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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of I
- 0:04Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh
- 0:13Speaker 1: and there's Chuck, and Chuck's a seven and I'm a nine,
- 0:17Speaker 1: and this is stuff you should know. Yeah, did you
- 0:22Speaker 1: figure your years out? Are you a nine? Uh? It
- 0:24Speaker 1: depends on my UM seven nine for my birth. I'm
- 0:29Speaker 1: a nine for my UM birth as well my life
- 0:34Speaker 1: cat number. We're both nines, but you're a you're seven
- 0:38Speaker 1: for your destiny number if I figured years out, Hey,
- 0:42Speaker 1: we're all that. That means this all makes sense now, Yeah,
- 0:45Speaker 1: that's why we were meant to be together on the show.
- 0:47Speaker 1: It was preordained by the spirit herself. So we're talking
- 0:54Speaker 1: about numerology, which I guess an overarching definition would be, um,
- 1:00Speaker 1: it's a pseudo scientific practice in which people base things
- 1:06Speaker 1: on numbers, like your destiny and who your romantic partner
- 1:10Speaker 1: should be, and maybe what job you should have and
- 1:13Speaker 1: stuff like this. Uh. And I just want to say
- 1:15Speaker 1: at the beginning of this that there are many different
- 1:19Speaker 1: kinds of numerology, and depending on where you're from, and
- 1:22Speaker 1: there are many different methods and many different charts, and
- 1:25Speaker 1: like we're not going to get too far into the
- 1:27Speaker 1: weeds on those because it's all fake, because it would
- 1:31Speaker 1: just be a super long, like four our episode on numerology.
- 1:36Speaker 1: So this is kind of just an overarching how you know,
- 1:39Speaker 1: that's what we do. It's it's basically how what numerology
- 1:42Speaker 1: is and how it works, and and not all the
- 1:44Speaker 1: specificities of each system. Yeah, because your brain starts to
- 1:49Speaker 1: melt a little bit when you start getting into all that,
- 1:51Speaker 1: and they're all kind of the same. It's just different
- 1:53Speaker 1: variations of sort of the same thing. And I think
- 1:56Speaker 1: the fact that there's so many variations there are supposed
- 1:58Speaker 1: to arrive at a press slice figure kind of also
- 2:04Speaker 1: warns the person to take the whole thing with a
- 2:06Speaker 1: grain of salt. But it's apparently way more popular in
- 2:09Speaker 1: twenty one century America than I realized. How is it?
- 2:12Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I man going to Bustle and The Cut,
- 2:14Speaker 1: and um, there's numerology dot com and there's a lot
- 2:18Speaker 1: a lot of sites that have if they're not like
- 2:23Speaker 1: overtly dedicated to numerology, they have like whole sections dedicated
- 2:27Speaker 1: to numerology and all that stuff. So the cool kids
- 2:29Speaker 1: doing it, I think. So I can't tell if it's
- 2:33Speaker 1: the Millennials or gen Z or I don't know, but
- 2:36Speaker 1: you're not on their Supreme sweatshirt talking about numbers. That's right.
- 2:41Speaker 1: I just met someone who works with them, who works
- 2:44Speaker 1: for Bustle for it, works for Supreme, and we should
- 2:47Speaker 1: shout out to it's uh master guitar player and is
- 2:52Speaker 1: this stuff you should know? Fan Matt Sweeney, who in
- 2:56Speaker 1: the mid nineties had the indie rock sort of math
- 2:59Speaker 1: rock band and Chavez and now has played with everyone
- 3:04Speaker 1: from Johnny Cash to Adele. I know him from his
- 3:07Speaker 1: work with Bonnie Prince Billy and I just saw them
- 3:09Speaker 1: live and I just got to hang out with Sweeney.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Had a great four hour dinner with Matt and his
- 3:14Speaker 1: girlfriend j R. And j R works for Supreme and
- 3:17Speaker 1: was telling me all about it. Well, that's fantastic. I
- 3:19Speaker 1: have someone I'd like to shout out. Let's do it.
- 3:22Speaker 1: I'd like to shout out listener Jimmy McCleod, who deend
- 3:25Speaker 1: out took um guitar lessons from the same Toledo metal band.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Guitar that's me. I saw that that was ramusic in Toledo.
- 3:34Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, this is all absolutely correct,
- 3:38Speaker 1: And he said yes. Indeed, like this guy was in
- 3:40Speaker 1: attentive at best. He would just go out and and
- 3:43Speaker 1: talk to people in the store in the middle of
- 3:45Speaker 1: in the middle of the lessons, I was like, yeah,
- 3:47Speaker 1: that's right, so thank you for that. That was putting
- 3:50Speaker 1: all those pieces together for me. My brain don't work
- 3:53Speaker 1: so so good. Yeah, multiple shoutouts. Is there anything else
- 3:57Speaker 1: we can talk about that's not numerology. I've got one
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- 4:28Speaker 1: to them. It's right me, Mike, Okay, that's it for
- 4:31Speaker 1: shout outs, Bunny, all right, that's it. So how do
- 4:34Speaker 1: we even get oh supreme right, all right, let's talk
- 4:39Speaker 1: about numerology. So there is a thought among some people
- 4:44Speaker 1: that numbers have these mystical properties. That's the basis of
- 4:47Speaker 1: the whole thing, the basis of the whole thing, and
- 4:49Speaker 1: that that some people even think that these numbers, like
- 4:53Speaker 1: all things on the planet, have an inherent vibration and
- 4:56Speaker 1: a unique vibration. And if you guide your life by
- 5:02Speaker 1: numbers that have vibrations that are in sync with one another,
- 5:08Speaker 1: then you can lead a more complete life and lead
- 5:12Speaker 1: your best life. Yeah, and the way that ties into
- 5:15Speaker 1: numbers is the idea that that numbers basically run everything.
- 5:20Speaker 1: That that that the properties that an individual number has
- 5:26Speaker 1: can be attributed to things that are associated with that number.
- 5:29Speaker 1: And you can break everything down into a number. And
- 5:33Speaker 1: if you can break something down, if you can divine
- 5:35Speaker 1: something's number, you can figure out what lies ahead for them,
- 5:39Speaker 1: what their personality types going to be, what their challenges are,
- 5:43Speaker 1: um and it depending on some numerology systems, you could
- 5:48Speaker 1: figure out what you're lucky day is, what numbers you
- 5:51Speaker 1: should play in the latto, like all sorts of different stuff.
- 5:54Speaker 1: But the idea goes well beyond, you know, like picking
- 5:56Speaker 1: something at roulette. It's it's like the idea numerology is
- 6:00Speaker 1: very much akin to astrology, where based on your name,
- 6:04Speaker 1: your date of birth, and a few other factors that
- 6:07Speaker 1: are inherent to you. If you combine those into a number,
- 6:12Speaker 1: you can figure out what number you're associated with, and
- 6:14Speaker 1: hence what your destiny will be. That's basically the general
- 6:18Speaker 1: basis of all numerological systems, right, and that The father
- 6:24Speaker 1: of Western numerology is Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher born in
- 6:32Speaker 1: five sixty nine BC who studied numbers and studied music
- 6:37Speaker 1: and art and all kinds of things. But I think
- 6:41Speaker 1: one of the things Pythagoras like to do is say, like, hey,
- 6:45Speaker 1: you can actually take the the pluck of a of
- 6:49Speaker 1: a leer string and you can break that down into
- 6:53Speaker 1: a number, Like that unique vibration of that note has
- 6:57Speaker 1: its own number that we can assign to it. That
- 6:59Speaker 1: was huge, Yeah, I mean he was coming at it
- 7:02Speaker 1: through some interesting angles at first, I think, And this
- 7:06Speaker 1: was in five sixty nine, This was the twenty first century.
- 7:09Speaker 1: This is when this probably sounded about a good as
- 7:11Speaker 1: good as anything. Yeah. Pythagoras and his followers known as
- 7:14Speaker 1: the Pythagoreans, they that that that school, and I think
- 7:17Speaker 1: Southern Italy um like they were. They were some of
- 7:21Speaker 1: the first people to really apply a study of mathematics
- 7:26Speaker 1: UM and geometry in particular. UM. I think beforehand, geometry
- 7:32Speaker 1: was I saw it described as basically a loose set
- 7:34Speaker 1: of principles that that you could use to like build
- 7:37Speaker 1: a house with or something like that. It wasn't like
- 7:39Speaker 1: a like math in and of itself until Pythagoras came
- 7:42Speaker 1: along and they started realizing like, oh wait, like math
- 7:46Speaker 1: exists on its own, like it's its own thing, and
- 7:49Speaker 1: started studying it like that, and started finding it everywhere,
- 7:52Speaker 1: and started like, like you said, you know that I
- 7:55Speaker 1: saw um a description that the that that Pythagoras and
- 8:01Speaker 1: the Pythagoreans figured out that um, that music like resonant,
- 8:07Speaker 1: like music that's not discordant, but the good stuff UM
- 8:12Speaker 1: is uh like it follows whole integers, and that he
- 8:17Speaker 1: figured it out by hearing how different hammers in a
- 8:20Speaker 1: blacksmith's shop harmonized. And he went and looked, and he
- 8:24Speaker 1: saw that they were those hammers were related mathematically. One
- 8:27Speaker 1: was say, a one pound hammer, and the other one
- 8:30Speaker 1: was part of a whole integer, like a half pound hammer.
- 8:33Speaker 1: And he realized there's such a thing as octaves, and
- 8:36Speaker 1: that like, these were the discoveries they were making and
- 8:39Speaker 1: so as did some really cool stuff. It is and
- 8:41Speaker 1: like just stuff we take for granted is like just
- 8:43Speaker 1: a matter of fact today, like they were figuring out.
- 8:46Speaker 1: They also seemed to have taken a lot of maybe
- 8:49Speaker 1: mushrooms at the time. And then it got weird. They
- 8:52Speaker 1: were drinking reindeer p I'm not sure, but they really
- 8:56Speaker 1: went down the rabbit hole with numbers and start did
- 9:01Speaker 1: finding these things everywhere, and came to the conclusion that
- 9:04Speaker 1: numbers were the basis of the fabric of existence in
- 9:08Speaker 1: life and the universe and everything, and that the the
- 9:11Speaker 1: the answer to the purpose of life, the perfect purpose
- 9:14Speaker 1: of existence, was forty two. All right, I think that's
- 9:18Speaker 1: a good set up, Thank you. All right, well's let's
- 9:20Speaker 1: take a break now and we'll talk more. We'll maybe
- 9:23Speaker 1: shout out some more personal friends and friends of the show,
- 9:26Speaker 1: and then we'll also talk about numerology. Alright. So you
- 9:58Speaker 1: mentioned the Pythagoreans, the people who us into and followed
- 10:01Speaker 1: Pythagoras there in southern Italy and studied with him. They
- 10:05Speaker 1: also came up with some some legit bedrock math that
- 10:08Speaker 1: we still think of today and used today. Like if
- 10:12Speaker 1: you've ever heard of the Pythagorean theorem. It's still very
- 10:15Speaker 1: popular in math class. In maths. Yeah, everybody's got that
- 10:19Speaker 1: T shirt when they're in sixth grade. Uh huh uh
- 10:23Speaker 1: and that's the old uh. In a right triangle, the
- 10:26Speaker 1: square of the length of the hypothenuse is equal to
- 10:28Speaker 1: the some of the squares of the other two sides.
- 10:31Speaker 1: A squared plus B squared equals C squared. And it's
- 10:37Speaker 1: it's interesting that they were coming up with all this
- 10:39Speaker 1: bedrock stuff and this really cool stuff about figuring out
- 10:44Speaker 1: mathematical mathematical proportions of musical harmonies like you were talking about,
- 10:49Speaker 1: and like, I'm so down with all that. And then
- 10:51Speaker 1: someone goes, hey, you know, if you add up a
- 10:55Speaker 1: series of odd numbers beginning with one, the result is
- 10:58Speaker 1: always going to be a square number. And everyone went, oh, man,
- 11:03Speaker 1: that's right. And then Pythagoras said, yeah, all his number.
- 11:09Speaker 1: And then they all together said, all his number, that's
- 11:13Speaker 1: exactly how And from there things got a little weird,
- 11:15Speaker 1: and some people here, all his number and they say, well,
- 11:18Speaker 1: that means that you can just measure everything in the
- 11:22Speaker 1: entire world and you can describe it in terms of
- 11:26Speaker 1: math and numbers and proportions. Fair enough, that's basically the
- 11:29Speaker 1: basis of our understanding of like geometry and physics. Yes,
- 11:33Speaker 1: and then other people said no, no, no no, all his number,
- 11:35Speaker 1: man means like everything in the world is made of numbers.
- 11:40Speaker 1: That tree is a number. You are a number because
- 11:44Speaker 1: they're licking those toads. Yes, and in the background of
- 11:47Speaker 1: reindeer peas quietly into a bucket. So bucket is then
- 11:53Speaker 1: distributed into small mugs. That's that second part of all
- 11:56Speaker 1: his number is um. That's that's the basis of numerology.
