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C.S. Lewis - The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com Welcome to The Daily Quote, a podcast designed
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  to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host Anna McGivern for December 10th.
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  Today is National Lager Day, celebrating the crisp, cold beer
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  that brings people together. Lager is the world's most
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  popular beer style, accounting for over 90% of global beer
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  production. The name comes from the German
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  word lagerin, meaning to store, because these beers are
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  fermented and stored at cold temperatures for weeks or
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  months. But National Lager Day isn't
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  really about fermentation temperatures or brewing
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  techniques. It's about what happens when you
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  pour 2 pints and push one across the table to a friend.
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  And that brings us to today's quote from CS Lewis, who
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  understood this perfectly. He once wrote The sun looks down
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  on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over
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  a meal or two friends talking over a pint of beer.
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  Lewis spent many of his happiest hours with friends at the Eagle
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  and Child pub in Oxford, drinking beer and talking about
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  everything from theology to poetry to complete nonsense.
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  Those conversations shaped some of the greatest literature in
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  the 20th century. But notice what Lewis is really
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  saying. It's not the beer that's good.
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  It's the two friends talking. The beer is just the excuse, the
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  ritual, the thing that says we're not in a hurry here, we're
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  going to sit down and actually be present with each other.
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  Lager, with its clean, approachable flavor, is the
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  perfect drink for this. It doesn't demand attention.
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  It supports conversation. It's social by nature.
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  Lewis knew that some of life's best moments happened in
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  ordinary places. A pub, a table, two friends and
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  time to talk. That's not frivolous.
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  That's essential. So today, raise a logger.
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  Better yet, invite someone to share one with you.
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  Not for any special occasion, not to celebrate anything
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  particular. Just to sit together, talk,
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  laugh and be present. Because Lewis was right.
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  The sun looks down on nothing half so good as two friends
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  talking over a pint of beer. So find your pub, your table and
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  your friends. The logger is just the excuse
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  that friendship is the point. That's going to do it for today.
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  I'm Andy McGivern, signing off for now but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.