The Aerial Alchemist
Where circus meets storytelling, wellness, and the magic of movement. Hosted by Fallon, founder of In the Wings, this podcast explores aerial dance, creativity, and the rituals that help us stay grounded while reaching new heights. From artistry to resilience, community to self-care, each episode offers inspiration for living boldly, moving with intention, and finding your own alchemy—both in the air and on the ground. Always… happy flying.
The Aerial Alchemist
Episode 43: From Flourish to Firenze (and Beyond)
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Welcome to The Aerial Alchemist, where movement transforms into magic and stories take flight. I'm Fallon, dancer, aerialist, and storyteller, inviting you into a world where circus and dance meet creativity, resilience, and community. Whether you're here to be inspired, to learn, or to simply dream a little bigger, you found your place. I'm glad you're here. Welcome to the Aerial Alchemist episode number 43. Happy to have you with me today. Today is gonna be part two of my Italian adventures as promised. Before we get back to regularly scheduled programming. As if I have that. That's so funny. Before we jump in today, a reminder that circ and spook tickets are on sale. Please come join us. It's gonna be such a good time. It's August 8th at the Savoy in Denver. It's our annual fundraising gala. All of the proceeds go to supporting our end of season production, but this year it is bite. So we're getting spooky for your summer ween. And I love it. So we will have our aerial performances both spotlighted and ambient, as well as a live auction. I think we also might do a silent auction this year because we have several awesome things. Uh all sorts of things from Rocky Mountain Beauty Bar, uh, gave us facial and a skin console with a facial scan. And we have donations from Cocoa Salon Denver services from there. That's where I get my hairs cut. Uh if you're watching the podcast today, don't judge me. I need to zhuzh it up a bit. The haircut still looks great. My color I have not been taken care of because I've been swimming in pools and oceans. And so it is what it is. Uh so don't judge don't judge Cody's work by that because it's so much better than this. And even still, it looks really good. Uh that's what I love about him. Uh, what else do we have? Lots of um classes donated by our company members, instructors. We have tickets to our end-of-season show bite that will be uh up for grabs, as well as Pilates classes, yoga classes, different gift packages like that, tarot readings. We have candles made by our lovely company member Anastasia. We also have different aerial-inspired earrings and necklaces. One of our other company members, Catherine, from her company, Mechler Entertainment. So lots of, lots of awesome, awesome things, big and small. So we hope you will join us there. It's gonna be a great time. Also, there's a cash bar and we'll have our sky pores available. Um, those are an extra add-on that you can add on when you buy your ticket or at the door. But don't want to get your ticket because then you don't have to worry about it at the door. So yeah, I'll put the link to that in the show notes. You can find that if you are not in the area and you still want to support us, let me know and I'll let you know how you can do that. One way is to sign up for our Patreon. That all of those proceeds also go to funding all of the shows that we do. So, as well as this podcast. So if you're enjoying it, we appreciate that there. All of the posts on Patreon are also available to purchase individually. You don't have to have the membership. So if that's more up your alley, then that is that is also a thing you could do if you wanted. So with that, we'll move on. Jumping back into Italy. Italy. So after uh the retreat, Flourish, I uh uh went back into Rome and started the second part of my excursion, if you will. The first week I was there, obviously working at Flourish, the best kind of work, and also still work. So after that I got to take a little brain break and travel and explore a little bit of Italy. I wish it was more, but it's it's a quite a large country, lots of things to see, and I feel like I barely scratched the surface. So I traveled back to Rome. I actually hopped on the train with Julie to a standing room old link back to Rome, but luckily it was only like a 30-minute train ride, so no big deal. So we just chit-chatted on the way back to Rome and ended up in the Roma Termini train station. Julie had a minute before uh she was going on to her next adventure, and I had a minute before my husband was flying in to join me, and he was he his train actually got delayed by quite a long time, longer than I expected, uh, and he expected getting into Rome from the airport. So Julie and I went and got some lunch just in the train station, which was lovely. Had a little, we had a little lemoncello spritz with lunch, and both of us, we were like, I don't know, a quarter of a way through, and we were both like, what is in this? We were both feeling quite tipsy after just a quarter of a lemon cello. And we're like, we're at sea level. I don't understand. All I can chalk it up to is that it was so stinking hot, and maybe we hadn't had enough food, or I hadn't drank the whole week during during Flourish, really, to speak of. Uh, nor do I really drink a lot anymore at all. So maybe that was it. I don't know, but we were filling those lemon cellos. That did not happen again the rest of the trip for me. It was just