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Weird things happened in Weird Weird weird. Welcome, No what I'm looking for

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my camera? Like doctor Stephen Rule, We're in a new situation here,

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but uh, welcome to episode one, and we're going to actually talk about

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the topic that we said we would
two episodes ago on the last day of

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class episodes. All right, y'all, it's been crazy. It has been

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crazy. So we just wrapped up
week eight of remodeling the house, and

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on top of that, we've like
been flying by the seat of our freaking

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pants, you know, to keep
the show going. And this chaos is

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coming to a close. Yeah.
Yeah, it's been a little tough,

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but hey man, we're rolling with
the punches. We're doing it. And

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now we're going to bring you a
heater of an episode about omens. Yeah,

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what was the why did we choose
to do an episode about omens?

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Well, it was a few weeks
ago we were talking about this topic or

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no, no, talking about like
what you know, topic do we want

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to do? And me and Jenny
were writing home from Fayetteuil to Wilmington,

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and I think I mentioned this on
a previous episode, but then we didn't

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go in depth, or maybe I
haven't brought it up at all, but

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there's this Casey Musgrave song that came
out recently. Jenny's a big fan,

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and I think it's called Cardinal.
Yeah. Well, didn't Jenny talk about

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that on her episode? Maybe we
did? Yeah she did, Maybe we

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did, Alex, I can see
you now, Yeah, what's I just

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realized I can see him? Oh
my god? Okay, sorry, she

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talked about that on her episode,
right right, correct? And then like

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the whole cardinal. Let me it's
really cool, man, Let me pull

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up the lyrics because it's then I'm
gonna get what happened to the you know

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with the cardinal. Yeah, it
was that whole thing. And then I

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learned, uh, maybe, gosh, this must have it's probably almost a

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year now. I learned about the
whole cardinal like symbolism meaning because sadly,

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my brother's dog passed away. It
was so sad, and like the next

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day, uh, they saw a
cardinal right outside the window in the morning,

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in the spot that their dog used
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that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
My brother text me and was like,

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Yo, what is like the is
there any kind of significance or something to

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seeing a cardinal, which is crazy
that my brother would ask me that,

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you know, like it's not his
wheelhouse, it's not what he's been interested

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in like ever. But I guess, like, you know, we we

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had some we had some pretty deep
conversations, me and Robbie, like deeper

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than we've ever had, and I
think it just peaked his curiosity, so

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right, But yeah, yeah,
it's supposed to symbolize like like past loved

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ones, like bringing you a message
or something to that effect. Right,

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That's what I've gathered. Yeah,
And I do want to make it clear,

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like I've I've always been very interested
in signs and omens as a concept,

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like I take them very seriously and
at very stressful points in my life.

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I've always observed animal omens. I
remember being like nineteen or twenty and

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I'm driving home and I was going
through something serious at the time, and

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a deer like ran out in front
of a car on a highway eighty seven

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or a like past like it was
just like right on the road or something,

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and I thought it was really weird
because I've never seen deer eight out

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there an eighty seven out in Grays
Creek. Yeah, you know what I'm

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talking about like it's not common seeing
deer out there, not on eight down

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towards Wilmington. You know that's right
common, right. I just thought it

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was like the sticks of Gray's Creek. You see him everywhere, Like yeah,

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but on eighty seven. I've seen
one in my life on eighty seven.

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I just I thought it was weird, and I went home and I

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told Dad, and he was like, you always pay attention to animals,

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and you know, he just every
little thing like that grown up he's you

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know, always pay attention to animals. God talks us through animals. So

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I've always been like interested in it, But then lately Jenny's been really interested

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in it because of his song.
So I wanted to read the lyrics real

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quick. It's called Cardinal. I
saw the sign or an omen on the

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branches in the morning. It was
right after I lost a friend without warning

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words unsaid scarlet red Cardinal. Are
you bringing me a message from the other

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side? Are you telling me on
somebody's I'm on somebody's mind, don't leave

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me behind. I took a walk
in the city to clear my head for

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a moment, turn my collar to
the wind on the street. It was

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blowing and there he was above my
head. Cardinal, are you bringing me

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a message from the other side?
I'm a skip a few repeat lyrics.

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Are you just watching and waiting for
spring? Do you have some kind of

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magic to bring pretty bird? Skip? Repeat lyrics, and then it basically

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repeats for the rest of the song. But yeah, that's literally like the

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Native American kind like lore of it
is that it's like a loved one who

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has passed and is like bringing you
a message from the beyond. So that

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got my wife talking to me about
cardinals and omens and signs. It's just

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something that privately we you know.
And also there was a time a few

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months ago before that song came out
that I was going through something pretty serious

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and a bird just like flew headfirst
into our window. And I've always heard

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that that's like a serious omen or
whatever. And anyway, so that day,

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that Sunday that we were driving home
from Fayetteville a few weeks ago,

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and we were like, what do
we talk about? What kind of episode

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do we do? A cardinal freaking
nose died into our car windshield and splat

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and died. Jenny's freaking out,
She's crying and we're like I was literally

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like, dude, it's an omen, like this is an omen for something.

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And then you know, we're driving
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at different points, like three different
cardinals like swooped right in front of our

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car, and we were just like, okay, let's talk about omens.

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You know, yeah, so what
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have any like inkling of what that, like a bird slamming into your car

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is supposed to mean. I don't. I've always heard it's like when a

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bird crashes into a window that it's
actually a good sign, that it's something

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about like not for the bird,
right, Yeah, of course, yeah,

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rip man, rip, rip,
my brothers and sisters, rip to

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a real one and rip the head
off as it crashes. That what I

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mean, and just split right into
the window. Rest in peace, Jesus

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Christ. There's something morbid about like
a bird slamming as hard as it can

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into your window and dying, perishing, Oh dude. And then you're like

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that's good luck. You're like,
oh, something great's gonna happen this week.

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Do that thing's probably flying like eighty
miles an hour or something like that.

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Hold up eighty miles an hour.
I mean, I don't know how

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fast they died. If a bald
eagle dove and hit your window, baby,

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what do I know? Man?
Apparently Okay, a bunch of dumb

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nothing. Side note. Have you
ever seen a real falcon punch? Have

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you? Like from Smash Well?
I mean, I mean, dude,

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falcons do this when they dive,
They go like stupid insanely fast and like

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bigger falcons will hunt smaller birds and
they will zip down through the sky and

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like hit, just hitting them at
that speed, the little bird will like

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disintegrate. Then what are they gonna
eat? Just they probably grab the scraps

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in mid air. Yeah, it's
like a real falcon punch. It makes

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like a like a loud noise too. That's insane. Yeah, I'm gonna

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have to put you on game.
I'll show you some videos. Yeah,

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I like the one when the pictures
throwing the ball and it hits the bird.

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Oh no, I mean it's terrible. That Oh my god. It's

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good luck though, right yeah,
right, I don't know, but I

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I I I I read that a
bird, you know, flying into the

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window just in general, is like
good luck, prosperity, a Bond.

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It's I think like a lot of
people are like, you know, animal

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omens are bad. It's like you
see it in movies all the time,

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like it's foreboding. Like I think
of Harry Potter because I grew up consuming

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so much Harry Potter. And in
the third book it's like he sees the

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black dog. It's an omen of
death. And then they're like reading the

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tea leaves and it's like death.
Yeah, like all these omens are death.

