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Send us a textVic starts the pod by revealing a devastating experience just hours before recording the podcast. Don't try try to find NICE ways to call someone fat. Husky, Chunky, Plump are way worse than FAT. Quick Thanksgiving recap Vic argues nothing at Nordstrom Rack should cost over $200. NOTHINGSTFU of the week! - Something we do every year at this time and its cornyPeople are disappointed with Spotify Wrapped details. Pizza Hut reinventing themselves with a Chipotle style way to order your pizza and a drive-thruThursday Night Football pick! Packers @ Detroit & MORE!!!!!Find Vic: @vicdradioFind the pod:@ilysayitbackpod

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1520s Hungary: A Foundling, Half Witch, and Bonekeeper navigate through a dark, old-growth forest known as Öreg Erdő. Arriving in the small village of Szomorú, they learn of several recently deceased women gone missing from their graves. That night, the travelers decide to investigate the graveyard for themselves.  

This past weekend, the town of Clarenville hosted their first Giant Pumpkin Festival. Organizers Leslee and Krista Lake joined us on the line this morning and told us how it went.

Hallowe'en is creeping up, and as they say… Go big or “gourd” home! This past weekend, the Town of Clarenville held its very first Giant Pumpkin Festival, welcoming people and prized pumpkins from all over the island. The event was organized by Leslee and Krista Lake, whom you might remember as the couple who grew "Gourdzilla" a few years back, the largest pumpkin ever recorded in this province.

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This week the show welcomes returning guests Plump and Daisy but this time together! This episode covers their brand new studio, events they hold there, crazy travel stories across the US and future projects and shows they have planned. Remember to like, comment, subscribe and tell your friends about Bone Apple Tea. This episode is sponsored by: 1) Sassy Balls go to sassyballs.com/boneappletea and use code boneappletea at checkout for 20% off your first purchase 2) Magic Mind go to magicmind.com/boneappletea20 and use code boneappletea20 at checkout for 20% your first purchase or 48% off your first subscription order

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Amy interviews her pregnant classmates for the school paper.Based on a post by shimm2, in 2 parts. Listen to the ► Podcast at Steamy Stories.It was a Friday night with nothing else going on, and Amy was hanging out at her friend Jill’s house.“Now that we’re in the home stretch here, we should let loose a little,” Amy said. They were both admitted to college, and sure to graduate high school.“You mean like have affairs with older Casanova’s?” Jill teased.Amy laughed. Jill knew that Alonso, who had been her Spanish tutor, had become something more. Amy told Jill one version of it, anyway.“I meant maybe we should raid your dad’s liquor cabinet,” Amy said.“I can’t,” Jill said quickly.When she didn’t elaborate, Amy asked, “Not in the mood for a drink?”A longer pause. Then Jill explained quietly, “I’m pregnant.”“What?” Amy’s world came to a screeching halt.Sure, this kind of thing happened to other girls sometimes, but that was other girls. Not girls like Amy. She’d had it drilled into her all her life that there was a narrow path to success in this world, and not a lot of room for error. And a teenage pregnancy would definitely count as an error. And an unforced error at that. It wasn’t that Amy was ashamed of sex or didn’t enjoy it herself, but;“All you had to do is take precautions,” Amy said. “It’s so simple. How could you?”Jill was supposed to be one of the good ones, like her. Sure, she’d been hooking up with Dave, but how could she be so stupid? Amy felt dizzy and nauseous herself.“What the fuck?” Amy said, finding herself shouting.“‘What the fuck’ is right,” Jill said, blinking away tears. “I know it’s a surprise, but this isn’t something happening to you.”“Not happening to me? I’m losing my best friend!” Amy said, getting up off the floor. She couldn’t sit still, not while this was happening.“Maybe you are,” Jill said. “I; I think you should go.”Amy rushed out, not because she needed permission or needed to be told, but because she didn’t know how to handle this.It was a mile walk home, which helped her unwind, but didn’t really clear her head. If Jill was going to get an abortion, then maybe it wasn’t that big a deal. But if she wasn’t willing to drink, that meant she had other plans. Plans she must have been hiding from her. Amy wondered how long this situation had already been going on. How long Jill had kept it a secret from her already. She didn’t think Jill looked pregnant yet, but now she wasn’t so sure. She wasn’t sure of anything. It had rattled her whole worldview.When she went to school the next day, and it seemed like pregnancy was everywhere she looked. There were a couple girls with rounded bellies that stood out in the hallway. For girls that had already given birth, there was even a lactation room for them to use, repurposed from a supply closet. She saw a couple girls queuing outside it, waiting for their turn.She had kind of taken it for granted that this kind of thing happened. But now it was hitting close to home, and it seemed almost like an epidemic that was catching. Amy had heard of “baby fever” where spending time around pregnant women made you more fertile. She started to fear that at some point the school as a whole would reach a tipping point, where there’d be no stopping the trend.“What’s your next story going to be?” Barb, the head of the school paper asked her, in school the next day. “Amy?”“Oh. Right,” Amy said, trying to refocus. “Have any of you noticed how many girls in our school get pregnant?”“Sure,” her classmate Bill said. “It happens, and we’re a large school with a slightly higher than average rate of teen pregnancy, so there’s definitely a few around.”“I; I just don’t understand it,” Amy said with frustration. She felt guilty about how she reacted to Jill’s news, but Jill was avoiding her today, and Amy wasn’t ready to make up yet. She realized she needed to work on herself first. “Like, how could you let that happen to you?”“Not everyone 'lets it happen’,” Maria said across the table.“I know that rape is a problem, but most of the pregnancies around here aren’t from that, or we’d see more boys getting charged.”“You can’t know that for sure,” Maria said. “It often goes unreported.”“I don’t think it’s as simple as you think,” Bill said.“Well I think it is,” Amy said, trying not to get too wound up. “So I want to understand why it happens. I’m thinking, an interview series with girls who are pregnant or have been in the past.”Bard said, “Okay. It’s a touchy subject, so tread carefully. I look forward to reading your piece when it’s done.”After school, Amy went over to Alonso’s house. He had been tutoring her in Spanish, up until she aced the AP exam and then finally gave herself permission to kiss him. That ended their tutoring relationship, and started the relationship they had now.He answered the door in a bathrobe, and brought her in quickly. She’d been eighteen when they first kissed, but he was still self-conscious about being seen with her. And it wasn’t like Amy was going to introduce him to her mother or anything. What they had was raw and physical. Except for the “raw” part.In his bedroom, she took off her shirt, and he embraced her from behind, kissing her on the back of her neck as his hands reached around for her breasts. It made her breath catch every time.He undid her pants as she leaned back, melting into him. She could feel his cock pressing against her from behind. She climbed onto the bed and paused on all fours, and asked, “Is this how you want me?”“No foreplay?” he asked.“I’m in a wild mood today,” she said.“Training wheels on or off?” he asked.She reached down and fished a twenty dollar bill out of her pocket, and put it on the nightstand. This was part of their arrangement from the start.He knew she was a virgin while he was; the exact opposite. He considered sex with a condom to be just practice for the real thing. And while he had enjoyed tutoring her, he wasn’t going to tutor her for free. So when she wanted him to use a condom, she had to pay. She could hardly complain about the education he was giving her, but it was becoming harder to find the money.Now when she felt him pressing into her from behind, she asked to double check, “Is it on?”Alonso chuckled softly to himself. “Let’s consider this a teachable moment. I want you to focus on how it feels, and see if you can tell for yourself.”After all thinking about Jill and seeing all the other pregnant girls at school that day, and thinking about her assignment, Amy wanted to be certain. She resented being denied that, but for the moment she played along.She focused on where they were in contact, his flared cock head pressing into the opening of her vagina. Even just that little bit of him was an intense pressure inside of her; sometimes she couldn’t take the full length of him. It felt so, so good, and made her hunger to feel him push deeper into her. Of course that would be a mistake if he wasn’t wearing protection. She wanted to push her hips back against him; it took all her resolve not to. Not yet. But even when she tried to analyze everything she was feeling down there, she couldn’t tell. It felt like it always did, although concentrating on it made it more intense.Would he really penetrate her bareback? She didn’t think so, not when she was paying him, but she couldn’t be entirely sure. Guys pulled this kind of trick all the time, and she couldn’t count on Alonso being better than them. Which meant that even this contact of his tip to her hole was dangerous. Her heart was starting to race.“I don’t know, okay?” she said, feeling defeated and inadequate.“It’s okay,” he said soothingly. “You don’t have any basis of comparison. Someday you will. We can try that whenever you’re ready.”She didn’t like the fact that she couldn’t tell. It worried her, even now, that he could slip it off and she might not even know.“Okay,” she said. “Show me.”She felt feverish and tense. She almost jumped when she felt him nudge against her again. Just the tip, barely inside of her, and he stopped there, letting her feel it.He felt bigger, if she wasn’t fooling herself. And the friction between them was; different. She could feel more of the flare of his cock’s head.“More,” she said.He slid more of his shaft into her. She was incredibly wet, fitting him in more easily than usual, even though he definitely felt bigger without a condom on. And then he stopped there, letting her savor the sensations. This was different, and she was relieved that she could tell the difference so clearly. Even so, it made her aware of what she’d been missing out on all this time. She knew she was lucky he wasn’t actively fucking her, because she wasn’t sure she’d want to stop.His cock pulsed inside her, and Amy recognized that. Whenever she was sucking or jacking him off, his cock would do that sometimes, and a drip of precum would glide down from the top. Feeling that happen inside her was a reminder that this wasn’t safe. She had already gotten carried away, but she had to stop it there. She pulled away, and even the feeling of his shaft on its way out of her was delicious.“You want the condom back on?” he asked. “Or another blind test?”“Back on, please,” she said, desperate now for relief.When he slid into her again, she could tell he had the condom on again. It paled in comparison, but for better or worse, it got her mind off the risks involved. Though as they fucked, she kept thinking with disbelief that she’d actually let him put it in her bare. What if that was all it took?She was worked up already, and fast approaching her climax. But Alonso reached his first, maybe worked up by their little transgression. Amy could feel it when he filled up the reservoir tip inside her; she wondered how that part would feel without the condom, but that would definitely be going too far. A surefire recipe for baby batter.Knowing she was close, he kept thrusting into her, and she didn’t want to stop, but she kept thinking about what would happen if the condom slipped off now. If that happened, it would be too late by the time either of them realized what happened.“I can’t. I can’t,” she said, pulling herself off his cock. To her relief, the condom was still on and still holding all of his load, as far as she could tell anyway.“Not a problem,” he said. “You lie down, I’ll take care of the rest.”He spread her legs and brought his mouth to her crotch. Soon she writhed and whimpered, but it was bittersweet. It wasn’t the kind of climax she wanted most.“Do you want to talk about it?” he asked afterwards. “Why you’re so paranoid about this today?”She explained about Jill, and her story for the paper, and all the other pregnant girls, and how she worried it might be catching, but also saw no excuse for not taking simple precautions.“So what?” Alonso said. “Women get pregnant all the time. It’s not right or wrong. It’s a natural process. It just happens sometimes.”“Well, not to me, if I can help it,” she said. Alonso laughed at that. “What’s so funny?”“It’s just,” he gestured to her form, up and down. “Look at you. Thick thighs. Wide hips. Plump breasts. You’re built for it. It’s going to happen, sooner or later.”The way he was looking at her made her feel sexy, but what he was saying scared her. And she worried he might get carried away if they continued down this train of thought. They both might get carried away.“I’ve got to go,” she said, getting dressed.“Don’t be ashamed. It’s what I’m attracted to,” he said.At lunch the next day, Amy sat down next to Helen, who was gorging herself on peanut butter. Helen’s dowdy clothes did little to hide the almost spherical bulge underneath.“It’s Helen, right?” Amy said. “I’m doing a story on the teen moms in our school. I wondered if you might share how you ended up; uh; pregnant.” It sounded more awkward out loud.“Glad to talk about it!” Helen said. “I’m just so proud to be bringing this little one into the world. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done.”Her attitude was utterly foreign to Amy. “So you got pregnant on purpose?”“Well of course! I would only ever have sex for the sake of procreation,” Helen said. “The only sin involved here is that Zeke and I consummated our marriage a little early.”“Oh, congratulations! When did you get engaged?” Amy asked.She was getting the sense that this conversation wasn’t going to do anything to help her understand what goes into an accidental pregnancy, and thought Helen wouldn’t want to get into the juicy details anyway.Helen blushed. “Funny story, we did get engaged before we conceived, but; well; it was a matter of seconds.”Her words painted a clear picture in Amy’s mind. Helen and Zeke, conjoined and about to knowingly make a baby, and committing to marriage in that moment. She couldn’t picture herself doing that, but it did have a certain allure. Maybe someday, with the right guy.That Friday, Amy turned her room upside down looking for cash. She had to have a twenty here somewhere. She couldn’t be dead broke, could she? She couldn’t keep asking her mom for cash without explaining where it was going. Otherwise maybe it was time to get a job. But not in time to meet up with Alonso that afternoon.As she went to Alonso’s place, she reasoned that there were plenty of other things they could do, rather than risk it. But even after he ate her out, she found herself wanting more.“Come on, can’t we just skip the twenty dollars?” she asked. “Or you could spot me. I’ll have it soon.”He ran a finger close to her nipple, keeping her aroused. “If you go into debt with me, the conditions might be more than you’re expecting.”He was right. The glint in his eye made it clear that he would use her how he wanted if she gave him that opportunity. And then all her money spent on condoms would be effectively down the drain. It scared her, but she also felt her hips shift of their own accord, eager for that punishment.“How about this. We could play a round of roulette for free. Fifty-fifty odds. What do you think?”Oh god, he had her on edge, and he was asking her to leave her fate entirely to chance. Better than nothing, she supposed. She felt her pussy becoming absolutely soaked.“You know that letting you ejaculate inside me is something I can’t afford. That would cost me a lot more than twenty dollars.”“What do you mean, 'let me’? When I ejaculate inside you, it’ll be your choice as much as mine.”There was a lot to unpack there. 'When’? Like it was inevitably going to happen? And Amy wasn’t so sure it’d be intentional. It could be accidental for them both.He got up and handed her a blindfold. Funny, how he had that handy. “We can stop whenever you want.”So she could take the fifty-fifty odds, and if she could tell that he wasn’t wearing a condom, she could call it off.“Fine, I’ll play your game,” she said, tying on the blindfold. “Will you warn me when you’re about to cum?”“That would be cheating, would it not?” he replied. “Trust your instincts. You know what my tells are by now.”Lying on her back on the bed, she heard a coin flip, and if he was tearing open a condom wrapper, she didn’t hear him do it. Soon she felt the bed shift as he joined her on it, and she reached out, finding him by touch. It was a new thrill, discovering the shape of his body all over again like this.He kissed her shoulder, her collarbone. It was like he was everywhere at once, she couldn’t predict where he’d kiss her next. The heat was radiating from him as he loomed over her, close enough that she could feel the thin line of hair down past his belly button. And then there was the pressure, aimed perfectly true, pressing her open for him.As he crossed that threshold again, she remembered what it felt like before, both of the ways it felt, and she was pretty sure this time he was wearing a condom. He pressed into her depths, to where she had to stretch to accommodate him. The air left her lungs and she felt like she was never going to get it back.“Mm, I can’t believe we waited this long to do it this way,” he muttered in her ear. She could hear the smile.“You mean blindfolded?” she asked.“I mean raw. Unprotected. I always knew it was going to happen eventually,” he said.Her rational mind was repulsed at the thought, and all that came along with it. But it also gave her an unexpected thrill. But; he had to be psyching her out, right? She was pretty sure he was wearing protection; unless that was just wishful thinking.“Hang on,” she said, and he stopped thrusting into her, but he was still there, tantalizing her. “You are wearing a condom, right?”Inside her, his cock spasmed as if in response. It would be weeping precum, which could be carrying a few of his sperm.“Amy, I can’t tell you that,” he said.She was almost sure she could feel the ring of latex at the bottom of the condom. Almost.“I know you are. I guessed correctly, so now there’s no harm in confirming it,” she said.“Oh? That’s your guess?” he asked. “We can stop anytime you like. Heck, you can take off the blindfold anytime you like. Either way, it’s game over.”“Come on, that’s not fair,” she said.“Fair? I’ve played by your rules for months. This is a compromise,” he said.If he wasn’t playing by her rules, did that mean he was breaking them? He started moving in her again, and it was a struggle to hang on to conscious thought.“But you’re trying to get me to believe you’re not wearing a condom right now. If I that’s true, we have to stop. Are you trying to convince me to stop?”“No, I want you to be honest with you