that one that I was like, dang, this is like a triple. Anyways, so we had a good time chilling out in the train station, found a fan. That was good. And then Julie went on her way, and I hung out there for another, I don't know, hour and a half, I think it was. Um, my husband's train was stuck. There was a weird train situation that day. He was also stuck getting out, like getting through customs, the which Julie had the same problem coming in to Rome. The like uh I forget what they call it, like the virtual, it's not virtual. I don't remember what it was. Like the the automatic customs thing uh was down when they both got up to it. So it took a longer time to get through because they were going through manually through customs. And then and then my husband's train got stuck like a half a mile from the train station or something, or half a kilometer was something silly, very not far from the train station, and they were just sitting there for like an hour plus, just waiting to get off this train after he had been on a plane for 10 and a half hours and waited in customs for longer than he should have. And yeah, so not a great travel day for him. So I was fine. I was just I had my book, I had my podcast, I was just chilling in the train station. I'd found a fan to sit in front of and something cold to drink, and I was good. I was totally fine. And I was like coming down off of that lemon cello spritz. So he got there and then we made our way to the hotel. We stayed in the Traste Verde neighborhood, which is like a sound, and and on the other side of the river, the Tiber River, and kind of a smaller, arty, kitschy-ish neighborhood. Kind of reminded me of some pockets of Paris, and it was it was good. We were just there one night. Our hotel was super cool. We stayed there actually on the end of our trip, too. We just I thought it would be easier to stay in the same hotel. You know where you're going, you kind of get the lay of land. We were only there overnight twice, so it was totally fine. And the hotel was very whimsical, so whimsical. You walk up to it, and there's all these like big rubber duckies hanging on the like gate. And at night they lit up all these rubber duckies. Um, they were big, huge, huge ones. Um, and then the entrance going into the hotel, there was this big like cartoon frog, which was the trash can, and then all of these like weird statues, weird pieces of art inside. There's big French Bulldog, and there was pink ostrich, and there was other English Bulldog things everywhere. We're big bulldog people. So that was that was cool for me. So just kind of like it run if you live in Denver and you've been to the art hotel, it kind of had that vibe to it. So it was super fun. We went out um to eat that night and we just kind of wandered around and we wanted to kind of get away from touristy type things, but we didn't have the energy to like search, really search something out. So we did end up at this, what I think was a very touristy restaurant, and the food was not that great. I got a carbonara and the it had like they must have put cream in it. There's a big argument about whether or not you should have cream in your carbonara. Italians say no. And I think things can be good in many ways. But this one was not good. Like the sauce had broken, it was not great. My h I forget what my husband got, but it was his was also just fine. Like the pasta itself was delicious. The sauces were like meh, and the I don't know, it was also quite pricey for what it was. So, and then on the way back, we got some gelato because it was so stinging hot. And also, why not win in Rome? And we got to experience some of the water fountain. So if you haven't been to Rome, they have water fountains all over, all over the streets, and they're these beautiful fountains, and they're all they're all free. You can fill up their water bottle, you can like put your finger on the little spigot, and then it shoots up so that you can use it as like a drinking fountain straight, like so. Yeah. Um, and the water is delicious. And I am a water snob. I am picky, picky about my water. People who know me, I'm always putting like flavorings in my water because most waters taste bad to me. So I have to like put a little something in to make it taste better, whether it's like a slice of fruit or like a little like water flavor packet, like whatever it is. I can't do the plain water. So, but this this was delicious, and thank God because it was so hot. And here's the thing you go out to a restaurant in Rome, uh, or Italy in general, and you want water, they're gonna charge you three and a half euro for like not that big of a bottle. I drink a lot of water. My goal is minimum 90 ounces, and I'm usually way surpassing that and drinking like 120, 130 ounces of water a day. So their little bottles are not enough for me to go broke buying water in Italy. And also, they don't believe in ice in their water. And I like me some cold water, especially when it's like 90 plus degrees out. What are we doing? So, anyways, that was a really cool, really cool thing in Rome. And then the next day we hopped on a train up to Florence, and that was like at the peak of the heat wave. So, Florence, while we were there, was like 99, 100, 101 degrees, and it is humid and it is stifling. It's oppressively hot. There's no wind. So sometimes you get a slight breeze. So we get to the train station in Florence and we look at the line to get the cab because we had decided let's just take a cab to the hotel. I don't want to be like like wandering