They Live — 5 tips to manifest out of this dystopian hellscape, babe

Let’s talk about They Live (1988) and its portrayal of mental health themes of oppression, manifestation vs. reality, and the attention economy and ADHD.

They Live focuses on an ordinary man who discovers an alien race has been controlling the human population through subliminal messaging that promotes vapid consumerism. Is this a documentary? Maybe.

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, owner of Many Moons Therapy.

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Show Notes:

As a special gift for my hallowed listeners, for a limited time use promo code HORRIFYING20 for 20% off The Horror Concierge: A Mental Health and Horror Tarot Readings + Film Reco. Order yours HERE.

Trickle-Down Behavior Analysis by Mark R. Dixon

American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition. Arlington, VA., American Psychiatric Association, 2013.

Association of Digital Media Use With Subsequent Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Among Adolescents. by Ra CK, Cho J, Stone MD, De La Cerda J, Goldenson NI, Moroney E, Tung I, Lee SS, Leventhal AM.

They Live Fight Scene: Secret Behind Cinema’s Greatest Brawl by Tim Buckler

Consumer Price Index: Annual review, 2022

What Does Barbie’s Box Office Bonanza Mean for Mattel Stock? by Jaime Katz

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin

What Was the Subprime Meltdown? What Happened and Consequences by Will Kenton

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

The Work of Byron Katie by Byron Katie

Paying Attention: The Attention Economy by BER Staff

Transcript

Welcome ghouls to today’s episode of Mental Health is Horrifying. I’m your Horror Barbie host of darkness — Candis Green— Psychotherapist and all around spooky bitch podcasting from my bat-filled cave in Toronto, Canada. On today’s episode, I’m going to be talking about the alien invasion dystopian hellscape masterpiece from 1988, They Live.

I’m really excited to be doing this episode today because as far as horror movies go — and yes, I know this is a more of a sci-fi but that’s totally a sub-genre in horror so let me live — this is right up there as one of my faves because not to sound like a conspiracy theorist or anything, but I kind of think this movie explains how the world is. 

The story focuses on an ordinary man who discovers an alien race has been controlling the human population through subliminal messaging that promotes vapid consumerism. Is this a documentary? Maybe.

And as an existential psychotherapist who is interested in concepts like surrealism and absurdism — a lot of mundane things start feeling really pointless when you consider them within a reality where alien elites are controlling society so as to pacify and subdue us so they can extract our labour and souls for their own intergalactic domination. 

Wow — I already sound out there, don’t I? But stay with me! I have points.

So let’s get right into it. Let’s talk about They Live and its portrayal of themes of oppression, manifestation vs. reality, and the attention economy and ADHD.


Movie synopsis:

In a not too distant dystopian future, we meet Nada — a man who recently lost his job and home due to the economy being in the sewer. Nada comes to Los Angeles in search of work, and comes across a street preacher warning that "they" have recruited the rich and powerful to control humanity. Nada finds employment at a construction site and is befriended by coworker Frank, who invites him to live in an encampment led by a man named Gilbert.

That night, a hacker takes over television broadcasts, claiming that scientists have discovered signals that are enslaving the population and keeping them in a dream-like state, and that the only way to stop it is to shut off the signal at its source. Those watching the broadcast complain of headaches. Nada secretly follows Gilbert and the preacher into a nearby church and discovers them meeting with a group that includes the hacker. He sees scientific equipment and cardboard boxes inside. Nada is discovered by the blind preacher and escapes.

The encampment and church are both destroyed in a police raid that night, and the hacker and preacher are beaten by riot police. The following day, Nada retrieves one of the boxes from the church and takes a pair of sunglasses from it. Nada discovers that the sunglasses make the world appear monochrome, but also reveal subliminal messages in the media to consume, reproduce, and conform. The glasses also reveal that many people, particularly those in power, are actually aliens with skull-like faces. Bleh!

When Nada mocks an alien woman at a supermarket, she alerts the other aliens via a communication device on her wrist. Nada leaves but is confronted by two alien police officers. He kills them and steals their weapons. Nada enters a bank, where he sees that several of the employees and customers are aliens. He kills several aliens with a shotgun and escapes by taking Cable 54 employee Holly Thompson hostage. At Holly's home, Nada tries to get her to try on the glasses, but she knocks him out of the window and down a hill and calls the police.

