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Little House of Mahj - Episode 5 - The Big Card Review and Fun Sister Facts · Little House of Mahj

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  Welcome back, everyone. Today you get to hear about
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  Tina's latest Maj. purchases. Little hint it involves dice,
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  birds and bunnies. Any guesses?
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  There's also a fun facts section about us and we review the big
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  card, what we like about it, and what we don't like about it.
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  Here we go. Welcome to the little house.
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  We're four sisters. We learned a new.
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  Game we all. Love.
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  It and we hope you feel the same, so come on in.
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  Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Little House of Maj.
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  Hi. I'm Lisa.
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  I'm Tina. I'm Amy.
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  I'm Teresa. And we're the little House of
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  Maj. We're so happy you came back.
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  Episode 5. We're ready to go.
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  Tina, you we were chit chatting before we were recording and you
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  said that you bought something new.
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  She's always buying something I do.
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  No, I bought the cutest little. Trinket for the.
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  Dice on the table. It's just this little trinket.
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  It's a trinket box. It's a bird.
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  It's like a little, I think it's a Sparrow, but it's bedazzled.
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  I got it on Amazon. How big is it?
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  So is it ceramic? It's like a ceramic little bird.
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  Kind of, I guess. And it opens up and you put your
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  dice in it and then you can pass it around.
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  I'm looking at it right now. I wish you could.
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  See it? It's pictures, so it's.
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  Literally the shape of a bird. It's a bird and you open it.
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  Up it's a. Vessel to hold your.
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  It's a dice vessel, it. Could also be a pill box for a
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  95 year old. Well, it does kind of give old
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  person vibes, but it's. Horrible.
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  When do you need a? Do you need something to hold
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  your dice? Does it get in the way of the
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  room for snack? No, it's.
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  Little I'm concerned. You guys, you cannot simply pass
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  the dice around. You must have a vessel.
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  For your dice. You need a.
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  You need to have a little. A little it is adorable or
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  looking at a picture of it, it is very cute.
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  Well, and I'll tell you this could be a collector's item so
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  #1. Sorts of different ones.
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  So I am going to get one because, I mean, I have very
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  plain dice and it's embarrassing and I'm looking at the options.
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  There's a blue Jay, there's a lot of different other birds.
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  There's a gold. One, there's this.
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  Awesome one. That's a Peacock.
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  But from the review bird bam. I know, but the reviews I hear
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  that the dice don't fit well in the.
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  So you know what we're going to when this episode comes out, we
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  are going to put a picture on Instagram and Facebook.
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  If you're wondering what the heck we're talking about because
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  I have never seen anything like this.
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  I haven't. Heard I've never even heard of a
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  dice holder of any kind. Well, and there's different.
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  I'm really tempted to get matching ones for different
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  sets. I'm going to collect them all.
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  I'm going to have. I'm going to collect them all.
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  You can do a review. We can do a review a flock.
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  A flock A. Little bit the best perfect.
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  Anyway, that's that was my. New thing, Amy, Speaking of you,
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  you have had a few, a big week, few big weeks in your life.
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  Yes, we are moving. So there is house buying and
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  selling that has occurred the last couple weeks.
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  I have walked through the house. We have not moved in yet and
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  thought where Yeah are we going to play my?
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  Is there a mage room? What are you?
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  Going to do. I mean, it's not, it's tricky
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  guys, you get. A lot of rooms in that house.
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  You can. You can but like commandeer one
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  for the Maj. but I. Don't really want a permanent
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  spot. Like that's a big commitment.
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  Yeah, to actually have a permanent spot.
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  And I did think I'm like, you know what, it's the little House
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  of Maj. We play in the house and you
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  know, that's the. Well, we do, yeah, our recording
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  studios in our little house and we do play in there a lot, but
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  sometimes we play but. Other people but that bar in the
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  basement. Think of the snack assortment.
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  Snack potential is out of this world.
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  It's fantastic. Anyway, so that's.
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  Exciting, very exciting. More to correct.
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  Yeah, more to correct speaking. Well, we'll just wrap this up a
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  little bit here. Speaking of new items, Tina, you
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  got a new mat that I think really encapsulates one of your
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  passions in life. I've got OK, so again, I know
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  we've touched on this before. I have tons of tiles, I have way
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  too many mats and I just got this mat.
