Fall 2024, Episode 9

October 22nd, 2024

Host: Jay Cortes

Co-Host: Marina Gonzalez

Guest: Angel Garza, Yelitza Amador

 

Transcript:

Welcome, Runners, to The Runner On Air.

It is your ninth episode.

Today is October 22nd, 2024, and this is The Runner On Air.

I’m your host, Jay Cortes.

And I am your co-host, Marina Gonzalez.

And today, we have some special guests here for you.

They’re here to educate you about stuff that’s going on on campus, a certain program.

I have a lot of questions for them, so if you guys could introduce yourselves.

Hello, Runners.

My name is Angel.

I am a currently, I’m a current senior here at CSUB, majoring in biology with Allied Health.

So long story short, my goal is to be an actual physician.

So that’s my story.

Hello, my name is Yelitza Amador.

I am a fifth year biology major and women gender sexualities major.

I also have a minor in theater because I think laughter is the best medicine, similar to Angel.

I also want to be a physician when I grow up.

Awesome.

I think you guys are involved in a program here on campus, right?

Can you guys tell me about that?

So I work under a Department called the Basic Needs Department, and underneath that Basic Needs Department, it kind of branches off into a few things.

We have food pantry, which a lot of students are pretty familiar with, and then we have edible garden, and then we have emergency housing and funding.

So that’s what we have so far for our programs, and I can elaborate more on that if you like.

Yeah.

So the overall umbrella is the Basic Needs Program?

So pretty much, yeah, pretty much the Basic Needs kind of just is the whole umbrella kind of hovers over everything, and that’s what kind of runs the department and gets subdivided into those other categories that I mentioned.

Okay.

So specifically, like what does your position do?

So for me, I work at the Edible Garden.

I’ve been at the garden for about two years.

I started off as a volunteer there, but for the most part, my department, my area, we pretty much grow produce.

We grow produce as a way to fight food insecurity here on campus.

As a student coming from a low-income, underserved community, food was kind of a priority for us to kind of have on the table, and now that time, you know, the funds were there.

So being able to have this opportunity to kind of give back has been great.

So I think that that’s what the garden does, is being able to give back to students, faculty, and staff, and all produce is free.

So I mean, I think anything free is pretty good to me.

That’s awesome.

That sounds, yeah, that sounds cool.

And your position, is it similar or is it a different position, different department?

No.

So I work at the Edible Garden as a lead volunteer.

I have been volunteering at the garden for four years now, since my sophomore year and such.

And so, yeah, I’ve always just been on the outer end, if that makes any sense.

I’ve just been there to really help the garden, for lack of a better word, grow and stuff.

I’m just there to lend a helping hand to whatever they need and stuff.

A good portion of what goes into the garden and stuff is done because of the volunteers that take time out of their day to really go out there and help.

And so, yeah, and I love the garden.

That’s something I want to be a part of.

And how did you hear about the garden, like volunteering?

Volunteering?

Oh my goodness.

So the garden is like pretty tucked away and stuff.

So if it wasn’t for the help of somebody I already knew going to the garden, I don’t think I would have heard about it.

But yeah, they told me to check out the garden and I did.

And yeah, it’s been something I’ve really looked forward to going to every week at least.

Yeah, so definitely word of mouth.

The garden is definitely a if you know, you know type of place on campus.

Yeah, I feel like I’m not in the know because I haven’t checked it out.

Yeah.

And we want everyone to know and such.

That’s actually why we have a club founded, dedicated to helping people know more about the garden.

It’s called the Green Thumb Society.

Yeah, me and Angel are both officers, the founding officers of that club and such.

Yeah.

So if I wanted to get involved in the club, who would I email?

You could email either one of us.

You can email me at [email protected].

You could also honestly call the admissions office and just request more info on the Green Thumb Society and there is a good chance I will be the one to answer.

Cool, cool.

Yeah, I feel like that’d be awesome to get involved like once people hear about it because walking onto campus, I always see the food pantry like the I think it’s like a portable.

So but it’s kind of hard to see like where’s the edible garden is because it’s kind of similar.

I’m not sure location wise is around that area.

Yeah, the way I like to describe the edible garden is if you know where the Icardo Center is, you’re going to take that parking lot, you’re going to park at the very end, like basically the last parking lot far away from the school.

And then once you step out of your car, as long as you’re looking towards the west area, you’re going to see a blue chain link fence with a giant carrot outside is how I like to describe it.

But yeah, honestly, if you know what the softball field is, it’s right behind there.

Okay.

Yeah, maybe that’s why I never see it walking on campus because I usually come from the side where like all the buses are coming in.

I never really come in from the Icardo side.

And it’s not basketball season right now.

So I’m hardly over there.

But yeah, now that you mentioned that sounds awesome.

So for people that like want to get involved, what would they be doing?

Like what are the day to day operations?

Yeah, so a typical I would say day to day operation would be a good morning.

We usually kind of like to start off with a slight weeding in the beds.

You know, sometimes, you know, weeds come and go and it’s part of the garden.

So a little bit of maintenance kind of goes a long way here at the garden.

So I think for a nice day to day would be a good 30 minutes of weeding, clearing out a bed, and then we switch over to planting.

We are in the planting season right now.

We were in the transition state a few weeks ago when we are now in the planting state.

So right now we are actually planting.

But before planting, we get a bed prepped, we get some nice fresh soil in there, kind of get some nice fertilizer in there, kind of mix it around, hydrate our bed and start planting.

So that’s a typical day to day day at the garden.

We do also have other activities.

We do have many like planting, not planting, sorry, painting activities.

We have signs around the garden that, you know, need to be renewed.

To just make it creative.

Yeah, definitely to be creative.

We use a lot of the same kind of resources we have in the garden, all planks of wood.

Just trying to keep that kind of sustainable theme.

Yeah, so I think, you know, painting, we have chickens out there.

So we do a lot of like hand feeding with them, kind of talk about a little bit of the background with them, a little history with them.

Maybe talk about that.

Yeah.

What are the chickens for?

Do we get the eggs for those?

So, yeah.

So I think I’ll talk a little bit about it, but I think the person who knows kind of greatly about it would be Yelitza here.

But yeah, so we started off or Yelitza started off in a club called the Coalition of Chicken Enthusiasts, if I’m not mistaken.

What?

That’s awesome.

And solely for the club, the idea of the club was just to bring fresh organic eggs to campus as another incentive to fight food insecurity.

And you know, with that comes chickens.

And the next kind of obstacle we were running into was just finding a home for the chickens.

So kind of going around campus, we came to Joel, he’s the edible garden coordinator.

And he wholeheartedly let us home the chickens at the garden.

So next idea was just to kind of build a blueprint of what the chicken coop was going to look like.

We got approved by the university and then we got to building.

So at the garden, you know, how long has that been going on?

So the chicken coop has probably been about three years now.

The club was probably active for two years.

But you know, essentially everything that was built, you know, all the perfections and imperfections done at the garden were all done by students.

No private contractors, nobody.

It was all done by students, volunteers.

So that can also be another day to day basis at the garden, just activities, little projects, stuff like that.

