March 12, 2024 • 57 mins
This Week's Episode:
Wanderlust? Are you a traveler at heart? Join AJ & A.Rae as they chat it up!
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(00:00):
Welcome to the wandering musings of AJ and A-Ray!
(00:04):
To Mamas After Dark!
Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
Welcome, welcome, welcome!
(00:27):
Welcome, everybody!
It's like...
Are we at a rave?
I don't know, I've never been to one.
I haven't either.
That doesn't sound like my crowd.
No, no.
I'm all like, night time? What?
(00:49):
Go where?
Sound music?
Have you seen those silent dance party thingies where they give you headphones?
Someone was talking about that.
And you hear the music in your headphones, I guess, and then it just looks really weird that everybody's...
Somebody just mentioned that this week too.
And I was like, uh...
(01:11):
I would be so self-conscious.
I know, that just looks so weird.
But I guess the upside of it is, is you can have the volume to as long as you want.
I'm saying no noise complaint.
And it might be kind of fun to see who's dancing to the same music.
I would like to be a spectator.
I would hope that they're all dancing.
I would like to be a spectator.
(01:33):
Seeing the videos of those is just so weird to me.
It's like watching people who play the...
I don't know what it's called. The boys really want it.
But where they have the things on, and then they're standing and doing stuff.
Playing the game.
What?
Like the 3D thing.
(01:55):
Oh, VR?
Yes, thank you.
Oh, yeah.
I was like, I don't know what it's called.
I should. Everybody in my house wants one.
We have one.
It's so expensive.
They're super expensive.
So expensive.
The brand new one is like $500 or something like that.
And of course, Spoticus is the tech person.
(02:19):
So he's like, yeah, we have to get the new one.
I'm really surprised you don't have one because he's such a techie.
I'm surprised too.
I think it might be because of the amount of time that we are out of our house.
Mm-hmm.
Maybe?
Yeah, we have the old one.
And of course, he wants the new one.
(02:41):
I'm like, no. No.
No.
I'm not spending that much money again.
No.
But it's so slow and laggy.
I need the new one.
Yeah, that's how they get you.
Yeah.
So that's where you say, look, the first time I encountered the internet through AOL,
dial up, it was much slower.
So you're fine.
(03:03):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Remember how cool it was to have an AOL email?
Yeah.
You were the bomb.
Yeah.
Blump.com.
Lord, we just aged ourselves so much.
When I was at work all the time, you know, doing the nine to five,
(03:26):
I would say that to the younger ones.
Oh, you're the bomb diggity.
They'd be like, what?
What are you talking about?
Oh, it made me laugh so hard.
Anyways.
So what are you drinking?
It's time to spill the tea.
(03:48):
What are you thinking?
What are you drinking?
I am fasting today.
So I'm just drinking some water.
How about you?
I wait, wait, wait, wait.
What's your cup?
Say it says the power of pink.
I love it.
All I said was pink.
(04:09):
So I was like, what?
As a heart above it.
I think the heart should be a crown, but you know, whatever.
I didn't.
I agree.
I didn't design it though.
Water's good though.
I have water too.
I'm too fist in it.
I have water and I have tea.
(04:30):
What kind of tea?
It's the hot cinnamon sunset one.
Oh.
I'm going to have a good tea for this lovely, lovely cold snowy day.
Well, what we had wind storms for the past couple of days.
And then yeah, hurricane strength winds.
Yeah.
(04:51):
That's normal up here though.
Up where I am.
Where you live, not where I live.
I'm not going to be able to do that.
When AJ said that there was wind up down there, I was like, oh,
(05:13):
Well, yeah, it was newsworthy. It made the news.
Everybody gets it.
This time.
Yeah.
And then what yesterday?
I swear we had all seasons. It had like clear East guys.
Towards the very end, but like.
We had the wind storm.
And then we had hail.
And a little bit of sleet.
And then it's snow.
(05:35):
We didn't get the hail as far as I know.
I didn't hear any, but yeah, definitely the snow.
I love how last week when we were recording.
Windows open. It was sunny.
It was warm.
It was like spring time.
Yeah.
And then Q this week.
And we've got just blankets of white.
Like it's winter.
Yup.
And then we had, I even had crocuses coming up.
(05:58):
If my crocuses are coming up.
My tulips are trying to get up.
I said, Hey, you, you picked the wrong time to come up.
We jinxed it.
That spring fever.
No.
No, I feel like.
Especially the bulbs I have.
They've been in the ground for a long time because the previous owners
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were like, Oh, I'm going to go to the bathroom.
And I feel by now.
They know what's going on.
So.
They wouldn't have done it.
It wasn't, it's time to come up.
It's true.
(06:43):
Yeah, we definitely had a doozy of a storm and I don't think it's over yet.
From what I can tell from the weather. So.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
My phone tells me that it's not over yet, but.
Yeah, it was snowing this morning.
When I took.
Lorenzo to work.
(07:04):
It looks like we still have white clouds up there.
We'll see.
Yeah.
There's nothing but.
Our state is.
Anything but predictable.
I mean, we should not be surprised at this point because.
This always happens.
Yeah.
(07:25):
We know it's going to happen.
We're on March. Yeah.
Yeah.
This happened.
I mean, it's been on.
June.
Parents were like, it does this every year up here.
I was like, yep.
This is wind season. Welcome.
They were like, Oh,
Oh yeah.
(07:46):
I remember it because I.
Born and raised in California.
And then I.
Never lived anywhere else in my life.
Until I went to school in Idaho.
And I started school in June.
And I didn't take any warm clothes.
The first semester, because it was June summer.
You know, summertime.
(08:08):
And it snowed.
It snowed.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.
You have to have a layer of something.
I called my mom and I was like.
No way.
Yeah.
(08:29):
Yeah.
That was the.
Slurping.
It's hot. It's hot tea.
I'm used to it.
Now.
Now when my mom comes and visits,
I always make sure to have an extra warm jacket for her.
Bring warm stuff, but you know,
(08:50):
California jackets are not meant for our state.
Nope.
You'd be cold.
Yeah.
Unless you have.
Unless you have a shirt on and then you can, you could double it up.
(09:12):
And now I'm used to it.
Like a marshmallow.
Down the street in your sweatshirt and coat.
It's fine.
And now I make my mom cold by leaving the house in the winter jacket on.
Cause I'm like, man, it's fine.
Okay.
Yeah, but you've been conditioned.
I've been conditioned.
(09:34):
From summer to cold here.
Everybody has their coat on. Yeah.
Yes.
You're like,
I don't want to have this heavy coat on anymore.
I think I have put my jacket on maybe twice this winter.
Oh, no, no, no. I have worn my coat.
I.
(09:56):
I can't.
But you live more north.
I live more north.
I live more north.
I mean, yeah.
Yeah, don't lie.
I have my fuzzy blanket though.
You look very cozy.
I wanted to snuggle today.
(10:19):
Although we're going to the hot springs after.
Nice. I think you're crazy, but nice.
No, it'll be great.
It'll be great when we're in it.
Yes.
Before and after.
I'm going to.
Mumble a few words.
Really quietly so I don't offend the parents around me.
(10:41):
Enjoy.
But it'll be great in between.
Getting it.
You survive.
Well, this is the best time to go to hot springs though,
because in the summertime, you don't want to be hot.
You don't want to be cold.
Yeah.
Oh, see, I only know if people that go in the winter.
(11:02):
So.
Crazy.
They go.
It's not when it's storming.
Well.
I don't know. It wasn't storming yesterday when we went to dinner.
Just all the way up until we went to dinner.
It's there.
Nothing stops.
He's like, how was the canyon?
It was pretty amazing.
(11:27):
Hey, Ray is adventurous. I am not.
No.
Restaurant.
And it was really good food.
And we're celebrating grandma's birthday.
What have been.
And she has four wheel drive.
Yeah, both our cars do.
It was like, that's the only way to be.
Up here.
Yep.
If not, you're.
(11:49):
You're not going to be able to drive past you.
Yep.
So let's listen to some musings.
Quotes, poems, short stories, inspirational, uplifting news.
And of course,
Kippy dippy astrology.
Do you have a quote for us in our.
It's actually.
(12:12):
I'm excited.
Speaking of road.
I'm excited.
I'm excited.
Excuse me.
Sorry.
It's not me for once.
Yeah. My nose is like running.
You see, go buy ketchup for me.
(12:35):
So today's.
Is by Robert Frost.
Fitting since it's a little frosty outside.
And that's called.
In relation to Jack.
And I'm going to read it.
I'm going to read it.
Don't worry.
