Everybody, let's not do the introduction with food in our
mouths, all right? Can we can you finish your your
turkey for you? Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't know, I
forgot. I was even straight for like
three days. Don't get.
I must I must say before we start your concept of how long
Thanksgiving. Occurs is it confusing to me?
We'll see you in my culture and lasts if she is.
So of Mercury's in is in Stalingrad.
Then it lasts for eight days. And so that's what I'm doing and
I think it's been in Stalingrad for like 30 years now if I
remember correctly. So what you're saying is that
every day is Thanksgiving for you blumpkin?
Yeah, lovely. All right.
Would you like to introduce the podcast or shall I?
Hey everybody it's me. Bella.
And it's me helvetica and I just wanted to say that because a
completely non turkey coma related reasons.
We're just going to be taken just taking this Thursday off
from like a full episode and just taking it easy.
If that's all right with y'all I'm sure it is honestly it they
can't do much about it but I'm Kim.
It's just this is the this is the fact of the world at this
point. Yeah, I don't really think that
K and I think that's that's kind of the uh, our Ace in the Hole
here is that they don't know where we live, so that's pretty
good actually, you know, I'm just going to tell him where I
live. All right?
My home address is, no God, no, no, no, please do not give them
all a dress. I would, I just it seems unsafe.
I just, I have trusted my heart but, you know, there's all sorts
of Rogues in brigands and thieves out there who might want
to address for the various purposes.
Yes, suppose that makes sense. But what If they want to send us
like a turkey or something, it's that time of year.
Well if they want to send us a turkey, they can send it to my
friend Katie's PO box that turned into Shameless
advertising. I didn't mean for it to do that
but then it just, you just sort of set me up for that warm
welcome. But you know, there's there's
other ways to support us blumpkin besides mailing us
turkeys. Oh yeah, there's the Patrick
Gandhi. I'm glad we talked about this
the patreon. Remember a tree.
Riyadh patriarch. Yes, that's correct.
Wonder Mass. Yeah, so if you want to support
us first off to everybody who's been sending us gold on a
patreon. Thank you so much.
It just means the world to us. We're able to do so much more
stuff. We I got what we're thinking to
hire and like a leg, another editor, something so that we
will be able to to post elect episodes and times when we're
really busy, and we're getting pretty close to that.
So, thank you everybody who's been supporting us that way.
And if you want to be one of those people that, I just think
it's patreon.com slash infinite Quest and speaking quite
candidly. While it is true, that blumpkin
and helvetica live together in a magical cartridge in the ward,
the other hosts of this podcast, Katie and Eric, do not.
And so Eric is in the middle of working through a move to
Atlanta and your support of the patreon and are patreons.
And even our venimos, all of that money is going quite
literally to getting Eric down here.
So we can work on this work on this brand and work on this
world view that we are building together and all jokes and weird
character voices aside. We are so infinitely grateful
for the support that you have been giving us and we just
really, really wanted to say thank you especially today Yeah.
Sorry blumpkin my friend, Katie interrupted, how terrible so I
could I was gonna see if you wanted to say a few words but I
know that guy and if he starts talking about that, he's just
gonna get really sad and start tearing up.
So I'm not going to I do. I don't think I should should
have him do that and just start crying in public again.
Well, I think it takes a very strong man to cry personally,
but it's up to you and your comfort level blumpkin.
Well, that's really nice. Well, I did hear that you had
some pretty words. Yes, I do.
Well actually, if you don't mind, I think my good friend
Katie is going to read this for us today if that's alright.
Blanc and let me go get her. Hey, hey, hi everybody.
It's me. Katyusha boreas.
And it's Jim is still still me blumpkin.
Transition. So, so one of the things that
I'm really passionate about is poetry and every year around
this time, I started thinking of, you know, just different
poems and and the different ways that they've meet meant
something to me in my life. And there is one poem that I
absolutely love and it's called perhaps the world ends here and
it is by a phenomenal woman named Joe harjo.
And she's actually the I think 43rd Poet Laureate of the United
States. And she's also a member of the
Muscogee Creek Nation and I'm just a huge fan of her work and
a huge fan of who she is and her writing style and what she
stands for and so special, particularly today.
I just thought it would be kind of cool to share all of you
share this poem with all of you and and and it's something
that's meant a lot to me for a while.
So we're sharing today. So here's a poem.
All right? It was the most awkward
introduction to a poem ever. Here we go.
Yeah, fine. Thank you.
Pumpkin. All right, this is perhaps The
World Ends Here by Joe harjo. The world begins at a kitchen
table, no matter what. We must eat to live, the gifts
of Earth are brought and prepared set on the table, so it
has been since creation and it will go on.
WE Chase chickens or dogs away from it, baby's teeth at the
corners. They scrape their knees under
it. It is here that children are
given instructions on what it means to be human.
We make men at it, we make women at this table, we go.
Sip recall enemies and the ghosts of lovers, our dreams,
drink coffee with us, as they put their arms around our
children. They laugh with us that our poor
falling down selves. And as we put ourselves back
together, once again, at the table, this table has been a
house in the rain, an umbrella in this song Wars have begun and
ended at this table, it is a place to hide in the shadow of
Terror. A place to celebrate the
terrible victory. We have given birth on this
table and have prepared our parents for burial here at this
table, we sing with joy, with sorrow, we pray of suffering and
remorse. We give thanks, perhaps the
world will end at the kitchen table while we are laughing and
crying eating of the last sweet bite.
That is perhaps Happy Thanksgiving everybody that was
perhaps The World Ends Here by johar do and yeah thank you all
so much for hanging out with us. We just wanted to give you a
little bit something special for Thanksgiving and just let you
know truly how much you all mean to us how much your support
means to us and how happy we are that you are all here at our
kitchen table here. Here this is, this is Eric now.
Yeah, thank you so much everybody.
This time of year is its Hard because we all can't like be
together with our families. I can't be together with my
family. Perhaps you can't with yours all
that and just the sense of community that that I mean I
personally feel from all of you and I hope that you all get from
us is really keeping us going. So thank you so much everybody.
It really is. Yeah, thank you.
Thank you all so much. Have a safe and wonderful.
Thanksgiving will be back next week with something.
We don't know what It's going to be it but it will be back with
something. And yeah, stay tuned for more
and oh, one last, very important announcement, we have a website.
Now I forgot all about. I got it.
So excited about being the belacan even working on
tirelessly. Yeah, so we we have, we have a
website now it's infinite Quest. Podcast.com, you can go to it,
there's all sorts of good stuff. So we've got links to episodes.
We've got some like biographical information about Eric and I
We've also got some cool stuff about, like our ADHD and d and
links to our sweet merch and all that good stuff.
So, yeah, if you want to check it out, it's still definitely a
work in progress, but it exists in the world which is very
exciting. So, we just thought you let you
know about that as well. So there you go.
An important Thanksgiving. Miracle has just occurred is
true, and thank you, Katie for working.
So tirelessly on that these past couple weeks, thanks for being
supportive of me while I work on it.
Eric, You're very welcome anytime.
All right. Well it's this is this is the
end of the Thanksgiving episode, everybody.
This is the end of the Thanksgiving episode everybody.
But yeah, thank you so much and Happy Thanksgiving.
Stacy, Happy Thanksgiving transition.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody.