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Speaker A:
Welcome to the Star Zone. I'm Patti Spagniello. From Resource Fairs geared towards our students, to arts and entertainment aimed to connect with our community.
Lansing Community College hosts many events throughout the year, and the Star Zone gives you a rundown on what's on the way, where it's happening, and how you can get into the zone at lcc. Well, hello. Welcome to the show. Today my guest is Taylor Vaught.
en in many roles at LCC since:
Taylor currently works in the admissions office, assisting students with their next steps in the college process. Taylor, welcome to the show.
Speaker B:
Thank you.
Speaker A:
Taylor Today is here to talk about the program and career showcase. So let's start out with what is this event, first of all?
Speaker B:
So the program and career showcase, this is an event for departments to get out, departments and programs to get out and just to toot their own horn, just to talk about their program, give those fun facts like, we're, you know, ranked number three in the nation, or honestly, just like, give some information to these students. So help them make a decision about college.
Speaker A:
And when is this event being held?
Speaker B:
This is going to be on March 25, which I believe is the last Wednesday of March coming up. And it'll be housed at our LCC west campus.
It's going to be in their main mall hallway type area, but we'll have as many departments as possible out and just getting to showcase their areas.
Speaker A:
And so who's the audience for this event?
Speaker B:
So the audience is mainly prospective students.
A lot of this is detailed out to high schoolers just so that way they can come in, try to help make a decision on the career pathway that they want to get into.
But honestly, anybody who's interested in enrolling at LCC or even current students show up too, just in case they might change their mind from psychology to biology.
Speaker A:
So I noticed it's running from four to six. Are you hoping to get, like, the parents as well?
So in other words, the buses aren't coming from the schools, People are coming after they get out of work and that kind of stuff. Is it like a family event?
Speaker B:
We always welcome family because even though there's one student who might come, most of the time they bring a sibling that might be a freshman in high school and they're still kind of interested stuff. So we want anybody who's interested. Family is always welcome. Bring your auntie, your uncle, your grandma, your grandpa.
Speaker A:
Everybody should they register beforehand?
Speaker B:
Yes. It is not required, but it just helps with us one being able to see how many people are showing up.
But also brand new students who register and attend the event will be entered for a $500 scholarship drawing.
Speaker A:
Oh, that's awesome. They have to be present to win.
Speaker B:
Yes, preferably we will go off of who has been there. So I'll make sure for sure it's somebody who actually attended. But they.
attend and enroll for fall of:
Speaker A:
Okay. Many of the LCC programs do roll into bachelor's degrees for transfer.
So if a student knows that they want to transfer, is this still an event for them to. To go to?
Speaker B:
Yes. One they can kind of get a little bit of an idea of the classes they're going to be taking here at lcc.
But so many instructors in each area, they're professionals in their fields, so they can kind of help navigate like. Yeah, for sure.
This is what it's gonna look like here at LCC once you get over to Central or U of M. This might be what you're looking at once you get there too.
Speaker A:
And of course, our west campus is just beautiful. It's easy to park. I love West Campus.
Speaker B:
It is. It's one of the best.
Speaker A:
Yeah. So whenever there's an event there, I feel like it's a great big carnival or something. But so what kind of activities will be available?
Speaker B:
There's all sorts of them. So areas such as, like our geospatial program. If you haven't seen the drone flyers out there, they have the robot dog, which is really cool.
It gets to interact with students. Biology last year was one of our biggest displays because they were up there concocting something. But they were on the second floor.
I was on the first floor, you know, mingling with students. But they had everybody's attention upstairs. So I'm already super excited to have them back again.
Welding is going to be out there just in case somebody is looking for a little bit of hands on like view of how things work with that. The health area, such as nursing and our EMTs, like they had actual displays show people about like CPR and all that stuff too.
So it's all all sorts of events, all sorts of learning areas for it.
Speaker A:
Wow, that just sounds like so much fun. Like a family night out. I don't know why. To me, it's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker B:
we got really good interaction last year and people loved it. And I just got so much good from students so awesome. I'm glad to have it back.
Speaker A:
Do you guys do any follow up, like when a student applies or surveys that say, what events did you attend at LCC that really made an impact?
Speaker B:
Not just yet, but that is coming up. So we are utilizing some new systems here and trying to track our students a little bit better.