I have dad jokes.
All day long.
And it is.
(12:57):
Entitled.
The road not taken.
I am sure that you have heard it before.
Maybe.
The road not taken by Robert Frost.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
And sorry, I could not travel both.
And look down one as far as I could.
(13:19):
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other just as fair.
And having perhaps the better plane.
Because it was grassy and wanted where.
Though as far as that the passing there had warned them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black.
(13:42):
And so I kept the first for another day yet knowing.
How way leads on to way.
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh.
Somewhere ages and ages hence.
Two roads diverged in a wood.
And I took the one less traveled by.
(14:03):
And that has made all the difference.
So I picked this one.
Because it's amazing.
You're amazing.
Thanks.
I picked this one for a couple of different reasons.
One it ties into what we're going to talk about.
I love it.
(14:25):
And two, it's talking about traveling the road less traveled.
And forging a path for yourself.
And how that might be scary.
Sometimes.
It's easy to take that path that you can clearly see has been taken and cleared for you.
(14:56):
If you can see the end of it.
And if you're going into the unknown is scary and difficult and if you don't know what's coming for you.
If you don't know what's lying at the end of it.
That can be terrifying.
(15:17):
But it can also be really, really rewarding in life.
And.
For me.
I, whether or not I intend to or I want to.
I tend to take the roads less traveled.
(15:38):
And most of the time.
Eventually, a long, long, long, eventually it's rewarding.
And I think that's the one that I'm most proud of.
(15:59):
The path that's harder is the ones that I've often said and I, and I, I think, and this is just from my experience.
I too am one that forges my own path.
But I tell the boys all the time, I say, you know, the things that are harder.
The things that you have to work a little bit more for.
And I think that's the one that I'm most proud of.
(16:20):
Definitely.
They're worth the investment of that hard work.
And I think sometimes we forget that we want the quickest and easiest thing because that's what our.
Digital age has taught us, right?
To instantly have it. And if it's not that way, then oh.
(16:41):
We don't have the patience for it anymore.
And I think that's the one that I'm most proud of.
And I think that's the one that I'm most proud of.
And I think that's the one that I'm most proud of.
I think sitting with ourselves and becoming patient enough to learn those things.
Are very important.
And help us in the long term of things as opposed to the short.
(17:06):
On a different note.
I'm going to talk about hippie dip and now.
Yeah.
I'm going to talk about hippie dip and now.
We have a new holiday.
Which.
If you go down the rabbit hole on your own and find out.
St. Patrick's day is not just.
(17:28):
Celebrate in Ireland or in.
But there are several places outside and some of them.
You wouldn't imagine.
So go down the rabbit hole. We'll put the links on there for you.
And I'm going to go down the rabbit hole.
And see if I can find the right one.
I wanted.
To talk about.
(17:50):
The four.
Did you know that the four leaf clover wasn't really associated with
St. Patrick's day until the 20th century.
Really.
All the way to.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Apparently.
The four leaf clover.
(18:13):
I'm going to put this in air quotes, everything Irish.
Leprechauns and stuff like that.
But.
The rare variant of the shamrock.
AKA the three leaf clover.
Is.
Thought to be a bringer of the buck.
Especially when encountered accidents.
The four leaf clover.
(18:38):
Is considered to be a charm protecting against evil spirits and
granting the ability to see fair.
They even carried three leaf clovers due to the symbol of the sacred
triad.
Being earth, sea and sky.
Which I thought that was kind of cool.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
(19:00):
So that's kind of cool.
I think it's kind of cool to associate them with the four elements,
fire, water, air and earth.
Yeah.
Either way. That's kind of cool. Yeah. All of those things.
I was like, oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
So there you go.
Which.
(19:23):
We say that in parts of that, we focused more of on the luck, right?
Yeah. The luck of the Irish.
The luck of the Irish.
The luck of the Irish.
The luck of the Irish.
The pot of gold.
The pot of gold.
Rainbow.
All of those things. But.
We with the four leaf clover.
Luck is the thing that's been.
(19:45):
Ground into.
The four leaf clover, but it's nice to think of the other aspects that
people think about.
To.
So there you go.
Cool.
So I'm going to read the next one.
It's a funny side note about St.
Patrick's day.
When we were kids, I don't remember what the context was,
(20:08):
but somebody asked.
Myself and my younger brother, what are.
Or no, it wasn't myself.
But it was my younger brother and a bunch of other kids,
what your favorite holidays were.
Expecting the kids to say like Christmas.
Those type of holidays.
And.
I was like, I'm going to go on a treasure hunt.
And I was like,
(20:29):
Stunned the person asked they're like.
Yeah, you get chocolate.
You get to go on a treasure hunt.
When you're older, you can drink.
They were out.
They were expecting him to say like.
Holiday that you get presents.
Cause that's what they were wanting the kids to say.
And they were like, oh, I'm going to go on a treasure hunt.
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They didn't know how to respond.
They're like, uh, okay.
That's great.
Cause I don't really associate St. Patrick's day as a holiday or
anything like that.
I don't drink or anything.
So.
Sure.
Of course.
But it's fun.
It's a fun.
I don't know.
I don't know.
(21:18):
I don't know.
You know,
Of course that's fun.
It's a holiday to be silly though.
Not that the history behind it is not a silly history behind it,
but.
It has turned into a holiday to be silly, to have joy.
Let go.
Go.
To.
(21:41):
Enjoy your community.
And.
To.
Break the conventions. You know, if you don't wear green,
you're going to get pinched.
And any other day.
You're you'd get socked right after pinching them.
Yep.
Yep.
So, you know, it's just.
(22:05):
And after so many holidays of presents and presents and
presents.
I just don't know if I'm going to get any of the presents.
On this one. Cause I can't afford anything else.
I don't know.
It's a whimsical one for children, for sure. Cause you know,
you're talking about.
(22:26):
And golden.
Rainbows.
And all the fun stuff.
Sure.
Well on that note.
You have any.
Inspiring or uplifting news.
Yes.
I do.
But I wanted today.
To talk about someone.
Briefly.
That I have found on social media to tie in from last week's
episode.
Well, not last week.
(22:47):
I guess.
The next one.
What happens when we're ahead a little bit.
But.
It's someone that I found on social media that inspires me.
And this is her name is.
Asia.
(23:11):
And I'll have that on the notes.
Well, I wanted to.
Sorry.
My computer.
I'm using.
It's not opening.
Oh, please.
I kind of wish we could put filler music in right now.
That kind of filler music.
(23:34):
That's perfect.
I wanted to bring up about her.
And again, I'll put it on the link.
But she starts with.
Hi, I'm Asia.
I'm a writer herbalist.
Earth intuitive.
And the guide.
Beyond one will.
(24:02):
An online hub for learning, healing,
and connecting with the living world. I'm so glad you're here.
Going down though.
Connecting with the earth can change everything.
And I'm going to go ahead and start with the first one.
I'm Asia.
Talking here.
My own journey was marked by early years of chronic pain and
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illness.
And then what she went through.
These experiences led me to the altar of the green world and the
deep knowing that everything is medicine. So.
Am I, and so are you.
But if you go on there, you can do like a quiz.
What is your earth healing?
And what is your earth healing?
(24:46):
And what are the results for?
The standing stone.
The builder.
The gardener.
The nurture.
Hey, Jay's like,
Yeah.
Spot on.
And it says for that result.
I'll just briefly read it.
It says standing.
Some people are here to make the earth healing.
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Tangible by nurturing.
The gardens and growing things.
Of the world.
And the
natural.
And detailed oriented.
Those who hold the archetype are.
The builders here on, on the earth.
Then you can.
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Take the test for yourselves and, and find out what.
When I'm having, when I'm in need.
Let me say this.
When I am in need of.
Inspiration.
I'm not the crazy person.
I'm not the crazy person.
That I have found.
That I can turn to.
And I listened to and.
(25:55):
Start to feel better.
And.
Have my times of, Oh, look, I'm not the crazy one.
Other people also think these things.
Sometimes that's nice too, but just be inspired and.
Learn.
And, and, and.
She gives out wonderful wisdoms and gems there.
(26:17):
I love it.
I'm going to have to check that out myself.
I'm pretty sure I've, I've.
Sent you the link before.
It's possible.
On YouTube, like one of her, one or two of our clips before.
Yeah.
Yeah, check it out.
You probably have sent.
Some of her talks or something.
Yeah.
(26:39):
I've been reading all of your comments.
Love it. Thank you.
So.
Should we dive right in?
Yeah.
Do it.
Splish splash. We're diving into the main topic.
So we're today.
