Oct. 18, 2024

Unlock Portland's Unique Treasure Trove - Paxton Gate

Unlock Portland's Unique Treasure Trove - Paxton Gate

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Unlock the mysteries of Paxton Gate with us, where every corner promises the unexpected and the extraordinary. Join our conversation with Lilah, a seasoned guide through this Portland wonderland, as she unveils the store's journey from a niche plant shop to a treasure trove of natural curiosities.

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So there are a lot of things that are unique

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to the pacton Gate stores. You know, we have a

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lot of specialty pieces as well that there are only

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one of a kind. So it's if you're looking to

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go a pasta Gate travel trail worth it to hit

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all three stores because every single one is a little

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bit different.

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Hi, creepy people, we have another spooky season bonus for

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you guys. As you can probably hear, I am not

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alone today. Usually I am with my co host, but

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today I am with Lilah and we're here to talk

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about this really cool spooky store in downtown Portland, Oregon,

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and maybe some other places called Paxton Gate. So can

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you tell us a little bit about how you're affiliated

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with them.

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Yes, So I have been here at Paxton Gate for

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about five years now. I have pretty much gone through

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every position in the store at this point, so I've

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done our you know, I started off sales team, was

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in management for a while, and now I kind of do.

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A lot of behind the scenes things.

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So I teach our entomology hitting classes, I do all

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of our marketing, and I have a couple of products

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that I work on for the store. So we have

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a lot of you know, locally designed stuff, and some

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of that is done in house, and I am kind

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of one of the people that's.

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In charge of that.

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That's awesome.

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So you definitely know kind of the ins and outs

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of the store.

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It sounds like definitely, I feel like I have explored

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every corner of the store one hundred times over.

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Do you know where the name came from.

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Yeah, So we are named after Sir Joseph Paxton. So

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the original flagship store, Paxton Gate, was opened in San

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Francisco in nineteen ninety two. The founder Sean quickly opened

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it up and named it after Sir Joseph Paxton.

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So he was the.

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Apprentice gardener for the Duke of Devonshire. He was kind

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of known for creating us like bridge between utility and design.

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So Sir Joseph Paxton constructed the largest glass greenhouse of

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its time.

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It was called the Great Conservatory.

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It was pretty cool, so it was heated by a

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separate structure that kind of pumped in warm water and air,

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so it was a true greenhouse. And then he upped

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the steaks and created the Crystal Palace. And the Crystal

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Palace was kind of one of the more famous ones,

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and it was designed specifically for one type of flower,

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the grape thorned lily, and Paxton was the first person

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to force the grape thorned lily to bloom out of

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its natural habitat by using those greenhouse conditions, which is

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pretty cool. So we were named after Sir Joseph Paxton.

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The original San Francisco Paxton Gate was a specialty plant

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store and then evolved to kind of include a variety

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of natural, science based items. And then in two thousand

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and ten, our Portland owners and Ms Brown, who are

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longtime friends with the founder, Sean Quickley, moved up to

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Portland and they thought a store like Paxton Gate would

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be fantastic for Portland. They both grew up in families

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that were rooted in educational, curious, natured backgrounds and it.

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Just seemed like a perfect fit.

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So they started talking with Sean about the idea and

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came to the joint conclusion that it made sense to

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partner on opportunity. So we're actually separate companies from the

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flagship store in San Francisco.

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Sean, the founder, has.

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A small ownership position in the Portland company, but both

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Paxton Gate Portland locations were our own separate standing thing.

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Oh wow, that's really cool though that it started in

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this kind of interesting way with the plants and things.

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Because I visited the store and I saw like the

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carnivorous plants and stuff.

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And all over the place. It was really cool.

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But that does make a lot of sense now kind

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of why you guys have that type of thing. Definitely,

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So I have a lot of carnivorous plants actually, so

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when I went into your sore, it was like, oh

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my gosh, new place to get my carnivorous plants because

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I have killed them all and I'm gonna need to restock.

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So can you tell us a little bit about your

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supply of carnivorous plants.

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Definitely. Our carnivorous plants are really special.

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They are actually grown locally by a former employee of ours.

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Oh so we have a really good relationship with them.

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We easily have the best carnivorous plants in Portland, like

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hands down, there's no competition about it.

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They were beautiful.

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We have probably five to six varieties at any given time.

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So we have our you know, venus fly traps, the classics.

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The pitcher plants are kind of my personal favorite. I

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have a big beautiful bog in my backyard that is

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all supplied off of Pexton Gate carnivorous plants. You know,

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we have the underground ones, so the bladderwarfs, Tricularias, Mexican butterworts, penthees.

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I mean, we have literally any type of carnivorous point

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you can think of. We also regularly do pop ups

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with our carnivous plant vendor, so they come down with

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some of their specialty kind of more unique varieties. They

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bring down someones that you don't really find anywhere. So

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Darlingtonia's are a fun ones that are actually native here

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in Oregon, which I know a lot of people don't

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know that we actually have carnivorous plants that are native

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to Oregon. I had no idea, but they come down

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and they talk about that and they give you, you know,

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care tips on how how to not kill your carnivorous plants.

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They're really hard to take care of, you guys.

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I kept them alive for a long long time, but

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I recently moved out and I had to leave all

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my plants at the house and so it's harder to

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come by and water them.

