May 1, 2018 • 38 mins
What if you could forecast your life like the weather? KB sits down with actress Kat Foster ('Jean Claude Van Johnson,' 'Til Death') to unlock the knowledge of the Destiny Cards and see what his future has in store. Also, a cleansing round of Trade Ya, and in Chapter 3, Kristian discusses what we can learn by listening to cover songs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, This is Christian Bush and welcome to episode eight
of Geeking Out, my new podcast. Every episode is a
new person talking about what they're obsessed with that has
nothing to do with their job. The only requirement is
that they're totally geeking out on it and they want
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to talk about it. From custom iPhone and emojis to
vertical backyard gardens, from vintage seventies lego sets to slow
poor coffee, from epic backyard tree houses to YouTube unboxing
video playlists. Tell me what you love, why you love it,
how you got into it, and what makes it awesome.
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Every episode is presented in three chapters. Chapter one, my
guest and I talk about what they're obsessed with. Chapter
two is a game I called Tradeja, where my guest
and I turn each other on to one thing that
we discovered. And chapter three closes the show with me
talking about music that I'm lead geeking out on and
why I believe that curiosity is contagious and the life
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is better with a soundtrack. So let's go Chapter one.
Today's guest is Cat Foster Whatever will be. Cat is
an amazing actress and screenwriter. She just starred alongside Jean
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Claude van dam in a totally hilarious Amazon show called
Geen Claude Van Johnson, which you have to go watch
if you haven't already. And before that you might have
seen her and shows like Weeds or Royal Pains or
Till Death. My producer Whitney, and I met up with
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Cat in Los Angeles last fall to find out about
her obsession, which basically involves fortune. So here's something to
keep in mind while you listen. When we did this interview,
Jennifer and I had just gotten back together as sugar Land.
We'd written our first few songs, and we were planning
our tour for the summer. Tickets around sale now people,
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but it was still a secret and Kat didn't know
anything about it. Kind of cool to go back now
and see how much the destiny guards got right Enjoy?
Really okay, introduce yourself and tell us where you are.
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My name is Cat Foster and were I am. We
are at my house. Where's Where's your house? In Echo Park?
Echo Park, California, Los Angeles. It's it on the east
side of l A and we're at the top of
a hill. I'll say it because you won't from your kitchen.
You can see the Hollywood Sign. Yeah, we we got
we have a really we have a really nice view
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of the Hollywood Sign and the Griffith Park Observatory and
what we can see like to Culver City. Right, we
need to explain that who halls here? So okay, So
sitting here, there's a lovely Christian bush, there's a lovely
Whitney past direct. There's my lovely fiance Jim Houstead. Um.
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And also there's our lovely animal, lovely dog named Lofi.
And what breed is Lofie. Lofie's like a Docsin quregy mix.
She's a fat, very fat pigeon toad. Docsin explained everybody
what you do for a living. I'm an actor. I'm
an actor and a writer. I've been on a lot
of TV shows. Um, and I wrote a movie and
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I did another movie that will come out in the
year and that that kind of stuff. Okay, And what
is it that you are geeking out on at the
moment that it that you're passionate about. So I'm I'm
right now, I'm geeking out on on this forecasting system
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similar to astrology called destiny cards and um. This system
was introduced to me twice. Actually, my friend was like,
oh my god, have you seen this app? I'm obsessed
with it. And there's like an app anyone at this
very moment could download. It's called Destiny Cards. If you
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download the app, you just plug in your birthday or
the birthdays of your friends, and you find out what
your birth card is. And then based on your birth card,
you can find out what your next year looks like,
what this year looks like, what last year looks like,
what this fifty two days looks like next. So they
divide it into periods and it sort of helps you
understand like essentially like just like weather, like what your
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forecast is for the moment. So okay, so we can
get into because cards. So is it based on an action? Yes?
Deck of cards? Yes. So so here's what I've learned.
And I'm not like the most it's a deck of cards,
so it's like it's it's not it's not like a
tarot deck, um, but actually the it predates the Tarot
deck the regular cards do. And what I've learned is
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that the regular cards are essentially a symbolic representation of
the Earth's yearly calendar. So you may or may not
know this. I didn't know this, but um oh, and
I should say too, It's not just an app. This
is a system, a forecasting system that that dates back
to the order of the Magi. It's super ancient and
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there are also like books that have been written about it.
It's not just like an app developer like figure this
out anyway? So uh so, yeah, so there's fifty it's
based on like the regular standard fifty two card deck,
and um the what I've learned is that there's okay,
so fifty two. There's fifty two cards because there's fifty
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two weeks in the year. Um, there's four suits in
the deck because there's four suits, there's four seasons in
a year. There's thirteen cards pursuit, there's thirteen full moons
and thirteen new moons a year. Um So anyway, the
point is that this has, you know, it's it's rooted
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in some you know, like ancient earth science. Um, how
did you you got into this from it? Okay, So
my friend was like, have you checked out this app?
And I was like, whoa, this app feels really resonant, Like, wow,
that does feel like my birth sign. I'm a two
of diamonds. Um gym's seven of diamonds. Um, you're a
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nine of clubs. I think, is that what we figured
out the other night. I don't have to remind myself, Whitney,
you're seven of clubs. No, you're nine of diamonds and
you're a diamond. Well we're diamonds, so three of us
are all diamonds. So another So, have you connected this
to astrology at all? Like what? It is connected to
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astrology in a way, so I'm a tourist, but no,
Like the thing is, there are many signs that are
represented by one birthday. So like I'm a two of diamonds,
but like if you look in the book, like there's
lots of birthdays that are two of diamonds, I'm not
so because there's only fifty two cards so and there's
three d and sixty five birthdays, right yeah, so, um,
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so it is connected to astrology in a way, like
it but that's again that's a little bit more advanced
for me. But like you can see that when you
break down each card. I'm looking at the book right
now because you know, I don't have all this memorize.
It's very complex. But if you look at the thing,
like there's different you have different look like depending on
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your card, you're you have planetary cards, and then like
you have a whole chart essentially like you do an astrology,
where like different aspects of your sign your birth card
are aligned with different planets. That makes sense. It's just
another way to look at your birthday and yeah, predict, yeah,
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like predict what's for what exactly? That's right, that's right.