I'm going to be reading a comment from a fan.
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For me,
the thought of traveling the world and learning.
A foreign foreign places.
Has always been something myself as you're in four.
It's something though, as I have grown.
And become older.
Not that I'm old.
I'm not.
(27:29):
I have found that this call is more of wanting to understand.
The perspective.
Of others.
Excuse me.
Of others.
Okay.
We all through many different lenses.
See the world.
You know,
Differently from our personal background, cultures and ancestors.
(27:53):
And.
And.
Maybe understand why people do a certain thing.
You know.
Cause I'm always like, why, why, why is this person doing.
Yeah.
Kind of thing.
To me is really cool. Plus I'm like.
I'm a history nerd. Like I love history.
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And to see.
The world.
Like to see the roads that people walked.
And our myths and.
What inspired them.
To create such stories and things like that.
(28:36):
It's also intrigued.
If that makes sense.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
(28:57):
But you know, I,
I have traveled some in my life, not as much as I wish I could.
How about you?
So.
But I have a question for you.
Yeah.
What is stop? What has stopped you from traveling? Is it.
Is it.
(29:18):
Would you.
Pick up and travel. Would you just go.
Well, is there something and responsibilities? Cause you know,
you have children in school.
And all that.
Would you do it? Or is there something else that's stopping you?
I think.
(29:39):
It's changed throughout the years.
Okay.
Like.
I think.
I think, I think.
I think it was.
I think it was.
I think it was money or it was money or.
A fear.
A people.
Nothing's happened.
And then it was, well, I don't have anyone that can go with me.
(30:03):
And then it was, now I have too many people.
I have to go with somebody else.
I was just talking the other day with somebody about.
How it was.
Sounds so good.
To just.
(30:27):
Living your, you know, the camper vans and stuff like that.
When it became a thing.
I dreamed of it. I was like, oh,
that'd be so nice to explore the world.
And then I was like, well, I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it.
And then it was just.
I mean, before.
Before spot.
And I became a thing.
I fully considered.
(30:48):
Getting like a tiny.
Little.
I don't want to say home, but like same idea.
I wanted to make sure that we had.
Like, we had.
(31:09):
We had a place to just live and go along and.
We had things popping up that you could.
Get an income from, or.
You know, work for here or there for a little bit to make sure we
had.
What we needed and.
Just go.
(31:34):
And.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
And.
Reminded me. It's nice to have a home base.
Anything.
I think now it's mostly my responsibilities.
That keeps me from traveling.
(31:58):
Like the circumstances with the boys and their, their father.
And then.
I think that's where I would be.
Sort of shenanigans would happen.
On that front or.
My animal taking care of my animals.
You know, something like that.
(32:20):
But an ideal world, if you could take your family,
the boys with you and all my animals.
Baby's.
I think that's a good idea.
I think that's a good idea.
I think that's a good idea.
I think we're getting to the point where I could.
And we have.
I mean, we're thinking about doing a cruise.
(32:41):
And stuff like that.
I'm.
I just, I have found that I also am a home body.
Some people don't like to travel and that is totally okay.
No, I'm fine when I go.
I just like home too.
I'm fine when I travel.
I like home.
I like home.
(33:02):
I like home.
I think it's because my home is homey.
It has my plant.
Like I said, my plant babies, my animals.
My anger bed.
Yeah.
I've gotten to the age where I'm like, but I like my bed.
And my.
That is the best part of coming back from traveling is.
(33:24):
Being in your own bed.
So I have a story.
Does that make us old?
No.
No.
I have a story.
I have a story.
Because even when I was younger.
Okay.
So I went with my junior high.
So I was like an eighth grade, I think.
We went.
For like.
Two weeks.
No.
Either a week or two. I can't remember now.
(33:46):
To the east coast.
And we went to like.
New York.
And down to Virginia.
Like we just went down.
That little area.
And we were like, oh,
I'm going to go to the beach.
And I was so.
Excited.
Like the whole time home.
I was just saying to everybody, my friends.
I just can't wait to go home and get in my bed.
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And I walked home.
Walked into the door.
Watch into my room.
And I cried.
Literally because.
My grandma had a bed.
And it was supposed to have been there earlier.
But.
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Like the new.
Oh yeah.
So my grandma had like these bunk beds that she's had forever.
And so.
They, they got a new mattress.
And they were made by the people who were making furniture.
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And they were actually a separate,
separate side of the bed because they were also ones that you could
pull apart and they were.
Actual beds.
Because they were.
But they were made when people appreciated making furniture
appropriately.
Anyways, that's the only way I'm going to go on on that.
So yeah, walked in.
And my mattress hadn't come yet.
I literally slept on the floor.
I was like, oh, I'm going to cry.
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I'm going to cry.
I cried out of anger.
I'm a crier for angry reasons too.
Not because I'm sad.
Usually.
I mean, I will cry if I'm sad enough, but you know what I mean?
Yeah.
If I.
You can tell because I'll be red and I'll have the death.
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Eyes on and I'll be fine.
Streaming like.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to cry.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to cry.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to cry.
People mistake that for me being like, oh,
what was me? And I'm like,
I have.
And more in one occasion.
I've had people be like, oh, don't cry.
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And I'm like, I'm not crying.
Cause I'm.
Right now.
I'm like, oh, I'm not crying.
I might have said other words, but you know.
That's so bad.
Don't get rid of the mattress.
So you have the new one. Everybody knows that.
Oh yeah. I mean, this is a bed that I had all through my childhood.
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Oh no.
It's a twin. It was a twin size bed.
But it had like a canopy.
Oh.
And everything.
A princess bed.
Was this a surprise to you?
I'm like, yeah.
You're right.
I'm like, no,
I'm not crying.
My grandma felt so bad.
My grandma felt so bad.
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Oh dear.
Then I never actually got my own bed.
Wait, what?
Ever.
Yeah. Cause so they, they bought the mattress and.
My step mom was like, so this is our mattress.
And then they bought a queen size bed.
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It was my grandma's bed frame. So that technically was hers.
And so.
All the time that we lived there.
And then they bought a queen size bed to put in my room when.
We had moved to a different space.
And.
I was made aware from my.
That mom again, that it was not my bed.
It was like, okay.
I'm stunned.
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I'm like, I'm so.
Rude.
I lived with.
Like a little bit.
And then I moved in with my grandma.
Wow.
I don't know.
Wow.
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Which technically then I didn't have my own bed either.
But I had at least sold my bed.
At that point.
I was like, I'm so.
I'm so.
So this explains a lot.
This explains why.
You're so.
Passionate about getting your children there.
Really nice beds.
Okay.
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A couple of Christmases ago.
I bought them brand new beds.
Cause I was like, you need.
Really nice.
Yep.
Okay.
I'm going to go to bed.
I'm going to go to bed.
Wow.
Anyways.
It goes to travel though. I think it might be the reason.
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Why.
I actually prefer my bed.
I got to keep tabs on it. You see.
Yeah. Cause if you leave home, you're going to come back.
And you won't have a bed.
I'm going to go to bed.
My bed now.
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And Murphy graciously gives us portions of the bed.
Kind of that little what?
Five pound dog.
He takes over part of it and then no sleeps on part of the edge.
And then Titan sleeps on my pill.
She has so many pets.
I'm going to have to take a break.
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But I have come up on many occasions with all four.
Individuals.
Around me.
Stop being one of them.
And I'll just be like, there's a cat here and there's a dog on my hip.
And there's an arm from spa.
And there's.
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A cat.
You're just so warm and cuddly and motherly.
And then I'm like, I, how am I staying on this bed?
I'm sure.
We got a queen size.
I think you need a California.
I think it's a King.
I think the one we have now is a King.
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Cause I fell off on the floor half the time, but anyways,
moving on.
I have been blessed.
When I was a kid.
When I was a child, I was extremely blessed to have.
Parents that.
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Took us as children to many places.
They.
Saved their money and we're very.
Fugal.
So that we could go traveling a lot. And I was homeschooled.
So.
For school.
We were.
Learning about.
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The places we were going. Like our education was.
This travel experience.
So we travel a lot.
Some of the places that I've been.
And this is not.
Bragging. I'm not bragging. I'm just saying.
I'm just not bragging.
I'm just saying some of my experiences have been.
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I've been fortunate enough to experience our.
Thailand.
Olivia.
Peru.
Mexico.
Mexico.
Mexico.
Mexico.
Mexico.
Mexico.
Spain.
Turkey.
Greece.
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Tunisia.
Vietnam.
Italy.
Malta.
Hong Kong.
London airport.
We had a layover there, so I'm counting that.