with my bag through the streets of Florence, like trying to figure out where the heck we're going. And the line for the cab is so long, and we're like, nah. So we're like, well, let's just start walking. Let's start walking towards the hotel. And if we get to a place where we can call a cab, because I had the little cab app, then we'll just call a cab and we'll take the cab the rest of the way. So we keep walking as we're walking, we're like, it's not actually that far. It's like a it was like a 10 or 15 minute walk to the to the hotel. And we ended up just walking the whole way, which was fine if when there was shade and I had my backpack and it was just like drenched. It was so wet by the time we got there. Disgusting. And then the entrance for our hotel, I found this hotel, it was right um, it was right on the Pont Vecchio on the River Arno. It was kind of like a boutique hotel, not like a big hotel. I was I was totally excited about it because I knew it had like a little balcony overlooking the bridge and for some good people watching, like do some morning pages out there, but there wasn't like a front. So I'm like Googling like what the front of the hotel looks like. We finally find this door. I told Fleetwood to just hold the bags at the corner. I'm gonna just walk around and see if I can find it. And so I did, I found it. And then just as a sweet Italian man was helping me find it, and then I figured it out. So then we go into where the hotel is, and it's just like one guy who's in there, and I think he might live on the property. So he's not in there. We don't know how to get into like the lobby, because it was like in an apartment building, essentially. So it didn't matter because I was able to get my Wi-Fi to work once I was on the street because the Wi-Fi wasn't working in the building. I had a walk outside, email the guy and be like, Hey, we're here, where do we go? And he had like, he ran around and then he was lovely, got us checked in. We get in the hotel, we had like a little kitchenette area so we could like make breakfasts, which was nice and not have to eat every single meal out, um, and have some snacks in the fridge and put some water in the fridge so I could have cold, cold water, not ice cold, but at least cold, which is important when it's a hundred degrees out. And then um the next we were there three nights. So we just kind of explored Florence. We just walked around uh over both sides of the bridge. On the side we were staying was more of the like, like the Sean's Elysee side, the like Fifth Avenue side, like where all of the designer shops are. And then the other side was a little bit more quaint, a little bit more um locals only type vibe. So we were able to get kind of both both options. Um and the pont vecchio is like a tourist attraction. I didn't do a lot of research before going into this trip. Uh I just kind of explored. I feel like that's a big thing. There's probably a story there. I don't know what it is. If you know what it is and you'd like to educate me, please do. But it looked very old and it looked like people used to live like on this bridge. Now it's just a whole bunch of like fancy jewelry stores, and then there's buskers out. And that was actually the thing that I l I loved about Florence. There were like buskers everywhere, all of these street artists, uh mostly musicians, but I also saw like a uh like a, you know, one of those like living statues, and that one was really cool too. But the musicians, like, ugh, there was one opera singer singing uh the Bocelli song, Time to Say Goodbye, which is I maybe my favorite opera song or opera style song. I don't even know if it's in an opera. Anyways, it's my favorite and moved me to tears. Uh they position themselves in between these corridors that where their voices just reverberate just so beautifully. And yeah, I yeah, moved me to tears, which is kind of hard to do, but but it happened. And then yeah, just I I put videos on my stories. I need to go back and do like some reels. And when when I do, you can if you want to follow my personal account, that's where this sort of stuff goes. I can put a link to my personal account. It has nothing to do, every once in a while has got aerial stuff because I do collab reels, but mostly nothing to do with my aerial life. And mostly um when I actually post stuff from that account, it's like my travels or my dogs. And every morning you get my morning ritual and my stories if you want to see what cards I'm pulling. So uh yeah, but I'll I'll make some reels at some point when I feel like I'm ready to do that, or just posts with pictures and some videos. Our plan in Florence was to eat and shop, and that's what we did. We went to the uh the leather school. Florence is known for their leather and their silk. So we went to the leather school. Ugh. I mean, just walking down the streets in Florence, like because there's so many leather shops, it just you just keep getting punched in the face with that beautiful leather smell. It's so good. So we went to the leather school. We dropped a whole lot of money there. I got what did I get? I got a couple of belts. I feel like I'll never need to buy a belt again in my life because I got one with a gold buckle and one with a silver buckle. So, you know, you got both medals. And then because so I'm looking at these belts and they're all supremely too long for me. And I'm like, this just doesn't make sense that all of these belts are so long. So I asked them, like, can I get these like like in different sizes? Do you have