But I think to kind of elaborate more on the club itself and why the chickens were brought would I think it would kind of be a great person.

Yeah, of course.

What are the chickens names?

Do you know their names?

Oh my goodness.

So we only have two of them with names.

Their names are indeed, we like to keep them garden related.

So one of them is called Salt.

The other one is called Pepper.

Oh, nice.

Yeah.

I love Salt and Pepper.

If you go to the garden, there are two biggest ladies.

Please by all means, go out there and hand feed them with something we really encourage.

Nice.

What do they eat?

They don’t eat anything, honestly.

My favorite thing to feed them are peppers because birds don’t have the ability to taste spice.

So they really like that.

But more often than not, you can just feed them weeds.

Yeah.

Yeah.

My grandma had a parrot and he would eat chilies.

Yeah.

And I was like, what?

Like, doesn’t that burn?

No, it’s actually really good for their shell.

Yeah.

Awesome.

Their favorite thing is bugs.

So if you catch any bugs, throw it in there and if you want to see them wrestle for it.

Yeah, go ahead.

But I can’t take credit for founding the club.

The club was indeed started by two individuals who did volunteer at the garden before me, Najeeb Darwish and Viviana Ramirez and such.

They did found the club, but after they graduated because the club was founded a semester before they had planned to graduate.

And so once they did, I took over the responsibilities for the club.

And so, yeah, like Angel said, the club was basically founded as another way to help provide students with more access to a protein because the garden is fantastic at providing students with free produce and such.

But veggies and fruit can only sustain you for so long before you need, yeah, before you need like another form of protein.

And there can be a lot of substance that can be done with eggs.

I know that for me personally, growing up, I can make just using eggs about a bunch of different recipes and stuff just because of what my parents did.

So to me personally, the egg holds a really big significance to me.

And that’s just something that I wanted to share with students and staff, students and staff especially.

And yeah, so that’s basically why the club was founded.

It was founded as another way to help crack down on food insecurity and such.

And that being said, the Green Thumb Society is actually, I think the term is predecessor to the Coalition of Chicken Enthusiasts.

We wanted to change the face of the club because Coalition of Chicken Enthusiasts is a bit of a mouthful.

And if I’m being entirely honest, I wasn’t the biggest fan of the name and such because we weren’t really taken seriously, especially when you hear what we stand for and what we’re trying to combat and stuff for people trying to just deduce it to anything as just like the silly chicken club is just really disheartening.

And it was really sad to see because, you know, this club that you work so hard for for like a really good meaning is just being deduced to chicken funny.

And so yeah, that’s why we’ve kind of rebranded to the Green Thumb Society to hopefully show students that there is a bunch of resources on campus that are here to fight for them and, you know, make sure that they have access to food.

Yeah, that’s awesome.

That’s amazing.

Yeah, it’s definitely a serious thing.

Chicken protein, like, you know, egg protein, egg protein is like, yeah, you can make millions of things with a breakfast, lunch, dinner, like it’s endless.

And yeah, it’s a sustainable thing.

That’s awesome.

And definitely a serious, I can see why the rebranding need to happen, but it’s definitely a serious, like, awesome thing.

So yeah, that sounds amazing.

So if I wanted to go, like, get involved, it sounds like it’s a seasonal thing with the garden, where it’s kind of like based on what the plants are doing, what your job would be doing, but a lot of it is like maintaining and farming.

For a lot of people, I feel like that’s therapeutic, like that sort of thing, like weeding and just being alone with like nature.

Well, not alone, but it kind of feels like it, like when you’re out there guarding, like you’re just there alone with nature.

There’s obviously other students around that are helping, but that’s awesome.

So if I wanted to get more involved, like, how would I do that?

Yeah, so we have various ways to kind of get involved.

One thing this semester we’re actually kind of emphasizing on is social media.

I know social media is a huge, like, influence in kind of today’s society.

So we do have an Instagram page for both the Edible Garden and the Food Pantry.

So we do have, I think it’s like CSUB Edible Garden.

You can find that.

That should be like the first one to pop up on there.

We have like our link, our link tree to sign up to our hours, different slides.

And then if you have any questions or any other ideas, events, you can also always reach out to our Instagram page because we also do events.

It’s not slowly just like farming.

Yeah.

Do you have any coming up?

Oh, yeah.

So this, sorry, not this Thursday, but the following Thursday, which is Halloween if I’m not mistaken.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

So yeah, 31st, Thursday, we actually are having a collaborative event with the, I think, Sustainability Club here on campus.

They’re having a Zero Waste Halloween pumpkin carving contest.

And then, yeah, people can come in dressed up, but I think they’re also going to have like a little contest, so you kind of has a nice little costume as well.

Sick.

So that’s going to be here on campus?

Yeah.

So that, yeah, that’s going to be here on campus at the Edible Garden.

Cool.

I think in terms of details, don’t quote me on it, but I think it’s going to start at 11. 11 to 1.

11 PM?

Sorry, no, 11 AM.

11 AM.

Yeah.

Because it is Halloween, you know.

You’re right.

You’re right.

Yeah.

So, you know, I think, I think we want to have our own little celebration earlier in the morning and then that way everybody else can have their own, do their own thing later on in the afternoon, the evening.

Yeah.

Pumpkin carving.

But yes, a few weeks ago, we actually did have our own, we did actually host our own event, the Edible Garden itself, in terms of the celebration of Latinx Heritage Month.

So that, that was also another thing that we kind of partaked in, was hosting our own event.

It was a huge turnout.

I think we had over like 130, 140 people.

Yeah.

That’s huge.

Wow.

So definitely, definitely, you know, we are surrounded just by farming, agriculture and just kind of keeping back.

Yeah, of course.

But, you know, I think, I think we also have our equal share of having fun for projects and events and stuff like that as well.

So.

Okay.

And if I was a student that wanted to pick up some produce and like is hearing this and this sounds awesome, like how would I go about doing that?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we have, I would say a couple of ways of doing it.

One, you can come out and volunteer.

A lot of times we give our volunteers kind of like a first, first kind of dibs on, on produce as a, as a thank you to kind of helping us at the garden.

So that’s, that’s one way you can volunteer.

Another way would be our, would be at the food pantry.

And then the third way would be our farm stand.

So for our farm stand, we, we actually have a farm stand every Wednesday from 10 to 12 or until supplies last.

And kind of, kind of going back to the, to the chicken and the eggs.

I know you mentioned earlier, like, Hey, how can I, can I, how can I acquire some eggs?

So a good way one would be a farm stand.

So once we gather a pretty, a pretty decent amount of eggs for, for the farm stand, we then take it to our farm stand and then we hand them out to students, faculty, and staff offer free along with other fruits and veggies as well.

And typically we have limitations so that way everybody else can get a chance to, to grab some as well.

You don’t want everyone taking off.

Yeah.

So, you know, if we didn’t have any limitations, everybody would grab the eggs.

Pull up in a truck and just dump all the eggs and take off.

I mean, I would do it too, you know, and I work at the garden, so.

And it’s, I feel like they taste different too when it’s like, when you know the chicken, you know?

Oh yeah.