As you should.
We landed there.
You were there.
Canada briefly.
And then Korea.
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Briefly.
And.
Say in some of them were longer than others.
And some of them were humanitarian trips.
And some of them were actual like vacations.
And.
I think because of all those places that we went.
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To.
As a child.
And by the time I was 16 or 17.
We had gone to all those places.
I I'm kind of like.
Traveled out.
Okay.
I don't need to go anywhere as an adult.
I'm like, I've traveled. I'm done.
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No, I feel like you'll probably go to more places.
When you get a little older.
Yes.
Yeah.
I've been to like, of course, places around the U S.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've been to some states too.
Yes.
And I've been to Canada.
And.
Certain places.
And.
I mean, I lived in Brazil.
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In the southern most.
There for a year and a half.
Which is awesome.
Awesome experience.
Oh yeah.
And I've been to England, France and Germany.
I want to go to Germany someday.
I want to go back.
To England, France and Germany.
Because I was on like a school trip.
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I want to go back.
And be my own.
First.
Yes.
I also want to go to Portugal because I learned Portuguese.
Brazilian Portuguese.
But I want to.
Experience where that came from.
I want to go to Germany.
I want to go to Germany.
I want to go to Germany.
I want to go to Germany.
And I want to go to Germany.
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And I want to go to Germany.
And I want to go to Germany.
Experience where that came from.
And maybe understand the European aspects of the Brazilian culture.
A little bit more.
Because it was, you know, the European.
And the indigenous there.
That create.
The society. And of course.
The slaves.
Unfortunately.
So.
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That's all my.
My hit list. You've already been to it. Let's go again.
Yeah.
I mean, some of these places I would love to go again.
Greece.
I loved Greece.
I would love to go back there again.
Um.
It was so beautiful.
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And a lot of these places.
I said I was homeschooled.
And so when you go to each of these places,
We would.
our education was you'd learn a little bit of the language so that you could get them,
you know, how do we get to the market? How do we, you know, how much does this cost? You know,
you just enough of the language to get around. And then you learn the currency exchange rate
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for, you know, the math portion. And then you learn, you know, the history of each place for
history. You know, that's how you'd incorporate the education part. But that was a long time ago.
And do I remember each individual experience? No, not as well as I would like to. So there's a lot of
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places that I would like to go again. But do I have that burning, burning, burning desire that
some people have that wander less bug, you know, have to go travel the world? No. But
if money was not an issue, and if the world is completely safe to travel,
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it's like you said, there are, there's some places that it's really dangerous to go.
There's some issues going on in the world. And so
those decide. Yeah, I do have a bucket list that would be nice to go to. I mean, I'd love to go
to Australia. I'd love to go to Ireland. I want to go to Amsterdam too. I mean, you said the two
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places, those were great, but I want to put Amsterdam on that list. I Amsterdam, I didn't
think yeah, Amsterdam. Do you want to go to England? Yeah, let's go back. Yeah, I'll go to
Italy. I'll take you to Italy. Let's go. Egypt, I think Egypt would be really cool to go to.
Spain, see all the castles. Yes, Spain's really pretty. My son wants to go to Japan. Japan would
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be cool. Yeah. Yeah, like I said, go back to Greece. There are some more local places. I want to see
all the gardens of the world. That would be a fun tour. And I want to see all the wineries of the
world. So that would be like the vineyards. I want to go to the vineyards too. That'd be cool.
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I've never been to Hawaii. I haven't either. And that's really sad because my brother lives there
and I still haven't gone. So I really should go there. Costa Rica, Alaska, I think it's cold.
Beautiful. But we could do an Alaskan cruise. I want to go on a cruise. That'd be cool. My parents
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are going on a cruise this year. And I was like, where's my ticket? What the? Cruises are not as
expensive as I often thought. That's what I've heard. And the nice thing about going on a cruise
is that everything is there. I mean, of course you go to the ports and you get to experience
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the culture and the people a little bit. But you don't have to drive all over the place
to find a place to eat. Most cruises are all inclusive, right? Most. Or you can do like different packages,
but you pay for everything kind of upfront and you don't really have to worry about anything
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more unless it's the extra stuff at port. And if you do alcohol, you don't have to worry about a
designated driver. It's true. Yeah. The only thing you have to worry about is motion sickness and pirates.
Yeah. But they do make pills and patches for motion sickness. And people being stupid,
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but that's everywhere. And pirates, well, if you get taken by a pirate, oh well.
I mean, we encountered pirates in our travels in the Mediterranean Sea as a teenager. So
this story, how was it? I don't remember it. I just know that we did.
I'll have to ask my parents for the story. Well, obviously it wasn't as we survived. I just know
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that we went to a pirate heavy-duty camp. And we were like, oh, we're going to go to the
pirate. I just know that we went to a pirate heavy location and it was dangerous. But it was fine.
We were just aware of it. What are you laughing at? You're like, I don't remember. I don't remember
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about it. Listen, I was a teenager who didn't really. Who was worried about the internet not
uploading. Was worried about contacting your boyfriend back home. I was a kid,
care about pirates. No, I love it. I'm just teasing.
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That was clearly not the biggest worry on my mind. It was more of like an adult worry. So
as an adult and a parent now, I would be terrified. So I don't know how my parents felt. I don't know
how they even thought that was okay to travel. But yeah, I was really worried about it.
I think it's at some point you have to say, okay, is this an experience of a lifetime that
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they would benefit more from the pros outweigh the cons. Absolutely. There's you're always
going to encounter something. I don't want to say dangerous, but negative.
Nothing is going to go perfectly. Oh, no. Well, and I don't think when you travel,
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a lot of people have like these itineraries and they say, I have to hit this point. I have to hit
this point. I have to hit this point. And it makes it not so freeing to enjoy the different
places. I think it's okay to have like a list of one or two things that you want to experience.
You haven't traveled with my parents.
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Okay. And enjoy the place. But that's how I am here. Like I say, okay, my dad,
here are the things that I have to get done. Here are the things that I want to get. And then I just
let life go. Because when I don't, I get perturbed. And then I have angry tears.
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It just makes it, I don't know, makes it nicer, I think. Who wants to be stressed?
No, when we were younger, we would have itineraries of this is where we're supposed to be. We have a
booking for a tour at this time in this day. We have to go to the et cetera, et cetera.
Yeah, but you're, that was your schooling. You have to do those.
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They're not that way anymore. They're much more relaxed. And when I, when they say they're doing
this and they don't have an itinerary, I go, oh, sorry, what? Who are you?
That's because they're enjoying it. And they're not, they're not, they're trying to teach you
something. Yes. Yes. It's very different now for them. And I don't know how to handle it.
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I love it. Because I'm the worried daughter who's like, wait, wait, wait, I need your itinerary.
And they don't, they don't, they can't give me one. Anyways, I did want to share something that I
saw that I thought really stuck with me. It's the beauty of, the beauty of travel
in that someone's ordinary becomes your extraordinary. Yeah. Yeah. And it's so true.
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How often do people say that they're, you know, visiting where we live and we're like,
but we have beautiful landscapes here and we have snowplaces here and we have
river activities. We have, we are a tourist destination and we don't think of that.
And I just think it gets too hot and too cold.
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Yep. I mean, I'm going to the hot springs today. We're crying out loud.
And you, those hot springs are tourist destinations. People travel to these things
and they're, you know, just live by them. I just love, I just drove down the road and said, oh,
I didn't know this was here.
So speaking of that kind of along those lines, you know, yeah, it just got a challenge for us.
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Yeah. It kind of ties right in. It's almost like we did this on purpose. Never. Okay. Maybe a little
bit. It's a throw down. It's a challenge. We've got something for you. We've got something for
you. We'd like to challenge you to be a tourist in your own town, find or explore hidden gem,
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maybe, or maybe it's not a hidden gem, but you know, I like finding the hidden gems.
And, and share a photo with us. You can share it with us on social media or email it to us
or if you don't want anybody else to see it, it's fine. And share it with us.
My grandma taught me to go on drives.
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Not have a destination and to get in the car and just drive and drive somewhere and stop.
What do you think? Something is fascinating, cool, inspiring, beautiful and take it in.
I grew up where I could go down to the Columbia and Gorge whenever I wanted to, which I miss.
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Those are sad tears in case you're wondering, not magic.
But because I was taught to explore and to
go on said drives, I have found beautiful places where I live or around where I live
that I would never know or even people who have grown up around here don't.
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Love it. Yeah, that's how we found one of our little hiking spots. It was just one day we went
on a drive and we found a beautiful place. And we went on a drive and we found a beautiful
place. It was just one day we went on a drive and it's like, oh, this exists. Cool.