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Yeah.

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Well, fun fact here, since.

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A lot of them are native here in Oregon. If

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you just put them in a dish of water outside,

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they go crazy. They love it. I keep my bog

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just out of my back and I've had to repot

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it probably twice in the last year because it is

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just putting out new pictures constantly. But definitely, we have

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so many guys and tips and tricks for taking care

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of any type. We have recommendations for well, you know,

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if you have a fly problem, we think these carnivorous

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plants are better. If you have a fruit fly problem

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or an ant problem, these carnivorous plants are.

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Better, the little sticky ones exactly.

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My favorite trick when I had a really bad fruit

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fly problem was to get the a pinglicula or a

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Mexican butter work and just swing it through the air,

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swing it through a swarm of fruit flies, and it

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was so sticky that they would just get stuck on

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it like fly paper.

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Genius.

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It's amazing.

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I'm definitely gonna have to come to you guys when

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I get myself situated again and have My dream is

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to have a box, So like I'm going to ask

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you all the questions you come in directly to you.

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I have your email.

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I'm a Bog queen.

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I'm always you know pro Bog does the one in

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San Francisco, like sell the same kind of stuff or

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they completely different?

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Yeah, you know, we have a lot of similar vendors.

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There are a lot of things that we do partner on,

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so if you visit both. I actually visited the San

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Francisco store for the first time.

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A couple of weeks ago. Your brain, it's especially my brain,

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but I was pleasantly surprised.

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There are a lot of you know, similar items, similar

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type taxaermy pieces, bones. But we, you know, as our

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independent company, have really grown to kind of work on

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our own niche and work on our own stores. So

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there are a lot of things that are unique to

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the Pacta Gate stores. You know, we have a lot

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of specialty pieces as well that there are only one

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of a kind. So it's if you're looking to go

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a packsa Gate travel trail worth it to hit all

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three stores because every single one is a little bit different.

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I definitely want to visit the other Portland one. I

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can't even remember which store I visited.

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The bigger one is Northwest twenty third and that's the

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one that was opened in twenty nineteen, so it's about

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two and a half three times the size. We've got

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two different levels and it's a big store. And then

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our original Portland location, which was open in twenty ten,

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is on Mississippi Avenue and it's a little bit smaller,

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more compact, but there is just as much stuff in there.

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I went to the one with the freeze dried cat

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and like the human skeleton that was like in a

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suitcase and like half as Oh Matilda, Yes, Matilda, I

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got to hold Matilda's wonderful.

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It was like you're letting me touch a human bones.

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Yeah, it was the coolest thing. I was so excited.

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It was my birthday when I went in, so I.

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Was just all, that is such a fun treat.

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We definitely we call ourselves, you know, a natural science museum,

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but you can touch everything and you can buy it

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and take get home at the end of the day.

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Ye you know.

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But our staff is just so excited to talk about

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every single thing we have in the store because we're

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also passionate about it and everything we have is just

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so unique and cool and we love to share it.

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I definitely wanted to know if you can tell the

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story of Matilda.

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Yeah, I mean, so all of our human specimens are

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retired medical specimens, so they come from medical articulators, and

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a lot of them are going to be dated to

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like pre nineteen seventy in medical articulation, the preservation's method.

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Preservation methods have changed a lot since then. So usually

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when you see kind of darker color bones, they tend

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to be pre nineteen sephanies, whereas the wider bones are

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usually post Matilda herself is disarticulated, which means that she's

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not you know, a full skeleton in one piece, she's

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in several pieces in a box.

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We call her Matilda. We at Vaxtingag came up with

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that name.

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When you donate your bodied science, you become anonymous, so

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there is no way to track who you were in

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life or where you came from other than what we

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can tell by looking at the bones here. You know,

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we're not necessarily medical experts. However, we have had a

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lot of our employees to have really deep special interests

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in these things and have gone and done their own

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research and been able to give us this information. So

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that's how we know that she's a female.

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If I remember correctly, she was I think in her

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like mid forties, and.

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That's a lot of what we know about her is

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just from what we can tell about the bones just

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by looking at them.

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But all of yeah, all of our.

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Human specimens were again retired medical specimens. A lot of

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the times when we get the skeletons in, they still

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have their medical markings on them. So we've had things

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like a bou Shane skull, which is essentially a skull

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that you can open up so you can open the sinuses,

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you can open in the jaw, you can open the

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school plates so you can see the inside of the schools,

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and a lot of these are used in medical studies.

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So we've had, you know, dental school schools as well,

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where there are slices in the jaws that you can

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open them up, and they've got the veins and the

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arteries all drawn in so that dental students can go

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in and see where the blood best has come and

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connect along your jaw. Same thing again with the Bauschane schools.

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You are able to open up all of the different

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parts of the school so that when you're using them

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in a school setting, you can go in and you

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can learn about all.

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Of the internal anatomy of these things. And usually, you know,

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after schools or articulators or.

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Museums even have had these things for a certain amount

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of years, maybe they become outdated, maybe they're not as

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accurate as they were. You know, we learned new stuff

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about science every single day, and then they will sell

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them off, so us as a store are able to

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go buy these old medical specimens because they were you know, tired,

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they're not being used anymore, and that's how we end

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up with some pretty cool things.