I think, I think working at the garden, a lot of the produce, I mean, it could be me, just me being biased, but a lot of the produce that I grow, all of it just kind of being organic.

It’s just so much better.

There’s no any sort of additives.

There’s no, you know, GMO, there’s no chemicals, there’s no this or that.

It’s just pure soil and, and, you know, pure composting.

So just kind of, yeah, circle of life, sustainable, being sustainable, so I think all that kind of.

And in culinary, like eating, cooking, like everyone always says, it’s all about the love.

And I feel like that’s where it starts at the source, you know?

Oh yeah, definitely.

Definitely.

Yeah.

It all starts, you know, pretty much in the soil.

Because I know you, you mentioned earlier about like, you know, very therapeutic.

Well, yeah, actually studies have been found that even just kind of messing with dirt is in itself, it’s already has like therapeutic properties.

Well, I know like growing with live soil is completely different than growing with like a store-bought soil.

So if it’s like compost with worms in it and it’s like a whole ecosystem, like the growth is going to be way different than if it’s like a store-bought fertilizer.

Yeah, definitely, definitely.

Yeah, just having that even, I even would see it as like a huge de-stressor coming from like a bio-allied health background.

Like there’s a lot of studying, there’s a lot of books, a lot of, you know, sitting behind a screen and using your brain.

And sometimes, you know, it’s good to not have to really think and use that brain other than just kind of go around, kind of pull some weeds, get your hands dirty a little bit.

And I think, I think that’s kind of why the garden to me, it’s kind of stuck with me for a while.

It’s been there for me, so.

Yeah.

It’s even exercise too.

Oh yeah, definitely.

Because once you’re out there, the sun’s beating on you, you know?

Yeah, you definitely get some sun.

Thankfully, the weather is cooling down.

Yeah, tan.

Yeah, some tan gets some dirt on your nails.

But yeah, definitely, definitely all around, I think garden is a huge, great opportunity to, for students here on campus.

I feel like being on campus, especially if you’re in the dorms, like you need something because, I mean, you’re studying like constantly, you’re going in and out of class, like your brain’s constantly just juggling with these ideas, this new stuff that you’re learning.

And it’s like, you need some time.

For me, it’s exercise, like I’m always in the SRC.

So it’s like, I feel like you need an hour at least, like daily to where it’s just like you doing something with your hands or you’re not really thinking complexly.

Like for some people, it’s just sitting down, listening to music where you could just like chill and relax and vibe.

And I feel like for some people it could be the edible garden.

Right.

Like if you have something to do on campus and you like nature and growing and planting, and it’s like.

Yeah, definitely.

That could definitely be something therapeutic, I feel like for people.

It’s also very convenient for students, especially students who came from out of state and are living in the dorms right now, because they at least have a place here on campus where they can buy freshly made produce.

Well, not even buy it, it’s a part.

Yeah, they can get freshly made produce to have with their meals and stuff.

And sometimes, sometimes they don’t have cars and they can’t go anywhere else off of campus.

Yeah, that’s yeah, that’s a big deal.

Yeah.

And to add on to that, what I really enjoy about the edible garden is that they have these things called community beds, which if you are living in the dorms or if you’re even a student and you just don’t have any space to grow a garden, the edible garden has community beds that they are that you’re able to rent out for a semester.

And they will go ahead and help you with watering it, but you’d be responsible for maintaining it.

So this would be your own individual garden.

So you could plant just about anything that you want in there.

You would just be responsible for the maintenance.

But yeah, if that’s something you’re interested in, you can go ahead and contact the edible garden coordinator.

Yeah, that’s huge, because I feel like if you have the knowledge, but you just don’t have the space to do it, like, that’s a great way to do it.

Yeah.

But if you don’t have the knowledge, Joao is a really big help.

He’s very helpful and he is more than willing to help you start your garden and stuff.

Especially if you don’t know anything about gardening, he is more than happy to help lend a hand.

Okay.

So like me, who doesn’t know anything about gardening, what do you think would be the easiest seeds to grab and I could start growing something and it might be edible by the end of the semester, you know, or the end of the season?

I’ll give two.

I want to say the easiest thing to seed and plant would be just about any herb, because they have a really quick germination time.

Okay.

Basil.

Yeah, basil and such.

But honestly, with herbs, the really neat thing about them is that you don’t even have to really grow them from seed.

Mint, for example, you can cut off a few pieces, put it in water, and it’ll go ahead and germinate on its own.

And then bam, you have a fresh new mint plant that started off from the cutting of the original plant and stuff.

So yeah.

And mint tea is awesome.

I love mint tea.

And that’s all sorts of fun things you can learn by volunteering at the garden.

Cool.

Yeah.

I mean, get a mint garden started.

There you go.

Exactly.

We have plenty of it.

Please.

That’s awesome.

All right.

Anything else you guys want to promote while you’re here?

Anything new coming up with the edible garden?

I would say maybe just kind of emphasizing the department itself.

I know a lot of people, they hear a lot about the edible garden and food pantry, but there’s also those other two resources, emergency housing, emergency funding, and then just to kind of talk about and elaborate a little bit on the emergency housing.

So if there’s ever a situation that you’re in, you ever need emergency housing, we can definitely help you out with that as well.

There is like a 30 day kind of period that you do get free housing.

And within those 30 days, we help with trying to kind of figure out the situation, help you out with that situation.

Because the main goal as students is stress and focus on what’s important, right?

School.

Yeah.

Of course.

Studying.

So we try to emphasize not stressing about any sort of external things.

Of course, life happens.

Things happen.

But our main goal is to help fight food insecurity, kind of keep that stress off of you.

And then just not worry about where you’re trying to stay, where you’re trying to lay, where you’re trying to live.

Yeah, of course.

So we do help with that as well.

And then we also do have emergency funding.

Emergency funding is a huge part for me.

I’m going to use myself as an example.

My car broke down.

I had a very bad accident and I needed help kind of getting back on the road.

So I reached out to the department and they kind of helped me pretty much get back on the road.

Yeah.

And transportation’s huge.

Yeah.

Transportation.

Yeah.

Especially for the people who don’t live on campus and have to be here.

So definitely the emergency housing did help with that as well.

And then we also help with the CalFresh applications as well.

If you ever are in need of EBT food stamps.

I myself did apply for that.

So CalFresh.

Yeah.

CalFresh.

Huge help for me as well.

So just kind of other things that I just kind of want to emphasize.

But yeah, in terms of events, I think just the upcoming one would be the Halloween one so far.

And then later on in the year, in December, probably the first week, the Green Thumb Society is actually going to host a movie night at the Garden.

So what’s the movie?

So that’s still in the talks.

Can I put in a request?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like Ratatouille.

Oh, that’s a good one.

That’s definitely a good one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So yeah, we’re still kind of compiling some movie titles, see what we can kind of come up with.

But that’s definitely a thing that we’re going to do at the Garden.

Hopefully the rights are pretty cheap for Ratatouille.

I don’t know.

Yeah.

You might have to pull the budget up for that one.

Yeah.

So definitely that’ll be something to kind of look forward to in December.