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It's darkness. Yeah, but I
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that. No, Traditionally, like
historically, it's not. They're not all

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for bad things. It's like it's
low key, like an early early version

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of like scrying. Yeah, it's
it's kind of like like we we'll we'll

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talk about it in a little bit
like the history stuff. But early on

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it was it was just like a
way to try and read the future,

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like see the future and then and
so like the early the people who started

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doing it like thousands of years ago, which were I believe that, Yeah,

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the Mesopotamians. It looks like those
that's like the earliest recorded examples.

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That's like the earliest recorded people,
right, right, Yeah, they were

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doing it like there's like an active
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you know, like incense, like
reading the smoke, or like reading bones,

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Yes, when they throw bones and
the patterns. Yeah, oil and

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water love that kind of stuff.
Yeah, I love that kind of it's

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sick and oil and water. Those
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read omens. And then there's the
passive stuff, which is just the stuff

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that happens and then they interpret it
like what I was talking about, something

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crashing in the window, Yes,
something like just the stuff that just happens

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on its own. Right. Yeah, we got some news for you guys,

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an announcement of sorts for the listener
for y'all. The Lighthouse is on

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HBO oh Sweets streaming for free right
now, let's get I plan on watching

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it. But it got me thinking, oh, yeah, you guys got

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me thinking about them seagulls. Yeah, wait, you haven't You still haven't

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seen it. I haven't seen it, but I know a lot about seagulls.

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Well, can I tell you a
spoiler? I mean you kind of

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did that a whole episode about it. We did a whole episode about it

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about seagulls are about the movie about
the lighthouse and about seagulls. Okay,

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well, I'll share my seagull fact
after go ahead. Well that it's actually

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kind of a big plot point of
the movie. Is that like that he

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says it many times, it's bad
luck to kill a seabird. He says

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it many many times. It's the
souls of dead sailors. Is that what

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you were going to say? Well, it's also bad luck if they get

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inside your boat. Oh really found
that out from a sailor. Actually,

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if a bird gets inside your boat, that's bad luck. Birds and bananas.

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That was the other one. I
was just about to say, there's

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a bunch of like boat omens and
you showed nis, Yeah, you showed

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me some video recently or something where
somebody had a banana on a boat.

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Maybe maybe sounds like me. There's
all kinds of boat related on that,

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right, the banana. I don't
really know the bananas for sure, but

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I think it goes back to like
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is around them. So I think
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it, and that they wouldn't make
the seafair. So yeah, yeah,

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I have a cool little description of
omens. If you want to hear it,

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m h, I do, Are
you sure? Yeah? Okay,

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thank you for entertaining me. I'm
absolutely sure. Okay. As with all

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aspects of symbolist thought, the concept
of the omen has expressed itself at widely

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varying levels of sophistication. At their
subtlest, omens exist in a world where

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the boundaries between past, present,
and future are permeable. Influences of past

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conditions or events still echo within the
present, while from the other direction,

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what is to come sends ripples into
the now, like the bow waves preceding

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an advancing boat back to boats.
I am loving this the boat episode.

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Hence, the phenomenal play of each
moment represents the complex blending of symbolic influences

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from all three dimensions of time,
with those from the future designated as omens.

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Coming events cast their shadow before them. Wow, you know what I'm

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saying. And that's a deep quote. Man. That's got me pondering.

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It's got me philosophizing, but taking
a better times me you Alex on a

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boat in the future, man,
just sitting on the island with alcohol free,

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my ties and bananas, banana free
all right, you know, yeah,

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banana free man and just thinking about
life and death man. All right,

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I've got a wild abstract thought for
you guys. Okay, because all

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this boat talk boat travel and more
specifically plane travel is interesting because I'm thinking

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about this analogy, right, you
were, like when you're flying long distance,

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especially, you're not where you took
off, You're not where you landed.

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So you're not in the past and
you're not in the future, and

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you're not really in the present.
You're kind of in this void because you're

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constantly moving towards what you're it's so
very I don't know, maybe I'm looking

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way too deep into it. No, that is a cool abstract thought though.

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It's like you're kind of forced your
your physical surroundings are forcing you to

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be literally in the present moment,
like while you're in that transit, that

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interim of travel or whatever. There
is something kind of cosmic about that a

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little bit. It's like you're kind
of lost in the void. Yes,

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you're not where you were and you're
not where you're going. It reminds me

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of like the ferry man, Like
what was the was the name of the

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ferryman from Greek mythology, Kan Sharon, I don't know how to say cha

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r o, yes, yeah,
how he like shepherds the souls, like

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he rides the sick boat through the
underworld and shit, and like shepherd's the

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soul boat. I know, it's
all I'm peggybacking off you. You want

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to hear a cool boat story.
Yes, My grandfather, Papa Tad when

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he so he suddenly died of a
heart attack in December, on December third

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of twenty thirteen, and a year
and a half before that he almost died

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from he had extreme like septic poisoning. You know, wow what that is,

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right? Yes, yeah, and
he basically died from that, but

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they were able to you know,
recover him and whatnot. But it was

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so severe that year and a half
period before he eventually died that he was

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going through all this just crazy surgery
and like these near death states of consciousness

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and all this anesthesia and things like
that. And something he told my dad

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was that he basically died and went
to the other side and he saw him

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and like other souls like on a
boat. No, and that is like

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how the Egyptians described the afterlife,
right, yeah, like in did you

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watch God. What was that show? What's that show? Moon Night?

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Yeah, they showed that in the
show they have that huge like arc.

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The show was cool. It was
great. I liked it though, like

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a lot of the New or Marvel
stuff is kind of stinky poopy. Yeah,

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that one was pretty cool. Moon
Night was was sweet. Yeah,

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they showed they showed that whole thing
and then like there were a bunch of

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Egyptian gods in that show. That
show was cool. That show was really

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cool. Yeah, yeah, I
got some more. A systematic method for

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identifying omens employed by traditional cultures to
foretell the future was to carefully observe the

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symbols occurring around the beginning of any
major development, whether a personal relationship,

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a public works project, or even
an idea. This belief might be referred

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to as the law of conception.
So, like, the idea, is

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that the real important stuff as it's
being conceived, Yes, some sort of

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omen will occur, dude, I
fully believe that. Yeah. Understood esoterically,

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the context surrounding a phenomenon's birth holds
the seeds of its unfoldment and eventual

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outcome, provided one knows how to
interpret their symbolic language. So it's like

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the energy is all hyper FOI.
It's like I like that description. The

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seeds or the context surrounding a phenomenon's
birth holds the seeds of its unfoldment and

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eventual outcome. I love this.
I love that we're doing this episode because

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I feel like in media, in
pop culture and whatnot, omens are typically

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portrayed as like scary and evil.
Yes, I mean there's literally there's a

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horrimitally literally a movie called The omen
that is about the freaking it's He's the

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Antichrist. Oh shit, Oh that's
the one where the kid's born with the

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six six six on his forehead.
I don't remember if he has. I

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saw it when I was like,
it's like a birthmark. I thought,

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yeah, sixty six or something.
I think you're it's an older movie.

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Well, there's a remake that came
out when we were I saw the remake.