Amy interviews her pregnant classmates for the school paper.Based on a post by shimm2, in 2 parts. Listen to the ► Podcast at Steamy Stories.It was a Friday night with nothing else going on, and Amy was hanging out at her friend Jill’s house.“Now that we’re in the home stretch here, we should let loose a little,” Amy said. They were both admitted to college, and sure to graduate high school.“You mean like have affairs with older Casanova’s?” Jill teased.Amy laughed. Jill knew that Alonso, who had been her Spanish tutor, had become something more. Amy told Jill one version of it, anyway.“I meant maybe we should raid your dad’s liquor cabinet,” Amy said.“I can’t,” Jill said quickly.When she didn’t elaborate, Amy asked, “Not in the mood for a drink?”A longer pause. Then Jill explained quietly, “I’m pregnant.”“What?” Amy’s world came to a screeching halt.Sure, this kind of thing happened to other girls sometimes, but that was other girls. Not girls like Amy. She’d had it drilled into her all her life that there was a narrow path to success in this world, and not a lot of room for error. And a teenage pregnancy would definitely count as an error. And an unforced error at that. It wasn’t that Amy was ashamed of sex or didn’t enjoy it herself, but;“All you had to do is take precautions,” Amy said. “It’s so simple. How could you?”Jill was supposed to be one of the good ones, like her. Sure, she’d been hooking up with Dave, but how could she be so stupid? Amy felt dizzy and nauseous herself.“What the fuck?” Amy said, finding herself shouting.“‘What the fuck’ is right,” Jill said, blinking away tears. “I know it’s a surprise, but this isn’t something happening to you.”“Not happening to me? I’m losing my best friend!” Amy said, getting up off the floor. She couldn’t sit still, not while this was happening.“Maybe you are,” Jill said. “I; I think you should go.”Amy rushed out, not because she needed permission or needed to be told, but because she didn’t know how to handle this.It was a mile walk home, which helped her unwind, but didn’t really clear her head. If Jill was going to get an abortion, then maybe it wasn’t that big a deal. But if she wasn’t willing to drink, that meant she had other plans. Plans she must have been hiding from her. Amy wondered how long this situation had already been going on. How long Jill had kept it a secret from her already. She didn’t think Jill looked pregnant yet, but now she wasn’t so sure. She wasn’t sure of anything. It had rattled her whole worldview.When she went to school the next day, and it seemed like pregnancy was everywhere she looked. There were a couple girls with rounded bellies that stood out in the hallway. For girls that had already given birth, there was even a lactation room for them to use, repurposed from a supply closet. She saw a couple girls queuing outside it, waiting for their turn.She had kind of taken it for granted that this kind of thing happened. But now it was hitting close to home, and it seemed almost like an epidemic that was catching. Amy had heard of “baby fever” where spending time around pregnant women made you more fertile. She started to fear that at some point the school as a whole would reach a tipping point, where there’d be no stopping the trend.“What’s your next story going to be?” Barb, the head of the school paper asked her, in school the next day. “Amy?”“Oh. Right,” Amy said, trying to refocus. “Have any of you noticed how many girls in our school get pregnant?”“Sure,” her classmate Bill said. “It happens, and we’re a large school with a slightly higher than average rate of teen pregnancy, so there’s definitely a few around.”“I; I just don’t understand it,” Amy said with frustration. She felt guilty about how she reacted to Jill’s news, but Jill was avoiding her today, and Amy wasn’t ready to make up yet. She realized she needed to work on herself first. “Like, how could you let that happen to you?”“Not everyone 'lets it happen’,” Maria said across the table.“I know that rape is a problem, but most of the pregnancies around here aren’t from that, or we’d see more boys getting charged.”“You can’t know that for sure,” Maria said. “It often goes unreported.”“I don’t think it’s as simple as you think,” Bill said.“Well I think it is,” Amy said, trying not to get too wound up. “So I want to understand why it happens. I’m thinking, an interview series with girls who are pregnant or have been in the past.”Bard said, “Okay. It’s a touchy subject, so tread carefully. I look forward to reading your piece when it’s done.”After school, Amy went over to Alonso’s house. He had been tutoring her in Spanish, up until she aced the AP exam and then finally gave herself permission to kiss him. That ended their tutoring relationship, and started the relationship they had now.He answered the door in a bathrobe, and brought her in quickly. She’d been eighteen when they first kissed, but he was still self-conscious about being seen with her. And it wasn’t like Amy was going to introduce him to her mother or anything. What they had was raw and physical. Except for the “raw” part.In his bedroom, she took off her shirt, and he embraced her from behind, kissing her on the back of her neck as his hands reached around for her breasts. It made her breath catch every time.He undid her pants as she leaned back, melting into him. She could feel his cock pressing against her from behind. She climbed onto the bed and paused on all fours, and asked, “Is this how you want me?”“No foreplay?” he asked.“I’m in a wild mood today,” she said.“Training wheels on or off?” he asked.She reached down and fished a twenty dollar bill out of her pocket, and put it on the nightstand. This was part of their arrangement from the start.He knew she was a virgin while he was; the exact opposite. He considered sex with a condom to be just practice for the real thing. And while he had enjoyed tutoring her, he wasn’t going to tutor her for free. So when she wanted him to use a condom, she had to pay. She could hardly complain about the education he was giving her, but it was becoming harder to find the money.Now when she felt him pressing into her from behind, she asked to double check, “Is it on?”Alonso chuckled softly to himself. “Let’s consider this a teachable moment. I want you to focus on how it feels, and see if you can tell for yourself.”After all thinking about Jill and seeing all the other pregnant girls at school that day, and thinking about her assignment, Amy wanted to be certain. She resented being denied that, but for the moment she played along.She focused on where they were in contact, his flared cock head pressing into the opening of her vagina. Even just that little bit of him was an intense pressure inside of her; sometimes she couldn’t take the full length of him. It felt so, so good, and made her hunger to feel him push deeper into her. Of course that would be a mistake if he wasn’t wearing protection. She wanted to push her hips back against him; it took all her resolve not to. Not yet. But even when she tried to analyze everything she was feeling down there, she couldn’t tell. It felt like it always did, although concentrating on it made it more intense.Would he really penetrate her bareback? She didn’t think so, not when she was paying him, but she couldn’t be entirely sure. Guys pulled this kind of trick all the time, and she couldn’t count on Alonso being better than them. Which meant that even this contact of his tip to her hole was dangerous. Her heart was starting to race.“I don’t know, okay?” she said, feeling defeated and inadequate.“It’s okay,” he said soothingly. “You don’t have any basis of comparison. Someday you will. We can try that whenever you’re ready.”She didn’t like the fact that she couldn’t tell. It worried her, even now, that he could slip it off and she might not even know.“Okay,” she said. “Show me.”She felt feverish and tense. She almost jumped when she felt him nudge against her again. Just the tip, barely inside of her, and he stopped there, letting her feel it.He felt bigger, if she wasn’t fooling herself. And the friction between them was; different. She could feel more of the flare of his cock’s head.“More,” she said.He slid more of his shaft into her. She was incredibly wet, fitting him in more easily than usual, even though he definitely felt bigger without a condom on. And then he stopped there, letting her savor the sensations. This was different, and she was relieved that she could tell the difference so clearly. Even so, it made her aware of what she’d been missing out on all this time. She knew she was lucky he wasn’t actively fucking her, because she wasn’t sure she’d want to stop.His cock pulsed inside her, and Amy recognized that. Whenever she was sucking or jacking him off, his cock would do that sometimes, and a drip of precum would glide down from the top. Feeling that happen inside her was a reminder that this wasn’t safe. She had already gotten carried away, but she had to stop it there. She pulled away, and even the feeling of his shaft on its way out of her was delicious.“You want the condom back on?” he asked. “Or another blind test?”“Back on, please,” she said, desperate now for relief.When he slid into her again, she could tell he had the condom on again. It paled in comparison, but for better or worse, it got her mind off the risks involved. Though as they fucked, she kept thinking with disbelief that she’d actually let him put it in her bare. What if that was all it took?She was worked up already, and fast approaching her climax. But Alonso reached his first, maybe worked up by their little transgression. Amy could feel it when he filled up the reservoir tip inside her; she wondered how that part would feel without the condom, but that would definitely be going too far. A surefire recipe for baby batter.Knowing she was close, he kept thrusting into her, and she didn’t want to stop, but she kept thinking about what would happen if the condom slipped off now. If that happened, it would be too late by the time either of them realized what happened.“I can’t. I can’t,” she said, pulling herself off his cock. To her relief, the condom was still on and still holding all of his load, as far as she could tell anyway.“Not a problem,” he said. “You lie down, I’ll take care of the rest.”He spread her legs and brought his mouth to her crotch. Soon she writhed and whimpered, but it was bittersweet. It wasn’t the kind of climax she wanted most.“Do you want to talk about it?” he asked afterwards. “Why you’re so paranoid about this today?”She explained about Jill, and her story for the paper, and all the other pregnant girls, and how she worried it might be catching, but also saw no excuse for not taking simple precautions.“So what?” Alonso said. “Women get pregnant all the time. It’s not right or wrong. It’s a natural process. It just happens sometimes.”“Well, not to me, if I can help it,” she said. Alonso laughed at that. “What’s so funny?”“It’s just,” he gestured to her form, up and down. “Look at you. Thick thighs. Wide hips. Plump breasts. You’re built for it. It’s going to happen, sooner or later.”The way he was looking at her made her feel sexy, but what he was saying scared her. And she worried he might get carried away if they continued down this train of thought. They both might get carried away.“I’ve got to go,” she said, getting dressed.“Don’t be ashamed. It’s what I’m attracted to,” he said.At lunch the next day, Amy sat down next to Helen, who was gorging herself on peanut butter. Helen’s dowdy clothes did little to hide the almost spherical bulge underneath.“It’s Helen, right?” Amy said. “I’m doing a story on the teen moms in our school. I wondered if you might share how you ended up; uh; pregnant.” It sounded more awkward out loud.“Glad to talk about it!” Helen said. “I’m just so proud to be bringing this little one into the world. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done.”Her attitude was utterly foreign to Amy. “So you got pregnant on purpose?”“Well of course! I would only ever have sex for the sake of procreation,” Helen said. “The only sin involved here is that Zeke and I consummated our marriage a little early.”“Oh, congratulations! When did you get engaged?” Amy asked.She was getting the sense that this conversation wasn’t going to do anything to help her understand what goes into an accidental pregnancy, and thought Helen wouldn’t want to get into the juicy details anyway.Helen blushed. “Funny story, we did get engaged before we conceived, but; well; it was a matter of seconds.”Her words painted a clear picture in Amy’s mind. Helen and Zeke, conjoined and about to knowingly make a baby, and committing to marriage in that moment. She couldn’t picture herself doing that, but it did have a certain allure. Maybe someday, with the right guy.That Friday, Amy turned her room upside down looking for cash. She had to have a twenty here somewhere. She couldn’t be dead broke, could she? She couldn’t keep asking her mom for cash without explaining where it was going. Otherwise maybe it was time to get a job. But not in time to meet up with Alonso that afternoon.As she went to Alonso’s place, she reasoned that there were plenty of other things they could do, rather than risk it. But even after he ate her out, she found herself wanting more.“Come on, can’t we just skip the twenty dollars?” she asked. “Or you could spot me. I’ll have it soon.”He ran a finger close to her nipple, keeping her aroused. “If you go into debt with me, the conditions might be more than you’re expecting.”He was right. The glint in his eye made it clear that he would use her how he wanted if she gave him that opportunity. And then all her money spent on condoms would be effectively down the drain. It scared her, but she also felt her hips shift of their own accord, eager for that punishment.“How about this. We could play a round of roulette for free. Fifty-fifty odds. What do you think?”Oh god, he had her on edge, and he was asking her to leave her fate entirely to chance. Better than nothing, she supposed. She felt her pussy becoming absolutely soaked.“You know that letting you ejaculate inside me is something I can’t afford. That would cost me a lot more than twenty dollars.”“What do you mean, 'let me’? When I ejaculate inside you, it’ll be your choice as much as mine.”There was a lot to unpack there. 'When’? Like it was inevitably going to happen? And Amy wasn’t so sure it’d be intentional. It could be accidental for them both.He got up and handed her a blindfold. Funny, how he had that handy. “We can stop whenever you want.”So she could take the fifty-fifty odds, and if she could tell that he wasn’t wearing a condom, she could call it off.“Fine, I’ll play your game,” she said, tying on the blindfold. “Will you warn me when you’re about to cum?”“That would be cheating, would it not?” he replied. “Trust your instincts. You know what my tells are by now.”Lying on her back on the bed, she heard a coin flip, and if he was tearing open a condom wrapper, she didn’t hear him do it. Soon she felt the bed shift as he joined her on it, and she reached out, finding him by touch. It was a new thrill, discovering the shape of his body all over again like this.He kissed her shoulder, her collarbone. It was like he was everywhere at once, she couldn’t predict where he’d kiss her next. The heat was radiating from him as he loomed over her, close enough that she could feel the thin line of hair down past his belly button. And then there was the pressure, aimed perfectly true, pressing her open for him.As he crossed that threshold again, she remembered what it felt like before, both of the ways it felt, and she was pretty sure this time he was wearing a condom. He pressed into her depths, to where she had to stretch to accommodate him. The air left her lungs and she felt like she was never going to get it back.“Mm, I can’t believe we waited this long to do it this way,” he muttered in her ear. She could hear the smile.“You mean blindfolded?” she asked.“I mean raw. Unprotected. I always knew it was going to happen eventually,” he said.Her rational mind was repulsed at the thought, and all that came along with it. But it also gave her an unexpected thrill. But; he had to be psyching her out, right? She was pretty sure he was wearing protection; unless that was just wishful thinking.“Hang on,” she said, and he stopped thrusting into her, but he was still there, tantalizing her. “You are wearing a condom, right?”Inside her, his cock spasmed as if in response. It would be weeping precum, which could be carrying a few of his sperm.“Amy, I can’t tell you that,” he said.She was almost sure she could feel the ring of latex at the bottom of the condom. Almost.“I know you are. I guessed correctly, so now there’s no harm in confirming it,” she said.“Oh? That’s your guess?” he asked. “We can stop anytime you like. Heck, you can take off the blindfold anytime you like. Either way, it’s game over.”“Come on, that’s not fair,” she said.“Fair? I’ve played by your rules for months. This is a compromise,” he said.If he wasn’t playing by her rules, did that mean he was breaking them? He started moving in her again, and it was a struggle to hang on to conscious thought.“But you’re trying to get me to believe you’re not wearing a condom right now. If I that’s true, we have to stop. Are you trying to convince me to stop?”“No, I want you to be honest with you