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Fantastic.

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Okay, So we kind of went over some of the

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items that you sell their, like taxidermy, plants, crystals. Is

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there anything else that you wanted to touch on that

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you think people should know that you sell in your store.

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Yeah. I mean we really focus on all things natural science,

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so there's an area in the store for everyone. We

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have skulls, bugs, wet specimens, taxidermy, we have fine jewelry, plants, books, phones,

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We carry a lot.

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Of local artists.

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We have interactive science based kids, toys, fossils, minerals. I

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mean it's really you can be any type of person

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and come into a Pacston Gate and find something fantastic

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to take home.

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What, in your opinion, is like the most, the strangest

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or the most interesting thing that you've had in the store.

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Well, we have sold a hippo to a bar that

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was up in Washington. We sold a giraffe to a

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bar down in Eugene. We have sold a cyclops of

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wet specimen kitten, so you know, a kitten with just

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one big eye. We've sold things like a walrus usk, which,

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if you don't know what an usik is, it's a

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penis bone, so it's a large vaculum basically.

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Okay, but we're very interested in those.

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Yes, we've gotten a few of those, and they're pretty cool.

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They're fun because they're you know, about a foot long,

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and usually when we get those pieces in they're fossilized,

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so they're super old, over ten thousand years old, sometimes

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up to a couple million, depending.

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On you know, when and where we found it.

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But we've had a few of those, which are pretty cool.

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One of the cooler things we sold was this giant

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two hundred year old lobster.

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And when I say giant.

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The lobster itself was probably four feet long with very cool.

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When we got the specimen. The specimen itself was one

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hundred years old before it died, and then the piece

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was another one hundred year old, so it had been

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around for two hundred or more years, which I think

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that was probably one of my favorite pieces.

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That is so cool.

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I want a giant two hundred year old love Who

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doesn't just you know, a nice center piece.

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What do they call it? A conversation piece.

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Yeah, you come into somebody's house there's a giant four

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foot lobster on the wall.

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You feel totally at home.

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So you did mention earlier. The pinning classes, the bug pinning.

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Definitely, they're one of my passion projects. You know, they're

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sort of my special area of the store.

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But we do them quite a few.

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Times a month, so we try to do about every

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other week, and we do a variety of specimens. So

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every year we come out, you know, with some quarter

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at a time, and I try to keep them interesting.

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So we'll go through spiders, butterflies, moths, we've done scorpions.

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We're trying to plan the lantern flies.

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Just really get a good variety of insects, so that again,

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if you don't like the creepy crawley stuff.

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You can come get a pretty butterfly.

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If you have enough butterflies in your house and you

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want to get weird with it, you can.

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Come to our tarantula pinning pass.

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But we talk a lot about insects in general, the

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history of entomology, insects and their place on Earth, so conservation, sustainability,

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and then you get to learn about all of the

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processes behind pinning and preserving your own specimen, and then

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you get to take it home at the end of

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the bus.

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And so it's a really good time.

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I have some and I like not that I've pinned myself,

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but that would be the coolest thing to have. It's

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something that you did yourself. And then you can go

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find us other places and exactly little pinning collection.

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Yeah, it's like, once you get the method down, you

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can pretty much apply it to anything. And that's that's

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what we're here to help with, is how do we

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how do we apply this to other things in our

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life too.

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Is there any other classes that you guys offer?

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Definitely, So we have quite a few different workshops that

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we offer. One that we're really excited to host at

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the end of October is our taxidermy workshops, So we

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have three different taxidermy workshops going on a jackalope workshop

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which as of today October tenth still has space available

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in it, So if anybody's looking to come learn how

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to tax amize their own jackalope.

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We've got space in that.

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When is that That is going to be on October

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twenty fifth, from twelve to six thirty.

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Okay, put it on your calendars.

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But we love doing our taxidermy workshops centers than a

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couple of years that we've done them. Now we're hoping

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that it's a continuing thing. Idea we get to have

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them a couple times a year. So you know, we

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have our newsletter that you can find through our Instagram

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and we update regularly whenever we announce new workshops and

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classes like that. So if you're someone who wants to

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get on the list first, you can definitely get notified

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to be able to get spots in any of our workshops.

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We've also done.

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We've partnered with Tulsa artist Tyler Thrasher and we did

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a Moonbeam Flora workshop where he came and hosted a

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bunch of students to create their own biofluorescent glowing flowers,

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which was really cool and unique.

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He's a very special artist.

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He's actually also coming mid October, on October nineteenth, He's

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coming to do a book siting with us here.

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That sounds so cool, Like I want to ask how

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that works, but I feel like you just you would

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have to go to the class.

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You Yeah, you might just have to come to one

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of our workshops.

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If I out, I want all the secrets.

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We do have.

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Kind of a fun upcoming event as well. We're participating

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in AMSY after Dark on October thirtieth, which is after

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dark adult only experience where you go to AMSY, which

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is the organ Museum of Science and Industry. They are

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opening a new bug exhibit this month, so the Exquisite

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Creatures Exhibit, and we'll be tabling at the event with

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some of the items that you can find in our store,

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and then you get to roam the museum after dark,

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sip on some whiskey, see some cool museum exhibits, and

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shop a little bit at our store as well as

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some other artists, pop ups, vendors, food, drink.

