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I mean, if you think about it, the brain is kinda

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just like the lasagna. Layer on layer on layer.

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Welcome to the show, people. Welcome to the show.

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Eat my shorts. So here is to conversation. Welcome

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to the Cash Exchange. Welcome. How have you been?

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How was your... What 80 degree winter? It is

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824 in the PM and it is 70 on this beautiful

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December evening. It was a nice and sunny day.

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I went out to run errands today and it's been

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raining, but it is still shorts in a tank top

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weather outside. Yeah. Which granted Texans don't

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have their bar in the right place, but everyone

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is still enjoying the warm weather. Yeah. Now

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Texas always gets its stuff like end of January,

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February. and then it'll last for three days

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and it'll be miserable and everyone's crashing

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their cars and the bread and milk is all gone.

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But then after those days are up, then we're

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good to go for another 363 days. Yeah. I have

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the misfortune of having to drive a U -Haul or

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have somebody drive a U -Haul for me during the

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two weeks of winter that we get. Yeah. So I'm

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crossing my fingers that I'm in the the good

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zone this go -around. You excited? I am, yeah.

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I am coming back to DFW. Does that mean live

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episode recording again? I mean, technically,

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it's always live episode recording. Technically,

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but there's just something you miss out on when

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you're not in the same room. This is true. I

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mean, you're in Miami right now, so there's still

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some degree of separation. Yes. This isn't just

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a Texan podcast, guys. Even when you come back,

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there's still going to be... plenty of ones where

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we're in different time zones, but it'll be nice

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to have some that are IRL. Where we can sidestep

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some of the technical issues that we've run into.

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Yes. Namely my apartment building's god -awful

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Wi -Fi. I cannot wait until you get reasonable

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Wi -Fi again. First world problem. I agree, but

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when you're trying to do this and We have to

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torpedo an entire episode because of your stupid

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internet. That is fair. And it was going to be

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a good one too. It was going to be a good one.

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Maybe December of 2026. Yeah. You want to know

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what your three things are for today? Yes. Three

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things, please. All right. So your three things

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for today are mirrors, brooms, and black cats.

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Huh. Mirrors, brooms, and black cats. Are there

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levels to this? Like can you be semi or maybe

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super? Yeah, I believe there are levels to this.

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So, you could be a little stitious or you could

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be superstitious? You could be a little stitious

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or you could believe that all of these things

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bring bad luck and you could be the perfect target

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for our episode today. Superstitions. I... Do

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not likes to superstitions. Do you, is that a

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blanket statement? None of the superstitions?

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Okay. Well, let me, let me say this. I generally

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do not believe in superstitions, but I don't

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do things to welcome possible outcomes from superstitious

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things. Okay. I'm going to need you to elaborate

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on that. Okay. I work around a lot of ladders.

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If I'm walking up to a ladder, I will take the

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extra three steps to go on the outside of the

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ladder versus walking under the ladder. Okay.

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I don't believe that if I just make that straight

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line under the ladder, that I'm going to be cursed

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for always an eternity. But just like why welcome

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it in, you know? I think in that particular instance,

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the Supercision that comes with that was probably

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just based on a lot of people who regularly use

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ladders who are pissed off because people were

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making them unsafe by not walking those steps

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to go around the ladder. This is just a bunch

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of like handymen that were just really mad that

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people were knocking stuff over. I will say I

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was in Boston and I was working on a rooftop.

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It was only, I don't know, maybe 18 feet. to

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the top of the roof. I had an extension ladder

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set up against the, from the sidewalk to the

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edge of the roof. And while I was up there, some

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jackass came by and kicked my ladder out from

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off the roof. I would be 1000 % on board if that

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person kicked it out from under the ladder and

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was cursed for eternity. I think in that situation,

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It's karma. I don't think that happened, but

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it's karma for me. No. Do bad things and bad

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things happen. Is that that thing Carson Daly

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was talking about? Yeah. Right from Carson Daly's

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lips to your morphine -laced ears. Yeah. And

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I had to, luckily there were enough surfaces

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that I could just kind of parkour my way down.

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Did you say parkour as you were making this trek?

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I thought it. I mean, it was just me, so I guess

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I could have said it and it would have been no

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harm, no foul. But I realized that day that parkour

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was not in my future because I got real scraped

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up. I mean, if nothing else, then that jackass

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Bostonian had me realize the fact that my parkouring

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dream was never to come true. The truth comes

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for us all eventually. Silver lining, I guess.

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Do you? Try to find silver linings. How good

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are you at finding silver linings in any situation?

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I am great at it to the point of delusion sometimes.

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Same. It must be a DNA thing. I am a very positive

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person and I will always try to find the upside

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of a thing that happens no matter how sucky it

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might be on its face. Because I believe that

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even the worst things that happen to us are still

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lessons. That's what I say. And although that

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is not fun to think about, to think that a sucky

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thing is in your best interest, I still think

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that there's upsides to anything. When I look

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back at situations in my life where things have

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gone to hell in a handbasket, I can pull out

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at least one thing. one good thing that came

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out of it. And I think that is very important

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for not driving yourself crazy. Yeah, definitely.

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And it is not something that I have always been

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good at and it's not something that I've always

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wanted to do. Past five years or so of my life

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have given me pause and the want to reflect on

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whatever's happened and how to make the best

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of it. Yeah. I think in the worst case scenarios,

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once you are kind of distance from the situation,

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if nothing else, you can find solace in the fact

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that you're not in that anymore. You're through

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it. Yeah. I've definitely found myself in that

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position a lot where, like, I kind of take a

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moment to do that reflecting and then I realize

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how not great a situation was for me. And then

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I'm like, oh, well, that sucks. I don't... necessarily

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want to think about it but I'm not I'm not there

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anymore so go me doing better there are situations

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that I have found myself in either by my own

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choices or by my own decisions that I probably

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technically should not be here to record this

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podcast yeah but I did I made it through I I

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overcame rose above just uh came out the other

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side, maybe not better for it, but with a better

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mindset because of it. That's important growth.

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It is. I am a superstitious person to an extent.

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I think that there is a lot of things that sound

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like nonsense for like where they came from,

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why we still practice them, whatever, which we'll

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get into a little bit later. But I also feel

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like sometimes doing a thing just brings a minimal

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amount of joy and it doesn't take like anything

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out of your day. Like I realized the other day,

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which is actually kind of what made me think

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about this. I said something that was not super

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positive and I knocked on wood after I said that.

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And I realized that I do that a lot. Because

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of Taylor Swift. Don't you dare. Interesting,

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interesting. You are living the life of a showgirl.

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I will end this episode right now. She's not

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that bad. The Life of a Showgirl was not a good

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album. Knock on Wood was not a good song. Life

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of a Showgirl, the song, that's great. It's got,

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it's supposedly got Britney Spears. Fate of Ophelia,

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that's a great song. It's a jam. I personally

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did not like anything that I heard of Life of

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a Showgirl. And we did miss our episode on Taylor

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Alice and Swift. Well, we'll come back around.

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I did all this background work. And for what?

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For next December 13th, perhaps. I don't know.

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That's definitely one that we all have to be

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in the same room. Yeah. So it gets real heated.

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It's not gonna get real heated. Get real down

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in the mud. I'm not gonna be mean about Taylor

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Swift. She is just not my vibe. For whatever

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reason, the seven -year -old is completely obsessed

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with the song Elizabeth Taylor. She has no clue

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who Elizabeth Taylor is. Yeah. But she's a big

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fan of the song. I don't know that I remember

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which song that is. The only ones I specifically

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know are Wood, Fate of Ophelia, and Opalite.

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You don't like Opalite? That's so cheery. It's

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fine. I don't know. I'm not... I'm not the target

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demographic I think for much of her music which

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is fine that's not everything is for everyone.

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Did you actually knock on wood? So I do this

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a good amount and it has become a habit of mine

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but I definitely don't always knock on wood specifically

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because there's not always like I have plasterboard

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cabinets like it's or like press board cabinets

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so technically it's probably wood. That's wood.

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But I'm also not going to get up and go seek

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out the nearest piece of wood if I have if I

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say a thing that might incite bad luck. So it's

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a thing that like I do not for the superstition

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because if I did I would be seeking out the actual

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thing I'm supposed to be like touching in this

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situation. Fajah knocks on wood. Oh interesting

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I didn't know that. All the time mid -conversation

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and I'll ask him how his stuff's going and he

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says I got something else lined up. Oh yeah he

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does. Hope it works out. Yeah. Apparently, because

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I've had this conversation with Nate, apparently

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Europeans will knock on glass and I don't necessarily

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understand that one also for reasons that we'll

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get into a little bit later. That seems a lot

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more dangerous. I mean, you're not trying to

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like punch it. I don't think you're supposed

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to punch wood in that situation either. You just

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like tap it like an aquarium. No, don't do that.

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As a proud fish father. As a proud fish father.

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That is the worst thing you can do. within the

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query of his tap on the glass. I always swim

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shady these days, Catherine Data Jones. Well,

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I don't know when the last time I updated our

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listeners on the goings -on of our little colony,

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but about four months ago, one of them was just

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really lethargic and just not having it and got

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super fat and then super skinny and then would

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just like hang around the bottom. And so I had

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to research humane euthanasia for fish. I went

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to the store and had to buy, was it eucalyptus

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essential oil? Something, something very potent.

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And as soon as I opened it, it smelled up the

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whole house. And you have to put them in a separate

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bowl. And then you just have to put them on like

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a drip of eucalyptus until they just are no more.