Amy interviews her pregnant classmates for the school paper.Based on a post by shimm2, in 2 parts. Listen to the ► Podcast at Steamy Stories.It was a Friday night with nothing else going on, and Amy was hanging out at her friend Jill’s house.“Now that we’re in the home stretch here, we should let loose a little,” Amy said. They were both admitted to college, and sure to graduate high school.“You mean like have affairs with older Casanova’s?” Jill teased.Amy laughed. Jill knew that Alonso, who had been her Spanish tutor, had become something more. Amy told Jill one version of it, anyway.“I meant maybe we should raid your dad’s liquor cabinet,” Amy said.“I can’t,” Jill said quickly.When she didn’t elaborate, Amy asked, “Not in the mood for a drink?”A longer pause. Then Jill explained quietly, “I’m pregnant.”“What?” Amy’s world came to a screeching halt.Sure, this kind of thing happened to other girls sometimes, but that was other girls. Not girls like Amy. She’d had it drilled into her all her life that there was a narrow path to success in this world, and not a lot of room for error. And a teenage pregnancy would definitely count as an error. And an unforced error at that. It wasn’t that Amy was ashamed of sex or didn’t enjoy it herself, but;“All you had to do is take precautions,” Amy said. “It’s so simple. How could you?”Jill was supposed to be one of the good ones, like her. Sure, she’d been hooking up with Dave, but how could she be so stupid? Amy felt dizzy and nauseous herself.“What the fuck?” Amy said, finding herself shouting.“‘What the fuck’ is right,” Jill said, blinking away tears. “I know it’s a surprise, but this isn’t something happening to you.”“Not happening to me? I’m losing my best friend!” Amy said, getting up off the floor. She couldn’t sit still, not while this was happening.“Maybe you are,” Jill said. “I; I think you should go.”Amy rushed out, not because she needed permission or needed to be told, but because she didn’t know how to handle this.It was a mile walk home, which helped her unwind, but didn’t really clear her head. If Jill was going to get an abortion, then maybe it wasn’t that big a deal. But if she wasn’t willing to drink, that meant she had other plans. Plans she must have been hiding from her. Amy wondered how long this situation had already been going on. How long Jill had kept it a secret from her already. She didn’t think Jill looked pregnant yet, but now she wasn’t so sure. She wasn’t sure of anything. It had rattled her whole worldview.When she went to school the next day, and it seemed like pregnancy was everywhere she looked. There were a couple girls with rounded bellies that stood out in the hallway. For girls that had already given birth, there was even a lactation room for them to use, repurposed from a supply closet. She saw a couple girls queuing outside it, waiting for their turn.She had kind of taken it for granted that this kind of thing happened. But now it was hitting close to home, and it seemed almost like an epidemic that was catching. Amy had heard of “baby fever” where spending time around pregnant women made you more fertile. She started to fear that at some point the school as a whole would reach a tipping point, where there’d be no stopping the trend.“What’s your next story going to be?” Barb, the head of the school paper asked her, in school the next day. “Amy?”“Oh. Right,” Amy said, trying to refocus. “Have any of you noticed how many girls in our school get pregnant?”“Sure,” her classmate Bill said. “It happens, and we’re a large school with a slightly higher than average rate of teen pregnancy, so there’s definitely a few around.”“I; I just don’t understand it,” Amy said with frustration. She felt guilty about how she reacted to Jill’s news, but Jill was avoiding her today, and Amy wasn’t ready to make up yet. She realized she needed to work on herself first. “Like, how could you let that happen to you?”“Not everyone 'lets it happen’,” Maria said across the table.“I know that rape is a problem, but most of the pregnancies around here aren’t from that, or we’d see more boys getting charged.”“You can’t know that for sure,” Maria said. “It often goes unreported.”“I don’t think it’s as simple as you think,” Bill said.“Well I think it is,” Amy said, trying not to get too wound up. “So I want to understand why it happens. I’m thinking, an interview series with girls who are pregnant or have been in the past.”Bard said, “Okay. It’s a touchy subject, so tread carefully. I look forward to reading your piece when it’s done.”After school, Amy went over to Alonso’s house. He had been tutoring her in Spanish, up until she aced the AP exam and then finally gave herself permission to kiss him. That ended their tutoring relationship, and started the relationship they had now.He answered the door in a bathrobe, and brought her in quickly. She’d been eighteen when they first kissed, but he was still self-conscious about being seen with her. And it wasn’t like Amy was going to introduce him to her mother or anything. What they had was raw and physical. Except for the “raw” part.In his bedroom, she took off her shirt, and he embraced her from behind, kissing her on the back of her neck as his hands reached around for her breasts. It made her breath catch every time.He undid her pants as she leaned back, melting into him. She could feel his cock pressing against her from behind. She climbed onto the bed and paused on all fours, and asked, “Is this how you want me?”“No foreplay?” he asked.“I’m in a wild mood today,” she said.“Training wheels on or off?” he asked.She reached down and fished a twenty dollar bill out of her pocket, and put it on the nightstand. This was part of their arrangement from the start.He knew she was a virgin while he was; the exact opposite. He considered sex with a condom to be just practice for the real thing. And while he had enjoyed tutoring her, he wasn’t going to tutor her for free. So when she wanted him to use a condom, she had to pay. She could hardly complain about the education he was giving her, but it was becoming harder to find the money.Now when she felt him pressing into her from behind, she asked to double check, “Is it on?”Alonso chuckled softly to himself. “Let’s consider this a teachable moment. I want you to focus on how it feels, and see if you can tell for yourself.”After all thinking about Jill and seeing all the other pregnant girls at school that day, and thinking about her assignment, Amy wanted to be certain. She resented being denied that, but for the moment she played along.She focused on where they were in contact, his flared cock head pressing into the opening of her vagina. Even just that little bit of him was an intense pressure inside of her; sometimes she couldn’t take the full length of him. It felt so, so good, and made her hunger to feel him push deeper into her. Of course that would be a mistake if he wasn’t wearing protection. She wanted to push her hips back against him; it took all her resolve not to. Not yet. But even when she tried to analyze everything she was feeling down there, she couldn’t tell. It felt like it always did, although concentrating on it made it more intense.Would he really penetrate her bareback? She didn’t think so, not when she was paying him, but she couldn’t be entirely sure. Guys pulled this kind of trick all the time, and she couldn’t count on Alonso being better than them. Which meant that even this contact of his tip to her hole was dangerous. Her heart was starting to race.“I don’t know, okay?” she said, feeling defeated and inadequate.“It’s okay,” he said soothingly. “You don’t have any basis of comparison. Someday you will. We can try that whenever you’re ready.”She didn’t like the fact that she couldn’t tell. It worried her, even now, that he could slip it off and she might not even know.“Okay,” she said. “Show me.”She felt feverish and tense. She almost jumped when she felt him nudge against her again. Just the tip, barely inside of her, and he stopped there, letting her feel it.He felt bigger, if she wasn’t fooling herself. And the friction between them was; different. She could feel more of the flare of his cock’s head.“More,” she said.He slid more of his shaft into her. She was incredibly wet, fitting him in more easily than usual, even though he definitely felt bigger without a condom on. And then he stopped there, letting her savor the sensations. This was different, and she was relieved that she could tell the difference so clearly. Even so, it made her aware of what she’d been missing out on all this time. She knew she was lucky he wasn’t actively fucking her, because she wasn’t sure she’d want to stop.His cock pulsed inside her, and Amy recognized that. Whenever she was sucking or jacking him off, his cock would do that sometimes, and a drip of precum would glide down from the top. Feeling that happen inside her was a reminder that this wasn’t safe. She had already gotten carried away, but she had to stop it there. She pulled away, and even the feeling of his shaft on its way out of her was delicious.“You want the condom back on?” he asked. “Or another blind test?”“Back on, please,” she said, desperate now for relief.When he slid into her again, she could tell he had the condom on again. It paled in comparison, but for better or worse, it got her mind off the risks involved. Though as they fucked, she kept thinking with disbelief that she’d actually let him put it in her bare. What if that was all it took?She was worked up already, and fast approaching her climax. But Alonso reached his first, maybe worked up by their little transgression. Amy could feel it when he filled up the reservoir tip inside her; she wondered how that part would feel without the condom, but that would definitely be going too far. A surefire recipe for baby batter.Knowing she was close, he kept thrusting into her, and she didn’t want to stop, but she kept thinking about what would happen if the condom slipped off now. If that happened, it would be too late by the time either of them realized what happened.“I can’t. I can’t,” she said, pulling herself off his cock. To her relief, the condom was still on and still holding all of his load, as far as she could tell anyway.“Not a problem,” he said. “You lie down, I’ll take care of the rest.”He spread her legs and brought his mouth to her crotch. Soon she writhed and whimpered, but it was bittersweet. It wasn’t the kind of climax she wanted most.“Do you want to talk about it?” he asked afterwards. “Why you’re so paranoid about this today?”She explained about Jill, and her story for the paper, and all the other pregnant girls, and how she worried it might be catching, but also saw no excuse for not taking simple precautions.“So what?” Alonso said. “Women get pregnant all the time. It’s not right or wrong. It’s a natural process. It just happens sometimes.”“Well, not to me, if I can help it,” she said. Alonso laughed at that. “What’s so funny?”“It’s just,” he gestured to her form, up and down. “Look at you. Thick thighs. Wide hips. Plump breasts. You’re built for it. It’s going to happen, sooner or later.”The way he was looking at her made her feel sexy, but what he was saying scared her. And she worried he might get carried away if they continued down this train of thought. They both might get carried away.“I’ve got to go,” she said, getting dressed.“Don’t be ashamed. It’s what I’m attracted to,” he said.At lunch the next day, Amy sat down next to Helen, who was gorging herself on peanut butter. Helen’s dowdy clothes did little to hide the almost spherical bulge underneath.“It’s Helen, right?” Amy said. “I’m doing a story on the teen moms in our school. I wondered if you might share how you ended up; uh; pregnant.” It sounded more awkward out loud.“Glad to talk about it!” Helen said. “I’m just so proud to be bringing this little one into the world. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done.”Her attitude was utterly foreign to Amy. “So you got pregnant on purpose?”“Well of course! I would only ever have sex for the sake of procreation,” Helen said. “The only sin involved here is that Zeke and I consummated our marriage a little early.”“Oh, congratulations! When did you get engaged?” Amy asked.She was getting the sense that this conversation wasn’t going to do anything to help her understand what goes into an accidental pregnancy, and thought Helen wouldn’t want to get into the juicy details anyway.Helen blushed. “Funny story, we did get engaged before we conceived, but; well; it was a matter of seconds.”Her words painted a clear picture in Amy’s mind. Helen and Zeke, conjoined and about to knowingly make a baby, and committing to marriage in that moment. She couldn’t picture herself doing that, but it did have a certain allure. Maybe someday, with the right guy.That Friday, Amy turned her room upside down looking for cash. She had to have a twenty here somewhere. She couldn’t be dead broke, could she? She couldn’t keep asking her mom for cash without explaining where it was going. Otherwise maybe it was time to get a job. But not in time to meet up with Alonso that afternoon.As she went to Alonso’s place, she reasoned that there were plenty of other things they could do, rather than risk it. But even after he ate her out, she found herself wanting more.“Come on, can’t we just skip the twenty dollars?” she asked. “Or you could spot me. I’ll have it soon.”He ran a finger close to her nipple, keeping her aroused. “If you go into debt with me, the conditions might be more than you’re expecting.”He was right. The glint in his eye made it clear that he would use her how he wanted if she gave him that opportunity. And then all her money spent on condoms would be effectively down the drain. It scared her, but she also felt her hips shift of their own accord, eager for that punishment.“How about this. We could play a round of roulette for free. Fifty-fifty odds. What do you think?”Oh god, he had her on edge, and he was asking her to leave her fate entirely to chance. Better than nothing, she supposed. She felt her pussy becoming absolutely soaked.“You know that letting you ejaculate inside me is something I can’t afford. That would cost me a lot more than twenty dollars.”“What do you mean, 'let me’? When I ejaculate inside you, it’ll be your choice as much as mine.”There was a lot to unpack there. 'When’? Like it was inevitably going to happen? And Amy wasn’t so sure it’d be intentional. It could be accidental for them both.He got up and handed her a blindfold. Funny, how he had that handy. “We can stop whenever you want.”So she could take the fifty-fifty odds, and if she could tell that he wasn’t wearing a condom, she could call it off.“Fine, I’ll play your game,” she said, tying on the blindfold. “Will you warn me when you’re about to cum?”“That would be cheating, would it not?” he replied. “Trust your instincts. You know what my tells are by now.”Lying on her back on the bed, she heard a coin flip, and if he was tearing open a condom wrapper, she didn’t hear him do it. Soon she felt the bed shift as he joined her on it, and she reached out, finding him by touch. It was a new thrill, discovering the shape of his body all over again like this.He kissed her shoulder, her collarbone. It was like he was everywhere at once, she couldn’t predict where he’d kiss her next. The heat was radiating from him as he loomed over her, close enough that she could feel the thin line of hair down past his belly button. And then there was the pressure, aimed perfectly true, pressing her open for him.As he crossed that threshold again, she remembered what it felt like before, both of the ways it felt, and she was pretty sure this time he was wearing a condom. He pressed into her depths, to where she had to stretch to accommodate him. The air left her lungs and she felt like she was never going to get it back.“Mm, I can’t believe we waited this long to do it this way,” he muttered in her ear. She could hear the smile.“You mean blindfolded?” she asked.“I mean raw. Unprotected. I always knew it was going to happen eventually,” he said.Her rational mind was repulsed at the thought, and all that came along with it. But it also gave her an unexpected thrill. But; he had to be psyching her out, right? She was pretty sure he was wearing protection; unless that was just wishful thinking.“Hang on,” she said, and he stopped thrusting into her, but he was still there, tantalizing her. “You are wearing a condom, right?”Inside her, his cock spasmed as if in response. It would be weeping precum, which could be carrying a few of his sperm.“Amy, I can’t tell you that,” he said.She was almost sure she could feel the ring of latex at the bottom of the condom. Almost.“I know you are. I guessed correctly, so now there’s no harm in confirming it,” she said.“Oh? That’s your guess?” he asked. “We can stop anytime you like. Heck, you can take off the blindfold anytime you like. Either way, it’s game over.”“Come on, that’s not fair,” she said.“Fair? I’ve played by your rules for months. This is a compromise,” he said.If he wasn’t playing by her rules, did that mean he was breaking them? He started moving in her again, and it was a struggle to hang on to conscious thought.“But you’re trying to get me to believe you’re not wearing a condom right now. If I that’s true, we have to stop. Are you trying to convince me to stop?”“No, I want you to be honest with you