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But I'm just saying, like,
anything you see about omens is so

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dark and scary, But I feel
like it's not. I feel like it's

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just the way the spirit world communicates, you know, Yes, it's just

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messages the thing. I see it
that way I see any sort of communication

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from nature from animals, from the
spirit world, numbers whatever, I see

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it all like under the wide stroke
of omens. But so the thing that

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got me, I know, we're
bouncing around here, and that quote was

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really really sick. But I wanted
to drop something on you drop it.

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So my dad was all, you
know, he didn't use the word omen.

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I kind of came to that on
my own, but he was always

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telling me about animals growing up,
and we've had some really weird experiences with

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animals, like, oh yeah,
downright, just weird stuff. There's lots

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of them. Yeah. And in
twenty fifteen, I was put on to

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this really fascinating ancient African tribe that
even five thousand years ago had advanced knowledge

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and they were the Dogon tribe.
And the thing about the Dogon is that

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they were like this shamanic elders.
They had like a shamanic elder system where

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the elder of the village supposedly was
communicating with these light beings who he claimed

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that they came from the Star series
and they would give all these messages.

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Didn't what am I misremembering or didn't
they describe some sort of like ship or

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vessel or something. I'm not sure
about that. They described a bunch of

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a bunch of stuff that holds true
in today's scientific terms, like particles and

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waves and things like that. Like
they had a different idea of like the

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four elements like fire, air,
water, earth. I can't remember it

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off the top of my head,
but each of those four elements symbols had

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like different meanings about reality, like
particles, waves, you know, et

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cetera, et cetera. And something
that they said that really resonated with me

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was that the spirits. Right,
if we think about the phenomenon, you

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know, the beings or whatever,
it's all one. I mean, these

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these beings that we're all seeing,
these you know, the lights in the

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sky, the orbs whatever, they're
not spaceships there, They're beings. They're

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they're like spirits. Yeah, they're
literally like the spirits. And if we

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think about it in how they describe
it, I mean, it just totally

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makes sense. And they said that
this the beings, the spirits, they

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communicate through animal signs, through nature, that they can manipulate time at a

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very fractional not that they like manipulate
time, but rather that they vibrate at

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such a rate faster than us because
they exist in a twin dimension and that

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they can they can't just pop out
all the time and be like boom boo,

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you know. But like you know, they give us signs and omens

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from the other side, like kind
of you know, jiggle a particle here

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that makes a wave of effects happen. That like to us is like this

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profound you know, synchronicity or omen
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So when I read that, I
was like, dang that, I think

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I believe in omens now. You
know. Well, it's it's like that

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other quote about the ripple, the
like the what was it a moving ship?

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An advancing boat? What is to
come? Since ripples into the now

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like the bow way proceeding in advancing
boat. It's like, so as we

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understand it, like the spirit these
spirits, these spiritual beings, they exist

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outside of our dimensions, including time. You know, they don't experience time

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the same way that we do.
They're outside of that entirely. And so

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yeah, they could interact. It's
like they could interact with past president and

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future simultaneously in whatever way that they
wish to to relay those messages to us

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and to the other thing and as
far as like the them communicating through animals

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thing like, it's all consciousness,
right, right, what are they going

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to do start like influencing like humans? Like, no, that's that breaks

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the whole free will thing, right, Yeah, that's like possession exactly.

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It's it's like borderline kind of scary. But like you know, animals,

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while they have consciousness like us,
it's like a different level of it.

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And so that would be to me
the natural explanation of why they would use

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nature. They are nature. Spirit
is natural. It's the fifth element,

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right, you know, like spirit
in many cultures at least I think the

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best quota system of a down.
Yes, spirit moves through all things.

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Yeah, Spirit moves through all things. Yeah deep when you think about it,

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man, No, it really is. Yeah, I think it's all.

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It's all messages from from another place, another time, you know,

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and where they they kind of they
kind of find their way into the now

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and into our surroundings, give us
messages from the beyond. Yeah, So

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recently Dad and I were out skywatching. I say recently it was it was

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it could have been like close to
a year ago at this point. Actually,

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I remember what it was. It
was right before the History Channel episode

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came out, or maybe right after. It was sometime this past August,

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and we were sitting outside at night
skywatching and for the first time in my

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entire life, it was like this
blood curdling moment. We're sitting out there

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and then we hear this coyote,
probably thirty to fifty feet away from us,

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just give off this blood curdling howl
while we're seeing orbs, you know,

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and there was something, there was
some sort of communication going on at

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the moment that was significant. I
can't remember what it was at the time,

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but it was something that we were
you know, hoping for, you

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know, praying about something of that
nature. And the whole coyote thing was

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so strange. Dude, my dad
is sixty two years old, and he's

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like his hair was standing up on
his arms. He was like, dude,

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I've lived in North Carolina my whole
life. I've never heard of coyote

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like that near my house, you
know. And there's just been so many

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strange moments like throughout my life where
you know, I'm driving down the road

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and just a few months ago,
me and Jenny were driving home from the

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Rightsful Beach area and a literal,
full size coyote walks out and stops in

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front of our car on a military
cutoff Alex like busy traffic road in the

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middle of the franking city. Just
like coyote just walks out and stops and

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looks at us as we're driving,
like in the middle of the road,

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and then trots off. We're like, what the there are a bunch of

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coyotes around here? Oh yeah,
really? Oh you want to talk yoats

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yeah? Oh yeah, we already
yeah. No. The problem is they

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keep cutting down more trees for new
apartments because apparently we got plenty of room

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for new apartments. And on your
shoulder about that. Oh I'm pissed.

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Actually, I don't want to get
into it, but it might affect my

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running from mayor in the future.
But I vote for you. Yeah no,

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I mean I hope, I hope
I got two votes. At least

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you think about it. It's based
on your behavior, okay, yeah,

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well, as I'll vote for you, thanks out of principle, because then

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we'll be crooked together. You give
me a underhanded deal, like you know,

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I'll give you extra spot in your
lawn on the neighbors problem. I

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want it depends on behavior. Shit. So no, we're basically driving these

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coyotes out of their habitats. But
the problem is also that they're not invasive,

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but they're considered pest. Well,
I mean, they're one of those

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animals that like kills everything. Right, I'm pretty sure. I haven't really

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looked into it. I just know
the laws of when you can shoot them.

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When were we just talking about that? Was it on an episode or

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no? You don't remember now,
I remember the conversation. I don't remember

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what we were doing. What we
were doing. What we were doing was

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Alex just brought it up because he
wanted to talk about it. It wasn't

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on the show. No, we
were just hanging out and he's just started

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talking about it. I don't have
to go into detail, Alex. Well,

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you could go in as much detail
as you want, all right,

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cool. So we were just all
chilling one day. This was like a

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couple of weeks ago or something.
I don't regret saying that. Out of

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nowhere, Alex just starts talking about
how he wants to camp out on his

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roof with a gun and wait for
coyotes. Oh wait, no, a

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vital deis that's right? What were
you gonna lure them night vision? Oh

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I thought you were going to lure
them with like chickens or something. Yeah,

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oh yeah, that was right.
Well, No, I want the

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chickens because I remember, I remember
we were talking about chickens, because we

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were talking about how cool it would
be to have like a farm or like

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whatever. Alex just goes, yeah, I want chickens too, so that

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I can lure coyotes into my yard
and sit on my roof with night vision

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goggles and shoot them. Isn't that
right? Isn't that right? He's a

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vigilante. Yeah, he thinks,
Wayne, I'm saving my chickens by day.