So that way we can be like, hey, yeah, I know you came to this event. Like, yeah, did you have any specific feedback or is there something about this that you want to see in other events that we do, Right?
Speaker A:
Yeah. And that kind of also tells you then what events are, you know, worthwhile. What does the community need, you know. So what do you think?
Just switching gears a little bit from the event. What do you think is the most confusing thing to students looking at LCC's entire list of programs?
Because sometimes it's almost like there's too much.
Speaker B:
There is. I believe we have over 200 degrees and certificates available for students. So that might be a little overwhelming at times.
I think if you have any idea of where you would want to go with this, like for your major, you would try to focus in that area. They actually just updated the degrees and programs page to have a search engine on it like built in. So it's kind of nice.
If you're thinking about any of the sciences, you can just start typing it in and it's going to shorten that list tremendously for you. You're not going to see the trades or you know, you might not see psychology. That way you can kind of focus on just the sciences.
And if there's any confusion on it, I always tell students maybe just start with the general, like don't even have to worry about picking something specific right now. Start with a general studies degree. You can get your main transfer stuff done.
But also you'll have that freedom to be like, you know what, I like psychology, I want to pursue this. Or maybe I want to look at a trade or something within the health careers area too.
Speaker A:
You know, the other thing that I think sometimes is confusing for students is they see the name of like the degree, but they don't really understand what the work life is like, like what you're really gonna be doing with this degree. You know, like maybe I'm just throwing this out there, cause I have no idea.
But like, let's say if you're going into some environmental science type of thing, you could maybe end up testing water across the country for a specific chemical, you know, whatever. I mean, but we just, we don't know that and it's like, is that high anywhere? Like, you know, here's what you could be doing.
Speaker B:
That depends. I have noticed in some of our descriptions, like, it does kind of give a guiding. Like, this is intended for students looking to go in.
Honestly, for most of our biology stuff, especially for students who are looking to transfer on, it specifies like this degree particulars for those transferring on to four years. So it doesn't totally specify like, hey, you could be out here. Yeah. Testing water or anything like that. That one is more of a.
Probably talking to somebody in the department, one of the instructors who, who's done this out in the field before.
Speaker A:
Okay.
Speaker C:
Yeah.
Speaker A:
So they get that experience.
Speaker B:
Like they get to come do that at the programming career showcase.
Speaker D:
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker A:
Yeah, they get to see.
Speaker B:
Hey.
Speaker E:
Yeah.
Speaker A:
I just always think that's important because I think students don't always connect those dots. And there's some really good programs out there, but because of the name.
Speaker B:
Yeah, they don't know.
Speaker A:
You would never know. You'd never make that connection. I mean, sometimes I want to go back and be a student now when I realize, oh, I could be doing this.
Speaker B:
Wow.
Speaker A:
So what's your favorite thing about this event?
Speaker B:
My favorite is the student interaction. I love getting to meet brand new students who are just getting started out at lcc.
Those who, especially when they have like unique questions like that. Because I'm a troubleshooter type guy, so if I don't know it, then I'm like, oh, we got something to work on.
So I'm, you know, working the scene, being able to go around and be like, oh, you should talk to this instructor over here or this department over here. So that's one of my biggest part. I love interacting with students. And honestly, it's kind of nice getting the community together.
Like, I've gotten good responses from departments and like, they're excited to get out and meet students too. I really like interaction, so I think being able to facilitate this is one of my favorite things.
Speaker A:
That is awesome.
Speaker D:
I agree with you.
Speaker A:
I just recently did a podcast about Big Steam and they were just so happy to come and talk about their program. And I think, you know, a lot of times we put faculty and programs behind the doors. Right. This is not the face.
But now with our events, we're bringing that into the forefront. So students are seeing the instructors. Oh, this is the person I'd be taking the lessons from.
This is the person that's going to be showing me how to do this for my career. And it really makes a difference. I think you make that connection with that person and you feel more comfortable.
Speaker B:
I think that's definitely a big point of it too. Again, as you said, I'm a product of lcc.
Anybody who's looking to go in the computer support technician area or any of the CIT programs out there, I'm like, oh, you're gonna love them. I've actually seen one instructor today, Adam Richardson. He's a great guy and just a great instructor.
And anytime a student tells me he has him, I'm like, you're gonna love that guy. He's just. Yeah, he's very passionate about teaching.