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It's going to be a really fun time.

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I've always wanted to go to that, Yeah, this is.

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Going to be our second Amsy after Dark experience, so

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something that we will hopefully do a couple of times. Again,

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if you just hoped on our newsletter, you'll never ever

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miss a facting Gate event.

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So I saw something about mystery boxes.

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Yeah, our mystery boxes are fantastic. I talk them up

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all the time, especially around the holiday season. So they're

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the perfect gift for giving to someone that maybe they

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have everything. Maybe you're not sure what to get this

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person in your life. Our mystery boxes are a great option.

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They are fully customizable, so you fill out a form

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online and you fill out things like your likes, your dislikes.

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You get to pick your own price, so there's no

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price limitations. You could literally fill out in the box.

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I hate the color yellow, but gosh do I love

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things with multiple sets of eyes?

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And our team will take that information and run with it.

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So every single box is hand curated by our team.

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We usually give you a call to just a double check,

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make sure you don't already have anything, pick out which

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sections of the store you wo like the most, and

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we really just run with it. So our mystery boxes

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are a fantastic gift idea. You can even gift it

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to yourself because you don't know what's going to be

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in it. Yeah, So if you're looking to buy yourselves

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up in a little special same thing, just tell us.

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All the things you like, your favorite colors, and we'll

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we'll run with it.

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That's a genius idea.

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I always see like the mystery box type things where

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it's you know, kind of like pre filled, don't you

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don't really know what's in it.

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So this seems so personal. That's amazing.

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Yeah, And I mean our team really loves doing it.

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It's it's getting to go shopping for someone else.

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Yeah, that's a great Christmas idea, So everyone keep that

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in mind because I don't know if anyone looked at

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the calendar, but Christmas is like basically right around the corner.

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So well, the good news is we offer complimentary gift

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wrap year round, so you can come in, you can

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come in mid March and we will Christmas gift wrap

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your gift for you, put it in your closet, forget

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about it.

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That is great.

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That's actually a great idea to just wrap the gifts

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all year as you go. How much less stressful would

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Christmas be if everyone is that exactly. We're here to help, yeah,

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or not just Christmas, any holiday, any gifting, you know.

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So when I was there, they were telling me that

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like sometimes mediums or psychics would come by and like

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get feelings from anything. Do you know of any of

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those stories?

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We have a few we were reminiscing when we were

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kind of going through our notes about all of the

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spooky things that all of our employees have experienced.

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We have one piece in here.

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It's called the hobby Horse, and it's real horse skin,

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but it's stretched over a child's toy. So it's one

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of those little horses that kids used to ride, you, like.

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A rocking horse. WHOA. I love him.

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I personally think he's just darling, but he is maybe

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not the prettiest thing in the store.

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And we had one.

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Incident where we had a couple of employees who were

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talking and they started gossiping about the hobby horse, and

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as I started gossiping about it, a boehead just flew off.

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The wall and crashed down on the ground.

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And so now we say, you know, if you leave

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the hobby horse alone, it will leave you alone.

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Whoa, it's just throwing four his heads around.

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Yeah, that seems so creepy though. When you said that

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it was like horse, real horse skins stretched over a toy.

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I just got a visual of like human like he

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stretched over like a toy.

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You know, you're a little bit cutter than that.

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He's got, you know, a beautiful brown and white modeled pattern.

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He's got his little horse hair tail. Again, I think

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he's darling, I probably would think.

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And he's never done anything bad to me. He's never

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thrown anything at me.

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And that's why you're saying that you have to you're

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here that if you say he's not cute, he'll throw

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something at you.

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I mean, if I look to my right, do I

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see him staring back at me? Perhaps? Oh?

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I said, Hi, can you tell me any other speaky.

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Stories that have happened in the store.

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Let's see we have.

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We have some antique tin types and if you're not

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familiar with tin type photography, it was a type of

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photography used I want to say, in the early nineteen

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hundreds before digital cameras were invented. So it's light flashing

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onto a tin background and it kind of superimposes the

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image onto there.

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But because the photography.

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Is so old itself a lot of the tin types

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that we get in are from sometimes the eighteen hundred

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seventeen hundreds.

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They're very, very old.

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We have some employees who there are particular tin types that.

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Just you know, their eyes kind of seemed to follow you.

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But one of our employees is saying that there was

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one where every time she picks it up, she gets

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a little bit nauseous, which that is saying, yeah, I'm

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hands off of that.

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I wonder if it just it captured and trapped some

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sort of energy inside of it.

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What's it a picture of?

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They're people, yeah, generally, so they would be portraits of

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you know, individuals, sometimes their family portraits. You don't often

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get to see portraits of pets because the way that

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the tin types work is they take about thirty seconds

483
00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:31.039
of having to sit still for that imassion transfer. So

484
00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:34.079
it's really rare to find pet tin types. But we

485
00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:40.880
have lots of like Victorian women, Victorian men family portraits.

486
00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:44.799
Not a lot of babies, I assume either the same reason.