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  It's gorgeous, unnecessary mat, but.
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  They're all unnecessary. It's it's this cute.
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  I'm sure a lot of you have seen it.
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  It's this cute mat with bunnies playing tennis because I'm a I'm
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  a avid tennis fan. I play a lot of tennis.
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  It's. Adorable, but it has nothing to
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  do with mahjong. It's a mahjong.
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  Mat Tina is a big tennis player. I have seen her play tennis many
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  times I've played against her and let's just say the intensity
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  and passion that she brings to the game of mahjong is
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  translated into her tennis game. So.
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  I'm a little competitive. Question.
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  I respect that. Which game are you more
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  competitive in, Mahjong or tennis?
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  That's a really good question. Well, first of all, it's totally
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  different because mahjong. I don't expect to win all the
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  time like that. That would be insane.
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  I don't like losing when I play tennis.
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  Of course I. That's what I said.
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  Of course you lose. But it bothers me more to lose
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  in tennis than it does in mahjong.
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  Because mahjong, you're gonna lose, right?
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  There's more luck in mahjong. To me, it's not all that's.
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  Right. I'm a lot more intense with
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  tennis than I am with mahjong, which kind of might be a
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  frightening thing too. So Teresa, yes, we're just
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  sharing so many. We're sharing about fun facts
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  horseback riding. Oh yes, when you competed, yes,
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  Which is more I think I know the answer to.
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  This Well, let's just say I competed in the sport of
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  eventing, which is very intense and takes a lot of work and
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  practice. And yes, I was a lot more
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  passionate about that. There's no snacks and eventing
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  so I do like mahjong better. You did.
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  Like feeding the horse carrots though, you did feel good about.
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  That loves carrots anyway. No, I was more passionate about
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  that. To me, again, as I've said all
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  along, mahjong is about fun. It's about hanging with my
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  sisters, having a good. Time and winning so I'm kidding
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  so. Kidding.
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  No pressure on it. Amy, you've mentioned a few
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  times about your analytical. Really.
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  Calculating the probabilities. I don't know that you want to
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  share what you do for work, but what?
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  What do you feel like uses the most brainpower for you?
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  I would say mahjong is up there. It's up there.
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  There is the combination of calculating the probability
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  based on what tiles have been discarded.
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  There's statistics. Involved.
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  The lines as well as. That was me snoring.
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  What what I am impressed with is people who can quickly make a
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  decision. Oh boy, me too.
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  Because I am not there yet. Me neither.
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  And then I doubt myself. And then I have regrets.
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  One thing you do, you're very stealthy.
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  You don't give a lot of way away when you play.
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  She has a. Poker Face.
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  We're like all, she said, and she says like, what the heck,
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  Where did that come from? Yeah.
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  She has a good poker face, not like me.
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  I have got to work on my chitter chatter giving away too much, I
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  think sometimes. I don't realize it, but Amy,
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  you're really good about. Yeah.
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  You're very. Excellent.
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  It it really is just a matter of I can only focus on one thing
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  and I pretty much zone everything else out so.
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  You know. It's not.
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  A skill, yeah, society made. Star Wars tiles.
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  Star Trek *. Trek I'm.
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  Sorry. Oh.
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  My. God, Star Trek I'm embarrassed
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  for. You OK?
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  I'm. So embarrassed.
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  I'm not embarrassed for you. Not no staying.
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  You want to talk about a fight? OK, I'm thinking about stepping
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  away right now. I'm.
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  Sorry, deep breath starts. It needs a moment.
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  But. Tina.
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  I'm sorry, I'm sorry. OK, listen, we got to keep, we
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  got to think we better move on because there's.
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  We're going to. Move on.
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  One of the things that we want to talk about.
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  Today. This is not going to end well,
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  everybody. One of the things we wanted to
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  talk about was the card now, not the normal What's the name of
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  the? Official card.
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  I can't remember to save my. Life, 2020. 6 But we all know
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  that there are other cards out there.
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  One of the ones that we have played with a little bit is
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  called the Big Card that we just wanted to quickly talk about how
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  it's different, what we like about it, what we don't like
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  about it. It's made by I Love Maj.
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  It's made by. The Maj.
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  Online. Here's the thing I'm going to
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  tell right off the bat when people talk about the big card,
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  I was confused from day one because the big card I thought
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  was the big version of the American National League card.