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He's running. No, no,
no, no, no, no,

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no no, you're not saving your
chickens. You're purchasing chickens so that

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you murder coyotes for the eggs.
But that's not what you said for the

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eggs. No, what you said
it was it was to lure the coyotes.

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No, I I did say it
that way, but lying, No,

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I did say I said that exactly. But the reality is is that

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they're gonna come. I want the
chickens because I want the eggs, and

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I don't want I don't want the
coyotes to take my fried chicken. Okay,

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all right, Alex, Yeah,
we'll go with that. It is

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nice to have, Okay, damn
cradle jiggling eggs. I'm gonna glaze right

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past that. And then when I
come in here with a full coyote first

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jacket and a full coyotes with the
hood and it's the coyote hood head on

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my head and it's got his fangs, gonna be jealous. No, we're

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not. Are you gonna make that
yourself? I want a coyote scarf.

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I'm just wrong with y'all. It's
actually wrong with It's just the I was

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taking the tongue. What what?
Oh my god, I don't be I

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retired my hunting career long ago,
man, Alex. I've never hunted.

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Actually, I've gone coyote hunting one
time. You didn't see any at all.

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No, we had a bluetooth speaker. We were playing injured small animal

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noises and we were just sitting in
the field watching this bluetoo speaker. They're

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smart. I mean they're dogs,
you know, and that's kind of makes

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makes you feel a little bad about
it. But they're smart. And then

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what they'll do is they travel in
packs, and if they have this possible

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prey, they will circle it because
at some point in that circle, they'll

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be down wind and they'll be able
to smell. So if I was standing

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too close inside that circle, they
would eventually smell that human scent and basically

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be like, Nah, that is
smart. Yeah, they're mean, they're

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dogs. It's like they're just like
wild dogs. Yeah. Yeah, they're

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big too, man, they can
get big, big dude. When I

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was a kid, when I was
like probably around ten or so, uh,

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my dad, for like no joke, like probably three or four years

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straight, would he was like keeping
tabs on this wild coyote that was roaming

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around Fayetteville, not Hope Mills,
Fayetteville weird like in the city. And

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he named him Cody the Coyote,
and he would literally go to China Garden.

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Remember China Garden. Yeah, he
would go to China Garden like at

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least once a week to get us
Chinese food for dinner. And he would

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I thought you were talking about the
coyote coyotes going to China. I'd give

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him chickens, man. I put
coyote sweet and sour chickens. Yeah,

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I put Cody the coyote on my
back and took him to China Garden.

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I thought he went to the I
honestly, in my head was going that

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coyotes going to the dumpster of the
China food. Oh. No, it's

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worse than that. My dad would
buy him food. Was a coyote.

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Yes, he would buy extra food
because he knew that either on his way

405
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to or from work every day he
was gonna see Cody the coyote somewhere.

406
00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:11.240
Dude, your dad would track a
coyote right, right, right. It's

407
00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:15.079
not like when when you hear that
it's my dad doing it. It's not

408
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:18.000
a crazy I'm telling you, son, there's this coyote roman face. No,

409
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:21.119
it was more like that I saw
him off three to oh one.

410
00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:22.759
Yeah. It was more like he'd
come home and like one of the first

411
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.440
things out of his mouth would be, like, I saw Cody today.

412
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:29.440
He was down there by the Chin
by the Harbor Freight. He was over

413
00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:33.279
by the Harbor Freight today. Like
every day he would update us on Cody

414
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:36.680
the coyote. Amazing. Yeah,
I know he had this relationship with a

415
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:41.240
coyote, and I'm starting to develop
a relationship with Stray cats. Really.

416
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.920
Oh man, that's a wonderful,
beautiful thing at work. So I'm not

417
00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:49.319
very affectionate to the stray cats,
but I just kind of keep tabs on

418
00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:52.759
them, right, because you got
to be cool around your boat. Well,

419
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:57.279
I'm by myself. I just I'm
a little abrasive. I would have

420
00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:04.359
been surprised if you were affect that. I mean kind of all the cats

421
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:10.720
I'm I am. I lean towards
the street cat. I like an indoor

422
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:14.680
outdoor cat. Yeah. In the
words of Little bee Man, fishing is

423
00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:18.720
just Fanesse and sea animals. That's
a little bee line. Fish is just

424
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:27.400
Vanessen sea animals. That's that's a
legendary line. Yeah, fish. It

425
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:32.440
is just it's amazing you on me
talk? You want me talking omens?

426
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.359
Yeah. I was about to say, Man, this is this it's all

427
00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:41.440
just an omen that we're sitting here
each other. I got a hell of

428
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:45.160
cool historical facts about omens. I
want to hear what you have to say

429
00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:48.359
first though, I got I got
at least one omen story. I got

430
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:51.799
two, but I'll hang on to
one. I feel like they don't happen

431
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:55.839
to me like before. It was
always during That's what mine's about Okay,

432
00:31:55.920 --> 00:32:00.559
hit it. So we're talking about
OMEN episode. We talked about OMEN episode

433
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:06.039
a week before, we mentioned it
two weeks ago. We've been talking about

434
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.680
so anyway, it's been crazy.
Yeah, it has been. We're talking

435
00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:14.799
about OMEN episodes, and so I
started going, Okay, I'm I'm gonna

436
00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:17.880
have an OMEN. I'm gonna have
an OMEN like I'm in my life like

437
00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:22.680
I want. Let's let's let's create
some content, right for the podcast.

438
00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:27.119
Give me an Omen, give me
an O. Not happening. It was

439
00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:30.839
time to record the first try no
OMEN. I was like, whatever,

440
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:36.000
we come into the studio. Hey, we're not doing omens. Cool next

441
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:39.880
week, right? Uh. I
actually did get the OMEN that time,

442
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:45.720
so that that was that day.
I think it was Thursday. It's strange

443
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:52.240
because Olivia and my fiance, she
always wakes up first. She's she's mourning

444
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:55.680
dog duty. So the dog gets
up about five thirty six o'clock. She

445
00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:00.960
takes the dog out race. Yeah, I'm night shift. Okay, night

446
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:05.000
shift is scarier. It's just you
know more it's dark. Oh you mean

447
00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.480
taking the dog out on a walk. Yeah, I'm I'm night shift for

448
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:14.640
dog. She's for dog, she's
for dog. This is me being affectionate.

449
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.599
No, So it was just you
call Olivia woman. That's all you

450
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:27.480
call her. Don't ask questions.
So I just woke up. I woke

451
00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:30.160
up on Thursday about like five thirty
five, five o'clock, and I was

452
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:32.720
like, man, I feel pretty
good. I'm just gonna get up.

453
00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:36.680
She was fast asleep. I was
like, all right, I'll just take

454
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:38.839
the dog out, you know,
take the dog out. We're walking me

455
00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:45.680
and the dog and boom out just
right in front of us, and like

456
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:51.519
right in front of us, and
then down across the water and then perches

457
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:53.559
up in a tree back the way
we were. I had to go.

458
00:33:54.039 --> 00:34:00.359
So I was like, hush,
there's my Omen sick and took the dog

459
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.079
back. We're walking back in the
and the oil was just going off.

