. And we just want to have fun. And it's
it's just like a little excuse to have fun. Well, that's what St. Patrick's Day is. Oh, it's an
excuse to put on green beads and hang out with people and food. I like the fact that we have food.
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If no one knows, I love food. I found this interesting. I don't know if you saw this, but
there is a thought that the Protestants did the bunnies to move away from the
Catholic traditions of Easter. And in Switzerland, the animal is a cuckoo.
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And I don't know what Westphalia is, but it's animal as a fox. Interesting. I was like, that's
cool. Easter celebrates spring and new life, like you mentioned. Eggs and flowers, symbols of female
fertility, which you mentioned. Hairs. Now this I went down a rabbit hole, no pun intended.
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They were given ritual burials with humans in the Neolithic age. I don't know if you saw that,
which symbolized rebirth. In the Iron Age became very common to have a burial with a hair,
like everyone. 51 BCE, Julius Caesar notes that Britain did not consume hairs due to religious
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significance. Greeks also considered hair sacred for Aphrodite, and her son always carried a hair
as a symbol of unquenchable desire. So I think that's where we get the love aspect of spring too.
From the Greek world through the Renaissance, hairs were the symbol of sexuality in arts and
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literature. Folk traditions of England and Germany, Easter hair hunts, eating a hair at Easter.
I know, that sounds funny, huh? But that's where we get the bunny. I was like, still, I don't
understand why we have a bunny. This is where we get all the bunnies from.
It was said that they did it, oh, I have to tell you this, hair pie scramble.
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What? Hair pie scramble. It is still eaten in Haliton, England today.
You make a pie with a hair, like rabbit meat and scrambled eggs and everything.
No thanks, pass. No thanks, pass. At least you're very polite about it.
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It is said to have been to scare away witches, as witches would turn into a hair to do their
mischievous acts. I take slight offense to that, but that's just me. Poor rabbit.
Why are we eating rabbits? I don't know. They're cute and fluffy. Why would you do that? Moving on
from rabbits. It is very close to the spring equinox and with that, it's a promise of new life.
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I think that's why Easter was put, the fact of it, is that it's a promise of new life.
I think that's why Easter was put, the fact of the correlation with the resurrection of Christ,
new life, resurrection. I'm pretty sure that's why the decision to put it during this time,
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as opposed to other times than it probably was. Anyway, Osterfeuer, sorry, I don't speak German,
is the Easter fire. It was also a very common thing. I was like, yes, bonfires. Any excuse for
a bonfire. Right now I'm waiting for wind to go away so I can burn all the twigs that are in my
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backyard. We don't want to be the cause of a huge massive fire. That would be really bad.
But I have all these twigs that I have had for a long time and I would like them to go on.
So I'm like, I can do a bonfire. April in the eighth century England was Eostermanneth,
or Eostri month after the goddess. I found it interesting that April had a different name.
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Archaeology evidence has, according to the article that I was researching,
confirmed the worship of Eostri. The Eostri is a god of the gods.
The Eostri, according to the article that I was researching, confirmed the worship of Eostri
in parts of England and Germany, with the hair being their main symbol. So again, just alludes
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to why we have a rabbit and nobody understands why an egg comes out of a rabbit. And because
there's so many parallels to this holiday, I wanted to bring up Ostara, which at the time
out will have passed, but as we are recording, it is still in the future. Now Ostara,
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much like Easter, celebrates new life and spring and animals beginning to do their thing.
It's March 19th through the 23rd is kind of, because it's the spring equinox. Whenever day
the equinox comes on is the day of Ostara. It's a pagan celebration, because it varies a little,
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not by a lot, just within those days. And it celebrates the goddess Eostri if you celebrate
gods. Not all pagans celebrate gods, just so everyone knows. Beginning of spring, it's a good
time to plant seeds, right? Because springtime, both physically and figuratively. So the new
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things for you, you could start putting in effect and taking those steps. And while you're planting
your basil, you'd be like, we're going to work together on this, friend. It's a great time to
take action on the goals that were set in yule or in bulk season. I put those in quotes because
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they're not really seasons, but you know. And suggestions for Ostara, like we said, plant seeds
and plan garden spaces I added. Spring cleaning, decorate for the season, make dishes with egg
as the base, desserts too, nature walks, because we can go outside now, maybe with a coat if it's
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windy, don't bring an umbrella or you'll fly away. Tea parties with the spring themed. I was like,
oh, I've never done a host for a tea party. I was like, that could be kind of fun. And then I was
like, hmm. A lot of work. That's a lot of work. So I'll provide the tea, y'all bring your food.