Yeah. And to add to our challenge, we have our Q&A. We want to hear from you.
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You've heard enough about us. Let's get a little bit from you.
Here's your Q&A and your polls. Sip your tea. Let's chat a while.
Where is one place you dream of going and why?
It can be somewhere close by. It can be somewhere far away.
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And it can be in between. But where is the place that you have dreamt of going and why?
What draws you there?
Yep. So with that, we love you and we're so grateful for you and have a blessed day.
Bye. Bye.
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To Mamas After Dark!
Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
Welcome, welcome, welcome!
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Welcome, everybody!
It's like...
Are we at a rave?
I don't know, I've never been to one.
I haven't either.
That doesn't sound like my crowd.
No, no.
I'm all like, night time? What?
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Go where?
Sound music?
Have you seen those silent dance party thingies where they give you headphones?
Someone was talking about that.
And you hear the music in your headphones, I guess, and then it just looks really weird that everybody's...
Somebody just mentioned that this week too.
And I was like, uh...
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I would be so self-conscious.
I know, that just looks so weird.
But I guess the upside of it is, is you can have the volume to as long as you want.
I'm saying no noise complaint.
And it might be kind of fun to see who's dancing to the same music.
I would like to be a spectator.
I would hope that they're all dancing.
I would like to be a spectator.
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Seeing the videos of those is just so weird to me.
It's like watching people who play the...
I don't know what it's called. The boys really want it.
But where they have the things on, and then they're standing and doing stuff.
Playing the game.
What?
Like the 3D thing.
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Oh, VR?
Yes, thank you.
Oh, yeah.
I was like, I don't know what it's called.
I should. Everybody in my house wants one.
We have one.
It's so expensive.
They're super expensive.
So expensive.
The brand new one is like $500 or something like that.
And of course, Spoticus is the tech person.
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So he's like, yeah, we have to get the new one.
I'm really surprised you don't have one because he's such a techie.
I'm surprised too.
I think it might be because of the amount of time that we are out of our house.
Mm-hmm.
Maybe?
Yeah, we have the old one.
And of course, he wants the new one.
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I'm like, no. No.
No.
I'm not spending that much money again.
No.
But it's so slow and laggy.
I need the new one.
Yeah, that's how they get you.
Yeah.
So that's where you say, look, the first time I encountered the internet through AOL,
dial up, it was much slower.
So you're fine.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Remember how cool it was to have an AOL email?
Yeah.
You were the bomb.
Yeah.
Blump.com.
Lord, we just aged ourselves so much.
When I was at work all the time, you know, doing the nine to five,
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I would say that to the younger ones.
Oh, you're the bomb diggity.
They'd be like, what?
What are you talking about?
Oh, it made me laugh so hard.
Anyways.
So what are you drinking?
It's time to spill the tea.
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What are you thinking?
What are you drinking?
I am fasting today.
So I'm just drinking some water.
How about you?
I wait, wait, wait, wait.
What's your cup?
Say it says the power of pink.
I love it.
All I said was pink.
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So I was like, what?
As a heart above it.
I think the heart should be a crown, but you know, whatever.
I didn't.
I agree.
I didn't design it though.
Water's good though.
I have water too.
I'm too fist in it.
I have water and I have tea.
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What kind of tea?
It's the hot cinnamon sunset one.
Oh.
I'm going to have a good tea for this lovely, lovely cold snowy day.
Well, what we had wind storms for the past couple of days.
And then yeah, hurricane strength winds.
Yeah.
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That's normal up here though.
Up where I am.
Where you live, not where I live.
I'm not going to be able to do that.
When AJ said that there was wind up down there, I was like, oh,
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Well, yeah, it was newsworthy. It made the news.
Everybody gets it.
This time.
Yeah.
And then what yesterday?
I swear we had all seasons. It had like clear East guys.
Towards the very end, but like.
We had the wind storm.
And then we had hail.
And a little bit of sleet.
And then it's snow.
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We didn't get the hail as far as I know.
I didn't hear any, but yeah, definitely the snow.
I love how last week when we were recording.
Windows open. It was sunny.
It was warm.
It was like spring time.
Yeah.
And then Q this week.
And we've got just blankets of white.
Like it's winter.
Yup.
And then we had, I even had crocuses coming up.
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If my crocuses are coming up.
My tulips are trying to get up.
I said, Hey, you, you picked the wrong time to come up.
We jinxed it.
That spring fever.
No.
No, I feel like.
Especially the bulbs I have.
They've been in the ground for a long time because the previous owners
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were like, Oh, I'm going to go to the bathroom.
And I feel by now.
They know what's going on.
So.
They wouldn't have done it.
It wasn't, it's time to come up.
It's true.
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Yeah, we definitely had a doozy of a storm and I don't think it's over yet.
From what I can tell from the weather. So.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
My phone tells me that it's not over yet, but.
Yeah, it was snowing this morning.
When I took.
Lorenzo to work.
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It looks like we still have white clouds up there.
We'll see.
Yeah.
There's nothing but.
Our state is.
Anything but predictable.
I mean, we should not be surprised at this point because.
This always happens.
Yeah.
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We know it's going to happen.
We're on March. Yeah.
Yeah.
This happened.
I mean, it's been on.
June.
Parents were like, it does this every year up here.
I was like, yep.
This is wind season. Welcome.
They were like, Oh,
Oh yeah.
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I remember it because I.
Born and raised in California.
And then I.
Never lived anywhere else in my life.
Until I went to school in Idaho.
And I started school in June.
And I didn't take any warm clothes.
The first semester, because it was June summer.
You know, summertime.
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And it snowed.
It snowed.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.
You have to have a layer of something.
I called my mom and I was like.
No way.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
That was the.
Slurping.
It's hot. It's hot tea.
I'm used to it.
Now.
Now when my mom comes and visits,
I always make sure to have an extra warm jacket for her.
Bring warm stuff, but you know,
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California jackets are not meant for our state.
Nope.
You'd be cold.
Yeah.
Unless you have.
Unless you have a shirt on and then you can, you could double it up.
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And now I'm used to it.
Like a marshmallow.
Down the street in your sweatshirt and coat.
It's fine.
And now I make my mom cold by leaving the house in the winter jacket on.
Cause I'm like, man, it's fine.
Okay.
Yeah, but you've been conditioned.
I've been conditioned.
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From summer to cold here.
Everybody has their coat on. Yeah.
Yes.
You're like,
I don't want to have this heavy coat on anymore.
I think I have put my jacket on maybe twice this winter.
Oh, no, no, no. I have worn my coat.
I.
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I can't.
But you live more north.
I live more north.
I live more north.
I mean, yeah.
Yeah, don't lie.
I have my fuzzy blanket though.
You look very cozy.
I wanted to snuggle today.
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Although we're going to the hot springs after.
Nice. I think you're crazy, but nice.
No, it'll be great.
It'll be great when we're in it.
Yes.
Before and after.
I'm going to.
Mumble a few words.
Really quietly so I don't offend the parents around me.
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Enjoy.
But it'll be great in between.
Getting it.
You survive.
Well, this is the best time to go to hot springs though,
because in the summertime, you don't want to be hot.
You don't want to be cold.
Yeah.
Oh, see, I only know if people that go in the winter.
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So.
Crazy.
They go.
It's not when it's storming.
Well.
I don't know. It wasn't storming yesterday when we went to dinner.
Just all the way up until we went to dinner.
It's there.
Nothing stops.
He's like, how was the canyon?
It was pretty amazing.
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Hey, Ray is adventurous. I am not.
No.
Restaurant.
And it was really good food.
And we're celebrating grandma's birthday.
What have been.
And she has four wheel drive.
Yeah, both our cars do.
It was like, that's the only way to be.
Up here.
Yep.
If not, you're.
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You're not going to be able to drive past you.
Yep.
So let's listen to some musings.
Quotes, poems, short stories, inspirational, uplifting news.
And of course,
Kippy dippy astrology.
Do you have a quote for us in our.
It's actually.
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I'm excited.
Speaking of road.
I'm excited.
I'm excited.
Excuse me.
Sorry.
It's not me for once.
Yeah. My nose is like running.
You see, go buy ketchup for me.
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So today's.
Is by Robert Frost.
Fitting since it's a little frosty outside.
And that's called.
In relation to Jack.
And I'm going to read it.
I'm going to read it.
Don't worry.
I have dad jokes.
All day long.
And it is.
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Entitled.
The road not taken.
I am sure that you have heard it before.