And with most instructors that I've dealt with, they just have the students best interests at their heart, you know, so they just want to make sure they can perform as best as they can when they leave their class.
Speaker A:
Right, right. And you know, you just hit upon something else too, is working here at lcc, but also being an alum of lcc, I am as well.
And I think that gives us just a leg up, don't you? I mean, we know the experience.
Speaker B:
You know, students will ask me like, oh, how is Intro to Psych? And I'm like, oh, it's actually a pretty fun class. You know, like, you get to learn a lot. But I always tell them too.
I'm like, it's kind of no answer is a wrong answer class because it's your interpretation of the material that we're going over. So I was like, as long as you're responding, you're going to probably do really well in that class. I was like, but you got to do the reading.
You can't, you can't. Can't skip over all the stuff there.
Speaker A:
Darn. Maybe you should be an instructor. Did you ever think of that?
Speaker B:
I have thought about doing adjunct here, but it's just, you know, life has been life and so hopefully one day.
Speaker A:
But yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that would be outstanding. I think it's helpful when people have had the backgrounds that we have had and then you turn around and be the instructor.
It just makes it so much more flavorful for the students to resonate and go, oh, yeah, you went through this, you did this. So this isn't anything new to you?
Speaker B:
No, it is not. And I still go through it. I'm actually in classes right now.
Speaker D:
Oh, really?
Speaker B:
Yeah. But I have cloud computing and Microsoft Network server.
Speaker A:
Oh, my gosh.
Speaker D:
Good for you.
Speaker A:
You're just going to keep on learning, that's all. I go, yeah, hey, you know, and that's really what LCC is about too. Right.
You know, you can just, even if you have the degree, you can just keep on learning because that's kind of what you have to do. If you're not growing, you're probably dying. So. No, you know, so is that the
Speaker B:
get busy living or get busy dying?
Speaker D:
Right?
Speaker A:
That's very good. Okay, so we're having way too much fun here.
Anything else about the program and career showcase that I didn't ask you that you kind of want to focus on or anything that's jumping out that, hey, they're going to have a helicopter there this year and they're not.
Speaker B:
I'm just no helicopter. So yeah, please, it would be awesome if we did because we do have aviation maintenance. They're going to be out there.
Speaker A:
Nice.
Speaker B:
But honestly, my big part is just come out, have some fun, get to talk to departments. We'll have a few beverages and whatnot available for students too, or guests, anybody who's coming.
ll be able to see you fall of:
Speaker A:
You know, I always think too, everybody's just here to help.
Speaker B:
Yes.
Speaker A:
You know what I mean. Don't be afraid to ask whatever question. We're just here, we want to help you. We want to see you succeed.
Well, thank you so much for being on the show today. And that's the program and Career Showcase on Wednesday, March 25th from 4 to 6pm at LCC's West Campus.
All right, thank you everyone and wishing you well. Thanks for joining us here on the Star Zone.
For more information on this episode, visit lccconnect.org you can also find a complete list of Lansing Community College events by visiting LCC Edu Calendar. Until next time, thanks for getting into the Zone,
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He's one of our producers here at LCC Connect. He is going to be speaking with me about film.
Speaker E:
Yay.
Speaker D:
Yay. I'm so excited because I believe I had mentioned beforehand about Robert Eggers and Nosferatu.
His version, his:
No, I'm not that excited.
I'm excited because the cold weather is that time where a lot of interesting, let's say, points of view about what we are experiencing while we're in the cold come to view in very creative ways. We get a lot of the winter holiday specials so we get our. The Curmudgeon, like characters like Dr. Seuss's Grinch who Stole Christmas.
We get our Krampus stories, which I cannot. Scrooge, Bah, humbug. We get a lot of. Yeah, so a lot of monster stories.
I cannot wait to go over Krampusnacht, by the way, which hopefully I'll be covering soon as well.
But there's a lot of like, even in music, there's metal artists that primarily black metal is known to have an expression of what it feels like to be in the cold. Because a lot of black metal comes from the. The north European nations such as Norway and Sweden, Finland.
And a lot of them will have this sound that sounds very far away. It sounds very cold and it sounds like there's a lot of echo and a lot of variants.
So to me, I enjoy that a lot because when we finally hit our seasons of just the thing I think of is Monty Pythons. There's this caricature of what was it. Gilliam would draw those. Right?