other sizes? And she said, No, you're gonna buy it, and then you're gonna go out there to the artisan and they're gonna measure it to fit you, and they'll cut it to fit you. So that's what I did. I like take it to the guy and he says, What size do you want it? And I say, I want to actually be able to wear it up around my natural waist and on also like around my hips for my jeans, so I can wear it both ways. He said, No problem. And he made it so that it goes both ways. Have you ever had a belt that you could do both of those things with? Because I've usually had to buy different belts. So I'm so excited to have I basically have four belts, even though I bought two. So very exciting. I also got this beautiful green wallet that is big enough to hold a passport and your cash and your cards and all of that. So that's now my everyday wallet. It's it's green, it's this beautiful green color with a gold clasp on it. And like everything smells so good. I also got a bracelet there made out of python leather. That one is also beautiful. And then I was on the hunt for a bag. I wanted an everyday bag and didn't find one at the leather school that like sung to me. And then we wandered into this like leather shop nearby, and the guy in there was such a good salesman, such a nice guy, and I was just kind of like poking around and and I found it. I found the bag there. He debossed it with my initials in it. Uh, it's just a it's just a black bag with brass hardware and lots of pockets and zippers, and it's totally my jam. Fits my book in it, fits all the stuffs. Um, so yeah, my great, my great everyday go-to bag. It can be a shoulder bag or a crossbody. I love it. I'm so excited about that, and it smells so good. I hope it smells good for forever. Yeah, so that was kind of our trip in Florence. We tried to beat the heat, like in the middle of the day, we kind of just went back to the hotel and chilled, and then we were out in the mornings and then the you know, the European schedule and in the evenings. Though I did feel like sometimes it got hot, hotter as the day went on. Yeah. And from there, so three nights there, then we went to the Amalfi Coast. So we took a train to Napoli. Um, from there, it was ended up being like an almost three-hour private taxi to our hotel because there was a car accident on the on the way there. These roads in in the Amalfi Coast are so narrow. Like I want to say they're like 10 feet wide, maybe in spots. And it's two ways. And then there's like cars and Vespas like parked along the side, and there's no sidewalks. People are lock walking along these streets. They're very windy, very curvy, sheer cliff faces dropping off, and people are driving like crazies so fast, just zooming, zipping around around these, but I it's wild. It's wild, it's wild that there's not more accidents. Cause that was yeah, on the way back, it was fine. There was no no car accidents. We got back, I think, in an hour and a half to Napoli. So, but once there's an accident, like the whole road shut down until they clear it. You just wait. You're just stuck there. It's it's so silly. Anyways, so we get we stayed in Praiano, which is in between Positano and Amalfi, and it was beautiful. We had this beautiful, quaint hotel. Everything was white, big windows when you walked in overlooking the sea, and the like, it had a rooftop pool, so you could see the sea, see the sea from the pool, and all of the, all of the like, it was very white lotus, very picturesque. All of the umbrellas were like yellow and white striped, and yeah, everything was mich m matchy, and it was it was lovely there. And the AC worked so well in that hotel because we're in the new part of the building. And then we did it on our last day, but there was quote unquote beach access. It's not really a beach, it's just like sea access because it's just like a concrete slab where you could just jump into the to the sea, and it was 408 steps down, so quite a quite a hike down and up. But we did it, we did that on our last night. I figured that was my leg day, and we watched the sunset down there. Something else we did in Amalfi was we the like I think it was like the best day. One day we just did like a chill at the pool lay around day, and that was glorious. And then the next day we did a boat day. So we did a four-hour private boat, only because the shared boats were all booked and we're like, but we want to do it. It was worth every penny. It was probably better than the shared boat, in my experience, or in my opinion. I don't know. I didn't have the experience of both because the shared experience was like seven hours. Ours was four. But because it's private, he's we're not waiting on anybody else. He takes us exactly where we want to go, nowhere we don't want to go. So he took us from Priano up to Pasettano along the way, stopping at these grottos that we could jump in and swim in, which was kind of wild. He just like throws into pool noodles and he's like, have fun, just just swim that way. So we go, we like were swimming through these grottoes, making uh stops along the way to Pasettano, where then we got some good pictures of like Pasettano in the background with us on the boat, which was lovely as well. Our boat captain, his name was Giuseppe, and he had a relatively thick Italian accent, and he was, you know, talking to us the whole time, giving us like telling us what was going on. We only understood, like, I don't know, about half of what he was saying, um, because he was talking so fast with this thick accent. And then I have