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How Friday the 13th Works · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh. Chuck is
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  Speaker 1: little podcast called Stuff you Should Know, right, Chuck. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what you guys are listening to now. And if
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  Speaker 1: you are listening to this on its original publishing date,
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  Speaker 1: you should be nervous because that means that tomorrow is Friday. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: and before we really get started, Chuck, I think we
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  Speaker 1: Camera Clark and Party Gabriel. Right, this is actually a
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  Speaker 1: listeners suggestion. Yes, this is our second one. The first
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  Speaker 1: one's body Armory. Yeah, um and uh. Both the Cameron
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  Speaker 1: Friday thirteen, and um, we haven't gotten to the bottom
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  Speaker 1: whether or not they're separated at birth or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a swell, Ida it is. It is so
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  Speaker 1: here we are right the day before. So chuck, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm well, actually I'm a terribly superstitious person. I can't
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  Speaker 1: really say that I'm not, but I know people who
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  Speaker 1: aren't that still kind of take a little extra measure
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  Speaker 1: of caution when Friday the thirteenth rolls around, right? Are
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  Speaker 1: you like that? Uh? No, I'm not really that superstitious,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't really think about Friday. It's not even
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  Speaker 1: on your mind. No. I mean I realized that if
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  Speaker 1: I look at the calendar, but I don't think two
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  Speaker 1: things about it. Okay, one thing, I am of less
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  Speaker 1: intellect than you know, you're just more superstitious. That's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. Um, So Chuck, I guess what I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to say is that there's actually the a phobia. There's
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  Speaker 1: a genuine phobia. I don't consider myself having a phobia,
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  Speaker 1: but there is a phobia on the books. And this
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  Speaker 1: is all you, buddy, It is all me. And that
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  Speaker 1: word that phobia is Paris skevit Eco tree a phobia.
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  Speaker 1: That is awesome, thank you very hard. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: the alphabet when I look at the word it is,
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  Speaker 1: it's it looks like the cyrillic alphabet almost right, it's
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  Speaker 1: like all consonants. Um. But that is the actual fear
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  Speaker 1: of Friday the thirteenth. And people actually do suffer from
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  Speaker 1: this phobia. Um. One of the weird things about it
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  Speaker 1: is it is this particular phobia. Paris skebat Eca tree
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  Speaker 1: a phobia is um a cultural completely cultural construct Western
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  Speaker 1: very much. So yeah again with yeah, so let's let's
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  Speaker 1: get into this. Why do people hate thirteen? First of all,
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  Speaker 1: have you noticed in our building? Um, there's no thirteenth
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  Speaker 1: floor marked on the elevator, right, even though there is
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  Speaker 1: a thirteenth floor, it is marked fourteen right, Okay, but yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's still a thirteenth floor. You can call it whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want. I know, teen. Yeah, you can put lipstick
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  Speaker 1: on a hockey, mom, and you know, still a pit
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  Speaker 1: poll so um. And it's not just floors and buildings.
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  Speaker 1: Hotels often don't have a room thirteen, planes don't have
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  Speaker 1: It's that's just weird, right, it's weird. It's unusual to
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  Speaker 1: me that it's placed such a role in our culture
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  Speaker 1: that they actually go out of their way to do this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and let me give you one more, Uh, Little League Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: when I wore the number thirteen, zero point zero zero
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  Speaker 1: batting average for the season, hit in the head twice.
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  Speaker 1: So it's entirely possible that thirteen isn't a very good number,
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  Speaker 1: possibly an untoward number. It's possible that you stink at baseball.