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But at this point, like this fish was barely

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breathing. And so I would put the drops in there.

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I'd come back like 30 minutes later, think that

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the deed was done, and then little Gil would

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flap. Son of a bitch. Another round. Anyways,

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yeah, we gave him a proper burial at sea. With

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uh... Actual Seath? Did you take him to like

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Galveston? I mean, all pipes eventually went

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lead to the sea. So, it's like he got like a

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water slide ride beforehand. Was this the uh,

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the occasion where you saw Ave Maria at the Toilet

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Bowl? Yes. Yes it is. I forgot we sent you that

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video. Oh, that was after the time uh, where

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we had our previous set of four Tetras that I

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replaced their water. And I don't know what happened.

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I don't know if I got sidetracked or if I got

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distracted, but I forgot to put the dechlorinator

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in the, in the tank before I put them back in.

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And so I poisoned them all with chlorine. Oh

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my God. Yeah. That was, yeah, that was a mass

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funeral. It was, it was very upsetting. I would

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imagine that's why you went the... the Kevorkian

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route to gently lead your other one to his end.

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It was traumatizing because just one of them

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dropped off and they're like, what the hell's

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going on? And then another one and then another

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one and then the fourth one. And you feel like

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a monster. I don't know how, I don't know how

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Bundy did it. I've always been curious how, why

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people are still like giving guinea pigs to their

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children because I have literally never heard

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a story of a guinea pig ownership going right.

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I have never heard of a guinea pig just dying

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of old age. It's always the most traumatizing

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thing that could possibly happen to your pet.

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Got lost in our hideaway sofa or hideaway bed.

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Found it like six months later behind the fridge

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still kicking it. You come back from college

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and he just slowly meets you at the door. Charles!

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I don't know what the lifespan of a guinea pig

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is supposed to be because my only experience

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with them is through stories. And in that sense,

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they last about two days. Stop getting your children

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guinea pigs. That's my takeaway for the day.

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Anyway, in addition to knocking on wood when

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I say things that sound like bad luck, I also,

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if I spill salt, I'll throw it over my left shoulder.

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And if I see a penny on the ground, I will either

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pick it up or flip it over depending on heads

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or tails. Oh, you do that too? I do, yeah. I

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either pick it out because it's good luck or

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I'll flip it over so the next person gets good

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luck. I don't flip it over. Screw them. If it

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wasn't, if the penny wasn't good enough to give

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me good luck, then I wish that bad luck on them

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as well. So you just leave it upside down? I

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just leave it, yeah. Wow. Treat it like it has

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the plague. Like, no, thank you. I mean, now

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we're gonna have to do the same with what? Pickles?

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They don't make pennies anymore? I mean, granted,

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I don't know the last time I saw change in a...

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On the ground. They'll blend in less with the

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dirt. According to our chat GPC overlords, guinea

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pigs average lifespan is five to seven years.

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Well, that can't be right. Five to seven years?

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On the shorter end, three to four with a poor

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diet, inadequate housing, stress, and lack of

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vet care. Average around five to six. Longer,

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some reach eight or more with excellent care.

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I would personally, I think, have trouble paying

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for a guinea pig vet bills. Oh, okay. I'm not

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getting a guinea pig specifically because I am

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not going to be the person. I don't have it in

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me to pay for that kind of care. So what you're

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saying is that even guinea pigs should have free

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health care. Yes. Health care for all is health

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care for all. I'm not paying for the guinea pig's

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health care. Health care for all is health care

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for all. Anyway, I don't want to personally subsidize

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vet care for a guinea pig, but I support anyone.

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I don't even know who you go to. Do you go to

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a regular vet? Do you have to go to an exotic

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animal vet? Because I assume vets are like sometimes

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lizards, but mostly dogs and cats. Yeah, I mean,

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there's specialized vets that deal with cattle.

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I don't know if you could have much of a career

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if you specialized in guinea pigs, but maybe.

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Maybe you could be like world -renowned guinea

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pig doctor. I'm pretty sure if you tried to take

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a guinea pig on a plane to travel to this specialized

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guinea pig doctor, its heart would explode. Guinea

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pigs are not well built. They're furry beans

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that breathe. They are God's oopsies. So I went

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into the origins of a couple of the more like

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commonly known superstitions in the states and

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I If I've missed any that you know to be commonly

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held, let me know. Okay Do you have a guess where

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the lucky penny superstition comes from? I'm

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going to guess the Great Depression Okay, when

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money was precious Very scary Was that not it?

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It, not technically, but I like that idea. It

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makes sense. World War II? The origin of the

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lucky penny comes from the belief that metals,

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specifically copper, were divine gifts. They

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offered protection from evil. And it also theoretically

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invites more money to come to you. The heads

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and tails thing is supposed to be like a, if

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it's showing you its face, it's good luck. Whereas

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if its back is turned to you, then it's bad luck.

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So what you're saying is that copper is a gift

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from God. Trump says no more pennies, no more

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copper, because he's trying to remove God and

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he is the Antichrist. Vote your conscience, 2028.

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Oh, I'm just kidding. It makes sense from a fiscal

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standpoint. that inflation and everything else

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has gone so far through the roof that pennies

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don't make sense anymore. I also, I'm curious

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if that would even hold today because copper

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pennies are not copper. No. They're coated in

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copper, but they're not made of copper. Aren't

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they mostly nickel? I'm pretty sure they're made

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of, it's either nickel or iron, something like

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that. Well, if they were mostly iron, they'd

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be magnetic. That's fair. Then yeah, nickel sounds

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right. That's ironic, don't you think? Knock

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on wood. Where do you, what is your guess to

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where this one comes from? My thought process

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is that there once was a fella. A man from Nantucket.

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That would go around and tell you if you had

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termite damage and his test would be to walk

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around your entire house. Just knocking on studs.

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Okay. Is that close? Again, no, but I will still

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accept the premise. Dang. So this is supposed

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to ward off bad luck. It is believed that it

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came from the pagan practice, or from a pagan

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practice and was meant to quote, thank the tree

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spirits. It was encouraging their protection

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or thanking them for good luck. So like hippie

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stuff. Yes. I mean Wiccan stuff. I don't know.

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It was thinking the tree spirits. Which is why

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you knock on wood. Which is why I'm confused

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why Europeans knock on glass. Are there sand

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spirits? Maybe. I don't know. Is sand a big time

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player in Europe? Can't imagine that it is. That

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would make more sense in the Middle East if their

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thing was knock on glass. I don't know. Any European

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listeners, please let us know. Why do you knock

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on glass? Is there anyone we know that spent

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maybe some time in, I don't know, a Western European

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country for an extended period of time? I will

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say we have discussed it before which is the

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only reason that I know that Europeans knock

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on glass. I'm pretty sure he told me why and

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I don't remember what it was. So I will add this

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as a little addendum on the next episode if I

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can find out why they knock on glass. But until

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such point, I don't get it. It's probably because

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they always have a pint in their hand. So there's

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always glass nearby because they're just a bunch

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of raging alcoholics over there. Wow. Wow. I

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mean, what else are you going to do? You have

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to find some way to cope with the fact that you're

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European somehow. So I don't blame them. Oh,

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you know what I stand for? It does seem like

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it's a drinking thing. Ah, Europeans not glasses

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to show trust and to prevent poisoning in addition

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to warding off evil spirits. Boom. There might

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be more to that. I will still add an addendum

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if I learn anything new. So if Taylor Swift were

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European, she would have had to write the song

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glass. It would have to be knock on glass. And

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instead of comparing Travis Kelsey's parts to

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a redwood tree, it would have to be like the

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Burj Khalifa. I very much do not like that comparison.

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I guess you're right, but I don't like that comparison.

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Interesting. Wow. The world is so big, yet so

00:24:02.930 --> 00:24:09.930
small. Anyway. Let's talk about Travis Kelsey's

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Burj Khalifa. Why do you think that walking under

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a ladder is bad luck? I don't know. I don't even

00:24:18.890 --> 00:24:24.049
have a witty thing for you. Other than just Bostonian

00:24:24.049 --> 00:24:27.799
douchebags. I don't know. I am still firmly under

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the belief that walking under a ladder is considered

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bad luck because it's just a dick move. You shouldn't

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put somebody's ladder in jeopardy. They have

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it for a reason, especially if you are a Bostonian

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douchebag. So walking under a ladder comes from

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a Christian belief that triangles and anything

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associated with the number three is sacred. By

00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:50.779
walking under a ladder, you are breaking the

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Holy Trinity, Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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Okay. Yeah, I figured it was some sort of like

00:24:56.460 --> 00:25:00.680
portal type of situation Yeah, but okay. I mean

00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:03.240
just don't do it Especially if someone is on

00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:05.240
the ladder just don't do it. Don't be that guy

00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:08.000
Don't do that or if someone obviously set up

00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:10.279
that ladder and is not currently on it. Don't

00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:14.539
do it Yeah, but you know, I don't know for their

00:25:14.539 --> 00:25:17.220
safety or your safety Why you would ever walk

00:25:17.220 --> 00:25:19.440
under a ladder anyway looking for that payday,

00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:23.980
bro. Yes I don't know. It feels silly to me I'm

00:25:23.980 --> 00:25:25.759
not going to walk under any ladders, but that

00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:29.339
is for my own safety, not because of bad luck.