Speaker E:
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker D:
You'd have the downfall of the seasons and when it would just be fall, you would just see all of the leaves fall at once.
Speaker E:
Right.
Speaker D:
And that makes me think of what that happens here when the snow falls in Michigan and it's just a. And that's all you see and all you hear for the next six months of your life, pretty much. So yeah.
Listening to black metal often helps with getting through those season that part of the season because it's just like ah, cold, desperate. Yeah, no, it's so windy and everything. My bones and fire and yada, yada, yada.
But I think of Dark Thrones, Transylvanian hunger, which Transylvania is where our famous vampires come from, at least the European versions of definitely. So that makes me think of a lot of great things to do. Dove into Nosferatu on this.
Nosferatu, by the way, coming from iterations of vampire tales and one of the most famous ones are of Bram Stoker, the Irish authors. His tale of Dracula, which was more a love story.
Speaker E:
Yeah, sure.
Speaker D:
osferatu. F.W. murnau back in:
Yeah, we see that. We see that portrayed that story of this forlorn dead creature coming to seek its love of. And it's almost as if love cannot end for these creatures.
Like they're so. They go out, they.
Speaker C:
They.
Speaker D:
You know, they're horrific things. You know, blood is the life kind of a Thing, they go out for blood. They go out with their eating people and tearing people apart and whatnot.
wer version of Nosferatu, the:
And he took a lot from many other predecessors before him, even Francis Ford Coppola's version. There was many nods that this man got into as a director. He is also a child of playwrights and directors. So a lot of his.
A lot of what I saw when I saw this film twice, two times in a week actually, is I went on, I believe, the Eve of Christmas and then again on New Year's Day.
Speaker E:
Okay.
Speaker D:
So I was obsessed with this film. And I'm like, I have to see this again on the big screen. And I took notes the second time like a nerd.
I had a notepad and I have since lost the notepad. So I'm just trying to recollect anything that I, when I saw it on the screen the first time, taking and pulling the look and the feel of the film.
And I immediately thought of the stage when I saw this film. So then I kind of did little Wikipedia research on Eggers. And then I found out that, yes, he is the child of theater people.
And it made so much sense. I actually was in a version of Dracula, okay.
A three hour play, mind you, back when the old firehouse was still a playhouse, back many, many years ago. And I played one of the dead brides of Dracula.
But that whole play itself, which is another, you know, just another version of Bram Stoker's, was very, very true to Bram Stoker's version of the book. So the play makes sense when you see it on stage. And it's just written out the characters and the whole intention of Dracula.
You know, he misses his wife that he lost many years previous. And when he comes back from the being dead and whatnot, and he sees someone that reminds him of this love.
Now the stage play had to be cut down to three hours.
Speaker E:
Yeah, yeah, three hours.
Speaker D:
That's dedication from the book, which is nothing but journals.
Speaker E:
You're right.
Speaker D:
It's just a bunch of journals from different characters of the story. And that's it.
Speaker E:
It's not like a linear narrative in a traditional sense.
Speaker D:
Not at all. Which is very interesting as well.
Yeah, but to adapt out to the stage is one thing, but to adapt it to screen and then have a different kind of story that got pulled out of that version of vampirism led us into what became Nosferatu. Count Orlok being the monster, being this old soul that comes back to life. Max Shrek's version of Count Orlok is still haunting.
He's still a scary figure and very weird.
Speaker E:
Yeah. With those long pointy fingers, the big
Speaker D:
head, the long shadows, even just his gaze, even. Did he blink once in that film?
Speaker E:
Ooh, that's a good question.
Speaker D:
It's weird.
Speaker E:
Maybe not.
Speaker D:
I don't know.
of that one that came out in:
Speaker E:
Yeah.
Speaker D:
And him actually being a vampire in real life and taking that story and putting another story on top of that story, which had lore upon it.
r of the first Nosferatu, the:
So a lot of these people that were working on these films were living during a time where the First World War was just about to start or had already started. So you had people working in these films that already saw real life horrors that they were going through.
And a thousand yard stare, I think is what they call it when you're. When you've got that PTSD and you just stare off into the distance, which I guess worked for Max Drek and us.
And that version of his version of Count Orlok, also, I believe it is the Dracula story, is that he was a soldier himself in some iterations. I can't remember if that was in the journals or not.