- 12:01Speaker 1: And that's where it kind of veers away from science.
- 12:04Speaker 1: And I was reading this, Um, Veers, it takes a
- 12:07Speaker 1: really hard turn. Ye, didn't that what Veers means? I
- 12:12Speaker 1: think veer is a very gentle turn. Oh, I thought,
- 12:14Speaker 1: I think, okay, Corene's away from science. Yeah, there what
- 12:17Speaker 1: you're looking Okay? All right? Um, So I saw a
- 12:21Speaker 1: really interesting article on b v D M B B
- 12:24Speaker 1: B b v D b b g D open mind.
- 12:29Speaker 1: I can't remember, um, but they were they were talking
- 12:32Speaker 1: about Pythagoras and the Pythagorines and how they're like this
- 12:35Speaker 1: full chrome where numbers went from mystical things having a
- 12:40Speaker 1: mystical quality to bringing them into science and then taking
- 12:44Speaker 1: it right back into mysticism again, which is really odd,
- 12:48Speaker 1: but that's that's really what happened. And it was part
- 12:51Speaker 1: partially because they got so wrapped up in the idea
- 12:53Speaker 1: that all his number and they were a really weird
- 12:56Speaker 1: group of people. They met their end really violently, um
- 13:00Speaker 1: in southern Italy, uh, where their their school was sacked
- 13:04Speaker 1: and burned. At least fifty of them were killed. Um.
- 13:07Speaker 1: But like you said, they had created like a real
- 13:10Speaker 1: foundation for our understanding of math and the idea that
- 13:14Speaker 1: math was this thing that exists out there waiting for
- 13:17Speaker 1: us to discover and that it has a lot to
- 13:19Speaker 1: do with our life. But that the mystical qualities associated
- 13:23Speaker 1: kind of died with Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. That's right, Um,
- 13:29Speaker 1: I guess I mean, should we get into a little
- 13:30Speaker 1: bit of kind of what they were laying down there? Yeah, alright,
- 13:35Speaker 1: So they were studying these mathematical concepts and they said,
- 13:40Speaker 1: all right, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna sort
- 13:42Speaker 1: numbers into buckets, into categories. Not not the reindeer p bucket,
- 13:46Speaker 1: but into mathematical categories, so levers we can pull. Yeah,
- 13:51Speaker 1: let's just say, let's say one, four, and nine are
- 13:53Speaker 1: square because, uh, if you take pebbles, the corresponding number
- 13:59Speaker 1: of little pebbles or rocks or whatever, you can arrange
- 14:02Speaker 1: them into a square. Again, geometry coming into play. Um, one, three, six,
- 14:07Speaker 1: and ten are triangular because one, three, six, or ten
- 14:10Speaker 1: little pebbles can be arranged into regular triangles. The use
- 14:16Speaker 1: of one is both the square and a triangle. It's like,
- 14:19Speaker 1: I dispute that too. You're gonna have to pick one
- 14:21Speaker 1: or the other. Pythagoreans alright, so it would be falling
- 14:24Speaker 1: apart for you already if you were back there, just
- 14:26Speaker 1: there though, just there everything else. I was like, yeah, yeah,
- 14:29Speaker 1: all is number, Give me some more, baby, Uh, two,
- 14:32Speaker 1: six and twelve or oblong. So the corresponding number is
- 14:36Speaker 1: a rectangle. And so they're doing this kind of thing,
- 14:40Speaker 1: and then they start getting into non numerical stuff and saying,
- 14:45Speaker 1: all right, odd numbers are masculine. Even numbers are feminine. Uh,
- 14:49Speaker 1: the number one is creative because if you add multiple ones,
- 14:54Speaker 1: you can create any other number. Bro, what what else
- 14:59Speaker 1: is there? Well? To um, so odd is masculine, even
- 15:03Speaker 1: are feminine. Like you said, so two is the first
- 15:06Speaker 1: feminine number. It represents duality there two. Um. Three is
- 15:12Speaker 1: the first masculine number because like you said, one is
- 15:14Speaker 1: its own thing. It's a creator number. And so uh
- 15:19Speaker 1: five yeah, five is the is represents marriage because it's
- 15:25Speaker 1: where the first masculine number in the first feminine number.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Um add up to just stuff like that, Like these
- 15:32Speaker 1: people clearly a way too much time on their hands
- 15:36Speaker 1: to think of something like that, um. And so like
- 15:40Speaker 1: each number one through nine, this is very important because
- 15:43Speaker 1: we didn't say it earlier when we introduced numerology, but
- 15:47Speaker 1: in numerological systems, one through nine are the prime and
- 15:52Speaker 1: I don't mean that mathematically, the most important, the most used,
- 15:55Speaker 1: the most useful numbers, right, Um, So one through nine
- 16:01Speaker 1: are the ones to focus on, and that also came
- 16:04Speaker 1: directly from the Pythagoreans. They focused mostly on the numbers
- 16:08Speaker 1: one through nine as well, right uh. And I think
- 16:12Speaker 1: a goal for a lot of these charts is to
- 16:13Speaker 1: get your number down to one of those single digits eventually, right. Yeah,
- 16:18Speaker 1: that was for for most systems, and with most numbers
- 16:21Speaker 1: we'll talk about it, but yes, you ultimately want to
- 16:23Speaker 1: get it down to one of those single digit numbers. Yeah, yeah,
- 16:27Speaker 1: because you can't be ten because ten is a sacred number.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Because someone said, you know, if you add up the
- 16:33Speaker 1: first four digits, it equals ten. Bro, And they did
- 16:38Speaker 1: stuff like that. They did stuff like that. But also
- 16:39Speaker 1: I just want to point out one of the other
- 16:41Speaker 1: things they did that. I'm like, I didn't even know
- 16:43Speaker 1: these existed, so I'm I'm still impressed. They were the
- 16:46Speaker 1: first ones to detect perfect numbers. And a perfect number
- 16:50Speaker 1: is a number where the divisors add up to form
- 16:53Speaker 1: the number. So six is a perfect number because if
- 16:56Speaker 1: you add as divisors devisors being one, two, and three,
- 17:01Speaker 1: they add up to six. So I mean there is
- 17:04Speaker 1: some neat stuff that is actually I think useful that
- 17:07Speaker 1: came out of it. But yes, other of other other
- 17:09Speaker 1: stuff is like, yes, ten is sacred because if you
- 17:12Speaker 1: add up one to three and four it comes up
- 17:14Speaker 1: to ten. It's like, what about five, six, seven, eight,
- 17:16Speaker 1: and nine? Jack, just canna ignore those? Yes, yes, we
- 17:21Speaker 1: are yes. The number ten also led to the list
- 17:24Speaker 1: of ten fundamental opposites um a few of which are
- 17:28Speaker 1: one and many rest in motion good and evil stuff
- 17:32Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, straight and crooked, sure, light and dark,
- 17:36Speaker 1: straight and crooked, yin and yang. That's not in there,
- 17:40Speaker 1: is it? You had to look? All right? So look,
- 17:44Speaker 1: here's the thing. Because there was a really ironic end
- 17:48Speaker 1: to the Pythagoreans because they look too hard into numbers
- 17:54Speaker 1: and how numbers related to the universe, that they actually
- 17:59Speaker 1: found that everything doesn't fit into some neat and tidy
- 18:03Speaker 1: box like they thought. And supposedly one of the Pythagoreans
- 18:08Speaker 1: was kind of hanging around doing some equations and formula
- 18:11Speaker 1: at some point and tried to come up with the
- 18:13Speaker 1: square root of two and discovered the existence of irrational numbers.