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Opening an umbrella indoors. I also don't open

00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:36.240
umbrellas indoors. I don't either. I think that's

00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:38.960
more of a reason of like, I don't. The logistics

00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:40.859
of getting an open umbrella out of a doorway

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seems unnecessarily difficult. I'd rather just

00:25:43.819 --> 00:25:46.819
open it when I'm already outside. What is indoors?

00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:51.980
Like, for instance, you go from your car to doorway

00:25:51.980 --> 00:25:56.359
of Walmart. with an umbrella and then you go

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through the area where the baskets and stuff

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are and then you go into the store. Is it okay

00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:03.039
in that little area? I would still think it's

00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:06.019
bad luck. So when you're leaving the store you

00:26:06.019 --> 00:26:08.579
walk out of that area can you open the umbrella

00:26:08.579 --> 00:26:11.460
before you go out into the parking lot or you

00:26:11.460 --> 00:26:14.000
open it as soon as you cross the threshold? I

00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:16.559
think even in the case of like if you're getting

00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.480
out of your car and going into a store you would

00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:22.519
essentially like point the umbrella once you're

00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:25.009
like At least the umbrella is past the threshold,

00:26:25.069 --> 00:26:29.029
then you would open it there. I also think it's

00:26:29.029 --> 00:26:33.650
weird to have an umbrella indoors. It is. I will

00:26:33.650 --> 00:26:35.430
say though, I don't know the last time that I

00:26:35.430 --> 00:26:37.789
used an umbrella. When it rains, if I don't have

00:26:37.789 --> 00:26:40.670
a hood, I'm just dealing with the rain. I own

00:26:40.670 --> 00:26:44.710
an umbrella, I'm pretty sure. Wow, what a flex.

00:26:45.210 --> 00:26:49.230
That I own an umbrella? I own an umbrella. Sorry,

00:26:49.410 --> 00:26:52.640
Mrs. Rockefeller. I own an umbrella, but I don't

00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:54.839
use it. How do you feel about people that use

00:26:54.839 --> 00:26:57.519
the umbrella for the sun? A rain umbrella for

00:26:57.519 --> 00:26:59.920
the sun? I support it. How do you feel about

00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:02.640
beach umbrellas? I definitely support it. I am

00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:04.920
not super sensitive to the sun, but I know a

00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:06.920
lot of people who are very sensitive to the sun.

00:27:07.380 --> 00:27:10.579
Yes, vampires, yes. I am dating one of them,

00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:15.900
yeah. But I support your use of umbrellas for

00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:19.359
sun protection. Okay. Are you in the anti -um?

00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:22.140
Sun umbrella camp? Are you against parasols?

00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:25.039
I don't care. Do what you're going to do. I think

00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:29.339
that if it's a quick jaunt and you pull out an

00:27:29.339 --> 00:27:31.519
umbrella, I think that's a little silly. But

00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:34.339
hey, I don't know. You could be some albino freak

00:27:34.339 --> 00:27:38.319
for all I know. The origin of opening umbrellas

00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:42.200
indoors being bad luck is from two different

00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:46.119
places. The origin in ancient Egypt was that

00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:49.750
it insulted the sun god. know that I really understand

00:27:49.750 --> 00:27:54.990
that one all that well. But the English version

00:27:54.990 --> 00:27:57.529
of it was that it disrupted household spirits

00:27:57.529 --> 00:28:00.890
if you opened an umbrella in their midst. Also

00:28:00.890 --> 00:28:03.329
learned, in my little fact -finding mission on

00:28:03.329 --> 00:28:05.930
that one, that the umbrella was invented, or

00:28:05.930 --> 00:28:09.329
the parasol, was invented 4 ,000 years ago, which

00:28:09.329 --> 00:28:13.069
is much further back than I thought. Wow. Do

00:28:13.069 --> 00:28:16.569
you think the one with the sun god, Ra, is like

00:28:16.569 --> 00:28:19.299
when you play peek -a -boo with a baby? and you

00:28:19.299 --> 00:28:21.400
hide your face, and then they think you're just

00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:23.099
gone, and they lose their mind, and then you're

00:28:23.099 --> 00:28:24.819
like, ah, peek -a -boo, just kidding, I'm here,

00:28:25.180 --> 00:28:28.779
I'm here, Sun God, just joshing. I mean, it's

00:28:28.779 --> 00:28:31.880
more likely than not that the sun wouldn't be

00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:34.200
out when it's raining anyway. Ra would be hidden

00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:36.220
behind the clouds. You wouldn't see what you're

00:28:36.220 --> 00:28:39.940
up to. Yeah, but in Egypt, I mean, you're not

00:28:39.940 --> 00:28:43.799
worried about rainstorms, you're worried about

00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:49.599
the sun. Ra, Ra, ooh la la. You're just all song

00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:55.160
lyrics today. Spilling salt didn't have the the

00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.799
origins that were as crazy as I thought they'd

00:28:57.799 --> 00:28:59.559
be. I thought there was going to be some like

00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:02.359
big pagan thing, quite honestly. Do you have

00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:06.940
any guesses as to why spilling salt is bad? Yeah,

00:29:07.539 --> 00:29:13.680
I would guess that the superstition started from

00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:19.980
a man who really had a disdain for snails. He

00:29:19.980 --> 00:29:22.559
loved snails. That's why it was bad luck to spill

00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:27.160
salt. No. No. He spilled it in front of him because

00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:29.960
he saw one approaching him, but then he missed

00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:31.920
and so he had to throw it behind him as he was

00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:35.160
running to try to get the salt on the snail to

00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:37.900
kill it. I'm sorry. In this scenario, a human

00:29:37.900 --> 00:29:40.859
man is running from a snail. They don't move

00:29:40.859 --> 00:29:42.980
very fast. That's like the one thing everybody

00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:48.130
knows about snails. Yes, but If you will recall

00:29:48.130 --> 00:29:52.309
our Slumber Party Massacre episode, perhaps he

00:29:52.309 --> 00:29:56.309
didn't have his meat cleaver on him. Even if

00:29:56.309 --> 00:29:58.069
you don't have your meat cleaver, you don't have

00:29:58.069 --> 00:30:02.009
to run from a snail. Okay, maybe it was a light

00:30:02.009 --> 00:30:05.390
jog. Maybe he just felt moved by the spirit and

00:30:05.390 --> 00:30:08.369
wanted to get some cardio in and also kill snails.

00:30:08.430 --> 00:30:11.990
I don't know. So you don't spill salt because

00:30:11.990 --> 00:30:15.430
you need to keep it like Dale Gribble's pocket

00:30:15.430 --> 00:30:25.039
sand. in case you encounter a snail. I mean,

00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:27.259
it wouldn't hurt to have salt on you at all points,

00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:31.619
at all times. Until you do your laundry. But

00:30:31.619 --> 00:30:37.059
I feel like the left shoulder is pertinent and

00:30:37.059 --> 00:30:43.440
specific because that is the sinister side. Does

00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:45.660
that have anything to do with it? It does, actually.

00:30:46.439 --> 00:30:50.740
Nice. So it was originally considered bad luck

00:30:50.740 --> 00:30:54.240
because salt was incredibly expensive and it

00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:58.500
was later attached to like Christianity, but

00:30:58.500 --> 00:31:01.819
it originated because salt was just very expensive.

00:31:02.019 --> 00:31:05.140
And so yes, it was bad luck because you have

00:31:05.140 --> 00:31:08.839
$300 worth of salt and you just dropped it. But

00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:13.019
it was later added in that It was linked to Judas

00:31:13.019 --> 00:31:15.799
Iscariot because he spilt salt on the table during

00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:18.119
the Last Supper. In the painting, I guess he

00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:21.619
has tipped over the little salt shaker of yours.

00:31:21.859 --> 00:31:26.000
Frickin' Judas. It is thrown over your left shoulder

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.019
to, quote, blind the devil or distract him, therefore

00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:32.720
negating the bad luck. That sits on your left

00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.119
shoulder versus the angel that sits on your right

00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:40.789
shoulder. Correct. that Zac Brown tried to enlighten

00:31:40.789 --> 00:31:44.910
us on from last week's episode. It all comes

00:31:44.910 --> 00:31:48.490
back around. I listened to some of that album,

00:31:48.869 --> 00:31:52.829
and I didn't dislike it as much as I had expected,

00:31:53.349 --> 00:31:58.390
but it was very far from my favorite of the Zac

00:31:58.390 --> 00:32:03.289
Brown songs or albums. Also, not really my vibe,

00:32:03.470 --> 00:32:07.130
but... I feel like I like it more now that I

00:32:07.130 --> 00:32:09.710
have listened to it and not just taken it at

00:32:09.710 --> 00:32:12.670
the face value of the very weird production at

00:32:12.670 --> 00:32:16.190
the Sphere. Yeah. I'll give it another listen,

00:32:16.269 --> 00:32:18.630
but that's probably the most I'll give it. I

00:32:18.630 --> 00:32:20.109
don't know. I'm sure there's some sort of gem

00:32:20.109 --> 00:32:22.509
in there that I just haven't come to love yet.