460
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:07.920
A few weeks ago you were telling
us I have an Omen to share with

461
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.480
you guys. Yes, And so
that was the day of the Omen episode,

462
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.800
or when we were gonna do the
Omen episode mm, and I was

463
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.320
like, cool, Omen, Like
it's gonna be a good day. It

464
00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:24.320
was not. The day was garbage
and I can't remember exactly what happened,

465
00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:28.400
but it was just like mildly bad
thing. Oh, I remember. One

466
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:31.440
of the things was I thought I
lost my wallet. I put my wallet

467
00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:35.320
in the wrong spot in the car, called her, Hey, is my

468
00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:37.719
wallet at home? No, it's
not here. Check here, No,

469
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:39.119
not here. I called everywhere I
went, was like, hey, do

470
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:43.000
you see a wallet? You see
a wallet? I locked all my cards.

471
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:46.159
Oh no, I locked all my
cards and then I found it.

472
00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:52.639
Oh so I had to go unlock
all my cards and uh, I dropped

473
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:57.960
three different things down the crack of
my driver's seat. This has never happened

474
00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:00.480
to me. I'm not that kind
of person. I remember you telling us

475
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:07.360
that. For context, for the
listener, Alex is like extremely organized and

476
00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:10.880
meticulous and yes, like everything is
to the nines to the teas, Like

477
00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:17.039
that doesn't happen to Alex. Alex
doesn't lose things and like certainly doesn't drop

478
00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:22.760
things through the crack in his car
three times in one day. It might

479
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:25.559
sound like a normal thing because like
that's a pretty much daily occurrence for me,

480
00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:30.039
But for Alex, I haven't done
it once since that day. That

481
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.639
does not two weeks ago. Damn. Yeah, that owl was out of

482
00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:36.760
gets show. I'm like, man, and it just was. But it's

483
00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:39.559
not like, oh, my whole
day sucks, like, oh day's ruined.

484
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:45.320
It's just like mildly infuriating things like
the whole thing. And then we

485
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:46.400
get in and I'm like, all
right, got an omen to share,

486
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:51.719
and it was like, not not
doing it. We're doing last day of

487
00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:54.000
class. So well, we were
gonna do it until you broke out that

488
00:35:54.159 --> 00:36:00.800
awesome story about your instructor. And
then we were twenty minutes after that story

489
00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:05.039
and it's like, well, well, okay, wait a minute, though,

490
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:09.119
I had a lot, I had
the owl, and then my instructor

491
00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:13.800
came to me with that story that
happened that night, that that morning.

492
00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:17.000
Yeah, so my instructor had his
experience in the morning, and then I

493
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:21.159
had the owl in the morning,
and then my day was like trying to

494
00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:24.800
throw me off on purpose. So
you could interpret it as the spirit world

495
00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:30.000
acting up, the spirit world acting
up. The omen for me was hey,

496
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:34.199
we're still here, spirit world,
and then the physical world was like,

497
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:36.480
oh, what if we make him
mad? What if we throw him

498
00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:39.440
off this game? What if we
throw him off this spirituality? So wait,

499
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:45.079
did the did your was that your
coworker that had that my instructor,

500
00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:47.360
your instructor? Yeah, I've I've
developed a pretty cool word was that was

501
00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:52.719
So did that happen before or after
the owl? It would have been the

502
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:57.679
night three hours prior to the owl, I mean, give or take.

503
00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.320
That's kind of wild. So like
after that happened, one of the first

504
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:05.440
things you saw that day was an
owl swooping in front of you. I

505
00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:07.920
didn't know that that happened. No, right, no, right, but

506
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:09.719
it did. This happens for him
at two in the morning, and then

507
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:16.199
five thirty in the morning owls,
and then my day goes just mildly frustrating.

508
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:22.400
The thing to me is that specifically
he just happened to be the morning

509
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:25.760
shift for Juneo, right, which
he usually does the night walk. Good

510
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:29.719
point. I didn't even think about
that, Like something is different here,

511
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:32.760
you know, Yeah, this day
was completely different. It started off different.

512
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.679
Sometimes I think about I think there's
a theory like that. And when

513
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:40.920
I leave my house, there's like
a there's like a median, and then

514
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.239
the median has trees in it.
It's just like if you're going, you

515
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:46.800
know, the right side go,
it's like the flow of traffic, right,

516
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:52.079
yeah, but it's it's it's like
a neighborhood road. So sometimes I'll

517
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.360
be like, if I'm feeling something
weird or I just want to act up,

518
00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:58.960
I go to the opposite side.
I go the wrong way around it

519
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:02.239
on purpose for new reason other than
like let's throw some chaos into this day,

520
00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:07.239
like if there's some a butterfly effect
or predestined thing. I'm just like,

521
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.280
I'm going this way sometime the spot. Yeah, yes, it changed

522
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:13.960
up in the spur of the moment, like I'm gonna walk this way instead

523
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:15.679
of this way. Just change it
up a little bit. See what happens

524
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.360
that I was listening to, like
reading about those glitch and the matrix type

525
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:22.760
stuff, and that's how it happens. I wanted to talk about that too.

526
00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:25.280
I'm glad you but a lot of
the stuff you were just talking about

527
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:29.400
reminded me of some of the things
I wanted to hit today. It's very

528
00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:34.480
clear I haven't had like if I'm
just being candid here to our wonderful listeners,

529
00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:37.079
I wanted to talk about this too. But in the last eight weeks

530
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:43.760
I've been doing construction. I just
I have not been as hands on as

531
00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:46.360
I would like to be, and
I haven't really had time to do much

532
00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:53.639
research but a right, right,
I got you, home boy. But

533
00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:57.320
my point is, there were some
things that I wanted to talk about,

534
00:38:57.440 --> 00:38:59.079
like like off the top of my
head, like, for example, the

535
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:04.360
matrix different pop culture representations of omens, And one of those was the matrix

536
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:07.840
when it's like the black Cat is
walking by. Oh yeah, it was

537
00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:12.199
like the first like mission that Neo
goes on after he's like gone through his

538
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:16.000
awakening and his training, and the
one when when what's it what's the little

539
00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:20.480
guy's name? Mouse? Right?
The one where he gets shot up and

540
00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:23.559
dies and like is it mouse or
mouse? Maybe you talk about the guy

541
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:28.199
who sits he stays, the one
who made the girl in the red dress,

542
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.079
the lady in the red dress.
Uh yeah, I don't remember his

543
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:32.719
name, let me find out.
But it's the mission when NEOs the key

544
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:36.880
maker. Is it? No?
No, that's like the second one.

545
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:39.400
I think I didn't hear which matrix
you were referencing. The first one,

546
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:43.599
the first one, Yeah, but
it's the one when he's mouse. Yeah,

547
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:46.000
yeah, he's like going on.
Yeah, that guy he's going on.

548
00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:49.360
His first mission is the one where
he dies and he sees the black

549
00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:52.440
cat walk by, and then he
sees it walk by again and he's like

550
00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:55.760
deja vu and they're like what yeah, yeah, they freak out, deja

551
00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:58.880
vu. I saw a black cat
twice and they're like, you know,

552
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:01.039
we gotta get the hell out of
here. And it's like yes, it's

553
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:06.159
like you know, and the lore
of the movie, the Agent takes over.