some hearing loss. So when there's background noise like wind or boat engines or whatever, then it's hard for me to hear people. And so he's like, I'm sitting on the bow of the boat, he's back where like the the steering wheel is, and he's like telling me in this thick accent, fast, all this background noise. I'm like, meh, whatever. I got the gist of what he was saying. Like he was basically just giving us a tour, but he was so cute. We'd like to get to certain parts. He's like, We stop it here and you make it a swim, and then we stop it there, and we make it a photo, and then we make it two more swims. It was it was so good. So we went to Positano, um, got some pictures there. We make it a several swims on the way back. And then went to Malfi, got some pictures of the Malfi in the background, and then back to Priano. Um, so that was great. Such a good day. Um, that day we also did uh impromptu, like we stopped in a place for lunch. We were hungry, and it was kind of late, so not a lot was open, but we found this place for sandwiches. We had these huge sandwiches, and then we saw that they did cooking classes and we're like, oh, can we do that tomorrow? And they said no. Or we asked if we could do it like later, and they're like, Nope, you could do it at five. And we're like, well, it's three, and you just gave us, and they gave us extra sandwiches. So I was like, we just ate all of this like bread and cheese, essentially. Um, but sure, why the heck not? So we did that at like five or six and um did a cooking class, learned, learned to make pasta. It wasn't anything crazy that we learned to cook. It was very set up for tourists or people who don't cook typically, but both uh me and Fleetwood know our way around the kitchen. And so we had a great time with those lovely women making food, making like three course meal with them, and yeah, had a great time. And then we uh headed back to Rome for one more night and got actual good pasta this time because we did some research and found like a very good pasta place, had delicious carbonara and went on a little side quest. My husband had found Dubai chocolate gelato at one place, loved it, and so we tried to find that again and struck out. But it was fun going to all of the different gelato places, like just looking to see if they had that flavor. And then I was like, okay, we've got one more on the walk back to the hotel. And if it's not that one, we're just gonna get whatever flavor they have, which ended up being really good flavors. I think I got uh I forgot what the one was. Oh, it had Tahitian vanilla and apples or pears. And I can't remember. Actually, it wasn't that good, but what was good was the pineapple ginger that I also got. Because I always almost always got two flavors when I got gelato. Because why not? Then you can try more. Yeah. And then we flew out the next day. So it was a really good trip. Looking back, I have had some interesting reflections. Every time I go to Europe, I I feel this like longing for like wanting to be there. I haven't enjoyed American politics for many, many years now. We've had some good, better blips, but there's been a lot of not great things here. And clearly it's getting worse and worse, in my opinion. So I've wanted to to be in Europe. And when I've gone to Europe and and spoken with Europeans, there seems to be all of these wonderful things. Like if they're sick, they can go to the doctor and it's not gonna break the bank. And from the people that I had talked to historically, the socialized medicine was not an issue. They were able to like get in quickly and get the things taken care of. Um, so that seemed like a good thing. Also for artists. Oh my gosh, talking with it was Jenny Tufts who told me like she had gotten a scholarship. Scholarship? That's not what it was called. Stipend. Anyways, the government gave her money to train to get better at her art, to then go work more. That was in Ireland. I the Irish are all about the arts though, too. So it's I know this isn't like full on all of Europe, but that was something that she did. But the fact that that's accessible, that I know a lot of working artists in Europe that are paying their bills that are because the art is appreciated. And I could see that even just in the buskers in Florence, that people stop and they listen and they appreciate. And and and this ha like when I'm in France, I see the same thing with the Buskers. And they have a fair amount of money in those like jars. So I think that's very different. So as an artist, that's something that I've always like been envious of because it's so hard in America to work as an artist because we say we appreciate art, but we don't show that we appreciate art. It is very hard to get people to go out to local art productions. I don't think buskers, in generally speaking, I don't see those big crowds around them. Um, because on Pearl Street and Boulder, they're all about the buskers. I don't, they don't draw the crowds like they do in Europe, where people just stop and appreciate and slow down. So that's something that I've always kind of wanted and wanted to go there and move there. And this time I had a very different perspective in speaking with Louise and Kathy from Scotland about their health care and what they struggle with with the socialized medicine. Doesn't sound good. It doesn't sound great. They can wait weeks to get in to be seen for something. There's also, I learned, and this is just, again, this is Scotland. This is what I learned about Scotland. And so it's not all of Europe, but it was an interesting thing. But they don't seem to be that interested in preventative care. They don't get colonoscopies there. They just do like the uh the stool samples, the cola guard tests. And that is not not the gold standard. That is not the best way to prevent colon cancer by any means, as I'm sure you've heard me talk about before. If you listen to some of my other podcasts, I'll link that one. If you're interested in like why that's so important to me, I'll link that episode so you can go back and listen to that one. And then they also told me that they don't start mammograms until they're 50. 