00:32:22.710 --> 00:32:25.009
We'll see. I will say the one that he did with

00:32:25.009 --> 00:32:27.970
Snoop Dogg, I do very much dislike. Did not care

00:32:27.970 --> 00:32:30.589
for that at all. Don't think that I will be a

00:32:30.589 --> 00:32:34.650
fan. But it's funny that... The Bible comes in

00:32:34.650 --> 00:32:38.289
with this one because Salt is a heavy player

00:32:38.289 --> 00:32:43.950
in the Old Testament. For instance, whenever

00:32:43.950 --> 00:32:48.890
Sodom and Gomorrah got their comeuppance and

00:32:48.890 --> 00:32:52.049
Lot and his wife and a few other people were

00:32:52.049 --> 00:32:53.910
told to get out of town if you don't want to

00:32:53.910 --> 00:32:57.710
die, don't turn back or else. And of course,

00:32:57.950 --> 00:33:00.089
Lot's wife doesn't even get a name in the Bible,

00:33:00.109 --> 00:33:03.700
I don't think. because she's just such a such

00:33:03.700 --> 00:33:06.579
a goober turns around turns into a pillar of

00:33:06.579 --> 00:33:09.779
salt so salt was used as a punishment in the

00:33:09.779 --> 00:33:13.339
old testament and then i guess in the new testament

00:33:13.339 --> 00:33:17.779
it was a precious commodity that tipped judas's

00:33:17.779 --> 00:33:21.500
hand interesting very interesting what else you

00:33:21.500 --> 00:33:25.319
got all right the last one that i have for american

00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:29.059
origin stories is friday the 13th do you know

00:33:29.059 --> 00:33:32.799
where this one comes from Yeah, it's the day

00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.039
that Jason Voorhees drowned in the lake at Camp

00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:41.220
Crystal Lake and was later avenged on Friday

00:33:41.220 --> 00:33:46.019
the 13th by his mother. I mean, that's not technically

00:33:46.019 --> 00:33:49.019
wrong. It's not the further back origin story,

00:33:49.019 --> 00:33:52.839
but it is very much why we see Friday the 13th

00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:56.059
the way that we do. This one also ties into The

00:33:56.059 --> 00:34:00.460
Last Supper, specifically Judas. It is... considered

00:34:00.460 --> 00:34:04.240
that the 13th person is the one that will do

00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.859
you wrong essentially and so it was believed

00:34:07.859 --> 00:34:11.139
that the number 13 itself was unlucky because

00:34:11.139 --> 00:34:16.039
Judas was the 13th person. Judas man, ruin it

00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:20.360
for everyone. There is also a tie -in aside from

00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:24.960
the number 13 because Jesus was crucified on

00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:28.750
Friday, Good Friday, which feels like a a kind

00:34:28.750 --> 00:34:31.449
of dick move to call it that. Not my business,

00:34:31.809 --> 00:34:37.909
but just saying. There is speculation that Friday

00:34:37.909 --> 00:34:40.190
is historically associated with a lot of bad

00:34:40.190 --> 00:34:43.449
things. Biblically, you have Cain killing Abel

00:34:43.449 --> 00:34:46.289
and Adam and Eve's fall. That both happened on

00:34:46.289 --> 00:34:47.889
a Friday. I don't know what that's based on.

00:34:48.210 --> 00:34:51.050
I am not a religious person and would be interested

00:34:51.050 --> 00:34:53.469
in hearing more about that. If you have any more

00:34:53.469 --> 00:34:58.280
insight into that, let me know. Rebecca Black.

00:35:00.780 --> 00:35:05.599
Kennedy was shot on a Friday. In her music video,

00:35:05.820 --> 00:35:10.260
she's in a convertible. Some line about, which

00:35:10.260 --> 00:35:12.920
seat should I take? And there's some other stuff.

00:35:12.940 --> 00:35:15.239
There's some weird stuff with the Kennedy assassination

00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:20.380
and Rebecca Black's Friday. So look into that.

00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:24.440
Maybe we'll get into a weird coincidences episode.

00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:29.619
I'll write that down. Weird. We are just about

00:35:29.619 --> 00:35:32.519
to be done in the tinfoil hats again. We're coinkiding.

00:35:33.340 --> 00:35:36.840
The association between Black Friday and Bad

00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:39.480
Luck really got solidified because of pop culture

00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:43.460
with the Friday the 13th movie and its 11 other

00:35:43.460 --> 00:35:46.019
franchise editions. I did not realize that the

00:35:46.019 --> 00:35:48.159
franchise was so big. I did not know there were

00:35:48.159 --> 00:35:52.380
12 Friday the 13th movies. Yeah. There's the

00:35:52.380 --> 00:35:54.480
ones where he is at the camp. There's the one

00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:57.070
where Jason goes to hell. There's the one where

00:35:57.070 --> 00:35:59.590
Jason goes to Manhattan. There's the one where

00:35:59.590 --> 00:36:02.130
Jason goes to space. There's the one where he

00:36:02.130 --> 00:36:04.789
fights Freddy. Jason goes to Manhattan? At least

00:36:04.789 --> 00:36:07.730
five. He does. Yes. He walks around Times Square.

00:36:08.650 --> 00:36:11.769
That's goofy. That's a goofy movie. This is an

00:36:11.769 --> 00:36:14.969
actual thing that happened? This is an actual

00:36:14.969 --> 00:36:19.090
movie. Huh. It's not called like Jason Takes

00:36:19.090 --> 00:36:21.650
Man. It's not called like Jason and the City

00:36:21.650 --> 00:36:24.420
or anything like that. It's just like... Jason

00:36:24.420 --> 00:36:29.820
6 or whatever. Friday the 13th, 7. Is this like

00:36:29.820 --> 00:36:32.380
Home Alone 2? Oh, it actually is called Jason

00:36:32.380 --> 00:36:35.699
Takes Manhattan. Part 8. Jason Takes Manhattan.

00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:40.820
It's a subtitle. Oh, it is like an official subtitle

00:36:40.820 --> 00:36:43.239
of the movie. Uh huh. Okay, well there you go.

00:36:43.659 --> 00:36:46.900
Friday the 13th, colon, Jason Takes Manhattan.

00:36:47.300 --> 00:36:50.780
Part VII. You watch it, you are going to be saying

00:36:50.780 --> 00:36:55.940
III. I? I've been watching a lot of Itch meeting

00:36:55.940 --> 00:36:59.460
lately and anytime I've seen Roman numerals,

00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.119
so in like a lot of the research that I've done

00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:04.139
for this episode, I just think of it the way

00:37:04.139 --> 00:37:09.119
that Ryan George says it. It's like frozen. I,

00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.780
I. I forget which one it was. He was doing the

00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:14.880
third of something. He was like, I, I, I. Is

00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:16.539
that what the audience is going to think about

00:37:16.539 --> 00:37:21.380
this movie? Ryan George is a heavy player in

00:37:21.380 --> 00:37:24.679
our house. I have been, yeah, I've been big into

00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:26.699
pitch meeting lately. I've been watching the

00:37:26.699 --> 00:37:29.300
compilations of like all the Marvel movies and

00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:31.539
whatnot. Have you watched his other stuff? Like

00:37:31.539 --> 00:37:35.239
his naming stuff? His naming stuff? Yeah, they'll

00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:39.739
go in, like it'll be, they'll be naming like

00:37:39.739 --> 00:37:42.820
tools and stuff and they'll show a picture of

00:37:42.820 --> 00:37:48.500
a screwdriver and he'll be drinking orange juice

00:37:48.500 --> 00:37:50.840
and vodka drink. He's like, what should we call

00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:53.000
this? And it's funny, you should check it out.

00:37:53.920 --> 00:38:00.679
Or there's one where he does a TV ad for his

00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:05.980
sandwich shop and the only thing his shop serves

00:38:05.980 --> 00:38:09.420
is a sandwich with a pretty big pickle in it.

00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:13.679
And every time we have pickles at the house,

00:38:14.219 --> 00:38:16.659
The kids always call it a pretty big pickle.

00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:19.260
No matter how big the pickle is, it's just, it's

00:38:19.260 --> 00:38:21.639
a pretty big pickle. I will have to look into

00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:25.980
that. It's like the Ryan George naming compilation.

00:38:25.980 --> 00:38:30.099
And then like the first guy to ever. I've seen

00:38:30.099 --> 00:38:32.780
some of the first guy to ever. Like the first

00:38:32.780 --> 00:38:37.019
guy to ever want to order takeout. Oh my God.

00:38:37.019 --> 00:38:39.539
The first guy to ever do everything is two hours

00:38:39.539 --> 00:38:43.059
long. Oh, it's worth it. It's worth it. All right.

00:38:43.070 --> 00:38:46.889
So that is all of my commonly held American superstitions.

00:38:47.389 --> 00:38:51.050
But I do have some international ones. I bet

00:38:51.050 --> 00:38:52.929
these are all dumb because they're not American.

00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:56.570
Silly foreigners. I remember in the episode that

00:38:56.570 --> 00:38:59.969
we did on idioms that you mentioned Bob's your

00:38:59.969 --> 00:39:04.190
uncle being a Britishism. Yes. And I remember

00:39:04.190 --> 00:39:07.090
you mentioned it in the context of a movie and

00:39:07.090 --> 00:39:09.550
I don't remember what movie that was. Austin

00:39:09.550 --> 00:39:12.529
Powers, International Man of Mystery. Interesting,

00:39:12.529 --> 00:39:14.769
because it was also in Cat in the Hat, which

00:39:14.769 --> 00:39:17.429
I watched a couple days ago, in the cupcake -a

00:39:17.429 --> 00:39:20.190
-nata scene. You just put whatever you want in

00:39:20.190 --> 00:39:22.210
the tray and then Bob's your uncle. Cupcakes.

00:39:23.570 --> 00:39:25.510
I'll cut you and make it look like Bloody Accident.

