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An Acquired Taste Podcast

S5 Ep400: Confusing American Customs & Secret Spells from Ages Past

An Acquired Taste Podcast

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Relationships, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Are you listening to this podcast while you drink your morning coffee on the go? Did you just give your coworker a thumbs up? These are just two of the American customs that other countries think are bizarre, confusing, or just downright rude! Is it something you do on Kathleen’s list? Then, Bethany picked up a curious little book on her most recent trip to the used bookstore. It shares spells from cultures around the world and as far back as the Old Testament. If you want to bring your lover back to you, you’re suffering from rheumatism, or you want to keep your lover safe in battle, get ready to take notes! Plus, would you buy a house if it came with a squatter living in the basement?



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What We Talked About:

0:18 - Intro To Topics
03:21 - Bethany’s Woo Woo Neighborhood
05:39 - Embracing your own stereotype
09:34 - What does Goop’s Vagina Candle smell like?
14:54 - Confusing American Customs
43:28 - Secret Spells from Ages Past
1:09:02 - The house that sold with squatters
1:15:11 - California Wine is starting to taste like wildfire
1:17:39 - What we learned this week
1:21:53 - Voicemails



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0:00.0

Music says a lot about a city, but what about a country, especially one as vast as Canada?

0:06.2

I'm Canadian Music journalist Karen Bliss. Turn it up with me to explore the vibe of Canada's

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thriving music scene. Explore Vancouver on the rugged west coast of Canada. It's a city

0:16.3

known for its coastal beauty, but what about its music?

0:23.6

Click the banner now to discover the music of Vancouver and explore Canada's rich music scene

0:28.6

from coast to coast. Stop laughing, this is erotic. I'm on a new medication and

0:34.0

I think it's making me lose to me. I would have been a Ted Bundy victim. Yeah, I had no idea

0:40.1

that so many people out there felt the same way. I died. Now I want a peanut colada.

0:45.9

An acquired taste. This is an acquired taste podcast. I'm Bethany Watson, your cold hands having

0:53.7

new sunglasses. Love in my subtle fake eyelashes are so subtle it somehow looks like I have

1:00.6

fewer eyelashes. Friends and I'm Kathleen Haney you're using TikTok as my personal trainer

1:06.9

owner of a new fancy milk throth. Frother. Frother. Frother. Frother. Frother. I've been craving

1:13.8

tuna fish sandwiches for breakfast and it's weird but delicious friend and every week Kathleen and

1:19.1

I get together to discuss our lives and what's weird in the world and we invite you to join us

1:23.6

Kathleen what are you talking about this week? This week I am talking about the confusing things

1:28.5

that Americans do that people in other countries are like. This is amazing. I love I love things where

1:35.8

I'm forced to analyze my own life. I know. I realize that like what seems normal to me certainly

1:41.3

isn't normal. I know I know. Oh but it's on your plate this week Bethany. I am talking about this

1:46.4

fascinating book I found at a used bookstore. Oh. By an author named Henri Gamache who I am learning

1:53.2

is not even a real person. It is called the master key to occult secrets. Oh. And basically what

2:02.1

it does is it goes through all of these different cultures and the spells they tried to do the like

2:09.5

everyone's trying to do love spells no matter where you're from. All of the different beliefs they

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