And that's like a really important distinction because if you
take it too literally, like you'll go insane. Like like
like I can look at this card, this book which
is like the Destiny Card book, and it literally tells
you what every year of your entire life looks like
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until you're nine years old, Like every period, every fifty
two day period of your life is mapped out in
this book until you're And that's really scary, like because
so you could look at it and be like, oh, well, oh,
this month, I'm the ten of diamonds, that means I'm
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gonna have great financial success, and that month I'm the
nine of spades, which means someone's going to die because
those are well right, so you don't want to do that. Yeah,
well that's right. So like you have to. So the
reason I think about it in terms of like the fork,
like what what's the weather forecast, is that the same
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way you could it's like raining outside, and that you
could still have an amazing day. It's not, it's not.
It's really your free will is still the primary um
determination determinator of your life. You know. I really do
believe in destiny, and I actually believe that if we
kind of did nothing but like just kind of relax,
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that our lives are going to end up in exactly
where they're supposed to end up. Like I don't, actually
I don't. I don't. I believe that we we try
to stay on the side of positive thinking. I believe
that we try to stay on the side of doing
right in the world and speaking right and even right,
and like having good people around us, and that we're
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we should always like look for the truth and cultivate
self awareness. But I don't believe that. Um. I believe
that the stars are on our side and that and
that there's it would be hard. It's harder for us
to get up than it is for us to just
have great things happen or have the things that we're
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supposed to have happen happen. So how much destiny conversation
did you have as a kid. None. I mean, my
my father's was an atheist, is an atheist. My mother
just sort of took his lead. We had no religion
in our house at all, like the fact that, I mean,
no one talked about God, no one talked about anything's
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spiritual or new way. I mean, it was just like
sort of like don't go there in my house. And
then I had an experience in two thousand and six
which is like we could take up a whole other podcast,
which was like a very like sort of spiritual awakening,
let's say. And I started on that very day, in
that very moment, to believe in God, and like, you know,
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like me telling my grandmother that I believe in God
is like my grandmother was like horrified that I would
believe in God. Like I mean, my family is really
like against all of this stuff. So we didn't talk
about destiny, we didn't talk about religion, and we not
talk about spirituality. I mean, I mean they everyone in
my family thinks this is a total joke. I mean,
I'm like definitely the black sheep in that area. It's
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interesting that you're saying black sheep and like it's a
great metaphor sheep religion everything. Oh yeah, that's funny. What
you think of the religious people is that sheep? I mean.
And my my experience with you historically, it's not been
that many years has been you know, you're always on
a you're always open looking for, yeah, for these kinds
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of things, just to see that you've landed on something
that you know. That book looks worn. Oh yeah, no,
I'm really into that's not a that's not I got
it off Amazon and it it just sits here like
the birthday book that you see in everyone's house. Yeah no, no,
this book is I use it a lot, but so
show me. So let's talk about you, right, let's talk
about your cards. Okay, I was born on March fourteen.
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I go ahead, and I looked this up, which is
an auspicious birthday because it's the same one as Albert Einstein.
Oh well, first of all, I want to look up
in this other book because this other book actually says
I'm sure it'll say about Einstein. And I want to
see who else was born? Who else was in Nine
of Diamonds. Quincy Jones was also had less thing, David Cassidy,
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is these are you not? Davidman? Yeah, this is not
your specific birthday, but these are all different nine of diamonds,
Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock. It's good. That's good. Okay, Um,
so okay, so so what do you want do you
want to look at like do you want to look
at like what your years? Okay, guys, how it works,
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quickly go to the index. Yeah. So yeah, so you
you know, you look up your birthday, you see what
they are born and then um and then these are
like so you can see what planetary period you're in. Yeah,
you're in your Jupiter period right now. So this is
a very like business. This is about your what's happening
now is about your business this year. Okay, so let's
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see you're in your Jupiter. So that's a five of heart.
Um is your your direct aspect and Queen of Clubs
is your vertical vertical aspect. So that means that UM
five of Hearts is a car that has a lot
of restlessness to it, like fives in general have a
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lot of restlessness. And again because it's a heart, it
means that your restlessness is in relationships. So a lot
of people might get divorced in a five of hearts
or um, you know, or like the higher side of
the card is that you could meet a lot of
new people and form relationships with a lot of people.
But there's like there's traveling and a sense of restlessness
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and instability and changeable nous. So anyway, your other aspect
right now for your Jupiter period is a Queen of Clubs.
So clubs is a very intellectual suit. It rules like
it's like it's it's like it's about like thinking and um,
your intellect. It's it's about it's like very creative card. Um,
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it's our sorry creative suit. Um. And so the Queen
of Clubs is a really great card for business. This
is again in your Jupiter period, which is more about
your business. So it means that probably you're in some
ways you're feeling some sense of mastery over over your
business and and your your mental pursuits whatever they may be. Publishing, podcasts, um, songwriting.
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These are all like club clubs old kinds of activity.
Because it's in a the year of business, and it
is an uber business card. Is it like double bouncing
on the trampoline. Actually, your year is a relationship card.
But yes, it would do that. Oh, I see what
you're saying, because it's in because it's in your Jupiter period. Yeah,
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it's particularly significant in your business. So like, let's say
you found a Queen of Clubs in your Venus period.
So then you would figure out how that sounds that. Okay,
Well there's also a Uranus queen of clauses in your Uranus.
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You I am a twelve year old, okay, so it's
a good year for business. Okay, it's a good Well,
it's your stable year for business, a stable year for family.
Um So then I tend to look at your Pluto
card and your Resolution card because that sort of indicates
your journe me over the course of this year. So
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then I would go to like, so Ace of Spades
is you are sorry, Ace of Clubs is your Pluto card?
So I go here to this little as Spades section.
And you know, at some point Putos maybe ten years
what Pluto still counted some Yeah, Pluto's in the mix
in this in this system exactly. Um so yeah, So
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having the this is what it says in the book,
Having the Ace of Clubs in this powerful position tells
us that many of your goals and changes this year
will be related to knowledge and communication. So the six
of spades is your result card. Um this year is
the element of responsibility and compromise. The appearance of the
six of spades suggests that one of your major goals
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of this year is for this year is associated with
the payment of past obligations of some kind. This may
be related to work, health, or almost any area of
your life. Rest assured that by your next birthday you
will have realized the importance of being responsible for your
actions and will have made considerable progressings. Are looking good well,
so yeah, I mean that's the thing like sometimes we
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want to hear about, like like sixes are karma cards
in a way, they're the cars of its six is
a balance card. So like wherever you've aired in the past,
you have an opportunity to write. And wherever you've done
well in the past or operated you know, in the
highest way, you usually gain rewards for those acts. So
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sixes can be favorable or sort of unfavorable, like depending
on how you've been doing. If you were trying to
suggest to someone listening how to get started in this,
like what's what's the what are the first three steps.