00:39:25.909 --> 00:39:28.969
It's such a good movie. It is. But yeah, apparently

00:39:28.969 --> 00:39:32.889
that's one of Mike Myers's just things, which

00:39:32.889 --> 00:39:34.409
is funny because he's Canadian. He's not even

00:39:34.409 --> 00:39:38.070
British. That's British adjacent. Is it? I wouldn't

00:39:38.070 --> 00:39:40.769
think so. They're French adjacent and American

00:39:40.769 --> 00:39:43.670
adjacent. No, they still consider like their

00:39:43.670 --> 00:39:45.829
money still has the Queen on it. Like they're

00:39:45.829 --> 00:39:49.429
still very British heavy, which is dumb because

00:39:49.429 --> 00:39:53.570
the royal family is dumb and completely it's

00:39:53.570 --> 00:39:56.909
British Kardashians. All it is means nothing.

00:39:57.110 --> 00:39:59.769
Sure. I agree. Except the royal family is not

00:39:59.769 --> 00:40:03.429
as rich. As the Kardashians? Yes. Maybe Queen

00:40:03.429 --> 00:40:05.789
Elizabeth before she kicked it should have put

00:40:05.789 --> 00:40:08.329
out a sex tape. I was just about to make that

00:40:08.329 --> 00:40:10.670
same joke. And she could have been the Kardashians.

00:40:10.989 --> 00:40:15.090
Anyway, in Italy, they avoid the number 17. That

00:40:15.090 --> 00:40:19.389
is because in Roman numerals, 17 is spelled V

00:40:19.389 --> 00:40:23.969
-I -X -I, which is Latin for I have lived, which

00:40:23.969 --> 00:40:27.309
implies death. That one feels a bit reachy, but...

00:40:27.309 --> 00:40:30.570
Huh, interesting. But they dodge the number 17.

00:40:31.010 --> 00:40:35.349
How do they feel about the reindeer vixen they

00:40:35.349 --> 00:40:38.730
opposed? Is it an undead reindeer? I don't know

00:40:38.730 --> 00:40:41.099
anyone that has lived in... Yeah, I don't know

00:40:41.099 --> 00:40:43.619
any Italian. I don't think. I don't know anyone

00:40:43.619 --> 00:40:46.159
who'd be able to give me insight here. Is that

00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:50.800
what having 80 % of your brain being pasta does

00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:53.400
to you? The reason that it's all squiggly is

00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:58.440
just the noodles. I mean, if you think about

00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:00.679
it, the brain is kind of just like the lasagna.

00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:06.239
Layer on layer on layer. Sure, yeah. In similar

00:41:06.239 --> 00:41:11.199
superstition, China. China. has a super stop

00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:14.820
it has a superstition against the number four

00:41:14.820 --> 00:41:18.420
because it sounds like the word for death well

00:41:18.420 --> 00:41:22.139
i'm glad that it isn't just america that's been

00:41:22.139 --> 00:41:25.760
wussified by this cancel culture hold your hand

00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:31.059
like a baby uh participation trophy crowd okay

00:41:31.059 --> 00:41:34.079
if a word is too close to the word death and

00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:37.539
you're just gonna 86 it from everything in your

00:41:37.539 --> 00:41:41.960
lives 86. That means a restaurant has run out

00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:49.380
of something. So four, where'd you say that was?

00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:54.400
China. If you look at like taller buildings in

00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:57.320
China, a lot of times they will avoid having

00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:00.380
four in their floor numbers. So it would go from

00:42:00.380 --> 00:42:02.960
the third floor to the fifth floor and they would

00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:07.159
skip all of the 40s, 14, all of that. That's

00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:11.420
crazy. How do they account for that vacuum of

00:42:11.420 --> 00:42:15.019
space where that fourth floor is inaccessible

00:42:15.019 --> 00:42:19.400
to anyone in this dimension? That's where all

00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:22.719
of the bad luck in China is. This is, this is

00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.219
where I think superstition goes too far. Okay.

00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:30.280
Because in America, we also, we have the hang

00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:33.659
up with the number 13. You go to a casino, you

00:42:33.659 --> 00:42:36.159
go to a lot of hotels and there's just no 13th

00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.780
floor. And it is so stupid because you know what

00:42:38.780 --> 00:42:41.260
the 13th floor is the 14th floor You know what

00:42:41.260 --> 00:42:44.420
the 14th floor is the 15th floor. That's the

00:42:44.420 --> 00:42:47.420
14th floor And we're just supposed to act like

00:42:47.420 --> 00:42:52.420
this is okay. Yeah that we let these lunatics

00:42:52.420 --> 00:42:55.840
build these buildings that reach up into the

00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:58.860
sky and they can't even come to terms with the

00:42:58.860 --> 00:43:03.539
fact that the third the floor between 12 and

00:43:03.539 --> 00:43:09.829
14 is 13 If you are in a particular kind of tall

00:43:09.829 --> 00:43:12.969
building, say a casino, I can very much understand

00:43:12.969 --> 00:43:15.070
why you would want to avoid things that seem

00:43:15.070 --> 00:43:17.590
like they would be bad luck. If I were a gambler,

00:43:17.610 --> 00:43:19.989
and I am very much not, I don't think I would

00:43:19.989 --> 00:43:23.289
want to stay on the 13th floor. We are - I also

00:43:23.289 --> 00:43:25.389
don't really believe that 13 is an unlucky number.

00:43:25.710 --> 00:43:28.269
I have personal beef with the fact that 13 is

00:43:28.269 --> 00:43:31.670
considered unlucky, but neither here nor there.

00:43:32.829 --> 00:43:37.079
You know from personal experience. I think that

00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.320
we're gonna do I think it's on our on our list

00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:42.920
for casinos because I have all kinds of drives

00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:47.539
about casinos but As far as superstitions and

00:43:47.539 --> 00:43:54.099
casinos go It drives me absolutely nuts when

00:43:54.099 --> 00:43:59.139
you sit down next to someone who Anytime things

00:43:59.139 --> 00:44:00.840
aren't going their way. They start beating on

00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:06.449
the screen Yeah to will the combination or whatever

00:44:06.449 --> 00:44:10.670
they're trying to get to appear on the screen

00:44:10.670 --> 00:44:14.369
drives me up the wall. And if I see you doing

00:44:14.369 --> 00:44:17.389
that, I automatically know that whatever I thought

00:44:17.389 --> 00:44:21.150
your IQ was, it's probably 20, 30 points below

00:44:21.150 --> 00:44:23.750
that. I just needed one more Howard Wallowitz.

00:44:24.050 --> 00:44:26.630
God damn it. But like I said, casinos are going

00:44:26.630 --> 00:44:28.989
to be their own thing at some point. Add note

00:44:28.989 --> 00:44:31.650
to the list? Yeah. What if it's not already there?

00:44:31.989 --> 00:44:36.349
I don't think it is. All right. In Japan, it

00:44:36.349 --> 00:44:39.690
is bad luck to stick chopsticks upright in rice.

00:44:40.489 --> 00:44:45.650
I've heard about that one. It's bad form. Why?

00:44:46.550 --> 00:44:53.030
It represents a funeral ritual, which is it mimics

00:44:53.030 --> 00:44:54.909
the incense sticks that are offered to the dead

00:44:54.909 --> 00:44:59.530
at funerals. So this also symbolizes death. Alternatively,

00:45:00.889 --> 00:45:03.980
it is inviting spirits to eat. What's wrong with

00:45:03.980 --> 00:45:06.500
that? I'm sure they're lonely. I don't imagine

00:45:06.500 --> 00:45:09.199
it's inviting the good ones. It's like a Ouija

00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:11.579
board. I don't think you want to roll the dice.

00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:14.599
Yeah, maybe you get a good one and maybe you

00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:17.659
get Annabelle. I bet she's got some great stories

00:45:17.659 --> 00:45:20.940
though. I bet she does. I bet you're about to

00:45:20.940 --> 00:45:24.199
become one of them. That could be in Conjuring

00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:30.119
37. Sure, yeah. Annabelle takes Manhattan. Annabelle

00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:34.400
goes to space. Freddy and Jason versus Annabelle.

00:45:34.739 --> 00:45:37.380
I would love to make that movie. Well, let's

00:45:37.380 --> 00:45:39.820
get on it. This is gonna be our low -budget horror

00:45:39.820 --> 00:45:45.760
project. We're about to get, Pluto is about to

00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:48.500
go into the public domain, so we might be getting

00:45:48.500 --> 00:45:52.579
another horror movie sometime soon. There was

00:45:52.579 --> 00:45:55.659
a movie that came out recently called Good Boy.

00:45:56.320 --> 00:45:58.320
It was a horror movie from a dog's perspective.

00:45:58.940 --> 00:46:02.880
Yeah. I want to see it. I do too. I haven't watched

00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:06.380
it. Is it already out? It's intriguing. Yes.

00:46:07.099 --> 00:46:08.980
I think it's like already like watchable somewhere.

00:46:09.539 --> 00:46:13.219
Check that out. Did you have any more? I do.

00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:19.760
I have a couple more. So la mala suerte is bad

00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:22.920
luck. It is when you sweep a person's feet. That

00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:25.519
means that they will never marry. What if they're

00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:28.119
already married? Divorce. Then they're safe?