Speaker E:
Right. I don't recall. But I do know that in regards to the myth of Dracula, like, this is fertile territory to explore, this character,
Speaker D:
of all, let's just. With the:
So we've got our German expressionism set designs, lighting, the type of film that it's structured to be, which adds to this horror effect that we get from the Film it is. It's silent. It's. You've got a. This shadow. A lot of shadow and light at play here. It just enhances the.
The creepiness of this being traditionally one of the first horror films. The other one being the cabinet of Dr. Caligari. But with that.
I'm just looking at a picture of Max Shrek right now and she just can't stop being laughing because the way he looks is terrifying. He. He even has a terrifying look on his face like he's afraid of himself almost.
Speaker E:
Sure.
Speaker D:
He just doesn't know it's. He did. So the character actor that put this on did a great job, I thought.
And because it had that effect in the first place and so many other versions of this kind of vampire which became Dracula in the later horror films that we see in the classic horror films. Bela Lugosi's Dracula doesn't have a mustache. He is one of my favorites. No mustache. Not so much that creeper. But I think he.
I think Lugosi because then we got into the talkie era. So you do. So it's taking out that silent effect. So you get to actually put spooky sounds in.
So there's a lot more going on in these films that they were enhancing every with technologically wise. But with Bella, his eyes.
Speaker E:
Sure. Yeah.
Speaker D:
Are those things which. Same thing with Max Schreck. He just has a different kind of eye. Bella's was more romantic, I thought.
Speaker B:
Sure.
Speaker D:
He just had this. It's a very. Come to me. Yeah, definitely hither stare. And I think it started with Bella, which got the more romance into that.
The whole feeling of vampirism and whatnot and that even more so on top of Stoker's original writing and whatnot. But I think that the whole cloak, the whole hiding one's face and the bat, a lot of just turning into the bat. What was the devil bat.
That came out as well. During this era in time, there's a lot more like. Let's suss this Dracula character up. You know, let's like put more action into these sequences.
Let's have more of, you know, the iteration of the Nosferatu is the old. That was the first version, I think, where light affects the vampire.
Speaker E:
Right. Yeah. That was not a part of the novel's version of the character.
Speaker D:
Right. So you got to see a lot more of that pulled out in these later versions. So we go on to.
There's the Hammer films, which has very box movies babes and a lot of like 666 and a lot of devil worship and whatnot. Lots more blood. And then even more so the ploitation era. So you've got like black Dracula out here, like with the fro and freaking people out. It's.
It's such gosh. Die, Dracula, die. You've got Brides of Dracula versions. You go on to Andy Warhol Presents, which goes.
That becomes even more romantic where it's just nothing but lace and these soft focus features and yeah, you get into the depth of everything and then all of a sudden we get this version that comes out in the early 90s, 92, I believe it was, which had Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Gary Oldman's version of the. The vampire of Dracula. Which is where I think that my first embracing of this culture came to be. Where it's just like, I really like this creature.
This is my favorite horror thing ever. Bella came later because you couldn't quite see all of the silent films.
Speaker E:
Oh sure, it would be difficult.
Speaker D:
So the 90s spurned a lot more of this resurgence. I think of a lot more of the old style classic horror films. And so you saw a lot more even Type O Negative to reference another metal band.
e to the nosferatu version of:
A lot of romance. A lot of weird vampire culture came from that era, which it's, it's fun.
But you also, you know, in the early 90s were coming out of the late 80s, which was coming out of the AIDS era.
Speaker E:
You're sure.
Speaker D:
So not coming out of. Excuse me, like, I guess more stepping into a well known part of the AIDS era and culture.
So you have a lot of people that are intensely aware of like blood and, and romance and this hypersexualization and the fear and scapegoating and people. It was another kind of plague effect going on.
Speaker E:
Yeah, right. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker D:
And blaming cultures, blaming gay culture and whatnot, when it was just like, no, this is just. It's a thing that even your newborn can receive through blood work.
Speaker E:
It could be in you.
Speaker D:
It can be in transfusions, even if you just needed, you know, a blood transfusion for something.
So I think that when that particular, that Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola's hit, I think it hit hard with a lot of people because there's a way to look at it where if you had Lost somebody to aids or you were there going through it yourself. If you are just affecting everybody or anybody around you, there's this, the point of the film, one of the taglines is the blood is the life.