554
00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:08.079
But I mean, when you think
about it, it's the spirit world

555
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:15.440
manipulating animals and physical reality. Yeah, to not like from the perspective of

556
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:16.639
the movie, to give us a
message, but I just thought that was

557
00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:21.639
really cool, the profound nature of
that. And yeah, in the context

558
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:24.480
of in the context of those movies, the matrix is like, well,

559
00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:29.840
I guess it would be the real
world would be like the spirit world maybe,

560
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:32.760
and the matrix would be what we
know as the real world, you

561
00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:37.800
know or whatever. So it's kind
of the same concept, like messages,

562
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:43.000
signs being sent from the other side. It's like the same thing. Yeah,

563
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:45.920
yeah. And then the other thing
is I wanted to talk about a

564
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:52.840
major omen that my dad had actually
I had with him when my grandfather died

565
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:58.480
in twenty thirteen. We rode in
a limo to the church because that's just

566
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:00.480
common, you know, like if
youneral possessions a lot of times, like

567
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:06.559
the children for a funeral, Yeah, like the the intermediate family or the

568
00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:10.599
immediate family or whatever. They'll they'll
oftentimes do a limo with the funeral service.

569
00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:15.079
And we rode in a limo to
the church where the ceremony was.

570
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:20.039
And it was raining. It was
December, very cold, rainy day.

571
00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:23.760
And I don't know if you remember, but when you're going down now,

572
00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:27.519
I haven't lived in grays Creek in
like eight years now, but I'm trying

573
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:32.440
to remember if it is is it
Hawk Bullard Road? Yeah, his name

574
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:38.119
was Hawk Hawk Boo. Yeah,
he married one of my ancestors. But

575
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:43.960
H. Bullard Road, I think
it's H. Bullard Road when you in

576
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:46.360
Creek, uh huh, when you
go down that road right to go to

577
00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:50.320
where our church is to be the
tent church. Yes, yeah, yeah.

578
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:54.400
So we're going down H. Bullard
Road, rainy December day and on

579
00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:58.840
a tree stump on the side of
the road there was an owl just freaking

580
00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:01.559
looking at us as we're going to
the funeral and we thought that was very

581
00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:05.960
weird. That's super weird. Dad
put that in the book. There was

582
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:12.800
another time where I think it was
my grandfather had cancer before he died.

583
00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:15.480
He did beat the cancer. He
had a sign, he had a whole

584
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:21.039
healing situation that might also be in
Dad's book. I can't remember, but

585
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:27.239
at one point an owl swooped down
on the patio, like over their head.

586
00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:29.800
And we've just had so many weird
things with owls, dude. Right

587
00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:31.360
before my dad was shot by a
shotgun at ten years old, he was

588
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:35.760
face to face with an owl.
You said, right before, like the

589
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.000
day or two before you damn,
he's ten years old. But the way

590
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:44.280
he told the story, the owl
wasn't real. What like the owl was

591
00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:46.360
more etheric, I thought, because
that was in the beginning of the book.

592
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:49.440
I don't know. I mean he
was ten years old, man.

593
00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:54.719
Yeah, it was like it was. It was well written. Yeah,

594
00:42:55.880 --> 00:43:02.239
it was like I could have sworn
he said something like ghostly or like almost

595
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:07.880
translucent owl. But I could also
just be straight making that up. That's

596
00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:12.000
the bull with the lady Okay,
really saw the owl. Yeah, And

597
00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:15.760
then there was there was this one
time that I took as like the biggest

598
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:20.400
omen of my entire life, and
it fundamentally changed me inside out. Was

599
00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:23.039
I've told the story many times on
the podcast back in twenty twelve when me

600
00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:27.639
and dad were talking about, you
know, the phenomenon, and then the

601
00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:30.559
cows started moving at me. But
there wasn't really I was thinking about that

602
00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:32.400
too, cow is there or anything, but I was thinking about that's definitely

603
00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:36.239
an omen I was thinking about the
same thing. Yeah, very strange.

604
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:40.920
Yeah, yes, I don't know. I just it's stuff like that doesn't

605
00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:46.000
happen to me before, right,
it happens during and after. I can't

606
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.199
think of any example. Can you
explain that for me a little bit?

607
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.039
I know exactly what you're saying.
Yeah, you know, like you know,

608
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:59.239
like weird synchronicities, like, yeah, they only happened to during or

609
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:05.159
before or after what? Okay,
So, for instance, like the amount

610
00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:10.000
of syncreticities that were happening while I
while I was in the process of like

611
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:15.480
finding out if this whole move thing
was gonna work. Oh okay, the

612
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:21.320
synchronicities were through the roof like daily, many times a day. So it

613
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:25.840
seems to me like you're getting more
of a keep going message, yes,

614
00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:30.519
like hold fast, yes, stay
hanging there kind of thing. Yes,

615
00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:35.480
that is what it feels like for
me always. It's never like a foreboding

616
00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:39.239
or a foreshadowing, at least not
that I've noticed. It's always like a

617
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:44.599
during or even after. Sometimes you
know, I'll get like weird little signs

618
00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:49.880
and stuff that you know that makes
me go into nature loves courage thing.

619
00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:54.119
But maybe we'll talk about that.
So yeah, maybe we will in like

620
00:44:54.280 --> 00:45:01.840
three weeks or something or in like, okay, I got some cool stuff,

621
00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:08.239
let's see. The ancient Mesopotamians looked
for omens, both provoked and unprovoked,

622
00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:13.679
in everything, and believed that the
universe we live in is a is

623
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:19.039
sort of like a giant canvas for
messages from the divine, believing that nearly,

624
00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:22.559
if not everything in existence carried with
it a message. And back in

625
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:28.239
these times, omens were interpreted by
several methods. There was like they did

626
00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:34.440
liver divination, which is like literally
examining the livers of like dead sheep and

627
00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:38.159
dead animals and like to see if
there were weird like absesss and and stuff

628
00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:45.320
like that. And apparently like it
was exactly yeah that one doesn't resonate with

629
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:47.159
me. Well, well no no, but but think about it though,

630
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:52.400
because your liver no, no,
okay, come on, spit seriously your

631
00:45:52.440 --> 00:46:00.119
liver, uh filters toxins. Yeah, and and many toxins are released psychosomatically,

632
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:08.320
right or and that animals animals operate
on different frequency, Like animals are

633
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:13.679
more sensitive and intune to nature what's
going on here and behind the veil.

634
00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:17.639
So if there's toxicity or or uh, something that would release that in their

635
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:25.159
mind just beyond the realm of human
perception, that they then release those toxins

636
00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:29.679
into their liver. We dissect the
liver and say, oh fuck right,

637
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.639
yeah, yeah, I mean you
gotta you gotta remember this is back in

638
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:39.159
like the very like like two BC
to like ten to like ten BC.

639
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:45.840
Dude, Mesopotamia was like more like
two thousand BC, right, like right

640
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:52.960
way back. But like at these
times, there were every every royal court

641
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:58.119
had a magician, right, all
of them around the talk about job of

642
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:01.639
jobs. Oh oh yeah, you
kid like Merlin. It's like being a

643
00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:06.639
weather man, like nothing, you
cannot you can do no wrong, right,

644
00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:09.000
Oh, your experiment killed a couple
of people whatever, and that's just

645
00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:15.480
the magician. But yeah, like
every royal court had an appointed court magician.