Bobby Plump went on to have a full life after winning the 1954 Indiana State Championship. He played in the NIBL, then started a successful company, opened a restaurant, and won a seat to the Indiana State House of Representatives. He came to represent hope for the underdog.CREDITSRick Loayza: Head researcher, writer, and voiceJacob Loayza: Editor, producer, and publisher MUSIC"Happy Days" by Chuck Sims"Horizons" by Roa SPORTS HISTORY NETWORKsportshistorynetwork.comsportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/basketball-history-101/ FACEBOOKm.facebook.com/Basketball-History-101-103801581493027/ BUSINESS CONTACTbballhistory101@gmail.com

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Bobby Plump is the real life player that was the basis for the character of Jimmy Chitwood in the movie “Hoosiers.” But his life far more than a single game winning shot. In part one of Plump's story, we will go through the end of high school and the Milan Miracle.CREDITSRick Loayza: Head researcher, writer, and voiceJacob Loayza: Editor, producer, and publisher MUSIC"Happy Days" by Chuck Sims"Horizons" by Roa SPORTS HISTORY NETWORKsportshistorynetwork.comsportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/basketball-history-101/ FACEBOOKm.facebook.com/Basketball-History-101-103801581493027/ BUSINESS CONTACTbballhistory101@gmail.com

This is the weekly columnA miracle is happening right now in vineyards throughout the northern hemisphere.“Véraison” is the French term for the time when a wine vine's tiny, tight green nubs morph into plump, tasty, colorful globes. Red grapes transition from green to red, purple, blue, or black. White grapes transition from green to translucent yellow, orange, or gold.In addition to color changes grapes undergo other vital changes.• Grapes soften, become juicier and more pliable.• Grapes can double in size as they accumulate sugars and other nutrients.• Glucose and fructose levels—sugars—increase, critical to the later production of alcohol.• Malic acid decreases, making tartaric acid predominant, critical for flavor balance.• Herbaceous—green—aromas and taste degrade, replaced by fruity aromas.• The concentration and composition of phenolic compounds, especially tannins, change. Riper grapes with well-developed phenolics are smoother, more complex, and have a more pleasant mouthfeel.• Vines shift from energy production through photosynthesis—leaf production—to energy consumption, concentrating energy to make ripe, sweet grapes.• Véraison occurs in the northern hemisphere beginning in mid-to-late July, but grape variety, temperature, climate, and region influence the process. It may not begin until mid-August some places.• Véraison may not occur simultaneously in a vineyard or even on a single vine. Vines that undergo véraison more evenly generally produce wines with greater complexity and depth.• Véraison means harvest is 45 to 60 days away. Precise timing of the harvest is critical in the production of quality wine. That largely is under the control of humans. Véraison is the magical time that sets up the harvest. That is almost exclusively under the control of God and Mother Nature. The wine you enjoy is the product of this symbiotic relationship.Tasting notes• MGM Mondo del Vino Riva Leone Gavi DOCG 2021: Delicious dry, light wine with admirable crispness and delicious cortese fruit. $15-17 Link to my review• Gigondas La Cave Le Dit De Saint Tronquet, Côtes du Rhône Villages Plan de Dieu 2022: Solid GSM from Rhône Villages cooperative in a special place—“God's Plan” [Plan de Dieu]. $18 Link to my review• Hahn Family Wines Appellation Series Chardonnay, Arroyo Seco 2021: Rich, full, round, clean; impressive example of oaked chardonnay, touches all the delicious, well-made chard bases. $22-25 Link to my review• Texas Heritage Vineyard Viognier, Wildseed Farms Vineyard, Texas Hill Country 2022: Deep, delicious, robust, aromatic expression of Texas viognier. $21-28 Link to my review• M. Chapoutier Crozes-Hermitage Petite Ruche Blanc 2021: Plump pleaser, rich, fruity, medium-plus body marsanne play. $27 Link to my reviewLast roundDid you hear about the mathematician who was afraid of negative numbers? He would stop at nothing to avoid them. Wine time.Email: wine@cwadv.comNewsletter: gusclemens.substack.comWebsite:  gusclemensonwine.comFacebook:  facebook.com/GusClemensOnWine/posts/Twitter (X): @gusclemensLong form wine stories on Vocal: Gus Clemens on VocalLinks worth exploringDiary of a Serial Hostess Ins and outs of entertaining; witty anecdotes of life in the stylish lane.As We Eat Multi-platform storytelling explores how food connects, defines, inspires.Balanced Diet Original recipes, curated links about food systems, recipe reviews. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gusclemens.substack.com/subscribe

We dip into the mailbag and answer some questions about our favorite cocktails, botox, our worst vacations, our love languages and share advice for new parents as well as advice for Moms that have colleege students home for summer for the first time.Producer Tim is with us today to moderate the discussion.French 75 recipe:1.5 oz Plymouth Gin (substitute vodka if you must, but just know that Producer Tim has made them with gin up to this point and you enjoyed them)3/4 oz lemon juice1/2 oz Simple SyrupDry ChampagneGarnish: 1 lemon twistShake ingredients (except champagne) with ice, then double strain into a flute. Top with champagne and garnish with the lemon twist.(French 95 variation, substitue 2 oz of bourbon for the gin, no garnish)Lynne loves:Buxom Lip GlossFind our your Love Language https://5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/love-languageHave a question for the sisters?Email us at 3lfpod@gmail.com or send us a message via Instagram @3lfpod

Part 1- Ultimate "Mix Tape" Fail, Emerson The Plump, Moped Madness + You Can't Handle Hurley. Listen Live 6-10am Weekdays on the iHeartradio app. 

Today's program we will sit down with Mr Fred Plump founder of the Piper Davis baseball group,, Mr Plump has been working for over 40 years to uplift sport in the inner city of Birmingham AL. he also is and still pushing to work with the Caribbean island, listen in, and be a part of the conversation    Dee Dixon, Ryan Washigton and others

Are you feeling shriveled like a raisin or plump like a grape in your business journey?

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Trump is pretending he'll show up for a presidential debate. President Biden invited Shitler to debate in a dramatic video which included a zinger. The least of the Kennedys, RFK Jr., complained that criminal defendant Trump and Dark Bidden were excluding him from the televised square-off. Killer of Cricket Governor Kristi Noem isn't welcome in most of the Native American reservations in her state. Plump predator Trump defended dog murderer Kristi Noem blathering, "We all have bad weeks."  A majority of Americans strongly believe the government should stay out of uteruses. Crappy hound owner Mittens Romney caterwauled Biden should pardon the former guy. Shockingly, SCOTUS did something good for democracy in Louisiana. Human cosplayer Senator Katie Britt from the Republic of Alabama introduced legislation to launch a pregnancy tracking database. A corupt Iowa sheriff's department spent $600,000 from incarnation fees to play laser tag. In 6 years, the NYPD spent $500 million paying police misconduct settlements. House Democrats are looking into man-baby's deal with climate change execs which includes a deal to get rid of all regulations. 