Maybe.
The road not taken by Robert Frost.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
And sorry, I could not travel both.
And look down one as far as I could.
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To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other just as fair.
And having perhaps the better plane.
Because it was grassy and wanted where.
Though as far as that the passing there had warned them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black.
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And so I kept the first for another day yet knowing.
How way leads on to way.
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh.
Somewhere ages and ages hence.
Two roads diverged in a wood.
And I took the one less traveled by.
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And that has made all the difference.
So I picked this one.
Because it's amazing.
You're amazing.
Thanks.
I picked this one for a couple of different reasons.
One it ties into what we're going to talk about.
I love it.
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And two, it's talking about traveling the road less traveled.
And forging a path for yourself.
And how that might be scary.
Sometimes.
It's easy to take that path that you can clearly see has been taken and cleared for you.
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If you can see the end of it.
And if you're going into the unknown is scary and difficult and if you don't know what's coming for you.
If you don't know what's lying at the end of it.
That can be terrifying.
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But it can also be really, really rewarding in life.
And.
For me.
I, whether or not I intend to or I want to.
I tend to take the roads less traveled.
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And most of the time.
Eventually, a long, long, long, eventually it's rewarding.
And I think that's the one that I'm most proud of.
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The path that's harder is the ones that I've often said and I, and I, I think, and this is just from my experience.
I too am one that forges my own path.
But I tell the boys all the time, I say, you know, the things that are harder.
The things that you have to work a little bit more for.
And I think that's the one that I'm most proud of.
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Definitely.
They're worth the investment of that hard work.
And I think sometimes we forget that we want the quickest and easiest thing because that's what our.
Digital age has taught us, right?
To instantly have it. And if it's not that way, then oh.
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We don't have the patience for it anymore.
And I think that's the one that I'm most proud of.
And I think that's the one that I'm most proud of.
And I think that's the one that I'm most proud of.
I think sitting with ourselves and becoming patient enough to learn those things.
Are very important.
And help us in the long term of things as opposed to the short.
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On a different note.
I'm going to talk about hippie dip and now.
Yeah.
I'm going to talk about hippie dip and now.
We have a new holiday.
Which.
If you go down the rabbit hole on your own and find out.
St. Patrick's day is not just.
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Celebrate in Ireland or in.
But there are several places outside and some of them.
You wouldn't imagine.
So go down the rabbit hole. We'll put the links on there for you.
And I'm going to go down the rabbit hole.
And see if I can find the right one.
I wanted.
To talk about.
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The four.
Did you know that the four leaf clover wasn't really associated with
St. Patrick's day until the 20th century.
Really.
All the way to.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Apparently.
The four leaf clover.
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I'm going to put this in air quotes, everything Irish.
Leprechauns and stuff like that.
But.
The rare variant of the shamrock.
AKA the three leaf clover.
Is.
Thought to be a bringer of the buck.
Especially when encountered accidents.
The four leaf clover.
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Is considered to be a charm protecting against evil spirits and
granting the ability to see fair.
They even carried three leaf clovers due to the symbol of the sacred
triad.
Being earth, sea and sky.
Which I thought that was kind of cool.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
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So that's kind of cool.
I think it's kind of cool to associate them with the four elements,
fire, water, air and earth.
Yeah.
Either way. That's kind of cool. Yeah. All of those things.
I was like, oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
So there you go.
Which.
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We say that in parts of that, we focused more of on the luck, right?
Yeah. The luck of the Irish.
The luck of the Irish.
The luck of the Irish.
The luck of the Irish.
The pot of gold.
The pot of gold.
Rainbow.
All of those things. But.
We with the four leaf clover.
Luck is the thing that's been.
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Ground into.
The four leaf clover, but it's nice to think of the other aspects that
people think about.
To.
So there you go.
Cool.
So I'm going to read the next one.
It's a funny side note about St.
Patrick's day.
When we were kids, I don't remember what the context was,
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but somebody asked.
Myself and my younger brother, what are.
Or no, it wasn't myself.
But it was my younger brother and a bunch of other kids,
what your favorite holidays were.
Expecting the kids to say like Christmas.
Those type of holidays.
And.
I was like, I'm going to go on a treasure hunt.
And I was like,
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Stunned the person asked they're like.
Yeah, you get chocolate.
You get to go on a treasure hunt.
When you're older, you can drink.
They were out.
They were expecting him to say like.
Holiday that you get presents.
Cause that's what they were wanting the kids to say.
And they were like, oh, I'm going to go on a treasure hunt.
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They didn't know how to respond.
They're like, uh, okay.
That's great.
Cause I don't really associate St. Patrick's day as a holiday or
anything like that.
I don't drink or anything.
So.
Sure.
Of course.
But it's fun.
It's a fun.
I don't know.
I don't know.
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I don't know.
You know,
Of course that's fun.
It's a holiday to be silly though.
Not that the history behind it is not a silly history behind it,
but.
It has turned into a holiday to be silly, to have joy.
Let go.
Go.
To.
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Enjoy your community.
And.
To.
Break the conventions. You know, if you don't wear green,
you're going to get pinched.
And any other day.
You're you'd get socked right after pinching them.
Yep.
Yep.
So, you know, it's just.
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And after so many holidays of presents and presents and
presents.
I just don't know if I'm going to get any of the presents.
On this one. Cause I can't afford anything else.
I don't know.
It's a whimsical one for children, for sure. Cause you know,
you're talking about.
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And golden.
Rainbows.
And all the fun stuff.
Sure.
Well on that note.
You have any.
Inspiring or uplifting news.
Yes.
I do.
But I wanted today.
To talk about someone.
Briefly.
That I have found on social media to tie in from last week's
episode.
Well, not last week.
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I guess.
The next one.
What happens when we're ahead a little bit.
But.
It's someone that I found on social media that inspires me.
And this is her name is.
Asia.
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And I'll have that on the notes.
Well, I wanted to.
Sorry.
My computer.
I'm using.
It's not opening.
Oh, please.
I kind of wish we could put filler music in right now.
That kind of filler music.
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That's perfect.
I wanted to bring up about her.
And again, I'll put it on the link.
But she starts with.
Hi, I'm Asia.
I'm a writer herbalist.
Earth intuitive.
And the guide.
Beyond one will.
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An online hub for learning, healing,
and connecting with the living world. I'm so glad you're here.
Going down though.
Connecting with the earth can change everything.
And I'm going to go ahead and start with the first one.
I'm Asia.
Talking here.
My own journey was marked by early years of chronic pain and
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illness.
And then what she went through.
These experiences led me to the altar of the green world and the
deep knowing that everything is medicine. So.
Am I, and so are you.
But if you go on there, you can do like a quiz.
What is your earth healing?
And what is your earth healing?
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And what are the results for?
The standing stone.
The builder.
The gardener.
The nurture.
Hey, Jay's like,
Yeah.
Spot on.
And it says for that result.
I'll just briefly read it.
It says standing.
Some people are here to make the earth healing.
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Tangible by nurturing.
The gardens and growing things.
Of the world.
And the
natural.
And detailed oriented.
Those who hold the archetype are.
The builders here on, on the earth.
Then you can.
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Take the test for yourselves and, and find out what.
When I'm having, when I'm in need.
Let me say this.
When I am in need of.
Inspiration.
I'm not the crazy person.
I'm not the crazy person.
That I have found.
That I can turn to.
And I listened to and.
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Start to feel better.
And.
Have my times of, Oh, look, I'm not the crazy one.
Other people also think these things.
Sometimes that's nice too, but just be inspired and.
Learn.
And, and, and.
She gives out wonderful wisdoms and gems there.
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I love it.
I'm going to have to check that out myself.
I'm pretty sure I've, I've.
Sent you the link before.
It's possible.
On YouTube, like one of her, one or two of our clips before.
Yeah.
Yeah, check it out.
You probably have sent.
Some of her talks or something.
Yeah.
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I've been reading all of your comments.
Love it. Thank you.
So.
Should we dive right in?
Yeah.
Do it.
Splish splash. We're diving into the main topic.
So we're today.
I'm going to be reading a comment from a fan.
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For me,
the thought of traveling the world and learning.
A foreign foreign places.
Has always been something myself as you're in four.
It's something though, as I have grown.
And become older.
Not that I'm old.
I'm not.
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I have found that this call is more of wanting to understand.
The perspective.
Of others.
Excuse me.
Of others.
Okay.
We all through many different lenses.
See the world.
You know,
Differently from our personal background, cultures and ancestors.
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And.
And.
Maybe understand why people do a certain thing.
You know.