50? I would have been dead. So, yeah, you're supposed to start at 40. So that that was wild to me. The other thing, too, that I noticed while I was in Italy, I had some very good food. First of all, the food at the retreat, delicious, all homemade. This, I'm not talking about that when I'm saying about what I'm about to say. The food in Italy, I was really expecting more. Everybody talks about eating in Italy and food in Italy. And while I did have a couple of very good meals, overall I was very underwhelmed, very underwhelmed with the food in Italy. Uh, I thought it was under-seasoned overall, and kind of yeah, just bland and boring. And I I was thinking about it because I've had way better Italian food here. And so here's what I thought about. I thought I'm in a country also there's not variety there. In America, here, at least where I'm live, if you want Chinese food, you can easily find Chinese food. You want Thai, you can get Thai. You want Vietnamese, you can find that too. You want French, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Mediterranean, Greek, like all these. Like name the ethnicity and I and I can find it. Usually within about 30 minutes of me. So now I'm in a country where they they're it's Italy, so they have Italian food, right? Makes sense. And I thought about it. Like the beautiful thing about America to me is that all of these different cultures have come from all over the world. And I'm gonna put the politics aside, right? We're gonna not talk about what is going on with our horrible administration. Okay, just for a minute. I also am gonna like not talk about all of the disgusting things that our country was founded on slavery and horrible racism. I I'm gonna put a pin in that for a minute, right? It's not that it's not there and that that is not does not hold weight and is not valid. It is, it does. I'm gonna talk about this other piece for a minute. For those of us like myself who love people who who see that we uh have innate programmed prejudices and try to move beyond that and try to get out of that and see the wonders in all of the people, and do see the wonders in all of the people. I think that's a lot of us Americans. And the beautiful thing that happened with America with all these people coming from different cultures and regions of the world and bringing their grandmother's recipes that they learned to make, and then learning new techniques from someone else and their grandmother's recipes and their techniques, and then starting to meld them together to make really good food. Really good food. I'm such, I'm such a foodie. I don't know that I've talked about that a lot on this podcast. I am a huge foodie. I love, love food, and I love good food, and I sometimes find it hard to find, even here. But I just noticed that we have this beautiful thing of all of these different cultures, all this different knowledge coming together. And that's not no necessarily the case in Italy. And in France for that matter, you can get French food there. And there's a lot of bad French food in France too. Because there's so much stuff just just for the tourists. So that's also my tip when you go to travel. Dig in, find the stuff that the locals go to. Go get that food, not the stuff that the guy who's standing on the street trying to get you into his restaurant, don't go to that restaurant. It's not good. Anyways, it was something something that I just noticed while I was there. This like beautiful this beautiful thing that we have and made me appreciate where I live and where I come from a little bit more because I've been hating it so much. I've been really embarrassed about being an American for so long. I think it's good to find like the good things about where you come from and celebrate those and work to fix the rest of it. Both things can be true at the same time. I think this leads into a little bit about what I'm gonna talk about next week that came up. Yep. I'm gonna do the thing. And we're gonna talk a little bit more about our political climate and specifically how it affects the aerial arts and the circus arts and what we do and how it comes how it's coming into play in our world. So strap in for that one. If you have requests for future episodes, please send them my way. I'm also looking for a guest for the for the podcast. So if you think you might be a good fit, if you have something to say that is in any of the realms that I work in in this, then please reach out to me. You can send me a message um on all the social medias at in the wings Ariel or on Patreon at in the wings Ariel. I'd love to hear from you, or just say hi. I'd like to say hi to you. Special thank you to my patrons on Patreon for supporting me in all of the ways, always I could not do this without you. Thank you for believing in me. And until next week, I hope you have a beautiful week. This has been the Arial Alchemist. Now go create some magic of your own. Happy flying.