So the first three steps, well, the first step would
be to download the app and just see like if
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it resonates with It's called Destiny Cards. It's like the
logos of Big Spades, you know, like a spade suit. Um.
And by the way, all of this system was like
essentially like brought into public awareness to the degree that
it's in the public awareness by this guy named Robert
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Lee Camp who is very alive and well and like
could do a reading for you for a few hundred bucks,
I think, Um. But so he developed this app so
you can you can download the app. That's what I
would do, and then steps two and three would really
be to like buy the books off Amazon. And then
I mean I think really like first see how it
resonates with you. You start like seeing like, oh, you know,
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comparing what's actually how you're feeling in your day to
what the cards say you're going to feel in the day. Um.
And then like plug your friends into the app and
see how their days compare with what the cards say
their days are going to be. And then you know,
when you buy the book, you can really start looking
at people's relationships. You can compare they're you know see like, oh,
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well those people aren't very compatible and oh yeah, I
can see that right here in the cards, or you
know those people are so in love and like yeah,
their their cards are amazing. Um so uh so yeah.
I mean it's just like a process of I guess,
you know, guessing and checking or interpreting and checking. I
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would say, I love that there's an app for this. Yeah,
there's an app. Are you going to download it? Of
course I am right listening to this is going to
download it. They're gonna be like, oh, may Robert Camp
give me a free session after this is listening Dear
Mr Camp, Dear Mr Camp, Chapter two. In every episode
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of Geeking Out, I see if I can trade one
thing I've discovered with one thing that my guest has discovered,
a friendly exchange. I call it trade you. So this
section of the podcasts called trade you. Um, I trade
you one thing that I'm into for one thing that
you're into. This is could be a Netflix show, TV show,
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Amazon whatever, or like a recipe or a just to something,
just anything you've kind of discovered that you think I
shouldn't have. UM, And I'll go first. They'll give you
time to think where it is so um. I thought
about this on the way over here, that this is
what I wanted to share with you, and I was
worried that you already knew what it was, but you
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may not. This is an app for your telephone and
it's called the Aknator and he is a genie who
can guess whomever you are thinking of. Oh, I feel
now it can be a fictional character or a real
character and I've just heard recently. And then checking this
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found that the update can identify members of your family
of whoever's you know, people that are related to it,
if you want to go to the next level. But um,
it says when you open it up here it is
I'm I've got it out. It's a condator A K
I N A T O R. And he's a little
genie guy and he sits there with his hander's head
says that think about a real or fictional character, and
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I will read your mind right, And we don't want
to activate the child feature. But the best way to
do this is there a series of questions, are you
thinking of someone? Yes, well, we'll do this and you
can edit this if you this is crazy. If he
thinks of who I'm thinking. Okay, is your character a female?
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This is yes? No, don't know. I don't know. I
don't know. Is your character from a video game? Is
your character and animal? Yeah? Yes? Does your character have paws?
Does your character walk on four legs? Is your character
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some kind of a burn? Is your character remember of
Game of Grumps? No, I don't know what that is.
Is your character real? Is it a real or is
it animated? No? Yeah, no it's not real. Okay No.
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Does your character live with his mother? I don't know. Okay,
I don't know. Is your character from TV series? Is
your character associated with Looney Tunes? Is your character big? Yes?
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Sesame st you mother? Effort um. The incanator is guessing
from Sesame Street. Right, this is one of the most
fun things in the world. Now, as soon as we
finished the podcast and you download this, you will try
to see if you can guess. It will find you
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because you work in the world. Not really, I don't
know it does, um, but this is one of the
most will find you. But it can't figure out whether
I'm bald or not because I wear a hat and
for a while I think the inconator thought I was
bald and I actually have hair. I just wear a
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hat and they just kind of assume, I guess because
you're trying to hide something or something. But the Aconator
is what I would trade you, mainly because he's like
the party game version of your destiny card. Like if
you can get the end of the Aconator, you're it's
like the gateway drug to destiny card. App Indeed, that's good.
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That's a good call. Um. Okay, So, but so I
feel like I feel like, I don't know, are you
going to think home? Mine's not too lame? But there's
no Do you know about magic erasers? Okay, I know
about them. I've never gotten one. Um, and these are
the things that they originally the things that erase stuff
off the wall. Yeah, that's what they do. I don't
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think you have like a million uses. Um. I mean,
I think walls are the ones. I think the walls
are the doesn't really it works really well. Jim just
got some wine stands off for we have white walls
like all around us, and there it's win and all
he had to do is just read the magic race
around him. I wish the wine staines were still there
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so we can ask why there was a wine stain
on the wall. That's a really your question. So drunken revelry,
I think, is an answer to that. I like, nothing
gets wine stains out of anything. Very yeah, very hard
to get wine stains. Although I have to say there
was one time where I got red one all over
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my white shirt and somebody poured a bunch of baking
soda on it, and like just waited and I swear
it went away. It was unbelievable. That was like a
really crazy thing. But I'm obsessed with these magic racers
and they really work. And once you find one spot,
you can find like I mean, you just canna go crazy.
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Like I spent an entire day magic racing because it
makes such a big difference in your house. Like you know,
you see like these little like dirt spots. How do
you know that? Who knows how it got there? I mean,
I see one right now, Babe, Do you have a
magic racer? Should we show Christian? Do you want to
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go get it? Yeah, let's show him so I want
to hear his his live reaction to how well it works. God,
I love you, and I just want to reflect back
to you the joy of listening to you. Really engaging
in the white walls of your life. I mean it's
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a big deal. Look when you have a house, it's
all white. I mean, you know, like every other daymn like,
how did that spot get on that wall? What? What
am I going to do about it? Because did you?
Did you just a little bit? Okay, So I'm gonna
show you. I don't know how this is good? You
can no, no, no, I'm gonna come to you. We're moving,
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We're not mobile. People were moving. So, like just this morning,
as Jim was cleaning off the red wine spots, which,
as you can see, they were right here on the
wall and you can't see any red wine spots anywhere. Okay,
there were two prominent red wines. Okay, that's mere gone. Okay.
So but as he was cleaning those, I was like, oh,
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look at that spot. How did that spot it there? Right?