Something kind of before finals, a little de-stressor for students.

I think that’ll be pretty cool.

It’ll be free food, free snacks, and a free movie.

So that’s definitely an event to kind of look forward to.

Yeah.

That’s awesome.

I appreciate you guys, because now I feel like I have a really good understanding of basic needs.

And it’s really just that.

You guys are offering or guiding people to the help.

It’s there.

The help is there.

And people just need help getting the help.

The help is there.

So if you need it, it’s there.

There’s no reason that you should, like you’re saying, be struggling with basic needs if you’re a student and you need to focus on your classes and stuff.

And you guys are really helpful, it seems like.

And yeah, that sounds awesome.

I have a really good understanding now of basic needs.

Yeah.

I mean, it kind of stays in the title.

Pretty basic needs, right?

But we can always resort you guys to any other external resources here on campus, any sort of…

And are you guys located in the Student Union?

Like the main basic needs office?

So the main basic needs office is still kind of here and there.

So right now the office is located at the SSD.

And where’s that?

SSD is located right here.

I’ll have…

The SSD building is located right next to the Transfer Resource Center, which if you know where Administration West is, it is…

Go to Administration West and then just turn to the left and it’ll be right in front of you.

Yeah.

I think it’s near the Cashiers, right?

Yes.

So you go towards the Cashiers and then the Transfer Center is on the left.

Yeah, honestly.

And the Cashiers building, turn to the left, it’ll be right in front.

Yeah.

Awesome.

Yeah, because I just recently checked out the Transfer Center as well.

There’s so many people that are like showing you different ways that the campus is helpful and it’s cool to see like all these different people that are doing good for the community, but there’s also like so many different resources that are out here and these people are helping get those resources like the Transfer Center, basic needs, food pantry.

So it’s awesome hearing about it.

That’s why I wanted to have you guys on here because I want students to be more educated about this sort of stuff, you know, like if you don’t know about it, then you’ll never use it.

Right.

So, yeah, I really appreciate you guys stopping by.

Marina, do you have anything that any questions for them you’re curious about?

I heard that the edible, I mean the food pantry, don’t they do like these food donations like every month or so?

Yes, yes, yes.

So we have what’s called our food distribution.

So that’s once a month, usually like on the first like Monday or second Monday of the month.

And essentially what we do this, this is actually open to the community.

So it’s not just open for students, faculty, or staff, but this is open for the entire community.

And essentially we get a huge donation of fresh produce.

You know, we get different types of like meats, fish, chicken.

We get like potatoes.

I think this, I think this past food distribution, we had like grapes, we had peaches, we had like fish sticks, potatoes, you know, we grab all those, put it in a large box for you.

And then we pretty much load it up for you in your car.

And that’s another, another, you know, way to pretty much help fight food insecurity.

And I think it all kind of started during COVID.

I know COVID was like, you know, pretty hard times and I don’t think we want to go back to that time, but so it all started during COVID.

And now I think it’s kind of, it’s pretty much progressed.

So we do have these huge, huge lines of cars just kind of waiting, you know, for free produce, you know, I mean, who wouldn’t want free produce?

And I think all of this produce is like very good.

So that’s, that’s, that’s what we do as well, for a few food distributions.

And you can also definitely hop out and volunteer for that as well.

And as a nice little thank you, we also do provide you with, you know, a box of produce as well.

So.

Sounds good.

Oh, yeah.

Per car, right?

Yeah.

Per car.

Yep.

Load up everyone in a different car and go pull up.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah.

Come in a different car.

You got five cars, five buddies right there and you got five boxes of free food right there.

Yeah.

That’s food for the week.

Awesome.

Yeah.

Oh, I mean, I guess another thing I wanted to kind of plug in real quick, at the garden right now, we actually do have a maze that we’re actually working on.

I would say it’s probably about 80% finished, but it’ll probably be finished by Friday, this Friday.

So you guys doing like that haystack, like tight style maze or how you guys doing it?

We actually have a corn maze that we’ve been working on for the past two months.

And we’ve actually finished today the actual path of the maze.

So it’s not the best maze, but we’re kind of working with what we got.

So again, just another way for students to kind of come out and just explore the garden.

When do you think you guys are going to be done with that?

I think for sure, for sure, we’re going to have that ready up and running for Monday.

If there is any update before that, I think we’ll definitely post that up on our socials.

So that Halloween week.

Yeah.

Halloween week for sure.

Okay.

Are you going to have people like in the maze, like popping out or?

We’re not too sure what we’re going to have, including in the maze who might add like a scarecrow or two.

Okay.

Some, some spooky.

Something kind of, something kind of scary, you know?

But yeah, that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s going to be our maze.

First time trying it.

So we’re kind of, kind of in the runs, you know?

So yeah.

I’m down to try it.

All right.

So is it going to be near the Icardo where the farm stand and all the edible garden over there in that area?

So yeah.

So farm stand.

So our farm stand is typically closer to the food pantry, literally 10 feet from the front of the door of the food pantry, that’s where we set up our farm stand in terms of edible garden location.

As Yelitza mentioned, it’s, I would say far South East of campus.

Literally between the softball field and the track and field.

If you park literally in the far South East of campus, you walk in a little dirt path and it’s like straight ahead of you and you see like a blue kind of blue fence, blue, you know, yeah.

Fence surrounded and that, that, that there’s the edible garden.

It is pretty secluded.

I know a lot of people do, yeah, you really got to look for it.

Yeah.

You really got to look for it.

Another thing that, I don’t want to steal the thunder here, but I think I’ll let kind of talk about it, but just kind of finding ways to help direct students to the food pantry.

Yeah.

Let me hear it.

Yes.

If you are interested in leaving your mark at CSUB, we do plan on adding trail markers to help students find where the edible garden is.

So if you have an idea or if you just want to go out there and paint and design a fun little way to help students know where the garden is at, just stop by the edible garden.

We will have trail markers by at least by spring semester.

Okay.

So it’ll say like you’re one, you’re a hundred feet away from the edible garden.

You’re 200 feet.

All right.

Something like that.

Yes.

All right.

Yeah.

That’s a good idea.

And it sounds like you guys are creative over there.

I like it.

Cool.

All right.

Well, I appreciate you guys for stopping by and I’m excited for what you guys are doing.

So I hope students can take advantage and go check it out, volunteer.

If you need volunteer hours, that sounds like an awesome way to get them.

If you need produce and want to volunteer and you want first dibs, that sounds like an awesome way to get first dibs on some good produce and some fresh eggs.

Yeah.

Thank you guys.

Yeah, of course.

My name is Yelitza Amador and I am a lead volunteer at the edible garden.

Yeah.

And my name is Angel Garza.

I’m actually the lead student assistant, garden assistant at the edible garden.

All right.

Awesome.

Thank you guys for stopping by.

Yeah.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

All right, runners.

And now we are transitioning to another book review with Marina.

And Marina, what book do you have for us this week?

So the book that I am reviewing for today, it is a book called Rebel Spirits by Lois Ruby.

This is a book that I have had since middle school.

My mom got me this book off of Scholastics.

Cool.

Scholastics?

Yeah.