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That works, right? Yeah, totally. It's like a potluck tea party. Yeah, I feel like this is
appropriate. And meditate in journal, which I think you should be doing all the time, but
there's endless possibilities for this time. What other things do you do kind of do during Easter?
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Let's see. Well, I think we kind of touched on it, but you know, people start,
you see more flowers, you know, the time that people, if they don't plant, they start
providing, or like, you see more and more bouquets in their houses. Yeah. You see the...
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If they don't start with seedlings, they go to the nursery. Yes. Which I think I'm going to do this
year for some things that I haven't started yet. Let's see what else. Oh, something that's popped
in my head. Did you know that there are places instead of using lamb for their Easter dinners,
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they do fish? No. I almost said pesce. That's fish in Portuguese. We always just did it ham.
Yeah. Well, not always. Ham was the go-to for holiday. We didn't traditionally do dinners
for Easter, but you know, yeah, ham was common in our house. Well, it's easier than buying lamb.
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That's expensive. I don't really like lamb. It's not my thing. It's very,
it doesn't really have a huge... I'm down with fish. Is there any particular type of fish or just fish?
Fish. And I was, and I always thought like when I was on my mission, because they did that,
I was like, why fish? And Christ is fisher of men. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Like the miracle of
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the three fishes and the loaves of bread that he fed the multitude is why.
But oh, if I'm choosing between a lamb and fish, I'll take fish. Oh yeah, me too.
Now if it's fish or ham, I'll take both. You can do both, pending on how you prepare it.
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I did want to briefly touch on if we have time. A little bit. Okay. Really quickly,
because I meant to talk about it. Yeah, do it. The Holy Week.
Yes. Go into it more, because I only threw up a sentence on it. Because I found this fascinating.
I did not know about Holy Week, so I'll just very quickly go into it. Yeah, please. And then I can
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give you, I found this really cool little thumbnail that we can throw into a blog post or something
like that, because it's really cool. And it broke it down for me. So the Holy Week is leading up to
Easter. We have Palm Sunday. This is Sunday, and we have the Holy Week. And we have the Holy Week
Sunday. This is Sunday before Easter. It's the celebration of Jesus's triumphal entry into
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Jerusalem. And it's observed with palm branches, parades, and celebrations. Okay, that makes sense.
Then we have, and I did not know this one. I had to look up what it meant. It's called
Maundy. I hope I said this correctly. M-A-U-N-D-Y. Sure, I'll take it.
Maundy Thursday. It's the Thursday before Easter. And Maundy comes from Latin
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montaedum or command, which refers to the instructions that Jesus gave his disciples.
And so it commemorates the Last Supper. Okay. And it's the Thursday before Easter.
Okay. And then there's Good Friday, the Friday before Easter. And it is the most
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solemn day of the church year. I mean, I always saw that on the calendar. I never knew what
Good Friday was for. Yeah. And it deserves the day that Jesus was actually crucified.
Okay. And it is, people go to church and they observe it. And it's observed by praying
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to the cross. If you're a Christian, you go to... In whatever form that you do it.
But the traditional Christian, you pray to the cross for three hours of silent prayer
while Jesus was on the cross. And then there's the Holy Saturday, the Saturday before Easter.
And it deserves the day that Jesus was in the tomb. And this is the day of somber reflection
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and reflecting on what we would miss in a world without Jesus. Also did not know this.
Same. And then there's, of course, Easter Sunday itself, the day that Christ rose,
the day that we celebrate the resurrection. And I had no idea what... I didn't know that
there was Holy Week to begin with. No, I didn't either. I knew Good Friday.
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I've heard of Palm Sunday because it's on the calendar too.
The ones that are on the calendar, yes. Not that I knew what it was for.
Good Friday. Yeah. Because I don't celebrate those. Our Christianity is slightly different.
Our Christianity of our youth. Yes. How about that? I was like, I'm not...
So it was really fascinating. Yeah.
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But then very briefly, non-religion things. I found some really random fun facts because you
know I love fun facts. Yes. But before you do that, because I was thinking about... We were
talking about our ignorance of some of these things. And you're like, what is this for? What
is this for? And then when you find out, you're like, oh, okay, that makes sense. Yeah.
We were at a recital for the boys and Spot was like, oh, this church is really cool. They have
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these really cool foot rests in front of us. Oh. And I was like, I don't think those are foot rests.
I think those are for praying. Like your knees, because they were really nice. And he was like,
and he quickly put his feet down on the ground. Oh, cute. I was like, that is really cute.
Yeah. The first time I went to a funeral at a Christian church. Well, again, it's one of
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those things where in our tradition of our youth, in our religion of our youth, we didn't have
knee rests for that reason. We pray differently. Because we don't kneel down and pray in the church.