And I nearly told him to clean it off, but
I was like, you know what, it's fine, I'll clean
it off later. And now aren't I happy that I
am because I can show you So that spot. Watch,
how is it doing that? I don't know. That's why
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they call it it's magic. I don't know how it
does it. Okay, look there's more here. This is why
it becomes addictive. Do you see him gone? Just got
Scott's right here. This is how I just go around
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my house like you know, once you have the magic
eraser out, there's no end to what you can erase.
You know. That is the way to end this podcast.
Thank you for being here for my destiny and my
magic razor. Everything's magic. Goodbye. Chapter three me geeking out
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on music the cover song. One of the ways we
learn is to imitate, watching, listening, and then repeating what
we're exposed to. And if you've ever picked up a guitar,
sat down the piano, or even picked up the sticks
behind a drum kit, you've tried to imitate your favorite song,
whether it's Chopsticks or Louie Louie or free Falling. We
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listen to bands cover our favorite songs at weddings, contestants
cover the perfect song for their voice on TV, or
even find ourselves scrolling through a list for our go
to karaoke sure fire hit. In each case, we're reaching
out for our favorite song. This is how you learn.
It's how you learn to be in a band, It's
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how you learn to be an artist be a rock star,
it's by imitating the ones that you hear and you see.
I have always maintained that the fastest way to learn
what is unique about an artist is to have them
cover a song. You know, I know it sounds counterintuitive,
but think of it this way. If you want to
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know what makes someone special, then have each of them
do the same song and then compare. I grew up
learning that a few things were vital to making a band.
Always try to write the best song you can, have
a T shirt that doesn't suck, and make sure you
pick a great cover song. I'm not sure where I
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learned it. Probably a combination of listening to Smoking Dave
and the Primoe Dopes and Knoxville, or maybe eaves dropping
on Amy Ray from the Inigo Girls about their shows.
However I found this code. I consider it a code
to live by. My voice has always had some scratch
in it, even when I was young, so I could
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belt out in a pretty impressive Maggie May like Rod
Stewart does, or sometimes a good Replacements cover. But I
always kind of fell short if I was having to
sing White Snake or the Smiths. But it never stopped
me from trying, but it did teach me to pick
a cover that I could really sell. I want to
give you a quick tour of some covers that can
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show you how awesome an artist is. For first, let's
start with this man, Prince. What you didn't know about
Prince is that he probably wrote some songs that you
didn't actually associate with Prince, mainly because you probably didn't
know he wrote them. For instance, this song was by
the Bengals, except the song is by Prince, and the
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performances by the Bengals just man. Prince kept sort of
reinventing himself, and as he did, it turns out that
the first time you ever heard probably this song by
Sanado O'Connor, you probably didn't know it was a Prince song.
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But here they are right next to each other. Here's
sad It's spensivin a good and see the Day, and
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here's Prince's version It's been seven day you. So you
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can see which parts of each of these songs really
belonged to the artist's performance in which belonged to the writers.
So let's take a song that we all know very well.
This is eleanor Rigby by the Beatles. Helena Rigby picks
up the rice in the judge where a wedding is
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being It's in a dream. It's almost like that song
is a part of our d n A. But can
you imagine for a second what would happen if you
lined up a bunch of artists and asked them all
to sing ellenor Rigby and one of them happened to
be a wreath of Franklin. I'm Melana Rigby, I pick up, Yeah,
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I mean Ricky, I'm keeping a job or no, you
see what I mean. Every artist has a different way
that they hear, transcribe, translate, or even perform the same music.
It makes each artist unique. For instance, I remember exactly
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where I was when I heard Nirvana play Smells Like
Teen Spirit. Also, within that same year, I remember exactly
where I was when I heard Tory Amos do this right.
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It's less dan angelous and dodges into dangers. So the
fund goes on and on, and as you start to
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really hear different bands cover different songs, you start to
understand what makes each band special. This is Cake singing
a Gloria Gainer song. Just turn around. Now you're not
welcome anymore. What you're the one we tried to break
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me with design thank god, Thank god laid down. As
this game kind of unfold, you can tell it's one
of my favorites. You start to discover some really strange
corners of the world. Thank goodness for all of the
streaming that we can do in order to sort of
bounce back and forth between these different versions of these songs.
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But here is a song from A hundred and one Dalmatians.
This is Cruella de Ville, Cruella de Vie, Cruella Devil.
If she doesn't scare you know evil, thing will to
see her is to take a sudden chill Cruella Cruella.
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And here's the same song by one of my favorite bands,
The Replacements, where the film Cruella Devil, If she doesn't
scare you no evil sing well to see is to
take a sudden ship Cruella Cruella Devil. Sometimes cover songs
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have gotten to a point where you actually know the
cover song almost even better than you know the original. Um.
Sometimes it's because the artist has really reinvented the song.
Sometimes it's because the artist is just so unique that
the song itself becomes secondary to the artist's performance. In
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this case, it's a Bob Dylan song, but you probably
know it as a Jimmy Hendrick song. That must be
some kind of way out of here, say that chop
to the that's too much confusion, can get no really.
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In other cases you have the reverse, in which you
get an artist who you know well singing a song
in their own style and it starts to dawn on
you the more you listen to it that it's not
really one of their songs. It's a song by a
completely different artist in a completely different genre. And this
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is where it gets to be very interesting, especially as
generations past start to interpret music from generations present. So
this is Johnny Cash singing nine inch nails. I hurt
myself today to see it first, Still feel a focus
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all the thing, the only thing. Let's read. They say,
imitation is the fondest form of flattery. Well, then a
cover song is the greatest accolade of one artist to another.
You know, in sure Land, Jennifer and I have tried
to pay homage to r M, to be fifty twos,
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to you two, to Beyonce, to Queen and more. Never
be ashamed to pick up an instrument and learn your
favorite new song. You never know what you might learn
by walking in someone else's melody or singing through somebody
else's heart. Have that been I hope you enjoyed this
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episode of Geeking Out and we are already hard at
work on the next one. Are you obsessed with something amazing?
I want to tell us about it? Right to us
at Geeking Out with KB at gmail dot com and
you might be a guest on an upcoming episode. Come
find out more about me and this podcast at Christian
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to Bobby Bones for the opportunity to make this podcast,
briand and Bush for making the soundtrack and assembling the pieces,
Tom Tapley for audio wizardry, and Whitney Pastrick for being
a great producer and making this whole thing possible. This
is Christian Bush Geeking Out. Thank you for listening.
