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Speaker 1: know from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck

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Speaker 1: Bryant and Chuck May. I say kulu uma unto be

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Speaker 1: care a salama they come to you, my friend? So,

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Speaker 1: um chu can I speaking Arabic to one another? Um,

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Speaker 1: what did you say? I said, May you be well

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Speaker 1: throughout the year. Okay, I should say that. I want

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Speaker 1: to qualify that by that's the translation presented in the

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Speaker 1: House to Folks article. It's not babel fish. I said

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Speaker 1: peace be with you, Peace be upon you. Thanks. That's

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Speaker 1: general greeting. Well, those are very nice greetings. They're particularly appropriate,

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Speaker 1: um to uh say to one another. The whole reason

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Speaker 1: you may or may not know this. If you're one

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Speaker 1: of the um sixth of the world's population who practice Islam,

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Speaker 1: you're probably well aware of this. But for the other

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Speaker 1: five six Um it's Ramadan right now. That's right. It's

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Speaker 1: a big month, one point three billion. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: And uh, well are you sure Christianity really? Of course?

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I thought they are way

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Speaker 1: more Muslims than Christians. U, there's like over two billion Christians.

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Speaker 1: I did not know that. You thought that it was

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Speaker 1: They've got that missionary outreach program. I guess it's been effective.

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Speaker 1: They got a downpat So July eighteen, I'm sorry, July

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Speaker 1: why it's this year because it falls at a different

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Speaker 1: time every year. Yeah, well we can explain why now

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Speaker 1: because they use a lunar calendar. We got smacked down

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Speaker 1: for this. Remember, No, in one of our shows a

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Speaker 1: year or two ago, we said something about Ramadan falls

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Speaker 1: on this and people write intersaid, actually it falls at

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Speaker 1: a different time every It was probably the fastening episode. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you and I undertook to do the Ramadan episode. All right,

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Speaker 1: So lenar calendar, that's where it all starts. Okay, is

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Speaker 1: that where we're starting. Well, you already mentioned it, so

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Speaker 1: You know, we're used to the solar calendar, the one

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Speaker 1: they say, this is when Ramadan starts this year, right,

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Speaker 1: So Ramadan starts as the ninth month of the Muslim calendar.

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Speaker 1: I love that. We've got stickers of that too. Um.

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Speaker 1: It's scared well. I love my Chuck pillow. It's made

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Anyway, pillow Mob is I think

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Speaker 1: they're out of Seattle and they're pretty funny gifts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're awesome. What's do you get one for somebody? What's

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Speaker 1: it's pretty easy to find search pillow mob lazy. I've

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Speaker 1: got one. Illustrator Kevin Cornell sent it's his book Sixpenny

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Speaker 1: find it at bear skin Rug dot c O dot uk.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cornell, heck of a guy, awesome comics. Yeah, a

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Speaker 1: Man of Leisure sent from Missoula, Montanas and as moonshine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like four jars and you tried it. I tried it

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Speaker 1: do it. It was delicious because I wouldn't touch mine

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Speaker 1: Josh was like try it, try it. I want to

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Speaker 1: the Spam Museum from Julie G and Austin, Texas. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: We got a book called Swing from Alan Girl and

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Speaker 1: he is a dude who found out that his birth

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Speaker 1: father was Louis Prima. Cool, so he says, yeah, pretty amazing. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Jennifer sent us a cat ball. Those are my to

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Speaker 1: you because I don't have cats. I use it all

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Speaker 1: It's a big hollow open on two sides, sort of

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Speaker 1: fabricy ball that the cats can climb inside. And uh,

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Speaker 1: my cat's just laying it. But otherways probably play more

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Speaker 1: active cats play Liz at Little Bit Sweets as always. Uh,

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Speaker 1: New York to come by and learn how to make chocolate.

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Speaker 1: Jersey s it's a very nice handwritten lighter. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for that, Claire. That's um, that's a dying art.

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Speaker 1: big box of stuff including beach towels and stickers and

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Speaker 1: couzies and books including the brew Masters Table and Beer School.

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Speaker 1: So I've been drinking Brooklyn Brewery for a long time

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you know it well, but not to seek

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Speaker 1: more to come. I guess next time if you want to.

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Speaker 1: If you want to send us something, We're always happy

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Speaker 1: when something comes for us, always, especially if it's not

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