00:46:29.380 --> 00:46:32.739
No, divorce immediately. Well, so what you're

00:46:32.739 --> 00:46:38.739
saying is, huh, would that hold up in a court

00:46:38.739 --> 00:46:42.719
of law? Yeah, irreconcilable differences. I mean,

00:46:43.619 --> 00:46:47.079
my feet got swept. I literally, I can't, like

00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:51.599
you had to let me out. Uh -huh. If I remember

00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.340
correctly, I think it also has to be like bear

00:46:54.340 --> 00:46:57.420
feet. I don't think, I think there's like more

00:46:57.420 --> 00:46:59.500
specifics to this. How many bears were getting

00:46:59.500 --> 00:47:03.239
married? Mean and it's just like Goldilocks like

00:47:03.239 --> 00:47:05.400
what's going on Snow White? What are you doing

00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:08.420
sweeping next to a bear? This is why other countries

00:47:08.420 --> 00:47:16.420
are dumb America is the best In Brazil it is

00:47:16.420 --> 00:47:20.460
bad luck to put your purse on the floor I would

00:47:20.460 --> 00:47:22.940
assume that it is bad luck to have a purse in

00:47:22.940 --> 00:47:26.980
Brazil and at all Probably a safe assumption

00:47:26.980 --> 00:47:30.039
in parts of parts of Brazil Do you remember what

00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:32.460
happened to Ryan Lochte when he was in Brazil?

00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:37.380
If you don't remember, go refresh yourself on

00:47:37.380 --> 00:47:41.300
the Ryan Lochte Rio story because it is bananas.

00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:46.260
I don't remember anything about Ryan Lochte,

00:47:46.579 --> 00:47:49.320
but I do remember Ryan Lochte in the context

00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:52.619
of Family Guy. When he shows up to the Winter

00:47:52.619 --> 00:47:55.780
Olympics, Peter calls him out on it. He was like,

00:47:55.780 --> 00:47:57.539
aren't you in the other Olympics? He goes, no,

00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:04.599
it's cold. and they just like walks away. The

00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:08.380
last one that I have was the Evil Eye, which

00:48:08.380 --> 00:48:13.159
is the Middle East and South Asia. This is the

00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:16.559
belief that envy causes harm. Amulets, blue beads,

00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:19.260
and hand symbols are used for protection because

00:48:19.260 --> 00:48:23.380
it is allegedly to, I believe, reflect back that

00:48:23.380 --> 00:48:30.679
energy that people have towards you. I personally

00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:33.280
really like the aesthetic of Evil Eyes. I don't

00:48:33.280 --> 00:48:35.280
know that I believe they do anything, but I don't

00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.539
believe in most of this stuff, but I still practice

00:48:38.539 --> 00:48:40.559
some of it. I just think they're cool. I think

00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:47.019
they're neat. Well, as a call back to our idioms

00:48:47.019 --> 00:48:50.420
episode, I have some southern superstitions if

00:48:50.420 --> 00:48:55.119
you would like. By all means. Carrying a rabbit's

00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:57.340
foot. Would you ever carry around a rabbit's

00:48:57.340 --> 00:49:00.869
foot for good luck? No, absolutely not. Do you

00:49:00.869 --> 00:49:03.829
know which which rabbit's foot is the luckiest?

00:49:04.510 --> 00:49:06.469
There's a specific rabbit's foot you're supposed

00:49:06.469 --> 00:49:09.269
to have. There is. I'm gonna guess back right.

00:49:09.570 --> 00:49:15.730
Ah, so close. Left hind foot. Why? Uh -huh. That's

00:49:15.730 --> 00:49:19.849
a fantastic question. I can look it up for you.

00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:24.159
It comes from a mix of European folklore, ancient

00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:28.199
symbolism, and Southern Appalachian superstition,

00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:31.239
all layered up on top of each other. Why a rabbit's

00:49:31.239 --> 00:49:34.519
foot at all? Rabbits have long symbolized fertility,

00:49:35.179 --> 00:49:38.099
abundance, and survival because they reproduce

00:49:38.099 --> 00:49:41.460
quickly and live in burrows. Survival feels like

00:49:41.460 --> 00:49:45.519
a bad take if you have to, I assume, kill the

00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:49.139
rabbit to take its foot. I guess. I mean, I don't

00:49:49.139 --> 00:49:52.579
know. In Celtic and early European folklore,

00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:54.260
animals that live underground were thought to

00:49:54.260 --> 00:49:58.440
have magical or protective powers. Why the foot?

00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:00.739
The foot represents movement, travel, and progress,

00:50:00.900 --> 00:50:03.400
so carrying it was believed to help you move

00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:06.699
forward safely in life. A foot taken from a fast

00:50:06.699 --> 00:50:08.900
animal was thought to pass along its speed and

00:50:08.900 --> 00:50:12.079
ability to escape danger. In folklore, the left

00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:14.780
side has always been considered mystical and

00:50:14.780 --> 00:50:18.700
dangerous. The word sinister literally literally

00:50:18.700 --> 00:50:22.880
means left in Latin. That's why you got to watch

00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:25.480
out for those southpaws while those left -handed

00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:32.099
freaks, which I have one, and you don't want

00:50:32.099 --> 00:50:35.880
to get on her bad side. Promise. I used a left

00:50:35.880 --> 00:50:38.500
-handed corkscrew at work the other day and it

00:50:38.500 --> 00:50:41.400
was triple. You don't think that it's that different,

00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:44.599
but I'm also fortunate enough to be a righty.

00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:48.789
Well, I mean, if... There was no big difference

00:50:48.789 --> 00:50:51.349
between right -handers, right -handed stuff and

00:50:51.349 --> 00:50:53.250
left -handed stuff that Ned Flanders wouldn't

00:50:53.250 --> 00:50:56.050
have a business. The leftorium wouldn't exist.

00:50:57.309 --> 00:51:00.389
He got downgraded to a kiosk at one point, but

00:51:00.389 --> 00:51:02.429
you know what? He's still making the best he

00:51:02.429 --> 00:51:04.889
can as a twice -over widower for Rod and Todd.

00:51:06.369 --> 00:51:09.349
Why the hindfoot? The hind legs are the rabbit's

00:51:09.349 --> 00:51:11.469
source of power and speed. Symbolically, it's

00:51:11.469 --> 00:51:14.789
the rabbit's strongest limb tied to survival

00:51:14.789 --> 00:51:18.190
and escape. Ooh, and some African -American who

00:51:18.190 --> 00:51:20.590
do in southern traditions, the luckiest rabbit's

00:51:20.590 --> 00:51:23.150
foot had very specific rules. Had to come from

00:51:23.150 --> 00:51:26.289
a rabbit caught in a graveyard at midnight during

00:51:26.289 --> 00:51:29.989
the full moon, sometimes by a crossroads, and

00:51:29.989 --> 00:51:32.849
often killed with a silver bullet. That's too

00:51:32.849 --> 00:51:36.110
many. What actually qualifies as a crossroads?

00:51:36.829 --> 00:51:39.929
Because it can't be all of them, right? I don't

00:51:39.929 --> 00:51:42.119
know. As long as you ask the devil. Are there

00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:43.840
special ones where you get to meet the devil

00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:46.579
or can I just go like down a block where there's

00:51:46.579 --> 00:51:49.760
an intersection and just hang around there and

00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:53.380
just have one of those signs like the chauffeurs

00:51:53.380 --> 00:51:56.099
at the airport have with the person's last name

00:51:56.099 --> 00:52:00.599
just hold up devil yeah see what happens all

00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:03.340
right what about a horseshoe which way does it

00:52:03.340 --> 00:52:06.500
have to face it has to be a u -shape so it has

00:52:06.500 --> 00:52:09.300
to have the ends up yeah it has to be facing

00:52:09.300 --> 00:52:13.340
up It is for protection and stored luck. Iron

00:52:13.340 --> 00:52:16.760
was believed to repel evil spirits. The U -shape

00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:21.619
catches the luck when facing up. If it were loop

00:52:21.619 --> 00:52:23.940
side down, then all your luck would just fall

00:52:23.940 --> 00:52:27.940
to the floor. Yeah. And it came from medieval

00:52:27.940 --> 00:52:32.780
Europe. Mostly blacksmiths. Superstition. Okay.

00:52:33.699 --> 00:52:38.659
If it is held with a loop side that ends down.

00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:41.920
Would it imbue your household with that luck

00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:45.039
or do you just lose it? No, you just lose it.

00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:51.280
It's just gone There's also I think this is mostly

00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:53.400
for cowboy hats, but putting your hat on the

00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:57.880
bed is also considered bad luck and a bad omen

00:52:57.880 --> 00:53:03.079
Birds hitting a window Means death or bad news

00:53:03.079 --> 00:53:06.099
is coming because birds are messengers between

00:53:06.099 --> 00:53:09.480
worlds. That is a concerning context for the

00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:12.079
Windex commercials. How many people died in that

00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:15.199
house? If I'm just looking out a window and all

00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:17.880
of a sudden a bird flies right into it, I would

00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:21.460
know that something is up. So if you don't clean

00:53:21.460 --> 00:53:25.900
the glass in your home and a bird doesn't fly

00:53:25.900 --> 00:53:28.820
into it, that's good luck. No one dies if you

00:53:28.820 --> 00:53:31.780
just don't clean your windows. And speaking of

00:53:31.780 --> 00:53:37.059
elements, owls, omens of death. Yeah. Nocturnal

00:53:37.059 --> 00:53:40.480
animals linked to the unseen. Their cries were

00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:43.400
thought to announce spirits. This was a Native

00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:46.579
American Appalachian folklore, which I do have

00:53:46.579 --> 00:53:50.920
a little side story for that. There's a big park

00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:55.199
by my house that I used to ride the dirt trails

00:53:55.199 --> 00:53:59.679
on with a bicycle. There's one time I did it

00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:02.760
at night. And this thing is tricky enough during

00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:06.840
the day. At night, it was a nightmare. That's

00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:09.739
why I've only done it one time. But when you

00:54:09.739 --> 00:54:14.199
stumble upon an owl in its natural habitat in

00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:18.219
complete darkness, it's terrifying. It's not

00:54:18.219 --> 00:54:23.079
fun. It just feels off. Did anything bad happen

00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:27.260
afterwards? Was it an omen or something? I mean,

00:54:27.260 --> 00:54:29.920
I got divorced a couple years later. So depending

00:54:29.920 --> 00:54:32.639
on who you ask, I mean, maybe it was a good omen.