Hello, This is Christian Bush and welcome to episode eight
of Geeking Out, my new podcast. Every episode is a
new person talking about what they're obsessed with that has
nothing to do with their job. The only requirement is
that they're totally geeking out on it and they want
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to talk about it. From custom iPhone and emojis to
vertical backyard gardens, from vintage seventies lego sets to slow
poor coffee, from epic backyard tree houses to YouTube unboxing
video playlists. Tell me what you love, why you love it,
how you got into it, and what makes it awesome.
(00:42):
Every episode is presented in three chapters. Chapter one, my
guest and I talk about what they're obsessed with. Chapter
two is a game I called Tradeja, where my guest
and I turn each other on to one thing that
we discovered. And chapter three closes the show with me
talking about music that I'm lead geeking out on and
why I believe that curiosity is contagious and the life
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is better with a soundtrack. So let's go Chapter one.
Today's guest is Cat Foster Whatever will be. Cat is
an amazing actress and screenwriter. She just starred alongside Jean
(01:31):
Claude van dam in a totally hilarious Amazon show called
Geen Claude Van Johnson, which you have to go watch
if you haven't already. And before that you might have
seen her and shows like Weeds or Royal Pains or
Till Death. My producer Whitney, and I met up with
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Cat in Los Angeles last fall to find out about
her obsession, which basically involves fortune. So here's something to
keep in mind while you listen. When we did this interview,
Jennifer and I had just gotten back together as sugar Land.
We'd written our first few songs, and we were planning
our tour for the summer. Tickets around sale now people,
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but it was still a secret and Kat didn't know
anything about it. Kind of cool to go back now
and see how much the destiny guards got right Enjoy?
Really okay, introduce yourself and tell us where you are.
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My name is Cat Foster and were I am. We
are at my house. Where's Where's your house? In Echo Park?
Echo Park, California, Los Angeles. It's it on the east
side of l A and we're at the top of
a hill. I'll say it because you won't from your kitchen.
You can see the Hollywood Sign. Yeah, we we got
we have a really we have a really nice view
(03:02):
of the Hollywood Sign and the Griffith Park Observatory and
what we can see like to Culver City. Right, we
need to explain that who halls here? So okay, So
sitting here, there's a lovely Christian bush, there's a lovely
Whitney past direct. There's my lovely fiance Jim Houstead. Um.
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And also there's our lovely animal, lovely dog named Lofi.
And what breed is Lofie. Lofie's like a Docsin quregy mix.
She's a fat, very fat pigeon toad. Docsin explained everybody
what you do for a living. I'm an actor. I'm
an actor and a writer. I've been on a lot
of TV shows. Um, and I wrote a movie and
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I did another movie that will come out in the
year and that that kind of stuff. Okay, And what
is it that you are geeking out on at the
moment that it that you're passionate about. So I'm I'm
right now, I'm geeking out on on this forecasting system
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similar to astrology called destiny cards and um. This system
was introduced to me twice. Actually, my friend was like,
oh my god, have you seen this app? I'm obsessed
with it. And there's like an app anyone at this
very moment could download. It's called Destiny Cards. If you
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download the app, you just plug in your birthday or
the birthdays of your friends, and you find out what
your birth card is. And then based on your birth card,
you can find out what your next year looks like,
what this year looks like, what last year looks like,
what this fifty two days looks like next. So they
divide it into periods and it sort of helps you
understand like essentially like just like weather, like what your
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forecast is for the moment. So okay, so we can
get into because cards. So is it based on an action? Yes?
Deck of cards? Yes. So so here's what I've learned.
And I'm not like the most it's a deck of cards,
so it's like it's it's not it's not like a
tarot deck, um, but actually the it predates the Tarot
deck the regular cards do. And what I've learned is
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that the regular cards are essentially a symbolic representation of
the Earth's yearly calendar. So you may or may not
know this. I didn't know this, but um oh, and
I should say too, It's not just an app. This
is a system, a forecasting system that that dates back
to the order of the Magi. It's super ancient and
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there are also like books that have been written about it.
It's not just like an app developer like figure this
out anyway? So uh so, yeah, so there's fifty it's
based on like the regular standard fifty two card deck,
and um the what I've learned is that there's okay,
so fifty two. There's fifty two cards because there's fifty
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two weeks in the year. Um, there's four suits in
the deck because there's four suits, there's four seasons in
a year. There's thirteen cards pursuit, there's thirteen full moons
and thirteen new moons a year. Um So anyway, the
point is that this has, you know, it's it's rooted
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in some you know, like ancient earth science. Um, how
did you you got into this from it? Okay, So
my friend was like, have you checked out this app?
And I was like, whoa, this app feels really resonant, Like, wow,
that does feel like my birth sign. I'm a two
of diamonds. Um gym's seven of diamonds. Um, you're a
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nine of clubs. I think, is that what we figured
out the other night. I don't have to remind myself, Whitney,
you're seven of clubs. No, you're nine of diamonds and
you're a diamond. Well we're diamonds, so three of us
are all diamonds. So another So, have you connected this
to astrology at all? Like what? It is connected to
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astrology in a way, so I'm a tourist, but no,
Like the thing is, there are many signs that are
represented by one birthday. So like I'm a two of diamonds,
but like if you look in the book, like there's
lots of birthdays that are two of diamonds, I'm not
so because there's only fifty two cards so and there's
three d and sixty five birthdays, right yeah, so, um,
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so it is connected to astrology in a way, like
it but that's again that's a little bit more advanced
for me. But like you can see that when you
break down each card. I'm looking at the book right
now because you know, I don't have all this memorize.
It's very complex. But if you look at the thing,
like there's different you have different look like depending on
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your card, you're you have planetary cards, and then like
you have a whole chart essentially like you do an astrology,
where like different aspects of your sign your birth card
are aligned with different planets. That makes sense. It's just
another way to look at your birthday and yeah, predict, yeah,
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like predict what's for what exactly? That's right, that's right.
And that's like a really important distinction because if you
take it too literally, like you'll go insane. Like like
like I can look at this card, this book which
is like the Destiny Card book, and it literally tells
you what every year of your entire life looks like
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until you're nine years old, Like every period, every fifty
two day period of your life is mapped out in
this book until you're And that's really scary, like because
so you could look at it and be like, oh, well, oh,
this month, I'm the ten of diamonds, that means I'm
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gonna have great financial success, and that month I'm the
nine of spades, which means someone's going to die because
those are well right, so you don't want to do that. Yeah,
well that's right. So like you have to. So the
reason I think about it in terms of like the fork,
like what what's the weather forecast, is that the same
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way you could it's like raining outside, and that you
could still have an amazing day. It's not, it's not.