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  Like it was just physically bigger because I didn't put it
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  together. But then when I saw this, well,
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  it is slightly physically bigger.
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  It's the one everybody that is purple and pink and says but
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  it's. Completely different it is.
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  Correct. But I think there was confusion.
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  There was confusion for me. Maybe I'm the only.
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  One funny that you thought that. Again, it is not the official
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  card. It is stated all over.
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  It is not used for tournament play.
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  It is not official. Just for fun.
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  So what? Who cares?
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  You know, it's just a fun. It's a fun thing.
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  A different card, I thought. So first of all, where do you
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  buy the card? I I don't even know because Amy,
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  I think you bought this for me. Where did you get it?
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  I think it's just a website for. Mahjongline.
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  There's a big. Card.com.
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  I don't remember, but just online.
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  Yeah, you just bought it. Very easy.
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  And so just real quickly for those of you who've never seen
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  it, the sections, there's a lot of similarities.
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  There's really two different sections that are kind of
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  unusual. 1 is called mad math and one is called big brain and
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  they have completely different assortment combinations of lines
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  that really you've never seen before.
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  There's other sections 135792468 very similar as.
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  Consecutive numbers, yeah. Right, here's the thing that I
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  liked about it and we can kind of do a little round Robin.
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  I like that there's not as many pair options cause to me, some
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  of I especially I think in the 2026 card, it kind of rules out
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  a lot of the lines if you don't already have them.
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  So for me, that's one of the things I like about it.
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  Anybody else have? Thoughts.
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  It's easier I think. That's why I.
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  Like it? I mean, no, I think.
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  It is. There's more pongs.
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  You know what I like about it? Random.
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  It's waterproof, it's laminated, and when Lee drives me my Aqua
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  Majmat, we can use them in the pool.
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  Anyway, there you go. So I have a couple of thoughts
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  on this. OK.
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  Number one, I like it because I like it a little bit more
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  because I do think it's a more balanced card, I think.
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  There's more words. Than Dragons, yeah.
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  Really. Multiple.
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  Hands people like. It I like.
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  It this though I I think I'm more interested though in what
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  it represents and I like it more for what it.
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  Yes. They're going deep, and this is
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  going deep. I know people who have a mental
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  blocker because they associate mahjong with the later chapters
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  in life and that's like a blocker for them to getting into
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  it really. Yeah.
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  Like they think you have to wear a moo moo and you get a.
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  It's for old people. What, what?
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  Why is this a youthful card? I think it's more hip.
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  I think it's more modern. I think American mahjong is
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  entering into a new era. OK, right.
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  And so. It's new and fresh.
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  I think it's OK to look in the mirror and take a hard look and
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  say do we need a facelift? Sometimes you'd.
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  Maybe a little here and there. Botox of the mahjong coats.
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  So, you know, I love the game. Our mission is to share the joy
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  that we experience. So you know if, if it needs, if
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  it needs a few drops of minoxidil for growth, for growth
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  and fullness, right? I can relate to that.
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  I can let it grow. That speaks to my heart, Amy.
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  Bring it on. Wow.
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  That was, that was. Really beautiful.
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  That was. A good too, but there's no right
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  or wrong, right? Everyone has.
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  It's fun to. Switch it up.
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  Now I do have a question though. Would you say that for beginners
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  they should learn on the national module?
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  Because I did feel like I was like, oh, I don't know if this
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  is like real or not. Well, I mean.
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  It's a real card if you play out in the wild.
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  It's always going to be. Well, depending on who you play
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  with, I mean if you if you get together with people that play
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  with a big card. My issue is I have a hard time
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  going back and forth between cards because as you might
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  already know about me, I like to learn the card, practice with
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  the card, get good with the card, and to just sit down with
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  the card I've never seen before kind of makes my brain explode
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  and it slows the game down. See, I think that, see, that's
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  what I like about using different cards.
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  The other thing I like about this card which I believe in
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  Episode 1 I mentioned the thing that drives me crazy see about
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  the official card is the colors, the green and the red that.
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  You think? Yeah.
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  This one's more. This one has What does it have?
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  Blue and orange and black so it doesn't immediately align.
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  Attempted to. Match it also by the way it has
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  a few use any wind lines which is not like you might see east
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  and West but they say use any wind which.
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  I think is nice. Do you like how they?