Wait, I remember those.

I used to get like video game cheat codes on there.

Yeah.

Scholastics was like this sort of like book catalog that we would get all the time in my, when I was in elementary and in middle school, we would get these catalogs all the time.

And anytime my schools did those book fairs, that’s where I could also get the books at as well.

Yeah.

That’s where I would get my Captain Underpants books.

Oh yeah.

Those books.

All right.

So what is, what’s this book about?

So the book is about a teenage girl named Lori Chase.

She and her family had just moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania all the way to Gettysburg because her parents had purchased this very like old sort of this old inn called Cool Springs Inn.

It’s kind of like a motel, but you know, an inn is something that people would go stay at if they go on a vacation into places on the countryside as well.

So they move there and Gettysburg is a place that’s so full of history about the civil war.

And over there, that’s where she discovers that she can actually communicate with spirits and she encounters a spirit named Nathaniel Pierce.

He was a soldier during the war and he needs her help to solve his murder because he didn’t die in the war.

He was murdered.

Whoa.

That was a lot.

Okay.

So what state is Gettysburg in?

Pennsylvania.

So would that be the Union side?

So he was fighting for the Union side?

Well, I think, I think it was maybe, I mean, I don’t know a whole lot about the civil war and stuff, but yeah, it could have been the Union side.

Well, when he was murdered, it didn’t say in the book, like what, what side of the war he was fighting on?

You know, maybe he wasn’t on the Union side.

Maybe it was, maybe it was the other side.

So he gets murdered outside of the war.

He’s like a officer.

He was a soldier who, so Nathaniel explained everything to Lori about what he remembered of the night that he died.

And it was during, it was like, he was in this like large tent that they had set up for like the doctors to treat like the wounded soldiers.

And there was like a big scuffle that happened in the tent.

And he remembers he was shot in the back, but he never saw the person who did it.

And then he ended up dying from that wound.

So he would have been shot with like a musket at this point?

Is this the time period?

Probably a musket, maybe a musket or a pistol.

So do you, do you feel like this is like a slow burn book or right away the murder happens like early on, or is this, does it take a while to figure out like how he had been murdered?

Well, yeah, because as Lori meets Nathaniel, you know, they start to like, Nathaniel explains everything that he remembers of the day of his death.

And then, and she has to work so hard at trying to piece everything together.

She also has to seek help from the locals of Gettysburg and also including the, from the people who work for the inn, who are under the employment of her parents, because they know all about the history and stuff.

And she also seeks help from a woman named Charlotte who works as a maid in the inn, at the inn, and a guy named Evan, who is the like, the gardener or the farmer there.

And he helps her out as well.

You had mentioned she’s like a medium.

So she speaks to ghosts.

She basically, is that the first ghost she ever spoke to?

Well, actually back in Philadelphia, before she and her parents moved, she and her best friend Jocelyn would do these like, kind of like fake fortune teller booth thing.

They thought it was, it was just a way for them to like, make money and thought it was just like something fun for them to do.

But Lori didn’t realize that she could actually see ghosts, because that day, because one day in the city when she was doing the fortune teller booth with her friend, she recalls a time when she actually heard the voice and actually saw a ghost and nobody else noticed it.

And then after they moved to Gettysburg, she realized that ghost that she saw that day was actually Nathaniel.

And she thought she was like, maybe going crazy or something, like she couldn’t believe that she actually saw a ghost.

Wait, so the ghost that she first saw that first time was also the ghost she saw later on or was it a different ghost?

It was Nathaniel.

It was the same ghost?

It was the same ghost.

And she didn’t realize that until she actually saw Nathaniel back in, when they, after they moved to Gettysburg.

I mean, she thought, she thought she was like going crazy or something because she was like so shocked that she actually saw a ghost.

So she’s really only seen one ghost though, or has she seen multiple ghosts after that?

I think, yeah, I think in the book she did see like other ghosts because people want to believe that Gettysburg is practically haunted because you know, so many deaths happened to people during the Civil War.

Yeah.

So many soldiers lost their lives on the battlefield during the Civil War.

Yeah.

So it gets kind of into the history, but then you’re saying it’s like a romance, but how do you have a romance with a ghost?

Well, there, see, Nathaniel had been a ghost for basically 150 years and he can, and he only like becomes like a solid person and stays solid for a while, like only during the days where they do like the battle reenactments, like those historical days of the Civil War when it happened.

Whoa.

So, so does he like possess somebody or he just all of a sudden has his regular?

No, he becomes a full, a fully solid human body and he’s wearing like his soldier uniform and stuff, like the uniform he was wearing when he died.

He only, he only appears as a solid human once a year and that’s during the battle, the battle reenactment days.

So what does she do when she sees him during his battles?

Like is she watching or like, how did she realize this?

Um, she, she knows the first night when they moved into the inn, she was video chatting with her brother, with her brother on her laptop and she started like hearing strange noises in her room and then she ended up seeing Nathaniel in his ghost form.

Okay.

So what’s like, I don’t know, it’s like, have you ever seen the movie Ghost?

I’ve heard of that film, but I’ve never seen it.

So in that movie, like the guy, Patrick Swayze, I think he’s like in love with this girl and they’re like doing pottery and stuff, ceramics, I don’t know, but they’re like falling in love and then the twist at the end is that he’s a ghost.

So like what, like, yeah, well that’s different from this book because the twist, because that’s not the twist.

There is a crazy twist like towards the end of the book, but she, or, but you know, Lori already meets Nathaniel because he’s already a ghost at this point.

Well, yeah, cause so it’s a murder mystery, a romance, and then also involving civil war history.

Yeah.

So, but the twist is separate from all that.

Yeah.

Because see the twist at the end is.

All right.

Spoiler alert.

Okay.

Yeah.

A little bit of a spoiler.

So the crazy twist at the end is once Lori, you know, um, she discovers more facts about what happened to Nathaniel during that night.

She and the farmer boy named Evan, they went for a swim at the Creek, which is by the end.

And then they found something that was basically buried at the bottom of the Creek.

And it was buried there long before the Creek ever came when there was like no water on that part of the land.

They found a chest and inside of the chest, there was a letter, there was a letter.

There was a letter who was written, that was written by a friend of Nathaniel’s from during the war.

It contained a ring that belonged to Abraham Lincoln, and it also belonged to a doctor that Nathaniel knew during the war as well.

So they found like a dead corpse?

No, they didn’t.

No, they didn’t find a corpse.

They found a chest that had some items that belonged to people during the war.

They found the ring that belonged to Abraham Lincoln and it was also, it also was the owner of that ring was also a doctor who like basically I think inherited or something during the war.

And Nathaniel was also once accused of stealing that ring by the doctor during the war, but he never stole it.

And they found a letter which revealed who actually killed Nathaniel that day.

So you do find out who killed Nathaniel, but what is Nathaniel?

So he was framed then.

Yeah, he was framed of stealing a very valuable ring because it belonged to one of the presidents of the United States.

It’s kind of like the Titanic.

Yeah.

Yeah, that.

Yeah.

I like that scene in Titanic a little bit.

Yeah.