It's really your free will is still the primary um
determination determinator of your life. You know. I really do
believe in destiny, and I actually believe that if we
kind of did nothing but like just kind of relax,
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that our lives are going to end up in exactly
where they're supposed to end up. Like I don't, actually
I don't. I don't. I believe that we we try
to stay on the side of positive thinking. I believe
that we try to stay on the side of doing
right in the world and speaking right and even right,
and like having good people around us, and that we're
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we should always like look for the truth and cultivate
self awareness. But I don't believe that. Um. I believe
that the stars are on our side and that and
that there's it would be hard. It's harder for us
to get up than it is for us to just
have great things happen or have the things that we're
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supposed to have happen happen. So how much destiny conversation
did you have as a kid. None. I mean, my
my father's was an atheist, is an atheist. My mother
just sort of took his lead. We had no religion
in our house at all, like the fact that, I mean,
no one talked about God, no one talked about anything's
(10:44):
spiritual or new way. I mean, it was just like
sort of like don't go there in my house. And
then I had an experience in two thousand and six
which is like we could take up a whole other podcast,
which was like a very like sort of spiritual awakening,
let's say. And I started on that very day, in
that very moment, to believe in God, and like, you know,
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like me telling my grandmother that I believe in God
is like my grandmother was like horrified that I would
believe in God. Like I mean, my family is really
like against all of this stuff. So we didn't talk
about destiny, we didn't talk about religion, and we not
talk about spirituality. I mean, I mean they everyone in
my family thinks this is a total joke. I mean,
I'm like definitely the black sheep in that area. It's
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interesting that you're saying black sheep and like it's a
great metaphor sheep religion everything. Oh yeah, that's funny. What
you think of the religious people is that sheep? I mean.
And my my experience with you historically, it's not been
that many years has been you know, you're always on
a you're always open looking for, yeah, for these kinds
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of things, just to see that you've landed on something
that you know. That book looks worn. Oh yeah, no,
I'm really into that's not a that's not I got
it off Amazon and it it just sits here like
the birthday book that you see in everyone's house. Yeah no, no,
this book is I use it a lot, but so
show me. So let's talk about you, right, let's talk
about your cards. Okay, I was born on March fourteen.
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I go ahead, and I looked this up, which is
an auspicious birthday because it's the same one as Albert Einstein.
Oh well, first of all, I want to look up
in this other book because this other book actually says
I'm sure it'll say about Einstein. And I want to
see who else was born? Who else was in Nine
of Diamonds. Quincy Jones was also had less thing, David Cassidy,
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is these are you not? Davidman? Yeah, this is not
your specific birthday, but these are all different nine of diamonds,
Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock. It's good. That's good. Okay, Um,
so okay, so so what do you want do you
want to look at like do you want to look
at like what your years? Okay, guys, how it works,
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quickly go to the index. Yeah. So yeah, so you
you know, you look up your birthday, you see what
they are born and then um and then these are
like so you can see what planetary period you're in. Yeah,
you're in your Jupiter period right now. So this is
a very like business. This is about your what's happening
now is about your business this year. Okay, so let's
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see you're in your Jupiter. So that's a five of heart.
Um is your your direct aspect and Queen of Clubs
is your vertical vertical aspect. So that means that UM
five of Hearts is a car that has a lot
of restlessness to it, like fives in general have a
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lot of restlessness. And again because it's a heart, it
means that your restlessness is in relationships. So a lot
of people might get divorced in a five of hearts
or um, you know, or like the higher side of
the card is that you could meet a lot of
new people and form relationships with a lot of people.
But there's like there's traveling and a sense of restlessness
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and instability and changeable nous. So anyway, your other aspect
right now for your Jupiter period is a Queen of Clubs.
So clubs is a very intellectual suit. It rules like
it's like it's it's like it's about like thinking and um,
your intellect. It's it's about it's like very creative card. Um,
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it's our sorry creative suit. Um. And so the Queen
of Clubs is a really great card for business. This
is again in your Jupiter period, which is more about
your business. So it means that probably you're in some
ways you're feeling some sense of mastery over over your
business and and your your mental pursuits whatever they may be. Publishing, podcasts, um, songwriting.
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These are all like club clubs old kinds of activity.
Because it's in a the year of business, and it
is an uber business card. Is it like double bouncing
on the trampoline. Actually, your year is a relationship card.
But yes, it would do that. Oh, I see what
you're saying, because it's in because it's in your Jupiter period. Yeah,
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it's particularly significant in your business. So like, let's say
you found a Queen of Clubs in your Venus period.
So then you would figure out how that sounds that. Okay,
Well there's also a Uranus queen of clauses in your Uranus.
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You I am a twelve year old, okay, so it's
a good year for business. Okay, it's a good Well,
it's your stable year for business, a stable year for family.
Um So then I tend to look at your Pluto
card and your Resolution card because that sort of indicates
your journe me over the course of this year. So
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then I would go to like, so Ace of Spades
is you are sorry, Ace of Clubs is your Pluto card?
So I go here to this little as Spades section.
And you know, at some point Putos maybe ten years
what Pluto still counted some Yeah, Pluto's in the mix
in this in this system exactly. Um so yeah, So
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having the this is what it says in the book,
Having the Ace of Clubs in this powerful position tells
us that many of your goals and changes this year
will be related to knowledge and communication. So the six
of spades is your result card. Um this year is
the element of responsibility and compromise. The appearance of the
six of spades suggests that one of your major goals
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of this year is for this year is associated with
the payment of past obligations of some kind. This may
be related to work, health, or almost any area of
your life. Rest assured that by your next birthday you
will have realized the importance of being responsible for your
actions and will have made considerable progressings. Are looking good well,
so yeah, I mean that's the thing like sometimes we
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want to hear about, like like sixes are karma cards
in a way, they're the cars of its six is
a balance card. So like wherever you've aired in the past,
you have an opportunity to write. And wherever you've done
well in the past or operated you know, in the
highest way, you usually gain rewards for those acts. So
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sixes can be favorable or sort of unfavorable, like depending
on how you've been doing. If you were trying to
suggest to someone listening how to get started in this,
like what's what's the what are the first three steps.