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  Speaker 1: That's actually much more likely. But okay, so anyway, this
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  Speaker 1: is old, and like you said, it's it's rooted in
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  Speaker 1: in Western culture. And actually the fear of Friday the
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth is the convergence actually of two superstitions and Friday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't liked either of those things for a while.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, it's not just uh, it's this Western conception
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  Speaker 1: of Friday the thirteenth being uh a nervous a nervous
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  Speaker 1: date Um is actually rooted in Norse mythology and Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: and they seem very separate, but they actually came together, um,
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  Speaker 1: and one played off of the other to develop this
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  Speaker 1: current fear we have. So you want to you want
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  Speaker 1: to take it, well, I can tell you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about about the Norse aspect of it. Um. In
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  Speaker 1: Norse mythology, there was a hero called Balder, and Balder
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  Speaker 1: was killed at a banquet by another god, Loki. Did
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  Speaker 1: you ever read Marvel store comics, Loki was always the
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  Speaker 1: bad guy. Yeah. Yeah, And so Balder was killed by Loki,
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  Speaker 1: who basically crashed Balder's party. It was a dinner party
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  Speaker 1: of twelve and he was the thirteenth guest. So that
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  Speaker 1: story when you tie into Christianity, the Last Supper Um,
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  Speaker 1: Judas who betrayed Christ was guest. Yeah. So one of
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  Speaker 1: the common um fears is are common things that's never
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  Speaker 1: go to a dinner party of thirteen. Yeah, it just
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  Speaker 1: seems like a good rule of thumb after you know,
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  Speaker 1: those two very monumental um experiences in history under those circumstances. Um. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So so you said that that kind of ties in
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  Speaker 1: this Last Supper and then this banquet in in christian Uh,
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  Speaker 1: in the Christian religion in Norse mythology, right, Um, And
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  Speaker 1: there's there's actually a kind of a school of thought
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  Speaker 1: out there, and um it basically says that Judaism, Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: and pretty much everything that came after that is rooted
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  Speaker 1: in ancient Egyptian religion. Did you know this? I did not.
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  Speaker 1: You're schooling me. Okay, you're ready. So there's this guy
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  Speaker 1: named Tom Harper. He's an atorium and he compiled a
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  Speaker 1: book in two thousand four called Pagan Christ. And you
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  Speaker 1: can make an argument that he gets a little too granular,
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  Speaker 1: like he's he's proved his point too much, and perhaps
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  Speaker 1: he's being led to see what he wants to see. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But basically what he's he are, he argues, is that UM,
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  Speaker 1: Christianity and Judaism Uh just basically took popular beliefs that
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  Speaker 1: have been around for centuries thanks to the chemites the
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  Speaker 1: ancient Egyptians, specifically between Christianity and the ancient Egyptian mythology. UM. Horace,
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  Speaker 1: who's like the main guy right, which we'll get too later,
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  Speaker 1: and listener, Horace and Jesus Christ bearer a very striking resemblance. UM.
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  Speaker 1: Just some of the details. First of all, their their embodiment,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're like the savior of mankind under each religion.
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  Speaker 1: But then there's details too, like um, both were born
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  Speaker 1: in stables. UM. Both both births were heralded by stars. UM.
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  Speaker 1: Both had the ability to raise the dead Um and Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But the births of both of them were witnessed by shepherds.
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  Speaker 1: It just kind of goes on and on, and he
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  Speaker 1: he finds a couple of hundred comparisons, and as you
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  Speaker 1: as you look at some of you're like, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of a stretch, but some of your like
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  Speaker 1: are these are really close? Right? And it's not like
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  Speaker 1: the ancient Egyptians were um Or without contact with anybody.