The next day, Nada tries to get Frank to put on the glasses, but Frank thinks Nada is a murderer and wants nothing to do with him. Frank and Nada get into an epic fight because Nada is just like Frank! Just! Put on! The sunlgasses! After the fight, Frank is too tired and beaten up to prevent Nada from putting the sunglasses on him, so then HE sees the world for what it really is, with all its subliminal messages on billboards and alien faces on the police and elites and he’s like damn Nada!

Frank and Nada run into Gilbert, who leads them to a meeting of the anti-alien movement. At the meeting, they are given contact lenses to replace the sunglasses, and learn that the aliens are using global warming to make Earth more like their own planet, and are depleting the Earth's resources for their own gain. They also learn that the aliens have been bribing humans to become collaborators, promoting them to positions of power. Holly arrives at the meeting, apologizing to Nada. The meeting is raided by police and the vast majority of those present are killed, with the survivors (including Frank, Nada, and Holly) scattering. Nada and Frank are cornered in an alley, but they accidentally activate an alien wristwatch, opening a portal through which they escape.

The portal takes them to the aliens' spaceport, where they discover a meeting of aliens and human collaborators celebrating the elimination of the "terrorists". They are approached by a former drifter they briefly met in the encampment, now a collaborator, who gives them a tour of the facility. And he’s all like hey man — it’s not so bad — join us! If you just collaborate with these aliens and let them destroy the earth you could like in a nice house and have a yacht or whatever! He leads them to the basement of Cable 54, the source of the signal, which is protected by armed guards. Nada and Frank find Holly and fight their way to the transmitter on the roof, but Holly kills Frank, revealing that she too is a human collaborator. Nada kills Holly and destroys the transmitter, and is fatally wounded by aliens in a helicopter.

With the transmitter destroyed, humans all over the world are free from their dream-like state and discover the aliens hiding amongst them. They’re everywhere!

Movie background info:

They Live is based on a short story titled Eight O'Clock in the Morning, written by Ray Nelson and originally published in the November 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It is about a man named George Nada who wakes up from a hypnotist show only to discover he is now aware of the alien overlords who control the world in secret through subliminal messaging. Nada uses his ability to wake up the rest of the world and eventually overthrow the alien overlords. In April 1986, the short story was transformed into a graphic novel in the comic-book anthology Alien Encounters No. 6.

Carpenter bought the rights to both the short story and the comic book and wrote the script for his adaptation under the pseudonym Frank Armitage, the name of a character played by Keith David in the film. He cast Roddy Piper — perhaps better known as Rowdy Roddy Piper — a Canadian professional wrestler, as the lead character, now called John Nada, because he believed that Piper had a sense of realism that was hard to find in more traditional actors. His casting as Nada eerily mirrored some of his life experiences, having lived a somewhat nomadic lifestyle after leaving his home in Saskatchewan at the age of 13 to live in hostels and hitchhike. You might remember Piper from his work in the WWF as Rowdy Roddy Piper during the late 80s and 90s as kilt-wearing wrestler whose entrance music was bagpipes, and who himself was also an accomplished bagpipe player. 

Carpenter cast Piper after meeting the wrestler following his match in 1987’s WrestleMania III. “Unlike most Hollywood actors, Roddy has life written all over him,” Carpenter told Starlog in 1988. “He has been hit so many times, that he is really broken up. He even walks funny, because his pelvis was shattered and his back was wrenched. He is definitely not a pretty boy. He’s the toughest guy I’ve ever met. You could run a truck into Roddy, and he would still be standing.”

Piper’s shopworn physicality won him the role. They Live went on to become a cult classic, in part due to a ridiculously long fight scene between Piper and actor Keith David. This fight scene goes on for a good 5+ minutes, has no cuts, and it’s really a nod to Roddy’s work as a wrestler and somehow Keith David was able to keep up with him! He’s a tough guy too.

You might now him from credits including 1982’s The Thing (also directed by John Carpenter), Pitch Black, Coraline, Armageddon, and Nope. 