Where they slipped the diamond in his pocket.

No.

Oh yeah, the diamond.

They slipped the diamond in his pocket and he was accused of stealing it.

Yeah.

So I looked it up.

The Battle of Gettysburg was a three day battle in the American Civil War between the Union and Confederate forces between July 1st and July 3rd.

Yeah, that battle.

So you’re saying while all this is going on, there’s a ring that belongs to Abraham Lincoln.

And it was owned by a doctor who treated like the soldier, treated some of the soldiers during the war, the wounded soldiers.

So somebody was trying to steal that ring.

Because it’s a very valuable ring because it’s like a very antique, it’s an antique.

It was owned by a president.

So if they frame him for it, why kill him?

Probably to maybe to keep him from like going to the authorities or something.

But who would believe him if he was being framed?

Yeah, I don’t know.

That’s the question.

Like who would believe, who would believe a soldier?

So this would all have been going on around 1863?

Yeah.

1863.

That was it.

And what time period is the girl living in?

The 21st century.

So recent.

Yeah.

Does she have a phone and everything?

Yeah, she has a phone.

She has a computer.

She has all that technology.

But she fell in love with a guy from 1863?

I know.

But he’s been a ghost for like 150 years.

He’s been a ghost for 150 years.

He probably has wooden teeth.

No, he doesn’t.

He doesn’t have wooden teeth.

That’s crazy.

1863.

Like how?

What did they talk about when they were falling in love?

Like what was the romantic moment where it was like he shot the musket and she like had a twinkle in her eye?

How did she fall in love with this ghost?

Because she felt sympathy for him.

She felt like really bad that he died traumatically, but he also couldn’t figure out who like who killed him because he didn’t know either.

He never saw the person who killed him.

And that’s why he’s been a ghost because he’s been trying to figure out.

Oh, yeah.

So his body or his spirit is trying to find like answers.

Yeah.

That’s why his spirit hasn’t moved on into the afterlife because he wants to know like who was the person who killed him.

Because once he figures it out, then he wants to finally move on into the afterlife.

So does he take his like soldier body form and does she marry him?

No, they don’t.

No.

She’s a teenager.

What do you mean?

Oh, that makes it even weirder.

Bro’s 150 years old and she’s a teenager.

She’s 16.

Oh, geez.

What kind of book is this?

I know it’s strange and something.

Oh, geez.

That’s an.

But anyway, but anyway, the crazy twist at the end is that Laurie and Evan, the farmer guy, they find a letter that was written by a friend of by it was written by a friend of Nathaniel’s in the past.

And it was written by a man named Wince Carmody.

And they were like very good friends with their very good friends.

Very close friend.

Because I think they grew up together.

And they learned that in the letter he explains in the letter everything that happened the night Nathaniel was killed.

How old was he when he was killed?

I think he was like.

He could have been in his maybe his late teens, early 20s, because I don’t know because I don’t know how old you have to be in order to be recruited to be a soldier during that time.

Yeah, I know.

Now it’s like 18.

But I don’t know.

During that time, like they might have had kids out there, teenagers out there.

Yeah.

I don’t know how old a man is supposed to be in order to enlist into the enlist into the army to become a soldier during those times of the wars.

All right.

Let’s look it up.

The minimum age to enlist in the Union Army during the Civil War was 18 years old.

Oh, yeah.

Then he was probably he was probably around that age.

Maybe.

Wait.

I don’t know.

This AI might have gotten weird because it says the minimum age for 18 for soldiers.

Oh.

And 16 for musicians.

I’m like, why would they mention musicians?

But I forgot back then there used to be people on the trumpets that would play like the trumpet and the drums while the soldiers fought.

That’s insane.

Like, what?

They had a soundtrack going while you’re getting your freaking leg shot off.

Yeah.

I don’t know if they did that.

I don’t know if they did that during, like, wars, like maybe in the 18th century, maybe.

It says boys could enlist with parental permission until 1862.

So if you were younger and you had a parent’s permission, you can enroll younger than 18.

So he could have been like 16 when he died.

Yeah, he could have been.

He probably could have been around that age.

Yeah.

Because, I mean, he’s definitely not 150.

Yeah.

So.

So it does not have a happy romantic ending is what you’re saying.

Well, no, because they end up solving the mystery.

They figure out who killed Nathaniel.

So in the letter that was written by Nathaniel’s friend, Wince Carmody, we thought it was going to be.

We thought it was another man who killed him named Edison, who had like some kind of revenge story against Nathaniel and his family because they did something horrible to him.

I don’t I don’t remember exactly what it was, but yeah, Edison was going to go and kill Nathaniel as revenge for something that his family did to him, to his family, like during those during that time of the war and his friend Nathaniel’s friend Wince jumped in to try to stop Edison from killing Nathaniel.

There was like a big scuffle and like somehow Wince grab managed to get up, get the gun away from Edison and he and during the scuffle and Wince was the one who ended up shooting Nathaniel.

But it was by accident.

It was never intentional.

So then that makes sense why kill him when he’s still when he’s being framed.

Yeah.

It was an accident.

Yeah.

Wince did not mean to kill Nathaniel.

It was all just a terrible accident.

He was just trying to stop Edison from killing Nathaniel.

And it would have ended up being a real murder.

I mean technically it’s still Edison’s fault.

Because his intention was to kill Nathaniel.

Right.

Yeah.

And the other guy was just trying to save him.

Yeah.

And Wince ended up killing him by accident when he was trying to take the gun away from Edison.

But I wouldn’t blame that on his friend.

Yeah.

He was trying to stop him.

He just couldn’t stop him.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Too little too late.

So yeah, that’s what happened.

But then why?

So the guy buried the treasure?

Well whoever buried the like the ring and other like valuable stuff that belonged to people during the war, what happens like towards the end is that Lori ended up getting kidnapped by some guests who had been staying at the inn.

They had been searching for the ring because they wanted to like find the ring and basically sell it off so they can make some money off of it because it’s a very valuable ring that belonged to a president.

So how did they hear about the story?

How did they know the ring was there?

I guess they probably had been doing a lot of research and they probably had been following Lori around because she was trying because the entire time she’s trying to solve the murderer.

So she’s trying to help her ghost boyfriend and they’re trying to make money off of Abraham Lincoln’s ring.

Yeah.

But these but these people had been had been questioned before about like some heist some heist crimes.

So they were involved with.

So the FBI was already on their tail.

Yeah.

So basically the authorities were already on their tail.

But Evan, the farm guy, was the one who ended up calling the police.

They arrested the kidnappers and then they saved Lori’s life.

So she got saved by the authorities when she got kidnapped.

Yeah.

And by Evan, the farm guy who he was the one who called the police.

So that ends up being like does she fall in love with Evan after at least he’s a real person.

Yeah.

I mean, Evan is a real person.

And by the way, Evan actually took Lori to this very to a ball where you dress up as like an 18th century person.

They went to a ball together in the middle of the book.

So she was just born in the wrong century.

Probably.

So, yeah.

And so after that whole kidnapping incident happened, Lori told Nathaniel everything that she learned.