00:54:32.760 --> 00:54:36.210
I don't know. I would also be very early. I feel

00:54:36.210 --> 00:54:38.289
like it should be, it should be more pressing

00:54:38.289 --> 00:54:39.949
and you should not just be worrying about it

00:54:39.949 --> 00:54:42.909
for two years if something is gonna happen. I

00:54:42.909 --> 00:54:44.610
don't know. I don't know. I don't know what their

00:54:44.610 --> 00:54:47.750
timetable is. The owls are busy. I would assume.

00:54:48.550 --> 00:54:52.650
Sure. Crickets in the house are good luck. I

00:54:52.650 --> 00:54:56.289
beg to differ. Have you ever seen Mulan? I have.

00:54:56.710 --> 00:54:58.650
Not the live action one because that sounds -

00:54:58.650 --> 00:55:00.849
I haven't seen the live action one either. Crickets

00:55:00.849 --> 00:55:03.329
eat pests their sound was comforting and linked

00:55:03.329 --> 00:55:05.769
to prosperity. I don't think that the sound of

00:55:05.769 --> 00:55:09.190
crickets Indoors is comforting. It makes me feel

00:55:09.190 --> 00:55:17.309
like I'm not funny Oh, what about this one black

00:55:17.309 --> 00:55:20.710
cats, how you feel about white cats that white

00:55:20.710 --> 00:55:28.829
cats black cats The animal not the firework I

00:55:28.829 --> 00:55:32.909
like both I have never understood the hate for

00:55:32.909 --> 00:55:35.250
black cats. I understand where it comes from,

00:55:35.550 --> 00:55:39.010
and I am also probably the target demographic

00:55:39.010 --> 00:55:41.909
for owning a black cat. Do you have a half -black

00:55:41.909 --> 00:55:45.230
cat? I do. You have an interracial cat? I do,

00:55:45.309 --> 00:55:49.010
yeah. He's a tuxedo cat, and he's been behind

00:55:49.010 --> 00:55:52.730
me on his tree for most of this episode. What

00:55:52.730 --> 00:55:55.610
about rocking an empty rocking chair? That's

00:55:55.610 --> 00:55:59.219
bad luck. You're just inviting. someone to come

00:55:59.219 --> 00:56:02.340
take a seat, someone unseen. And I am giving

00:56:02.340 --> 00:56:04.739
them peace because they get to, who is mad when

00:56:04.739 --> 00:56:07.519
they're in a rocking chair? I think that's inviting

00:56:07.519 --> 00:56:10.639
good things. It's good karma for the spirits.

00:56:11.539 --> 00:56:14.159
Leaving your shoes upside down, you step in a

00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:16.500
big puddle, you're screwed. Either you put them

00:56:16.500 --> 00:56:19.980
upside down to dry out and drain out or and you

00:56:19.980 --> 00:56:23.760
get the bad luck or you just let that water sit,

00:56:23.820 --> 00:56:25.440
let them get all mildewy and you don't have to

00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:27.949
worry about the bad luck. But then you do have

00:56:27.949 --> 00:56:31.650
to worry about the infection that comes from

00:56:31.650 --> 00:56:34.210
having mildew issues. So I don't know. You got

00:56:34.210 --> 00:56:37.769
to roll the dice with that one. Okay. It'll rain

00:56:37.769 --> 00:56:42.070
if cows are lying down. Is this an animals can

00:56:42.070 --> 00:56:45.030
predict the weather kind of thing? I would. All

00:56:45.030 --> 00:56:47.349
of the birds leave an area where there's about

00:56:47.349 --> 00:56:50.829
to be a giant storm. I would assume it has some

00:56:50.829 --> 00:56:54.969
roots in that. Or just one guy noticed that his

00:56:54.969 --> 00:56:57.389
cows were a little lethargic one day, and then

00:56:57.389 --> 00:56:59.809
all of a sudden the rain came, put two and two

00:56:59.809 --> 00:57:02.769
together, and then ran off with it, started telling

00:57:02.769 --> 00:57:04.889
all of his buddies, they tell all their buddies,

00:57:04.969 --> 00:57:08.650
and so on and so forth, and now Chad GPT knows

00:57:08.650 --> 00:57:10.889
that this is a thing that stupid people think,

00:57:11.750 --> 00:57:15.789
and is now regurgitating it to me to inform the

00:57:15.789 --> 00:57:20.170
masses. So I'm no better than that idiot on his

00:57:20.170 --> 00:57:25.460
farm. Any more Southernisms? I got a couple more.

00:57:26.159 --> 00:57:28.539
Do you ever think about when your palm itches?

00:57:29.139 --> 00:57:33.099
I do, sometimes. I've heard that it's... money

00:57:33.099 --> 00:57:36.179
is coming your way, I believe. In the right hand,

00:57:36.940 --> 00:57:40.099
if your left palm itches, you're about to find

00:57:40.099 --> 00:57:43.380
out that Bernie Madoff made off with all of your

00:57:43.380 --> 00:57:45.719
retirement money. Because you're about to lose

00:57:45.719 --> 00:57:50.139
some... lose some scrilla. Some scrilla? Some

00:57:50.139 --> 00:57:52.969
cheddar is about to be gone. Your slice of the

00:57:52.969 --> 00:57:55.389
quiche is going to get a little smaller. Don't

00:57:55.389 --> 00:57:58.409
whistle at night. I've heard this one before.

00:57:58.809 --> 00:58:02.670
Why? It invites spirits that are walking around

00:58:02.670 --> 00:58:05.409
to your presence. It lets them know you're there.

00:58:06.010 --> 00:58:08.050
Because they don't know that I'm there otherwise?

00:58:08.789 --> 00:58:11.289
No, they don't. They just go about their day.

00:58:11.869 --> 00:58:15.969
Same thing. If a hen crows like a rooster, ring

00:58:15.969 --> 00:58:18.670
its neck because that means something bad's about

00:58:18.670 --> 00:58:21.179
to happen. Oh, here you go. If you step over

00:58:21.179 --> 00:58:24.559
a broom, you won't get married. Oh, this is one

00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:28.639
from Fajah's neck of the woods. I mean, his is

00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:31.920
a little different from what he had growing up,

00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:35.699
but if it rains while the sun is shining, the

00:58:35.699 --> 00:58:38.539
devil is beating his wife. That's how you know.

00:58:39.440 --> 00:58:41.820
Yeah, the devil is beating his wife or the foxes

00:58:41.820 --> 00:58:44.260
are getting married, I believe. Yeah, that's

00:58:44.260 --> 00:58:47.800
the Bangladeshi version. Which is significantly

00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:51.219
happier. I'll be sticking with that one. Foxes

00:58:51.219 --> 00:58:54.539
are getting married. I mean, if you married the

00:58:54.539 --> 00:58:56.260
devil, didn't you know what you were getting

00:58:56.260 --> 00:59:00.099
into? Not to victim blame, but you can't change

00:59:00.099 --> 00:59:04.780
him. Stop trying. I've seen the new season of

00:59:04.780 --> 00:59:10.639
South Park. Well, you mean the, let's see how

00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:12.460
many times we can use the same joke in every

00:59:12.460 --> 00:59:14.599
single episode? Well, it's like every chance

00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:18.980
to just show his manhood they can get. Manhood

00:59:18.980 --> 00:59:21.340
feels a little optimistic. No, you don't want

00:59:21.340 --> 00:59:24.500
to call his boyhood. That sounds weird. Sure,

00:59:24.500 --> 00:59:28.079
yeah. There has to be a third option here. His...

00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:30.159
It's not his manhood because it looks like it

00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:34.199
could reset your sim card. His penile malady.

00:59:35.739 --> 00:59:41.280
There we go. Oh, so that's all of the southern

00:59:41.280 --> 00:59:44.760
superstitions that I felt were pertinent to this

00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:47.139
episode, but I do have one little side story.

00:59:47.389 --> 00:59:54.530
I've been watching a show on Prime Video and

00:59:54.530 --> 00:59:57.269
I'm a dirty peasant so I have to watch it with

00:59:57.269 --> 01:00:02.230
commercials and there is a commercial with for

01:00:02.230 --> 01:00:06.469
a medication. Don't even pay attention to what

01:00:06.469 --> 01:00:11.570
the medication is because whenever the commercials

01:00:11.570 --> 01:00:14.550
come on I tune those out. But what always brings

01:00:14.550 --> 01:00:18.119
me back like my attention just snaps right back

01:00:18.119 --> 01:00:23.300
into place, is that one of the side effects is

01:00:23.300 --> 01:00:27.900
that it can cause bleeding between your genitals

01:00:27.900 --> 01:00:32.920
and your anus. They say this two times, and the

01:00:32.920 --> 01:00:35.800
second time is when they say, if you experience

01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:39.500
bleeding between your genitals and anus, contact

01:00:39.500 --> 01:00:43.340
a doctor. I think it might be some sort of diabetic

01:00:43.340 --> 01:00:48.219
medicine. It's not like Ozempic or anything like

01:00:48.219 --> 01:00:53.760
that, but just when you're completely tuned out

01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:57.780
and you're just trying to entertain yourself

01:00:57.780 --> 01:00:59.619
for the two and a half minutes before your show

01:00:59.619 --> 01:01:02.360
comes back and then you just hear, you might

01:01:02.360 --> 01:01:05.099
have bleeding between your anus and genitals.