In the church. Yes. We do have other places. Or did, but yes. Yeah. At the home or in the temple.
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Yes. But in the church building, we don't kneel down and pray. Yeah. When I went to the funeral,
it was fascinating. Yeah. The different aspects of it. Side note. Go with your cool facts.
So non-religious, totally non-random facts to end this Easter episode. The largest Easter egg
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ever made was over 25 feet high and weighed over 8,000 pounds. Now, was this of chocolate?
It was made of chocolate and marshmallows and it was supported internally by a steel frame.
Why would you do that? Because that's a lot of weight. Could you imagine? Right. And what I want
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to know is what did they do with it? How did they eat it? How did they transport it? Everybody eats
a bite. Do they just gather around and eat it there? Okay, you start here. Right. Easter is the
second best selling. That makes my stomach hurt. Sorry, keep going. Easter is the second best selling
candy holiday in America after Halloween. Makes sense. For the past decade, the top selling
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non-chocolate Easter candy has been, do you have any idea? The Chicklets. Not the Chicklets, but
like the little marshmallow chick things. The marshmallow peep. Yeah. Yep. Marshmallow peep. Yep.
They're disgusting. Oh, they're so nasty. And every year my child wants me to get them. And I'm like,
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you don't even like them, but we always have to get them. They're cute. And then he gets them and
he goes, I don't like these. I'm like, why did you want them? And they have so many different flavors
now. Random weird flavors that are. Don't they have blue ones? I think they have blue ones,
the purple ones. They have watermelon, root beer. I think they have peanut butter maybe. Do those
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ones taste better? No, I don't know. I don't like marshmallows. I refuse to touch those things.
They're sticky. Do you like Rice Krispy Treats? No. Okay. Absolutely not. No marshmallows for AJ
ever. Okay. I have very bad personal experience with Rice Krispy Treats. Oh, that will make me
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throw up. So, okay. No, please do not ever. That is a story for a different day. Okay. What other
other facts do you have? According to the National Confectioners Association, which I did not know
was the thing, over 16 billion jelly beans are made in the United States each year, just for Easter.
16 billion. I like jelly beans. I like jelly bellies. Yes. Enough to fill a giant egg measuring 89
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feet high and 60 feet wide. Holy crap, Ton. My family lives within driving distance of a jelly
belly factory. And I remember going there. Oh my gosh. And it's so much fun. I love jelly bellies.
I don't know the difference, but they're so much better. I don't know what the difference is. Maybe
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it's because it's smaller, so you get like more actual flavor and not just sugar taste. And then
the final is a black licorice one. I like black licorice actually. I like black licorice better than red.
Final fact, and this is not just, it's not a fun fact, but it's a fact.
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Lilies are the traditional flower of Easter celebrations across the United States. Yes. And
I think it's mostly because of being a symbol of Christ. For my understanding, back when I did go
to church. So those are the facts. Run, run. Fun, random facts. It makes me think of the,
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I don't remember the actual name of the song. I don't know if it's considered the lilies is
the actual name, but one of the apostles wrote for the LDS church, considered the lilies of the
field. Oh yes. I always, even now that I'm not a member, active member. That's a beautiful song.
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It's a beautiful song, but it always comes to my mind at this time of year,
because of the lilies. And I actually have daylilies in that front garden thing that are coming up
right now. I do love lilies. They are beautiful. So pretty. So that wraps up our Easter episode.
It does. Happy Easter. Happy Easter. And it's another holiday that I feel the presence of my
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grandma, because I see all of the lilies come up and we used to plant lilies all the time.
And we would go to like the tulip garden and all the tulips are starting to come up. So
it's happy memories. It's a throwdown. It's a challenge. We've got something for you.
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So our challenge for growth this week is to take a minute from your festivities and traditions
and just appreciate the beauty all around you. Flowers are starting to bloom, hopefully.
Hopefully the sun's out more. Yes. Hopefully the sun is out and hopefully there's blue skies and
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you're not being blown away. Just take a moment to take it all in and enjoy it. Take a deep breath.
Sunbathe like my kitty cat. And actually Murphy was sunbathing this morning. It's so cute.
It's cute watching him do that. And then our Q&A for this week is what are some of your Easter
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traditions or whatever you celebrate and do at this time of year? We're looking forward to your responses.
So with that we're going to wrap up this week with a little bit of a little bit of a
quick intro to our new YouTube channel. We'll see you next week with more fun activities that
you might want to do this time of year. We're looking forward to your responses. Awesome.
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So with that, we love you. We're still grateful for you. Have a blessed day. See you next time. Ciao.
Thanks for hanging with AJ and A-Rea. We hope we've brought a little fun,
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