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  Use the wind and there's there's less concealed hands.
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  I don't know if you noticed this.
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  There's less concealed, so there's more options.
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  That's the other thing I like. I like it.
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  Because. I guess concealed hand is an
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  option, but not one I'm probably going to pick.
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  So first time one of us actually plays a concealed hand, that's
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  going to like be a whole episode because none of us have done it.
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  Before Theresa, do you have any deep thoughts?
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  On I like that there's more winds and Dragons sprinkled in.
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  To me it I feel like with the official card, it's almost a
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  given that everyone's going to toss their winds and Dragons.
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  Mostly they're just seem to be wasted a bit on the official
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  card. So I like that there's more
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  options to use them in this card.
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  I like that there's not as many Kongs is on the 2026 official
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  card. I have to echo what Tina said.
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  I think it's a little easier. Yeah, and I think in future
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  episodes we can maybe go with there's variety of other cards
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  than just these two that you can talk about.
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  I kind of like the fact we'll close with this over the course
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  of a year using the same card. If you play a lot, I don't want
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  to say it's boring, but you want to jazz it up a little bit, you
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  know, you want to something a little fresh and different.
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  Or you can dominate on one card and I get my dots.
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  Oh yeah, she puts a dot next to each hand she gets, so she's
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  collecting all the her. Trophies her I.
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  Really want to get the whole card but I'm never going to get
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  concealed hands. Like I honestly don't know how
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  you win a concealed hand like that.
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  Seems bananas. To me, we'll find out.
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  One day we will. Find out.
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  We're going to be the first one. If any of us gets a concealed
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  hand, it's gonna be. Bad.
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  It could be any of us. Don't under.
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  The sealed hand. Underestimate the rest of us,
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  Amy hits. Yes.
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  Yeah, but you exposed. And it was dead.
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  Yeah. I have no record it was.
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  Stolen valor, but. Tina, I think you've offended
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  her enough today. I think.
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  I think you need to let this one slide.
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  OK, Teresa's bringing some facts today.
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  I. Thought it would be fun to give
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  y'all some fun facts about mahjong.
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  So for instance, one of the things that I thought was very
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  interesting that the word Mahjong's means Sparrow in
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  Chinese and the game was named after a Sparrow because the
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  shuffling sound of the tile sounds like birds chirping.
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  Do you think did you think that Amy's a Heaven Burger?
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  Amy is an avid. Burger We should, and we'll talk
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  more about that in future episodes.
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  I love it, I love it. It speaks to me.
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  I love it too. I don't know exactly if
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  shuffling the tile sounds like birds chirping to me.
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  That's a bit of a stress maybe. Sparrows are special.
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  Maybe so, but I think it's I think.
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  It's cute. Sweet.
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  Here's another fun fact, some players wear red underwear when
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  they play mahjong for good luck. What this is a thing?
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  Is there a line of red undies? I don't know.
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  I think we have a marketing opportunity.
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  We have a. Marketing opportunity, brand,
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  everyone. Shoney's.
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  If if there are folks out there who have heard of this or who
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  participate in this, I would like an e-mail please.
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  Maybe not an. E-mail.
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  We don't. Need a picture?
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  Maybe does. Anyone out there wear red
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  underwear? I'm going to start doing that.
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  No, I'm not. That was not she.
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  Could be wearing red underwear right now, we have no idea.
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  That is bananas. Theresa, maybe, maybe the next
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  time you go out in the wild, that'll help your confidence,
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  just knowing there's some just secret under there.
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  I'm gonna look into. That might be worth it.
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  Any other? Who are these people like I
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  want? I need to know more about this.
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  OK, give us one more. Give it.
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  Do you have one more we? Need to know?
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  Here's an interesting fact. Abercrombie and Fitch sold the
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  first mahjong sets in North America in New York City during
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  the 1920s. That is really.
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  Abercrombie and Fitch. First of all, I didn't know
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  Abercrombie and Fitch was that old.
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  But yes, they sold the very first mahjong sets that.
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  That's a fun back to everybody. I think that's a great place to
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  end. All right, because that is
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  interesting. I'm still I'm still at the red
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  panties. OK everybody.
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  Thanks again for listening. This was great.
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  We'll see you next time on. The little House of Maj.
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  everyone. Is welcome in.
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  The. Little.
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  House of Maj.