- 18:17Speaker 1: And an irrational number is a number that has a
- 18:20Speaker 1: non repeating, non terminating decimal. It just goes on infinitely
- 18:26Speaker 1: like pie is an irrational number. The square root of two,
- 18:30Speaker 1: like the Pythagorines figured as an irrational number, and it
- 18:32Speaker 1: can't be represented in a simple fraction like every other number.
- 18:37Speaker 1: Rational numbers is what they're called. And apparently when they
- 18:40Speaker 1: found this out, it kind of like their worldview crumbled.
- 18:43Speaker 1: Do all his number thing crumbled because they couldn't figure
- 18:47Speaker 1: out how this would apply to like an orderly, beautiful universe. Um.
- 18:52Speaker 1: And apparently they even before they were sacked and burned
- 18:56Speaker 1: and killed. They the school kind of like fell into
- 19:00Speaker 1: dark times once they figured out there were such things
- 19:02Speaker 1: as irrational numbers. Yeah, that's what happens when you're in
- 19:06Speaker 1: a cult. Yeah, kind of your face with reality and
- 19:09Speaker 1: it usually doesn't go very well. So after the death
- 19:13Speaker 1: of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, um, the mysticism, all this
- 19:19Speaker 1: stuff kind of faded away a little bit and was
- 19:22Speaker 1: resurrected in the eighteen hundreds, um, kind of notably with
- 19:26Speaker 1: the writings of a book from Mrs l. Dal Baallyette
- 19:31Speaker 1: a k A. Josie. I don't get it that was
- 19:34Speaker 1: her name, Okay. I think her husband's name was l.
- 19:40Speaker 1: Dal Her name was Joseph Jane Josie Balliette. So I
- 19:44Speaker 1: was looking up anything on this this person, and like
- 19:47Speaker 1: she is just nowhere. Um. But she wrote a bunch
- 19:51Speaker 1: of books, but very little is known about her except
- 19:53Speaker 1: she died at age eighty four in Atlantic City. I
- 19:55Speaker 1: read very interesting. But she was the first one to
- 19:59Speaker 1: kind of come along and say vibrations, right. Yeah, And
- 20:02Speaker 1: you know, there were there were other people that were
- 20:04Speaker 1: writing books and stuff. It didn't like completely completely go away.
- 20:07Speaker 1: But I think these books that talked about vibrations and
- 20:11Speaker 1: that talked about music and numbers and colors being you know,
- 20:14Speaker 1: because there's a little bit of synesthigious sort of thrown
- 20:17Speaker 1: in here as well. If some of this kind of
- 20:19Speaker 1: sounds familiar with colors and numbers representing like the same thing.
- 20:25Speaker 1: And so she was talking about everything and all these
- 20:28Speaker 1: numbers having vibrations. Uh, people, food, a tree, a bicycle,
- 20:33Speaker 1: anything has a vibration. And if you and this idea
- 20:37Speaker 1: that I spoke about earlier, if you want to live
- 20:39Speaker 1: in harmony in the world, then your environment should and
- 20:43Speaker 1: the numbers of your environment that have been assigned need
- 20:46Speaker 1: to match your own vibration in your own number. And
- 20:51Speaker 1: you know, this is where it definitely this is kind
- 20:54Speaker 1: of what we think of as modern numerology at this point. Yeah.
- 20:57Speaker 1: One thing, one interesting thing about vibrations, especially sleep about
- 21:00Speaker 1: like an old timey nineteenth century writer, new age writer
- 21:04Speaker 1: basically talking about vibrations, um is that that's that's actually
- 21:09Speaker 1: the basis of some of the theories of how subatomic
- 21:13Speaker 1: particles behave vibrations, like string theories, based on the idea
- 21:17Speaker 1: that subatomic particles are actually vibrating strings of energy that
- 21:21Speaker 1: vibrate at different frequencies, and that those differing frequencies produce
- 21:26Speaker 1: their shape or their form um, which is I just
- 21:30Speaker 1: find that endlessly fascinating that it's almost, in some weird
- 21:33Speaker 1: way predicted string theory. But is it just one of
- 21:38Speaker 1: those things where it's like, yeah, I mean vibrations, especially
- 21:41Speaker 1: if you're into things like music, Um, it's not like
- 21:45Speaker 1: that far of a stretch or was it like, yeah,
- 21:48Speaker 1: they were tapped into some sort of weird preternatural understanding
- 21:52Speaker 1: of subatomic physics. Yeah, super interesting. Pythagoras also believed that
- 21:57Speaker 1: this vibration could have had some thing to do with
- 22:00Speaker 1: what was called the music of the spheres, which is
- 22:03Speaker 1: what he believed like the planets were embedded in these
- 22:07Speaker 1: transparent physical spheres, and the distance between them corresponded to
- 22:11Speaker 1: these musical ratios, and these are the sounds that the
- 22:15Speaker 1: planets that these vibrations that the planets in the Sun
- 22:18Speaker 1: make while orbiting the Earth. Were the little off on
- 22:20Speaker 1: that one when they wasn't that on the Golden Records?
- 22:23Speaker 1: Didn't Carl Sagan create like an homage to that on
- 22:25Speaker 1: the Golden records. I think so I knew it sounded familiar.
- 22:29Speaker 1: We talked about it before. I do also want to
- 22:32Speaker 1: shout out a company if you're looking to get a
- 22:35Speaker 1: kind of the best wind chime that you can buy. No,
- 22:40Speaker 1: there's a company out of Boston called Music of the Spheres.
- 22:43Speaker 1: Oh cool, and they're amazing, like you can get it's
- 22:46Speaker 1: I've got several sets in different places and they they're
- 22:49Speaker 1: just I wanted to shout them out for a while,
- 22:51Speaker 1: because when someone just makes something great, you know this,
- 22:55Speaker 1: This ain't no uh big box wind chime. Wind chimes
- 23:00Speaker 1: are us these beautiful sounds. No, it's a Music of
- 23:03Speaker 1: the sphere. So so wait a minute. You're you're poking
- 23:05Speaker 1: fun at people who are talking about how ten is
- 23:07Speaker 1: a holy number because one through four it up to
- 23:09Speaker 1: ten and you have multiple wind chimes at your house.
- 23:12Speaker 1: I love wind chimes. I got one of those big
- 23:16Speaker 1: doggers at my camp, like way up in a tree,
- 23:19Speaker 1: and these things, I mean, it took a lot to
- 23:20Speaker 1: get them up there. They're heavy, but they're like five
- 23:22Speaker 1: ft long. They're these I'm sure the girls are really
- 23:27Speaker 1: happy you've moved in. Hey, we still bears despite the chime.
- 23:31Speaker 1: Oh is the bear back? Has it been back? No?
- 23:34Speaker 1: But I put the chime up and the bear came afterwards,
- 23:36Speaker 1: So I think they're attracted to it. I got you
- 23:38Speaker 1: sase bears come get a picnic basket. So, uh, where
- 23:45Speaker 1: are we here? Well, we're talking about modern numerology, right, Yeah,
- 23:50Speaker 1: I guess we should talk a little bit about I mean,
- 23:53Speaker 1: should we take a break and then talk about that?
- 23:54Speaker 1: I think you're right, Chuck, I think all right, we'll
- 23:56Speaker 1: take a break and we'll talk about sort of modern
- 23:58Speaker 1: numerology and how we come up with our own numbers
- 24:01Speaker 1: and what that even means right after this? All right,
- 24:32Speaker 1: So we talked to talk about how one through nine
- 24:34Speaker 1: are inherently important to UM modern numerologists and the Pythagoreans
- 24:39Speaker 1: to right correct, and that each of those numbers one
- 24:42Speaker 1: through nine has its own vibration, and those vibrations give
- 24:46Speaker 1: that number certain property. And I'm talking properties like um leadership, harmony, karma, wisdom, curiosity,
- 24:56Speaker 1: like intangible but important properties that humans could conceivably possess
- 25:04Speaker 1: numbers in these numbers, different numbers inherently have. That's right,
- 25:10Speaker 1: And depending on what system you're using, there is going
- 25:13Speaker 1: to be a chart that where a letter corresponds with
- 25:17Speaker 1: the number is usually and can be as easy as
- 25:20Speaker 1: A as one, B as two, and so on and uh,
- 25:25Speaker 1: like we said, there there are a lot of different
- 25:26Speaker 1: kinds of charts. So depending on which system you're using,
- 25:30Speaker 1: you're going to use that chart and and what you're
- 25:33Speaker 1: gonna do is eventually end up with that single digit number.
- 25:37Speaker 1: So unless there are a couple of exceptions of that, right, well, yeah,
- 25:42Speaker 1: we'll get to those. But there there are a couple
- 25:44Speaker 1: of different numbers that you can get. You can use
- 25:45Speaker 1: your name like your first, middle and last name by birth. Um.
- 25:50Speaker 1: I saw here in this article where it said you
- 25:52Speaker 1: have to use your birth name. Nicknames and change names
- 25:54Speaker 1: don't count. But I also saw other places where when
- 25:59Speaker 1: you change your name and that changes your destiny and
- 26:02Speaker 1: so you're supposed to refigure that. I saw one place
- 26:05Speaker 1: that allowed for nicknames in addition to given names, but
- 26:10Speaker 1: almost everywhere else said no, your birth name is the
- 26:14Speaker 1: one that's important. And the reason they gave is the
- 26:16Speaker 1: same reason that's in this article. That before you're born,
- 26:20Speaker 1: you basically communicate to your parents what your name should be,
- 26:24Speaker 1: so that your given name is going to suit your
- 26:28Speaker 1: your numerological number and that you're destined to have. Yeah,
- 26:31Speaker 1: that's where you get it from. That's where your parents
- 26:33Speaker 1: get your name from. Is actually from you little psychic
- 26:35Speaker 1: baby in the womb. Yeah, And I think the idea
- 26:39Speaker 1: is if you use your name to come up with
- 26:41Speaker 1: a number, Like there's a couple of different numbers. There's
- 26:43Speaker 1: your name number and then your birthdate number, and your
- 26:46Speaker 1: name number is kind of your personality and the interview
- 26:50Speaker 1: where your birth number is your what can has been
- 26:53Speaker 1: referred to as like your life path number or your
- 26:56Speaker 1: destiny number. And using these two numbers, you can kind
- 27:00Speaker 1: of if you're into this kind of thing, you can
- 27:03Speaker 1: make decisions on how to move forward in your life
- 27:06Speaker 1: and align these numbers with the rest of your life. Yeah.
- 27:08Speaker 1: I saw the destiny number and will explain how you
- 27:11Speaker 1: get that. That's derived from your name. That that's how
- 27:14Speaker 1: you'll reach the goals that are part of your life
- 27:18Speaker 1: path number. Right, So, um, it's actually really interesting stuff.
- 27:23Speaker 1: Um to start with the destiny number also called the
- 27:27Speaker 1: expression number. Um, you take that full name. Uh. From
- 27:32Speaker 1: what I saw from birth, I hadn't seen that You're
- 27:34Speaker 1: you're choosing a different name, altered your path that's pretty interesting. Um.
- 27:39Speaker 1: But if you stick with just your your chosen name,
- 27:41Speaker 1: it has to be your full given name at birth, first,
- 27:44Speaker 1: middle and last name. And if you'll have the middle name,
- 27:46Speaker 1: that's okay. You can just see your first and last
- 27:48Speaker 1: name and that when you add up the numbers UM
- 27:52Speaker 1: from the corresponding letters UH from from each of your names,
- 27:57Speaker 1: you come up with UM three members. You add this together,
- 28:01Speaker 1: so for example, Chuck, your first name, Charles is thirty.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Wayne comes up to twenty three. Brianthagoras is my other
- 28:08Speaker 1: middle name, briant Um adds up to twenty six. If
- 28:12Speaker 1: you add those together, you get seventy nine. Well, seventy
- 28:15Speaker 1: nine is virtually meaningless as far as numerology is concerned,
- 28:19Speaker 1: so you want to add seven and nine, you get sixteen,
- 28:22Speaker 1: getting closer, but still not not really useful. So you
- 28:26Speaker 1: had one in six and now we finally come to
- 28:28Speaker 1: your true destiny number, Chuck, which is seven. Right, So
- 28:33Speaker 1: seven is my uh destiny number. And if you look up,
- 28:38Speaker 1: you can look up like attributes for each of these numbers.