01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:08.380
It just brings you right back down to earth.

01:01:09.260 --> 01:01:13.559
I'm so curious how they found out that it specifically

01:01:13.559 --> 01:01:19.920
causes taint bleeding, nowhere else. It's very

01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:23.599
specific between your genitals and anus. Next

01:01:23.599 --> 01:01:26.380
time that commercial comes on, I will send it

01:01:26.380 --> 01:01:29.400
to you and you can hear how jarring the words

01:01:29.400 --> 01:01:33.579
genitals and anus are. It's like they emphasized

01:01:33.579 --> 01:01:37.099
it. They were like, hey, hey, you've got this

01:01:37.099 --> 01:01:40.159
going on. We want to help you, but just know,

01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:44.239
please be well aware. that there is a possibility

01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:47.440
that you could start to bleed between your anus

01:01:47.440 --> 01:01:49.719
and your genitals. We need you to know that.

01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:54.059
So next time, next time it's on, I'll send that

01:01:54.059 --> 01:01:56.719
your way. That is one thing that I will give

01:01:56.719 --> 01:01:59.000
the Europeans and pretty much every other part

01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:02.420
of the world that they aren't subjected to these

01:02:02.420 --> 01:02:05.659
commercials on television because pharmaceutical

01:02:05.659 --> 01:02:07.900
ads do not exist outside of the United States

01:02:07.900 --> 01:02:11.179
as far as I know. Which they shouldn't. They

01:02:11.179 --> 01:02:13.679
shouldn't exist anywhere. That is ridiculous.

01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:16.940
Yeah. Well, where else are you going to see two

01:02:16.940 --> 01:02:20.480
old couples or two old people in separate bathtubs

01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:23.519
on a hillside overlooking a sunset because his

01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:33.019
winter works again. Enjoying non -holiday related

01:02:33.019 --> 01:02:39.719
fireworks. But that's my tangential story is

01:02:39.719 --> 01:02:42.769
over. I think I said genitals and anus probably

01:02:42.769 --> 01:02:47.150
20 times. Too many times, yeah. And on that note,

01:02:47.150 --> 01:02:51.110
I have one more section of this pod. Oh, okay.

01:02:51.650 --> 01:02:57.250
Bring it on home. Do you have any modern superstitions

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that you can think of? Are there any modern day

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examples of knocking on wood or sweeping your

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feet, meaning you're not getting married? I mean,

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one was the... Brilliant marketing lady that

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pulled out her poster board with all the ways

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that monster is satanic Sure. Yeah, that's a

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modern one I'm sure she's the head of PR at Coca

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-Cola now No, I mean most of the stuff that I

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inadvertently do is stuff that I was taught to

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do by parents who were taught to do that by their

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parents, whose parents were taught to do that

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by their parents. Do you have any modern instances?

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I do. There is Macbeth in the theater. Unless

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you are Lin -Manuel Miranda or someone playing

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Alexander Hamilton, you are not supposed to say

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Macbeth in theaters. It is bad luck. What's the

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origin with break a leg? There's something I

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remember reading something about that a long

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time ago. And don't get me wrong, it was not

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from a legitimate source. It was probably like

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an iFunny picture or something like that. It

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was something to do with the cast, I believe.

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Break a leg so you stay in the cast or something

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along those lines. I don't believe that is where

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that originated in the slightest. No, I remember

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that episode where the Simpsons go to London

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and... Ian McKellen is outside a theater, and

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Homer's like, oh, you're in Macbeth? And then,

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sorry, Sir Ian McKellen says, oh, well, it's

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bad luck to say the name of the play. What do

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you mean, Macbeth? Well, yeah, the specific name

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of this specific play, and then all this stuff

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just starts falling down on Ian McKellen. Sir

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Ian McKellen. Sir Ian McKellen, sorry. If you're

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gonna commit to it, you gotta commit to it. Sorry,

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I forgot he got his knighthood. Break a leg comes

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from, it's essentially the reverse of knocking

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on wood. If you say something that you think

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might invite bad luck, you knock on wood to bring

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good luck. If you say break a leg, you are essentially

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saying something that is bad luck. So they will

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actually get good luck. Okay. Wishing for good

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luck invites evil spirit. So wishing. Wishing

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for misfortune, like a broken leg, tricks fate

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into bringing success. Okay. I also have... Reverse

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psychology. Yeah. With spirits. Chain messages

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were a thing that came up in my research. The

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send this or else emails that everybody got for

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a brief window there. I was a part of those for

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a while. Oh, you were? No. I was, yeah. I used

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to get them a lot. from one specific friend and

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my, yeah, I got them from one specific friend

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and then I would get them from like grandma and

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mom. Oh, yeah, I would get them from mom. Hope

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you have a good day. Look at these puppies. If

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you don't send this to 15 people, you might die.

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They all get it. And then you don't send it and

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someone sends you a video and you don't want

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to open it, but you do. The curiosity gets the

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better of you. All of a sudden you're just, your

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screen is full. of these cute, innocent puppies,

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all of a sudden someone comes in from out of

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frame, holds a nine mil to the two -week -old

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Labrador's head and says, you did this. This

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is because of you. You didn't send this to 10

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people. This is what you've done. You have to

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live with this. And then no more Labrador. That's

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all your fault. That reminds me of that Key and

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Peel sketch where, I forget which one it is,

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but one of them is like, do you have a dollar

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to save a child? He's like, yeah, you know, I

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got a dollar. So he gives them one and then a

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van pulls up. They just push one kid out. Just

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wait, wait, wait, five more. Manifestation also

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superstition. All of these manifesting girlies

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who are creating their dream worlds. I believe

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in manifestation to an extent. Yeah. I mean,

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manifest destiny worked out for a certain group

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of people pretty well. So. Don't know that I

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think about it in that context, but sure. I believe

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that you attract the energy that you put out.

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And so I think a lot of the, the manifestation

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stuff is hoolie, but I also think that there

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is. Unless you're a magnet, then you attract

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the opposite of the energy you put out. So. That

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is true. Yeah. Uh, yeah, I, I'm not a big like

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dively manifesting person, but. I do think you

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get what you give. Hey, callback to our last

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episode. So essentially what you're saying is

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do good things, good things happen. Do bad things,

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bad things happen. Oh, such a great show. Such

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a great show. I am almost done with my rewatch

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of it. My most recent rewatch of it. We started

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a while ago and then I didn't feel like Emily

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was really into it so we switched to Raising

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Hope. I made it through like two seasons and

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then just got busy with life and stuff. I wasn't

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the biggest fan of Raising Hope after a couple

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of seasons. Yeah. Once Jimmy and Sabrina get

01:08:39.510 --> 01:08:42.710
together it's... Yeah. Like where do we go now?

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I will say though that my YouTube algorithm,

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because I never watch the shorts, my YouTube

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algorithm will only show me shorts from like

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three shows. It's one Disney show. it's mom from

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CBS and it's raising hope. I've probably seen

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the entirety of the show out of the shorts on

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my reference page. In short form? Yes. Well,

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I mean, if you're going to be subjected to something

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like that, that's one of the better things to

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be subjected to. Sure, of course. I'm glad I'm

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not a... Not in a lot of the other camps of the

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YouTube shorts algorithm. What if all of your

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shorts were just budget bro stuff? Crypto stuff?

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I think I would cancel my YouTube premium subscription

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and take a moment to reflect. I've done something

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wrong. That's probably fair. Any parting words

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of wisdom? Don't get your child a guinea pig.

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Okay. That is fair. What about guinea pig adjacent

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pets? No hamsters. Gerbils. hamsters, sugar gliders,

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ferrets. You definitely should not get your child

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a ferret. You want them to grow up with no friends?

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Get them the stinkiest animal that you can possibly

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have. That would be a penguin. I don't think

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that you're legally allowed to own penguins unless

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you are Mr. Pop. Can you legally own a penguin

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in Texas? It's anywhere. It's owning a penguin

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as a pet is illegal in most countries including

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the United States This answer is from tab. I

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don't care What countries can you own a penguin

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in countries like South Africa Australia Peru

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Chile New Zealand and several subantarctic islands

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are home to the various 18 penguin species This

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answer is from fluffy planet comm It's from what

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.com? Fluffy planet, but it was like Fluffly

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Planet. I don't know. Sometimes her silly Australian

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accent doesn't translate well. That's funny.

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My echo is Indian. Oh, that's... That seems a

01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:04.420
little racist. Is it? Indian man or Indian woman?

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Woman. Does it bob around when it's answering

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your question? That was racist. All right, well...

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My parting words of wisdom for this episode are,

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if you have a superstition, that's fine. You

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do you, man. Don't get cranky at me when I don't

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subscribe to that superstition and we'll all

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be, we'll all be gravy. Mine your own biscuits

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and life will be gravy. And with that, we're

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out. We'll see ya.