487
00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:53.519
There's this historical showing of women taking pictures of their

488
00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:56.200
babies tin type wise, and they have to cover themselves

489
00:24:56.599 --> 00:24:59.519
in shawls so that they're not in the photo. But

490
00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:02.400
the baby I won't hold still unless mom is sitting

491
00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:06.079
there holding it. So there's these wide variety of tin

492
00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:08.359
types where you have this like ghostly shroud of a

493
00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.000
woman in the back and then this beaming little baby

494
00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:11.799
in the front.

495
00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:14.079
That's like kind of creepy.

496
00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:18.720
Yeah, they're as beautiful as they are, they are almost

497
00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:20.079
always a little bit spooky.

498
00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:23.279
Yeah, well, I think spooky and creepy things are beautiful.

499
00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:25.640
So it's like one and the same for me. I

500
00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:28.720
know everyone doesn't feel that way. Probably my co host

501
00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:33.799
she probably wouldn't feel that way. She also like doesn't

502
00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:38.359
like phones, and I'm like obsessed with bones, so every

503
00:25:38.359 --> 00:25:42.519
time I'm like talking about, you know, phones, holding phones,

504
00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:48.680
holding a human hand, She's like, what is wrong, You're insane.

505
00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:53.200
But she's also kind of like one of those I

506
00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:56.680
call them like sponge people, where they just like absorb energy.

507
00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:59.359
So I feel like, if you're holding a bone, you

508
00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:02.079
can kind of still feel the energy of like what

509
00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:03.000
it used to be.

510
00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:05.799
So definitely, yeah, I feel like that's.

511
00:26:05.640 --> 00:26:08.160
Kind of why she's she's scared of it, because she

512
00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:08.839
can feel it.

513
00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:11.039
Yeah, she's a little bit more sensitive.

514
00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:14.200
Do you ever feel that kind of thing when you're

515
00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:16.799
holding phones or something that used to be alive.

516
00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:20.920
I definitely I get that a lot, just in general.

517
00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:22.519
And I don't know how much of it is, you know,

518
00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:26.279
me imposing that in my own head, but I, you know,

519
00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:27.920
as the insect depending.

520
00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:29.480
Instructor, I get that a lot with our books.

521
00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:31.400
So you know, a lot of what I talk about

522
00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:36.359
is again sustainability. But I have just a connection with

523
00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:39.240
the insects that are on our wall in our in

524
00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:43.039
our store, and I just I feel like I can

525
00:26:43.079 --> 00:26:45.400
see how they were when they were alive and now

526
00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:47.440
they're they're here in a frame, and it's it's kind

527
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:49.519
of like a second life to them.

528
00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:50.319
You know.

529
00:26:50.359 --> 00:26:53.000
We talk about this with our like our wet specimens

530
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:57.359
as well. Is that a lot of them, especially when

531
00:26:57.359 --> 00:26:59.880
we talk about the wet specimens, were natural death, so

532
00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:03.880
they passed of you know, illness. You know, sometimes we

533
00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:07.519
get younger ones that were miscarried or death in utero,

534
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.720
or maybe it was someone's pet and they wanted it preserved.

535
00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:14.920
So we have all of these creatures. We have these snakes, we.

536
00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:20.400
Have sometimes like squirrels, hedgehogs, these adorable little things in jars,

537
00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:22.640
and it's kind of looking at the alternative of well

538
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:26.680
this thing has passed, you can put it in the garbage,

539
00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:28.839
or we can kind of give it a second life,

540
00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:33.079
you know, now it can instead of rotting away somewhere,

541
00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:36.279
it is allowed to sit in someone's home, on their shelf,

542
00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:40.759
with someone who will love it and appreciate it eternally.

543
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:43.880
You know, these methods of preservation that have been shown

544
00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:48.160
that they can stay preserved for hundreds hundreds of years.

545
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.119
There are like insect specimens that.

546
00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:53.559
I've seen that are two hundred years old that are

547
00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:57.039
still almost identical to the ones that we have, you know,

548
00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:01.359
alive today. So we're properly preserved. You're just you're looking

549
00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:04.119
at history. Yeah, and you get to look at well,

550
00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:07.680
this is how this animal was one hundred two hundred

551
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:10.960
years ago, and kind of drawing those parallels between how

552
00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:14.039
they are today and it really it's just a connection

553
00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:14.759
to the past.

554
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:17.920
Do you ever I don't know why this just popped

555
00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:19.920
into my head, but do you ever see any bugs

556
00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:24.960
like crawling on the bug decorations like checking them out?

557
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:32.279
I don't know, generally in the tax fermy and oddities world,

558
00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:33.559
that's a very bad sign.

559
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:36.519
Oh really, yeah, So there's.

560
00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:38.519
You know, there are pests that will come. This is still,

561
00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:42.160
you know, an organic matter. So we do lots of

562
00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:45.279
regular pest control. But if you see bugs that are

563
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:47.880
crawling on your taxidermy, that usually.

564
00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:50.480
Means that, uh, you need to do something about that.

565
00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:52.720
Oh, I guess that does make sense.

566
00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.119
I was just kind of thinking like they were like, hey, like,

567
00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:57.880
what are you doing in there.

568
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:01.319
I've heard of rumor that if you have a giant

569
00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:04.640
framed tarantula on your wall, the spiders in your house

570
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:05.720
will think it's real and.

571
00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:07.240
We'll leave you alone.