- 28:41Speaker 1: And this is where it's basically I mean, if you're
- 28:43Speaker 1: thinking this sounds like astrology and horoscopes or the zodiological
- 28:50Speaker 1: birth calendars. Like, you're right, all of this stuff is
- 28:53Speaker 1: kind of that. So seven means uh is magic, wisdom, intelligence, mystery, solitude,
- 29:00Speaker 1: that's you all over. What's your number? I'm a nine,
- 29:04Speaker 1: and interestingly there's different. Well, I'm a nine from my
- 29:08Speaker 1: life path number. I'm not sure from my name number.
- 29:11Speaker 1: All right, so we're both nines on the life path number,
- 29:15Speaker 1: which I looked up a thing that said your life
- 29:18Speaker 1: path number is a number of completion resolution. Those with
- 29:21Speaker 1: number nine and this for both of us tend to
- 29:24Speaker 1: have a humanitarian and almost a utopian quality to their being.
- 29:28Speaker 1: Because we're compassionate and philip philanthropical, we are likely to
- 29:33Speaker 1: be drawn towards global issues that deal with the helping
- 29:35Speaker 1: of the whole human kind in the world. But Josh,
- 29:38Speaker 1: we need to be wary of over extending ourselves and
- 29:41Speaker 1: sacrificing too much of ourselves uh, and losing the greater
- 29:45Speaker 1: perspective in the pursuit of pursuit of our goals. We
- 29:48Speaker 1: have to learn to say no sometimes. In other words, yeah,
- 29:51Speaker 1: we've gotten better about that over the years, and that
- 29:53Speaker 1: is definitely and that well, that's because we're there following
- 29:56Speaker 1: our our um, we're following destiny numbers towards our life
- 30:01Speaker 1: path number. So what that you just kind of like
- 30:06Speaker 1: said of something I think is really important to point
- 30:08Speaker 1: out about numerology that you're gonna encounter if you get
- 30:10Speaker 1: a numerological reading, is the number has the best of
- 30:15Speaker 1: you and the stuff you need to avoid. It's all
- 30:18Speaker 1: encompassed in that one number. And you have multiple numbers,
- 30:21Speaker 1: so each of those have things to avoid, things to
- 30:24Speaker 1: focus on, things to improve on, things to things that
- 30:27Speaker 1: are going to challenge you in your life, which I
- 30:28Speaker 1: find pretty interesting. Yeah, And you know it gets more
- 30:32Speaker 1: complicated than that too. If you want to drill down.
- 30:35Speaker 1: There are numerologists you use these big charts and diagrams
- 30:39Speaker 1: that end up kind of looking like at astrological charts.
- 30:43Speaker 1: And you know that's when they're sort of drilling down to, um,
- 30:48Speaker 1: how you relate to people in your family maybe, or
- 30:51Speaker 1: to the person you're married to, or if you want
- 30:54Speaker 1: to find if you want to find a romantic partner,
- 30:58Speaker 1: or avoid negative tendencies, or just find out what you're
- 31:00Speaker 1: lucky number lucky day is. Yeah, and also there's um
- 31:04Speaker 1: some systems that I've seen multiple places that just rely
- 31:08Speaker 1: almost like shorthand on the date of your birth, So
- 31:13Speaker 1: the day of the month that you were born on,
- 31:16Speaker 1: like that's it. So like I was born on July fifteen,
- 31:19Speaker 1: so that would make me a six. And that's it.
- 31:22Speaker 1: That's what they use. They don't do the name thing.
- 31:24Speaker 1: They don't do your whole birthday. They just do the
- 31:26Speaker 1: day of the month that you were born on, almost
- 31:28Speaker 1: like much much more like a zodeological sign or astrological
- 31:32Speaker 1: sign um. And so as a six, I can do
- 31:35Speaker 1: things like I need to look for foods that are pale,
- 31:37Speaker 1: purple and blue. Those are going to vibrate with me
- 31:40Speaker 1: most most harmoniously. I should live in a city, maybe
- 31:45Speaker 1: Madras or Baton Rouge, surprising to me. And then I
- 31:49Speaker 1: should associate mostly with number fives. It turns out that
- 31:53Speaker 1: I'm most harmonious with them. Is you me a five?
- 31:57Speaker 1: I don't know. I know she's a three, I think
- 32:00Speaker 1: because yeah, she's thirty, so she's a she's a ten.
- 32:04Speaker 1: That's very nice, Emily, and we are ten's that's why
- 32:07Speaker 1: we married them. Let's just go with eleven. Mine goes
- 32:12Speaker 1: to eleven. Uh, I love that um. And this is
- 32:16Speaker 1: this is actual in the House of works article. I
- 32:18Speaker 1: can't believe you found one that we haven't mined yet.
- 32:20Speaker 1: But this is from Tracy Wilson. Are are still colleague
- 32:24Speaker 1: almost in former because we just don't see them anymore?
- 32:27Speaker 1: Which of the of the virus? But are you about no, no, no,
- 32:33Speaker 1: over at stuff you miss in history class with Holly right,
- 32:35Speaker 1: are you about to out her from as as a numerologist? No,
- 32:40Speaker 1: as a determined Harry Potter fan. Oh, I didn't even
- 32:46Speaker 1: think about that. This all makes sense. Now there's a
- 32:49Speaker 1: lot of Harry Potter in this There is a lot
- 32:51Speaker 1: of Harry Potter, and this articles all makes sense now.
- 32:55Speaker 1: Casey's defense was written in two thousand eight, when like,
- 32:58Speaker 1: you know, the kind of thing that's super hip. But uh, yeah,
- 33:03Speaker 1: it's pretty funny how much Harry Potter pops up. Yeah,
- 33:06Speaker 1: she's Harry Potter as the example of like forming that
- 33:09Speaker 1: or finding Harry Potter's number and all that. And in
- 33:11Speaker 1: the intro to she talks about her maiam e practicing
- 33:14Speaker 1: or rhythmancy. Yeah, which is a big deal in Harry Potter.