So the first three steps, well, the first step would
be to download the app and just see like if
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it resonates with It's called Destiny Cards. It's like the
logos of Big Spades, you know, like a spade suit. Um.
And by the way, all of this system was like
essentially like brought into public awareness to the degree that
it's in the public awareness by this guy named Robert
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Lee Camp who is very alive and well and like
could do a reading for you for a few hundred bucks,
I think, Um. But so he developed this app so
you can you can download the app. That's what I
would do, and then steps two and three would really
be to like buy the books off Amazon. And then
I mean I think really like first see how it
resonates with you. You start like seeing like, oh, you know,
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comparing what's actually how you're feeling in your day to
what the cards say you're going to feel in the day. Um.
And then like plug your friends into the app and
see how their days compare with what the cards say
their days are going to be. And then you know,
when you buy the book, you can really start looking
at people's relationships. You can compare they're you know see like, oh,
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well those people aren't very compatible and oh yeah, I
can see that right here in the cards, or you
know those people are so in love and like yeah,
their their cards are amazing. Um so uh so yeah.
I mean it's just like a process of I guess,
you know, guessing and checking or interpreting and checking. I
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would say, I love that there's an app for this. Yeah,
there's an app. Are you going to download it? Of
course I am right listening to this is going to
download it. They're gonna be like, oh, may Robert Camp
give me a free session after this is listening Dear
Mr Camp, Dear Mr Camp, Chapter two. In every episode
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of Geeking Out, I see if I can trade one
thing I've discovered with one thing that my guest has discovered,
a friendly exchange. I call it trade you. So this
section of the podcasts called trade you. Um, I trade
you one thing that I'm into for one thing that
you're into. This is could be a Netflix show, TV show,
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Amazon whatever, or like a recipe or a just to something,
just anything you've kind of discovered that you think I
shouldn't have. UM, And I'll go first. They'll give you
time to think where it is so um. I thought
about this on the way over here, that this is
what I wanted to share with you, and I was
worried that you already knew what it was, but you
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may not. This is an app for your telephone and
it's called the Aknator and he is a genie who
can guess whomever you are thinking of. Oh, I feel
now it can be a fictional character or a real
character and I've just heard recently. And then checking this
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found that the update can identify members of your family
of whoever's you know, people that are related to it,
if you want to go to the next level. But um,
it says when you open it up here it is
I'm I've got it out. It's a condator A K
I N A T O R. And he's a little
genie guy and he sits there with his hander's head
says that think about a real or fictional character, and
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I will read your mind right, And we don't want
to activate the child feature. But the best way to
do this is there a series of questions, are you
thinking of someone? Yes, well, we'll do this and you
can edit this if you this is crazy. If he
thinks of who I'm thinking. Okay, is your character a female?
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This is yes? No, don't know. I don't know. I
don't know. Is your character from a video game? Is
your character and animal? Yeah? Yes? Does your character have paws?
Does your character walk on four legs? Is your character
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some kind of a burn? Is your character remember of
Game of Grumps? No, I don't know what that is.
Is your character real? Is it a real or is
it animated? No? Yeah, no it's not real. Okay No.
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Does your character live with his mother? I don't know. Okay,
I don't know. Is your character from TV series? Is
your character associated with Looney Tunes? Is your character big? Yes?
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Sesame st you mother? Effort um. The incanator is guessing
from Sesame Street. Right, this is one of the most
fun things in the world. Now, as soon as we
finished the podcast and you download this, you will try
to see if you can guess. It will find you
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because you work in the world. Not really, I don't
know it does, um, but this is one of the
most will find you. But it can't figure out whether
I'm bald or not because I wear a hat and
for a while I think the inconator thought I was
bald and I actually have hair. I just wear a
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hat and they just kind of assume, I guess because
you're trying to hide something or something. But the Aconator
is what I would trade you, mainly because he's like
the party game version of your destiny card. Like if
you can get the end of the Aconator, you're it's
like the gateway drug to destiny card. App Indeed, that's good.
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That's a good call. Um. Okay, So, but so I
feel like I feel like, I don't know, are you
going to think home? Mine's not too lame? But there's
no Do you know about magic erasers? Okay, I know
about them. I've never gotten one. Um, and these are
the things that they originally the things that erase stuff
off the wall. Yeah, that's what they do. I don't
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think you have like a million uses. Um. I mean,
I think walls are the ones. I think the walls
are the doesn't really it works really well. Jim just
got some wine stands off for we have white walls
like all around us, and there it's win and all
he had to do is just read the magic race
around him. I wish the wine staines were still there
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so we can ask why there was a wine stain
on the wall. That's a really your question. So drunken revelry,
I think, is an answer to that. I like, nothing
gets wine stains out of anything. Very yeah, very hard
to get wine stains. Although I have to say there
was one time where I got red one all over
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my white shirt and somebody poured a bunch of baking
soda on it, and like just waited and I swear
it went away. It was unbelievable. That was like a
really crazy thing. But I'm obsessed with these magic racers
and they really work. And once you find one spot,
you can find like I mean, you just canna go crazy.
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Like I spent an entire day magic racing because it
makes such a big difference in your house. Like you know,
you see like these little like dirt spots. How do
you know that? Who knows how it got there? I mean,
I see one right now, Babe, Do you have a
magic racer? Should we show Christian? Do you want to
(25:34):
go get it? Yeah, let's show him so I want
to hear his his live reaction to how well it works. God,
I love you, and I just want to reflect back
to you the joy of listening to you. Really engaging
in the white walls of your life. I mean it's
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a big deal. Look when you have a house, it's
all white. I mean, you know, like every other daymn like,
how did that spot get on that wall? What? What
am I going to do about it? Because did you?
Did you just a little bit? Okay, So I'm gonna
show you. I don't know how this is good? You
can no, no, no, I'm gonna come to you. We're moving,
(26:16):
We're not mobile. People were moving. So, like just this morning,
as Jim was cleaning off the red wine spots, which,
as you can see, they were right here on the
wall and you can't see any red wine spots anywhere. Okay,
there were two prominent red wines. Okay, that's mere gone. Okay.
So but as he was cleaning those, I was like, oh,
(26:36):
look at that spot. How did that spot it there? Right?
And I nearly told him to clean it off, but
I was like, you know what, it's fine, I'll clean
it off later. And now aren't I happy that I
am because I can show you So that spot. Watch,
how is it doing that? I don't know. That's why
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they call it it's magic. I don't know how it
does it. Okay, look there's more here. This is why
it becomes addictive. Do you see him gone? Just got
Scott's right here. This is how I just go around
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my house like you know, once you have the magic
eraser out, there's no end to what you can erase.