And to take that into another romantic point of view where Gary Oldman's Dracula is laced in with Winona writers. Mina. It's this, this ever aching, like my lost love. Like, where are you at? I need you to survive. Very 90s, very 90s, very like hard hitting.
And then you add in this element of like there's this sickness going on with the blood. Even like in the film, you see the blood transfusion happening itself. So you see like literally the sickness.
They're trying to get the sickness out of some of the characters by doing a blood transfusion. And then we just find out, like, is it working? Is it not working?
And at the same time you've got people going through this literally in the hospitals. So I just sometimes wonder because I was so young when it came out, but I, in my older age had started to think about that in a different way.
And I'm like, I wonder how this really affected like other certain people that might have been very sensitive to that in. In a sense of a good way where it's just like love. Love lasts forever. It. Through the death, through undead. Even. Even so, I don't know. Very romantic.
sion, him coming out with the:
Speaker E:
I thought you were talking about COVID spoilers.
Speaker D:
Covid was and still is a thing. Yeah. It's just weird because the timing of everything. We've got the. What was it? Public domain.
Speaker E:
Right.
Speaker D:
Which brought this. I believe that that hit the mark where it was just okay for him to be able to get into it.
Speaker E:
Right. Yeah, that actually, that's what, you know, a big part of the history of this Dracula and Nosferatu famous copyright battle.
Bram Stoker's widow successfully sued the filmmakers.
Speaker D:
This specifically.
Speaker C:
Specifically.
Speaker E:
Right. Is that. Like I said, I believe she was successful in curbing, like, it wasn't able to be distributed.
Speaker D:
And this was.
So this was one of the first kinds of films that had that, like there was all of a sudden issues with domain rights to be able to retell the story over and over again.
Speaker E:
Exactly. Yeah, it's a big common theme with all sorts of media around this time.
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got our version of Nosferatu:
Speaker E:
Yeah, apparently he was in a play version of it when he was in high school.
Speaker D:
I wonder if that was also a three hour version. It's a. Anyway, it was a good show that we did. We put on a very good show.
So I wouldn't be surprised if Eggers version was also amazing because it did spur him to write a screenplay to put it to film. So for his version coming out nearly 100 years after a different plague had hit, pandemic had hit the Spanish flu.
So that coincided with the original Nosferatu's version. So yeah, to hit 100 years later, the plague is prevalent in the story. You've got.
Because you've got transatlantic trading going on and a lot more people are shipping themselves overseas.
You've got a lot of people coming to America now, you know, and so there is a lot of this idea of once again scapegoating, where all of a sudden there's plague in the area where this weird foreigner steps off of a ship and all of a sudden we've got a plague like get these people out of here, get this monster out of here. And it's really horrifying when you think about that, perhaps from Murnau's version and whatnot.
But when you tell the story of this and it's like, who's the real monster here? Is it, you know, we're. It's because the plague came from the rats, which came from the fleas. And that's it. That's all.
It's just diseased fleas, rats, and that's it because they, you know, because they're creatures that are running around in their own filth and whatnot. You got a lot of creatures that can carry these diseases around and that's all it's coming from.
But when you are putting that to a figure, a human or human like humanoid figure, and then you're carrying that to thinking about who had in the past and presently you can say has been scapegoating as disease carriers, people that go and pillage and take people's things and it becomes this ultra fear ridden crisis of oh, you're to blame, it's all your fault. So I don't know, it's just an interesting, interesting point of view where, you know, with the COVID 19, the coronavirus, how that was scapegoated.
The Spanish Flu is literally called the Spanish Flu. It's like, yeah, you know, there's a lot of these present themes that keep coming up over and over again.
You see a lot of creative types, directors that will bring these ideas up again because they haven't healed themselves off the place of the earth because we haven't completely evolved past this point of like. Okay, so we need to first of all get down to the nitty gritty science of what this actually is. Like, is this a virus? Is a bacteria? What's the strain?
Can we delete the strain from the chain and get on with our lives? Rather than that. No, it's this whole. No, you as the human, you are the one responsible.
And not just you as a human, to your entire culture or wherever you came from. This gets into that very well. But it's very subtle also.
Speaker E:
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker D:
So I don't know, I just thought it was very interesting that these kinds of horrific tales of these creatures brings about that kind of thought process. And even though it's not obtuse, it's not out there in your face in the film, it's just.