"Right in the non binaries!"(random internet jimmy)Hi!Herzlich willkommen zu einer neuen Folge!Vorab: Wir haben keinen Chef im Nacken oder ne Redaktion die uns erklärt was man nichtsagen sollte. Kommt vielleicht noch.Aber dafür haben wir Hörer die gleichzeitig Werbepartner sind :)Cürvers Industriethermographie GmbH & Co KG suchen Mitarbeiterals Thermograph:in/ Leckageorter:in im Raum Köln, Leverkusen, VelbertBewerbt euch bei Christiane unter info@cuervers.com mit Stichwort: "lass hör'n"Außerdem:Witze sind fast immer eine Art freches reinrufen.Was ist mit dem FC Köln. Nobody knows.Fine wurde 5 und hat schon wieder am gleichen Tag Geburtstag.Manche Leute gehen auf kinky Parties.Manche Leute haben keinen Nacken.Das und mehr heute in dieser Folge.Ansonsten:LIVE gibt es den Podcast dieses Jahr in Hamburg am 11. Juni.Hier:https://www.tivoli.de/programm-tickets/lass-hoern-live-podcastAnsonsten sind wir beide mit ihren Soloprogrammen unterwegs! Termine Jan:https://janvanweyde.de/comedy#termine Termine David: https://davidkebekus.deBis nächsten Dienstag! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tensions have been running high on this podcast lately, but apparently tensions are much higher between certain vegetables and you should make sure not to grow them next to each other. Plus, Wes' food confessions are becoming more and more ridiculous, and quite frankly, hard to take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nanu? Eine Niederlage? Das kam eher unerwartet, wobei das 1:2 in Bremen weder unverdient noch völlig unmöglich war. Wir reden darüber, warum der VfB an der Weser nicht an sein Limit kam, warum Schiedsrichter und VAR uns nicht wohlgesonnen waren und wie unsere Chancen gegen den neuen deutschen Meister stehen. Ansonsten ist es eher ruhig, also diskutieren wir ein paar Personalien, blicken voraus auf den Saisonendspurt und widmen uns zum Abschluss den anderen VfB-Mannschaften und den Leihspielern.  Bitte entschuldigt. dass die Folge erst einen Tag nach der Aufnahme raus kommt. Zeug und so. Ruhe in Frieden, Seba! Registriert Euch bei der DKMS! Die Themen im Überblick 00:00:46   Begrüßung 00:01:19   Aktuelle Themen 00:09:22   Das 1:2 in Bremen 00:51:47   Die Lage nach dem dreißigsten Spieltag 01:01:33   Rund um die anderen VfB-Mannschaften & VfB Stuttgart loan army Werdet Teil des Podcasts! Wir suchen auch in dieser Saison wieder VfB-Fans, die mit uns über den Brustring reden wollen. Meldet Euch über die bekannten Kanäle! Rund um den Brustring unterstützen Wenn Ihr uns finanziell unterstützen wollt, könnt Ihr das entweder über Patreon oder PayPal tun. Das Geld nutzen wir, um die laufenden Kosten zu decken und Rund um den Brustring weiter zu entwickeln. Schon kleine Spenden helfen uns. Alle Infos findet Ihr hier. Wenn Euch unser Podcast gefällt, gebt uns gerne Feedback dazu, sei es auf Facebook, Twitter, Instagram oder eben in Form einer positiven Bewertung und ein paar netten Worten auf Apple Podcasts oder Spotify. Wir freuen uns natürlich auch, wenn Ihr uns ganz altmodisch offline weiterempfehlt! Danke an: Ron für neue Intro und Outro. Wie gefällt es Euch?

lcome to episode #82 of The Allergies Podcast. On the show this month we have brand new b-boy business from the Silver Skylarks. Vintage symphonics from the Manhattan Strings. And a Tune of The Month from Potatohead People featuring Redman. Plus, a chat with our special guest, Lee from nu skool breaks legends, Plump DJs. Who also drops off a 20-minute taster of their RePlumped remix album – Soon to be available as whopping hour-long mix. Enjoy!

This week Carmen is joined by Amanda as Kayleigh is working on her PhD this month. We dig into Amanda's career as a knitwear designer and what it's really like working full time as a designer (including what it was like working for Mohamed Al-Fayed!)Happy Knitting!-----------------------------------Chapters(00:01:13) Wine we're drinking (00:04:59) Meet knitwear designer Amanda(00:06:21) Realities of working as a kniwear designer for magazine publications(00:22:48) Working for Mohamed Al-Fayed (and turning down Harrods!) (00:27:00) What does a design process look like and what Amanda's working on (00:45:10) Knitting retrets with Amanda (subscribe for retreat updates here) (00:46:36) What we're wearing(00:50:19) What Carmen is knitting -----------------------------------Show notesThe wine this week is a Spanish Syrah from Carmen's Good Pair Days box called Topico.What we're working on:Amanda has two designs she's finishing up: one for Walcot Yarns using Fluff and one for our upcoming retreat using The Fibre Co. Cumbria Fingering.Carmen has her Pressed Flowers Cardigan on the go and is nearly done with the ribbingWhat we're wearing:Amanda is wearing a slipover by Petitknits, the Stockholm slipover using Walcot Yarns Origin (Wild River) held with Isager Silk Mohair (100).Carmen is wearing the Plump it Up shawl by Maxim Cyr in Fluff (Shadow) & Spincycle Yarns Plump (Rosy Maple)-----------------------------------Get In TouchSocial Media: Instagram | TikTokWebsite: www.ayarnstory.co.ukEmail: hello@ayarnstory.co.ukVisit us:A Yarn Story,128 Walcot Street,Bath,BA1 5BG+44 (0)1225 429239-----------------------------------Huddle Podcasting LtdThis episode was produced by Huddle Podcasting Ltd. Learn how you can harness the power of podcasts to grow your business at www.huddlepodcasting.com

To Plump or Not to Plump? That's what's #TrendingWithTrudy #beauty #plumplips #lips #trending #beauty

On today's show we break down the crypto and NFT numbers, analyze the trends, and check out the spicy headlines. NFL All Day sales skyrocketed during Super Bowl week with Brady and Rodgers NFTs fetching 5-figures. Ethereum NFT volume hits 2024 high thanks to tubby penguins selling for half a million a pop. Bitcoin holds support near $48k - will we break $50k this week? No crypto ads during the big game but UFC and Formula 1 partnerships show the future is still bright. Plus, we chat BRICS, ordinals, and why the dollar's days may be numbered. Grab a snack and let's dive in!

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En este podcast, viajamos a 1994 para recuperar algunos de los discos que se publicaron ese año que fue glorioso. Faltan muchos pero hoy hemos elegido estos para celebrar su trigésimo aniversario.R.E.M - What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? GREEN DAY - Basket Case NOFX - Don’t Call Me White THE OFFSPRING - Come Out and Play BECK - Loser NIRVANA - About a Girl (MTV Unplugged) OASIS – Rock and Roll Star PEARL JAM - Spin the Black Circle VERUCA SALT - Seether HOLE – Plump LOS PLANETAS – Qué Puedo Hacer BEASTIE BOYS – Sabotage BLUR - Girls and Boys THE STONE ROSES - Love Spreads NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Red Right Hand JEFF BUCKLEY - Last GoodbyeEscuchar audio

Welcome to this podcast episode where we're delighted to welcome Susan back onto the pod!-----------------------------------Chapters(00:02:14) What we're about here at A Yarn Story(00:04:00) Wine chat(00:13:33) Our best achievements of 2023 and knits we're working on in 2024-----------------------------------Show notesThank you to Susan's husband for sponsoring the wine on this episode! We had Le Demoiselle which is an organic and bio-dynamic wine which we really enjoyed.Carmen is working on Camisole No. 4 by My Favorite Things Knitwear in Knitting for Olive Pure Silk and she decided (with the help of Susan and Kayleigh) that her Liebling in Spincycle Plump does actually fit and doesn't need to be ripped back!Kayleigh is wearing her most recent test knit for Lily Kate France, the Overdrive Vest which she's done in Walcot Yarns Origin. The other moss stitch pattern she mentions is Weidlinger by Nadya Stallings for Brooklyn Tweed. Susan is wearing her Liebling in Plump and finishes Dala Sweater by Eleanor Mortenson live on air! She used The Urban Purl Merino Singles with Isager Silk Mohair and then finally combines Spincycle Dyed in the Wool with mohair for the colourwork.Join our first Knit-A-Long of 2024It's our first KAL of the year and it starts soon, we'll be working on Pressed Flowers by Amy Cristoffers. Get more details here. -----------------------------------Get In TouchSocial Media: Instagram | TikTokWebsite: www.ayarnstory.co.ukEmail: hello@ayarnstory.co.ukVisit us:A Yarn Story, 128 Walcot Street,Bath, BA1 5BG+44 (0)1225 429239-----------------------------------Huddle Podcasting LtdThis episode was produced by Huddle Podcasting Ltd. Learn how you can harness the power of podcasts to grow your business at www.huddlepodcasting.com

Happy New Year! We're back for our first episode published in 2024 and we're excited for a huge year. -----------------------------------Chapters(00:00:22) Cocktails with Kayleigh(00:09:19) Normal service resumes - cocktail review(00:24:02) What we're wearing(00:31:14) What we're working on (00:38:16) Shirley Brian Deconstructed Fade Set colours(00:46:04) Carmen makes Kayleigh jealous with her new backpack!(00:50:08) Carmen buys herself a present!-----------------------------------Show notesThe cocktail is from Yellow Belly Kelly.Get the details of our next Country House Retreat.What we're wearing:Kayleigh has her Tessellated Vest by Andrea Mowry on, she's used Walcot Yarns Opus in HIckory, Fluff in Amethyst and Spincycle Yarns Dyed in the Wool in Shades of EarthCarmen is wearing her Fierce by Kate Oates in Walcot Yarns Origin Fireweed and Spincycle Yarns Dream State in Dream WorldWhat are we knitting?Kayleigh has a test knit for Maxim Cyr on the go, “Plump it up” using Walcot Yarns Fluff and Spincycle Yarns Plump (2 skeins of each are needed)Carmen is working on Liebling by Camilla Vaad in Spincycle Yarns Plump Next Level. She's adapting the pattern to make it a t-shirt and is adding bust darts for a perfect fit.Lastly, Carmen is working to finish her Stockholm Vest by PetiteKnit in Isager Tweed and Silk Mohair.We show off some of the gorgeous new Shirley Brian Deconstructed Fade Sets, they are all glorious to be honest.Kayliegh is very jealous as Carmen grabbed a Spincycle & Ritual Dyes Knitters Backpack collaboration. It's beautiful.-----------------------------------Get In TouchSocial Media: Instagram | TikTokWebsite: www.ayarnstory.co.ukEmail: hello@ayarnstory.co.ukVisit us:A Yarn Story, 128 Walcot Street,Bath, BA1 5BG+44 (0)1225 429239

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Plump, swivel seats that offer massage functionality and bed-down flat, wraparound screens, lighting that boosts circadian rhythms and reduces stress and scentscaping possibilities… Lounge or spa? Neither actually. This could be the car interior of the future if CASE innovations (tune in to discover what that is) continue to evolve, helping to push boundaries in car manufacturing and design. In this episode of Create Tomorrow, we explore the future of electric vehicles from a tech and design perspective. More specifically, how automated driving will impact the car interior – with EVs likely to evolve into a ‘lounge on wheels'. WGSN Editorial Director Bethan Ryder leads this conversation with Carol Aquino, Head of Consumer Tech, and Angela Ringo, Senior Trend Forecaster and Editor on the Interiors team. Bethan finds out how automakers are embracing innovative ideas that bring supreme comfort and relaxation to the car interior, integrating wellness, while also including state-of-the-art screen technology.  Are you sitting comfortably, because the EV design journey has only just begun...