572
00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:10.759
Why. Don't know how much truth there is to it,

573
00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:15.400
but I guess you have to come by a tarantula

574
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:16.359
and try it out.

575
00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:19.680
Yeah, I feel like you're gonna have an uptick in

576
00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:21.559
your tarantula sales now.

577
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:25.599
Perfect. That is really good to know.

578
00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:31.240
Actually, So you guys also have tarot cards at the store, correct.

579
00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:31.759
We do.

580
00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:34.599
We have a lot of different varieties of tarot. So

581
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:37.200
I brought one of my personal favorites up here. This

582
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:38.599
is tattoo Taro.

583
00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:40.640
We actually have that deck.

584
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:44.920
Oh fantastic. We have a lot of different decks from

585
00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:48.240
different artists. Both of our stores actually have different varieties

586
00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:50.240
of decks too, So we have some local artists that

587
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:53.839
have decks over at our Mississippi Avenue location. We've got

588
00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:57.880
some big artist decks, We've got the original decks, some

589
00:29:57.920 --> 00:29:58.759
really cool stuff.

590
00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:01.000
But like I said, this one is personal favorites.

591
00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:05.359
So you're gonna pull a card for us today, definitely.

592
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:08.880
Just in a little light shuffling here.

593
00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:11.319
And I'll send you my energy.

594
00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:13.920
I always tell the audience to send us their energy

595
00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:14.720
from the future.

596
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:22.000
Perfect, all right, So we have our ace of coins here.

597
00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:26.119
Okay, that's pentacles.

598
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:30.079
I think I believe you're correct. So our Ace of

599
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:36.240
Coins means treasures, riches, prosperity, attainment, recognition, contentment, fulfillment. It

600
00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:41.000
may relate to work, pregnancy, childbirth, et cetera, triumph, profit, security,

601
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:44.240
and its price, a fresh financial start or a new enterprise.

602
00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:48.000
I feel like this is perfect for talking about this store.

603
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:53.799
There was a lot about uh, profit, it said like profit.

604
00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:57.640
Right, Yes, yeah, definitely. Oh and it's such a beautiful

605
00:30:57.640 --> 00:30:58.400
peacock too.

606
00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:02.680
Visuals see the Ace of Pentacles as your green light.

607
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:06.880
It marks the initial stages of manifesting your goals and

608
00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:09.680
assures you that you can truly achieve what you've set

609
00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:13.799
your mind to the world is your oyster, and through

610
00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:17.839
careful planning and determined effort, you can manifest your goals

611
00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:18.640
and desires.

612
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:20.920
I feel like that's like the store.

613
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:23.720
Yeah, definitely, someone's.

614
00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:28.960
Like desire and they've manifested everything that they love into

615
00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:29.720
one store.

616
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:30.880
I love that.

617
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:33.200
I mean so many times we have people coming and

618
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:34.519
they're like, that's so crazy.

619
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:37.160
I was just talking about this the other day. I

620
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:40.480
have to get it. It's fate. You are so right.

621
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:42.960
I agree with that. I know.

622
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:44.880
I think when I went in there, I kind of

623
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:48.200
I say, I don't plan to buy anything, but you know,

624
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:49.920
things always just call out to you.

625
00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:52.319
And one of the things.

626
00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:54.519
That called out to me was like, is it like

627
00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:56.559
a devil seed or something?

628
00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:58.359
Oh yeah, those seed pods?

629
00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:01.960
Yeah, the devil seed crazy And I was like, what

630
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:05.319
is this. It looks so demonic in him, this is

631
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:06.279
like from nature.

632
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:08.880
Well, that's so fun too. Those were such a one

633
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:09.400
off thing.

634
00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:11.720
That's the first time we've ever had them in the store,

635
00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:14.079
and I haven't seen them come by since. So really,

636
00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:17.559
it was definitely fate that you were able to snag one. Wow.

637
00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:20.720
That is actually really cool to know, and I like

638
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:24.359
randomly bring it up too. Do you sell any other

639
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:31.000
like divination like pendulums or Ouiji boards.

640
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:32.480
Do you have anything else in there?

641
00:32:33.319 --> 00:32:35.759
We have We have a lot of crystals, so we

642
00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:38.720
have a very large crystal section and we have a

643
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:40.880
couple of different books as well that can go with

644
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:42.880
the crystals, so that we'll talk about all of the

645
00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:48.079
metaphysical properties, spiritual properties, emotional properties. But we have just

646
00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:51.279
about any type of crystal you can imagine. So I

647
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.920
know a lot of people like to come in and

648
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:57.079
shop for their altars, do little crystal setups in that

649
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:00.720
realm find things that kind of me to tate with them.

650
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:03.559
So we have like mold of Bte was a really

651
00:33:03.559 --> 00:33:06.200
big one a few years ago, but we have a

652
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:07.680
nice selection of moldavite.

653
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:10.839
But I always look like it's so pretty.

654
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:16.480
So moldivite is this green, it's almost like a glass,

655
00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:25.119
so it's superheated. Essentially belief rocks will come down from it's.

656
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:25.839
Like a meteorite.

657
00:33:26.119 --> 00:33:28.960
But when a meteorite hits the earth with sand will

658
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:32.279
spray back up and heat in the atmosphere, and then

659
00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:35.559
as that comes back down it cools into glass.