And, you know, Nathaniel was very happy to learn the truth that he was that he wasn’t murdered.

Because it was a reenactment ball.

So he was able to come out and show his like true form.

Yeah.

And Nathaniel was very happy to learn the truth of his death, that it was never that he wasn’t intentionally murdered.

His death was nothing but just a complete accident.

He was finally happy.

A complete accident.

I mean, that guy did have a gun pointed at him.

Well, yeah.

But he was very happy to finally know the truth.

And he was now finally ready to, like, move on into the afterlife.

And he told.

And the thing is, Nathaniel was actually the one who saved Lori because he was the one who put like the thoughts inside people like he’s able to communicate to Lori, but through people because he puts.

Yeah.

Like, ghost communication.

Yeah.

Because he’s able to put thoughts in people’s minds.

So he basically.

Ghost telepathy.

He basically saved Lori’s life from the kidnappers.

So he was like talking her through it like, no, don’t go there.

Go here.

And he talked.

He also talked to her through other people as well.

He told her that.

And before he disappeared into the afterlife, he told Lori that if she had died, if she was killed by the kidnappers and entered the afterlife, he would most definitely welcome her with open arms in the afterlife.

But now it’s so crazy.

But but since she survived it, he told her that she needs to go on and live her life, not spend her entire life chasing after a ghost.

He wants her to be happy to find happiness and just move on.

He ghosted her.

And he told her he told her that maybe you should move on with Evan because Evan is a great guy and he treated her right.

Damn.

So he ghost ghosted her for Evan, told her that he was moving on.

Well, because he wants her to be happy.

He doesn’t want her to constantly chase after a ghost throughout her whole life.

I get it.

But it’s just like for her.

I mean, like she wanted the ghost.

I know.

I know.

I don’t know.

It’s just funny.

But, you know, now that you bring up ghosts and like seeing ghosts, have you ever seen a ghost?

I’ve never been to any places that are haunted, but I honestly believe that there is real that ghosts are real.

There’s like, you know, apparitions, possessions, paranormal activity, any of that.

I believe it’s real.

Yeah.

I’ve definitely heard a lot of stories from like hospitals and like places like the Queen Mary and haunted places.

There’s like supposedly haunted places in San Diego because there is like Old Town San Diego used to have like a sheriff who is or it was a sheriff or executioner.

I think it was executioner.

And they would use his house and his tree to like hang people on.

So and then he like went crazy.

So a lot of people said that, like, the ghosts like made him go crazy.

And now that place is like haunted because of all the people he executed.

Oh, yeah.

So do you believe that Ouija boards are real?

Oh, I mean, I don’t know how much I believe them, but I definitely wouldn’t mess with it.

Yeah, I wouldn’t mess with them either because, you know, because I’m also religious because I’m a Christian.

And yeah, you know, Ouija boards are something that basically the devil wants you to mess with because you’re basically contacting evil spirits and you do not want to because when you mess with those things, you do not know who you might be contacting that’s out there on the other side.

Yeah, I feel like it’s sketchy to joke around with that type of stuff because you don’t know what you’re playing with.

Yeah, because like, like Ouija boards, like seances, voodoo, I think that’s all like kind of devil worshiping stuff.

So yeah, I wouldn’t mess with any of that stuff.

Yeah, definitely dark, dark arts.

But you’ve never seen a ghost?

No.

How do you feel you would react if you saw like, I don’t know, like a ghost, but it was like, not scary, like it just looked like a regular person, like, I would imagine that’s how this girl saw the, the ghost of Nathaniel, right?

Like, he didn’t have like a zombie appearance, or he didn’t look like a creepy green figure.

He was like, a regular looking guy.

So how would you think you’d get scared or?

I mean, I’d probably be scared at first.

I mean, seeing a ghost for the first time, I probably would.

But if it was like a ghost, if it was a ghost like Nathaniel, who was like stuck, who’s like stuck in this world as a spirit, because as far as ghost stories go, I feel like that’s how most ghost stories are.

It’s like, somebody has something that’s like unsettled that happened to them in their death.

And they’re like, here searching for answers.

Like they might have been attacked, and they don’t know who has hacked them or, I don’t know, they might have been murdered.

They don’t know who murdered them.

Oh, yeah.

See, that reminds me.

See, there’s this show that I watch called My Haunted House.

They say that the episodes of the show are like, wait, is it on Netflix?

It’s on Hulu.

Okay.

I think I might have seen something similar, but I don’t know if it’s that one.

Well, it’s basically a show that basically, it’s a show about people telling, sharing their experiences of being, of living in a haunted house.

One of them was an episode about a girl who pledged to a sorority in a college, and she realizes that the sorority house she’s been staying at is haunted.

It’s haunted by the spirit of a sorority pledge from back in the 80s.

And she lost her life because the sorority girls forced her, made her do some hazing and all that stuff.

And she died from serious alcohol poisoning, and her body was dumped in a field.

Wow.

Is this a true story?

They say it’s a true story, but most people believe that it’s just a fake show, and that the people telling the stories are just played by actors.

Yeah, it’s like a reenactment.

Yeah, like a reenactment.

But I don’t know if it’s entirely accurate or anything, but I still watch it anyway.

Yeah.

There’s one on Netflix.

I think it was Netflix.

I’m not too sure.

I don’t remember the name, but it was like the same type of deal, like people telling their stories.

And it was like the people that were telling their stories were real.

But on this one, like there’s one, how you’re mentioning like the ghost spoke to them telepathically.

There was one where this guy is a soldier or like a police officer in Mexico.

Oh, Haunted.

That’s what it’s called.

Haunted Latin America and Haunted.

So the Haunted Latin America one is one about, they have an episode where this guy is a police officer and he swears he hears like a voice telling him to like duck or like not go into some certain area.

And he’s like, he said that he would always hear like a girl’s voice and it would tell him to do something.

And then like the next moment he would like narrowly avoid dying.

And he said that one time like he actually saw her and that that time they got ambushed and then she was telling him like what to do, like where to hide and what to like duck and stuff.

And that he was the only one that survived the ambush from like the cartel after because he was a police officer.

And then afterwards, like everyone in his group like had died and he hid in like the one spot where like they couldn’t see him.

And he was saying it was all because that ghost like told him what to do.

So that was like one of the stories from that that show Haunted.

But they have a lot of scary ones like one about like a shapeshifter one where like it’ll look like it’s your friend.

And then it’s like actually some weird like demon ghost thing.

And then like, yeah, like different ghost stories.

Yeah, I’ve seen those movies, The Conjuring.

Oh, yeah, those are definitely like one of the scarier ones.

Yeah, because those are based on true stories because Ed and Lorraine Warren were like exaggerated.

I mean, it may be kind of exaggerated because you know, typical Hollywood, but they are based on true stories because you know, Ed and Lorraine Warren were real people who investigated hauntings.

I saw a documentary about them that they kind of got like exposed on some of the stories.

Because like, one of the stories that they told was about a boy who was like possessed and like killed his girlfriend’s boyfriend or killed his he killed somebody that was like in his family or close to his family.

And like, those people, was it Lorraine and Ed, Ed and Lorraine and Lorraine had heard about the story.