John Carpenter is perhaps one of the biggest names in horror, having directed, written and composed for absolutely legendary movies like 1978’s Halloween and subsequent iterations, The Thing, The Fog, and Christine. John Carpenter’s work on the Halloween franchise may arguably be one of the most important contributions to the genre over the past 40 some odd years. 


Oppression:

They Live is perhaps best known for its hilarious and extremely long fight scene between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David. Cause like I mean… if you cast a professional WWF wrestler in your movie, wouldn’t you utilize his skills to their fullest extent? This scene is a full six minutes long and it’s all over the sunglasses that Nada wants Frank to wear and it really looks like a wrestling match! And I know this because I looked up this information on a wrestling website, but the fight has actual wrestling moves in it like suplexes, backdrops, drop toe holds, false finishes, and even comeback spots! Which are words that I know. 

John Carpenter was a wrestling fan his whole life, and jumped at the opportunity to cast Piper as our working class hero.

ANYHOODLE, so even though They Live might be best known for this outrageous and amazing fight scene, the core of the movie is the invisible factors that control our everyday lives —corporate greed, mindless consumerism, economic inequality, and mass-media manipulation.

Systemic oppression is displayed in several ways throughout the film. Having been released in 1988, Carpenter calls They Live a “primal scream” against Reaganomics. The term Reaganomics was used to describe a series of policies designed to spur U.S. economic growth between 1981-1989 under President Ronald Reagan. It was a period characterized by de-regulation and trick-down economics, which was an approach where resources were focused at the top of the economic food chain (business owners, large corporations) and the idea was that through tax breaks and other economic benefits provided by the government to these upper income levels, there would be increased opportunities for those at the bottom (frontline workers, lower income homeowners). …. Yeah.
“Only by reducing the growth of government,” said Ronald Reagan, “can we increase the growth of the economy.” Reagan’s 1981 Program for Economic Recovery had four major policy objectives: 

reduce the growth of government spending
reduce the marginal tax rates on income from both labor and capital
reduce regulation
reduce inflation by controlling the growth of the money supply.

The thing is… that during this period, the U.S. government under Reagan had a record peacetime increase in defence spending which is the opposite of reducing government spending, Ronald.

Now, I did spend one whole year as an economics major at university for some reason, but for all of our wellbeing, we don’t need to go too in the weeds about the theory of trickle-down economics. Suffice to say that the these were very real policies that had very real impacts on the cost of necessities like gas and literally everything that was shipped in via the ocean. 

Sound familiar? The Consumer Price Index, the most widely used measure of inflation in Canada where I live, rose to 6.8% in 2022, which was a 40-year high. Within that number was a 22.5% increase in energy prices, and a 9.8% increase in grocery prices, the fastest pace of increase since 1981 — when Reagan took office! This year, we’ve added an additional 3.3% on top of that.  

If you are having anxiety today about the increase in the cost of living and goods like food and gas and rent, this may sound familiar to you and you’re definitely not alone! This has very real impacts on our mental wellbeing, feelings of safety, and even self-worth.

In psychotherapy, there is something called an Anti-Oppressive framework. It is the method and process in which we understand how systems of oppression such as colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism and ableism can result in individual discriminatory actions and structural inequalities for certain groups in society.

Whereas traditional notions of psychoanalysis from people like Sigmund Freud focused on treating so-called disorders originating from inside the mind (ie: the call is coming from inside the house), more modern approaches invite… reality… into the room, and take into account the relationship between an individual and the world they live in. Like, of course if a person is gay and they were raised in a homophobic household where their parents threw holy water at them and told them they were evil… they may struggle with their mental health because of this. The cause of their mental distress in this case would be what is called environmental. 


Manifestation vs. Reality:

Consider for example the work of prominent author and self-help guru Byron Katie, whose writing on “The Work” is the idea that you are not suffering from negative circumstances, but merely your thoughts about them. If you can talk yourself out of your thoughts, the world and your place in it changes. 