- 33:18Speaker 1: But I brought it up because Tracy referred to uh,
- 33:23Speaker 1: and she's probably not the first, but she referred to
- 33:25Speaker 1: numerology as a version a kind of applied mysticism, And
- 33:30Speaker 1: I like that definition basically where you correlate a mystical
- 33:33Speaker 1: symbol with somebody's life. Uh. I think that kind of
- 33:37Speaker 1: says it best. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of
- 33:41Speaker 1: things you could do UM that kind of fall under
- 33:44Speaker 1: the New Age umbrella as far as like numerology astrology,
- 33:48Speaker 1: where you can you can look at it a couple
- 33:50Speaker 1: of ways, like you can give responsibility responsibility for your
- 33:54Speaker 1: life over to your numerological number or your astrological sign,
- 34:00Speaker 1: associate with some people and stay away from other people
- 34:03Speaker 1: or certain foods or whatever, and just kind of like
- 34:05Speaker 1: not have to think about life quite as much or
- 34:09Speaker 1: make your own decisions. That's like the bigger criticism of
- 34:12Speaker 1: New Age stuff, But there's a much more generous way
- 34:15Speaker 1: of interpreting it too, and saying like, you know, if
- 34:19Speaker 1: you're feeling a little lost or unmoored or unrooted and
- 34:21Speaker 1: you're trying to like figure out what direction to kind
- 34:24Speaker 1: of set your compass in, you could do worse than
- 34:28Speaker 1: you know, doing your numerological sign and being like, oh,
- 34:31Speaker 1: I should focus on being more creative and need to
- 34:34Speaker 1: look out for UM. Being too dependent on others. Does
- 34:38Speaker 1: that apply to me? Maybe it does. Let me just
- 34:41Speaker 1: kind of go forth from there. And I wouldn't recommend
- 34:43Speaker 1: doing in a daily numerological thing or anything like that,
- 34:46Speaker 1: But I'm saying like, in some ways New Age stuff
- 34:49Speaker 1: can be harmful because it kind of takes it takes
- 34:53Speaker 1: the purpose out of life for a lot of people.
- 34:55Speaker 1: But in other other ways it can kind of be
- 34:56Speaker 1: a guide. And just the same way that like religio
- 35:00Speaker 1: in or Friends or um a television show that you
- 35:03Speaker 1: think is speaking directly to you, can you know I
- 35:07Speaker 1: hear you? Do you? I do? Uh? I mean we're
- 35:12Speaker 1: kind of at that point. I guess about some criticisms
- 35:14Speaker 1: and one thing Tracy does mention And I think this
- 35:17Speaker 1: is just more as an example, not as specifically as
- 35:20Speaker 1: applies to the practice of numerology, but just people believing
- 35:24Speaker 1: like in a special number in their life and how
- 35:27Speaker 1: they always see that number. Uh. You know, I I
- 35:31Speaker 1: know people that see numbers and think that they mean
- 35:33Speaker 1: something like there's a certain number and I always see it,
- 35:36Speaker 1: And you know that's sort of that confirmation bias at work. Yes, generally,
- 35:40Speaker 1: where you notice that number more, you're really seeing all
- 35:43Speaker 1: kinds of numbers. But you notice eleven eleven on the
- 35:46Speaker 1: clock because you've told yourself that eleven eleven means something
- 35:50Speaker 1: to you, or that it does. You know you've heard
- 35:53Speaker 1: that it does, and you and you don't think about
- 35:56Speaker 1: all of the other times that you've seen on the
- 35:58Speaker 1: clock all day, or all the numbers you see all
- 35:59Speaker 1: the a long and you know that's fair enough. Um.
- 36:03Speaker 1: I think another criticism of numerology is that it's the
- 36:08Speaker 1: whole thing is based on an invented system of counting,
- 36:12Speaker 1: grouping by ten. And that's not even the first or
- 36:17Speaker 1: I mean, I was about to say the most legitimate.
- 36:21Speaker 1: I guess it was. It's not the original system of counting.
- 36:24Speaker 1: It was just made up by people to begin with.
- 36:26Speaker 1: It's the basis of the metric system. I would say
- 36:28Speaker 1: it's legit, well, not illegitimate, but it was. It was
- 36:32Speaker 1: invented by humans, right, yes, And it's not the only
- 36:35Speaker 1: way that we know how to count. Same as that
- 36:38Speaker 1: like using the the English alphabet to divine your future,
- 36:41Speaker 1: because you're applying in number an Arabic numeral to the
- 36:45Speaker 1: to a letter from the English alphabet. Those aren't the
- 36:48Speaker 1: only number systems or the only alphabet system, so like, yes,
- 36:52Speaker 1: it's made up, and you could make a case like
- 36:56Speaker 1: that A numerologist might make is say, well, you were
- 36:58Speaker 1: born English king in an English speaking country that uses
- 37:02Speaker 1: Arabic numerals, so of course that's going to apply to you. Um,
- 37:06Speaker 1: I haven't heard what the response would be for like
- 37:09Speaker 1: if you were born in China, where the average person
- 37:11Speaker 1: needs to know about two thousand different characters in their
- 37:14Speaker 1: alphabet to to make their way through life. Um, like
- 37:18Speaker 1: how that would apply to numerology? Um, but yes, the
- 37:23Speaker 1: basis of this whole thing is like this is like
- 37:25Speaker 1: there's just so many holes you could drive a truck
- 37:27Speaker 1: through every single one of them. But if it's providing
- 37:30Speaker 1: some sort of comfort or um I even guidance to
- 37:35Speaker 1: somebody who's and it's not hurting them, hurting other people,
- 37:38Speaker 1: damaging their lives or shortening or narrowing their prospects, then
- 37:43Speaker 1: I mean, what's is it harmful? I don't know, I
- 37:46Speaker 1: could be missing something in that sense. I know what
- 37:49Speaker 1: you mean. And and even if you're if someone would
- 37:52Speaker 1: be like, yeah, but what about these people that pay
- 37:53Speaker 1: money and flush their money down the toilet? Problem with
- 37:57Speaker 1: a numerologist Another person might say, well, you know what,
- 38:01Speaker 1: I think that it's a waste of money talking to
- 38:03Speaker 1: a therapist who doesn't know you, or they could say
- 38:05Speaker 1: they're stimulating the economy. Well, the point is it's you know,