660
00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:41.839
So it's this green sort of pocketed glass like mineral.

661
00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:43.559
It's incredibly rare.

662
00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:46.599
It only comes from I think one to maybe three

663
00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:50.759
places in the world, but it's it's really highly charged

664
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.759
in energy. So there was there's a big push for

665
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:57.920
folks who are looking to kind of I think upending

666
00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:00.200
things was the big push for moldivite that it was

667
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:02.960
a big one that leads you to kind of make

668
00:34:03.039 --> 00:34:04.119
those hard decisions.

669
00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:06.359
But definitely when folks.

670
00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:08.119
Come in and are shopping in the crystal section, I

671
00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:10.679
encourage them to just pick stuff up, hold it in

672
00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:13.719
their hands, you know, see see what happens, See what

673
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:14.599
finds you?

674
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:18.159
You know, Yeah, is that a skunk butt behind you?

675
00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:21.199
It is at behind me.

676
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:23.559
Let's seeing here. I've got that guy there.

677
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:27.840
I pulled the skunk because skunks are one of my

678
00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:29.440
absolute favorite tax at ermis.

679
00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:32.960
But they're they're pretty cool. He's got your little hands

680
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:36.559
hanging down here. So we have one of our coworkers.

681
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:37.440
It's a big.

682
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:40.559
Fan of dressing up the taxidermy and anything with their

683
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:43.119
little hands hanging down in front of them is just

684
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:44.639
asking to have bracelets.

685
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:46.719
Oh yes, bracelets.

686
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:47.239
Hats.

687
00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:50.280
Sometimes if you come into the store and you find

688
00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:52.199
a taxidermy with a little hat on it, and you

689
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:53.400
will let you keep the hat.

690
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:58.719
Oh that is good to know. It's like a little uh,

691
00:34:58.760 --> 00:34:59.960
what is it a scavenger hunt?

692
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:00.559
Yeah?

693
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:03.159
Exactly what else is back there?

694
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:06.400
So I can kind of walk through the wall here

695
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:09.320
actually on their.

696
00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:12.679
Farloo, I guess yeah, far left, we'll say it's the left.

697
00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:17.119
This is a print from They are Antwerp, Belgium based artists.

698
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:22.719
They're named Mothmeister. They are costumers photographers and they work

699
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:26.239
a lot with They call it post mortem fairy tales,

700
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:28.760
so they do a lot of really dark and kind

701
00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:34.119
of spookier artwork and then have these gorgeous haunting prints.

702
00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:36.639
They're actually coming out with a new book and twenty

703
00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:39.760
twenty five about all their artwork, and we're hoping to

704
00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:42.440
do an event with them, which is gonna be pretty cool.

705
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.800
We think we might do music, we might do some food.

706
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:48.320
Definitely going to be an artist talk and book signing,

707
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:49.840
which is gonna be.

708
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:51.159
Very very cool.

709
00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:52.519
That sounds fun.

710
00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:56.119
I've got some show and tell from our bug classes,

711
00:35:56.159 --> 00:35:58.400
so I've got a big old piece of honeycomb here.

712
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:01.800
We talk a lot about and our insect pinning classes.

713
00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:06.719
We talk about the bee decline, how native bees are

714
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:11.119
so important for our ecosystem, for our gardens, and we

715
00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:13.599
kind of talk a little bit about what honeybee's role

716
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.559
is in the ecosystem and how it's kind of misconstrued,

717
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:19.559
and then we talk about some These are some of

718
00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:22.039
the largest bugs in the world. So on the top

719
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.119
one here, I've got a white witch moth. This is

720
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:26.440
a bird wing butterfly. And these are paper cutouts there.

721
00:36:26.559 --> 00:36:31.039
Okay, is that the actual size though?

722
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:31.920
It is?

723
00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:35.000
Yeah, I formatted them true to size.

724
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:38.280
Wow, fighting with Microsoft Word for hours. Only a few

725
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:42.599
tears were shed. Oh, but you did it. And then

726
00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:45.400
on the bottom here this is a replica of a fossil.

727
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:49.159
So this is a dragonfly that was around in the

728
00:36:49.159 --> 00:36:53.199
Permian era. So back when dinosaurs are around, insects were

729
00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:56.920
so much bigger. So dragonflies over here this is about

730
00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:58.840
three feet long. It would be the size of that

731
00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:03.119
dragonfly if it were today, which is insane.

732
00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:05.800
Can you imagine that flying around your head?

733
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:10.280
Yeah, if dragonflies were that big today, we would not

734
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:13.239
have things like cats or small dogs or birds.

735
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:16.559
They would they would eat cats one d.

736
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:21.039
Dragonflies will eat anything. Dragonflies will eat hummingbirds if they

737
00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:23.519
can catch them. Mantises will also eat hummingbirds if they

738
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:26.760
can catch them. But they have three hundred and sixty

739
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:29.920
degree vision. They have about a ninety eight percent success

740
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:33.280
rate in catching prey. Something like a liar or tiger

741
00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:37.440
has about a twenty five percent success rate. Wow, And

742
00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:41.119
they are just voracious predators. They're really really good pest control,

743
00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:43.519
so they're taking care of all the things like the

744
00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:46.599
wasps and the pests in your garden. So as scary

745
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:48.239
as that sounds, they are a good thing, and you

746
00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:49.360
do want them around.