Pull out the petit fours and lip plumpers - it's time to celebrate! Don't Mom Alone has officially reached double digits!!  Get Sidetracked with us as Cynthia leads us on a surprising, only mildly teary ride as we look back on 10 years of the podcast.  There's even a Cameo from Bob Ross! Jk, there isn't.  But we do have a great lineup of special guests and listeners to help us commemorate 10 years of mom-ing together.  Connect with Cynthia Yanof:  Website:  https://cynthiayanof.com/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynthia.yanof  Instagram:  @cynthiayanof  Links Mentioned:   Don't Mom Alone  Right Where You Belong: How to Identify and Occupy Your God-Given Space PREORDER: Life is Messy, God is Good: Sanity for the Chaos of Everyday Life by Cynthia Yanof   Milani Keep It Full Maxxx Lip Plumper **Plump At Your Own Risk** Related Episodes: Helping Our Kids Foster Friendships :: David Thomas and Sissy Goff [Ep 338] Raising Girls :: Sissy Goff [Ep 141]  The Worry-Free Parent :: Sissy Goff [Ep 421] Getting Brave About Anxiety :: Sissy Goff [Ep 311] Raising Worry-Free Girls :: Sissy Goff [Bonus] Raising Emotionally Strong Boys :: David Thomas [Ep 368] A Lil Help with Boys and Screens :: David Thomas [Bonus] Understanding Boys Better :: David Thomas [Ep 315] The Art of Nuturing Boys :: David Thomas [Ep 119] Shrinking or Swelling to Fill Your Space :: Courtney DeFeo [Ep 406] RWYB Wk 5  Light ‘Em Up :: Courtney DeFeo [Ep 50] “Help, I'm Tired of Fighting with My Daughter About Clothes” :: Kari Kampakis [Ep 429] Connecting with Your Daughter Through Humility and Compassion :: Kari Kampakis  - Part 1 [Ep 390] Steady Identity in Shifting Roles :: Kari Kampakis - Part 2 [Ep 391] The Goldmine of a Mother's Hindsight :: Chrystal Evans Hurst [Ep 71] Rescuing the Girl in You :: Chrystal Evans Hurst [Ep 172] Featured Sponsors:  Find links to this week's sponsors and unique promo codes at dontmomalone.com/sponsors. 