Cause I'm always like, why, why, why is this person doing.
Yeah.
Kind of thing.
To me is really cool. Plus I'm like.
I'm a history nerd. Like I love history.
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And to see.
The world.
Like to see the roads that people walked.
And our myths and.
What inspired them.
To create such stories and things like that.
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It's also intrigued.
If that makes sense.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
It does.
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But you know, I,
I have traveled some in my life, not as much as I wish I could.
How about you?
So.
But I have a question for you.
Yeah.
What is stop? What has stopped you from traveling? Is it.
Is it.
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Would you.
Pick up and travel. Would you just go.
Well, is there something and responsibilities? Cause you know,
you have children in school.
And all that.
Would you do it? Or is there something else that's stopping you?
I think.
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It's changed throughout the years.
Okay.
Like.
I think.
I think, I think.
I think it was.
I think it was.
I think it was money or it was money or.
A fear.
A people.
Nothing's happened.
And then it was, well, I don't have anyone that can go with me.
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And then it was, now I have too many people.
I have to go with somebody else.
I was just talking the other day with somebody about.
How it was.
Sounds so good.
To just.
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Living your, you know, the camper vans and stuff like that.
When it became a thing.
I dreamed of it. I was like, oh,
that'd be so nice to explore the world.
And then I was like, well, I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it.
And then it was just.
I mean, before.
Before spot.
And I became a thing.
I fully considered.
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Getting like a tiny.
Little.
I don't want to say home, but like same idea.
I wanted to make sure that we had.
Like, we had.
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We had a place to just live and go along and.
We had things popping up that you could.
Get an income from, or.
You know, work for here or there for a little bit to make sure we
had.
What we needed and.
Just go.
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And.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
And.
Reminded me. It's nice to have a home base.
Anything.
I think now it's mostly my responsibilities.
That keeps me from traveling.
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Like the circumstances with the boys and their, their father.
And then.
I think that's where I would be.
Sort of shenanigans would happen.
On that front or.
My animal taking care of my animals.
You know, something like that.
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But an ideal world, if you could take your family,
the boys with you and all my animals.
Baby's.
I think that's a good idea.
I think that's a good idea.
I think that's a good idea.
I think we're getting to the point where I could.
And we have.
I mean, we're thinking about doing a cruise.
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And stuff like that.
I'm.
I just, I have found that I also am a home body.
Some people don't like to travel and that is totally okay.
No, I'm fine when I go.
I just like home too.
I'm fine when I travel.
I like home.
I like home.
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I like home.
I think it's because my home is homey.
It has my plant.
Like I said, my plant babies, my animals.
My anger bed.
Yeah.
I've gotten to the age where I'm like, but I like my bed.
And my.
That is the best part of coming back from traveling is.
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Being in your own bed.
So I have a story.
Does that make us old?
No.
No.
I have a story.
I have a story.
Because even when I was younger.
Okay.
So I went with my junior high.
So I was like an eighth grade, I think.
We went.
For like.
Two weeks.
No.
Either a week or two. I can't remember now.
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To the east coast.
And we went to like.
New York.
And down to Virginia.
Like we just went down.
That little area.
And we were like, oh,
I'm going to go to the beach.
And I was so.
Excited.
Like the whole time home.
I was just saying to everybody, my friends.
I just can't wait to go home and get in my bed.
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And I walked home.
Walked into the door.
Watch into my room.
And I cried.
Literally because.
My grandma had a bed.
And it was supposed to have been there earlier.
But.
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Like the new.
Oh yeah.
So my grandma had like these bunk beds that she's had forever.
And so.
They, they got a new mattress.
And they were made by the people who were making furniture.
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And they were actually a separate,
separate side of the bed because they were also ones that you could
pull apart and they were.
Actual beds.
Because they were.
But they were made when people appreciated making furniture
appropriately.
Anyways, that's the only way I'm going to go on on that.
So yeah, walked in.
And my mattress hadn't come yet.
I literally slept on the floor.
I was like, oh, I'm going to cry.
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I'm going to cry.
I cried out of anger.
I'm a crier for angry reasons too.
Not because I'm sad.
Usually.
I mean, I will cry if I'm sad enough, but you know what I mean?
Yeah.
If I.
You can tell because I'll be red and I'll have the death.
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Eyes on and I'll be fine.
Streaming like.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to cry.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to cry.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to cry.
People mistake that for me being like, oh,
what was me? And I'm like,
I have.
And more in one occasion.
I've had people be like, oh, don't cry.
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And I'm like, I'm not crying.
Cause I'm.
Right now.
I'm like, oh, I'm not crying.
I might have said other words, but you know.
That's so bad.
Don't get rid of the mattress.
So you have the new one. Everybody knows that.
Oh yeah. I mean, this is a bed that I had all through my childhood.
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Oh no.
It's a twin. It was a twin size bed.
But it had like a canopy.
Oh.
And everything.
A princess bed.
Was this a surprise to you?
I'm like, yeah.
You're right.
I'm like, no,
I'm not crying.
My grandma felt so bad.
My grandma felt so bad.
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Oh dear.
Then I never actually got my own bed.
Wait, what?
Ever.
Yeah. Cause so they, they bought the mattress and.
My step mom was like, so this is our mattress.
And then they bought a queen size bed.
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It was my grandma's bed frame. So that technically was hers.
And so.
All the time that we lived there.
And then they bought a queen size bed to put in my room when.
We had moved to a different space.
And.
I was made aware from my.
That mom again, that it was not my bed.
It was like, okay.
I'm stunned.
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I'm like, I'm so.
Rude.
I lived with.
Like a little bit.
And then I moved in with my grandma.
Wow.
I don't know.
Wow.
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Which technically then I didn't have my own bed either.
But I had at least sold my bed.
At that point.
I was like, I'm so.
I'm so.
So this explains a lot.
This explains why.
You're so.
Passionate about getting your children there.
Really nice beds.
Okay.
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A couple of Christmases ago.
I bought them brand new beds.
Cause I was like, you need.
Really nice.
Yep.
Okay.
I'm going to go to bed.
I'm going to go to bed.
Wow.
Anyways.
It goes to travel though. I think it might be the reason.
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Why.
I actually prefer my bed.
I got to keep tabs on it. You see.
Yeah. Cause if you leave home, you're going to come back.
And you won't have a bed.
I'm going to go to bed.
My bed now.
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And Murphy graciously gives us portions of the bed.
Kind of that little what?
Five pound dog.
He takes over part of it and then no sleeps on part of the edge.
And then Titan sleeps on my pill.
She has so many pets.
I'm going to have to take a break.
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But I have come up on many occasions with all four.
Individuals.
Around me.
Stop being one of them.
And I'll just be like, there's a cat here and there's a dog on my hip.
And there's an arm from spa.
And there's.
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A cat.
You're just so warm and cuddly and motherly.
And then I'm like, I, how am I staying on this bed?
I'm sure.
We got a queen size.
I think you need a California.
I think it's a King.
I think the one we have now is a King.
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Cause I fell off on the floor half the time, but anyways,
moving on.
I have been blessed.
When I was a kid.
When I was a child, I was extremely blessed to have.
Parents that.
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Took us as children to many places.
They.
Saved their money and we're very.
Fugal.
So that we could go traveling a lot. And I was homeschooled.
So.
For school.
We were.
Learning about.
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The places we were going. Like our education was.
This travel experience.
So we travel a lot.
Some of the places that I've been.
And this is not.
Bragging. I'm not bragging. I'm just saying.
I'm just not bragging.
I'm just saying some of my experiences have been.
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I've been fortunate enough to experience our.
Thailand.
Olivia.
Peru.
Mexico.
Mexico.
Mexico.
Mexico.
Mexico.
Mexico.
Spain.
Turkey.
Greece.
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Tunisia.
Vietnam.
Italy.
Malta.
Hong Kong.
London airport.
We had a layover there, so I'm counting that.
As you should.
We landed there.
You were there.
Canada briefly.
And then Korea.
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Briefly.
And.
Say in some of them were longer than others.
And some of them were humanitarian trips.
And some of them were actual like vacations.
And.
I think because of all those places that we went.
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To.
As a child.
And by the time I was 16 or 17.
We had gone to all those places.
I I'm kind of like.
Traveled out.
Okay.
I don't need to go anywhere as an adult.
I'm like, I've traveled. I'm done.
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No, I feel like you'll probably go to more places.
When you get a little older.
Yes.
Yeah.
I've been to like, of course, places around the U S.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've been to some states too.
Yes.
And I've been to Canada.
And.
Certain places.
And.
I mean, I lived in Brazil.