You know. That is the way to end this podcast.
Thank you for being here for my destiny and my
magic razor. Everything's magic. Goodbye. Chapter three me geeking out
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on music the cover song. One of the ways we
learn is to imitate, watching, listening, and then repeating what
we're exposed to. And if you've ever picked up a guitar,
sat down the piano, or even picked up the sticks
behind a drum kit, you've tried to imitate your favorite song,
whether it's Chopsticks or Louie Louie or free Falling. We
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listen to bands cover our favorite songs at weddings, contestants
cover the perfect song for their voice on TV, or
even find ourselves scrolling through a list for our go
to karaoke sure fire hit. In each case, we're reaching
out for our favorite song. This is how you learn.
It's how you learn to be in a band, It's
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how you learn to be an artist be a rock star,
it's by imitating the ones that you hear and you see.
I have always maintained that the fastest way to learn
what is unique about an artist is to have them
cover a song. You know, I know it sounds counterintuitive,
but think of it this way. If you want to
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know what makes someone special, then have each of them
do the same song and then compare. I grew up
learning that a few things were vital to making a band.
Always try to write the best song you can, have
a T shirt that doesn't suck, and make sure you
pick a great cover song. I'm not sure where I
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learned it. Probably a combination of listening to Smoking Dave
and the Primoe Dopes and Knoxville, or maybe eaves dropping
on Amy Ray from the Inigo Girls about their shows.
However I found this code. I consider it a code
to live by. My voice has always had some scratch
in it, even when I was young, so I could
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belt out in a pretty impressive Maggie May like Rod
Stewart does, or sometimes a good Replacements cover. But I
always kind of fell short if I was having to
sing White Snake or the Smiths. But it never stopped
me from trying, but it did teach me to pick
a cover that I could really sell. I want to
give you a quick tour of some covers that can
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show you how awesome an artist is. For first, let's
start with this man, Prince. What you didn't know about
Prince is that he probably wrote some songs that you
didn't actually associate with Prince, mainly because you probably didn't
know he wrote them. For instance, this song was by
the Bengals, except the song is by Prince, and the
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performances by the Bengals just man. Prince kept sort of
reinventing himself, and as he did, it turns out that
the first time you ever heard probably this song by
Sanado O'Connor, you probably didn't know it was a Prince song.
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But here they are right next to each other. Here's
sad It's spensivin a good and see the Day, and
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here's Prince's version It's been seven day you. So you
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can see which parts of each of these songs really
belonged to the artist's performance in which belonged to the writers.
So let's take a song that we all know very well.
This is eleanor Rigby by the Beatles. Helena Rigby picks
up the rice in the judge where a wedding is
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being It's in a dream. It's almost like that song
is a part of our d n A. But can
you imagine for a second what would happen if you
lined up a bunch of artists and asked them all
to sing ellenor Rigby and one of them happened to
be a wreath of Franklin. I'm Melana Rigby, I pick up, Yeah,
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I mean Ricky, I'm keeping a job or no, you
see what I mean. Every artist has a different way
that they hear, transcribe, translate, or even perform the same music.
It makes each artist unique. For instance, I remember exactly
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where I was when I heard Nirvana play Smells Like
Teen Spirit. Also, within that same year, I remember exactly
where I was when I heard Tory Amos do this right.
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It's less dan angelous and dodges into dangers. So the
fund goes on and on, and as you start to
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really hear different bands cover different songs, you start to
understand what makes each band special. This is Cake singing
a Gloria Gainer song. Just turn around. Now you're not
welcome anymore. What you're the one we tried to break
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me with design thank god, Thank god laid down. As
this game kind of unfold, you can tell it's one
of my favorites. You start to discover some really strange
corners of the world. Thank goodness for all of the
streaming that we can do in order to sort of
bounce back and forth between these different versions of these songs.
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But here is a song from A hundred and one Dalmatians.
This is Cruella de Ville, Cruella de Vie, Cruella Devil.
If she doesn't scare you know evil, thing will to
see her is to take a sudden chill Cruella Cruella.
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And here's the same song by one of my favorite bands,
The Replacements, where the film Cruella Devil, If she doesn't
scare you no evil sing well to see is to
take a sudden ship Cruella Cruella Devil. Sometimes cover songs
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have gotten to a point where you actually know the
cover song almost even better than you know the original. Um.
Sometimes it's because the artist has really reinvented the song.
Sometimes it's because the artist is just so unique that
the song itself becomes secondary to the artist's performance. In
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this case, it's a Bob Dylan song, but you probably
know it as a Jimmy Hendrick song. That must be
some kind of way out of here, say that chop
to the that's too much confusion, can get no really.
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In other cases you have the reverse, in which you
get an artist who you know well singing a song
in their own style and it starts to dawn on
you the more you listen to it that it's not
really one of their songs. It's a song by a
completely different artist in a completely different genre. And this
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is where it gets to be very interesting, especially as
generations past start to interpret music from generations present. So
this is Johnny Cash singing nine inch nails. I hurt
myself today to see it first, Still feel a focus
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all the thing, the only thing. Let's read. They say,
imitation is the fondest form of flattery. Well, then a
cover song is the greatest accolade of one artist to another.
You know, in sure Land, Jennifer and I have tried
to pay homage to r M, to be fifty twos,
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to you two, to Beyonce, to Queen and more. Never
be ashamed to pick up an instrument and learn your
favorite new song. You never know what you might learn
by walking in someone else's melody or singing through somebody
else's heart. Have that been I hope you enjoyed this
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episode of Geeking Out and we are already hard at
work on the next one. Are you obsessed with something amazing?
I want to tell us about it? Right to us
at Geeking Out with KB at gmail dot com and
you might be a guest on an upcoming episode. Come
find out more about me and this podcast at Christian
Bush dot com, Christian with the k People, follow me
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at Christian Bush on Twitter, Christian Bush on Instagram, Christian
Bush on Facebook, and Christian M. Bush on Snapchat. Thanks
to Bobby Bones for the opportunity to make this podcast,
briand and Bush for making the soundtrack and assembling the pieces,
Tom Tapley for audio wizardry, and Whitney Pastrick for being
a great producer and making this whole thing possible. This
is Christian Bush Geeking Out. Thank you for listening.
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