This is in-line with other popular self-help-y type books like The Secret, which achieved a huge wave of popularity when it came out in 2006, which posits that the *secret* to a good life is the law of attraction — that you merely just have to think positive thoughts and then pouff good things will come your way and the government will stop foreclosing on your house. The Secret, in a retrospectively ironic and depressing kind of way, came out just one year before the subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S., which was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010 that contributed to the 2007–2008 global financial crisis. The crisis led to a severe economic recession, with millions of people losing their jobs and many businesses going bankrupt. Which was all caused by the sharp increase in high-risk mortgages that went into default, all made possible by — you guess it. Deregulation in the financial industry. 

To put that into context, I graduated from university in 2008 right into the biggest economic recession since the Great Depression in 1929. I was a young grad, full of hopes and dreams, and jobs were slim pickings at that time and I was lucky to get whatever shitty job I could get so that’s what I did. So I worked in a converted warehouse where occasionally snakes and extremely large forest spiders would enter the building (I am not making this up) where I responded to missing journal claims from an academic journal distribution company called SWEATS and I made $27,500 PER YEAR.

Could I have gotten a better job if only I tried harder, or had a better mindset, or did morning gratitude journaling, or sent balloons into the sky wish positive vibes? Was my money mindset to blame for the global economic recession? NO! THERE WERE HUGE EVIL CORPORATE GOVERNMENT SYSTEMIC FACTORS AT PLAY! I MADE THE BEST OF A GARBAGE SITUATION!

That’s why I struggle so much with this “money mindset” or manifestation culture we’ve found ourselves in. I see a lot of people wracked with shame that their lives don’t look like the highlight reels of their favourite influencer or online coach, and that it’s a reflection of their self-worth, or ability to hustle, or work hard enough, or like think positively enough constantly or whatever. 

Look — having a positive outlook on life, your abilities, those around you, and holding gratitude for the blessing you do have are all really beneficial and wonderful things. AND living in reality is good too. Or else it’s just one big gaslight. 

If you’re not making six figures a month — consider the possibility that it’s not because you don’t believe that wealth is your birthright or you don’t believe that money is just a transfer of energy — but that maybe someone is trying to sell you on a pyramid scheme. If you’re burnt out from working in tech — consider the fact that maybe it’s not because you can’t hack it and you’re a lazy pile of socks, but that the tech mantra of “Move Fast and Break Things” is intended to make that company as much capital as worldly possible at any expense, and that the thing that they don’t care about breaking is you, or your mental wellbeing and maybe this is unsustainable so of course you’re burnt out because you’re a human and not a machine.

I love this scene in the grocery store where we as the audience have our all-seeing sunglasses on along with Nada and can see who the aliens controlling and manipulated humankind are vs the regular working class people. This is a great exchange between one of those alien elites, a regular dude, while the news filled with propaganda plays in the store —

No matter how hard the foolish mortal in this scene works, he will never get that promotion. Of COURSE the alien elite tells him it'll all work out and just shut up and keep his head down. The system is rigged against foolish mortal, and we can liken this to system that keeps us fixed in place like not being able to get a job because of factors like race, gender, or class.


And it’s way more intense now than I’m sure John Carpenter could have ever imagined in the 80s, because now we have these tiny computers in our hands at all times that are constantly connected to an everlasting stream of media messaging from corporations designed to appear as your friends. These accounts are run by teams of professionals with the intention of creating a specific, humanized vision of a brand they want perceived as a single individual.

It is not enough for the brands today to appear human; they must appear cool. When a brand makes a meme, for example, it is trying to sell you a product, but not directly. It wants its brand to become familiar and recognizable so that, for example, if someone likes enough memes from Spirit Halloween and Starbucks’ amazing Instagram accounts, tapping into the excitement of fall and Halloween being right around the corner, suddenly when I”m trying to decide how to spend my weekend I’m doing exactly what the memes foretold and I’m going to Spirit Halloween on Saturday morning to buy more Scream paraphernalia that I definitely don’t need, but not before I swing by Starbucks to get a pumpkin spice latte. Because hahahah I’m such a basic fall bitch, right 100% that witch, or whatever they told me I already am?