Remember, we welcome comments, questions, and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com.   S4E29 TRANSCRIPT:----more----   Mark: Welcome back to The Wonder, Science Based Paganism. I'm your host, Mark, Yucca: and I'm Yucca. Mark: and once again, it is time for us to talk about the autumnal equinox, one of the eight stations of the wheel of the year of holidays. Yucca: That's right. It just keeps turning and turning. So here we are. Mark: Here we are once again, you know, looking at The, the the calendrical arrival of autumn anyway. I mean, I I'm pretty clear that I'm into autumn here where I am already, and I think you are too, Yucca but, Yucca: though, because the beginning of autumn and the end of autumn are very, very different seasons here. Mark: yeah. I mean, autumn and spring are the transitional seasons, and they things change pretty radically during the, during their extent. Yeah, so, well, we can talk about kind of what tells us that autumn is coming, but we can also talk about the holiday, and what it means to us, what we call it, how we celebrate and kind of its positioning within the wheel of the year and how that relates to the things around it, and all that kind of stuff. Yucca: Sounds good. Well, let's start with names. Mark: Okay. Yucca: So, for me, the equinox, and of course it's one of the equinoxes, but it's pretty clear which equinox we're talking about during this time of year. And it's also first fall or first autumn, Mark: Mmhmm. Yucca: because here I look at the seasons like there's either eight seasons or there's two seasons. Mark: Mmhmm. Yucca: So there's the Because the traditional temperate four seasons, really as we were just saying, early or first fall and second fall are two very different seasons Mark: Mmhmm. Mmhmm. Yucca: But then there's also really, there's just the hot time of year and there's the cold time of year. And this is the transition between the hot into the cold. This is one of those, those gateway or door holidays. For me it feels like we're going from one season to the next and so it's a very busy season. Very busy holiday, very busy season here. Mark: Sure. Yeah, you've got to get everything prepped and everything buttoned down for, for a cold winter. Yucca: That's Mark: Yeah I call this holiday Harvest. And of course it's not the only harvest holiday, but this, this is the time when kind of the cultural imagery of cornucopias and all that kind of stuff really, you know, starts to pop up in all the media and all of the winter vegetables are producing abundantly out of people's gardens and the earlier vegetables are pretty much petering out at this point. The, the grape crush. The grape harvest and crush is happening right at the point of the equinox, it starts usually in August but it extends, what happens is the whites get harvested first, and then the reds, and then there are what are called botrytis vines, which have the botrytis fungus growing on the berries. And they create so they, they sort of shrivel and they get very, very sweet and concentrated in flavor. And those are used to make dessert wines and ports and things like that. So there's this, you know, there are several phases to the grape harvest and crush. And it's just... It's a lovely time. The leaves are changing in the vineyards and and in some of the trees around here, and there's a feeling of industriousness Yucca: hmm. Mm Mark: uh, you know, people have gone back to school, they've gone back to work, all that summertime playing is pretty much over now so there's just, it's just a, as you say, it's a very busy time, but it's also a very lovely time and so I call it harvest. Yucca: Yeah. And neither of us are in areas where we have lots of broadleaf trees that are churning, but I have a few here and it's just so lovely. to see the, to see them changing and watch that, that very traditional fall look start to, to start to happen. And there's a, there's a smell to it too. There's this very lovely crisp smell that comes with the changing of the leaves. So, do you smell the Like, when the crush is happening, is there a, you smell that in the air, Mark: If you, if you drive around the country roads, it smells like rotting grape juice everywhere. It's, Yucca: you like? Mark: I do. It's a, it's a it's a sort of quasi wine smell. It's not quite there, but it's working on it kind of smell. And you know, and there are truckloads. So grapes going by and, you know, farm equipment all on the roads and all that kind of stuff. We do have a lot of broadleaf oaks here. We have a lot of valley oaks and California coastal oaks and black oaks.  Yucca: Do they change during the autumn? We have a, we only have a few oaks here, we have these little scrub oaks, and they hold on their leaves, really, they, they really hold on to them for a long time, and then it's just, they turn brown, and then they're... They, they don't even drop them really till the spring, till they're growing new ones. We don't, and we just don't really have any other oaks at all. So I Mark: Huh. Yucca: do all oaks do that, or is that's a very special Mark: No, I mean, there, there, there are what are called live oaks. There's California live oaks here, too, and the live oaks, they don't drop their leaves at all and and they're kind of unpleasant to be around because the edges of their leaves are prickly. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: So, you know, you end up walking on them and it hurts. We had one in the last place that I lived, we had one outside of our yard that leaned over into our yard and dumped huge numbers of those sharp pointy leaves into our yard every year. Yucca: If they don't want to be eaten, Mark: no. Yucca: that, yep, Mark: And they have adapted ways to prevent that from happening. Yucca: yeah. Mark: So, but yes, the, the oaks do change, except for the live oaks, they do change and they do drop their leaves. But they don't turn red and yellow, they just turn kind of a rust color. And that then eats in from the outside of the leaf into the, into the center of the leaf and then it drops. And I particularly love the look of the oak trees in the late autumn and winter. Yucca: hmm. Mark: Because they're so crabbed and Halloween y and, you know, wonderful in the shape that they have. And, you know, there's just such a stark sort of gothic quality to those trees when they've dropped their leaves. Yucca: Mm Mark: Um, So yeah, harvest. And thematically, that really is kind of the centerpiece of how I think of this time. It's, it's a good time for feasting with friends and relations. Sometimes I think of this as pagan Thanksgiving. And, of course, Canadian Thanksgiving is right around this time. They have it figured out much better than, you know, late November. I don't know who's, I don't know who's doing harvest celebrating in New England in late November. That, that just seems a bit off to me.  Yucca: Well, I suppose you have all of your harvest in at that point, right? You're not in the process of harvest, you've gotten everything ready, Mark: historically that first event almost certainly didn't happen in November. It just got declared as a holiday by Abraham Lincoln some, you know, century later. Or quite a bit more than that actually. Fourscore and seven years ago plus. The, so I think about this not only as a time for, you know, coming together with loved ones and feasting, but also to reflect on what the last cycle has been like and what the fruits of that have been, of the cycle of the last year, what I've invested my energy in, and my creativity, and, you know, what I've had hopes for, all those, all those dreams and aspirations and plans, you know, that happened around the February Sabbath and And the, the spring equinox, you know, those got implemented, and there was a lot of work involved, and all this energy got invested, and all that kind of stuff, and then now is the time when it's like, well, how did that work out? What, what actually emerged? Oftentimes it turns out that what emerges as a harvest from your year is not what you planned to, to have happen. And that... That's a very useful exercise, I think, that this holiday really lends itself to a lot of gratitude and appreciation for living, which I think is true of all of the holidays, but this one particularly, I think, is really a life is good kind of holiday but it's also a time to think about what didn't work out, you know, what, what crops did you plant that did not come up you invested OK, And why? What lessons did you learn? Because maybe it's just that that sort of thing is not really the sort of thing for you, Yucca: hmm. Mark: or maybe it's that it was just a bad time for it and you can take another crack at it later. But, you know, Part of learning is assessing how things have performed. Yucca: Mm Mark: And it's interesting that we, we have a society, the economy of which is built around all these performance metrics all the time and annual performance reviews and, you know, all that kind of stuff for, for people who work. Yeah. But we don't do that very much in our personal lives very often, Yucca: hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah. Are you still there? Mark: and I think it's, it's helpful to reflect, not in a self critical way, but in just a, you know, sort of transparent and open minded way to take a look at, well, what was I trying to accomplish this year? What were the strategies that succeeded? What were the strategies that failed? What has, what is the result? What is before me now? And what does that tell me about The next cycle, what, what I would consider doing next. Yucca: Yeah, I think that's really important, and having, I think that's something that we should be doing throughout our life, but that it's very useful to have a time that is dedicated to thinking about that in particular, right? And that's one of the really lovely things about the Wheel of the Year. And, you know, next month we'll be talking about the death stuff and all of that, and then, you know, getting into the dark part of the year with the real deep self reflection and it's just lovely to have, to have it sort of built into life that, oh yes, this is when I come to this time and do the reflection upon what did I harvest, right? Maybe literally and in terms of a metaphorically. Mark: Yes. Yeah, I agree. I mean, that's one of the things that I find very beautiful about the pagan practice of the Wheel of the Year is that it, it programs for us the kind of good human habits of thinking about certain things at certain times of the year and remembering to be grateful and, you know, all, you know, Remembering to to pay attention and you know, to be frank in our, our assessment of ourselves and, you know, looking at, at who we are and how we behave all that kind of stuff. I, I just, well, I wouldn't be doing this practice if it wasn't very, you know, moving and meaningful to me but it really is and that's one of the main reasons that it is. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And another thing that I do that I should mention because I always. But in a plug for it is that, and I've spoken about this many times on the podcast before, that I think of the Wheel of the Year as metaphorically embodying the arc of a human life. So with birth you know, with, so, sort of, conception at at the winter solstice, and then, you know, birth at the February Sabbath. And then, kind of toddler childhood at the spring equinox, and young adulthood at May Day, and then kind of full adulthood, and then middle age, and now this comes around to the time of the elderly. This is the time when, because that's the time of life when you look back and you realize, you know, what did I, what did I achieve? What's, what, what is the harvest that I... What is the crop that I grew in, in my life, right? It doesn't mean that your life is over, that you can't do anything else, but it's a time when most of your years are behind you and you can kind of assess. You know, hmm, I did that. That was cool. I'm glad I, I'm glad I did those things. And it's also a time to really be appreciative of the accumulated experience of people that are elderly, which we don't do much in our mainstream culture. We don't value old people very much. And I really would like to change that. I, I really, I, I think that elderhood is something that should be honored. Rather than viewed as something to avoid through all kinds of surgical and Yucca: and whatnots, yes. Mark: and exercise regimes and diets and, you know, all that kind of stuff that people do desperately to try to prevent themselves from being old. So, yeah, that's another, another piece that I think of here. I think of you know, toasting the old people in the community when you're having your harvest feast. Yucca: hmm. In fact, I mean, I think it was created mostly as a marketing thing, but wasn't it just Grandparents Day? Actually  Mark: I don't know. Yucca: I think it was, yeah I think that's in mid September. Mark: Hmm. Yucca: I love, I, I really love the way that you structure your Wheel of the Year and the different stages of life. And I really appreciate seeing, sometimes in the Facebook group or in other groups, people will share their different approaches to the Wheel of the Year. And I also assign different meanings. to the different seasons, but I have a slightly different approach. So when I'm looking at the seasons, I look at different components of the ecosystem, or large ecosystems, like the grasslands or the forests. And for this time of year, It is a recognition of the decomposers and the microbes the fungi and the bacteria, because this is the time where, this is the only time of year that you're going to be able to walk around in the forest and see mushrooms, first of all, because it's just too, too hot and dry during the rest of the time of the year. We have lots of types of fungi, but in terms of seeing, like, there's your bright red mushroom, don't touch that one, right, like, that's only going to happen. This time of year and really up in the mountains but this is also when for temperate climates, the, the fungi are just getting going, right? They're really doing their work. We forget that the mycelium, it's all down below the debris, the leaves that have fallen and the old plants that have died down, and they're down there. This is their feast, right? They're getting ready to start decomposing, and they'll be working all through the autumn and the winter into the spring breaking that down, and returning it into a form that then life uses again. And the bacteria, and it, it leads quite nicely into, the next season for us is about, is the ancestors. Everything that came before, and of course we start first. We go far enough back and our grandmothers were microbes, right, and so it kind of is this nice lead into that. So we, we really like to be thinking about that sort of on an intellectual level. And recognizing that, you know, we're making some of our pile, you know, compost piles and things like that. Of course, we do that throughout the year, but this is when it's going to be sitting and doing that. Mark: Mm hmm. Mm Yucca: And then, as I was saying at the beginning, that we sort of see there being two, either eight seasons or two seasons. And this is the, this is the beginning. of the cold time of year. But not quite. The days are still hot, but the nights have a chill in them, right? The wind, we're closing the windows at night and we can kind of, it feels that chilly in the morning, and you might have to, you know, in the morning you've got to, for the first half of the day, maybe have a sweatshirt on, and then you take it off by the end of the day, and you're like, oh, it's so hot. But there's just so much that It's clear now winter is coming and you've got to get ready for winter, and it's lovely to watch. Where I'm sitting right now, I'm looking out, and I'm seeing we have jays and squirrels, and they're doing their, that industrious feeling you were talking about. They're out there right now, getting... Plump, and we've got our, we have a little bear family that lives nearby, and you can see they're trying to get all plump as well, and and so that's what we're doing, too, is going, okay, well, the cold's not here, but what do I need to have ready when the cold does come, because there's just certain things you can do at one time of the year and others you can't, right? So there's some flashing that I need to put on some of my windows. That's not going to stick once it gets cold. That has got to happen before the cold comes. It's time for us to change the angle on our solar panels and to open up the, the shade cloth on the greenhouse to let the heat in. And so it's just a time of making lists. And making sure, okay, before the winter comes, does everyone have hats? Do we all have hats? Because it's a, it's a hassle to need a hat and not have it. What about boots? Because when the mud comes, we're gonna want those boots, right? And it's, there's, there's a, it's one of the two big prep times of the year, right? There's the spring prep and there's the fall prep. And I like to do like a big, lots of people like to do spring cleaning. I like to do a fall cleaning before we're gonna be inside for... Months and months. And so that's sort of the other side of the harvest, right? Like there was this whole year that happened, but now there's the whole half that's going to happen. And how am I going to prepare for that? Not in the the growing way. It's not the starting new projects kind of way that is in the spring, but it's the being ready for and prepared, sure that everything is, is buttoned up and finished up and that there's no, you know, we haven't missed any loose ends or anything like that. Mark: mm hmm, and if you have outdoor projects, you gotta get those finished Yucca: Absolutely, yep. Mark: before, because you can't bring them indoors, and you gotta get it done before it starts to rain and then snow, Yucca: Right. And I mean, and there's some that, there'll be a few projects that are much more pleasant to do when it's cold. But there's things that have to get done to have that prepped to be ready to do it. So there's just a very, it's a thoughtful time of year. It's another one of those pause and think, Mark: mm hmm, Yucca: be prepared times. And, and for us, these are our specifics of the way that, that Our climate is, but each climate is going to be a little bit different and so for some people, maybe this is, right now, that's not when it's happening, because that's not when the seasons are quite changing. For some people, the seasons are changing earlier, or later, or, you know, what you're going to be doing if you're getting ready for a winter in Wisconsin is very different than a, you know, a winter in Southern California. Mark: yes, because they hardly have winter in Southern California, oh no, it's freezing, it's 70 degrees, Yucca: Well, but that's the thing, like there's, that each climate is going to be different, and it's not, it's not less valuable to be in one climate versus the other. What's happening in your climate, some of those themes may be still happening, but what that holiday means to you in Southern California may be somewhat different. different because that, it might be a little bit more appropriate to have that sort of prep time happening at a different time of year. Or maybe it's not quite as intense, right? For me, it's really an intense time period, we've got these few weeks, and it's gotta happen in these few weeks. For somebody in a climate that doesn't have quite as huge swings as mine does, Maybe it's something that you spread out more throughout the year, and you think about a little bit each you know, maybe each full moon or something like that instead of, boom, it's, it's fall, right? Mark: Yeah. Yeah, that, that, that completely makes sense to me, and I even think about how... In a very, you know, very temperate climate like Southern California, you know, if you're, if you're in the coastal area, for example, it may even be like an opportunity to do things that most of us associate with the summertime, because like the beaches aren't going to be nearly as crowded as they were in July and August, right? So, as the weather cools off, you might be able to get a little bit more privacy and, you know, time to yourself and stuff at a beach. Yucca: Mm hmm, yeah. Mark: Yeah, so, as always, we are really interested to hear what how you're celebrating the holidays, our readers. You can reach us, or, sorry, listeners, what am I saying? You can reach us at thewonderpodcastqs at gmail. com, and we always appreciate getting your emails. We are not going to have a show next week. Because I am going to be flying to Washington, D. C. to lobby for wilderness protections so that's kind of exciting. And I've decided that I'm going to wear a Sun Tree button on the underside of my lapel, where they can't see it, but I will still be wearing it on my lapel in the Capitol when I'm going to meet with congressmen and senators. Yucca: that's wonderful. So you'll still, it still has the meaning for you, you know it's there. Mark: That's right. Yeah, yeah, but the problem is, if I wore it the other way, then it would always be stirring up conversations about what does that mean, and it would derail from the conversation we want to have, which is about new national monuments, BLM's new public lands rule, things like that. Yucca: right. So it's one of those things to be thoughtful about is when do you... So, what are you trying to accomplish, and what do you need to do in each of those cases to accomplish that? So, very fitting for the time of year we've been talking Mark: Absolutely. And actually, as I mention it oh, never mind, the public comment period is closed. Yucca: Wow. Mark: There's a Many people don't know this, the largest holder of land in the United States is the Bureau, it's the the BLM, the Bureau of Land Management. And it does not list in its priorities for land management conservation. It, it lists things like mining, and oil and gas extraction, and timber, and grazing, and all that kind of stuff, but It does not list conservation values at all. So there is a proposal that has been launched by the Biden administration to change that, to add conservation into the mission statement of the BLM so that they will make decisions not only for extractive purposes, but also for the purposes of the ecosystem. Yucca: hmm. Mm hmm. That's Mark: And that's one of the things we're going to be advocating for. You know, it sounds like a bureaucratic thing, but it's really not. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: You know, these agencies are legally bound by their mission statements and and they will make decisions and allocate resources accordingly. So, it's it's an important thing. The, as I said, the public comment period has closed. The public comments were overwhelmingly in favor of the rule. Yucca: That's Mark: They got something like 300, 000 comments, and they were, you know, they ran like 90 10 in favor of the rule. Yucca: That's great. Mark: Yeah, so Yucca: I know my state, I have to look at the numbers again, but my state, BLM is, owns most of my state. Forest Service has a lot of it too. Mark: Huh, Forest Service is the second largest landholder in Yucca: it's more, yeah, it's, it's, the federal government owns most of New Mexico. Mark: Mm hmm. Mm hmm. I, I got to meet your senator, by the way, Kurt Heinrich at an event a couple of weeks ago. Martin Heinrich, I'm sorry and wonderful guy very, very thoughtful, very strategic around climate change and You know, we had a good conversation about public lands management and just good. Yeah, great leader. Yucca: Yeah, well I hope you have a fun I guess fun, a very productive and enjoyable time talking with all, all those DC folks. Mark: I'm gonna get to meet a bunch of atheopagans from the D. C. area. I'm arriving on the 17th and on the afternoon of the 17th. If you're listening to this and you're in the D. C. area, I am saying, staying at the Yotel on on Capitol Hill, and you are welcome to come. I'm going to set myself up in the hotel bar at around two o'clock, and people are just going to drop by and we're going to visit. So, I'm really looking forward to meeting some of our East Coast folks that I haven't met before. Yucca: Great, well give them hugs for me, if they're hug folks. Yeah. Mark: Yeah, I'll ask first, of course, because I know you would. I would too, but... Yucca: Yep. Well, wonderful. Mark: All right, so Yucca: you Mark: you in a couple of weeks. Thank you everybody so much. Yucca: Have a wonderful equinox, harvest, whatever you call it. So, Mark: I hope your harvest has been bountiful. Yucca: take care folks.    

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