- 38:11Speaker 1: if the person walks away from that experience happy and satisfied,
- 38:15Speaker 1: then it's a it's a victimless crime. It's not a
- 38:18Speaker 1: crime at all. It's it's someone paying money for something
- 38:21Speaker 1: that they feel like they got something out of. If
- 38:23Speaker 1: you walk out there and you're like, what a rip off,
- 38:25Speaker 1: I can't believe it. They had ten dollars too for
- 38:27Speaker 1: someone to look into a crystal ball or to read
- 38:30Speaker 1: my numerological chart like, then it's a problem. But if
- 38:34Speaker 1: if you want to spend your money that way, we're
- 38:36Speaker 1: not gonna yuck your yum. If you feel good about it,
- 38:39Speaker 1: good on you. Yes, I have one caveat to that though, Okay,
- 38:43Speaker 1: it makes me anxious about about this just signing off
- 38:48Speaker 1: on that, and that is that I feel like this
- 38:51Speaker 1: resurgence and numerology we're seeing, like I'm sure most of
- 38:54Speaker 1: the people who are like the younger people are into
- 38:56Speaker 1: it today don't realize that like it was huge in
- 38:58Speaker 1: the seventies, and then I apparently was huge in the
- 39:00Speaker 1: nineteenth century. It was like like that, it just keeps
- 39:02Speaker 1: coming back at certain times in certain ways. Is that
- 39:05Speaker 1: this time that it's come back around, is it's correlated
- 39:09Speaker 1: with this again, this this death of trust and expertise
- 39:14Speaker 1: and in its anti science sentiment, And in that way,
- 39:18Speaker 1: I don't like anything that promotes an anti science sentiment
- 39:21Speaker 1: or um makes you believe that your opinion is just
- 39:24Speaker 1: as good as somebody who's gone and studied whatever you're
- 39:27Speaker 1: talking about for a dozen super yes, So in that sense,
- 39:31Speaker 1: I do not endorse it if it if it does
- 39:33Speaker 1: kind of promote that. But again, if we can just
- 39:35Speaker 1: bring it back to if it's just making them happy
- 39:38Speaker 1: then you know, and it's not harming them or society
- 39:41Speaker 1: in general, then I'm good with that. Alright, great, like
- 39:44Speaker 1: that matters, I guess I took. My big takeaway from
- 39:49Speaker 1: this article was at the very end Tracy kind of
- 39:52Speaker 1: snuck snuck in a cool fact that I never knew
- 39:55Speaker 1: was that the we the reason that we here in
- 39:58Speaker 1: the West count things in groups ten or it's sort
- 40:00Speaker 1: of a tin based system, is probably because we have
- 40:05Speaker 1: ten fingers, and that the old English language and The
- 40:10Speaker 1: old English words for numbers reflect this groups of ten
- 40:15Speaker 1: and the eleven. The word eleven means one left, and
- 40:19Speaker 1: twelve is an abbreviation of two left ye, like one
- 40:22Speaker 1: left over ten, two left over ten, and then thirds.
- 40:25Speaker 1: That's the fact of the show for me right here
- 40:27Speaker 1: at the bey. I think you're right, Chuck, I totally agree. Uh.
- 40:30Speaker 1: And that means that we should be seeing twelve in
- 40:32Speaker 1: twelve in twelve. In is how I'm gonna say twelve
- 40:37Speaker 1: from now on, I'll be like, look it up and
- 40:41Speaker 1: then think about thirteen two. That's like three, ten, four, ten, five, ten, Yeah, yeah,
- 40:49Speaker 1: twelve in twelve twelve. Even if you want to know
- 40:53Speaker 1: more about numerology, I guess go visit the Bustle or
- 40:56Speaker 1: numerology dot com and see what you think. See if
- 40:58Speaker 1: it's right for you. But God help you if you
- 41:00Speaker 1: stop believing in expertise or become anti science, because that
- 41:04Speaker 1: is not a good thing anybody. Um, but thinking for
- 41:08Speaker 1: yourself is as well. So maybe we can figure out
- 41:10Speaker 1: a way to balance all of that together. Since I said,
- 41:14Speaker 1: let's figure out a way to balance all that together,
- 41:16Speaker 1: it's time for listening mail. This is from Cassie Sounds
- 41:22Speaker 1: like Lassie in Statesboro, Georgia. Oh, yeah, down there, that's right.
- 41:28Speaker 1: So this was in reference to the Georgia lizard that
- 41:32Speaker 1: we had quite a few people right in it is
- 41:34Speaker 1: is not a leopard, gecko or whatever you said it was.
- 41:36Speaker 1: That is everyone's wrong but me, okay, because they don't
- 41:41Speaker 1: have those in this country. Uh, they're big in Pakistan apparently.
- 41:45Speaker 1: But well that's what I'm here. Yeah, that's probably it
- 41:48Speaker 1: from my time living in Pakistan. I've never had a
- 41:51Speaker 1: reason to send an email till now, guys, but here
- 41:54Speaker 1: it is in response to the short stuff on chameleons.
- 41:57Speaker 1: Chuck was going on about the skinks and Joshua's saying
- 42:00Speaker 1: that they're geckos. I'm pretty sure that he's wrong because
- 42:03Speaker 1: way back in ninety nine, my family moved to Georgia
- 42:06Speaker 1: for Minnesota, and I was living in Minnesota. I worked
- 42:08Speaker 1: at a pet store that sold lizards among other animals,
- 42:10Speaker 1: had chamellions, iguanas, geckos and is it pronounced anal a
- 42:15Speaker 1: n o l e uh leave the gun take the annually?
- 42:23Speaker 1: Oh boy, well that's ANNUALI Uh. The reason I'm saying
- 42:27Speaker 1: this is because when we moved to Georgia started seeing
- 42:29Speaker 1: these annolis or anals anals can't be anals everywhere. My
- 42:36Speaker 1: twelve year old brain was cooking up a scheme to
- 42:38Speaker 1: catch them and sell them for the going rate back
- 42:40Speaker 1: in Minnesota, which is twenty dollars each. Uh wow, that
- 42:45Speaker 1: is that's those are nineties dollars. I know those are
- 42:49Speaker 1: grunge dollars. I learned that it was against a lot
- 42:51Speaker 1: of own native species in Georgia, so I didn't go
- 42:55Speaker 1: through with that plan. If you read this email and
- 42:56Speaker 1: you get a chance, search Annulli and see if that's
- 42:59Speaker 1: the szard and that is indeed the lizard Cassie, So
- 43:04Speaker 1: thank you and others for for figuring that out for us.
- 43:06Speaker 1: Very nice. Thank you. Cassie rhymes with Lassie. Um, Cassie
- 43:11Speaker 1: said that right, You didn't say that, that's yeah, she said.
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