But what’s even MORE confusing now is that it’s not just okay clearly this is a corporate account marketing to me — now we have INFLUENCERS and MICRO INFLUENCERS and AFFILIATE MARKETING who appear even more like regular people or friends like omg she’s just like me — except they’re being paid to represent the corporate interests of often very large companies! Like why do I even know about something called the Always Pan by Selena Gomez? I love cooking and food is very important to me, yes, so it makes sense that content involving fancy pans would be served to me — but like i’m not even in the market for a pan! I have no less than THREE incredibly heavy, high-maintenance as all hell, but incredibly good quality cast iron skillets at home, one handed down from my husband’s grandmother that is over 100 years old that apparently everyone in the family has been vying for. Well, every food account and apparent influencer I follow seems to have been given this pan and used it, and talked about how amazing it is, and it’s so cute too right? It’s pink! Or purple! You love those colours right, don’t you Candis? And then suddenly I’m like shit should I get this pan that I don’t need because the heavy impractical cast iron skillets take up all the cabinet space…

This is marketing through subliminal messaging, just like in They Live.

For example — did you love the Barbie movie as much as I did? Did it get you in your feels? Of course it did. Mattel’s stock has gone up by 30% since March. Five senior Mattel executive sold 275,800 shares over the past 10 days according to government filings. The average sale price of $21.21 netted them about $4.2 million.


Governments are powerful, corporations are even more powerful, the media is filled with propaganda, and they all want you to buy things. Corporations like Facebook and people like Elon Musk have accumulated more power and influence than governments, and governments have no way of reigning them in and they won’t. They have more influence in our lives, decisions, and realities than we can even possibly fathom, so all i’m trying to say is — it’s all one big gaslight, so don’t you go gaslighting yourself too and deny that all this noise, all these invisible factors, are making you feel some type of way that is perfectly understandable and real. 

When you find yourself swept up in the “I’m not good enough” of the rat race and the constant grinding of the gears — throw your phone down a well, slow down, look at a tree or into the face of someone you love and ask yourself one of my favourite therapy questions — what is the feeling here? What’s really going on? 

Do I feel less good about myself after spending several hours comparing my life to other random online, or maybe my friends who are sharing their highlight reels, or highly curated corporate images designed to look like real life? Is comparison to others triggering a shame response in me; the feeling that there is something wrong with me? 

Shame is something that can be triggered at any time, but generally did not begin in that moment. Shame thrives in the dark, when we stay silent and complicit just like the aliens in They Live want us too. The best antidote to shame is bringing it out into the light and exposing it just like Nada did. He refused to accept the shame he was asked to carry and even though no one believed him and he got his ass kicked a few times, he endeavoured to talk to EVERYONE about it, thus dispelling its power over him.

And you don’t have to be a bubble gum-chewing, ass kicking hero to dispel the power shame has over you. You can talk about it, you can refuse to keep your shame buried in the dark where it grows, multiplies, and continues to tell you you’re not good enough. You’re allowed to talk about it, scream about it, and thrust your own shame-destroying sunglasses into the faces and hearts of those who care about you saying ISN’T THIS BULLSHIT?! 

And now here is my favourite line from They Live — 

The Attention Economy and ADHD:

The subliminal messages that Nada discovers through his use of the all-seeing sunglasses display messages including “obey”, “reproduce”, “stay asleep”, “consume”, “watch tv” and “conform”. If the idea is that receiving these subliminal messages at all times causes the humans to passively live their lives and feel sad and oppressed, we can draw a direct line from the forms of media delivery in the 1980s to today.

If They Live were made today, you likely wouldn’t choose “watch tv” as a medium to deliver messages of propaganda to the human race. In the 80s, however, TV was the dominant medium and at that time, it was of concern that people and children in particular were watching too much of it and that it was rotting their brains.

Media delivery has evolved since then, with fewer people simply tuning into cable TV or news to get their information. Now, it’s literally in the palm of your hand, available through your smart phone instantly and not only that, but it’s been specifically tailored to you. The content that you receive is tailored specifically to your interests, your worldview, guiding you subliminally and gradually to make decisions that the advertisers want you to make. It’s a bit creepy to think about, right? Did I make this decision, or was I induced to make this decision?

It was once that case that we were sold products, but now we are the products being sold to advertisers. More specifically, it’s our attention that is being sold in a market that is so over-saturated with attention that suddenly, our attention has become extremely valuable. If They Live were made today, many of the messages might remain, but a few more might get added like “scroll Tik Tok” “click on this ad” or “follow this influencer” and “feel bad about yourself.”

