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The podcast hosts discuss Episode 8 titled "The Ship," focusing on relationship stages. They share a story about a dead bunny being returned to the host's yard by an animal, which led to a spiritual moment involving a fox. Additionally, one host talks about their daily dose of zen at a local coffee shop. The episode delves into personal experiences and reflections, highlighting the importance of spiritual connections and finding peace in everyday routines. Here we go. And it's working. Hi, guys. This is Episode 8 of Not So Thin Podcast. We are so excited that it's Episode 8. I know. It's crazy. And the title of this episode is The Ship. Like not shit with a T. It's ship with a P. For the dirty people. Yes. Thank you for distinguishing the difference. I didn't want anybody misinterpreting. Our audience is wide. They might not, you know, might not understand the difference between ship and shit. Yeah. I mean, the two do definitely go together. I do think that explanation of ship, which is short for relationship, because today's episode, we are going to talk about a recent schooling that I got from my daughter on the new stages of relationships, which was mind-blowing for me. Yes. So we got on this topic this week, and my cousin James is in town from Chicago. He's 24, living his best life. He's slightly younger than us, but not that much. We thought it would be great to have him as a guest on Episode 8, titled The Ship. However, we would like to explain in the title caption, whether you're seeing this on Spotify, Apple, Amazon podcast, YouTube, social media, is The Ship of Another Color. Oh, yes. But then there was controversy around that title, and should it be A Ship of Another Color? Or The Ship of Another Color. So stay tuned to that little side note. Well, I think we just fixed it. We're like, we're just going to call it The Ship. The Ship. The Ship. And that is what the title is, Episode 8, and what it's going to be about, because James is going to bring in a perspective to talk about the topic of the stages of relationships from a 24-year-old's perspective to a middle-aged ... Oh, I don't like that, I'm going to lose some of that, but that's okay. Of 44. That was a not-so-zen moment right there. And then Melissa considers herself early 40, or both 44. Yeah, early 40. Okay. Are you going to tell everybody about your not-so-zen moments this week? I know it was a little traumatizing and triggering, because it's really kind of a continuation from your not-so-zen moment from our last episode. Signs and Synchronicities. Yeah. It was before Purgatory episode. Right, you're right. We were talking about the Signs and Synchronicities episode, and you talked about your not-so-zen moment when we did our midnight mission of burying the bunny, which I guess we didn't really bury it. Far into the woods. Far into the woods. But we failed at the burying part. There was no tools involved, there were no shovels involved, we didn't put it below the earth. We just respectfully returned it back to nature. Discarded it. Discarded or returned it back to nature. I don't know. That does sound better. Okay. All right. We returned it back to nature, and then nature returned it back to you. My not-so-zen moment was the burial was Friday, last Friday, so this is a continuation into the week. We didn't bury it, though. So the thing that she keeps mentioning, we didn't bury it, it doesn't matter. I'll tell you a little side note. In an old house of mine about, I don't know, eight years ago, there was a dead parrot on my driveway. So to come out and see that beautiful, colorful parrot, I was so moved by it, I felt so sad by it, that I did a proper burial. I actually dug into the ground. I didn't dig six feet, though. But the next day, after I dug and put the parrot over the parrot, the next morning it was dug up. So if you don't go six feet down, if we tried to bury the bunny, we would have to go far enough because something would have dug it up. So we would go six feet down and then we'd open. She keeps saying we didn't bury the bunny, but it really didn't matter because something would have. Touche. There's a lot of fox in those woods next to the house, and who knows, right? Isn't it a fox that you saw in your yard? Okay. So then here's the not-so-thin moment. The not-so-thin moment was Friday's the burial Tuesday. I walk out on the deck to look at the moon, just see what was going on in the sky, and the bunny's yawn was dead carcass in my backyard. But it wasn't just that? But it just, something brought it back to my backyard, obviously an animal. And there was a fox in your yard! Yeah, so there was definitely an animal that brought it. And then the bees were full, they were not a microphone. But the not-so-thin moment was how, how, how? I didn't have the, I was so shook by it, one, from a spiritual sense, because there's definitely meaning. I'm not going to go into the whole sign about what that means. But I knew an animal had carried it to, and I didn't want to go see open, the open bunny dead carcass. Like the, the bite. Oh God. Who knows, right? So I called Melissa and I said, the bunny's back. I know, I was like, what? What do you mean the bunny's back? We buried that shit. I said, I said to her, I cannot do this, I'm just going to leave it. And then I was getting my son to go out and see it too, because I didn't, I didn't share with him yet. Because that's a story. Before you told him? DM me or email us if you want the story on that. But bringing it back to why it's not-so-thin, it was just this feeling of like, what's the message here? Why did the bunny, so it left the woods, pretty far into the woods, and it came back into my yard. It could have been anybody's yard. So I felt shooketh on that. And the other thing was that I didn't want to remove it. Well, that night, later in the day, um, later in the night, what am I even saying? I went out to look at the moon, and I saw something move in the yard. For a second, I thought to myself, is this, is John moving, is John moving, is John moving? I was freaking out. He's very dead. Very, very dead. But at this point, he's super dead. I caught my camera as fast as I could out of my pocket, and record, and zoom in a fox, which is a Virgo spirit animal, I'm a Virgo, so bringing spirituality in. The fox came in, and that's what grabbed John, the dead bunny, and then carried it a little bit, and then picked it up and left my yard. So what was beautiful was that it was a not-so-zen moment, but spiritually speaking, I felt this amazing help from a higher realm, because my spirit animal, the fox, comes and cleans it up for me. I don't have to do it. Wait, wait, wait. Did he clean it all the way up? Like, is it totally out of the yard? Have you looked? Or is it... No, it's all out of the yard. Yes. Okay. It returned back. Circle of life, whatever you want to call it. So that was my not-so-zen moment. Let me wrap that up. It was not-so-zen, but then the zen part was a very spiritual, magical connection to my spirit animal came and helped me clean up the mess that I really didn't have the energy to clean up. All right. So my not-so-zen moment, if I can just state this to start, is not that deep. Okay. It's not that deep. Because we need to move on to the episode. Wait, isn't that what the kids say? They do say that. It's not so deep. It's not that deep. All right. So my, like, what I would call my, like, daily dose of zen. Daily dose of zen. That's really nice. I know. We should all have a daily dose of zen. I like that. Okay. Ready? Okay. My daily dose of zen is going to Napolitano every morning. Ooh. I know. Oh, shout out to Napolitano Brothers. We always used to say the other day, this is, like, all you need in life. They have breakfast, lunch, dinner, and coffee. We love Napolitano Brothers. And ice cream. The only thing they don't serve is alcohol. And that's okay. Because we don't do that every day. We definitely don't. Like, we don't want that. Okay. Anyway. So my daily dose of zen is going to Napolitano Brothers every morning and getting a latte. So much so now that I literally cannot stand Starbucks. Like, if I have to drink Starbucks, it's like somebody's punishing me. I'm, like, in purgatory. This is interesting. Or hell, maybe. It's, like, I'm like hell. Okay. There's hell. You're right. All right. So it's one morning during the week, I agree to go meet a colleague for coffee, at a coffee shop. And on my way there, I was a little resentful because I was, like, I can't get my fucking Napolitano. Like, I don't want coffee from another coffee place. That was not zen. I want my Napolitano. Wait. 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