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In the southern most.
There for a year and a half.
Which is awesome.
Awesome experience.
Oh yeah.
And I've been to England, France and Germany.
I want to go to Germany someday.
I want to go back.
To England, France and Germany.
Because I was on like a school trip.
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I want to go back.
And be my own.
First.
Yes.
I also want to go to Portugal because I learned Portuguese.
Brazilian Portuguese.
But I want to.
Experience where that came from.
I want to go to Germany.
I want to go to Germany.
I want to go to Germany.
I want to go to Germany.
And I want to go to Germany.
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And I want to go to Germany.
And I want to go to Germany.
Experience where that came from.
And maybe understand the European aspects of the Brazilian culture.
A little bit more.
Because it was, you know, the European.
And the indigenous there.
That create.
The society. And of course.
The slaves.
Unfortunately.
So.
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That's all my.
My hit list. You've already been to it. Let's go again.
Yeah.
I mean, some of these places I would love to go again.
Greece.
I loved Greece.
I would love to go back there again.
Um.
It was so beautiful.
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And a lot of these places.
I said I was homeschooled.
And so when you go to each of these places,
We would.
our education was you'd learn a little bit of the language so that you could get them,
you know, how do we get to the market? How do we, you know, how much does this cost? You know,
you just enough of the language to get around. And then you learn the currency exchange rate
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for, you know, the math portion. And then you learn, you know, the history of each place for
history. You know, that's how you'd incorporate the education part. But that was a long time ago.
And do I remember each individual experience? No, not as well as I would like to. So there's a lot of
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places that I would like to go again. But do I have that burning, burning, burning desire that
some people have that wander less bug, you know, have to go travel the world? No. But
if money was not an issue, and if the world is completely safe to travel,
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it's like you said, there are, there's some places that it's really dangerous to go.
There's some issues going on in the world. And so
those decide. Yeah, I do have a bucket list that would be nice to go to. I mean, I'd love to go
to Australia. I'd love to go to Ireland. I want to go to Amsterdam too. I mean, you said the two
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places, those were great, but I want to put Amsterdam on that list. I Amsterdam, I didn't
think yeah, Amsterdam. Do you want to go to England? Yeah, let's go back. Yeah, I'll go to
Italy. I'll take you to Italy. Let's go. Egypt, I think Egypt would be really cool to go to.
Spain, see all the castles. Yes, Spain's really pretty. My son wants to go to Japan. Japan would
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be cool. Yeah. Yeah, like I said, go back to Greece. There are some more local places. I want to see
all the gardens of the world. That would be a fun tour. And I want to see all the wineries of the
world. So that would be like the vineyards. I want to go to the vineyards too. That'd be cool.
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I've never been to Hawaii. I haven't either. And that's really sad because my brother lives there
and I still haven't gone. So I really should go there. Costa Rica, Alaska, I think it's cold.
Beautiful. But we could do an Alaskan cruise. I want to go on a cruise. That'd be cool. My parents
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are going on a cruise this year. And I was like, where's my ticket? What the? Cruises are not as
expensive as I often thought. That's what I've heard. And the nice thing about going on a cruise
is that everything is there. I mean, of course you go to the ports and you get to experience
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the culture and the people a little bit. But you don't have to drive all over the place
to find a place to eat. Most cruises are all inclusive, right? Most. Or you can do like different packages,
but you pay for everything kind of upfront and you don't really have to worry about anything
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more unless it's the extra stuff at port. And if you do alcohol, you don't have to worry about a
designated driver. It's true. Yeah. The only thing you have to worry about is motion sickness and pirates.
Yeah. But they do make pills and patches for motion sickness. And people being stupid,
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but that's everywhere. And pirates, well, if you get taken by a pirate, oh well.
I mean, we encountered pirates in our travels in the Mediterranean Sea as a teenager. So
this story, how was it? I don't remember it. I just know that we did.
I'll have to ask my parents for the story. Well, obviously it wasn't as we survived. I just know
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that we went to a pirate heavy-duty camp. And we were like, oh, we're going to go to the
pirate. I just know that we went to a pirate heavy location and it was dangerous. But it was fine.
We were just aware of it. What are you laughing at? You're like, I don't remember. I don't remember
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about it. Listen, I was a teenager who didn't really. Who was worried about the internet not
uploading. Was worried about contacting your boyfriend back home. I was a kid,
care about pirates. No, I love it. I'm just teasing.
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That was clearly not the biggest worry on my mind. It was more of like an adult worry. So
as an adult and a parent now, I would be terrified. So I don't know how my parents felt. I don't know
how they even thought that was okay to travel. But yeah, I was really worried about it.
I think it's at some point you have to say, okay, is this an experience of a lifetime that
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they would benefit more from the pros outweigh the cons. Absolutely. There's you're always
going to encounter something. I don't want to say dangerous, but negative.
Nothing is going to go perfectly. Oh, no. Well, and I don't think when you travel,
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a lot of people have like these itineraries and they say, I have to hit this point. I have to hit
this point. I have to hit this point. And it makes it not so freeing to enjoy the different
places. I think it's okay to have like a list of one or two things that you want to experience.
You haven't traveled with my parents.
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Okay. And enjoy the place. But that's how I am here. Like I say, okay, my dad,
here are the things that I have to get done. Here are the things that I want to get. And then I just
let life go. Because when I don't, I get perturbed. And then I have angry tears.
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It just makes it, I don't know, makes it nicer, I think. Who wants to be stressed?
No, when we were younger, we would have itineraries of this is where we're supposed to be. We have a
booking for a tour at this time in this day. We have to go to the et cetera, et cetera.
Yeah, but you're, that was your schooling. You have to do those.
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They're not that way anymore. They're much more relaxed. And when I, when they say they're doing
this and they don't have an itinerary, I go, oh, sorry, what? Who are you?
That's because they're enjoying it. And they're not, they're not, they're trying to teach you
something. Yes. Yes. It's very different now for them. And I don't know how to handle it.
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I love it. Because I'm the worried daughter who's like, wait, wait, wait, I need your itinerary.
And they don't, they don't, they can't give me one. Anyways, I did want to share something that I
saw that I thought really stuck with me. It's the beauty of, the beauty of travel
in that someone's ordinary becomes your extraordinary. Yeah. Yeah. And it's so true.
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How often do people say that they're, you know, visiting where we live and we're like,
but we have beautiful landscapes here and we have snowplaces here and we have
river activities. We have, we are a tourist destination and we don't think of that.
And I just think it gets too hot and too cold.
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Yep. I mean, I'm going to the hot springs today. We're crying out loud.
And you, those hot springs are tourist destinations. People travel to these things
and they're, you know, just live by them. I just love, I just drove down the road and said, oh,
I didn't know this was here.
So speaking of that kind of along those lines, you know, yeah, it just got a challenge for us.
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Yeah. It kind of ties right in. It's almost like we did this on purpose. Never. Okay. Maybe a little
bit. It's a throw down. It's a challenge. We've got something for you. We've got something for
you. We'd like to challenge you to be a tourist in your own town, find or explore hidden gem,
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maybe, or maybe it's not a hidden gem, but you know, I like finding the hidden gems.
And, and share a photo with us. You can share it with us on social media or email it to us
or if you don't want anybody else to see it, it's fine. And share it with us.
My grandma taught me to go on drives.
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Not have a destination and to get in the car and just drive and drive somewhere and stop.
What do you think? Something is fascinating, cool, inspiring, beautiful and take it in.
I grew up where I could go down to the Columbia and Gorge whenever I wanted to, which I miss.
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Those are sad tears in case you're wondering, not magic.
But because I was taught to explore and to
go on said drives, I have found beautiful places where I live or around where I live
that I would never know or even people who have grown up around here don't.
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Love it. Yeah, that's how we found one of our little hiking spots. It was just one day we went
on a drive and we found a beautiful place. And we went on a drive and we found a beautiful
place. It was just one day we went on a drive and it's like, oh, this exists. Cool.
Yeah. And to add to our challenge, we have our Q&A. We want to hear from you.
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You've heard enough about us. Let's get a little bit from you.
Here's your Q&A and your polls. Sip your tea. Let's chat a while.
Where is one place you dream of going and why?
It can be somewhere close by. It can be somewhere far away.
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And it can be in between. But where is the place that you have dreamt of going and why?
What draws you there?
Yep. So with that, we love you and we're so grateful for you and have a blessed day.
Bye. Bye.
Thanks for hanging with AJ and A-Rae. We hope we've brought a little fun,
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Sass, and joy into your lives. For more information about our episodes,
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