The term “attention economy” was coined by psychologist, economist, and Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon, who posited that attention was the “bottleneck of human thought” that limits both what we can perceive in stimulating environments and what we can do. He also noted that “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” suggesting that multitasking is a myth. 

Later, in 1997, theoretical physicist Micheal Goldhaber warned that the international economy is shifting from a material-based economy to an attention-based economy, pointing to the many services online offered for free. As fewer people are involved with manufacturing and we move away from an industrial economy, emerging careers work with information. Although the “information economy” is a common name for this new state, Goldhaber rejects this; information is not scarce, attention is.

In the attention economy, attention is not only a resource but a currency: users pay for a service with their attention. Today, the dynamics of the attention economy incentivize companies to draw users in to spend more and more time on apps and sites. Designers who create sites and apps understand that their products vie for the limited resource of users’ attention in a highly competitive market.

So what his this done to our mental health? Well for one thing, rates of ADHD have skyrocketed in both adults and children.

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found a statistically significant link between frequent social media use and Attention-Deficit/Hyper-activity Disorder (ADHD).

The study, conducted by the University of Southern California, followed 2,800 high school students over the course of two years. Those chosen to participate had no previous association with ADHD. Scientists found that those with a higher social media use were 53% more likely to experience new ADHD symptoms.

This is interesting to consider in the context of today’s world, because ADHD has traditionally been thought of as being genetic in origin and as beginning in childhood. However, the diagnostic manual outlining the criteria for diagnosing ADHD, the DSM, in its 50-year history, has been significantly updated five times--in 1968, in 1980, in 1987, 1994, and most recently in 2022. It wasn't until the second edition was published in 1968 that a disorder resembling ADHD appeared in the DSM. The "hyperkinetic reaction of childhood" was defined as a type of hyperactivity.

With the publication of the DSM-III [3] in 1980, the disorder was re-conceptualized with a focus on problems with attention, impulsivity and hyperactivity, and was renamed Attention Deficit Disorder (with and without Hyperactivity). The term Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was introduced in DSM-III-R [4], with the controversial elimination of ADD without Hyperactivity. With the publication of the DSM- IV [5], the term ADHD was retained along with the introduction of three specific subtypes (predominantly Inattentive, predominantly Hyperactive-Impulsive, and Combined), defined by the presence of excessive symptoms of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity.

There is a lengthy diagnostic criteria for ADHD and someone can only be diagnosed by a licensed doctor, but in general, the symptoms of ADHD include inattention (not being able to keep focus), hyperactivity (excess movement that is not fitting to the setting) and impulsivity (hasty acts that occur in the moment without thought). 

The point I was trying to make by giving you a little DSM history lesson is that the disorder was first given symptomatology in 1968. At that time, social media did not exist, the INTERNET didn’t exist, and neither did smart phones. Life was VERY DIFFERENT at that time, and taking back into account an anti-oppressive and relational lens to psychological work, we MUST consider the impact that one’s environment has on their mental wellbeing. It’s complicated! 


Conclusion: 

I have to admit, that even writing this episode I felt way out there as I rattled on about government and mass media manipulation, subliminal messages, and a big plot for elites to control us for their personal gain. I think a lot of people feel that way too when they talk about systemic factors that are entrenched into our daily lives that some people just want to pretend don’t exist. In fact, They Live was only a minor success upon its release in 1988. It initially received negative reviews from critics, who lambasted its social commentary; however, it later gained a cult following and experienced a significantly more favourable critical reception —especially since shit got real in 2020. 

They Live is now regarded as one of John Carpenter’s best films. Carpenter has stated that the themes of They Live stemmed from his dissatisfaction with the economic policies of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan, as well as what Carpenter saw as increasing commercialization in both popular culture and politics. And it’s no wonder that its messages resound more loudly now than ever. 

Outro:

And that my ghouls is the story of They Live. Thank you for journeying into the depths with me today and I hope to find you in the darkness again soon.

Be sure to check the show notes for the resources I used today to put this episode together.

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Bright blessings.