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  Speaker 1: The Greeks learned Um, most of what they knew about
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  Speaker 1: mathematics and astronomy and all that from the Egyptian. So
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  Speaker 1: all these people were interacting. It's entirely possible. The thing
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  Speaker 1: is is Harper doesn't necessarily manage to prove anything. He
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  Speaker 1: illuminates a bunch of stuff, which I think was his intention. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but it does underlie or undermine this UM, this competition
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  Speaker 1: that it seems like the early Christian Church had with
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  Speaker 1: everybody else. Right. Um. If you look at one of
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  Speaker 1: the one of the parallels between Horse Um and Uh Christ,
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  Speaker 1: their births were celebrated around the same time UM, and
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  Speaker 1: people point out that things like the choice of when
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  Speaker 1: Christmas lies on Um or when Easter lies on these
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  Speaker 1: were kind of placed around the time of pagan holidays
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  Speaker 1: to compete with them, so people wouldn't would have to choose.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't go, well, I'm gonna be pagan on this
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  Speaker 1: date and then you know, a month down the road,
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  Speaker 1: I could to have Christmas. Two. That's not good, right
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to try to get everybody to your flock. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the one of the pagan groups that
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  Speaker 1: were heavily targeted by the Early Church, where the Norse
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  Speaker 1: and what there's a there's an idea that thirteen. They
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  Speaker 1: already didn't like thirteen. But the Norse were also very
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  Speaker 1: um they venerated women. Uh, and the Early Church was
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  Speaker 1: not big into women having power of any kind. So
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  Speaker 1: um Frigga, who was actually Balder, the hero Balder's mother,
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  Speaker 1: she um used to show up at witch covens, so
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  Speaker 1: there'll be twelve witches and she'd bete under Christian cosmology,
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  Speaker 1: and he time you've got twelve, which is the thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: one is going to be the devil exactly. They were
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  Speaker 1: all these um this competition created all of this um
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  Speaker 1: accepted ideas in one culture were you know, horrible and
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  Speaker 1: and bad and under Christianity, it was competition. Right, that's
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  Speaker 1: good stuff. Thanks a lot. I'm impressed. Okay, So, um, Friday,
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  Speaker 1: the day Friday actually in Christianity is also unlucky, considered
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  Speaker 1: to be unlucky. Yes, you want to take that. Sure, Um,
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  Speaker 1: supposedly Christ was crucified on a Friday, not say supposedly,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they say. And uh, some theologians, theologians excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: say that Adam and Eve eight the forbidden Fruit on
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  Speaker 1: a Friday. So that's another bad mark against it. The
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  Speaker 1: Great Flood began on a Friday when Noah built the
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  Speaker 1: Ark and flooded the earth. No, it didn't flood the earth,
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  Speaker 1: he built the arc. And uh. A lot of Christians
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  Speaker 1: in the past would not begin any new project or
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  Speaker 1: trip on a Friday because they thought it would be doomed. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you take that Friday and you take the thirteen
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  Speaker 1: and you marry them. And a lot of people think
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  Speaker 1: that that's why Friday thirteenth came about. Is badness? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So is that the case? I mean, is that is
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  Speaker 1: that true? Is there badness to it? Well, it depends
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  Speaker 1: on who you ask. Um. There have been studies here
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  Speaker 1: and there there was one in nine the British medical
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  Speaker 1: journal UH published one I love this title is Friday
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth Bad for your Health? And they compared a ratio
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  Speaker 1: of traffic volume to the number of automobile accidents on
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  Speaker 1: Friday to six and Friday over a period of several years,
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  Speaker 1: and what they found out was consistently fewer people chose
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  Speaker 1: to drive on Friday, but the number of hospital admissions
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  Speaker 1: due to UH car accidents went up compared to a
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  Speaker 1: normal Friday. Did did they conclude that it was possibly
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  Speaker 1: because people were a little more on edge on Friday
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  Speaker 1: thirte or what? I think that that was one of
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  Speaker 1: the conclusions. Yeah, which sort of makes But that is
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  Speaker 1: strange that there is a an increase on pay right,
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  Speaker 1: which goes back to the thing that you were talking
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  Speaker 1: about with Harper. Perhaps you're looking. When you're looking for something,
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  Speaker 1: you're bound to find it. I remember And did you
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  Speaker 1: see the movie Pie, Yes, Darren Aronovski's first film, Drill
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  Speaker 1: to the Head. Yeah, that was tough. Um, they've raised
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  Speaker 1: a similar thing. And you know when the old the
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  Speaker 1: old guy kind of assaulted the dude and said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you look for any number, you're gonna find it.