And they like, started like questioning him about it, like, oh, like, what was the ghost he saw?

Like, because he was saying like, oh, like a ghost possessed me or something.

And that’s why I killed him.

But like, it turns out the whole time that like, really, the mom was drugging the kids to go to sleep.

And so the kids were having hallucinations, because they’re being drugged, but the kids didn’t know they’re being drugged.

So they didn’t know why they’re having these hallucinations.

So really, it was like, the mom was putting like some sort of like, drug in their food to go to sleep.

And like, they never told like, like, they never mentioned that in the movie to make it like scarier, to make it more like, oh, it’s a real ghost story.

Like, now this guy was like hallucinating, but that’s just one of them.

So because I know they, they interview like different families and stuff, like they investigate different families.

So that was just one of the families that they investigated.

But one of the kids like that had met them was saying like, oh, they pretty much just used us to make money.

Like they took our story and then shaped it however they wanted to, so that they can make a scary movie and make money, which sounds like Hollywood.

So it’s like, some of those stories I would be like, maybe not, might not be too true.

But it does make for a really scary movie.

Like when that thing’s on top of the closet in The Conjuring and then jumps out at her.

Like, definitely creepy stuff.

Oh, yeah.

Because in The Conjuring 2, it featured Valak, the evil spirit from The Nun.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

And I’ve seen like, both The Nun movies.

Oh, yeah.

I’ve seen them both.

They’re pretty creepy.

Yeah.

Those are pretty creepy.

I don’t know.

I kind of wish you had a scary ghost story to tell.

Oh, well, yeah.

I don’t have any ghost stories because I’ve never actually encountered a ghost.

But I honestly believe that ghosts, evil spirits, demons, I believe all of that’s real.

Well, I have a couple ghost stories, so I guess you could take them, believe them if you want.

Like one was a hospital.

So I know this girl worked at a hospital, and she like, says that there was a patient in the elevator.

And then like, she was like, it was late at night, and she worked a night shift.

And she told that patient like, oh, go back to your room.

And then later on, she got out of the elevator.

And she went to go tell one of the nurses, or like, one of the people that one of the patients had got out of the room.

And so they asked like, what patient was it?

And then she told them and they’re like, oh, that patient died like two days ago.

So it was like, she couldn’t explain how she saw him.

And but she knew that she had time.

But she said that when she saw him, he didn’t say anything, he just like, kept looking straight, like he was like, ignoring her.

So he was like, she was like, whatever, like, I have to go do my job.

So then she was like, I’ll just go tell somebody about it.

So now yeah, when she went to go tell him, they’re like, oh, that patient died.

So that was one ghost story that I’ve heard.

And I’ve heard that a lot too, that it’s like, it’s almost like they’re there, but they’re ignoring you.

So it’s like, you’ll see like a person walking, and it’s like, you’re trying to talk to them like, hey, do you need help?

And then they’re like, just like, not making any emotions or nothing, just looking straight and ignoring you.

Like, you might have seen a ghost.

It seems like that’s just from the stories I’ve heard.

Like being out late at night, and it’s like, oh, you can’t explain how you saw this person that’s like not there anymore.

Oh, yeah, I never go out.

I never go out at night.

Well, Halloween’s coming up.

I know.

Yeah, so you might, I don’t know, the vibes start getting spooky.

Well, Halloween evening, I’m just gonna sit out front, out front my house and just hand out candy to people.

You’re gonna hand out candy?

What kind of candies do you hand out?

We just get like those bags that has like a mix of different like candy.

Okay.

I usually like the chocolate ones like Kit Kat.

Oh, yeah.

I love those.

Snickers, Twix.

I’m not too big on like the hard candy or like gums.

Like some people put like bubble gums in there.

I usually like the chocolates for sure.

There’s definitely weird candies that start coming out like Dots.

Did you ever get those in your candy bag?

Like those dots are like little jelly dots.

Those are only certain candies like only come out during Halloween and I feel like it’s like the cheap ones that come in that variety pack sometimes.

Like Tootsie Rolls.

Like I feel like I only see Tootsie Rolls during Halloween and they’re not that good.

Like, yeah, I feel like that’s one particular pack that I do not like so don’t get that pack.

Did you buy your candy already?

Um, no, not yet.

I would not recommend the pack that comes with the Dots, the Tootsie Rolls.

Like do not get those lame ones.

I would get like cool like Kit Kat pack or something like Twix pack.

Like they have those like giant Costco size ones now.

So I mean that’s my favorite candy and sour candy.

All right and that’ll be next episode then when we do our Halloween special.

Do you have a book for next week?

The book I’m going to be reviewing for our Halloween special episode is called Dr. Frankenstein’s Daughters by Suzanne Wayne.

All right and that’ll be next week and for this week we reviewed Rebel Spirit.

And do you know if people could still find that one?

I’m sure that they can find it on Amazon because my mom got this book off of Scholastic back when I was in middle school.

But I’m sure it can be bought off of Amazon.

Who’s the author again?

Lois Ruby.

Lois Ruby.

Let’s see if we can still find it.

Yeah, Amazon Rebel Spirit.

So on Amazon hardcover is a dollar.

Wow.

Maybe used?

Oh yeah, used.

Well paperback new is $10.90, so ten bucks.

And that is Rebel Spirit.

So if you’re interested in Civil War reenactments or romances with ghosts or murder mysteries then take a look at Rebel Spirit.

And next week we will be having our Halloween episode with Frankenstein’s Daughters?

Dr. Frankenstein’s Daughters.

Oh geez.

Do you want to give a little intro or do you want to save it for next week?

I’ll just save it for next week.

All right.

We might as well tune in next week and listen for Dr. Frankenstein’s Daughter.

We’ll also be talking spooky stuff, Runner Archives, and new stuff that’s happening on campus.

And there should be a lot of events coming up for Halloween.

Like the guests we had had mentioned the Edible Gardens having a maze coming up for Halloween and then they have the Halloween night.

He said they’ve got something going on.

And we also have University Singers is having a choir on Halloween in the Doré Theater.

If you want to come check that out at 730.

And I also know Intramural League is starting up, so soccer and basketball.

The free agent play day I believe is this week for basketball and soccer.

And basketball is three on three, soccer is seven on seven.

So if you haven’t already signed up for IM Leagues, it’s an app.

Download the app.

They link it to your SRC account and you join the network.

And it has volleyball, pickleball, soccer, basketball.

All through the SRC they provide the equipment for you.

So if you’re interested in playing any of those sports, I’m going to be in a soccer league seven on seven.

It’s starting October 29th, or on a soccer team, it’s called Global FC.

One of the international students started, I think.

So that should be fun.

And that is this week’s episode of the Runner on Air, your ninth episode.

It is October 22nd, 2024.

I’m your host Jay Cortes signing out.

And I am your co-host Marina Gonzalez signing out.

Take care.

And one last thing.

Make sure to register for classes.

Registration if you haven’t, if you’re not graduating, registration for next semester has opened up this week.

So make sure you register for classes so you don’t miss out and those classes don’t get full.

All right.

Take care, runners.