747
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:52.400
They probably won't eat you. You're probably fine.

748
00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:55.719
As long as you're not the size of a small bug.

749
00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:58.840
Think you'll survive. That's a lot of what our classes

750
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.480
are are. So many people come to the insect pinning

751
00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:05.360
classes and they say that it's exposure therapy. Yeah, and

752
00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:08.320
then I sit here and I talk about how amazing

753
00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:10.239
bugs are and how we all should love bugs all

754
00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:12.280
the time, and then they touch a bug for thirty

755
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:13.320
minutes and they leave.

756
00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:14.760
Going, you know what, that actually did help?

757
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:16.800
Yeah, it's not that bad.

758
00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:20.800
I used to be so scared of spiders and now

759
00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:25.239
like a giant spider was on the trash can today

760
00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:27.239
as I was holding the handle, and I felt like

761
00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:29.280
a little tickle, and I was like, what was that?

762
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:32.480
And I looked under and there was a giant spider

763
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:34.639
and I just got a stick and I put her

764
00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:35.119
in the bush.

765
00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:37.880
Yeah, and I didn't freak out one time.

766
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:39.519
I'm so proud of you.

767
00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:45.239
But I love like moths and things, so like spiders

768
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:46.920
are growing on me too.

769
00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:50.920
And that's how it starts. We literally we call butterflies

770
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:52.360
the gateway bug.

771
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:56.360
Once you start caring about the really pretty, bright, colorful butterflies,

772
00:38:56.599 --> 00:38:59.880
then you start caring about the really pretty moths, and

773
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.840
then you start caring about beat not so pretty moss.

774
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:05.000
The next thing you know, you're saving the spiders in

775
00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:07.679
your house. You're building a pollinator garden in your backyard,

776
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:09.320
and you're helping to save the insects.

777
00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:12.719
And you've gone full Portland on everyone exactly.

778
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:18.000
Portlandia says, put a bird on it. I say, put a.

779
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:20.199
Bug on Put a bug on it. That's perfect.

780
00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:24.719
You guys should make stickers that save a bug on it.

781
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:26.440
Done.

782
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:31.039
Was there any last words that you have?

783
00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:37.079
You know, I would say to just come visit our stores.

784
00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:40.440
We're open every day eleven to seven. We're open longer

785
00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:45.079
during holiday. You can come in and ask literally any

786
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:47.440
question you could ever think of, and someone in the

787
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:49.239
store will jump over.

788
00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:50.039
The moon to answer it.

789
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:51.000
Absolutely.

790
00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:53.280
We are just here to talk about the things that

791
00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:55.760
we love, like we we are here because we love

792
00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:56.159
what we do.

793
00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:58.880
We love the creatures that we sell.

794
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:02.320
We love plants, we love phones, we love human skeletons,

795
00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:04.679
and we love the weird and the creepy things, and

796
00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:07.320
we just get so excited to be able to talk

797
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:09.639
to anyone about the stuff we've got.

798
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:11.880
Yeah, thank you for talking to me today.

799
00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:14.519
And I can really attest to like going in the store,

800
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:18.280
you can you can feel the excitement of everyone working there,

801
00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:20.280
and like I think I just like asked a question

802
00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:23.280
to the air kind of and like someone behind me

803
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:26.440
was started talking to me, and then I started, you know,

804
00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:29.679
asking more questions, and then going along through the store

805
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:32.320
and finding more people that work they're come look at this,

806
00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:34.639
and so it's it's a really.

807
00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:35.920
Cool experience going there.

808
00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:39.239
It's definitely not not totally what I expected.

809
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:43.159
When I'm definitely yeah, and there's I mean, we love

810
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:45.119
to just pull everything out.

811
00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:45.840
Of a case, you know.

812
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:48.400
If yeah, if I'm behind the bug case and I

813
00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:51.519
get to pull every single bug out that's a good.

814
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:51.800
Day for me.

815
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:53.239
Oh yeah.

816
00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:55.559
I feel like you go into like some antique stores

817
00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:58.119
and stuff and there's you know, no one there to

818
00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:00.480
help you, or people don't want to take some out

819
00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:02.320
because they just want to sit behind the counter. But

820
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:05.000
that's definitely not what you're gonna get when you.

821
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:07.440
Go to for sure game. Yeah, we definitely.

822
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:11.519
We pride ourselves on our customer service. And again we're

823
00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:14.440
like a natural science museum, but you can touch it

824
00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:16.800
and you can put it in your hands and you

825
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:17.880
can take it home at the.

826
00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:20.440
End of the day as long as you're nice to it. Everyone,

827
00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:22.599
you know, use your delicate fingers.

828
00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:28.000
We're not manhandling the one hundred thousand year old fossils,

829
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:30.079
and we're being nice to the hobby horse.

830
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:34.079
Yes, yes, I think that's the biggest thing I learned

831
00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:36.119
today is be nice to the hobby horse.

832
00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:42.119
Oh, thank you so much, Lailah. I love talking to you.

833
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:46.119
Thank you so much, Cassie and looking forward to hearing

834
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:46.760
the episode.

835
00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:48.480
Have it Creepy Yes day.

836
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:50.880
Bye.