It's the minor parts that we see that are like, oh no, that's another terrifying thing that can happen. But at the same time it's just like, no, this is a very subtle, like commentary we're making on the human psyche and how we treat each other as is.
Speaker E:
Yeah, definitely.
It doesn't wear its symbolism or its themes on its sleeve and simultaneously gives you room to kind of feel your experience into it and it feel genuine and sincere.
Speaker D:
Yeah, they've done very good jobs of this over the years.
grd is the Count Orlok in the:
With the Skarsgrd family, we've got Alexander Skarsgrd who also played vampire in the Showtime's True Blood, which is really the story. Yes.
Speaker E:
Yeah, it's soque.
Speaker D:
We've got, along with the Skarsgrd family, one of the Valter. He played a drummer in the.
He played Faust in the story called Lords of Chaos, which was a movie, a very fictional movie, but about the real life band of Mayhem who happened to be a Norwegian black metal band.
And that will, that is just one of those pinpoints of man getting here to there, to the Norwegian, to the black metal and going right back to Transylvanian hunger. I mean, there's some good stuff out there. Be careful about what certain things are.
You know, certain things are a little questionable, but back in the day, but now, I don't know if you hear stuff cold, distant, and you want to frequent yourself with a lot of cold sounding music to accompany your oncoming cold winter with, I think this will be it.
And then they also are just very like horrific with the way that they sing and the makeup and whatnot, which is also taken from a lot of Japanese stage plays.
Speaker E:
Sure. It's very Kabuki.
Speaker D:
Very Kabuki. All right. With that, we are going to come back for part two. So this is part one talking about Nosferatu Vamp.
All right, thank you, Brennan, for joining us. We'll see you in the next episode.
Speaker E:
Yep, I'll see you then.
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Let's get into this episode. Welcome in everybody. I'm super excited to chat with you today on this episode called the Power of Everyday Magic.
I saw a quote recently that said that if you talk about or you think about positive things, your brain will literally hardwire to seek that out. And so that is what we're doing today. We're going to talk about all things everyday magic and what does that look like?
So Magic in the Ordinary when was the last time something small completely shifted your mood? For me, that would be this morning when I got my coffee here in the Gannon Building. This morning, nothing beats Blue Owl Coffee.
How would you redefine magic in my eyes and in my heart? Personally, I don't know about you redefining magic for me is anything that just kind of sets your soul on fire.
And that can be as simply as waking up and putting your favorite coffee creamer in your coffee, which I do have several. I have a little coffee collection going on at home. As you know, we've spoken about this in past episodes.
But yeah, redefine magic not as something mystical, but as a state of attention or appreciation. How do we tend to miss the magic in our day to day lives? Why do we miss the magic in our everyday lives?
Well, the reality is the pace of this life, we end up overlooking things quite a bit. Busy with work, busy with bills, busy with responsibilities. And we're conditioned to kind of pay attention to that. Rush, rush, rush, go, go, go.
And what am I going to do to make sure that I check off all the things on my list or just the stress of everyday life? We're conditioned to chase big moments, milestones, success and perfection.
Who does not know that we are like that's the golden glitter star that we get. You hit a milestone, you achieve something successfully or you are viewed as, or you think you are your ideal of perfection.
And that's kind of one of those things that kind of draws away from our everyday magic. Personally, I have learned and self taught in the last about year to two about slowing down and finding the magic in every single day.
What does that look like?
Sometimes that is as simple as just sleeping in or if I wake up in the morning at my usual early bird time, staying in bed or going and getting my cup of coffee and coming back to bed, those types of things.
That's a huge thing for me because I was a serial early morning riser for many, many, many years and teaching myself how to slow down and enjoy slow mornings was a little bit of a feat. But now I really enjoy it.
And you know, when I've had busier, busier times, I don't know about you, sometimes you just need that little respite of like, okay, I love my bed and I'm just gonna sit here for a few extra moments. Slowing down can also look like just, you know, sitting on the couch with your favorite television show, binge watching.
Whether it's something familiar, I personally like to do that with something that I've watched or maybe even a new show. And then you know, my favorite tea. I know we've talked about this on a one of the original episodes.
I love making homemade popcorn and I'll sit there sometimes and that's just a nice little slow down moment for me.