646
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:19.599
And these were the same guys who
did all forms of divination, like

647
00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:22.400
the smoke stuff and the oil stuff, and like here there's there's there's more

648
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:30.039
examples. Yeah, the canamancy is
uh, it's where a court magician observes

649
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:34.079
patterns of oil and water in a
dish. And then there's that's cool.

650
00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:36.880
Yeah it heard of that one.
They would like so, like I was

651
00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:39.880
saying earlier, there are like the
unprovoked ones, which is where like okay,

652
00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.719
like, oh, there's one really
cool example. Okay, quick example

653
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:52.280
of an unprovoked omen. This is
the Battle of Hallis in five eighty five

654
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:59.079
BC. This is in book one
of herodotus History, Herodotus' histories. It's

655
00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:04.400
an investigation of the conflict between Crotius, the king of Lydia, and Cyrus,

656
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:08.039
the king of Persia. In a
typical Herododean fashion, he makes much

657
00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:13.719
digression and comes to the story of
the Battle of Hellas. Herodotus records that

658
00:48:13.800 --> 00:48:19.039
in the sixth year a battle took
place in which it happened when the fight

659
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:24.079
had begun, suddenly the day became
night. What this change of day,

660
00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:30.280
this change of the day fails.
The Milesian had foretold to the Ionians,

661
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:36.360
laying down as a limit this very
year in which the change took place.

662
00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:39.239
The Lydians, however, and the
Meads, when they saw it had become

663
00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:44.320
night instead of days, ceased from
their fighting and were both much more eager

664
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:47.119
that peace should be made between them. So like, middle of this battle

665
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:53.280
and five eighty five BC, a
solar eclipse that happens like once every thousand

666
00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:58.840
years happened in the middle of this
battle, and both sides stopped, just

667
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:04.400
stopped fighting and came to a piece
broke like broken piece. That's another great

668
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:07.800
subject of conversation, omens of the
stars. And oh dude, that's how

669
00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:10.960
it like, that's like low key
how it started. Some of the earliest

670
00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:15.559
means well actually, no, no, no, this wasn't the early early

671
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:21.360
stuff because obviously astrology, astronomy,
it wasn't like being you know, studied.

672
00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:25.400
But by the seventh century BC,
diviners and court magicians began relying heavily,

673
00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:30.639
primarily on astrology to find and interpret
omens. Right like it was.

674
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:35.920
They were all about it. That's
very cool. But so those are what

675
00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:38.760
you would consider unprovoked because you don't
do anything. They just happened. Yeah,

676
00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:43.440
a sheep dies and they're like,
let's open its liver, like you

677
00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:45.599
know, like let's see what's in
its liver, I mean, among other

678
00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:49.239
things, among other things. Right, but are you gonna dude, let's

679
00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:52.239
let them just sit there. Come
on, you're gonna make some spicy meatball.

680
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:58.079
There's valuable information in that liver.
I'm just saying, maybe other parts

681
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:01.159
liver. I had some liver today. Really. Yeah, that's gross anyway.

682
00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:08.320
Uh, that's actually called hepatoscopy.
It's like, it's like, I'll

683
00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:14.920
buy it. It's observing irregularities and
abnormalities of the entrails of sacrificial sheep.

684
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:19.880
So so you're just like, you
just slice that thing open, and the

685
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:22.599
way the guts fall is like,
oh, it's for seven years ago.

686
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:27.800
Yeah, the intestines are twisted a
funny way. Yeah. Yeah. They

687
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:30.760
would either like do it after a
sheep already died, or they would sacrifice

688
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:34.840
one, which that would be provoked
and then like the oil and the water

689
00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:39.320
thing that's provoked, taro tea leaves. Yeah, the bone throwing the yeah,

690
00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:44.039
bonees, crying and reading. That
was popular in China where they would

691
00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:45.880
I'm pretty sure it might have been
China where they throw the bones and they

692
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:52.440
read the patterns of them. And
now a story of Alexander the Great,

693
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.800
you perked up a little bit when
I said that. I was just excited.

694
00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:59.239
I might you know, it might
be about me for a second.

695
00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:02.280
This is kind of crazy. This
is pretty pretty fucking crazy. Alexander the

696
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:07.639
Great's death was predicted by several omens
ravens falling dead at his feet as he

697
00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:12.000
approached Babylon, which is where he
died. Wow, by the way,

698
00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:15.000
Wow, literally like flocks of ravens
just died as he approached. Crazy.

699
00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:22.159
A sacrificed animal whose liver had no
lobe. Look, man, hepatocracy,

700
00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:32.480
it's hepatometology, hepatoscopy, hepatoscopy.
Man, hepatocracy is a form of It's

701
00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:37.119
a it's like political. It's like
baby, I got my I got loaded

702
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:40.639
with appointments. This week, I
got my hepatoscophy. Tuesday and three,

703
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:45.760
I got my colonoscopy, and then
I got my prostatedoscopy. Yeah. Uh

704
00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:52.400
so the sacrificed animal whose liver had
no lobe. A lion in his menagerie

705
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:59.000
being attacked and killed by a tame
ass. Wait wait, wait wait wait

706
00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:05.880
are we talking about like donkeys?
Yeah, someone's someone's butt killed killed a

707
00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:13.440
lion reading livers? I mean,
anything could happen. I guess, dude,

708
00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:16.079
bro, a tame donkey killing a
lion. That's thugging. That's thugging.

709
00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:21.880
He fucking deep, that's crazy.
Bro, You on the wrong block.

710
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:25.760
Ye come around here, I got
a question for you. All.

711
00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:34.039
You're on a mission. Mission is
for everything. Statue, statue, fame,

712
00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:37.679
stature, statue, whatever, statues. Yeah, sure you get a

713
00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:43.920
statue at the end. I'm sure. Uh you raven start from dead at

714
00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:45.920
your feet? Yea, all that
stuff. A donkey kills your lion,

715
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:49.320
what are you gonna do? Quit
the sheep ain't got a loan on his

716
00:52:49.480 --> 00:52:53.800
liver. That sheep. We got
no load? What do you do?

717
00:52:54.079 --> 00:52:59.360
Honest question? Okay, well listen
in context. Turn around. These are

718
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:02.800
times you can turn around. These
are times where you have a fucking court

719
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:10.880
magician whose job it is it It's
like you have a guy who it's his

720
00:53:12.039 --> 00:53:15.960
whole job to interpret nature and tell
you if something's bad is coming, Like

721
00:53:16.079 --> 00:53:21.360
yeah, i'd probably like I'm paying
this guy to to tell me this shit's

722
00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:23.760
happening, And like, turn around. I cannot shake the thought that the

723
00:53:23.800 --> 00:53:30.679
real modern day version of this court
magician is just the weather man. I'm

724
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:36.239
stuck on this. We pay this
guy his salary. He's wrong more than

725
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:42.400
fifty percent of the time. Yeah, I mean that's honestly a good parallel.

726
00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:46.519
It's kind of predicting cosmic weather,
but then the like. So if

727
00:53:46.519 --> 00:53:52.079
you don't turn around, you're gonna
be Alexander the lake. Come on.

728
00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:54.400
That was bad, but it was
it was bad. Okay, No,

729
00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:59.239
but you guys haven't answered the question
I did. What's your answer? I

730
00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:04.400
would listen to the court magician.
I'm paying him. You're seeing the signs

731
00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:08.679
yourself too. Yes, a raven
fault? How many ravens have to fall

732
00:54:08.760 --> 00:54:14.119
dead at your Okay before you think
enough? You don't like his answer?