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  Speaker 1: If the number in your head is twenty four you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna find twenty four steps to your apartment twenty four
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  Speaker 1: Uh times that you used a whisk to beat the eggs,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So perhaps that plays a part
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  Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, there's a psychological bias. I guess right,
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  Speaker 1: you're preparing yourself. You're looking harder than usual. Right, that
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  Speaker 1: makes sense. Well, um, you know, if you went to
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  Speaker 1: Italy on Friday the thirteenth, you would probably find very
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  Speaker 1: few people who, um, were particularly moved by it. True
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  Speaker 1: in Italy, actually the unlucky number seventeen because under Roman
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  Speaker 1: numerals that would be what X V I I, and
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  Speaker 1: if you rearrange them to v I x I, that
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  Speaker 1: is he lived and it's past tense. And you often
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  Speaker 1: find that on gravestones. Seventeen is an unlucky number. Try
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  Speaker 1: scaring somebody around here with seventeen. It's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: They'll just blink it you a little bit and walk away. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've got another couple of examples of thirteen being a
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  Speaker 1: good thing. Uh. And Judaism thirteen is and is the
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  Speaker 1: age at which a boy matures into a man. And
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  Speaker 1: you have your bar mitzvah. So that's good. Uh. Colgate University,
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  Speaker 1: did you know this one? No? I didn't share this one.
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  Speaker 1: They are a liberal, liberal arts college in New York,
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  Speaker 1: a state, and they love the number thirteen. The tradition
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  Speaker 1: there they said Colgate was founded by thirteen men with
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  Speaker 1: thirteen dollars and thirteen prayers and thirteen articles and universities
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  Speaker 1: actually at thirteen Oak Drive. So every Friday thirteenth they
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  Speaker 1: throw a big party basically and really embrace it and
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  Speaker 1: where the school colors in that kind of thing. That's
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool. So they're gonna have one tomorrow then, h yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, yeah some excuse me, someone's at Colgate University
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  Speaker 1: right now listening to this and they're swelling some keg
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  Speaker 1: beer to Friday thirteenth. I think that'd be pretty cool. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in Japan and China with the unlucky number,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it for it is four? Because apparently in both languages,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm surprised to hear this um in both languages,
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  Speaker 1: the pronunciation of the number four is very very much
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  Speaker 1: similar to the pronunciation for the word death. So you
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  Speaker 1: may not find a four on like a menu and
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  Speaker 1: a Chinese restaurant or something like that. Right, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to keep an eye out actually in the future. See
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  Speaker 1: if there's a four that's like the number four meal
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  Speaker 1: and a Chinese menu that Yeah, maybe it's happy family. Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: So I got a few more thirteens for you, if
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  Speaker 1: you're if you're patient. Uh. In the world of sports,
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  Speaker 1: there have been some very famous, awesome athletes that wore
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  Speaker 1: the number thirteen, So you would think it would not
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  Speaker 1: be unlucky. Damn Marino one of the best quarterbacks to
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  Speaker 1: ever play, but one of the best quarter x to
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  Speaker 1: ever play and not win a Super Bowl. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: makes you wonder how much better he would have been
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  Speaker 1: had he not warn't thirteen? Right Alex, first thing that
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  Speaker 1: comes to my mind, Sure, Alex Rodriguez, famous baseball player
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  Speaker 1: right now for the New York Yankees. He could be
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  Speaker 1: a superstar. He is a superstar and he wears the
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  Speaker 1: number thirteen. But the Yankees have not been to a
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  Speaker 1: World Series since he joined their roster. That is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Two four, even though they have the powerhouse all star lineup,
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  Speaker 1: So maybe that's unlucky. And Will Chamberlain is thirteen, but
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  Speaker 1: he wants all kinds of things, So yeah, I'd say
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  Speaker 1: that is lucky in that case. Yeah. Yeah, I've heard
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  Speaker 1: people say the third the number thirteen is a lucky number,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not my experience. I'm among you know, a
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  Speaker 1: Rod and Dan Marino is is just a failed sports
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  Speaker 1: figure who to the number thirteen? Well, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I could call them failed sports figures. They he
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  Speaker 1: has a batting average very much higher than zero point zero. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Friday thirteenth films, Sure you've seen some of these. There
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  Speaker 1: have been twelve, including the ones they haven't. Yes, they've
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  Speaker 1: made twelve of those. Well, there there were eleven original films,
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  Speaker 1: including the Freddy versus Jason thing that was pretty much terrible.