Other ways that you can slow down are, you know, kind of just taking your phone, putting it to the side or putting it on, do not disturb, going for a walk and again put that phone on, do not disturb and just listen to music or listen to Hertz music or an audiobook and just enjoy the outdoors. That type of thing. Let's get into micro moments of magic.
Some small little examples of everyday magic is laughing with somebody that you love or care about. A lot of times for me, that is with my daughter and my clients every day in the salon. Or music that can bring up or stir an old memory.
Who hasn't done that? I absolutely love that.
I actually this morning just searched up in my soundcloud and popped up with a mix that I did on another year and was like, oh yeah, this is great. So that was a nice little moment of magic for me today. The smell of rain. Who doesn't like the smell of rain?
I mean, you don't have to, but I do love the smell of rain.
Or like your freshly baked pastry, cookie or bread, a small act of kindness that you do to somebody or that somebody does to you that kind of just like ripples out throughout the day. That's another little form of micro moment of magic. How do you create a magical practice?
No, I'm not talking about like a witch magic, but how do you create a magic practice? Build small rituals that spark awe, a morning gratitude list or a mindful walk.
I definitely do this every morning and I take a piece of paper and I write, write down statements that are like I am or this is type of thing. And I also write down things that I'm grateful for. And that's another micro magical moment.
I've made that time to kind of slow down and just sit and be in gratitude for everything that is going on in my life, where I've come, my home, our dog, school life, clients, the whole nine yards. When you do that, you know, that is a great magic magic practice.
Lighting a candle, whether it's just again while you're in the morning writing your little gratitude list or like during a meal. I am a through and through Bath and body works aholic. So I usually do that when I get home for whatever season of candle that we're in.
And you know, you always have those just those little moments of like, you know, lighting a candle is so therapeutic and a definitely a micro magic moment. I also have a lavender vanilla one that I keep in my bedroom as well as like those softer soothing smells for my bedroom.
Also setting intentions before bedtime a lot of times. Now personally I will play these, it's called renegade activations. And before I go to bed I will turn my phone onto those activations.
I'll let it play and I'll go through my nighttime routine and that way when I come back in the bedroom, I Smell my lavender vanilla. And then I'm listening to that Renegade Activations playlist, which is a solfeggio Hertz playlist.
So if you're interested or it sounds interesting to you, look up renegadeactivations.com tying it back to connection. That's a huge one. Everyday magic can be amplified when shared with somebody, right?
I don't know about you, but with me, of course, it's always more wonderful when you're tying that magic, that little daily piece of magic or remembrance of magic or reminder of magic when you're experiencing it with someone else. Like for instance, my daughter and I just took a little quick mom and daughter trip to Miami and that was our little dose of everyday magic.
And that tied it right back to connection.
You can also do this through telling stories to each other, listening to music, or again, like I just said with relationships, I want to invite you to share your moment of magic with me. I would love to hear about it.
You can send me an email at conversationswithkate24gmail.com or you can send it to me via any of the conversations with Kate Social medias. I'd love to hear about it. I am on all things social media. So who doesn't love to spread magic?
And that's why you get together with people and you create those little mini moments of magic. And again, I would love to hear your little moments of magic throughout the day. You know what you do to create magical moments in the morning?
Do you have a morning thing that just makes your day magical? Do you compliment other people?
Or are there specific things that you know when you just see them or hear them that you're like, oh God, that was so magical. And again, I just want to go back over from the beginning. Make magic in the ordinary.
We do tend to get wrapped up in the stress of day to day life and we miss out on that.
So I challenge you after hearing this, to really think about little things or whatever happens in your life and be like, ooh, that's a little micro magic moment. Let me appreciate that and take the time that you need. Create a slow morning or just a slow afternoon or evening by enjoying your favorite things.
One of the other things that I do to kind of create a micro magic moment and create everyday magic is I will buy flowers and it doesn't take that much money.
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I can't remember the name of the other flowers that I really like that are white there. I want to say a chrysanthemum maybe, but that's just another little piece of everyday magic that you can do.
The real magic is seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary and you already carry a small spark of magic with you every single day. It's just about paying attention to that tiny little spark of magic and recognizing it and enjoying it and bringing it out again.
I invite you to take the time to if there's something that sparked your memory or you want to share with me, you can do so at conversationswithkate24mail.com or conversations with Kate on all Social platforms. Thank you so much for talking with me today about the power of everyday magic, and I look forward to chatting with you on the next episode.
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