733
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:16.639
What's yours? If you're going to
press him over his answer? Yeah,

734
00:54:16.719 --> 00:54:22.840
what's your I didn't, I don't
what did you're Alexander? Dammit? What's

735
00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:27.440
your answer? I don't think I'd
I think i'd press on. Yeah,

736
00:54:27.480 --> 00:54:34.840
and he died, so did his
court magician, show did everybody else?

737
00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:39.079
Because Alexander decided not to turn around
because there was also the people who won

738
00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:44.079
are dead now too, Well,
that's just because of time. How did

739
00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:47.840
he die? He he was assassinated? Wasn't he he was killed. I

740
00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:52.519
actually I don't know. Okay,
So the last thing was a prisoner wearing

741
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:59.320
the royal diadem and robes, seated
on Alexander's throne. These were all omens

742
00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:04.880
believed to a predicted his death according
to Plutarch. Cool. Yeah, that's

743
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:08.400
super cool. You know who else
had a so to speak, court magician,

744
00:55:08.559 --> 00:55:13.679
more like a court astrologer. And
this is hilaria or typhoid fever,

745
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:17.239
which are rampant in ancient Babylon.
Oh wow, So guess what if he

746
00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:20.639
listened to the damn court magician and
turn around, they wouldn't have gone to

747
00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:22.800
Babylon anymore. From that, what
if he died from one of them ravens

748
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:28.320
gave him typhoid fever? Around?
That's what I'm saying. No, you're

749
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:31.400
not. You're saying you press off. No, I am saying press you

750
00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:37.320
forgot, you forgot your own stance. You're saying you'd listen to the court

751
00:55:37.360 --> 00:55:42.199
magician. Well listen, the real
Alexander the Great was far too busy with

752
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:45.360
his boyfriend, so he was.
I mean, there's books about it.

753
00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:50.239
Yeah, he cared too much about
true it's in the movie. What movie

754
00:55:50.679 --> 00:55:57.039
that Alexander the Great movie. I
can't remember what. Really, I don't

755
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.440
know. I can't remember the movie. But there is a not Troy,

756
00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:04.280
no, no, let me look
it up. There is a movie about

757
00:56:04.280 --> 00:56:07.159
Alexander the Great. I'm pretty sure, man. And then there's that book

758
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:09.519
that oh no, wait, I'm
thinking about I'm thinking about Song of Achilles.

759
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:15.199
I'm thinking that's a different is Awesome
though I watched Awesome. I've seen

760
00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:17.679
them for the first time. Great, cool, great? Have you seen

761
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:22.239
that one? It's been forever.
It's called Alexander. It's uh, it's

762
00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:25.559
a great name. I think it's
Angelina Joe Lee. I think it's yea,

763
00:56:25.639 --> 00:56:31.320
Colin Farrell. Angelina Joe Lee plays
Alexander the Great. That's fucking no.

764
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:37.159
She plays Alexander to great. Anthony
Hopkins is tall of me? Bro

765
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:50.280
what bro? Rosario Dawson is Roxanne? Come on rocks Henne Rocks, not

766
00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:52.840
the Rosanne I was thinking of.
Yeah, you're thinking about the better Roxanne

767
00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:58.360
from Damn that music. I saw
this remix of that song, except they

768
00:56:58.400 --> 00:57:02.480
only said rocks rocks. Yeah.
Oh, you're talking about the one that

769
00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:07.239
the police the police, Yeah,
yeah, okay, So you know who

770
00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:14.199
in modern Times had a court astrologer
and actually like predicted. Okay, I

771
00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:17.800
said Modern Times closer Ronald Reagan,
he had a for real, he had

772
00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:22.360
a legit astrologer, like in private
that dude, he wouldn't even like he

773
00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:28.199
would make it was his wife who
was like really into this stuff, dude.

774
00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:31.599
He was assassinated attempted like three times, and it was predicted by the

775
00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:37.119
astrologer for real, And he kept
ducking them. He kept moving on,

776
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:42.760
like pushing on. Hey he did. He did survive him though, but

777
00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:45.920
I'll just you know that that didn't
exactly go away. If you're on a

778
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:51.679
mission you got, you can't quit
unless you unless your court magician tells you

779
00:57:51.719 --> 00:57:53.679
to quit. I fire him,
get a new one. Hey, which

780
00:57:53.719 --> 00:57:58.360
one of us is the court magician
in this scenario? In this scenario,

781
00:57:58.559 --> 00:58:00.960
like yeah, I feel like in
the room, I feel like we are

782
00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:08.840
the court magicians that are badly neglected
and abused by Alexander the Lake. Oh,

783
00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:13.480
you and you and I are the
court magicians. It's like, sir,

784
00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:16.800
please, my worshipful master, I
desire you to stay alive. He's

785
00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:22.000
like, shut the fuck, I'm
gonna do what I want. And then

786
00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:23.519
he gets shot in the liver and
it's like, you know, his lobe

787
00:58:23.559 --> 00:58:27.599
is hanging out, and it's like, I'm telling you, my worshipful it's

788
00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:30.920
a bad sign. Let me examine
your liver. Oh yeah, we need

789
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:36.719
to check your liver out. We
really do. Would you would you be

790
00:58:36.760 --> 00:58:39.960
willing to would you be willing to
do that? Would you? Probably not.

791
00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:44.639
I just sem disappointed you didn't care
that you were just adorned as worshipful

792
00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:49.119
master. I just I just kind
of soaked it up because finally, you

793
00:58:49.159 --> 00:58:54.239
know, the truth is realized.
Of course, you soaked it what it's

794
00:58:54.280 --> 00:59:00.440
supposed to be? What? What
is that? It actually just right?

795
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:04.800
You know, yeah, oh my
god, what's happening? Back to Mormon's

796
00:59:04.840 --> 00:59:17.000
man, Oh my god, Oh
god, where's Bobby and Marky when you

797
00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:22.559
need him? Oh? Oh my
god. That joke went over so many

798
00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:25.360
people's head, you know, you
know that so many people are like,

799
00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:29.559
what the fuck are they talking?
What does he meaning? You're crying?

800
00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:34.760
You're crying right now? Oh god, man, oh my god. That

801
00:59:34.920 --> 00:59:39.960
was I feel free from the pressure
from the pressure of all the damn construction.

802
00:59:40.079 --> 00:59:43.559
Yeah, man, yeah, yeah, for sure, soak it up.

803
00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:47.360
I think the way Ryan's acting is
an omen for what the next episode.

804
00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:52.840
Okay, all right, alright,
alright, that's about it's about that

805
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:55.480
time. Let's get it. Then
let's stot that time. Love you guys,

806
00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:00.440
Love you guys. Bye God,
we said guys twice. It's okay,

807
01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:07.039
bye guys, guys, guys.
Weird things happen in the backyard Blodso

808
01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:21.480
house and said over the sink out, it's so weird coming closer to us

809
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:29.079
here. Stick this straight up,
like smiling on the inside of it.

810
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:53.199
No one knows. Mad, Wow, it's come right over there. Sid

811
01:00:55.920 --> 01:01:15.599
sick, ain't happen beca