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  Speaker 1: But tomorrow actually is the release of the remake of
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  Speaker 1: the original. Yes, and that makes the fourth one in
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  Speaker 1: the series to be released on Friday. Wow, so it's
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  Speaker 1: good marketing. So this is twelve. This is the number
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  Speaker 1: of the twelfth one. Surely they're going to make it
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  Speaker 1: to thirteen, right, Well, they're probably gonna start remaking them all,
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  Speaker 1: I would say if this is successful, and this year
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  Speaker 1: there are three Friday the thirteenths actually, which is kind
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  Speaker 1: of unusual, and two months in a row, February and March,
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  Speaker 1: which is very unusual. So that's good stuff. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: And I got one more for you. The band Black Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: I love Sabbath. Yea, we both do. They released their
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  Speaker 1: debut album and on February Friday, February. That seems like
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  Speaker 1: something they would do. Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. Isn't that crazy.
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  Speaker 1: They've been around since seventy Yeah. Isn't it crazy that
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  Speaker 1: Ozzie can still walk barely? Yeah? Well, that's funny that
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  Speaker 1: you bring up the calendar, Chuck, because I've got one
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  Speaker 1: last little snippet. M One of the reasons why Friday
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  Speaker 1: is a problem is because we moved to a solar
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  Speaker 1: calendar under Pope Gregory the Fifth. I think, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so he he commanded that we moved to a solar
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  Speaker 1: calendar from a lunar calendar. Again paganism. Uh and and
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  Speaker 1: because in the pagan culture and in the pagan calendar,
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  Speaker 1: there are actually thirteen months based on the lunar cycle,
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  Speaker 1: which is connected to the menstrual cycle, which again, gotta
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  Speaker 1: get away from women. There you have it. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna go there. So this Friday the thirteenth, in February,
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  Speaker 1: Friday thirteenth in March. That wouldn't have happened had we
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  Speaker 1: stayed with the original Pagan lunar calendar. Interesting, yes, well,
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  Speaker 1: love you. These are all nice little tidbits. This was
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  Speaker 1: full of water cooler type of that's because there's absolutely
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  Speaker 1: nothing to Friday. The third Team, Well, that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the main points though, is is even though there's all
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  Speaker 1: these ancient things that's rooted in the modern fear or Friday,
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  Speaker 1: evidently most people don't even know these ancient things. So
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty much just one of those things has been
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  Speaker 1: created two for our enjoyment. Nothing to it for basically
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  Speaker 1: one way to get make it through the day on
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  Speaker 1: a Friday. It's a little more on guard than ever.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. Will you guys be safe just
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  Speaker 1: in case, Just in case, this Friday, the next Friday thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: and all Friday thirteenth. We want you around to listen
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  Speaker 1: to our sweet voices for as long as possible, So
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  Speaker 1: don't leave your home. All right, we'll chuck. Do you
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  Speaker 1: So Chuck, what do you have for us, Josh, I
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  Speaker 1: have a listener mail that we're gonna call the Horace
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  Speaker 1: Firestorm of oh nine. We got a lot of emails
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  Speaker 1: about you messing up the fact that I believe you said.
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  Speaker 1: I said Horace was the god. He was the one
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  Speaker 1: with the dog's head, right, I didn't even have the
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  Speaker 1: right animal right incient Egypt. It turns out what I
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  Speaker 1: should have said was Horace says the head of a jackal,
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  Speaker 1: if I were even going to be in the right ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: But that's uh Anubis, Yes, Anubis, one of the two
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  Speaker 1: actually has the head of a jackal, as the ancient
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian god with the head of a jackal Horace. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry everybody. It turns out Horace is the one
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  Speaker 1: with the head of a cat. So I apologize to
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  Speaker 1: everybody who um no, no, no, Horace had the head
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  Speaker 1: a hiku which we love. It is Annabus, Jackal, Horace,
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  Speaker 1: Sun and Moon I Falcon Egypt next podcast, So thank
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  Speaker 1: you Rachel for being so creative with that. Thanks to
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  Speaker 1: all of you. Um. Ever since the first email trickled in,
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  Speaker 1: You have been punched. Horace is not a cat. Well,
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